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Chapter 450 Abnormal Insect Eggs
ten minutes later.

Under the control of the onboard mainframe, the sleek investigator starship crossed a graceful angle in the empty starry sky and hovered precisely at the top of the inverted spire - according to previous scanning and modeling data, there was a relatively small circular "entrance and exit" at the top of the incubation tower.

Compared to the entire inverted tower, this entrance and exit with a diameter of less than one kilometer appears very small, just like a small air vent.

But even so, it is enough to serve as the entrance for Chen Fan and others to enter the incubation tower.

Even an investigator starship that is only a hundred meters in size can enter it very smoothly!

"hiss……"

Inside the investigator starship, looking at the deep cavity outside the porthole that looked like a crater, Chen Fan couldn't help but take a breath.

If he had a choice, he would rather face a black hole of the same size than run to this unknown insect nest!
"The starship is ready to enter the hatchery tower."

In the co-pilot seat, Hongshi, who was wearing a mechanical exoskeleton armor, reported in a very calm voice: "Start to lower the altitude now."

Unlike Chen Fan and others, Hongshi, who was originally a "stone", did not have any strange emotions towards the insect nest in front of him.

As the starship slowly lowered its altitude, the deep hole gradually expanded until it occupied the entire porthole.

After the red starlight was squeezed out of the field of vision, the seemingly dark insect nest showed more details - as the black light emitted by the activated dark matter surged layer by layer in the energy transmission path, dots of bright white light flickered rhythmically in the deepest part of the cavity.

"Is that... a light stone?"

Chen Fan narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the scene outside the porthole.

“It does look a bit like that.”

Sitting in the co-pilot seat, Hongshi skillfully pressed a few virtual buttons on the console, and the holographic interface in front of him suddenly showed an image from six thousand kilometers away - the height of the entire incubation tower was a full six thousand kilometers, even far exceeding the radius of Xinalo's mother planet.

In the picture, rows of long strips of light stones are laid flat on the "bottom" of the incubation tower, forming huge circular spots of light.

As the activated dark matter surged, some of the circular spots of light began to flicker - these were the sporadic spots of light that Chen Fan had just seen.

"How luxurious..." Chen Fan sighed subconsciously, "I guess the light stone reserves of the entire Xinaluo civilization are not as good as this light spot."

As he spoke, a hint of relief appeared in his eyes: "It seems that we are lucky. These giant scorpions do not regard the light stones as ordinary food."

Hongshi nodded slightly in agreement.

Before she could say anything, there was a slight vibration on the deck beneath her feet.

Almost at the same time, a bright red warning signal popped up on the azure holographic interface above the main console.

【warn! 】

[A high-intensity grand unified field has been detected. Continuing to descend in altitude may have a slight impact on the starship's shield system! ]

Chen Fan quickly glanced out the porthole.

While the two were talking, the investigator starship had completely entered the incubation tower.

"Anti-gravity field." Chen Fan quickly checked the parameters in front of him and gave a conclusion, "There is also such a force field in the high-dimensional information receiving tower of [Su Zheng], but it is not as strong as this one."

"As for the function, it should be to facilitate the transportation of insect eggs..."

As soon as the words fell, a faint black light flashed outside the porthole, illuminating a large number of narrow, round, granular outlines.

Chen Fan's voice paused and the expression on his face became stiff.

If he guessed correctly...the starship should have been trapped in the insect eggs by now!
"Mastermind, turn on the ship's searchlight."

Before Chen Fan could prepare himself mentally, Hongshi on the side had already spoken out and given orders.

Swish!
Dazzling incandescent light projected from the side of the ship, illuminating the surrounding environment as bright as day.

"...fuck!"

Looking at the huge insect eggs leaping out of the porthole, Chen Fan suddenly got goose bumps: "Hey, Hongshi, before turning on the light, you should at least give people some time to prepare mentally..."

Faced with Chen Fan's complaints, Hongshi showed no sign of repentance.

She looked at the insect eggs squirming outside the porthole with great interest, and murmured in a low voice: "It seems that these insect eggs are about to mature..."

Chen Fan's heart moved.

Mature?

Damn it? ?
If so many eggs were to hatch at the same time...

He didn't even dare to think about that scene!
Chen Fan took a deep breath, overcame his inner disgust, and looked at the insect eggs in front of him again.

The eggs have the same appearance as in the energy wave scan image. They are long and narrow ellipsoids as a whole. At first glance, they look like dark purple "grains of rice".

However, these "rice grains" that are more than two meters long will wriggle spontaneously - as a faint black light comes from the transmission channel, these insect eggs connected to the dark matter transmission pathway by a thin tube will quickly pupate a few times.

The surface of these eggs is covered with a dark purple film of varying degrees of transparency.

It is not difficult to judge that the transparency of this dark purple film symbolizes the maturity of the eggs. The more transparent the film is, the more mature the eggs are.

Looking around, more than 80% of the thin films among the layers of insect eggs in front of us are translucent.

With the help of the investigator starship's strong searchlight, Chen Fan could even clearly identify the general outline of the giant scorpion inside it.

But it is limited to the general outline, and the various detailed structures are definitely not clear.

Chen Fan's heart moved, and he directly called upon his high-dimensional perspective.

In the blink of an eye, the world in front of me quickly became vast!
Being experienced, he changed his observation angle very skillfully. The translucent dark purple film that originally blocked his vision disappeared instantly, and the scene inside the insect egg appeared in front of his eyes with incredible clarity.

The slender scorpion tail, the sturdy trunk and ventral foot, and the ferocious mouthparts...

All the characteristics clearly indicate one fact: the life bred inside these eggs is none other than those powerful giant star scorpions!
Maintaining a high-dimensional perspective is not an easy task, and Chen Fan does not want to suddenly fall into a coma during the investigation.

Therefore, after a brief look, he was ready to retract the high-dimensional perspective mastered by his consciousness.

Just as the vast high-dimensional world became flat again, a picture instantly came into his eyes.

"what?"

Chen Fan let out a sigh and couldn't help but frown and mutter to himself: "How could this happen..."

……

The top floor space of the conical incubation tower is not large. Just like the high-dimensional information receiving tower made by [Su Zheng], it can only accommodate one spiral column.

Under Redstone's control, the investigator starship flew silently around the spiral column in front of it.

After collecting the basic parameters of the eggs, Redstone prepared to control the investigator starship to continue to go deeper into the hatchery tower. After all, their primary task was to collect light stones and study giant scorpion eggs, which could only be regarded as a "side quest".

Although there are a large number of spiral columns in the incubation tower, the space inside is still much wider than expected, and the investigator starship can pass freely inside it.

When the investigator starship began to "sink", Redstone finally discovered something was wrong with Chen Fan.

——Since he saw the insect eggs, Chen Fan fell into silence. Until now, he still frowned, as if he was thinking about some important problem.

"Chen Fan?"

Hongshi glanced at Chen Fan and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you?"

"..."

Facing Hongshi's question, Chen Fan was silent for a moment, then shook his head hesitantly: "Nothing, I just feel... a little weird."

"strangeness?"

Hongshi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly reached out and pressed a few buttons on the console. The Investigator Starship, which had just begun to "sink", also stopped again: "Why do you say that?"

She followed Chen Fan's gaze and looked out the porthole, and saw an insect egg slowly wriggling in the black light: "Is there any problem with these insect eggs?"

Chen Fan hesitated for a moment and shook his head slowly: "There's nothing wrong with the eggs, but there's something wrong with the larvae inside."

He stared at the egg closest to the porthole and added in a low voice: "To be precise, there is something wrong with the body structure of these larvae."

"Body structure?" Hongshi looked at the translucent film and the larvae with only a vague outline, and suddenly realized, "Did you use a high-dimensional perspective just now?"

"good."

Chen Fan nodded again: "From a high-dimensional perspective, the bodies of these larvae are filled with a large amount of muscle tissue."

"Just like those hundred-meter-long giant scorpions we captured in the beginning."

"..." Hongshi tilted her head and looked at Chen Fan in confusion. After thinking for a long time, she shook her head, "I don't understand what you mean."

"What's wrong with this...?"

"This is a big problem!"

Chen Fan raised his voice slightly: "Such a large proportion of filling muscle means that the potential of these larvae is only a hundred-meter-class giant scorpion, at best a thousand-meter-class giant scorpion!"

"They don't have organs in their bodies that can control dimensions!"

Hongshi tilted his head again, the confusion in his eyes becoming more intense: "...So, what?"

"In the high-dimensional information receiving tower of [Suzheng], the intensity of the broadcast signal increases with the increase of the height of the tower, so the life forms at the top of the tower have a stronger ability to bear high-dimensional information."

Chen Fan took a deep breath, calmed down, and continued to explain: "If the high-dimensional information receiving tower and the incubation tower are the same thing, the incubation tower should also have similar properties."

Hongshi finally understood: "You mean, theoretically, the potential of the eggs at the top of the tower should be greater than the potential of the eggs at the bottom of the tower?"

"It does make sense..." Hongshi murmured in a low voice, "There is only so much space at the top of the tower. This situation is indeed a bit counterintuitive..."

Chen Fan nodded repeatedly: "If nothing else, the creatures cultivated in these insect eggs should at least not be giant scorpions of the lowest quality!"

(End of this chapter)