Chapter 264 The Truth of That Year
Mao Li still resolutely came today. Last time, because Zuo Shan activated the time reversal, no one remembered what happened before the reversal, and their memories were automatically overwritten by everything that happened after the reversal.
So Mao Li didn't know the real reason for her coma, but he did notice something unusual: his master hadn't been hurt, yet she had inexplicably fallen into a coma.
Matt said that the master had suffered a backlash from superpowers, so Mao Li went through the database and searched for all the records about backlash from superpowers.
Then, the conclusion was reached that there are three types of superpowers that can cause a backlash: resurrection, time reversal, and prophecy.
The so-called resurrection means that the dead can be brought back to life, at the cost of one life for another.
The life that is swapped must be given willingly in place of the person who is resurrected. Even so, the person using the superpower will suffer a backlash, ranging from losing more than half of their superpower to losing more than half of their lifespan.
Therefore, people with the ability to resurrect usually try their best to hide their abilities and never use them unless absolutely necessary.
Time travel, as the name suggests, allows time to flow backward for a few seconds, minutes, or even hundreds of years.
The wider the scope of time reversal and the longer the time reversal, the more severe the backlash the user will suffer. The most severe backlash is equivalent to sacrificing one's own life, which will cause one's soul to be completely destroyed, leaving not even a trace of ashes.
Prophecy is actually the least damaging of the three superpowers, but if the prophecy has too great an impact, it can still cause great harm to oneself.
Based on a comprehensive analysis and comparison of these three superpowers, Mao Li deduced that the superpower used by the master was time reversal, specifically targeting the battle between the adult and that powerful beast.
This was a small-scale, short-term time reversal, but even so, the master was unconscious for a full seven days!
Therefore, Mao Li decided that from now on, whenever his master does something risky, he must stay by her side and always be on guard against her using time reversal again.
As you approach the metal door, you are greeted by the musty and dilapidated smell emanating from the old, sealed area.
Under the bright flashlight beam, what appeared in everyone's view was a distorted and deformed wall.
The wall was made of reinforced concrete, but the thickness of the exposed steel bars far exceeded everyone's expectations.
"Sir, there's definitely something strange about this place! Look at the steel bars in the wall, each one is at least 10 centimeters in diameter!"
It's important to know that the steel bars used in normal high-rise buildings are no more than 2 centimeters thick. Even in suspension bridges with spans exceeding 30 meters, the steel bars used are only 3.2 centimeters thick.
"This is clearly an ordinary underground building, so why would they use such thick steel bars?" a member of the Earth-type Guardian team asked.
"Perhaps more than one strange beast was once imprisoned here," the adult said with a heavy heart.
The strange beast that appeared out of nowhere had abilities comparable to the peak of the ninth rank, but it did not have the intelligence that a ninth-rank mutated beast should have. To put it bluntly, it was just a wild beast that did not know how to communicate and only knew how to kill.
However, it was chained, which was clearly intentional.
He was initially unsure where the beast came from, but after seeing the thick steel bars in the walls of the underground structure, he was almost certain that the beast was bred by a research institute before the Great Cataclysm.
The history he had read recorded that before the Great Cataclysm, some researchers were dedicated to studying the genes of humans and animals, attempting to extract high-quality gene fragments to improve certain human diseases or extend human lifespan.
Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that a certain research institute may have already used gene combination to cultivate a batch of monsters at that time.
Then, under the guise of establishing an underground seed bank, they built this underground structure to house those strange beasts.
These thick steel bars are definitely there to prevent them from crashing or escaping directly.
The cataclysm came suddenly, and the above-ground part of the underground building collapsed, while the underground part also deformed. However, it did not collapse because of the strong steel reinforcement.
Some of the strange beasts escaped their cages, killing and devouring the staff trapped underneath. Those who remained on the surface and survived remained tight-lipped about the underground structure.
They may even have lived under assumed names and concealed their identities, so much so that the authorities' efforts to find this underground seed bank ultimately yielded nothing.
Those who knew its exact location chose to remain silent, while those who only had a general understanding of it pointed out the way for the scouting army, unaware that many terrifying beasts lurked there.
As a result, the guide and the explorers were all wiped out by the strange beasts. Over time, this underground seed bank completely disappeared, becoming an unsolved mystery.
If Zuo Shan hadn't accidentally dug up the metal box containing the seeds from the rat hole and told Xiao Bai the information, the secret here would probably still be buried.
The group investigated further and discovered a broken elevator and a broken staircase.
However, none of this could stop them. The earth-elemental ability user in the team quickly repaired the stairs, allowing everyone to descend step by step.
Along the way, they discovered the remains of many strange beasts. Some of them were reptiles, and some were winged lions and tigers. In short, they were all bizarre and looked like new species that had been forcibly assembled from different kinds of animals.
The more they looked, the more horrified they became. Further down, they saw many human skeletons, all of them with gruesome deaths.
Some had their arms bitten off, others had half their heads bitten off; the shape of their scattered bones alone was enough to tell how desperate they were when they died.
Finally, someone found some paper documents containing detailed information about these monsters, from their embryonic stage until their birth, growth, mating, reproduction, or death.
They also found some old USB drives.
The USB drive could not be read, because this old type of USB drive requires a matching old computer to read it.
Fortunately, someone found an old desktop computer that was still intact, but there was nowhere to charge it, so they could only charge it after taking it back home.
I've already gone through more than a dozen floors, but I still haven't found a single seed.
Miss Jian Qiong released the giant python-like vine that Zuo Shan had seen before, but this time, she did not force the vine to grow to more than ten centimeters thick; it was only as thick as a wrist.
They were scattered and wandered around, helping their owner find the seeds.
Seeing that Zuo Shan was looking at it intently, Matt explained to her, "This is Miss Jian Qiong's contracted plant, a seventh-tier mutated giant python vine. It's powerful in both offense and defense!"
Actually, Miss Jian Qiong's combat strength is very weak. If it weren't for this mutated vine, she probably wouldn't even be able to get close to me, a sixth-level cultivator.
"It's all thanks to this mutated vine that her combat power has been boosted. She's practically the only ability user on the entire Green Algae Planet who's invincible among her peers thanks to her contracted plant."
Matt's tone clearly carried disdain for her, but since this was a search for the seed bank and she had to rely on the power of her giant python vine, she could only tolerate her arrogance.
Zuo Shan had already witnessed the defensive capabilities of this giant python vine in the battle before the time reversal. It was indeed impressive that it could protect its master from injury during the attack of that strange beast.
However, after the time rewind, she fell into a coma and naturally had no chance to see what happened next, nor did she know whether this Miss Jian Qiong had actually used her giant python vine.
While listening to Matt's explanation, Zuo Shan wandered aimlessly around. As she walked, she stepped on a hard, columnar protrusion, which almost made her trip and fall, and it hurt her foot a lot!
What the heck? Of all the bad luck, she stepped on me. Could it be that she's not a lucky charm, but an unlucky one?
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