The Record of Unusual Creatures Chapter 797: Traces of people

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The Purgatory Journey deviated greatly from everyone's initial expectations.

A small-displacement private car with its low profile is driving quietly and quietly on the grassy field. The wind gusts leaving a light layer of ripples on the grass behind the car, the whole world is so wide, When the little car galloped on the prairie, it looked like a bug. If it were n’t for occasional black rock formations to be seen from the clouds, I ’m afraid no one could imagine another layer of crust hanging over the dome.

The car stopped slowly in front of a black "mountain", this is another "Tianzhu giant tree" that supports the dome, like a huge cliff-like trunk standing straight on the ground, under it Half of the peaks are nearly a thousand meters high, and the upper part has been disappearing deep in the clouds. Hao Ren got off the door and got out of the space, and took out some equipment like the measuring rack from the portable space, and assembled it on the spot.

ASanbaA connects itself to the device, and then a set of rough planet profiles is projected above it, and a few small, silver cicada-like machines fly out of the cylindrical container below the device These little machines flew towards the "Tianzhu Giant Tree" and swiftly drilled into the latter's rock-hard black skin. A few moments later, the data was transmitted back. On the scan of ASanbaA, the holographic image representing the giant tree in front of the eyes appeared icy blue.

"The third tree is also a dead individual, and the life reaction has completely stopped," ASanbaA reported lightly while displaying the data. "The wood fiber can also be found deep, but the outer skin is basically petrified, which is a mixture. Minerals may be the reinforced shell that evolved from the hardening of the trunk's secretions over the years. These 'petrified' parts provide these hollow cylinders with unimaginable strength ... almost as hard as the ship's armor plate. "

"So they can support the world above," Hao Ren looked up at the lower layer of the crust obscured by clouds. "Is the trunks evenly distributed?"

"Yes, evenly distributed, and huge numbers." ASanbaA replied, showing on its screen the distribution of the "giant pillar trees" between the first and second floors of the Purgatory Planet, probe The data transmitted is not very detailed, but a rough analysis is enough. It can be seen from the picture that the first layer of purgatory is completely suspended over ten kilometers above the deep crust of the planet. There is no geological connection between the two. A large number of giant gigantic trees are the only way to maintain this double-layer structure. . These giant trees are evenly distributed under the earth's crust, one every 100 kilometers: far more than the number of purgatory entrances on the surface.

"Not all giant trees are hollow, in fact most of the giant trees are solid, they are more solid," the terminal explained, "and those hollow trunks connect the above-ground world and the underground world like a chimney. They Became the so-called 'second-level entrance to purgatory'. "

Lily asked curiously: "This hollow structure is ... lesion?"

"No, it should be intentional," the terminal gave a negative answer, "the distribution of hollow giant trees is very uniform, on average one out of every 100 giant trees is hollow, and the underground space The entire atmospheric activity is also cooperating with these 'chimneys'. The local analysis of this hollow special trunk should be something like a kind of breathing tube, which is used for atmospheric exchange with the surface world-and should also have the function of a sensor. The machine scans that there is a strong electrical signal surge under the hollow giant tree. If it is correct, it should be ... "

"It is the nerve of First born," Hao Ren interrupted aloud without waiting for the terminal to finish, "These trees are evolved from First born's tentacles, right?"

Hao Ren is no longer a rookie who can only rely on equipment analysis to make judgments. According to the environment of the underground world and the landscape seen in the surface world, he can easily speculate that only First born can create such a miracle. The "Tianzhu Giant Tree" that supports the upper crust is undoubtedly a part of First born. The only problem is that this part has evolved and almost can't see the shape of the First born tentacles, even its internal physiological structure is the same as First born Very different.

ASanbaA did not answer directly, but directly released a set of holographic projections, that is the structure of the underground part of the giant tree of Tianzhu that was just scanned by deep radar. Everyone can clearly see the underground of this giant tree There is a much larger and terrible complex world, with countless complex roots like brain nerves entangled and growing deep in the earth. The lower the shape, the less it looks like a normal tree root, and at the bottom, the roots are already It completely became the shape of a tentacle, and extended to the depths of the earth: that is where the radar can't detect. At least the few small power sensors that Hao Ren carries with you can't scan that deep position.

"The tentacles of First born evolved these giant trees, but from the analysis of physiological structure, these trees have completely separated from the life form of First born," the voice of the terminal is a little confused, "they are really real wood, wrapped in outer A layer of petrochemical shell that is stronger than super alloy is very different from the tentacles. It feels like a flesh and body has grown a titanium alloy limb, and it is not grafted. "

"Understandably, First born is the source of life. If the situation requires, it can also change part of its limbs to other species. It can do things that can be done with source blood, without reason. No, "Hao Ren is not a surprise." These things can be confirmed with Drum. The key now is whether this First born is alive or dead ... You say it has nerve impulses, but these giant trees are obviously already Death. "

"There is no way to judge, for a creature of the First born level, it is difficult to define its life and death by the standards of conventional species: its body and soul, each of its tissues and organs and even each piece of fragments may have an independent In the definition of life and death, part of it is obviously withered, but these withered parts support the whole world, and there are still some signals from its deep layer, but there is only a little electrical signal. "

Lily thought for a while and came up with the word: "vegetable?"

Hao Ren looked at Lily with a weird look. He said in the world that there should be no more way of describing violations than this, but this is really the right situation before the thunder!

"If ... if I guessed right, the upper layer should not be the crust," Vivian looked up for a long time, and suddenly said thoughtfully, "This planet cannot grow a layer out of thin air. New shell. Only one thing at the top of the trunk ... "

ASanbaA immediately switched the screen, showing the results of further scanning of the outermost layer of the crust on the planet of Purgatory. That was the desolate and vast place that everyone had witnessed when they first arrived here. It seems to be a solid and integrated rock spherical shell, but after the detailed scanning of the probe, its deep hidden veins finally appeared.

"You are right, it is the canopy. The first crust of the planet of purgatory is the petrified canopy."

The crowns of these canopies are continuous and seamless, completely covering the original planet below. The peculiar "petrification" process of the giant tree of Tianzhu is not only reflected in the trunk, but also in the canopy. After that, the once canopy of plants turned into a rock layer several kilometers thick, and above that rock layer, there was a bad world enough to be called purgatory.

In the course of this series of transformations, all the giant trees in Tianzhu died. I do n’t know whether it was in the First born plan or something happened in the middle. In short, these "black mountains" that everyone can see are just The remains of the dead plants are the pillars left after the First born tentacles withered. They are fossils, holding a crown crust that also becomes a fossil.

Nangong Sanba squeezed her chin thoughtfully: "That is to say, the place we are standing on is the real" primitive surface "of the planet of purgatory?"

"Yes, at least the original land before these giant trees completely closed the sky," Hao Ren nodded, and his eyes extended up the magnificent black trunk. "I think this is some kind of protection, to ensure that The ecosphere on the original earth can only survive to be built. Coupled with the outermost cloud top, this planet has layers of protection, which will persist until today without the sun. "

At this time, ASanbaA suddenly received an emergency communication from a certain probe. It suddenly shouted: "Hey! Do n’t study the tree first, the probe has found it!"

Vivian immediately ran over: "Where is Baptiste?"

“No—it ’s other artifacts,” ASanbaA ’s projection shows a picture from afar, on the vast prairie, a large relic covered by plants and soil is clearly visible, “a city ! City built by smart creatures! "(Unfinished to be continued.)