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Chen Ci nodded slightly, and for a moment, neither of the brothers spoke again.
They simply couldn't connect the horrible creature they had just seen with the word "mother".
It was imprisoned in a pool of water with heavy chains, enduring high-voltage electricity whipping it from the inside out, and having a large amount of bone marrow extracted.
Just thinking about the scene at that time, the pinhole in my elbow that had long since healed started to ache again.
How did Moonlight capture the Sea King? Such a powerful creature, and there were more than one of them, half dead inside it.
"How is it?" Fu Tianhe asked loudly as he tried to connect the wire to the broken part.
Shafley: “It’s lit!”
"Okay." Fu Tianhe quickly fixed the wires. The power supply here was not stable. Fortunately, they brought energy blocks with them. They only needed to use a converter to convert the energy blocks into electricity.
The console screen lit up again, and Shafley browsed the files saved in it. All the data had been transferred away, and the hard drive was cleaner than the floor of the palace.
But fortunately the operating system is intact.
He found the controls for the pool and started draining it.
With a dull sound, the gate on the side of the pool opened, the dirty water was discharged, and the water level began to drop at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Everyone waited patiently. The water was draining faster than they had imagined. After only seven minutes and twenty-five seconds, they had almost reached the bottom.
As the pressure changes, the bottom compartment begins to show.
Chen Nian couldn't quite understand what physical principles led to this series of changes, but in short, a big block had surfaced.
The chain nailed into the bone was retracting, and rust kept falling off with a harsh sound, pulling up the heavy body of the Sea Emperor.
To be precise, it is a body section.
The part that was dragged up by the chains was only fifty meters, about one-third of its body length. It was a section of trunk with the head and tail cut off, being slowly pulled upwards by hundreds of chains.
Just by hearing the sound of the machine working hard, you can feel its incredible weight.
The Sea King, Midgard, who had appeared before their eyes just a few minutes ago, was now only a part of him.
Where did the rest of its head and tail go? Did it undergo other cruel treatment after its marrow was sucked out?
No one knows the truth, after all, the logs and reports that should have been compiled in the operating console have been moved away.
The chain was pulled to its limit and finally stopped in mid-air, with the remains of the Sea Emperor just level with the people standing by the pool.
"The compass is responding," said Shaflay.
"There should be something in it." Chen Ci paused, "Please send the compass down. I want to take a look at the situation."
Shafley still needs to investigate the system at the control console, and a special forces member delivers the compass to Chen Ci.
Chen Ci used his mental power to observe the remains. The cross-section was very smooth, as if a thousand-pound slashing knife had chopped the Poseidon in half.
You know, this is a super primitive creature with mechanized body surface and inside. It is not easy to cut metal so smoothly.
Chen Ci: "I want to go in and take a look."
"Now?" Chen Nian raised his hand and glanced at the terminal. "There are only five or six minutes left before the next time-space overlap. Will we be late? How about waiting for the next wave?"
Chen Ci: "I'm not sure if the overlapping part of space-time is linear, but from these two times it looks very similar. If we wait for another wave and try again, we may lose track of the black wave."
Should he risk entering into a space overlap within Poseidon's body, or risk losing clues about the black wave?
Hmm... multiple-choice questions.
Chen Nian thought about it for a moment and felt that what Chen said made sense.
They had finally met such a key figure, and Heibo obviously wanted to convey some information to them. If they lost him at this key point, a lot of time would be wasted.
He looked at the remains of Poseidon, which were illuminated by numerous searchlight beams. It was about fifty meters long. With the guidance of the compass, if they moved quickly, they should be able to complete it before the next space fluctuation.
Chen Nian made a decision: "Okay, let's go."
In fact, this kind of task can be completed by one person, but Chen Ci knows that if he proposes it, his brother will definitely refute him.
Except for the time when she was climbing the pipe and got stuck because of her body, Chen Nian really wanted to move with him.
Chen Ci: "We enter through the blood vessels."
Chen Nian nodded. The Poseidon was huge. Every tissue structure in its body was of exaggerated size, and its main blood vessels were thick enough for an adult to pass through.
The special forces members quickly sorted out the equipment on the brothers. The blood vessels were thicker than the pipes they had encountered before, so they could pass through them. However, the two young masters of the Chen family obviously needed to explore the Poseidon themselves.
The various details encountered along the way also made the team members realize that something was unusual.
Shafley: "You have five minutes to act. We will pay attention to the energy fluctuations and remind you. Once you hear the request to withdraw, no matter what the situation, you must retreat immediately."
"Got it." Chen Nian agreed. He patted Chen Ci on the shoulder and shouted vigorously, "Let's go!"
The two brothers climbed along the surface of the Poseidon's body, moved to the cross-section of its rear part, and successfully grabbed the bones wrapped in flesh and blood.
It's strange that even though Poseidon has turned into pieces, his body tissues haven't decayed yet. Could it be that the pool water they just discharged is actually some kind of preservative?
All in all, Chen Ci and Chen Nian found an artery very smoothly and drilled into it.
What does it feel like to crawl through your blood vessels?
If I had to describe it, it's like entering an elastic pipe with large and small branches extending out at all times, and your hands and feet will easily get stuck in it if you're not careful.
Chen Ci was in front, deciding the direction based on the compass. The two of them moved forward at top speed, with the countdown ticking away.
Midgard's blood had long since flowed dry, with only some pools of water remaining in his veins, but most of it was still empty.
Occasionally, you can see sticky hard lumps attached to the inner wall of the blood vessels, which are probably the legendary blood clots.
Nowadays, even Poseidon is not so healthy and has to worry about cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Blood vessels form a complex network like a maze in the body, but there are only a few aortas, leading to their common source and destination.
Dirty heart.
Suddenly, the view in front of me became open.
Chen Ci jumped into the dark red left ventricle and was able to stand up straight. He didn't want to think carefully about the feeling of his feet.
My heart rate is gradually rising, not only because I have entered a new area, but also because of... some kind of mysterious call from within.
Shafley's voice came from the headset: "You have two minutes left, you can prepare to retreat."
Chen Nian also jumped down. He stepped on the thick wall of his heart and felt a little unsteady on his feet, so he reached out to support himself on his side.
"Where is the stuff?"
Chen Ci adjusted the compass: "Up."
Chen Nian looked up: "Above this place should be... the left atrium?"
Chen Ci: "Well, we crawled in through the artery."
"Then hurry up." Chen Nian said, and he clung to the surrounding heart walls and climbed upwards. He grabbed the valve between the atria and ventricles and struggled to climb into the atrium.
This really penetrated into the heart of the Sea King, he thought silently.
As soon as he stuck his head out, Chen Nian saw something in the corner. The reason was simple: the thing was glowing, and it was hard not to see it in the darkness.
Golden, light.
"Brother, I found it!" He immediately shouted in surprise, crawled over quickly and took the eyeball in his hand.
A golden eye.
Chen Nian had seen it before, although he did not observe it carefully enough at the time, but anyone who has seen it would find it hard to forget.
That is Fu Tianhe's right eye.
And now, this eye lies alone in the heart of the Sea Emperor.
No, it should not be the same eye as Fu Tianhe's previous one.
Fu Tianhe's artificial eye was crushed by Donald, and Chen Ci collected the contents inside and had Shafla tested them.
At this time, Chen Ci also climbed up, and Chen Nian immediately showed him the eye: "Brother, is it the same as Fu Tianhe's?"
Chen Nian got the answer from Chen Ci's slightly contracted pupils.
"Strange, didn't the body parts we collected previously all belong to a young woman? And this eye..."
"Chen Nian, how are you?" Shafulai's urgent voice sounded again, "The energy is increasing, you must come back quickly!"
"Okay, got it!" Chen Nian stopped talking. He could talk about anything after he was safe outside. He placed his eyeball in a sealed bag, jumped back to the left atrium from the edge of the valve, and prepared to return the same way.
However, at this moment.
His vision suddenly became blurry.
Oops! There was only one thought left in my mind.
In an instant, Chen Nian turned around and stretched out his hand, accurately catching Chen Ci, who realized that something was wrong and stretched out his hand from behind.
Two brothers holding hands.
In the next second, he was enveloped by warm liquid.
Everywhere they looked was a stream of bright red, as if it was their eyes that were filled with blood rather than the space they were in.
Red, red, red.
Boom——
The heart muscles contract vigorously, pumping out oxygen-rich blood with great force.
Chen Nian was ejected in an instant, and they indeed returned along the same route, however, the loop that allowed them to escape was gone!
The uncontrollable pain in my chest seemed to be caused by the surge of adrenaline in tension and fear, or it seemed to be some form of empathy.
But who exactly is this empathy for? It's as if there's something foreign and lingering in my heart.
Is it... Poseidon?
Chen Nian's heart was beating wildly. He could only hold on to Chen Ci with all his strength. Once he let go, he would fall into a completely isolated and helpless situation.
He felt Chen Ci's mental power connecting with him, and his brother's thoughts came clearly into his mind -
Don't be afraid.
Even though he has recovered his emotions, facing the sudden bizarre and desperate situation, Chen Ci still retains his rare rationality.
They were wrapped in surging blood along the aorta, like two pieces of driftwood in a flood, constantly colliding with the inner wall of the blood vessels. There were also some other things passing by them, which were clumped fat or parasites.
Chen Nian had never felt so nauseous before. He kept spinning 360 degrees, with endless scarlet in front of his eyes. If he hadn't been wearing protective clothing and had an oxygen tank to help him breathe, he would have drowned in the blood.
Boom——
Every heartbeat speeds up the slightly slowed blood flow again.
"How are you! Chen Nian! Chen Ci!"
"September!"
In the headset was Shafulai's panicked shouting and inquiring, as well as Fu Tianhe's shouting.
Chen Ci calmly replied: "We are fine. We are following its blood now."
Chen Nian tightly grasped the sealed bag in his other hand. The golden eyeball glowed faintly in his palm. Several slender parasites came over and seemed very interested in it.
The twisted flesh-colored body sways like ripples, absorbing the influence of the blood and living a parasitic life.
Chen Nian: !!!!!!
Get out!!!
In just twenty seconds, they rushed out of the blood vessels, entered the right atrium, flowed through the valve to the right ventricle, and then ejected into the pulmonary artery.
After a few seconds, it returned to the left atrium where the eye was discovered.
Poseidon must be struggling fiercely, because Chen Ci and Chen Nian are churning in his blood vessels completely out of control, and the blood flow rate is also quite fast.
Somewhere in the dark, they heard a voice.
Although the tone was gentle, the voice was abrupt and cold: "Control it."
At this moment, strong emotions surged up, almost drowning the whole person from head to toe.
—Humiliation, pain and anger.
The protective suits were clearly filled with oxygen, allowing them to breathe safely until this space overlap ended.
However, because of the overly intense emotions, I couldn't breathe and fell into active suffocation.
My eyes and head were dizzy.
Why?
Why, why?
Why am I here? Why can't I get out of this? Why am I having to go through this?
There is no answer.
The only female voice that could respond was the one that kept giving orders.
——Never, never be trapped here forever!
I don’t know how many times it has passed through my heart.
The dull sound of heartbeats and the gurgling of blood flowing were replaced by shrill howls of pain, which vibrated through bones and flesh.
——No, stop screaming!
Chen Nian tried his best to find some rationality from the abyss of negative emotions. He took a deep breath, opened his mouth wide, and screamed with all his strength: "Shapley!!!"
puff!
The bright red that enveloped them suddenly disappeared, and Chen Ci and Chen Nian rushed straight out of the severed blood vessels of the Poseidon's corpse. In the dimness, nothing could be seen.
They will fall to the bottom of the pool, which is 150 meters deep.
But in the next moment, it was caught by the net bag.
"Very good!"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they had made sufficient preparations, otherwise it would have been really troublesome.
Chen Nian rolled uncontrollably in the net bag, rolling several meters before finally stopping.
He lay face down, his arms and legs going limp and he didn't even have the strength to get up.
...is it out...?
Chen Ci's situation is not much better than his.
The sound they heard in their blood vessels was too mentally polluting. The powerful mental strength actually became a burden at this moment. The pain and screams of the Sea Emperor were captured by Chen Ci as if they were real.
The emotional perception that should have brought him a lot of happiness became a major source of torment.
"September!"
"Nian Nian!"
Shafulai and Fu Tianhe hurriedly jumped onto the net and helped up their Omega.
Everything that belonged to the past disappeared, including the blood that was supposed to be on the mask.
So through the clean mask, Shafley clearly saw Chen Nian's face full of tears and her dilated amber pupils.
"What happened just now?" Shafley asked in a low voice.
Chen Nian stared at him blankly. Under the worried gaze of Alpha's violet eyes, the emotions that did not belong to him were fading away.
It receded like the tide, as if it had never existed, but Chen Nian knew that it had not disappeared.
It's just...hidden.
Compared to Chen Nian, Chen Ci is much calmer.
While his brother was still in shock, Chen Ci took off his mask, raised his hand to wipe away the tears from his eyes, and asked in a calm voice, "Where's Heibo?"
Fu Tianhe: "Someone has gone after them. We will stay here and wait for you two."
"Captain! Heibo took us to a dark room. He told us the password for manual operation. We found an authorization card inside."
Special Forces Captain: "Great! This way we don't have to worry about security system issues anymore."
Upon hearing this, Chen Ci breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned out that his previous decision was correct. If he had waited until this wave was over before exploring, he might have missed the opportunity to get the identity card.
"We found this in Midgard's heart." Chen Ci held Chen Nian's wrist and showed the golden eyeball in the sealed bag to everyone, "Then the space overlapped, and the two of us were in the blood vessels of the Sea King, circulating with his heartbeat, and heard the sound of moonlight."
"The sound of moonlight?" Fu Tianhe was puzzled. "But we have been waiting for you outside and didn't hear anything."
Chen Ci: "What did it look like outside just now?"
Shaflay: "The Sea King was struggling in pain in the pool, wishing he could tear it down. Black Wave went along the trestle to another facility, leading the team members who followed him to get their ID cards. That's about it."
Chen Ci and Chen Nian looked at each other. Since they both heard the sound, there should be no such thing as mishearing.
And that intense pain and emotion could never be an illusion.
"Don't talk so much, take a rest."
With the help of their respective Alphas, Chen Ci and Chen Nian returned to the poolside. They sat on the ground and discussed in low voices the golden eyes they had collected.
"This is almost the same as my previous prosthetic eye." Fu Tianhe couldn't help but be surprised.
He was very familiar with the artificial eyes given by his mother, which had accompanied him for sixteen years. Whether it was the color, luster, or the fine lines in the pupil, they were exactly the same as his previous eyes.
If I have to say what the difference is, it would probably be the hardness. His is harder and you can tap it with your fingers, while this one feels exactly like a real eyeball.
Fu Tianhe couldn't help but raise his hand. His right eye had become a prosthetic eye made by Jiu Yue himself, and his bright red blood was flowing in the pupil.
Only the surrounding muscles and nerves seemed to still retain past memories, the pain, itching, being soaked in blood, and the pain of being pierced by crystals.
Chen Ci: "Did Auntie only tell you what she heard?"
Although it was a bit inappropriate, Fu Tianhe still noticed the change in Chen Ci's way of addressing her. Before, Chen Ci had always called her "your mother", but now it had changed to "Auntie".
Although they are all polite, they sound much more intimate.
"Well, she said she got some news from an alchemist, and then she went there. She came back three days later. I don't remember many details at that time. After all, I had a fever at that time and was groggy."
"It wasn't until she performed the surgery herself and implanted the eye that I felt better."
It seems that the alchemist that Fu Tianhe's mother encountered was closely related to the moonlight.
Chen Nian was silent. He stared at the remains of the Poseidon hanging in the air by hundreds of chains. He still couldn't forget the rhythm of his heart and the flow of his blood.
He didn't know what was wrong with him. Along the way, he always had inexplicable emotions that surged in his heart.
Be it sadness or anger, he should not exist.
Whatever the case, that happened more than ten years ago. Besides, as a human being, why should he empathize with the fierce Poseidon?
"Are you feeling better?" Shafley asked him softly.
Chen Nian nodded. He supported himself on the wall with one hand, stood up, and said, "Let's continue on. Now that we have the authorization card, things will definitely go more smoothly. Let's see if we can find any trace of the survivors as soon as possible. They must be looking forward to being rescued."
The plank bridge leading to the door where Hei Bo enters was broken in the middle, so the special forces connected the zipline and slid over one by one. The team members on the other side used their identity cards to open the closed door for them.
After the reunion, the identity card was handed over to Shaflay, and the compass was taken by Chen Ci.
Shafley lowered his head to study the thin metal card. It had been more than ten years, so it was a good thing that it had not demagnetized. The card surface was a plain black color with only the number printed on the upper right corner.
001.
The structure within the Moonlight Core Area has left Chen Nian confused.
He had seen the drawings beforehand. One was a detailed drawing of the Moonlight after its completion, and the other was a drawing that Laggio dug out of a soft disk from the Peruvian plateau, provided by the beacon. They guessed that it was the structure formed after the collapse of the Moonlight.
But after actual exploration, we found that the real situation was completely different from these two drawings.
Perhaps after the news spread, Moonlight underwent further transformation.
After walking along the curved corridor for hundreds of meters, they arrived at the overlapping space. Hei Bo led them into the dark room. The special forces members had already searched it, and there was basically nothing left.
At this time, the team member who had been responsible for tracking the camera signal reported: "The positioning function of the chip has been interfered with. It has been moving all the time. Now we can only determine its approximate location."
Captain: "Very alert."
This is not something to be surprised about. The person operating the machine with the camera should be able to guess that there may be a locator inside, so some interference was carried out.
"Where is the direction?"
"Two o'clock in the direction we are heading."
"Let's explore that direction as much as possible."
If the space overlaps a few more times, maybe they can see people other than Hei Bo in the overlapping space, and get more information about the survivors.
Furthermore, energy detectors showed that they were getting closer and closer to the source of intense energy, and the frequency of fluctuations was therefore increasing.
Otherwise, Chen Ci and Chen Nian would not have suddenly entered the overlapping space and experienced Poseidon's full body swimming dozens of times when there was only a minute left before the preset time.
Detectors show that the content of Ashes powder in the air here is very low, almost negligible compared to the surrounding areas.
If Chen Ci's previous guess was correct, it should be related to the Sea King Maxeney, the living anglerfish, and the remains of the Sea King Midgard that they saw along the way.