"Different? What's the difference? Vivien glanced up at Hao Ren, "Because this one in front of you is a hatchling?" ”

"It's not just the larvae," Hao Ren looked at the tentacles and biological tissue remains around him, "the eldest son we saw in the dream plane is closer to a certain kind of plant, and has precisely differentiated various functions, such as the woods on the surface, the tentacles in the rock formations, the 'heart' buried in the ground, and various ganglia. And the one in front of me looks like it is not fully evolved, and it feels like it's just an embryo. ”

Next to him, Nangong May also added: "And how this thing can run from the dream plane to this world is also a big problem." ”

Hao Ren raised his head and looked around the hall, this is where the center of the spaceship is located, and there are many passages around that lead to unknown places, and the tentacles of the "eldest son" spread out along those passages, and it is estimated that some of its organs can be found in other places. He thought about it for a while and decided to split up: "Let's act separately, it's more efficient." Contact each other as soon as they find something. ”

Everyone had no opinions, and finally divided into groups, Lily and Hao Ren in a group, Yizax in a group with his daughter and La Niña, Vivian and Nangong May in a group, and the three groups of people determined the three directions after a rigorous process of guessing coins, drawing fists, and turning sticks, and left the hall separately.

Lily was very happy to open the way in front of her, but she was not afraid to play at this time, and Hao Ren followed the husky girl behind, carefully watching the surroundings as she went. They had explored the hall for a long distance after leaving the hall, and found some empty cabins in between, though they were either empty. Or just ordinary tentacles, which are basically of little value.

Lily was in high spirits. I found that there were any rare things in the spaceship, and I had to pick them up and stuff them in my pockets, and I didn't have to go far to stuff all the pockets on my body. In the end, he could only pour goods into Hao Ren's personal space, and the reserves of Wang Zhi's treasure increased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Hao Ren looked at this girl and was a little incomprehensible: "How many stones you collect can be regarded as a strange stone, what's the point of you picking up pieces of iron?" ”

Lily looked serious: "Whether it's useful or not, take it back to the nest first, this is the common sense of werewolves!" ”

Hao Ren: The werewolves in Lily's concept of ...... must include the sledding in the Arctic Circle......

The two of them walked forward while chattering, and finally found an empty room. The door of this room has been almost completely blocked by tentacles, and without Hao Ren's command, Lily waved her two paws and happily cut the grass, and cleaned up the dry and decayed wreckage in three or two strokes, Hao Ren held up a few jù terminals and took a picture into the room: "It doesn't seem to be anything...... Wait! There's something! ”

The faint blue glow of the end of the count jù flickered in the room for a moment. Suddenly, a reflective object caught Hao Ren's attention, and he quickly floated in to gouge out the thing from a pile of vines, and found that it was indeed right: it was a small device, and it looked still intact on the outside.

The two of them had already felt that something was wrong when they walked all the way, because there was basically nothing in the room except tentacles, and the huge spaceship was as clean as if it had just left the factory, giving people the feeling that this place was not suddenly affected, but an orderly evacuation. And now they've finally found something that interests them.

The little device was the size of a palm and shaped like an oval cake. The surface was smooth, but the button was not visible, and Hao Ren asked the number of terminals to give identification: "Look at what this thing is?" ”

The number jù terminal floated over and scanned it: "It seems to be a foreign friend of the machine......"

"What?"

"Oh, this thing seems to be a number processing device. It's similar to PDA, but I don't know which civilization made it. ”

Hao Ren suddenly looked forward to it: "Can you read it?" ”

"It's a lot more difficult," said the number of terminals, which circled around the small device twice. Go up and touch the shell of the latter, "Huh." Eh, buddy. What about the living? ”

After touching it a few times and not moving, the number of jù terminals shook his body regretfully: "It's a dead ball." ”

Hao Ren took out an alloy plate brick from his pocket space and aimed at the terminal: "You play again, believe it or not, I'll give you a crisp sound?" Do you want to compare the hardness with professional slabs? ”

The number jù terminal stabbed back to the small device all of a sudden: "Isn't this machine to ease the atmosphere - don't panic, wait for the machine to have a physical hard read......"

As it spoke, it clung to the ancient device that had been scrapped for an unknown number of thousands of years, emitting a faint blue light from its body, and began to hard decipher any information that might remain inside the latter. Because it is difficult to determine the storage mechanism and structure of this thing, the number of jù terminals is slowly moving around while reading, Lily looked at this scene and touched her chin thoughtfully: "How do I feel that the number jù terminal is lewd. Profanity. Corpse. Body ......"

Hao Ren slapped Lily on the head: "You can't be simple in your thinking!" How innocent was the young woman of literature and art when she first came. It's like this! ”

Lily covered her head and looked at Hao Ren aggrievedly: "I'm quite pure, I've been in a row for so many years. It's not even time to be in love yet—but you can't stop me from reading a lot, can you? ”

Hao Ren immediately felt that he had experienced the cultural differences between him and the monster girl again.

The number of jù terminals was busy while silently listening to these two undisciplined goods discussing the problem of discipline, and I couldn't help but mutter: "It's almost enough, this machine is not interested in this kind of dwarf and poor equipment that doesn't even have four sets of redundant processors, and this machine yearns for the kind of bold host that has a belly of processing cores, is full of expansion slots, and uses sixteen threads on the street - of course, it is best to have the kind of ...... on the battleship."

Hao Ren was surprised to find that there were cultural differences between him and his PDA!

At this time, the number jù terminal seemed to have finally scanned something, and suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Eh, there really is, this thing is not good, the memory is solid, and there is really a small part of the number jù saved!" ”

Hao Ren's eyes suddenly lit up: "Hurry up and release it, hurry up and release it!" ”

The number jù terminal is dealing with the number jù: "Wait a minute, the machine is translating, by the way, put the useless information aside - you shouldn't be alien hair. Interested in the film, right? ”

Hao Ren's eyes look at the nose, the nose looks at the mouth, and the mouth looks at the heart. Baoxiang solemnly raised the alloy plate brick: "Do you want to be loud or brittle?" ”

The number jù terminal shuddered for a moment, and quickly released the processed document: "I'll show it to you." This is supposed to be a log left by the ship's crew, and what it mentions is probably the 'firstborn' that has eroded the ship. ”

The logs have been translated. And the intelligence intercepted the most valuable part, Hao Ren and Lily hurriedly read it carefully:

"Log One...... Keywords: Cruise records.

"It's been six months since we came to this galaxy, and we've discovered a large number of life-populating galaxies and habitable planets, which should be a thriving place for life. It's a bit boring to be busy recording coordinates and collecting planet numbers these days, but it's a pleasure to find a planet that has a lot of life. The creatures known as 'demons' are very concerning, highly intelligent but hot-tempered and seemingly unable to negotiate. Maybe it has something to do with the harsh environment in which they live? Those planets are really not very suitable for survival. It's the first time I've seen a creature that can move in magma. ”

"Log two, keyword: unexpected disaster.

“…… There was an unbelievable accident and I should be glad I was alive...... The wind bless the hometown, I don't know how long this ship can last! A huge ...... The strange thing suddenly appeared in space and slammed into the ship, it contained an incomprehensible energy that overloaded the ship's shield system in the second moment of contact, and nearly broke the ship's waist. Now the weird ball is still stuck in the central Gnacurry. It is unbelievable that a ball of several hundred meters has exploded a large hole more than ten kilometers wide, which should be related to some spatial phenomenon. There was a gas leak in the spacecraft. Thousands of people have been killed or missing, and emergency controls have been able to stop the gas leak and the spread of the fire, but we may not be able to repair the ship. ”

"Log three, keyword: growth. Weird.

"Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable! That's all I can say about my surprise. I am a biologist who has spent my life studying living things in the universe. But I never thought that the ball that crashed into the ship Gnaku turned out to be some kind of life! Yesterday it was just a sphere, but today its surface is cracked. Something strange is growing out of it...... I'm sure that's a sign of life. It transcends space, survives in the universe, and has an incomparably powerful force, why does there exist such a thing as zài in the world? Today the people on the ship had a meeting to discuss what to do with the ball, and someone suggested throwing it back into space, but it soon became clear that it was impossible. The orb has 'taken root' on our ship, and its powerful supernatural powers have prevented some of the more violent tests. We can only watch it lie there now, and pray that it is not in any danger.

"Also: The navigators also found a bad situation, for some reason, the space around the ship seems to be closed, we seem to be temporarily trapped in a warped space bubble, the only thing that is fortunate now is that the technicians seem to be able to fix the chrono modules of those escape boats, they seem to be planning to evacuate, I should probably study what grows in that sphere before this."

"Log Four, Keyword: Mild Seeds.

"I've been dealing with the weird creatures that are growing rapidly in the orb for the past few days, and it's surprisingly gentle, and while we still can't communicate with each other smoothly, it seems to realize that it's on someone else's ship, so it's cautiously slowing down its expansion, and if I'm not mistaken, it should have tried to apologize to me - of course, the others don't care about my little discovery, they're busy investigating the space anomaly, and the ship is trapped in a tighter state than expected."

Hao Ren was stunned when he saw this, and couldn't help but raise his head: "It's very gentle to say 'eldest son' here?!" ”

Lily's expression was as stupid as Hao Ren's, she recalled the berserk tentacle monster in the dream plane, and suddenly the hair on her tail was excited, and she shook her head vigorously: "How can it be gentle!" I almost made it eat! ”

At this time, the logs extracted by the number of jù terminals were still increasing, and Hao Ren temporarily put aside the huge confusion in his heart and continued to study the next records.

"Log five, keyword: spatial anomaly.

"I'd love to continue the record of that 'space sphere,' but I have to record a much worse scenario today: as far as I can detect. The structure of the space seems to have been altered.

"It was now certain that the ship was trapped in a strange situation like a warping bubble, and the space around it was sealed. It was as if the entire universe had shrunk to a mere 10 million kilometers in diameter. The released probe encounters an enclosed wall of space, and flies in one direction before returning from the other side of space. The technicians calculated the cycling path of these detectors. In the end, it was determined that the center of this enclosed space was our spaceship. What's going on? Has the whole universe collapsed around us? Either way, the technologists are still looking for the cause of the mutation, but I'm not so optimistic. ”

"Log six, keyword: none.

"We know too little about the universe.

"That strange orb creature - that's all I can call it now - it seems to be the root of a qiē. Technicians analyzed the instrumental records of the orb creature when it suddenly appeared near the ship, and they were surprised to find that it was not a space jump in the ordinary sense of the word, but a more peculiar teleportation phenomenon. Records show that when the sphere appeared, many of the nearby laws of nature were distorted, as if the sphere had 'fallen' from a universe very different from ours. It may be that this act of 'traversing' triggers the confusion of spatial laws, leading us to be trapped in a closed spatial bubble. Luckily, though, there are signs that the space isn't completely sealed. Some unstable conveyor points can be opened at fixed locations, and technicians are testing this opening pattern. ”

"Log seven, keywords: bubbles, spread.

"We've finally confirmed what's going on outside, and the 'outside' here refers to what's going on outside the space bubble.

"Things are even more bizarre than we thought, there is a strange atmosphere in the spaceship, everyone is very uneasy, it is clear that the outside of the space bubble has changed dramatically in the past some time, and we have been ignorant of it: the structure of space outside has been torn apart.

"The technician opened several portals to the outside world. The probe successfully traversed and returned, bringing back surprising news. Outside, too, there are bubbles of space—one after the other, connected by chrono-temporal channels, each enclosed in warped space. None of the probes found a shadow of the starry sky. Maybe the entire universe has mutated? No one knows what the real situation is.

"It's as if a basin of calm water has been stirred up with a foaming agent and stirred wildly, and now the universe outside us is completely different from the world we know, and the continuous visible and accessible space has been shattered. And the ...... that gave rise to this qiē Just a seed, possibly from another parallel universe.

"It's still growing. Despite the slowdown, it has completely occupied the middle section of the ship. And is spreading towards the power core, I still believe that its nature is mild, but its life instincts are gradually disintegrating our ship.

"A group of soldiers tried to destroy the tentacles, and achieved some success, but it was meaningless, and the mental state of those soldiers became abnormal after returning, and it is estimated that there will be no new 'weeding operation'. This morning, I noticed some small bumps in the corner of my cabin, presumably where the tentacles were about to grow. ”

"Log eight, keyword: none.

"We have finally decided to abandon the ship, including the 'sphere creatures' that have become fully symbiotic with the ship. Oh, it's not a sphere anymore, it's like a forest, spreading across half of the ship's bays.

"Technicians roughly predicted a space model, and they believed that the area where the anomaly occurred should be limited, and the laws of the universe would smooth out the intrusion of external information, and the space bubble phenomenon was probably such a 'cosmic self-healing method'. We have enough small ships to evacuate, and according to the route that the technicians have speculated, we can leave this strange star sector as long as we keep jumping from space bubble to space according to certain rules.

"The orb creature seems to know that we are leaving, and it expresses some kind of 'regret'. I don't know how to tell anyone how I communicated with that strange creature: it was a spiritual connection, probably because I lived so close to one of its ganglia that I could hear it in my sleep.

"It says it can't leave this place, it's a failed seeding, and it will continue to grow here, at least to complete its mission of 'first generation', and if it has the capacity to spare, it intends to evolve a small ecosystem within its own footprint. I don't quite understand what it means, but it seems that some more powerful higher creature created it to perform a life-like mission. Either way, we know too little about the universe. ”

This concludes the log.

Hao Ren and Lily looked at each other, and what this diary revealed was so heavy, far beyond Hao Ren's expectations at the beginning.

It seems that a whole bunch of problems have suddenly been solved!

Of course, there are also a whole bunch of problems that pop up again.

Lily stretched out her claws and scratched the wall, muttering as she scratched, "How old is this ship...... Is the half-day space bubble smashed out? ”

"It's been detected," said the number of terminals, floating in front of the two of them, "to surprise you—after converting the time scales, this ship was abandoned at least 200,000 years ago." ”

Hao Ren didn't react at once: "Oh, 200,000 years...... What?! ”

"200,000 years ago, 200,000 years ago on the other side of the dream plane," the number of jù terminals was very strict, "this amount of information is very large......"

Hao Ren was just about to say something more, when he suddenly heard Vivian's voice from the communicator: "Landlord! We've found something strange here! ”

(I can't update it at night, so I thought about it and simply merged the two chapters into one and sent it on.) (To be continued......)