Chapter 1128 The Mysterious Crystal

Despite the changes these blue-white crystals, which had fallen deep into the Earth's core, had undergone due to their age and the environment, Hao Ren could still confirm that they were the mysterious crystals he had seen in his previous vision.

That had happened not long ago—after Vivian had successfully controlled the power of the Crimson Moon, Hao Ren had conducted an exploratory experiment on the Crimson Moon. At that time, he had discovered a large number of mysterious crystal clusters at the bottom of the Crimson Moon Sea, and after coming into contact with the crystal clusters, he had fallen into another vision left by the Goddess of Creation. In that vision world, he saw a mysterious planet shrouded in thunder and lightning, and the surface of that planet was covered with blue-white crystals…

Lily was the first to exclaim after hearing Hao Ren's words: "Wow—Landlord, are you sure this is it?"

"Pretty sure," Hao Ren nodded vigorously, his gaze falling on the damaged organ in the center of the stone cave. "These crystals have a very special property. When one of them changes, the crystals within a certain range will resonate in a very complex way—the crystals here should have been stimulated when the Petrified World Turtle approached, so they've been flashing rhythmically since just now, which matches my memory. I couldn't tell when I was outside before, after all, those fragments were buried in the rock, and they were quite severely broken, but this one in front of me…"

He pointed to the narrow crystal pillar that had pierced through the First Born's brain core cavity: "It's relatively large, and I saw a crystal in the vision that looked almost exactly like it."

"Then why are these crystals here…" Lily scratched her hair, then reacted immediately, "Ah! Does that mean the planet you saw in the vision is in this star sector?"

"Very likely, but it's too early to draw a conclusion," Hao Ren nodded lightly. "According to n-4, these crystals were suddenly teleported above this planet, so they actually took a trans-spatial route to get here, which makes it difficult to judge their origin."

"But regardless, if we can really find the planet you saw in the vision, it would be an absolutely incredible discovery," even Vivian, who was usually so calm, was faintly excited at this moment. She looked into Hao Ren's eyes, "Perhaps we can even find the throne you saw at the end of the vision!"

Hao Ren was naturally excited as well, but he forcibly shifted his attention away for the time being: "Of course, of course, but those are things to consider later. The priority now is to figure out the current situation of the First Born here. MDT—"

Without Hao Ren finishing, the MDT had already begun scanning and analyzing the brain core that was showing signs of decay and atrophy, reporting as it checked: "The cause of brain death is the loss of nutrients and continuous radiation erosion. It's easy to see that it was caused by being struck by the crystal. The First Born's original powerful self-healing ability failed to work. This crystal is releasing some kind of energy that completely suppresses the First Born's self-healing process…

"At the same time, the energy released by the crystal has also affected the tissue fluid around the brain core, causing these tissue fluids to mutate and produce toxins, which are several times more effective than the nerve agent we injected into the First Born of Holletta."

Hao Ren nodded slightly: "If it's this kind of crystal, then it's easy to understand why it caused the First Born's brain death. According to the revelations of the vision I saw, these crystals have a close relationship with the Goddess of Creation, and the First Born is also one of the Goddess of Creation's creations. As things that come from the same source, it's understandable that the crystal could break through the First Born's defenses."

"And looking at the current situation, the crystal's level is obviously higher than the First Born's," Vivian said thoughtfully, "The First Born was completely helpless against these fragments that fell from the sky and was directly smashed into an idiot."

Hao Ren looked at the MDT: "If we pull out this crystal, will the First Born's brain core recover?"

"It probably could have when it was first injured, but it's obviously impossible now," the MDT shook its body left and right. "The brain core is completely dead, and what's even worse is that the toxic substances and the energy released by the crystal have completely killed the nervous system in this area. This unit believes that the other brain cores nearby are in a similar situation. These toxic substances and energy radiation have permanently destroyed the First Born's nervous system's ability to self-repair, so even if the crystal is removed, the brain core will not heal—nor will new brain cores mutate from the nerve ganglia."

"Then take this crystal away," Hao Ren nodded. "It's rare to have such a complete sample, so we'll take it back to the lab for analysis. Old Wang, I'll have to trouble you with this."

"No problem." Izhaks' thunderous voice came from above. The demon king, who was more than five meters tall, stepped forward, directly wading through the lake of origin blood in the center of the stone cave, which had already lost its vitality, and reached out to grab the slender, spear-like crystal prism. With a single effort, he pulled it out.

The First Born's nervous tissue only twitched slightly, but there was no further movement beyond that: just as the MDT had said, it was impossible for it to recover.

"Let's go back to the ship first," Hao Ren made a decision. "MDT, send a batch of engineering drones down here to build a monitoring system based on these nerve ganglia—remember to bring the 'Lullaby'. The nerve ganglia's subconscious reactions are still troublesome."

The group returned to the Petrified World Turtle, and the ship ascended and left this scorching underground world. As the ship left, a large number of drones poured in through the opened passage. They carried engineering machinery and were prepared to build a small base in the cave according to Hao Ren's orders.

The slender, spear-like crystal prism was sent into the laboratory and quietly suspended on a larger zero-gravity platform. Tractor beams held the six- or seven-meter-long crystal steadily in front of a large pile of testing equipment. Under the control of the laboratory mainframe, the testing equipment was analyzing this incredible substance.

A large group of people—including n-4 and n-6, who were temporarily with Hao Ren's team—curiously gathered to watch the spoils of this expedition. Even Gungnir, who was originally sleeping on the bridge, came over after hearing the news. The short cat girl squeezed next to Hao Ren with great difficulty, but after looking up at the thing floating on the platform, she muttered in disappointment, "What meow… I thought the big cat went to catch fish because you were so excited…"

"Am I crazy to go catch fish in the Earth's core magma?" Hao Ren glared at the cat girl and held down the latter's head to prevent her from causing trouble. Next to him, n-6 looked at the crystal somewhat absentmindedly, muttering to himself: "...Three thousand years ago, did this kind of crystal fall from the sky and prevent the planet-eater from destroying us?"

"That's right, although it was an accident, that accident allowed your civilization to survive," Hao Ren nodded lightly, then turned to ask the laboratory mainframe, "What have you found out so far?"

"Confirmed to have a divine reaction, energy level higher than the First Born and the Guardian Giant, can be determined to be the result of the Goddess of Creation personally injecting energy. The crystal itself should be some kind of natural product, but divine power has modified its properties, making it extremely strong and stable, and it can even exist stably in the Earth's core and on the surface of the sun," the laboratory mainframe replied, "In addition, it has been detected that the crystal has an active behavior of constantly releasing signals, and it will also produce regular reactions to external stimuli. This phenomenon has also been confirmed in other crystal fragments. After analysis, it has been confirmed that these signals have not dissipated and disappeared, and also…"

Hao Ren nodded as he listened, and when he heard the last sentence, he suddenly became alert and quickly interrupted the mainframe: "Wait! Don't say anything else for now—what do you mean the signals haven't dissipated and disappeared?"

"The signals released when the crystals resonate do not attenuate with distance, unless the crystal receiving the resonance intercepts or clears this part of the signal, otherwise the information will be permanently transmitted between these crystals."

Hao Ren blinked, suddenly realizing the meaning behind this: "That is to say, as long as these crystals release information, then unless there is another crystal system to erase this information, this signal can be detected in any corner of the Dream Plane universe?"

The laboratory mainframe gave a brief and affirmative answer: "Theoretically, yes."

"Ah, I understand!" Lily's ears perked up, and her tail wagged vigorously behind her. "Landlord, the planet you saw in the vision!"

"That's right, that planet is full of this kind of crystal," Hao Ren's face showed an excited expression, "If that planet still exists, then it will definitely release a massive amount of signals! These signals will not decay, which means we can use this to find it!"

Nolan's holographic projection then appeared in the laboratory. The ship girl was also paying attention to the situation here and joined the topic at this time: "We can directly use the crystal fragments found in the Earth's core as the core to assemble an antenna system. The resonance between these crystals is better than any radar and remote sensing technology. They themselves are the best signal receivers—and they're original."

"Are there any technical problems?" Vivian asked.

"There's no technical difficulty, because with these crystals, the most critical signal reception and frequency matching problems simply don't exist. We only need to add a transcoding and addressing function to the antenna system," Nolan said as a large number of light screens appeared around her, and the architecture of the antenna system had already begun to be deduced on the light screens. "We found a huge number of crystal fragments, and we can completely create a large-scale antenna array, with some set up in space and some on the planet's surface—anyway, the drone swarm is already here, so there's no point in not using so many engineering types. This assembly work can be completed in a few days."

"Very good, this matter will be handed over to the drone swarm. Let them start work now. The core part of the antenna system will still be assembled here in the laboratory, after all, it's a precision thing."

The unexpectedly discovered crystals could be said to be the greatest gain from Hao Ren's underground expedition, but in fact, it was completely within reason.

Because the star chart used by the group to come to this "x star cluster" came from deep within Vivian's soul, and the vision with the crystal planet… was also hidden in Vivian's soul.

Now it seemed that these two things were inseparable.

After arranging the matters related to the crystals, Hao Ren had to start dealing with the other important matter at hand: what to do with the First Born of this planet?