Centered at the place where 'Lightspeed Crystal' crashed and where the Pangu appeared, Li Yao began a search with a radius of more than a hundred kilometers.
As he expected, when he discovered the mysteries hidden below the vines, weeds, and fungi and set them on fire nonstop, he found a lot of debris of starships below the luxuriant plants that seemed to be alive.
Azure Dragon, Sky Tiger, Gold Hammer, Hydra … They were all all-terrain warships that could travel freely in the zero-gravity vacuum and the high-gravity atmosphere.
Just like 'Lightspeed Crystal', those warships had turned into twisted debris and been swallowed by the crazily growing plants. There was not much valuable discovery inside.
However, Li Yao did discover a lot of scattered bones near the debris of the warships. The thick, golden thighs several meters long were obviously from the Pangu, not human beings.
Perhaps, there had been a lot of dead bodies of human beings here, too, but their flesh and blood had been swallowed by the plants and fungi just like the Pangu. Only the golden thighs, which were the thickest and most solid enough to support dozens of tons, could not be obliterated.
Therefore, when the exploration fleet of human beings led by Ding Ling Dong, Long Yangjun, and Li Linghai entered the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, the first thing they encountered was not Lu Qingchen's ambush but a bunch of Pangu who had gone on a rampage?
Li Yao examined the damage of every remnant of the starship carefully, not letting go of any trace. He also inferred the cause of the damage with his abundant experience in refining.
He discovered that most of the seemingly shocking damage originated from low-level single magical equipment, such as extra-large chainswords and vibration sabers.
There were even some dark gold bloodstains around some of the irregular cracks, which seemed to have been ripped apart by the member of the Pangu Clan with bare hands. It was quite fitting for the member of the Pangu Clan just now, who was a barbarian with infinite physical strength.
If it were a battle squad of the Pangu Clan that was organized, they would not only be carrying individual magical equipment such as chainswords and vibration sabers, but they would also be fighting the warships of human beings with their fists.
Therefore, Li Yao suspected that the Pangu that the human exploration fleet encountered was the same as the Pangu just now. They had lost their memories and rationality and degenerated into barbarians who only had ignorant instincts.
Was it the effect of the "virus" that Long Yangjun mentioned, or was it the effect of the "light of life" that could thaw time and promote the crazy growth of plants, or was it the result of the virus mutating billions of times under the stimulation of the light of life?
Li Yao didn't know.
Although he was so anxious that the answer would be revealed in the next second, he managed to hold back his anxiety and tried his best to find all the crashed starships in the three hundred square kilometers nearby. Then, he collected enough components, high-energy nutrition drugs, and crystal fuel from the debris of the starships, which were barely enough for him to find out what was going on.
He was quite lucky. The maintenance workshop of one of the multipurpose support starships was mostly intact, and the maintenance platform was still usable.
Although it was impossible to upgrade the Colossus, thankfully, the main structure of "Arsonist" was not destroyed. Its shell had only been torn apart by the meteoroid storm of "Gu Shisan".
After changing into a reactive armor, adding hundreds of colorful metal patches, and filling it with crystal fuel, it ignited the dark and stubborn flames again.
Before marching to the "origin" for the last time, Li Yao rested for a night.
There was no real day and night inside the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum. After the blue sky and white clouds lasted for about fifteen hours, the sky would be covered in intense mist. The process would last almost ten hours, and then it would be a new blue sky and white clouds that were exactly the same as "yesterday".
Li Yao vaguely had a feeling.
This … primeval relic, whether it was called the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, the Divine Mausoleum, or the Black Mausoleum, was not prepared for the Pangu but for human beings.
The reason was obvious.
The gravity here was the standard gravity that was most suitable for human beings to survive and fight. It was the same for the oxygen and the impurities in the air, including the temperature, humidity, and even the plants, animals, and fungi.
Li Yao tested the toxicity of a lot of plants, animals, and fungi, only to discover that most of the creatures here were not poisonous at all. Instead, they were very helpful for the recovery of the human body. It was almost a natural paradise where Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures could be found everywhere.
Even the ordinary people, who lived a primitive life in this place, ate a tremendous amount of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and breathed the freshest air, would gradually strengthen their flesh and blood, awaken their spiritual roots, and become a Cultivator after a long time.
Also, the "day and night", which was close to twenty-four hours, was also the most average rotation time of the "standard planets" that were most suitable for human beings.
For the behemoths such as the Pangu Clan that required cold air and low gravity, because the density of the primary planets was low and their size was often large, their rotation cycle was much longer. Their 'day and night' was much longer than twenty-four hours.
The Pangu would certainly not be comfortable here.
"Why?"
Li Yao mumbled to himself, "If this place is really the 'control hub' of the creator of the black wall, why is it so suitable for human beings to survive and train? What does the so-called 'creator of the black wall' look like exactly? "
The answer to the question, like the countless questions just now, could not be revealed until Li Yao arrived at the real entrance of the ancient tomb.
While he was resting, Li Yao released Little Black and scanned the terrain within five hundred kilometers through the surveillance cameras. After eliminating the interference of the towering trees, fungi, and weeds, he compared the terrain with the maps that Li Linghai had drawn in his previous explorations.
As he expected, the "origin" where the "light of life" was most intense and the plants were densest was where the real entrance of the ancient tomb was.
When the sky was painted blue again, Li Yao cleared the way with his fiery saber and marched to the deepest part of the forest.
A lot of plants and fungi were squeaking and shivering in fear under the burning flames, but more branches and vines lunged at the ashes behind Li Yao in a hurry, swallowing his path immediately.
The nightmarish picture could not stop Li Yao's determination to explore the truth at all. He marched hard in the depths of the forest. Three hours later, after discovering more debris of starships, he finally found a relic of a camp that Li Linghai had left during his last exploration!
It was a piece of a metal anti-radiation tent. At one corner of the piece, the mottled word "Deep Sea" was left.
Such a tent was used to establish a mobile laboratory. It could block the tiny radiations and ensure the accuracy of the experiment results. Li Linghai told Li Yao that she had once tried to conduct some research in the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum. Therefore, she had carried and unfolded a lot of tents.
"Deep Sea" naturally referred to the Deep Sea Fleet, which was Li Linghai's personal armed force.
That being said, Li Linghai did not want too many people to know such a great secret as the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum. Therefore, in every exploration, she only carried a lot of spiritual puppets as assistants.
When Li Yao excavated three multi-purpose puppets that had long run out of energy and had been abandoned, as well as abundant scraps of engineering magical equipment from the Star Ocean Imperium, he was even more certain that this place was Li Linghai's camp, the Supreme Emperor's forward base, and the real entrance to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum.
Then, what about the "gate"?
Li Linghai told Li Yao that the real entrance to the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum was a literal "gate".
It was a black monument nine meters tall, four meters wide, and one meter thick.
Nine to four to one, a ratio of three to two to one. It was a very solemn and perfect ratio.
The gate, or the black monument, was as precise as the first entrance. No matter how precise the measuring instruments Li Linghai employed, he could not find the slightest error. He had reached the peak in mechanics, materials science, and precision processing.
However, the first entrance did not refuse anybody. Any creature that touched it would be assimilated, melted, and absorbed immediately. The second gate, on the other hand, was an extremely solid black monument. No matter what Li Linghai did to stimulate and crash it, he could not open it at all.
Had it not been for the few files she received from the advance base of the Supreme Emperor and Blackstar the Great's firm belief that it was the real entrance, Li Linghai wouldn't have been able to associate a solid stele with the gate to the primeval mysteries at all.
The existence of the black monument also confirmed Li Yao's speculation that the primeval relics were prepared for human beings.
The gate that was nine meters tall and four meters wide was too cramped for the Pangu, or the behemoths that were more than ten meters tall like the Pangu.
For human beings, however, the two conflicting concepts of solemnity and delicacy were perfectly combined.
Besides, the unit of length of "meter" was most suitable for human beings in the first place. Any intelligent life would often think of the length of their arms first when they set the unit of length. Therefore, the "one meter" of the Pangu was much longer than the "one meter" of human beings.
"Billions of years ago, in the Primordial Age, there was a super civilization that left a door to the future for humans billions of years later with the unit of 'meter' as the unit?"
Li Yao thought.
But right now, the gate was gone.
Li Linghai told Li Yao that her camp and the base of the Supreme Emperor were established right in front of the black monument. The three of them would be no more than a hundred meters away from each other. In the range of a hundred meters, however tall the weeds and shrubs were, Li Yao would not miss a black monument nine meters tall.
However …
Li Yao released his telepathic thoughts and scanned in the direction where the black monument should be. His heart was suddenly beating faster, and humming sounds were echoing in his head, as if they were chants from the primeval times. They were sacred and mysterious summons.
"What the hell is this?!"
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