Chapter 1357 - Secret Base
writer:Enlightened Master Crouchi      update:2022-07-11 21:00
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  The eyes of the human-faced spider scanned Meng Chao’s injuries from top to bottom and inside out, like a scanner on a large medical device.

  ‘When he realized that Meng Chao was fine and that he had just broken through the barrier of life, regardless of the severity of his injuries, a spark of joy surged in his eyes.

  However, when he realized that Meng Chao’s body structure was subtly different from that of the ordinary Turan, the spark of joy turned into a wave of suspicion.

  He opened his mouth to speak.

  He was speaking in ancient Turan.

  The tone was complex and changeable, and the semantics were difficult to understand. Every syllable was filled with sounds of curling tongues, sticking tongues, flicking tongues, swallowing, and changing tones. Sometimes, it was as cheerful and passionate as the coloratura soprano on Earth. Other

  times, it was like a dolphin in the ocean. It was deep and long, and it could penetrate the soul directly.

  Even when he spoke, the shells around his body vibrated and rubbed at a high frequency, making a rhythmic sound of metal colliding, forming a rhythm similar to Morse code.

  Meng Chao suspected that the ancient Tulan language used by the human-faced spiders not only contained a hundred times more details than the simple, crude, and even childish Tulan language used by modem orcs.

  Even the human-faced spider could communicate three to five times more information per unit of time than the human-faced spider.

  Unfortunately, Meng Chao did not understand what he was talking about.

  Meng Chao’s Tulan language was like two knives in the first place.

  It was already good enough that he could communicate with the modern orcs on a daily basis.

  The ‘Ancient Tulan language’that he came into contact with occasionally came from the modern witch doctors, priests, and chiefs. It had been simplified and even mistranslated. It was in line with the communication habits of the modern orcs, but it was far from the original meaning.

  Meng Chao even felt that he did not have an organ that could receive such high-frequency information.

  He could only open his hands and point at the other party’s mouth first, then at his own ears. Finally, he waved his hand, indicating, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand…”


  The man-faced spider seemed to be somewhat disappointed when he realized that the purebred ‘human’‘in front of him, who did not have the characteristics of a beast, was actually spitting out the childish and ridiculous ‘modern Ore language’.

  However, he seemed to have experienced countless times that were a hundred times more severe than this in the long years. He quickly recovered and used the stuttering modern Tulan language to communicate with Meng Chao.

  “We… Don’t have time…”


  After saying only half of the sentence, he frowned slightly.

  It was as if he despised the poverty and simplicity of the modern Orc language. It was impossible for him to express his feelings, ideals, and the massive amount of information that he desperately wanted to pass on to the later generations.

  He simply shut his mouth, waved his blade limbs, and gestured for Meng Chao to follow him into the depths of the cave.

  Meng Chao naturally would not refuse.

  He looked curiously at the scene in the cave.

  He discovered that this long and deep cave was vastly different from the natural caves he had explored in the past.

  Most of the naturally formed caves were definitely zigzagging and uneven in thickness. At times, they were so cramped that people could only squeeze past them sideways. At other times, they would suddenly open up, revealing karst caves and empty bubbles that were even larger than a basketball court.

  Although this cave was deep, it was straight and flat, as if it was a secret passage built by man.

  The walls of the cave were as smooth as a mirror. The surface of the cave was covered with some kind of high-speed friction between metal and rock. The high temperature melted the rock, and the traces of cooling and solidifying were like rainbows that extended into the depths of the darkness.

  There were also a lot of debris scattered in the cave.

  Most of the debris were broken pieces of arc-shaped armor that were thicker than Meng Chao’s palm. The cross-sections were stacked on top of each other, as if seven or eight layers of composite structures had been compressed together.

  From Meng Chao’s experience, this was the outer shell of some kind of large-scale transportation vehicle or war machine.

  It should have been the spaceship of the ancient Tulan people. When it was forced to land in another world, it scraped the rock layer along the way and was torn apart and scattered.

  If that was the case, could it be that this space fold hidden in the rock layer was actually created by the forced landing of the Tulan spaceship?

  Meng Chao clicked his tongue in wonder.

  From this cave and the scattered shell fragments, one could imagine how thrilling the transmigration of the Tulan spacecraft was in the past.

  If one was not careful, the last hope of the entire spacecraft and the Tulan civilization would be annihilated under the crust of another world.

  Apart from the shell fragments of the spacecraft, Meng Chao also found a large number of remnants of the interior of the spacecraft in the wreckage.

  Although they were too far apart in age and the two civilizations were very different, Meng Chao could not figure out the use of these strange-shaped remnants.

  However, he found a small amount of plastic products inside.

  Meng Chao’s breathing suddenly stopped.

  Plastic was a polymeric compound that was formed from monomer through polymerization or condensation reaction.

  To be able to produce plastic products on a large scale required a high degree of materials science and industrial systems.

  It could even be said that the large-scale production of plastic products, like the large-scale use of steam or even electricity, was a sign of civilization’s maturity and even glory.

  The modern orcs had long forgotten how to produce plastics.

  Even a few witch doctors and priests still passed on the ancient production process through word of mouth.

  But there was no corresponding source of raw materials and large industrial system.

  So much so that they picked up a few carbonated drink bottles from Dragon City in the Tulan River and treated them as treasures, used to store the teeth of their prey or the secret medicine of the witch doctors.

  ‘The appearance of plastic products made Meng Chao even more firm in his opinion.

  ‘The ancient Tulan people had a civilization and industrial system that was no less than that of the people on Earth.

  In some areas, they were even superior to the Earthlings.

  Soon, he found more evidence.

  For example, the cave walls were densely carved.

  The Tulan people seemed to like carving and painting on walls, bulkheads, rock walls… everywhere.

  However, Meng Chao saw rough and barbaric murals similar to primitive art on the bulkheads of the Sacred Mountain Temple. They depicted the scenes of the Tulan warriors and totem beasts fighting to the death.

  ‘What he saw here was a complicated, continuous, crisscrossing, and dizzying formula.

  That’s right, although the numbers and operation symbols used were completely different from the Earth’s civilization.

  ‘The numbers and operation symbols of the ancient Tulan people were like crystal clear snowflakes and Wisps of constantly forking flames.

  But when combined, the feeling that was more profound and complicated than the wordless heavenly book immediately reminded Meng Chao of his university days, the fear of constructing various spiritual magnetic fields and calculating the concentration of spiritual energy.

  He forced himself to focus and observe carefully.

  Of course, he did not expect to be able to understand the thousands of formulas left behind by the ancient Tulan people.

  Instead, he observed the brush strokes that engraved these formulas on the cave walls.

  The strokes were deep and shallow, and the strokes were also different. Some of the formulas were bold and unrestrained, while others were upright and proper, penetrating deeply into the wood.

  It was as if a sea of formulas that could drown the entire cave and even the entire temple of the sacred mountain had been created by the hands of different people over thousands of years.

  Occasionally, Meng Chao could also find a few lines of relatively shallow ancient Tulan among the overwhelming and surging formulas.

  The “Shelf life”of words was, after all, longer than that of languages.

  ‘The few lines of words were also like the derivators and calculators of formulas. When they were overwhelmed with emotions and emotions, they were thrown out randomly. They did not deliberately pursue the accuracy of the grammar and the richness of the semantics.

  Meng Chao could guess the general meaning of some of the words through guessing.

  One of the derivators had carved on the wall of the cave thousands of years ago with fear and even despair. “No, this is impossible. None of this is real!”


  However, there were other derivators who left messages below:

  “We will definitely think of a way

  “We absolutely can not… be controlled by it

  “For our civilization

  “I got it! I got it!”


  Meng Chao narrowed his eyes.

  His thoughts seemed to travel back thousands of years. He had witnessed the ancient Tulan people with different emotions. Some were excited, some were determined, some were crazy, and some were filled with fear, but they never gave up, they used their blood and even their lives to brand the mark of

  the Tulan civilization in the depths of the other world.

  For some reason, the image that appeared in his mind was not as domineering and awe-inspiring as the ancient warriors such as the “Fist, stomach-less king, and broken wings.”.

  It was also far from the modern orcs such as the “Horn of destruction, violent blade, and Doomsday Wolf.”


  On the contrary, it was a little thin and weak.

  It made sense.

  If it was the muscular demons of the Bloody Hoof clan whose fists were bigger than a casserole.

  Or the extremely sharp claws of the Gold clan, the Jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards.

  How could they be patient and spend their whole life’s effort to leave so many formulas in a cave deep underground that no one knew about?

  The human-faced spider noticed that Meng Chao’s footsteps were slowing down.

  ‘When it tumed around, it found that Meng Chao was carefully observing, studying, and feeling the formulas on the cave wall.

  His gradually withered face immediately revealed a dazzling pride.

  His deeply sunken chest seemed to have absorbed a brand new life force from the formula and was full again.

  Meng Chao noticed that the spider was bleeding all the way.

  His pale golden blood was like a bright and eye-catching signpost, illuminating the darkness ahead.

  “Are You Alright with your injury?”


  Meng Chao could not help but ask.

  “Tm fine… Don’t worry about me… There’s something more important…”


  The human-faced spider signaled Meng Chao to quicken his pace.

  ‘The Aura of life finally came from ahead.

  On the walls of the cave around them, there were a large number of primitive life forms that were similar to bacteria blankets, rock algae, creepers, and grape vines. It was difficult to tell whether they were fungi or plants. They formed a small sparrow-like underground ecosystem, it had all the necessary

  organs.

  No, it should not be called ‘primitive life’.

  Meng Chao noticed that countless hollow metal tubes that were as thin as cow’s hair were vaguely entangled between the branches of the ‘grapevines‘and the carpet of fungi.

  The metal tubes seemed to be alive. They wriggled slowly and dug deep into the rocks, absorbing the spiritual energy deep inside the rocks.

  They were like complicated roots and even blood vessels that provided sufficient nutrients for the entire ecosystem.

  The raw materials that made up the ‘roots and blood vessels’were liquid metal-like substances!

  Chapter 1358 - If One Did Not Go Crazy, One Would Not Survive

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  The highly efficient energy collection system was absorbing tremendous spirit energy from the crystal veins deep inside the underground rock.

  ‘The intersecting “grapevines” were decorated with heavy fruits.

  Every fruit was the size of a watermelon, and they seemed to be carved out of yellow crystals. They were glittering and translucent, and their fragrance assailed one’s nostrils.

  The fruits were so plump that it seemed as if they would explode with just a light touch, pouring out a viscous liquid of gold.

  Meng Chao secretly clicked his tongue.

  These “yellow crystal balls” were the best of the mandrake fruits, the golden fruits.

  Leaf had once told him that each mandrake tree could only give birth to one golden fruit in each growth cycle.

  ‘When this golden fruit was still being nurtured, it would unreasonably take away more than half of the mandrake tree’s nutrients.

  Other mandrake fruits would not be able to compete with it.

  The “grapevines” in front of him clearly did not have the mandrake tree’s towering trunk or the canopy that blocked out the sun.

  However, within an inch of space, they were densely covered with “Supreme’golden fruits.

  Just a casual sweep by Meng Chao, he saw at least hundreds of them.

  It seemed that the man-faced spider was feeding on these golden fruits, which was why it was able to withstand the corrosion of the extremely long time that was sealed deep underground.

  The biochemical technology to make these “Grape vines’ far exceeded Meng Chao’s imagination, and also exceeded the technical limits of Dragon City Agricultural University.

  If the relevant technology could be introduced into dragon city.

  ‘The human-faced spider did not know the thousands of thoughts running through Meng Chao’s mind.

  Waving his blade limbs, he picked and swallowed three golden fruits in a row.

  Only then did his pale face become slightly better.

  Then, he cut off another ‘grape vine’.

  He let the ‘Liquid Gold’flowing out of the fracture drip into the wound on his back.

  Judging from the intense fragrance that was emitting from the yellow juice, Meng Chao could tell that the pure natural plant juice contained more spiritual energy than the gene drugs that had been carefully refined by the biochemical laboratory of Dragon City.

  It was simply a top-tier secret medicine that could bring the dead back to life.

  As he expected, a layer of membrane as thin as a cicada’s wing quickly grew out of the shocking wound on the back of the human-faced spider.

  At least, it had wrapped up all the organs that were exposed to the air.

  After hastily cleaning up the wound, the human-faced spider let out a muffled groan.

  However, it could not wait for further treatment and continued to lead Meng Chao deeper into the cave.

  As the spiritual energy that permeated the cave became denser and denser, Meng Chao discovered a large number of crystal clusters and mineral veins that were directly exposed to the air on the cave walls. It was as if he had stepped into a colorful Crystal Palace.

  Many semi-solidified substances that were between crystals and amber were actually sealed with a large number of totem beast corpses.

  Around each corpse, the interior of the “Amber’was engraved with dense formulas and words.

  It was as if a large amount of scientific research had been done on this specimen, and the data and conclusions were the same.

  Meng Chao noticed that the liquid metal-like substances in the bodies of these “Research specimens” were much more abundant than the totem beasts he had seen in the outside world.

  The erosion and modification of the liquid metal-like substances on the flesh and blood, as well as the appearance of the substance itself, were much more intense.

  The totem beasts in the outside world could still roughly see the appearance of ferocious beasts.

  Even if they were ferocious-looking monsters, they still had flesh and blood.

  The enhancement of the liquid metal-like substances on the totem beasts was only limited to their tusks, sharp claws, carapace, big horns, bone tumors on their tails and other parts.

  Or they would form layers upon layers of indestructible armor on the skin of totem beasts.

  The liquid metal-like substances in the bodies of these specimens before him were like malignant tumors that had exploded. In a way that was baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, multiplying endlessly, and the boundaries were extremely unclear, they were inside the bodies of flesh and blood

  that were as rotten as mud, they were crazily expanding their living space.

  Meng Chao noticed that in the bodies of many totem beasts, the liquid metal-like substance had already tightly coiled around their spines, poking holes in their internal organs and even squeezing part of their cranial cavities, it had intercepted the information that the central nervous system transmitted

  to the brain and the instructions that the brain sent out. In turn, it had devoured the will of the totem beasts.

  However, the crazy expansion and uncontrolled self-organization of the liquid metal-like substance had also allowed Meng Chao to discover many interesting things.

  “The liquid-like metals that I’ve seen in the past are like viscous mercury that is flowing slowly. At most, they will solidify into cold weapons such as sabers, Spears, and halberds, and simple structures such as multiple layers of armor.

  “At first glance, the liquid-like metals on the specimens in front of me are proliferating crazily and completely out of control. They seem to be on the verge of devouring everything.

  “However, if I observe them carefully, I will find that they have condensed into components that are even more delicate than clocks and watches deep inside their bodies. It is as if they are trying to create a weapon system and a power system that is highly efficient in the conversion of mass and energy

  inside the body of a carbon-based creature!”


  The scene in front of him made Meng Chao think of the Genesis warrior he had met on the night he had saved the ancient Dream Saintes.

  At that time, the liquid metal-like substance in the body of a Genesis Warrior had also broken out of his body like a malignant tumor. At the same time that he had turned his master into a deformed and ugly monster……, he had wanted to create… a hot weapon such as an electromagnetic cannon.

  “Could it be that this mysterious liquid metal-like substance is not only able to help carbon-based intelligent life forms form armor and swords.

  “As long as it keeps training and upgrading and unlocks all its abilities, it can also form things such as ‘power furnaces, electromagnetic cannons, super computers’in its master’s body?

  “However, the more complex and precise the structure, the harder it is to control. It also requires more energy and faces the problem of power consumption and heat dissipation that is harder to solve.

  “With the constantly deteriorating intelligence level of the Tulan orcs, it is impossible for them to control cutting-edge technologies such as ‘power furnaces, electromagnetic cannons, supercomputers’. That is why their minds collapsed, and they became obsessed and became the origin warriors who lost

  their sense of self!”


  Meng Chao thought so.

  Then, he saw dozens of origin warriors.

  Of course, they were the specimens sealed in the ‘Crystal Amber.

  ‘Meng Chao was shocked when he was stared at by dozens of origin warriors who were lifeless.

  Then, he found that these origin warriors had long lost their vitality.

  ‘Whether it was the blood and flesh cells or the liquid metal-like substances that seeped into the blood and flesh, they had all lost their vitality and tured into fossil-like existences.

  This was the first time Meng Chao had studied these half-mechanical, half-flesh monsters at such a close distance.

  As he expected, he found that they were beyond the limits of his imagination under the hideous, nightmare-like appearance.

  The liquid-like metal substances in the bodies of the origins warriors were far more complicated, precise, and delicate than they were under normal conditions.

  In other words, it was precisely because the liquid-like metal substances were not satisfied with the simple structures such as swords, axes, hammers, and armor, but wanted to condense into guns, electromagnetic cannons, and nuclear reactors.

  The complexity of these sophisticated structures far exceeded the upper limit that a body of flesh and blood could bear. That was why their owners went crazy and collapsed.

  “Why are there so many ‘specimens’of the origins warriors sealed here?”


  Meng Chao’s mind raced. “Could it be that someone is conducting research on the ‘Controllable Origins Warriors’Here?”


  Thinking of this, Meng Chao could not help but glance at the human-faced spider.

  From a certain point of view, the mutated human-faced spider was even more abnormal than the origins warrior.

  Earlier, through the human-faced Spider’s shell that was riddled with holes, Meng Chao had also found traces of liquid metal-like substances around his shattered bones and internal organs.

  However, the human-faced Spider’s mental state was very stable.

  The depths of its eyes flickered with the light of rationality and wisdom.

  It was completely different from the origin warriors who were wild and crazy like demons.

  There was one point that Meng Chao had to admit.

  If one was not crazy, one could not survive.

  ‘Whether it was the origin warriors of Tu Lanze or the lost ones of Dragon City, leaving aside the loss of rationality and the extremely unstable life magnetic field, which led to a short lifespan, not to mention these two fatal flaws, just their instantaneous maximum combat strength……, seemed to be much

  stronger than ordinary people of the same level.

  If there was a way to maintain the terrifying combat strength under the state of Qi deviation without overdrawing their lives, and without paying the price of rationality and humanity……

  Meng Chao remembered that lei zongchao, the “Martial God”, once said that although dragon city’s cultivation of spiritual energy had just begun, it could already see the end at a glance.

  This was also the reason why the power system of extraordinary people was divided into three major realms and nine minor realms, and stopped abruptly when they reached the peak of the godly state.

  According to the normal cultivation speed, it was already extremely fortunate for Meng Chao to be able to enter the godly state at a young age.

  Within ten to twenty years, he absolutely didn’t have to hope to peek into the supreme realm of the nine-star godly state.

  Not to mention, he would surpass Lei Zongchao, the martial god, and become the first existence in Dragon City to surpass the peak of the godly state.

  Unless he chose to “Go mad”.

  And he would find a way to control his mad state!

  In addition to the extremely complex and sophisticated liquid metal-like substances, Meng Chao also found that these ancient specimens, which were at least 3,000 years old, were different from modem Orc warriors.

  The beast characteristics on their bodies were far less intense than those of the modern Orc warriors.

  Although a large number of their limbs and organs were deformed and deformed by the erosion of the liquid metal-like substances, they did not look human.

  However, the parts that were still intact could clearly be seen with sparse hair, smooth skin, and slender fingers.

  Such a body shape did not seem to be suitable for hand-to-hand combat.

  However, it was very suitable for controlling precision machinery, deducing complicated formulas, and even building a true civilization.

  Meng Chao found a specimen with a perfectly preserved head.

  However, he did not find any beast features on the face of the specimen.

  Of course, there were subtle differences between the overly broad forehead, relatively flat nose, lead gray hair, and beard, and the appearance of modern humans.

  It’s a bit like the late Homo sapiens, the Neanderthals, who mysteriously disappeared 24,000 years ago on Earth.