Chapter 1135 - The Brain Nucleus Cavity (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Unlike the version in the mythology, Nidhogg actually went mad in the process of gnawing the root of Yggdrasil. After that, the black dragon turned into a monster that only knew destruction and killing. What it bit was one of the First Born’s nerves, not anywhere else.
Its lair was located just above the nodes of part of the brain tissue of the First Born. This unfortunate fellow. It chose to build its lair on a super powerful mental energy transmitter, which doomed it from the very beginning to a painful end. Even if Nidhogg did not touch the vines and blood that spread from the underground, it would sooner or later become mad in dreams by listening to the whispers of the First Born.
Hao Ren left Anthony, Y’zaks, and Y’lisabet on the ground to stand by, and then led others into the vast cavern beneath Nidhogg’s body.
It was not the first time he had been in close contact with the internal organs of the First Born, so the strange and oppressive environment did not give him the discomfort that was as strong as it had been. As he walked in the cavern, he was able to calm down and explained his research on this super-demigod to Galazur while observing the surroundings.
“The large tentacles of the First Born can sometimes go up to several kilometers wide, but small tentacles such as nerve bundles may only be a few meters in diameter or even smaller. I guess this cavern leads directly to the brain tissue, so all of them are nerves,” Hao Ren said, pointing to the winding vines or tentacles on the walls, and at the same time, paying attention to the ground under his feet. “The nerve conduction of the First Born is very strange. It doesn’t fully follow the laws of the universe. Some of his nerve conduction is even faster than the speed of light. A nerve impulse can be sent to all the ends of the tentacles in an instant.”
Galazur nodded slightly and said, “Because it’s huge.”
“Yes, quite huge. A mature First Born can coexist with the planet. It can drill through the entire planet’s mantle and crust and immerse its core in the planet’s core to absorb nutrients. Such a huge body can’t think without superluminal neural activity,” Hao Ren said and shrugged. “But I would also like to say that, conventional First Borns cannot make hyperspace jumps with huge mass objects. Their mission is to maintain ecosystems. Yggdrasil is a rather strange individual.”
“Look around carefully,” Vivian warned loudly. She had smelled the blood rushing and felt the danger. “Say it if you find a tentacle moving.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Nangong Wuyue yelled, “Ah! I feel that a tentacle beside me has just retracted back!”
The siren’s yell suddenly startled everyone. Nangong Sanba raised his crossbow immediately and asked, “Where is it…”
Nangong Wuyue already coiled up. After a few seconds of trembling, she suddenly loosened up and said, “Err, I think it’s a mistake. It was my tail just now…”
Hao Ren was angry and annoyed by the stupid siren. He slapped her on the tail and scolded, “I told you to stay alert, not to frighten yourself!”
The interrupt of the siren made the atmosphere even tenser. Walking in a closed crypt itself was suffocating enough, plus those tentacle-like plants and vines everywhere in this cave, which made the atmosphere even more depressing. To be honest, the only time Hao Ren had been frightened so far was when Wuyue screamed.
But soon he was frightened for a second time.
He found the ground under his feet suddenly cracked open, and the entire cavern collapsed. The rock layers below suddenly disappeared, and everyone fell into the abyss. At the end of the abyss was a molten core, glowing with heat!
Hao Ren could not think properly during this sudden change. He wanted to cry out, but at the moment when his body was out of balance, he felt a sudden rush of a clear stream through his mind. In the dim vision, he saw Raven 12345’s smile flashing by. The goddess grinned at him, gave him the thumbs up and said, “I back you up.”
All hallucinations vanished. Hao Ren felt like he was touching something. He turned and found himself clutching Lily’s tail.
Lily, on the other hand, was staring into space, and so did Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wuyue. Only Vivian turned her head slowly and looked this way and mumbled, “Hallucination.”
A growl suddenly sounded in the cavern. Galazur uttered two powerful words in dragon language, “Duva-Zada!”
The mighty dragon swept everything like a roller. Lily and the Nangong siblings wake up in an instant. Nangong Sanba was still a little confused when he woke up. He raised his hands and shouted, “Surrender now! I said now! Ah, why are you all back?”