This question was indeed filled with an extremely strange aura.
After everyone thought about it for a while, they felt chills crawl down their spines.
"The abnormal beast research department has a theory, and in truth, Meng Chao was the one who suggested it."
Ye Xiaoxing took over the conversation. "They evolved from monsters into a monster civilization and knew Dragon City's social structure and weaknesses like the back of their hand. They could even infiltrate the lair and make quite a number of humans rebel against them. Based on this, there's a high possibility that the monster civilization captured quite a number of humans alive and read their memories and thoughts. Then, they used the flames of human civilization to light up the path of monster civilization's evolution.
"However, there are only a handful of humans left in the wild, and it's impossible for them to recreate the great social system and technology from Earth. They will definitely degenerate into savages who eat raw meat and drink blood. They won't be of much help to the monster civilization.
"A self-sufficient satellite city that operates based on Earth's laws is what the mastermind behind the monster civilization needs the most.
"As long as the mastermind is smart enough, once it discovers an Earthling's satellite city, it might not order a monster horde to destroy it.
"Perhaps it would think of a way to 'rear' the city so that it could observe and research Earthlings' society. It would help the monsters evolve and come up with a strategy that is highly targeted and can destroy all human civilization in one go."
The young military officers thought about it for a while before they looked like they had come to a realization.
Their gazes were fixed on Meng Chao.
Meng Chao coughed dryly and said, "This is the inspiration I got from Agricultural University's actions.
"Many of the courses in Agricultural University don't simply kill monsters when they run into them. Instead, they think of ways to rear and modify them so that they can use the monsters' strength.
"If we run into a large monster nest in the wild, we won't immediately destroy it unless the situation is really dangerous and it poses a huge obstacle to Dragon Citizens' colonization. Instead, we observe it quietly and research the monster system. We also throw in all sorts of interfering factors to observe the monsters' reactions so that we can come up with new strategies that are more targeted.
"I think that since human civilization treats monsters this way, the monster civilization might also treat humans this way.
"If they didn't have a complete human city for their research, it would have been impossible for them to be so familiar with the human language, mentality, customs, and conflicts of interest. They could then accurately attack Dragon City's weakest link.
"So, it's not strange at all that a Dragon City satellite city that transmigrated more than half a century ago appeared near the monster civilization's ultimate nest."
"That's right."
Long Feijun nodded in approval. "After the Red Dragon Army and the abnormal beast research department conducted a comprehensive analysis, they supported this conclusion.
"The monster civilization captured and kept an entire human city, which is why they turned from ignorant animals into a civilization that can fight against us. They also know the situation of Earthlings like the back of their hands.
"On the other hand, if there's really an undamaged human town in such a strange and unfathomable place, it proves that it's definitely the ultimate nest of the monster civilization.
"Because without the protection of the monster civilization, it's impossible for human cities to survive in the Hidden Fog Territory."
They immediately understood and agreed with Long Feijun's train of thought.
The Hidden Fog Unique Domain wasn't an ordinary wilderness or jungle.
It was the most terrifying place in all of Monster Mountain Range.
It was ten times more terrifying than the places he had fought in Shattered Starlake, Graveyard Forest, and Raging Waves.
After all, a satellite city was too small.
Even the largest satellite cities outside of the main city area of Dragon City only had a few hundred thousand permanent residents before he transmigrated.
After the chaos and disasters during the early stages of his transmigration, the lack of resources, and the invasion of viruses, it was already pretty good if there were only thirty to fifty thousand people who survived.
Thirty to fifty thousand people relied on their own strength to survive for more than half a century in Hidden Fog Unique Domain, a place where the Piranha Squad was completely wiped out, and they weren't affected by the strange environment at all?
How was that possible?!
"Since we were certain that Hidden Fog Unique Domain was the monster civilization's ultimate nest and a human town was locked up here, even if we lost two scouting squads, we had to send in new scouting forces," Long Feijun said.
Long Feijun said. "We can't allow the mastermind of the monster civilization to lurk in the fog behind Dragon City, and we can't just watch our compatriots in a city be controlled and trampled on by monsters without doing anything.
"Hence, the Red Dragon Army shared information with the research department and Supernatural Tower, and they sent out three elite scouting squads in one go."
Meng Chao nodded.
Regardless of whether it was Group 9 led by Lu Siya or the veteran hunters from the Hunter's Association, their fighting experience did not lose to that of the Piranha Squad, and their cultivation realms were even greater than theirs.
"Even though there was a high possibility that the Piranha Squad was completely wiped out, they carried out their duty perfectly and explored a lot of the terrain in Hidden Fog Unique Domain. They also analyzed the samples of the underground mine and left behind a lot of radioactive road marks to send crucial data to the outside world," Long Feijun continued.
Long Feijun continued. "Based on the data sent back by the Piranhas squad, we drew a map of part of the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain. Then, we loaded the railway guns with 'Weather Disruption Bullets' and bombarded the mountains above the crystal mother lodes, causing a chain reaction of magnetic field quakes that temporarily changed the local microclimate. The thunderstorms, storms, floods, and mudslides stopped, and we won a short window of time.
"Three new scouting squads immediately set off and followed the Piranha Squad's footsteps. They successfully reached the depths of Hidden Fog Unique Domain and captured even clearer pictures as well as more detailed data. This data will provide great support for our next strategy."
Long Feijun pointed at the 3D sand table.
The light and shadows changed, and new pictures and videos appeared.
All the members of the Ninth Special Search Group of the abnormal beast research department, including Lu Siya, could be seen standing in front of a purple shrub that was growing madly and curling up in a spiral shape.
They brought with them automatic fighting machines that were ten times the number of the Piranha Squad's. They were driven by crystals and controlled by runic symbols.
The spirit flames they released were also much stronger than the Piranha Squad's.
Quite a number of the scouting squad members who were exploring ahead of them had their feet three feet off the ground to prevent themselves from sinking into the swamp or being bitten by the pests lurking in the bushes. They floated in the air, showing off their great strength after they reached Heaven Realm.
With the road marks formed by the Piranha Squad's lives, they managed to get through the dimensional folds without any danger.
They also avoided the transmission towers, which were surrounded by vines, and the green giants, which were the most dangerous existences in Hidden Fog Unique Domain.
They only took some pictures from the distance.
They also found the spot where the Piranha Squad's commander had self-destructed.
There were no signs of human activity in the area.
Everywhere was covered in colorful vines, branches, shrubs, and moss. It was like a garden that was so colorful that it did not seem real.
But Lu Siya and the other investigators managed to gather some unbelievable things here.
They were cells extracted from the mucus they scraped off the vines.
When Lu Siya observed the cells with the crystal microscope she carried with her, she could clearly see that the cells had huge vacuoles and a lot of chloroplasts.
These were the typical characteristics of plant cells.
But they did not have the cell walls that plant cells should have.
Instead, they were covered in a layer of phospholipids. It was elastic and semi-transparent.
There was also a rather active central body.
Even though low-grade plants might have central bodies.
However, the weird vine that slithered slowly like a boa and even raised a lot of thorns and hissed when it encountered human beings did not belong to the category of "low-level" plants at all.
Its cells had the characteristics of both animal and plant cells.
Moreover, the entire Hidden Fog Unique Domain was filled with such strange creatures.
Perhaps this sort of cells could explain why the moss, branches, and vines that looked like plants were even crazier than monsters.
However, these cells were not the focus of Lu Siya and the others' research for the time being.
After traveling for a period of time, Group 9 arrived at the final coordinates where they lost contact with the Piranhas.
They were in front of the pit that seemed to have been left behind by a meteor.
In the conversations later on in the communication channel, the investigators from Group 9 referred to the pit as Sky Pit.
When the holographic cameras intersected with each other, they found that the pit was as big as a Sky Pit. It was deep, grand, and mysterious.
It was located at the foot of God of Fog Mountain, which was shrouded by a vortex of clouds. Hence, when Group 9 arrived in front of Sky Pit, they thought that they had arrived at the shore of a white ocean.
However, the white ocean had an absolutely accurate arc on the shore and the road signs left behind by the Piranhas. It made Lu Siya wary, and she did not recklessly step into it.
And the sea of clouds that enveloped Sky Pit was like the breathing of a huge, primitive beast. It expanded and shrank in a rhythmic pattern, repeatedly becoming thicker and thinner.
When it expanded and thinned to its limit, they could see a drop of hundreds of meters.
The sunken walls around them also had an absolutely accurate and smooth arc.
Some of the walls shone with a silver, metallic sheen or a colorful, glass-like texture.
It was as if they had been burned at an extremely high temperature in the past, so much so that the rocks and crystals had all melted and solidified.
But most of the walls were covered by moss, vines, and branches.
The "plants" grew even more lush and crazier than those outside Sky Pit.
Two vines that were hundreds of meters away from each other could jump through the air and entangle with each other. It was as if intersecting flyovers had been built in Sky Pit.
These flyovers formed a skeleton, and a large amount of moss, branches, and even thinner vines continued climbing over them. They filled the skeleton into a spherical jungle that grew madly in all directions.
They also looked like demons that had tentacles covered in ghastly claws protruding from the depths of the walls. They held up heads with snake hair that danced madly.
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