Uchiha of Zero Zone

Shenwei's ability to move in space can completely ignore entities such as buildings, so Zhong Yan only needs to enter the virtual state to dive into the interior of the Helios mechanism.

When he came inside, he immediately observed the surrounding environment. Since no one had been here for many years and this place was inside a cave, ether crystals visible to the naked eye grew everywhere.

Fortunately, these crystals only grew on both sides of the road and did not completely block the road.

Zhong Yan took advantage of the gap in the middle of the road and began to explore.

Here we have to mention the influence of the Helios Agency in the old capital period. It was once a very famous research institute. In the whole of Eridu, no other research institute could compare with it in prestige.

It is an indisputable fact that the Helios Agency has made great contributions to the investigation and exploration of the void.

But no one expected that things would turn out like this.

The abandoned research institute is like people’s disappointed hearts, broken into pieces and can never be put together again.

"There's nothing valuable left..." After searching around inside, Zhong Yan soon discovered with some disappointment that there was absolutely no clue of the fall of the old capital left in the abandoned research institute.

Even those experimental samples left here have been corroded into ether crystals over time and can no longer be restored to their original appearance.

"It seems that Carlos's actions back then were just her personal actions and had nothing to do with the Helios Agency at all, or... I missed something." Zhong Yan stopped and muttered to himself.

He raised his head, and in the darkness, a pair of lotus-shaped blood-red pupils looked like a demon crawling out of hell, extremely creepy.

With the dynamic vision of the Sharingan, Zhong Yan could see everything clearly even in a dark environment, including the ether flowing around him. Their intensity and flow direction were also captured clearly by the Sharingan.

But... this doesn't provide any help. In the basement of the institute, not to mention any clues, not even a single corpse can be found.

It seems that this time we will return empty-handed.

Zhong Yan thought so.

However, just as he activated his divine power and prepared to leave, a hand suddenly stopped him within the divine power space.

"Wait a minute, boss!" Then, Ai Li's voice was heard, which made Zhong Yan immediately stop his actions and use divine power to release it from the divine power space.

This is the inside of Hollow Zero. For a cyborg like Ellie, this is a perfect place to live. It shouldn't be a problem to let her out and move around.

More importantly, Ellie seemed to have discovered something.

"Did you sense something?" Zhong Yan couldn't help but ask as he looked at Ellie who came out of the Divine Power Space and was looking around.

After hearing this, Ai Li paused for a moment, then cast a look towards Zhong Yan and said with a smug smile: "Hehe, as expected, professional things still need professionals to do it. Boss, even you sometimes need my help."

As the only member of the Akatsuki organization besides Zhong Yan, Ai Li pays great attention to her status. After all, who knows if someone will join in the future. It would be troublesome if someone takes her place.

"Speak human language." Looking at Ai Li with a smug look on her face, Zhong Yan couldn't help but twitch his eyes twice.

Fortunately, he was wearing a mask, otherwise if Ellie saw his speechless expression, she would probably not be able to help but say something.

"There's something in here," Ai Li said. Her expression suddenly became serious. "I'm sure that thing was made by the Creator. There's no doubt about it. And it's related to the leader."

Hearing this, Zhong Yan was startled, and then, under his gaze, Ai Li quickly explored in the direction where the breath came from.

Finally, her eyes locked onto an ether crystal.

When Zhong Yan saw the ether crystal, he began to observe it carefully, but no matter how hard he looked, he could not find anything unusual.

Such ether crystals are too common, especially in the depths of Void Zero, so no one would care about any of them.

Unless...the shape and position of that crystal are very attractive, but the one in front of me is definitely not included.

Ellie walked up to the crystal with a puzzled expression. After observing it for a moment, she stretched out her hand and directly penetrated the ether on the surface of the crystal, completely submerging her palm and half of her arm into the crystal.

Seeing this scene, Zhong Yan couldn't help but sigh, the cyborgs are different. If ordinary people use brute force to destroy the crystals condensed from the high concentration of ether, the consequences will be disastrous.

When the scene returns to the present, after groping for a while, Ellie finally took out a palm-sized ether crystal ball from the inside of the crystal.

The moment the ether crystal ball was taken out, the entire ether crystal instantly disintegrated as if it had lost its energy source.

"This thing..." Zhong Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, obviously noticing the unusualness of the crystal ball.

Its ether concentration is so terrifying that even some super-large ether cores, when fully active, may not have a ether intensity comparable to that of the crystal ball in front of it.

It is hard to imagine what kind of terrible weapon would be created if this thing was used in weapons research.

In addition, Zhong Yan could clearly feel that the aura emanating from the crystal ball was exactly the same as that of the guy who had placed three thousand bombs before.

It is a slice of the Creator Chief, so this crystal ball also belongs to the Creator Chief.

Ellie's guess was absolutely correct.

However, when facing what she took out, somehow, Ellie showed visible fear, as if she had discovered something extraordinary.

"Is that guy crazy? What is he doing?" After a moment, Ai Li suddenly let out a sharp cry. Zhong Yan, realizing that something was wrong, hurried forward and snatched the crystal ball from her hand.

Just as he was about to study this thing, he felt severe discomfort in his hand, which made him throw away the crystal ball.

When he reacted, Zhong Yan was horrified to find that the gloves he had put on his palms were actually corroded by the ether.

The discomfort he just felt was the needle-like crystals produced by erosion attacking his palm.

Fortunately, he has a physique that does not absorb ether, otherwise, his palm would have been completely corroded.