Chapter 52: Terror
The sense of fear was like a giant hand, tightly gripping the heart of every brown star, and everything he saw in front of him made the captains' backs cold, and they felt that even the air they exhaled was chilling.
The moment he entered the rift space, the light in the void was completely cut off, and the absolute darkness tightly wrapped the planet, although there was still a faint light emitted by the spaceship on the surface of the planet, but the light extended a little farther away, and it was abruptly cut off, as if the entire planet was packed into a sealed box.
Of course, for the captains, this is a long time of psychological preparation, in advance Shuer has repeatedly described with everyone the visual experience when entering the rift space, and in the images sent back by the volunteers who entered in advance, everyone has more or less introduced the particularity of the rift space, so when witnessing it, although it is inevitable that you will still be shocked, but you will not be unprepared to panic, but what happened next is different, it is really a little beyond the captains' expectations.
Just when everyone had just recovered from the sudden absolute darkness and began to observe the changes around them, trying to understand the current situation, a sudden change appeared.
The closed edge of darkness rippled like a stirred lake, and hundreds of black tentacles poked out of the ripples of darkness, writhing, waving, and swept towards the surface of the planet, the tentacles were hideous and thick, black and shiny, and the surface was covered with large and small eyes, and the sight emanating from the eyes was full of cruelty and indifference, like a poisonous snake watching its prey.
Each writhing tentacle is thousands of meters long, in all directions, at all angles, the shadow of the tentacle can be seen everywhere, the extension of the giant planet seems to be filled with these tentacles, you can't see the body of the tentacles, you can only see them extending directly from the darkness, as if these tentacles are the growth of the darkness itself, as the tentacles get closer and closer, the scales on it are clearly visible, the scales are hard and shiny, the surface flows with the color of energy, the hidden muscles and blood vessels can occasionally be seen in the cracks of the scales, with the swing of the tentacles, the blood vessels and muscles are also beating slightly, and each beating is extraordinarily powerful, as if even the space vibrated with it.
"Great, great, great, uncle. Delia's face turned pale, and she clenched Shuer's big hand tightly, the sudden accident did not knock down the strong girl, but it also scared her a lot, "Is this a special welcome ceremony?"
It was intermittent, but at least the girl could still speak the whole word, and by the next moment, her voice had turned into a mournful scream, because in the tentacles, she saw something else.
Eyeballs, of course.
A huge eyeball like an exiled spaceship, appearing from the densest position of the tentacles, like a face lying on the edge of the darkness, is peering inside, the indescribable color of the pupil turned up and down left and right without obstacles, and finally condensed on the planet, although this eyeball appeared for a short time, but did not escape the observation of the captains, however, the captains would rather not observe themselves, so that they can comfort themselves for a while, so as not to face the fear of imagination immediately.
The first eyeballs appeared like a signal, followed by thousands of eyeballs that appeared densely at the edge of the darkness, and these eyeballs did not come close to the planet, but only looked inward at the farthest distance, observed for a moment, then disappeared, and soon appeared in another location on the edge of the darkness. Although they did not come close, nor did they have a substantial impact, this kind of voyeuristic observation was more stressful than their direct proximity.
"The primary weapon is fully loaded, and the secondary weapon is calibrated to the target. Delia's voice was almost crying, these scenes were still a little too exciting for the little girl, and it took her great perseverance to restrain herself from crying, "The ship's shield is on, the load is raised to medium, all the ships are ready to meet the enemy, under the protection of the Lord, we will have nothing to fear." ”
But I'm scared now, I'm already about to cry, okay? After giving the order in the Fleet Channel, Delia wiped her face vigorously and stammered, "Uncle Dada, these, these things, are they normal?"
"Of course not, these are obviously creatures, how can it be normal. ”
Delia suddenly felt that something was wrong, how could the uncle be calm, he wouldn't be such a person, if he was really in danger, the uncle would definitely not watch like watching the excitement, it wouldn't be ......
A very bad premonition suddenly rose in her heart, and the girl squinted at Shuer, and asked tentatively, "Uncle, what are these tentacles and eyes doing?"
"Navigation, plus drive. ”
"Huh?"
"Ahem, no, I mean, how do I know what they're doing. Shuer coughed dryly, and said with a wandering gaze, "I don't know them, hahaha." ”
"Uncle!" Delia's teeth creaked and rubbed, she suddenly understood what the other girl always said about 'bite my brother hard', the girl punched hard next to the console, gritted her teeth and announced, "All spaceships, cancel the order to meet the enemy, the defense command remains unchanged, the shield load is raised to the high, the combat shuttle stops taking off, maintain maximum restraint, and wait and see how the situation changes." ”
After saying all this, Delia fell into her chair as if she had lost her strength, glaring at Shuer viciously: "What the hell is going on?"
"Boom", the spacecraft suddenly sent a faint vibration, the first tentacle finally reached the ground, the tentacle obviously bypassed the docked spacecraft, directly contacted the ground, and deliberately reduced the force when contacting, but even if the spacecraft's own shock absorption system was used as a buffer, you can still feel the tremor on the surface, which shows how huge the power carried by the tentacles is.
As more and more tentacles climbed up the planet, the suction cups on the tentacles firmly attached to the ground, and the tentacles immediately tightened like a bowstring, although the volume of the planet was huge, but under the powerful power of the tentacles, it was still dragged to start moving, slowly accelerating in the rift space, and the speed became faster and faster.
"They were the first immigrants from the Rift, who had lived under the protection of Lord Anika for thousands of years, and this time they came to help. Shuer suddenly withdrew his smile and said solemnly, "How is it, were you scared just now?"
"Hmm. ”
"It's right to be afraid, but no matter how scared you are, you have to learn to get used to it slowly. ”
"Get used to them?"
"No, it's easy to get used to them, just see them a few times, anyway, you can be considered neighbors in the future, and there are many opportunities to meet. Shul shook his head, "Get used to facing external things in isolation and the unknown, get used to threats from outside the world that may come at any time, restrain your inner fears, and most importantly, get used to how to go beyond your own comprehension of abnormal situations, and learn to calmly face those things and phenomena that you can't understand, for example, there." ”