Chapter 306 Brain Cores

Hao Ren cautiously approached the red sphere, stroking his chin and muttering, "Do you think I'll go crazy if I connect with this thing? A First Born can even chat with itself in a local network."

"Connecting to a single brain core shouldn't be a problem," the data terminal cautiously judged. "Moreover, this is a severely damaged brain core. The equipment in the lab can terminate its activity at any time."

Hao Ren gritted his teeth, remembering his identity as an "Envoy." In theory, his soul should be indestructible. He pressed his hand firmly on the surface of the red sphere, held his breath, concentrated, and tried to imagine a mental connection forming between himself and the red sphere.

He held his breath for an unknown length of time, but the red sphere remained still, and no strange, foreign memories appeared in Hao Ren's mind. Lily waited expectantly for a long time, finally unable to resist muttering, "Landlord, you look like you're constipated..."

Lily's words made Hao Ren completely deflate. He couldn't help but "poof" and take his hand away. "Why isn't this working?"

"Didn't see anything?" Vivian walked forward with concern. "How did you access the memories of other creatures the previous times?"

"No impression," Hao Ren scratched his head. "The clearest memory is connecting to that giant brain. I just touched its tentacles and naturally saw its memories. It seems to be a passive skill."

"Looks like randomly trying things isn't working," Izhaks sauntered over with his arms crossed. "First, we need to understand the principle behind how you access these memories. Terminal, have you researched this?"

The data terminal shook itself. "These strange abilities of his come and go. There's no monitoring when they happen, so how can I research them afterward? Why don't you try another pose, Boss?"

Hao Ren curled his lip and placed his hand on the sphere again. He successively tried seven or eight methods to stimulate his ability, including concentrating his mind, circulating qi in his dantian, and imagining his small universe... Finally, he even concentrated on trying to say Raven 12345's name—except for the last method, which summoned a pile of inexplicable light clusters in the air, all attempts failed to produce anything.

Lily thought for a moment, then suddenly grabbed Hao Ren's finger and bit it. She immediately yelped from the rigid shield, startling Hao Ren. "What's wrong with you?!"

Lily mumbled with her mouth covered, "I wanted to see if blood recognition would work... Ouch, it hurts..."

Hao Ren glanced at Lily. "We don't do that here."

"Looks like there's no way," Hao Ren felt a little frustrated. "Maybe my brainwaves aren't compatible."

The data terminal was more optimistic. "It's also possible that the brain core is temporarily unable to connect due to being too weak. Let's find a way to restore it first. The *Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace* has already catalyzed a lot of Source Blood in the ship's lab. Let's try using them as nutrients."

Hao Ren nodded in agreement. There was no other way to use now anyway.

The data terminal issued a series of instructions, and two transparent crystal tube tanks, resembling some kind of biochemical equipment, rose from the ground in the center of the laboratory. Under the action of a traction field, the two brain cores were carefully transferred into these large tube tanks, and the crystal covers of the containers closed. After a moment, a red, viscous liquid was rapidly injected into one of the containers, completely immersing the brain core.

The other brain core was temporarily immersed in a normal, neutral medium solution because they weren't sure if the Source Blood could really heal the two spheres. The data terminal decided to keep one as insurance.

As for the Source Blood, it was directly transmitted from the *Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace*. When the spaceship docked at the Crystal Nucleus Research Station's spaceport, a set of hyperspace devices allowed for rapid exchange of materials, eliminating the trouble of traditional loading and unloading.

The brain core was soaked in Source Blood and didn't seem to change. Lily asked worriedly, "Speaking of which, won't this cause a blood type conflict? Shouldn't we test the blood type of these two brain cores first..."

"Your brain hole isn't much smaller than the landlord's," Vivian waved her hand. "Don't worry so much. Source Blood isn't real blood. Where would a blood type conflict come from? Moreover, the Source Blood we have on hand is prepared based on the First Seed's body fluid, which is considered the purest primordial nutrient solution. We don't have to worry about these two brain cores being infected."

Hao Ren looked at the stillness in the tube and couldn't help but poke the data terminal that was floating around him. "Is it working?"

The data terminal was also carefully detecting the movement in the container. After a moment of silence, it replied in a relaxed tone, "Oh, it seems to be absorbing... Source Blood and the brain core are exchanging some substances. But no signs of repair have been seen yet."

Hao Ren exhaled—whether it was being repaired or not, at least it looked like it was having some effect.

At this time, Lily couldn't help but yawn. "Ha... Landlord, I'm sleepy. I want to go home and sleep!"

Lily's reminder made Hao Ren suddenly realize that he had been leading everyone outside for a whole day, and all day he had been doing hard work. He couldn't help but yawn. He rubbed the corners of his eyes while combing through the work at hand, confirming that all the work had been completed or temporarily did not need him to be watched, then he breathed a sigh of relief. "Let's go, let's go, let's go home and rest. Let the Crystal Nucleus Research Station run by itself."

The little girl Elizabeth was always full of energy. At this time, she jumped up and shouted, "Uncle Ren, I'll help you watch the research station, okay!"

Hao Ren's hair immediately stood on end. "Just because of the awl in your hand, I don't think it's a good idea!"

Before leaving the Crystal Nucleus Research Station, Hao Ren issued a work plan to the management host: continue to deepen the scanning of the two living samples until an accurate and detailed First Born physiological structure diagram is obtained; analyze the various tissues and organs in the First Born's body, and determine the functions and characteristics of those organs as soon as possible; find a way to establish contact with the First Born's nervous system, and figure out what it is thinking without causing its body to wake up; track and monitor the situation of the two brain cores, and if the Source Blood does have a good therapeutic effect and has no side effects, soak the other brain core in Source Blood as well.

This work can be handed over to the automatic system here. Next, everyone only needs to wait for the results at home.

In any case, this time everyone's understanding of the First Born was a step forward unprecedented—before this, Hao Ren had never obtained a living, complete First Born, so he could be said to know nothing about its physiological structure. The information that those wrecks could provide was too little. And now he at least knew where the First Born's brain was—if all went well, he might even know what was in the First Born's brain.

He could even trace back to the memory of when the First Born had just hatched from the First Seed, and what instructions it had received from the Creation Goddess at that stage.

Before leaving Tana Gusu, Hao Ren stood on the high wall of Alamanda, looking at the huge tentacles stretching across the fertile fields outside. Some autonomous machines and other engineering equipment were busy around those tentacles, which were "engineering teams" unloaded from the *Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace*.

These teams were to run across the entire planet in the next few months, constantly increasing themselves while building some signal broadcast towers and monitoring equipment, permanently solving the "Wrath Spirit" problem, and building some base-like facilities here. Hao Ren didn't know what these projects would look like in the future, but he knew it was always good to be prepared.

The more he learned about the Creation Goddess and the First Born, the more he felt the undercurrents surging in the Dream Plane. He needed a base.

An autonomous machine whizzed past in the distance, with many shiny pipelines wrapped around its mechanical tentacles. It was adding an energy dome generator above the Alamanda transfer station. Hao Ren felt that the next time he came, at least the transfer station square would be as pleasant as Earth.

But he would try to adjust the scope of this ecological transformation so as not to threaten the nature outside the dome: after all, it was not easy for this planet to recover from the disaster of the First Born.

After confirming the engineering arrangements on the planetary surface, Hao Ren led a group of yawning saviors back to Earth.