What Yang Hao said is indeed important, at least there is some evidence in front of him. However, Lu Ning knew that this was not the "fact" that Pang Xu said, because this kind of thing could be verified even if he didn't come here specifically.
She climbed up the rock and came to the fire door.
"If it were a door, it should connect to something."
Lu Ning's fingers slowly moved toward the center of the two fire pillars. The moment she passed between the flames, an invisible pulling force pulled her towards the door. The warm fire immediately surrounded Lu Ning. , she seemed to be in a ray of light, and countless scenes appeared in the light, including wild beasts in dense forests, agricultural civilization that had just begun, modern cities, and rockets taking off into space...
All this was not perceived with her eyes, but another special feeling, which made her feel as if she were the planet.
In countless fantasies, some black creatures came from the universe. They were powerful, but just as the star entered the barren period of life, these creatures established some residences on the ground and underground. Then they drove spaceships to attack the entire galaxy. "Transformation" was carried out to create a more suitable environment for the life of the star to flourish, and then new life began to be created here.
Brand new species were born and gradually spread across the entire planet, but the powerful creatures were not satisfied. They were looking for something, and they continued to dig, invent, and try to stimulate the potential of those creatures. The entire planet became their testing ground. , the fire of civilization that was supposed to be rekindled after a reincarnation was thus eliminated.
The planet could not notice this, let alone feel sad. But in the haze, some experimental biological "waste" began to be deposited underground. Natural instinct began to decompose these, trying to get everything back on track, but some creatures could not satisfy those powerful creatures. However, it could not die out for a long time. Gradually, no one knew who merged with whom. The evolutionary genes remaining in the cells began to be able to trace back the characteristics that once killed them, and in their own survival ability New features begin to emerge.
During this period, those creatures were naturally aware of it, but they gathered in groups and were ecstatic, as if this was exactly what they needed.
[Work begins. 】
From the moment they heard this signal, all the creatures on the planet felt the resonance and began to distort their shapes. Powerful creatures began to leave, but leaving could not change anything - "all living things" on the planet, of course including them.
"Humans from another nebula...open your eyes."
Lu Ning woke up from the warm memories she was immersed in, and suddenly felt a sense of heat. If she could feel the heat, it meant that the ambient temperature had already reached a point where it could roast someone to death.
She stood on a cliff, with a fire door behind her and a lava lake below. Some lifeforms made of magma are walking along the lakeside, and each one shows abnormally high energy in the detector, so high that it can be classified as B level based on energy alone.
In the lake, countless lava pillars formed a spherical net in the center. The size of the net was at least twenty meters in diameter. A skeleton like an earth dragon crouched in the net, with a skull attached to it. A ball brighter than a lake of lava. Magma was flowing out of the ball, and the sound Lu Ning felt was also transmitted from that direction.
"Here...I'm sorry. Are you a 'phantom core'?"
Lu Ning turned off the detector with the crazy alarm. At this time, she was teleported directly to the base camp. It was impossible to fight. Any B-level below could deal with her.
"How interesting...the last human seems to have promised to dissuade other humans from coming again."
"He has done it, but he can't stay here forever and stop everyone in the future."
"Humans' rules are different from ours. It doesn't matter. Being exposed to things we don't understand can help us learn something. So, what do you want?"
Lu Ning was a little confused for a moment as to what the phantom core was about, as if it was asking him to make a wish.
"Uh...I just saw something."
"Memories from the depths of the earth's veins can trigger some biological instincts, but that's all. This planet has acquired some biological characteristics, but it has not turned into a living thing after all."
"Excuse me, does this mean that Phantom Star is alive to some extent?"
"You can say that." The magic core lifted up a lava flow and formed a sunken figure on the lake. "But there is no need to worry, it doesn't even have self-awareness, not even as good as a cell."
Lu Ning glanced sideways at the fire door behind her. After such a long time, no second person came out of the fire door.
"It's random."
Phantom Core said immediately.
"The Lava Gate is my external neural network, which enables long-distance communication and transmission through leyline interaction, but without my positioning, all transmissions are random."
Lu Ning instantly thought of the two near her outpost.
"You are spreading this network all over the magic star... No, why have you still not spread it all over the magic star after so long?"
"How long...?" Huan He asked.
Lu Ning was speechless.
"Occasionally some of the children responsible for extending my reach will die, but they will soon return to the earthfire and be conceived again. This is not difficult."
The indentations in the lake slowly merge into the lava and disappear.
"Maybe it's a long time for you? I don't quite understand your time. Because the last person just promised me not to let anyone in, and you came here. I thought he broke his promise."
This "just now" was at least fifteen years ago, maybe even further ago.
There is no point in arguing about this here, so Lu Ning asked tentatively: "Then can you tell me what the last person talked to you about?"
"He talked a lot and was very sincere. What's important? He wanted treatment, but I didn't know how to treat it, so he quickly accepted it and proposed another method, isolation."
Pang Xu took the initiative to propose isolation?
Lu Ning silently remembered this information and continued to ask: "What does he want to treat?"
"The difference in naming makes our understanding different. He calls it... Phantom Star Syndrome, that's the name. There is no doubt that this is a very dangerous thing for them, but I don't understand it, so I can't treat him. "
Why does it sound like the conversation between the two parties was quite friendly? Although the current performance of Phantom Core is relatively easy to talk about, Lu Ning does not really feel that there is no danger.
"According to the information he left behind, if we insist on coming here, he and you will become enemies of us. But according to my observation, even if I came here, you did not show any hostility."
"I... don't need it." Phantom Core started magma painting again, "You didn't show any harm."
She had already killed a group of door openers and gatekeepers outside. How could this be considered harmless? It seems that the thinking of this group of A-level fantasy beasts is too different from that of humans.
"The human did tell me that in order to prevent more children from being killed, he would do his best to destroy the alien lifeforms that penetrated deep here. He said a lot of powerful things, which sounded very reasonable, so I agreed... too Just by agreeing, he seemed to really feel that I understood."
Lu Ning sighed secretly, maybe this was the legendary fool who had a high IQ.
The phantom core can indeed communicate with humans and understand the meaning of some words, but the gap between the thinking of A-level phantom beasts and humans is really too big. Pang Xu used human negotiation methods to convince the other party, which is why he got such an unreliable Promises may be more of wishful thinking.
"Then, did he talk about the Phantom Star Syndrome?"
"He called it a series of changes in the human body caused by a series of phantom star reactions. As for the more detailed description, I have not remembered it. But I don't understand what he is talking about. Is it a change in himself? Is it that he entered the phantom star? Is it a natural cycle? I don’t know what he is nervous about.”
These words made Lu Ning suddenly realize that the phantom core seemed to be able to conduct some kind of spying.
"So are there similar changes in my body?" She asked directly.
"Of course, all the creatures on the Phantom Star have this talent. This is the source of our survival and evolution. You should be happy about it, right?" Phantom Core answered matter-of-factly.
"This talent? Can you explain it to me a little bit? We actually don't understand it at all."
After Lu Ning said these words, Huan He was a little surprised.
"You are emotionally stable."
"Any questions?"
"The last person was very smart. The calmness brought by his wisdom allowed him to talk to me in an organized manner, but I could see the fear and tension in his heart. This emotion can be suppressed but it does not mean it disappears. And even if you just When I heard the news, I didn’t have much emotion. At most, I was...surprised?"
Could there be more? As long as she can return to the distribution center, she will definitely be able to treat herself. If she cannot return, she will definitely die here. Lu Ning does not have to worry about the subsequent impact of this disease on herself.
"Maybe my mental quality is better. This shouldn't be a bad thing, right?"
"No, you will become stronger." There was a smile in the voice of Phantom Core, and then he said, "Is this talent you were asking about just now? It is very simple. It is the power of environmental adaptation and mutation that every living thing has. They are all present at the earliest. Even if there are outsiders, we can make corresponding changes through rapid learning, and organisms will enter the information they carry into every contact with them through natural backflow. "
"You too?"
"We can already control ourselves. We don't need to deliberately contact nature. Of course, I have more responsibilities, and regulating this valley is one of them... Everyone doesn't need to be the same, everyone just needs to maintain their own state."
"How many other beings are as powerful as you on this planet?"
"There will be some children around us who are unwilling to leave. They evolve themselves by absorbing the natural life flow. I know there are many more, but it's a pity that everyone doesn't like to talk. What you can't see are the characteristics we have acquired. There’s more to it than you think.”
Lu Ning instantly thought of the specimens in the Ranger building, as well as the observers who later perished. The outsiders and the technology they carried have probably become the food for natural evolution here. On this fantasy star... and even in the galaxy The city may breed a large number of monsters.
"I will try to be polite to you all."
"Etiquette means nothing to us. Whether you respect us or not will not change our views." After the lake gradually returned to calm, Phantom Core began to draw the third picture, "Do you have any requirements? Like the last human being. ?”
"No, it's a waste of time to convince you." Lu Ning shook her head, "Finally, I want to ask, when that person finally left, how did he leave? Where did he go?"
"Are you worried about how you will go back? Turn around and enter the fire gate, and I can take you back to where you came from. As for that person, he only said that he would go to an isolated place."
"That's enough to know, thank you."
Lu Ning looked at the gradually calming lake surface, turned around and stretched out her hand towards the fire door again.
"Ah, there are a lot of humans here." She heard the voice of the phantom core and felt the pulling force of the door at the same time.
Being sent away faster by the phantom core, Lu Ning did not have time to have hallucinations this time and returned to the outside with the gray and black sky. As soon as she suddenly appeared, several people outside immediately stood up and pointed their weapons at her.
"Don't try to murder the captain... Oh, White Fox, are you staying here too?" Lu Ning looked at the remaining five people, Bayonet, Spider Silk, Kong Gu, Recorder and White Fox.
"The captain is afraid that I will be sent to a poisonous gas area and die suddenly." Bai Hu sat down again with a straight face, and the remaining few gathered around.
"Captain, everyone has gone in to look for you, but now there is no news!" Bayonet said a little anxiously.
"They should all have gone underground. The shallow layer may be okay, but it will be dangerous if they enter the deep layer. It is useless for us to wait here, and we can't continue to use the fire escape. We need to find a cave to go down and send an authentication signal to let them take the initiative to find it. Just come back."
Lu Ning raised her arm and turned on the team identity authentication. There was no message on the signal feedback, indicating that she was not around.
"Can we still move around? We definitely won't go deep, and we have to avoid those powerful phantom beasts. If we can't keep up, we can rest here. There will probably be no phantom beasts coming for a while."
None of these people will be left behind.
"Okay, then pack your gear and let's go."
Lu Ning reopened the helmet's detector, cut out a display screen, and pasted three pictures on it.
Is the picture that Phantom Core painted with magma while speaking a deliberate act? And does the content in the picture have meaning? They look very chaotic, but if you look at it from another angle, they may be such chaotic things themselves.
It doesn't feel like it constitutes any graphics, which means that the lines are not used to compose the picture. Thinking about it this way, these pictures are more like maps.
"I hope so." Lu Ning whispered.
At this time, under the cover of the gray sky, Lu Ning did not know that there were more than a dozen flames of spaceships taking off around the Phantom Star. The teams of Natural Evolution, Cosmic Defense, and Sonic Jazz finally chose the space exploration The team has already taken off and is flying to other planets in the galaxy.
