The Return of Cambrian Period

, which is beneficial to all human beings. "

Zhuang Yao nodded: "That's right, at least after collecting all the puppet jade, we can live for a few more years."

Cheng Tianbi said: "Therefore, the practice must continue, and the exploration of the restricted area, the five-color stone and Mr. Sun's memory cannot be stopped. We still have a glimmer of hope, which is the five-color stone. Unless this hope is also shattered, we cannot give up."

The others did not respond immediately, but lowered their eyes and thought.Indeed, they wavered.

Cheng Tianbi said in a deep voice: "Give me some energy, let you return to Beijing to retire now, which one of you can leave with peace of mind?"

Tang Yanqiu said firmly: "Even if the outcome of the mutant is doomed, I will go to the South China Sea. I still have family and clansmen. For them, I will fight to the last moment."

Deng Xiao also said, "I'll listen to you."

Liu Fengyu laughed self-deprecatingly: "How do I know you people? Some things are better not to know. I would rather die in a daze than die so clearly."

Cong Xia whispered: "I...I'm going to the restricted area." He wants to verify whether the five-color stone is their lifeline!

Zhuang Yao said: "I knew that you would not lose your fighting spirit. Only a small number of people know about this, so keep your mouth shut."

The crowd nodded.

Zhuang Yao looked out the window: "Tomorrow, we will leave for the restricted area. If conditions permit, we will camp there."

Cong Xia held the five-color stone tightly, secretly praying that it would produce a miracle.

Three transport helicopters carried them and many supplies to the restricted area, and landed at the foot of the snow-capped mountain.

Although Qingming has passed and the temperature is still below freezing, it is much more comfortable now than the severe cold of winter.

Tang Tingzhi sent several avian aliens to investigate nearby. If there are no mutant animals gathering around, they plan to camp here.

The investigation results were satisfactory, and the place was relatively safe. Tang Tingzhi began to direct everyone to set up camp.

It took half a day, and they erected more than a dozen marching tents.

Deng Xiao stretched his waist: "This place is good, but that villa is too aggrieved."

Daiquilin said: "But it's hard to hunt food here."

Zhuang Yao said: "Food is regularly transported from Xining, and water will be fetched up the mountain. You don't need to think about these things, just concentrate on practicing."

Liu Fengyu sighed: "It's just that taking a bath is too troublesome, and you have to boil hot water now."

Zhuang Yao shrugged: "You can go to Dongtai Jinel River to wash, remember that we still need to drink the water in the lower reaches."

Liu Fengyu rolled his eyes at him: "You want to freeze me to death?"

Shan Ming didn't take it seriously: "It's less than ten degrees below zero. What kind of hot water are you boiling? You can stand outside at noon when the sun is at its strongest, and put a bucket of water on your head. You won't feel cold immediately, and the more you wash, the hotter it will be." .”

Deng Xiao shuddered violently when he heard the words, and said with a sneer, "Brother Shan, Miss Daiquilin is here, if you bare your butt in public..."

Dai Kuilin smiled faintly: "I don't care." She blinked lightly at Deng Xiao.

Deng Xiao blushed and immediately stopped talking.

Shen Changze immediately said: "Dad, don't jump into the river with your fur all over your body, the fur will freeze."

"Tsk, I see, you think I'm stupid."

Cong Xia smiled and said, "Brother Shan is really a blessing in disguise. The lynx is at least a third-order mutant creature, which saves you a lot of time."

Shan Ming said: "This lynx is really good except for the silly hair on its ears."

Tang Tingzhi clapped his hands: "Now let's draw lots to decide the order of fetching water and vigil..."

The mutated people started a hard life in the wild.The transport plane comes to deliver food every three days. Every day, two teams of people work in shifts. One team carries water up the mountain, and the other patrols at night. People from Guangming City are responsible for trivial matters such as boiling water and cooking.

The reason why they didn't go to the dungeon right away was because Li Daoyi was still close to reaching the third level. Without Li Daoyi, they would not be able to find out what was going on underground.

Both Tang Tingzhi and Zhuang Yao have reached the critical point. For the sake of Cong Xia's endurance, they staggered the time to advance.

The advancement of brain evolution people is the most uncomfortable for Cong Xia, because they will release powerful brain waves uncontrollably, making people around them dizzy, and Cong Xia will be forced to accept a large amount of explosive information.Therefore, when Zhuang Yao reached the critical moment, Cong Xia vomited without warning.

This startled the others, and Cheng Tianbi helped Cong Xia out of the tent to rest.

Cong Xia's eyes were a little distracted, and she couldn't help shaking her head: "The brain waves are too strong, my head seems to explode."

"Stay outside for a while."

"No, Zhuang Yao is at a critical juncture and something may happen at any time." He took a deep breath and wanted to go back.

Tang Yanqiu pulled him back: "I'll go in instead. Stay away and have a rest. I'll call you if there's any situation." Then he walked into the tent to accompany Zhuang Yao.

Staying away, Cong Xia's breathing became much smoother.

Half an hour later, Tang Yanqiu came out with a livid face, and Deng Xiao went in instead of him. After changing several people in turn, Liu Fengyu realized that something was wrong with Zhuang Yao, and hurriedly called Cong Xia in.

Cong Xia rushed into the tent and injected energy into Zhuang Yao's body. Immediately, he "saw" as if the knowledge of the entire universe and Zhuang Yao's memory fragments were thrown at him, and he almost vomited again.He desperately stabilized the energy in Zhuang Yao's body, and helped Zhuang Yao guide the energy into the energy core.

After successfully advancing, Zhuang Yao passed out, and Cong Xia's eyes stared at gold stars, and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

Tang Tingzhi's situation was similar to that of Zhuang Yao's, and it made Cong Xia suffer for a long time, but they all progressed safely.

The day after the two broke through to the third level, Li Daoyi reached the critical point.

Because he knew that when the natural force evolved, he would not die even if he exploded, so Cong Xia just stood by symbolically.

The moment Li Daoyi advanced, a small earthquake broke out in the place where they lived. With Li Daoyi's tent as the center, the ground cracked seven cracks in all directions, each of which was several hundred meters long and more than ten centimeters wide. Two cooking stoves were destroyed. The scene was too shocking. Everyone looked at the mountain not far away warily, for fear of any chain reaction.

After Li Dao'an recovered, they decided to go up the mountain to find the ruins of the dungeon. Besides him and Huo Bai, Cheng Tianbi's group, the four members of the Dragon Blood Clan and Zhao Yi were also in the team.

Most of the snow on the mountain had melted, and they were very fast. They walked to the Grand Canyon formed by the ground crack in two hours. Walking eastward along the Grand Canyon, at noon, a huge crater formed by a mountain depression appeared in front of them. ruins of the city.

"This is it." Tang Tingzhi held the navigator: "The coordinates match."

Zhuang Yao said: "The caves on both sides have collapsed, and there is no place to go down. If we dig, how deep should we dig?"

Tang Tingzhi said: "It's less than [-] meters to dig the mushroom forest, but with the current engineering strength, it will take at least half a year to dig."

Zhuang Yao shook his head: "Officer Li, only you can go down and have a look."

Li Dao'an nodded, and swept away the snow with his feet, exposing the ground. He squatted down, touched the ground with his fingers, and his fingertips instantly turned dark brown. The dark brown spread all over his body like poison, and finally, his whole body became completely transformed. The soil slipped out of the cuff and "sprinkled" into the ground.

Huo Bai picked up Li Dao'ai's clothes, threw them on his back, then lay on the place where he disappeared, flicking his long tail, looking anxious.

Cong Xia comforted: "Ah Bai, don't worry, Officer Li has already merged with the soil."

"I just think it's amazing." He touched the place where Li Dao'an disappeared with his big paw: "It really just disappeared..." After speaking, he put his ear to the ground again, trying to hear something.

Abu circled around Huo Bai curiously, and also got down on the knees, imitating Huo Bai's way and putting his ears to the ground, his crystal-like purple eyes looked at Huo Bai without blinking.

Huo Bai thought it was funny, deliberately opened the bloody lion's mouth, and yelled at it.

Abu jumped away in shock, fluffed his hair, and looked at Huo Bai warily, with his paws raised high, ready to shoot at any time.

Huo Bai laughed loudly: "You cat is getting more and more interesting."

Deng Xiao frowned and said, "Don't tease it, it is learning."

"Learn what?"

"Imitate, just watch." Deng Xiao crossed his hands in front of his chest: "Abu, come on, this gesture means 'Go to hell'!"

Abu stared at him blankly for a while, but didn't move.

"Come on, this gesture is the coolest, come on, follow me."

Zhuang Yao kicked Deng Xiao's ass hard: "Don't teach it such a stupid thing, just go away."

"How stupid, this is..."

"Shh." Huo Bai put his ears back to the ground: "There is movement."

Suddenly, a big hand broke through the ground and grabbed Huo Bai's nose.

A Bu jumped back with a "ow" in fright, and Huo Bai also jumped up suddenly in shock.

Li Dao'an's hearty laughter came, and a human-shaped soil clod emerged from the ground, looking at Huo Bai with low laughter.

Huo Bai was a little ashamed: "Boss, why are you still playing with this? You scared me." He wiped off the dirt on his nose with his paws, feeling a little ashamed.

Li Dao'an smiled and said, "Test your vigilance."

Huo Bai said depressedly: "Who else can come out of the ground except the leader."

Tang Tingzhi said: "Officer Li, how are you doing? What did you find?"

"The bottom is full of rubble piles. The underground palace has already collapsed, and the cave collapsed and pressed it deeper. Under the current conditions, excavation is quite difficult."

"Is there anything useful?"

Li Daoyi shook his head: "It's a mess."

Although it had been expected a long time ago, everyone was still a little disappointed.

Cong Xia said: "Then don't dig?"

Zhuang Yao said: "We must dig, but not now."

Tang Tingzhi nodded: "We are not sure whether there are any valuable things below, and how many there are. It is not worth wasting resources. It seems that deciphering Mr. Sun's memory will gain more."

Shan Ming said: "What do you want? There are many pictures of Jiang Ying doing experiments in Lynx's memory, but I can't understand them."

Tang Tingzhi shook his head: "We don't know either."

Their biggest purpose is to verify whether the secret about the puppet jade deduced from Jiang Ying's memory is true.

Zhao Yidao: "I can't think of anything worthwhile either."

"Can you draw a map of the dungeon?"

Zhao Yi thought for a while: "I'm not sure."

"I can help." Cong Xia said: "I also have a map in my brain that Mr. Sun passed on to me, I remember some."

"I can also..." Shan Ming was stunned for a moment: "Wait, I remembered something. Jiang Ying has a secret room for storing materials, because his generator has limited power and is often affected by the weather. , so he will record most of the things on paper.”

Tang Tingzhi's eyes lit up: "Do you remember where the secret room is?"

"Open two doors, the first door turns to the east, and the second door goes to..." Shan Ming frowned and tried to remember: "South, south."

Zhuang Yao excitedly said: "If you can predict the approximate location of the secret room, Officer Li will definitely bring you the paper, and draw the map quickly."

Cheng Tianbi waved his hand, and the strong wind swept away a large piece of snow, exposing the ground.

Zhao Yi is most familiar with the underground palace. He picked up a stone and sketched a rough floor plan of the underground palace on the ground. Then, the three of them filled in the rooms and organs of the underground palace one by one based on their memory.

"There should be a mechanism here, connecting this room..."

"This must be a passage, I ran for a long time, absolutely right."

"If this mechanism chooses to open to the other side, the passage will disappear, so this room here..."

The three discussed and revised it, and it took nearly three hours to draw the complete floor plan of the underground palace.

Zhuang Yao said, "Is that so?"

"It should be right."

"The secret room is probably at this location." Shan Ming pointed to the vicinity of the laboratory.

Zhuang Yao said: "It's getting dark, let's go back first, and bring the equipment to test tomorrow."

Cong Xia said: "You go first, Tianbi and I stay, I still have some things to verify."

Zhuang Yao glanced at him, "Okay."

Until their figures disappeared, Cong Xia said: "Tianbi, I missed something last time, which is to enter the five-color stone in the restricted area."

"Well, I'm here to watch you, you go."

Cong Xia took a deep breath, closed her eyes, concentrated her thoughts, and entered the void of the five-color stone.

The moment he entered, he was "overturned to the ground" by a powerful energy, the dark green energy rampaging in the void, Cong Xia felt violent shaking.If the void in the past was as calm as a thousand-year-old tomb, now a typhoon is blowing in this "tomb".Countless Chinese characters are spinning and flying with the energy, as if they are trying to form something, but they are quickly smashed to pieces.

Cong Xia was a little scared.It turned out that the five-color stone would have such a big reaction here, but he never felt it.What happened to the five-color stone?What did Zhang Tianshi want to tell him?He couldn't help shouting: "Senior! Please give this junior some guidance!"

He yelled for a long time, but the chaos in the space still did not stop, the typhoon almost turned into a tornado, and the text began to spin rapidly. He had the illusion that this place was about to "collapse". He backed away in horror, but there was no way to escape. In the end, A wave of energy hit him, and he felt himself being torn apart in an instant...

Cong Xia suddenly opened his eyes, and what he saw were worried faces.

Cong Xia asked in a daze: "I, am I unconscious?"

Zhuang Yao said, "Six days."

"Where are the five-color stones...the five-color stones?"

Zhuang Yao threw something in his hand to Cong Xia.

Cong Xia caught it subconsciously, and then her palm was burned.He looked down, and saw that it was an oval translucent stone, made of five-color soil, twisted into a five-color whirlpool in the middle, as beautiful as a nebula, with a temperature of at least 60 degrees.Cong Xia stared at it with wide eyes

Cheng Tianbi said: "Five-color stone, that is, ancient jade, it became like this after you fell into a coma. The plain appearance before is just a disguise."

Deng Xiao asked curiously, "Is this the sacred stone Nuwa used to mend the sky?"

Zhuang Yao nodded: "It is also the sacred stone used by Zhang Tianshi to record what he has learned in his life."

Cong Xia came back to her senses and entered the void again without even thinking about it, making it impossible for anyone to stop her.

Calm has been restored in the void, a faint light green energy pervades the air, and the square golden Chinese seals are no longer engraved on the "wall", but instead fill the entire void, as if being released from some kind of bondage Come out average.

Fearing that others would worry, Cong Xia quickly left the void.

Zhuang Yao asked urgently, "What's the matter? What did you find?"

Cong Xia shared his experience: "The five-color stone should have been artificially changed in appearance to facilitate its disguise. It seemed to be breaking away from this disguise in the restricted area that day. Sure enough, it now shows its true appearance."

Tang Yanqiu said: "Why did the five-color stone choose to remove its disguise there?"

Cong Xia shook her head with a wry smile: "I don't know, I plan to go again, maybe I can find something else."

Zhuang Yao said: "I think, only when the five-color stone arrives in the restricted area can you confirm that you have to play the right way, just like a game, you can trigger a certain scene to complete a certain plot. There is a 'program' left by Zhang Tianshi in the five-color stone. "

Tang Tingzhi said: "In the past few days, Officer Li and we have finally detected the location of the secret room. After you rest, we will go up the mountain again."

Cong Xia nodded, and looked at the five-color stone thoughtfully. After this incident, he gained a little more confidence, because he knew that the five-color stone did not give up, and it "awakened" to fight against the puppet jade. Can not give up.

The next day, they went up the mountain again, looking for the secret room where Jiang Ying released the materials.

Only Li Daoyi can do the work of extracting things from a hundred meters underground, but for some reason Zhuang Yao brought Myron Barbot with him.

The top of the cave ruins has been marked with red lines, stones and the like, and colorful flags have been inserted at the location of the secret room.

Cong Xia said: "The area is a bit big." The area they drew was about the size of a basketball court.

"It can only be accurate to this extent, Officer Li, can you locate it?"

"It's not difficult to locate, but it's difficult to get things. You can't get the big ones. After all, you have to go through the dirt."

Tang Tingzhi said: "Do your best."

Zhuang Yao said: "Cong Xia, don't enter the five-color stone these few days, you have to keep replenishing Police Officer Li's energy."

Although Cong Xia was eager to find out, he still had to focus on the overall situation.

Li Dao'ai quickly sank to the ground.

Myron swayed back and forth, came to Abu's side, stroked its soft fur, and sighed: "I used to have a puppet cat in my house, but unfortunately it died when the end of the world came."

Deng Xiao said: "It's a pity, otherwise I would be able to be with Abu as companions, maybe I could have a bunch of little Abu or something." He hugged Abu's leg, and said longingly: "Give birth to a litter that can be held in your arms. Little Abu in his pocket..."

Liu Fengyu teased him: "You don't even have a girlfriend yourself, and you still worry about Abu."

Deng Xiao snorted, "I'm a man with serious business, how can I have time to fall in love?!"

Abu patted Deng Xiao's back lightly with his paw, as if to comfort him.

Half an hour later, Li Dao'an floated to the ground: "I found the secret room, and it has been completely crushed. It is impossible to get all the things out. Please give me a sequence, try to be as light and small as possible."

Zhuang Yao said: "Priority is memory such as USB flash drives and hard drives, followed by things that you think are more special, such as things that look old at first glance, and finally paper."

Li Dao'an nodded: "Okay."

Tang Tingzhi said: "Officer Li, come up first and let Myron loosen the soil for you, so you can save a lot of effort."

Li Dao'an raised his eyebrows, "Oh?" He walked out of the soil.

Myron took off his coat and shoes, shook his arms, and said with a smile: "I haven't done such a thing, it should be very interesting."

Everyone looked at him curiously.

Myron's limbs suddenly changed. His two legs stretched five or six meters upwards, and then bent round and round. In the blink of an eye, they became two big springs. This is not over yet, and his arms also began to stretch , became thicker, and stretched out for more than 20 meters, and then twisted into a strand to form a huge drill bit. He smiled at everyone: "You are not far enough away."

The crowd jumped onto the mounts without hesitation and scattered in all directions.

Myron began to squat down, and the two spring legs rebounded violently after receiving the pressure, and he was thrown more than 200 meters into the air. He turned his body in the air, and the drill bit formed by the metal arm drilled downward.The moment the huge metal drill hit the soil, the ground shook violently and the soil flew all over the sky.

It took a full half a minute before the ground stopped trembling, and Myron was sitting on the ground with a disheveled face, coughing and retching non-stop.

Li Dao'an stroked his chin and praised: "Well, it really saves a lot of trouble."

Cong Xia quickly took out a bottle of water from Abu's small backpack and handed it to Myron: "Are you okay?"

"Bah, bah, it's disgusting." Myron took the water and rinsed his mouth vigorously, and Cong Xia handed him a new set of clothes.

Zhuang Yao approached, looked at the big pit on the ground and the surrounding soft soil, and nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad."

Deng Xiao said: "If you drill down like this, maybe you can get directly to the secret room."

Tang Tingzhi shook his head: "This method can only loosen the soil on the surface, and then design a lot of excavation principles inside, and you don't understand it."

Deng Xiao pursed his lips and let out a "hum".

Li Dao'an said to Myron, "Thank you, this saves me a lot of effort."

Myron smiled and said, "You're welcome. If there's nothing else, I'll go back first. I want to take a shower right away."

Tang Tingzhi said: "Thank you for your hard work, let's go."

Myron got on the plain wolf and couldn't wait to go down the mountain.

Li Dao'an said: "Then I'm going down." He nodded to Cong Xia again: "It's troublesome."

Cong Xia hurriedly said: "Officer Li is the hardest one." The straight-line distance from here to the secret room is less than [-] meters, and he can replenish Li Dao'an's energy at any time.

Li Dao'an sneaked into the ground again, and before dark, the two cooperated to take out a USB flash drive and two notebooks from the ground.This afternoon has been worth the trip.

After returning to the camp, Zhuang Yao and Tang Tingzhi held two notebooks, eager to get into them.

After eating, Li Dao'an said, "Let's leave early tomorrow."

Tang Tingzhi said: "Alright, it's getting dark too early now."

Huo Bai frowned: "Go tomorrow? Leader, if you do this kind of thing, it will delay your cultivation too much."

Li Dao'an glanced at him: "Ah Bai..."

Huo Bai said dissatisfied: "Where did I say wrong, everyone is practicing, let the leader do these physical activities, it will delay most of the day's work if you don't move."

Li Dao'an shouted: "Ah Bai, stop talking."

Huo Bai threw down the stick that was stirring the fire, and went into the tent angrily.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

Li Daoyi said calmly: "There are not many things that can be taken away from the ground, and they can be taken away in ten days at most."

Zhuang Yao said: "After the battle in the South China Sea is over, the mutant organization in Beijing will be dispatched to station in other places. At that time, Liudaohuangquan will have the first priority."

Hearing this, both Yao Qianjiang and Zhou Fenglan raised their heads, seeming a little dissatisfied, but thinking of Li Daoyi's current sacrifice, they couldn't find any reason to refute.

Li Dao'an smiled: "I'm not being polite."

Tang Tingzhi glanced at Zhuang Yao: "You decided for yourself?"

Zhuang Yao said: "I decide for myself."

Deng Xiao pinched his face: "You brat, why are you so handsome?"

Cong Xia pushed Cheng Tianbi: "Hey, have you ever thought about where we are going?"

Cheng Tianbi said: "I know you want to go to the Northeast, but Professor Cong and Commander Cao should keep us closer."

Cong Xia's mind was exposed, and she was a little embarrassed: "Actually, it can be anywhere..."

Zhuang Yao said: "To enjoy the best resources, of course you have to be as close to Beijing as possible. With you, we can definitely pick a good location." He pointed to Cong Xia.

"I?"

Zhuang Yao shrugged: "You, special contribution award."

Cong Xia still wanted to get closer to Mu Fei.

For the next few days, they ran up the mountain every day, and every few days Myron would go to help Li Dao'an "loosen the soil". With their cooperation in turn, after eight days, Li Dao'an brought out all the things he could bring out up.

Zhuang Yao and Tang Tingzhi specially set up a tent as a workshop, plunged into it, and never came out except to go to the toilet.Others took a good night's sleep to recover their strength.

That night, a helicopter flew from Beijing, saying that the Academy of Sciences had an urgent need to pick up Zhuang Yao and Tang Tingzhi immediately.Tang Tingzhi hurriedly asked his assistant to sort out the things brought out of the secret room.

Before leaving, Zhuang Yao told Cong Xia: "I will strive to come back as soon as possible. Before I have news, you should not act without authorization. Now many people are facing the critical point of advancement. If you faint for several days, it is easy to cause serious trouble."

Cong Xia nodded: "I see."

Without Tang Tingzhi here, the atmosphere in the camp suddenly became tense.Cheng Tianbi and Zhou Fenglan, Shan Ming and William House were walking on thin ice, and the task of maintaining harmony in the camp fell on Li Daoyi and Yao Qianjiang.

The various mutant organizations strictly followed the duty schedule formulated by Tang Tingzhi to complete the tasks of fetching water and keeping watch at night, but nothing happened.

Unexpectedly, Zhuang Yao and Tang Tingzhi left and did not come back for two months.

During this period, Yao Qianjiang and Wu You successively tapped their derivative abilities.

Yao Qianjiang's is steam, and Wu You's is the control of low temperature, as everyone expected.Their abilities originally complemented each other, but they were just different forms of the same substance, but their derived abilities went to two extremes. Water had to reach a high temperature of [-] degrees to vaporize. In other words, Yao Qianjiang's derived ability represented high temperature, while Wu You The derivatization capacity represents low temperature.

Yao Qianjiang seemed a little dazed: "I really can't think of a big use for this ability at the moment, will it burn people to death?"

Cong Xia said with a smile: "Steam can do too many things, such as suffocating people, creating dense fog, creating illusions, and even being used as an energy source. When Senior Colonel Tang and Zhuang Yao come back, you can ask them, and it will be very useful. inspired."

After listening to Cong Xia's words, Yao Qianjiang looked forward to it again.