Chapter 442 (2/2)
Vivian stared at her and said, “The First Born is obviously a highly intelligent being. How could anyone with a normal brain find a place that would cause starvation upon himself? It appears as though it crashed on the spaceship, then got hurt and couldn’t get away.”
Lily looked at Vivian from head to toe and said, “But, before you met our landlord, you would starve yourself wherever you go…”
“My situation was different!” Vivian said angrily.
“Enough, can you two not quarrel right now?” Hao Ren quickly came in between the two enemies. “Lily, you continue to scratching the walls. Vivian, you have a point. I also think it was a plane crash. Don’t forget, there’s a big hole in the ship. According to the hole’s diameter, I don’t think it’s likely that the people on the ship opened the door in a peaceful and friendly situation…”
They went deep into the spaceship along the passage, which was completely eroded by the tentacles. The farther they went the wider the path became. They seemed to have entered the main corridor of the spaceship from a certain passage, but the situation there was equally bad: the First Born had fully integrated into the ship. Its tentacles occupied all corners of the ship.
After searching around in the main corridor, they finally saw something.
They arrived at a rectangular hall, which looked like the main control room of the ship.
The hall was also covered with tentacles or roots. The black withered tentacles made the hall as eerie as the jungle. They could see some alloy pillars of different sizes in between the tentacles. The pillars were supposed to be the spaceship’s control board, but now, they had become supporting pillars for the First Born to support its roots.
“It looks like the ‘core’.” Hao Ren noticed the peculiarity of the place in a glance: a lot of roots seemed to spread from this spot. Huge, big roots that were far bigger than the rest stretched out from the holes in the walls. The tangled tentacles on the ground were interwoven at the centre of the hall. In the middle of all the roots, a large batch of dead biological tissue could be seen.
The pile of things could only be described as “a batch of biological tissue” as the First Born’s appearance had always been abstract. Even a biologist would not know what to call it.
Lily help up her Flamejoy, cautiously drifting forward. At the same time, she sniffed her surroundings solemnly and said, “I smell the stench of death…”
“Stop acting. You can’t smell anything on a life-sustaining neckband,” said Hao Ren. He came to the centre of the hall and stopped at the edge of the large, nameless biological debris. He bent forward to look at the withered, dead tissue and said, “This First Born is much smaller than the one we dealt with in the Gnarled Grove. Its body makes it look like its just this big. Is this considered a cub?”
“Severe malnutrition leads to the inability to grow,” Vivian said as she looked at the centre of the debris. She hesitated for a while and decided to release a small bat. The little bat fluttered and disappeared into the air…
“Come back! Come back!” Vivian said quickly.
Hao Ren covered his face and said, “This place has no air. Don’t suffocate your bat.”
After Vivian turned the bat into Blood Mist and took it back, Y’lisabet pointed to the middle of the indescribable dead tissue and said, “The core of the energy has been plucked from it. At that time, they were wrapped in a layer of fossil shell. They kept glowing, so I dug the core out.”
Hao Ren looked up and found something at the area Y’lisabet was pointing to: Some thick shells that looked like plant pods were scattered there. Some broken “leaf stalks” were also visible around the thick shells.
“‘The core of the energy is the First Born’s seed?” Nangong Wuyue muttered while she touched her chin.
“In comparison,” Hao Ren frowned and said, “I feel that this First Born isn’t the same as the one we met in The Plane of Dreams.”