Chapter 1,390 Hole?

A vibration from deep underground suddenly interrupted everyone's discussion, and then a rumbling resonance began to echo throughout the entire workstation. ※Except for this newly built, independently powered workstation, the rest of the large platform has lost its atmospheric environment. This rumbling sound is directly transmitted from the metal structure of the large platform, and is also mixed with a sour sound. The sound of metal tearing was as if the source of the sound was very close at hand.

"The energy release buffer unit in the middle area seems to have been scrapped," Tavel frowned, but other than that there was no panic at all. It seemed that the explosion was an inevitable result of her calculations, "The bottom area and the surface area The accumulated energy in the area made all key locations inaccessible. My subordinates tried their best to guide this energy into the energy release buffer grid in the middle area so that the investigation team and rescue team could get out as soon as possible, but the buffer unit seemed to be damaged. Not too light, I only lasted so long..."

"What's the energy intensity down there now?" Sandora suddenly asked.

"One point two megaues is almost equivalent to being immersed in the focusing core of a flagship main gun." Tavel checked the holographic image in front of her. "For some reason, the energy accumulated under the platform dissipates very slowly. , it seems like it is endless. In theory, all the energy reactors have been disconnected. Now my subordinates wonder if there is still a group of energy reactors running..."

"Energy of this intensity burst out inside the platform. No wonder it can penetrate such a large facility." Sandora frowned and said, and I reminded her: "Didn't Tavel say that it didn't dissipate much, so Theoretically it can break down again later..."

Tavel shook his head: "No, after the two explosions, the energy environment under the platform has entered a dynamic balance. This is caused by the special properties of psionic energy. It can easily get out of control, but it usually does not get out of control many times, and the Order Universe After sufficient contact is made, it will quickly enter self-balance. Now a closed energy sphere has been formed in the platform - well, two. The upper area and the lower area have been blocked by the buffer unit and have now transformed into two separate energies. Bring the savings.”

The disposal team organized by the deep-diving port garrison is now blocked in front of the entrance to the underground platform. As mentioned before, the lower part of the platform is divided into upper and lower floors, and the staff are connected to the "upper area" underground of the platform. Can't even get in. I silently looked at the structure diagram of the control center, thinking that this is indeed the development...

"Sandora, get used to it." I patted Sandora's shoulder and stood up, "I'll go down. Are you going?"

I vaguely remember that this has happened for the second time: last time it was a big explosion in the prototype of the deep-diving ship, and this time it was a big explosion in the control center of the deep-diving port. How could I and "Deep-Dive" be together? Are words so destined? Anyway, in this kind of environment where normal life has a narrow escape from death, it’s my turn to be a guy like me who can’t be beaten to death and wears out steel and iron bones. Hello everyone, my surname is Qiang, and my nickname is Qiang. I can't beat the Taoist Master to death. Thanks to my love, I am going to soak in the sea of ​​ethereal fire...

Tavel glanced at me and opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. Firstly, she knew that in this environment, Xiling apostles above the leader level were the most suitable to take action. Secondly, in the Xiling tradition, there was no rule that "Your Majesty's holy body is precious and gold should not be taken lightly." As long as the value is sufficient, the reward is appropriate and the sacrifice is necessary. , the emperor running to fight the boss is just a multiple choice question. Of course, the more important thing is - I guess many people are used to their Emperor shaking his arms and having sex himself, because in many cases their Emperor can't do anything else except shaking his arms...

Sando pulled back her hair: "It seems that this is the only way. I have a plan: you and I will split into two groups. I will go in from the upper area and go directly to the computer room. The protection there is tight. The computer may not be completely destroyed. Maybe it will be destroyed." You can find some observation data; you go around the platform and enter directly from the lower area, look for the energy hub, and see if you can find any clues about the explosion site. Regardless of whether you find any clues about the explosion site, we will finally meet in the buffer unit in the middle. In addition, if you find the following The source of persistent psionic energy should be turned off as soon as possible. I always feel something is wrong: it has been so long and a buffer unit has been released once, but the energy reading below is still so high."

"The environment down there is dangerous, and contact has been lost for several hours. I don't know how bad it has deteriorated. Your Majesty, please be careful." As a Xiling apostle, Tavel will not say nonsense like "the dragon body is important" to stop him. Looking at the two of us, he just told us what to pay attention to below, "The platform structure diagram has been uploaded to you, but the main roads should have melted or collapsed. Only the No. 2 corridor in the upper area is away from the center of the explosion and should still be passable. The lower level district……"

Having said this, Tavel looked into my eyes and said regretfully: "Your Majesty, have you seen the red dot on this structural diagram? Just go straight in this direction and break through all the obstacles in the middle. The lower level There is no road left in the district, that’s the theory.”

I nodded and turned to Lin Xue, who had been silent next to me: "Girl Xue, let me tell you something."

The half-immortal rolled his eyes and looked at Shandora and I for a while: "Well, it's okay, good luck. Go in peace, I'm here to take care of things outside, so nothing will happen."

Although she always had this uneasy look, there was absolutely no need to doubt the eldest lady’s promise. I nodded and teleported directly to the control center with Sandora, observing the general situation of the platform as a whole.

Some of the damaged pipelines on the periphery that were splashing with energy jets have been dealt with urgently. When we came here before, we saw this platform continuously releasing blue "tongues of fire" that were several kilometers long. Now these are no less powerful than the main guns of battleships. The psionic energy jet has been significantly reduced in scale. This will allow large equipment and support ships to be closer to the control center more easily. A large number of autonomous machinery and small engineering ships were busy shuttling around the outside of the control center. Although they were never able to get inside, they at least prevented the platform structure from further collapsing. Seeing this scene, Shandora's expression softened slightly, and then nodded to me: "Then I'll set off first. Arjun, you must pay attention to safety and meet in the buffer unit."

Watching Sandora turn into a stream of light and rush towards the entrance of the upper area of ​​​​the platform, I also picked up my energy, bypassed this behemoth, and came to its bottom (maybe it can also be called the back?).

"Phew. This place is really bad." Seeing the situation on the ground floor, I couldn't help but mutter in my heart. I already felt it was quite miserable when I saw the upper area, and I was also a little bit worried about the worse situation in the lower area. Prepare, but when I saw the scene in front of me, I really felt that the upper level of the platform was so good in comparison, as if only two layers of paint had been rubbed off - half of the armor belt on the bottom level had been completely blown away by the big explosion! Even the huge metal beams inside were crushed into large balls of floc and thrown outside. They were barely connected to the main body with a little bit of metal melted into wires. It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as disemboweling.

This is the power of the core power furnace explosion.

The scene was bombed like this. It seemed that it was absolutely impossible to tell from the outside whether anything had hit the control center: even if there had been a bullet hole leading inside. It must have turned into gas clouds in space along with the armored belt.

Compared with other places that are busy with rescue operations, this place is quite desolate. Only three uncontrolled work boats are doing a better job of controlling the situation: Facing a large hole that has no repair value at all, the accident response team decisively gave up treatment.

I opened the shield and ignored the blue "sea of ​​fire" coming towards me. It rushed into the big hole like a bullet.

When the energy intensity around me suddenly increased several times, and after passing through a very obvious and substantial blue light barrier, I knew that I had entered what Tavel called the "lower energy accumulation zone", and the out-of-control psionic energy was unknown. Where can we get a steady stream of replenishment? A huge vortex is formed here, covering 80% of the lower area of ​​the platform like a flattened egg, and maintaining a stable but terrifying dynamic balance. . The high concentration of Nether causes everything in sight to be dyed a gorgeous but dangerous blue. Because the environment is unstable, these blue waters are constantly rippled, just like water. I flew past twisted and grotesque obstacles one after another, and highly charged metal slag deposited on the remaining support structures. It forms a spectacle like stalagmites in the stalactite cave. They look very beautiful, emitting blue light, like crystals. But as long as you receive a slight stimulation, you will...

"Boom!!!" A "stalagmite" dozens of meters long exploded. And it's very close to you. The oncoming high-energy crystal debris hits its own shield. Each impact is almost equivalent to a small kinetic energy missile, and they will continue to explode - this is the truly vicious side of those seemingly beautiful things. This should be the former site of the main energy supply road. This place was originally distributed with a large number of crystalline tube networks and metals with extremely high energy affinity (the latter are the main materials for facilities such as energy plugs), but now these things have They were melted and mixed together to form this "stalagmite cave" filled with blue light and deadly. After charging, the actual composition and properties of each "stalagmite" are the same as the warhead of the empire's general-purpose missile. Pretty much the same.

The situation inside the control center is really a mess. On the surface, it looks like it has calmed down, but there are constant explosions inside.

The "thickness" of the lower area is more than one kilometer, and I obviously can't really take the "straight path" like Tavel said, unless I plan to be bombarded all the way in, and look at the twists and turns of this place's "safe path" ", I think this journey... is quite long.

"Sandora, how is the situation over there?" I slowed down, trying to stay away from the surrounding metal slag clusters that had been charged to the point of explosion, and at the same time connected with Sandora's spiritual connection, "I Now we are advancing under a hail of bullets - everything that was originally in the energy pipes has been turned into bombs."

"As you can guess, those who are able work hard," Shandora heard the serious tone of my words but was quite relaxed and was not too worried. "Please check the old site of the output end of the energy furnace and the energy center protective cover to see if there are any clues. . I have reached the front of the computer room, but the protective wall of the computer room has automatically closed and is completely locked - I am digging hard."

"dig?"

"Well, use claws," Sandora said briskly, and I immediately imagined the scene of Her Majesty the Queen waving her abyssal claws to scratch and scratch the wall, "This claw is quite convenient. It is highly charged and ordinary cutting tools cannot be used at all, but the corrosive power of the claws does work."

Me: "Oh... then you dig slowly and I will move on."

After ending the communication, I continued to focus on the dangerous explosion zone in front of me. I had to be careful and it was best not to cause any explosions: although I might be more resistant to being beaten. But I'm afraid that the already unstable environment here will completely collapse. It seems that the progress on Sandora's side is much smoother than here. Unexpectedly, she has already arrived at the target door. It must be that the situation in the upper area of ​​​​the platform is much better than here.

Although the "stalactite cave" full of high-energy slag is troublesome, it has an end. After slowly advancing for a while, I finally found that the surrounding slag clusters began to decrease, and finally left this area that was almost crystallized. cave.

Looking at the control center platform structure diagram that Tavel sent me, I judged that I had crossed the underlying energy backbone network, and theoretically also crossed the protective layer between the energy hubs of the backbone network: I didn't see any protection along the way. layer. It was probably completely blown to pieces. Then the front should be the hyperspace energy output terminal, which is the former site of the "reactor".

I raised my head, and in front of me was a huge and twisted metal hollow. The metal plates with flowing water lines around them could no longer see their original appearance at all. And the so-called energy furnace...has nothing.

I remembered that Sandora asked me to come to the old energy furnace site to see the situation, and suddenly I felt that this goal might not be achieved...

"Sandora. I arrived at the old site of the energy furnace. There is nothing here - the entire reactor cabin is inflated like a balloon. There is only nether energy in it, and not even a scum can be seen."

As I spoke, I slowly floated forward. The energy environment around me put a lot of pressure on myself. Psionic energy - something that is not simply "energy" will exhibit symptoms when the density is extremely high. A large number of properties that are not energy. I feel like I am moving forward in a pool of molten iron that is about to solidify, with resistance all over my body. Once the psionic energy in this place suddenly transforms into matter, it may be a lot of fun: I may be buried alive by a large pile of strange matter. Bar.

Thinking about this possibility makes me more cautious. I did resist the beating, but I couldn't bear the nausea...

Sandora's voice came after a long time: "Then we can only hope that the energy center's protective shield is stronger."

I heard her voice was a little strange: "Are you in trouble over there?"

"Um...a small problem...the claw got stuck on the wall just now," Sandora said awkwardly, "It has been pulled out. The front of the fingernail is a little bald, I am polishing it off."

I:"……"

It is really not easy for Sandora to reveal her cute side.

Slightly enhanced the stability of the shield. I shook the scene of Sandora sharpening her claws on the ground out of my mind and continued to move forward. Now he has completed half of the journey, passing through the armored area and energy backbone network that were completely blown away, and arrived at the cabin where the hyperspace energy output terminal was once stored. We all know that the nether energy reactor is an energy device with a very special structure. Except for extremely small or special models, all nether energy generation devices are divided into two parts. One part is placed in the void and is called the "reaction core" or One part of the "reactor body" is the hyperspace-time modules that we usually see installed in various equipment, and are called output terminals. In order to make it easier to call it, we usually just call this output terminal the nether energy furnace - because its void part will never be turned on again after it is sealed, and will never appear in front of anyone. Normally when you are in the real world The nether energy furnace that comes into contact is essentially a time-travel device. The place where I am now once had a row of huge output terminals. Before they exploded, huge energy was first vented along the main pipe network to the entire platform, blowing up the platform. Then the protection device of the reactor failed, the reactor body collapsed, and a second energy shock occurred along the still surviving main trunk. The net set off a second platform explosion, and at the same time, the section containing the reactor was also affected by the shock wave. I must admit that this place is indeed very strong, because this cabin still retains most of the outer wall (although everything inside has been vaporized). I followed the information provided by Tavel to find the "passage" from the energy cabin to the upper area. I found that the gate of this passage was not blown away, but the shock wave of the explosion tore a large gap in the middle of the gate, which was enough for me to pass through.

...No, it doesn't look like it was torn apart by the blast wave.

I got closer and observed carefully. The crack in the gate was not a huge and radial crack like it was torn open by a shock wave, but a relatively "neat" hole, and the gate didn't seem to have any cracks. Suffering severe damage from the shock wave, the metal frame around it was slightly melted, but there was no trace of melt flow throughout the walls like other walls. In short, this place is not theoretically in the direction of the strongest explosion force, and it should not be torn open by such a hole.

If it wasn't torn apart by the shock wave, it could only be...

It was penetrated by some "thing"!

Could it be the culprit that caused the control center to be destroyed?

Although I don’t quite believe that something that can only create a hole with a diameter of several meters can destroy such a behemoth with a side length of several kilometers, but at least I saw a clue, a very obvious clue!

But there are clues, but finding the "super bomb" that penetrated four layers of armor and two layers of shields is a problem. Judging from the holes in the gate, the size of the thing will not be very large, and because All the facilities and isolation walls here have been destroyed. It is impossible for me to judge the "ballistics" of that thing just based on a hole in the gate, so I will probably have to search for the opposite side of the gate like a needle in a haystack later. Now I can only I hope it will be stronger and not be melted down by the powerful psionic environment here, but think about the terrifying "strength" of that thing breaking through so many layers of defense...

Probably not so fragile.