Rebirth of the Star God Agent

Chapter 178 Changsheng goes deeper into the insect swarm and goes deeper into the ground

Changsheng said nothing, leaping to the ground. His body grew several times larger, reaching a height of nearly one meter. He took the high-level spirit stone from Zhai Anle and carefully opened a hidden hatch in his abdomen.

Changsheng carefully stuffed the spirit stones into his abdomen one by one, and then closed the hatch.

The collar was suspended around Changsheng's waist, growing larger as he grew, with no sign of it falling off.

The team members have long been curious about some of Zhai Anle's new gadgets, but they would never question them.

Meng Chen and Ya Lun were both stunned. Qi Zhongyuan chuckled and reminded them, "Pay attention to the work in your hands."

Meng Chen and Aaron both looked down at the vacuum cleaners in their hands, then glanced at Changsheng and the collar around its waist.

Ah. As expected, if you see strange things often enough, they no longer seem strange.

Zhai Anle was still giving Changsheng instructions.

"This collar is a self-defense tool. It's made entirely of magnets. When it's wrapped around you, it generates a magnetic field that keeps insects away."

Zhai Anle gently touched Changsheng's mecha head as if he was touching his own junior.

"Be good, start the recording function after you go down, and keep in touch with Doudou's port at all times. If you find anything, contact me immediately. If..." Zhai Anle paused, half squatted down, and looked directly at Changsheng.

"If you find a dangerous situation, just record it and bring it back to us. Don't put yourself in danger. Don't put yourself in danger, okay?"

The look in Zhai Anle's eyes showed the concern of an elder for a younger person, and also the uneasiness that could be seen through at a glance.

Changsheng seemed to understand Zhai Anle's mood and nodded obediently.

"I will."

Zhai Anle picked it up and looked it in the eye.

Zhai Anle said to Changsheng solemnly, "I know your first order is to protect our safety and not to harm us. Now, I will explain a principle to you. You must remember this principle firmly."

Zhai Anle said word by word, "Changsheng, you were born to fight alongside us, to protect us. You were not born to sacrifice yourself for meaningless things, just to save us. And, before we measure the results and issue orders, you must focus on preserving yourself. Only by existing do you have meaning. Only then can you fulfill the order of protection."

Zhai Anle smiled. "Be good, this time the order is just to go to the bottom of the rift to investigate. You may have to go more than once, so protect yourself. Bring back any useful clues."

"Okay? Changsheng?"

Changsheng was held in Zhai Anle's arms in a daze, looking into his eyes.

After a few seconds, Changsheng suddenly said, "Anle, you like me."

Zhai Anle laughed out loud, "Yes. I like you, Changsheng."

He held Changsheng and showed him the people around him.

"They all like you, too. Changsheng."

Changsheng's mecha head nodded slowly.

It said: "I received your instructions and understood your command."

Only then did Zhai Anle put Changsheng back to the ground.

Changsheng raised the little head of the mecha, looked at Zhai Anle seriously, and then looked at the circle of people and spirit beasts surrounding the crack.

It tightened its grip on the spear in its hand, and its body grew several times larger, reaching a height that allowed it to look Zhai Anle in the eye.

It looked at Zhai Anle again, then gently bowed and saluted Zhai Anle.

"Anle, I will follow the instructions now and will keep in touch with you at any time."

After Changsheng finished speaking, he turned around and jumped down towards the crack.

Zhai Anle, everyone, and the spirit beasts all watched Changsheng leap into the insect swarm without hesitation.

The collar around Changsheng's waist popped out an invisible barrier the moment it came into contact with the swarm of insects, wrapping Changsheng in it.

Changsheng dived into the swarm of insects and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

Only Zhai Anle's black earrings flashed a blue light.

Doudou's sweet and lovely voice came out, "Master, Changsheng has opened the communication connection with you."

Zhai Anle stared at the swarm of insects still surging in the cracks with worry in his eyes.

He hummed softly, "Keep the connection with Changsheng. If the signal becomes unstable, remind Changsheng in time."

Doudou responded obediently and didn't say anything else.

Everyone continued to fight off the insect swarm while waiting for Changsheng to return.

After about three or four hours, Changsheng still hadn't returned. Zhai Anle ordered Team 2 to return to the surface to rest, and notified Mo Linfeng to send food, supplies, and some disinfection equipment to the surface.

The second group returned to the ground from the cave. Except for Mo Linfeng and Meng Chuan, the technicians and medical staff had already sent down a disinfection device and food supplies.

Qi Ye and Yin Yuanchi took the lead and built a large tent. The two groups of people and spirit beasts all went into the tent to rest and eat.

While everyone was waiting for Changsheng, Meng Chuan also came out of the laboratory.

He brought some not-so-good news.

He took a rough sample and compared each of the worms that Tuanzi sent.

Almost every one of them has evolved in attack direction to varying degrees. Although the degree of evolution of each one is different, almost all of them have evolved in the direction of sharpening the hairs on the outer skin and the teeth.

Zhai Anle asked Meng Chuan through the communication channel, "Can you calculate the evolution rate of the worms? Given the current situation, is it possible for worms with a higher level of evolution to appear?"

The answer Meng Chuan gave to Zhai Anle made Zhai Anle look extremely ugly.

"As of now, the worms we've encountered are probably just the most common of worms. Their mutations aren't complete, and the proportion isn't high. However, the deeper we go into the rift, the more of these worms we find. It's possible that deeper underground, more mutated or evolved worms will appear. Of course, the proportion of these worms is impossible to calculate."

Meng Chuan paused and took a sip of water. "Looking at the current number of worms, it's been two and a half days, right? The worm swarms appearing from the underground fissures haven't decreased significantly. I suspect there may be other fissures on Zhuchen."

Mo Linfeng, who was sitting next to Meng Chuan, shuddered all over and looked at Meng Chuan in horror.

Zhai Anle and Qi Ji looked at each other, and surprise and suspicion appeared in their eyes at the same time.

There's more than one rift.

As for the current rift, ten space vacuum cleaners were barely enough to slightly speed up the clearing of the insect swarm. The rift had already reached a depth of nearly twenty meters. If a similar rift appeared elsewhere, how would they deal with it?

Zhai Anle was silent for a long time. Finally, he gave a wry smile.

"Wait for Changsheng. Wait for it..."

If we want to completely break the current situation, we can only wait for the news that Changsheng brings back.

Changsheng has been submerged in the insect swarm for more than six hours.

Zhai Anle contacted it for the first time. Doudou floated quietly beside Zhai Anle, establishing a communication connection with Changsheng.

After maintaining the communication connection for more than a minute, the connection with Changsheng was finally established.

Changsheng's voice came from Doudou's black ball of fluff.

"Anle, what happened up there?"

Zhai Anle tried his best to keep his voice calm, "Changsheng, you've been sinking for more than six hours. Have you found anything?"

There was a noise in the communication, followed by Changsheng's voice, "The deeper we go, the denser the worms are, and the more difficult it is to move. I have reached nearly three hundred meters underground..." There was another noise.

After a moment, Changsheng's voice resounded. "Anle... the rift gets wider as it goes down..."

Zhai Anle's pupils trembled. He was stunned for a moment and blurted out.

"Changsheng, come back..."

Everyone was silent.

After a long while, Changsheng's voice emerged from the noise, "Okay, I'll go back now."

Three hundred meters underground, the cracks gradually widened, and the density of worms increased the deeper they went...

Meng Chuan's face was quite solemn. He speculated that there might be other cracks in Zhuchen, and it was not without basis.

Zhuchen, a dead star, had existed on the star map for nearly a thousand years. Every hundred years, a rough star scan was conducted on all traceable stars in the starry sky. The star scan from four hundred years ago indicated that this dead star was steadily decreasing in mass.