Chapter 450: Abnormal Insect Eggs
Ten minutes later.
Under the control of the shipboard mainframe, the sleek investigator starship crossed a beautiful angle in the empty starry sky and hovered precisely at the top of the inverted spire - according to the previous scanning modeling data, there is a small circular "entrance and exit" at the top of the incubation tower.
For the entire inverted tower, this entrance and exit with a diameter of less than one kilometer looks very mini, just like a small vent.
But even so, it is enough to become the entrance for Chen Fan and others to enter the incubation tower.
Even the investigator starship with a scale of only more than 100 meters can enter it very smoothly!
"Hiss..."
Inside the investigator starship, looking at the deep hole outside the porthole that looks like a crater, Chen Fan couldn't help but take a breath.
If there is a choice, he would rather face a black hole of the same size than run to this unknown insect nest!
"The starship is ready to enter the hatchery."
In the co-pilot seat, Hongshi, who was wearing a mechanical exoskeleton armor, reported in a very calm voice: "Start to lower the altitude now."
Unlike Chen Fan and others, Hongshi, who was originally a "stone", did not have any strange emotions about the insect nest in front of him.
As the altitude of the starship slowly decreased, the deep hole gradually expanded until it occupied the entire porthole.
After the red starlight was squeezed out of the sight range, the seemingly dark insect nest showed more details-as the black light emitted by the activated dark matter surged layer by layer in the energy transmission channel, the star-like white light flickered rhythmically in the deepest part of the hole.
"Is that... a light stone?"
Chen Fan narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at the picture outside the porthole.
"It does look a bit like it."
Hongshi, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, skillfully pressed a few virtual buttons on the console, and the holographic interface in front of him suddenly appeared with images from 6,000 kilometers away-the height of the entire hatchery tower was 6,000 kilometers, even far exceeding the radius of the mother star of Xinaluo.
In the picture, rows of long strips of light stones were laid flat on the "bottom" of the incubation tower, forming huge circular spots of light.
As the activated dark matter surged, some of the circular spots of light flickered - these were the scattered spots of light that Chen Fan had just seen.
"What a luxury..." Chen Fan sighed subconsciously, "I guess the light stone reserves of the entire Xinalo civilization are not as good as this one spot of light."
As he said that, a little bit of relief appeared in his eyes: "It seems that we are lucky. These giant scorpions do not regard light stones as ordinary food."
Hongshi nodded slightly in agreement.
Before she could speak, there was a slight tremor on the deck under her feet.
Almost at the same time, a bright red warning signal popped up in the azure holographic interface above the main console.
[Warning! ]
[High-intensity grand unified field detected. Continuing to descend in altitude may have a slight impact on the starship's shield system! ]
Chen Fan quickly glanced out of the porthole.
While the two were talking, the investigator starship had completely entered the incubation tower.
"Anti-gravity field." Chen Fan quickly checked the parameters in front of him and gave a conclusion, "There is also such a force field in the high-dimensional information receiving tower of [Su Zheng], but it is not as strong as this one."
"The function should be to facilitate the transportation of insect eggs..."
As soon as the voice fell, a faint black light flashed outside the porthole, reflecting a large number of narrow round grains.
Chen Fan's voice stagnated, and the expression on his face became stiff.
If he guessed correctly... the starship should have been trapped in the insect eggs at this time!
"Mastermind, turn on the ship's searchlight."
Before Chen Fan could prepare himself mentally, Hongshi on the side had already issued an order.
Swish!
The dazzling incandescent light projected from the side of the ship, illuminating the surrounding environment as bright as daylight.
"...Fuck!"
Looking at the huge insect eggs leaping out of the porthole, Chen Fan suddenly got goose bumps: "I said Hongshi, before turning on the light, you should at least give people time to prepare mentally..."
Facing Chen Fan's complaints, Hongshi did not show any remorse.
She looked at the worm eggs squirming outside the porthole with interest, and whispered: "It seems that these worm eggs are almost mature..."
Chen Fan's heart moved.
Mature?
What the hell? ?
If so many worm eggs were to break out of their shells at the same time...
He couldn't even imagine the scene!
Chen Fan took a deep breath, overcame his inner disgust, and cast his eyes on the worm eggs in front of him again.
The same shape as the energy wave scanning image, these worm eggs are narrow and long ellipsoids as a whole. At first glance, they look like dark purple "rice grains".
However, these "rice grains" that are more than two meters long will wriggle spontaneously - as a faint black light comes from the transmission channel, these worm eggs connected to the dark matter transmission channel by a thin tube will quickly pupate a few times.
The surface of these worm eggs is covered with a layer of dark purple film with varying degrees of transparency.
It is not difficult to judge that the transparency of this dark purple film symbolizes the maturity of the worm eggs.
The more transparent the film is, the more mature the eggs are.
Looking around, more than 80% of the films in the layers of eggs in front of him are translucent.
With the help of the strong light of the investigator starship, Chen Fan can even clearly identify the general outline of the giant scorpion inside.
But it is only limited to the general outline, and the various details of the structure are definitely not clear.
Chen Fan's heart moved, and he directly called his high-dimensional perspective.
In the blink of an eye, the world in front of him quickly became vast!
With experience, he skillfully changed his observation angle. The translucent dark purple film that originally blocked his vision disappeared instantly, and the scene inside the eggs also appeared in front of him very clearly.
The slender scorpion tail, the strong trunk and abdomen, and the ferocious mouthparts...
All the characteristics clearly indicate a fact that the life bred inside these eggs is those powerful starry sky giant scorpions!
Maintaining a high-dimensional perspective is not an easy task. Chen Fan does not want to suddenly fall into a coma during the investigation.
Therefore, after a simple check, he is ready to take back the high-dimensional perspective mastered by the consciousness body.
Just as the vast high-dimensional world became flat again, a picture instantly came into his eyes.
"Huh?"
Chen Fan exclaimed softly, and couldn't help frowning and muttering to himself: "How could this happen..."
...
The top space of the conical hatching tower is not large. Just like the high-dimensional information receiving tower made by [Su Zheng], it can only accommodate one spiral column.
Under the control of Red Stone, the investigator starship flew silently around the spiral column in front of it.
After collecting the basic parameters of the insect eggs, Red Stone prepared to control the investigator starship to continue to go deeper into the hatching tower. After all, their primary task is to collect light stones and study giant scorpion eggs, which can only be regarded as a "side task" by the way.
Although there are a large number of spiral columns in the hatching tower, the space inside is still much wider than expected, and the investigator starship is enough to pass freely inside it.
When the investigator starship began to "sink", Red Stone finally discovered Chen Fan's abnormality.
——Since seeing the insect eggs, Chen Fan fell into silence. Until now, he still frowned, as if he was thinking about some major problem.
"Chen Fan?"
Hongshi glanced at Chen Fan and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you?" "
..."
Facing Hongshi's question, Chen Fan was silent for a moment, and shook his head hesitantly: "Nothing, just feeling... a little strange."
"Strange?"
Hongshi's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly reached out and pressed a few buttons on the console. The investigator starship that had just started to "sink" also stopped again: "Why do you say that?"
She followed Chen Fan's gaze and looked out the porthole, just in time to see an insect egg that was slowly wriggling in the black light: "Is there anything wrong with these insect eggs?"
Chen Fan hesitated for a moment and shook his head slowly: "There is nothing wrong with the insect eggs, but there is a problem with the larvae inside."
He stared at the insect egg closest to the porthole and added in a low voice: "To be precise, there is something wrong with the body structure of these larvae."
"Body structure?" Hongshi looked at the translucent film and the larvae with only a vague outline, and suddenly realized, "Did you use the high-dimensional perspective just now?"
"Yes."
Chen Fan nodded again: "In the high-dimensional perspective, the bodies of these larvae are filled with a large amount of muscle tissue."
"Just like those hundred-meter giant scorpions we captured at the beginning."
"..." Hongshi tilted her head and looked at Chen Fan in confusion. After thinking for a long time, she shook her head, "I don't understand what you mean."
"Is there...a problem with this?"
"It's a big problem!"
Chen Fan raised his voice slightly: "Such a large proportion of filler muscles means that the potential of these larvae is no more than a hundred-meter giant scorpion, at best a thousand-meter giant scorpion!"
"They don't have organs in their bodies that can control dimensions at all!"
Hongshi tilted her head again, and the confusion in her eyes became more intense: "...so, so what?"
"In the high-dimensional information receiving tower of [Suzheng], the strength of the broadcast signal continues to increase with the increase of the tower's height, so the life forms at the top of the tower have a stronger ability to withstand high-dimensional information."
Chen Fan took a deep breath, calmed down his mood, and continued to explain: "If the high-dimensional information receiving tower and the incubation tower are the same thing, the incubation tower should have similar properties."
Hongshi finally understood: "You mean, in theory, the potential of the eggs at the top of the tower should be greater than the potential of the eggs at the bottom of the tower?"
"It does make sense..." Hongshi murmured in a low voice, "There is only so much space at the top of the tower, this situation is indeed a bit against common sense..."
Chen Fan nodded repeatedly: "If nothing else, the ones cultivated in these insect eggs should at least not be giant scorpions of the lowest quality!"
(End of this chapter)
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