Sky-cracking Rider
Chapter 1032 - 1032: Section 1018 - The End of Winter

As the undisputed ruler of "Atlantis," Chen Fei used his authority to summon all the psychic power users. Meanwhile, Lin Zixian continuously received spiritual power "charging" and transmitted the digested spiritual power to Chen Fei.

Although such relay transmission consumes a lot, with more than ninety percent of the spiritual power being wasted, Chen Fei only wanted what remained.

Improving every three days, with a limit-up each time, the accumulated gains can become quite substantial.

Chen Fei's requirements weren't high; if he could double or triple his Psychic Power Index, it would stabilize even though he wasn't a psychic power user. Aside from increasing some spiritual power resistance, it didn't hold significant importance.

Moreover, if he needed to use metallic psychic powers to evolve large objects, it was more efficient to directly extract finished products from the Spatial Branding, thus saving on spiritual power expenditure.

Additionally, S-Class superpower users like Heseman Brown could also benefit, with visible improvements in their Psychic Power Index, offering advantages to all ability users.

Sitting on a beach chair, occasionally sipping juice through a straw passed by the silver-haired female officer Ginny, Chen Fei enjoyed Lin Zixian's "Bridal Dress Secret Tech" while reading ancient secrets sent by the Slan Dynasty, accompanying it with a few encouraging words to Lin Zixian, whose spiritual power fluctuated.

"Keep it up, don't stop, go for it, take down the panda, you are the treasure!"

Chen Xiao'er, who always used people as cattle or horses, never encouraged people properly. Otherwise, those military chiefs would think about rebelling every other day without any social means.

The summoned psychic power users collectively looked bewildered, unable to understand the tricks between Lin Zixian and Chen Fei. They couldn't imagine that spiritual power could be played with this way.

Some didn't believe it and tried it privately, and the result... headaches!

(Suffering from spiritual power attacks, how could one's head not hurt.)

Similar to the ten percent retention rate of Lin Zixian's "Bridal Dress Secret Tech," linking 1-byte bandwidth between Blue Star and Cangqiong Star was admittedly awkward, but accumulating it like grains of sand could also become considerable.

After day and night of continuous downloading, carefully filtered related information had already started to appear on Chen Fei's AR Visual Assistance interface.

The first to arrive was textual content regarding the Giant "Qin" and the "Holy Spirit," with extremely detailed nuances worthy of being Cangqiong Star Civilization's official classified information, unprecedented for the outside world.

"Holy Spirit" was a term from Cangqiong Star's mythological era, also called the Evil God, while the "Sagali" civilization referred to it as the "Evil Demon," all of which pointed towards the same entity.

After discovering the mysterious underground world hidden within the planet's crust, Cangqiong Star Civilization quickly launched a large-scale investigation, collecting many ancient secrets that could almost be termed mythological.

The Giant "Qin," who sowed life throughout the cosmic planes, had already been confirmed deceased. The enormous skeleton was real, covered in fine cut marks as if by a sharp instrument, suggesting a high probability of murder.

The significance of the "Holy Spirit" extended beyond assisting the Giant "Qin" in spreading life across different planets. It also harvested lives, collecting diverse genetic samples to enrich more life forms.

Whether "spreading" or "harvesting," it transcended good or evil and couldn't be judged with human moral standards.

Humans seize honey and royal jelly from bees, even the larvae, while hypocritically praising the bees' industriousness, fabricating excuses and reasons for the next plunder.

This perspective comes from humans.

If seen from the bees' standpoint, these actions are even crueler than fascism, such as concentration camps (beehives), fumigation (sprayers), seizing their labor (extracting honey, scraping wax, digging royal jelly), cruelly killing young and old (frying larvae, acupuncture with bee stings, extracting venom) — they simply resemble demons, and if mentioned as a crime, it would be practically inexhaustible.

Therefore, one cannot arbitrarily judge the Giant "Qin" as an evil demon to be exterminated by all due to the "harvesting" of life.

Otherwise, humans who raise poultry and livestock would similarly bear endless crimes, as the logic is universal.

If the slaughter were to be escaped, life would naturally gain the right to live freely. The rationale of heaven and earth doesn't consider high or low, similar to transcending tribulation; if one doesn't succeed, they vanish into nothingness; if one survives, they achieve great freedom, escaping the Three Realms, beyond the Five Elements.

Chickens that escape a farm gain liberation, whether dying by disease, old age, predator attacks, or natural disasters. They won't end up on a human's plate again; from then on, their fate lies in their own wings, with blessings or misfortunes self-earned.

The "Sagali" clan that countered the "Holy Spirit" encountered similar fate; after McKenny transformed into a "Seed Nest," the "Sagali" became a different race altogether.

Technical evaluation determined that the Giant "Qin" had been active on Cangqiong Star for over a hundred million years, but he died 110,000 years ago.

According to Silan Dynasty's experts, the "Holy Spirit" lacks intelligence, much like the "Seed Nest" of the "Sagali," with none possessing consciousness aside from McKenny. Chen Fei had encountered or even destroyed several "Seed Nests" before, none possessing intelligence, entirely controlled by genetic sequencing imprinted instincts, essentially biological engineering devices.

After seeing this date regarding the Giant "Qin's" death, Chen Fei's expression turned subtle.

The murals excavated from within the "Seed Nest" formed around 110,000 years ago, coinciding with the period when the "Holy Spirit (Evil Demon)" was devoured by McKenny, suggesting there might be other reasons.

The text message sent also contained the Slan Royal Family's secret song, "Holy Spirit Forbidden Song."

"...

Sparrows chirp lightly, vines sprout leaves,

Rivers of red blood flow quietly,

Land of lightning, the beginning and the end,

Light rises, darkness falls,

Darkness rises, light falls,

The redeemer burdened with fate uses blood as a guide,

Unveiling the Holy Spirit's gate deep within the blossom,

..."

The content is perplexing, yet it seems to hide some colossal secret.

Apart from the official secret archaeological excavation documents of the Slan Dynasty, there are some expert speculations.

After reading it, Chen Fei felt a headache; the information was overwhelming and hard to discern truth from falsehood, consuming a tremendous amount of spiritual power.

Most of the content is varied speculation and reasoning today. The corroboration found seems vague and elusive. The historical records preserved by the Cangqiong Star Civilization are limited in timeline. Even though some long-lived intelligent species like Giant Dragon deliberately recorded some information, most of it inevitably got lost in the river of time. The oldest information only traces back to metal plates from over 1.5 million years ago and weathered stone-carved murals, and most are excavated from the underground world.

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The dry-ice blizzard lasting over a month finally subsided. Dry ice deposited on the ground even piled up to a height of three feet at the "Skylight" edge of "Atlantis," blocking the closed passage to the Satellite City, even covering the lights at each two-kilometer interval.

The terrain of the Satellite City is relatively higher, making the situation of the "Skylight" facilities more optimistic.

It's not cold while snowing, but it gets colder when snow melts, which also applies to the dry ice formed from solid carbon dioxide.

After a sudden drop of 34 degrees Celsius, the temperature quickly rose at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Originally intending to visit "Seed Nest" McKenny again, Chen Fei was halted by the sudden windy weather.

The gale maintaining above level 16 didn't pause for a moment. It quickly blew away the thick dry ice, exposing the ground within just one day and night. The wind now swept along not flying carbon dioxide snowflakes but various-sized stones, the largest as big as elephants. If they hit the Mobile Base Vehicle, it would likely be crushed like a can.

When the fierce convective weather gradually calmed down, a week had passed.

The overcast black clouds showed signs of dispersing; the pitch-dark sky faintly revealed some light. The short cold winter near Antalu Planet's equator was coming to an end, yet the middle and higher latitude areas still faced flying snow and howling cold wind.

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When Chen Fei led his team to the hillside entrance leading to the underground "Seed Nest," the mechanical beings stationed there had stopped working due to energy depletion. Only the Crystalline Block system supplying illumination was still maintaining output.

However, before energy depletion, these mechanical beings accomplished their mission, sealing the cave entrance completely. They successfully constructed a small "Skylight" base point. Delving deeper inside the cave, the carcasses of strange insects could be seen in around a hundred numbers, with the smallest as big as chicken eggs, and the largest comparable to a light truck. Their body surfaces were covered with holes penetrated by magnetic rail bullets, evidently directly slain by the Combat Mech stationed there. More corpses had no injuries on the surface, likely suffocated due to overly high concentrations of carbon dioxide.

Even letting these bizarre creatures charge out posed no issue; the outside environment was a complete Life Forbidden Zone. No matter what comes out, it would die instantly without a chance to reach the entrance.

However, Chen Fei didn't want them to destroy the newly established base point. Like now, he came here with his team requiring essentials for a foothold, daily necessities, and oxygen supply.

Twenty human squad members without ability users primarily handled commanding nearly a thousand Combat Mechs, including recharging and reviving mechanical beings.

Over a hundred experts in disciplines including biology, geology, metallurgy, chemistry, and psychology came along to explore this historic "Seed Nest."

The "Wall of Sighs" action team is a professional combat force, yet it doesn't lack professionals from various industries, with many cross-disciplinary soldiers.

Even Chen Fei himself was a proper economics top student, only to discover his stronger aptitude in combat nowadays.