Returning from the abyss

Chapter 544 Earth Fire "Phantom Core"

What Yang Hao said is indeed important, at least there is some evidence in front of him.But Lu Ning knew that this was not the "fact" that Pang Xu said, because this kind of thing could be verified even if she didn't come here on purpose.

She climbed the rock and came to the door of fire.

"If it's a door, it should be connected somewhere."

Lu Ning's fingers slowly moved towards the center of the two fire pillars. The moment she passed between the flames, an invisible pulling force pulled her into the door, and the warm fire immediately surrounded Lu Ning. , she seemed to be in a ray of light, and countless scenes appeared in the light, there were beasts in the dense forest, there were farming civilizations that had just begun, there were modern cities, and there were rockets flying into space...

All this is not perceived by the eyes, but another special feeling, which makes her feel as if she is this planet.

In countless fantasies, some black creatures came from the universe. They were powerful, but just when the stars entered the barren period of life, these creatures built some residences on the ground and underground, and then they drove spaceships to the entire galaxy. A "transformation" was carried out to create a more suitable environment for the life of the star to flourish, and then the production of new life began here.

Brand-new species were born and gradually spread over the entire planet, but the powerful creatures were not satisfied. They were looking for something, and they were still digging, inventing, and trying to stimulate the potential of those creatures. The entire planet became their testing ground. , The fire of civilization that should have been ignited again after a reincarnation was wiped out.

The planet can't detect this, let alone feel sad, but in the haze, some experimental biological "waste" began to deposit in the ground, and the natural instinct began to decompose these, trying to get everything back on track, but some creatures can't satisfy those powerful creatures. However, they cannot die for a long time. Gradually, no one knows who has fused with whom. The evolutionary genes remaining in the cells can begin to recall the characteristics that once killed them, and in their own ability to survive New features began to be born.

During this period, the creatures were naturally aware of it, but gathered together in ecstasy, as if this was what they needed.

[Work begins. 】

I don't know where to get this signal, all the creatures on the planet felt the resonance and began to distort their own forms.Powerful creatures start to leave, but leaving doesn't change anything—"all creatures" on the planet, including them, of course.

"Humans from another nebula...open your eyes."

Lu Ning woke up from the incomparably immersed warm memories, and suddenly felt a rush of heat.If she could feel the heat, it meant that the ambient temperature had already reached a point where it could roast someone to death.

She stands on a cliff, behind a fire door, and below the cliff is a lava lake.Some life forms made of magma are walking by the lake, and each of them shows abnormally high energy in the detectors, so high that they can be identified as B-level based on energy alone.

In the lake, countless lava pillars formed a spherical net in the center. The size of the net was at least more than [-] meters in diameter. A skeleton like an earth dragon crouched in the net, with a skull attached to it. A ball brighter than a lake of lava.The magma is flowing out of the ball, and the sound that Lu Ning perceives is also transmitted from that direction.

"Here... sorry. Are you a 'Phantom Core'?"

Lu Ning turned off the detector of the crazy jump alarm. At this time, she was teleported directly to the base camp. It was impossible to fight, and any B-level below could solve her.

"Funny...the last human seems to have promised to dissuade other humans from coming again."

"He has done it, but he can't stay here forever to stop all future people."

"The rules of human beings are not the same as ours. It doesn't matter, we can learn something by being exposed to things we don't understand. So, what do you want?"

For a moment, Lu Ning couldn't figure out what to do with the phantom core, which seemed to make her wish.

"Uh... I just saw something."

"The memory from the depths of the leylines can trigger some biological instincts, but that's all. This planet has acquired some biological characteristics, but it hasn't become a living thing after all."

"Does this mean that the phantom star is alive to some extent?"

"You can say that." The phantom core raised a lava flow, forming a sunken figure on the lake, "but don't worry, it doesn't even have self-awareness, not even a single cell."

Lu Ning glanced sideways at the fire door behind her. After such a long time, no one else came out of the fire door.

"It's random."

Phantom Core said immediately.

"The lava gate is my extracorporeal neural network, which communicates and teleports through the earth veins for long-distance communication, but without my positioning, all teleportation is random."

Lu Ning instantly thought of the two near her outpost.

"You're filling this network with phantom stars... No, why haven't you filled it with phantom stars after so long?"

"Long...?" The phantom core questioned.

Lu Ning was speechless.

"Occasionally, some of the children responsible for extending my tentacles die, but they will soon return to the fire and be conceived again. It is not difficult."

The indentation on the lake slowly melts into the lava and disappears.

"Maybe it's been a long time for you? I don't quite understand your time. Because the last person just promised me that I wouldn't let people in, you came here. I thought he had broken his promise."

This "just now" is at least 15 years ago, and may even be farther back.

There is no point in arguing about these things here, so Lu Ning tentatively asked: "Then can you tell me what the last person talked to you about?"

"He talked a lot and was very sincere. What's important? He wanted treatment, but I didn't know how to do it, so he quickly accepted it and proposed another way, isolation."

Pang Xu took the initiative to cut off?
Lu Ning silently memorized this information, and continued to ask: "What does he want to treat?"

"The difference in naming makes our understanding different. He called it...Phantom Star Syndrome, that's the name. There is no doubt that it is a very dangerous thing for them, but I don't understand it, so I can't treat him. "

Why does it sound like the conversation between the two sides is quite friendly?Although the current performance of the phantom core is relatively easy to talk about, Lu Ning doesn't really feel that there is no danger.

"According to the information he left behind, if we insist on coming here, he and you will become our enemies. But according to my observation, even if I came here, you did not show any hostility."

"I... don't need it." The phantom core began to draw magma again, "You didn't show any harm."

She killed a group of door openers and doorkeepers outside, is this still harmless?It seems that the thinking of this group of A-level Eudemons is too different from that of humans.

"That human did tell me that in order to prevent more children from being killed, he would do his best to wipe out the alien life that penetrated here. He said a lot of powerful things, which sounded very reasonable, so I agreed... also Just by agreeing, he seemed to really think that I understood."

Lu Ning secretly sighed, maybe this is the legendary idiot's high IQ.

The phantom core can indeed communicate with humans, and can also understand the meaning of some words, but the gap between the thinking of A-level phantom beasts and humans is too great. Pang Xu used human negotiation methods to persuade the other party to get such an unreliable Commitment, more probably just wishful thinking.

"Then may I ask if he talked about the phantom star syndrome?"

"He called it a human body mutation caused by a series of phantom star reactions. As for the more detailed description, I don't remember it. But I don't understand what he said. Is it his own change? Is he entering the phantom star Is it a natural cycle? I don't know what he's nervous about."

This sentence made Lu Ning suddenly realize that the phantom core seems to be able to carry out some kind of spying.

"So is there a similar change in my body?" She asked directly.

"Of course, all creatures on the phantom star have this kind of talent. This is the source of our survival and evolution. You should be happy about it, shouldn't you?" The phantom core replied naturally.

"This kind of talent? Can you explain it to me a little bit? We don't understand it at all."

After Lu Ning said this, Huanhe was a little surprised.

"Your mood is very stable."

"Any questions?"

"The last person was very smart, and the calmness brought by his wisdom allowed him to talk to me in an orderly manner, but I could see the fear and tension in his heart. This emotion can be suppressed but it doesn't mean it disappears. And even if you just I didn't have much emotional fluctuation when I heard the news, at most I was...surprised?"

Can there be more?As long as she can go back to the distribution center, she will definitely be able to heal herself. If she can't go back, she must have died here. Lu Ning doesn't have to worry about the subsequent impact of this disease on her.

"Maybe my psychological quality is better, shouldn't this be a bad thing?"

"No, you will become stronger." The voice of the phantom core brought a smile, and then said, "What talent did you ask just now? It's very simple. It is the ability of every creature to adapt to the environment. They are all available at the earliest. Even if there are outsiders, we can obtain corresponding changes through rapid learning, and the creatures will enter the information they carry into every contact of the same kind through natural backflow."

"Are you too?"

"We can already control ourselves, we don't need to deliberately contact nature. Of course, I have more responsibilities, and regulating this valley is one of them... Everyone doesn't need to be the same, everyone just needs to maintain their own state."

"How many other beings as powerful as you are on this planet?"

"There will be some children around us who don't want to leave. They evolve themselves by absorbing the life flow of nature. I know a lot more, but it's a pity that everyone doesn't like to talk. What you can't see, the characteristics we have acquired Far more than you think."

For a moment, Lu Ning thought of the specimens in the Ranger building, as well as the observers who died later. The outsiders and the technology they carried probably have become the food for natural evolution here. A large number of monsters may be bred in it.

"I'll try to be as polite as possible to everyone."

"Etiquette means nothing to us. Whether you respect us or not will not change our opinion." After the lake gradually calmed down, Magic Core began to draw the third picture, "Do you have any requirements? Like the last human being ?”

"No, convincing you is a waste of time." Lu Ning shook her head, "Finally, I want to ask, how did that person leave in the end? Where did he go?"

"Are you worried about how you will go back? Turn around and enter the fire gate, and I can send you back to the place you came from. As for that person, he only said that he will go to a place isolated from the world."

"That's enough to know, thank you."

Lu Ning looked at the gradually calming lake surface, turned around and stretched out her hand towards the fire door again.

"Ah, there are a lot of humans here." She heard the voice of the phantom core, and felt the pulling force of the door at the same time.

The speed of being sent away directly by the phantom core was faster. Lu Ning didn't have time to hallucinate this time, and returned to the outside with the gray-black sky. When she suddenly appeared, several people outside immediately stood up and raised their weapons to point.

"Don't try to murder the captain... Oh, Baihu, you stayed here too?" Lu Ning looked at the remaining five people, bayonet, spider silk, empty valley, clarinet and Baihu.

"The captain is afraid that I will be sent to some poison gas area to die suddenly." Baihu sat down again with a straight face, and the rest gathered together.

"Captain, everyone went in to look for you, but now there is no news!" Bayonet said anxiously.

"They should have all gone underground. The shallow layer may be okay, but it is dangerous to enter the deep layer. It is useless for us to wait here, and we can't continue to go through the fire door. Find a cave and send an authentication signal to them. Just come back."

Lu Ning raised her arm and turned on the team identity verification. There was no message on the signal feedback, indicating that she was not around.

"Can we still walk? We definitely won't go deep, and we have to avoid those powerful phantom beasts. If we can't keep up, we can rest here. There will probably be no phantom beasts coming."

None of these people will be left behind.

"Okay, then pack up your gear and let's go."

Lu Ning turned on the helmet's detector again, cut out a display screen, and pasted three pictures on it.

Is the picture drawn by the phantom core with magma while speaking, is it a deliberate act?And is the content in the picture meaningful?They look very chaotic, but if you look at it from another angle, maybe they are such chaotic things.

There is no feeling of forming any graphics, which means that the lines are not used to compose the picture. Thinking about it this way, these pictures are more like maps.

"I hope so." Lu Ning said in a low voice.

At this time, under the cover of the gray sky, Lu Ning did not know that there were more than a dozen flames of spaceships launching around the phantom star. The team has already set off, heading for several other planets in the galaxy.

(End of this chapter)