The Giant Turtle Yantai flew silently over the still sea of red moon, as if a ghost descended from the dark space, using its countless eyes to carefully examine the strange red figure below.
world.
"The probe has returned a signal, confirming that the red moon is covered with a complete liquid surface. Only scattered islands and reefs protrude from the 'sea surface', accounting for less than three percent of the entire planet's surface area," Nolan's voice came from all around.
came, with a trace of confusion, "And the scene in other places is similar to here. The sea surface is 'still' without any sign of movement."
"After all, it was something summoned by Vivian, so it's normal to have these weird things," Hao Ren nodded and said while checking the signals sent back by each sensor, "Release the contact detector and look at the sea surface
Is it a phantom?"
Although various radars have previously returned signals of entities on the surface of the red moon, in the face of such supernatural things that do not operate according to common sense, a single detection method is far from enough. Hao Ren decided to increase the depth of detection step by step.
A crack opened in the ejection bay under the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, and a silver-white cylinder was released from the spacecraft. The cylinder circled twice on the surface of the still red moon sea, and then plunged into the sea.
Bloody water.
The detector made contact with the Red Moon Sea silently, and disappeared from Hao Ren's field of vision in an instant. There were no waves on the sea surface to stir up the contact between the two, just like two shadows passing through each other, without causing any interference.
Hao Ren frowned slightly: "Is it really a phantom?"
"No... the detector sent back a signal. It's not a phantom. It passed through a layer of real water and is now continuing to move in the water body," Nolan replied immediately, "... the water pressure, water temperature and water pressure were detected.
Due to the existence of resistance, the composition of the water body is similar to that of blood, and the concentration becomes higher as you go downwards. This sea layer actually exists."
Hao Ren was a little surprised: "Really? But when the detector entered the water just now, it seemed to have passed through a layer of shadow, without even splashing."
Nolan's voice also sounded a little confused: "It is unexplainable. The Red Moon Sea is in an absolutely still state. The whole thing is like a frozen image. The detector is completely unable to affect the latter when it comes into contact with this sea surface.
form, but at the same time the detector can also detect the presence of a liquid environment... The ship is releasing more detectors, and more data will be compiled later."
The Giant Turtle Yantai began to release more detectors into the sea water of the red moon. These detectors shimmered like light powder sprinkled from the giant fluorescent moths, and quietly submerged into the sea, just like their
Like their "predecessors", these detectors did not cause any ripples or splashes when they fell into the sea water.
"What do you think this looks like?" Hao Ren gently tapped the console panel in front of him with his fingers. The object of his inquiry was the data terminal floating around him.
"Red moon? Or this sea?"
"Red Moon."
"This machine thinks of the founding star. This machine guesses that your partner is thinking of the same thing."
"Yes, Founding Star," Hao Ren nodded, "I have associated these two things together more than once before, and even more so now. The red liquid surface covers more than 97% of the ocean area.
, and also detected ingredients that are similar to source blood... There are not many planets with such remarkable characteristics. Before, I always thought that the surface of the red moon was solid, or simply some kind of phantom, but now it seems that its surface is
A layer of sea, although this layer of sea is still.”
"But the size seems to be a bit different," Nolan's voice sounded, and her holographic image also appeared next to Hao Ren, "According to the information provided by Mulu, the Founding Star is a planet larger than the Earth.
And Red Moon...it's clearly a dwarf planet."
"Of course Red Moon will not be the real founding star. At least neither Mulu nor Liemendusa said that the ocean on the founding star is stationary." Hao Ren shrugged, "I prefer this one."
The dwarf planet is some kind of projection of the founding star. Perhaps Vivian stores information about her hometown in her mind. Considering that she was born from the divine blood of the goddess of creation, this is very possible and she summoned the red moon.
The essence is actually to project this hometown stored in the subconscious mind."
At this time, Nolan suddenly interrupted him: "Hao Ren, my detector found something."
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "What is it?"
"On the back side of the planet, traces of man-made artifacts were found on a small island protruding from the sea."
"What the hell? Hurry over and take a look!"
The Giant Turtle Yantai immediately turned to accelerate, dragging a blue light and disappearing into space, and in the next moment it arrived at the location where the signal was sent back by the detector. On the picture transmitted back, Hao Ren indeed saw a small island.
Ninety-seven percent of the Red Moon is covered by the ocean, but less than three percent of the remaining area still has land protruding from the water. Most of them are scattered reefs or micro-islands, plus this
Dwarf planets are most likely "miniature versions" of the founding stars, and the size of these micro-islands is even smaller.
The miniature island in front of us is already considered a relatively large one. Its width is about two to three hundred meters, and it is tens of meters high above the water surface. There is an obviously too regular circular pit in the center of the island, and there seem to be other holes scattered around it.
There were many neatly shaped artificial traces. Moreover, Hao Ren also noticed a detail: within a large area around the island, the sea surface was incredibly calm. The water surface was as smooth and smooth as a mirror, with not even a ripple visible.
It seems that no matter how huge the waves are in the Red Moon Sea, this island here does not have to worry about being swallowed by the waves.
"Obvious traces of artificial transformation." Looking at the regular circular pits on the small island and the carefully arranged stone structures around the pits, Hao Ren thought that Nolan's judgment was correct. However, on this red moon
Why is there such a mark? With this thought in mind, he stood up, straightened his clothes, and said, "I want to go down and see with my own eyes."
"There is a certain danger in this," Nolan reminded aloud. "This is only the first summoning experiment. It is not yet certain to what extent the stable state of Red Moon can last. We should test the duration limit of the summoning ritual before proceeding."
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"I can't sleep without leaving such an eye-catching gadget, and after finally testing it, I don't plan to leave after just looking at it in the sky." Hao Ren waved his hand, "Besides, I believe in Vivian."
"You are the captain, you have the final say," Nolan saw that Hao Ren had already made up his mind, and since Hongyue was indeed in a very stable state at present, he did not insist anymore, "This ship will continue to monitor Hongyue's activities.
, once an increase in energy response is discovered, you will be forcibly teleported back. This is a necessary safety measure."
"Of course, that's no problem," Hao Ren nodded, "Let the detectors that have entered the sea continue to expand their scanning range. I hope they can come back with some results when I go down to check the situation."
"learn."
After a while, Hao Ren and the data terminal arrived at the surface of the island. It was said that they were down to earth, but Hao Ren felt that he was completely floating. Although he had truly touched the surface of the planet, there was still no sign of the red moon itself.
A slight gravitational pull acted on him.
The diameter of the pit is about forty meters, and the deepest point is about ten meters. The island itself is made of hard black rock, but the pit is covered with a layer of fine white sand. Around the pit, Hao Ren
I also saw a series of small pits, some of which were open, and some of which were covered with stone slabs or other things. The large and small pits formed a complex artificial nest.
Data terminals flew around Hao Ren's head: "Partner, what do you think this place is for?"
"God knows... but if the red moon is really the projection of the founding star, then the man-made traces here are most likely the work of the goddess of creation. I just don't know why she dug so many holes on her own planet.
"
"Every creator likes to dig holes."
"What? Is that so?"
"Hey, I just said a few nonsense words, why do you still take it seriously?"
The two "people" were chatting and looking around. Suddenly, a stone slab protruding from the ground not far away attracted Hao Ren's attention.
The stone slab stood next to a small depression, with shiny lines on it.
"What is this?" The data terminal flew to the side of the stone slab and used the scanning beam to shine on the shiny lines. "It looks a bit like text, but the structure is so weird that it can be translated using the information extraction method.
Not coming out?"
Hao Ren looked at those symbols thoughtfully. He felt that these symbols were somewhat similar to his "Goddess Palace" in Corpus in terms of "painting style", but they looked more... immature, or chaotic, as if the writer
He couldn't accurately grasp the meaning of these words, but was just painting based on his feelings. When he heard the data terminal say that conventional analysis could not decipher the secrets of these symbols, he suddenly had an idea and put his hand on the shimmering piece of paper.
On the stone slab.
The lines on the stone slab seemed to "come alive" in an instant, twisting and moving around in front of his eyes, and then these moving lines spelled out neat words:
"Where Rock Marton sleeps."
Hao Ren blinked, a little dazed.
"Partner, is your talent online again?" The data terminal immediately noticed Hao Ren's strangeness and came over to ask.
Hao Ren came back to his senses in an instant and immediately ordered: "There should be other symbols here! If you are right, each 'pothole' should have a corresponding mark! Find it quickly!"
"Tsk, good performance means hard work..." The data terminal muttered and began to search around the lair for glimmering patterns similar to those on the stone slabs.
As expected, more words were soon discovered and subsequently analyzed by Hao Ren.
"Where Rock Marton plays."
“A place to eat in Loch Marton.”
"The stone that Lockmarton picked up from the bottom of the sea."
"Rock Marton..."
This was enough evidence to prove the connection between the founding star and the red moon, but he didn't expect it to appear in front of Hao Ren in such an unexpected way. 8)