Chapter 519 "Cannonball"

The Giant Turtle Rock Platform reduced its speed and slowly patrolled over the ruins of the moon, scanning every detail of the city while moving closer to the red "earth" that was as crystal clear as amber. According to the data from the remote sensing equipment, the red substance is indeed similar to the composition of Beinz Blood Lake.

The entire red area is extremely wide, with an area roughly estimated to be more than six million square kilometers, showing an irregular oval shape. The original Beinz Blood Lake was simply inconspicuous compared to this area. A large number of corroded and melted ruins can be seen at the edge of the red area. The distortion of those ruins is more serious than that in other places, which is obviously the result of long-term contact with those red substances. And on the boundary between the red material and the surrounding ruins, the most eye-catching thing is undoubtedly those tentacles.

The spacecraft found a slightly flatter place to land on the edge of the red zone. Hao Ren asked everyone to put on life-support collars, and then led several autonomous machines to leave the spacecraft.

Nangong Sanba Te jumped on the spot freshly: "So this is what it feels like to land on the moon...it's really light and airy."

"The gravity here is actually greater than the gravity of the moon back home," Hao Ren said smoothly, then looked up at Lily, "I'll lend you the Joy of Fire."

Lily jumped over lightly, muttering as she transformed the claw blade: "Actually, I want to rename it the Sword of Damocles..."

Vivian and Hao Ren stared at her: "No changes allowed!"

Lily whined twice in her throat, and then ran away with her tail in her arms, feeling very sad.

Carrying the warm Fire Joy, Hao Ren carefully crossed the boundary between the two areas, stepped onto the frozen red lake, scratched the ice with his claw blade, and collected some ice chips and melted ice. liquid. The nature of this thing is almost the same as water, and it is unknown why the "origin blood" degenerated into this form after completing its mission of destroying the world and creating life.

Then he returned the claw blade to Lily and came to the tentacles by the lake. He found that the tentacles were shriveled and withered. Sure enough, they had been dead for a long time. And these tentacles were different from what he saw on the surface: they were slimmer, the texture of the skin was more regular, and the texture had a strong metallic feel. It seems like they are another part of the Firstborn's body...maybe another functional alter ego.

The data terminal flew around to observe the surrounding situation, while guessing what would happen after the lunar destruction: "The lunar ecosystem of ancient people may have been maintained entirely by manpower, so after the death of the city, the atmosphere and constant temperature environment here will It was all over. When the blood tide contracted to this area, it became a large piece of ice. Those tentacles should be the last batch to grow out of the blood tide. After that, the lunar surface environment was completely unsuitable for life, so there were no new ones. The tentacles grow again - the result is that they are all concentrated at the edge of the blood tide."

"Look at the bottom of the lake." Hao Ren lowered his head and pointed at the red ice. With everyone's extraordinary eyesight, he could vaguely see the shadows of some wreckage under the thick ice, which had been completely decomposed by the blood tide. of human relics and building bases. Originally, they should have been completely digested when they were immersed in this red liquid, but the unusually rapid loss of temperature caused by the shutdown of the lunar thermostatic device caused the blood tide to end prematurely and turn into red water. The half-decomposed remains were also frozen. .

These phenomena cannot be seen on other ecological planets. It is the special man-made environment of lunar cities that preserves these valuable investigation data.

As soon as the data terminal saw this situation, it immediately started hitting the ice happily: "Hey! This is a fun thing! We can see what the decomposition process is like when it is half decomposed by the blood tide!"

Hao Ren squinted at the data terminal, which was spinning rapidly on the ice like a drill to drill holes: "Do you know you are a PDA? There are three autonomous machines following me!"

The data terminal didn't react until it heard this, and quickly floated back into the air and ordered in a clear voice: "Then let the autonomous machine start drilling."

While the autonomous machine was drilling holes in the ice, Hao Ren glanced sideways at the data terminal: "Don't download more Korean dramas from now on. Your CPU is almost soaked, you know?"

The data terminal is still very popular: "You think this machine is happy! Your dog likes to watch Korean dramas, Bat wants to watch cooking classes, Siren likes to watch Animal World, and your fish daughter wants to watch Pleasant Goat! There are seven or eight in the house No one is watching the TV, so I let this unit play The Big Bang Theory for you on the coffee table at 7:30 every night, saying that you like 3D! After the show, you will start playing DOTA, playing DOTA! The thinking of the X-880 series of this unit At its core, full personality artificial intelligence, three-meter wide high-definition holographic projection, and a minimum network speed of 1PB, you can only use it to play DOAT, but you can only do more than a simple computer! The memory of this machine is filled with the funny jokes of your whole family, you He also complained that the machine’s head was filled with water—and speaking of water, who soaked the machine in the basin of a naughty fish every night?”

Hao Ren was stunned for a while, unable to get a word in: "..."

People around him also turned away and pretended that they knew nothing, and then continued busy doing business - there was really no business to do, such as Lily, who went digging for rocks everywhere.

Vivian looked at the autonomous machines that were busy cutting samples and drilling on the ice. She felt that she should also play her usual detective role, so she summoned a large group of bats: "I'll go check it out. The tentacles nearby..."

As a result, before she could finish her words, those little bats fell to the floor with clatter. It felt like a sudden rain of bats fell around Vivian, and in the blink of an eye, there were a group of little guys on the ground flapping vigorously. Vivian was still stunned, while Hao Ren covered his face and couldn't laugh or cry: "This is your second time - this place is vacuum, your bat can't fly, okay?"

Hao Ren felt that it was not easy for his team to reach this point.

While he was sighing, Nangong Sanba's voice suddenly came from the communicator: "Hey, can you hear it - what, I found something here, I wonder if you are interested?"

Hao Ren didn't expect that the first person to find something would be the half-baked demon hunter, so he quickly led the people and ran over. I saw Nangong Sanba standing on a big rock, pointing to the edge of the red ice: "There is something like a seed frozen underneath - an extra-large seed."

Hao Ren took a look and found that there was indeed an ellipsoid-shaped thing stuck diagonally at the thin edge of the ice. It was about three meters long and shaped like an olive. There was a tentacle like a bud growing out of the tip. He quickly directed an autonomous machine to come forward and knock the "seed" out of the ice, and then a circle of people gathered around to study it curiously.

This huge "seed" looks like a small spaceship, and its structure is very complex. In addition to the tentacles on the upper end, you can also see that the lower part has circles of raised lines, and several weird flesh bumps can be seen between the lines. There are several cracks on the waistline of the "seed", and some sharp organs poke out from there, as if they are some kind of sensing device. This was undoubtedly created by the eldest son, and for some unknown reason—perhaps due to the end of the lunar ecosystem—this "seed" automatically died without being activated.

The data terminal flew around the seed and quickly understood the structure and basic functions of this thing: it is much simpler and easier to understand than the ancestor of life or the eldest son.

"These raised sarcomas are some kind of antennas that use gravitational waves to communicate and should be used to communicate with the primordial mother body on the surface. These concentric structures are some kind of high-efficiency engines, biological tissues, but they can produce powerful propulsion , judging from the remaining structure, it can form a circulating magnetic field outside the seed, collect particles in the solar wind and accelerate and throw them backwards to fly quickly, just like paddling in the water, which is enough for use in the solar system. These are the same as thorns. The thing is some kind of sensor, perhaps used to capture life reactions." The data terminal paused here, "In addition, it is not ruled out that this thing has other higher-end capabilities - its core has an extremely large mass. Although the organ has dried up and deformed, the high-energy acceleration ring of that organ is still clearly identifiable. It is either a fusion reactor or a super bomb."

Hao Ren was a little dazed and touched the shriveled shell of the "seed" in disbelief: "...Is this the thing that destroyed the lunar ecosystem?"

“At least this is one of the weapons,” the data terminal floated up and down. “There is no body of the First Son on the main moon, so the First Son on the surface must attack the Second Son on other planets by launching some kind of interstellar firepower on other planets. This seed is its battleship - as long as it can create a blood tide, it is enough to destroy the ecosystem on any planet."

(I actually looked at the wrong watch!)