Chapter 508 Underground Space

The shaking of the ship became more and more violent. On the second floor deck, Zhou Ai and Roy held on to the railing tightly to stabilize their bodies. Their facial expressions could not be seen under the mask, but it was not very good-looking.

This place is nothing compared to the ocean of habitable planets. If you drop it into the water and fish it up again, you might lose even the bones.

Looking at the approaching storm surge, Tang Fang sighed, and muttered to himself, "Are you really going to return without success?"

Storm surges are nothing in its eyes. No matter how corrosive the acid rain is, no matter how powerful the lightning strikes are, and no matter how high the waves are, as long as they hide in the Protoss transport plane, they will be safe. The key is that the storm surge does not know when it will retreat. According to Ma's analysis of satellite cloud images, the nearby sea abyss is also within the scope of the storm, and it is difficult to subside within 3 to 5 hours.

If you drive a landing craft to the other hemisphere, not to mention wasting time, there might be no results.

"Commander... the results of the puppies' and cockroach's injuries and acid water sampling and analysis came out, which is very strange."

Emma seldom used such comments as "very strange", which shows that the system's analysis of acid water must be very different from the official report of the Star Alliance.

He called Zhou Ai and Roy to come down and drive the boat, leave the sea area, and then sit back in the cockpit, sinking his consciousness into the system space: "What do you mean, be more specific."

Emma sent data such as the pH value of different sea depths, the proportion of seawater components, and comprehensive water pressure to the digital display system of the harsh environment protective clothing, and then explained the specific meaning of "very strange": "The composition of acidic substances in seawater is related to the The organic acid gas in the strong acid vapor region of Navi star is very similar, except that the former is dissolved in water, while the latter is attached to the ground."

Tang Fang knew where the strong acid vapor from Star Nami came from. It wasn't the chemical reaction deep in the earth's crust that Monya officially introduced, but the evil eye, an epic creature. To put it bluntly. They are the excrement of the evil eye.

The acidic substance in the green ocean of "Akron" is similar to that of Nami star. Does that mean that this planet also has evil eyes?

According to Valentine's research results, aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish feed on free zero elements in the ocean. It has nothing to do with acidic substances, and then compare the “Akron” green ocean-related data reports officially provided by the Star Alliance over the years. It can be concluded that the concentration of acidic substances in seawater is increasing year by year, which shows that something must continue to inject a mixture of zero elements and acidic substances into the seawater.

A small amount of zero element is the food of aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish body. Acidic substances are the basis for the formation of a strong acid ocean. Xieyan feeds on zero element. In addition to organic acids, there must be a trace amount of zero element residue in excrement, and " "Akron" is another planet with relatively rich zero element reserves.

In view of the above situation,

There is a high probability that the "Evil Eye" is hidden in the depths of the "Akron" sea abyss, or in the strata.

Tang Fang decided to go to the bottom of the sea to have a look. But the biggest problem encountered is how to resist the corrosive effect of sea water and the strong water pressure. Even if the Immortal and the Protoss transport plane can dive into the seabed tens of thousands of meters, how can he enter the ground? Is it possible to find a shallower place and use cockroaches to dig a tunnel? That would turn into a protracted project.

What he lacks most now is time, which he cannot afford to spend here.

"If the acidic substances in seawater are the same as the acidic substances in Nami Star, they are all organic acid structures, wouldn't that mean..."

A pair of high-power turbines stretched out from both sides of the third deck of the landing ship, emitting a low buzzing sound, and the sea water directly below was like a bulging sheet under a strong wind, splashing violently towards the surroundings.

The landing craft lifts off slowly under the effect of the lift force of the airflow. At a height of several meters, the flames of the engine at the rear exploded, pulling out two fast-dissipating smoke trails behind. Gone in the blink of an eye.

The dark clouds were still gloomy, the thunder was rolling, and the sea area where the landing ship was originally located was quickly engulfed by the storm surge a few minutes later.

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Half an hour later, the landing ship came to the "Akron" over a deep abyss with a water depth of 32,000 meters in the northern hemisphere, and slowly landed on the sea.

This place is different from the previous stop. It is a calm sea area selected by Emma after analyzing the satellite cloud images. In the next 48 hours, the sea area will remain calm and the weather will be clear.

This abyss with a depth of 32,000 meters is not the deepest abyss in "Akron", but it is based on the official monitoring data reports of the Star Alliance over the years. This is one of the areas where the concentration of acidic substances fluctuates most violently, and it is very likely that there are excretion pipes of the "evil eye" on the seabed.

After the landing ship stopped. Tang Fang didn't immediately release the Immortal to explore the bottom, but went to the rear deck with a crane on the first floor. After releasing a worm, he gave a somewhat uncivilized order to the big guy who looked blankly and sighed.

The queen walked to the edge of the deck with six slender legs, protruded her butt out of the deck, and with a plop, ejected a pile of creep tumors into the sea.

Roy, who was watching the wind on the second deck, quickly covered his eyes. Zhou Ai curiously asked him why he did this. He said that the monster was called the "Queen of Worms". This kid is always bullied by Bai Hao, and his pedantic energy is just like Valentine's.

Tang Fang didn't notice the conversation between the two on the second deck. He grabbed the stern rail and leaned over to look at the sea.

The weight of the creep tumor exceeds the buoyancy of the sea surface, and it sinks immediately after falling into the water. Since the acidic water is light green, it is difficult to observe the underwater changes.

After waiting patiently for more than ten seconds, there was movement under the water. The flat sea surface was gradually surging, and a red tide appeared on the original green water surface, which spread rapidly towards the distance. Suddenly, a creep island with a diameter of nearly 100 meters emerged, trembling slightly with the undulation of the sea water.

Zhou Ai and Roy stayed where they were, staring straight at the red-brown island, not knowing what to say, or to admire, or to complain about.

They didn't experience the Battle of Namistar, so they didn't know that creep tumors could "ferment" organic tissue into a colony environment that swarms of insects depended on for survival. Their idea was simple, can a lump of "shit" evolve into a floating island? Or in such an acidic ocean as "Akron", how is this possible!

Tang Fang didn't have time to explain to the two, the scene on the sea gave him great encouragement.

A group of creep tumors can expand a floating island of nearly 100 meters, so what about 100 groups of creep tumors? There are more than 80 worms in the system space, why not build a creep tunnel leading to the depths of the ocean?

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, and passed the order to build the creep tunnel to each queen.

Wormholes formed one after another on the floating island. The first batch of queens walked to the edge of the creeper and continuously discharged the creeper tumors into the seawater.

In just a few minutes, the area of ​​the creep floating island is getting bigger and bigger. Expand from the original hundred-meter level to the kilometer level.

The second, third, and fourth batches of queens appeared one after another, and some of them jumped directly into the water. Enduring the corrosion of acidic water, the creep tumors were drained to the bottom of the floating island.

There are also some queens who use the "buried" skill to sneak into the bottom layer of the creep island, and directly attach the creep tumor to the edge of the creep, allowing the reddish-brown substance to expand and expand.

Zhou Ai felt that the world could no longer stop Captain Tang. In just a few minutes, he actually built a floating island in an ocean environment like "Akron". Officials know that he has such abilities, and God knows what those forces who covet the zero element resources of the "Akron" formation will do.

Roy's idea is simple. Big Brother Tang is so handsome, no matter what kind of predicament he faces, what do some wealthy people in human society spend a lot of money to buy small islands? Look at others, build them yourself!

Tang Fang collected the exhausted queens into the system space in batches, and released them after they recovered. This cycle repeated, and the floating islands extended to the seabed in increments of hundreds of meters.

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An hour later, the floating island has expanded to several kilometers in diameter, and its bottom is wider. It is tens of kilometers long, and fits together with the increasingly narrow sea abyss, almost filling the inner space of the sea abyss.

The landing ship has moved from the sea to the Creep Island. Zhou Ai and Roy jumped off the deck and looked at him blankly while stepping on the tough creep blanket.

As Tang Fang walked towards the center of the creep island, he said in a deep voice, "'Akron' is really not a good place."

Zhou Ai asked doubtfully, "How?"

"The aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish body is not an aborigine on this planet...There are even more weird things hidden underneath."

"You mean there's something going on deep in the abyss?"

Tang Fang nodded, recruited a certain number of puppies and cockroaches from the system space, and gave them the "open path" command.

The cockroach activated the "buried" skill, found the creep tumors in the center of the floating island, and destroyed them one by one. The puppy quickly cleaned up the shriveled and shrunk creep material, creating a large cavity with a diameter of more than 100 meters.

He produced another Nighthawk. The 3 people boarded the cockpit and descended slowly along the bottomless void.

32,000 meters in height. The cleaning work alone took nearly an hour, and the nighthawk landed at the bottom of the large cavity. The floating islands formed by the creeps have filled the lower layer of the ocean abyss, and both seawater and acidic substances have become the nutrients of the colonies and have been sucked dry and swallowed, leaving only mottled rock formations.

There are 3 sets of ultra-high-power searchlights installed under the fuselage of the Nighthawk, which illuminate the entire ground as bright as day, and even the residual creep materials in the crevices of the rocks are clearly discernible.

Tang Fang subconsciously looked at the sky above his head, seeing darkness in his eyes, only a small wellhead-shaped annular light source emitting a hazy white light, which was already faint when reaching the depths of the abyss. If there were no nighthawks, the place where the three of them stood would be in darkness .

He grabbed the cable hanging from the bottom cabin of the Nighthawk and slid down, leading the two to the lowest point of the sea abyss, and pulled out the dry creep material with his hands, revealing a dark hole underneath, and wisps of green steam sprayed out , which must be the source of acidic substances in seawater.

Roy dodged subconsciously. The corrosive power of "Akron" seawater alone is astonishing, not to mention such strong acid steam.

Zhou Ai's breathing was a little short, and she could see that she was very excited, because the three of them were the first humans to reach the depths of the "Akron" sea abyss, and also because of the "thing" Tang Fang said, although he did not explain in detail, But the smart girl has already thought of a deeper meaning. I am afraid that the culprit who created this sea of ​​acid is the "thing" in Captain Tang's mouth, and such things are not good.

She looked at Tang Fang's face, didn't speak, just looked at it.

Tang Fang naturally understood what she was thinking, and said, "Yes, I want to find it!"

Zhou Ai didn't say anything more, and pulled Roy aside.

The combination of cockroaches and cockroaches appeared in the field, and began to dig down the hole where the strong acid steam spewed out. According to Tang Fang's order, the hole was widened into a tunnel that could accommodate two people in parallel.

Because of prolonged immersion in the bottom of the water. The cave was filled with a highly corrosive organic acid solution. Tang Fang could only use the creep tumors discharged by the queen to convert the organic acid solution into creep, and then let the worms clean them up. Although this is a bit slower, it is still a safe way to advance. Because this can not only solve the problem of acid solution, but also filter out the escaped strong acid vapor.

Under the lighting of the harsh-environment protective clothing, a group of three people slowly advanced into the depths of the formation. I don't know how long it has passed, and I don't know how deep they have dived. The entire tunnel began to shake violently.

The shaking lasted for more than ten seconds to subside, and Tang Fang took a deep breath. Release your hand from the wall.

According to the fragmented video data sent back by the cockroach that opened the way at the front, he seemed to see a giant like a meat sac flying backwards under the joint attack of the acid saliva and the sharp claws of the puppy. The shaking of the tunnel just now was due to the meat sac It was caused by hitting the rock walls on both sides of the tunnel.

At present, the widening of the tunnel has stopped. The cave that leads directly to the depths of the formation becomes wider and wider as it goes down. Now it has expanded from half a meter in size to 8 meters in diameter, which is enough to accommodate several people walking side by side. Fang was surprised that those organic acid solutions were also completely transformed, as if the meat sac-like thing was a big meat plug, used to isolate seawater from entering the formation.

Of course, the meat sac has another task --- excretion. It is used to discharge acid gas, and the road the three of them took, in a disgusting way, can be described as a sewer pipe that is no less than a flush toilet.

Tang Fang dared not tell Zhou Ai about this. Because he didn't know how the girl would react, women like to be clean, so it's better for him to let this matter rot in his heart.

Because there is no acid water in front, he took back the Zerg unit and replaced it with 2 Immortals and 3 Zealots to open the way in front. In this way, even if the frightened flesh-sac organ kills a carbine, it will face the Phase Disruption Cannon of the Immortals . It's definitely not going to be good, he, Zhou Ai, and Roy are one kilometer behind the vanguard. In order to obtain sufficient reaction time in the event of a crisis.

Go on like this, according to the message from Emma. The 3 people have gone deep underground for more than 40 kilometers, and it seems that there is still a long distance ahead.

On the one hand, Tang Fang could only bear his temper and continue to move forward, on the other hand, he was distracted to pay attention to the situation of the pioneer in front of him. Zhou Ai and Roy followed behind him obediently without saying a word.

The tunnel contains a high concentration of acid residues, as well as sulfide, methane and other gases that can cause death. Fortunately, the harsh environment protective clothing completely prevents the human body from contacting the external environment, so that the three people can bear the burden even though they feel a little depressed. Can live.

After walking about 2 kilometers further, a message came from the fanatics that they were not far from the exit of the tunnel. This made Tang Fang heave a sigh of relief and at the same time was a little puzzled, wondering why the sac-shaped thing let them down.

He thought of an allusion about beating a wolf with a hemp stick, and the two ends were afraid.

The so-called hemp stalk is a kind of plant stalk that looks hard but is actually easy to break. People hold it to drive away wild wolves, but they dare not really hit it, because the hemp stalk will break when the stick is dropped, so they can only Bluffing, and the wolf didn't know what it was, and was also afraid, so there was such an allusion.

It is normal for Meat Sac to feel dazed and fearful when he suddenly encounters such fierce creatures as cockroaches and puppies after hiding underground in "Akron" for so many years.

Wanting to understand the mystery, he stopped hesitating and told the two to move forward quickly, and they rushed to the exit of the tunnel after a while.

It is said to be an exit, but it is actually more like a cliff. The entrance of the cave is opened on the surface of a stone wall, which is thousands of meters high from the ground. Tang Fang used the c-20a to illuminate the bottomless abyss below, and also to illuminate the scattered spots on the left and right of the cave entrance. Huge stalactites, some exquisitely carved crystals reflect light dots, and occasionally water drops fall, and it took a long time to hear the sound of falling on the stone pit and breaking.

He didn't look for the way down immediately, but summoned a detector to scan the area in front of the space structure, draw a terrain map and synchronize it to the central computer of the harsh environment protective suit.

Different from the large void in the formation of planet No. 5, this area is more open. There is an open land more than 1,000 meters ahead, with an area of ​​more than ten square kilometers. It is actually just a platform protruding from the rock wall. The place is the real underground space, and there is a wide underground river flowing quietly at the bottom.

"It's so high."

Roy poked his head out to look at the dark abyss below, his voice was a little trembling. He didn't have a fear of heights, but he was a little afraid of the dark, especially in this gloomy environment that can be described as hell.

Tang Fang patted him on the shoulder to comfort him, without saying anything, he summoned a King Worm, rolled up the bodies of the three of them and slowly flew to the open platform above.

During the flight, Roy hugged the long tentacle of the king worm tightly, for fear that he would accidentally drop him. How long would it take to fly thousands of meters before falling to the ground and falling to his death... just like many people As I said, death is not terrible, what is terrible is the process of waiting for death.

Tang Fang felt a little funny, so he could only summon an iron crow to embolden the half-sized man and Zhou Ai. Although the combination of the nighthawk's body length of more than 30 meters and the super-powerful searchlight was more suitable for such an abyss environment, considering the flesh-sac creature In the end, he chose the Raven, at least the 12mm electromagnetic gun can provide additional fire cover. (to be continued)

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