Unlike the version in the myth, Nidhogg actually went crazy in the process of gnawing on the roots of the World Tree. After that, the black dragon became a monster that only knew destruction and killing, and it was gnawing on one of the nerves of the First Born.
Its nest was located above the node of a part of the brain tissue of the First Born. This unlucky guy chose to build its nest on a super powerful mental energy transmitter, which doomed it from the beginning. Even if Nidhogg did not touch the vines and lifeblood that spread out from the ground, it would sooner or later go crazy listening to the whispers of the First Born in the dream.
Hao Ren left Anthony Alfonso and Y 'zaks on the surface, and then led the others into the huge crypt under Nidhogg's body.
This was not the first time he came into close contact with the deep organs of the First Born, so the discomfort brought to him by the strange and oppressive environment was not as strong as before. While moving in the crypt, he was able to calm down and observe the surroundings while introducing his research results on this super demigod creature to Galazur.
"The large tentacles of the First Born can sometimes reach several kilometers wide, but small tentacles like nerve bundles may only be a few meters in diameter or even smaller. I guess this crypt leads directly to the brain tissue, so it's basically all nerves here." Hao Ren pointed to the winding vines or tentacles on the walls of the cave while paying attention to the road under his feet. "The nerve conduction of the First Born is very strange. It does not completely follow the laws of the universe. Some of its nerve conduction is even faster than the speed of light, and a nerve impulse can be sent to all the ends of the tentacles in an instant."
Galazur nodded slightly. "Because it's huge."
"Yes, it's huge. A mature First Born can live in symbiosis with the planet. It can drill through the entire planet's mantle and crust, and immerse its core in the core to absorb nutrients. With such a huge body, it can't even think without superluminal nerve activity." Hao Ren shrugged. "But I still have to say: the conventional First Born does not have the ability to perform hyperspace jumps with huge objects. Their mission is to maintain the ecosystem. Yggdrasil is a very strange individual."
"Pay attention to the surroundings," Vivian reminded. She had already smelled the aura of the lifeblood surging, and it gave her a rather dangerous feeling. "If you find any tentacles moving, tell me immediately."
Just as she finished speaking, she heard Nangong Wuyue exclaim, "Ah! Just now, I felt like a tentacle suddenly retracted from my body! "
The siren girl's scream shocked everyone. Nangong Sanba immediately raised his crossbow and said, "Where is it, where is it …"
Nangong Wuyue curled up into a ball, but after a few seconds, she loosened up. "Err, I think I saw wrong. That was my own tail …"
"Did you pour that mouthful of detergent into your brain?" Hao Ren was furious at the cowardly sea serpent. He slapped the serpent's tail and said, "I told you to be vigilant, not to scare yourself!"
The siren girl's interruption made the atmosphere a little tense. Walking in a closed crypt was suffocating enough, and this crypt was full of tentacle-like plants and vines, which made the atmosphere even more depressing. Lastly, there was also a siren who would curl herself up into a ball to scare people. To be honest, the only time Hao Ren was scared was when Wuyue shouted.
But soon, he was scared for the second time.
He found that the ground under his feet suddenly cracked, and the whole crypt collapsed in an instant. The rock stratum below seemed to suddenly disappear, and everyone fell into the endless abyss. And at the end of the abyss, there was a molten core that was emitting a blazing light!
This sudden change made Hao Ren's brain crash. He almost instinctively wanted to scream, but at the moment when he lost his balance, he felt a sudden surge of clarity in his spiritual world. In the hazy illusion, he saw Raven 12345's smile flash by. The goddess grinned at him and gave him a thumbs up. "I support you."
All the illusions disappeared, and Hao Ren felt a tangible touch in his hand. He suddenly woke up and found that he was tightly holding onto Lily's tail. This was probably a conditioned reflex when he lost his balance just now.
And Lily stared blankly in front of her, her eyes wide open. Not only Lily, but Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wuyue were also the same. Only Vivian turned her head slowly and looked at them with her hazy eyes. "Illusion."
A low roar suddenly sounded in the cave. Galazur said two powerful words in the dragon language, "Duva-Zada!"
The powerful Menace of the Dragon swept everything with a crushing momentum. Lily and the Nangong siblings instantly woke up. After Nangong Sanba woke up, he was still a little confused about the situation. He raised his hand crossbow and shouted angrily in a certain direction, "Why aren't you demons retreating yet? I said I surrender, and I surrender! I, Nangong Sanba, have always been upright and aboveboard. Ah, why are you all back? "
"It's an illusion," Hao Ren said with lingering fear. "The First Born might have muttered something in his sleep. Fortunately, Galazur and I are demigods, and we resisted the wave of mental attack. It should be fine now. "
Lily tugged at Hao Ren's sleeve. "Mr. Landlord, Mr. Landlord …"
Hao Ren glanced at the husky maiden. "What's wrong?"
"I think I'm still hallucinating," Lily said carefully, with tears in the corner of her eyes. "I don't know why, but I feel pain in my tail!"
Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat. "… That's because you're stupid, and the illusion lingers for a long time. It won't hurt after a while!"
"Oh."
Although the hallucination did not cause any substantial damage, they were still on high alert as they moved forward. Hao Ren had a faint sense of danger in his heart.
He knew part of the physiological characteristics of the First Born. He knew that although the First Born could use its powerful mental power to interfere with the mind of mortals and drag ordinary people into its distorted dreams, the area around its brain should be safe. Because the First Born had multiple brain nuclei, and these brain nuclei had to cooperate with each other to work. There was a sophisticated and coordinated transmission of thought waves between them. Due to the self-protection mechanism common to all creatures, this vital and sophisticated thinking organ should be completely sealed, not only from the body, but also from the mind.
That was to say, under normal circumstances, the First Born would never directly use its brain to attack the outside world, which could disrupt the coordination between the multiple brain nuclei. The main way it released its mental power was through the tentacles extending from the greater ganglion, which was a specialized organ for releasing mental waves.
Hallucinating near the brain nuclei, Hao Ren speculated that part of Yggdrasil's organs seemed to be losing control.
His heart suddenly skipped a beat. Was this the mechanism of the transformation of a normal First Born (like Zorm) to a frenzied First Born (the terminator)?
"This should be the cavity you mentioned," Galazur's voice interrupted Hao Ren's thoughts. The team had come to the end of the deep vine crypt, and in front of them was a wide hemispherical cavity. "The biological tissue in front looks like some kind of core. Is it the brain nucleus?"
Hao Ren looked up and saw a concave structure in the center of the wide hemispherical cavity. The concave area was filled with a slowly squirming red liquid. In this pool of lifeblood, there was a ten-meter-high biological tissue that emitted a faint red light. Countless tentacles extended from this biological tissue all the way to the stone walls around the cavity.
He was familiar with this scene. He had seen it in the crypt of Holletta.
"What you see is not the brain nucleus itself, but a large node. But some of the large nodes are the containers of the brain nucleus. The organ is hidden under the red connective skin."
Hao Ren said as he walked forward and stopped half a meter away from the pool of lifeblood. He carefully observed and confirmed that there was indeed a brain nucleus inside this large node. At the base of this biological tissue, an irregular connective grid was flashing red regularly. A vague spherical shadow could be seen under the red light, and the MDT had read a powerful mental signal from there.
"Is this the thing that controls the activities of Yggdrasil?" Galazur looked curiously at the weird organ called the brain nucleus. "It's amazing."
"This is one of the brain nuclei. The mature First Born will have several to a dozen brain nuclei. These brain nuclei are connected together to form its complete brain, but each brain nucleus can also carry out complete thinking activities independently."
"This is the source of corruption?" Nangong Sanba scratched his chin. "Can we surgically remove it? In this way, the other normal brain nuclei can take over the rotten tentacles, and Yggdrasil should be able to wake up. "
There was nothing wrong with Nangong Sanba's analysis, but Hao Ren looked at it carefully and shook his head. "No, something is wrong here. This is a healthy organ!"
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