At the bottom of the giant pit, there were a total of thirteen 100-meter-level mutant lava cantharis dormant—more precisely, thirteen mutant lava canthaphias whose bodies had already become crystallized.

Different from larvae that have tiny crystals on their body surface and internal organs, the outer carapace of these 100-meter-sized giants has almost completely crystallized, and through these crystals, the organs in their bodies can still be vaguely seen.

"No wonder Asano Akira said he heard the sound of glass balls rolling on the ground..." Layton murmured to himself while sharing the scene he saw with everyone in the reconnaissance team.

Of course, crystallization is not the main reason why these lava beetles lose their ability to move - because they have been stuck at the bottom of the pit for a long time by crystal pillars, the bodies of these lava beetles have been completely deformed, and lines have been squeezed out on both sides of their huge abdomens.

The flat groove is like Tom who was caught in the door in the classic cartoon "Tom and Jerry".

As for the arthropods of these crystallized lava beetles, they have degenerated due to years of inactivity - those pairs of arthropods that are only a few meters long are grown on a body that is hundreds of meters long. They can't even reach the ground and are paddling in vain in mid-air.

The look can't help but make people feel a little funny.

Layton could almost imagine the growth process of these crystallized lava beetles - when they entered this large pit, their bodies had not grown to the point where they would be stuck by the crystal pillars, but there was abundant energy and massive amounts of high-grade crystals in the pit.

, is like throwing a mouse into a filled rice vat... They devour everything they see crazily and greedily... until the rice in the rice vat is completely eaten, but at this time, the mouse

I can no longer reach the edge of the rice vat.

Of course, the current situation is not that the rice in the rice vat has been eaten up, but that the mouse is getting fatter and fatter as it eats, burrowing deeper and deeper into the rice pile. In the end, it has been pinned down by the heavy rice pile.

Bottom, can't climb up anymore.

But then again, if there really is such an empty rice vat, most mice would be willing to stay in it for the rest of their lives...

"These bugs look like bananafish..." At some point, Ivan also walked to the edge of the pit and sighed softly.

"It looks like... what kind of fish?" The hound glanced at Ivan and asked.

"bananafish, banana fish."

"Banana fish? What is that? A fish that looks like a banana? Is it a species that existed on the earth before?"

"No, this is an allusion, from the novel "A Good Day for Bananafish" by American writer Salinger from the old era." Ke Lan's feeble voice came from the team communication channel, "The original text is 'They swam to a hole'

Inside, the cave was filled with bananas. When they swam in

They were just ordinary-looking fish when they went there, but once they entered the hole, they couldn't stop eating at all, until they were as fat as pigs and couldn't come out of the hole anymore'... The fictional banana fish

The image symbolizes the endless desires in the human heart."

Ke Lan paused, took a few breaths with some difficulty, and then continued: "Not just humans, any living creature will have desires..."

Giving up freedom for desire, human nature is even more important... For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly thought of the "prophet" of the heretical sect.

What is his desire?

Survive?

Survival and reproduction are the two most basic desires of all living things. Whether it is hunting, eating, migration... a series of actions that seek advantages and avoid disadvantages ultimately serve these two basic desires, even if they are trapped in

The crystallized lava beetles at the bottom of the pit swallow a large amount of energy crystals just to survive longer and reproduce more descendants.

Only humans... In Ke Lan's impression, only humans would give up their lives for some superficial desires.

Of course, using the word desire to describe it may not be accurate. It can be desire, belief, idea, or something more difficult to describe.

There are so many things that human beings cannot ask for...power, wealth, knowledge...many people even sacrifice their lives to exchange for them. In contrast, the desires of the "prophet" are even purer.

He wants to become stronger and survive in this universe.

In order to achieve this goal, he can give up everything else.

"What a beast..." Ke Lan thought silently in his heart.

His eyelids gradually became heavy, and even powerful stimulants could not suppress the sleepiness... Especially after learning that those 100-meter-level lava beetles could not pose a threat to the team, Ke Lan's penis that had been tightening

The string suddenly became loose, and he lost consciousness before he even had time to say a few words to the hound and the others.

…

…

When Ke Lan regained consciousness, he subconsciously reached out and grabbed a slender arm. Although this arm was slender, he could still feel it through the anti-loading fabric that adhered to the body lines.

Powerful muscle fibers underneath the clothes.

"Are you awake?" A young woman's voice came from the direction above her head. Ke Lan opened his eyes and found that he was lying on a flat chair. The power armor on his body had been removed, leaving only a pair of personal protective gear.

The left arm and wrist were tied to the armrest of the chair with an elastic band, and there was a large piece of tape on the back of the hand used to fix the indwelling needle.

The beeping sound of the infusion machine kept coming to my ears, and the pungent smell unique to the powerful sterilin filled the dark and small space.

"Valentina?" Ke Lan looked at the place where the sound came from - he realized that he should be lying in the cockpit of Valkyrie now.

"What's going on? What happened after I fell into coma?"

"Akira Asano said you are just mentally exhausted, and there is nothing wrong with you other than that." Valentina said. Ke Lan raised his head and could see her thin chin line, reflected in the light blue of the monitor.

Under the reflection, a metal-like texture appeared, "But Uncle Nick said that you suffered a large dose of radiation, and you must hang up six bags of radionixin before you can move... The radiation intensity outside is still very high, so they

I just put you here."

Nick is the real name of the hound. Although he hates others calling him this name, Valentina stubbornly follows Chi Hanfeng and calls him Nick. As time goes by, the hound can only go with the two of them.

"Six bags of Radiantin...heh...according to my weight, it's already the maximum dose, right? Does this old dog want to poison him to death?" Ke Lan complained. Only then did he realize that his

There is actually a heavy urine bag attached to the lower body...

"Thirty minutes have passed since the last rehydration," Valentina glanced at the timer on the screen. "Do you want to drink water, or use intravenous drip?"

"Can you help me turn off the infusion machine?" Ke Lan showed a wry smile.

Due to his special physique, he is actually not very afraid of radiation... Although his body will still absorb radiation from the outside world, as long as he is isolated from the radioactive source for a period of time, the radiation in his body will automatically dissipate, and there is no need to use radiation elimination.

Excreted from the body... The hound guy was obviously frightened by the dose of radiation in his body when he was just unconscious, so Ivan asked Ivan to prescribe a full six bags of radionixin.

He could clearly feel that the bulging bladder was filled with liquid, and the strong urge to urinate hit his nerves - fortunately, it was only a plug-in urine bag, not an inserted urinary catheter. Ke Lan was emptying the liquid in his body.

After that, he turned over and pulled out the indwelling needle on the back of his hand.

"How is the situation outside?" Ke Lan took the water bag from Valentina and asked.

"Thirteen lava beetles whose bodies were greatly crystallized were found at the bottom of the pit. However, the motor organs of these lava beetles have degraded and lost the ability to move independently. They are not a threat to us. So Team Leader Breya and Uncle Nick

I decided to rest where I am and wait for you to wake up before formulating the next action plan." Valentina replied.

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded. He squinted his eyes slightly and tried to recall the memory of the time he just connected with "Yagunaktor". However, what made him a little regretful was the information that poured into his mind.

There are only blurry shadows left in the flow... Even the picture of the giant pit looking down from the perspective can no longer be seen clearly.

His memory seemed to be covered with a thin layer of gray fog. This layer of fog was so thin that he could see some rough outlines and smudged patches of color through the fog, but he wanted to reach out and close it.

When this layer of mist was lifted, the mist suddenly became thick and dense.

Those distant and unreal memories are not like his personal experiences, but more like he is looking at what happened to others from a third-person perspective.

"Could it be that...this information is temporarily 'sealed' like that stone tablet, and it can only be activated if certain unlocking conditions are met?" Ke Lan thought in his mind, "I just don't know where this information comes from.

The handiwork of Alpha Civilization is still left over from the civilization that built this ancient battleship."

The conditions for unlocking those memory fragments from the stone tablet are to see the things associated with them, so will the same be true for this information?

Ke Lan plans to give it a try.

He sat up straight and stuck his head in front of the console... However, what Ke Lan didn't expect was that due to the very narrow space in the cockpit, Valentina was already pressed against the bulkhead.

He gave as much space as possible to Ke Lan. When Ke Lan moved like this, his shoulders directly touched Valentina's back.

The young female pilot let out a muffled groan, and her unbalanced body fell to one side. Fortunately, her reaction speed was much faster than ordinary people. When she was about to crush Ke Lan, her right hand managed to catch it.

A pull ring on the top of the cockpit suspended his body above the seat in an inclined position.

And Ke Lan's face was buried in Valentina's armpit.

When surfing the Internet in the past, Ke Lan once heard some "nervous" veterans say that among human women, Caucasians can definitely be regarded as the type that "can only be viewed from a distance, not played with"——

Many white girls look fair-skinned and hot from a distance, but when it comes to "close firefights"

When you are young, you will find that although the skin of Caucasian people looks white, the skin texture is very rough, the pores are many and large, and the body hair is very strong... Except for those girls who have undergone medical cosmetic surgery or received genetic modification,

The remaining all-natural white girls, in terms of skin alone, are enough to be completely blown away by the equally all-natural yellow men.

But skin quality comes second. According to a veteran driver, their body odor is the most terrifying - he said that he has been in love with 17 white girls, and 16 of them have terrible body odor, so they must use strong-smelling products.

Use perfume to cover, the proportion is as high as nearly 95%...

Of course, there are also some perverts with special hobbies who are born with this smell. They even gave this smell an "elegant" name - "tuberose"...

However, Ke Lan did not smell those unbearable strange smells. He only smelled a faint smell of sweat, mixed with the unique body fragrance of young women, seeping through the thin fabric of the anti-static suit.

, got into his nasal cavity.

Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, then immediately lay back on the seat.

"Sorry, I didn't notice where you were standing." Ke Lan said awkwardly.

"Well..." Valentina responded. Her tone and expression didn't seem to have changed much, but if Akira Asano was here instead of Ke Lan, she could hear Valentina's heartbeat.

The speed is nearly twice as fast as before.

"Can you stand up?" Ke Lan tried to ask.

"The legs... seem to be clamped." Valentina said. She straightened her upper body with some difficulty, but she could not move at all below the waist.
To be continued...