The earth has turned into a piece of scorched earth, ridges and hills have been flattened. The raging fires are gradually devouring the forest vegetation in the marginal areas. In the most severely damaged areas, the world is like an apocalyptic world turned into ashes by high-temperature molten rocks.
Rivers of magma flowed freely on the cracked surface. Thick smoke spewed out from the craters, dyeing the sky into a scorch. The huge wreckage of the fortress could be seen everywhere on this newly formed "disaster plain".
It looks like a proliferating and mutated steel jungle pointing angrily at the sky.
And the crack across the earth is guarded by these doomsday scenes. The charred remains of tentacles can still be seen on its jagged edges. Rocks and soil blocks continue to fall from the edge of the crack into the ground below.
In the abyss, two rivers of lava that have not yet cooled hang down on the cliff, just like the rivers of sulfur that connect hell and the world in myths and legends. At the bottom of the big crack, a hazy line of light can be seen vaguely in the darkness.
The red light is shining slightly.
It was the nerve node of the eldest son that shimmered in the darkness.
The drone swarm established a temporary stronghold around the large rift. Large equipment originally used for space engineering operations was dropped directly from orbit to the surface. After being assembled on the spot, it became those decomposition beams hanging on the edge of the rift, pointing towards the bottom of the abyss.
Generators. There are currently three groups of disintegrating beam generators in operation. They use powerful high-energy rays to dismantle all physical matter along the way, and the obstacles deep in the cracks are being cleared by them.
Some engineering drones are flying busily between these large equipment, while more other types of drones have entered the cracks and are exploring and pioneering road opening work there. Occasionally, large cracks can be seen.
There was a flash of light in the depths. It was an armed drone performing painful anesthesia, kinetic energy hypnosis, and physical deletion on the tentacles of the eldest son that were still active...
Anyway, it means almost the same thing.
The Giant Turtle Rock Platform lowered its height and entered the crack smoothly and silently. As the height continued to decrease, the skylight from above slowly turned into a distant and blurry bright line, accompanied by nothing but the light of the material decomposition beam.
Other than that, there are only those drones flying around the spacecraft.
Hao Ren looked at the decomposition beam thoughtfully: "The mine gun is indeed the most powerful anti-armor weapon in the world..."
"Well, it's just as fast as burning rocks. If you encounter something with some technological content, it can't compare to one of our ship's main guns," Nolan said a little unconvinced, "What's so great about just breaking down rocks with light?"
"
Nangong Sanba glanced at the ship girl strangely: "Are you going to compete with a bunch of mine guns?"
Wuyue touched Sanba's arm with the tip of her tail: "Brother, don't tease Nolan. He finally repaired the main gun but ended up not using a single shot. He was holding back the fire."
On the other hand, Hao Ren didn't pay attention to his ship's wife's little temper. He was concentrating on the excavation operations of the drone swarm and the situation deep in the large fissure.
This is a "deep dive" operation that is different from the previous ones. He has entered the core area of the eldest son before, but it was either the infant eldest son like Horleta, or a harmless good person like Zhuomu.
Child, the most risky one was on the planet Purgatory. He led the team into the body of an adult eldest son who was still alive. The feeling of walking through the depths of a planet full of tentacle jungles was impressive, but the experience on the planet Purgatory
In fact, the eldest son's actions have been completely sealed by the demon Vivian, and there is no threat at all until the seal is lifted.
But it's different here: the eldest son of this planet is not only alive, but his tentacles can still move freely. Although his consciousness has dissipated, his body is not restrained in any way. For such a mythical creature with powerful combat capabilities,
The subconscious activities of the body are enough to cause devastating consequences.
It's no wonder that Hao Ren prepared such a large battle for this operation and even sent a swarm of drones to escort him.
"How's the lullaby program going?" He knocked on the console panel in front of him, bringing Nolan back to his senses from his thoughts.
"The leading drone has carried the lullaby device into the depths of the fissure, where we found a large number of ganglia emitting strong nerve impulses. Now those ganglia have been hypnotized." Nolan said while projecting the situation at the bottom of the fissure.
, the picture showed a dark red underground canyon landscape. Both sides of the canyon were almost straight rock cliffs, while the bottom of the canyon was slightly narrowed. A large number of tentacles and shimmering nerve lines were growing in and out of the rock walls.
They are intertwined vertically and horizontally at the bottom of the valley, almost completely blocking the cracks. Between the intricate biological tissues, you can see many tumor-like objects that emit brighter red light, which are ganglia.
Engineering drones are busy working around those ganglia. They have fixed metal beams on the rock walls and relatively stable tentacles, and placed lullaby equipment near the ganglia.
It is very stable and has obviously entered a deep sleep state.
They were sleeping so peacefully that they didn't even know three mine guns were drilling holes in their heads...
Hao Ren glanced at the material decomposition beam that was shooting directly from the side of the spacecraft and was ablating the tentacle blockage points, and reminded: "Make sure the stability of the lullaby equipment. There must be at least two sets of lullaby generators in each area running at the same time, otherwise
It will be a lot of fun when this thing wakes up."
"Nolan understands."
“Is there a change in the deep signal response?”
"No change," Nolan replied, "The signal from near the center of the earth shows that the eldest son's brain nucleus is still offline. The drone found two main nerve lines, and it can be confirmed that those two nerves are directly from the brain nucleus area.
By extension, we did not read any thought fluctuations from those two nerves."
Hao Ren nodded and said nothing.
The height of the spacecraft continued to decrease, and it passed the tentacle blockage point at the bottom of the canyon: this blockage point had been burned out by a powerful material decomposition beam, and a large hole was burned out. Below the big hole was an even deeper underground cave.
In the process of the eldest son parasitizing inside the planet, the physical structure of the planet will inevitably undergo huge changes, and some planet structures that will never appear under natural conditions are thus produced.
In the interior of a planet parasitized by the Firstborn, the most common structures are continuous cavities and fault areas, which are the traces left by the Firstborn during the growth and development process. When this powerful mythical creature first emerged from the original seed
After being conceived, it will shape the ecological environment on the surface while drilling deep underground. In its juvenile form, it usually lives near the earth's crust and constantly moves its position in order to take care of the immature ecosystem on the surface. This will
Leaving behind a large number of tunnels and cave structures; during the transition stage from juvenile to adult, he will move to the mantle, immerse part of his body in magma to absorb energy, and the other part of his body will stick out of the surface to continue monitoring the ecosystem, which will leave
There are many penetrating "empty rock pillars" under it; and by the adult body, the eldest son has almost grown to cover the entire planet. His internal structure will move to near the center of the earth and gradually replace the role of the earth's core (such as maintaining the planet's magnetic field).
, and his superficial tentacles spread all over the world.
During this series of transfer, growth and metabolism processes, a large number of cavities and faults were left inside the planet. Under normal circumstances, a planet would inevitably collapse if it became like this. However, due to the tentacles of the eldest son replacing the rock stratum pillars, the planet
The physical structure will actually be stronger than before.
The Giant Turtle Rock Platform is advancing in such a series of cavities and faults.
The excavation equipment built by drones shut down after drilling through the crust and part of the mantle, because the "underground world" below is already spacious enough, and Nolan can find a hole big enough for himself to pass through without them continuing to drill holes.
When encountering difficult-to-pass places, the drone swarm acting as escort aircraft can also help dig.
Nangong Wuyue lay next to the projection device and marveled at the picture coming back from the external monitor: "It's really spectacular."
The spacecraft has just passed through a rock dome and is now flying over a hot underground lava lake. In the red light emitted by the magma, you can clearly see several thick tentacles traversing the entire fault. They are coming from the magma.
It grows out of the tentacles, supporting and penetrating the top of the rock above. There are some branching "branches" between the tentacles. Occasionally, you can see the dancing light flashing across the surface of those branches, as if there are fire elves living in them.
Nolan slowed down and carefully flew between these huge tentacles. The moment the spacecraft passed one of the tentacles, an incredible scene was transmitted back from the external monitor:
Everyone saw that the lava lake below suddenly disappeared, replaced by a large lush forest, and then the forest was swallowed up by yellow sand. Some ancient boulder buildings could even be seen in the yellow sand. After a few seconds, the boulder buildings were blown away by the wind.
Passed by, the desert turned into a pure white snowfield, and the medieval knights trudged hard on the snowfield...
Lily perked up the moment she saw the snowy field, and swallowed hard to suppress the "ooh" in her throat.
"There is a large ganglion nearby," Nolan's voice woke everyone up. "The 'sleep talk' produced by the ganglion distorts the real space in the underground cave and creates these things."
Hao Ren reminded everyone: "Don't believe these scenes at all. Although they are real for the time being, this dream may end at some point, and the forests, snowfields, deserts, etc. will turn into lava lakes in the blink of an eye.
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"It's incredible..." n-6 murmured to himself, "The Galactus actually has such power..."
"This is not all his power," Hao Ren glanced at the robot girl, "He is not a symbol of disaster from the beginning as you think. After this incident is over, I will leave you a piece of information
, then you will know the truth."
n-6 nodded gratefully, and the data terminal on the side said: "The presence of large ganglia that are enough to create illusions of reality shows that we are very close to one of the brain nuclei."
As soon as the data terminal finished speaking, Nolan said urgently: I think I found something! Look over there!"
On the screen specially marked by Nolan, Hao Ren was shocked to see that the rock formations ahead were fragmented, with a large number of crystal clear crystals mixed in the broken rock formations, and several large black tentacles spreading from the bottom of the rock wall.
Come out, those tentacles are the central nervous lines connected to the brain nuclei.