Chapter 970 The tip of the iceberg
While the school officials of the Cang Lion Fleet and the Phantom Fleet were racking their brains for their lives and future, Tang Fang, Walton and Aros had already flown into the sinkhole in the Nightmare.
It is true that he had a strong interest in Jemengard and had a deep hatred, but compared to the Angels, Jemengard could only be ranked second. According to the ghost he sent to the Angels bridge and the information reported by Abathur, this huge ruin seems to have other living organisms, not only Jemengard.
In order to avoid worrying Aros and Walton, he did not tell the two of them about this situation.
There is an old Chinese saying, "Why can others snore on the side of the bed?" A being like Yemenggarde can tolerate some strange things in his home? Just when he was puzzled, the second piece of information sent by Abathur made him no longer have the heart to complain. Because the Angel's situation was not good, the two prophet ships were confined to the gravitational field, and they could not even break free from the constraints of the explosion of space torrents, and then they lost their ability to move.
Now he finally knew the purpose of Yemenggard's Angels being thrown into the sinkhole. This ruin is like a insect cage of nepenthes. Any living creature that falls into it will be imprisoned by the gravity field, and will lose its freedom from then on, and eventually become the food for creatures hidden in this ruin.
He naively believed that the living things in the ruins came from Yemenggard, and might be the descendant of this starry beast, because the shadow seen by the medical soldier on the large screen of Bridge No. 1 really looked like the reduced version of Yemenggard.
Space, sky, sky pit... three points on the battlefield. Faced with such a complicated situation, he was really troubled. The first time he felt that the problem was very difficult. Even though he was as powerful as him and Emma was coordinating the overall situation, he was still a little overwhelmed.
The hive structure at the edge of the sinkhole overflowed with unclear light, illuminating the surrounding area of the "coastline", but not illuminating the main body of the tunnel in the center. So the Nightmare was shrouded in darkness from beginning to end. Except for the searchlight below the bow of the ship, there was no light, and there was only the unknown and cold that could swallow everything.
It was quiet outside, no colors other than darkness, no sounds other than breathing, and no sounds that made people feel scared as if they were going to solidify everything, including the expressions on the faces of Tang Fang, Walton and Aros.
The dull atmosphere erodes the bridge without realizing it. Apart from the various curves of the virtual scene mapping array fluctuating continuously, all dynamic elements are suppressed, even the blood flowing in the body.
Walton opened his mouth and brewed for a long time, but he didn't say anything blocked in his throat.
The veteran had a cigar in his hand, which was held from beginning to end, but just held... At this moment, Walton hoped that he would not just hold it, but ignite it, let the ashes fall and let the smoke rise.
At this moment, Tang Fang made an action, which changed the faces of the two.
He awakened the dormant process of the warship... In other words, he shut down all subsystems of the warship, including the driving system, power system, sensing system, and shield system, turning this Ipsilon warship into a piece of stubborn iron and performing free fall motion under the influence of the planet's gravity.
The virtual scene mapping array faded away, and the large projector next to it also lost its luster. The only light source was the only psychic flame sealed in the crystal, emitting a water wave-like light, gently hitting the side faces of the three people.
"Tang Fang, do you know what you are doing?" Walton shouted with excitement. It was hard to understand why Tang Fang did this. If he fell from a place thousands of kilometers high, even a ruined warship like the Nightmare would not be unscathed.
Although the veteran did not speak, the light of doubt flashed deep in his eyes.
Tang Fang said, "Don't be impatient, you will know in a while."
The warship accelerated forward based on the original speed and shot straight into the sinkhole to the depths. The Tang side turned off the shield system, power system, and sensing system. Fortunately, the internal balance and compensation system did not turn off, and the bridge was still stable and could barely hold on.
I don’t know how long it has been, maybe ten minutes or twenty minutes. Anyway, after a while, I suddenly felt a faint sense of weightlessness in my body. Walton glanced at Aros and found that the veteran’s face also showed suspicion, and I thought I could feel the abnormal gravity.
Perhaps because of the two of them's expressions, Tang Fang explained: "Whether it is the Angel, the Prophet behind it, or the detector that takes action before the Nightmare entered the sinkhole, they all encountered an abnormal situation. After the appearance of Yemenggard, the originally dead-limited sinkhole did not only have large-scale landslides, but also an abnormal gravity wave was detected inside it. Over time, the originally weak gravity wave gradually evolved into a rapidly expanding gravitational field. Especially after the Angel and the Prophet ship entered, the energy level of this gravitational field rose rapidly. As for how far it has reached, you have also seen..."
His explanation made the two of them suddenly realize, and they also felt deeply worried. Aros said: "Looking at this point, is this sinkhole in front of them an activity ruin?" The Ipsilon ruins they experienced in the past, whether it was the Zero-Name-Isotope Refinery Factory of Namixing, the Ipsilon Jump Relay Station, and the large number of dilapidated buildings in the lost land, if it were not for the awakening of Tang Fang, they would continue to lie down until they were destroyed. Even epic creatures like the Evil Eye and the Giant Snake could not control the ruins, but today, Tang Fang actually told them that the sinkhole on the wandering planet was actually alive, why didn't it surprise them or shock them?
Tang Fanghan nodded with a face and affirmed Aros' question.
Walton frowned and said, "Can it be that someone is controlling this ruin... no... impossible. If it is someone's private property, then what's going on with Yemenggarde?"
Although he didn't understand what it means to "not let others snore on the side of the bed", he knew very well that there would be no two tigers in a mountain. How could a starry sky beast like Yemenggard, which stands at the top of the food chain, share his territory with others? "Can it be... the descendants of Yemenggard?"
The veteran said an unstable sentence, "Can it give birth?"
Walton said seriously: "Generally speaking, the tail of a male snake is longer than that of a female snake. I think the main genes of epic creatures with the shape of Yemenggard should be related to the python. For example, the giant snake we encountered at the relay station of the final star Ipsilon has such characteristics? Let's look at Yemenggard. Its tail is composed of 8 tentacles, 2 long and 6 short. Is there a possibility that this giant beast is an hermaphrodite creature? Just like some plants, there are 2 sets of male organisms and 6 sets of female organisms, so as to breed offspring through a self-sufficient fertilization process."
Even a very steady character like a veteran couldn't help but give him a look and said, "This is a serious question."
Walton said seriously: "I'm serious."
Tang Fang coughed, looked at Walton and said, "You have a lot of ideas, learn how to cook with me."
Walton's argument with Aros was interrupted by his untuning complaint. He blinked and looked confused, unable to understand how Captain Tang was associated with cooking about what Yemenggar had to give birth to a child.
"Since you also think this ruin is alive, why should you turn off the shield system and sensing system of the Nightmare? In this way, wouldn't we be completely exposed to the enemy's gun and put ourselves in danger?" Tang Fang's interruption reminded Walton of the current crisis and couldn't help but ask for doubts.
"If I don't do this, the Sanjan might have fallen into the same dilemma as the two prophets."
Because the nightmare's sensing system was turned off, the virtual scene projection array and the large screen were all dormant, so Aros and Walton could not see the surrounding scenes, and naturally they could not find the two prophet ships trapped in the invisible force field above their heads.
When the Angel was knocked down by Yemengat, the change in the sinkhole had not ended yet, and the abnormal gravitational wave had not yet been upgraded to this level. However, when the two prophet ships were ordered to enter the sinkhole to search for the whereabouts of the Angel, they entered this strange gravity field and were wrapped in a gravitational bubble that exploded instantly. Even if the two female Dark Templars launched the torrent of the space in the core of the battleship and tried to break through the gravitational bubble that bound the hull, they did not achieve the result they wanted. So the two prophet ships were like flying insects trapped in a spider web. No matter how hard they tried, they could not penetrate the invisible bubble.
This phenomenon made Tang Fang feel tricky, but at this moment, the detector that followed him into the sinkhole easily passed through the strange gravity zone without any obstacles in the middle. Not only that, the detector also caught a piece of rock falling off from the inner wall, and also easily passed through the strange gravity zone and slowed down.
Why can the detector and rocks fall smoothly when the prophet ship is intercepted? This can't help but trigger Tang Fang's thinking. Finally, he came up with a guess whether the gravitational shield is being unfolded from the inside to the outside after the ruins are formed. Just like the gravitational disordered area outside the periphery of a wandering planet, it has a certain warning mechanism for falling objects and gives special "care" for objects with a higher energy level, and those obviously harmless things can smoothly pass through the gravity field.
With this idea, he turned off the nightmare shield system, power system, sensing system and other subsystems with high energy radiation, making the warship look like a piece of stubborn iron.
Facts proved that his conjecture was correct. The main system entered the dormant nightmare and successfully passed through the strange gravity zone and fell downward under the influence of external forces.
Walton and Aross were not stupid. Although they just explained casually, the two understood one after another. The veteran began to wipe the Paladin m5 with the palm of his hand and expressed his thoughts with this action. Walton asked him for a cigar and held it in his mouth, sat back on the seat next to him, and quietly thought about the problem.
Seeing that the two of them stopped talking, Tang Fang turned his attention outside and contacted the detector that had entered the sinkhole in the first step of the nightmares.
When he learned that this ruin with unknown origin had a certain mechanism for identifying the enemy and us. In order to avoid trouble, he ordered the detector to suppress energy reactions as much as possible, and not to conduct large-scale reconnaissance activities and narrow the scanning range.
As the depth increases, the higher the buoyancy the detector is exposed to, and the slower the speed is until it reaches nearly 3,000 kilometers from the surface. Emma suddenly reposts an information - the diameter of the sinkhole is collapsing at a geometric speed and bent to one side.
Based on this information, Tang Fang drew a three-dimensional model in his mind. This sinkhole with a diameter of thousands of kilometers extends from the surface to the core. Its shape is similar to a vertically placed large horn. The opening is extremely wide. As the depth increases, the diameter of the tunnel slowly decreases until it enters the core range, the tunnel shrinks to dozens of kilometers and bends to one side.
After seeing the West Tower quadrant inside the Texas in the United Kingdom of Texas, he had a new understanding of the ability of the Ipsilons or T-Stars to interfere with the construction of the planet. He felt that since there could be large ruins like the West Tower quadrant inside the Texas, building a sinkhole that goes directly to the core would be nothing. So he was not too shocked by the information provided by Emma, but was very calm and rational.
However, for Walton and the veteran, although they were mentally prepared, they still showed a shocking expression. After all, neither Namixing's zero-element isotope refinery factory nor the 500km-level Ipsilon jump relay station, they did not penetrate a planet from the crust to the mantle. Building a functional building in the core area has more visual and psychological impact.
Walton stayed for a long time before he recovered. He sighed heavily and asked a key question subconsciously: "What is the purpose of the Ipsilon people pulling out a hole directly to the core of the earth on this planet?"
Tang Fang smiled bitterly and said, "This... I don't know yet. Judging from the current situation, whether it is the gravitational disordered area of the orbit of the wandering planet or the strange gravity field in the sinkhole, it all originates from this ruins."
After hearing his words, Walton slowly raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "You mean... the asteroid storm that ravaged the void of orbit is not due to the revenge of Jemengat, but the means of this ruin."
Tang Fang nodded and shook his head. The nod was to determine that the formation of the gravitational disorder zone and collapsed, which all originated from this ruin. Shaking his head was uncertain whether the "actions" of the ruins were related to Yemenggard. If we consider the information we know now, there were many things worth pondering at that time... Yemenggard was really the owner of the sinkhole? Could it be similar to those two prophet ships, a pitiful moth that fell into the insect bag of nepentagrass? Otherwise, why did he get damaged by the T-energy stone, and he should kill the core of the mothership that can slow its flight speed as soon as possible? (~^~)
Chapter completed!