Chapter 1746 - The Heart of God (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
L’Harrone, the Planetary Core.
The engineering droids had already completed their scan of the cool planet’s heart from tip to toe. They had erected all sorts of research and engineering units around its outer shell, with towers and connecting tubes linked to the core. That gave Hao Ren the feeling of an ongoing “surgery”.
It was as if the planet’s core was being prepared to go under the knife…
“This is technically similar to surgery.” Nolan laughed after she listened to Hao Ren’s thoughts. “The Heart of God is located deep within the planet’s core, and it is covered by the usual metals and rock layers. You’ll need to cut it apart to take it out anyway. Plus, the Heart of God was originally soaked in the lava, but after the planet was torn in two, the core rapidly cooled down, and the Heart of God was sealed deep within the hardened lava.”
Hao Ren raised his eyebrow. “But its ability to affect the information outside is not impeded.”
Nolan shrugged. “Its operations are based on the laws of the universe. Mere material impact won’t do much to it.”
As she said, she commanded the engineering droids to commence the cutting of the solid rock shell around the core of the planet.
About a dozen engineering droids flew above the cutting point as the connecting tubes and support scaffolding retracted away. A moment later, blinding cutter beams blasted out from the engineering droids, and started slicing a series of bright and melting lines.
The other engineering droids soon followed as they activated their tractor beams, and started pulling the cut shells and melted materials away.
Lily lay on the railings as she stared at the holographic projection, her tail wagging excitedly. “Oh oh oh! This reminds me of the scene when we dug the First Born out of Holletta! But the whole commotion created by the Aerymian engineering vessels is much larger than this!”
“We are doing precision engineering here, how can excavating an ancient tech be compared to digging the thick-skinned First Born out?” Hao Ren gave Lily the eye, as his gaze fell on the latter’s wagging tail, and he tugged the tip of her tail. “Say, did you bump your head earlier after transforming? You had been wagging for almost two hours now, and not feeling tired at all?”
“Wah!” Lily yelped as she almost leaped up before turning and glared at Hao Ren. “Mr. Landlord you scared the heck out of me! I told you many times to tell me first before you grab my tail! I’ll get tail cramps!”
Vivian rolled her eyes too. “You sure love toying with Doggie. Not scared that she’ll bite?”
Hao Ren sniggered before turning away to look at the outer shell of the Heart of God that was being excavated. “Say… is that thing the ‘vaccine’ we are looking for? It doesn’t feel real at this stage…”
“It doesn’t feel real to me too,” The spacing out (in reality, was doing her homework) Rheia suddenly responded too, “The situation of this world is so different from what we had thought it was. The Mad Lord was not weakened by something, rather the local ancestral civilization had forcibly extended the universe’s existence using technology, and while it may have achieved the aim of ‘suppressing the destructive powers of the taint of madness’, but I dare not say that the Heart of God has a vaccination property.”
As she said, the intensity of the cutter beams had lowered before stopping altogether while the traction droids dragged the debris from the excavation away, and a two-kilometer-wide, uneven diamond-shaped entrance had appeared on the planet’s core.
Beneath the gap, there was an argent gloss.
Hao Ren and the rest boarded a small shuttle away from the Petrachelys and soon arrived that the base of the excavation that was still extremely hot.
With advanced cutter beams and continuous gravity traction clearing the way, the excavation site was unusually clean and did not have too much debris that needed to be cleared. After leaving the shuttle that Hao Ren realized that the argent material was actually an alloy shell.
It felt almost like a titanium alloy, but the data from all of the instruments showed that its strength was about the same as the Creation’s Engine.
There were a large number of lines on the surface of the shell as if it was the surface of a circuit board that was filled with circuits, and between the lines, a white glow waxed and waned.
The waxing and waning matched the “heartbeat” that Nolan had heard earlier.
“I can even hear heartbeats.” Nolan’s image appeared on the projection and she was still monitoring all the data coming from the monitoring instruments, “Heartbeat stable, the Heart of God is in a very calm state now.”
Hao Ren casually quipped, “Are you still maintaining contact with it?”
“Yes, our datalink never disconnected,” Nolan replied. “I have transferred over the cipher from the Foundation Stones to my unique language repository, and now I can directly speak to the Heart of God. But it does not have advanced intelligence, and as a device meant to restart the universe, it had dedicated most of its computation ability to the world re-creation module, and its ability to think is rather basic.”