"He's going to die!"
"Inject 'Brain Hormone' and 'Torch Dragon Protein' now. Try to delay the process of brain death as much as possible!"
"Activate the emergency plan. Try to capture his soul and see if there is a way to transform him into a spectral Cultivator. If he cannot be transformed into a spectral Cultivator, try to import all the information in his brain into the crystal processor and preserve as much data as possible!"
The sterile room was in chaos. All the specialists' hands turned into clusters of gray mist as they operated quickly on the control light beams.
Very soon, Elder Nether Spring's face on the enormous light beam was twisted into an enormous swirl, as if it had been absorbed by a weird force!
However, before his brainwaves completely calmed down, Li Yao somehow saw … the brilliance of hope from the depths of his soul swirl!
"Was it an illusion?"
Li Yao frowned and mumbled to himself.
Elder Nether Spring was a great man after all. He had escaped from the enemy's control in the end and given himself a quick death!
However, did he really leave nothing behind?
One minute later, Elder Nether Spring's brainwaves completely vanished, and all the light beams gradually turned blank.
"He's dead. His soul is gone. It's impossible for him to be transformed into a spectral Cultivator."
Several Meditation Healers made the same conclusion after examining Elder Nether Spring's brain carefully.
"Thankfully, we've collected enough data over the past few months and extracted most of the data and memory pieces from his brain at the last moment."
A Meditation Healer tapped on the control light beam for a moment. From the depths of the mainframe crystal processor, a metal cube the size of a fist floated out. It looked like a colorful, magnificent Rubik's cube.
Dense spiritual stripes had been carved on the surface of the 'cube', emitting soul-stirring brilliance.
Shou Yuxuan extended his hand and held the 'cube' above his palm with his spiritual energy. With a telepathic thought, the 'cube' immediately dispersed.
It was as if it was made up of thousands of thin metal sheets, and each metal sheet was engraved with a huge amount of information. When they were all spread out, their volume would expand by a hundred times, and the amount of information stored would be astronomical.
Shou Yuxuan extended his telepathic thoughts into the crystal and scanned it briefly. Then, he sighed and said, "Thankfully, it is already beyond our expectations that we could squeeze so much information out of Elder Nether Spring's brain. With this' Jade Crystal Disc ', a lot of studies can be carried on.
Li Yao held his breath, his eyes sparkling.
The so-called 'Jade Crystal Disc' could be understood as a jade chip of the highest level.
It was made of thousands of thin recording chips. The storage space of every recording chip was equal to that of a common jade chip.
With thousands of jade slips stacked together, the storage space was as vast as the sea.
At this moment, most of Elder Nether Spring's memories, research results, and training techniques had been stored in the 'Jade Crystal Disc'.
The glimmer in Li Yao's eyes grew brighter and brighter. He pondered for a moment. Since all the memories were stored, they must've included the memories of being captured and interrogated in secret over the past couple of months.
The files of the Blood Demon Sector that Li Yao carried with him, as well as the videos and audio recordings that he had recorded in secret, were easy to falsify. They did not prove much.
However, the 'Jade Crystal Disc', which stored most of the memory pieces and brain information of a Yuanying expert, would be undeniable proof if he could get his hands on it!
As long as the 'Jade Crystal Disc' was disclosed to most of the Cultivators, to the tens of millions of the Union Army, and to all the people of the Federation, it would be enough to prove that Elder Nether Spring had been captured by Lu Zui a long time ago and that Lu Zui had been studying with Shou Yuxuan and other Yuanying experts. He had even forced Elder Nether Spring to confess the secrets of the 'Demon God Virus'.
They had even mentioned 'chaos', which meant that the 'same-origin theory' was no secret to Lu Zui and Shou Yuxuan!
Then, why did they not disclose it to the public?
Why did they pretend that they knew nothing about the list of the Children of the Nether World when they had confirmed the list of the Children of the Nether World and even watched the incident of the Speaker's assassination break out without doing anything?
None of it was justifiable!
Li Yao's heart was beating faster and faster. After so many twists and turns, he had finally touched the key to the whole scheme!
Inside the sterile room, after examining the 'Jade Crystal Disc', Shou Yuxuan said to the scar-faced man, "Prepare a clean communication room for me. I'm going to report this to Director Lu."
Li Yao's heart was pounding crazily again.
Shou Yuxuan was a specialist in virology. He seemed to be the host of the secret base, too. His position was even higher than the scar-faced man's.
The relationship between him and Lu Zui should be an upgraded version of the relationship between 'Mad Medic' Lu Wuxin and Elder Nether Spring.
The conversation between the two of them was bound to touch upon some extremely secretive matters.
He had to hear what they were talking about!
However …
It was too risky to let Neltharion follow Shou Yuxuan. The conversation between him and Lu Zui must be highly confidential. Before the conversation started, all the magical equipment in the secret room must have been scanned to make sure that it was safe.
By 'clean', it meant that the conversation would not be eavesdropped.
Besides, Li Yao needed Neltharion to lock onto the location of the 'Jade Crystal Disc' and even to steal it when there was an opportunity. It was impossible for him to follow Shou Yuxuan.
Then, how should he eavesdrop?
Li Yao thought quickly and analyzed the structure of the undersea mining base carefully.
This place was thousands of kilometers away from the capital city. If the two parties wanted to talk, they would have to establish a wireless Spiritual Nexus with the spiritual waves released by the 'spiritual towers'.
Such an undersea base was blocked by the surging seawater. It was obvious that the spiritual towers could not be built at the bottom of the ocean. Floating platforms were usually adopted.
However, a storm was raging on the surface of the ocean right now. It was impossible for the spiritual towers to resist such natural disasters. Even if they did, the communication would be intermittent and unclear because of the serious interference of spiritual energy.
There must be other ways. Such an undersea mining base far away from the continent can't only be connected by the wireless Spiritual Nexus of the spiritual towers. It will be too unstable.
If a super storm lasts a few days and nights, will they not reach out to Lu Zui for a few days and nights? That's impossible!
Right. The undersea cable!
Li Yao's eyes suddenly shined. He decided to take a chance and slithered out of the gap of the magical equipment like a snake. Under the cover of the dirty seawater, he crawled out of the damaged shell of the base.
The battle outside of the base was still going on. A lot of seawater had been mixed by the blue blood of the Nine-Headed Ocean Monster. It seemed that the overlord was exhausted and about to be executed.
Having no time to care about the life of the Nine-Headed Ocean Monster, Li Yao quickly swam to the bottom of the undersea base.
Hurry up. I have to seize every second and find the undersea cable before they talk to each other!
Li Yao sensed feeble spiritual waves. He was certain that the enemy must've deployed defense rune arrays around the undersea cable to make sure that it would not be bitten apart by the sea beasts.
As he expected, a moment later, he found a few thick cables that were deeply buried in the sand and mud by sniffing the feeble spiritual waves emitted by the defense rune arrays.
These crystal cables were like giant sea snakes without heads or tails. They extended in the direction of the continent into the endless darkness.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and took out a drill that was almost invisible to the naked eye from his Cosmos Ring. He began to operate on the undersea cable attentively.
The undersea mining base was supposed to be a civil base. The undersea cable that led to the continent was thousands of kilometers long. It was impossible to install barriers of the highest level on every meter of it.
With the skills of a master of refining and a master of peeping, Li Yao bypassed the defense rune arrays very soon. He drilled a hole the size of a hair on the undersea cable and extended a crystal wire that was as thin as a cow's hair into it. The other end of the crystal wire was connected to his special eavesdropping crystal processor.
At the same time, the information streams that were transmitted through the undersea cable were, of course, overwhelming and complicated.
However, Li Yao had already collected the voiceprint information of Shou Yuxuan and Lu Zui. Therefore, he only needed to lock onto the information streams that had the features of their voiceprint.
A moment later, Li Yao heard the conversation between the two of them in the blurry sound of * * * *!
Lu Zui, on the other hand, said, "You shouldn't have woken me up at such a moment. In the past half month, to deal with Li Yao, Jiang Hailiu, and the rest of them, I've overdrawn my computational ability. My brain is in the worst state right now, and I can't maintain the most agile thinking at all. I'm trying my best to recover.
"By my estimation, it will take me five hours, five minutes, and twenty-two seconds to recover my sharpness. Now that you have interrupted me, it will take me an additional one hour, seventeen minutes, and forty-three seconds."
"Nether Spring is dead," Shou Yuxuan said.
"Okay."
Lu Zui said casually, "There are limits to the brain after all. He should've been killed, too. Have you extracted the critical information?"
"I have. It won't affect the progress of our research," Shou Yuxuan said.
"I can guarantee that we will be able to provide enough Demon God Virus and the matching antidote in half a month after we march into the Blood Demon Sector. All of them can be put into practical use!"
"Very good. Then, Nether Spring's death is no longer important. With the Demon God Virus and the antidote that can be mass-produced, we will be able to control the extent of the plague and the trend of the war!"
Pausing for a moment, Lu Zui continued. "Now that you have interrupted us, let me say one more thing. The research on the 'A virus' can come to an end now. Now, please speed up the production of the 'B virus'. I need enough dosage to infect a hundred thousand people in one month!"
Shou Yuxuan was dazed for a moment. He asked, "The 'B Demon God Virus' that specifically targets the space residents? Why? "
"Influenced by the soaring fighting will of the entire Federation," Lu Zui said, "the space residents have finally loosened their attitude. It is very likely that they will be persuaded by us and send Burning Prairie, their dream warship, to the Blood Demon Sector together.
"However, they still did not agree to march into the heartland of the Blood Demon Sector. They only promised to help us guard the wormhole between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector and release the Grand Illusionary Soldiers to observe the situation of the Blood Demon Sector from a closer distance.
"Hehe. It seems that the space residents are more or less under the influence of Li Yao!
"However, they are too naïve after all!
"When we arrive in the Blood Demon Sector, the situation will change rapidly. Will they still be able to call the shots?
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