"Deterrence!"
Kou Ruhuo bellowed. Hundreds of spiritual puppets formed a rhomboid battle formation. The crystal cannons on their shoulders opened fire at the same time. More than a thousand unstoppable mystic rays raised countless blasts and airwaves in the primitive forest.
Countless animals were vaporized before they had the chance to scream. Even more animals fled into the depths of the forest in exclamations of shock.
The murderous aura that filled the air just a moment ago instantly disappeared without a trace.
The deterrence lasted for a minute. A scorched land one kilometer wide and dozens of kilometers long was plowed in front of them.
Li Yao took the opportunity to record the firepower efficiency of the spiritual puppets so that he could evaluate their combat ability.
It was obvious that the spiritual puppets of the Imperium of True Human Beings had a combat ability three to five times higher than that of Xiao Xuance's Grand Illusionary Soldiers.
Li Yao did not have any objection to the deterrence operation itself.
He had explored many world fragments before. He knew that in the unexplored places, especially when faced with the primitive animals whose intelligence was low, one had to show one's powerful firepower first so that the animals would be scared and stay away from them.
Otherwise, the ignorant animals might lunge at them like tides. Even if they could not pose a fatal threat, they would consume a lot of spiritual energy and ammunition, which could be quite troublesome.
Right now, whatever the animals lurking deep inside the primitive forest were, they all knew that they had to be awed by them.
Without the harassment of the animals, there were no more obstacles in front of them. They successfully flew to the front of the black cube.
The closer they were to the black cube, the more they could feel the magnificence and delicacy of the building.
Measured from every direction, every edge of the cube was exactly 10000 meters long and short. There was not the slightest difference between them.
In such a way, it had reached the extremes in both the large scale and the small scale, telling the visitors a million years later the formidability of the Pangu civilization in silence!
Li Yao and his companions flew around the black cube. On one side of the cube, they discovered a vertical gap that penetrated the cube. It was also straight, precise, and monotonous.
It should be the 'gate' of the black cube.
From afar, it looked like a vertical gap, but it was still a hundred meters wide. It was covered by a thin layer of black fog, and it was impossible to see what was inside the black cube.
Around the 'gate', countless corpses of Pangu and human beings were lying on the ground, but they were all torn apart and gnawed beyond recognition.
From the looks of it, it was the work of the wild beasts and vines that took the opportunity to breed after the city fell.
However, all the beasts and vines only dared to touch the surroundings of the black cube and did not dare to invade it.
"Chances are that there are more well-preserved bodies inside, or even Colossi!"
The four of them and the eight hundred spiritual puppets fell into a black canyon like eight hundred grains of dust.
The moment he broke into the black cube, Li Yao's vision was completely shrouded by the black fog. Even the communication channel was filled with rustling sounds.
He could only hear his own heartbeat and see the reflection of his shining eyes.
However, the black fog quickly dissipated, and Li Yao saw the entire interior of the giant black cube clearly.
Li Yao immediately gasped.
He did not know how to describe what he was seeing. It was even weirder than the 'bloody hell' that was covered by the blood tide just now.
The black cube was hollow. As a building with a height, length, and width of ten kilometers, there were no layers or partitions inside. It was a huge space that looked like a warehouse, a factory, and even more like a farm.
The reason why it looked like a farm was because the entire black cube was filled with black pillars that were thousands of meters tall. Every black pillar had countless branches, and on every branch, there were countless metal sacs that looked like wheat ears or corn cobs.
Most of the metal sacs had been broken. They were lackluster and dry like the empty shells of insects after they were shed.
But some of the metal sacs kept their appearance intact and were vaguely emitting crimson brilliance!
Most of the metal sacs were three to four meters long. Around every metal sac, more than a hundred metal tubes were connected to the depths of the black pillars, as if they could receive certain energy and nutrition from the depths of the black pillars.
Li Yao roughly estimated that there were almost a hundred branches around a black pillar that was six to eight thousand meters tall. There was enough space for almost ten thousand metal sacs to 'grow'.
When he flew to the middle of the intersecting black pillars, he was like a tiny mosquito that had flown into a primitive forest. He felt that it was both magnificent and weird. He found it hard to breathe, too.
Li Yao scanned the broken metal sacs with mystic rays. He scanned more than ten metal sacs without finding anything.
It was not until the nineteenth metal sac that he finally found the skeleton of a human being.
The skeleton was only 1.6 meters long. Judging from the skull, the teeth, and the limbs, it was obviously a male human being.
His bones were intact, and there were no signs of intense resistance or struggle. He had died quite 'peacefully', if not 'peacefully'. It could be counted as a natural death.
What was odd was that, judging from the development of his bones, he was at least a teenager. But he was curled up like a fetus in a womb.
The Pangu captured human teenagers and stuffed them into such metal sacs in order to maintain their life functions in a certain way?
Li Yao thought to himself and felt that there was something wrong with his theory.
He scanned more than a hundred broken metal sacs and found three skeletons of human beings from the primeval era.
Other than two teenagers, there was also a young man in his twenties or thirties.
Despite their different ages, they had all died peacefully, and they were all curled up like a fetus.
What's going on exactly? Did the Pangu really capture so many human beings? It doesn't make sense! What's their purpose for doing so?
Li Yao tried his best to fly toward a metal sac that was emitting crimson brilliance.
The metal sac should have been filled with crimson liquids. However, after hundreds of thousands of years of corrosion, all the liquids had evaporated. The only thing left was a crimson membrane on the translucent shell of the metal sac.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and looked inside through the translucent shell.
The metal sac was absolutely empty. There was not a single bone in it.
Odd. It is possible to find a dead body in the broken metal sacs, but there is nothing in this metal sac that is so well-preserved?
While Li Yao was puzzled, Tang Qianhe exclaimed in shock.
She also found a metal sac that was emitting crimson brilliance and seemed to be in perfect condition.
Li Yao hurried to fly toward her.
She found that inside the metal bag was an extremely small corpse, which looked like a newborn baby!
"Did the Pangu Clan also use human babies to refine their magical equipment?"
Li Yao couldn't help but burst into fury after witnessing such a cruel scene in person.
However, it didn't make sense. If the pure souls of babies were used to craft magical equipment or for other evil purposes, they should've only used babies. Why were there adults in their twenties mixed in?
The souls of adults were not as pure as those of babies. Even if only one of them was mixed in, it would still be like a piece of mouse feces spoiling a whole pot of porridge. It was definitely not a worthwhile action.
There was nothing. Babies, young people, and adults.
Black pillars that looked like tree trunks and wheat straws, metal sacs that looked like wheat ears and fruits, and almost a hundred metal tubes that delivered nutrition and energy nonstop …
Connecting all the details, Li Yao was so shocked that he almost bit his tongue.
He suddenly thought of the weirdest possibility.
The first sealed metal sac that he scanned might not be empty after all.
It was very likely that something invisible to the naked eye was inside.
A fertilized egg.
This place was not a prison where the Pangu captured human beings for interrogation or exploitation.
On the contrary, it was a factory where the Pangu 'produced' human beings!
"This place is …"
Greatly shocked, Li Yao looked at Tang Qianhe eagerly.
Staring at the metal sac, Tang Qianhe said in a hollow and depressed voice, "I can't explain it clearly. Let Master Su tell you."
Su Changfa and Kou Ruhuo, on the other hand, flew to the center of the ground and surrounded a transparent cube about ten meters in diameter.
When Li Yao and Tang Qianhe flew over, they still did not move their eyes away from the transparent cube.
Li Yao observed carefully. The transparent cube seemed to be both the control center of the entire factory and an enormous monument. After hundreds of thousands of years, it was still glittering and emitting intimidating spiritual energy.
Deep inside the cube, three mysterious, complicated, octagonal, three-dimensional runes were floating up and down, changing constantly!
Li Yao had never seen such delicate, perfect, and impeccable runes before.
Their power was even beyond the scope of runes. They were a certain mysterious truth of the universe that could not be disobeyed!
For some reason, when he was penetrated by the mystic rays of the three runes, Li Yao's cells and even his gene strands were seething, giving him a very uncomfortable feeling of restraint.
"What are they?"
Li Yao gritted his teeth and did not feel better until he gripped the handle of his chainsword. He asked Su Changfa in a low voice.
The old Immortal Cultivator was silent for a long time.
It was not the kind of silence that he did not want to tell him, but the kind of silence that he was accumulating strength in secret, like the moment before a volcano erupted.
Staring at the three runes deep inside the cube for a long time, the old Immortal Cultivator sniffed and said coldly, "One day, you may get in touch with something called the Path of Ultimate Benevolence.
"Once the three runes are analyzed, they will represent the three fundamental laws of the Path of Ultimate Benevolence. You can call them the heavenly rules.
"Hehe. In the legends, violating the heavenly rules is an unpardonable crime. It is inevitable that you will be obliterated and never be reincarnated!
"The Path of Ultimate Benevolence!"
Li Yao was overjoyed. He hurried to ask respectfully, "Senior Su, what do the three fundamental laws mean exactly after they are analyzed?"
Su Changfa took a deep breath. His old bones were uttering cracking noises that could still be heard clearly even though they were covered by the crystal suit. He declared, one word after another, "The Path of Ultimate Benevolence and the three fundamental laws!"
"The first law. Human beings are not allowed to hurt Pangu individuals or watch when Pangu individuals are about to be hurt!
"The second law. Human beings must obey all the orders given by the Pangu, unless the orders are in conflict with the first law!
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