"Yes!"
Li Jialing bulged his eyes and said angrily, "Why are you so sure that I have those things in my portable crystal processor?"
"Jialing, you are such a young, vigorous, and flexible man in your twenties. You are not like Han Te, who is surrounded by women all the time. Isn't it perfectly normal to have such things in your crystal processor?"
Li Yao patted the young man's shoulder and said, "Don't feel embarrassed. Your Sister Long and I are both experienced people. We both understand."
"Cut the crap!"
Li Jialing slapped Li Yao's hand away hard. "I am a hot-blooded young man in the prime of his life, but you are also a middle-aged uncle who is far away from your wife. Don't you have any in your portable crystal processor?"
"Didn't I tell you just now? With this brother's current realm, these things are all ephemeral. I don't care about them anymore."
Li Yao said casually, "Color is emptiness, and emptiness is color. I know that you can't understand such a mysterious logic right now. So, if I translate it into words that you can understand, I'm used to deleting it after reading it. Got it?"
"…"
Holding his head, Li Jialing mumbled, "Can the three of us really save the civilization of mankind and even the Pangu universe?"
"Enough chit-chat. Let's get back to business. Cheer up!"
Li Yao's face suddenly changed. He hinted for Li Jialing and Long Yangjun to be quiet. "I just crawled into the remote cameras of a few heavy tractors and followed the tractors into the underground caves. What is Wuying Qi up to exactly? We are about to unravel the mystery!"
Hearing that, Li Jialing and Long Yangjun immediately forgot the episode just now.
Fine. Maybe it was not a "episode", and they could not completely forget it. All in all, they managed to focus 90% of their attention on the latest hologram that Li Yao presented.
This time, however, the hologram was mottled and blurred. They could only see the general picture clearly.
"So blurred?"
Li Jialing asked, "Can you adjust it to be clearer?"
"No, Wuying Qi must've deployed some sort of defense rune array in the secret base that can block abnormal waves. Our transmission signal is seriously jammed."
Li Yao said, "If I increase the output of telepathic thoughts by force and increase the clarity of the picture, it is very likely that the defense rune arrays will notice me. So, let's see what happens!"
The three of them stared intently, and all of them were shocked by the size of the underground hole and the boundless darkness.
Although they had foreseen that Wuying Qi would excavate the underground base without caring about the cost, they did not expect that he would dig through almost the entire crust of the planet in only a couple of months.
When the crystal cameras gradually adapted to the brand-new environment and sent back clearer images, the vague, magnificent buildings popped up one after another.
It could vaguely be seen that Wuying Qi ordered the Imperial Guards to dig quite a few helical upward channels on the rock wall. Every channel was wide enough for two trucks to pass side by side, extending all the way to the top of the cave.
Many trucks unloaded the crystals into the rock formation above the giant cave.
"Wuying Qi must've dug countless cannons in the rock formation above the giant cave and buried tremendous crystal bombs."
Li Yao analyzed, "When the time is right, it will be possible to raise the secret base to the surface by blowing up all the rocks that lead to the surface of the giant cave."
The few surveillance cameras that followed the trucks into the cave scanned the whole picture of the giant cave from the high stance. Very soon, they discovered overlapping oval-shaped buildings that looked like enormous and abnormal iron hearts. Countless tubes that were as thick as boas extended out of the "heart". White smoke was spurting out of the joints between the tubes and the buildings.
A lot of trucks were slowly driving into the enormous building, too.
"This … seems to be an enormous energy center."
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao snapped his fingers. "Right. The crystals that Wuying Qi collected from draining the entire capital planet were of different origins and attributes. They couldn't be used directly. So, they had to be delivered to the energy center to be purified and melted before they could be output to his brainwashing factory stably.
"Judging from the scale of the energy center and the number of trucks that it swallows every minute, the energy that it can output stably is astronomical. Is Wuying Qi out of his mind? Is he betting everything on a brainwashing factory below the ground?"
In the next moment, the surveillance cameras scanned the platforms on the rock wall and the cave. The three-dimensional defense system and the troops that were stationed nearby all made the three of them secretly click their tongues.
"It's almost a flawless, impenetrable defense."
Li Yao vaguely felt a headache. "How many troops has Wuying Qi deployed to defend the underground base? It's almost as if an Imperial Guard is squatting on every stalagmite! It is needless to mention the dense crystal cannons and mystic ray cannons. Even if the two of us summon our Colossi at the same time, we will still be blown back by the overwhelming firepower. The unit density of firepower here is even more intense than that of an Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship! "
"It seems that Wuying Qi has almost abandoned the defense on the ground and the orbit and is ready to gamble with the secret weapon."
Long Yangjun glanced at Li Yao and couldn't help but smile. "I wonder how much oxygen the Imperial Guards breathe every day. Has Wuying Qi built a large ventilation tube system in this place to support the oxygen of so many people?"
"Forget it. There's no chance."
Li Yao sighed and said helplessly, "The plan to attack the Godly Might Prison was developed by me and Li Linghai together. Li Linghai knew very well that I couldn't do anything about the ventilation tubes of the Godly Might Prison. Then, Wuying Qi must've known that, too. Do you think he'll adopt the same design?"
"That does make sense. It seems that we have to find another way."
Long Yangjun said, "However, let's look for the brainwashing factory by following the output tubes of the energy center first … Huh?"
When the few surveillance cameras turned to the deepest part of the Bottomless Cave, the glittering pyramid that had been carved with mysterious runes was displayed before their eyes.
Because of the glamorous brilliance, the space around was even illuminated particularly clearly.
"What's this?"
Li Yao couldn't help but be deeply attracted by the mysterious, ancient, and powerful primeval building. For some reason, the runes carved on it reminded him of billions of pieces of the sun. "Is this … a brainwashing factory? It seems to be entirely different in structure from the 'Human Manufacture Center' that we discovered in the Kunlun relic."
"Judging from its structure, it looks like some kind of giant mystic ray cannon or super cannon."
Li Jialing also said, "It's one of the super anti-air cannons that are designed to penetrate the atmosphere and deal with starships."
Long Yangjun, however, was silent and in a trance. The runes carved on the pyramid seemed to have been carved on her retina and gradually leaked into her soul.
"I … remember such a building."
Her pupils were gradually melted into the whites of her eyes, and her eyeballs turned into two glittering swirls. She said gloomily, "Or rather, I saw a piece of super-large magical equipment of the same type somewhere in my previous life, and I accepted a mission to destroy it!"
"Huh?"
Li Yao and Li Jialing looked at each other and asked in a hurry, "What's this? Is it a piece of hypnosis and brainwashing magical equipment for large-scale mental attacks?"
"No, no, I don't think so. Let me think. Let me think carefully …"
Holding her forehead in pain, Long Yangjun breathed heavily. Hundreds of streaks of light seemed to have passed through hundreds of thousands of years in the blink of an eye, making her mumble, "The Houyi Clan, the Song of the Sun, the Eternal Fire that can burn an entire space zone, the Gold Crystal Pyramid … Right, I remember it now. This is a piece of Gold Crystal Pyramid. It's a piece of super magical equipment that can trigger the energy of a star in a battle. It can even sweep across an entire space zone. It's an out-and-out stellar-level magical equipment!"
"A piece of stellar-level magical equipment?"
Li Yao and Li Jialing were both greatly alarmed.
However, the magical equipment had nothing to do with brainwashing but was related to the sun, which was rather odd and perplexing for them.
"The Gold Crystal Pyramid is an invention of the Houyi Clan, one of the Pangu civilizations. It can slightly disturb the magnetic field of a star and increase the activity of the star, allowing the high-intensity radiation, spiritual waves, high-energy particles, and chaotic magnetic field to spread to the entire space zone, paralyzing all the magical equipment, interfering with the Spiritual Nexus and the spiritual roots of the trainers, and even directly killing the carbon-based life forms. It's definitely a very powerful super weapon."
The gate deep inside Long Yangjun's memories was opened, and information spurted out incessantly, but her face was full of fear. "However, while such a super weapon is powerful, it also has obvious shortcomings. First of all, it's an indiscriminate, large-scale attack. Neither the enemy nor the ally on the battlefield can be spared. There are few ways to defend against it.
"In other words, once the Gold Crystal Pyramid ignites the fury of a star, both sides will suffer heavy losses. After a solar storm, 50% of the troops and the civilians living in the galaxy will be killed instantly. It's destined to be a war without a winner.
"What's more dreadful is that such a super weapon is barely controllable. It's easy to set a fire but not to put it out. It's easy to infuriate a star, but it's far beyond the limits of the Pangu civilization to calm a star down.
"Once a star enters the phase of intense activity with the Gold Crystal Pyramid, the phase of activity may last decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years. For a thousand years, the star will spurt out powerful radiation and high-energy particles incessantly, turning the previously vigorous Sectors into a scorching hell. No intelligent life, even the Houyi Clan and the Kuafu Clan who worshipped the sun, can survive in such a harsh environment!
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