Chapter 83
After Zong Qinyuan successfully sold several tons of drones and anti-drone weapon systems stored in the campus warehouse, Mo Da's main mission of coming to Lin Shen Zong this time was actually mostly completed.
They had been out for more than a week, and Sect Leader Lin Zhang's condition had basically stabilized, although he had not yet regained consciousness. However, Sect Leader Qinyuan was still thinking about whether he could get a few more living parasites back, so he had not put the plan of returning to school on the agenda.
During this period, they also took the time to celebrate Gu Liangyi's birthday.
There was such a big commotion that night, it's easy to imagine that Elder Zhou and the others must have been informed in advance.
Although the monks have long lifespans and most of them do not care about their birthdays, they can understand Zong Qinyuan's painstaking efforts, so they generously let their drones take off at night and performed a light combination show that amazed the monks.
However, if you only imagine that Mo University's purpose is that simple, then you would underestimate the mind of Zong Qinyuan, the youngest 985 president in China.
When he greeted Elder Zhou, he used the excuse of "Can you lend us a drone for an hour to fly it?" As for whether all these drones were used for performances?
That's not necessarily the case.
——The sky is so dark, and there are hundreds of drones with flashing lights flying in the night sky. Even if some monks discover the strange-looking drones that don't emit lights, that's normal, right?
“…These are all the images we captured that night.”
Zong Qinyuan placed a stack of photos on the table. These were thermal imaging photos taken by a mini camera robot released by a reconnaissance drone.
He looked at the team members sitting around him and said carefully, "It is obvious from these images that the person in the secret room is the great elder who has not appeared for a long time."
"Why does he stay in the secret room?"
Yi Yan took the initiative to pick up one of the photos and examined it carefully. His brows furrowed more and more tightly: "No, his left hand movement is very awkward. He was handcuffed to the wall!"
"What?"
Before the people who had just received the photos had time to think carefully, they were directly exposed to such shocking news.
But after looking for clues with the answer, they soon found that what Yi Yan said was right. Although the elder could move freely in the secret room, he was always fixed in a certain range, and the thermal imaging of his left wrist was different from that of his right wrist. It was obvious that he was covered with something.
"Why did the Lin Shenzong lock him up?" Jin Xuan asked in confusion, "Didn't we already give them anthelmintics?"
What he was talking about was naturally the drug specially developed by the headquarters to target parasites. Of course, its scientific name is not this, but people in Moda have become accustomed to calling it anthelmintic, which is simple, vivid, convenient and easy to understand.
"Is it because the Great Elder's cultivation is too high that the medicine is ineffective?" Gu Liangyi made a guess, but he quickly rejected it himself, "No, that's not right. If that's the case, Elder Zhou would definitely come to us first."
"Yes." Zong Qinyuan said, "And I don't know if you have noticed a detail. When the secret room was accidentally exposed that day, Elder Zhou's expression was also very shocked, which means that he didn't know there was such a secret room. What do you think this means? Who imprisoned the elder here, or who persuaded him to imprison himself here?"
Gu Liangyi was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Then it can only be that Sect Master Lin."
"Yes, I think so."
Zong Qinyuan confirmed his guess.
"But why?" Zhuge Xiao still didn't understand. "I see that the relationship between the elders of the Linshen Sect and the Sect Master is very good. They are all brothers who grew up together. What did the elder do wrong to make the Sect Master treat him like this?"
"It may not necessarily be a punishment," Yi Yan suddenly said, "it may also be for protection."
When this idea was put forward, everyone was surprised.
Zong Qinyuan couldn't help but ask: "Student Yi, can you explain in detail what you mean by for protection?"
"I..." Yi Yan considered his words, "Actually, I just have some ideas, and I'm not sure if the truth is the same as I imagined."
"It's okay," Zong Qinyuan encouraged, "Just say it boldly."
"All right."
"Everyone should have seen the scene before the thunder tribulation that day," Yi Yan analyzed, "There is one point that I have always been concerned about. Elder Zhou kept repeating in disbelief, 'How could the sect master's thunder tribulation come so early? This shouldn't happen.' And it is known that parasites are very sensitive to all foreign invasions. Even a CT scan will alarm them. Do you remember the explosion in the school hospital?"
"I wonder, as the monks' cultivation level increases, whether the parasites can also evolve further and possess intelligence and the ability to perceive the outside world that is no less than that of humans."
When Yi Yan said this, Gu Liangyi already understood what he meant:
"You mean, if the Great Elder with the highest cultivation level was also at the scene of the thunder tribulation that day, the parasite in his body would also be alarmed and cause uncontrollable effects, right?"
"That's right."
"But if this is really the reason, why is he still imprisoned?" Gu Liangyi asked another question, "Elder Zhou didn't ask us for help either."
"Perhaps it's because Elder Zhou feels that even we can't solve this matter."
Zhuge Xiao pulled out a bottle of elixir from his bosom. This was something he had secretly exchanged with disciples in the medicine garden these days. It might not be a precious item in the wealthy Linshen Sect, but it was said that this small bottle was enough to cause a life-and-death struggle in the world of immortal cultivation.
——This is a bottle of heart-clearing pills.
That’s right, it’s the thing that Zhou Qingzi always eats.
"Parasits not only rob monks of their cultivation, but also make them more irritable and easily angered. Do you remember what Elder Zhou said when he reviewed the situation with us?" He reminded, "In this world, there is already a concept called inner demons. We know nothing about this area yet."
*
The meeting that day ultimately came to nothing.
Although they knew that the Great Elder was locked up in a secret room, this was after all an internal matter of the Linshen Sect. Gu Liangyi and the others could not ask Zhou Qingzi why he locked him up, as that would be admitting guilt.
In the past few days, the members of the Moda team, including Gu Liangyi, have been focusing on another more important thing -
Accumulate energy.
Of course, they did not forget the return requirements given by the light screen.
According to the headquarters' calculations, excluding the daily electricity consumption on campus, the energy that can be accumulated by all large diesel engines and solar panels combined in a month does not even reach one percent of the return standard.
"I think this is an impossible task," the team members of Moda were a little anxious after seeing the specific data report, because they could basically understand it, but the problem was that they could understand it, "Electricity is difficult to store efficiently on a large scale, and there is a considerable loss in the transmission process. So, are we going to build a nuclear power plant in another world?"
Gu Liangyi was also worried about this.
In simple terms, the light screen can be understood as a highly sophisticated time-space shuttle, although its functions are far more than that. The condition for it to start a group travel is very simple: provide it with a fully charged battery.
The capacity of this battery must be beyond imagination to allow a campus to travel through time and space intact. Therefore, they are now faced with two serious problems:
First, there is no material that can serve as this "battery".
Second, the power generation capacity is insufficient.
Although the latter is difficult, there is at least hope of a solution; as for the former...even Gu Liangyi sometimes couldn't help but wonder, if they couldn't find it, would they really have to stay in this world for the rest of their lives?
During this period, they have tried countless materials, and the headquarters is also racking their brains for this. But first of all, it is certain that the earth will not be able to develop such a great invention that can be regarded as a breakthrough in the technology tree of this century in a short period of time, so most of everyone's hopes are still placed on the other world.
Fortunately, the treasure house of Linshen Sect contained almost all the rare minerals in the entire world of immortal cultivation, which saved them a considerable amount of energy in searching for materials.
While the command center was busy studying this area, Gu Liangyi and Mo Da's team came to the extremely hot place where the sword practitioners of the Linshen Sect practiced hard.
“It’s so hot!”
As soon as he set foot on this land, Zhuge Xiao, who had always been spoiled, started shouting.
He was sweating profusely within minutes of jumping off the helicopter. The bright sun was hanging high in the sky above his head. There were wind-dried rocks and white salt-alkali gravel everywhere. Looking around, there was not even a green plant around. Suddenly he thought he had arrived on Mars.
"Is this really within China? How can there be such a hot place?!"
This place is not far from Linshen Sect. It is an ownerless barren land, but the climate is very different from the cool Kunlun Mountains.
Gu Liangyi stared at the temperature on the thermometer which soared to 47 degrees, and felt deeply that even the desert outside the city of Morton in the previous world was probably not so bad.
"Although Linshen Sect is built on Kunlun Mountain, the topography, hydrology, and cultural history here are very different from our world. Don't get confused." He said while panting, "But if we can build a molten salt tower energy storage solar thermal power station here, we will definitely be able to collect a lot of electricity."
They didn't stay here for too long, because the high temperature of over 40 degrees Celsius was really a test of people's physical fitness. It would not be worth it if they accidentally fainted from heatstroke.
In the middle of the afternoon, Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan went to a valley that the monks of Linshen Sect would visit when they were learning to fly with swords.
This place is closer to the Forest God Sect, located at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. But when they were less than two kilometers away from the outer edge of the valley, they were blown to pieces by the strong wind blowing in their faces - this place is close to the eye of the valley's forbidden area, even the monks in the Tribulation Crossing Stage cannot easily approach, and the wind in the center can even reach the level of a strong typhoon.
“Wind power!”
Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan uttered these four words almost in unison.
It is rare to see relatively flat terrain in the Kunlun Mountains, and there are such abundant wind resources. It would be a pity if we don’t make good use of them!
"The world of immortal cultivation is really a treasure land," Gu Liangyi sighed sincerely as he looked at the rising numbers on the wind speed meter, "It is true for both cultivators and us."
He thought that after he returned, he must ask Zhou Qingzi and the others if there were any worse training environments.
Maybe, the next Three Gorges Dam can be built in another world!
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The entire construction period of the Three Gorges Dam took 17 years, which is a huge project.
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