Chapter 467 Under the Base (Two-in-One)
There are still 28 hours before the first batch of starry sky giant scorpions arrive at the place of creation.
Mining light stones and picking insect eggs is not a simple matter.
Especially after that earth-shaking battle.
The soft light of the stellar flares quietly illuminates the deep space inside the hatching tower, dispelling the coldness as much as possible.
In the orange-yellow light, the full picture of the hatching tower base is clearly presented in the eyes of Chen Fan and others.
The originally flat hatching tower base has now appeared a lot of uneven areas, and is full of thick or thin cracks-the battle with the giant scorpion larvae has caused considerable stimulation to those flat light stone tiles.
Among them, the damage in the central area of the base is the most serious!
Hundreds of high-quality light stone tiles quietly dissipated, turning into countless crystal sands dyed orange by the stellar flares, and the disturbance information contained in them naturally dissipated.
As for the surrounding area of the base...
the light stones also suffered considerable damage. There were thin or thick cracks distributed on the originally smooth light stone tiles. At first glance, the cracks on these light stones seemed to contain some kind of rules, which was extremely wonderful.
The closer to the center, the more cracks there were on the light stone tiles, and the less disturbance information contained in the light stone.
And vice versa.
Therefore, the mining of light stones can only be placed on the edge of the base.
Although the quality of these light stones is not very good, and there are even some impurities in them, they are large in quantity.
More importantly.
For Wang Jing and the Academy of Sciences' research work, the quality of light stones is actually not important. Anyway, the final outcome of these light stones is to be shattered by high-intensity energy impact.
But even so, it took a lot of effort to mine these light stones-because light stones are very sensitive to energy fluctuations, the energy intensity of light stone mining machinery has very strict restrictions.
Otherwise...
before the mining is successful, these light stones will be shattered by the energy stimulation of the mining equipment and release a powerful information storm.
Fortunately, the Xinalo civilization has a fairly mature light stone mining technology. After communicating with Queen Ophelia, Chen Fan easily obtained this technology and quickly manufactured several prototypes with the help of the research ship and the factory equipped by the [Gaia] planetary fortress.
In the starship cockpit.
Chen Fan sat in the main driving seat, looking at the special mining devices on the base, and then looked at the giant scorpion corpse and shriveled scorpion eggs pulled in the air by several traction light stones.
"After this piece of light stone is mined, we will return to the research ship."
Chen Fan said softly: "Academician Wang, the first few experiments have been completed, and the next experiment has high requirements for information control accuracy. I have to rush back as soon as possible."
Beside him, Hongshi nodded slightly.
"Don't worry, I will take over the work in the incubation tower, and there will be no mistakes."
Hearing Hongshi's affirmative voice, Chen Fan's face suddenly showed a faint smile.
Just as he was about to continue to say something, Isa's somewhat suppressed exclamation suddenly came from beside him: "Huh?"
"How could this happen?!"
A battle had just ended, and Chen Fan was in an incubator full of scorpion eggs, so his spirit was naturally still tense.
After all...
who knows if there will be a second premature baby in this huge incubator?
Therefore, the moment he heard Isa's words, Chen Fan's heart suddenly tightened, and then he quickly turned his head and cast an inquiring look at Isa sitting in the co-pilot seat.
Not only Chen Fan, but Hongshi on the other side also looked nervously at Isa, whose face was mostly covered by the black hood.
"What happened?!"
Chen Fan asked anxiously, and the atmosphere in the cockpit became tense again.
As for the instigator of all this...
Isa's eyes still stayed on the porthole on the side of the starship, as if she saw something special outside the porthole.
"Chen Fan, look."
Under Chen Fan's gaze, Isa raised her hand and pointed to the outside of the porthole, "There is still a small piece of light stone glowing normally."
Light stone? It's
good that it's not a giant scorpion larva.
Chen Fan was slightly stunned, and the uneasiness in his heart gradually dissipated.
He glanced in the direction of Isa's finger, and except for the faint orange light of the star flare, he didn't see any flash of light stone: "Maybe it was affected by the automatic mining equipment."
Chen Fan said so.
"But..."
Isa stood up from her seat, walked to the porthole of the starship, and stared straight at a certain area outside the porthole: "There is no automatic mining equipment there."
Chen Fan frowned subconsciously.
It's not the automatic mining equipment that affects it?
Could it be... the influence of the activated dark matter inside the incubation tower?
But the five main pipelines have been completely cut off, and the starship detection results also show that the activated dark matter manufacturing device inside the incubation tower has also fallen into a downtime state. Logically speaking, this should not be possible!
Or is there some special device in this incubation tower that is continuously running?
Chen Fan's heart moved, and he stood up and walked to Isa's side, looking in the direction of Isa's finger again.
Nothing was found.
Apart from the orange-yellow light of the star flares and the almost imperceptible fluorescence of some light stones due to the operation of mining equipment, Chen Fan did not see any luminous objects.
"This... there are no normal light stones?"
Chen Fan frowned, a look of confusion on his face.
He glanced at Isa beside him and saw the blue-glowing mechanical eye under the black hood.
Chen Fan suddenly had some enlightenment in his heart.
"One, stop all automatic mining equipment, extinguish the star flares, and turn on the visual assistance system!"
Without any hesitation, he directly issued an order to the smart terminal on his right hand.
Swish!
One quickly executed many of Chen Fan's orders.
As the orange-yellow light of the star flares gradually disappeared, the mining equipment on the base also stopped running, and the whole world fell into deep darkness again.
In the starship cockpit, except for a few signal indicator lights flashing faintly, there was only the blue fluorescence in Isa's mechanical eye.
Chen Fan's pupils dilated rapidly, and after a short wait, he gradually adapted to the dark environment where he could not see his hand in front of his face.
He cast his eyes out of the porthole again.
In this extremely dark environment, any light would appear extremely obvious -
he squinted his eyes and exhausted his eyesight, and finally saw a very vague light in the direction of Isa's finger.
The light was dim, but very stable.
It was like a beacon in the endless darkness.
Almost at the same time, the azure holographic interface automatically unfolded beside him.
The visual assistance system had begun to work and successfully captured a faint glow at the end of the vision - it was a piece of light stone floor tile that was emitting a light yellow light in the darkness.
Unlike the intermittent strong light previously stimulated by various energies, the light emitted by this batch of light stones was extremely soft and stable.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Chen Fan's heart was startled.
There was no other reason.
The light stone was very sensitive to the dissipated energy, even exceeding the detection accuracy of the starship.
Therefore, this almost meant that there was an energy source in that area that was not very strong but was continuously running!
Being inside the incubator, this abnormal situation instantly aroused Chen Fan's vigilance.
"Yi, how far is that piece of light stone from us?" He asked in a low voice with a slightly gloomy face.
Yi quickly answered: "The target area is 1,500 kilometers away from the starship."
Although he had expected it, Chen Fan still showed a surprised expression on his face when he heard this number.
"1500 kilometers... This should be the outermost area of the incubator base, right?"
Yi confirmed Chen Fan's statement.
The next second, the blue holographic projection showed the structure of the incubator base.
A flashing red dot appeared at the edge of the incubator base. This was the specific coordinate of the abnormal light stone.
"... Let the automatic mining equipment start again, and we'll take the opportunity to check it out."
After a moment of hesitation, Chen Fan turned back to the main driver's seat: "Since this star system is regarded as the last defense area, we have to eliminate any possible dangers for the sake of safety."
No one objected.
The starship slowly turned around and flew silently towards the faint and dim fluorescence.
Along the way, stimulated by the energy fluctuations of the starship, the light stones on the base emitted dots of fluorescence one after another, forming an intermittent route map in the dark incubator.
...
The edge of the base.
The wall made of unknown materials, covered with dark purple armor, extended down, forming a perfect connection arc with the smooth base.
A few scattered light stone tiles were laid in this area. This was the corner of the base. The huge information loop was almost ineffective here. Therefore, the laying of the light stone tiles seemed a bit random and messy.
Correspondingly, the purity of these light stones was also quite touching.
They could be said to be real scraps.
Even Wang Jing, who used them as experimental consumables, looked down on these miscellaneous light stones.
As a yellowish-brown starship descended from the sky, these miscellaneous and dim light stones flickered slightly like damaged fluorescent tubes.
Unlike other light stones, the light emitted by these miscellaneous light stones was also different.
Because these light stones contained a lot of impurities, the light they emitted was also stained with colors other than white.
- The dim yellow light meant that it contained a lot of iron oxide impurities.
When the starship landed successfully and its internal engine completely stopped working, these light stone tiles that flickered with difficulty fell into darkness again.
Only the light stone tile at the edge still emitted an extremely stable dim yellow light.
Swish! !
In the distance, the hatch of the starship slowly opened, and Chen Fan and the other three, wrapped in mechanical exoskeletons, walked out of the hatch one by one, and walked straight towards the light stone that was flickering with a dim yellow light.
"One, conduct a deep scan of this area."
Chen Fan squatted down, stretched out his hand and gently brushed the mixed light stones flickering with a dim yellow light under his feet, and gave an order to One.
At the same time, he slowly closed his eyes and controlled his consciousness to slightly leave the body - the picture seen by the naked eye was still too limited.
From the perspective of the consciousness, the surface of this patchwork of light stones was rippling with almost imperceptible information ripples. Compared with the light stones in the center of the base, this information fluctuation was almost negligible.
"It seems that the light of this batch of light stones is not caused by the energy pathway inside the incubation tower."
Chen Fan looked at the scene in front of him and murmured in a low voice.
The reason is very simple.
The function of the energy pathway inside the incubation tower is very simple - either to provide energy to the scorpion eggs, or to stimulate the light stones to promote the stable release of information disturbances.
Therefore, as long as the energy pathway inside the incubation tower is still running, the light stones will continue to release information disturbances of considerable intensity .
But now...
the intensity of information disturbance on the surface of this batch of light stones in front of us is not even comparable to some high-purity natural light stones!
After all, even without external stimulation, natural light stones will spontaneously release information disturbances of a certain intensity.
At the same time.
As the white scanning beams swept across the base in front of him, the model diagram in the holographic interface gradually became clear.
The energy pathways that had long stopped running under these ten-meter-diameter light stone tiles were gradually presented in this model diagram.
"No abnormal energy fluctuation area has been found yet."
An electronic synthesized voice sounded in the communication channel: "It has been confirmed that the energy pathway of the hatching tower is in a stagnant state."
"Hiss..."
Hearing Yi's report, Hongshi, who had been following Chen Fan, couldn't help but take a breath of cold air: "This is strange, what kind of energy is inducing these light stones to emit light?"
"Yi, continue to scan downwards."
Chen Fan, who has a high-dimensional perspective, moved his eyes slightly. He adjusted his gaze and looked at the bottom of the light stone floor tiles.
Whether it was the dark purple surface armor, the strange base material, or the heavy rock under the base, in Chen Fan's eyes, they were like a thin, translucent paper.
With just one glance, he could see every detail of it.
Deeper, deeper, deeper...
Like Chen Fan's gaze, the power of the intelligent terminal scanning was increased again, and the scanning screen that was almost stagnant began to move.
Layers of rock layers flashed rapidly in Chen Fan's eyes.
Behind the base, except for a few unknown structures still wrapped in dark purple, most of the area is filled with the rock layers of the Xinaluo mother planet.
As time passed, Chen Fan's eyes gradually went deeper into the ground.
Looking at the scene in front of him, he subconsciously frowned: "Strange..."
Logically speaking, after going deep into the rock layer, the proportion of the dark purple structure of the hatching tower in the field of vision should decrease rapidly. After all, at the other end of the hatching tower is half of the still "alive" Xinaluo mother planet.
But as his sight continued to go deeper, the scene in front of him showed a little unexpected change.
The proportion of the dark purple complex structure gradually expanded, as if... there was still a huge unknown structure under the base of the hatching tower and inside half of the Xinaluo mother planet!
Not only that, Chen Fan always had an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this dark purple unknown structure.
It seemed...
he had seen this strange structure somewhere.
Chen Fan thought carefully, but he couldn't remember the source of this familiarity.
Helplessly, he could only squint his eyes slightly and try his best to explore deeper areas.
But... his vision was limited.
Although he has a high-dimensional perspective, he still cannot avoid the perspective law that things are bigger near and smaller far away.
As the depth increases, the images he can see become more and more blurred - conventional visual aids cannot work on his consciousness.
Just as Chen Fan was preparing to leave his body and go deep into the ground to find out, a unique cavity structure located in the fractured rock layer appeared in front of him.
This is a secret room buried deep underground in the mother planet of Xinaluo and tightly wrapped by a large amount of high-strength materials!
When the mother planet of Xinaluo was hit by a disaster, the structure of the planet must have undergone considerable changes, and the outer shell of the secret room also deformed to a considerable extent.
But even so, this secret room still withstood the terrifying pressure of the rock layer and preserved its basic structure.
As for the space in the secret room...
Although it was slightly deformed, it was still in normal condition.
Due to the distance, Chen Fan could only barely see the objects in it.
A triangular prism-shaped instrument with a faint white light flashing on the surface, next to the instrument, there is also a small antimatter reactor in operation.
Judging from its overall structure and construction style, the creator of this secret room is very likely to be the Xinaluo civilization!
The whole process is long, but for Chen Fan, it is just a picture that can be seen in the blink of an eye.
He temporarily put aside his curiosity about the abnormal structure of the underground and controlled his consciousness to return to his body.
The deep scan of Yi continued, and the squeezed, deformed and broken rock layers were clearly presented in the holographic interface.
"Scan a little to the left."
Chen Fan suddenly gave orders.
Hongshi and Isa turned their heads and looked at Chen Fan in surprise.
Soon, both of them realized Chen Fan's intention and focused their attention on the holographic interface in front of them.
"Is it... did you find anything?" Isa blinked and asked softly while staring at the holographic interface.
Chen Fan looked solemn, nodded and continued to command: "Yes, this direction, give up scanning all other areas, and scan directly in this direction..."
Before the voice fell, accompanied by a buzzer beeping, the picture in the holographic interface changed instantly.
A huge rock fault suddenly appeared, and a huge spherical shadow jumped into the picture.
"Found it!"
Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief: "One, lock its specific coordinates, and at the same time model and analyze it and the surrounding geological environment."
"This is..."
On the other side, Hongshi's pupils slightly dilated, and he couldn't help but let out a low exclamation: "Man-made facilities?!"
"Yes, a secret room left by the Xinaluo civilization."
Chen Fan looked at the many parameters that were quickly presented in the holographic interface and explained: "The antimatter reactor inside is still operating normally. In addition, there are some devices whose functions are unclear inside."
He shook his head in some distress: "I don't know what this thing is for."
"In short, these light stones should be glowing because of this energy source."
As the voice fell, the detailed parameters and 3D modeling of this spherical structure suddenly appeared in the holographic interface.
Deep scanning cannot penetrate the outer wall of this spherical structure, so One can only improve its shell model as much as possible.
The bumpy and slightly distorted shell.
Various broken metal debris and cables.
And the sharp rock faults around.
It is not difficult to imagine what it has suffered underground.
"Maybe..."
Isa took over Chen Fan's words: "Is it the shelter of the Xinalo civilization?"
"The facility is 19.17 kilometers away from the base in a straight line. The detection results show that its diameter reaches 217 meters. The internal structure is unknown..."
Yi's electronic synthesized voice sounded from the communication channel, reporting the precise exploration results to everyone present.
A shelter with a diameter of 200 meters?
Isn't this too small?
"Wait a minute."
Chen Fan raised his hand to interrupt Yi's words: "Yi, help me contact Queen Ophelia." "
I want to ask her what's in it."
As he said, he thought about it, and a triangular prism-shaped precision instrument appeared in the holographic interface in front of him.
...
A few minutes later. [Lord Star Envoy? ! ] In the communication interface, Ophelia suddenly stood up from her seat, and the white light on her body continued to flash: [Where did you find this device? ! 】 Seeing Ophelia's excited expression, Chen Fan's heart moved, and he quickly explained: "Why? Is this device important?" 【Very important! 】 Ophelia's full chest rose and fell slightly, and a blush appeared on both sides of her cheeks because of excitement. She took a few deep breaths, calmed down her inner excitement, sat back in the chair, and looked at Chen Fan with an extremely complicated expression. 【This is...】 She hesitated for a moment, and finally gave an answer: 【The main brain array of the Xinaluo civilization. 】 【In the era of the mother planet, this triangular prism-shaped main brain array is our most advanced technology, usually only used in some important key facilities. 】 【For example... the palace. 】 At this point, Ophelia paused, and her thin curved eyebrows were tightly frowned, as if she was worried about something: 【However, from your description, the scale of this main brain array is not large. 】 【Besides, I don't know why it appeared underground on the Xinaluo mother planet, and it is so deep underground! 】 【This is very strange! 】 She emphasized. Chen Fan glanced at the holographic interface beside him. According to Yi's simulation calculation results, if the Xinaluo mother planet had not suffered such a blow, the location of this spherical facility should be thirty kilometers underground. It is indeed not a normal location. Ophelia's voice continued to come: [... I remember that in order to protect the mineral resources of the mother planet, the royal family issued a ban on surface excavation on the mother planet a long time ago. Not to mention thirty kilometers, excavation work with a depth of more than one thousand meters requires a lot of reporting. 】 Chen Fan's mind moved, and an idea arose in his mind. He raised his head again and looked at the somewhat panicked Ophelia calmly: "Unless..." "This facility was excavated and built by the Xinaluo royal family themselves." Chen Fan said word by word. ps : Today is also two chapters combined into one chapter. (End of this chapter)
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