The moment the stench permeated the air, Hao Ren knew he had found the right place.
A normal First Born would never emit such a smell. In fact, apart from the thin smell of the lifeblood itself, the First Born itself did not emit any odor, including its various internal tissues. The stench from behind the thick connective skin was unheard of by Hao Ren.
The moment the pungent smell hit his brain, Hao Ren almost thought that it was a combination of all the evils in the world. He felt a visible wave of air rushing towards him, and then a thought came to his mind: I'm afraid Ao Xiang is just like that!
Anyway, Lily vomited on the spot.
"Holy sh * t … I was too careless …" Nangong Sanba covered his nose with his hand. His voice was distorted as he said, "There was no warning at all. It was too sudden … Sister, open the barrier!"
Nangong Wuyue, who was covering her nose and trying her best to hide, finally reacted. She hurriedly waved her hand and summoned a gust of Wind of Mana that was filled with moisture. The powerful Water Mist Barrier operated at full force, finally suppressing the deadly smell. After suppressing the smell, she immediately climbed to Lily's side to rescue the husky maiden. The poor husky maiden, who usually took a deep breath to calm herself down, had basically lost her ability to move. Her eyes were rolling back and she was jumping up and down.
Hao Ren fanned his nose with his hand and frowned. "Let's not talk about whether it's rotten or not. This smell is killing me."
"Smell? I'm afraid it's not as simple as the smell. "Galazur was also smelly just now, but she was still calm in this situation. She covered her mouth and nose with one hand and pointed to the people around her with the other." We have different races here, and each race's judgment and sensitivity to smell should be different. At least I know the sirens, as elemental creatures, they have almost no sense of smell, and a dragon like me should have a tolerance hundreds of times higher than a human in terms of stench. But just now, all of us felt the same nausea and … well, nausea. This is a biological instinct at work: there is a very evil and negative force in it, and the aura it emits is quite harmful to all life. "
Hao Ren was stunned. He did not expect there to be so many tricks to the smell just now. The only thing he could not help but lament was that the smell was so strong that it stung his eyes. But soon, he realized that Galazur was right. The stench was not a simple smell.
Lil Pea, who was hopping on the ground, did not react at all. When the stench hit them just now, the little guy only looked up curiously at the "surgical scene" and then continued to hop on the ground. Lil Pea's sense of smell was close to that of a human, but it was also more sensitive. Hao Ren was sure that the little guy had not caught a cold recently, so there was only one explanation: the suppression of her life level was working again.
She didn't sense any 'smell'.
Hao Ren frowned and ordered the two autonomous robots, "Continue, continue."
The autonomous robots responded with a grunt, and then a few mechanical tentacles waved again. The cutting beam continued to cut the connective tissue outside the brain at a dazzling speed, accurate and fast.
The thick connective tissue was peeled off layer by layer, revealing the tissue chamber inside. The lifeless lifeblood was soaked in a sphere that emitted a faint red light. The sphere was about two meters in diameter and exuded a powerful mental wave. It was the brain of Yggdrasil.
Galazur watched curiously. Suddenly, she waved her hand and said, "Wait, there is something behind it."
As she said, she walked forward and used her magic to form a step to the cutting point. One of her arms was gradually covered in a layer of fine and sturdy golden scales. Her fingers also turned into sharp claws with protruding muscles and bones. After she was fully prepared, she reached out her hand to touch the dormant brain.
The brain was turned over, revealing a black, blood-vessel-like fibrous tissue.
These fibrous tissues were glowing with a disgusting black luster, and a faint light wandered between the fibrous bundles. A small number of strong fibrous bundles were beating like muscles, and the part of the fibrous bundle soaked in the lifeblood was releasing a black substance. This substance was gradually contaminating the lifeblood, but at the same time, the lifeblood was constantly purifying the spreading black liquid.
Vivian's eyes suddenly became serious. "I'm afraid this is it … What is this thing?"
"Continue to cut," Hao Ren waved his hand. "Slow down. Don't touch these fibers. MDT, go and prepare more tranquilizers. "
This unprecedented 'surgery' continued. After the connective tissue around the brain was completely peeled off, the autonomous robots turned off the cutting beam and began to use the tractor beam to drag the brain and the 'foreign body' connected to it out of the cavity. There was a slight snag in their work: there was clearly something larger behind the tangled black fibres of the brain.
So one of the autonomous robots had no choice but to reach into the cavity with its tentacles and pull out all the things below.
"I think I won't be able to eat for a week …" Nangong Sanba watched the process from the side. He was very glad that he had vomited once when the stench hit him just now. Otherwise, he would have vomited again.
Finally, the suspicious' foreign body 'that was symbiotic with the brain was taken out, or rather, its main body was taken out. The true form of this thing stunned Hao Ren.
It was another brain nucleus.
It had the same size and shape as an ordinary brain, but it was black all over. The vitality of the lifeblood had completely faded from this organ. Its shriveled and festering skin was covered with sickly spots. Strands of fibrous tissue grew from this festering organ that exuded a foul and ominous smell, piercing into the thick skin of the healthy brain like blood vessels.
In the lower part of the black nucleus, there were many more robust black fibre bundles. These fibre bundles were still connected to the base of the core organ. The autonomous robots did not dare to pull them out by force because these fibre bundles were growing with the tentacles on the outside!
This' black brain 'had seized control of the tentacles through direct connection with the biological tissue.
Nangong Sanba saw this and could not help but mutter to himself, "I think I won't be able to eat for next week."
"This is … the corruption of Yggdrasil?" Hao Ren muttered to himself in amazement. He suddenly realized that this was his biggest discovery in the Nine Worlds so far: the First Born was really corrupted.
He had never found a corrupted First Born. It was true that most of the First Borns in the Plane of Dreams had gone mad, turning from guardians of life to destroyers of life. Their crazy behavior was inevitably associated with corruption and degeneration. But Hao Ren knew very well that this was not the case physiologically. "Madness" and "corruption" were different concepts. The crazy First Born was only mentally distorted, but they were still no different from their healthy brothers. In terms of anatomy, the First Born specimen of Holletta was exactly the same as the biological tissue of Zorm.
In other words, the First Born that Hao Ren had found so far did not have the attribute of "pathological changes."
However, Yggdrasil had indeed become pathological. It had developed a … dark brain.
Or was there a parasitic dark brain in his body?
All kinds of conjectures and hypotheses came to Hao Ren's mind at once, and some of them could be quickly falsified.
The MDT examined the tissue fluid extracted from the black brain. After comparing it with the healthy brain, it ruled out the possibility of foreign parasites. "They are homologous. Although this black thing is severely mutated, it is indeed part of Yggdrasil. "
"So what is this black thing?"
"I don't know how it came here, but one thing is certain: this thing is competing with the healthy brain for control of Yggdrasil. There is a war breaking out inside these fiber bundles. The two energies are fighting fiercely. The cycle of pollution and purification between the lifeblood and the black contaminating fluid has probably lasted for more than two thousand years."
Competing for control!
For a moment, Hao Ren thought of the strange situation between the corrupted tentacles around Nidhogg's lair and the healthy tentacles in the other kingdoms. Now this situation seemed to be explained.
Galazur's right arm gradually returned to normal. She glanced at the black, diseased brain in disgust. "So this is the source of the corruption. We have to give it a name … How about the Heart of Darkness?"
Hao Ren thought for a moment and said, "Actually …"
Everyone suddenly said in unison, "We all think the Heart of Darkness is good!"
Hao Ren spread out his hands innocently. "I want to say that I also think it's good …"
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