While Hao Ren had a lot of questions, he did not expect Noobie to give him any answers.
For this little thing who acted on instinct, she did not need any reason to do things. In fact, she did not even know what the word 'reason' meant.
So Hao Ren and Vivian could only put their heads together and began to speculate and discuss. Of course, it was not a problem to say that it was just a wild guess. What happened to the little one was too strange, and the nature of the Great Pit was even more bizarre.
Looking at Noobie who was wandering around on the ground and occasionally baring her fangs at the air, Hao Ren scratched his chin thoughtfully. "I think the problem lies in this little thing's' madness'. While she is now harmless (in fact, she has always been harmless), she is still a creature catalyzed by the power of the Mad Lord. It is normal for her to have a high resistance to the power of chaos and corruption."
Vivian immediately looked at the Great Rift not far away. She immediately understood what Hao Ren meant. "You suspect that the Great Pit is also caused by the power of the Mad Lord? And because Noobie and the power of the Mad Lord are of the same origin, the two will not harm each other? "
"This is the most likely answer, and it is in line with the basic pattern we have been doing all this time." Hao Ren nodded. "And more importantly, it is in line with our initial concept of the Umbral Realm. This is the place where the goddess of creation fell. The power of the Mad Lord and the power of the goddess fought a great battle here, so these two powers are the two most important things in the Umbral Realm. Now that we can see the vibrant ecosystem on L 'Haronne as the embodiment of the power of the goddess of creation, what is its counterpart? Obviously, it is the Great Pit. This' pit 'may represent the form of the power of the Mad Lord in the Umbral Realm. "
Vivian thought for a moment but could not think of a more convincing explanation. So she nodded. "It is a simple and easy-to-understand model, but we still have to figure out the situation under the Great Pit. Now, even you can't resist the devouring power of the Great Pit, and the probes will lose their signal after entering the pit. We have to find a way to observe the inside of the crack. "
Of course, Hao Ren also knew that this was a problem that needed to be solved urgently. In fact … he already had an idea.
His eyes slowly landed on Noobie, who was playing happily by herself.
The little thing who was running around on the ground suddenly felt Hao Ren's gaze. She stopped throwing Shadow Bolts and looked back nervously. When she saw Hao Ren's gaze, she immediately let out a soft voice, "Eek!"
"Can't this little thing resist the devouring power of the Great Pit?" Hao Ren smiled at Vivian and waved at Noobie. "Come here. I won't eat you. If you don't come, I'll throw you to Raven 12345!"
"Eek!"
"Don't just scare her. Don't you know how to use carrot and stick when dealing with a child?" Vivian immediately glared at Hao Ren and turned to Noobie with a smile. "Come here. Don't be afraid. We won't bully you."
Hao Ren could not help but look at Vivian from head to toe. "You, a person who can forget about your child for 400 years, have actually learned how to take care of a child. I wonder how Hessiana will feel when she sees this."
Vivian let Noobie climb up her arm and rolled her eyes at Hao Ren. "I was stupid back then, and it's not like I don't care about Hessiana. Of course, I have a little problem taking care of a child. So recently, I have taken the initiative to call Hessiana, and I plan to ask her to come to my house for a few days. By the way, are you going to let Noobie help you explore the Great Pit? "
Hao Ren nodded as he took out a new probe from his dimensional pocket. "I have been thinking about it, and it should work. Noobie's clothes are not her original ones, but the ones you made for her. When she came out of the Great Pit, her clothes were intact. So I guess the little thing is not only immune to the devouring power of the Great Pit, but also immune to the devouring power of the things she carries with her within a small area. You see, I have set this probe to record mode. We can tie it to Noobie. "
The little guy looked at Hao Ren approaching her with a suspicious silver-white device. She immediately raised her hand and hissed. "Ghsss!"
Vivian looked down at Noobie helplessly. "Your plan is good. The only problem is that Noobie doesn't seem to want to cooperate."
That was a big problem. Hao Ren suddenly realized that Noobie had made great progress. Not only had she gained richer emotions, but she could also understand human language. But understanding did not necessarily mean that she would obey. What should he do if the muddle-headed little thing did not want to cooperate?
Hao Ren tried his best to persuade Noobie, but there was no sign of Noobie's attitude softening. This made Hao Ren feel frustrated. He had quarreled with his goddess, his PDA, and now, he was quarreling with a 'probe.' And the most amazing thing was …
He lost.
Noobie was unbeatable because she could not speak.
But in the end, Noobie was still tied to the probe by Hao Ren. It was not that Hao Ren succeeded, but Vivian took out a piece of meat, and Hao Ren seized the moment when Noobie was distracted and tied the probe to Noobie's back with two rolls of Scotch tape.
Noobie showed great anger, but after taking two bites of the meat, she forgot about it …
After that, Hao Ren threw her into the endless darkness of the Great Pit.
While waiting for Noobie to return, Hao Ren and Vivian chatted casually, and the topic soon turned to what Rheia had mentioned when they saw the ruins on the surface: the Anno ruins and the speculation of the 'extraterrestrial visitors'.
"This world is basically not the home planet of the godslayers," Hao Ren said. "There are not only the ruins of the godslayers here. In fact, the ruins of the godslayers are the minority here. Aside from their magnificent palaces, there are a lot of traces of unknown civilizations. And according to the information provided by Rheia, these ancient relics do not seem to be left by the indigenous races of this planet."
Vivian had her own thoughts. "Some of them may be ancient civilizations that have completely disappeared."
"Yes, they are ancient civilizations that have completely disappeared, so the relics they left behind will not have any traces of inheritance, but this is certainly not all," Hao Ren nodded. "There are many ruins in the Anno group, and a considerable number of them certainly can't be explained as ancient civilizations that have completely disappeared. They should really come from the outer space."
"At a certain period before the deicidal war, various races, including the godslayers, suddenly visited this place, left traces of their respective civilizations on the land of L 'Haronne, and then suddenly left at the same time?" Vivian frowned and shook her head slightly. "It doesn't make sense, and it doesn't fit our understanding of the godslayers. We even guessed that this world was the goddess of creation's' Species Vault ', and the only reason the deicidal race came here was to destroy it. Why would they come here with a bunch of other races, leave a bunch of landscape buildings, and then suddenly run away? What's going on? "
Hao Ren scratched his chin. "… Explode a spectacle before the final battle?"
"Don't play so many games, especially those that will make you go bald," Vivian said.
"There are too many things in this world that are hard to explain, and inconsistencies are everywhere." Hao Ren decisively changed the topic. "And now I remember a more concerning detail …"
"What detail?"
"Remember the information about the Great Pit that we found in Rheia's library?" Hao Ren reminded. "What was the description of the Great Pit again?"
Vivian recalled as she said, "It's full of poisonous gas, and there are monsters wandering in it. Some of the Great Pit will even corrupt and cover a large area of the surface world after it is excavated, leaving behind a black forest after the corruption is gone. But according to Rheia, the research on the Great Pit was actually done in the ordinary crypts on the periphery of the Great Pit, and what was described was only the characteristics of the polluted crypts."
Hao Ren looked around and said, "But we are now in such an underground cavern. This underground palace and the cavern here are directly connected to the Great Pit, which fits the description in the book and Rheia's description. But what about the poisonous gas? What about the monsters in the Great Pit? And what about those strange sounds? There is only an empty crypt in front of us, and we even set up camp in this crypt. "
These inconsistencies were not difficult to find at all. It was just that Hao Ren and his team knew too little about the Great Pit, and the only information they had was from some unrigorous and undetailed works of "folk scientists." So it was difficult for them to notice the abnormality when they first came into contact with the Great Pit. But when Hao Ren recalled his experience in the dead of night, he felt that something was not right.
The Great Pit that he actually saw was completely different from what was described in the book.
Although Rheia had disdainfully said that most of the scholars who studied the Great Pit were talking nonsense, when it came to some basic issues, such as whether there were poisonous gas and monsters in the Great Pit, would those scholars make up such a level of nonsense? Moreover, it was a fabricated story that everyone agreed on?
"Maybe not every Great Pit is the same," Vivian speculated. "Poisonous gas and monsters are probably not standard."
Hao Ren smacked his lips. "Anyway, I think something is wrong. Let's go back and look for more information. After all, we have only flipped through a few books. And Rheia's words can't be trusted completely. While she always sounds like she's in the right, I don't think a mage who can just use Berserk Chain Strike after encountering a monster in the wild is that reliable … By the way, how long has Noobie been down there? "
"It has been a while," Vivian said as she looked at the big rift. "She should be back by now."
After staring at the silent rift for a while, Hao Ren suddenly smacked his forehead. "D * mn it, that little thing doesn't know how to plan and have no sense of time at all! What if she has too much fun in there and doesn't come back? Where are we going to find her? "
Vivian also realized the problem, and her face suddenly looked a little grim. "Should we tie a rope to her?"
Hao Ren waved his hand. "It doesn't work. Noobie's' anti-devour zone 'is certainly not that big. The rope must be beyond her carrying range, and it will break when she goes in."
"What if she doesn't come back?" Vivian looked worried. "We don't know how big it is down there. What if she gets lost?"
"Can you just 'retrieve' her? Just like retrieving your little bat, "Hao Ren said." You can just abandon the probe. "
"She is not a little bat, and she is very disobedient. I have to get very close to her before I can retrieve her." Vivian looked at her hand. "The distance should be over now. Noobie may fly very slowly, but she has been down there for more than ten minutes."
Hao Ren thought hard for a moment and began to rummage through his Dimensional Pocket. "She won't go too far. I have experience. Even if she is allowed to move freely, she will only be in a very small area. I'll find a way to get her out now."
Hao Ren was speaking from experience. This was the rule that the MDT had concluded after collecting data on Noobie's living habits. Probably because of her small size, her concept of distance and range was different from ordinary people. She could run a ten-meter circle as if she was running around the world.
After a while, Vivian looked at the thing in Hao Ren's hand. "Are you sure this thing will work?"
Hao Ren shook the fishing rod in his hand and nodded confidently. "Don't worry. Nothing is more attractive to her than this thing."
He moved a stool and sat on the edge of the Great Fissure, holding a fishing rod in his hand. Yes, it was the usual fishing rod. However, the thing hanging at the end of the fishing line was not bait but a piece of raw meat with traces of blood on it. To avoid hurting Noobie, Hao Ren did not use a sharp hook but an ordinary knot to pierce through the meat.
Of course, to prevent the meat from being swallowed, Hao Ren hung the 'bait' in the air, less than half a meter away from the dark 'horizon.' The raw meat that had lost its vitality was obviously not a living thing, so it did not trigger the Great Pit to swallow it.
Vivian glanced at the meat at the end of the fishing line and then looked at Hao Ren with a strange look. "I'm not talking about the meat. I'm talking about your idea. How did you come up with such an idea?"
"So, you are not a Chinese monster at first glance. You can't relate it to the joke of Jiang Taigong fishing."
"Are you sure you thought of Jiang Taigong fishing and not because you spent too much time with Lily?" Vivian looked at Hao Ren with contempt. "And it's called an allusion! What the hell is an allusion? "
Hao Ren said, "Isn't a modern allusion an allusion from ancient times? Isn't it because of the evolution of language?"
Vivian wanted to say something more, but there was a sudden movement in the rift.
Accompanied by a Brownian motion Shadow Arrow slowly flying into the air, a small figure suddenly flew out of the darkness and pounced on the piece of meat in the air. The next moment, she was hanging on the piece of meat, unwilling to let go. It was as if she was determined to live and die with the piece of meat.
"This thing really works!" Vivian exclaimed.
No matter how whimsical Jiang Taigong's idea was, it had finally achieved the desired result. Noobie was successfully fished out, and the probe on her back was still there. It did not seem to be damaged at all.
Noobie could carry things safely into the Great Pit, although Hao Ren did not know how it worked.
"There's data!" Hao Ren carefully removed the probe from Noobie's back. Noobie did not let go of her precious meat in the process. He then immediately checked the storage status of the device. "It's just as I thought. The probe has been operating normally under Noobie's protection. It's full of photos!"
The MDT had already floated over and said, "Leave it to me!"
The images captured by the probe were quickly transferred to the MDT's holographic projection.
The environment inside the Great Pit was obviously not suitable for filming. Even if the probe had an excellent information-gathering module, it still suffered from serious interference. After the MDT's powerful decoding, Hao Ren and Vivian finally saw the video, but the images were still blurry and dim.
But at least there were images.
Hao Ren was finally sure that there were indeed some debris floating in the Great Pit, and the "building wreckage" captured by the sacrificed probe was real.
But those were not the only things floating in the Great Pit.
In the dim and blurry images, some large-scale things flashed by. Because the photographer was a silly little girl who kept spinning and flying around, the image was not stable. The MDT cut out the valuable parts from the images, sharpened them, and zoomed in. Hao Ren was sure that the larger shadows were actually cities or plains floating in the dark void.
There were broken palaces, cities, lands, and even spaceships. All kinds of debris floated in the dark and chaotic background, constantly spinning, drifting, colliding, annihilating, and regenerating. Sometimes they were like phantoms, but sometimes they were so real that they even collided with the camera. That was when Noobie accidentally bumped into a piece of debris.
Hao Ren and Vivian looked intently at the images processed by the MDT. The images contained a huge amount of information and seemed to reveal some secrets of the Great Pit. Hao Ren also sensed a huge anomaly in the images, and he quickly figured out where the anomaly came from.
"The scale. The scale is wrong."
(I recommend a book, The Final Abyss, written by my friend. It's an infinite time travel genre. You can read it if you're interested.)
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