With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 459: The Scorpion Caught
"…The blockade has been successful."

As Yi's electronic synthesized voice continued to sound in the cockpit, the last main route for transporting activated dark matter was cut off.

The remaining sporadic black light inside the scorpion eggs began to dissipate from the base area, spreading all the way up to the top of the hatching tower at a speed visible to the naked eye - compared to the inferior scorpion eggs on the top floor, the scorpion eggs closer to the base consumed more energy, and accordingly, after losing external supplies, they fell into a state of growth stagnation earlier.

The originally bright light stone gradually dimmed, and the incubation tower, which was filled with black light and white light, completely fell into deep darkness under Chen Fan's gaze.

"okay."

Looking at the rapidly shrinking scorpion eggs in the holographic interface, Chen Fan, who was sitting in the main driver's seat, subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and the stone hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground.

Gao Yuan's voice came from the passenger seat at the back, with a hint of relief: "Brother Fan, this way, there shouldn't be any messy things going on..."

Boom! ! !

Before he finished speaking, a violent tremor came from the deck beneath his feet without warning!

The starship hanging in the air seemed to be affected by something and began to shake violently!
Do not!
Not only the starship, but the entire hatchery tower was shaking! !
The main energy transmission channel on the pedestal was constantly vibrating, and even the spiral pillars suspended in the air supported by the anti-gravity field began to tremble! !
Chen Fan's hands were bulging with veins, and he tightly grasped the armrests on both sides of the driver's seat, trying to steady himself.

"one!!"

"what happens?!"

Almost at the same time, a bright red warning message suddenly popped up on the holographic interface on the main console.

"warn!"

A rapid electronic synthesized voice echoed in the cockpit: "Abnormal disturbances in the surrounding anti-gravity field have been detected!"

"Disorder range: All hatching towers!!"

"The output power of the Grand Unified Field is increasing, and the ship is stabilizing..."

As Yi's voice sounded, the originally trembling investigator starship gradually returned to calm - the grand unified field quickly blocked the influence of the anti-gravity field on the starship.

But it is limited to the investigator starship itself.

Looking at the hatchery tower outside the porthole that had not stopped shaking, Chen Fan turned his head with an unpleasant expression and glared at Gao Yuan behind him - if he remembered correctly, Gao Yuan had just set up a flag before the accident happened.

"..." Facing Chen Fan's gaze, Gao Yuan lowered his head with a guilty conscience, "Brother Fan, I said this is a coincidence... Do you believe it?"

Chen Fan sighed helplessly and turned his attention back to the activated dark matter transport pipeline that was still vibrating violently outside the porthole: "Yi, have you found the cause?"

"No other abnormalities have been found so far." Yi's voice sounded again, "Preliminary judgment is that it is very likely that the main pipeline of activated dark matter has been completely blocked, causing the internal circuit to enter a slight overload state."

Is it really just regular overload?

Chen Fan pursed his lips and didn't speak for a while - just now, at the moment when the change happened, he suddenly felt a strong sense of palpitations.

just like……

There was some creature watching him in the darkness!

Chen Fan shook his head and put aside his suspicious thoughts: "If it is overloaded, is it dangerous?"

"This machine has been tested many times in simulations, and the strength of these external pipelines is enough to withstand the impact of activated dark matter." Yi gave the answer, "Theoretically, the strength of the internal lines of the incubation tower cannot be weaker than the external pipelines."

"Please trust the judgment of this machine. Everything is under control."

Have everything under control?
Hearing the confident electronic synthesized voice, Chen Fan felt his right eyelid twitch slightly, and an indescribable bad premonition rose from the bottom of his heart.

"This doesn't sound very auspicious..."

as predicted.

Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone. Before Chen Fan’s murmur had even finished, several bloody warning messages popped up on the holographic interface above the main console.

[Warning! Abnormal fluctuations in the anti-gravity field are intensifying! ]

【Warning! An unknown object is detected approaching! 】

【…】

at the same time.

A dark purple shadow as big as a starship flashed past the porthole and fell straight towards the base below!
"One?!" Chen Fan tensed up instantly when he caught sight of the shadow. "What is that?!"

Under the capture of the ultra-high precision detector, the fleeting dark purple shadow naturally had nowhere to hide.

Almost at the same time when Chen Fan shouted, the true appearance of the dark purple shadow appeared in the holographic interface——

It was a scorpion egg.

To be precise, it is an extra-large scorpion egg that is almost the size of a starship.

This is not the point!

The point is, this super-large scorpion egg that fell from some unknown horn did not dry up due to the interruption of external energy supply! !

On the contrary, the dark purple film on its surface is very full, and even has a bit of toughness and elasticity!!

suddenly!

In the slow-motion footage, four eyeballs that were about the size of a starship's portholes suddenly appeared behind the dark purple film!
In the close-up shot, these four eyeballs that suddenly appeared naturally brought great shock to everyone.

Chen Fan, who was forced to have a "deep eye contact" with the giant scorpion larva, could not help but let out a cry of surprise.

“…F*ck!!”

After the initial shock, Chen Fan quickly came to his senses: "This thing is still alive?!"

Yes, although there was a dark purple translucent film between them, and although the image of the four scorpion eyes was fleeting, Chen Fan, who was looking at them, could still see the viciousness hidden in those four scorpion eyes.

"...At least it's not completely dead yet." Hong Shi beside him confirmed Chen Fan's words. Chen Fan looked at the hatching tower space outside the porthole with a gloomy face, trying to find the existence of the insect egg in the dark environment.

It is clear.

He failed.

In the vast darkness, trying to find a dark purple insect egg is like looking for a needle in a haystack!

"How could this happen..." Isa shook her head, her tone full of confusion, "There is clearly no external energy supply, how could this insect egg survive by chance?"

As she spoke, she slightly raised her head and looked at the spiral pillar closest to the starship - this main road had been cut off for only a few minutes, and the shells of those super-large scorpion eggs had begun to wither irreversibly.

"Perhaps this scorpion egg is more mature than the other scorpion eggs. Or perhaps..."

Hongshi hesitated and expressed his guess: "This scorpion egg robbed the other scorpion eggs of their energy."

"I've seen similar things before, and the juveniles of some species do have this ability."

[The surrounding anti-gravity field has returned to normal.] The shipboard mainframe's prompt suddenly sounded, [The abnormal vibration has stopped.]

"In any case, the larva inside the scorpion egg has not completely died. Until now, it still retains a considerable degree of vitality!"

Chen Fan quickly glanced at the parameters in the holographic interface that had returned to normal levels, then turned around and gave Yi an order.

"one!"

"Release the drone swarm and find that scorpion egg for me!!!"

As the order was given, the image of the four vicious scorpion eyes reappeared in Chen Fan's mind, and the bad premonition he had before became stronger.

"Damn..."

He clenched his right hand into a fist and cursed under his breath.

……

hum... hum... hum...

In the dark space of the incubation tower, the buzzing sound of drone swarms rose and fell.

These spherical drones created by strong interaction forces shuttled back and forth in this dark space unscrupulously, trying to find the lost scorpion egg.

Time passes bit by bit.

The atmosphere in the starship cockpit gradually became solemn.

suddenly.

A prompt popped up on the azure holographic interface, and Yi's electronic synthesized voice also sounded in the cockpit: "Good news, the detection drone successfully found traces of scorpion eggs."

Chen Fan breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense body relaxed: "I'm glad you found it."

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked again: "Where did the scorpion egg go?"

"Listen to what this machine has to say first." Yi's voice was somewhat serious, and the relaxed atmosphere in the cockpit became solemn again. "The bad news is that the detection drone only found scorpion eggs."

"…What do you mean?" Chen Fan frowned, and his previous bad premonition suddenly became stronger.

"literal meaning."

Yi quickly called up a holographic interface. In the image, a huge scorpion egg lay quietly on a dark purple pedestal.

Under the light of a high-power searchlight, dense cracks appeared on the surface of the scorpion eggs, and there was a huge gap right in front of the eggshell.

A large amount of light green liquid was flowing on the base.

Needless to say, the liquid is flowing out from the gap right in front of the eggshell.

At first glance, it looked like a scorpion egg that had been broken by a strong impact.

That's it.

But as the detection drone's camera moved, Chen Fan quickly realized a rather serious and terrifying problem.

"Wait...where are the giant scorpion larvae?!"

Not bad.

In the footage taken by the detection drone, the dead bodies of the larvae were not seen!!
"The scorpion eggs were in this state when the drone arrived."

Yi responded quickly: "This unit has deployed all detection drones to the area near the scorpion eggs, but so far, I have not found any signs of giant scorpion larvae."

"Damn!!"

Chen Fan clenched his fists and hammered hard on the armrest of the driver's seat.

The bad premonition I had had earlier finally came true - the giant scorpion larva not only did not die, but also took this opportunity to break free from the scorpion eggs! !
Thinking of the possible abilities of this hundred-meter-long giant scorpion, Chen Fan suddenly felt his eyebrows twitching.

If it was really as he thought before, let alone the scorpion group that was about to arrive at the Land of Creation, this one larva alone could lift him and the research ship up and beat them!

——They currently don’t have any effective means of information attack!

"try to find!!!"

"One!" He gave the order in a stern voice, "Send more drones from Academician Wang!"

"Even if we have to tear down the entire hatching tower, we must find that larva today!!"

"If I'm alive, I want to see the scorpion. If I'm dead, I want to see the corpse!!"

ps: I am still writing the second chapter QAQ
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