NIP Chapter 187 The Cunning Pathfinder!
Chapter 187 The Cunning Pathfinder!
Shen Mo never imagined that one day he would be sitting in the cockpit of an alien warship, issuing commands to the buttons under his fingers.
"Attention all departments! Energy core fully charged! Main gun aiming coordinates: 15 degrees North latitude, 165 degrees East longitude, vertically downwards!"
Shen Mo's voice trembled slightly on the communication channel, but it was mostly filled with excitement.
The tyrant sat in the passenger seat beside him, his face extremely grim.
"Shen Mo, are you crazy! Firing cannons there will cause the earth's crust to collapse! Su Chen is still down there!"
Shen Mo didn't turn his head, his fingers flying across the virtual screen:
"Consultant Su said he'd take responsibility if anything went wrong. Besides, didn't you notice?"
"There's some filthy thing drilling into the Earth's core at that coordinate point. If it gets in, we're all doomed!"
"Fire!"
boom--
The Wotan frigate, anchored on the sea, shuddered violently.
A blue plasma beam, ten meters in diameter, pierced through the sea surface in an instant.
With destructive energy, it melted through the earth's crust thousands of meters thick, like a hot knife cutting through butter.
Deep underground, the puppet that was rapidly slithering forward clearly hadn't expected such a powerful attack to come from the sky.
It let out a piercing shriek, and a gray energy shield rose around its body.
But against the main guns of a frigate, this shield is as fragile as paper.
The plasma beam grazed its body, instantly vaporizing one of its arms.
"Hit!" Shen Mo swung his fist.
"One more shot!"
Deep in the Earth's core
Su Chen felt the intense vibration coming from above his head, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.
Shen Mo, well done.
At this point, Liu Yiyi's restoration was nearing completion.
Her body was suspended in mid-air, enveloped in a dense, milky-white light.
The originally incomplete soul, nourished by that "seed," was not only completely repaired, but also underwent a qualitative change.
Su Chen could sense that Liu Yiyi's aura was becoming deeper and deeper, as if she had become a part of this land.
"It's done."
Su Chen transformed into a beam of light, instantly piercing through the entire earth's crust.
The Earth's core passage opened up before him—the safe passage he had previously cleared for the exploration team.
But the target he was pursuing, the third puppet hidden deep underground, didn't take this route at all.
It's like a boneless snake, which has "merged" directly into the rock strata in a bizarre way, moving silently in the scorching rocks.
"That's quite a good hider."
Su Chen's world power was like the most sophisticated radar, locking onto the trajectory of that energy ball.
He discovered that the puppet was moving much faster than he had anticipated.
It is frantically traversing the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle at a speed exceeding 500 meters per second.
This speed is amazing.
It's important to understand that this is not a vacuum, but rather the mantle layer filled with billions of tons of pressure.
Every inch of space was filled with high-temperature, high-pressure matter; any human spaceship that entered would be instantly crushed into powder.
At this speed, it would only take it less than four hours to reach the outer core of the Earth—the region where the Seed of the World resides.
Su Chen no longer held back; his "Dao Body" transformed into pure law energy, chasing after the puppet at a speed far exceeding that of the puppet within the strata.
"Trying to raid my base right under my nose? No way!"
The underground environment is extremely complex, with a chaotic geomagnetic field acting like countless giant disruptors.
It constantly distorts the transmission of space and energy.
Even Su Chen found it somewhat difficult to make precise remote locks in this environment.
As the chase progressed into the middle layer of the mantle, the distance between Su Chen and the puppet had shrunk to less than five kilometers.
He could even sense the cold, lifeless fluctuations of the other party's energy core.
"Got you!"
Su Chen gathered the power of the world, preparing to activate a spatial confinement to completely lock it down.
But just as he was about to make his move, the rapidly moving puppet suddenly did something that stunned him.
It stopped.
Then... he self-destructed.
But it wasn't a combat-oriented self-destruction; it didn't produce a tremendous energy impact.
It was like a shattered glass bottle, its entire body instantly splitting into dozens of tiny energy fragments that scattered in all directions!
Each fragment is extremely small, but it carries the exact same energy characteristics as the main body.
They were like a swarm of startled fireflies, disappearing instantly into the intricate structure of the mantle.
Su Chen's pursuit immediately lost its most important target.
He could sense the existence of those dozens of fragments, but he couldn't track each one at the same time.
"Damn it, we've been tricked!"
Su Chen cursed inwardly.
He instantly understood the "prophet's" strategy.
This guy called "Prophet" is exceptionally cunning and treacherous.
From the very beginning, this doll never intended to arrive at the Seed of the World "completely".
Its mission is neither reconnaissance nor sabotage, but simply "arrival".
As long as any single fragment, even the smallest and most insignificant piece, can touch the vein of laws, it is enough to establish a channel for information transmission.
This is a conspiracy.
Su Chen made his judgment in a fraction of a second.
He gave up on chasing down the fragments one by one, as that was simply unrealistic and a waste of time.
Instead, they adopted a more direct and extreme strategy.
"Want to touch my stuff? Ask me first!"
He teleported directly to the outer edge of the Seed of the World and activated a massive "law barrier" without hesitation.
This barrier is centered on the immense energy of the laws inherent in the Seed of the World itself.
An airtight spherical protective shield was formed on the outer layer of the entire law vein.
Any energy body that is not natural and does not belong to the Earth itself.
Anyone attempting to penetrate this barrier will be instantly annihilated by the primal laws of the Seed of the World.
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An invisible barrier was formed instantly.
The scattered fragments of the doll, like a swarm of headless flies, crashed into us.
laugh!laugh!laugh!
Like moths to a flame, dozens of doll fragments were drawn to the barrier of laws the instant they came into contact with it.
One by one, they were completely annihilated, leaving not even a trace of energy behind.
Su Chen watched this scene coldly, but he felt no sense of relief.
He always felt that things weren't that simple.
Sure enough, at the last moment, he discovered a fact that made his heart sink.
One fragment's trajectory was completely different from all the other fragments.
Unlike the other fragments, it did not rush straight towards the Seed of the World.
Instead, it made an extremely bizarre turn halfway through, like a mudfish, and directly burrowed into a naturally occurring law-based crack within a law-based mineral vein.
That crack in the law is a "stress scar" caused by the Earth's laws fluctuating and energy being overused during the apocalypse.
Su Chen had noticed these tiny cracks when he was exploring the Earth's core before.
However, he felt at the time that these cracks were extremely small and had no impact on the overall structure of the World Seed, so he did not prioritize dealing with them.
He never imagined that this fatal oversight would now be exploited by the enemy.
That fragment used this crack, which was thinner than a hair, to perfectly bypass the coverage of the law barrier he had set up.
At an almost impossible angle, it gently touched the outermost layer of the law ore.
The touch was very slight.
It didn't even cause any energy fluctuations.
But at the very moment of contact, an extremely faint, almost imperceptible pulse of information was "read" from the ore.
Su Chen's pupils suddenly contracted.
Finished!