Chapter 49： Where the pipe network converges

(Thanks to An Ren Wuqing, brothers 08A, and Lianfeng Linmeng's recommendation ticket.

I have to read the acceptance speech every time I post a chapter, it seems to be nagging~ Well, should I add thanks to CCAV in the end? ~laugh~)

"Oh my God... a lot!" After a long while, Howson sighed in the communicator.

Tang Fang swallowed, staring blankly at the black bat demon on the ceiling at the end of his sight. He was speechless for a long time. Calculating from the density alone, I am afraid there are not more than 200.

Aros moved his neck: "What should I do?"

"What should I do? I have to say it." As soon as the voice fell, the assault force composed of fanatics, machine gunners and marauders appeared in front of the three.

is still the pioneer of fanatics, raiders, machine gunners behind the palace, along the gap between the three rows of large mechanical modules, the flood generally flooded forward.

Hausen didn't wait for Tang Fang to greet him, roared, and shook off his swollen arms, and ran forward with a twist and twist. Tang Fang and Aros shook their heads in the same way and followed.

The chaotic footsteps echoed in the empty hall, and the bat demon group on the ceiling also found menacing invaders in the distance. After the initial disturbance, they stabilized and did not attack these uninvited guests.

"What's the matter?" Tang Fang frowned, feeling a little strange.

Aros is also puzzled. According to past experience, these low-intellectual bat monsters will launch an overwhelming offensive without waiting for enthusiasts to approach. What happened this time? Actually dormant: "That's weird!"

When the two were stunned, Howson interspersed among the long-range troops and has gradually approached the bat monsters. The machine gunmen with a long range in the front row have opened fire, and countless metal nails pierced the sky, bringing forth bursts of sharp sonic booms, like arrows rain. Generally fall on the bat demon group, bringing a rain of blood.

The Judger's grenade dragged a silver-white tracer in the air, hail hit the center of the bat monster group, and exploded countless dazzling fragments like flowers.

The wounded bat demon fell like dumplings, and what awaited them was the **** slaughter of fanatics.

The bat demon group exploded, and the commotion spread uncontrollably. Some chose to counterattack, but with their range, they were not the opponents of the C-14 "Piercing" Gauss rifle at all. A round of volleys turned into large showers spewing blood.

There are also some who choose to attack enthusiasts. As the intestines under the two tentacles squirm, pools of dark green strong acid solution are sprayed from the sky, splashing waves on the light blue plasma shield like ripples. , And then was evaporated.

There are more and more corpses in the underground, and the panic is like a plague, spreading in the monster group, a few bat monsters fling into the distance with their fleshy wings, they are afraid!

One by one, with little effort, more and more bat monsters choose to follow the wind and flee.

Tang Fang frowned, don't look at everything as expected, but suddenly there was a strange emotion in his heart that was inexplicable, and he felt as if he was stared at by a pair of eyes hidden in the dark, like a man on his back. , Seems to be in the throat.

"Haha, don't run!" Howson raised the K-12 quadruple grenade launcher in his hand. The judge's grenade kissed the **** of the bat demon falling behind for no money, rich in neurotoxin and shock energy. The fragments caused their speed to drop sharply, and they were fired in a round by the machine gunners from behind, and they fell from mid-air with a scream.

Aros, who was walking side by side with Tang Fang in the back, was still so sad and expressionless, but if you look closely, you can find a touch of worry that occasionally flows through his eyes.

Hausen chased a few steps forward, and came to an open area where crystal pipes and ultra-long diodes were intertwined, and he suddenly stopped and stopped.

"Tang... Tang Fang, I suddenly felt a very bad feeling."

"Do you feel it too?" Tang Fang's voice was low and hoarse.

Hausen pointed to a wall beside him: "There seems to be something in it!"

"There is something? What!" Tang Fang and Aros also rushed over at this time.

The cone-shaped machinery and equipment similar to large particle colliders all the way suddenly cut off. Looking along the direction of the bat demon fleeing, this open area stretched to the end of the line of sight, only to be blurred. Some new mechanical modules.

The crystal pipes and ultra-long diodes that can be hugged by three people converge in the center of an open area nearly a kilometer away, their trend changes suddenly, and they sink into the gap in the left wall.

"Huh?" Tang Fang glanced across the wall on the left, and suddenly found a huge ε character on the surface of the wall where the pipe network converges: "This is... a door?"

He greeted the two of them to come closer to the engraved rune. Howson looked around the wall and couldn’t help but slapped a spirit. A chill surged from the soles of his feet: “Tang Fang, you can think clearly that the things behind this give me a very A weird feeling."

Tang Fang didn't say a word, his eyes were straight at the ε character that was ten meters square and gleamed like mercury.

Unlike Aros and Howson, in addition to having a bad feeling, he also has an indescribable restlessness in his heart, as if something is calling him inside.

Looking at the three people and the soldiers of the gods who were clustered behind him, he glanced at the Zerg unit in the system interface, and the resource value soaring to 5810 and 3670, Tang Fang gritted his teeth and pressed his hand on it.

there is always a solution to a problem. With so many combat units and a lot of savings to squander, even if he encounters a team of statue guards, he is confident that he can handle it. Taking a step back, can't beat? You can escape!

It can be seen from the trend of the pipe network that the room at the end of the door must be very important. Since the psionic energy fluctuations guarded by the statue can activate the technology of the gods, there is a higher-level psionic core in the security.

If it's a "star gate", wouldn't it be a big profit?

"I can't bear the ticket and can't get Mei Jiao Niang." A word, spelled it out.

The palm of the hand is getting closer and closer to the character, and Aros and Howson are ready to fight, and each takes up their weapons.

However, before Tang Fang's hand touched the ε character, a faint blue streamer flashed by, the rune turned and the door opened.

The three of them were startled, and couldn't help but step back.

After a few breaths, there was no danger that he had imagined. Tang Fang looked up, and through the nearly 20-meter-high rune gate, one could see layers of precision machinery, like the top of the ancient Roman arena. The grandstand is generally surrounded by an energy cover surging with sky blue light waves.

After confirming that there is no danger for the time being, the three cautiously crossed the rune gate.

This is an 800-meter square room, and the distance between the ceiling and the ground is nearly one kilometer.

The pipe network surging with golden flames and purple lightning passed through the rune gate, traversed hundreds of meters, and finally injected from top to bottom into the central energy shield.

The place where the three of Tang Fang entered the door was on the upper floor of the building. Numerous precision instruments were arranged in a ring shape and contracted downward in a trapezoidal slope, passing through the circular energy cover that occupies almost half of the room and the layered mechanical room. Looking down from the narrow gap, under the faint blue background light, the control panels of each console flashed with colorful lights, like the Milky Way star belt under the night.

The energy cover with a diameter of four hundred meters, hundreds of layers of ladder equipment modules, neon-like seven-color light reflected on the energy cover. Magnificent! Magnificent!

The three of them were stunned. Even a guy like Aros who is not interested in anything can't help but explode: "DAMNIT, what the **** are the Ypsilons doing here!"

"Tang Fang, the door...the door is closed." Just as Tang Fang looked moved, Howson suddenly pulled him and pointed to his back.

The two looked back, and the rune door that had been opened earlier closed at some point.

Tang Fang's face sank, he stepped forward and put his hand on the ε character. There was no movement, and the one-meter-thick rune gate remained motionless.

"We are locked in." After finishing speaking, he looked to the sides again, but did not find the control panel that could control the opening and closing of the door.

"Look, there is also a door on the opposite side."

Looking along the direction of Howson, it turned out that there was an identical rune gate directly opposite. Similarly, countless pipe networks entered from outside the gate and finally gathered into the central energy shield.

"Sure enough, this room filled with precision instruments is the central hub, where those materials like energy flow converge."

Taking a deep breath, Tang looked towards Aros, but saw that he turned a blind eye to the rune gate on the other side, his eyes focused on the energy shield.

"Aros, what are you looking at?"

"Tang Fang, look carefully at the pipes that go through the ceiling."

When Tang Fang heard the words and looked up, he saw transistor channels, ultra-long "diodes", and numerous cable-like hoses on the pipe network, and dark red organic matter pipes similar to the intestines of the centipede we saw from the bottom of planet 5 passed through. The energy shield, reaching the roof, is intertwined into a cobweb-like structure, and there are densely packed, numerous holes of different sizes on the ceiling that is difficult to damage by guns. What is even more amazing is that they are constantly creeping, just like alive. Things are average.

"We seem to have come to an incredible place. Perhaps this Nami star has an unusual meaning to the Ypsilon clan." Aros spit out a mouthful of steaming and tumbling smoke, and said quietly.

Hausen hit the rune gate with a punch: "Is it useful to say so much? What we have to worry about right now is how to get out."

"Since it comes, let it rest." Tang Fang glanced at the two of them: "Go, go down."

"Why?" Howson asked.

Tang Fang glanced at him obliquely, but did not answer. After recalling the combat unit, he stepped towards the lifting platform not far away.

Aros also gave him a sideways glance, took his gun on his back, and followed him.

"Am I stupid to ask this question?" Howson looked at the back of the two going away and couldn't help sighing.

……

About 5 minutes later, the lifting platform slowly slowed down, and slowly stopped at the bottom of the room. The three people walked down and walked slowly to the front high platform.

The so-called control center is far from the human-computer interaction interface similar to the ship control platform in the imagination, but a psionic flame suspended in the air and surrounded by countless strange characters.

On both sides of the cold flame, there are strips of silky silver silk flying like cotton.

"Hey, what is this." Howson was curious about the baby's problem again. Before Tang Fang could speak, he stretched out the hand that caused countless incidents toward the central flame.

"Idiot, why don't you think there is not enough trouble?"

The lesson from the past is first, this room already gives people a very depressive and dangerous feeling. Aros is afraid that this guy will continue to commit two acts, and almost 80% of his attention is on the hand that wants to chop it off and throw it to the dog. . Howson is quicker, he is quicker, grabbing the former's wrist directly, and taking the opportunity to leave.

"Ah..." A pig-killing scream came: "Aros, what are you doing?"

"Huh, save your life!"

Tang Fang turned a blind eye to the dispute between the two around him, and his full attention was focused on the psychic flames in front of him. It was only at this moment that he was sure that the fluctuations that he felt before, similar to the spiritual calling, came from before him. This psychic flame.

Along the way, after seeing these mechanical facilities in the ruins, he suddenly felt a very absurd feeling.

From the point of view of mechanical manufacturing technology alone, the technology of the Ypsilon people can be said to be very similar to human technology, but they are very different in key points, such as the flame-shaped control center in front of them.

If you have to describe it intuitively, Epsilon’s technology seems to be a combination of the characteristics of the human and gods in StarCraft, forming a very special grotesque style.

Why would a race develop two completely different technological styles? What the **** does this happen?

Tang Fangming thought about it for a long time, until the two people next to him stopped arguing, then he recovered, shook his head and gave a wry smile.

Just like the question of "How did the Ypsilon people disappear?" UU reading has been studied and debated by countless experts and scholars for more than two hundred years, but even a certain clue has not been found yet.

As a layman, why waste time, energy, and entangled in this kind of issue.

Thinking of this, he didn't bother to think about it, and just removed the armor module on his arm.

Hausen watched him remove the armor on his hands, and then stretched out his hands toward the psionic flame.

"Hey, Aros, why do you only stop me and not him?"

After waiting for a long time without seeing Aros answer, Howson turned his head and saw that the middle-aged veteran was looking at the circular energy shield on his head with horror.

Hausen subconsciously raised his head and saw that when the horrible scene in the sky came into view, he couldn't help taking a breath, his sharp abdomen flew all the way, almost freezing the two waists into ice balls.

The energy mask is rapidly dissolving at a speed that can be discerned by the naked eye. Through the thinner and lighter light blue screen, I saw a sarcoma-like behemoth, slowly opening its scarlet monocular that occupies most of the body. , Cast a cold gaze towards the place where the three of them stood.

"Tang Fang, what have you done!"

In the sound of Howson’s roar, Tang Fang drew back his outstretched hands like an electric shock, subconsciously frowned and replied, “I didn’t do anything.”

After finishing, he seemed to feel the atmosphere was different, and couldn't help but take a look. In an instant, Baihui acupoint was numb, and his scalp exploded.

(4,000-word chapters, it’s not easy to split two chapters, post them together, and no more at night.)