Chapter 546 Enemies Do Not Move, I Do Not Move
After Su Hao entered the bizarre disaster for the first time, he conceived the idea of raising some summoned beasts to replace it and explore the triggering conditions and effects of various bizarre disasters.
As long as the consciousness information of various summoned beasts is recorded into the pinball space and monitored at any time with the Little Black Room to record information, then each summoned beast will be Su Hao’s real-time detector of sound and light. It is very useful. Everything that happens to the summoned beast can be reproduced through the Little Black Room.
Things that others dare not think about or cannot do, are easily done by him with the pinball space.
In this way, there is no need to personally take risks.
As for choosing what summoned beasts, Su Hao also had pre-selected targets.
What better choice is there than mice? They can get in everywhere, have strong reproductive abilities, and strong survival abilities.
Before long, Yashan and Feng Cheng brought back a bag of snake-rat-rabbits. Su Hao reached out, his blood surged, and in the blink of an eye, he recorded the consciousness information of all the small animals, and then sent them into the bizarre disaster in batches.
Regarding the bizarre disasters that occurred at the base, Su Hao already had some guesses through the descriptions of Yashan and Feng Cheng and his own personal experience, and he was just waiting for these small animals to go in and verify.
According to Yashan, all the items in the base have been destroyed, and he didn’t see anything intact.
But when Su Hao was transported back to the base, his keen hearing caught the sound of machinery running from another workshop.
The problem lies here. If all the machinery is destroyed, how is it possible to still hear the sound of machinery running?
In other words, either some machinery has been preserved, or there is something special that can produce the same sound as machinery running.
But regardless, he believed that this strange ‘core’ must be related to it.
So this time, when the small animals were sent into the disaster, the goal was very clear, to go to the mechanical workshop and see what was going on.
But how to go about it requires setting up corresponding plans in advance to detect the triggering conditions of the disaster.
“Reviewing what happened before, it is not difficult to find that the triggering conditions for the strange phenomenon are related to movement. Therefore, the first batch of eight small animals will be sent in. After entering, four mice will remain stationary, and the other four will remain in motion. If it is really related to movement, then the four animals in motion will undoubtedly die, while the stationary four will survive.
If all eight die, then the condition of movement can be ruled out…”
As Su Hao spoke about his next detection plan, he sent corresponding action instructions to the eight small animals.
As soon as they entered the strange range, four animals immediately stopped, while the other four continued to move.
However, to Su Hao’s surprise, blood splattered from the bodies of the four stationary animals, and they were soon cut to pieces and died, while the four animals in motion did not suffer any harm.
“Hmm? The stationary animals are the ones getting hurt…”
Su Hao didn’t rush to draw conclusions, instead carefully observing the situation below. After a moment, two of them gradually stopped.
“Hiss!”
The two stopped animals soon ceased all movement. There were still two continuing forward, without any issues.
After a while, Su Hao controlled one of them to slowly stop, and this stationary animal quickly fell apart.
Only one remained, still moving forward. Just as Su Hao hesitated whether to let it stop gradually, the animal suddenly had its limbs severed, its body uncontrollably rolling on the ground, and then it too was cut to pieces.
At this point, all eight innocent small animals sent in had perished.
Su Hao grinned, waved his hand, and sent another eight small animals into the bizarre disaster, but this time he didn’t rush to control their movements. Instead, he let them stay still.
As expected, all eight small animals stayed still and survived.
“Just as I expected!”
The triggering conditions for the bizarre disaster are, one, ‘movement’, and the other, ‘stillness’, alternating repeatedly! They are called ‘Active Disaster’ and ‘Still Disaster’. In the ‘Active Disaster’, if one moves randomly, they will be attacked, but as long as they remain still, they will be unharmed. The reverse is also true.
When Su Hao was just teleported into the base, it was during the ‘Active Disaster’. Standing still posed no problem, but when he tried to reach out to Feng Cheng, his moving arm was injured, prompting him to instinctively retract it, causing his entire arm to be cut off.
From this, it can also be deduced that in the ‘Active Disaster’, the faster one moves, the stronger the damage received.
After understanding the principle, Su Hao gave this disaster a code name on the spot, calling it ‘Enemies Do Not Move, I Do Not Move’!
Now the problem is how to determine when to move and when to stay still.
If a mistake is made, it would be disastrous.
So this crucial task falls on these small animals.
In this way, batch after batch of unfortunate small animals were sent into the bizarre disaster by Su Hao, and the small animals behaved admirably, never causing any trouble with Su Hao throughout the process.
After only four small animals remained, Su Hao finally figured out the alternating pattern between the ‘Active Disaster’ and the ‘Still Disaster’.
It’s related to the only intact ‘processing’ machine in the workshop. It has nothing to do with the imagined ‘time’, and there is no fixed interval for the transition between the two disasters.
When the machine is running, it’s the ‘Active Disaster’, and whoever moves gets hurt; when the machine stops, it’s the ‘Still Disaster’, and whoever stays still gets hurt, sparing not even the walls and ground.
To understand this, there were no shortage of sacrifices and bloodshed.
However, everything was worth it.
Su Hao smiled as he shared the exploration results with Yashan and Feng Cheng, then said, “It should be that processing machine that turned into the ‘core’ of the bizarre disaster, treating everything within its range as raw materials for processing. The cutting injuries we saw might be the effect of the processing blades. Haha, the three of us just got processed by the machine, experiencing the treatment those spirit grasses received.”
Yashan forced out a smile, saying, “It’s quite absurd, making those spirit grasses suffer so much, as if they turned into evil spirits and came back for revenge!”
Feng Cheng added, “It doesn’t make sense to turn into evil spirits! Weren’t the spirit grasses used to make enhancing medicine? If that’s the case, I won’t dare to eat meat in the future.”
Su Hao chuckled, “Don’t be alarmed. It’s probably just a coincidence. In a few years, when we thoroughly study the mechanism of the Source, all our doubts will be cleared up. Let’s go, take a closer look, and identify which part is the ‘Source’ and which part is the ‘Trigger’.”
With that, he flashed to the edge of the disaster and looked inside.
Yashan smirked, hesitated for a few seconds, then disappeared from his spot and appeared next to Su Hao. Feng Cheng looked envious, but unfortunately, he hadn’t learned the “blink” yet, and he was far from mastering teleportation, so he could only fly down slowly.
Su Hao pointed to flatten the entire hill, and with a wave of his hand, the strong wind blew away all the debris, revealing the huge processing machine inside the mountain cavity.
The machine was operating with a “clank clank” sound. Various sharp blades inside the machine were spinning rapidly. One could imagine what the result would be if a piece of ‘raw material’ was thrown into it. These gleaming blades looked particularly terrifying in the eyes of the three, especially since not long ago, they had all been processed by this strange machine.
After observing for a moment, Su Hao, with little experience and his perception of the Source, judged which part was the Source and which part was the Trigger.
“The flywheel in the machine should be the ‘Source’, and the rest is the ‘Trigger’. Those cutting blade shafts should be the ‘Source Device’, so…”
Without hesitation, he pointed his finger.
“Little Cannon!”
Boom!
With a loud noise, the entire machine instantly collapsed, and various parts scattered everywhere. The objects judged by Su Hao as ‘Source’ and ‘Source Device’ fell intact to the side.
After a moment, the flywheel shimmered with white light, disintegrating into source beads the size of fingertips, scattered around. The axle full of blades lost its radiance, shrinking into the size of a thermos, but the blades hovering above it looked extremely sharp.
Even at this moment, Su Hao remained vigilant. First, he sent the few remaining small animals into the area of the bizarre disaster. After they danced around without finding any abnormalities, he brought Yashan and Feng Cheng to the side of the Source Device ‘Processing Blade’.
After collecting nearly a hundred source beads, he turned to the cylindrical ‘Processing Blade’ and said, “Feng Cheng, go find some sand and wrap it around the blade to take it away. Yashan, collect the debris of the spirit grass and use it to cultivate new spirit grass. Then bury the entire base.”
Feng Cheng and Yashan quickly handled everything.
“Let’s go!” Su Hao called out, leading the way as he flew into the distance.
