Chapter 119 Breakthrough

Even though I have to go back immediately, it's impossible to just leave.

After a brief discussion, everyone decided to clear the relatively safe areas around them before leaving, which would also save time in transporting supplies.

Clean the battlefield carefully and collect the remains of the macrophagic slime and slime creatures.

Then there are the advance teams that can be found in the surrounding area, the wreckage left behind by other giant creatures, the fragments of the divine nucleus, and whether there are any items left in the ruins themselves in the fifth level, etc., all of which need to be checked one by one.

Although these are not miscellaneous, their accumulation represents a lot of research value and needs to be recycled.

For areas further away, I’ll come back next time.

20 minutes later, everyone sorted out all the valuable items separately. According to rough estimates, these miscellaneous items are worth about 15,000 military merits, which is not bad.

After all, this place was once the habitat of many divine creatures, although some of them were devoured and killed by the macrophage mucus transformed by the gourd man.

But they are more or less fragments of various B, C, and D-level divine nuclei. When accumulated, they are quite a considerable amount of supplies, which can be used to fill the exchange system of the war merit library.

If the divine cores of the two slime creatures were not directly destroyed but taken away, their combined value would be three or four times higher than that of the shattered cores.

However, because these divine cores have not been mecha-ized, they do not have the property of infinite solidification.

Therefore, compared with the difficulty of the entire fifth level, if the gains from the macrophage mucus itself are not counted, these miscellaneous gains can only be said to be acceptable.

Next we will see whether those miscellaneous biological information can be sold at a good price to increase the profits.

…

When returning all the way to the fourth level, the two groups separated to pick up the loot that they had left behind.

Because everything has been marked and recorded, we don't have to worry about it being picked up by other teams. What we worry about is that it will be picked up by other hidden divine creatures.

Among them, the divine mecha transformed in the laboratory was carried and transported by the Pluto mecha.

After all, it is too big and no one else has the energy to complete it.

As for the incubators, corpses, various remains, divine nuclei, etc. at the back, they were carried by other mechas.

Basically, all the way back, there is no empty-handed divine mecha.

With so many things in hand, it is not convenient to exert force by moving back and forth between several entrances. One must also continuously stimulate divine energy to push the body and maintain a good posture for exerting force.

Fortunately, Li Yi and Yao Shiwan both have thrusters and can fly, which can appropriately alleviate the transportation pressure of the mechas.

The time it took to walk back was nearly twice as long as the time it took to walk down, which shows how troublesome it is.

…

The temporary logistics center is located outside the main area of ​​the ruins, close to the southeast coastline.

After climbing up from the passage at point A, you need to walk 180 kilometers to reach the logistics point.

It is worth mentioning that the 140-meter-long giant manta ray they discovered on the glacier last time originally moved around the boundary between the ruins and the outside world.

Among them, according to the map found by the gourd man, the location of the estuary is most likely the boundary area of ​​the ruins.

When everyone talked about manta rays along the way, Cai Xiaodong said:

"I've always found it very strange. According to the layout of the ruins, the glacier must be several thousand meters deep. Why didn't we see any traces of the glacier when we were at several checkpoints underground?"

Tan Haoran said: "Maybe it's just separated? Like a dam."

Sun Duxiu said:

"Is it possible that the eastern wall we encountered, after breaking through, is this glacier?"

Li Yi said:

"You guys reminded me that according to the map provided by the gourd man, this glacier might have been originally on Tianshu Star, and the ruins, like a super-giant divine object, were forcibly inserted into Tianshu Star, resulting in the phenomenon that the glacier and the ruins are completely isolated and there is no infiltration."

"Even if we imagine boldly, maybe the main body of this relic is a super-giant ancient starship?"

Everyone's thoughts immediately diverged, and considering its shape, they all felt that this might be possible.

Cai Xiaodong said: "Is it possible that this relic might be a super-giant divine mecha? The kind that can transform?"

"It's possible, but not very likely."

Everyone spoke freely at once and put forward quite a few possibilities.

For example, Zuo Ying said:

"Maybe this is a real ancient man in deep sleep? These strange and bizarre divine creatures inside are actually the microorganisms of this ancient man?"

Pharmacist Wan Ze said: "It may also be some kind of super instrument from ancient civilization that was accidentally left here."

Zheng Xueyuan said: "I think this may be an ordinary relic, just a little bigger. You are all overthinking it."

While chatting and laughing, the mechas finally arrived at the logistics department——

Cabin No. 18 of the Yao Chi.

At this moment, everyone finally had the opportunity to observe this giant starship from the front and from a long distance.

Although this is just one of the large cabins of the Yao Chi ship, it is essentially a large starship that can be freely disassembled and combined with the main body of the Yao Chi ship.

now.

I saw this huge ship, shaped like an inverted gyroscope, like a towering mountain, blocking the howling wind, standing above the ice and in front of the surging waves.

Even these huge mechas that are forty or fifty meters high are like children at the feet of this ship, babbling.

Amid the sound of the mecha's footsteps, Chen Qiongzhi's team also caught up and fought side by side.

…

After temporarily putting the divine mecha into storage, everyone collapsed as if they were in mud.

Tired, so tired.

After three and a half hours of high-intensity driving and facing life-and-death crisis at all times, my nerves were as taut as an arrow string and I was worried all the way, fearing that something unexpected would happen.

Moreover, the divine mechas are generally upgraded, bringing a greater driving load.

This was indeed extremely tiring for everyone whose overall strength was only that of an initial stage evolver.

Fortunately, most of them are winners of the newcomer competition and have more or less auxiliary modules, which ensures the battery life.

The few that don't have auxiliary modules will take the time to rest and adjust along the way.

Thanks to the fact that they usually receive devilish training, with gravity training and practical training arranged in turns every day, they were able to persevere.

Li Yi's endurance time is several times that of others, but he is the main force throughout the whole process, so the pressure is naturally not small.

At this moment, after he left the divine mecha, he began to drink Jingyu No. 3 potion continuously to replenish the consumption at the physical level.

At the same time, seize this opportunity and see if you can advance to a mid-level evolver.

…

Inside the body, nine shining gene segments kept flashing in response to Li Yi.

But the strange thing is that after drinking 12 tubes of Jingyu No. 3 in one breath, Li Yi still didn't feel any signs of the tenth divine gene.

Obviously, although the stimulation from the previous wave of battle was strong enough, it did not seem enough to allow Li Yi to generate the tenth divine gene.

Carefully feeling the unpredictable changes deep inside his body, Li Yi's heart moved slightly, and he thought:

"This feeling of loss... Is it because the amount of divine radiation is no longer enough to support the tenth one? It seems that we must increase the types of radiation."

Immediately, Li Yi ran to the spoils piled on the side, rummaged through them, and directly pulled out the remains of the slime creature's divine core.

In addition, the four complete divine cores he had obtained on the second floor, each of which was as big as a millstone, were stacked together.

Then, he sat in the center.

Start absorbing other types of divine radiation! Anyway, except for the slime creatures, which belong to the alien god sequence, the other types are all sequences he has absorbed, so there is no need to worry about too complicated divine characteristics appearing in his body.

Although he was not afraid of too much divine radiation, but considering the difficulty of advancement in the later stages, he would certainly not increase so many types of divinity at once.

These five are just right right now.

Everyone also noticed Li Yi's actions and were surprised.

Cai Xiaodong said: "This is the beauty of taking the compound route. With so many divine cores in my body, my improvement speed must be skyrocketing again."

As he spoke, he silently walked to the divine nucleus of the Wind God sequence and began to receive the divine radiation.

Tan Haoran smiled and said, "I'm not greedy, this is a good opportunity to get some of the divine radiation from the God of Fire sequence."

Although their divine mechas have been upgraded to level C, it is obvious that the divine radiations produced by the hundred-meter-class divine creatures are naturally of higher quality, equivalent to level B radiation. If they have a choice, they will naturally give priority to this.

At this moment, led by Cai Xiaodong and Tan Haoran, only Sun Duxiu, Zheng Xueyuan and Zuo Ying were left. They were unable to take advantage of the divine radiation, so the others all sat over.

Comfortably receive high-quality divine radiation.

Zheng Xueyuan looked at the other two and said with a smile, "Not bad. I thought I would be excluded again this time."

She possesses a very rare fate god sequence. She was often left behind during her training with her two sisters and had to practice alone.

Now, Zheng Xueyuan felt like she was bathed in spring breeze.

Ah, it turns out that practicing with a companion is so joyful.

But soon, the smile on Zheng Xueyuan's face disappeared.

Because Sun Duxiu and Zuo Ying soon found the corresponding divine core fragments from the God of Strength and the God of Life among the pile of divine core fragments.

Moreover, the quality is obviously not low.

From the pile of divine nucleus fragments, Sun Duxiu excitedly pulled out a fist-sized B-level power nucleus fragment and said, "Great, this thing belongs to me."

Zuo Ying sniffed the scent and found a fragment belonging to the B-level Life God Sequence, probably related to the giant fern. She couldn't wait to activate it and entered the state of cultivation.

Obviously, after this great battle, enough people have accumulated experience and are gradually ushering in opportunities for breakthroughs.

Only Zheng Xueyuan, with an expressionless face, jumped into the insertion bay of the Bi-Winged Mecha, started it up, and then began to activate the Bi-Winged divinity.

Before they knew it, when they had rested for a while, everyone started rolling up again in tacit understanding.

…

Two hours later, Chen Qiongzhi came over to call people and found that everyone had made a breakthrough. His eyes suddenly lit up.

"Is the cultivation atmosphere already so high?"

Looking around, I saw that several people who were previously stuck at the ninth divine gene had actually made breakthroughs one after another.

Among them, the fastest one was Sun Duxiu.

Although his previous progress was slightly slower than that of Pharmacist Wan, he gained the upper hand because his divine mecha became taller and had a slightly higher divine quality when it was upgraded.

In addition, his fighting style is close combat, and in the final fight against the macrophage slime, he also fought bravely and fought vigorously.

Therefore, the tenth divine gene that had been stuck for nearly a month was finally condensed by him.

After that comes Pharmacist Wan. She has profound experience, high matching degree, and has participated in several major battles. Now it is a natural outcome.

The next one was Zhang Xuqiang, who upgraded to C-level with the help of the divine mecha. This time, he also rose to prominence and successfully condensed the ninth divine gene.

Cai Xiaodong and Zuo Ying also made further progress and condensed the 5th and 4th divine genes.

In the end, among the rest of the group, only Tan Haoran and Zheng Xueyuan did not make a breakthrough this time, but they also made some progress and seemed to be in much better overall condition.

As for Li Yi, it was probably because the accumulation of divine radiation was not enough. There were only vague signs, but he was still a little short of generating the tenth one and becoming a complete mid-level evolver.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

It is estimated that the radiation will need to last for two or three more days.

But even so, Li Yi was quite satisfied.

There is no other reason. With so many high-quality divine radiations, they can replace the previous low-level divine radiations of the same sequence. The remaining vacant radiation time can be adjusted to other divine sequences that have not yet been received.

This time, in addition to the divine sequence of slime creatures, his target is also another giant clam in the fifth level that is worth 100,000 military merits.

According to the giant clam's ability, the divinity may involve some spatial characteristics! According to his strongest plan, he would not let go of this special divine characteristic easily.

When you feel that the divine radiation received by your body has reached saturation.

Li Yi stood up and began to stretch his muscles.

Chen Qiongzhi smiled and asked casually:

"Can you sense the divinity of this slime creature? What are its characteristics?"

Li Yi shook his head and said, "The feeling is not obvious yet, but judging from the fact that the slime creatures can freely control the dispersion, gathering, and aggregation of the slime in their bodies, that characteristic is probably related to the species characteristics of the slime creatures."

On the side, Cai Xiaodong's eyes suddenly lit up and he said with a smile:

"Then Li Yi, can you use this feature to control your body to transform at will? For example, turn into a busty woman?"

Zuo Ying immediately spat, "Obscene!"

Li Yi smiled and said, "I don't think it's possible. Besides, if one really wants to be able to transform at will, then one must have at least the same amount of divinity as a higher level to support the body to complete such a huge change, right?"

Chen Qiongzhi said:

“Even the top-level upper evolvers cannot transform their bodies at will, because this is determined by our physical constitution.”

"The more divine genes one has, the stronger one's physique will be. The strength and connection of the various tissues, organs, and bones in the body will also be higher, and the more difficult it will be to transform."

"Unless the total amount of divinity far exceeds the physical constitution, the problem is that the human body is a combination of the two, and at most the balance is not enough."

Cai Xiaodong shrugged and said, "Okay, I'm just saying it casually... But if you can really transform at will, I think it might not be a bad idea to go the composite route."

Sun Duxiu immediately laughed at him, "Everyone knows that you have such sinister thoughts, haha."

Cai Xiaodong pretended to be dumb and said, "No way, what thoughts do you mean?"

As they were talking, everyone finished their repairs one after another, activated their divine mechas, and continued on their journey.

…

20 minutes later.

Li Yi's team and Chen Qiongzhi's team separated for the time being and continued to sweep the fifth level.

In the fifth level, although the map is divided into two parts, if you scan carefully, there are still many areas where items can be obtained.

In particular, the remains of the advance team were not scattered in one place and needed to be found in full.

Li Yi's team naturally went to the First Laboratory to retrieve the original copy of the First Notes, as well as pack up the giant creatures kept in the gourd man's culture tubes and various gene culture dishes.

Finally, transform the laboratory into a divine mecha and take it away.

Therefore, even though there is only one laboratory, it takes a lot of time and effort to transport those huge culture tubes around the laboratory.

Fortunately, no further accidents happened here.

After working for two hours, the mechas made three trips and finally transported everything inside and outside the laboratory back to the logistics department.

Among them, Li Yi naturally also got the first experimental notes himself.

Unfortunately, no special paper was found that was the same as the second notebook.

Li Yi was not idle during the transportation process. He took the time to compare his first-hand notes with the traces in his memory in the cockpit to see if there were any errors.

"The first hand notes don't have much error, so it seems the previously translated manuscript should be fine."

"However, just in case, the original manuscript must be kept with me and not thrown away casually to prevent it from being stolen again."

Although he still doesn't know what secrets are hidden behind Lao Zhang's death and the theft of the manuscript.

But judging from subsequent events, this manuscript must be hiding something else.

After dealing with this wave, we will go to another blocked area in the fifth level to search for the parasitic giant clam worth 100,000 military merits.

only.

When Li Yi led the team over and searched along the traces on the ground.

It was discovered that the giant clam had long since left the area where it was previously discovered in the virtual ruins and was nowhere to be found.

After walking around the area, they didn't find any trace, which made everyone feel depressed.

Pharmacist Wan frowned and said, "Could it be that the thing sensed danger and ran away in advance?"

Li Yi controlled the Pluto mecha and stood not far from the place where the giant clam was crouching. He activated the information collection system at a high frequency and simulated the specific actions of the giant clam in his mind.

After a while, he exhaled and said:

"He ran away. It looks like he ran to the sixth level. And it's probably not a coincidence. He discovered something."

"We shouldn't risk entering the sixth level yet. Let's leave for now and go to other places to raid first, and then make plans later."

…

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Most of the intelligence previously simulated using authority was reliable, which reduced a lot of trouble for each team's exploration.

After three days, the first five levels were basically completed without any danger, including the first round of capturing divine creatures and collecting important resources.

Each of the three ships earned several B-class divine mechas and various types of B-class divine cores.

You can also collect more C-level and D-level divine items.

Coupled with the large samples of all kinds that are sufficient to support biological research, this wave basically made a lot of money, completely recovering the initial investment and even making a huge surplus.

At this moment, all the captains, on-site staff officers, commanders, chief commanders and other figures gathered in the conference room in cabin 18 of the Yao Chi ship to review and summarize the meeting and plan the next steps to explore the sixth level.

The three captains were in charge of the starship, so naturally they did not come here.

During the meeting, each team's strategy, resource collection, and combat damage were reported.

As of now.

There were three people killed in the battle, two in the second level and one in the fifth level.

For those who are seriously injured and unable to recover their combat power, there will be five people in the second level, two people in the third level, two people in the fourth level, and three people in the fifth level.

There are two people who are seriously injured but can recover within two or three days in the second level, one person in the third level, one person in the fourth level, and two people in the fifth level.

Both mobile teams maintained a record of no casualties.

Of course, the mobile team from the Sun Chaser was able to remain unscathed because the main areas they explored were basically between the first and third levels, moving back and forth.

We basically have sufficient intelligence on the opponents we face, and our overall fighting style is quite smart.

Li Yi's group and they mainly worked in the fourth and fifth levels, so naturally there was a big difference.

In addition, judging from the book data, the second and fifth levels had the highest casualties, and the third and fourth levels were similar.

However, in terms of actual difficulty, macrophage mucus is naturally the most difficult.

Being able to pass this level with such a small damage ratio is already an excellent performance.

After watching the summarized battle and exploration video information, everyone confirmed this without a doubt.

As for the high casualty ratio in the second level, it was mainly because when sweeping some giant egg creatures that had no intelligence or insufficient intelligence, they were harmed by various unreasonable divine characteristics, resulting in unexpected casualties.

At this moment, after everyone reported the data, they began to discuss the possibility of entering the sixth level of exploration.

As usual, Li Yi and the other five on-site staff officers sat together and chatted during the breaks in the meeting.

Guan Shanyue said: "Li Yi, I have seen the video of your battle. It's very strong! You were able to take down the key attacks. That's great!"

"You are too kind, Instructor Guan. I just borrowed the help of our Instructor Chen."

Guan Shanyue smiled and said, "Whether it's an exaggeration or not, you are indeed not lucky to have this ability. Although you are still a long way behind me, compared to other people of the same age, you are indeed worthy of the title of the first person of the younger generation of our three ships."

Li Yi was slightly surprised: "When did I get this title?"

"Hey, of course I named you that."

Guan Shanyue smiled and said, "After our exploration this time, there will be a joint competition for young mecha masters from the 72 interstellar defense lines. I think you have a good chance of getting a top ten spot."

Li Yi was surprised and said, "72 interstellar defense lines? Such a large scale?"

Guan Shanyue smiled and said, "This is also a very large-scale war exercise. The purpose is to intimidate the aliens and demonstrate our military strength! If you can get into the top ten, there will be many benefits."

"Upgrading your authority and improving your resume are all trivial matters and will come naturally. The most important thing is that if you get into the top ten, you will be qualified to enter the Earth Ruins! This ruins is the most important ruins for mankind!"

(End of this chapter)