Thomas Gilbert continued:

“Second, starting from today, you must remember to carry a gun when you go out.

Third, don't fall into the sea, or I won't be able to catch you.

Fourth, tonight, after you finish dealing with little Michael, come to Area D-2 and call me."

Jack Gilbert said excitedly:

"Are you going to expand your business?"

Thomas Gilbert nodded, pulled out the drawer, took out a bottle of rum and two wide-mouth glasses, poured out the wine, and handed the glass containing the light golden rum to his brother.

After Jack Gilbert took the glass, Thomas Gilbert raised his glass:

"Everything takes orders from the Razorbacks."

The two clinked their glasses and drank it all.

…

…

‘That place can’t be used to raise barnacle-eating monsters...’

'The entire bottom engine, from the outside to the inside, the first layer is the sewer, the second layer is the mechanical plank road, then the third layer should be able to reach the core of the bottom engine?'

'The mucus should be something similar to digestive enzymes, but stronger than digestive enzymes and can corrode metals that are not too hard.'

She looked at the pool in surprise. She lay down on the mechanical plank road that seemed to be relatively stable around the pool and looked down, but she couldn't see anything.

'The fish, shrimps, crabs and barnacles that died in the energy supply cabin are the energy to be supplied, which is bioenergy... Could it be that they are raising extraordinary creatures as [battery], and then use these extraordinary creatures to provide power for the mechanical hive?

Levitation power?'

She returned to the [Universal Channel] and entered the "Sonar Control Room".

This department is like some kind of laboratory, but there are not as many experimental instruments as in ordinary laboratories. In the center of the spacious hall, there are holographic projections of Dais Island and the surrounding sea areas. Various data in each sea area are accurately recorded.

Marked on the holographic projection, those data are constantly changing with the fluctuation of the waves.

Fortunately, there are detailed annotations on the three-dimensional line graph, so I can easily understand that the annotated data is the change of sound waves emitted by the sonar pulse system.

She simply checked one by one:

She first entered the "Energy Supply Cabin" and found that it was the "sewer" she had just visited.

'Oh rub!'

‘Why pay attention to the tides?

Is it to determine the state of the moon through tides?

Strange sound waves that do not carry extraordinary power penetrate the maintenance valve and reach directly into it.

The sound of the rusty machine rotating and the sound of barnacles falling to the ground sounded together. Desire stepped into the door and saw a bottomless pool inside.

'Good guy! No wonder the waters under the mechanical hive haven't given birth to any deformed monsters yet. It turns out that it's because there is such a passage, so the ecological environment has not been particularly seriously damaged!'

She walked along the mechanical plank road in the direction of the center. After walking for a while, she saw a door with "For Maintenance Personnel Only" on it.

'I'm afraid of a hammer! I'm invisible!'

She was walking on the mechanical plank road, recalling what she saw in the sewer, and thought to herself:

'This kind of thing...should be the product of some kind of incomplete digestion.'

Wishes realized that outside the huge glass in front of her, the seemingly empty dark water was actually the "Ocean Current Docking Channel" bound by some kind of power. On the one hand, it introduced part of the ocean current into the bottom of the mechanical hive to clean up domestic garbage.

, on the other hand, lead these ocean currents containing domestic garbage out and re-enter the main body of the ocean current.

When I wish to walk on the mechanical plank road, I feel like there are countless green eyes staring at her.

Finally, she came to a door that was covered in barnacles.

She put her hands on the wall, but couldn't feel what was happening on the other side of the wall.

Wishful remembered that she had seen a special liquid in a certain large area of ​​the universe. That liquid had some properties similar to amniotic fluid, and at the same time had some ability similar to a [space conductor] - this liquid could

Exists in different spaces, and is loved by a certain life form whose transliteration is [Chanduo].

'Actually, the place I just walked through cannot be regarded as a sewer, because there is no domestic garbage there, and all that can be found there are digested seafood residues... But if it is not a sewer, what is it used for?

'

He recalled the sound he just heard, and his whole body was horrified. He hurriedly returned to repair the valve and repressurized the valve.

It is also because of the passage of sea water that this small mechanical plank road is covered with barnacles. I don’t know what kind of barnacles it is, but it looks like a green eye.

About 5 meters above and below the mechanical plank road are identical mechanical plank roads.

Experimenters wearing electrostatic isolation suits were observing around the holographic projection, recording and calculating data. Xixi stood behind the experimenters and watched for a long time, but did not understand what they were calculating.

The maintenance valve is set up to deal with emergencies and is opened from the inside out. However, the wish side is "outside", so the maintenance valve cannot be opened by normal means.

At this moment.

The look and feel of this department is completely different from before. Seventy percent of the huge space is covered with glass, and beyond the glass is the dark water. People standing in front of this huge piece of integrated glass are like tiny ants.

A maintenance man wearing a yellow protective suit appeared behind the door. He looked into the dark sewer with a searchlight, but saw nothing.

She looked at the huge circular wall inside the sewer cavity.

'No wonder... no wonder the uncontrolled discharge of domestic sewage and sewage in the entire mechanical hive has not caused ecological collapse! It turns out that it was carried away by the ocean current!'

"Energy Supply Cabin", "Tide Observation Room", "Sonar Control Room", "Suspension Core", "Ocean Current Docking Channel"...

She spiraled upward along the mechanical plank road, and the road in front of her became increasingly rusty. It seemed that seawater often passed through here.

On the other hand, Desire found that not only could he not find the way to go down, he could not even find the way to go back.

Fortunately, wishes can fly without coming into contact with these things.

From this point of view, this "Extended Observer" laboratory is actually the infrastructure of the high-level mechanical hive [lunar orbit matrix].'

Wishes inspected these inorganic objects and found a large number of broken snail shells and some barnacles that had been mutated due to contamination.

She returned to the [Universal Channel] and entered the "Ocean Current Docking Channel".

She walked along the sewer pipe that spiraled downwards. She walked downward for an unknown amount of time until she finally saw a maintenance valve.

She suddenly thought of a possibility, and then her mind was shaken.

The next moment, the sound of deflation of the air pressure valve came from inside the valve, and the valve was opened immediately.

'Look again...'

Wishful thought, this is the same as the external structure of the engine at the bottom of the mechanical hive. The bottom of the entire mechanical hive can be regarded as a cone with the tip pointing downward and a large bottom area. The mechanical plank road she is seeing now is this cone.

The internal structure of the body.

'The ocean current is obviously next to Dais Island, how could it be under Dais Island...the ocean current docking channel...couldn't they have guided part of the ocean current into the bottom of Dais Island?!'

Wishes probably knew that the mechanical hive used some kind of [power conversion technology], which could use the power generated by the water flow to make the mechanical hive float above the sea water, and she could probably guess that this technology came from some outside god - the same point

An alien god appeared in a certain aspect of the technology tree. She came here just to confirm the identity of that alien god.

Desire comforts itself and automatically filters out the fact that some supernatural beings have the ability to cause harm to spirits.

She opened the unlocked door, and a [universal passage] suddenly appeared in front of her eyes - very similar to the passage she had seen in the upper area of ​​the mechanical hive before. There were many [doors] on both sides of this passage, and there were stickers on each door.

The department that the passage behind this door leads to——

At this moment, part of the memory as the spirit of the universe revived.

[Chanduo] is obsessed with this liquid, and has evolved with this liquid over the long years - [Chanduo] has the ability to control liquid as a [space conductor], and the liquid has become [Chanduo]'s habitat.

In the homeland, wherever the liquid is, there must be a tribe of Chan Duo.

At this moment, desire has entered the [bottom engine] of the entire mechanical hive.

Judging from the three-dimensional linear diagram and the engineering tasks marked next to it, the sonar of the mechanical honeycomb core engine will emit sound waves once every day at 12 noon to attract surrounding fish schools.

"boom!"

She grabbed the door handle and pulled hard——

There are two mechanical plank roads in front of me extending to the left and right sides. The surface of the mechanical plank road is hollow, so I hope that I can easily see the areas above and below through the surface of the plank road——

"It's so evil..."

The dark hollow in front of him showed an obvious spiral structure. The cylindrical cave wall was covered with dense barnacles and various seaweeds that could not be named. The hollow was filled with rich ammonia gas. This ammonia gas was not

It comes from domestic garbage, but from some kind of inorganic matter covered with mucus.

'The mechanical plank around the bottom engine is a spiral structure.'

She kept repeating this sentence for a full three hours before footsteps finally came from behind the maintenance valve.

'Sure enough, they are raising something.'

She suddenly raised her head, looked into the dark void, and shuddered.

'It's not that I can't see it, it's that there's really nothing in it!'
To be continued...