Chapter 1564 Looking for the Root Cause

The land has been reduced to scorched earth, ridges and hills have been flattened, and raging fires are gradually devouring the forest vegetation on the edges. In the most severely damaged areas, the world looks like the end of the world - rocks melted by high temperatures. It turned into a river of magma, flowing freely on the cracked surface. Thick smoke spewed out from every crater, dyeing the sky into a scorch. The huge wreckage of the fortress was scattered everywhere on this newly formed "disaster plain". It can be seen that it is pointing angrily towards the sky like a proliferating and mutated steel jungle.

And the crack across the earth is guarded by these doomsday scenes. The charred remains of tentacles can still be seen on its jagged edges. Rocks and soil blocks continue to fall from the edge of the crack into the ground below. In the abyss, two rivers of lava that have not yet cooled hang down on the cliff, just like the rivers of sulfur that connect hell and the world in myths and legends. At the bottom of the large crack, a hazy red light could be seen faintly shining in the darkness.

It was the eldest son's nerve nodes glimmering in the darkness.

The drone swarm established a temporary stronghold around the large rift. Large equipment originally used for space engineering operations was dropped directly from orbit to the surface. After being assembled on the spot, it became those decomposition beams hanging on the edge of the rift and pointing towards the bottom of the abyss. generator. There are now three sets of disintegrating beam generators in operation. They use powerful high-energy rays to dismantle all physical matter along the way, and the obstacles deep in the cracks are being cleared by them.

Some engineering drones are flying busily between these large equipment, while more other drones have entered the cracks and are exploring and pioneering the path inside. Occasionally, you can see a flash of light passing deep in the great rift. It is an armed drone performing painful anesthesia, kinetic energy hypnosis, and physical deletion on the tentacles of the firstborn that are still active...

Anyway, it means almost the same thing.

The Giant Turtle Rock Platform lowered its height and entered the crack smoothly and silently. As the height continued to decrease, the skylight from above slowly turned into a distant and blurry bright line. The only company around it was the light of the material decomposition beam. Other than that, there are only those drones flying around the spacecraft.

Hao Ren looked at the decomposition beam thoughtfully: "The mine gun is indeed the most powerful anti-armor weapon in the world..."

"Well, it only burns rocks quickly. If you encounter something with some technological content, it can't compare with one of our ship's main guns," Nolan said a little unconvinced, "What's so great about just breaking down rocks with light? "

Nangong Sanba glanced at the ship girl strangely: "Are you going to compete with a bunch of mine guns?"

Wuyue touched Sanba's arm with the tip of her tail: "Brother, don't tease me - Nolan finally repaired the main gun but didn't use a single shot. He was holding back the fire."

On the other hand, Hao Ren didn't pay attention to his ship's wife's little temper. He was concentrating on the excavation operations of the drone swarm and the situation deep in the large crack.

This is a "deep dive" operation that is different from the past - he has entered the inner core area of ​​the eldest son before, but it was either the infant eldest son like Horleta, or the harmless one like Drom. A good boy, the most risky one was on the planet Purgatory. He led the team into the body of an adult eldest son who was still alive. The feeling of walking through the depths of a planet full of tentacle jungles was impressive, but the planet Purgatory In fact, the eldest son's actions have been completely sealed by the demon Vivian, and there is no threat at all until the seal is lifted.

But it's different here: the eldest son of this planet is not only alive, but his tentacles can still move freely. Although his consciousness has dissipated, his body is not restrained in any way. For such a mythical creature with powerful combat capabilities, The subconscious activities of the body are enough to cause devastating consequences.

It's no wonder that Hao Ren prepared such a large battle for this operation and even sent a swarm of drones to escort him.

"How's the lullaby program going?" He knocked on the console panel in front of him, bringing Nolan back to his senses from his thoughts.

"The leading drone has carried the lullaby device into the depths of the fissure. We found a large number of ganglia emitting strong nerve impulses there. Now those ganglia have been hypnotized." Nolan said while projecting the situation at the bottom of the fissure. , the picture showed a dark red underground canyon landscape. Both sides of the canyon were almost straight rock cliffs, while the bottom of the canyon was slightly narrowed. A large number of tentacles and shimmering nerve lines were growing in and out of the rock walls. They are intertwined vertically and horizontally at the bottom of the valley, almost completely blocking the cracks. Between the intricate biological tissues, you can see many tumors that emit brighter red light, which are ganglia.

Engineering drones are busy working around those ganglia. They have fixed metal beams on the rock walls and relatively stable tentacles, and placed lullaby equipment near the ganglia. It is very stable and has obviously entered a deep sleep state.

They were sleeping so peacefully that they didn't even know three mine guns were drilling holes in their heads...

Hao Ren glanced at the material decomposition beam that was shining directly from the side of the spacecraft and was ablating the tentacle blockage points, and reminded: "Make sure the stability of the lullaby equipment. There must be at least two sets of lullaby generators operating at the same time in each area, otherwise It’ll be a lot of fun when this thing wakes up.”

"Nolan understands."

"Is there any change in the deep signal response?"

"No change," Nolan replied, "The signal from near the center of the earth shows that the eldest son's brain nucleus is still offline. The drone found two main nerve lines, which can confirm that those two nerves are directly from the brain nucleus area. By extension, we didn't read any thought fluctuations from those two nerves."

Hao Ren nodded and said nothing.

The height of the spacecraft continued to decrease, and it passed the tentacle blockage point at the bottom of the canyon: this blockage point had been burned out by a powerful material decomposition beam, and a large hole was burned out. Below the big hole was a deeper underground cave.

In the process of the eldest son parasitizing inside the planet, the physical structure of the planet will inevitably undergo huge changes, and some planet structures that will never appear under natural conditions are thus produced.

In the interior of a planet parasitized by eldest sons, the most common structures are continuous cavities and fault areas - these are the traces left by eldest sons during their growth and development. When this powerful mythical creature was first bred from the original seed, it would shape the ecological environment on the surface while drilling deep underground. In its juvenile form, it usually lived near the earth's crust and took care of the surface. It continues to move its position in the immature ecosystem, which will leave a large number of tunnels and cave structures; during the transition stage from juvenile to adult, it will move to the mantle, immerse part of its body in magma to absorb energy, and another part of the body will absorb energy. Part of the body sticks out of the surface and continues to monitor the ecosystem, leaving many penetrating "empty rock pillars"; by the time it reaches adulthood, the eldest son has almost grown to cover the entire planet, and his internal structure will be transferred to near the center of the earth. , and gradually replaces the role of the earth's core (such as maintaining the planet's magnetic field), while its surface tentacles spread around the world.

During this series of transfer, growth and metabolism processes, a large number of cavities and faults were left inside the planet. Under normal circumstances, a planet would inevitably collapse if it became like this. However, because the tentacles of the eldest son replaced the rock stratum pillars, the planet The physical structure will actually be stronger than before.

The Giant Turtle Rock Platform is advancing through a series of cavities and faults.

The excavation equipment built by drones shut down after drilling through the crust and part of the mantle, because the "underground world" below is already spacious enough, and Nolan can find a hole big enough for himself to pass through without them continuing to drill holes - —Even if you encounter a difficult place to pass, the drone swarm acting as an escort can help dig it out.

Nangong Wuyue lay next to the projection device and marveled at the picture coming back from the external monitor: "It's really spectacular."

The spacecraft had just crossed a layer of rock domes and was now flying over a hot underground lava lake. In the red light emitted by the magma, several thick tentacles could be clearly seen traversing the entire fault. They came from the magma. It grows out of the tentacles, supporting and penetrating the top of the rock above. There are some branching "branches" between the tentacles. Occasionally, you can see leaping light flashing across the surface of those branches, as if there are fire elves living in them.

Nolan slowed down and carefully flew between these huge tentacles. The moment the spacecraft passed one of the tentacles, an incredible scene was transmitted back from the external monitor:

Everyone saw that the lava lake below suddenly disappeared, replaced by a large lush forest, and then the forest was swallowed up by yellow sand. Some ancient boulder buildings could even be seen in the yellow sand. After a few seconds, the boulder buildings were blown away by the wind. Passed by, the desert turned into a pure white snowfield, and the medieval knights trudged hard on the snowfield...

Lily perked up the moment she saw the snowy field, and swallowed hard to suppress the "ooh" in her throat.

"There is a large ganglion nearby," Nolan's voice woke everyone up. "The 'sleep talk' produced by the ganglion distorts the real space in the underground cave and creates these things."

Hao Ren reminded everyone: "Don't believe these scenes at all. Although they are real for the time being, this dream may end at some point, and the forests, snowfields, deserts, etc. will turn into lava lakes in the blink of an eye. "

"It's incredible..." N-6 murmured to himself, "The Galactus actually has such power..."

"This is not all his power," Hao Ren glanced at the robot girl, "He is not a symbol of disaster from the beginning as you think. After this incident is over, I will leave you with a piece of information , then you will know the truth.”

N-6 nodded gratefully, and the data terminal on the side said: "The presence of large ganglia that are enough to create illusions of reality shows that we are very close to one of the brain nuclei."

As soon as the data terminal finished speaking, Nolan said urgently: "Boss, I think I found something! Look over there!"

On the screen specially marked by Nolan, Hao Ren suddenly saw that the rock formations in front of him were fragmented, with a large number of crystal clear crystals mixed in the broken rock formations, and several large black tentacles spreading from the bottom of the rock wall. Come out, those tentacles are the central nervous lines connected to the brain nucleus.

They found it.