"Different? How so? "Vivian looked up at Hao Ren." Because this one is a larva? "
"Not just a larva." Hao Ren looked at the tentacles and the remains of biological tissues around him. "The First Born we saw in The Plane of Dreams is more like a plant, and it has precisely differentiated into various functions, such as a forest on the surface, tentacles in the rock stratum, a 'heart' buried underground, and various ganglia. But this one looks like it has not fully evolved, and it feels like an embryo. "
Nangong Wuyue added, "And how this thing got from The Plane of Dreams to this world is also a big problem."
Hao Ren looked up and looked around the hall. This was the center of the spaceship, and there were many passages leading to unknown places. The tentacles of the First Born had spread out along those passages, and it was estimated that some of its organs could be found elsewhere. He thought for a moment and decided to split up. "Let's split up, it will be more efficient. If you find anything, contact each other immediately. "
No one had any objections, and finally, they were divided into groups. Lily and Hao Ren were in one group, Y'zaks and his daughter and Lanina were in another group, and Vivian and Nangong Wuyue were in another group. After a rigorous process of coin guessing, finger-guessing, and stick spinning, the three groups decided on three directions, and then split up and left the hall.
Lily held her Flamejoy and happily led the way. She was no longer afraid when it came to playfulness. Hao Ren followed behind the husky maiden, cautiously observing the surroundings as they moved forward. After they left the hall, they had explored a long distance and found some empty cabins along the way. However, the cabins were either empty, or there were only ordinary tentacles, which were basically worthless.
Lily, on the other hand, was in high spirits. She picked up all the rare things in the spaceship and stuffed them into her pocket. Before long, all her pockets were already bulging. In the end, she could only empty them into Hao Ren's Dimensional Pocket. The storage of Wang's Treasure was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Hao Ren looked at the girl and was a little confused. "You collecting stones can be considered as enjoying the rare stones, but what's the point of you picking up pieces of scrap iron?"
Lily said with a serious face, "Bring it back to the nest whether it's useful or not. This is common sense for werewolves!"
Hao Ren was speechless. Lily's concept of werewolves must include the ones pulling sleighs in the Arctic Circle …
The two of them chatted as they walked forward. In the end, they found another empty room. The door of the room was almost completely blocked by the tentacles. Even without Hao Ren's instruction, Lily waved her claws happily and quickly cleaned up the withered wreckage. Hao Ren held the MDT and shone it into the room. "Nothing much... Wait a minute! There's something! "
The MDT's blue glow flickered in the room, and a reflective object caught Hao Ren's attention. He quickly floated in and dug it out from a pile of vines. He was right: it was a small device, and it looked intact on the outside.
Along the way, the two of them had long felt that something was not right, because there was basically nothing but tentacles in the rooms along the way. The huge spaceship was so clean that it looked like it had just left the factory. It did not feel like there was a sudden disaster, but an orderly evacuation. And now, they had finally found something interesting.
The small device was only the size of a palm, shaped like an oval pancake, with a smooth surface and no buttons. Hao Ren let the MDT identify it. "What is this?"
The MDT floated over and scanned it. "It looks like my foreign friend …"
"What?"
"Oh, I said this thing seems to be a data processing device, similar to a PDA. But I don't know which civilization made it."
Hao Ren suddenly looked forward to it. "Can you read it?"
"This is difficult." The MDT circled around the small device twice and went up to touch the shell of the device. "Hey, hey, buddy, is it alive?"
After a few touches, there was no response. The MDT shook its body regretfully. "It's dead."
Hao Ren took out an alloy brick from his Dimensional Pocket and aimed it at the MDT. "Do you want to play with it again? Believe it or not, I'll give you a crack. Do you want to compare hardness with a professional brick? "
The MDT scurried back to the side of the small device. "I'm just trying to lighten the mood. Don't panic, wait for me to read it …"
As it spoke, it clung to the ancient device that had been scrapped for tens of thousands of years. Its body emitted a faint blue light as it began to decode any information that might remain inside the device. As it was not sure of the storage mechanism and structure of this thing, the MDT slowly moved as it read. Lily looked at the scene and scratched her chin thoughtfully. "Why do I feel that the MDT is molesting a corpse …"
Hao Ren slapped Lily on the head. "Can't you be more naive? You were such a pure and artistic young woman when you first came. How did you become so wretched? "
Lily covered her head and looked at Hao Ren aggrievedly. "I'm very pure. I haven't even had estrus for so many years. But you can't stop me from reading a lot of books, can you?"
Hao Ren suddenly felt that he had experienced the cultural difference between him and the monster girl.
The MDT quietly listened to the two of them discussing the issue of moral integrity. It could not help but mutter, "That's enough. I'm not interested in this crappy device that doesn't even have four sets of redundant processors. I'm looking forward to the kind with processing cores, expansion slots, and 16 threads. Of course, it's best if it's the kind on the battleship …"
Hao Ren was surprised to find that there was a cultural difference between him and his PDA!
At this time, the MDT seemed to have finally scanned something. It suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, hey, there's really something. This thing's performance is terrible, but the memory is solid. A small part of the data has been saved!"
Hao Ren's eyes suddenly lit up. "Release it, quickly!"
The MDT processed the data and said, "Wait a minute, I'm translating. Put aside the useless data. Don't tell me you're interested in alien porn?"
Hao Ren looked down and solemnly raised the alloy brick. "Do you want it loud or brittle?"
The MDT shuddered and quickly released the processed document. "Let me show you. This should be the log left behind by the crew of the spaceship. The thing mentioned in it is probably the First Born that has invaded the spaceship."
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation The logs had been translated and the most valuable parts were extracted.
"Log one … Keyword: Cruise record.
"We've been in this galaxy for six months. So far, we've found a large number of star systems and habitable planets with life. This should be a thriving place of life. These days, we've been busy recording coordinates and collecting planet data. It's a bit boring, but every time we find a planet with life, we feel happy. Those creatures called 'demons' are very concerning. They're highly intelligent, but they're bad-tempered and seem to be impossible to negotiate with. Perhaps this has something to do with the harsh environment they live in? Those planets are really not suitable for living. It's the first time I've seen creatures that can move in magma.
"Log two, Keyword: Accidental disaster.
"… An incredible accident has happened. I should be glad that I'm still alive … May the wind of my hometown bless me. I don't know how long this spaceship can last! A huge … strange thing suddenly appeared in space and hit the spaceship. It contained an incomprehensible energy, and the moment it came into contact with the spaceship, it overloaded the spaceship's shield system and almost broke the spaceship in half. Now, the strange ball was still stuck in the central garage. It's unbelievable that a ball of hundreds of meters could blow a hole of more than ten kilometers wide. This should be related to some kind of spatial phenomenon. There's a serious gas leak in the spaceship. Thousands of people are dead or missing. At present, the emergency control device has successfully stopped the gas leak and the spreading fire. But I'm afraid we can't repair the spaceship.
"Log three, Keyword: Growth, Weird.
"Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable! I can only express my surprise like this. I'm a biologist. I've been studying the creatures in the universe all my life. But I never thought that the ball that hit the spaceship's garage was some kind of life! It was just a ball yesterday, but today its surface is cracked, and something strange is growing out of it … I'm sure it's a sign of life. It crosses space, survives in the universe, and has great power. Why does such a thing exist in the world? Today, the people on the spaceship held a meeting to discuss what to do with the ball. Someone suggested throwing it back into space, but we soon found that it was impossible. The ball has' taken root 'in our spaceship, and its powerful supernatural power has prevented some of the more violent tests. All we can do now is watch it lie there and pray that it doesn't do any harm.
"Also, the navigator also found a bad situation. For some reason, the space around the spaceship seems to be closed. We seem to be temporarily trapped in a warped space bubble. The only good thing now is that the technicians seem to be able to repair the hyperspace module of the escape ship. They seem to be planning to evacuate. Maybe I should study the thing growing out of the ball before that.
"Log four, Keyword: Gentle Seed.
"I've been dealing with the fast-growing strange creature in the ball for the past few days. It's unexpectedly gentle. Although we still can't communicate with each other smoothly, it seems to realize that it's on someone else's spaceship, so it cautiously slowed down its expansion. If I'm not mistaken, it should have tried to express its apology to me. Of course, the others don't care about my little discovery. They are busy investigating the situation of the space anomaly. The spaceship is trapped more seriously than expected."
When Hao Ren saw this, he was stunned. He could not help but look up. "It says that the First Born is gentle?!"
Lily's expression was as silly as Hao Ren's. She recalled the violent tentacle monster in the Plane of Dreams, and suddenly the hair on her tail quivered. She shook her head vigorously. "How could it be gentle? I almost got eaten by it! "
At this time, the log extracted by the MDT was still increasing. Hao Ren temporarily put aside the huge confusion in his mind and continued to study the next record.
"Log five, Keyword: Space anomaly.
"I really want to continue the record about the 'space ball', but today I have to record a worse situation: within the range of detection, the structure of space seems to have changed.
"Now it can be confirmed that the spaceship is trapped in a strange place like a warped bubble. The surrounding space has been closed, as if the entire universe has suddenly shrunk to a mere 10 million kilometers in diameter. The released probes encountered a closed space wall. After flying in one direction, they would return from the other end of the space. The technicians calculated the circulation path of these probes and finally determined that the center of this closed space is our spaceship. What happened? Did the whole universe collapse with us as the center? In any case, the technicians are still looking for the cause of the mutation, but I'm not optimistic.
"Log six, Keyword: None.
"We know too little about the universe.
"That strange spherical creature — I can only call it that now — it seems to be the root of everything. The technicians analyzed the instrument records when the spherical creature suddenly appeared near the spaceship. They were surprised to find that it was not the ordinary sense of a space jump, but a more peculiar teleportation phenomenon. The records show that when the sphere appeared, many of the nearby natural laws were distorted, as if the sphere 'fell' from a universe completely different from ours. It may be that this' crossing 'triggered the disorder of the laws of space, causing us to be trapped in a closed space bubble. But fortunately, there are signs that this space is not completely sealed. Some unstable teleportation points can be opened in fixed locations. The technicians are testing this opening pattern.
"Log seven, Keyword: Bubble, Spread.
"We finally confirmed the situation outside. The 'outside' here refers to the situation outside the space bubble.
"Things are more bizarre than we thought. There is a strange atmosphere lingering in the spaceship. Everyone is very uneasy. Obviously, there has been a huge change outside the space bubble in the past, but we have been ignorant: the structure of the space outside has been torn apart.
"The technicians opened several portals to the outside world, and the probes successfully crossed and returned. The news they brought back was surprising. Outside, there were also dimensional bubbles — one after another, warped spaces that were connected by the hyperspace channel and sealed off. All the probes did not find the shadow of the starry sky. Perhaps the entire universe has changed? No one knows what the real situation is.
"It's like a pot of calm water has been added with a foaming agent and then stirred crazily. Now the universe outside us is completely different from the world we know. The continuous visible and accessible space has been broken, and what caused all of this … is just a seed, a seed that may have come from another parallel universe.
"It is still growing. Although it has slowed down, it has completely occupied the middle compartment of the spaceship and is spreading to the power core. I still believe that its nature is gentle, but its life instinct is gradually disintegrating our spaceship.
"A group of soldiers tried to destroy the tentacles and achieved some results, but it was meaningless. The mental state of those soldiers became abnormal after they came back. I don't think there will be a new 'weeding operation.' This morning, I found some small protrusions in the corner of my cabin. The tentacles are probably growing here.
"Log eight, keyword: none.
"We finally decided to abandon the spaceship, including the 'spherical creature' that has been completely symbiotic with the spaceship. Oh, it is no longer a ball now. It is now like a forest, spreading in half of the spaceship.
"The technicians roughly predicted a space model. They think that the area of mutation should be limited. The laws of the universe will smooth out the external information intrusion. The space bubble phenomenon is probably such a 'self-healing method of the universe.' We have enough small spaceships to evacuate. According to the route speculated by the technicians, as long as we keep jumping between the space bubbles according to a certain pattern, we can leave this strange star zone.
"The spherical creature seems to know that we are about to leave, and it expressed some kind of 'regret.' I don't know how to tell others how I communicate with that strange creature: it is a spiritual connection, probably because I live very close to one of its ganglia, and I can hear its voice in my sleep.
"It said that it can't leave this place. This is a failed sowing. It will continue to grow here, at least to complete its mission of 'first-generation incubation.' If it has spare energy, it intends to evolve a small, short-lived ecosystem within its coverage. I don't quite understand what it said, but it seems that a more powerful higher creature made it to perform a task similar to the sowing of life. In any case, we know too little about the universe. "
That was the end of the log.
Hao Ren and Lily looked at each other. The things revealed in the log were so important that it was far beyond Hao Ren's initial expectations.
It seemed that a lot of problems had suddenly been solved!
Of course, a lot of questions suddenly popped up.
Lily stretched out her claws and scratched the wall. While scratching, she muttered, "How old is this spaceship? The space bubble was smashed?"
"It has been detected," the MDT floated in front of the two. "Give you a shock. After converting the time scale, this spaceship was abandoned at least 200,000 years ago."
"Oh, two hundred thousand years … What?" Hao Ren did not know what to say.
"200,000 years ago in the Plane of Dreams," the MDT's voice was very serious. "This is a lot of information …"
Just when Hao Ren was about to say something, he suddenly heard Vivian's voice coming from the communicator. "Mr. Landlord! We found something strange here! "
(I can't update at night, so I thought I might as well merge the two chapters together.)
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