A huge tentacle passed through the rock formations around the cave and lay in a deep ravine. Its diameter was almost two meters, and its black skin was covered with dry and cracked lines. Its shape looked like a strange train. Hao Ren could tell at a glance that the tentacles were part of the eldest son: he was so familiar with this thing.
"Sure enough... the world view of the virtual world is based on reality, and there are traces of the goddess' creations sleeping on the real planet Zhuomu." Hao Ren jumped down the deep ditch, carefully touching the tentacle of the eldest son that seemed to be completely dead, "... this tentacle It should be dead, but I don’t know if there are any living organizations deep underground.”
Vivienne looked around, with an uneasy expression on her face: "This is the refuge of the Drom people, and the tentacles of the eldest son have invaded this kind of place..."
"Anyway, it seems that the Zhuomu are still alive: at least they are alive in the virtual world." Hao Ren clapped his hands and stood up while talking, jumped on the ground and observed the huge cave carefully again. This cave is connected with the previous man-made superalloy corridors. It looks like an existing underground cavity structure. The ceiling of the cave is reinforced with huge alloy grids and beams, and the surrounding rock formations can also be seen pouring into the synthetic material. Traces of materials, it is these strengthening measures that allow these caves to persist until today, even when the planet is slowly disintegrating, they can persist until the final collapse.
Everyone saw more than one such caves as they went deeper along the underground passage, some were natural and some were man-made. Some of these caves have been remodeled to resemble settlements, and some have piled up a lot of materials and equipment, like the one in front of you. You can see a lot of empty platforms and metal frames in it. It seems that this place used to be a warehouse, but it is stored in The things here have long been rotten and clean, and now there is no trace of it.
I don’t know how long it took the Zhuom people to transform such a large-scale shelter, but judging from the form of the shelter, it seems that they didn’t intend to sneak into the virtual world at the beginning and spend the rest of their lives—a large number of underground settlements explain There used to be many living people living here, and it should be something that happened after that. Only then did they collectively dive to a deeper and safer place: virtual space.
Hao Ren made his own speculation based on these facts: "Probably the eldest son's invasion caused them to finally completely abandon their physical bodies in the real world."
Lily didn't say a word after hearing it, but came to the eldest son's tentacles curiously to observe its appearance. She saw that the tentacle seemed to have invaded the cave through a purposely left hole: there was a large gate made of metal on the cave wall, like a sewer drain. The tentacles came in from there, and the tentacles themselves were lying in a ditch that seemed to be dug on purpose. She scratched her chin: "Why do I feel that this tentacle was deliberately put in by the Zhuomu?"
"Why did they put the tentacles of the eldest son in there?" Hao Ren also noticed the settings around the tentacles at this time, "Could it be that they want to study it?"
Several other people couldn't understand each other, but at this moment, a shaking came from deep underground again. The vibration and loud noise reminded everyone of the critical situation of this planet. They could only put aside the matter of the eldest son for the time being, and continue to move deeper according to the navigation map sent by the data terminal.
In the following corridors, halls, and caves, they saw more tentacles of the firstborn. And the state of these tentacles is getting harder and harder to understand.
When entering a huge man-made cavity, Hao Ren finally couldn't help being surprised: "This is..."
This is a well-shaped underground bunker, the size of which is equivalent to several football fields. Its dome is as high as 100 meters, and the interior is extremely wide. A large number of luminescent minerals inlaid on the top of the bunker brought faint light here, and everyone could barely see the situation inside. Hao Ren saw that this vast space was covered with metal columns that looked like buildings. They were neatly arranged and dark in color. The metal lines on the surface and the possible maintenance hatches could be vaguely seen. A large number of cables and pipes can be seen around these giant columns. These cables and pipes are unusually thick and strong, criss-crossing in the air like spider webs, and one can't help but think of the cable layout of some kind of computer room.
Huge and complex cable networks. Coupled with those neatly arranged cylinders, Hao Ren and the others felt that they should have found the location of the "server".
However, these "servers" are entangled with a huge number of tentacles... It can even be said to be symbiotic.
A large number of pitch-black firstborn tentacles hang down from the cave ceiling. It hangs straight to a height of more than ten meters above the ground. They are neatly arranged and uniform in size, almost like standard products coming out of a factory, and a large number of cables can be seen around each of these tentacles connected to it, and the standard and unified connection method is by no means accidental. Hao Ren threw a light source generator into the air, and the diffuse light made it possible to clearly see the interception state of those tentacles and cables. He saw that the cables and tentacles were connected by a metal connector. Part of the connector is fixed to the cable, while the other part is embedded in the tentacles.
"It doesn't look like... trespassing..." Lily muttered to herself, raising her head vigorously.
She saw neat rows of metal hoops lining the cavern ceiling. A tentacle hangs down from each metal hoop. It can be seen from the IQ of Huskies: this is the result of artificial planning.
Elizabeth ran to a distant metal column that seemed to have been damaged by the earthquake. Part of its shell has cracked open. The little devil glanced into the crack curiously, and immediately yelled: "There is something in these 'servers'!"
After Hao Ren and the others passed by, they found that the metal cylinder was not the server components he had imagined before. There was no hard disk group or CPU in it, but a large broken glass container. It seemed that the container was once filled with liquid, but it has now dried up. A withered firstborn tentacles protruded from it.
Lily ran to an intact metal cylinder, and carefully cut a slit on the shell with a claw blade. The inside was indeed a glass container, and the container was still in good condition. It was filled with a light red liquid, and a black line Huge tentacles soaked in it, life and death unknown.
Hao Ren was dumbfounded, and muttered to himself, "Is this a fusion of artificial machines and the eldest son..."
"What is this place for?" Vivian frowned, "Isn't it possible to study the biochemical base of the eldest son?"
"It's impossible to trap the eldest son with these things," Hao Ren said as he studied the ancient equipment. Although he couldn't understand the principle and structure of these things, he could at least roughly judge their technical level, "... this It was transformed into this with the active cooperation of the eldest son's tentacles."
Then he pointed to the tentacles hanging from above: "Look at those tentacles, have you ever seen such a growth structure on the 'natural' firstborn? They are obviously actively adjusted to be like this. At the same time, the surrounding equipment is also It is specially made according to the shape and physical characteristics of the eldest son. This is the result of close cooperation between the two parties, without hostility, and with a tacit understanding—although it is incredible, but only in this way can these things be explained.”
Lily came out from behind a certain metal column with a serious face: "And these facilities are still operating, at least some of them are still operating."
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "How did you find out?"
Lily turned around, revealing her smoked black tail: "There is electricity!"
Everyone: "..."
Vivian narrowed her eyes, and seriously felt the life force around her: "Not only is the equipment running, but there are also weak life activities in those tentacles. Everything here is still alive."
A thought came to Hao Ren's mind uncontrollably: "Is this what we are looking for?"
At this time, the underground vibration came again, and a cloud of dust fell from the cave, and the data terminal contacted everyone again: "Partner! There is still half an hour of sunrise! The sun has appeared on the horizon, how is your side?" ?!"
"I... found something here," Hao Ren took the communication with some hesitation, and then placed a series of sensing devices on the nearby cables and metal cylinders. He didn't know what these cables and cylinders were for, but the intelligent The sensing device should be able to analyze something useful from it, "I'm sending you the signals here, they come from the cable system of the shelter, you can analyze it."
After a while, a happy voice came from the data terminal: "Oh, it seems to be the data flow of the server. You should be at a key node. You should be able to find the storage along the main cable..."
"There is a problem," Hao Ren interrupted the terminal, "the storage is not a bunch of hard disks, but an eldest son—or strictly speaking, the server itself is an eldest son. The Zhuomu live in the dream of the eldest son." (unfinished To be continued~^~)