Hot and humid, smelly, dark, this is the most intuitive feeling in the "pothole".

The resurrected prosthetic "miner" is different from the surrounding corpses, and his purpose is to detect the secrets of the "pit".

He wanted to know if the planet's underground was the egg of some kind of creature, as the "foreman of the dead" put it.

The pit is filled with a thick poisonous gas, and normal life must wear heavy protective clothing to work here, which is undoubtedly an unnecessary expense for the company, and it is no wonder that all the corpses working in such a place are corpses.

But Rao is like this, the corpse exposed to such a concentration of poisonous gas will also decompose quickly, and the muscle tissue will fall off in a large area, and it will not last long.

However, this poisonous gas has no effect on the "miner" who has been transformed into a prosthetic life, and his skin only looks like skin, which is actually a super material that should be classified as "military protection grade" in terms of physical and chemical properties.

And all his life activities are carried out in the body, and there is zero interaction with the outside world, and there is no need to worry about the problem of poisonous gas entering the body.

In fact, his body is already a mechanical creation except for the brain, if it weren't for Li Wenyuan's fear that even replacing the brain and directly making him a complete "mechanical life" would make him cognitively impaired, otherwise the current "miner" should already be a "synthetic person", not a prosthetic person.

The poison gas and darkness had no effect on the "miner", and with the help of the mechanical eye, the inside of the pit was equivalent to daylight, and he followed the corpses all the way, probing the inside.

He found that the inner walls of the crater itself were very smooth, presumably the result of mechanical cutting, and that the deeper he went, the higher the temperature and concentration of the poison gas, and reached the end of the journey of about ten kilometers.

From here on, it was no longer a straight road for travel, but a pitch-black cliff at an angle of almost ninety degrees to the road, and even with his eyes could not see the bottom.

And this distance made him slightly puzzled, because although this distance is not short, it is still too shallow for the average crustal thickness of more than 30 kilometers on the planet itself, not to mention the mantle layer that is thousands of kilometers wide.

But this seems to be the end of the corpse's journey, carrying "garbage" more than ten times the weight of their bodies, and then throwing it off the cliff and mechanically turning away.

In this process, some of the corpses whose muscles are about to rot will not be able to support the action of throwing away, and they will fall into the abyss together with their bodies while approaching the cliff.

This scene disgusted the "miners" from the bottom of their hearts.

He had realized that this was originally his end, and not only him, but everyone around him could have ended like this.

"Can't we have peace even if we die? We have worked for the company for the whole of our lives before we are alive, and we will work for the rest of our lives after we die, and even the ownership of the corpse is not ours, what do we have? ”

During his time in the muddy life, he never thought about these issues, and the heavy life made him not have the leisure to think at all, and what he repeated every day was to calculate how to live.

The company actually gave them a certain level of education, especially the "spirit of contract", emphasizing that their ancestors owed the company about five million years of debt, and calculated in detail how many hours each person had to work each day and how many hours they had to work after death to be able to pay off that debt in many generations.

And if someone fails to work a full working hour while they are alive, it will be considered a "breach of contract", and the debt will be increased by one degree.

So all of them worked hard, keeping a close eye on the health of each of their companions, and if necessary, even pooling money to extend the lives of those who did not work for a long time, as the "miners" themselves did.

Originally, he took it for granted, because they had a debt, so they should pay it, and it was a matter of course.

But after living with the "assimilation fighters" for some time, the "miners" knew that this was nothing more than a means by which the corporations squeezed them.

Everything they know is based on the business, but after seeing the real world, he realizes that what they think is just what the company wants them to think.

Eventually, he returned, and he felt that there must be people in this closed tower who longed for the stars as much as he did.

So looking at the bottomless cliff, he jumped down without hesitation.

The wind whistled in his ears, the temperature around him increased as the distance dropped, and the core of the planet seemed to be heating the rocks, but the "miner" felt that something was wrong.

It's not because the temperature is too high, it's because the temperature is too low.

The interior of the planets generates a lot of heat due to the compression of gravity and the decay of radioactive elements, and the core of some planets is even hotter than the surface of the star.

He had descended to this distance, which should have reached a temperature high enough to form lava, but the rocks were still solid, even before their melting point.

"It's like something has sucked all that heat away......" He thought of the terrifying life that seemed to be hidden underground, as the "Foreman of the Dead" had spoken, and immediately refreshed his spirits, intently checking the parameters, and soon spotting the anomaly.

That's the poisonous gas that pervades the place, and it doesn't seem to be produced by the planet itself.

The molecular chain of this toxic gas is extremely complex, which also creates its difficult properties to deal with, at first glance it is "synthetic", as for whether it is "synthetic" or produced by some kind of organism......

The "miner" felt that he should have found the answer.

The descent was hampered, and a sea of putrid bodies and garbage was the focal point below the cliffs.

Bodies and garbage were constantly falling from above, mixing with the rancid sea.

At this time, the miner had turned on the anti-gravity system in his body, allowing him to levitate above this ocean, and bursts of poisonous gases spilled out of the ocean, which seemed to be the poisonous gas evolved from this rancid ocean.

However, the scanning equipment in the "miner's" body had detected the reaction of a large lifeform through the layers of accumulation.

Only a small corner of the life could be detected from his location, and the probe wave could not penetrate further due to what appeared to be some kind of cuticle shell.

However, the "miner" confirmed that the other party was a source of high heat energy, and not only that, but it also seemed to violate the laws of thermodynamics by maintaining a temperature much higher than the surrounding matter to absorb energy from the outside world.

It is clear that the abnormally low temperature in the depths of the mantle is caused by this life, and the heat of the Earth's core seems to be being absorbed by it, and the rancid ocean floating on its shell is just an addition to it, or that this life only needs some kind of substance in this ocean.

It is the energy of the planet itself that gives it life.

"Boom-"

Suddenly, the "miner" seemed to hear a dull heartbeat from deep underground, which made his mechanical core beat with it.

The creature was still alive, but it was still in a deep sleep of "gestation", and it would be a long time before a second heartbeat could be heard.

But that was enough to keep him out of here, and he was now sure that the "Foreman of the Dead" was telling the truth.

The "minion" Cosmos Enterprise is indeed raising some kind of giant life hidden in the core of the planet, and he needs to pass the news back with the relevant information.

But before leaving, he looked around at the sea of decay, corpses and garbage rising and sinking with the bubbles, especially the "Posthumous Reemployment Center" sign, which was particularly eye-catching.

After thinking about where the place was, the Miner activated his anti-gravity system and continued to fly upward, leaving only a bubbling sea of rancid waters and the sound of a heartbeat that had only resounded after a long time.

…… Not long after, Li Wenyuan, who was still in the "Vortex Galaxy Alpha", received a message from the "Assimilation Fighter".

One of their infiltrators has confirmed the existence of an "anti-thermodynamic life" that is fed by the "minor" corporation mentioned in the previous message.

Although it is not ruled out that the scanning equipment is faulty, the "assimilation fighter" has decided to name it "anti-thermodynamic life" after thinking twice.

For the eggs of this life, with their current means of observation, do not naturally obey the second law of thermodynamics.

To be precise, it is the life that does not spontaneously transfer energy to the outside, and in the "egg" state, the surrounding heat will continue to transfer to the hotter "egg", but the "egg" itself will not transfer heat to the cooler outside world.

At first, they thought it was a mistake, but after more field visits, they finally confirmed that the "egg" was not actively absorbing heat, and that it was indeed the surrounding heat that was actively transferring to the egg.

It is as if it is an inverse object, which is obviously very hot, but in the thermal system it is the "low" one, which causes the heat to be transferred spontaneously to them.

Theoretically, the body temperature of such a life can reach infinity.

This magical creature naturally attracted Li Wenyuan's attention, and even the construction of the "Pillar of Creation" at hand slowed down a little.

As he pondered what was going on, the queen of Presolin found him and made him understand what kind of creature it was.

“…… Hello, Dear 'Guardian'...... We were uneasy...... Because we felt the breath of the hunters who used to ......"

"Stalker?" Li Wenyuan immediately remembered the experience of "Presolin", a group of refugees from outer space who were hunted down by a civilization they called "hunters".

At the same time, he also linked it to recent events.

"Could it be that the 'servant' Universal Enterprise is loyal to the 'Hunter'? That horrible civilization refers to 'hunters'? ”

So he directly informed "Presolin" of the discovery of the "Assimilation Fighter", which made the queen of the former insect plague show a humanized expression of fear.

"Yes, yes...... It is the 'Void Egg', and inside it will give birth to a Void Beast, the Void Breeder, who are the 'Hounds' of the Hunter'......"

(End of chapter)