Chapter 1614 The Brain Monster’s Hometown

Hao Ren has not seen this kind of monster with a lot of stories in the dream plane for a long time - the last time he saw it was when Nasatorn solved the Kraken problem, when a brain monster occupied the city of the deep sea. , and exchanged minds with the Siren Queen. Hao Ren and his party finally managed to capture the monster alive after a lot of effort, but in the end the monster escaped from the tight control aboard the Giant Turtle Yantai by uploading its consciousness. Monitoring, this matter made Hao Ren regretful for a long time.

After that, he never saw this kind of terrifying creature that was mutated from the brain of the guardian giant. Whether it was on the deserted planets in the dream plane or in the vast space, these monsters seemed to disappear out of thin air. generally.

He didn't expect that he would see them again here, on the planet Amantir ruled by the minions of Madness - or rather see one of them.

The shadow canopy that Vivian set up in advance was a wise move. Under the cover of powerful magic, the brain monster in the room did not notice the strange atmosphere above for the time being. It just crawled on the round metal pedestal like a mollusk. , connected his tentacles (actually nerve cords) to the holes around the pedestal, and while giving instructions to various equipment in the room, he made a vague grunt that sounded like slime crawling.

If the origins of these monsters were not known in advance, no one would associate these terrifying meat balls with the race of guardian giants.

"It didn't notice us," Nangong Sanba quickly stepped back after taking a look. "The sound this thing makes is really disgusting... Don't tell me this is a popular new song in the Corruption Legion."

"Brain monsters are one of the crazy creatures with high intelligence," Vivian frowned, "Could it be that the commanders behind those monsters are these brain monsters?"

"Are you saying that this planet is actually the home of brain monsters?" Lily blinked, "Not necessarily, we only saw one. Maybe it just happens that there is such a brain monster among the corrupt monsters here..."

"No, it shouldn't be the only one," Hao Ren noticed the details in the room and retorted loudly, "Did you notice those devices? And the pedestal - those devices all have the ability to directly interact with the brain monster's nerve cords. The connected biochemical interfaces, and apart from those interfaces, no other control panel can be seen. This shows that these devices are specially prepared for brain monsters, and there are no other operators besides them. If the brain monster is just corrupted For an inconspicuous individual in the legion, there should be no need to prepare such a large number of special equipment for it, and it cannot be used by others."

"It is not ruled out that the things below are the 'exclusive equipment' of that brain monster," Nangong Wuyue said in a low voice, "What if it is the leader here?"

Hao Ren thought for a while and had to admit that this was possible: "It's possible...it depends on whether we can find more brain monsters in the future."

Lily bared her teeth towards the floor: "What about the one down there? Do you want to kill it?"

Hao Ren considered it carefully and shook his head: "Don't add any extraneous details - don't forget the various special abilities of the brain monster in the spiritual field. It may be able to directly warn the outside world through thought waves. What if we don't kill it immediately?" The trouble is huge, there is no way to capture or extract a confession from this thing, so it has no value."

Others also agreed with this view, so Lily could only let out a disappointed sigh, followed Hao Ren obediently, and continued to move deeper into the underground facility with the team.

Thirty minutes later, they successfully passed through the outer area of ​​the great temple and officially entered the underground area of ​​the temple area.

At this point, we have entered the building where the control center is located, but the entire control center of the planetary fortress is a quite large facility - it includes a huge above-ground temple like a Tower of Babel and an underground structure that can be called an underground city. Its underground part is even larger than the above-ground part. When they were in Nakdal, Hao Ren and his party had goblins leading the way. They could go directly through the upper and lower passages and follow a straight line to the computer room. It was naturally convenient and fast, but here, they had to follow the intricate pipeline system in the underground facilities throughout the facility. Going around and around, the speed of movement is greatly reduced.

"The news came from Salaman that the sporadic firefights in space have ended. Now the Guardian Legion and the Drone Legion have retreated to their predetermined positions, facing off against the Amantil defense circle," Hao Ren said in a low voice, "In In the coming time, some of Amantir's defenders will retreat into the planet's atmosphere, and the defensive forces outside will be strengthened. We must be more careful in our actions."

Nangong Sanba looked at the dimly lit passage in front. The unchanging, monotonous and depressing environment here was very uncomfortable, and it greatly consumed everyone's patience. Even he became a little impatient: "Where are we now?"

The data terminal projected a holographic map, which showed the route provided by Salaman. In the center of the map was a light blue light pillar representing the Amantir crystal, and everyone was now above the light blue light pillar. , surrounded by intricate obstacles: "The straight-line distance to the Amantir Crystal is two kilometers - but considering the endless pipes and corridors, the distance we really have to walk is more than ten times this distance. "

Of course, you can't go in a straight line when sneaking in from the pipe. In fact, the route taken by Hao Ren and his party almost circled half a circle around the entire underground area - they entered from the south of the Great Temple, and then followed a roughly spiral downward arc. Go half a circle underground, and there is even a section of the route that is close to the Equatorial Rift Valley, and finally you will enter the machine room where the crystals are stored from the northern entrance underground of the temple. This route is theoretically the safest route.

Nangong Sanba sighed: "Alas... I can only continue walking..."

After walking for a while along the route map, Lily stopped a little confused: "Do you feel... it seems a little hot here?"

Not only did she feel it, but Hao Ren also noticed it: the surrounding temperature seemed to have risen.

"We are at the edge of the Great Rift Valley." Hao Ren glanced at the road map. A striking red crack on the road map "cut off" nearly one-third of the originally complete underground facilities. "It should be the Great Rift Valley." The heat is transferred in.”

Facts quickly proved Hao Ren's inference.

Not long after we continued walking, the restless heat flow in the surrounding air had turned into an obvious heat wave. There were also obvious traces of later repairs on the pipes passing by. In some parts that were not marked on the route map, there were even unexpected signs. The intersections and gates outside the building are the result of re-construction.

Obviously, after the equatorial region of Amantir was torn apart, the planet's Corruptor defenders completely repaired and remodeled this area. After here, the road map provided by Salaman cannot be used.

"The underground facilities are obviously not completely sealed, otherwise the heat wave will not come in." Yzaks sniffed, with a look of disgust on his face, "The air quality is far worse than the air quality in my hometown, the smell of sulfur Not pure at all.”

Hao Ren glanced at him with contempt: "Don't mention the air quality. The air quality in your hometown is the result of three lung cancers among ordinary people."

While they were talking, they happened to arrive at a fork. This fork was not marked at all on the route map, and it was up to personal judgment to continue moving forward. Lily raised her tail and swung it in the air, looking at the direction of the fluff on the tip of her tail: "Is the airflow coming from that direction - should we go and take a look?"

The husky girl pointed to the approximate direction of the original route, so Hao Ren nodded in agreement.

Following the direction of the influx of hot air, they found themselves gradually leaving the ventilation duct system.

The road ahead is getting wider and wider, and there are several gates that look abandoned. The lighting systems on both sides are also turned off. Various signs indicate that this is an ancient passage that was once activated but has now been abandoned.

Hao Ren's vision widened.

"...This place..." Nangong Wuyue crossed his arms and poked the ground with the tip of his tail uneasily, "I feel like I'm starting to evaporate!"

After coming out of the last gate, the open space outside is directly connected to the equatorial rift valley!

A blinding red light filled his field of vision. After his eyes adjusted to this light, the scene outside gradually became clear. Hao Ren discovered that there was a wide metal platform connected to the outside of the gate, and the metal platform itself was built directly on the fractured rock formation. Under the platform, red light continued to surge, which was the unimaginable huge chaotic power of the hot magma. It keeps rolling under the push, and on both sides of the platform, exposed mechanical structures and pipes, platforms, beams, and gates can be seen everywhere on the burned red rock walls. These facilities almost extend along the cliff into the magma below!

"Be careful!" Nangong Sanba suddenly shouted in a low voice, and almost at the same time, Vivian's shadow sky once again enveloped everyone.

With the protection of the shadow sky, everyone hid in a depression on the edge of the platform, and a group of ferocious and twisted flesh and blood monsters flew over the platform the next second.

Those flesh and blood monsters did not seem to be a specialized patrol team, but soldiers who had just been "created" from the rift valley. They let out chaotic roars while pushing and shoving into the sky, completely unaware of a few small intrusions. They are hiding right under their noses.

Hao Ren cast his gaze into the distance. In this vast rift, more monsters were being created continuously from the rift with surging magma: although compared to the overwhelming tide of monsters in the previous battle, The scene pouring out of the rift is much less common, but it's still a heart-stopping sight.

Lily couldn't help but stick out her tongue: "That's not true... Could it be that they 'created' soldiers directly from magma?"

Vivian raised her hand and waved, and a small bat flew out of the nearby shadows and turned into blood mist and returned to her body. She shook her head: "No... monsters don't come out of magma. I used a small bat to detect it." After a while, there is a... facility similar to a 'summoning field' below."

Hao Ren frowned: "Summoning field?"

Vivian did not explain, but directly drew a few runes on the ground, and the scene that the little bat saw before appeared above the runes: although it was far less clear than the holographic projection, it was still enough to distinguish .

Everyone saw that at the bottom of the rift valley, near the source of the magma, countless huge black platforms were neatly distributed along the cliff. The black platforms were painted with dark red stripes with complicated symbols and patterns. Those patterns The chaos displayed even made Hao Ren feel dizzy. Every once in a while, the patterns on the black platform will brighten, and then a distorted monster will slowly take shape in the air and fly into the sky...

"... Damn it..." Seeing this scene, Hao Ren couldn't help but burst out in anger, "Is there any justice for such a violent attack?"

Lily glanced at him: "The guy who has built 80 billion drones in four years has the nerve to say that others are unjust and violent?"

Hao Ren: "..."

"These are not the most important things, the most important thing is what comes next," Vivian interrupted the conversation between Hao Ren and Lily, indicating that there would be a sequel to this video, "You see, these platforms are actually connected..."

Sure enough, as the perspective of the little bat increased, everyone saw that those black platforms were not isolated from each other. They all extended a black, like pipe-like thing, and those pipes all converged in the center of the magma river at the bottom of the rift valley. , there is a huge black metal tower there. There are several protruding hemispherical structures on the surface of the metal tower. There is a monster lying on each hemispherical structure at the moment.

There were brain monsters, more brain monsters.

Amantir is indeed the lair of brain monsters!