Long Yangjun was about to go on when an intense fire exploded behind her. The heatwave and the blast destroyed the whole picture unstoppably. Deep inside the flames, a raging shadow was dancing crazily.
It was the only valid information that Long Yangjun left for Li Yao.
Li Yao took a deep breath and calmed himself down. He combined all the information that he collected in the past into a glittering necklace.
First of all, the legend was true. There was indeed a certain technique or magical equipment that could freeze time deep inside the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum.
Perhaps it was something a hundred times more delicate than the Pangu hibernation system that they saw in the Kunlun relic. It was some sort of … "super hibernation system".
It was possible. It was very possible.
It was because the hibernation system in the Kunlun relic was only built by the Pangu civilization on their own. The hibernation system deep inside the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, on the other hand, was probably built by a super civilization that originated from the primeval times. It was even possible that a living 'black-wall maker' was frozen inside!
"Yes. Assuming that this place is truly a 'black-wall hub' that controls whether or not billions of stars are shining, it is perfectly reasonable to arrange a few people to control the switch. Those people have to monitor the operation of the black wall for billions of years. Is there any better way than a long hibernation?"
Li Yao considered for a moment and found that the logic was not wrong.
According to the legends, when the Supreme Emperor was heavily wounded and dying, he also entered the mausoleum, trying to find a way to freeze time so that he could stay in a superposition state that was neither alive nor dead. That could also indirectly prove Li Yao's speculation.
Then, there was the "Light of Life", the strange radiation that could accelerate cell activity, gene division, and recombination.
Li Yao estimated that it was meant for 'unfreezing time'.
The reason was simple. Assuming that a piece of meat had been frozen for a long time into a hard rock, how could it be unfrozen quickly? Of course, it was to burn it with fire!
The Pangu civilization and the human civilization used hibernation technology. When a person hibernated in the hibernation chamber for too long and needed to be woken up, some stimulating ingredients would be injected into the hibernation potion to speed up the metabolism, blood circulation, and oxygen supply to the brain, allowing the hibernator to slowly wake up.
If something was truly 'frozen' deep inside the mausoleum, which had been frozen for billions of years, what could provide a better 'stimulation' and 'thawing' effect than the weird radiation of 'light of life'?
However, once the radiation spread out, it was not so friendly to the creatures that were not in a long hibernation state in the first place. That was why Li Yao saw that all the lives were crazily growing, splitting, mutating, and perishing from the genetic level, resulting in the terrifying, desolate forest.
In the end, Long Yangjun mentioned the virus. Was the Pangu underground palace at the north pole of the Ancient Sages Sector a place where the Pangu civilization developed cutting-edge biochemical weapons?
It did make sense. Li Yao had felt that it was too simple and crude to pass on the civilization with such a terrifying virus. Since human beings were the brand-new, most perfect carbon-based carriers that the Pangu people created to pass on their civilization, why did they bother to turn human beings into tall, clumsy giants that consumed a lot of energy?
If they were developing a certain biochemical weapon that could directly attack genes, it would make sense.
When Li Yao had a confrontation with Fuxi on Ultimate Salvation, Fuxi had also said that the Pangu people, the Nuwa Clan, and all the other intelligent species in the primeval era had been destroyed by biochemical weapons. The viruses that were designed to attack the enemy mutated unexpectedly after countless releases and dispersals. They evolved into doomsday weapons that could kill most creatures and destroyed the entire primeval era. Few human beings had natural immunity and survived the disaster.
Right now, there were only two questions.
Firstly, if human beings were immune to the virus, how did Meng Chixin and Yan Liren contract the virus in the first place? Was it because the virus at the beginning was not stable enough, or because human beings were not immune yet?
The question was very important because it would decide whether or not Li Yao, Ding Ling Dong, Long Yangjun, Li Jialing, Li Linghai, and all the other members of the exploration team who had entered the mausoleum would be infected by the same virus.
Secondly, and more importantly, shouldn't the mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor be a sanctuary of the Pangu civilization that was guarded by the other half of Fuxi? Why would the virus appear in such a place?
Li Yao was baffled, but he finally saw a glimmer of hope. He only hoped that he could find more evidence and traces so that he could piece together the truth.
After leaving the bridge, he searched the debris of the starship up and down again. He finally found some high-compression high-energy nutrition drugs and some components that had not been corrupted.
At the rear of the starship, there was a giant hole near the engine compartment. It seemed that the engine unit had been fully functioning and exploded, blowing up the 'bottom' of the starship.
Li Yao walked out of the hole, hoping to search in another direction to see if there were any traces of the crew members who had escaped.
Then, he saw three dark shadows in the woods outside.
The blood all over Li Yao's body was almost frozen, only to boil and flood into his brain like magma. He crouched and drew his saber. Releasing Little Black, he flew to the top of the three shadows with a few surveillance cameras.
He approached them from above, but the three shadows were still motionless. After a closer look, he discovered that they were not human beings but three broken Crystal Suits. There was no flesh inside the Crystal Suits, but they were filled by wriggling weeds, vines, and fungi. Supported by a hundred times more vitality, those things were like internal organs that were exposed to the outside world. They were squeaking and trying to grow colorful flowers from the gaps of the Crystal Suits.
Such an anomaly gave Li Yao a sour feeling that was neither disgusting nor disgusting.
Compared to real horror, he hated such unexplainable weirdness more.
Right then, heavy footsteps echoed in the front of the starship again.
The animals in the woods were all fleeing. Even the plants inside the Crystal Suit were wriggling faster, trying to drag the heavy Crystal Suit away.
"Another dinosaur is not here, is it?"
Li Yao slightly frowned.
But it was very likely.
It was because if there were not more ferocious beasts chasing after it, how could the first dinosaur have escaped from its native territory in a panic?
Besides, if it had not been chasing and fleeing for a long time, the first dinosaur would not have run out of oxygen so quickly and suffocated itself to death.
Li Yao entered the tranquility state again, which was close to hibernation. He tiptoed around the debris of the starship and looked ahead.
He saw a person.
A giant was pressing his knee against the neck of the dinosaur and digging out its internal organs.
The giant was about fifteen meters tall. His skin was gray and brown, full of wrinkles and stripes. If it were not for the clear facial organs on his round head, he would not have looked much different from the dinosaur below his knee.
His figure was slightly hunched, and he was not wearing a single piece of clothing. His thing was hanging down carelessly, like a shriveled grape.
"Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!"
He did not use any tools. Instead, he used his astonishing brute strength to break the bones of the dinosaur one by one and dig out its plump internal organs. Without any processing, he wolfed them down while dripping with fresh blood. It was a classic case of drinking raw meat and drinking blood!
"The — the Pangu Clan?"
Li Yao could not believe his eyes. The blood that was boiling just a moment ago was now frozen again.
He did not expect that he would run into a 'living' member of the Pangu Clan under such circumstances.
After the Pangu occupied the three thousand Sectors, their appearance would change slightly according to the environment they lived in.
Although this Pangu was eating raw meat and drinking blood without restraint, he did not look like an intelligent life form with a high level of civilization.
But Li Yao was still certain of his identity. The secret was the organ in his lower body.
Just like human beings, the Pangu were bisexual life forms. There were males and females.
However, they had awakened the ability to communicate directly with their brainwaves a long time ago. They were good at large-scale "psychic communication" and could derive great pleasure from group telepathy. They spent all their time tormenting their brain cells and tempering the power of their minds. They were not very interested in the affairs between men and women.
When the Pangu expedition army returned from the multiverse in failure and discovered the horror of the Black Wall Maker and the Flood, they followed Fuxi's advice and sealed their own feelings. Naturally, they would not allow the so-called love between men and women to disrupt the survival of the entire civilization.
Therefore, in the later years of the Pangu civilization, the organs in the lower body of the Pangu gradually shrank and degenerated. They only retained the most basic function, which was to output life seeds.
Li Yao had seen a lot of Pangu corpses in the Kunlun relic and the underground palace of the Pangu. Although most of the corpses were obliterated the moment they met the air, some of the precious images were still preserved. Therefore, he knew the body structure of the Pangu very well.
The giant's body shape, the wrinkles on his skin, and the disproportionately small organ in his lower body all suggested that he was a Pangu from the late years of the Pangu civilization, when feelings were completely sealed under Fuxi's suggestion.
How did this happen?
Li Yao had an absurd feeling that time and space were in a mess.
To make matters worse, his Colossus, Arsonist, had not been repaired yet. It was riddled with holes and running out of fuel. It could not be activated at all.
How was he going to deal with a living Pangu with the Crystal Suit?
Li Yao's heart skipped a beat.
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