Chapter 22 Thalamus Core
"The abilities of the underground people can indeed be acquired through some method." The man in the suit replied: "However, the top management of the space station did not announce this method. They are very strict. Very, even the people in our separation group can't find out."
"So why?" Xie Shen frowned: "Once this method is announced, the Tower Prison will be completely helpless against us humans. Isn’t this a good thing?”
The man in the suit said helplessly: “Who knows what the senior management of the space station thinks?”
After that, he remained silent.
…
While chatting with the man in suit, Xie Shen himself was not idle either.
While observing his surroundings, he kept looking for old pine trees and purple-black thistle flowers.
The reason why we are looking for pine trees is simply because Fu Shen, the main medicine used to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, grows on the roots of pine trees.
Especially the old pine trees.
If you look from the outside and see that spiritual energy is flowing out of the pine tree roots, then there is a high probability that the Poria Goddess has been growing for more than a hundred years.
In the world of cultivation, only this kind of Fu Shen is qualified to be called a 'spiritual medicine'.
As for the purple-black thistle flowers, the same is true.
After the common thistle blooms, the flowers are mostly red or purple.
Only thistles that have been nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and have grown for decades or even hundreds of years will have purple-black flowers.
This type of thistle can also be called a 'miracle'.
Xie Shen does not have a magic weapon or spiritual pet for finding elixirs.
He has no direction, so he can only walk to places with strong spiritual energy. Whether he can find the elixir in the end depends on personal chance.
Time passes minute by minute.
During this period, Xie Shen did not forget to take a look back near the tugboat.
After confirming that the exploration plane had a green light, he felt relieved and began to explore further in the direction.
It may be because there is abundant spiritual energy and there are no other practitioners.
Since he started exploring, Xie Shen would come across some aged spiritual grasses and spiritual plants almost every distance he walked.
He pocketed all these spiritual grasses and plants one by one.
Although during this process, Daji and Fushen that meet the requirements have not been found, those two main ingredients are rare.
Therefore, Xie Shen did not feel very disappointed. He had long been mentally prepared to explore the surface for a long time.
Unknowingly, time flies by and it’s dusk.
In the headset.
The man in the suit reminded Xie Shen: "It's already five o'clock. Let's go. If you don't go, the thalamic sentinels will come out."
"Okay."
Xie Shen now only has cultivation level during the Qi training period.
He didn't dare to make a big deal, so he followed the instructions and returned towards the tugboat.
——Although the spiritual grass and spiritual plants harvested today cannot allow Xie Shen to refine the foundation-building elixir, it is more than enough to refine some elixirs to assist training and combat.
These elixirs can be sold on the black market to exchange for points, and they can also be kept for future emergency needs.
It was a worthwhile trip.
Thinking of this, Xie Shen couldn't help but walk a little briskly.
‘Gululu’
When he returned to the tugboat, Xie Shen heard a strange sound of flesh and blood squirming in the distance.
The sound made him wary, so he decisively put his hand on the headset and quickly switched to pickup mode.
At the same time, he said to the man in a suit who was far away in the space station: "Are you there? Can you hear this sound?"
"Hearable" Through the pickup mode of the headset, the man in a suit far away on the space station also heard the sound of flesh and blood crawling.
With a hint of solemnity in his tone, he warned Xie Shen: "Don't go any further. This sound sounds like it comes from the 'thalamic core'."
Thalamic core?
Xie Shen said speechlessly: "The problem is that my tugboat is right in front. How can I get back to the space station if I don't move forward?"
"Then move quickly."
The man in the suit said calmly: "First confirm the location of the thalamus core and then rush to transport the exploration plane back to the tugboat as soon as possible before dark. In short, as long as it doesn't get dark, even if You won't be in danger if you get closer to the thalamus core."
"Okay." Xie Shen carefully moved a little further in the direction of the tugboat.
In the woods.
As the sound of flesh and blood moving closer and closer, a horrifying thing that was as tall as four people and had the same appearance as a human brain appeared in front of Xie Shen.
at the same time.
The voice of a man in a suit also sounded in the headset at the right time: "How is it, have you seen the core of the thalamus?"
Xie Shen was stunned and said: "Look, you have seen the problem. , the brain is completely wrapped in my tugboat, what should I do?”
——Like the spiny jellyfish, the core of the thalamus is also translucent.
And just like a real human brain: the core surface of the thalamus is covered with concave grooves and fissures, as well as raised gyri.
Through its translucent body, one can clearly see Xie Shen's tugboat being wrapped in it.
There are countless densely packed thalamic sentinels clinging to the surface of the tugboat, and they are crawling around at the moment.
Under such circumstances, it would be extremely difficult for Xie Shen to drive the tugboat away.
“I can only say that you are not very lucky today.”
In the headset.
After listening to Xie Shen's description, the man in the suit explained with a wry smile: "The core of the thalamus will wrap you up. This is a complete coincidence."
"Although the core of the thalamus is the same as the spiny jellyfish, it will It's very unreasonable to suddenly appear in a place with people."
"But the location when they appear is completely random."
"Maybe it's next to your tugboat. It may be far away from your tugboat.”
“In any case, it happens to overlap with your tugboat, and then it is included in your tugboat. This situation is rare.”
Is it just rare rather than non-existent?
Hearing this, Xie Shen asked in reply: "What do you mean, has anyone encountered this kind of situation before?"
"Yes."
The man in the suit responded: "But , because the tugboat has an autopilot system and can fly back to the space station by itself, so It’s not really a big problem. The driver can just die outside. Anyway, he can be resurrected by the resurrection technique.”
“Of course,” the man in the suit added. If you can avoid death, that would definitely be the best.”
"After all, if you die, we will have to spend a lot of points to resurrect you."
"And if this mission of mining zirconium ore fails, we will have to pay a lot of compensation."
“This is such a loss.”
“So.”
The man in the suit finally said: “If you can survive until tomorrow morning and wait for the thalamic core to leave on its own, then Of course it’s the best. Not only will we not have to pay compensation, but we may still make money from the zirconium ore we mine.”
Do you have to hold on until the next day before the thalamic core leaves?
In the woods.
Xie Shen glanced at the core of the thalamus, which made a 'gulu' sound from time to time.
He said bravely: "So what should I do to ensure that I will not die?"
(End of this chapter)