"No, think about it. Half a year ago, when we first ran into Gao Ye in Spirit Creation Creatures' lab, we weren't his opponent at all," Meng Chao said.
"If it weren't for the fact that Gao Ye didn't want to kill me at that time, I would have been swallowed a long time ago and turned into meat paste.
"Later, Captain Ye and the elites in the group came to stop it. Even though they destroyed half of its body, it still managed to escape.
"Big Sis Ya, you and Captain Ye are both at Heaven Realm, but you couldn't stop it. Why was it so easily destroyed by me, who's only at the peak of Earth Realm?"
This question stunned Lu Siya a little.
She thought about it for a while before she said, "You're not a normal person at the peak of Earth Realm. The Red Radiance Jade mine and Blue Origin Crystals in your body haven't been completely activated yet. Besides, you already have a lot of strange secret techniques, and you received guidance from a mysterious elite. Even I don't have complete confidence that I can defeat you.
"Besides, who would have thought that you'd be crazy enough to jump into its mouth and destroy it from the inside? It's impossible for it to train its organs and nerves to the point that they're as tough as steel. "
"That's what you say, but it's not a normal abnormal beast!"
Meng Chao still felt that something was off.
Others might not know just how terrifying the Supernatural Entity Earthquake was, but he knew it very well.
Even if he interfered and the Supernatural Entity had not fully evolved to the demon-like state it had been in in his previous life, it was still not something he could kill alone.
It was not something he could kill alone.
Just think about the White Spirit.
She was also a Supernatural Entity who had not fully evolved.
When they ran into the White Spirit under Raging Waves, she had given Meng Chao and Lu Siya a nearly suffocating pressure.
If it were not for the connection between the White Spirit and Lin Chuan and Meng Chao's persuasion and Lin Chuan's sudden realization, Meng Chao, Lu Siya, and Qin Hu would have died underground.
It has to be known that at that time, Lu Siya had already reached Heaven Realm.
They were both Supernatural Entities, so there was no reason for the White Spirit to be so much stronger than Earthquake, right?
'There's definitely a problem. There's a limit to how strong I can be when I'm fighting against monsters above my level. Right now, with my power at the peak of Earth Realm, I can instantly kill Nightmarish Beasts and fight against Hell Beasts, but I can't kill a Supernatural Entity so easily!'
The more Meng Chao thought about it, the more he found that something was off. 'Half a year ago, his soul was just transferred to the Ultimate Sandworm. Gao Ye's soul and body must have been unable to coordinate.
"Even so, it managed to escape calmly when it faced Big Sis Ya and Captain Ye, who were both Heaven Realm superhumans.
"In the past half a year, it must have undergone the refinement of the exotic beasts. Even its appearance has become so fierce. Its combat strength should have increased by several folds.
"Even though Gao Ye's soul has already been annihilated, a human's combat intelligence still remains in his thick nerve cords. Group 9 also determined that his combat strength was unfathomable, which is why they sent out their full strength and dispatched dozens of experts to encircle him.
"Among them, there are a few veteran hunters whose combat power is on par with Soul Breaking Saber Luo Wu. If there's a need, we can even ask Captain Ye's older brother, Deity Realm superhuman Broken Sword Ye Xiao Yue to help us.
'But against my expectations, these people were all held back by zombies and monsters, and the Ultimate Sandworm didn't show any fighting power at the level of a Supernatural Entity. It was killed by me, who's at the peak of Earth Realm. It feels like I started out strong but ended up weak. There's definitely something strange about this. Could it be …'
Suddenly, Meng Chao's gaze focused, and he thought of a possibility.
Lu Siya said, "Look at your enlightened expression. What did you think of?"
"I thought of something," Meng Chao mumbled.
"Could it be that I awakened the mysterious power hidden in the depths of my soul when I was in a rage and was about to die? It's the legendary Seed Explosion, and that's why I killed it?"
"…" Meng Chao mumbled.
"If you think so, then so be it. Is there anything else? If not, I want to go back to the medical cabin and lie down."
"Big Sis Ya, don't go. Analyze it with me."
Meng Chao scratched his head. "I admit that I have a lot of cultivation potential, and I'm a rare existence. Besides, with the support from the spirit energy of the world, I can occasionally deliver a critical hit, but no matter how much of a Seed Explosion I am, I shouldn't have been able to increase my fighting strength by so much. It doesn't make sense!
"Besides, I didn't feel any fragments shattering in my mind or a wave of heat surging out of my Dantian region. No matter how I think about it, it's not that I'm too strong, but that it's too weak."
"Oh," Lu Siya said.
Lu Siya said. "Isn't it a good thing that the enemy is weak?"
"That's only true if the enemy is really weak." Meng Chao looked conflicted.
The current powerful fighters in Dragon City did not know how terrifying the Supernatural Entities were.
That was why they had misjudged the Ultimate Sandworm's fighting strength.
But Meng Chao would not make such a mistake.
There was something else that bothered him.
"Big Sis Ya, why do you think this thing jumped out half a month early?"
Meng Chao pointed at the Ultimate Sandworm and tossed out a new question. "It shook the foundation of a skyscraper, destroyed a generator, and swallowed half of a subway. That's all the damage it caused. Then, the abnormal beast research department pinned it down, and it could only flee in panic.
"My question is, why did it do that?"
Lu Siya frowned a little. "It was controlled by the Supernatural Entities, so why would it need a reason to destroy Dragon City?"
"No, I'm not questioning why it wanted to destroy Dragon City. I'm just curious. Why would it use this sort of advance warning and make a ruckus?"
Meng Chao said. "Let's say that it didn't destroy the skyscraper, the generator, and the moving subway. Instead, it just hid underground and helped the abnormal beasts clear the tunnels inside and outside Dragon City. What would happen then?
"If that was the case, it would be impossible for us to predict where it would hide and where it would go.
"Then, when the rat horde, zombies, and monsters appeared one after another, most of the superhumans and the Red Dragon Army's attention would be attracted to the south of the city. Then, it would launch an attack, and it would definitely destroy the underwater tunnel in one go, right?"
This question finally made Lu Siya sink into deep thought.
"Makes sense."
She crouched on the ground and thought about it for a total of three minutes before she mumbled, "Attacking ten days ahead of time does sound like we've alerted the enemy."
"That's right. Since the abnormal beasts have already decided to attack the city en masse ten days later, what's the point of sending an Ultimate Sandworm ahead of time? It's a strategic biochemical weapon that can dig tunnels underground and secretly transport troops to the surface to cause trouble," Meng Chao said.
"Of course, it will definitely cause a certain amount of damage, but it won't be able to damage Dragon City's foundation. Instead, it will expose its existence and cause our most important mission to fail. Wouldn't that be a huge loss?"
Lu Siya thought about it. "The abnormal beasts didn't think about it?"
"They have such advanced soul transfer and gene modification technology, and they can control thousands of pests at the same time to form a biochemical tsunami to attack the important facilities in Dragon City. So, they didn't think about the principle of not alerting the enemy?" Meng Chao asked.
Lu Siya's face turned red. "That doesn't make sense."
"It doesn't. It's impossible for the abnormal beasts to be that stupid. They're —"
They're existences that nearly won the Monster War in his previous life and destroyed Dragon City!
Meng Chao forced himself to stop the latter half of her sentence.
But he could not stop the thoughts that surged in his head like bubbles.
'If I were an abnormal beast, why would I have the Ultimate Sandworm show up beforehand and attract the abnormal beast research department's attention?'
Meng Chao thought about it so hard that his hair looked like a bird's nest.
Suddenly, he stopped moving, and a profound light shone in his eyes.
'Unless the underwater tunnel isn't the abnormal beast's ultimate goal and it's just a smokescreen!'
"That's impossible. Are you being paranoid?"
Lu Siya said. "They used the Ultimate Sandworm, which is one of a kind, as a smokescreen. The abnormal beast is being too generous."
"That's right …"
Meng Chao got up swiftly and rubbed his sore legs. He circled the Ultimate Sandworm's carcass three times and occasionally went closer to observe its skin, spikes, and nerves. Then, he gathered the data the researchers collected and focused on making calculations and comparisons.
Suddenly, his pupils shrank to the size of two needles. A bone-chilling chill surged out of his pores, and he turned into a high-powered vertical air conditioner.
"Big Sis Ya, what did you say just now?" Meng Chao mumbled.
"What?"
Lu Siya thought about it and said, "I said that the abnormal beast is being too generous."
"No, the first half of the sentence."
"It used the Ultimate Sandworm, which is one of a kind, as a smokescreen?"
"That's right. That's it. I know why I could kill it so easily."
Meng Chao's eyes sparkled. He pointed at the Ultimate Sandworm's carcass and said, "Because it's not Gao Ye!"
"What did you say?" Lu Siya's eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.
"Don't say that it's impossible. Tell me, why are we certain that it's Gao Ye from the start?" Meng Chao asked.
"Because …"
Lu Siya thought about it for a while before she said, "Gao Ye said in the experiment log that it gradually lost control and was about to lose its humanity. It told you to kill it.
"Soon after, it appeared and started wreaking havoc.
"Based on the analysis of the surveillance footage, even though it had gone through a major evolution and changed beyond recognition, its basic characteristics are incredibly similar to the Ultimate Sandworm, which fled half a year ago.
"Besides, aside from Gao Ye, it's hard to imagine that the abnormal beast could create a second Ultimate Sandworm that's as terrifying as this one.
"Even if this is just circumstantial evidence, you've already killed it.
"But now, you've killed it, and we have concrete evidence. The living cells we scraped off from the Ultimate Sandworm are compared to the living cells we found under Spirit Creations Creatures' lab half a year ago. We've confirmed that they belong to the same creature. How do you explain this?"
"I can explain it," Meng Chao said airily.
"Big Sis Ya, even though their appearances and sizes are worlds apart, you should know that sandworms and earthworms are close relatives. Their genomes and some of their characteristics are practically the same, right?
"Earthworms and sandworms are annelids. Since their nerves are relatively low-grade, the parts of their bodies are very independent and can regenerate very quickly.
"If you use a knife to cut an earthworm in half, it might not die.
Instead, there's a certain chance that it will split into two independent entities and turn from 'it' to 'them'! "
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