Ying Huaixia clutched her chest, her eyes darkening: "Tell me, whether it's fusion or implantation into the weak, is there a way to turn something rotten into something miraculous?"
The assistant looked at him with a pained expression and worried eyes: "Young Master, it will definitely happen, there will definitely be a way to help you! If the Golden Medicine doesn't work, we'll find Chang Le; if Chang Le doesn't work, we'll find the real Fusion!"
Ying Huaixia chuckled, wiped the blood from her lips, straightened up, and looked at the northern sky: "My time is running out."
...
The regional meeting ended at midnight.
Chang Le was keeping a close eye on the situation.
The meeting initially approved the draft cooperation plan, agreeing that the management committee, the Si family, and the Hua family would take the lead in cooperating with Longpai Cuiwei Institute to conduct research on the relevant plan and drug development.
However, regarding the issue of acquiring a stake in the technology for Golden Medicine, the Longpai faction declined, citing the immaturity of the technology, and decided to retain control of the technology themselves for the time being.
The initial draft outlines a three-month preparation period for the collaboration, followed by a formal research and experimental phase lasting 10 to 20 years.
The draft cooperation plan and the optimized "New Three Roads" plan were delivered to the main institutions in the nine regions, and internal preparations began.
Everything proceeded in an orderly manner.
But less than an hour after the plan was issued to the major regions, something happened.
1:00 AM on April 4th, 389 of the Cataclysmic Era.
An alien riot broke out in the ruins of the old city on the southwestern coast of Uzbekistan, South America. The riot broke through the Uzbekistan security line and destroyed the Gamma Laboratory of the Meli Federation in Uzbekistan, South America. The laboratory's groundbreaking drug samples for fusion research were destroyed.
Uzkel and the Meli Federation officials issued a joint statement online, stating that the drug is a milestone in overcoming conventional obstacles in fusion theory research.
As public opinion began to brew, the "New Three Roads" plan in Central China was also urgently halted, with various regions awaiting instructions from the First District.
Chang Le, who was in the northern part of the city, also learned about the movements of all parties.
The cuckoo cried as it recounted the events at the Gamma Laboratory to Chang Le, and then said:
"Now, many people in the Western Continent are starting to discuss the specific effects of the drug. It is clear that the drug referred to by the Meli Federation is similar to our Golden Medicine."
Regardless of whether it's true or false, the fact that they've made it public first means that if the Central Plains were to implement the Golden Medicine and the new plan at this time, it wouldn't be long before the people would connect the two things. That's like mud falling down your pants—it's hard to say what will happen next.
Furthermore, because the Gamma Laboratory has, on the surface, the most profound and publicly disclosed research breakthroughs in fusion theory over the past century, the movements detected by the Heavenly Broom Pavilion have revealed that some within the Central Plains suspect that we had already leaked this technology and [Rules of Conduct] to the Meiri Federation.
Luo Xuan, who was standing next to Chang Le, said upon hearing this, "This move not only seizes the initiative, preventing the Central Plains from implementing the plan for the time being, but also sows discord between the Ninth District and the Greater District. It's a decisive move that kills two birds with one stone. However, it doesn't seem like the work of the Qin family."
Chang Le listened calmly, his tone indifferent: "Of course not. At least the Qin family or any other aristocratic family in the Central Plains are not the masterminds. The Federation's Gamma Laboratory is backed by the Vera family. Excluding the aliens, no one but their own people could have done that."
Chang Le tapped the table lightly with his fingertips, then stopped abruptly after three taps: "There's something wrong with this alien riot."
"No, it should be said that several of the alien riots were problematic!"
Ziguiti quickly realized what was happening and counted, "This time it was the riot in the old ruins of the Uz Coast, the last time there was an anomaly in the Bone-Melting Pit, and further back... the extraterrestrial alien species [Byin] descended."
“There were two more times,” Chang Le’s deep, dark green pupils reflected the light, “Nine years ago and two years ago, the two strange events that Fu Guang encountered in the Northern Border Ruins were too coincidental.”
Luo Xuan frowned: "Thinking about it carefully, apart from confirming that the Bone-Melting Pit and Biyin were both caused by the God-Making Faction, the other three coincidences are indeed too much. Each time it happened, it seemed to be targeting the Dragon Faction."
However, if the riots were indeed man-made, small-scale disturbances like the one at the Bone-Melting Pit would be one thing, but how could disturbances of that scale, especially the two that Fu Guang encountered, be caused by human intervention?
"It is indeed somewhat unbelievable. Can the actions of alien species be controlled by human power?" Chang Le pondered. In the communicator, Zi Gui Ti suddenly said, "Young Master, if you can fuse with alien species, then it is possible that someone can control them."
Luo Xuan said, "The key question is: who can do it? And how can they do it?"
Leaving aside other ancient ruins, within the uninhabited area of the northern boundary ancient ruins centered on the North Pole, there exist monsters that are absolutely beyond the ninth realm. If they hadn't secluded themselves and not come out, we probably wouldn't know whether humanity is alive or dead now.
Even someone like Fu Guang, who stood at the peak of the ninth realm, returned severely injured. Who else could be more terrifying than Fu Guang?
Upon hearing him say this, Chang Le immediately thought of Jiu Fang Gui.
If Jiu Fanggui were still alive, he might be able to do it with his ability to get close to aliens, forcibly borrow their abilities, and create fusions. But he is no longer here. Who has the ability to control the actions of aliens?
etc!
Control, alien species... reclusive and never venturing out...
Chang Le suddenly gasped: "Why are those powerful alien species in the no-man's-land hiding away and not coming out?"
Her question came suddenly, and before the two could answer, she continued, "During the first large-scale invasion of extraterrestrial beings in the 30s of the Cataclysmic Era, some powerful alien species retreated into the Ruins and never reappeared. At the time, it could be understood that with dozens of Transcendent Realm experts guarding the world during the Age of Gods, they dared not act rashly. But what about the three hundred years that followed?"
For several decades in between, the number of people in the entire world who had reached the ninth level of cultivation was no more than five. Humans' cultivation talent is unstable, so why didn't those monsters who retreated to the ruins take the opportunity to attack the human race? Instead, they made some insignificant and sporadic moves.
What makes them willingly live in these old ruins? Or is it that centuries of hiding are brewing an even greater disaster than that of 2003?
Luo Xuan and Zi Guiti both changed their expressions.
The cuckoo cried out, "This guess is dangerous."
Luo Xuan suddenly said, "There's something even more dangerous!"
"What?" Chang Le looked at him.
Luo Xuan slowed his speech: "What if the manipulators behind the mutants are in cahoots with the manipulators behind the mutant uprisings?"
Chang Le experienced slight difficulty breathing.
The ancient ruins that occupy half of the world's land and sea, and the ubiquitous mutants who may have already intermingled with humans—if both erupt simultaneously…
That would be a devastating disaster.
Luo Xuan composed himself and said, "It's not necessarily true that someone can control those monsters in the no-man's-land. There's an element of speculation involved, so we can't panic. Let's solve the immediate problem first."
Returning to the topic of this incident, Chang Le said, "Most of the drugs from Gamma Labs are fake."
“I agree with that view,” Zigui Ti said. “The undercover agents in the Western Continent haven’t heard any news of breakthroughs in drug research at the Gamma Laboratory in the past ten years. It’s just so happens that they’re talking about it now, and they’ve already been destroyed so there’s no way to verify it. It’s really suspicious.”
Luo Xuan said, "The most reasonable explanation is that some people in the Central Plains are unwilling to implement the new plan, so they deliberately leaked the information and used the Federation to prevent the plan from being implemented in exchange for the Golden Medicine."
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