Chapter 970: The Tip of the Iceberg

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Text Chapter 970: The tip of the iceberg

While the officers of the Cangshi Fleet and the Phantom Fleet were racking their brains for their own lives and future, Tang Fang, Walton, and Aros had already flown the Nightmare into the sinkhole.

It is true that he has a strong interest in Yermungandr and a deep hatred, but compared to the people on the Sea Angel, Yermungandr can only be placed in a secondary position. And according to the ghost he stationed on the bridge of the Angel, and the information fed back by Abathur, it seems that there are other life forms in this huge ruins, not only Yermungandr.

In order not to worry Aros and Walton, he did not tell them about the situation.

There is an old saying in China, how can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch. Can an existence like Yemengard tolerate some weird things in his home? Just when he was puzzled, the second piece of information sent by Abathur made him no longer feel like complaining, because the situation of the Angel was not good. No method can break free from the shackles, and then lose the ability to act.

Now he finally knows the purpose of Jormungandr's driving the Angel into the tiankeng. This ruin is like a pitcher for pitcher plants. Any living thing that falls into it will be imprisoned by the gravitational field, and will lose its freedom from then on, eventually becoming Food for the creatures hidden in this ruin.

He naively thought that the life forms in the ruins came from Yermungandr, and they might be the descendants of this starry sky behemoth, because the shadow that the medical soldiers saw on the big screen of Bridge 1 really looked like a shrunken version of Yermunga. add.

Space, sky, tiankeng... three points on the battlefield. Faced with such a complicated situation, he really had a headache. For the first time, he felt that the problem was very difficult. Even though he was as powerful as him, and Emma was in charge of the overall situation, it was still a bit overwhelming.

The beehive structure at the edge of the tiankeng overflowed with dull light, illuminating the surrounding area of ​​the "coastline", but not the main body of the tunnel in the center, so the Nightmare was shrouded in darkness from beginning to end, except for the searchlight under the bow, there was no light. No light can be seen, only the unknown and cold enough to swallow everything.

It's quiet outside,

I couldn't see any color except darkness, and couldn't hear any sound except breathing. The frightening quiet breath seemed to freeze everything, including the expressions on the faces of Tang Fang, Walton, and Aros.

The dull atmosphere is like a rising tide, unknowingly eroding the bridge, removing the various curves that fluctuate in the virtual scene mapping array, all dynamic elements are suppressed, even the blood flowing in the body.

Walton opened his mouth and deliberated for a long time, but finally he didn't say what was stuck in his throat.

The old soldier held a cigar in his hand, and he held it all the time, just holding it... At this moment, Walton hoped that he would not just hold it, but light it, let the ashes fall lightly, and let the smoke rise up .

At this moment, Tang Fang made a movement that made the expressions of the two of them change drastically.

He awakened the dormant process of the battleship... In other words, he shut down all subsystems of the battleship including the driving system, power system, sensor system, and shield system, turning the Ypsilon battleship into a stubborn Iron, under the influence of the planet's gravity, is in free fall.

The virtual scene mapping array faded away, and the large projector next to it also lost its brilliance. The only source of light was the psionic flame sealed in the crystal, which radiated light like water waves and gently hit the sides of the three people.

"Tang Fang, do you know what you are doing?" Walton shouted excitedly, it was hard to understand why Tang Fang did this. Falling from a height of thousands of kilometers, even a relic battleship like the Nightmare cannot be unscathed.

Although the veteran did not speak, there was also a doubtful light in the depths of his eyes.

Tang Fang said: "Be safe and don't be impatient, you will know in a while."

The battleship accelerated on the basis of the original speed, and shot straight into the sinkhole to the depths. Tang Fang turned off the shield system, power system, and sensor system. Fortunately, he didn't turn off the internal balance and compensation system. The bridge was still stable and barely survived.

I don't know how long it took, maybe ten minutes, or twenty minutes. Anyway, after a while, he suddenly felt a slight sense of weightlessness in his body. Walton glanced at Aros, and found that the old soldier also had a suspicious look on his face. Thinking about it, I also felt the abnormal gravity.

Perhaps sensing the faces of the two, Tang Fang explained: "Whether it is the Angel, or the Prophet behind it, or the detector that took the first step before entering the sinkhole on the Nightmare, they all encountered an abnormality. Situation. After the appearance of Yermungandr, the original death-like tiankeng not only experienced large-scale landslides, but also detected an abnormal gravitational wave inside it. As time went by, the originally weak gravitational wave gradually It evolved into a rapidly expanding gravitational field. Especially after the Angel and Prophet ship entered, the energy level of this gravitational field rose rapidly. As for how far it has reached now, you have also seen..."

His explanation made the two suddenly enlightened, but at the same time deeply worried. Aros said: "From this point of view, the tiankeng in front of us is an active relic?" The Ipsilon ruins they have experienced in the past, whether it is the zero isotope refining plant on Namistar or the Ipsilon transition relay station, As well as a large number of dilapidated buildings in the Lost Land, if Tang Fang hadn't awakened them, they would have continued to sleep until they were destroyed. Even epic creatures like evil eyes and giant snakes can't control the ruins, but today, Tang Fang actually told them that this sinkhole on the wandering planet is actually alive. shock them.

Tang Fanghan nodded with a grim face, affirming Aros's question.

Walton frowned and said, "Could it be that someone is manipulating this ruin... No... Impossible. If it's someone's private property, then what's going on with Yermungandr?"

Although he doesn't know what it means to "snore on the side of the couch", but he is well aware of the fact that there will not be two tigers on a mountain. How could a starry space behemoth like Yemengard, who stood at the top of the food chain, share his territory with others. "Could it be... the descendants of Jormungandr who control this ruin?"

The veteran said a shaky remark, "Can it have babies?"

Walton said seriously: "Generally speaking, the tails of male snakes are longer than those of female snakes. I think that the main genes of epic creatures like Yermungandr should be related to pythons. For example, in our Doesn’t the giant snake encountered at the Ypsilon Transition Relay Station on the final star have such characteristics? Let’s look at Yemengade again. Its tail is composed of 8 tentacles, 2 long and 6 short. Is there a possibility? , Is this monster a hermaphroditic creature? Just like some plants, there are 2 sets of male genitals and 6 sets of female genitals, so that they reproduce through a self-sufficient fertilization process."

Even for a very stable character like a veteran, he couldn't help but give him a blank look and said, "This is a serious question."

Walton said seriously, "I'm serious."

Tang Fang coughed, looked at Walton and said, "You are very thoughtful, learn to cook from me."

The argument between Walton and Aros was interrupted by his nonsensical complaints. He blinked and looked bewildered. He couldn't figure out how Captain Tang got in touch with Cooking about what Yemengarde used to give birth to children. together.

"Since you also think this relic is alive, why did you turn off the Nightmare's shield system and sensor system, so that we are completely exposed to the enemy's guns and put ourselves in danger?" Tang Fang's interruption reminded Walton of the crisis he was facing now, and he couldn't help but express his doubts.

"If I hadn't done this, the Nightmare might have fallen into the same predicament as the two Prophet ships."

Because the sensing system of the Nightmare was turned off, and the virtual scene projection array and large screen were all dormant, Aros and Walton could not see the surrounding scene, so naturally they could not find the two ships trapped in the invisible force field above their heads. Prophet ship.

When the Angel was shot down by Jormungandr, the change in the tiankeng was not over yet, and the abnormal gravitational wave had not yet escalated to the current level. However, when two prophet ships were ordered to enter the scope of the sinkhole to search for the Angel When the ship was on its way, not long after entering this strange gravitational field, it was surrounded by a gravitational bubble that exploded instantly. Even if two female dark templars launched the space torrent at the core of the battleship, trying to break through the gravitational bubble that bound the ship, None of them achieved the results they wanted. So the two Prophet ships were like flying insects trapped in a spider's web. No matter how hard they tried, it was difficult for them to penetrate the invisible bubble.

This phenomenon made Tang Fang feel tricky, but at this moment, the detector that followed into the tiankeng easily passed through the strange gravity zone without encountering any obstacles in the middle. Not only that, the detector also captured a piece of rock falling off the inner wall, which also easily passed through the strange gravity zone, decelerating and falling.

Why can the detectors and rocks go down smoothly when the Prophet ship encounters interception? This can't help but trigger Tang Fang's thinking. In the end, he came up with a conjecture, whether the gravitational shield is being deployed from the inside out after the ruins are formed, just like the gravitational disordered area around the wandering planet, there is a certain warning mechanism for falling objects, and for objects with higher energy levels Extra "care" will be given, and those apparently harmless things can pass through the gravitational field smoothly.

Based on this idea, he turned off the Nightmare's shield system, power system, sensor system and other subsystems with high energy radiation, making the battleship look like a piece of stubborn iron.

Facts proved that his conjecture was correct. The Nightmare, whose main system had entered dormancy, passed through the strange gravitational zone smoothly, and under the influence of external force, it fell downward in a decelerated manner.

Walton and Aros are not stupid, although they just explained casually, they understood one after another. The veteran began to wipe the Paladin m5 in his palm, expressing his thoughts with this action. Walton asked him for a cigar, put it in his mouth, sat back on the seat next to him, and quietly thought about the problem.

Seeing that the two were no longer talking, Tang Fang turned his attention to the outside and got in touch with the detector that entered the tiankeng before the Nightmare.

Knowing that this ruin of unknown origin has a certain friend-or-foe identification mechanism, in order to avoid side effects, he ordered the detector to suppress the energy response as much as possible, not to carry out large-scale investigation activities, and to reduce the scanning range.

As the depth increases, the buoyancy of the detector increases and the speed becomes slower, until it reaches a depth of nearly 3000 kilometers from the surface. Emma suddenly relays a piece of information-the diameter of the tiankeng is collapsing at a geometric speed, and Bend to one side.

Based on this information, Tang Fang drew a three-dimensional model in his mind. This tiankeng with a diameter of thousands of kilometers extends from the surface of the earth to the core of the earth. Its shape is similar to a large vertical horn with a very wide opening. As the depth increases, the diameter of the tunnel gradually decreases until it enters the In the scope of the earth's core, the tunnel narrows to tens of kilometers and bends to one side.

After seeing the Theta quadrant inside the Tek star in the United Kingdom of Turanx, he had a new understanding of the ability of the Epsilon or T star people to interfere with the structure of the planet, and felt that since the Tek star could exist inside the Tek For a large relic like the Quadrant, it is nothing to build a tiankeng that reaches directly to the core of the earth, so I was not too shocked by the information provided by Emma, ​​but calm and rational.

But for Walton and the veteran, even though they were mentally prepared, they still showed shocked expressions. After all, neither the zero isotope refining plant on Namistar nor the 500km-level Ipsilon jump relay station has penetrated a planet from the crust to the mantle. Building a functional building in the core area has more visual and psychological impact force.

Walton stayed there for a long time before recovering his energy. He sighed heavily, and subconsciously asked a key question: "What is the purpose of the Ypsi dragons digging out a hole that reaches the earth's core on this planet?"

Tang Fang smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know about this yet. Judging from the current situation, whether it is the gravitational disorder in the orbit of the wandering planets or the strange gravity field in the tiankeng, they all originate from this ruin."

After hearing what he said, Walton raised his eyebrows slowly, and said in a deep voice, "You mean...the asteroid storm that ravaged the orbital void was not the revenge of Jormungandr, but the method of this ruin."

Tang Fang nodded, then shook his head. The nod is determined to include the formation of the gravitational disorder zone to the collapse, all originating from this relic. Shaking his head, he is not sure whether the "doing" of the ruins is related to Yermungandr. If we consider the current information and consider it carefully, the original guess has a lot of room for deliberation... Yermungandr is really a tiankeng the master? Could it be similar to those 2 oracle ships, a poor moth that fell into a pitcher plant trap? Otherwise, why do you want to kill the mothership core that can slow down its flight speed in the first place even if the energy stone is damaged? (~^~)