Chapter 1139 Heart of Darkness

The moment the stench filled the air, Hao Ren knew he was in the right place.

A normal firstborn will never emit this kind of smell - in fact, except for the thin smell of the source blood itself, the firstborn itself does not emit any smell, including its various internal tissues, and from that thick layer of connective The stench that permeated the back of the skin was unheard of for Hao Ren.

At the moment when the spicy and pungent smell rushed into his head, Hao Ren almost thought it was the combination of all the evil in the world. He felt that there was a wave of air visible to the naked eye rushing towards him, and then a wave of air appeared. Thought: Ao Xiang is probably nothing more than this!

Anyway, Lily vomited on the spot.

"I was... careless..." Nangong Sanba covered his nose hard, and the voice in his throat was distorted, "There was no fucking warning, it came so suddenly... Girl, hurry up and open the barrier!"

Nangong Wuyue was covering her nose and trying to hide back. Only then did she finally react. She quickly waved her hand and summoned a burst of magical wind filled with moisture. The powerful water mist barrier was operating at full strength, and finally the powerful water mist barrier was released. The feeling of human life was suppressed. After the pressure subsided, she immediately crawled to Lily's side to carry out rescue operations - the poor husky girl was usually used to sucking in a breath of cold air to suppress shock. At this time, she basically lost the ability to move and was rolling her eyes and jumping hard...

Hao Ren fanned the wind in front of his nose with his hand, and said with a sad face: "Let's not talk about whether it is corrupt or not, this smell is simply killing people..."

"Smell? I'm afraid it's not just the smell," Galadra was also very smelly just now, but an old bird is an old bird, and she was still quite calm under such circumstances. She lightly covered her mouth and nose with one hand, Pointing one hand at the people around him, "We have various races here, and each race's judgment and sensitivity to taste should be different - at least I know the sirens, as elemental creatures, they have almost no sense of smell, and I The endurance of such dragons in terms of stench should be hundreds of times that of humans, but just now all of us felt the same nausea and...well, just nausea. This is biological instinct at work: there is something very special in it. An evil and negative force, the aura it emits is quite harmful to all life.”

Hao Ren was stunned. He didn't expect that there were so many secrets in the smell just now: his only sigh was that it was too strong and it was a bit harsh on the eyes... But he soon realized that Galazo You are right, the "stench" just now was not a simple smell.

Because Doudou, who was jumping on the ground, didn't react at all. When the stench hit, the little guy just looked up at the "surgery scene" curiously, and then continued to jump around with concentration. Doudou's sense of smell was close to that of humans, and at the same time more sensitive. Hao Ren was sure that the little guy hadn't caught a cold recently, so there was only one explanation: her life level suppression had taken effect again.

She didn't feel the "smell."

Hao Ren frowned and ordered the two autonomous machines: "Continue, continue."

The autonomous machine chirped in response, and then several mechanical tentacles waved again, and the cutting beam continued to cut the connective tissue outside the brain core at a dizzying speed, with precision and speed.

The thick connective tissue was peeled off layer by layer, revealing the tissue chamber inside. The inactivated source blood was soaked in a sphere that emitted a faint red light. This sphere was about two meters in diameter and exuded powerful mental fluctuations. : It is the brain core of Yggdrasil.

Galadra watched curiously from the side and suddenly waved his hand: "Wait a minute, there is something behind here."

As she spoke, she walked forward and used her magic power to form steps and walked step by step to the cutting point. One of her arms was gradually covered with a layer of fine but strong golden scales, and her fingers turned into the shape of sharp claws with protruding muscles and bones. After making full safety preparations, she reached out and touched the sleeping stone. state of the brain.

The brain core was turned over, revealing strips of black, blood-vessel-like fibrous tissue behind it.

These fibrous tissues glow with a disgusting black sheen, and a faint layer of light keeps moving between the fiber bundles. A small number of strong fiber bundles are beating like muscles, and the fiber bundles are soaked in the source blood. Some of them are constantly releasing a black substance, which is gradually contaminating the source blood, but at the same time, the source blood is constantly purifying the spreading black liquid.

Vivian's eyes turned serious for a moment: "I'm afraid this is it... what is this?"

"Continue cutting," Hao Ren waved his hand, "Slow down and don't touch these fibers. Terminal, prepare more sedatives."

This unprecedented "surgical operation" continued, and after the connective tissue around the brain nucleus was completely stripped away, the autonomous machines turned off the cutting beam and began to use the tractor beam to separate the brain nucleus and the "connected to it" "Foreign objects" are dragged out of the cavity together. There was a little trouble with their work: there was clearly something bigger behind those dark fibers tangled in the brain core.

So an autonomous machine had to put its tentacles into the cavity and pull out everything underneath.

"I don't think I need to eat this week..." Nangong Sanba watched the process from the side. He was very lucky that he had already vomited once when the stench hit - otherwise he would have to vomit again now. .

Finally, the suspicious "foreign object" that was symbiotic with the brain core was taken out, or its main body was taken out. The true form of this thing made Hao Ren stunned.

That's another brain nucleus.

It has the same size and shape as an ordinary brain nucleus, but its entire body is black. The vitality of the source blood has completely faded from this organ. Its shriveled and ulcerated epidermis is covered with pathological scars, and wisps of fibers Tissue grew from this festering organ that exuded a foul and ominous aura, piercing the thick skin of the healthy brain core like a blood vessel.

In the lower part of this "black brain nucleus", there are many stronger black fiber bundles, which are still connected to the base of the core organs: autonomous machines dare not pull them out rashly, because these fibers The bundle is grown with those outer tentacles!

This "black brain core" seizes control of the tentacles through direct connection with biological tissues!

Seeing this scene, Nangong Sanba couldn't help but murmured to himself: "I don't think I need to eat next week."

"Is this... the 'corruption' of Yggdrasil?" Hao Ren muttered to himself in shock. He suddenly realized that this was his biggest discovery in the Nine Kingdoms so far: the eldest son actually had Talk about "corruption"!

All this time, he has never discovered the "corrupted" eldest son - it is true that most of the eldest sons in the Dream Plane have gone crazy and turned from life guardians to life exterminators. Their crazy behavior makes it inevitable that they will be destroyed. It is associated with "corruption", but Hao Ren knows very well that physiologically this is not the case, and "madness" and "corruption" are different concepts. The mad eldest sons are only mentally distorted, but they are still indistinguishable from their healthy brothers. Anatomically, Horleta's eldest son specimens are identical to Drom's biological organization.

In other words, none of the eldest sons discovered by Hao Ren so far have the attribute of "disease".

However, Yggdrasil was indeed diseased, and a... dark brain core was born inside it.

Or is there a dark brain core parasitic in his body?

All kinds of conjectures and hypotheses suddenly popped up in Hao Ren's mind, and some of them could be falsified quickly.

The data terminal tested the tissue fluid extracted from the black brain core. After comparing it with the healthy brain core, it ruled out the possibility of foreign parasites: "They are homologous. Although this black thing is seriously mutated, But it’s certainly part of Yggdrasil.”

"So what is this black thing?"

"This machine doesn't know where it came from, but one thing is certain: this thing is competing with the healthy brain core for control of Yugudora Hill. A war is breaking out within these fiber bundles, and the two energies are fierce. Confrontation, the cycle of constant pollution and purification between the source blood and the black contaminated liquid has probably lasted for more than two thousand years."

Fight for control!

Hao Ren instantly thought of the strange "clear distinction" between the corrupt tentacles around Nidhogg's lair and the healthy tentacles of other kingdoms. Now this situation seemed to be explained clearly.

Galadra's right arm gradually returned to its normal form, and she glanced at the black diseased brain core with disgust: "So this is the source of corruption, we have to give it a name... How about Heart of Darkness? "

Hao Ren thought for a while: "Actually..."

Everyone else suddenly said in unison: "We all think Heart of Darkness is pretty good!"

Hao Ren spread his hands innocently: "I want to say that I feel pretty good too..."