The vast space is cold and dead, and the boundless darkness of space is accompanied only by starlight. A bright silver arc suddenly cut through the darkness, and the Giant Tortoise Rock Platform leaped out of the spatial rift, performing a routine calibration during the continuous jump.

The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace is currently heading in a general direction towards Io, alternating between chrono jumps and regular voyages, and is currently nearing the end of its voyage. The ship's navigation system recalibrated the starlight lens two days ago and fed the star map from Nasatone into the navigation program, and after some comparison, the ship's main engine found what appeared to be the Kraken's home galaxy, and now the ship's course is heading there.

Because the Kraken's star map is indeed inaccurate, and the celestial drift caused by 10,000 years of time also seriously affects the reliability of the teleportation, the spacecraft cannot directly reach that coordinate. For the sake of safety, and in order to gather as much bits and pieces of information as possible in this universe, the navigation assistant program built a spacecraft to jump and rush like this, one by one, although it took a little time, but it did not delay anything.

The ship was currently passing through a drab and boring place, with only an icy open area and the occasional thin, thin radioactive cloud that had been encountered, with no scenery to speak of except for the distant starlight and a bright ribbon of nebula. Hao Ren sat in his captain's seat and watched Wen Jiàn boredly, while dealing with the occasional crazy call from Lily next to him.

He is no longer the rookie who first came into contact with the sea of stars a year ago, and the monotonous starlight of this place can no longer make him unable to extricate himself. Of course, the scenery of the vast universe is always attractive, but these attractions are not worth the work at hand.

He was researching the materials he had extracted from the Nasaton host.

"Io...... Water Star. Your home planet is a planet with 100% ocean cover, and huge ice floes and storm clouds orbit the planet's surface on an annual cycle. All ecosystems on the planet have developed from the deep sea - you didn't know the concept of 'atmosphere' until your ancestors established outposts on the first ice floe. Hao Ren held up the number of jù terminals and looked at the Siren Queen next to him, "That's the fun of exploring - the universe is so big, you will always encounter all kinds of strange places. ”

The Siren Queen looked at the vast star map displayed on the navigation console in a daze, and felt incredible: "I can't believe that I am here at this moment...... My people and I have lived in the deep sea for 10,000 years, and we thought it was the Siren's nature to live in the deep sea...... Our ancestors, however, studied the secrets of the stars. Do you do this kind of travel regularly? ”

"Almost, we're experts," Lily wagged her tail as she leaned on the back of her seat. "Have you heard of space dogs? I'll tell you ......"

Hao Ren felt that this husky was going to ruin the three views again, so he put away a few jù terminals and walked towards the door: "I'll go to the real yàn room to have a look." ”

Nangong May was resting in the open space of the bridge with Shaqila and Soma in a ball, when she suddenly opened her eyes and pulled herself out of the ball: "Wait a minute, I will go with you!" It's so boring to be in a group like this! ”

Hao Ren looked at the snake girl wolf bèi with a blank expression and almost crawled in front of his eyes, and then looked at Shakira and Soma, who were left behind by May and were trying to reunite into a new ball: "Anyway, the racial culture of your kraken is really incomprehensible......"

"It's a symbol of friendship!" Nangong May shook the tip of her tail in the air like a rattlesnake, "I just learned it from them!" ”

After Hao Ren and May left the bridge, Shakira and Soma looked at each other: "She still needs to be familiar with this way of resting." "Yes, she is too loosely wound and tends to fall out when she falls asleep." "No, I mean she just tied it to me." "Oh. That's me...... I have nightmares. ”

Nangong Sanba was holding a magazine next to him and pretending to read a book, and at this time he suddenly pasted the book on his face: "The world is too TM wonderful......

Hao Ren led May out of the bridge, through the central cloister, and then came to the real room on the ship. It was previously occupied by various equipment and platforms for the study of the firstborn, but now these research projects have basically been transferred to the crystal nucleus research station. The room suddenly became empty. There are only two remaining project teams that are still in operation, one is the "Wrath Scanner" that has not yet been decoded, and the other is a large restraint device placed in the center of the real yàn room - this device is brand new.

"Looks like it's still working on the Wraith's memory encoding." Hao Ren and May passed by the Wrath Scanner first, and he saw that the instrument shimmered regularly as usual. And the glow in the groove in the center of the instrument is unchanged from the last time, "I hope this thing will get results sooner." ”

May glanced at the Angry Spirit. The worry in his eyes flashed, and then he turned to look at the center of the room: "Are you sure it won't suddenly get out of control?" ”

In the center of the room was a large transparent container, a crystalline vertical tube that reached nearly ten meters in diameter and emitted a faint blue light. The container is surrounded by various sensors and recording devices, and inside the container is a strange creature that floats silently: a swollen mass of flesh shaped like a brain.

It was the Brain Monster that was caught from Nasaton.

"The protective crystal shines on this thing twenty-four hours a day, and it's impossible for it to escape," Hao Ren said, pointing to the bottom of the container, where a colorful diamond-shaped crystal was inlaid, and the light from the crystal shone on the surface of the giant brain, causing the latter to twitch from time to time, "As long as it doesn't die too weak in it." ”

May curiously leaned on the wall of the container and looked at the brain inside: "I heard that this thing eats everything?" ”

"Anyway, the few organic things tested so far have worked," Hao Ren nodded, and a robotic hand in the container sent a piece of animal flesh to the tentacles of the brain monster, which immediately rolled up the mass of flesh and absorbed it in the blink of an eye, "It uses its tentacles to eat, and the tips of those tentacles can instantly secrete super corrosive digestive juices and open a series of fine 'teeth' to get its prey, Hasselblad didn't ask where its mouth is—it's the tentacles." I'm feeding this guy now according to the 'recipe' submitted by the Krakens, and it needs to be fed four to five times a day, both plant and meat, but as Caterina can remember...... It seems to be more palatable when eating raw meat. Don't mention it to her face. ”

May stuck out her tongue: "Forehead...... Then I won't ask about the excretion process of this thing. ”

"I'll try to talk to it again before we get there." Hao Ren said as he activated a device next to the container.

An invisible traction field restraining the brain monster from the container, and it was slowly pushed to the edge of the container, a tentacle fixed to a silver-white cylinder. An identical cylinder rose in front of Hao Ren, and the holographic projection above the cylinder displayed the words "Ready to connect".

Hao Ren didn't want to have close contact with a tentacle monster every time to understand the other party's thoughts, so he ordered to design such a thing. This is a small device that can replace the direct connection of the limbs, which can not only serve the function of perfect mental connection, but also strengthen the connection and record the flow of numbers during the connection - in other words, Hao Ren can now not only see the memories of the brain monster, but also scan them as if they were videotaped. Although the recorded numbers are always distorted and blurry, this is an important function.

In this way, he can go back to the video to find the images of his communication with the brain monster that appear on his subconscious level, but are ignored by his conscious mind.

Hao Ren put his hand on the top of the silver-white cylinder, and a wave of strange thoughts immediately came to his mind.

The chaotic red, the chaotic sky, the crooked falling starlight, all kinds of bizarre scenes immediately fell from his vision as if he were on the scene, and Hao Ren realized that he was on some apocalyptic alien planet. However, this was not what he wanted.

A huge mushroom cloud rose beside him, and countless terrifying shadows surged from all directions, as if to tear himself apart, Hao Ren stayed in this illusion for a few seconds before he began to be baptized by these terrifying images. A rumbling, incomprehensible howl sounded in his head, and the howl and the surrounding scene seemed to join forces to push the most terrifying impression of the world into the mind of the intruder, and to use the "fear heart", the original weakness of mortals, to drive the intruder into this spiritual sea. Hao Ren stood in the alien illusion like the sky was falling apart, watching all kinds of strange things tear his body to pieces again and again, he looked up at the starry sky that was constantly collapsing, and let out a roar of challenge from the depths of his heart:

"You know it's useless! Come out and talk to me face to face! ”

Only hollow echoes came from all directions in the shattering world of thought, and the brain monster refused to answer any further snooping.

Yes, this fully formed brain monster has the ability to build a barrier to his own thinking, even if Hao Ren can directly cut into its memory, it can only be difficult to move an inch. (To be continued......)