Reborn as a tiger, he was chosen by the nation as its guardian beast.

Chapter 156 Passive or Active

He picked Lin Yue up again, turned around, and walked into the passage on the right.

This passage was narrower and more winding than the previous one. Glowing moss began to appear on the walls, emitting a faint blue light that illuminated the passage.

The buzzing sound became clearer and clearer.

It sounded like the sound of some kind of machine running, or like countless bees flapping their wings.

Wang Hu quickened his pace.

After walking for about ten more minutes, the view suddenly opened up ahead.

A huge, futuristic underground space appeared before Wang Hu.

Wang Hu was completely stunned by what he saw.

He is now on a raised rocky platform.

Below the platform is a bottomless, enormous void.

In the center of the void, an incredibly thick "pillar of light," woven from countless luminous channels resembling neurons, extends upward from the bottomless darkness below, passes through the platform where Wang Hu is located, and continues upward until it disappears into the darkness above.

This pillar of light is the "heart" of this giant tree!

Countless pale blue energy streams rapidly shuttled and flowed through those pipes, emitting a "humming" sound, and converged into huge torrents of energy that were transported upwards.

Wang Hu understood.

This burning giant tree is not a plant at all!

It is an enormous energy conversion and transmission device that integrates biological and mechanical processes!

It draws some unknown energy from the depths of the earth, transforms it through this "tree heart," and then transports it to the tree crown to supply the three-legged golden crows.

Those three-legged golden crows were not mythical creatures at all.

They are part of this system, the end users of energy, and the guardians of this "tree"!

This is a huge undertaking!

A tremendous storm raged in Wang Hu's heart.

How could the mastermind of this other world have built such a magnificent and terrifying project?

Or perhaps someone else built this place?

Wang Hu's gaze swept around.

He discovered that on this huge circular platform, there were large rooms resembling "beehives" at intervals.

The room was semi-transparent, and you could see that it was filled with huge glass culture vessels for blood.

The petri dish was filled with a pale green nutrient solution.

One by one, naked, muscular men were floating quietly in the nutrient solution with their eyes closed.

Their bodies were covered with all sorts of tubes, connected to countless operating instruments around them.

Through those translucent tubes, Wang Hu could see that colorful liquids were being continuously injected into their bodies.

As these liquids were injected, the men's bodies underwent some strange changes.

Their skin surfaces would occasionally bulge with fleshy bumps of varying sizes, which would then quickly subside.

Their muscles are becoming tougher and stronger at a visible rate.

This scene was all too familiar to Wang Hu!

Isn't this exactly the same scene he saw in the underground laboratory of Sambu in the Kingdom of Xiangxiong?

However, the scale here is thousands, even tens of thousands of times larger than Sambu's laboratory!

There are thousands upon thousands of petri dishes here, stretching as far as the eye can see!

Wang Hu's pupils suddenly contracted.

He considered an extremely terrifying possibility.

"The Gene of God"!

Could this be the production factory for the "Gene of God"?

And those men in the petri dishes are the "raw materials" used to create the "genes of God"?

Wang Hu felt a chill run down his spine.

He suddenly remembered the conversation between Sambu and the man in black robes.

The man in black robes said that the mastermind was very interested in the "cat" in China, saying that it was something more valuable than the previous "experimental material".

Previous "experimental materials" —

Wang Hu's heart sank suddenly.

He couldn't help but think of someone.

Lord Dragon!

That guardian deity of China, that man of unfathomable strength, who mysteriously disappeared in another world!

Could it be that—

Although Wang Hu had seen photos of Master Long, the Master Long in the photos looked like an old man. He had no idea what Master Long looked like when he was young, and he couldn't be sure whether these clones, which looked like they were mass-produced, actually looked the same as Master Long when he was young.

However, just as his gaze swept over one of the special petri dishes, his body suddenly froze.

His eyes were fixed intently on the petri dish.

The old man floating inside was exactly like the Dragon Lord from the photos he had seen before.

That silhouette, that figure—

Wang Hu would never admit his mistake!

The old man who received the title of Azure Dragon is actually here!

And it even appeared in this petri dish.

Wang Hu's heart skipped a beat at that moment.

His eyes were fixed on the petri dish, not blinking, as if afraid he was seeing things wrong.

"Didn't Cui Jiuyou say that Lord Long came here to explore an opportunity to break through to the fourth rank?"

"How did you end up locked up here?"

"Could it be that he was defeated and captured?"

A hint of doubt flashed through Wang Hu's mind.

He did not act rashly at this moment.

After all, this is the enemy's core territory, and who knows how many powerful guards are hidden here.

The endless three-legged golden crows in the sky alone are difficult enough to deal with.

Moreover, there must be something even more terrifying inside this massive underground base.

Furthermore, even though he had never met this Lord Dragon, he had heard of just how powerful he was, while the mutants controlled by the mainframe, though numerous, were not strong enough in terms of individual strength.

As long as this Lord Long doesn't recklessly engage in a war of attrition like Lin Yue, Wang Hu believes that, given his strength, being captured shouldn't be an easy task.

Wang Hu's mind raced.

He carefully observed the cultured blood that had imprisoned Master Long.

He discovered that Long Ye's condition seemed to be somewhat different from the other "experiments" in the petri dishes.

The other experimental subjects, although they were also being modified, seemed to be passively receiving energy injections, and the whole process resembled an assembly line-style "production".

Although Master Long's eyes were closed, his body was trembling in a very subtle and rhythmic way.

His muscles were constantly contracting and relaxing at a peculiar frequency.

The colorful liquids injected into his body seemed to be broken down and absorbed by an invisible force the moment they entered his body, and transformed into his own power.

He wasn't being passively reformed!

He is actively absorbing and transforming this energy to strengthen his body!

Wang Hu had heard before that this Master Long's body seemed to be very special. When the gene serum was first developed, Master Long injected a lot of it, even transforming all his internal organs into extraordinary forms.

What he may be seeking now is to use this energy to cultivate his blood and make his entire body completely extraordinary.