Chapter 1 A Daring Plan

The extremely bold plan to "raid the Nightmare Nest" seemed to gradually become feasible amid the chattering discussions of the fairies and the deliberations of Hao Ren and his group.

Any solid fortress is easier to destroy from within than from without. Now it seemed that if a group of elite troops could be sent deep into the Nightmare Nest and directly kill the monster responsible for creating the corrupted legion, then everything would be easily solved.

After all, Hao Ren needed to obtain the Amantir Crystal no matter what, and this meant he had to find a way to clear the Nightmare Nest connected to the crystal first.

The best route to raid the Nightmare Nest seemed to be from below: blast away the crystal pillars supporting the crust. This would greatly shake the structure of the Nightmare Nest itself. According to the fairies' calculations, doing so could even tear off half of the nest.

"Speaking of which, will this collapse the entire crust and cause the Nightmare Nest and a large area of the upper structure to fall onto the grid layer?" Listening to this incredible plan, Nangong Wuyue naturally began to imagine, "It would be even better if we could directly crush those monsters to death..."

"First of all, crushing them to death is impossible. If those guys were that weak, they wouldn't have pushed the Guardian Legion around like grandsons," the data terminal immediately swayed and said, its speech as irritating as ever. "And simply blasting three crystal pillars is not enough to collapse the crust—this unit analyzed the structure of this planet, its upper crust is supported by a crystal pillar layer, but the crust itself also has a very complex shock absorption and fixing structure. Although the existence of the equatorial rift weakens the strength of this structure, relying on the skeleton on the south side of the rift, the upper part of the Nightmare Nest is still quite stable. Ideally, after the crystal pillars are blown down, the Nightmare Nest will only collapse by less than a third, which can just open a passage in the center of the nest, but the destructive force will only reach this point."

Amantir's crust is equivalent to the armor plate of this planetary battleship, so naturally there will be many special reinforcement structures. It is impossible to collapse the entire crust by blasting three crystal pillars—this is as whimsical as dismantling two screws and planning to remove all the armor plates of a ship.

Hao Ren was already quite satisfied with this deduction result: "All we want is to make a hole in the Nightmare Nest. If the entire upper structure collapses together, it will be a problem instead: if the Amantir Crystal accidentally breaks, there will be nowhere to cry."

"Well, the general plan is decided like this. Next, we need to carefully plan the details of the action," Vivian nodded in agreement, and then began to preside over the detailed discussion of the entire plan with the aura of a hostess, "Consider all unexpected situations, and also consider how to deal with the awakened Nightmare Source in the worst case. In addition, before the action begins, we have to download all the fairies into the data terminal's hard drive."

Data terminal: "This unit always feels that something is wrong with this process..."

The detailed discussion of the action plan lasted for a full four hours. During this time, the fairies provided a lot of help: these messy little things were not as unreliable as Hao Ren imagined. In fact, what they had done in the thousands of years after hiding in the core of the earth completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

They monitored the changes in the upper layer of Amantir as much as possible, and recorded the entire process of the Lord of Madness' power spreading and transforming the planetary battleship on this planet; they investigated the information of the corrupted legion, and even collected the latter's deployment information and behavior habits; as the "executive AIs" of various subsystems of the planetary battleship, they even recorded more detailed and reliable starship parameters than Salamander's structural diagram, and these parameters also included the changes caused by Amantir being corrupted by the power of madness. All this information was far from comparable to the information provided by Salamander.

After all, Salamander only had a blueprint from before the war, and he knew nothing about the changes on Amantir itself, but these fairies...although they were trapped in the earth's core, they were at least inside Amantir.

After finalizing all the action plans, Hao Ren and his party took a full rest and prepared on this small mini-planet, and then began to carry out the "download storage" work for thousands of fairies.

With the experience accumulated by Fairy Number One, the process of the little fairies entering the data terminal was smoother than expected. Except for the terminal's "person" being utterly despondent throughout the entire process, everything was developing as planned.

A few hours later, the last fairy also entered the data terminal's memory, and the first step in rescuing the fairies was completed.

Watching the data terminal sway back to Hao Ren's shoulder, Nangong Sanba couldn't help but be sarcastic: "Now your PDA really has downloaded countless Gs of little girls and cute boys—should we interview the person involved about their mental journey?"

The data terminal's whole body burst into blue light: "This unit will smash your face!"

"Okay, okay," Hao Ren quickly pressed down the restless PDA, "To be honest, how do you feel now? Will the fairies in the memory affect your performance?"

"It's okay, the load is not that big," the data terminal said resignedly, "This unit has allocated them a large virtual partition, let them toss around in it, anyway, this unit doesn't dare to let them merge into the threads—damn it, why are a bunch of AIs so noisy?"

Hao Ren was amused: This guy, who is usually so noisy that people can't wait to fill him with cement and sink him into the pond, actually has this day?

In short, Hao Ren felt relieved and looked at Vivian: "Then we should set off. By the way, where did Lily and Gun go?"

"Oh, they said they wanted to travel around the world..." Vivian said, looking into the distance, "Look, they're over there, they're already back."

As she spoke, the husky girl and the silly cat had run up from below the "horizon", and came to Hao Ren in the blink of an eye. The two girls looked very happy, and Lily also grabbed Hao Ren's arm to show off: "Landlord, landlord, I just ran around the entire planet! I can run around the equator, woof woof woof~~"

Hao Ren slapped his face: Damn it, the happiness of cats and dogs is so easy to satisfy... How bored are they?

Vivian casually flicked two small electric sparks on the heads of the two girls: "Stop making trouble, we should set off."

The two of them immediately became serious, and even Gun nodded seriously, and carefully checked whether her shoelaces were tied tightly and whether her nails were sharp enough: Although this cat is usually called a stupid cat by people, in fact she is just not adapted to human life, she is clear about what is happening around her, and of course she knows what to do at this moment.

Since the fairies had left the earth's core, the various temporary systems they left on the earth's core gradually stopped operating, and the "secret path" connecting the earth's core and the crystal pillar layer became unstable, but it could still be used once, and it would be the last time.

The elite team assembled by Hao Ren moved quickly along the light path. Space and matter quickly twisted, shattered, and reorganized behind them, changing into a normal appearance. The rock formations and crystals seemed to be collapsing from all directions, but no sound was emitted.

Silent but thrilling.

The figure of Fairy Number One appeared in the holographic projection. She looked at the constantly disappearing light path, and the direction of the sanctuary that could no longer be seen with the naked eye, and sighed softly: "We have been hiding here for a long time, for thousands of years..."

"That's right, that's right, I didn't expect there would be a day to go out!" "The outside world, the outside world!" "We can go find Salamander to play!" "We can also go to the hub to play!" "Super~hap~py~!"

...In short, this should be the greatest degree of emotion that fairies can express.

Crystal pillar layer.

The huge crystal pillar stood proudly under the earth's crust in a spirit-shocking posture, one end supporting the dark and deep rock dome, and the other end deeply rooted in the "grid" underground. At this distance, its hugeness was even difficult to measure in words. I am afraid that any ordinary creature standing at its feet would not be able to raise even a trace of ambition to challenge it.

However, Hao Ren had blown up things bigger than this, so he silently began to take out bombs from his portable space.

Vivian and others standing not far away did not participate in the blasting operation, so they took out their mobile phones from their pockets and began to look up at the towering pillar and take pictures as souvenirs.

Lily: "Take pictures quickly, the landlord will press the big red button later and there will be nothing to see!"

Elizabeth: "I'm just waiting to take pictures of the scene when the blasting starts!"

Gun Meow looked at the others taking pictures, suddenly flattened her mouth, and ran to Hao Ren in a puff of smoke, pointing at the mobile phone in Lily's hand while pulling the other's sleeve: "Big cat! I want that, I want that!"

"Stop making trouble, have you recognized all the words?" Hao Ren directed the autonomous machines to place the bombs on the crystal pillars at the calculated best blasting points, and turned his head to glare at the cat girl, "You usually cry and yell when I ask you to write your own name, giving you a mobile phone is also a waste. I'll buy you one when you recognize three thousand common words!"

"Meow oh..."

There were a total of three crystal pillars that needed to be blasted, one of which was located directly below the Nightmare Nest (that is, directly below the control center), and the other two were located on both sides of the equatorial rift. The latter two crystal pillars were far away from the Nightmare Nest, but after they collapsed, they would cause violent vibrations and small-scale bending of the earth's crust. The powerful squeezing force generated would cause a fatal blow to the base of the Nightmare Nest. According to the joint calculations of the data terminal and the little fairies, this would be enough to open a passage directly to the Nightmare Source—and it would seal most of the pores in the Nightmare Nest, preventing subsequent supporting monsters from arriving in time.

The explosives for the last crystal pillar were finally installed in place.

Hao Ren looked up at the dome made of rock and metal. In this part, a clear dark red luminous band could be seen on the dark dome. The dark red luminous band was wrapped in a layer of energy film, and there were many strange black substances crawling slowly on both sides: that was actually the location of the equatorial rift.

In the cataclysm three thousand years ago, part of Nakodar's debris hit that location. The earth-shattering collision once tore the earth's crust of Amantir, and the broken star wreckage even fell into the crystal pillar layer below, but soon Amantir's self-healing system began to operate, forcibly healing the planet that had begun to split, and the cracks above the crystal pillar layer were also forcibly restrained by energy barriers, forming the great rift that can be seen in space.

And under the earth's crust, looking up at the location of the great rift, what you see is the scene in front of Hao Ren.

The figure of the little fairy appeared in mid-air. She pointed to the crystal jungle in the distance. There, a piece of land that obviously did not belong to this crystal world lay obliquely in the forest. The raised part pointed to the dome above like the head of a giant beast: "That is part of the wreckage of Nakodar. Some fairies and several guardian giants were still alive when it fell, but they soon died. The bodies of the giants were also dragged away by those monsters and became raw materials for making soldiers."

The source of soldiers for the corrupted legion is not entirely from nightmares, and some are also transformed from real materials. Collecting wreckage on the battlefield is one of their means of obtaining "raw materials."

"They will not die in vain," Hao Ren nodded, "We will end the rule of those monsters here today."

He raised his head and looked at the crystal giant pillar supporting the earth.

The placed explosives were arranged in an oblique ring shape along the surface of the giant pillar, like a string of sparkling necklaces flashing in the darkness.

One little fairy after another popped out of the holographic projection above the data terminal, and they also looked at the glowing explosives together.

"Cause trouble." Fairy Number One waved her fist.

"Cause trouble!" "Cause trouble!" "Cause trouble!!!"

Hao Ren pressed the big red button on the controller.

(By the way, a reader team made a character song for Vivian and posted it on Bilibili, the Ahem V number is 14949336, you can go and support it.)