The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Chapter 890 Chapter 799: Passage?

"Saw something amazing..."

It wasn't until this time that Oregana realized that she had been holding Liu Lizi's tail because she was too nervous just now, but Liu Lizi herself still didn't realize it.

This is not to blame everyone present for making a fuss, but this matter is really beyond imagination.

If I use a picture to illustrate it, it would be 【I have never seen this scene.jpg】.

After eating, the specific individual's sailing speed dropped a lot. I don't know if it was because he relaxed, or because he was still resting due to too much physical exertion.Not only that, but it can be seen from the images that a large number of cracks and damages are gradually spreading from the stress points of the joints to the ends of the limbs, as well as the connection with the body.Following its movements, these jointed limbs slowly collapsed like a building destroyed by an earthquake, detaching from the body.

It didn't accelerate, so the missing limb remained roughly stationary relative to it.A creature slightly larger than the carrier-based aircraft that had just devoured the mothership class broke away from the body.These creatures have a worm-like shape, and there are four pairs of short arms on both sides of the body that can be contracted. They drill into the joints that have just fallen off through the gaps, and gnaw holes on them like termites, and slowly decompose the fallen joints into smaller parts. Small fragments, and then use the short arms to drag the fragments back into the body.

"It is...eating itself?" The captain showed a surprised expression. He has dealt with the dark worm for many years, but what is happening in front of him now cannot be simply explained by any previous experience.

Oregana shook her head and said:

"We thought...it might be recycling."

After all, it is using the limbs of this entity to grab a giant creature that is about the same size as itself, and suppress the resistance of the prey. Two [-]-kilometer behemoths are so close to each other for exaggerated hand-to-hand combat.How much pressure does this paw have to withstand?You look at that tentacle that you tried to shake off one of its tentacles earlier, and the carapace?The moment of contact, it shattered immediately. This is the result of the collision of things of this size and quality.

Judging from the information we have now—the source is the corpses I investigated, as well as the data collected by the frontlines over the years—it is impossible for the dark worm's organizational structure and the strength of the materials that make up its limbs to be such a myth. level thing.Although the guy in front of him has done it (there is a high probability that he has used psionic power to reinforce it), but it should be very reluctant.

To put it in an easy-to-understand way, the worm overloaded its claws, and after the battle, the claws became unusable and had to be discarded.But the materials that make up the claws are still necessary for the bugs themselves, so they will find a way to dismantle the discarded claws and then recycle their materials. The purpose is obviously to re-grow important hunting tools before the next hunt begins.

I don't know if it should be economical or prudent... If this is the case, maybe it will not be easy for the dark worm industry. (think)

"It's possible..." Mad doctor and astrobiologist Lawrence touched the neatly trimmed stubble on his chin and said, "If a fragment can be recovered..."

He stopped before he finished speaking, because he saw those 'carrier-based aircraft' that were drilling around in the joints.These monsters are like the legendary giant worms... Well, this is not a legend at all, no matter whether it is the giant worms outside or the giant worm Oregana in the dreamland, they have seen it before, and they will not give anyone any information at all. Affection - Digging into what's in front of you with its frightening mouthparts, its body covered in slime, and its bulk looks seemingly invincible.Belongs to the creatures of the SAN system.

The ones in front of them are even better, their bodies appear sturdier, and their wriggling posture is more like the larvae of some kind of parasitic fly than the earthworm-like movements of giant worms.It must be a very technical test to 'take' the arthropod fragments from them and take them away.

"Let's pick up a little bit after it's gone." Oregana cut off the screen that was playing the big bug gnawing its claws, and called up the route map. "At the current speed of this bug, it will take about two hours to reach that vortex. —see what it's going to do."

【learn. 】

See if it's going inside the vortex, or preying on bugs trapped on the vortex.No matter which one of them, as long as it is close to the maelstrom, the scouts will record the data of the space change.

No matter from which angle you look at it, that vortex will not be a safe thing - being able to suck and stick dark worms with powerful power on it is already quite remarkable. There is also the risk of your own boat being sucked.And right now, there happened to be a guy who planned to go and have a look by himself.

This is a good opportunity.

Oregana had this kind of experience before crossing—during a long-distance trip, the trip was delayed because of a six-hour traffic jam in the Hoh Xil no-man's land, and it was obviously not a good idea to park on the side of the road and sleep overnight. I had no idea, so I could only bite the bullet and drive at night... To be honest, this was not a good idea, but there was really no better way at the time.

Naturally, there are no street lights in the no-man’s land, and the road conditions are not as good as the photos on the tourism official account (or because the trucks are used all the year round), the day is cloudy, so there is no skylight, and only the lights and lights can be relied on. The navigator is not very reliable because the map is not updated.Driving in this situation, I was panicking while holding the steering wheel.How's the road ahead?What should I do if something happens to me?Is it too late to make a correct response?

For Oregana, who has only had a driver's license for two years and has only run long distances (or regular highways) once, it is quite a test of spirit and perseverance.Because the road conditions are really bad, every time it hits a pothole, the car will shake violently, and fatigue and tension will accumulate with the vibration, which will further oppress people's nerves.

This continued until the taillights of another car appeared ahead.

Suddenly I feel relieved...

If there is any problem on the road ahead, the car has to face it first, and I can see from the trajectory of the taillights whether there is a pit ahead or a road condition that the car cannot cross.To put it simply, it was the guy in front who helped me on my way—although others didn't actually mean it, but that was the situation in my own eyes at the time.In this way, I followed the local car in front of me, which was also running at night, and arrived at the hotel I booked at around three o'clock in the morning.

But now, in the face of the great vortex whose situation is still unclear, there is just one guy who can go there, and the scouts can collect all kinds of space data just by following behind. The 'road condition information', with them safe sailing is no longer difficult.

From this point of view, it is considered lucky to be able to encounter this matter.

Thinking of this, Oregana ordered the scouts to trace the coordinates where the bugs jumped in - what she saw was the final stage of a hunt, and it was necessary to follow along to look for it later, probably there are everywhere along the way. The incident point of investigation.

"It started to recycle those bugs." Suddenly, the captain said, "There are still a lot left to eat, and the remaining one-third will be thrown away."

"Maybe it's already close to the maelstrom, so it's not easy to chew on." The crazy doctor guessed, "If you continue, you will enter the gravitational chaos zone."

Indeed, continuing to go down is the outer circle.Many of the worms that were still alive were sucked there and couldn't move, so I guess they didn't dare to push them too hard.

It put away those ugly 'recovery drones', carefully adjusted the positions of the arthropodized propelling arms and legs behind it, and slid into the outer ring at an obviously calculated oblique angle.

After the dark worms who were still alive noticed the approach of the strange individual, their struggle intensified.Judging from the scanning images of the sensors, the energy reactions of these guys climbed rapidly within a few seconds, and the degree of rise varied from high to low, but the highest one did not reach the surging power of the dark worms they had fought against before. .

They are all weak, which may be related to how many years they have been stuck here.The dark worm has a very long lifespan, but to maintain a long lifespan, it must constantly absorb energy and replace damaged parts in the body (although each cycle is indeed long enough), if it cannot eat something, the dark worm It will weaken due to insufficient nutrient intake.Damaged components cannot be replaced, and the bioreactor gradually stops working due to lack of 'fuel', and finally it only dies of weakness.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for dark worms to fall into this predicament - because there are things to eat everywhere, even if they can't find them for a while, they can put the main body into a dormant state to save energy, and send small individuals to find new ones. Grassland' After that, the main body flew over to feast on it.The dormant state can last for quite a long time, and under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible to starve to death.

But the bugs in front of them were different.

There is really no way for them to leave, and in order to fight against the chaotic gravitational fluctuations, they must use all their strength.This is not a childlike prank that someone keeps shaking you to prevent you from falling asleep when you want to sleep, but lying on the roof of a shrimp farmer's car on Mount Akina, and if you don't pay attention, you will fall off and fall to pieces The danger of the eight petals - they must always fight against the turbulence of space, otherwise the broken corpses next to them will be the end.

Fighting against space turbulence leads to accelerated energy consumption and tissue loss. Giving up is death, and not giving up is death slowly.This isn't just a piece of flypaper, it's an SCP-057 (Note ①) style execution chamber.

But the stuck dark worms didn't seem to be aware of this, they struggled blankly, and then became more frightened by the approach of the 'hunter' and increased their struggle strength.But 'Hunter' completely ignored them—it focused on swinging its propelling limbs, like a seal swimming deftly in the waves.

"It obviously knows how to go here." Watching the movement, Scout Daniel whispered, and then tapped the tracks lightly "Look at these... it is traveling in the slight normal gap between the two turbulent currents , the formation and opening and closing of the cracks took less than half a minute."

"Thanks to it, we know the safe passage," said the analyst with a chuckle on his face, "and part of the external structure of this maelstrom."

Her hands are jumping on the keyboard, but this is only for correction, the main drawing is done directly by the brain.The sensor captured the spatial fluctuation when the 'Hunter' entered, and through the efforts of the navigation computer and the analyst, a three-dimensional stereogram is rapidly forming on the screen in front of the analyst.

That is not a vortex, but a mixture of a series of vortex groups.It gives people the feeling that the real universe is collapsing inward from here, just like the eddy caused by a ship sinking in the sea.Among them, there is a regularity in the formation and dissipation of small vortices. Although its mechanism and detailed data are still unclear, the appearance is clear——

A total of four conical pipelines with a diameter of more than [-] kilometers are stable enough to allow the largest flagship to pass through. Even if the Spear of Adun comes over, it can be easily driven in. The difficulty is even lower than reversing into the garage during the driving test.But this pipeline is hidden in the crevices of large and small vortexes, and the detection obstruction caused by the turbulence in space makes them almost impossible to be discovered.

If it wasn't because of the 'hunter', if the scouts wanted to find this passage, they would have to use scouts to clearly analyze the anomalies in the entire space and build a complete image model.Judging by the complexity of this maelstrom, this process may last for several months to several years.

And now, the door is wide open.

"This bug is indeed related to the whirlpool."

On the End Yan World at the rear, War Scythe looked at the data sent back, with a happy smile on his face:

"Is there a way to follow?"

What the hell is at the other end of the vortex?This question has stimulated the scythe of war for a long time, and he feels that there is a rather amazing secret in it, and he can't wait to go in and see it.If it wasn't for the fact that he needed to ensure the transportation and supply line on the Final World and deliver reinforcements at any time, he would probably have rushed to the front line on the shuttle at this moment.

But Oregana poured a little cold water on him:

【Disaster. 】

"Eh? In fact, the stability inside is not high?"

[Where can it be so high?Although a passage has been found, its stability is not enough to allow safe sailing.Cruiser class shields and hulls may not hold up. 】Oregana showed a helpless expression—this is a natural phenomenon after all, you can’t ask for a space anomaly area and excellent road conditions like the Interstellar Highway【Also, we don’t think stealth operations can still take effect in that environment . 】

The war scythe fell silent.

If the cruiser-level protection can't resist the spatial fluctuations here, then the probes are even more impossible.Too low spatial stability will cause trauma to the hull, and stealth devices that require high hull integrity cannot function normally under such challenges—in the worst case, I am afraid that large warships must be used in full view. Forcibly passed through.

This is by no means a good idea...but there doesn't seem to be any other way to do it either.

While speaking, the 'hunter' had already reached the center of the vortex, and it slowly sank into the curved edge like a colorful bubble, just like a whale sinking into the deep sea.

The great vortex returned to calm again, and the struggling dark worms also calmed down, continuing to struggle with the vortex as before.If you don't look at the half-eaten remains of the dark worm nearby, and those broken claws, it seems that nothing happened.

"The two Starseus ships can't pass through this hole, and neither can the probes..." Oregana opened the overall overview, picked out the information she needed, and looked at it carefully. "Then we can only go in by ourselves."

"Huh?! Boss, are you really planning to drill yourself into this hole?" Liu Lizi almost jumped up, "What are you thinking! God knows what's inside!"

"I know, at least there is a star." Oregana replied unhurriedly, "At least there is a regular galaxy, and the star status is not bad."

"...?"

"You're worried that we'll be bored and unable to get out after we go in, right?" Seeing the worried expression on Liu Lizi's face, Oregana showed a reassuring smile, "We're not the kind who take risks casually." Man — look at the stats."

As she said that, she projected the observation data about the vortex, and then opened the space readings outside the pipeline area, zooming in on several particle gushing phenomena in it for everyone to see.

"What...what?" Liu Lizi glanced at the place Oregana pointed out, her knowledge helped her recognize what the boss was referring to "The turbulent flow of protons and electrons is ejected along the pipeline, this pattern is... ...stellar wind?"

"That's right." Oregana raised the corner of her mouth, "It's very common, right? Although these vortexes look cool, at least here, they have the same properties as wormholes."

The so-called "same property as a wormhole" refers to the property that matter and information can be transmitted to both sides.

At the very beginning, when the space sensor was not yet strong enough to accurately locate a wormhole, everyone relied on this property to locate a wormhole - if a wormhole, both sides are in a planetary system (of course they are different), it will This happens.

The stars on both sides are ejecting streams of charged particles, and these particles, which have escaped the gravitational force of the stars, fly to the interstellar space along the magnetic force lines of the corona, blowing all the way to the outermost 'layer top'.But what if a hole was dug in the middle at this time?

That would be interesting.

The flow of low-density charged particles passing through the wormhole and the flow of low-density charged particles on the opposite side will meet at the hole.They will leave the superposition state almost instantly, and collide with each other as big as the platinum star and the world.Because its density is really low, such a turbulent hedging can spread very widely -- on both sides.As a result, observable traces of energy reactions appeared on both sides, as well as... visible to the naked eye, like an aurora-like shimmer.If the wormhole is too close to a planet with a magnetic field, the light will be even brighter.

If this phenomenon occurs, the development of civilization in that world is at an early stage, and it may be worshiped as a religious phenomenon or something—all kinds of intelligent creatures will regard things that they cannot understand as "miracles" or "miracles" in the early days. Bad omens', most notably the shimmering and rare things in the sky.For example, the broom star, the star of Bethlehem and so on.There are even records that the aborigines regard the light emitted by the engine of the scientific research ship as a miracle, and the scientists who got off the shuttle as gods... (far eye)

The communication on both sides of the wormhole is regarded as short-range communication-because the distance between the two parties is really close, close in the physical sense.It's as if Lan Fatty and Nobita are on both sides of any door, and they can communicate with each other just by shouting.

"As long as there is a subspace communication component here, even if we are smashed by a ship on the opposite side, we don't need to participate in the butterfly competition, we can directly refuel." Oregana added, "And we have more detailed evidence—— "

"Well?"

She tapped her finger on the table lightly:

"Until now, the scouts have been able to detect the energy response of the dark worm - and it is very clear, and it can even be judged that it is gradually moving away from the hole. Therefore, we think there should be no problem." The legion leader paused "However, it is estimated that we will have to wait for a while until the bugs are far away."

Liu Lizi showed a complicated expression on his face:

"Although what is said is very reasonable and the evidence is solid..." She glanced at the maelstrom.In Lu Xun's words, you can see the words "Danger" written all over the sky from every wrinkle in space, but the data analysis shows that this vortex is not so dangerous to clone warriors, on the contrary It is more threatening to the brain-implantation—because if you drive a cruiser to go inside, it will probably explode the ship. "Do you want to use this Diablo to get in?"

"Well, let's control the battleship then," Oregana nodded, "Diablo advanced, and Baal and Mephisto followed after receiving the route correction data. After the bugs leave, we will go to scout there."

"clear."

Tartarus has experienced many sea routes and expeditions, but this time is the most risky one.The mysteries submerged in the long river of time are all gathered here, and what will be revealed next is the answer or another mystery?

At this moment, no one knows, everyone is just going all out to complete the work at hand, and prepare for the next step through the vortex gate.

(Note ①: SCP-057 'Grinding Today', a cylindrical underground stone chamber with hexagonal stones extending from the floor to the ceiling. If a human enters and the door is closed, the walls of the chamber begin to create a Move in a way that requires the entrant to focus on it at all times to ensure a safe passage through the interior. The moving stone pillars will cause the path to slowly open and close until the entrant gives up or collapses from fatigue, after which the inner stone pillars will crush and revert to their resting state.)

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PS1: Ask for collection, ask for recommendation meow 0w0

PS2: The internet was disconnected last night and it is only now restored. Now posting yesterday’s update, there is still a chapter tonight 0w0

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