Chapter 1722 Northern Territory

Lia looked at the scrapped device on the ground and tapped her toes on the ground a little depressed: "I spent so much effort to get such a thing back, but only one sentence was extracted from it. I always feel a little unhappy..."

"It's more or less a clue." Hao Ren waved his hand, opened his personal space, and released the "metal egg" that was rescued at the last moment. "I also brought out something, which came from a place like a control center. What I got out, I suspect is the 'pilot's' cockpit, but the contents inside are a bit strange."

The weird silver-white metal egg appeared before everyone's eyes, still carrying the heat from when it was inside the Gorgon Lord. When you stood in front of it, you would feel a rush of heat rushing towards you. Lily was stunned the moment she saw the egg. She went through several transitions in her mind and suddenly said: "Landlord, the pot required for this egg will probably be very big!"

How could Hao Ren follow Husky's train of thought: "Huh?"

Lily stretched out her paws and gestured: "Landlord, didn't the egg you brought back last time hatch out a bean sprout? Do you want to boil this egg for me too?"

"You can't remember anything useful in your mind!" Hao Ren hit the husky girl on the head with a knife, "I just said this thing is a crew cabin!"

Then he waved his hand and used the previous method to activate the shell of the metal egg. As the layer of precise deformable protective shell faded away layer by layer, the internal cavity formed by a layer of transparent polymer was also exposed, and the enclosed The cloud-like black substance in the cavity also "awakened".

It began to squirm violently, crashing around, and its surface continued to bulge and deform into various bizarre shapes. Although there was no sound, the crazy twitching alone was enough to tell how crazy it was now.

"Ugh...what the hell is this..." Lily frowned immediately, "It looks so disgusting!"

"The names written on the shell should be people's names..." Vivian thought of the words she saw on the "eggshell" before, "According to general logic, they should refer to the original occupants of this oval cabin. Yes...but why did the occupants inside become like this?"

This was also something Hao Renzheng was curious about. He turned to look at the goddess of creation who had not expressed her opinion since just now: "Lea, what do you think?"

"Interesting..." Leah said softly as if she was talking to herself. She took a half step forward and gently placed her hand on the transparent polymer liner. "Plausible, between virtual and real... How can this world be so different?" Is it this kind of thing?”

As her fingers touched the transparent liner, the smoke-like black substance soaked in the egg-shaped container seemed to be greatly stimulated for a moment, and it began to move around at an even more crazy pace. It was as if it was desperately trying to escape from the spherical shell that was originally used to protect it, but its struggle only lasted less than three seconds before it gradually disintegrated into scattered black flakes and gradually dissolved into the container. In the mysterious liquid.

And this is not the end. After the black matter dissolved, some pink, flesh-like components suddenly appeared inside the container. They quickly reorganized and grew, and formed a human body in a few breaths.

The Charlemagne brothers and sisters and Cam, who were watching curiously, were stunned.

It was a woman wearing a silver-white tight-fitting combat uniform with short light blond hair. She was curled up slightly as if she was sleeping. Her limbs, including two arms and one leg, had obvious signs of being replaced by machines. Many of them were replaced by machines. Numerous cables and tubes extended from the opening on her back, connecting to a spine-like metal structure inside the oval container. There was a name tag on the left chest of her combat uniform that read Her name: Ellie Grenier.

The ancient human named Ellie Grenier huddled quietly in the container for a while, and then suddenly opened her eyes.

There was a blazing fighting spirit and some strong thoughts in those golden eyes, but she did not react at all to Hao Ren and others outside the container - she was like a projection on another world line, completely Ignoring the surrounding situation, he stretched out his hand and moved it in the air with a serious expression, as if he was controlling something.

"This is a phantom," Leah explained, "the last memory this pilot had of being involved in a battle."

The phantom did not last long, or the ancient warrior named Leah Grenier did not survive for long in the final battle - her body suddenly shook violently, followed by a convulsion. Curling up in pain, the cables and pipes behind her began to overload and burst. Blood spurted out from the broken pipes and quickly dyed the liquid in the container pink. Her last expression was twisted and ferocious, but that The pair of golden eyes were always burning with unyielding light like flames. Until the blood overflowing from her body completely swallowed up all her expressions, those eyes still remained in Hao Ren's mind.

There was only a ball of increasingly turbid blood left in the container, but Leah still did not stop her magic. She waited patiently, and finally waited until the moment the transformation began.

Wisps of black suddenly appeared in the container, and quickly swallowed and assimilated the flesh, blood and metal remains in the container. The soldier's tenacious thoughts before dying could not stop this vicious erosion process. In just half a minute, the container was filled with The matter was swallowed up, replaced by a swirling darkness...

At this point, Leah took her hand away from the egg-shaped container. She breathed a sigh of relief: "That's all."

Hao Ren blinked: "So it is indeed..."

"We are fighting against the Lord of Crazy, and what finally appears is the infection of Crazy's power." Leah nodded solemnly, and switched to a language in the dream plane, "But there is one thing that is strange... Crazy The power of Xiao was very weak and showed obvious inertia. It did not continue to expand after completing the erosion. This is not at all like the intensity I had dealt with back then."

Hao Ren touched his chin and said in Horleta: "Maybe it's just a minion?"

"Maybe it was weakened by something." Leah took a deep look at Hao Ren and said pointedly.

"Weakened..." Hao Ren repeated it subconsciously, and then a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind: Vaccine!

Perhaps for the Charlemagne brothers and sisters who had never come into contact with the Lord of Madness, the scene presented in the egg-shaped container was enough to be called tragic and terrifying, but Hao Ren knew that it was nothing at all. The power of the Lord - even the power of minions is enough to tear apart planets and distort time and space. If it acts on a mortal who has lost the ability to resist, not only will the body of the person who was eroded be wiped out, but the entire environment she is in will also be destroyed. A battleship or even an entire fleet will turn into a terrifying monster mixed with metal and flesh, but those "Gorgon Demons" do not seem to have mutated to that extent - although they have indeed lost control, only the core area has been eroded , from the appearance, they still look roughly normal.

This means that the power of madness acting on them has been weakened.

This is exactly the purpose of Hao Ren and his party coming to Laherien: vaccines!

Vivian also quickly figured out the joints, and she said with an excited expression: "So the Gorgon Demon is the 'vaccine'?"

However, Leah shook her head: "Unfortunately, although this weakening phenomenon is most likely related to the vaccine, these so-called Gorgon demons themselves are meaningless to us."

Hao Ren was stunned for a moment: "What's going on?"

"Because..." Leah said as she looked at the metal "egg" that was as tall as a person and tapped its shell gently, "They have been lost in history..."

As Leah's words fell, the "Neural Interaction Cabin", which carried the last memory of the ancient warrior named Ellie Grenier and had gone through countless vicissitudes, suddenly bloomed with a hazy brilliance, and then fell silent. The earth turned into shimmering particles scattered by the wind.

Vivian couldn't help but exclaimed softly: "This..."

"Gorgon demons are also 'fragments' between reality and reality. Although they appear in this world in physical form and even fight against the Lahirien to this day, they are no different from phantoms on the level of 'existence' , as long as you leave Lahirien, they will disappear immediately," Leah shook her head gently, "In other words, they only 'exist' within the scope of Lahirien."

She paused and said in conclusion: "The same is true for the black pine forest."

"In other words, the so-called Gorgon Abyss is another black pine forest... The essence of those Gorgon demons is similar to the black pine here," Hao Ren understood what Leah meant, "but they are obviously better than the black pine forest." To get closer to 'reality', we even had a fight with them."

Leah put her finger against her lips. This action was quite similar to Vivian's occasional subconscious action when she was meditating: "This is what I am most curious about. There are many things that connect reality and reality on this planet of Lahirion. It’s as if world lines that should be isolated from each other are stacked rigidly on this planet. Although I have a field of vision that can directly see through the real world, I can’t see what is causing this stacking of world lines..."

Hao Ren pondered what little knowledge he had in the unified field of information: "Could it be related to the end of the world? The collapse of the universe caused the history of various civilizations in every corner of the world to be compressed and overlapped. As a result, Lahe was created on this basis. Ryan, then this Lahirian was reborn again because of you, so the traces of 'historical stacking' were wiped out due to the self-healing mechanism of the world's underlying data, leaving only the black pine forest and the The Gorgon Abyss is like a fragment between reality and reality, and at the same time, you can't find the reason why they formed..."

Leah thought for a while, then tapped her palm with her fist: "Ah, Section 2 of Lesson 7 of "Introduction to Information"!"

Hao Ren: "...So reading more books is really useful, right..."

"But this doesn't help us find the vaccine," Leah spread her hands. "These out-of-control Gorgon war machines are just the product of the vaccine. We don't know where the real vaccine is yet."

Kaim frowned and watched as these mysterious people who claimed to be from the "World Tree Temple" suddenly began to talk in a language he had never heard before, and the topic of conversation obviously revolved around the "core" of the Gorgon Demon. , so he finally couldn't help but ask: "Do you know anything related to the Gorgon Demon? Is the one who just appeared... really a human?"

"Yes," Hao Ren nodded, "But that was a long time ago, and the Gorgons now... are just a bunch of crazy war machines."

Seeing that the Knight of the Broken Sword still wanted to continue asking, Hao Ren waved his hand: "We can discuss these matters in detail after we leave this forest. I always feel... why is it getting colder and colder around here?"

Evana blinked: "After all, the two Gorgon Lords are dead. It is normal for the temperature to drop after their flames are extinguished."

"It doesn't seem like it." Lily, who is sensitive to temperature changes, raised her head and looked at the dense forest opposite. "There is indeed a cold wind blowing from that direction, and it is getting more and more obvious."

The team set off again after a brief reorganization, and as they continued north through the lodgepole pine forest, the "temperature drop" was quickly confirmed.

At first, everyone just felt cool, but not long after, the cool air turned into cold, and the wind passing through the forest was so bitingly chill that the soldiers in the team had to activate their own magic. Talisman to protect against the colder and colder temperatures, while Lily became more and more energetic as the surrounding temperature dropped.

After advancing for a short distance, crystal clear ice actually appeared on the surrounding black pine trees, and snow and frozen soil began to appear under everyone's feet - however, this was completely abnormal, because it never snowed in the black pine forest, and it never snowed in the forest. There are no records of temperatures falling below freezing.

Although pine trees are cold-resistant plants, these black pines that grow against the laws of nature grow in the south.

What's more, the temperature is dropping too fast...

Although Lily was quite happy about this.

Hao Ren continued to move forward for a short distance with increasing confusion. Just when Hao Ren was wondering whether to stop temporarily and let Leah open her eyes, the forest suddenly came to an end.

The team walked out of the black pine forest.

The scenery in front of them suddenly opened up, and a vast snowfield made everyone who was walking through the dim forest not long ago couldn't help but feel a sense of visual dizziness. Charlemagne and Evana stared dumbfounded at the boundless landscape ahead. In the snow, Lily, who was walking next to Hao Ren, jumped up in surprise: "Wow! Snowfield! It's a snowfield! It's a snowfield!!"

Hearing the husky girl's excited voice, Hao Ren's first reaction was to reach out and try to hold down this crazy guy's head, but his action was half a second behind his thoughts. As a result, he could only watch the girl become more and more excited as the temperature dropped. The guy threw out a string of afterimages and ran into the distance. The next moment, she was running around in the vast and boundless snowfield.

Vivian covered her forehead: "It's over...don't expect her to stop within half an hour..."

Hao Ren, on the other hand, quickly accepted the fact that his husky had died again, and turned to look at the Charlemagne brothers and sisters who were acting as guides along the way: "I said... Is it normal to come out of the black pine forest and dive straight into the snow?"

"Of course this is not normal!" Charlemagne stared, "The northern exit of the Black Pine Forest is in the Fertile Plain, which is the middle of the empire!"

Kaim was stunned for a moment when he saw the snowy field, but he soon saw clues from the surrounding scenery. He immediately turned around to look for something, and found what he was looking for without much effort:

It was a huge red rift across the sky: the entrance to the Gorgon Abyss.

"This is the North!" Knight of the Broken Sword exclaimed, "Look at that - that's the Gorgon Abyss!"