The vast space was cold and silent, and the endless darkness was only accompanied by starlight. A bright silver arc suddenly cut through the darkness, and the Petrachelys jumped out of the space crack to perform the routine calibration during the continuous jumps.
The Petrachelys was currently heading in a general direction to Io, alternating between warp jumps and regular navigation. The journey was nearing its end. The spaceship's navigation system had recalibrated the starlight lens two days ago, and entered the star map from Nasaton into the navigation program. After some comparison, the ship's mainframe found the suspected star region of the sirens' home galaxy, and now the spaceship was heading there.
Since the sirens' star map was not accurate enough, and the celestial drift caused by 10,000 years of time seriously affected the reliability of warp teleportation, the spacecraft could not reach the coordinates directly. For safety and to collect as much information as possible in this universe, the navigation assistant program suggested that the spacecraft jump section by section. Although it would take a little time, it would not delay anything.
At present, the spacecraft was passing through a monotonous and boring place. There was only cold open space and occasionally, extremely thin radioactive clouds. Other than the distant starlight and a bright nebula belt, there was no scenery to speak of. Hao Ren sat in his captain's seat, reading documents in boredom while dealing with Lily's occasional frantic calls.
He was no longer the rookie who first came into contact with the sea of stars a year ago. The monotonous and unchanging starlight in this place could no longer make him unable to extricate himself. Of course, the scenery of the vast universe was always attractive, but this attraction could not compare to the work at hand.
He was studying the information extracted from Nasaton's mainframe.
"Io... the Planet of Water, your home planet is a planet with 100% ocean coverage. Huge ice floes and storm clouds orbit the planet's surface in an annual cycle. The entire planet's ecosystem developed from the deep sea. It was not until your ancestors built an outpost on the first ice floe that you knew the concept of 'atmosphere'." Hao Ren held the MDT and looked at the Queen of the Sirens. "This is the fun of exploration. The universe is so big, there are always strange places."
The Queen of the Sirens looked at the vast star map on the navigation mainframe and felt it incredible. "I can't believe that I'm here at this moment... My people and I have lived in the deep sea for 10,000 years. We thought that living in the deep sea was the nature of sirens... However, our ancestors had studied the secrets of the stars. Do you often travel like this? "
"More or less. We are experts." Lily lay on the back of the seat and wagged her tail. "Have you heard of space dogs? Let me tell you … "
Hao Ren felt that the husky was going to ruin his worldview again. He put away the MDT and walked towards the door. "I'm going to the lab."
Nangong Wuyue, Shaqira, and Sorma were resting in a ball on the bridge. She suddenly opened her eyes and pulled herself out of the ball. "Wait a minute, I'll go with you! It's too boring to stay in this ball! "
Hao Ren stared blankly at the snake-maiden as she rolled and crawled towards him. He then looked at Shaqira and Sorma, who were left behind by Wuyue, trying to curl themselves into a new ball. "Speaking of which, the siren culture is really incomprehensible..."
"This is a symbol of friendship!" Wuyue shook the tip of her tail in the air like a rattlesnake. "I just learned it from them!"
After Hao Ren and Wuyue left the bridge, Shaqira and Sorma looked at each other and said, "She still needs to get used to this way of resting." "Yes, she's too loose, and it's easy to fall out when she falls asleep." "No, I mean she was tied to me just now." "Oh, that's me... I had a nightmare."
Nangong Sanba, who was holding a magazine and pretending to read, suddenly smashed the book on his face. "The world is so f * cking wonderful..."
Hao Ren led Wuyue out of the bridge, through the central corridor, and came to the lab on the spaceship. The lab used to be occupied by various equipment and platforms for the research of the First Born, but now these research projects were basically transferred to CARS, and the lab suddenly became empty. Now there were only two main projects that were still in operation, one was the "vengeful spirit scanner" that had yet to be decoded, and the other was the large restraint device placed in the center of the lab — this device was brand new.
"Looks like it's still working hard to study the vengeful spirit's memory code." Hao Ren and Wuyue passed by the vengeful spirit scanner first. He saw that the device was flashing regularly as usual, and the light in the groove in the center of the device had not changed since the last time. "I hope this thing can produce results soon."
Wuyue glanced at the vengeful spirit, a flash of worry in her eyes, and then turned to look at the center of the lab. "Are you sure it won't suddenly go out of control?"
There was a large transparent container in the center of the room, a crystal vertical tube with a diameter of nearly ten meters, emitting a faint blue light. There were various sensors and recording equipment around the container, and a strange creature was quietly floating inside the container: a bloated mass of flesh, shaped like a brain.
It was the brain monster from Nasaton.
"The protective crystal shines on this thing 24 hours a day. It can't escape," Hao Ren said as he pointed to the bottom of the container, where a colorful diamond-shaped crystal was inlaid. The crystal's light shone on the surface of the giant brain, causing it to twitch from time to time. "As long as it doesn't die from exhaustion."
Wuyue curiously leaned on the protective wall of the container and looked at the brain inside. "I heard this thing eats everything?"
"Anyway, several organic substances tested so far have worked," Hao Ren nodded. A mechanical hand in the container then brought a piece of animal flesh to the brain monster's tentacle. The latter immediately rolled up the flesh and absorbed it in the blink of an eye. "It uses its tentacles to eat. The tip of those tentacles can instantly secrete a highly corrosive digestive fluid and open a series of fine 'teeth' to finish off its prey. Didn't Hasse ask where its mouth was? It's those tentacles. I'm now feeding this guy according to the 'diet' submitted by the sirens. It needs to eat four to five times a day, both plants and meat. But according to Katreina's memory... it seems that raw meat is more palatable. Don't mention it in front of her. "
Wuyue stuck out her tongue. "Err... then I won't ask about its excretion process."
"Before we arrive at the station, I'll try to communicate with it again," said Hao Ren as he activated a device next to the container.
There was an invisible traction field in the container that restrained the brain monster. It was slowly pushed to the edge of the container, and one of its tentacles was fixed on a silver-white cylinder. A similar cylinder rose in front of Hao Ren, and the holographic projection above the cylinder showed the words "Connection Ready".
Hao Ren did not want to have intimate contact with a tentacle monster every time to understand its thoughts, so he ordered the design of such a device. This was a small device that could replace direct physical connection. It not only could perform the perfect mental connection function, but it could also strengthen the connection and record the flow of data during the connection process. In other words, now Hao Ren could not only see the memory of the brain monster, but also scan it like a video. Although the recorded data was always severely distorted and blurry, this was really an important function.
This way, he could go back to the video and find the scenes that appeared in his subconscious during the communication with the brain monster, but were ignored by his conscious mind.
Hao Ren put his hand on the top of the silver-white cylinder, and a wave of strange thoughts immediately rushed into his mind.
Chaotic red, chaotic sky, crooked falling starlight, all kinds of bizarre scenes immediately fell into his vision as if he was there in person. Hao Ren realized that he was on some doomsday alien planet. However, this was not what he wanted.
A huge mushroom cloud rose beside him, and countless terrible shadows came from all directions as if to tear him apart. Hao Ren stayed in this illusion for only a few seconds before he began to be baptized by these horrible images. A series of rumbling and incomprehensible howls resounded in his mind. The howls and the surrounding scenery seemed to join forces to imprint the most terrifying image in the world into the invader's mind, using the original weakness of a mortal's "fear" to drive away the invader who had entered his spiritual sea. Hao Ren stood in the illusion of the alien planet, watching all kinds of strange things tear his body into pieces again and again. He looked up at the constantly collapsing starry sky, and issued a roar of challenge from the depths of his heart:
"You know it's useless! Come out, talk to me face to face! "
In the earth-shattering world of the mind, only hollow echoes came from all directions, and the brain monster refused to answer any further prying.
Yes, this complete body of the brain monster had the ability to build a barrier to his mind, even if Hao Ren could directly cut into its memory, he could not move an inch.
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