Jiang Zhi returned to the Fuxi Base. Wan Fu shrank and followed Jiang Zhi, while Qiu Gu was placed outside the base, where the base provided it with prepared mutated beast meat to eat.

People were extremely curious. This enormous creature looked exactly like the dragon in the legend, and it was brought back by Jiang Zhi. Could it be that the myth had come true?

"Hey, have you heard? Minister Jiang is standing on the dragon's head, like a goddess descending from heaven. She will definitely lead us out of this apocalypse."

"Waaaaah, I knew she would come back when I heard that Minister Jiang had left the base."

"I can't live like this for another day. Now I've decided to live on, to live in order to see the light."

Recently, the residents of the base have been in low spirits, the suicide rate has started to rise again, and many people can feel that the days are getting shorter and the visibility in the sky is getting lower.

A rumor called Eternal Night gradually spread, and suddenly everyone felt insecure.

Now that Jiang Zhi is back, morale at the base will likely increase, and the suicide rate should decrease.

This is a fantastic thing.

Hearing footsteps, Zhou Renchang sat up straight in his wheelchair, his eyes fixed on the crack in the door.

Upon seeing Jiang Zhi, his entire demeanor softened, as if he were an elderly person waiting for their child to return home.

In fact, he was an old man.

"You're back." Her tone was joyful, and her expression softened even more.

Jiang Zhi nodded.

"I'm back."

A thousand words can be summed up in just two sentences, and as for the meaning behind them, the two understand each other without saying a word.

There's no time to lose; we must act quickly, otherwise the formation's core will be frozen solid, and the danger will increase once it's broken open.

This is no joke.

Jiang Zhi was immediately reinstated, and Zhou Renchang also realized the seriousness of the matter, so he immediately convened a meeting of the base's senior management.

In the face of life and death, all the scheming and infighting are put aside.

At this point, continuing to fight for power would make one appear ungrateful.

Everyone's dead, what's the point of fighting over this?

"Minister Jiang, have you made any new discoveries by calling us together this time?"

Jiang Zhi briefly recounted her experiences over the past few days. After checking the time displayed on the computer, she realized that she had been gone for several months, not just a few days.

The Fuxi base cluster has now absorbed the population of several large northern bases, reaching as many as 40 million.

After ten years of what felt like the end of the world, this is probably the only person left in China. It's a very painful number; it represents the loss of over a billion people.

It's all bloody truth.

"That's how it is. Due to the rush, I haven't been able to turn many materials into documents and pictures yet. I'm just informing you all in advance. Our survival depends on whether we do it or not."

"How can you be so sure this theory is true?" someone countered.

Jiang Zhi laid out the things she had prepared in front of everyone.

The matter of her space was naturally omitted. Due to Jiang Zhi's formidable strength, no one mentioned that she had left tens of thousands of grains for the base. They were only interested in this cycle.

How did you find out?

"On my way down from the Northwest Plateau to the Fuxi Base, I inadvertently discovered that the past cannot be retrieved. Everyone should focus on the important matter at hand. We don't have much time left. Once the polar night arrives, the formation will be frozen and will be difficult to operate."

This is truly unbelievable, but it makes sense when placed in the context of a sudden natural disaster and a transformation of beasts.

Who would have thought that the sudden anomaly was related to the overlap of spacetime? Does this confirm the physics theory about parallel worlds?

Is it possible for humans to travel through time?

If we could travel back ten years, we could make preparations in advance and might even be able to avoid this disaster.

"The fact that the 'Qiugu' and the mutated beasts are of the same kind is further proof. We have never unearthed such a powerful beast before. So, do you all still think that these mutated beasts are products of Earth in the past?"

Everyone fell silent.

After a moment of silence and contemplation, Zhou Renchang slammed his hand on the table and said, "Minister Jiang, after you go down there, please bring up a detailed analysis. Everyone, please assist Minister Jiang in completing it. We must figure out the principles of the formation as soon as possible and then conduct experiments to verify it."

Since the boss has spoken, no one dares to voice their doubts or concerns now.

It wasn't until Jiang Zhi coordinated with various departments that everyone gradually began to glean some of the underlying principles.

With the help of artificial intelligence, the calculations were far more efficient than Jiang Zhi's own brain. What took her several months to deduce, the computer cracked in just two hours.

While marveling at the power of technology, Jiang Zhi was also pondering how to conceal the existence of space.

After Wanfu's description, Jiang Zhi learned about the special nature of her space. It was attached to a key point of an array, yet it was also an independent entity. Within her space, one could see celestial phenomena and also deduce them from other celestial phenomena.

Despite surviving the ordeal, Wang Wan was still somewhat shaken. After cleaning up the battlefield and collecting their share of the rewards, the two returned to the base. Holding the newborn baby, Yan Zhi listened to the base's childcare worker's account and felt an even greater admiration for Jiang Zhi.

“Our boss must be very busy right now, so let’s not bother her for now. We can talk to her more when we have the chance later,” Wang Wan said with a smile.

“You’re right, the child is still too young to be taken out.” Yan Zhi nodded in agreement.

While Jiang Zhi led her team to conduct speculative experiments against the clock, outside, mutated beasts would come in waves at any time, and occasionally Jiang Zhi would also lead people out to fight against mutated beast gangs.

She has limited time, so she usually goes back to do research after sweeping through the mutant beast seeds and super-grade mutant beasts.

My days are very fulfilling.

The light in the sky had also noticeably dimmed.

The people at the base were becoming increasingly agitated.

When people are in dire straits, what they yearn for most is light. Now that even light is about to disappear, have they been completely abandoned?

Since entering the Fuxi base, many people have secretly prayed to gods and Buddhas, especially those who are gradually losing their ability to work but are still barely surviving.

There are quite a few people like this.

Therefore, Jiang Zhi's appearance was able to trigger a change in the mentality of the residents in the base, leading to an overall positive development.

At another high-level meeting at the base, Jiang Zhi and her team released all the experimental data. Finally, Zhou Renchang spearheaded the launch of Project Skylight.

This was a mission with the possibility of no return, initiated by the Fuxi Base in China. As for other countries, they were not within their consideration.

Due to the frequent emergence of mutated beasts, residents of the survival base across the ocean couldn't cross the border at all, while the formation was located within China's territory. Therefore, Project Skylight only symbolically notified other countries' survival bases, and the specific details were not disclosed.

The base on the other side was naturally furious, but forced by the situation, it had no choice but to agree.

After all, we have no other choice but to try anything at this point.

The polar night is coming soon, and we won't even see the sunlight.

Nobody wants to be a rat living underground.

Besides, once China has made its decision, would they really go to great lengths to personally travel to the other side of the ocean to stop it? Absolutely not.

Damn those cunning Chinese.