Chapter 1 The Deep Scan

As the deep scan progressed, the details deep underground became clearer, and the underground part of the entire area where the Giant Tree of Life was located was presented to everyone.

Although the above-ground part of this "Giant Tree of Life" was only a "stump" burned into charcoal, its underground part was still shocking. Within a radius of nearly two hundred kilometers, its roots ruled the entire underground kingdom in a complicated way, and tightly wrapped the First Born. The method used by the former elven queen, Lolissa, to suppress the First Born was completely different from those of the other two magic emperors. She didn't seem to intend to injure or suppress the First Born with violence like the others, but chose a "gentle" method that conformed to her female identity: she chose to create a cage that could be integrated with the First Born.

Vivian observed carefully for a while, then touched her chin and muttered to herself: "It seems that these roots imitate the tentacles of the First Born?"

"Well, they are very similar in shape," Hao Ren nodded. "Especially this way of spreading and diffusing is almost a copy of the First Born. It seems that the elven queen Lolissa used magic to create a creature similar to the First Born. As expected of an expert in the study of life, elves are good at this."

Elizabeth leaned over and poked around on the holographic projection screen. Because the screen was relatively high, she had to jump up and down to reach it. Hao Ren asked the little girl strangely, "What are you doing?"

"Zoom in! Zoom in!" Elizabeth continued to jump up and down, "I can't see clearly!"

The data terminal immediately shouted, "Who told you this machine could zoom in with a double click!"

Hao Ren pinched the two corners of the screen and zoomed in on the details: "What is it?"

"Look, these roots are all grown together," Elizabeth pointed to a small area on the holographic projection with a small awl, "These roots! You can hardly tell whether they belong to the big tree or the tentacle monster. They are already connected end to end!"

"Perfect fusion," Vivian smacked her lips, "This is obviously not a simple imitation. Lolissa already has the ability to fuse the artificial life she created with a part of the First Born's body. She may be the only one of the magic emperors to have found the right path."

"If you can't fight head-on, then take a different approach and destroy the enemy's foundation," Izhaks shook his head with his arms folded. "I don't appreciate this kind of combat strategy. It's something weak races like to do, but I have to admit that I suffered a lot from this tactic back then."

However, regardless of whether the Giant Tree of Life created by Lolissa was fused with the First Born, the fact proved that it was also a failure: even if the route was correct, the absolute gap between human power and the power of the First Born could not be compensated. It is said that the Giant Tree of Life caught fire in the doomsday disaster and collapsed after burning for days and nights. This was obviously the result of a counterattack before the First Born fell asleep. The power of the Giant Tree of Life could not defeat the original power of this world. After being inversely eroded by the First Born, it was destroyed by spontaneous combustion.

The technicians responsible for scanning and surveying quickly completed the measurement of the entire underground world and found enough optimal entry points. Those dissociation cutting machines, like special spaceships, hovered in their respective working positions and shot beams of light towards the ground to mark the points for the prepared drilling. At the same time, a cruise ship flew directly above the Giant Tree of Life, and a gray-black cylindrical device fell from the cruise ship. After the device came into contact with the ground, it quickly went down and disappeared into a deep hole, raising a cloud of dust.

"'Messenger' has landed and is heading to the target's mental wave active area... 3,000 meters away from the target... 2,500 meters..."

"Messenger has arrived at the predetermined location and released the 'Lullaby' device."

Hao Ren took out the controller, carefully entered the confirmation password, and pressed the activation button.

A complex mixed electromagnetic wave immediately permeated from the depths of the ground, and the elven technician responsible for monitoring the operation of all systems immediately reported: "'Lullaby' has been confirmed to be playing. Testing whether it is effective."

The "Lullaby" device refers to the nerve inhibitor that Hao Ren manufactured on his spaceship, a high-precision, perpetual replica of the Ancestor of Life. Before transferring the First Born, this device must be properly placed in its body.

Vivian turned to Aoufra: "Bring the Holy Coffin here. We're going to try shielding it."

Aoufra took a deep breath and nodded to the knights and priests behind her. Under the careful escort of several ascetics, the Holy Coffin used to suppress the Giant Tree of Life area was sent to Hao Ren.

Hao Ren had already taken out a special container from his personal space. He carefully placed the holy light into the container, and then activated the shielding system on the container.

For the first time in ten thousand years, the suppressor used to maintain the First Born's slumber was actively turned off by someone.

In these few seconds, the surroundings were so quiet that a pin could be heard. Everyone listened nervously to the movement coming from underground. Becky even pinched the family crest on her collar (which she had just ordered a few days ago) and muttered to herself. Lily pricked up her ears and heard her muttering: "...Copper coins, steel coins, paper money, cash savings, credit cards, US dollars, euros, RMB, copper coins, silver coins, gold shields... Don't let anything happen, it's not easy to become a local tyrant..."

Lily thought for a while and closed her eyes and muttered, "...Meat bones, spicy sticks, meat bones, spicy sticks, meat bones..."

The fact proved that Lily was indeed a pure and good girl. Her little bit of dirty jokes was nothing compared to Becky's mind full of extravagance.

However, after a one-minute test cycle (this is the calculated time required for the First Born to produce the first awakening signal), the underground was still quiet. The monitor reported the good news cheerfully: "The target is still asleep. 'Lullaby' is confirmed to be effective."

Hao Ren let out a long breath and immediately contacted another engineering team: "Team A, Team A, this is Team B. The Lullaby test has been successful. You can start now. By the way, don't forget to give the First Born a shot of interfering pheromones after digging it out."

Lily also cheered excitedly: "Start work! Start work!"

However, before the excavation equipment was started, the leading engineer asked one more question: "Solar King, the root system of this giant tree is entangled with the target. Do we need to peel it off?"

Hao Ren thought for a while and waved his hand: "...Forcibly peeling it off is prone to accidents. Leave it alone and dig it out together!"

In the blink of an eye, the dissociation cutting machines around the basin roared at the same time, and hundreds of beams of light shot into the ground at an inclined angle. Suddenly, the world was like rolling thunder, and the earth shook violently.

The powerful dissociation beams easily tore through the solid rock layer. Each beam could accurately penetrate any point within 100 kilometers underground, and everything the beam passed through was reduced to ashes. These old equipment were imitations of another more ancient equipment, and the original prototype was used to dismantle the homeworld of the Airem elves. That same powerful power was enough to make it competent for any dissociation operation other than cutting neutron stars.

As long as the First Born doesn't wake up, the dissociation beam is invincible.

Dozens of sky-reaching beams of light slowly rotated around the entire ring-shaped crater, cutting the entire central basin from the planet. The landslide of the rock layer caused by the evaporation of the ground quickly showed its power: the monastery where Hao Ren and the others were located was originally on the mountain outside the ring-shaped mountain, but at this time, they also felt obvious vibrations coming from under their feet. Although the well-trained knights and priests were shocked by the scene in front of them, they quickly reacted. The ascetics responsible for managing the monastery immediately ran to activate the divine magic array in the church to stabilize the place, while the soldiers brought by Aoufra paid attention to protecting the recorders and other ordinary civil officials on the scene.

"Don't worry, this place won't collapse," Izhaks glanced at the slightly nervous Aoufra with his arms folded. "Those elves have dug bigger holes than this. They chopped up their entire planet and nothing went wrong."

The cutting beams falling from the sky quickly rotated once, and most of the rock layer around the First Born was cut off. The cut-off ring-shaped rift valley formed a cylindrical shape that was large at the top and small at the bottom. Standing on the edge of the rift valley, you could even see the dark red light of the ground: the result of the rock melting under the power of the beam.

"Enter the next stage and detonate the connecting parts."

At the command of the commander, twenty armed cruise ships immediately rushed into the depths of the underground along those rift valleys that were still emitting rolling heat. After a while, these cruise ships rushed out of the ground, and a series of muffled thunder-like explosions came from the rift valleys.

Rock steam and hot wind rushed out of the rift valley, and the entire basin was instantly like being roasted.

The rock pillar in the center of the basin, which had lost its support, shook slightly. This rock pillar, which carried the First Born and the Giant Tree of Life, lost the last bit of support at the bottom and began to slowly tilt to the side. As long as it came into contact with the nearby mountains, it would inevitably cause an unprecedented earthquake and landslide, but the subsequent equipment had already followed up at the first time.

A large number of gravity traction ships came to the sky above the Giant Tree of Life.

"Gravity traction is fully powered, pull it out!"