The exploration team led by Hao Ren trudged through the scorched earth of the Nibelungs. Along the way, they discovered many bottomless abyss: the smallest of those terrifying earth fissures were as wide as a hundred meters, and the deepest cracks
It even penetrated the continent directly: Vivian threw a small bat into one of the cracks, and she vomited ten minutes later. The small bat flew directly over the Nibelungen land floating in the alien space,
Breaking into a "backside of the earth" environment with chaotic gravity and horrifying landscapes, Vivian, who shares her senses, was so dizzy on the spot that she almost vomited out her New Year's Eve dinner.
Hao Ren had also seen twisted fissures all over the earth in other different space debris, but to be honest, these fissures in the Nibelungs were different from other places.
The team stopped next to a rather huge crack and began to detect the crack. The widest part of this crack was about several kilometers, and the overall length reached 30 kilometers. It was like an ugly scar carved on the earth.
On the ground. Deep in the cracks, you can vaguely see some huge, beam-like cylindrical objects criss-crossing between the cliffs. Those entangled things are shrouded in a poisonous mist. Viewed from above
There was only a hazy part of it. Although he couldn't see the details clearly, Hao Ren knew that it was the vine of his eldest son, Yugudora Hill.
Galadra threw two probes under the fissure. After a while, the probes sent back the data. The Dragon Queen pointed at her data terminal: "The geological data here is clearer, just as we speculated."
Anthony came over to take a look and nodded slightly: "The earth was not torn apart by the explosion, but by these vines. The vines below have shown very serious signs of decay, and there is a lot of friction between them and the surrounding stone walls.
The marks and gaps are evidence of the vines twisting violently and tearing at the rock formations. I guess this must be due to very severe pain."
Hao Ren frowned: "There is unmistakable evidence of corruption, but to be honest, there is a doubt in it."
The two fellow prosecutors immediately cast doubtful glances.
"The vines found in other kingdoms are all calm, or there are no signs of violent struggle around those vines," Hao Ren spread his hands, "But all these vines belong to the same creature, they are a whole, happening in one place
With such a serious disease, how come the vines in other areas are so motionless as if they are unconscious?"
Lily touched her chin and thought carefully: "It sounds like hemiplegia... Does the eldest son have cerebral thrombosis?"
Before Hao Ren could say anything, the data terminal popped out of nowhere: "This computer can cause cerebral thrombosis, why can't the eldest son."
Hao Ren hurriedly pulled off the annoying pda. Galadra looked at him with special concern: "To be honest, you really don't plan to send it back for repair? It's still under warranty anyway."
"To send it back to the factory, you have to go through the formalities with our God. Now, although it has a broken mouth, at least it can still be used. What if it becomes even more crazy after returning to the factory? Who am I going to cry to," Hao Ren
With a bitter look on his face, he said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. Let's keep walking. If I'm right, the crater in front is where Nidhogg fell. After sorting out all the information, let's go over there and take a look.
What on earth is there?”
Elizabeth jumped up and down behind Vivian. The little girl was particularly curious: "What does Nidhogg look like?"
Vivian turned her head and glanced at Galadra: "Have you seen Aunt Long's transformation?"
The little girl nodded vigorously. She had made a big fuss with her father on the upper platform before. The spectacular scene of Galadra's transformation across the sky was still fresh in the little girl's memory. Of course, Galadra was holding him in the back.
I also remember the time when I hung my head on someone’s cooling tower.
Vivian spread her hands: "After Galadra transformed and fell into the sauce vat, he would be like Nidhogg..."
Galadra: "..."
No matter how irrelevant the topics along the way were, the group did not delay important work. Along the way, they collected energy readings from all the fissures in the earth and conducted biological sampling and analysis on more than a dozen vines spreading from the fissures.
Based on the information sent back by the little bats and probes flying around, Hao Ren was finally able to roughly outline a map of the contaminated and corrupted area of Yggdrasil. Based on this map of the area, he could roughly calculate the lesions.
The dividing line between vines and normal vines and their distribution rules. The data terminal uploaded these data to the analysis host of Giant Turtle Rock Platform, and used the spacecraft antenna as a springboard to transmit a copy of the data to the computer in Mengbite
The crystal nucleation research station above.
Containers No. 1 and 2 of the research station immediately started a temporary thread and began to check the two eldest son samples in the container to find possible internal causes of this corruption.
At the same time, the group of people also arrived in front of the towering crater.
Hao Ren stood on the top of the crater, lowered his head and looked down, and saw a rather horrifying sight.
The entire crater is like a festering and perforated gangrene. The rocks and land in the crater have basically been corroded by highly toxic substances and the body fluids of the eldest son, forming a bottomless festering pit with countless huge, black-red glowing pits.
Glossy, half-plant, half-biological vine structures grow entangled in this abyss, forming an intricate situation. In the center of the crater bottom, a group of thinner vines tangles and rises to form a hill. Within the group of vines,
Wrapped in a ferocious and twisted huge skeleton.
The black dragon Nidhogg withdrew from the battlefield at Ragnarok, fell to the end of the earth in thick smoke, and finally died in the lair of the Nibelungs. The vines of the eldest son sucked the once powerful dragon creature dry.
Turning its bones into a horrific collection wrapped in vines.
"The biological tissue activity here is higher than other areas, so high that it's a bit abnormal..." Anthony took the data terminal to shine on the bottom of the crater, frowning slightly, "Strange... Didn't the one named Mimir say that he has already
Have you appeased Yggdrasil? Why does the vine organization here seem to be completely active?"
"There are also signs of infection and corruption," Hao Ren squatted down and observed the strange vines below. The vines found in other kingdoms had a healthy luster and flashing runes on the surface, but the vines in the crater were not connected.
The shape is completely different from it. Rather than being a rotten disease, it is more like it has turned into another kind of biological tissue. "The vines in the Nibelung seem to be completely isolated from the vines in other places. It seems like a world of its own."
of."
"Is there a risk of 'waking up'?" Vivian looked at Anthony.
"There are definitely risks, but as long as you're careful, you should be fine," Anthony nodded, "The activity level is still below the warning level."
"Everyone, please be vigilant." Hao Ren straightened his clothes and was the first to go down. "If you see any moving vines, report them as soon as possible. Don't rush to stimulate them."
The terrain in the crater is rugged and difficult to navigate, and there is almost no flat and open place to stay. The corroded earth is full of pits, and gas spurts out from time to time in many places. Even experienced warriors like Galadra and Anthony
The prosecutors also felt that the "eldest son" was an extremely terrifying and dangerous creature. They increased their vigilance and walked next to Hao Ren. Anthony was surrounded by magic runes of protection and early warning systems, and Galadra's eyes turned into vertical pupils.
, ready to transform at any time.
At the end of the team, Nangong Wuyue opened a water mist barrier to protect everyone: Although everyone was protected by shields and various self-defense spells, the Siren's water mist barrier was still the best to use in this situation.
The second line of insurance.
They came to Nidhogg's skeleton.
"There are serious signs of corrosion." Y'zaks put his hand between the vines and easily broke off a piece of pitch-black bone. "Such a big dragon... can basically dominate the entire area in my hometown.
There is space in the vesicle.”
Hao Ren smacked his lips: "It's still a waste of time to encounter a creature like the 'Eldest Son'. A tentacle can penetrate the Nine Kingdoms."
Lily raised her head and looked at the huge dragon skeleton that was so huge that it almost covered the sky. She almost shed tears: "What a waste... If this thing is not poisonous, I can chew it until the next century."
Everyone: "..."
Hao Ren looked around carefully and found that there was a very wide crack under the skull of Nidhogg's corpse. There was a faint red light coming from below the crack, so he took out a probe and threw it down.
After a while, the probe returned the picture, just as Hao Ren expected: it was not an ordinary crack in the ground, but a biological chamber.
Judging from the biological tissue surrounding the chamber, it looks very much like the brain core cavity of the eldest son.