As soon as Hao Ren's voice trailed off, everyone looked at him as if he was a lunatic. Nangong Sanba was stunned. "Are you crazy?"
"I'm not kidding." Hao Ren stood in front of the holographic projection, watching the siren spirit named 'Eva' roaring silently in space. "She is the only witness of the disaster 10,000 years ago. Only she can tell us who attacked Io. Now that we have lost the battleship sample, this is the only clue left... "Hao Ren paused and pointed to space." I always thought that the apocalypse of this universe was caused by the First Born, but now there is an exception here. We must find a way to find out what is going on. The brain monster had tried to open a rift to the Surface World from here. There must be something special about Io. I can't leave it alone. "
Vivian frowned and looked into Hao Ren's eyes. "I know the importance of this, but do you think you can talk to Eva? This... "
She turned her head and glanced at the holographic projection. "This' deity 'seems to be impossible to communicate with. She is now just a vengeful spirit without any rationality. And even if she is rational, how are you going to talk to such a... 'creature'? Her face is as wide as an entire planet! Are you going to stand in the middle of the sea and talk to her? "
"When the ice started to form, I briefly sensed a large amount of information pouring into my brain." Hao Ren knocked on his forehead. "I think it was less than a second... but I'm sure it was related to the sirens. So I think I can establish a connection with Eva that is similar to the connection between me and the brain monster. Anyway, let me try. If it doesn't work, we'll run. "
Lily and Vivian looked at each other and could not help but mutter, "Mr. Landlord, you really are Lil Pea's father. Your spirit of seeking death is on the same level. So how are you going to connect? Are you going to jump into the water again? What if it really freezes this time? "
Hao Ren took a few breaths and nodded hard. "Yes, but I need the help of a few sea demons to control the water flow in a certain area. Moreover, there are no more disturbances below. If communication fails, I can directly teleport up. At the very least, I won't be frozen like an idiot. "
The MDT buzzed twice and reluctantly said, "According to my calculations, you do have a certain success rate, but I still have to say that you do not meet safety standards!"
Hao Ren slapped the control panel. "Stop joking. The first rule in the safety section of the work manual is that this line of work is never f * cking safe. If you really want to help, continue firing in space. I'll give you all the authority to control the firepower. Try your best to attract the Siren's attention. That way, it'll be safer for me to work down there. "
The MDT was silent for a moment. Then, it made an OK gesture on the holographic projection. "Okay. You have 55 minutes."
Hao Ren immediately turned to Shaqira and the other three sirens and waved. "Katreina, Shaqira, Sorma, I want to negotiate with your 'god'. Are you willing to help?"
"It's a rare opportunity." The siren queen stepped forward without hesitation. "There's nothing better than getting close to 'Eva'."
Nangong Wuyue also came up. "I'll help too. I'm a siren after all. I have to live up to my bloodline."
Hao Ren nodded and then turned to look at the others. "You guys stay on the spacecraft. I'll be back soon. It's not dangerous."
The Petrachelys shuttled quickly between the arms that extended into space. After a series of precise calculations, it successfully circled to a suitable perigee for projection. Then, a white light shone on the surface of the planet.
When the white light dissipated, Hao Ren and the sirens were already standing on the sea of Io.
They were surrounded by turbulent waves of strange shapes, layer upon layer, surging around them, forming a spectacular spectacle. The thick clouds in the sky had dispersed. Eva's activities had torn apart the high-altitude clouds of the planet and disrupted the original atmospheric operation, resulting in a strange 'clear sky'. The sun shone strangely on the sea in the midst of the storm, but at the same time, the storm continued — this was the current situation of Io. The natural order was completely out of balance, and a violent soul was wantonly unleashing its power.
Nangong Wuyue looked around in horror. She saw a magnificent mountain of water rising high in the distance, and further away, there was a huge water column that looked like a pillar of heaven reaching into space. She tried to look away from those terrifying things and focused on controlling the water under everyone's feet with the other three sirens, which was much more difficult than ever before.
"It's done," the siren queen shouted to Hao Ren. "Please hurry up. This is very laborious!"
Hao Ren nodded and signaled to Shaqira and Sorma beside him with his eyes. He then slowly immersed himself in the water.
He relaxed, concentrated, and recreated the moment when the connection was established. After several connections with the brain monster, Hao Ren had roughly figured out the necessary conditions to establish a connection. Emotions such as nervousness and vigilance were unnecessary. Only when he was relaxed and focused could the connection become stronger.
He felt his consciousness slowly sinking into chaos, which was not the same feeling as when he established a connection with the brain monster, but he still knew that the connection was successful.
This chaos was Eva's memory.
However, after the chaos ended, what he saw was not the scene of Io's destruction, but a peaceful and primitive seabed.
Hao Ren's spiritual body was wandering in an ancient deep sea. He saw an endless flat beach and gravel plain spread out in front of him, and above was the endless dark abyss. Luminous primitive algae and deep-water fish lived peacefully on the seabed, aloof from worldly affairs.
Sirens were born in this peaceful and peaceful deep-sea paradise. In the beginning, they were slow and sluggish omnivorous creatures covered in scales. They had human bodies and were adept at mimicry. In the planet's abundant magic environment, they obtained a life form between elemental creatures and carbon-based creatures. They dug caves in the sand and lived on luminous algae and slow-footed shellfish. The sirens developed in such a primitive state, sprouted wisdom, and formed their own fragile primitive but interesting ancient society.
Their earliest tools were the shells of deep-water shellfish, which they polished to dig sand and cut seaweed. After that, their tools were corals and rocks, and occasionally iron-rich meteorite debris that fell from the upper layers. When the metal meteorites in space fell into Io, they would be burned violently by the atmosphere, and then quickly cooled in the seawater, thus becoming pure and strong. This was a miracle of nature. Every piece of metal meteorite that fell into the deep sea was a treasure to the sirens. They reverently called these meteorites the "Heart of Black Water" because they thought that the endless dark seawater above them was the end of the world. Beyond the boundary was the even darker and more chaotic endless water, and the solid iron-containing meteorites were the foundation of the world. Their earliest primitive religion revolved around water and these iron-containing meteorites.
They worshiped the deep water, the underwater volcanoes, and the iron-containing meteorites. They once thought that the meteorites falling from the "sky" were signs of the world's crust being worn out and collapsing. They were so anxious about this that they even sent warriors to return these meteorites to the upper layers (they hoped to extend the world's life in this way). However, because they could not adapt to the low water pressure, every such expedition failed. They then realized that the iron-containing meteorites were a blessing from the "upper water", and so the sirens' earliest Meteorite Iron Age began. It had been 60,000 years since the first siren who used shells to dig sand was born.
It took many years for the sirens to learn to obtain metal through other means and replace the corrosive ironware.
Hao Ren's consciousness kept jumping in Eva's memory. He could not and did not want to leave. He finally knew what Eva wanted to do.
She was showing him the history of the siren race.
Hao Ren opened his mind and dived deeper into this ancient memory.
(I'm going back to Tangshan in a few days. I've been busy packing and meeting relatives and classmates, so the update time is not stable. Also, I've corrected a small mistake in this chapter: Lily was not included in the group that landed in Io. The husky jumping around in my mind was too eye-catching, so I accidentally counted her in the group.)
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