Chapter 459 The Scorpion Caught in the Net
"...The blockade has been successful."
As the electronic synthesis voice of Yi continued to sound in the cockpit, the last main road for transporting activated dark matter was also cut off.
The remaining sporadic black light inside the scorpion egg began to dissipate from the base area, spreading all the way up to the top of the hatching tower at a speed visible to the naked eye. Compared with the inferior scorpion eggs on the top floor, the scorpion eggs close to the base consume more energy. Correspondingly, after losing external supplies, they also fell into a state of growth stagnation earlier.
The originally bright light stone gradually dimmed, and the hatching tower filled with black light and white light completely fell into a deep darkness under Chen Fan's gaze.
"Alright."
Looking at the scorpion eggs that were quickly shrinking in the holographic interface, Chen Fan, who was sitting in the main driver's seat, subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and the stone hanging in his heart completely fell to the ground.
Gao Yuan's voice with a little relief came from the passenger seat at the back: "Brother Fan, this way, there shouldn't be any messy moths..."
Boom! ! !
Before he finished speaking, a violent tremor came from the deck under his feet without any warning!
The starship suspended in the air seemed to be affected by something and shook violently!
No!
Not only the starship, but the entire hatchery tower was shaking! !
The main energy transmission channel standing on the base was constantly vibrating, and even the spiral columns supported by the anti-gravity field and suspended in the air were shaking! !
Chen Fan's hands were throbbing with veins, and he tightly grasped the armrests on both sides of the driver's seat, trying to stabilize his body.
"One!!"
"What happened?!"
Almost at the same time, a bright red warning message suddenly popped up in the holographic interface on the main console.
"Warning!"
A rapid electronic synthesized voice echoed in the cockpit: "Abnormal disorder in the surrounding anti-gravity field has been detected!"
"Disturbance range: All hatchery towers!!"
"The output power of the grand unified field is increasing, and the ship is stabilizing..."
As the voice of One sounded, the originally trembling investigator starship gradually returned to calm - the grand unified field quickly blocked the influence of the anti-gravity field on the starship.
But it was limited to the investigator starship itself.
Looking at the hatch tower outside the porthole that did not stop shaking, Chen Fan turned his head with an ugly face and glared at Gao Yuan behind him - if he remembered correctly, Gao Yuan had just set a flag before the accident happened.
"..." Facing Chen Fan's gaze, Gao Yuan lowered his head with a guilty conscience, "Brother Fan, I said this is a coincidence... Do you believe it?"
Chen Fan sighed helplessly and turned his attention back to the activated dark matter transport main pipeline that was still vibrating violently outside the porthole: "Yi, have you found the cause?"
"No other abnormalities have been found so far." Yi's voice sounded again, "Preliminary judgment is that it is very likely that the activated dark matter main pipeline has been completely blocked, causing the internal circuit to enter a slightly overloaded state."
Is it really just a regular overload?
Chen Fan pursed his lips and did not speak for a while - just now, at the moment when the change occurred, he suddenly felt a strong palpitation.
It was as if...
some kind of creature was peeping at him in the dark! !
Chen Fan shook his head and threw away his suspicious thoughts: "If it is overloaded, is it dangerous?"
"This machine has done many simulation tests, and the strength of these external pipelines is enough to support the impact of activated dark matter." Yi gave an answer, "In theory, the strength of the internal lines of the incubator cannot be weaker than the external pipelines."
"Please trust the judgment of this machine, everything is under control."
Everything is under control?
Hearing the confident electronic synthesized voice, Chen Fan only felt his right eyelid twitch slightly, and an indescribable bad premonition rose from the bottom of his heart.
"This doesn't sound very auspicious..."
Sure enough.
Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone. Before Chen Fan's murmur fell, several bloody warning messages popped up in the holographic interface above the main console.
[Warning! Abnormal fluctuations in the anti-gravity field are intensifying! ]
[Warning! Unknown objects are detected approaching! ]
[...]
At the same time.
A dark purple shadow as large as a starship flashed outside the porthole and fell directly towards the base below!
"One?!" Chen Fan's spirit instantly tensed up when he saw the shadow from the corner of his eye, "What is that?!"
Under the ultra-high precision detector, the fleeting dark purple shadow naturally had nowhere to hide.
Almost at the same time when Chen Fan shouted, the true appearance of the dark purple shadow had appeared in the holographic interface -
it was a scorpion egg.
To be precise, it was a super-large scorpion egg with a scale close to that of a starship.
This is not the point!
The point is that this super-large scorpion egg that fell from an unknown corner did not dry up due to the interruption of external energy supply! !
On the contrary, the dark purple film on its surface is very full, and even has some toughness and elasticity! !
Suddenly!
In the slow-motion camera, four eyeballs that are about the same size as the starship's portholes suddenly appeared behind the dark purple film!
In the close-up shot, these four suddenly appearing eyeballs naturally brought a lot of shock to everyone.
Chen Fan, who was forced to have a "deep look" with the giant scorpion larvae, couldn't help but exclaimed.
"...Fuck!!"
After the initial shock, Chen Fan quickly came to his senses: "This thing is still alive?!"
Yes, although the dark purple translucent film separated him, and although the image of the four scorpion eyes was fleeting, Chen Fan, who was looking at them, could still see the viciousness hidden in the four scorpion eyes.
"...At least it's not completely dead." Hong Shi beside him confirmed Chen Fan's words.
Chen Fan looked at the hatching tower space outside the porthole with a gloomy face, trying to find the existence of the insect egg in the dark environment.
Obviously.
He failed.
In the vast darkness, trying to find a dark purple insect egg is like looking for a needle in a haystack!
"How could this happen..." Isa shook her head, her tone full of confusion, "There is no external energy supply, how could this insect egg survive by chance?"
As she said, she slightly raised her head and looked at the spiral column closest to the starship-this main road was only cut off for a few minutes, and the shells of those super-large scorpion eggs had begun to wither irreversibly.
"Perhaps this scorpion egg is more mature than other scorpion eggs, or perhaps..."
Hongshi hesitated and said his guess: "This scorpion egg robbed the energy of other scorpion eggs."
"I have seen similar situations before, and the larvae of some species do have this ability."
[The surrounding anti-gravity field has returned to normal levels. ] The prompt sound of the shipboard main brain suddenly sounded, [The abnormal vibration has stopped. 】
"Anyway, the larva inside the scorpion egg is not completely dead. Until now, it still retains a considerable degree of vitality!"
Chen Fan quickly glanced at the parameters in the holographic interface that had returned to normal, and turned to give a command to Yi.
"Yi!"
"Release the drone group, find the scorpion egg for me!!!"
As the order was issued, the image of the four vicious scorpion eyes appeared in Chen Fan's mind again, and the previous bad premonition became stronger.
"Damn..."
He clenched his right fist and cursed in a low voice.
...
Buzz...Buzz...Buzz...
In the dark hatching tower space, the buzzing sound of the drone group came one after another.
These spherical drones made of strong interaction force shuttled back and forth in this dark space unscrupulously, trying to find the lost scorpion egg.
Time passed bit by bit.
The atmosphere in the starship cockpit gradually became solemn.
Suddenly.
A prompt popped up on the azure holographic interface, and Yi's electronic synthesized voice also sounded in the cockpit: "Good news, the detection drone successfully found traces of scorpion eggs."
Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense body relaxed: "It's good to find it."
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked again: "Where did the scorpion egg go?"
"Listen to the machine first." Yi's voice was a little serious, and the atmosphere in the cockpit that had just relaxed became solemn again, "The bad news is that the detection drone only found scorpion eggs."
"...What do you mean?" Chen Fan frowned, and his previous bad premonition suddenly became stronger.
"Literally."
Yi quickly called up a holographic interface. In the picture, a huge scorpion egg lay quietly on a dark purple base.
Under the light of the high-power searchlight, dense cracks appeared on the surface of the scorpion egg, and there was a huge gap in front of the egg shell.
A large amount of light green liquid flowed on the base.
There was no need to think too much, the liquid was flowing out from the gap in front of the egg shell.
At first glance, it was just a scorpion egg that had been broken by a strong impact.
That was all.
But as the camera of the detection drone moved, Chen Fan quickly realized a very serious and terrifying problem.
"Wait... Where is the giant scorpion larva?!"
That's right.
In the footage taken by the detection drone, the body of the larva was the only one that did not appear! !
"When the drone arrived, the scorpion eggs were in this state."
Yi responded quickly: "This machine has allocated all detection drones to the area near the scorpion eggs, but so far, I have not found any traces of giant scorpion larvae."
"Damn it!"
Chen Fan clenched his fist and hammered hard on the armrest of the main driver's seat.
The previous bad premonition finally came true - the giant scorpion larva not only did not die, but also took this opportunity to break free from the scorpion egg! !
Thinking of the possible abilities of this 100-meter-long giant scorpion, Chen Fan suddenly felt his eyebrows throbbing.
If it was really as he thought before, let alone the scorpion group that was about to arrive at the Creation Land, this larva alone could lift him and the research ship up and beat them!
——They don’t have any effective means of information-state attack at the moment!
“Find it!!!”
“One!” He gave a stern order, “Send more drones from Academician Wang!”
“Even if we have to tear down the entire hatchery tower today, we must find the larva!!”
“If it’s alive, we must see the scorpion; if it’s dead, we must see its corpse!!”
ps: I’m still writing the second chapter QAQ
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