A large tentacle pierced through the rock formations around the cavern, crisscrossing a deep ravine, almost two meters in diameter, and its black skin was covered with dry and cracked lines, resembling a strangely shaped train.Hao Ren could tell at a glance that the tentacle was part of the eldest son: he was simply too familiar with this thing."
Sure enough......
The worldview of the virtual world is based on reality, and the real planet Zhuom is full of traces of the goddess's creation," Hao Ren jumped down the ditch and carefully touched the tentacles of the eldest son, who looked completely dead," ......
The tentacle is supposed to be dead, but it is unknown if there will be any living tissue deep underground. ”Vivien looked around, her face uneasy: "This is a refuge for the Drom, and the tentacles of the eldest son have invaded this kind of place......"
"Anyway, it seems that the Drom are still alive: at least in the virtual world." ”Hao Ren clapped his hands as he spoke, stood up, jumped onto the ground, and carefully observed the huge cave again.Connected to the man-made Hyperalloy Corridors that had existed before, the cavern roof was reinforced with a massive alloy grid and girders, and the surrounding rock formations were infused with synthetic materials, which allowed the caves to persist to this day, even as the planet slowly disintegrated.As they went deeper along the underground tunnels, they saw more than one such cave, some natural and some man-made.Some of these caverns have been converted to resemble settlements, while others have been stacked with large quantities of supplies and equipment, such as the one in front of you, which has many empty platforms and metal frames, and it seems to have been a former warehouse, but the contents stored here have long since rotted away, and there is no trace of it.I don't know how long it took the Drums to renovate such a large-scale shelter, but judging from the form of the shelter alone, it seems that they did not intend to infiltrate the virtual world in the first place for the rest of their lives - the large number of underground settlements indicates that there were many living people living here, and it must have been something that happened afterwards that allowed them to collectively dive to a deeper, safer place: the virtual space.Hao Ren made his own speculation based on these facts: "It was probably the firstborn invasion that caused them to finally give up the meat of the real world completely.
Body. ”Lily didn't say anything when she heard this, but curiously came to the eldest tentacle to observe its appearance.She saw that the tentacle seemed to have entered the cave through a specially left opening: a large sluice made of metal that looked like a sewer drain pipe in the wall of the cavern, through which the tentacles had entered, and the tentacles themselves were lying in a gully that seemed to have been dug out of purpose.She scratched her chin, "How do I feel that this tentacle was deliberately put in by the Drums?"
”"What did they put the tentacles of the eldest son in?"
Hao Ren also discovered the settings around the tentacles at this time, "Do they want to study it?"
”The others were puzzled, and a shaking came from the depths of the ground again.The tremors and loud noises reminded everyone of the critical situation of the planet, and they could only put aside the matter of their eldest son for the time being, and continue to follow the navigation map sent by the data terminal to move deeper.In the following corridors, halls, and caves, they saw more tentacles of the eldest son, and the state of these tentacles became more and more incomprehensible.When entering a huge man-made cavern, Hao Ren finally couldn't help but be surprised in his heart: "This is ......"
This is a neatly shaped underground bunker, the scale is equivalent to the size of several football fields, its dome is 100 meters high, and the interior is unusually wide.The large amount of luminous minerals embedded in the top of the bunker brought a faint light to the place, and everyone could barely see what was going on.Hao Ren saw that this wide space was full of metal columns that looked like buildings, they were neatly arranged, and the color was pitch black, and the metal lines on their surface and what might have been access hatches could be faintly visible.Around these giant cylinders, you can see a large number of cables and pipes, which are unusually thick and strong, crisscrossing the air like cobwebs, reminiscent of some kind of cable arrangement in a computer room.With a huge and complex network of cables, and those neatly arranged cylinders, Hao Ren felt that they should have found the location of the "server".However, these "servers" are entangled with a huge number of tentacles......
One could even say that they were symbiotic together.A large number of pitch-black tentacles of the eldest son hung down from the roof of the cave and hung straight to a height of more than ten meters above the ground.They are arranged in a uniform manner, almost like a standard product out of a factory, and a large number of cables can be seen around each of these tentacles, and the standard and uniform connection method is no accident.Hao Ren threw a light generator into the air, and the diffuse light made it clear that the tentacles and cables were intercepted, and he saw that the cables and the tentacles were connected by a metal connector, one part of the connector was fixed to the cable, and the other part was buried in the tentacles."
It's not like ......
Intrusion ......," Lily muttered to herself, tilting her head.She saw that the roof of the cavern was lined with neat metal hoops, each with a tentacle hanging down.The IQ of the husky can be seen: this is the result of human planning.Elizabeth ran to a metal cylinder in the distance, which seemed to have been damaged by the earthquake, and part of its shell had cracked open.The little devil curiously glanced into the crack and immediately shouted, "There is something in these 'servers'!"
”Hao Ren and the others found that the metal cylinder was not the server component they had imagined, there was no hard disk group or CPU in it, and it was just a large glass container that had been broken, and the container seemed to be once filled with liquid, but now it had dried up, and a withered firstborn tentacle poked out of it.Lily ran to an intact metal cylinder, and carefully cut a hole in the shell with her clawed blade, and it was indeed a glass container, and it was still intact, it was filled with a reddish liquid, and a huge black tentacle was soaked in it, and life and death were unknown.Hao Ren was dumbfounded and muttered to himself: "Is this a fusion of a manual machine and the eldest son......
"What is this place for?"
”Vivien frowned, "Studying the biochemical base of the eldest son is not possible?"
”"It's impossible to trap the eldest son with these things," Hao Ren said as he studied the ancient equipment, although he couldn't understand the principle and structure of these things, but at least he could roughly judge their technical level, "......
This was transformed into this with the active cooperation of the eldest son's tentacles. ”Then he pointed to the tentacles that hung down from above: "Look at those tentacles, have you ever seen such a structure growing in the 'natural' firstborn?"
They are clearly actively adjusted to this way.At the same time, the surrounding devices are also specially made according to the morphological and physiological characteristics of the eldest son.It's the result of close cooperation between the two sides, no animosity, no tacit understanding – incredible as it is, but that's the only way to explain it. ”Lily walked out from behind a metal cylinder with a serious expression, "And these facilities are still running, at least some of them are still running. ”Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "How can you see it?"
”Lily turned, revealing her smoky black tail: "Electricity!"
”Everyone: "......"
Vivien narrowed her eyes and seriously felt the life force around her: "Not only is the equipment running, but there is also a faint life activity in those tentacles.Everything here is still alive. ”A thought in Hao Ren's heart couldn't help but float up: "This is what we are looking for?"
”At this time, the vibration of the underground came again, and a cloud of dust fell from the cave, and the data terminal contacted everyone again: "Partner!
There's still half an hour to go to sunrise!
The sun is already on the horizon, what's going on over there?!
”"I ......
Something found here," Hao Ren took over the communication with a little hesitation, and then placed a series of sensing devices on nearby cables and metal cylinders, he didn't know what these cables and cylinders were for, but the intelligent sensing equipment should be able to analyze useful things from them, "I'll send you the signals from here now, they come from the cable system of the shelter, you analyze it." ”A moment later, a happy voice came from the data terminal: "Oh, it seems to be the data flow of the server, you should be at a key node, you should be able to find the storage by walking along the main cable......"
"There is a problem," Hao Ren interrupted the terminal, "The storage is not a bunch of hard disks, but a firstborn son - or strictly speaking, the server itself is a firstborn."
The Drom people live in the dreams of their eldest son. ”(To be continued.) )