After much persuasion, the MDT finally decided to give it a try.
It was amazing, because it was trying to store a sprite in its memory …
"To be honest, no one knows how to do it." Hao Ren looked at the MDT lying motionless on the ground and the little sprite staring at him curiously. He scratched his chin and said, "But I think it should be similar to your usual process of scanning and storing non-standard clusters of information. I remember you have a function of collecting and sorting out the information of the surrounding discrete states … "
The MDT sounded very sad. "I really hope I don't have this function at all."
The little sprite blinked as she looked at the group of people in front of her doing something strange. She did not seem to realize that it had something to do with her until Hao Ren asked her to try to get into the hexagonal metal lump on the ground. She exclaimed, "Wow! You want a sprite to get into this thing?! "
The MDT immediately flopped on the ground twice. "Be polite! What do you mean by 'this thing'? "
The little one was startled by the MDT's movement. She quickly flew up a little and said, "But sprites usually live in crystals. This … How do I get in?"
"You can go into the crystal however you want. Just think of it as a weird-shaped crystal," Vivian reminded. "This is very important. Whether you succeed or not will determine whether we can bring you and your compatriots who have merged with the earth's core out safely. Understand?"
Sprites may look messy, but they were not stupid. After hearing Vivian's words, the little one immediately became serious and then looked at the MDT with a sense of mission. "Then … I'm coming!"
She turned into a beam of blue light and slammed into the MDT's shell with a loud bang. Her face came in contact with the MDT.
Hao Ren and Vivian covered their faces at the same time. The first attempt was a failure.
"It's … It's okay!" The little sprite scrambled to get up from the ground. She was a strange life form, so she did not feel the impact. She was just nervous about the failure of the first attempt. "I'll try again. This time I'm sure it will work! I was a little nervous when I saw its metal shell just now and forgot to change the phase … "
The MDT said, "Whatever. I've given up anyway."
For the next few times, Hao Ren and his friends watched as the little sprite smashed her face against the MDT's shell in all sorts of positions and angles. Although they knew that the little thing would not get hurt, they still could not bear to look at it.
But just when Hao Ren felt that it was a waste of time to continue trying, a faint blue halo suddenly appeared on the surface of the sprite and the MDT.
In the next second, Xiao Budian disappeared from everyone's sight.
The MDT did not react for a moment. A few seconds later, it leaped into the air. "Oh, buddy! This little thing is coming in! "
"Why do I suddenly feel like this process is a little perverted?" Nangong Sanba could not help but whisper to Wuyue. In return, he was almost whipped away by Wuyue's tail.
Hao Ren let the MDT try to establish a connection with the little sprite in the storage space. A moment later, the MDT's holographic projection showed the figure of the little thing. The little thing seemed to be having fun in an endless field. "Wow! That's amazing! I feel like this place is even more spacious than the inside of the crystal. I can't see the end at all! "
"Don't run around!" The MDT immediately shouted. "There's a lot of important information in the storage area! Ah, you can't eat that thing! That's the photo album I saved! You can't touch that either. That's the report! You … you stay here for a while. I'll set up a virtual zone for you. You just stay in the virtual zone. I'll make some virtual scenes for you to play in. That's all right … "
Hao Ren had no idea what was going on in the MDT's storage space. Anyway, the MDT seemed to be bustling with activity before finally settling the little sprite down. He then asked, "How much space does a sprite take up? How much can you store? "
"It's nothing." The MDT swayed its body proudly. "Their information structure is very simple. It's just the size of a needle tip in my storage space. This is a special model for inspectors. The storage space is endless! Even if there were tens of millions of sprites, it wouldn't be a problem! "
Hao Ren's mouth twitched. Not long ago, it was tossing and turning, and now it's showing off again.
Vivian looked at the little sprite, who was running around exploring in the corner of the holographic projection. "Sprite, how many companions do you have?"
"A few thousand!" The little sprite reported a number that was completely within the range of the MDT's tolerance. "Do you want to gather everyone now?"
Hao Ren thought for a moment. "Will it cause a big commotion?"
"No, it won't." The little sprite jumped up and down in the holographic projection. "We've built a shield in the earth's core. It's very safe! After so many years, the monsters have not found the place where the sprites are hiding. It's all because of the shield! "
"Moving the sprites into the MDT's storage space can also reduce our worries." Vivian nodded. "When we start to fight for the Amantir crystal, the monsters will definitely swarm in. By then, we won't have the extra energy to take care of these little things."
Hao Ren weighed the pros and cons in his mind. The Amantir crystal was the primary target of this operation. The crystal represented the ultimate whereabouts of the Star of Creation, and it must not be given up. It was a 'main mission', but the Amantir crystal would not run away on its own. Plus, the festered monsters had just fought with the drones and the guardian army, and they were badly injured. They should not be making any big moves for a long time. So this' main mission 'was pretty much in a stable state for a long time.
It seemed like a good idea to take this opportunity to bring out the sprites hiding in the earth's core.
The only regret was that they had already found their way here, and they were only a few layers away from the Amantir crystal. The goal of the mission was within their reach. Giving up on the mission that was already eighty to ninety percent complete felt like a waste of effort.
But there was no other way. Hao Ren knew very well that he could not give up on the sprites either. If he sacrificed the sprites in the earth's core just to get the Amantir crystal, neither he nor his companions would be able to accept it.
"That's it. Let's go to the earth's core to get the sprites." Hao Ren took a deep breath and summed up all his thoughts in one sentence.
The little sprite, who was already living in the hard drive, had no idea what Hao Ren was thinking about. She just blinked and said in a serious tone, "In fact, the sprite also suggests that you go to the earth's core first. Because if you go straight to the Amantir crystal, something bad will happen."
Hao Ren was stunned. "Something bad? Why? "
"Because the Amantir crystal is connected to the monsters' Lair of Nightmares. If you just take the Amantir crystal away, the big guy that's dreaming will wake up immediately." The little one said softly, as if even the thick-skinned sprite would get nervous at the mention of this topic. "That big guy has been dreaming for thousands of years, and who knows how many monsters have accumulated in the dream! By then, the entire planet will be dragged into the nightmare! "
Hao Ren and the rest could not help but look at each other: the little guy seemed to have inadvertently revealed some very important information!
"What nightmare? What big guy? Hurry up and tell us! " Vivian could not care less and asked quickly, "You said there's a Lair of Nightmares beneath the Amantir crystal? How did it appear? "
"It appeared not long after the guardian giants turned into monsters." The little sprite started to gesticulate again, as if that would make her confusing explanation easier to understand. "The sprite also does not know what the Lair of Nightmares looks like, but some of the surveillance circuits are still working, so we know that there's an additional space beneath the Amantir crystal. Many monsters will appear there, and they were all created by a very big monster …"
The little one's explanation was getting more and more confusing, but just as Hao Ren was about to interrupt her, she suddenly remembered something. "Ah, right, do you still remember the monsters you saw at the rift? Those monsters that appeared out of thin air on the platform below! "
Hao Ren and Vivian looked at each other and turned around. "You mean those monsters that were 'summoned'? Could it be that the summoning platform under the rift is related to the Lair of Nightmares you mentioned? "
"That's not a summoning platform." The little sprite put her hands on her hips. "That's something from the Lair of Nightmares! And those big brains that are connected to the platform. Those brain monsters are created from the guardian giants' brains, and their mission is to dream! "
Nangong Sanba frowned and subconsciously repeated the word, "Dream?"
"Yes, dream the same as the big monsters in the Lair of Nightmares." The little sprite nodded. "Those brain monsters in the rift are responsible for dreaming with the big guys in the Lair of Nightmares, and then projecting the things from the nightmares into the real world, and those brain monsters on the surface are responsible for assembling these monsters from the nightmares into an army and commanding them to fight!"
So this was the truth about those monsters? The true source of Amantir's endless monster army?
He remembered the information he got from his conversation with Salaman.
No matter how many monsters were destroyed, no matter how many monsters were purified into elementary particles, Amantir's army did not decrease, but grew instead. Their growth rate had exceeded the resources collected from the battlefield and Amantir's own production capacity. At least two-thirds of the monsters were illogical, as if they had appeared out of thin air …
When Hao Ren saw the platforms under the equator rift, he thought it was a summoning, but now he learned from the sprite that those things were actually dream creations, and the source of this horrifying dream was right under the Amantir crystal!
Fortunately, he did not go and remove the Amantir crystal straight away …
"Using nightmares to create an army, huh." Vivian shook her head. "That's a common tactic of the minions of the Mad Lord."
Hao Ren looked at the little sprite on the holographic projection. "Why didn't you say something so important earlier?"
The little sprite looked innocent. "You didn't ask, and I forgot about it!"
Everyone was speechless.
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