It fell to the ground like a hill that had collapsed in an earthquake. Its chest and abdomen had not calmed down yet, and its previously crimson eyes were already covered in a gray haze. Its vitality was pouring out nonstop like an hourglass that had been broken.
Li Yao slowly stood up from his hiding place and walked close without a sound to observe the prehistoric beast that had appeared at an untimely time. It was possible that it did not understand what had happened and why the world around it had become so 'dreadful' even when it died.
Before it was completely dead, a lot of vines and fungi were already crawling to its body like a swarm of hungry insects.
The lumps that covered the surface of its body were shivering weirdly, too. Like fruits that were too plump, they exploded and flew out. Flocks of bright purple and dark gold butterflies flew out!
A large number of butterflies flew to the sky and rose from the body of the prehistoric beast like gold and purple smoke.
The scene dumbfounded Li Yao, and he was unable to calm himself down for a long time.
He subconsciously extended his finger, wanting to capture a butterfly that flew out of the dinosaur's corpse. However, his fingertips felt numb. Every cell in his body was restless, as if the genetic strands deep inside his cells were all broken, minced, and reassembled. The fragments were inlaid into a completely different form.
Li Yao felt that countless butterflies seemed to be hiding inside his fingers, too, and they were about to explode from his fingertips and fly to the sky.
It was even to the extent that his entire body of flesh and blood seemed like it was formed from a myriad of butterflies, and it would collapse and vanish into thin air at any moment.
Li Yao was greatly shocked. He hurried to suppress the butterflies with his spiritual energy and finally stopped the restless feeling from spreading to every part of his body.
"Is this … some sort of virus?
"No, it is not a virus. It is a special kind of radiation that is very rare in nature or even the entire universe. It can promote the division, collapse, recombination, and mutation of genes, making most of the cells break the limits. In only a few days, hours, or even minutes, they will be utterly deformed. They can even mix the genes of different species and create all kinds of bizarre new species.
"No wonder the lives in this world are breeding and changing so crazily. They are evolving, evolving, and evolving toward the abyss of destruction as if they have lost the brakes!
"What should we call this special radiation — the 'Light of Life'? Perhaps it was the intense radiation that accelerated the growth of the creatures, turning the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum into a forest in only a few days. But the 'acceleration' was too fast. "
Li Yao was deep in thought when he suddenly saw a reflection from the corner of his eyes. It did not seem to be a natural reflection, but more like the reflection of the mirror armor.
Slightly dazed, Li Yao was overjoyed. Stepping over the body of the tyrannosaur that was quickly decomposing, he looked at what he thought to be a giant rock. As he expected, under the cover of the moss, vines, and fungi, he discovered a large plate plate of a starship.
As it turned out, it was not a 'rock' that was standing on his left side but the debris of a starship.
The starship had not been crashed for long. It had been covered by all kinds of plants and fungi so tightly that there was not even a gap the size of a needle tip. The magnetic interference in this place was too intense for even the metal detectors to work. No wonder Li Yao did not notice it just now.
The tyrannosaurus rex staggered close and crashed into the debris of the starship. The broken shell of the starship collapsed and rubbed off a large part of the carpet and the moss. It was not until then that the tyrannosaurus rex finally saw the light of day again.
In the Crystal Suit, Li Yao waved the high-temperature axe and the fiery saber, burning up the weeds, vines, and fungi that covered the debris of the starship quickly. Finally, the starship that had been crumpled into a ball was revealed.
Judging from the numbers and emblems on the two sides of the starship, the rapid assault starship was named 'Light Crystal', and it was Long Yangjun's ride.
The surface of the starship was riddled with shocking cracks. The turret had been entirely blown away, too. There were also the traces of the blast that had caved in. The damage was so severe that it seemed to have been savaged by an ancient giant star.
Li Yao had collected the components of meteoroids from some of the enormous cracks, but he had found traces of blood and the remnants of biological tissues in other cracks.
It suggested that the 'Light Crystal' was scourged by not only a meteoroid shower when it was escaping from the lightning creatures but also a battle with the enemy after it entered the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum.
Also, the latter battle was the main reason why the starship had crashed in this place.
Was it an enormous reptile similar to the tyrannosaur?
Li Yao shook his head. What a joke. If the most powerful starship of mankind could not even deal with a dinosaur, what was the point of exploring the universe for?
Then, was it Lu Qingchen?
Not likely. The cracks and heavy damage on the shell of the starship did not seem to be caused by the attack of a Colossus but by something more … primitive, brutal, and violent. Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! On Li Yao's retina, all the attack magical equipment in the Crystal Suit and the Cosmos Ring rolled down in the form of a list, ensuring that every piece of magical equipment could be retrieved and activated to the 'destruction state' within 0.01 seconds.
"Long Yangjun? Long Yangjun? "
Li Yao activated the communication system again, but there was still no response at all.
Following an enormous tear that almost cut the 'Light Crystal' in half, he entered the starship carefully.
The interior of the starship was also filled with all kinds of vines, mosses, and fungi, as well as a lot of bizarre-shaped, colorful snakes, insects, rats, and ants. One of them was a rodent that looked like a hybrid of a rat and a sandworm. It had mouthparts that looked like rock crushers and could spurt out highly corrosive acids. No metal could escape its bite. The animals gnawed the debris of the starship until it was soft. Holes were left after every stomp. Nothing of value was left behind.
Thankfully, Li Yao did not find the Crystal Suit or the dead bodies of the crew members, especially the Crystal Suit and the bodies of the important people such as Long Yangjun.
It seemed that they had escaped in time before the starship crashed.
He hoped that Ding Ling Dong's starship was the same.
Although he did not have much hope, Li Yao still found his way to the bridge, holding his nose.
As he expected, the mainframe crystal processor had been utterly deformed, too. Nests of super rats were crawling on it. Li Yao dug for a long time before he finally found a few storage chips whose surface had been burnt.
Determined to make a last resort, Li Yao held his breath and polished the few storage chips with the ultra-tiny polishing and engraving technology after a great deal of effort.
Connecting them to his portable crystal processor, Li Yao searched for a long time in the garbage data. Finally, he took a long breath in relief and found a message from Long Yangjun.
Thankfully, it was exactly a message for him.
Unfortunately, the storage chips had been so seriously corrupted that two thirds of the information could not be recovered. The remaining third was mottled and intermittent, too.
"The legend … The legend is true. There is a certain way to freeze time deep inside the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum!"
In the picture, Long Yangjun shouted in a trance, "Time and space are like a frozen river. This place has been frozen for too long. Right now, the 'upstream' is gradually thawing, but the 'downstream' is still blocked. It is like an unstoppable flood!"
Li Yao did not understand what she meant. Time freeze? Time unfreeze? What the hell was that?
The explanation that was of paramount importance was swallowed by the garbage data that could not be recovered. When the picture was clear again, Long Yangjun's face was even weirder, and the camera was shaking violently. Cannons and roars were echoing far away.
"It's alive."
There was no telling whether it was "madness" or "excitement" on Long Yangjun's face. She repeated in a trance, "It's alive. It has woken up from the slumber of hundreds of thousands of years, no, billions of years!"
What was the meaning of that?
Li Yao almost felt like punching the light beam into pieces.
Then, the picture changed and became even more blurred and dark. Long Yangjun sounded even more anxious. "Listen, Li Yao, we were all wrong. We couldn't have been more wrong!
"About my hometown, the Ancient Sages Sector, the Nuwa warship and the Pangu underground palace that haunted me for half of my life, we always believed that a cutting-edge biochemistry research institute was hidden inside the Pangu underground palace where the Pangu studied how to pass on their civilization, didn't we? Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun, as two experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage, were attacked by the monsters inside the underground palace when they were exploring the underground palace. Their fleshly bodies expanded nonstop and almost turned into new members of the Pangu Clan, right?
"Hehe. No. Not at all. We completely misunderstood the purpose of the cutting-edge biochemistry research institute!
"Do you remember how Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun described their feelings when the monsters injected biochemical drugs into them? They felt that their minds were gradually melting and disintegrating, and their feelings were deprived layer by layer. In the end, they were almost turning into killing machines!
"If this is how the Pangu people preserve their civilization, even if the biochemical drugs can create countless killing machines that look like the Pangu people after hundreds of thousands of years, what's the use of it? The Pangu people are not natural-born murderous maniacs. They are 'civilized people' who are highly rational and sociable! Their purpose is to pass on their spirit, will, wisdom, and way of thinking, not to create a batch of ghosts that only have skin but no soul.
"No. What was conducted in the Pangu underground palace on the Land of Eternal Night was not an 'experiment of inheritance' at all but a 'experiment of destruction'. There was something that could destroy the primeval civilizations. It was too dangerous and could only be conducted in the Ancient Sages Sector that was covered in the dark nebula!
"Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, the Pangu people's experiment worked out in the end. The terrifying biochemical drugs or genetic viruses destroyed the Pangu people, the Nuwa Clan, and all the other primeval species. Human beings were the only ones who survived, and a brand-new page was opened.
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