Li Yao listened to, or rather, 'perceived', the streams of information intermittently and vaguely.
Sometimes the boy and the girl would talk quietly, and sometimes they would quarrel fiercely. The boy even threatened the girl several times that he would start a "war" with her. But the "war" would not last long, and they would reconcile as before and get together to sing happily.
What they were singing seemed to be a song that Li Yao had heard on Earth before. The title of the song was' Find Daddy '.
"Don't be afraid of the rain, don't be afraid of the snow.
"If I can see him, I can see him every day. I'm not afraid of the snow.
"I want, I want to find my daddy. I want to find my daddy no matter where I go …"
Then, there was innocent laughter that sounded like silver bells.
There was no telling how many times the nursery rhyme echoed, but Li Yao finally woke up.
"Well …"
He uttered a sound that seemed to have been sealed for a hundred years and reborn. His consciousness gradually broke out of the infinite darkness and became clear and sharp again.
Every bone, every muscle, and even every drop of blood inside his body was back under his control again. The pain and sluggishness of his wounds were all gone. His perception and the precision of his control were even higher than before.
"What … happened exactly?"
Li Yao felt that his every cell was filled with the strength of a volcanic eruption. His broken soul seemed to have been completely repaired, as if he had taken off an unnecessary shell and gained more room for growth. It was such a great feeling!
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao discovered that there was still one last obstacle around his body. Something was covering him like an enormous cocoon.
With a telepathic thought, the speed of his blood flow was increased by 1%. The muscles all over his body shivered softly. The 'cocoon' that enshrouded him immediately burst out cracking sounds and exploded.
What fell to the ground, however, were lackluster, arc-shaped metal scraps that had long surpassed the limits of metal fatigue and became as brittle as rocks.
"What is this? Wasn't I heavily injured? Why did this happen?"
Li Yao shook off all the scraps of the metal cocoon on his body and sensed his brand-new body in a daze. Even though it was still a body of flesh and blood, it was filled with an indescribable metallic texture. Dark gold, silver, and bronze colors were flowing vaguely in the vigorous flesh and blood.
Even without using the slightest spiritual energy, the body was still filled with a breathtaking beauty!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Li Yao casually threw out hundreds of punches. He didn't really use any strength, but the tip of his fists had already torn through the air, creating circles of ripples. Before the old ripples disappeared, the new ripples had already slowly spread out, like a pond sprinkled with drizzle, rippling endlessly, one ring after another.
Li Yao felt that the strength of his body had risen to a whole new level.
It was not the improvement of pure strength but a deeper understanding of the nature of strength, the utilization of strength, and the relationship between one's strength and the world around.
He could easily sense how his fists raised the waves in the air, how the waves affected and interfered with each other, and so on. There were almost a thousand models.
In such a case, not just his body, his computational ability and the toughness of his soul had both jumped to an unbelievable, brand-new level.
He was inexplicably confident that if he were to face the overwhelming number of battle puppets at this moment, he would definitely be able to achieve a better result. He might even be able to completely envelop all the battle puppets with his' domain 'and turn them into a part of his body.
Recalling the previous battle, Li Yao's pupils constricted violently, and he hummed in acknowledgment.
It doesn't make any sense. Faced with so many battle puppets and Immortal Cultivators, there was no reason for me to survive at all when my spiritual energy was exhausted and my body was covered in wounds. Shouldn't I have sacrificed myself valiantly, leaving a splendid, magnificent shadow for the world so that I would be eulogized and commemorated for thousands of years to come and eventually become the greatest legend of the civilization of mankind in the forty thousand years of the Cultivators? Why am I still alive, and why am I living such a … great life?
Li Yao frowned. Did Long Yangjun finally succumb to my charisma at the last moment and rescue me? No. Even if Long Yangjun could've rescued me, she couldn't have repaired my soul that was on the verge of collapse or even improved it. If she had such a technique, she would've built her own soul to be even more indestructible!
Li Yao vaguely remembered that, while he was unconscious, two pairs of chubby hands seemed to be touching his soul. He also heard the two children's weird conversation about war, destruction, coverage, karma, and so on.
Two children in such a place?
While combing through the messy memory pieces, Li Yao stood straight and observed the environment.
He was in a clean and elegant small medical room.
He was in a liquid metal medical cabin just now.
The so-called "liquid metal medical cabin" was made of super-tiny medical puppets of the mustard-seed level that crawled into the body through the pores to repair the seriously damaged tissues.
The metal shell that enshrouded him and lost its vitality was the "remains" of the super-tiny medical puppets of the mustard-seed level that had completed the treatment and drained their spiritual energy.
It was a rather remarkable technology that even the Xing Yao Federation and the Imperium of True Human Beings had not grasped it completely. Only in the era of the Star Ocean Imperium, with the enhancement of the three volumes of the "Book of Revelation", did the Supreme Emperor's army analyze the corresponding technology.
However, after the Blood God's rebellion and the collapse of the Star Ocean Imperium, the precious technology was lost again and completely obliterated in the thousands of years of war that followed.
As he expected, Li Yao lowered his head to examine the medical cabin and all the medical devices around, only to discover the emblem of the Star Ocean Imperium and the inscriptions of the legions of the Star Ocean Imperium.
Therefore, was this place a certain military base or shelter from the era of the Star Ocean Imperium?
Although there was no magical equipment nearby that indicated the altitude, Li Yao's extremely sensitive skin could still sense the heavy pressure. He was still tens of thousands of meters below the ground.
Opening the door of the medical room, he found that it was indeed an underground shelter that was small but well-equipped. All kinds of living and training facilities were available.
Unlike the fallout shelters in Area 10084, the scale of this place was smaller. It was empty without a single resident, but all the facilities were as bright as new. It was as if someone had maintained and cleaned them every day and found a way to obtain enough energy to maintain the operation of this fallout shelter.
Even the circulating air had been added with a lot of microelements that were beneficial to the human body. It was as refreshing as the fresh air in the forest.
Li Yao even discovered a fairly large refining workshop next to the lobby. All kinds of bizarre maintenance magical equipment were floating in midair, making him feel dazzled even though he was an expert of refining.
Although he did not know the names of many of the maintenance magical equipment, with his abundant experience, he was certain that a Colossus could be maintained and modified in this place!
The good news from the sky made Li Yao feel that he was in a dream. He did not know what to do.
"I'm really not dead yet, am I?"
Li Yao scratched his ears with the greatest strength in his life. Then, he grimaced. "Alright. Everything should be true. But what the hell is going on?"
Deep inside his head, the two kids' smiling faces suddenly popped up.
Li Yao blinked and passed through the empty, dustless corridors and halls, reaching the double airtight gates of the shelter that looked like heavy gates.
Beep!
A streak of redness brushed past his face and immediately turned into a gentle green. The two airtight gates were opened one after another, and a hot wave immediately flooded in.
Li Yao walked out of the shelter against the hot wave and came to the scorching wilderness below the ground.
When he looked back, he discovered that more than half of the shelter had been embedded in the most solid rock stratum. There were also thick metal pillars that constituted the framework to maintain the hardness of the overall structure. Perhaps it was because of such a careful structure that the shelter did not collapse after ten thousand years of pressure.
The underground cave in front of him, on the other hand, was like the legendary fiery hell.
At the center of the cave, a highly unstable magma lake was bubbling nonstop in orange, crimson, and deep purple in various shades. Now and then, a few tentacles of magma would be thrown to the shore and solidify into tentacles that looked like the aerial roots of banyan trees.
According to the different components of the magma, the temperature was different, too. The magma lake was at least a thousand degrees high. Under the steam, even the air temperature was more than a hundred degrees. It was definitely not suitable for the survival of ordinary human beings. Even the trainers or the modified demonized creatures were not suitable for prolonged exposure to such an environment.
The surging magma lake was a forbidden zone for life, too.
However, Li Yao vaguely sensed a few unusual spiritual waves inside the magma lake. Maximizing his eyesight and observing carefully, he discovered that an extremely tiny creature was living inside the magma.
The creature was like a hybrid of a tadpole and an oncomelania. It boasted a huge head and a pointy tail. Its entire body was in the shape of a spiral, and it was twisting and turning.
Of course, its size was multiple times smaller than that of a tadpole and an oncomelania. It was only the size of a grain of rice or an ant, but it was emitting a metallic luster and floating in the magma without showing any sign of melting.
Such a primitive carbon-based life with a simple structure could not have survived in the magma. It was more like a tiny puppet made of a certain metal with a high melting point.
However, who would produce such uncanny tiny puppets and project them into the magma lake deep below the ground?
While Li Yao was in a daze, a second spiritual puppet suddenly surfaced from the bottom of the magma lake. The puppet was the size of a human palm and looked like a starfish, but it boasted six soft metal tentacles. As the tentacles waved, a lot of "metal oncomelania" were captured into their bodies.
The "metal oncomelania" were all scared and fled, but the "metal starfish" chased after them and changed the shape of its tentacles nonstop, swallowing more "metal oncomelania".
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