It was a huge tentacle that grew on the earth like a mountain range.
Hao Ren could not remember how many planets in the Plane of Dreams he had seen this daunting thing. The first time he saw it was under Holletta. At that time, it was just a little branch of the First Born exposed, but it still shocked everyone. But then more and more of this thing was found, almost all the habitable planets in the Plane of Dreams, including the former habitable planets that were completely dead. The drone cluster was expanding day and night in this universe, and reports of the discovery of traces of the First Born came to Hao Ren like snowflakes every day. These powerful creatures that lived inside the planet and were designed to maintain the ecosystem used to be the nanny and gardener of all races in the Plane of Dreams, but today they had become the nightmare of this universe.
He didn't expect to see those soul-stirring tentacles here, on this unknown and mysterious planet.
The tentacle grew in an arc on the edge of the forest. Its mountain-like body formed a natural boundary, and the forest stopped in front of it as if it was intimidated by the majesty of this ancient creature. The MDT quickly zoomed in on the details of the image, and Hao Ren saw that the tentacle actually grew from a canyon and spread hundreds of kilometers on the surface before plunging back into the ground. Around the tentacle, there were many branches growing from the main tentacle. Some of these branches went deep into the forest and had grown as one with the forest. Their ends reached into the sky, forming the shape of a tree, which looked no different from the normal giant trees in the forest.
Probably one-third of the forest was made up of the tentacle of the First Born.
"Holy moly …" Hao Ren almost cursed when he saw the tentacle. "This thing is really haunting me."
Lily was not surprised. Her big furry tail was propped up, and her eyes were wide open as she stared at the tentacle on the holographic projection. She suddenly exclaimed, "It … it seems to be moving!"
"Yes, there is a slight creeping phenomenon. I can't feel it because I'm too far away, but I think if you stand near this tentacle, you will feel a continuous, weak earthquake … This thing is in an active state."
"I suddenly feel that I can't stay on this planet anymore!" Hao Ren's eyes were wide open. "Inform Nolan immediately to initiate the lullaby program, and at the same time, speed up the repair of the engine system. Slow down the other repair projects, at least to the point where it can move in low-Earth orbit! We must take the initiative! "
The Lullaby program was a mental interference technology that could effectively weaken the First Born's neural activity and suppress its perception. This technology had become one of the most important "security measures" for Hao Ren's operations in the Plane of Dreams since it was discovered and proven effective in Holletta. After conducting joint research with Zorm (Zorm's main task was to be studied), Hao Ren successfully improved the efficiency of the system and reduced its technical difficulty. Then he realized the mass production of the Lullaby system in CARS. Now every mothership-class drone unit carried the Lullaby device, and when they found traces of the First Born in the Plane of Dreams, they would immediately use a mental interference device regardless of whether the First Born was dead or alive. This had become a standard workflow, and the Petrachelys … was also equipped with a set.
Fortunately, the Lullaby device was a supporting facility of the shipboard laboratory, and it was well protected. After the spacecraft crashed, the thing only suffered a slight impact, so it could come in handy now.
But the Lullaby was not omnipotent. You could not hope that the First Born as your neighbor (in this case, a crazy First Born) could sleep soundly. So the smartest thing to do was to wait for the spacecraft's engine to ignite and fly into the sky first. Even if the deep space was blocked by a divine storm, at least it was safe within the planetary system. A spacecraft flying in space was much more reassuring than landing on the belly of the First Born!
Nolan soon received Hao Ren's order and the data sent back by the MDT. The shipgirl knew that things were urgent, so she immediately reset all the energy rationing and poured all the limited output of the drive furnace into the Lullaby device and the engine maintenance program.
Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the Lullaby device was successfully activated. He looked solemnly at the end of the forest, from where he could vaguely see a dark brown mountain range with a little green. He thought it was just an ordinary mountain range, but now he realized that it was the tentacle of the First Born. "There's a First Born here … Could it be that the native civilization on this planet was …"
Before he could finish, a sudden roar from the distant sky interrupted him.
The roar came from afar, and it sounded like some kind of huge aircraft was sweeping across the sky. Hao Ren and his team looked up in horror and saw six strange iron-gray aircraft in formation flying towards them!
Flying Device!
Lily jumped to her feet. "Mr. Landlord! Mr. Landlord! There are still survivors on this planet! Look at their aircraft! "
"I see it, I see it." Hao Ren said as he pressed Lily down. At the same time, he looked at the appearance of the aircraft in the sky with great surprise and curiosity. They had a relatively heavy shape, shaped like two metal shuttles arranged in parallel. Structurally, they did not look like efficient in-atmosphere flight devices at all, but they had amazing speed and agility. They constantly changed position and course in the air, which reflected excellent attitude control.
These things may have anti-gravity technology.
The six aircraft formed an arrowhead formation, sweeping across the sky with indomitable momentum. As they flew over their heads, Lily saw that these things were full of fierce missile launchers and turrets, and between the two shuttles hung something that looked like a giant bomb.
This aggressive formation did not seem to notice Hao Ren and his team on the ground at all. They flew over the ruins of the city and continued to fly to the other side of the forest. At the end of their flight path was the exposed tentacle of the First Born.
Hao Ren seemed to have guessed the intention of these weapons of war.
Sure enough, the six aircraft rushed straight to the tentacle and began to launch missiles and artillery fire in a beautiful dive. At the end of the forest, a large cloud of smoke rose, and the faint sound of the explosion reached everyone's ears.
The tentacle was certainly not going to sit still. Hao Ren did not see how the First Born fought back. He only saw three of the six aircraft seemed to have hit an invisible wall and shattered in mid-air without warning. The remaining three aircraft reacted immediately. They pulled up to an almost 90-degree angle with amazing reflexes and agility, and at the same time accelerated and dropped the large bomb hanging in the middle of the fuselage toward the tentacle on the ground.
In just a few seconds, another spacecraft crashed into the invisible force field created by the First Born and exploded into pieces in the air.
The heavy bomb fell to the ground, and in the process, it split into hundreds of dazzling white light spheres, followed by an earth-shattering explosion and a white-hot blast of light.
Those were obviously not ordinary bombs: they reacted violently the moment they came into contact with the tentacles. A series of plasma 'bubbles' burst out from the point of impact, forming hundreds of light spheres with a radius of up to 100 meters. The light spheres were so hot that they could vaporize almost everything within their range in an instant. After the light spheres dissipated, only spherical pits were left.
The tentacle was protected by some kind of energy field, but it was still instantly riddled with holes, and the area around the tentacle was directly razed to the ground.
Looking at the scene in the distance and the clearer image taken by the MDT, Hao Ren suddenly remembered the "blank area" he saw when he looked at the edge of the city, which seemed to have been bombed recently …
So that was it.
After the bomb was dropped, the remaining two aircraft did not try to turn back to continue the battle. Instead, they continued to pull up and accelerate and continued to fly into the distance as if they had achieved their goal.
The MDT floated to Hao Ren's side and asked, "Initiate communication or what?"
"Just track their signal," Hao Ren said, shaking his head. "Don't rush into communication. It's difficult to guarantee that the race in close contact with the First Born will not be mentally contaminated by the latter. Even if they are still fighting back, it's hard to say whether they are mentally sound or not. You need to be careful when dealing with this race. If possible, it's best to contact a few locals alone without attracting their attention. Give them a sanity check, and then consider the plan to contact their race. "
"Understood …" The MDT floated up and down. "Ah, I have intercepted their communication signal."
"Oh?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows. "Translate it and see what they are saying."
"Decoding …" The MDT paused for two or three seconds and quickly completed the decoding. "The content of the communication is as follows:
N-3 calling the Zenith. The bombing mission is complete, 72% success rate.
Zenith receiving, asking about the damage.
N-1, N-2, N-5, N-6 lost, N-4 secondary engine destroyed, N-3 double turrets overloaded.
Zenith receiving, the formation is returning to repair and replenish ammunition, ready for the next bombing mission.
N-3, N-4 receiving, executing the climbing sequence … "
Hao Ren blinked. "That's it?"
"That's it," the MDT replied. "What else could it be? Singing a rap on the base station after the mission? This kind of report has a strict format and must be short. "
Hao Ren scratched his chin. "I know this, but I was hoping to hear more useful information … Well, now we know that these aircraft came from a base called the Zenith."
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