"What about you?"
Li Yao bit his lips hard, with expectation beaming out of his eyes. "You can kill Li Minghui, can't you? Whatever the price is —"
"I'm truly curious about the structure of your brain. Why are you still so confused about the situation? Both of us have been wounded to different degrees, and we do not have a stable base in the rear to treat our wounds, maintain our Crystal Suit and Colossi, and refill enough ammunition and fuel!
"Above our heads, the most terrifying supervillain of the Imperium of True Human Beings is searching for our traces with his eyes wide open. As long as he finds any trace, a few Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, a dozen Yuanying Cultivators, and a hundred Jin Dan Cultivators will be coming!
"We are barely able to protect ourselves, and we are rats on the street that everybody wants to beat up, brother!
"Under such circumstances, you are asking me to charge at five thousand battle puppets and at least the same number of Immortal Cultivators on my own with the toughest Colossus' Heavenly Crystal '? And to take the enemy's head in the middle of ten thousand soldiers? Aren't you overestimating me and really considering me to be a reincarnation of a god?
"Sorry, my predecessor was just a common soldier in the primeval war. Well, fine, not a soldier but a special agent. So what? I can be tired, bleed, hurt, and die, too! Once my Colossus is blown up, there will be nowhere for me to repair it! The Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and ammunition that I carry are very limited and precious! If Li Minghui is really killed and Blackstar the Great is hunted by a luxurious team, how can I resist them? With your mouth?
"Besides, even if Li Minghui is killed after all the trouble, so what? Can you stop Nepenthe from carrying out the large-scale brainwashing plan with the 'super brainwave magnifier'? Don't look at me. As the 'Serenity Seraph', I am in no position to stop them from doing that! "
Li Yao opened his mouth, only to swallow the words that he was about to say.
"Look —"
Long Yangjun smiled bitterly. "You've noticed the unusual trouble this time, haven't you?"
"Where is the Grand Guardian?"
Li Yao clenched his teeth and said with bright eyes, "I want to see him."
"Yes, the Great Protector is in a mine under the Black Iron Group. We can follow this group of savages to find him."
Long Yangjun opened her hands and said, "However, he is an extremely zealous Nepenthe believer who is devoted to the path of 'abandoning pain and eternal tranquility'. I estimate that you will not be able to persuade him to abandon the plan unless you chop off his head."
"Why?"
Li Yao asked curiously, "Has he completely abandoned his emotions and desires and become a puppet of the Path of Ultimate Benevolence?"
"Not too far off."
Long Yangjun said, "The Great Protector was a common miner under the Black Iron Group at the beginning. He had two sons, one older and one younger. His elder son was mining with him, but his younger son was extraordinarily talented and smart. He boasted extraordinary computational ability and was the hope of the whole family.
"In order to raise his younger son, the Great Protector and his elder son worked hard in the mines together. They were the most distinguished workers in the hundreds of mines under the Black Iron Group every year. They even defeated the most advanced mining puppets in dozens of competitions and were known as' iron men 'by their fellow workers.
"However, when his elder son just turned twenty, they worked so hard for a generous reward that they did not notice the approaching danger at all. When the tunnel collapsed, there was no time to escape. Although the Great Protector survived, his elder son was smashed into a meat pie."
Fascinated, Li Yao couldn't help but ask, "What happened later?"
"Because the Great Protector and his son were the most distinguished workers under the Black Iron Group, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of other miners, even a man as ruthless as Li Minghui had to pretend to comfort them and give the Great Protector a considerable pension," Long Yangjun said.
Long Yangjun said, "Later, the Great Guardian's youngest son went to a town of a higher level with the pension and went to a regular school. After he graduated, he worked in the office of the 'Black Iron Group'. It was sort of a leap away from the class of his father and brother.
"Later, for the iteration of the automatic mining system or the handling of bugs, the younger son overworked his brain before the death line arrived. He even overdosed on random 'brain-strengthening liquids'. All of a sudden, his cerebral vessels exploded, and he died suddenly."
Li Yao was lost for words. Thinking for a moment, he asked, "Well, what about his wife? The Great Protector had a wife, didn't he?"
"He did, but she died when his two sons were very young. She died because of the failure of all the organs because of the malignant tumor," Long Yangjun said.
"The Great Protector's wife used to work in a smelting factory under the Black Iron Group. When she was smelting a rare metal, chronic, fatal gas would be released. All kinds of diseases could be caused if the protection measures were not in place. Many workers died in the same way as the Great Protector's wife.
"After his wife died, the Great Protector regarded his two sons as everything in his life. He raised his two sons as both a father and a mother. He didn't expect that things would turn out like this."
Li Yao couldn't hold it back anymore. He slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "That's too miserable!"
"Is it strange?"
"Haven't the textbooks of the Star Glory Federation been saying that, under the high pressure of the Immortal Cultivators, the ordinary people are living a life worse than death? There are too many bloody examples in reality to mention such a casual sentence in the books! There are too many people in the underground worlds who suffered the same fate as the Great Protector. Otherwise, why do you think the Path of Ultimate Benevolence is so popular and that so many people are voluntarily abandoning their feelings and desires?
"So, if you do meet the Great Protector, what are you going to say? 'Brother, there is still light in life. We must look forward. Let's forget all the unhappy things in the past. Let go of your feelings and desires and enjoy the beauty of life.' Is that it? "
"I —"
Li Yao clenched his fists so hard that cracking noises were echoing. He gnashed his teeth and said, "I'll figure out a way!"
"Then, I'll wait and see how you're going to resolve the issue."
Long Yangjun stared at Li Yao thoughtfully. "Or maybe, I'll see you admit your mistakes dutifully and admit that the 'Path of Ultimate Benevolence' is reasonable and that it is one of the righteous paths on par with the true path of the Cultivators and the true path of immortality!"
…
When Li Yao and Long Yangjun left the enormous penetrator, they felt that the dark world around them was even more profound, hideous, and hideous.
It was like a black fog that could not be torn apart no matter how hard one tried, enveloping countless people within.
It was also like the stomach of a monstrous beast, and human beings were the bugs in its stomach that would be corroded and digested at any moment. Not even the slightest bone would be left.
"Brother Yao —"
Seeing that the two of them were out, Li Jialing hurried to greet them. He greeted Li Yao first before he bowed to Long Yangjun dutifully. "Sister Long!"
"Good boy!"
Long Yangjun said with a smile, "Your Brother Yao seems to be caught in a huge conundrum. You'd better not disturb him in the next couple of days. Why don't you spend more time with Sister Long? You will be able to communicate with Sister Long about the real path of cultivation!"
"Get lost!"
Li Yao glared. "Who says that I'm caught in a 'huge conundrum'? I'll certainly come up with a solution. So, stop corrupting such an innocent young man as Li Jialing!"
While he was talking, rumbles suddenly echoed from the depths of the enormous cave. Li Yao was slightly dazed and looked at Li Jialing suspiciously.
"Brother Yao …"
Li Jialing looked at Long Yangjun in fear and pointed at the depths of the cave. He said in a low voice, "The Nepenthe believers gave some magical equipment to the wildlings. There's no telling what they are doing stealthily!"
Li Yao frowned and glanced at Long Yangjun.
Long Yangjun snorted and gestured for him to take a seat.
The three of them followed the voice, only to discover that more than ten Nepenthe believers in gray capes dismantled the heavy magical equipment and gave them to the Black Armors, the Night Wings, and the Red Rings who were eager to try them.
Most of the magical equipment was gray and brown in the texture of rocks, like enormous pebbles.
What was odd was that when some of the magical equipment fell into the wildlings' hands, and the wildlings bit their fingers and smeared their blood on them, gold brilliance beamed out of the magical equipment. The shells of the rocks were all broken, revealing the body that was full of futuristic metals. They turned out to be smooth, weirdly shaped, and obviously powerful weapons!
The result of the test was exactly as expected.
After the intricate mechanical structure unfolded, the weapons attached to the arms of the savages like gloves and swords. As the arms swung, streaks of dazzling flowing light whizzed out, shattering the huge stalagmites that were several hundred meters away and had a diameter of three to five meters. The thunderous rumbles echoed in the cave for a long time.
"How impressive!"
Intense excitement beamed out of Li Yao's eyes. As a refiner, he was most sensitive about magical equipment. He could tell after a quick glance that the magical equipment was not only powerful but also boasted a weak recoil. They also boasted certain automatic navigation and attack techniques, which were most suitable for the use of regular fighters and low-level trainers. They were almost the standard for large-scale combat groups such as the army!
However, wasn't it a bit of a waste to give such a powerful magical equipment to a barbarian who hadn't developed his wisdom yet?
Li Yao looked at Long Yangjun suspiciously.
With a smile, Long Yangjun explained, "After I left the underground world, the Nepenthe believers excavated a lot of relics and battlefields from tens of thousands of years ago. They did find a lot of ancient magical equipment.
"However, the magical equipment in the activated state is often rusted, broken, and unusable because of the passage of time.
"The magical equipment in the 'hibernation state', on the other hand, can only be activated and used after 'blood recognition'.
"You are an expert. Naturally, you know that the so-called 'blood recognition' is actually a 'genetic test'! If the magical equipment is produced by the demon dynasty more than ten thousand years ago, it can only be activated by the genes of demons and their descendants. If the magical equipment is produced by the Star Ocean Imperium, it is very possible that only the soldiers and their descendants in the Star Ocean Imperium can activate it.
"After tens of thousands of years of development, the bloodlines in the world above have been mixed and diluted beyond recognition. Isn't it a shame that a lot of magical equipment that is unearthed after all the trouble cannot be activated through genetic tests?
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