Chapter 460 Time Technology?

The escape of the giant scorpion larvae is definitely not a trivial matter, especially since the other party may have evolved information state attack technology.

Letting it grow naturally is tantamount to a chronic suicide!

Wang Jing naturally knew this.

Therefore, after Chen Fan reported the situation, a large number of detection drones from scientific research ships lined up and squeezed into the incubation tower in just a few minutes.

They sank quickly and arrived at the specific coordinates of the scorpion eggs. These drones formed three encirclements with the scorpion eggs as the center, and continued to spread out to the surroundings.

This is a true carpet search!

As for the investigator starship, it was quietly hovering in the air at this time, waiting for the signal from the detection drone.

Although it looks no different from usual, the starship at this time has made full combat preparations under the control of the shipboard main brain!

The pure energy from the vacuum zero-point energy reactor flows into various weapons along the energy path. As long as Chen Fan gives an order, it can pour attacks on any corner of the incubation base!

Time passed by bit by bit. In the holographic interface above the main console, three concentric circles with the scorpion egg coordinates as the center had gradually spread to the entire base. The drones had searched the entire hatching tower base, but still found no trace of the giant scorpion larvae.

Under Yi's control, these drones began to take off and search the space above the base.

Looking at the scene in the holographic interface, Chen Fan's heart was chilled.

Compared with the previous base, searching the entire hatching tower was undoubtedly more difficult. Those spiral columns and densely packed scorpion egg structures could form countless blind spots for observation. Once the giant scorpion larvae hid inside one of the spiral columns, the search workload would even directly increase by several orders of magnitude!

Fortunately, thanks to the previous exploration of the surrounding galaxies, the number of drones equipped on the research ship was very large.

After the screening of the base was thoroughly completed, the huge group of drones quickly formed a siege from top to bottom, searching for the whereabouts of the giant scorpion larvae in great detail.

"What the hell..."

Chen Fan couldn't help but swear as he watched the unsearched area in the holographic interface shrink. He raised his hand and scratched his head in annoyance: "Where did this giant scorpion larva go?"

Silence.

No one present could answer Chen Fan's question.

As the starship continued to rise, the scorpion eggs on the spiral pillars became increasingly dry, like a shrunken empty shell, hanging casually on the pillars.

Wait? !

Empty shells? ! !

Chen Fan seemed to have thought of something, his face changed drastically, and he gave an order in an extremely urgent manner: "One! Stop the starship!!"

"Chen Fan?" Hongshi, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, turned his head and looked at Chen Fan in surprise, "Did you find anything?"

Chen Fan raised his hand and pointed at the spiral pillars outside the porthole: "Look at these eggs."

Hongshi frowned and looked in the direction of Chen Fan's finger.

The eggs were shrunken, and inside the eggs lay a lifeless larva corpse.

"This..." Hongshi's eyes were filled with confusion. "It doesn't look like there's anything wrong. Isn't it normal to lose external energy supply?"

"No!"

Chen Fan interrupted Hongshi's words directly: "Don't you find that these eggs are drying up too fast?"

"They are like empty shells, and the drying speed is even much faster than those super-large scorpion eggs close to the base!!"

With Chen Fan's reminder, Hongshi finally realized the problem.

In theory, the drying speed of the eggs should be proportional to the energy consumption of the eggs - in other words, the closer the eggs are to the base, the faster they dry up.

She carefully checked the scorpion eggs outside the porthole, and her face changed slightly: "There is indeed a problem!"

"It is normal for the outer membrane of the scorpion eggs to dry up, but now even the liquid inside the egg has disappeared, and even the larvae inside have almost become mummies..."

Hongshi was shocked: "You mean..."

"Yes." Chen Fan glanced at the mummified scorpion eggs outside the porthole with a fearful look, "I suspect that the larvae are devouring the nutrients remaining inside these scorpion eggs."

"After all, it was not born normally. A premature baby should have a greater demand for nutrition."

As he said, Chen Fan looked up at the many insect eggs directly above the starship.

Dense "mummies" came into view.

Suddenly, Chen Fan's eyes condensed, as if he saw something.

The next second, his face suddenly changed.

"Quick!!"

"Urgent dimensional upgrade!!!"

Buzz! ! !

As soon as Chen Fan's voice fell, a powerful energy wave surged wildly from the inside of the starship!

In just a moment, the originally yellow investigator starship quickly became illusory!

Urgent dimensional upgrade! !

The next second.

Right above the Investigator starship, a dried scorpion egg that was almost twice the size of the surrounding scorpion eggs suddenly exploded, and a thin giant scorpion opened its eight pairs of scorpion legs, dangling its slender scorpion tail, and pounced on the Investigator starship below like a divine soldier from heaven! !

Unlike ordinary giant scorpions, this giant scorpion's body was slightly illusory, like an ethereal projection.

Ding! ! !

When the sharp scorpion legs and scorpion tail approached the starship, a light golden light instantly bloomed, forming a thin, eggshell-like shield in the dark space.

Visible ripples spread out from the contact point between the two, and the first wave of attack launched by the giant scorpion was successfully blocked.

The attack was blocked, and the giant scorpion opened its mouth angrily and let out a silent hiss.

In the starship's cockpit.

Chen Fan was still in shock as he watched the shield output power slowly falling back in the holographic interface, and swallowed hard.

Beside him, Hongshi also looked at the giant scorpion that kept hissing outside the porthole with a pale face.

She raised her hand and gently patted her full chest that rose and fell with her rapid breathing: "Well, that was close..."

Almost, just a little bit! !

From the opponent's attacking posture, it can be seen that the opponent has already ascended to the four-dimensional state. If Chen Fan hadn't issued an emergency dimensional upgrade order just now, it is estimated that the starship in the three-dimensional state would have been torn into pieces by the opponent! !

"First, notify [Gaia], let him prepare for battle and block the exit of the hatching tower!"

Chen Fan took a few deep breaths, and after recovering from his shock, he issued several orders in an orderly manner: "Let the detection drones evacuate in an orderly manner. The other party has mastered the dimensional technology. These drones will only get in the way if they continue to stay here!"

As he said this, he gently pushed the joystick in front of him and controlled the starship to dive towards the base below.

Seeing the starship turn around and "escape", the giant scorpion, which had already locked its hunting target, would never give up!

It let out a hiss again, passed through the spiral columns without any hindrance, and chased the starship directly! !

...

The base area of ​​the hatching tower.

This is a disc-shaped open area with a height of more than 10,000 meters and a diameter of nearly 6,000 kilometers.

For the investigator starship and the giant scorpion, this is undoubtedly a perfect battlefield!

Boom! ! !

A huge shell was fired from the muzzle of the starship's secondary gun and flew far into the air.

The next second.

The shell exploded suddenly, and a huge fireball rose slowly in the dim hatching tower space.

This is a very ordinary stellar flare - made using the basic fusion principle, basically equivalent to a small star.

The originally dim hatching tower space instantly became bright, and the light stone floor tiles at the bottom of the base also emitted a faint fluorescence under the stimulation of the dissipated energy.

Without any greetings or preparations, several long and thin black marks quickly appeared around the starship that had stopped.

The next second.

Accompanied by strong space-time fluctuations, the black mark disappeared directly, and when it appeared again, it had already arrived in front of the giant scorpion.

Perhaps because of congenital defects, the giant scorpion's movements were not flexible, and even a little slow - facing the space rift attacking from the front, it not only had no intention of dodging, but even took the initiative to "crash" into it!

"Hit it!!"

Looking at the prompt information in the holographic interface, Chen Fan's eyes suddenly showed a trace of joy.

Without any defensive measures, even if the giant scorpion's surface armor was made of strong interaction force materials, it could not withstand the attack of the space rift!

But...

the next moment after the attack hit, Chen Fan froze in his tracks.

The dark black space crack seemed to be affected by some unknown force. When it approached the giant scorpion, its speed suddenly dropped until it completely stopped in front of the giant scorpion! !

This is definitely not the effect of a space shield or a dimensional shield! !

——Under normal circumstances, when facing the attack of space weapons, either space technology is used to transfer it, or higher-dimensional means are used to solve it.

All of the above will never make the space crack fall into a static state! !

"Time, time stopped? Is this time technology?!!"

Chen Fan looked at the space crack that stopped in front of the giant scorpion with horror. He couldn't believe his eyes: "How is this possible?!"

With a trembling mind, Chen Fan subconsciously pressed the fire button on the joystick.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

As several space cracks shot out at the same time, the muzzle of the main gun on the back of the Investigator Starship also began to flash a faint black light!

Boom! ! !

The dark light of the dark matter cannon suddenly lit up, attracting a dazzling white light from the light stone tiles below!

The distance of tens of kilometers passed in an instant, and the space rift and the dark matter cannon arrived in front of the giant scorpion almost at the same time!

Just like before, the giant scorpion did not have any intention of dodging.

Chen Fan broke out in a cold sweat and watched the picture presented in the holographic interface from a distance.

The previous magical scene was staged again!

When approaching the giant scorpion, both the space rift and the dark matter cannon with a strong black light, the speed of the forward movement was rapidly reduced at a speed visible to the naked eye, until it completely stopped in the empty space!

"Time!"

In the co-pilot seat, Hongshi's face turned pale: "This is definitely time technology!!"

"Chen Fan, we..."

"It's over."

(End of this chapter)