Chapter 163: Cracked Earth
"Not really... I think the firepower of a fleet should be more than enough to deal with these bugs..." said the Hound, "We don't need to take the risk."
"But judging from the current situation, it is safe to stay at this altitude, isn't it?" Ke Lan's eyes swept over everyone one by one, "Suppose, I mean suppose...if Leviathan really wants to be resurrected...even if the probability is only one in a billion, but if it really happens, the decision we make now will be enough to affect the final outcome."
"This time, I stand on Ke Lan's side." Ivan raised his hand. "Everyone should know Murphy's Law. I think it's better not to have any luck in this matter... We should always be prepared for the worst. If it is because of us that the fleet fails to take the correct measures in the first place, I think..."
Ivan suddenly waved his hand and said, "Forget it. I don't want to think about that kind of scene at all. Anyway, everyone knows it in their hearts, so I won't say it out loud."
The "Murphy's Law" mentioned by Ivan was proposed by an American named Edward Murphy in 1949. Although it is very difficult to explain the principle, it can be summed up in one sentence: assuming things will get worse, no matter how small the probability is, it will always happen.
In other words, for any event that has a probability greater than zero, we cannot assume that it will not happen.
In the eyes of others, "Leviathan's resurrection" is indeed something that is almost impossible to happen... However, almost impossible and impossible cannot be equated. As Ke Lan said, "Even if the probability is only one in a billion", there is always a one in a billion chance of it happening.
And when reality happens to hit this one in a billion, then the probability of this happening is 100 percent.
"I agree to stay." The second person who chose to support Ke Lan was the "hostage" Sakurai Na, which surprised everyone a little, but soon the girl stated her reasons.
"Over there," she pointed to the Mitsui Corporation base below which had turned into a sea of blood, "I have many friends who were killed by those bugs. I want to watch the Ark fleet destroy these bugs and avenge them."
"Old dog, Ke Lan is right..." Layton said while sitting in the driver's seat, but he did not turn around, "If we run away this time, we will become deserters..."
"Okay!" The Hound sat down on his seat. "You won. I'm convinced... Damn it, to be honest, if you're not afraid of death, who would want to be a deserter..."
"It's still relatively safe to hover at this altitude." Ivan analyzed calmly, "The blood column formed by the accumulation of those bugs just now had a maximum distance of about 200 meters. It collapsed before it could exceed 300 meters. The other plane crashed because they took off a step later than us and didn't have time to increase their altitude... Taking a step back, even if this blood column could climb to our current altitude, we would have enough time to choose to go up into the clouds or avoid it horizontally."
"You can trust my driving skills, old dog!" Layton added, "If I had been the pilot at the glacier ruins, we might not have crashed!"
"Keep on blowing, I'm listening." The Hound rolled his eyes at Layton and took off the helmet on his head.
Ke Lan noticed that the lining of the hound's helmet was almost completely wet with sweat - if it was just the amount of exercise he did when escaping, it would be impossible for him to sweat so much. This sweat could only be the cold sweat that seeped out due to being in a state of high tension for a long time.
"Actually, it won't take long. With the speed of the main fleet, it only takes a little more than a day to cruise around Alpha. According to the principle of nearby deployment, the one coming should be the most elite Ark First Cruise Fleet of all fleets. Their stationed airspace is near Zogel Plains, and the journey from Leviathan will not exceed six hours." Ke Lan took a look at the information just searched and said to everyone.
Just as he finished speaking, a loud noise suddenly came from right below!
"Damn it, what happened again?!" Hound suddenly jumped up from his seat, not even bothering to put on his helmet, and rushed to the cabin door - there was no observation window on the bottom of the cabin of this vertical take-off and landing aircraft. If he wanted to see the scene directly below, in addition to using the camera installed on the belly of the aircraft, he had to lean out of the cabin door.
"Ke, Ke... um... cough cough..." The hound was about to say something, but was suddenly filled with cold wind from outside the cabin, and started coughing violently.
"I saw it." Ke Lan grabbed the hound's shoulder and pulled him back. "Things are really heading in the worst direction..."
At this time, Layton had projected the images captured by the camera on the belly of the plane onto the large screen in the center of the cabin. The dramatic changes taking place below were seen by everyone present.
The "sea of blood" composed of scarlet flesh worms seemed to be boiling at this moment, and a large amount of "blood flowers" kept exploding on its surface. Then, the rock layer below the sea of blood trembled violently, and countless spider-web-like cracks appeared on the ground. The boiling tide of insects seemed to have finally found an outlet to vent, and poured into the cracks.
The cracks on the rock layer became more and more numerous and denser, and underneath the rock layer, it seemed as if something was constantly expanding, pushing the rock layer above up high... Finally, the rock layer completely collapsed after reaching its limit, and the people on the plane finally saw "what was underneath."
It was a giant white spine covered with cracks. Many black columnar crystals grew out of these cracks and were entangled with the network-like fleshy fascia outside. The fleshy fascia that tightly wrapped the giant spine was pulsating vigorously at this moment. Every pulsation was accompanied by a powerful contraction of the giant cocoon connected to it... Ke Lan could even see some kind of dark liquid being pumped everywhere along the pipes inside the fascia.
"This... is this... really... impossible... is this Leviathan?!" The Hound was so shocked that he even lost the ability to organize his words.
"Look! Those bugs! They... they are gathering on the bone surface... Oh my God, these, these fascia are actually formed by these bugs!" Ivan stared at the screen dully, pinching the base of his left hand with his right thumb to verify whether he was in a dream.
"These bugs 'compose' Leviathan." Ke Lan said softly, "They use human flesh and blood as nutrients to fill the last gap."