Nightmare Light

Chapter 262 Eternal Fortress
[The following is the story from the perspective of Tang Qianguan, the emperor of the Mist Clan, about what happened in the underground experimental field of Deer Mountain back then.]

On April 1, 912 of the Imperial Calendar, in the underground of Lushan Palace, in the large-scale secret experimental field: the Eternal Fortress.

The Eternal Fortress is a large-scale experimental field that began construction in the 900th year of the dynasty and took eleven years to build.

The reason it's named "Eternal" is simple—the research being conducted here is about how to achieve eternal imperial power.

Beep—Snap—

"Airtight door number three is open. Welcome, Your Majesty the Emperor."

The airtight door opened, and Tang Qianguan stepped through the No. 3 airtight door.

Several Mist Clan soldiers stepped forward to help their emperor change into his experimental suit.

Tang Qianguan opened his arms and nodded to the soldiers.

Is everything alright at the fortress?

"Everything is normal at the fortress, Your Majesty. It's just that after being down here for so long... I feel itchy all over, like mushrooms are going to grow on my body," the soldier who helped him change muttered.

Tang Qianguan smiled and was not angry at the soldier's audacious and rude words.

He patted the soldier on the shoulder with the hand that was still in his lab coat: "Soldier, you can shower every day at the Eternal Fortress—you should take a shower if you're itchy."

A low chuckle came from the surrounding area.

One soldier even joked, "If you don't like bathing so much, you must be a fake Fog Tribe member!"

The soldier blushed.

Tang Qian looked around at the soldiers; almost every single one of them was a member of the Mist Clan.

Slender and beautiful, with a faint mist surrounding her.

The Fog Clan is a beautiful and delicate race, but at the same time, they are also the race with the highest affinity for fog.

These unique racial characteristics make them the race most likely among the three major races in the secular world to awaken into a worldly master, and also the race most suitable for conducting technological research.

Although this characteristic cost the Fog Clan some money, their technological achievements were enough to cover all the losses.

This is the pride of the Fog Clan.

Tang Qianguan changed into his lab coat, and a Mist Clan soldier opened the second airtight door and walked into the passage of the Eternal Fortress.

As Tang Qianguan stepped through the second airtight door, he suddenly frowned and turned to look at the soldiers behind it.

The instant the airtight door closed, he felt the soldiers staring intently at him...

Why do they look at me so strangely?
Tang Qianguan's heart skipped a beat.

After thinking for a moment, he shook his head.

The soldiers always looked at him with fervor, which wasn't strange.

Maybe it's just my imagination.

After passing through the second airtight door, a young Mist Clan officer approached and said, "Your Majesty."

"Today's experiment schedule?" Tang Qianguan asked without stopping, reaching out to the other person and pointing to the experimental field record in their hand.

"Your Majesty, wouldn't you like to have some coffee first?" The adjutant handed over the record documents and raised his coffee cup. "The first event today is a silent broadcast to thirty volunteers simultaneously."

As the adjutant spoke, he held his coffee cup, tilted his head, and stared directly at Tang Qianguan.

"The progress is so fast... they've already reached the thirty-person broadcast experiment?" Tang Qianguan said thoughtfully, taking a sip of his coffee. "Don't you think this experiment is going too smoothly?"

“It’s all because of the brilliance of His Majesties.” The adjutant was still looking at him. “And the Kitchen God was very cooperative.”

“We should call him Lord Dragon Head… Of course, it doesn’t matter since you’re not royalty.”

While Tang Qianguan was talking to his adjutant, the two of them had already reached the vicinity of the entrance to the experimental field.

Tang Qianguan pressed the button on the door, then suddenly frowned and glanced at his adjutant: "Why do I feel like you're acting strange today?" The adjutant looked at his emperor and grinned: "Your Majesty, I am perfectly fine. Thank you for your concern."

Tang Qianguan was puzzled and was about to ask further when a clear, heavy footstep sounded from not far away.

The adjutant bowed his head and stood at attention: "Your Majesty Tuoba!"

Tang Qianguan's train of thought was taken away.

He turned his head and saw a man with an extremely tall and muscular build, whose muscles seemed to be bulging out of his lab coat, striding towards him.

The emperor of the northern people, Tuoba Shou'an.

The emperor of the North had the typical imposing stature of the Northmen, standing over two meters tall and possessing strong muscles.

But unlike ordinary northerners, this emperor, though tall and robust, was not uncouth.

On the contrary, he was the quietest of the three emperors, the one who liked to think the most, and even the one who read the most.

Tuoba Shou'an strode over and, as he approached Tang Qianguan, casually patted the latter on the shoulder: "Old Tang!"

Tang Qianguan was almost knocked over by his blow: "Hiss...you bastard, are you planning to assassinate the emperor?!"

Tuoba Shouan laughed heartily: "I am also a ruler, how can I be accused of regicide?"

Tang Qianguan rubbed his shoulders and stood with Tuoba Shouan.

"The gates to Experiment Field No. 4 are now open. Welcome to you and Your Majesties, the Emperors."

Tang Qianguan stepped into the test field: "I always feel that something is not quite right about this intelligent voice."

Tuoba Shouan covered his forehead: "Hiss... I think the dimensions of this door are not quite right."

"What's wrong with a two-meter-high door? It's all in accordance with building codes, okay?"

"That two-meter-high door must be the entrance to Lilliput!"

The two emperors chatted idly as they walked into the experimental field.

Through the protective glass of the experimental field, the two emperors saw thirty volunteers sitting in two rows, their faces covered—they were about to undergo an experiment called "silent broadcasting."

Throughout this process, the volunteers could neither see who the person on the other side was nor hear their voices.

If, under these circumstances, volunteers develop feelings of trust and admiration for the broadcaster, it indicates that the experiment on the perpetuation of imperial power is effective.

Not far from the volunteers, the two emperors saw their old friend—the emperor of the Candle Clan, Ji Zhaohai.

He was also the original initiator of the "Eternal Project".

If we were to say that Tang Qianguan was the most gentle and least imperial-like of the three, then...

Tuoba Shou'an was the most knowledgeable and the most like a technician.

Of the three, the most farsighted and the most worried was Ji Zhaohai.

His favorite saying to the two of them was: "What I'm worried about is not the era of imperial power, but all of humanity."

At this moment, the emperor, who was filled with worry and concern for all mankind, was busy on the other side of the experimental field with several technicians.

A Fog Clan technician, acting as a "broadcast node," was standing inside the broadcast station—a circular platform surrounded by magnetized metal, conduits, and a jumble of wires.

Soon, the signal of faith will be released from this circle and played in the area where the thirty volunteers are located.

At the other end of the conduit, a figure dressed in a yellow dragon robe and with a huge, majestic dragon head was sitting in a specially made chair.

Grandpa Longshou rested his chin on his fist, seemingly looking at everything in front of him with some boredom.

When the technicians passing by Him, they would always nod at Him with a hint of awe—after all, He was a true deity.

This immortal being is using his immense power to help mortals realize a crazy idea.

(End of this chapter)