Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

  There was one more thing, which was Jin Qianxi’s encounter and final struggle.

  There was no doubt that Jin Qianxi was a hero.

  However, after her brain was swallowed by the mother, the mother was able to understand more about Dragon City and human civilization. Thus, that accelerated the monster civilization’s evolution.

  Moreover, in order to win the mother’s trust, she had to reveal some real and reliable top-secret information about Dragon City and Earth.

  When she was helping the mother, she obviously could not always come up with bad ideas that were obviously horrible.

  The best lie was always a lie mixed in with nine sentences of truth.

  Through the mother’s memories, Meng Chao could understand Jin Qianxi’s good intentions……

  And how furious the mother was after it realized what was going on.

  But others were not him.

  Other people’s souls were not deeply bound to the mother’s memory data.

  Such soul-stirring and mysterious soul confrontations, conveyed through words and pictures, always seemed weak.

  Meng Chao did not know what kind of views the “nine sentences of truth” would arouse from all the citizens and major forces if Jin Qianxi’s actions were made public without much thought.

  Meng Chao felt that it was necessary to communicate with Battle God Lei Zongchao in private. After careful consideration, they came up with a foolproof plan and a series of publicity packages. They wanted to ensure that Jin Qianxi’s image of “fighting alone on an invisible front for decades, finally defeating the monster’s mastermind at the soul level, and saving Dragon City” would stay in the hearts of all Dragon City citizens.

  That was the only way it could play a positive role in the long-term development of Dragon City’s civilization.

  Unfortunately, Lei Zongchao had dragged his damaged body, which had been overlaid with internal injuries, and protected Meng Chao for more than twenty hours.

  At the most critical moment, he had even burned his cerebral cortex to allow his mental energy to penetrate the vast ocean of ancient information and retrieve Meng Chao’s consciousness.

  His injuries were more severe than he had imagined.

  It was not suitable for him to continue staying in the Hidden Mist Domain, where the spirit magnetic environment was complicated and the crystal ore vein radiated intensely as well as chaotically.

  Therefore, he returned to the Supernatural Tower to recuperate under the protection of a group from Battle God Palace.

  Meng Chao did not wish to discuss such an important and secretive matter with Lei Zongchao over the phone or the Internet.

  So, the matter regarding Jin Qianxi was temporarily put aside.

  Thankfully, the Monster War matter had already been settled, hence there was no hurry.

  Even if it was just the ancient war, the barren lands, deformed creatures, and diamond-shaped crystals seen when the mother first woke up had already made Dragon City’s peerless experts and senior researchers feel like they had obtained a treasure.

  Faced with Meng Chao, a rising star, no one would be stupid enough to not comply with the agreement.

  All the forces, including the nine mega corporations, the alliance of five universities, the four research institutes, and the Red Dragon Army, had brought out one-in-ten-thousand heavenly materials and earthly treasures. They had also presented a rather sincere commercial cooperation agreement, as well as an astronomical fund to support the Lair’s reconstruction.

  It was both an “information fee” and a “good relationship” when it came to Meng Chao.

  The “information fee” that Meng Chao valued the most was undoubtedly the ancient images that appeared in the minds of the Deity Realm experts, including Lei Zongchao.

  Wu Haibo told Meng Chao that before him, almost all the Deity Realm experts in Dragon City had come into contact with the brain and received a lot of enlightenment.

  He had also recorded the fleeting images in his mind in time.

  These images contained information from all angles and levels from the ancient era.

  From thousands of meters up in the sky, he looked down at the entire ancient continent and drew a map of the ancient Other World.

  From the smallest genetic map to some ancient behemoth, how it was created and nurtured……

  It could be said that everything was there.

  However, most of the information was fragmented and not systematic.

  It was like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that had more than half of the pieces missing.

  Perhaps, the surface of many of the pieces was stained with colorful stains, making it more difficult to guess the jigsaw puzzle’s full picture.

  However, the more than three hundred ancient information maps that Meng Chao had drawn had been running for tens of millions of years. They were like a glittering gold necklace that connected all the scenes that the Deity Realm experts saw.

  Many of the images were originally inexplicable. Humans could not guess the uses and camps of the objects in the paintings.

  However, through Meng Chao’s inspiration, they were able to see the sun through the clouds and suddenly become enlightened.

  From that, Dragon City’s civilization finally deduced a little of the ancient war’s truth and the monster civilization’s origin.

  Meng Chao was the greatest contributor.

  As such, he also obtained the highest level of authority and could freely browse the ancient information maps that all the Deity Realm experts had drawn.

  In the following days, Meng Chao indulged himself in thousands of bizarre and marvelous ancient information maps.

  Some of the information maps depicted ancient cities of various shapes. Some cities were built on the sea, which could transform the never-ending tidal force into the purest spirit energy. Some cities were built above the rolling volcanic communities and magma lakes that kept erupting. They could absorb the heat energy from the magma and condense into the purest crimson crystals. Some cities were built in the canyons where hurricanes howled all year round. With the ingenious guidance of the crystal shields, the hurricanes revolved around the cities at a high speed through the hollow tubes. Not only did they provide the cities with inexhaustible energy, they could also condense into blue crystals.

  These ancient cities were all besieged by the beast horde. They were shivering from the mother’s roars.

  Some of the information maps depicted the detailed structure of the ancient beasts, the distribution of their organs, and the operation of their life magnetic fields. They could bring earth-shaking storms for the biochemical modulation technology of Earth’s people.

  Some of the information maps recorded the stairway of flesh and blood that was hundreds of kilometers high from the ground all the way to the outside of the atmosphere. It was as if it was going to pierce through the sky.

  The unattainable “Tower of Babel” could only be assembled by the corpses of monsters sticking to each other, connecting with each other, and nesting each other.

  The “Tower of Babel” was capable of withstanding winds that blew above the atmosphere all year round and that was mixed with destructive spirit energy. It was also capable of withstanding countless ancient behemoths climbing it. The map contained immeasurable wisdom in the fields of structure, materials, building mechanics, and so on.

  If the Earthlings could thoroughly unravel the secrets of the “Tower of Babel,” which was built from monster remains, and further enhance the sturdiness and defense of human cities, fortresses, underground mines, and other buildings, it would all be very good.

  Of course, in the more informative picture showed the close combat between the Ancients and the ancient vicious beasts, and the two sides’ surging vitality magnetic fields, creating layers upon layers of mysterious as well as complex spirit magnetic fields. Those heaven-destroying moves could still be very enlightening even for today’s superhuman individuals.

  Therefore, for a full ten days to half a month, Meng Chao did not go out and stayed in the temporary medical camp next to the monster’s lair. He concentrated and studied the ancient information that the Deity Realm had sensed.

  While studying the Ancients and the fierce ancient beast battle mode, the mother, and the entities in the final battle……

  Naturally, he did not know much about most of their exquisite moves.

  However, bombarded by contribution points, Meng Chao felt that he had been influenced by the ancient humans, the mother, and the Deity Realm experts.

  One should know that he had just broken through to the five-star Spirit Gaze Realm before entering the Hidden Mist Domain.

  It had only been a month or two.

  The spirit meridians in his body were starting to stir again. It was like a dragon and snake that had gradually awakened from hibernation. They were showing signs of transforming again and soaring into the sky.

  Meng Chao did not tell anyone about that.

  In just three to five years, he had almost failed the college entrance examination and broken through to the peak of Heaven Realm in one go?

  That was too frightening.

  Even he himself refused to believe that he was not a monster.

  Haste made waste. Meng Chao was afraid that leveling up too quickly would cause many hidden dangers, so he decided to focus on training and solidifying his foundation.

  However, he was always radiant and full of energy. His vitality magnetic field was getting stronger day by day, and it could not be hidden from the eyes of those who were interested.

  Therefore, the major forces that had originally extended olive branches to him became more active and friendly as his strength increased.

  Among them, the most sincere was the Red Dragon Army’s warrior, Thunder God Shao Zhengyang.

  He not only extracted all the ancient information that he had read from the depths of the brain and let Meng Chao study it at will……

  He also actively facilitated a brand new collaboration agreement between the Red Dragon Army and Superstar Resource Recovery Company. The scale and level of their collaboration had reached a new level.

  Besides, he had been like Lei Zongchao, the Battle God, who had opened up his martial arts to Meng Chao without reservation. Through these exchanges, Meng Chao had repeatedly experienced the essence of the heroic spirits, the battle souls, and the army’s killing techniques.

  In Shao Zhengyang’s original words, he said, “Lei Zongchao and I are good brothers who have gone through life and death together. We know his taste and character very well. Since he trusts and values you so much that he even risked his life to protect you despite the possibility of his brain spontaneously combusting, he must believe that you will be able to push Dragon City forward in the next few decades.

  “In that case, I’m willing to follow him and throw you some small chips.

  “Not to mention, you have a long history with the Red Dragon Army. You have risked your life to contribute so much to Dragon City and the Red Dragon Army. Right now, the Red Dragon Army, Superstar Resource Recovery, Broken Star Club, Blue Home, and Battle God Palace have so many collaborative projects. We have already formed an inseparable community of interests.

  “Compared with what you have done for the Red Dragon Army, especially for the grassroots officers and soldiers who are fighting on the front lines, my martial arts and cultivation resources are nothing, right?

  “Speaking of which, Meng Chao, the Monster War has come to a perfect end. Do you have any thoughts on the overall plan for Dragon City’s next phase? Do you have any plans for your own future?”


  Chapter 827 - Advance! Toward the Deepest Part of the Other World!

  This question was Meng Chao’s specialty.

  Even if Shao Zhengyang did not ask him, he was prepared to find an opportunity to have a good chat with the Red Dragon Army’s number one expert.

  However, the other party was, after all, a high-ranking military bigshot. Before speaking freely, Meng Chao still wanted to test the other party’s thoughts.

  “Now, many people feel that the Monster War is over. Against the biochemical attacks such as the zombie virus and the Blood Flower spores, we have vaccines and special drugs. We can even absorb more advanced biochemical technology from the monster civilization’s legacy and ‘turn waste into treasure.’ We can mix the zombie virus and the Blood Flower spores into a new type of gene medicine to speed up the cultivation of superhumans.”


  Meng Chao said, “After working hard for decades, I can finally stop and catch my breath. I can put my weapons in the warehouse and let go of the south mountain. Once again, the strategic focus of Dragon City civilization has shifted to production, construction and economic development.”.

  “Uncle Shao, do you think so too?”


  This was indeed a popular opinion on the internet.

  Dragon City’s civilization was like a highly tense person who had been struggling in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood for decades and had long suffered from mass post-traumatic syndrome.

  The monster civilization was like a huge mountain that had been firmly pressing down on people’s heads for decades, making all the citizens of Dragon City feel the threat of death every moment.

  One day, the huge mountain was completely overturned by the people. The nerves that had been tense for decades suddenly relaxed.

  It was inevitable that people would be overjoyed, but they would also feel a sense of laziness.

  “Stupid! Extremely Stupid! Such shortsightedness is simply courting death!”


  Shao Zhengyang’s face was solemn as he said in a very serious tone, “Although the monster war ended with the great victory of our Dragon City civilization, the threat to the survival of the human race did not disappear.

  “From a certain perspective, when we come into contact with a broader world, the threat to our survival will continue to escalate. It is very likely that we will encounter an enemy that is stronger than the monsters!”


  Meng Chao was delighted.

  He did not expect that the higher-ups of Dragon City were so clear-headed. They did not need to be reminded by him to realize the terror of the Other World.

  He took a deep breath and suppressed his excitement. “Enemies that are stronger than monsters?”


  “That’s right, Meng Chao. These days, you have come into contact with a large amount of ancient information from the brain. It can be said that you have already surpassed many experts from the ancient ruins’ research center and become one of the people who understand the ancient civilization the most in Dragon City.”


  “Then, you should know very well that the ancient civilization is not a regional civilization. In terms of the Other World alone, the footprints of the Ancients have spread to the ends of the Earth on this planet.

  “They have built magnificent, star-studded cities beyond the oceans, deep valleys, mountains, plains, underground crevices, and even the atmosphere.

  “Every ancient city built a complicated and sophisticated system of spirit energy utilization based on the special topography, which contained the mysterious power and extraordinary technology of the ancient civilization.

  “Although the glorious cities were all turned into relics after the beast horde’s assault and the bombardment of the space-based orbital weapons, the ancient civilization still had a long way to go.

  “However, even if they were only relics, they could still provide the inheritors billions of years later with inexhaustible nutrients, nourish all kinds of civilizations, and set foot on the path of the Ancients in pursuit of the glory of the ancient era.

  “The Ruins No. 1 under Dragon City and Ruins No. 2 in the Hidden Mist Domain are far from all the legacies left by the ancients.

  “There are at least dozens of relics of a certain scale in the entire Other World.

  “If other carbon-based intelligent beings discover these relics, it is very likely that they will be able to obtain the ancient era’s heritage and build their own civilization just like us!”


  Meng Chao’s heart was beating wildly.

  Shao Zhengyang’s words meant that he had changed the future again.

  Due to the butterfly effect that he had stirred up, the higher-ups of Dragon City were many years ahead of their previous life. They had a clearer understanding of the ecological environment and civilization level of the Other World.

  Naturally, they could make more accurate judgments and reasonable decisions.

  Meng Chao swallowed his saliva and said, “Uncle Shao, do all the Deity Realm experts now believe that there are other carbon-based intelligent life forms in the Other World, or even…… civilizations?”


  “This is a high probability event.”


  Shao Zhengyang explained, “The ecosystem of a habitable planet is an inseparable whole. Since everything on Monster Mountain Range has revived and is thriving, and the spirit energy is so dense that it can allow carbon-based intelligent life forms to cultivate to the level where they can fly through the sky, burrow through the Earth, and split open mountains and rocks, the other places in the Other World will not be too different.

  “It is unlikely that the entire Other World is a hell on Earth where volcanoes erupt, dust flies everywhere, and the air is filled with the strong smell of sulfur. Only Monster Mountain Range is a lively paradise, right?

  “The experts and scholars of your agricultural university have conducted in-depth research on the genetic level of all kinds of monsters and etherealized plants. They have determined that many low-level monsters such as snakes, insects, rats, and ants have not been modified by the mother. Instead, they have evolved to the level they are today after tens of millions of years.

  “From this, it can be seen that the entire Other World has become a paradise for carbon-based life at least tens of millions of years ago.

  “After such a long period of evolution and such a natural environment with abundant spirit energy, there are ancient legacies hidden underground everywhere. The monsters that look weird have received the most advanced genetic modification in the ancient times and have been injected with the power of the mother and the Ancients.

  “Is it strange to develop a brand-new civilization?”


  “Yes, I think so too!”


  Meng Chao could not help but nod his head in excitement, “There must be more civilizations in the Other World. Even if they are not more advanced than our Dragon City civilization on the surface, they possess mysterious and destructive power that is enough to drag us into the territory they are most familiar with and defeat us with their abundant experience!

  “Therefore, we must not let our guard down. We must not treat the victory of the Monster War as the ultimate victory without any worries!

  “What do you mean by ‘put the weapons in the warehouse and let the horses loose on the south mountain? It’s not just stupid. It’s a fallacy of destroying the country and wiping out the species!”


  Shao Zhengyang stared at Meng Chao deeply.

  He could clearly sense his anger and anxiety.

  He could not help but be filled with admiration and affection for the young man who was exceptionally clear-headed.

  “I knew it. Old Lei was right about the person, and I was right about the person, too. The future of Dragon City really depends on your generation to fight, defend, and save.”


  Shao Zhengyang said, “The speculation of the Red Dragon Army is that there are likely to be creatures that are stronger, more brutal, more collective, and better at using spirit energy than the monsters that we have seen in the wider world outside Monster Mountain Range, which is the upgraded version of the monsters.

  “Or perhaps, the intelligent creatures that are not as strong as the monsters but have built up an intricate social system and have grasped the first step of civilization and have armies, leaders, and beliefs are the weaker version of the ‘ancients’.

  “Either way, they are not easy to deal with.

  “We don’t know why they have not discovered Dragon City’s existence for more than half a century.

  “Maybe it’s the mist formed by the space ripples, like a layer of impenetrable defense shield — a crystal shield similar to an ancient city that has always been protecting us.

  “Maybe it’s because the civilization outside hasn’t developed to the point of dominating the entire planet yet, and our luck is better, so we narrowly escaped the disaster.

  “But good luck won’t always follow us.

  “We have never been a civilization that relied on luck to survive.

  “The mist that shrouded Dragon City and Monster Mountain Range is about to dissipate.

  “The speed of the mist dispersing is gradually accelerating, especially after the mother’s death.

  “It seems that the mist is not only a space ripple, but also a ‘protective shield’ that the mother created for itself by manipulating the magnetic field of life and changing the magnetic field of the planet after the second awakening so that it can swallow the civilization of mankind without interference and repair more living tissues to survive the most dangerous period of weakness.

  “In the most extreme case, the dense fog will completely disappear within a year and a half.

  “By then, Dragon City will be completely intact and exposed to all intelligent creatures and powerful life forms in the entire Other World.

  “Even if they haven’t developed a reconnaissance satellite network that covers the entire world, as long as they have the ability to fly at high altitude, they will be able to see our city at a glance.

  “As soldiers, we are used to thinking in the worst case scenario.

  “In the worst case scenario, after a year and a half, the Dragon City civilization, which has transmigrated here for just over half a century and is incompatible with other worlds, will be besieged by the indigenous civilizations that have been rooted here for thousands of years.

  “The end of the Monster War is just the beginning of an even larger, more soul-stirring, and magnificent epic war.

  “Even if the indigenous civilizations that had not developed artificial satellites and could not control the entire world could only have the technological level and war potential of the Earth’s civilization in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, or even the Middle Ages.

  “However, their numbers were definitely ten or even a hundred times more than ours. It was also as you said, Meng Chao, that they controlled the power that could destroy the world with the spirit energy’s help and the ancient era’s legacy.

  “We shouldn’t be hoping that there are no existences as powerful as deities and Apocalyptic Beasts in such a vast foreign world.

  “If such a powerful existence infiltrates Dragon City from the indigenous civilization to learn the inside story and wreak havoc, it will undoubtedly be a devastating blow to our civilization. It will also destroy the foundation that the martyrs and compatriots built with their blood for more than half a century.

  “If we want to avoid the terrible situation of being beaten passively, we can only strike first and take the initiative to attack.

  “Even if a new war is going to break out, it should not be fought on Monster Mountain Range. Instead, we should burn the flames of war outside Monster Mountain Range and into the depths of the Other World, as far away from Dragon City as possible.

  “The ‘torrent of steel, sweeping across the Other World was once a slogan that inspired people in the darkest moment.

  “The slogan was just a slogan. In fact, no one had thought so far ahead at that time.

  “But now, after we have found out the truth about the Other World and the ancient realm, we are marching forward. We are marching toward the deepest part of the Other World. From the slogan, it has become the only way for our civilization to survive