The expedition team led by Hao Ren trekked on the scorched earth of Niebelungen. Along the way, they found many bottomless chasms: the smallest of those terrible earth fissures was hundreds of meters wide, and the deepest one ran directly through the continent. Vivian threw a small bat into one of the fissures. Ten minutes later, she vomited. The small bat flew directly over the land of Niebelungen, which was floating in a different dimension, and plunged into a gravitational distortion and horrifying landscape of the "back of the earth." Vivian, who shared her senses, fainted on the spot and almost threw up her New Year's Eve dinner.
In the wreckage of other different dimensions, Hao Ren had also seen twisted fissures all over the earth, but to be honest, these fissures in Niebelungen were different from those in other places.
The team stopped beside a rather large crack and began to explore it. The widest part of the crack was about a few kilometers, and the overall length was up to 30 kilometers. It was curved like an ugly scar engraved on the earth. In the depths of the fissure, one could vaguely see some huge, beam-like cylindrical objects intertwined between the cliffs. Those intertwined objects were shrouded in a poisonous fog, and when seen from above, it was only a hazy scene. Although he could not see the details, Hao Ren knew that it was the vines of the First Born, Yggdrasil.
Galazur threw two probes into the crack. A moment later, the probes returned with data. The dragon queen pointed at her MDT and said, "The geological data here is clearer, just as we speculated."
Anthony Alfonso came over to take a look and nodded slightly. "The earth was not torn by the explosion, but by these vines. The vines below have very serious signs of decay. There are a lot of friction marks and gaps between them and the surrounding stone walls, which is evidence of the violent twisting of the vines and tearing the rock layers. I guess this must be due to very severe pain. "
Hao Ren frowned. "There is clear and unmistakable evidence of corruption, but to be honest, there is a doubt in it."
The two inspectors immediately cast a puzzled look at him.
"The vines found in other kingdoms are very calm, or there is no sign of violent struggle around those vines," Hao Ren spread out his hand. "But all these vines belong to the same creature. They are a whole. If there is such a serious disease in one place, why are the vines in other areas motionless as if they are unconscious?"
Lily scratched her chin and thought carefully. "It sounds like hemiplegia … Does the First Born have cerebral thrombosis?"
Before Hao Ren said anything, the MDT popped up out of nowhere. "I can have cerebral thrombosis, why can't the First Born have it?"
Hao Ren hurriedly pulled the annoying PDA down. Galazur looked at him with concern. "Tell me the truth. Are you really not going to send it back for repair? It's still under warranty anyway. "
"If I send it back to the crater, I have to go through the formalities with God. Although it is talkative now, at least it can still be used. If it comes back to the crater, who am I going to cry to?" Hao Ren said with a bitter face. "Forget it, let's not talk about this. Let's move on. If I'm not mistaken, the crater in front is where Nidhogg fell. Sort out the information, and let's go and see what's there."
Y 'lisabet skipped behind Vivian. The little girl was particularly curious. "What does Nidhogg look like?"
Vivian turned her head and glanced at Galazur. "Have you seen Auntie Long's transformation?"
The little girl nodded vigorously. She and her father had made a scene on the upper platform. The spectacular scene of Galazur flying across the sky after her transformation was still fresh in the little girl's mind. Of course, she also remembered the scene of Galazur holding her head and hanging herself on the cooling tower.
Vivian spread out her hands. "After Galazur's transformation, she falls into the sauce tank like Nidhogg …"
Galazur was speechless.
No matter how irrelevant the topic was along the way, they did not delay the important work. They collected the energy readings of all the cracks in the earth along the way and conducted biological sampling analysis on more than a dozen vines that spread out from the cracks. Coupled with the information sent back by the bats and probes, Hao Ren could finally outline a map of the contaminated and decayed area of Yggdrasil. Based on this map, he could roughly calculate the boundary between the mutated vines and the normal vines, as well as the distribution pattern. The MDT uploaded the data to the analysis host of the Petrachelys and sent a copy of the data to the Crapple Research Station in the Plane of Dreams through the spacecraft's antenna as a springboard.
Containers No.1 and No.2 of the research station immediately started a temporary thread and began to examine the two First Born samples in the containers to find the possible internal cause of this corruption.
At the same time, they arrived in front of the towering crater.
Hao Ren stood at the top of the crater and looked down. What he saw was quite a terrifying scene.
The entire crater was like a festering and perforated gangrene. The rocks and land in the crater had basically been corroded by highly toxic substances and the First Born's body fluids, forming a bottomless pit of festering. Countless huge, black-red luster, half-plant, half-creature vines entangled and grew in this abyss, forming a complex situation. In the center of the crater, a cluster of thinner vines entangled and bulged to form a small hill. Wrapped in the cluster of vines was a huge and twisted skeleton.
The Black Dragon Nidhogg, who had evacuated from the battlefield of the Twilight of the Gods, fell at the end of the earth, and finally died in the lair of Niebelungen. The vines of the First Born had sucked up the once powerful dragon creature and turned its skeleton into a terrible collection wrapped in vines.
"The biological tissue activity here is higher than in other areas, so high that it's a little abnormal …" Anthony Alfonso took the MDT to illuminate the bottom of the crater and frowned slightly. "Strange … Didn't Ymir say that he had pacified Yggdrasil? Why does the vine tissue here look completely active?"
"There are also signs of infection and decay." Hao Ren squatted down and observed the weird 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 completely different. It was not so much rotten and diseased, but more like a different kind of biological tissue. "The vines of Niebelungen seem to be completely isolated from the vines in other places. It's like a world of its own."
"Is there a risk of waking it up?" Vivian looked at Anthony Alfonso.
"There is definitely a risk, but as long as we are careful," Anthony Alfonso nodded. "The activity level is still below the warning level."
"Everyone, be vigilant." Hao Ren straightened his clothes and was the first to go down. "If you see any active vines, report immediately. Don't rashly stimulate them."
The terrain inside the crater was rugged and difficult to walk on. There was almost no flat and open ground to rest. The corroded ground was full of potholes, and many places were spewing gas from time to time. Even experienced inspectors like Galazur and Anthony Alfonso could feel that the First Born was a very terrible and dangerous creature. They walked next to Hao Ren with vigilance. Anthony Alfonso was surrounded by protective and warning magic runes, and Galazur's eyes turned into vertical pupils, ready to transform at any time.
At the back of the team, Nangong Wuyue opened a mist enchantment to protect everyone. Although everyone had shields and various defensive spells, the mist enchantment of the siren was still the best second insurance in this situation.
They came to the skeleton of Nidhogg.
"There are signs of serious corrosion." Y 'zaks put his hand into the vines and easily broke off a piece of dark bone. "Such a large dragon … In my hometown, it could basically dominate the entire vesicle space."
Hao Ren smacked his lips. "It's such a waste to encounter a creature like the First Born. It can pierce through the Nine Worlds with just one tentacle."
Lily looked up at the huge dragon skeleton that almost covered the sky. She almost drooled. "What a waste … If this thing is not poisonous, I can gnaw on it until the next century."
Everyone was speechless.
Hao Ren carefully looked around and found that there was a very wide crack under the skull of Nidhogg. There was a faint red light coming from the crack. He took out a probe and threw it down.
A moment later, the probe sent back images. As Hao Ren expected, it was not an ordinary crack but a biological chamber.
Judging from the biological tissue around the chamber, it was very much like the brain cavity of the First Born.
The decay started from the brain tissue.
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