High Above

As Master Gosai said, the rock shell is about to collapse.

Ian raised his head, and he saw dense cracks spreading on the crystalline rock crust above his head, like tree branches, making disturbing creaking sounds.

However, behind the collapsed crystalline rock shell, a part of the steel giant structure and the fragile rock formations around the giant structure are exposed.

——The crystalline rock crust is a structure that is covered by the day after tomorrow... This place is not a completely natural rock formation!

"I see!"

Suddenly, the young man finally figured out what was going on in this rift valley: "The entire rift valley area is a cooling interface! These densely packed rivers extending in all directions are all cooling pipes from back then!"

From the very beginning, Ian felt that the terrain of this place was abnormal, not at all like a rift valley eroded out by the day after tomorrow.

Theoretically speaking, there should be only one channel for viewing and watching the running water here, which is the channel that everyone in Feiyandi walked through before, and the others are cooling channels.

But in the end, it was artificially widened and a huge insect nest was built.

The part where the insect nest is located was originally supposed to be a small purification device. After purifying a small part of the hot water, it will be sent out as ornamental running water to surround the entire base, while most of the other hot water will flow along the 'ψ The 'shaped pipeline is transferred to the cooling area, which is where the ice abyss of the relic is located, and then the pipeline of the ice abyss of the relic is transmitted to all the energy groups around the base as cooling water, and the cycle is repeated like this.

But as the relic system said, part of the power pack has been damaged, causing the cooling water to be polluted, and now it is absorbed by the mother insect as an energy source... Now that there is no one in the Sequoia Base, this kind of polluted water does not matter at all, it should be cooled Just go to cool down, AI should be able to make this judgment.

But the system has been tampered with by the Great Elder, and it has never been able to respond to this incident.

The worm nest removed the purification device, stuck the giant gate at the bottom, and then absorbed the energy and radiation from the cooling water.

The stuck Sequoia base cooling valve had a bug. It should be in a special situation of 'neither open nor closed'. It cannot be controlled by the remote control system, and the process can only be continued manually.

But who can complete the process under the attack of the worm nest? The former giant golden centipede should have been one of the maintainers, but it was still parasitized by brain-eating worms. It has been wandering in the ruins for many years. After the worm nest recovered, it became a tool for the mother worm.

The heat dissipation system of the entire ruins was therefore abnormal, just like the original intention of BUG - just a little bug made the huge base unable to operate, and some people modified it inside, which caused the entire system to shut down.

In essence, the rift is a cooling port that is not fully closed. The entire insect nest itself should be an extremely important "control device", a biological computer that has been "hacking the system" for so many years, affecting the Sequoia base. The judgment of the automatic control system on this place.

At this moment, Ian looked in the direction where the giant beast was fighting.

The fighting of the crystallized dragon, the giant eel, and the female worm was earth-shattering. Even if these giant beasts collide with each other here, they can have a certain impact on the geological structure, not to mention the area that was originally artificially shaped-the two sides of the rift are already like dominoes. The dominoes continued to collapse one after another, and the rock shell above the head also continued to fall.

The collapse of the rock shell will not cause any damage to the heat dissipation interaction valve and the insect nest, just like spreading a handful of sand can only cover them at most.

But the problem is that in this way, there is no way to blast the insect nest, so that the interface can continue to operate!

After all, the brain-eating insect mother was re-bred by various coincidences decades ago. This nest is not big, and it is easy to be destroyed and covered up.

Ian also understood why the White Mist Church attacked all monsters and forced them to retreat.

Because what he has to do is to avoid any impact on the bottom layer here, so that the insect nest will not be covered by many sandy rocks and protected.

"I'm going to destroy the worm nest now."

Immediately got up, Ian knew that there was no time to hesitate now, he picked up the explosive bag and carried it on his back, ready to go to the insect nest immediately.

Anyway, with Bishop Baiwu and Crystal Dragon entangled with the female worm, the situation is considered safe.

"good."

And Isengard did not hesitate, he gave Ian another bottle of his own blood, although his face was pale, but his expression was firm: "Be careful and safe, we will support you with artillery here..."

"Remember to drink the potion." Master Gesai was still debugging the alchemy module of the artillery. At this critical moment, he didn't talk nonsense: "I just thought that when using those explosives, you can use your 'that' inheritance to make With a cone-shaped structure, the destructive power of the explosives can be concentrated, which is more permeable!"

That inheritance is naturally Shakai's apprentice, and Master Gosser naturally didn't tell him Ian's identity. That's not a good thing, but it will harm the other party.

"Yeah." Ian nodded earnestly. Of course he knew how the structure of the armor-piercing projectile was able to shape explosives.

He took a step forward, jumped down towards the bottom of the rift, urged the fairy wings, and moved towards the insect nest like lightning.

But this action was also discovered by Patrick.

"You guys are actually here!"

Realizing his goal, the blond nobleman was stunned for a moment, but what followed was ecstasy—he thought that he would definitely fail this mission, but he never thought that Ian and the others were actually here.

He turned his head and noticed Isengard and Master Gosse on the other side. The man's eyes were complicated, but he had already made up his mind.

Patrick naturally wanted to stop Ian and the others from taking action... No matter what the other party wanted to do, he would stop it.

Even if they are definitely unable to survive, at least they must die together.

However, just as Patrick was about to come to attack Ian and the others, the Bishop of White Mist stood in front of him all the time, and Ian ran even faster after seeing the actions of the blond nobleman.

Even Master Gosai and Isengard began to take out various alchemy potions and began to use the buff state in front of him.

"Don't stop me, old man!"

After being blocked by Bishop White Mist one after another, Patrick yelled angrily, but he was emotionally excited, but he showed fighting skills that he had never shown before.

In other words, he learned from his friend, Viscount Grant's skills in order to stop him.

brush!

Electricity flickered all over his body, and he charged in mid-air. The mithril rapier in his hand struck towards Bishop Baiwu like thunder, making the old man have to dodge—but this bishop Huaiguang was extremely skilled in combat, and he was a master of art and bold. , while dodging sideways, still stretched out his hand, pressing on Patrick's side waist.

In the next moment, the majestic source of life will form an explosion, knocking Patrick back. Although this can't hurt the opponent protected by An Huazi, it is enough to give Ian a chance to continue his actions.

But what no one expected was that Bishop Baiwu's powerful palm hit directly through the black flesh-and-blood clothing.

—it was empty.

Only then did the old man show a slightly stunned expression. He took a closer look and found that Patrick was moving so fast just now that he even formed a phantom and flew towards the other side.

What he hit was indeed the Aether Armed Anhuazizhu, but it was only the Ether Arm, and the 'wearer' in it had already separated from the side and was flying towards Ian.

It's like a worm out of its shell.

Wow!

Anhua, who had lost its wearer and entered the form of erosion, entangled the right arm that Bishop Baiwu pierced through it, although before it was about to invade the flesh and blood, the old man quickly isolated it from his body with his own source quality, But he was also, indeed, entangled.

Even because of compatibility issues, this ether-armed sub-strain seems to be a little more difficult to deal with than when Patrick wore it.

—Is there no way to help? It was so decisive.

Bishop Baiwu didn't expect that someone would give up the ether armament, but he didn't know that Anhuazizhu could not pose a threat to Ian and Isengard, so he had a very high evaluation of Patrick's decisiveness: "If this is the case, there is no way gone."

"Light of Huaiguang—Apply for the use of psionic energy—[Psychic power] and [Spiritual communication]."

In an instant, two concentric circles of light, one blue and one gold, lit up in his eyes.

The blue light flickered, and Patrick's figure froze visibly to the naked eye, and invisible thought power restrained his body.

And at the same time, a faint old man's voice came from Ian's heart: [Ian, I am Bai Wu, the bishop of the Huaiguang Church in Port Harrison, and I know that there is a situation here that will cause the situation in Nanling to deteriorate in the future, and even The 'source of disaster' that caused a huge crisis to the entire world, so it has been looking for a way to enter the ruins. 】

【After on-the-spot investigation, I am sure that the huge lair in front of you and me is where the 'source of disaster in heaven and earth' is located in the church prophecy book. I realize that you also want to destroy it, but I must remind you that the real source of disaster is not the lair itself, but a will in this lair. 】

Because it is the exchange of consciousness, everything is just a moment.

——The prophecy written by Bishop Baiwu? The church does have prophetic psykers.

Ian sensed that someone was talking to him spiritually. He was no stranger to this feeling. He had a conversation with Wiggs once back then, so he immediately replied: "Isn't will the worm mother?"

"What's more, if it is really such a terrifying source of disasters in the world, why don't you send more priests to destroy it?"

[No, the worm mother is just a tool of that will, a derivative of its maliciousness. Although I don't know the reason, the news I received told me so. 】

And Bishop Baiwu calmly replied: [The will must be destroyed in order to completely destroy the insect nest, otherwise, its echo will linger in the control system of the ruins, and it will take a long time to dissipate. This cycle of natural disasters will continue. 】

[However, if we don’t even eliminate the worm nests and worm mothers, a terrible disaster will befall the continent of Terra, which is a disaster for all living beings...Of course, it may not be so terrible. There are two possibilities, one is harmless, one is enough to destroy the world, but we don't know why, which is rare, we have never encountered such a situation before. 】

[As for why not send more priests, the answer is actually very simple. 】

[Because this world is full of various causes of destruction, this place is not the most important one. The apostles of Huaiguang are scattered all over the land, and they all have their own missions when they walk and stay. 】

[The only certainty is that our current strength is sufficient to stop all of this, as long as we handle it properly. 】

Bishop White Mist's voice carried clear denial, and was unexpectedly confident—this kind of inexplicable confidence Ian was very familiar with.

That is obvious, derived from the self-confidence of the prophet.

No need to guess, it was the prophecy psychic inheritors in the Huaiguang Church who predicted the disaster in Nanling and told Bishop Baiwu that everyone today could prevent future disasters.

As for why the other party could not predict the reason, it may be because Ian is also a prophet, and he was involved in this matter... It is impossible for prophets to predict each other. Even if they can, there will be many more vague elements, making Prophets cannot see the future through their own abilities.

Moreover, the prediction of the Huaiguang Church is different from Ian's prophetic vision. It can directly reveal the source of the source of the disaster and the level of power required to solve it, but other than that, there is no redundant information.

The method and tendency of each prophet are different. Huaiguang's side is obviously the one with only the result but no process. Presumably the person who has awakened this kind of prediction ability simply wants to know what the world will encounter in the future. What disasters, and put an end to these disasters as soon as possible.

Therefore, Bishop Baiwu can only use his own methods to collect clues and reach the interior of the ruins to investigate, in order to know the reason.

And the words of the old man also made Ian fall into deep thought: "The female worm is just a tool of that will? Let me think about it, the brain-eating worm was originally a brain-attached slug...a brain-attached..."

"Could it be that?!"

Ian was startled. He looked at the insect nest with blank eyes: "The will of the great elder is still alive?"

"No, it's impossible... His soul is dead!"

"However, if it's an echo... a creature with an echo of the Great Elder's memory!"

At this moment, the prophetic horizon swept across the entire lair.

Ian did indeed see a breath of life.

A dark blue mist quietly located in the center of the lair!

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