The facilities built by the Guardian Giants, even with a single ventilation duct, are quite spacious for a human-sized human.Perhaps it was Hao Ren's unreliable boss who took a rare look at his employees, or maybe it was the goddess of creation who blessed her own daughter in heaven, and the group successfully crossed the perimeter cordon under the noses of the corrupters and got into the ventilation duct leading to the control center without any trouble.The power of the Lord of Mad had infected almost everything on Amantil, and the temple and its annexes were no exception, but the infestation did not affect the normal functioning of these facilities, such as the energy and lighting systems.The floodgates of the ventilation ducts could still be opened, the internal circulation system and lighting were working as usual, and the silence in the ventilation ducts would have almost forgotten that he was in the base camp of the crazy minions if it weren't for the oppressive cold smell that permeated the air everywhere, and the strange smell in the air."
This passage will be very long," Hao Ren walked in front of him to open the way, while looking at the map projected by the data terminal, the map was provided by Salaman, and it recorded the detailed structure of Amantil before the fall - there is no need for the corruptor to destroy the fortress they have already obtained, so most of the areas on this structure map are still valid, but its safety factor is not easy to say, "The underground structure of the planetary fortress is intricate, or the underground facilities of this thing are the main body of the starship- We'll pass through several underground factories and machine cabins, and while most of the route will be in the pipes, there will still be a few sections in between that that don't have cover, and everyone will be on the fly, and concealment will come first. ”Vivien whispered, "This place is very close to the Great Rift Valley, and the underground environment is likely to have changed a lot, and I can't fully trust the map. ”"Of course," Hao Ren nodded, "but so far we don't have anything else to use besides this map." ”At this time, the data terminal suddenly reminded me: "Attention, there is a corruptor reaction from above." ”Everyone immediately shut their mouths, and Vivien waved her hand to summon a gray-black shadow, and the power of the shadow obscured everyone, suppressing everyone's breath reaction to a minimum.Moments later, the data terminal lifted the alarm: "We have already passed, and other faint reactions are far away." ”Hao Ren glanced up, the dark vault above the ventilation duct obscured his vision, but he knew that he was now passing under a small temple, and the reaction of the Corruptor that the data terminal had sensed before should be the soldiers patrolling the small temple: this is still a shallow area, and if you are not careful, you may still be sensed by the enemy."
The Shadow Canopy can't be used too often," Vivien put away her shadow power after the alarm was cleared, "Although this energy is difficult to detect, it is still possible to be perceived with frequent use. ”Hao Ren nodded: "Pass this paragraph as soon as possible." ”The team continued to advance through the underground structure, the vast ventilation ducts filled with only the ubiquitous low hum of the group's footsteps and the sound of air flowing through certain gaps.Of course, there is no scenery worth admiring in a pipe, and coupled with the low and oppressive environment here, Lily feels very uncomfortable: "I always feel creepy......
I can't see people, but I feel that there are people in all directions......"
"Don't say this at this time, okay!"
”Nangong May immediately had goosebumps all over her body, she was crawling forward in the form of a sea snake at the moment, and after hearing Lily's words, the tip of her tail subconsciously straightened, "I already felt hairy in my heart......
Nangong Sanba suddenly frowned: "Wait a minute......
Probably not an illusion, there really is something here!
”Although the strength of the third eighth brother is the lowest among the others, the "hunter skill" in the demon hunter's bloodline talent gives him a good perception ability, and with the fine control technique forced out by his own limited strength, when there are extremely faint and imperceptible visions around, his reaction is the fastest one.So when he opened his mouth, everyone immediately became nervous, and Hao Ren immediately looked at the data terminal: "Scan." ”The data terminal immediately turned on all its sensors, and a pale blue light spread along the inner wall of the ventilation duct to the front, while the scanned image was projected above the terminal.The tubular holograms were empty of nothing but a few scattered specks of distraction, which were nothing more than discarded energy that permeated the space and escaped from the depths of Amantil."
I didn't find anything on this machine," the data terminal turned off the enhanced scanning module, "Sanba, you can't be an auditory hallucination, right?"
”"Please call me Nangong," Nangong Sanba corrected with a serious face, then frowned and shook his head, "No......
I could definitely feel something around me, and that was ......
Very subtle psychic reactions, with faint thoughts, a bit like ghosts, but the thoughts are more chaotic and faint than those of ghosts. ”"I feel it too," Vivian spoke beside her to help Nangong Sanba testify, "but my perception is also very unclear, and I can't tell what it is." ”Hao Ren lowered his voice while looking around cautiously: "We haven't been discovered yet, so 'that thing' shouldn't be a sentinel set up by the corruptors, maybe it's a special energy field emitted by the uncorrupted part of Amantil."
Go ahead, maybe there's something ahead of you. ”This small episode aroused everyone's nervousness even more, and even the dizzy roll widened his eyes and concentrated his energy.The cat girl tiptoed briskly behind Hao Ren, and the cat girl's talent made her walk quieter than everyone else.But as she walked like this, she suddenly stopped, and her pointed cat ears spun around her head alertly: "Big cat, I hear a voice!"
”"What sound?"
Hao Ren stopped again, "Why didn't I hear that?"
”"It's from ......the neighborhood," said the cat girl, crouching down and turning her ears around, "as if she was muttering something in her mouth......
Silly big cat, do you hear that?
”Lily didn't care about what the cat girl called herself, but crouched down beside her with the same serious face, and turned her furry ears around to listen intently, and the two beast-eared girls began to search for any unusual sounds in the underground pipes like human sonar.The low humming sound of the mechanical device and the ubiquitous airflow disturbed the clues of the sound, Hao Ren and the others didn't hear anything wrong even if they were keen, but the cats and dogs combined with super hearing played a role at this time, and after carefully distinguishing for a minute, Lily and Roll raised their hands almost at the same time, pointing to a fork in the road in front of them: "It's from over there!"
And it's getting closer!
”Vivien immediately summoned the Shadow Canopy again to obscure everyone's breath, and at the same time, even the sound of everyone's already faint footsteps was also hidden, under such cover, Hao Ren led the team to carefully touch the fork of the ventilation pipe, and on both sides of the fork were two identical, empty pipes.Elizabeth muttered, "It seems like nothing." ”"I noticed that part of the floor here was made of a different material from the rest of the area, it was a rectangular metal plate, and its overlapping lines and raised structures seemed to indicate that it was a flap that could be opened.Nangong May immediately pressed her hand on the metal plate, and the water flow of Juanjuan separated from her body and penetrated deep into the cracks of the metal plate, and under the power of the water element, this deformable metal plate silently opened a crack, and the light shone out from the crack.Hao Ren leaned in and looked through the gap to see the situation under the pipe.According to the map provided by Salaman, this should have reached the vicinity of the large temple where the control center is located, and there are relatively dense underground facilities here, so it is not surprising that the pipeline passes through an underground bilge itself, and it is even more normal for there are "people" in the underground bilge.What Hao Ren was really curious about was the kind of gurgling "talking" that Roll heard—corrupt monsters can't speak, they don't have the need to talk at all, and they don't have the ability to talk.In Amantil, a place that has fallen into madness, who will be able to communicate in words?
Could it be the superior commanders of the Corrupted Legion?
Through the narrow gap in the floor, Hao Ren could see that below was a rather large room, brightly lit and furnished with some huge buzzing equipment, but this bright environment did not diminish the distorted and oppressive atmosphere of the room itself: all equipment and the floor were covered with a layer of dark red lines, which was a proof of corruption.And in the center of the room, Hao Ren saw a strange creature.The image of the creature made his eyes change instantly.It was a large, swollen, roughly ellipsoidal mass of flesh, like an inflated brain, anchored to a circular metal platform, from under which extended a dozen dark red tentacles of flesh, the ends of which protruded into a circle of holes around the metal platform, and beneath the holes were a large number of pipes spreading out, connecting the various devices in the room.At a glance, it can be seen that this "brain" is controlling the contents of the room.And the gurgling sound that Roll hears is from this brain, which is muttering something to itself."
Landlord," Lily leaned over in a low voice, "what do you see—let me see it too?"
”"I didn't expect it......," Hao Ren looked up, his expression a little confused, "I almost forgot about this thing......
But I didn't expect to see another one here!
”Vivien was aroused: "What did you see?"
”"It's a brain monster!"
Lily had already poked her head out to take a look at it at this time, and before Hao Ren could speak, she suddenly raised her head and exclaimed in a low voice, "That kind of brain monster!"
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