Chapter 3041 The Only Option
“Make yourself clear.”
Li Yao asked, “What kind of resurrection?”
“It was as if something was unfrozen in the air, or as if something indestructible was shattered instantly. In short, the waves of my soul were hundreds of times stronger than before. The hearts and pulses of all the people of the Sanctuary who followed me were hundreds of times stronger, too. Some of them whose Cultivation was not high enough even vomited blood and fell into confusion.
Lu Qingchen said, “Although I don’t have a body of flesh and blood, I still have a weird feeling, as if all the cells inside my body have been awakened and possess their own thoughts and will, which are about to be dissected from my body.
For some reason, Li Yao thought of the fallen dinosaur.
After the dinosaur collapsed, butterflies flew out of its body and danced in midair.
The scene was like a terrifying omen that lingered in Li Yao’s brain for a long time.
“When my men and Ding Lingdang and the other explorers were ready to fight, they heard explosions and quakes outside. It was like… a snow mountain that had been frozen for hundreds of thousands of years suddenly encountered a rarely-seen high temperature. The snow dozens of meters thick was all melted, and the flood was unstoppable.
Lu Qingchen continued, “By the time we realized that something was wrong, it was already too late. The silver brightness and grey mist on the bodies of the ferocious beasts and the guards all dispersed. They regained the ability to breathe and kill. They occupied the streets, alleys, and dilapidated walls of Silver City. Even the sky was locked onto by flying swords and acids. Anyone or any ferocious beast would be attacked by at least fifty kinds of magical equipment and techniques within three seconds after they reached the sky.
“This is truly a disaster. Although our primary target is not them, their magical equipment and techniques are so powerful that they can destroy a skyscraper and raze an entire block. It is impossible for us to avoid the bombardment.
“The ferocious beasts have completely lost their mind. They only have the most primitive instincts to kill. They don’t care about the difference between us and the guards. As far as the guards are concerned, since they have nowhere to run to, they have been on a killing spree for a long time. All the targets that do not exist on the IFFS are their targets.
“As I’m sure you can see, most of the ferocious beasts are transformed from guards. In other words, this is not just an intense battle against the beast tide but also a large-scale terrifying plague. Until the last guard is transformed into a ferocious beast, the slaughter will not stop.
“Under such circumstances, Ding Lingdang and I had no time to attack each other. Instead, we were blown away by the sudden bombardment. Our first thought was to run away from this wretched place.
“However, as I said just now, this place is an extremely unstable space belt. Maybe we triggered some traps by accident. The entire Silver City is like an iceberg gradually drifting away from the North Pole. Even the exit that seems to be right in front of us is blocked by invisible walls. After a moment of dazzling changes, the streets will turn into high walls, and the high walls will turn into tunnels. We will be completely lost in the mysterious, ever-changing maze and will never find our way back.
“I even suspect that the flow of time in this place is different from that of the outside world. The interference of the magnetic field here is so severe that all my timekeeping magical equipment has been damaged. There is no day or night. I don’t even know how long I’ve been here.
“After a long time of running and fighting, my subordinates were all killed by the ferocious beasts. I ran out of food and ammunition. The Giant God Soldier reached the limit of fatigue and ran out of spiritual energy. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have taken advantage of me so easily.
“I see.”
Li Yao thought quickly and compared every word that Lu Qingchen said with what he had seen.
Maybe Lu Qingchen had ill intentions, but his words were quite credible. It was possible that he was hiding something, but he was not lying on purpose.
Even so, there were still many things that baffled Li Yao. “Wait. Do you know the cause and effect of the war? At the very least, do you know who the parties involved are? I can tell that most of the parties attacking are ferocious beasts, and the defenders are the coalition army of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan. It does not look like a civil war.
“Indeed not.”
Lu Qingchen explained, “When those guys were just resurrected, many of the attackers did not lose their minds, nor did they turn into ferocious beasts because of the virus. They still retained the appearances of the Pangu Clan or the Nuwa Clan. In other words, it was a war between the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan.
“It was indeed weird. One group of the Pangu Clan and another group of the Nuwa Clan went to slaughter another group of the Pangu Clan and another group of the Nuwa Clan. It was truly unbelievable at the end of the primeval
war.
“However, who knows? There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. For the greatest interests, such as the secrets of the makers of the black wall, even the mortal enemies can become brothers who work together and fight side by side, just like you and me.
“Stop. Don’t flatter yourself. I’ve learned the consequences of fighting side by side with you in the battle against the Fuxi Clan.
Li Yao frowned. “Let’s put the question aside for now. There’s something else that is very important. Have you seen the Supreme Emperor, even if it is his body or evidence of his existence?”
“No.”
Lu Qingchen smiled bitterly. “At this moment, do you still not understand? The so-called ’emperor’s tomb’ is just an absurd, groundless story. The Supreme Emperor did not build any splendid tomb in this place, nor did he leave an invincible army to be buried with him. It is not hard to understand that, when the Star Ocean Imperium was on the verge of collapse, the Supreme Emperor could not have buried himself in glory. He did bring in a lot of engineering troops and explorers and build a very large forward base, but everything was eroded by the passage of time and eventually perished.
“If the Supreme Emperor really entered the center of the relics and entered the City of Silver below our feet, maybe he would’ve been killed by the claws and teeth of the ferocious beasts or vaporized by the magical equipment of the guards just like my subordinates. What if he turned into a ferocious beast, too, the one that you just killed?” “Well—”
Li Yao found it hard to believe that the legendary emperor, the best expert in the history of human civilization, would end up in such a miserable state.
Also, what was the relationship between the Supreme Emperor and the primeval relics? Where did his unparalleled techniques come from?
“Don’t be nervous. It was just a joke.”
Lu Qingchen smiled and said, “Fortunately, the only good news is that human beings seem to be immune to the terrible virus. As you can see, the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, the Houyi Clan, the Kuafu Clan, the Zhurong Clan, and the Gonggong Clan—the carbon-based intelligent creatures in the primeval era-will be infected when they touch the blood of the infected or the mist that breaks out. They will complete the mutation from intelligent creatures to brutal animals within several minutes.
“But for us human beings, even if we are the weakest explorers, even if we are soaked in the blood of ferocious beasts, it is unlikely that anything will happen to us. There are always exceptions, but more than 95% of us have absolute immunity.
“If the Supreme Emperor is still alive, his immunity must be much higher than that of ordinary people. I assume that he is still hiding in an unknown corner of the City of Silver,
right?”
“It seems so.”
Li Yao was somewhat relieved. Human beings were immune to the Vicious Beast Virus. It was perhaps the first piece of good news he had heard since he entered the primeval relics.
But being immune to the virus did not mean that they were immune to the furious attacks of the ferocious beasts. They had to find a way to stop the chaos and escape with all the secrets! “You mentioned ‘cooperation’ just now.
Li Yao said, “So, you have a way to get out?”
“Very difficult.”
Lu Qingchen said, “In fact, my suggestion is that we simply find a place to hide. The City of Silver is a super metropolis built according to the size of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan. The sewers, ventilation tubes, and crystal cables here are astonishingly large, too. We can find a secret sewer and hide in it for a while. Isn’t that what you are best at?”
“The ferocious beasts seem to be enormous, but they’ve gained such enormous mass out of thin air that they have to drag thousands of tons of bodies for high-intensity combat. The energy consumption per second is astronomical. According to my analysis and my observation over the past few days, the life expectancy of the ferocious beasts is not very long. They can even be measured in ‘days’ or ‘hours’. They are like… one-off expendables that are used to carry out suicidal missions and perish together with the enemy.
“Therefore, as long as we hide for another ten days to half a month, perhaps all the ferocious beasts and the guards will perish together. We will become the masters of Silver City without any trouble. “Of course, of course, there are risks, too. We don’t know whether or not the creator of the black wall left any more fatal magical equipment in the depths of White Silver City. It is not a planetary-level magical equipment, nor is it a stellar-level magical equipment, but a piece of ‘universal destructive’ magical equipment. If the Vicious Beast Tide is too severe and the conditions for such apocalyptic magical equipment are met, the creator of the black wall will wipe out all the carbon-based intelligent creatures in the Pangu Universe. That will be terrible.
Li Yao could not help but gasp. Although Lu Qingchen’s words were not entirely false, on second thought, it was still possible.
“If you are not willing to wait to be killed and manipulate the fate of mankind, there is only one solution.
Lu Qingchen smiled. “Come with me to find the other half of the ‘Fuxi’, which is the mainframe crystal processor of the City of Silver. Then, we will operate the mainframe crystal processor together and restore the order of the place by suppressing all the riot with the functions that it used to have.