Bai Quan's voice came from the other end of the phone immediately: "The geological activity is suddenly quite intense tonight, and the volcanic eruption will be quite serious. It's best to go to the second underground floor to rest."

Chen Ming's frown relaxed. He thought Bai Quan came to inform him in the middle of the night that someone was looking for trouble with him, but it turned out to be just this.

"knew."

Chen Ming responded and hung up the phone.

Chen Ming knew without Bai Quan's reminder that geological activities had been very frequent in recent days, and tonight was the peak period of activity.

Because the main control room of the dome is connected to an observation system of the 14th Legion's base.

Regular weather forecasts are sent to each dome.

Although this "weather forecast" does not say whether it will be sunny or rainy, but rather the intensity of geological activities and the severity of volcanic eruptions, the effect is still similar.

Although Chen Ming basically never leaves the laboratory once he enters it, he still pays attention to the situation outside every day.

In fact, he has been waiting for this day.

Best day ever for testing Inferno Core.

The extremely hot environment of the volcanic planet is the most suitable environment for testing the Purgatory Core.

Chen Ming put away the terminal, took one end of the line and connected it to the Purgatory Core in the laboratory and walked out of the laboratory.

Through the transparent dome, the situation outside appeared in front of Chen Ming.

Although the entire planet seemed to be covered in gray volcanic ash, fortunately, the flames emitted by the hot magma allowed Chen Ming to see the general situation near the dome.

But we can only say that the situation seems somewhat grim.

Intensified geological activity has caused a large amount of surging magma to accumulate on the surface, and the area near the dome is now almost an orange-red ocean.

"Uh... isn't this situation a little bit wrong?"

Chen Ming remembered that when he came two days ago, he specifically asked about the site selection of the Baiquan Dome and whether the dome would be damaged by geological activities.

Baiquan said that the sites of the domes are all on large plates with relatively stable geology. Generally speaking, only magma erupting from far away places can fall near the dome.

How come everything around me is flooded by lava? But it's not a big problem.

Since Chen Ming wants to test the Purgatory Core, the testing environment must be as difficult as possible.

Although the Purgatory Core cannot reduce entropy, it should be able to transfer entropy to a farther place.

Chen Ming held the Purgatory Core connected to the miniature antimatter reactor in front of him so that he could observe the condition of the core during the next test.

Then, he poured his mental power directly into the core entropy in his hand.

The psychic energy fluctuations then spread from his body to the core of Purgatory.

The Purgatory Core was stimulated by Chen Ming's psychic energy fluctuations, and the psychic energy fluctuations generated by the activation of the internal psychic components were all confined within the core by the isolation material of the isolation layer.

Only the final effect produced after the Purgatory Core is activated will take effect outside the core.

The icy iron-like core of Purgatory gradually began to warm up.

The surrounding environment temperature, which was originally stabilized by the dome life support system and was specially raised by Chen Ming for testing today, is gradually decreasing.

The entropy that existed within the dome did not disappear, but was dissipated outside the dome.

The activity of the magma near the dome quickly became active.

However, since the temperature inside the dome did not change much, the activity of the magma outside was only active for a short while.

The entropy released from these domes dissipates into the surrounding environment and merges into it.

No longer exert excessive influence on the local environment.

Chen Ming was quite satisfied with the effect.

He also adjusted the set temperature of the life support system to an appropriate level to avoid further wasting the dome's electricity.

Then continue to control the Purgatory Core and conduct subsequent tests.

That is to say, continue to transfer the surrounding entropy in a farther direction.

After surging for a while, the magma near the dome gradually calmed down under the influence of the core of Purgatory and cooled into pieces of black rock covered with magma lines.

The area covered by these rocks that suddenly appeared in an extremely high temperature and magma-filled environment is still expanding in a circular shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, it takes time for the effect of the Purgatory Core to reach the bottom of the magma.

Therefore, the magma in those areas that have not yet had time to transfer entropy will experience some problems due to the sudden increase in temperature and sudden change in environment caused by the dissipation of entropy to the surrounding areas.

The rocks that had already solidified due to the transfer of entropy were constantly being exploded by the active magma below.

The broken rocks melted again under the high temperature, and the sprayed magma continued to flow towards the dome.

This situation made Chen Ming immediately change his idea of ​​calling the Purgatory Core. He chose to transfer the entropy at the bottom first while stabilizing the entropy at the top.

Soon the situation was under Chen Ming's control again.

The area covered by the cooled rocks is expanding in a circular shape, and the originally surging magma is like boiled water in front of Chen Ming.

Everything went very smoothly.

Even though there seemed to be magma continuously erupting from the ground nearby, Chen Ming was able to quickly call upon the Purgatory Core to cool it down.

All current problems near the dome have been completely resolved.

During the testing process, Chen Ming has become thoroughly familiar with the use of the Purgatory Core.

But at this moment, Chen Ming suddenly saw from the corner of his eye a bright fire appearing behind him, completely covering the red color of all the gushing magma in front of him.

He immediately turned around and found that behind the dark dust covered by volcanic ash, a mountain covered with cracks and flowing lava suddenly rose from the originally flat ground.

The appearance of this mountain, which is almost vertical to the ground, caused the surrounding terrain to become rugged in an instant.

It was as if a bamboo section suddenly emerged from a small hill covered with weeds, and then the bamboo produced many bamboo shoots that could destroy the terrain.

And that vertical mountain with lava flowing is obviously also a volcano.

If you can see it clearly from this distance, this vertical volcano is probably two thousand meters high.

When Chen Ming turned his head to look at it, its first eruption had just reached its peak.

The erupting lava flows are tree branches, and the flying volcanic ash is leaves.

This volcano is like a world tree with magma as its core.

"Turtle."

Is this the power of nature? Chen Ming just sighed.

Then, after a brief break in the volcanic eruption, the second violent volcanic eruption brought thick smoke that instantly enveloped it.

Now Chen Ming could only barely see the huge lava column that reached the sky.

Although Chen Ming could see that the volcano was some distance away from the dome, and the magma inside the cracked volcano was mainly pouring from the top to the bottom.

But some of the lava ejected during a volcanic eruption will soon fall onto the dome.

Although the magma ejected from a two-thousand-meter-high volcano may not seem threatening at first glance, Chen Ming has heard of many larger and taller volcanoes after all.

It was just the scale of the vertical volcano he had just seen, the most vertical volcano he had ever seen before it was covered in volcanic ash.

Chen Ming felt that the dome seemed a little unreliable.

Even with Bai Quan's previous assurance that the dome was safe, Chen Ming's own armor should be enough to block the high temperature from the outside, but he would not gamble with his life.

So Chen Ming made a prompt decision and hid in the second underground floor with the Purgatory Core.

By the way, he also used his own high-grade metal stock at the temporary base mixed with various metal materials to directly fill the entire underground floor between the second underground floor and the surface, thus completely protecting himself.

At the same time, Chen Ming has not stopped monitoring the surface and outside the dome.

Even underground, testing of the Infernal Core can continue.

Chen Ming's test target was changed to the vertical volcano.

It’s just that the magma flying from the sky is not easy to test. After all, if it cools down in the air, it may turn into rocks and hit the dome, which is no different from a meteorite.

Just in case, it's best not to do this.

Just as the influence of Chen Ming's Purgatory Core continued to expand and extend towards the volcano.

There was also constant lava falling nearby and onto the dome.

Looking out from the dome, all you can see is large amounts of magma, and when the magma flows to the bottom, all of its entropy is transferred by Chen Ming.

The magma cooled, extinguished, and cooled, forming the rock that accumulated around the dome.

Although some rocks near the dome where entropy transfer was not complete exploded and burst into magma.

But magma also tends to cool within seconds of being exposed.

All the magma flowing near the dome was completely controlled by Chen Ming.

Testing of entropy control has been completed.

Next, we just need to test the effect of the Purgatory Core on the volcano and figure out the limit effect of the Purgatory Core, and then the test can be completed.

But accidents always happen quickly.

Just very close to the dome, the already solidified magma suddenly exploded, completely exploding.

This was not caused by the original small-scale entropy instability, but by the sudden emergence of a new heat source underground, and a new magma flow erupted underground at a very close distance.

At the same time, an extremely violent earthquake occurred underground near the dome.

Even though the dome has perfect earthquake-proof measures, Chen Ming on the second underground floor can clearly feel the direction of the earthquake's source.

Looking towards the source of the vibration through the dome's surveillance, Chen Ming suddenly saw a small bulge on the ground covered with magma.

It seemed... that the sharp vertical volcanic peak that had just rushed straight into the sky was about to rise up very close to him.

If the volcano over 2,000 meters high appeared at this distance, the dome above his head would probably not provide any protection at all.

A hint of seriousness appeared on Chen Ming's face for the first time in a long time.

He had to find a way to solve this problem.

Just a few minutes before Chen Ming saw this fatal vertical volcano suddenly rising from a position very close to the dome where he was.

Baiquan had just finished most of the work he had to do today and went to the control center of an external device.

This control center communicates with satellites in orbit around the volcanic planet.

One of the satellites was observing the situation on Chen Ming's side.

Of course, there is no worry that the dome will be destroyed by the volcano.

In his opinion, there was no need to worry about the dome's protective capabilities.

He has been here for some time and knows the local geological environment and the scale of various disasters, as well as the protective performance of the dome.

So he was still confident about Chen Ming's safety.

When he observed the situation in Chen Ming's dome, in addition to being wary of a psychic as anyone should be, he was also curious about one thing.

And today, when Bai Quan came to the satellite control center, he found that something unexpected had indeed happened near Chen Ming's dome.

“It’s true.”

Bai Quan said something silently in his heart, and randomly asked the staff on duty to zoom in on the situation near Chen Ming's dome.

It can be seen that the magma in the circular area near the dome has been completely solidified, which is obviously Chen Ming's attempt to use the Purgatory Core.

It seems that Chen Ming's research will soon produce results.

Baiquan nodded slightly and prepared to leave.

However, just as he was about to continue doing his own thing, the picture on the satellite suddenly changed.

The unique vertical volcano rising from the ground instantly caught Baiquan's attention.

"Lava waterfall?"

The staff nearby immediately locked the satellite on the volcano and said, "Yes, it's the lava waterfall."

"How could there be such a phenomenon near the dome that can only be seen outside?"

The staff member's face turned bitter; he obviously couldn't give an answer.

Bai Quan did not make things difficult for him. He knew something was wrong, so he immediately took out his terminal and called someone from another geological monitoring department to ask about the issue.

The other end of the phone suddenly became busy.

After a while, the director of the geological monitoring department appeared on the other end of the phone and replied to Baiquan: "There is only one possibility for the magma waterfall to appear. There is a problem with the flow direction of the underground magma veins."

"We are conducting testing here, please wait."

Baiquan knew that just urging was useless.

Therefore, we might as well take advantage of this opportunity to have the staff at the control center begin testing the surface of the dome cluster at the base to see if there is any special phenomenon in the shape of a vertical volcano, which is actually called a lava waterfall.

While arranging the work of the people in the control center, Baiquan also notified several domes in the area near the lava waterfall and asked them to evacuate underground and wait for subsequent rescue.

The signs of a lava waterfall have already appeared, and at such a close distance, the dome's protective capabilities may not be able to withstand it.

What's more, there may be more than one lava waterfall next, which might really cause problems.

Just after Bai Quan arranged all the rescue teams, the geological monitoring department finally responded: "Lieutenant General Bai, the results are out."

"explain."

"We detected high-frequency entropy fluctuations underground, which affected the originally solid plates and eventually caused problems with the direction of the underground magma, causing it to overflow directly from the middle of the plates."

"Fluctuations of entropy?"

"Yes, it is the fluctuation of entropy."

Bai Quan frowned and looked at the situation on the satellite, and several thoughts flashed through his mind quickly.

Was there something wrong with Chen Ming's research? Or was it a problem with the Purgatory Core itself? Was the Purgatory Core so effective? Regardless of the actual situation, it was always right to rescue the people first.

Just as Baiquan was thinking about the reason for this situation.

Chen Ming was busy on the second underground floor.

Just as signs of a vertical volcanic spearhead appeared very close to where he was.

He simply used his spiritual power again and reinforced the foundations of the first and second underground floors several times with his own materials.

Then all the research equipment in the laboratory was moved to the second underground floor.

Chen Ming has calmed down.

In the current situation, even if all the magma of the entire volcano flows towards him, he should be able to hold on in the magma sea until Baiquan notices something is wrong.

But when Chen Ming turned his attention back to the ground, he saw two new huge bulges appearing in the magma around the dome.

Together with the vertical volcano that had risen from the ground before, it formed a triangle and completely surrounded the dome where Chen Ming was.

Including the previous one...

"Four volcanoes?"

Chen Ming looked at the surveillance camera in the other direction.

It happened that at this moment, the vertical volcano that first appeared in the distance of the dome had completed its internal magma eruption. The bottom structure was melted by the high heat of the flowing magma, and the bottom structure was damaged and began to collapse.

The huge rocks that kept falling with scattered lava hitting the ground brought a terrifying shock.

These tremors seemed to have stimulated the underground environment, making the already continuous earthquakes even more frequent.

The earthquake also appears to be stimulating the three remaining volcanoes.

The second vertical volcano that appeared after the collapsed volcano approached the height of the original vertical volcano in a short period of time.

But it hasn't stopped yet. Countless rocks and magma are still gushing out from underground, constantly raising the height of the vertical volcano.

Lava continued to overflow from the cracks on the side of the volcano, falling from the sky and hitting the dome.

The obvious shaking made it hard not to wonder whether the dome would be damaged.

The third and fourth bulges that had just emerged also formed two huge volcanoes in just a few tens of seconds.

Chen Ming's Purgatory Core was constantly trying to dissipate the entropy in the volcano throughout the process.

But the effect was not significant, as if the magma underground was endlessly feeding these volcanoes.

The Purgatory Core is still too weak in the face of the planet's power.

However, Chen Ming still did not give up trying, and his spiritual energy surrounded the entire dome.

Soon, the third volcano that rose from the ground showed signs of rupture, just like the second volcano.

The surging magma gushed out from the crater, rushed into the sky, and the side of the mountain was completely cracked.

The terrifying lava waterfall poured towards the dome where Chen Ming was.

Take a moment to observe where the cracks appear on the volcano.

It can be found that if nothing unexpected happens, the direction in which the remaining three volcanoes will collapse will all be in the direction of the dome where he is now.

Chen Ming's face was solemn. He did not dare to hesitate for a moment and continued to control the spiritual energy inside the dome. At the same time, the Purgatory Core in his hand was still transferring the entropy inside the nearby magma.

But large chunks of magma continued to hit the dome from above.

It was visibly apparent that the dome could no longer withstand the continuous damage that it was not supposed to endure.

A large number of cracks gradually appeared at the top.

Just a few seconds later, the third vertical volcano erupted.

There was a big hole on the top of the dome where Chen Ming was.

Magma and turbulent hot air flows instantly swept in from the breach.

Vegetation inside the dome quickly withered and shrivelled, and caught fire.

And at the moment this scene happened, the metal liquid controlled by Chen Ming seeped out from the ground, instantly extinguishing the fire and covering the entire dome, restoring it to its original state.

Although the plants here will never come back.

But at least the dome was saved, temporarily.

The reason why Chen Ming's reaction was a little slow was because of the Purgatory Core in his hand.

Chen Ming needs to activate a function of the Purgatory Core that is adapted to psychics.

This Purgatory Core has left an interface for psychics to use at will.

Then how is it possible that only psychics can achieve effects similar to those of Infernal Lords when using Infernal Cores?

If psychics can only do something to the same extent that ordinary people can do it, then this design is definitely a failure.

And the design of the Purgatory Core is clearly not a failure.

Just yesterday, Chen Ming found another thing on the Purgatory Core while studying the core.

Psionic sensor trigger device.

This is one of the backdoors that was designed specifically for psychics when the Purgatory Core was designed.

It can increase the intensity of the psychic's psychic fluctuations and affect the final output effect of the Purgatory Core.

The stronger the mental power and psychic energy fluctuations Chen Ming exerts on the core of Purgatory, the greater the range and intensity of the entropy control he can perform.

But there is a limitation in triggering this function.

That is, the core of Purgatory requires a continuous and large supply of energy.

The miniature antimatter reactor that Chen Ming brought with him was limited by its size and its output power was not enough.

Therefore, Chen Ming also needs to maintain the dome's power system and connect it to the core of Purgatory.

The process of modifying the internal wiring of the dome, which he had never actually touched before, and shutting down the dome's life-support system, which had complicated shutdown procedures, took him some time, causing his speed to slow down a little.

After all, the life support system is the most important equipment to keep people inside the dome alive, and shutting it down at will will result in heavy casualties.

Except for the second underground floor, which is not a problem due to its independent design, all spaces above the second underground floor will become restricted areas for humans after the life support system is shut down.

Anyone who doesn't wear special protective clothing will surely die, and even if they do, they may not be able to survive the surging magma outside.

So it cannot be shut down automatically without the presence of three administrators at the same time.

This meant that Chen Ming had to use his psychic powers to find the relevant designs and then prioritize transforming the life support system.

Completely shut down this system, which accounts for more than 80% of the dome's internal power consumption.

The purpose is to concentrate all the electricity used by power supply equipment in other facilities and apply it to the Purgatory Core.

Although I was a little slow due to lack of experience, fortunately the result was still good.

Chen Ming stood up from the sofa.

He walked to the wall and put his hand on it.

A thick modified cable protruded from the wall and was connected to an adapter.

Then, Chen Ming connected the other end of the adapter to the Purgatory Core.

At this moment, almost all the electricity under the entire dome was concentrated in the core of Purgatory.

Just when the Purgatory Core was connected to enough power, the fourth volcano finally began to erupt.

The magma inside the second volcano that had erupted earlier had now flowed out.

The high heat at the bottom is about to completely melt the support of this volcano.

The volcano is about to collapse.

The direction of the fall was just as Chen Ming thought, right above his head.

(End of this chapter)