Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 330 The Egg of the Void
Humidity, smell, darkness, these are the most intuitive feelings in the "pothole".

The resurrected prosthetic "miner" is different from the corpses around him. His purpose is to detect the secrets in the "pit".

He wants to know whether the underground of this planet is the egg of some kind of creature, as the "Dead Foreman" said.

The pothole is filled with thick poisonous gas, and normal life must wear heavy protective clothing if it wants to work here. This is undoubtedly another unnecessary expense for the company, and it is no wonder that everyone working in such a place It's a corpse.

However, if this is the case, the corpses exposed to such a concentration of poisonous gas will quickly rot, and the muscle tissue will fall off in large areas, and it will not last long.

However, this kind of poisonous gas has no effect on the "miner" who has become a prosthetic life form. His skin just looks like skin, but it is actually a kind of "military use" regardless of its physical or chemical properties. Protection grade" super material.

And his life activities are all carried out in the body, the interaction with the outside world is zero, and there is no need to worry about the problem of poisonous gas entering the body.

In fact, his body is already a mechanical creation except for the brain. If Li Wenyuan was not worried that even replacing the brain and making him a complete "mechanical life" would cause him cognitive impairment, otherwise the current "miner "It should already be a "synthetic human", not a prosthetic human.

The poisonous gas and darkness had no effect on the "miner". With the help of the mechanical eye, the pit was equal to daytime, and he followed the corpses along the way, exploring the internal situation.

He found that the inner wall of the pit itself was very smooth, which should be the result of mechanical cutting, and the temperature and concentration of poisonous gas in the pit increased as one went deeper, and reached the end after traveling about ten kilometers.

From here on, it was no longer a straight road for walking, but a pitch-black cliff at an angle of almost [-] degrees to the road, even with his eyesight, he couldn't see the bottom.

And this distance made him a little puzzled, because although this distance is not short, it is still too shallow for the average crust thickness of the planet itself of more than 30 kilometers, not to mention the thousands of kilometers wide mantle layer .

But this seems to be the end of the corpses' journey. They carried "garbage" that was more than ten times their body weight, and then threw it off the cliff, and turned away mechanically.

During this process, some corpses whose muscles are almost exhausted will not be able to support the throwing action, and will fall into the abyss together with their bodies while approaching the cliff.

This scene disgusted the "miner" from the bottom of his heart.

He had already realized that this was his ending, and not only him, but everyone around him might have ended like this.

"Even if we die, can't we find peace? We worked for the company all our lives, and we have to work all our lives after our death. We don't even own the corpses. What else do we have?"

When he was living in a daze, he never thought about these issues. The heavy life made him have no time to think at all. What he repeatedly did every day was to calculate how to live.

In fact, the company will popularize a certain degree of educational knowledge for them, especially the "contract spirit". And how many hours of work will it take to pay off this debt in how many generations.

And once someone fails to work full hours while alive, it will be regarded as a "breach of contract" and the debt will be increased.

So all of them are working hard, paying close attention to the health of each companion, and even pooling money to continue the lives of those who have not been able to work for a full time, as is the case with the "miner" himself.

Originally, he took it for granted, because they owed debts, so they should pay it back, which is a matter of course.

But after living with the "assimilation fighters" for a while, the "miners" know that this is just a way for the corporation to squeeze them.

All their perceptions were based on the enterprise, but after seeing the real world, he realized that what they thought was just what the enterprise wanted them to think.

In the end he came back here, and he felt that in this closed tower, there must be people who longed for the stars like him.

So looking at the bottomless cliff, he jumped down without hesitation.

The wind was whistling in his ears, and the surrounding temperature was getting higher and higher as the distance dropped. The planet's core seemed to be still heating the rocks, but the "miner" felt something was wrong.

Not because the temperature is too high, but because the temperature rises too low.

The interior of the planet will generate a lot of heat due to the extrusion of gravity and the decay of radioactive elements. The temperature of the core of some planets is even higher than the surface of the star.

He descended to this distance, and it should have reached a temperature high enough to form lava, but the rocks here are still solid, and they are even far from their melting point.

"It's as if something has absorbed all the heat..." He thought of the horrible life that seemed to be hidden underground that the "Dead Foreman" said, and immediately cheered up and focused on Various parameters were checked, and abnormalities were discovered shortly after.

That is the poisonous gas permeating here, which does not seem to be produced by the planet itself.

The molecular chain of this toxic gas is extremely complex, which also makes it difficult to handle. It is "synthetic" at first glance. As for whether it is "artificially synthesized" or produced by some kind of organism...

"Miner" felt that he should have found the answer.

The descent hit a snag, and a rotting sea of ​​dead bodies and trash was the focal point below the cliff.

There are also corpses and garbage falling from the sky all around, mixing with the rotting sea.

At this time, the miner had already activated the anti-gravity system in his body, allowing him to suspend above the ocean. Bursts of poisonous gas overflowed from the ocean, which seemed to be the poisonous gas evolved from this rancid ocean. .

However, the scanning equipment inside the "miner" has penetrated through layers of accumulations and detected the reaction of a huge living body.

His location can only detect a corner of this life, and because it is suspected to be some kind of cuticle shell, the detection wave cannot continue to penetrate.

But the "miner" has confirmed that the other party is a high-heat energy source. Not only that, it also seems to violate the laws of thermodynamics, and is maintaining a temperature much higher than that of the surrounding materials to absorb external energy.

Obviously, the abnormal low temperature deep in the mantle is caused by this life body, the heat of the core seems to be absorbed by it, and the rancid ocean floating above its shell is just its addition, or this life Just need some kind of substance in this ocean.

What gives it life is the energy of the planet itself.

"Boom-"

Suddenly, "Miner" seemed to hear the dull heartbeat from deep underground, which made his mechanical core beat involuntarily.

That life is still alive, but it is still in a deep sleep state of "pregnancy", and it will take a long time to hear the second heartbeat.

But it was enough to keep him away from here, and he completed another section of the task progress, and now he was sure that the "Dead Foreman" was telling the truth.

The "servant" Huanyu Enterprise is indeed raising some kind of giant life hidden in the core of the planet, and he needs to pass this news and related information back.

But before he left, he looked around the rancid ocean again. The corpses and garbage rose and fell with the bubbles, and there were especially many things with the logo of "Re-Employment Center after Death" printed on them, which were particularly eye-catching.

And after thinking about where this place is, the "miner" activated his anti-gravity system and continued to fly upwards, leaving only the bubbling rancid ocean and the heartbeat that sounded again after a long time.

... Not long after, Li Wenyuan, who was still in the "Spiral Galaxy Alpha", received a message from the "Assimilation Fighter".

One of their infiltrators has confirmed the existence of an "anti-thermodynamic life" and believes that it is the creature that was mentioned in the previous message being fed by the "minion" corporation.

Although it is not ruled out that the reason for the scanning equipment is wrong, "Assimilation Fighter" thought twice and decided to name it "Anti-thermodynamic life".

Because this living egg does not obey the second law of thermodynamics naturally according to their current observation means.

To be precise, this life does not spontaneously transfer energy outwards. When in the state of "egg", the surrounding heat will continue to transfer to the "egg" with a higher temperature, but the "egg" itself will not transfer energy to the lower temperature one. The outside world transfers heat.

At first they thought that the detection was wrong, but after more on-site inspections, they finally confirmed that the "egg" was not actively absorbing heat, but that the surrounding heat was actively transferring to the egg.

It seems to be an object of inverse nature. Although the temperature is very high, it belongs to the "low temperature" one in the thermal system, which leads to the spontaneous transfer of heat to them.

Theoretically, the body temperature of this kind of life can reach infinity.

This miraculous creature naturally attracted Li Wenyuan's attention, and even the construction of the "Pillar of Creation" slowed down a bit.

While he was thinking about what was going on, the queen of "Pressolin" also found him and let him understand what kind of creature it was.

"...Hi, respected 'Guardian'...We are very disturbed...Because we feel the breath of the former stalker..."

"Stalker?" Li Wenyuan immediately remembered the experience of "Pressolin". This group of outer space refugees was hunted down by a civilization they called "Hunter".

At the same time, he also linked it to recent events.

"Could it be that the 'servant' Huanyu Company is loyal to the 'Hunter'? That terrifying civilization refers to the 'Hunter'?"

So he directly informed "Pressolin" of the "Assimilation Fighter"'s discovery, making the queen who had been plagued by insects show a humanized expression of fear.

"Yes, yes...that is the 'Egg of the Void', and a kind of Void Beast will be born in it - Void Breeding, they are the 'Hound Dogs' of the 'Hunter'..."

(End of this chapter)