Seven days later, in the depths of the Land of Eternal Night, which had been the most dangerous place in the Ancient Sages Sector since the beginning of time, the starships were startled by the starships that were crashing on the ground.
The frozen clouds in the sky were melted and shattered by the exhaust flames of the starships. On the ice rocks that were even harder than diamonds, the engineering crystal suits and mechanical spiders dug out paths and traces, outlining hundreds of enormous rune arrays.
From the central plateaus to the prairies, from the prairies to the ice fields, countless supply points and half-permanent rest areas had been established along the way. They were solid cities deep below the ground that were enough to keep the ordinary soldiers whose spiritual roots had not been awakened safe and sound in the most frigid wind so that they could join the enormous project of excavating the Nuwa warship and the Pangu laboratory.
The miraculous scene had been completed by the most experienced engineering troop of the Federation.
In the past hundred years, the troop had been involved in the development of Kunlun, the modification of the Water Crystal Sector and the Nether World Sector, the reconstruction of the Uranian Ring Sector, and so on. They had accumulated abundant experience in 'transforming the world'. Conquering the ice field where the tempestuous wind was a difficult task, but it was not enough to intimidate the ambitious people of the Federation.
The Nuwa warship and the Pangu laboratory were the top priorities of the operation.
They coveted the primeval technology and magical equipment inside the Nuwa warship, hoping to meld the items with the debris on Kunlun and figure out the mysteries so that the cutting-edge technology of the Federation would soar again. But that was not the most important thing.
Most importantly of all, countless weird 'crabs' were sealed inside the mysterious laboratory of the Pangu.
The monsters that looked like giant crabs were the experiment subjects of the Pangu civilization. Fatal venom was stored inside their bodies. Once injected into a human body, the venom had the terrifying effect of turning the human being into a Pangu. Even Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun, the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators in the past, had been tricked in their ignorance and had to abandon their physical bodies and transform into spectral Cultivators.
After hundreds of thousands of years, the seals that the Nuwa Clan imposed on the top of the Pangu laboratory were already riddled with holes. They had been accidentally opened by Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun.
After that, although the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators and the ten Yuanying Cultivators, including Li Yao, joined hands and added layers of new seals, the cracks were still there after all. It was impossible to seal them up. They had to take drastic measures to solve the problem from the source.
Li Yao and the rest of them secretly felt lucky that the seal had not been broken during the three years they had been away from the Ancient Sages Sector. Few of the giant crabs raised by the Pangu civilization had escaped.
If the seal was broken in three years, and a few giant crabs really escaped, sneaked into the Dark Cloud Prairie or even the Central Plains, and turned countless people into Pangu …
The fleet of the Federation arrived at the Ancient Sages Planet, only to find countless giants looking at them with vague smiles. It was quite an awkward scene.
The matter was so urgent that there was no time to waste. Almost when the Dark Cloud Prairie and the Central Plains were undergoing drastic modifications, another fleet that carried a large batch of engineering troops marched to the depths of the Land of Eternal Night.
On this day, when a new order was basically established in the Great Qian Dynasty and the Dark Cloud Prairie, the twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector could not wait any longer and gathered above the Nuwa warship.
Three years ago, they had gathered in this place, too, but they had suffered a lot from the tempests and the icy fog. They had even attacked each other because of their own ill intentions. Had it not been for the series of accidents and the matchmaking of Li Yao and Long Yangjun, they would have all been killed in the Land of Eternal Night. …
This time, they were back in a completely different way.
With the Nuwa warship as the center, multiple defense lines had been established in the five hundred square kilometers around. On one hand, they were meant to prevent the ignorant, reckless guys from coming in and causing trouble. On the other hand, they were also meant to defend against the 'giant crabs' that dashed out of the underground and the Pangu that had been transformed by the 'giant crabs'.
In the hundred square kilometers around, hundreds of weather-stabilizing rune arrays had also been established with tremendous crystals as the energy source, establishing a natural protective membrane.
The most advanced biochemical laboratories, gene laboratories, and primeval relic research centers had been established inside the protective membrane, forming a temporary town.
At this moment, the town had been congregated by the experts and authorities from dozens of renowned universities of the Federation. They were all rubbing their hands, waiting for the items that they would excavate from the Nuwa warship and the Pangu laboratory.
Naturally, until the absolute safety was ensured, the experts and authorities who were too weak to fight would not be allowed to enter the Nuwa warship or the Pangu laboratory.
Further inside, the few most elite Crystal Suit Legions of the Federation were stationed. Almost ten thousand Exos and all kinds of super enormous crystal cannons were on standby. Even if a Pangu giant did crawl out of the ground, it was guaranteed that he would be beaten up by the Federation in three seconds.
According to the memories of Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun, two experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage who had visited the Pangu laboratory, the Federation had made thorough arrangements for the operation.
In the first batch, other than the eleven experts from the Ancient Sages Sector and the outlier Li Yao, there were more than a hundred elite Exos above the Core Formation Stage.
Everybody had brought a lot of beast puppets and Grand Illusionary Soldiers, and they had been injected with all kinds of biochemical vaccines and gene drugs in advance. Right now, they did not know the components of the venom inside the 'giant crab' or how it worked. However, the vaccines and the drugs all had the effect of stopping the rapid mutation of genes. If they were unfortunately poisoned, the process of mutation would be slowed down as much as possible.
Other than that, their Crystal Suit had passed the most rigorous airtightness and pressure resistance tests to ensure that there was not the slightest gap in the seawater tens of thousands of meters deep. Even if they were hugged by the 'giant crab', the fatal venom would not be able to penetrate in at all!
The Pangu giants were enormous. Their tallest height could be dozens of meters. According to Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun, the Pangu laboratory was magnificent and immeasurable, too. It was like a palace of giants below the ground. Weird mists were spreading out inside the laboratory, which had the effect of absorbing spiritual energy and telepathic thoughts. Naturally, the hundred or so people were not enough to see the whole picture of the laboratory clearly.
However, other than the 'living people', they also had a troop of almost a thousand spectral Cultivators. They were all spectral warriors who had lost their fleshly bodies and whose souls were hidden in their bones.
Some of the spectral warriors were from the long-established spectral troop of the six sects of Heavenly Saints City in the Flying Star Sector, but some of them were locals of the Nether World Sector.
Since the 'giant crab' needed to unlock the mysterious power inside the genes by injecting venom, it was possible that it was on the path of 'biochemical modification'. Then, for the spectral Cultivators who did not have fleshly bodies, there was absolutely no way for them to enter the laboratory, right?
The investigation and cleanup on the Nuwa warship had begun three days ago.
The armor, flying swords, magical equipment, and the scraps carved with primeval runes that were excavated from the warship truly fascinated the professors of the universities and the authorities of the academic world.
Today, the defense arrays and the crystal cannons around the Nuwa warship were finally established. The main guns of the dozens of starships in the sky had locked onto the target, too. All the preparations had been made, and the seal below the ground was finally about to be opened.
The codename of the operation was' archaeology '!
Li Yao, Long Yangjun, the other top ten experts of the Ancient Sages Sector, the hundred elite Exo Societies, and the thousand spectral warriors marched into the Nuwa warship and walked toward the seal at the head of the warship.
"Are … are you really going down with us?"
Long Yangjun asked Li Yao for the tenth time.
"Stop persuading me. I know that it must be extremely perilous down there, but it is exactly because of that that I have to lead the charge! Since I was able to slay a Pangu in the beginning, so what if there are ten more of them right now? It is a great opportunity for them to try the treasured saber that I have refined recently! "
Li Yao declared righteously without changing his expression.
"You know that's not what I mean," Long Yangjun said gloomily.
Long Yangjun said gloomily, "I'm saying that the operation is already very dangerous in itself, and every time you are in a team, the risk factor will be ten times higher. So, why don't you just stay up there and command instead of adding to the trouble?"
"… Not good!" Li Yao exclaimed.
"Alright. You asked for it. Don't say that I didn't warn you if anything weird happens later."
Three years ago, Li Yao and the eleven experts of the Ancient Sages Sector had trained on the Nuwa warship for half a year. Naturally, they knew the basic structure of the warship like the back of their hands. Without any trouble, they found the place where the Pangu laboratory was sealed.
The seal that they left that day was already mottled and lackluster.
The rocks behind the seal were also full of cracks that looked like spider webs. It seemed that the seemingly solid rocks would crumble into powder at the slightest cough, revealing a bottomless hole that would release the fiends caged deep below the ground.
This shocking scene caused everyone's breathing to involuntarily become heavy.
"The first defense line has been deployed!"
"The second defense line has been deployed!"
"The peripheral defense line has been deployed. The geological survey has been completed. The rocks here are relatively stable. Large-scale crustal changes will not take place anytime soon."
Messages and holograms were flashing on everyone's crystal processors. The last defense measures were all unfolded.
"Senior Meng, Senior Wu."
Li Yao suddenly asked the two spectral Cultivators in the Divinity Transformation Stage who had explored the Pangu laboratory. "When you were injected with venom by the 'giant crabs' and were about to turn into the Pangu, how did your soul feel exactly? Did you keep your original self-awareness? Were you twisted nonstop, or were you injected with something new, like being 'possessed' by a certain powerful being?"
Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun looked at each other and said, "It was a very strange feeling. As our bodies expanded, our self-awareness gradually became blurry, as if a lot of things had been stripped from our soul, but we 'recalled' a lot of new things. But no matter how twisted our memories were, no new self-awareness was injected. It was certainly not 'possession'."
"Got it. That is to say, the Pangu deep below the ground are truly dead, and the 'giant crabs' merely transformed us into new Pangu. They do not contain the souls of the old Pangu and are trying to possess our bodies by force."
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