Chapter 627 Good Heavens, I'm Absolutely Stunned! (5700 Words, Short Chapter)

The core of the Chuyou Laboratory is located deep underground.

Even with stasis field equipment, it could still function after eight thousand years, but the laboratory as a whole had been damaged by numerous crustal movements and natural disasters. The depths of the earth were shrouded in darkness.

Su Zhou and Suiguang walked in the front. During their last exploration, they had cleared a path through the collapsed earth and rocks. Now they only needed to walk through it, which was much faster.

Fu Xiao emanated a faint cold light, illuminating the way ahead, drawing envious glances from Loya behind her.

"That's so nice... being able to glow. You don't have to waste candles to read at night."

Hearing Loya's soft murmur, the half-spirit didn't turn her head, calmly saying, "It's very simple. The Winged-folk have a modification plan that allows you to grow a halo on your head for auxiliary calculations and source energy manipulation."

"It can also glow, and you can't even turn it off. Many Winged-folk have expressed regret."

The sudden response startled Loya slightly, "Huh? Really?"

[That's true.]

Suiguang nodded slightly: [She is probably referring to the Lightwing City-State in the southwest... Most of them are supporters of the Holy Stone Church, and the halo above their heads represents the blessing of the Holy Sun.]

[Now it seems there is an unexpected explanation.]

After eight thousand years, the bloodlines were completely mixed. According to Fu Xiao, she never thought that those bloodlines that were once just test subjects could multiply into groups and become a completely new race.

"At least it proves our work was successful." This was Fu Xiao's conclusion.

"We're here." At this moment, Su Zhou spoke.

In less than half an hour, they had arrived at their destination.

At the end of the winding tunnel, deep underground, was the central core of the Chuyou Laboratory.

The hall was empty and dark, and the decaying air was poisonous, but everyone present was either unafraid of poison or carried gas masks and oxygen tanks, so it wasn't a big problem.

"Activate."

With a soft whisper, as Fu Xiao spoke, the originally dark hall was immediately filled with a faint silver light. The light was not stable at first, but then it illuminated the entire central area of the laboratory.

The center was empty. It was spacious and covered in dust. At its front was a crystal panel, below which was a connection port, and around the connection port were complex rune arrays and patterns that were still automatically operating, condensing source energy from the atmosphere.

That was the location of the stasis field generator where Fu Xiao had been before. The exploration team had transported it out from deep underground, but now it had returned to its original location.

"There should have been a very powerful defensive magic circle on the stasis field and control center, but you destroyed it."

She looked at the empty connection port and couldn't help but shake her head, "I don't know who was so bold as to use the method of direct contact with source energy to crack it... He succeeded, but he's probably turned to ashes by now."

After saying that, Fu Xiao noticed that the others' expressions had become strange, and then focused on Su Zhou, who, although his hair was white, didn't look that old except for a few wrinkles.

"It's you... you're completely unharmed?"

Understanding the meaning of this look, the half-spirit looked at Su Zhou in surprise.

She couldn't help but mutter to herself, flapping her wings, "That's a strong source energy radiation that even a *Tyrannosaurus* would be shocked by. Just a little contact would cost you half your life... Unbelievable, how strong is your physique? I can't even see the end of your lifespan!"

--Just about the average level of a divine tree.

Su Zhou shrugged and didn't say much.

He now admired his predecessor a little. Professor Svetoyar seemed to have a few tricks up his sleeve. After forcibly confronting the defensive magic circle of the control center and succeeding, he didn't die immediately, but dragged on until a day later, returning to the camp before stopping breathing.

Taking a deep look at Su Zhou, Fu Xiao floated forward.

She turned her head and looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar central crystal panel.

The half-spirit didn't miss it, but couldn't help but sigh.

For her, all of this had only happened a few dozen minutes ago—a few dozen minutes ago, she had entered the stasis field under the care of the institute director, her friend, and a few dozen minutes later, she had crossed eight thousand years and arrived in the next era again.

Many times, she would doubt the meaning of her efforts: from the age of the gods to the elf civilization, and now to the Aeon civilization, she had left her mark in every era, made friends, contributed to that era, and fought to the last moment.

But at the same time, every time, all civilizations were annihilated into ashes under unknown disasters. All that was left were their ruins, which were studied by the civilizations of the new era. Although she had survived, she was only alive. All the social relationships and achievements she had accumulated in the past had vanished, which was simply a joke.

--Will this time be the same? Everything repeats in a cycle, and even gets worse.

She always couldn't help but think like this, so she could always remain calm, because it was meaningless to invest emotions in things that would eventually be destroyed and dissipate into nothingness.

But the foolish thing was that the half-spirit always invested emotions in these meaningless things.

Removing the distracting thoughts from her mind, Fu Xiao came to the crystal panel. A faint light shone in her eyes, and the panel also lit up with light.

Countless fine, intricate lines and patterns containing infinite mysteries appeared on the panel, and then finally condensed into a rhombus-shaped pattern.

After that, a melodious Ancient Elvish language sounded.

[Chuyou Institute, Deputy Director of the Life Research Department, Ms. Fu Xiao... Authorization confirmed.]

[It has been 8419 years, 3 months, 14 days, 22 hours, 27 minutes, and 39 seconds since the central core was last activated. The outer shell of the institute is 84% damaged, the core integrity is 97%, and it can be started normally.]

[According to the legacy order of Ms. Einoris Sutyas, Director of the Chuyou Institute, you have obtained full access to the Chuyou Institute.]

[Welcome to the Institute Control Center.]

Su Zhou could sense that Fu Xiao's mood fluctuated for a moment when she heard the name Einoris, but she quickly returned to calm.

It seemed that this person was an acquaintance of Fu Xiao, probably her friend from the previous era.

"...Okay, it seems that the natural disaster destroyed the outer shell of the institute, but the core is almost undamaged. We can start it at any time."

Reaching out her slender hand and pressing it on the crystal panel, Fu Xiao closed her eyes: "The source energy reserves are sufficient—be prepared, everyone."

"We're going out."

"Going out?"

At this time, Su Zhou was still a little confused. He turned his head and looked at Master Suiguang beside him, asking with some doubt: "What does this mean?"

He thought that Fu Xiao had come to the depths of the institute to retrieve some important information or equipment, and then accompany them to the outside world. After all, the entire institute was buried in the mountains, and outside, there was just a natural disaster. At least dozens of meters of ice and snow were covering it.

If the mountain hadn't cracked a gap under the bombardment of the natural disaster, Su Zhou suspected that they would have to dig their way out.

But at this moment, he saw that Suiguang's mechanical body was trembling slightly, as if he was excited and excited because of extreme agitation.

[Could it be, could it be...]

Because of the Heavenly Demon virus, he said whatever he thought at the moment: [Could it be that this institute is itself a mobile warship?!]

[Even after nearly ten thousand years, the warship can still operate?!]

"I'm not sure—the Chuyou Research Ship is the core of the institute, protected in the very center of the entire ruin and mountain. In theory, it can operate."

The half-spirit lowered her eyes, her tone firm: "But regardless of whether it can or not, for various reasons, I can't abandon this place."

"We have to try."

Then, she pressed the start button.

[Entering mobile mode.]

The sound rang out.

Then, there was a tremor.

A violent vibration rang from the deepest part of the earth.

Deep in the northern Ionian Mountains, in the central area of the frost disaster, a series of extremely violent shakes suddenly began on the snow-covered mountains, the mountains trembled, as if the blood vessels deep in the earth were pulsating.

*Boom! Boom!* In the depths of the valley not far away, the local tribal scouts, who had been hiding underground to avoid the natural disaster, were now coming out to scout for information, using ancient crystal magic tools to check the chaotic source energy concentration in the earth and snow, but the violent tremors came from under their feet, interrupting their detection, causing these scouts to raise their heads in astonishment and look around at the white mountains.

At this moment, half of the mountain range was shaking uneasily, and in their ears, the rumbling of ice breaking echoed between heaven and earth.

"Earthquake, earthquake!"

The leading scout shouted like this: "Go back and notify the tribe, hurry up and get out of the cave!"

And in the middle of the shouting, he saw a towering mountain not far away.

The ice-blue source energy ice and snow, mixed with gray dirt and rocks, collapsed in the violent vibration, and then turned into a torrent that swept everything, rushing towards them at the foot of the mountain.

Avalanche!

Not just this one, the surrounding seven or eight mountain peaks began to show the same situation. The endless ice and snow condensed by the frost disaster were already fragile, and now they all collapsed into broken ice flowers, rushing towards the low-lying areas.

"Damn it, what's going on? How could the Great Shaman not sense the fluctuations of the earth? If there really was an earthquake, we would have known it long ago!"

In the face of such a natural disaster, even the elite of the tribe could not ignore it. All the scouts immediately turned and rushed towards the other mountains that were still relatively stable.

And in the middle of the way, in the midst of the violent tremors of the earth, the scout captain, who couldn't help but turn his head to observe the avalanche, was stunned to see an incredibly shocking scene.

A huge crack suddenly burst in the center of the mountain that had started the avalanche, and a dazzling silver beam of light rushed out from the crack, straight into the sky, breaking through the clouds.

Then, the mountain began to collapse, and the thick mountain body dozens or hundreds of meters thick was broken like a bean curd, and then collapsed, revealing an ancient, wide and deep tunnel.

This was not the work of nature, but the final plan of the ancient civilization: in order to cope with the increasingly frequent natural disasters, most of the important facilities were located underground, and if there were any disasters underground, then the mobile warship loaded with all the core data would be activated to go to another safe location.

Just like now.

*Boom!*

The roar that surpassed the thunder sounded, accompanied by the constantly collapsing mountain, an ancient, dilapidated black rhombus-shaped mobile warship, covered in traces of source energy erosion on its outer shell, sped out of the tunnel leading to the deepest part of the mountain.

And then—

Floated in the sky!

"Good heavens!"

On the bridge of the research ship, that is, the control center of the institute, Su Zhou, who had experienced all of this, stood by the window, listening to the 'wow' sounds made by the two children beside him because of fright, laughing and overlooking the mountains beneath him, praising heartily: "I'm absolutely stunned!"

"This is the prehistoric mobile warship? Are they all flying airships?!"

"No."

Fu Xiao, who was already sitting at the central control station, controlling the entire Chuyou Research Ship, shook her head slightly: "Even in the last era, flying mobile warships were a minority. The Chuyou Research Ship used a brand-new source energy core and also abandoned the weapon system, so it has enough power to fly."

"Even so, it's very powerful—if you give it to me to modify it again, it will definitely be even more powerful!"

Reaching out his hand and touching the heads of the equally excited children, Su Zhou now looked down at this land.

The northern Ionian Mountains were majestic and towering, with rolling hills on the outside. Among the snow-white frost forests, there were also quite a few local tribes living there.

He raised his head, and his red eyes began to focus. Although this body did not have the Undying Blood and the Zhulong Dharma Body, Su Zhou's strength had long surpassed these bloodlines. His will was itself transforming this body, so that the unremarkable Demon Eye could also see the scenery thousands of miles away.

To the south, Su Zhou saw a vast and boundless world. The vast snow-covered glacier of tens of thousands of miles was just a remote corner of this world. On the northwestern grassland that was not covered by permafrost, there was a huge mobile city rumbling and moving in the roar of source energy, like a moving mountain, where millions of people lived, bringing vitality.

He turned his head and looked at the other end of the mountain range, where another natural disaster was erupting. This was the source energy entanglement caused by the tidal force of the world's sun and moon being too strong. Like a tornado, it was shaped by two winds in different directions, and then swept through every corner of the earth.

"This is the world of Dusk... The fragments of the Primordial World, indeed have a very strong Twilight aura."

Taking a deep breath, Su Zhou could sense that the aura of great beings in this world was extremely strong, just like the Perfect World.

"Yala, can you sense how many great beings' auras are in this world?"

"...It's difficult. I can only sense that there is me and the Lord of Silence's aura here. The others vaguely feel like they are there, but they are not clear."

The Serpent Spirit's answer was very cautious, even Yala couldn't be sure.

The Primordial World does not mean that there is only the power of one great being. The power of all the great beings who participated in sealing Him also exists here, just like in the Perfect World, Yala's power is also obvious and powerful.

However, here, in the World of Dusk, even if there is the power of other great beings, His aura is not at all obvious, as if it occupies the entire world.

Dusk is an abnormal, powerful, and beyond-reason, and even beyond-great being reason, great being.

"Be cautious."

Whispering softly, following the tidal force that affected the entire world, Su Zhou raised his head and looked at the sky—it was dusk at this time, the sky was dimming, the shining Holy Sun was falling into the western horizon, and the crimson-haloed Demon Moon was rising slowly from the sky, bringing up a turbid source energy storm.

And around the Demon Moon, there was another smaller moon, emitting a dim yellow light, just like Dusk: it was the Moon of Seal, the creation of the gods who sealed the Dusk Dragon in legends, a star created by God.

"Huh?"

But at this moment, Su Zhou couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation. He frowned slightly and looked at the Holy Sun that was slowly falling.

The Holy Sun's radiance was still bright. Even though it was about to fall, it could still illuminate half the earth—without comparison, no one would know that it was weakening, and ordinary people would find it even harder to notice this.

But what surprised Su Zhou was not this... but its shape.

The Holy Sun was not round.

But, it presented an irregular polygon, a strange shape like a cut diamond.

Endless light surged out from the center of this enormous diamond, and then after layers of refraction, it finally turned into an extremely dazzling light, illuminating the entire world.

Whether it was Fu Xiao, Suiguang, or Gasha, Loya, everyone was accustomed to it, and it seemed that this was the shape that the sun in their hearts should have.

In the multiverse, the shape of the sun was not fixed. Spherical ones were stars, not the sun. According to Shao Shuangyue, the worlds she had been to even had triangular suns, so there was nothing strange about it.

However, the straight sun that spanned the heavens and earth in the Perfect World was the key for Su Zhou to turn defeat into victory and slash Taihao into the black hole with a single strike, so after seeing this alien sun, he couldn't help but subconsciously focus his attention on it.

[Professor Svetoyar, please designate the destination.]

And just as Su Zhou was thinking, Suiguang's voice came from behind him.

Turning his head, the master stood solemnly aside, putting his palms together and bowing slightly to him: [I am your prisoner, Ms. Yelena and the Third Army's forces have also been wiped out, and as for the local tribes represented by Armada, they will obviously immediately notice the changes of the Chuyou Research Ship.]

[Not only that, but all the major forces on the Aeon Continent, such as the Empire, the tribes, the Frostmourne Army, the Holy Stone Church, and even our Light Chasing Order, will focus their attention here. We must leave this mountain range quickly.]

"That's right."

Fu Xiao, who was controlling the entire warship, also nodded slightly: "The current Aeon Continent civilization has not yet realized that the end is coming. You have not yet unified the power of the entire civilization to deal with the end. I don't want to get involved in political games, and I don't want my and Einoris's hard work to become other people's bargaining chips."

"Professor Svetoyar, you are the leader of the exploration team, the first human to contact me, and I can also see that your heart is upright and trustworthy."

"Um... the ventilation system has a problem, but everything else is fine. The research ship can operate normally." After checking the research ship again, she came to this conclusion: "Now, it's up to you to choose the direction it will go."

"...Okay, then I won't be polite."

Being watched by everyone, Su Zhou nodded solemnly.

The white-haired man raised his head and turned his gaze to the south: "No matter what the situation is, what I need to do now is to return to the southern city-states, where my orphanage is, as quickly as possible."

"The people from the Third Army must have set up a trap. I don't know what the situation is there, so I have to rush back as soon as possible."

"Okay." Fu Xiao agreed readily, and Master Suiguang also nodded: [That's how it should be.]

The two children, Gasha and Loya, also breathed a sigh of relief—they had always been worried about the current situation of the orphanage.

Because that was the home they and Professor Svetoyar had built together.

"Good kids."

Noticing this, Su Zhou reached out and touched their heads. He said calmly: "Things have come to this, you can't continue your previous peaceful lives... You must master power."

"In the few days it takes to rush back to the orphanage, I will teach you a new method of cultivation."

"Yay!"

"This... can I learn it?"

Compared to Loya's simple happiness, Gasha was a little cramped.

The black-haired, golden-eyed boy tightened his grip on the handle of his shield a little nervously. He said softly: "My talent is not as good as Loya's. I can learn anything I read... Professor, you also said that I'm not good at learning too complicated guidance techniques..."

--Good heavens, the future World-Overturning Serpent is saying that he doesn't have talent, this humble look is quite like me.

Shaking his head slightly, Su Zhou smiled and said, "Can you write your own name?"

Hearing this, Gasha couldn't help but be stunned: "...Of course I can."

"Then don't worry, you will definitely be able to learn it."

Smiling softly, Su Zhou turned his head again and looked at the world that was falling into Dusk.

The Holy Sun had set, and the sky was dark.

Above the sky, the rhombus-shaped mobile warship emitted blue-green source energy around it, becoming a light source brighter than starlight.

It resisted gravity and floated into the thick snow clouds above the mountains.

Then, it turned into a stream of light.

Sailing towards a larger world.

It was a bit of a writing block, but I finished this short section.