Chapter 606 Spiritual World

The vast space is cold and dead, with only starlight for company in the endless dark space. A bright silver arc suddenly cut through the darkness, and the Giant Turtle Yantai jumped out of the space crack, performing routine calibrations during continuous jumps.

The Giant Turtle Yantai is currently heading to Io in a general direction, using time and space jumps and conventional navigation to alternately move forward. The current voyage is nearing the end. The spacecraft's navigation system recalibrated the starlight lens two days ago, and input the star map from Nasatorn into the navigation program. After some comparison, the shipboard host found a star area suspected to be the Kraken's home galaxy. That's where the ship's course is now.

Since Siren's star map is indeed not accurate enough, and the drift of celestial bodies caused by 10,000 years of time also seriously affects the reliability of super-time and space transmission, the spacecraft cannot directly reach that coordinate. For the sake of safety and to collect as much sporadic information as possible in this universe, the navigation assistant program suggested that the spacecraft jump from section to section like this - although it takes a little time, it does not delay anything.

The spacecraft is currently passing through a dull and boring place. There are only cold open areas and the occasional extremely thin radioactive clouds. Except for the very distant starlight and a bright nebula-making cloud belt, there is no scenery here. It can be said. Hao Ren sat in his captain's seat and looked at the documents boredly while dealing with the occasional crazy calls from Lily next to him.

He is no longer the rookie who first came into contact with the sea of ​​stars a year ago. The monotonous and unchanging starlight in this place can no longer keep him in extrication. Of course, the scenery of the vast universe is always attractive, but these attractions cannot match the work at hand.

He was studying the information extracted from the Nasatorn host.

"Io...the water star, your home planet is a planet with 100% ocean coverage. Huge ice floes and storm clouds move on the surface of the planet on a yearly basis. All the ecosystems of the entire planet originate from the deep sea. Develop - until your ancestors established an outpost on the first ice floe, you didn't know the concept of 'atmosphere'." Hao Ren held up the data terminal and looked at the Siren Queen next to him, "This is where the fun of exploration lies. ——The universe is so big, you will always encounter all kinds of strange and weird places."

The Siren Queen looked at the vast star map displayed on the navigation system in ecstasy. She felt incredible: "I can't believe that I am here at this moment... My people and I have lived in the deep sea for ten thousand years. We thought it was a siren’s nature to live in the deep sea… However, our ancestors studied the secrets of the stars. Do you often make such journeys?”

"Almost, we are experts." Lily leaned on the back of the seat and wagged her tail. "Have you ever heard of space dogs? Let me tell you..."

Hao Ren felt that this husky was going to ruin his outlook on life again, so he put away the data terminal and walked towards the door: "I'll go to the laboratory and have a look."

Nangong Wuyue was resting in a ball with Shakira and Soma in the open space on the bridge. At this time, he suddenly opened his eyes and pulled himself out of the ball: "Wait a minute, I will follow you too." Go over there! It’s too boring to stay together like this!”

Hao Ren watched with a dull expression as the snake girl slid in front of him in such a state of embarrassment that she was almost rolling and crawling. He then looked at Shakeela and Soma, who were left behind by May and were trying to form a new ball again: "Speaking of which, your Kraken's racial culture is really incomprehensible..."

"This is a symbol of friendship!" Nangong Wuyue shook the tip of his tail in the air like a rattlesnake, "I just learned it from them!"

After Hao Ren and Wuyue left the bridge, Shakira and Soma looked at each other: "She still needs to be familiar with this way of resting." "Yes, it is too loose for her, and it will easily fall out after falling asleep." No, I mean she was tied to me just now." "Oh, that's me...I had a nightmare."

Nangong Sanba was holding a magazine next to him and pretending to read a book. At this time, he suddenly blurred the book on his face: "The world is so fucking wonderful..."

Hao Ren led Wuyue away from the bridge, passed through the central corridor and came to the laboratory on the spacecraft. This place was previously occupied by various equipment and platforms for studying the eldest son, but now these research projects have basically been transferred to the Crystal Nucleus Research Station, and the laboratory suddenly became empty. There are currently only two project teams that are still operating here. One is the "Wrath Spirit Scanner" that has not yet been decoded, and the other is the large restraint device placed in the center of the laboratory - this device is brand new. of.

"It seems that it is still working hard to study the memory encoding of the angry spirit." Hao Ren and Wuyue passed by the angry spirit scanner first. He saw that the instrument was flashing with regular light as always, and the groove in the center of the instrument The ray of light remained unchanged from last time. "I hope this thing can produce results soon."

Wuyue glanced at the angry spirit, worry flashed in her eyes, and then turned to look at the center of the laboratory: "Are you sure it won't suddenly lose control?"

In the center of the room is a large transparent container, a crystalline vertical tube with a diameter of nearly ten meters that emits a faint blue light. Various sensing devices and recording equipment are scattered around the container, and a strange creature is quietly suspended inside the container: a swollen mass of flesh shaped like a brain.

It was the brain monster captured from Nasatorn.

"The protective crystal shines on this thing 24 hours a day, so it can't escape," Hao Ren said while pointing to the bottom of the container, where a colorful diamond-shaped crystal was embedded. The light emitted by the crystal illuminated the surface of the giant brain. Let the latter twitch from time to time, "As long as it doesn't get too weak and die inside."

Wuyue lay on the wall of the container curiously and looked at the brain inside: "I heard that this thing can eat anything?"

"Anyway, all the organic substances tested so far are effective," Hao Ren nodded, and then a mechanical hand in the container sent a piece of animal flesh to the brain monster's tentacles. The latter immediately rolled up the mass of flesh and blood and absorbed it in the blink of an eye. "It uses its tentacles to eat. The tips of those tentacles can instantly secrete highly corrosive digestive juices and open a series of fine 'teeth' to catch prey. Hasselblad didn't ask where its mouth is - it's those tentacles. .I am now feeding this guy according to the 'recipe' submitted by the sirens. It needs to eat four to five times a day. Both plants and meat are acceptable, but according to Katrina's memory...it seems to be more palatable when eating raw meat. .Don’t mention this in front of her.”

Wuyue stuck out her tongue: "Well... then I won't ask about the excretion process of this thing."

"Before we arrive at the station, I'll try to communicate with it one more time." Hao Ren said as he started some equipment next to the container.

There was an invisible traction field in the container that restrained the brain monster. It was slowly pushed to the edge of the container, and a tentacle was fixed to a silver-white cylinder. A similar column also rose in front of Hao Ren, with the words "Ready for connection" displayed on the holographic projection above the column.

Hao Ren didn't want to have close contact with a tentacle monster every time to understand the other person's thoughts, so he ordered the design of such a set of things. This is a small device that can replace the direct connection of limbs. It can not only perform the function of perfect mental connection, but also strengthen the connection and record the data flow during the connection process - in other words, now Hao Ren can not only see the brain The strange memory can also be scanned as if it were a video. Although the recorded data is always seriously distorted and blurred, this is really an important function.

In this way, he can look back on the video to find those scenes in his communication with the brain monster that appeared on his subconscious level but were ignored by his conscious mind.

Hao Ren put his hand on the top of the silver-white cylinder, and a wave of strange thoughts immediately came to his mind.

The chaotic red color, the chaotic sky, the crooked and falling stars, and all kinds of bizarre scenes immediately fell from his field of vision as if he were personally present at the scene. Hao Ren realized that he was on some apocalyptic alien planet. However this is not what he wants.

A huge mushroom cloud rose around him, and countless terrifying shadows came from all directions as if they were going to tear him apart. Hao Ren stayed in this illusion for a few seconds before he began to be baptized by these horrific images. Waves of rumbling, incomprehensible howls sounded in his mind. The howls and the surrounding scenes seemed to join forces to drive the most terrifying impression in the world into the intruder's mind, using the word "fear". The original weakness of mortals is used to drive away intruders entering this spiritual sea. Hao Ren stood in the illusion of an alien star that was like the sky falling apart, watching all kinds of weird things tearing his body into pieces again and again. He looked up at the collapsing starry sky and issued a challenge from the depths of his heart. roar:

"You know this won't work! Come out and talk to me face to face!"

Only hollow echoes came from all directions in the shattered thinking world, and the brain monster refused to answer any further prying.

Yes, this complete brain monster has the ability to build barriers to its own thinking. Even if Hao Ren can directly penetrate its memory, he can only move forward.