Chapter 187 Black and Red, Plans in the Shadows (36) Too Warm Embrace
Red lava...
Fierce temperature...
High temperature sulfur-containing gas...
The sharply rising atmospheric pressure...
In the Mechanical Ark in orbit, the high-ranking priests were already in chaos, and deep in the lava ocean, Calvin was also suffering.
Yes, it is literally "suffering" on a physical level...
Calvin felt stupid, very stupid.
He could obviously wait a little longer to find the professional mining equipment near Selind's forge, and then ride the equipment into the magma.
But he didn't think so much. He just stood on the shoulders of the North Wind God with great ambition after convincing Speyer, and took a "leap of faith" in front of the top leaders of the Hepper Forge World.
This was good, the style allowed him to lift up, but the pain after actually jumping into the magma could only be endured by himself.
It is impossible to retreat. After all, the original body still has dignity.
When he thought about jumping down in front of so many people, all thoughts of retreating were instantly cleared from Calvin's mind.
But if he can't retreat, then he can only rely on his own strength for the next dive. Although the psychic shield can protect his safety, it also prevents him from actively moving downwards in a swimming posture.
He could only use his own weight to fall downwards, and the psychic energy was particularly violent under the high temperature. He had no reliable data on the depth of the thing, so he could only use it cautiously.
The dive has been going on for some time. Inside the shield is a small and dark space, while outside the shield is a blazing torrent that sinks more than gold and iron.
His position is slowly deepening, and the increased pressure on the outside of the shield is a hundred times greater than that on the ocean due to the density difference of the material.
One hundred meters...
Two hundred meters...
Three hundred meters...
The pressure outside the psychic shield is rising without limit, but thanks to the spontaneous creation of low temperatures when the subspace power is active, the air inside the shield is still within the acceptable range.
However, there is not much oxygen in this space, and the power armor on Calvin has already activated its emergency mechanism. It still uses the materials stored inside the power armor to create oxygen based on the internal circulation mode.
The original body's body also spontaneously reduced its activity level to adapt to the poor living environment. But no matter how inhuman his body was, its essence still fell under the operating laws of the real universe.
One hour……
Two hours...
The surrounding environment remained unchanged. Under the long-term exposure to red light, Calvin's corneas had turned on the filtering mode.
The long period of psychic output has made him feel paralyzed, and his increasingly groggy brain is telling Calvin that if there is no fresh air injected, then five hours will be the limit of his body.
Boom!
A weak explosion aroused Calvin's alert. When he noticed the psychic shield breaking, he once again used his psychic energy to prop up the space around him.
Violent psychic fluctuations caused the temperature of the shield and the surrounding air to drop sharply, and the molten magma exploded under the severe temperature difference the next second after it hit the shield.
"I'm a stick!" Calvin, who woke up, saw the explosion and gave himself a hard blow.
Because the dissipated low temperature not only cooled the surrounding lava and briefly solidified around him, it also shared the terrifying pressure of the magma with him and accelerated his sinking speed.
This change was obviously not within his expectation, but it was definitely an excellent way for him to improve his current situation.
As a result, dull explosions continued to sound in the depths of the sea of lava, and Calvin quickly sank downwards under this high-frequency burst of psychic energy.
The red magma filled the gap after he left, while the solidified metals and rocks melted again under the continuous high temperature and pressure...
I don't know how long it took, but Calvin finally felt that he had arrived near the target. He glanced at the data displayed on the power armor servo. It was already nearly 10,000 meters deep from the surface.
Is this the depth of collection of liquid mineral veins in industrial forges?
Calvin shook his head and laughed. These oil guys definitely have technical reservations in supplying weapons to the empire.
Selind is not the largest forge in the world of Hepper, let alone the most powerful one in the forge world.
Taking the working environment of the mining machinery of Selinder Forge as an example, being able to maintain stable working conditions of the machinery in such an extreme environment has extreme requirements on the metal properties of the machinery materials.
And just judging from the metallurgical level displayed by Hepper here, the Mark series power armor should have stronger performance. But this is a story for another day, and Calvin can't care about it at this time.
Bah... A slight explosion sounded in Calvin's ears, and with the sound of this sound, Calvin had passed through an energy barrier and landed on a huge meteorite.
This is obviously part of the culprit that created the Selind crater landscape, and it is precisely in the center of this iron alloy meteorite calcined by the atmosphere that a spring of water is flowing.
A spring of water, a silver spring of water.
The end of the stream is a small lake, and the end point upstream is hidden inside the meteorite.
This stream was flowing naturally, and after sinking into the lake, it reappeared at other locations on the meteorite.
The reason why the energy barrier around the meteorite exists is because of the metal-flowing lake that maintains it.
Calvin strode towards the source of the stream, and as if a certain mechanism was triggered, as the distance between Calvin and the source of the stream shortened, the entire meteorite began to become more unstable.
But fortunately, the "legacy" on Calvin solved this crisis, and the rope of Helios spontaneously emerged from Calvin's body.
This "silver rope" quietly extended from the body of the original body until it touched the stream of the same color.
Slight but obscure fluctuations were sent from the chain, all the way upstream to the ground. The source of the stream received this subtle signal, and the shaking meteorite returned to silence.
Boom!
The meteorite in front of Calvin cracked from the inside, but he had no intention of avoiding it and just stood quietly at the source of the stream.
A weak signal successfully connected with Helios' rope, and then seemed to receive some kind of encouragement, destroying the meteorite from the inside out more frequently.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Violent explosions resounded throughout the meteorite, the originally stable energy shield began to flicker frequently, the silver lake water began to drop violently, and in the underground water veins extending in all directions, all the silver metal torrents were converging and flowing backwards.
Um?
Sensing that the situation was subtly different from his expectations, the original face's expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly put up the psychic shield before the energy barrier completely disappeared.
The energy brewing underground had reached its peak at this time, so under Calvin's rare expression of panic, a silver water ball absolutely larger than he imagined flew straight towards him from the ground with a huge explosion.
"I...he...what..."
Calvin only had time to utter this national curse from his previous life, and the moment his eyes went dark, he was hit by a liquid metal ball as big as a hill.
In its original form, the physical density of liquid metal is comparable to more than ten times that of mercury, and its volume alone has exceeded Calvin's last harvest, covering thousands of cubic meters.
And under the gravity of Heper and Terra, which have little deviation, the weight of this part of liquid metal that has not been infused with spiritual energy exceeds one hundred thousand tons...
The sound of the psychic shield shattering, the scream of metal deforming, the muffled sound of bones being dislocated, and the sound of liquid metal flowing around him like heavy oil as pervasively...
Calvin's ears were extremely confused at the moment, and he only had time to release the pure land of his soul. Under this heavy "embrace", he once again fell into a shameful coma...