Li Yao sighed and said, "You won't believe me even if I tell you that I don't have any designs on the Blood Demon Sector. However, both the Blood Demon Sector and the Tian Yuan Realm boast abundant resources. The ultimate war between the two worlds will last at least decades. No matter which side completely conquers the other in the end, billions of lives will be lost, and the civilization may even be retrogressed by hundreds of years. Do you agree?"
The Fire Ant thought for a moment and said, "I do."
"However," Li Yao said, "an apocalypse will arrive in ten years."
The Fire Ant was greatly surprised. "What?"
"Believe it or not," Li Yao said, "an apocalypse will arrive in ten years at most, or three to five at most.
"This apocalypse is just a prelude. In a hundred years, an apocalypse of a larger scale that may destroy the entire world will come. It is already on the trajectory of attack, and its target is the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector!
"You hope that your compatriots, all the chaotic-blood demons, can survive, and I hope that my compatriots, all the natives of the Heaven's Origin Sector, and all human beings can survive, too. That is the reason why I am in the Blood Demon Sector!"
The Fire Ant was silent for a long time, so long that Li Yao thought that he did not believe him at all. Then, the Fire Ant suddenly said, "Tell me more about the apocalypse."
Li Yao did not reveal his identity, nor did he mention the name 'Imperium of True Human Beings'. Instead, he summarized the whole story and compressed it into a few critical points before he told the Fire Ant.
The Fire Ant did not care about the details, either. Perhaps he knew that Li Yao would not answer honestly even if he asked. Instead, he asked many questions about the technicalities.
The communication between the two parties lasted for an entire night. The Fire Ant's indifferent face was finally loosened.
"If we want to cooperate, we have to get out of the current predicament."
The Fire Ant said, "But more importantly, after I found out what Nether Spring was hiding, I always felt that his' creation 'was above the demons and human beings. The plan for the 'third perfect life form' vaguely contains an extremely dangerous aura. It is definitely not as pleasant as he made it sound. "
Deep below the ground, Li Yao pressed his left temple softly. His dark red left eye flashed.
"Elder Nether Spring has been excavating the dead body of Chaos. I have a plan."
Three days later, in the underground temple of the Mausoleum of Chaos …
After three days of exploration and excavation. The underground temple looked completely different from three days ago.
Part of the permanent research rooms and training rooms were established in a corner of the spacious temple. A batch of researchers who were loyal to Elder Nether Spring would stay there and study the legacy of Chaos.
Part of the magical equipment, relics, and research files, on the other hand, were divided and packed, before they were sent to the devilish warships in the sky of the Star Swallowing Sea through soft tubes, ready to be shipped to more advanced research centers.
The Nether World Watch was much stronger than the elites of the Blade of Chaos. Their efficiency in exploring the underground world was much higher, too. Thus, he completed a preliminary survey of the entire Necropolis of the Chaos God.
As he expected, they also discovered the secret chamber that led to the depths of the underground and was a certain distance away from the main body of the Necropolis of the Chaos God.
"Master Chu, according to your speculation, that is where 'Chaos' was buried, isn't it?"
Elder Nether Spring asked Chu Zhengqing rather respectfully.
Chu Zhengqing and Chu Feiyin were the researchers in Elder Nether Spring's research room in the first place. They were the real specialists in the academic world who were devoted to the exploration of the mysteries of Chaos. They did not seem to care who their boss was at all. After they were rescued, they immediately devoted themselves to their work without any hesitation.
"Exactly."
Chu Zhengqing scanned the detailed map of the stratum that had just been drawn on his retina. The fire in his eyes was almost dripping out. "According to the legends, Chaos was heavily wounded in a battle against the enemy and had to hide in the underground world where the sun was blocked and the radiation was blocked.
"This secret chamber in the abyss should be where he was buried!"
"Very good. Today. Let's go to the origin of the demon race forty thousand years ago and find out the truth of the demon race's creation! "
Elder Nether Spring waved his hands. "Despot, Swirl, ask the exploration team to get ready immediately!"
"Understood!"
'Despot', the two captains of the Nether World Watch, and 'Swirl', the Illusionary Butterfly Demoness, issued orders one after another.
The professional exploration team with capable expressions was quickly assembled.
The main force of the exploration team was naturally the soldiers of the Nether World Watch who had been strengthened with demon cores. In order to avoid the poison and venomous gas deep inside the Mausoleum of Chaos, they were all wearing fully-enclosed protective suits that were more advanced than those used by the elites of the Blade of Chaos. They were also carrying the compressed gas cylinders from the Tian Yuan Realm so that they would not be contaminated by the venomous gas inside the mausoleum.
Other than that, they were also manipulating a lot of snakes, insects, rats, and ants. Some of them were even beast puppets from the Tian Yuan Realm.
The beast puppets, which were purely made of metals and crystals and did not have any life, were naturally the best choices for exploring the mausoleum.
Even so, Elder Nether Spring was still worried. He asked Despot and Swirl to select thirty captives and force them to walk in front of the Nether World Watch.
It was also one of the reasons why Elder Nether Spring kept so many captives.
An hour later, almost a hundred members of the exploration team entered the center of the third floor below the ground of the Mausoleum of Chaos.
The third floor below the ground was entirely made of dark rocks. The rocks seemed to be able to absorb all the light and radiation. Even the highly penetrative searchlights and the flying insects were swallowed by them.
All the members of the exploration team were soaked in a dim, yellow mist. They had to keep an eye on their companions around them, or they would easily lose their way and fall into the boundless darkness.
At the center of the darkness was a square that was not very large. The ground seemed to have been carved out of an enormous black rock hundreds of meters long and wide. There was not the slightest joint between the rock and the rock.
At the center of the square, an enormous, round bronze plate was embedded to the ground. It was more than ten meters in diameter and carved with complicated spiritual stripes and patterns. Many of the patterns were bizarre and creepy.
"Below the bronze gate is the channel to the mausoleum of Chaos. Part of the spiritual stripes on the gate is the password to open the gate, and the other part is a rune array to prevent the radiation and telepathic thoughts from the outside world from penetrating in."
Chu Zhengqing and his daughter, together with a few specialists, crouched on the bronze gate and touched it carefully. A moment later, they drew all the patterns on the bronze plate.
The patterns were similar to the murals around the underground temple. Several patterns formed a story.
However, the 'story' was rather creepy when analyzed.
The first pattern carved on the bronze gate was a man whose arms and legs were spread out. A drop of bright golden liquid was about to drip from the top of the man's head, and he opened his mouth, as if he was going to swallow the drop of liquid.
Countless people who were much smaller than him were kneeling next to him and worshipping him.
If the mausoleum of Chaos was down there, it would be 'Chaos' who was qualified to be carved on the 'gate' of the mausoleum as the protagonist.
"The first pattern seems to be saying that Chaos, as a 'human being', is swallowing a mysterious liquid. It seems to be a very important experiment, or rather, a ritual," Chu Zhengqing explained to Elder Nether Spring.
In the second pattern, there was also a man whose arms and legs were spread out, but feathers, scales, claws, tails, and horns had been added in vivid strokes.
Although they were just solid embossments, they still gave the feeling that they were about to jump out, as if countless ferocious beasts were sealed inside and would be woken up at any moment.
"After drinking the mysterious liquid," Chu Zhengqing said, "many features of the demon race were added to Chaos' body."
In the third, fourth, and fifth pictures, the demonic features on Chaos became more and more obvious and chaotic, as if it had turned into a freak that was pieced together by countless beasts. It bared its fangs and brandished its claws, roared loudly, and fought with countless enemies.
What was weird was that, among his enemies, there were both Cultivators who were riding on their flying swords and Cultivators who looked hideous and grimacing. It was impossible to tell which side 'Chaos' was on.
What was even more shocking was that, in the sixth pattern, Chaos, who had hundreds of features of the demon race around him, suddenly exploded like a balloon that had been expanded to the limits!
As a result, in the seventh pattern, Chaos turned into some broken, translucent materials that looked like jellyfish.
Chu Zhengqing and the specialists studied it for a long time, but they were still baffled. "What's the meaning of this? Does it mean that 'Chaos' died because of mental derangement? "
"We will know the truth after we open the gate," Elder Nether Spring said. "How long do you need?"
A specialist of traps placed metal balls on various parts of the bronze gate softly while he picked out tiny bugs from his ears and drove them to crawl along the edge of the bronze gate. He said softly, "It won't take long. A great accident seemed to have taken place in the Mausoleum of Chaos. Everybody outside died in an accident. Even this place was sealed in a hurry and was not completely locked, either.
"Such barriers have been unearthed many times in the past forty thousand years. Their structure is not rare. You only need to …"
The expert in mechanism studies seemed to have heard something. He tilted his head, and the metal balls that had landed on the bronze door started rolling along the uneven spirit tattoos. They intersected with each other and crashed into each other, turning into streams of silver light. In the end, with a pop, they melted like ice balls and turned into liquid metal that looked like mercury!
The liquid metal zigzagged as if it were alive and soon filled every gap between the spiritual stripes!
Kacha!
Below the bronze gate, a dull mechanical noise echoed from a place very far away.
Then, the rumbling sounds of gears were echoing nonstop. The bronze gate was shivering slightly. Even the figures in every pattern on it seemed to be writhing weirdly! (To be continued.)
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