While squeaking, hundreds of mice crawled up along Li Yao's legs, like countless soldiers of Lilliput who were trying to climb a giant that was as big as a mountain. SZZZ.
Li Yao frowned. The spiritual energy around his body burst out like a volcano and blew all the mice away. Countless mice fell to the ground in cracking noises. The red mice jumped, the green mice screamed, and the blue mice cackled. It was a mess like a pot of boiling porridge. Li Yao felt that his head was dizzy because of the noise.
"Shut up!"
Li Yao glared and bellowed. His spiritual energy pressed down like a tide, mixed with hundreds of streaks of sharp killing intent.
The mice shuddered and looked at each other in bewilderment. Most of the mice did not dare move at all. Only the red mice were still shaking their heads and wagging their tails.
Right then, the entire training chamber trembled violently again, and a deafening explosion echoed from the direction of the door!
Li Yao stuck his ear to the door and listened carefully. There were dull noises outside, as if infinite rocks were collapsing. Half a minute later, there was nothing but dead silence. Even the two Lustful Rock Spiders could not be heard anymore.
The two Lustful Rock Spiders were infuriated when they failed to open the door of the training chamber. They simply collapsed the entire cave above the training chamber and buried me alive.
Li Yao made a judgment based on the sound.
Li Yao had foreseen that. He was not particularly worried.
Such man-made collapses were not fixed. With the drill of mystic rays, he would certainly be able to crawl out of the ground slowly in a month.
I've been here for more than three hours, and I don't feel suffocated at all. It seems that the air circulation rune arrays are still running automatically.
Right. If so many mice can live and reproduce in this place, there must be enough air, water, and food.
Given the chaos outside, there was no telling whether or not Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin had successfully escaped to the Star Prier's House after the two Lustful Rock Spiders were distracted by him.
Even if they did, thousands of space pirates and Immortal Cultivators would still be out there, and they would not leave for at least half a month.
It would not be a bad idea to take shelter in this place for now.
However …
"How do I open the door to the secret training room?"
Li Yao frowned. "That's right," he said, shaking his head. After a flash of light, the door through which he had just entered had become one with the wall, seamless.
This wall. It felt like it was made of a strong alloy. Li Yao took off the gauntlet and used his fingers to carefully feel it for a long time, but he couldn't find the slightest gap.
He scratched the wall with the Feathered Dragon Saber. After scraping for a long time, he only managed to scrape off a tiny bit of powder.
Li Yao pinched his finger and put it under his nose for a sniff. He could not identify the composition of this alloy.
Pondering for a moment, he carefully collected the powder and prepared to analyze its composition with his magical equipment. Li Yao took three steps back. Suddenly, he activated his spiritual energy and punched out.
Boom!
As expected, there was surging spiritual energy. However, it was like a clay ox entering the sea. It did not cause the slightest ripple as it was completely devoured by the wall.
"This is tricky."
"In order to avoid the apocalypse, Yan Xinjian must've built this residence with the toughest alloys. Also, countless defense rune arrays must've been hidden inside the alloys.
"Even the apocalypse might not be able to break the shell of the residence. How can I break it with only brute force?
"In the notes that Yan Xinjian left outside, there was only the way to enter the residence, but not the way to leave it. I assume that special passwords, hand gestures, and even Cultivation arts will be required to open the door from the inside! "
Li Yao thought of something and remembered what the blue mouse said just now.
"You can't get out. You can't get out at all! "
Li Yao raised his hands. His spiritual energy swept across the rats like tides.
The rats scattered, but he still managed to grab a red mouse, a green mouse, and a blue mouse.
Li Yao opened his fingers and exerted his strength. The three rats immediately squeaked.
"How do you open the door?" Li Yao asked coldly.
The red mouse burst into fury. The hair on its head was all standing up, while it tried to stab Li Yao's fingers with the Embroidery Needle. It was the Embroidery Needle. C [om]
However, it was stopped by Li Yao from one foot away. Its arms and legs were too short to be touched. It was so angry that its whiskers were shivering. "I am the best expert of the Flying Star Sector. How dare you insult me like that? Put me down now, or I'll chop off your head! "
The green mouse struggled hard with the most cunning expression on its face. It shrieked, "Put me down! The door can only be opened with the Dream Breaking Arts. You can't get out without my help! Put me down, and I'll teach you the Dream Breaking Arts. But you have to take me out with you and help me … destroy the imposters! "
The blue mouse, however, smiled miserably. "Don't believe me. Don't believe me! I've forgotten. I've forgotten the Dream Breaking Arts. I can't get out. I can't! "
Li Yao pulled the green mouse to his face and asked further, "What is the Dream Breaking Arts? Is it Yan Xinjian's unique secret art? If you know anything about it, tell me now! "
The green mouse rolled its eyes crazily. It scratched its head and stammered, unable to say anything for a long time.
"Huh?"
Li Yao was infuriated. His telepathic thoughts slashed into the green mouse's brain like lightning. It was so excruciating that its limbs were cramping, and its tail was straightened. It covered its head and screamed, "I forgot. I forgot. I forgot the Dream Breaking Arts. Ahhh!"
"Hehehehe!"
The red mouse burst into laughter.
"Hehehehe!"
The blue mouse laughed miserably.
"Squeak! Squeak!"
The black mouse grinned hideously.
"Xiao Yu, where are you? Don't leave me. Xiao Yu …"
The mouse that was emitting white light, on the other hand, was still crouching in a corner, ignoring everything before its eyes and calling a woman's name.
Li Yao spat in his heart. He dropped the green mouse and caught a few more mice, but the result was the same.
The mice emitting red brightness were brutal and proud. They considered themselves the best expert of the Flying Star Sector and would rather die than submit. Even if they were completely suppressed, they would resist without caring about anything and would not cooperate at all.
The mice that were emitting blue brilliance and black brilliance seemed to have lost all hope. They kept repeating, "We can't get out of here." When Li Yao questioned them again, they simply raised their heads and stared at Li Yao, as if they were not scared of being scalded by boiling water at all.
The mice emitting green brightness, on the other hand, were more than willing to cooperate. However, they seemed to have really forgotten the Dream Breaking Arts and could not offer any useful information after a long time. Instead, they bargained with Li Yao enthusiastically.
Li Yao busied himself for half an hour. His body was covered in rat fur, but he failed to collect any valuable information.
At first, Li Yao thought that the mice were all intelligent enough to communicate with each other. But after a while, he realized that their brain capacity was limited after all. They could only say the same few words over and over again. Once they left the range, their nature as animals would be revealed, and there was no way to reason with them at all.
Since he could not get anything out of the mice, Li Yao could only turn around and search further.
Very soon, he found the air cleaning rune array and the water cleaning rune array.
Other than the main rune array, there were two backup rune arrays and countless backup components. They were all very simple in structure and could be repaired and replaced easily even by the laymen.
Yan Xinjian planned to lurk below the ground for decades. If he ran into any accidents, chances were that he would survive as a spectral Cultivator for a hundred years. Therefore, he had prepared everything.
Even a Yuanying monster would not have stopped breathing for decades. Wouldn't he have turned into a zombie?
It was actually good news for Li Yao.
He examined the two rune arrays carefully. Judging from their wear and tear, they could still function for decades and provide sufficient water and air.
Then, Li Yao discovered a food storage room on the right side of the material warehouse.
A lot of high-energy nutrition drugs, dehydrated edible Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, as well as the meat of apocalyptic beasts, were stored in the room. There were even a lot of fresh food stored in preservation rune arrays.
Most of the food was sealed in cans. The high-energy nutrition drugs and the dehydrated food could be stored for hundreds of years without rotting.
A lot of the fresh meat had been bitten by the mice. It seemed that they had been living on the food for the past hundred years.
Yan Xinjian was a Yuanying monster. His appetite must be much larger than mine.
Years ago, he stored enough food for a hundred years. Later, he unfortunately perished and turned into a spectral Cultivator. Spectral Cultivators do not need to eat or drink. They only need to consume crystals to maintain themselves. That's why there is enough food here.
There was enough air, water, and food. Li Yao felt confident and started looking for a second way out.
Yan Xinjian planned to stay here for decades. His garbage and excrement had to go somewhere. So, there must be a second way here!
Li Yao groped carefully. After an hour, he indeed found a channel of garbage and excrement.
But the channel gave him a headache.
It did not lead to the outside world directly but to an incinerator below the ground.
After the garbage and excrement were processed into ash at a high temperature, all the ash would be blown to the depths of the ground with rune arrays of the wind class.
There were nine channels to discharge the ash, each of which was only as thick as a finger. It was impossible for people to get out of them.
This channel is blocked. I have to go through the front door.
There are two ways to go through the front door. Firstly, I can blow up the front door with a strength even greater than the 'minor apocalypse'.
Otherwise, I will have to figure out what the 'Dream Breaking Arts' is first.
Li Yao found more than ten crystal processors in the training room.
However, except for the mainframe crystal processor that controlled all the rune arrays in the training room and boasted rigorous defense rune arrays that could block the mice, all the other crystal processors had been riddled with holes by the mice.
But it was not a problem for Li Yao. He dismantled the storage chips inside the broken crystal processors and spent half a day studying the structure of the rune arrays and determining the storage mechanism.
Then, he assembled a small piece of conversion magical equipment and connected the storage chips to the internal crystal processor of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
"Let me see what good stuff Yan Xinjian left inside his crystal processor!"
Li Yao rubbed his hands. His telepathic thoughts invaded the storage chips left by Yan Xinjian through the crystal processor. (To be continued.)
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