Eternal Night

Chapter 808 Hope: The Line of Threat

Wu Pifu stood silently in mid-air for a long time.

He felt inexplicably melancholy, unable to describe the feeling in his heart.

This cold, long-haired youth is not a pure martial artist. He has too many mixed emotions and wild killing intent. If he were taken to the 21st century, he would probably be a serial killer who targets anyone randomly.

But in these final moments, his belief was pure; though he was being controlled, he genuinely wanted to see a higher level of scenery.

Unfortunately……

Compared to him, Wu Pifu was only a matter of magnitude, unless he used the Hero Clan transformation, but that was not his own power, which made him even more melancholy.

After more than ten seconds, Wu Pifu finally composed himself and looked up at the ground.

The ground was riddled with countless potholes, and there was a dense crowd of people dressed in white.

Everything has an explanation.

These clothes were completely out of place with the twenty-odd people from before; they seemed to be from two different eras. Moreover, the pristine white uniforms gave Wu Pifu a sense of familiarity.

When Gaia sets sail into space, its crew members wear similar uniforms, but the colors and subtle details vary depending on whether they are citizens or their rank. These uniforms are actually designed to allow the person to fully immerse themselves in a virtual reality hibernation pod, effectively protecting them from minor damage during hibernation.

Without a doubt, these men, women, and children dressed in white uniforms must be in a similar situation.

As for why the virtual reality hibernation pods of advanced civilizations turned into so-called hope and disaster, and even evolved into the human-nurturing beast Pap before our eyes, this should be the "ancestral mind rampage" mentioned by the cold-faced long-haired youth.

Wu Pifu looked down at the dense crowd with pity, observing the elderly, children, and infants, the men and women, all with blank expressions and dazed eyes. Although, to his senses, they were all human and still alive, they were, in fact, nonexistent, merely an echo from countless years past…

The sky trembled and the earth shook. The final power unleashed by the cold, long-haired youth was still affecting this area. This power had become so strong that it could truly threaten Wu Pifu, reaching the limits of the mortal realm.

Wu Pifu descended from mid-air. He did not attack the lingering sounds, but instead darted into the hole through the gaps between them like an eel, crossing over in a flash.

The cave was pitch black, but he continued to venture deeper into the cave following his senses. It was at least a kilometer from the surface to the depths of the cave. Then, his vision gradually brightened until he finally saw a vast expanse of ancient underground ruins.

This underground ancient ruin is full of high-tech style. The ground, walls and ceiling are all metal structures, but they are full of cracks and traces of time. They are arched and very huge, but there are no other high-tech creations or instruments. Only in the very center of this ruin is a dazzling light source the size of a round table. It is so bright that even Wu Pifu can only squint to see it.

That dazzling light source was lightning solidified into a solid state. It was the size of a round table, with a metal shell and solid plasma surging inside. Even from a distance, Wu Pifu felt terrified, because this small piece, the size of a round table, made him feel as if he were standing in front of a star. If this pool of lightning were to explode, he estimated that he would be instantly pulverized.

"...Is this the real hope for this place? A minefield?" Although Wu Pifu wasn't exactly a scientist, he knew that even with the technology of the Fourth World War, which had stable hydrogen fusion reactors, and even with Gaia's reactor using condensed hydrogen fusion, the principle was still the same: boiling water to generate electricity, which was essentially secondary energy.

If this Thunder Pool is truly a perpetual energy source as the cold, long-haired youth said, then its value is immense; it could even directly upgrade the Gaia spaceship in the Absolute Truth Layer!

Moreover, Wu Pifu had a strange feeling that this Thunder Pool was not only for generating electricity, but also seemed to have other infinite uses. However, he was still too ignorant and would have to ask Beelzebub to know the specific value of this thing.

Then, he saw dozens of "human-breeding beasts, Paps," standing around the Thunder Pool.

Its appearance is indescribable, resembling an abstract human, but with an obese and bloated body, like a proportionally enlarged, twisted infant. Its size is approximately twenty meters, and its distorted shape and body evoke an abstract sense of terror. Numerous tubes extend from its abdomen, disappearing when it is a hundred meters away from its body. In this vast and empty ancient ruin, the ground is littered with human bodies, wrapped in a semi-transparent, prototype membrane. A tube appears out of thin air, connecting to this membrane, both transporting something into and extracting something from it.

Having read this far, how could Wu Pifu still not understand what it meant?
This is the truth!

In ancient times, a highly advanced human civilization emerged here, possessing both technological prowess and extraordinary abilities.

Then, they encountered something—perhaps a disaster, a catastrophe, or a powerful enemy—and were forced to enter this underground shelter. The people here were either politicians from that civilization, scientists from that civilization, or selected children.

Then, they entered the cryopreservation process.

However, at this time, or at some point later, a terrible upheaval suddenly occurred!

This drastic change caused a bizarre transformation of the shelter's dormant system, turning it into this terrifying creature known as the Human-Nurturing Beast. At the same time, the disaster brought hope: the energy core towering at the center of the shelter, perhaps its original reactor, had been transformed into a perpetual energy source. Hope and disaster appeared simultaneously, but this civilization had long since perished…

Perhaps they went extinct countless millions of years ago, and what we hear here now is merely the echo of their demise...

Wu Pifu sighed, picked up his death-defying sword, and walked towards the deformed human-breeding beast, intending to both kill these things and take control of this Thunder Pool.

This thing is invaluable; I must get my hands on it no matter what.

Just as Wu Pifu was getting closer and closer to the human-breeding beasts, a voice suddenly rang in Wu Pifu's ears.

"Outsider, please pause your steps."

“I am willing to exchange information that you will surely know and care about for the continuation of my people, even if it is only a false continuation.”

"Buddhist secrets...the things you outsiders crave most, is that possible!?"

(End of this chapter)