fifth form

Chapter 3159 The Ultimate Source

"Sister Zhou!"

"You also want to pursue catalytic research?"

"It seems the results of Tianhao's test are in!"

Zhang Xuezhou was extremely slow to reply to messages from many people, and Zhang Manqian was the only one who kept up with his message reminders.

When Zhou Yueyan contacted Zhang Xuezhou, Zhang Xuezhou didn't have much time left. He was already calculating whether 'fast and slow' could recover before the time travel period ended. Zhang Xuezhou also needed to verify whether he could complete the time travel without regard to location like Donghua, without the Soul Locking Pillar or the altar.

They could either regain control to enter the small world to deliver supplies, or conduct shuttle tests.

Zhang Xuezhou waited for the time to come, and also for the choice to be made.

He received a message from Zhou Yueyan and knew very well that Zhou Tianhao's physical test results were as he had imagined.

The strength of genes is a relative state. The Zhou family, who seem to have strong genes, have no problems in terms of data, but they are pitifully weak compared to Xuanming.

A certain amount of catalyst can save Zhou Yueyan and others a lot of genetic resources. This kind of saving is extremely important when breaking through to the seventh sequence. Otherwise, the Zhou family can only keep hunting and use multiple portions of ferocious beast extracts to derive resistance layers, just like Zhou Xin.

Zhang Xuezhou warmly welcomed Zhou Yueyan's team to join the catalytic research.

Luo Burang is a genius-type researcher with a quick and agile mind, while Zhou Yueyan excels in her steady and meticulous approach and is extremely patient in her research.

The former may lead to new research and new directions, while the latter can transform leapfrog research into feasibility studies.

Like Chim Hagrid, he has a leap in thinking and a very good personal style, but Chim Hagrid is currently unable to repeat his past research on catalysts, which can be considered an alternative version of Luo Burang.

Zhou Yueyan's addition can reduce this trouble to some extent, thus replacing Zuo Teng and Zuo Denggao and freeing them from scientific research work.

Just as Zhang Xuezhou was about to send a message to Zuo Teng, his eyelids suddenly lifted.

When his gaze fell upon it, Zhang Xuezhou saw a slightly limping right foot.

Following the foot upwards, Montesbatton's face came into view.

"Are you still in North Rehe?"

Zhang Xuezhou chuckled dryly and glanced at Montespatton again.

He felt that Montespatton had returned a little early, and the increasingly stringent security in the area posed no problem for Montespatton at all; before he could even be notified, Montespatton had already entered the research institute.

"Has Ren Yisheng entered the ninth sequence? Has he mastered 'fast and slow'? Have you found that domain staff from before?"

Montespatton ignored Zhang Xuezhou's somewhat unnatural smile and quickly asked several more questions.

When Zhang Xuezhou shook his head repeatedly, his face darkened considerably.

"What's wrong? Are you having some kind of problem?"

Zhang Xuezhou asked a question, while Montespatton let out a long sigh.

"When the cold wave came, the spiders did not freeze to death. Instead, they hibernated in various crevices and soil. The frozen spiders did not lose their vitality. After being thawed in the laboratory, 50% of them survived and were even able to continue to reproduce!"

To the average person, Montesbatton’s first task after recovering his health would undoubtedly be to fight for the power of the Grand Council.

Upon receiving the notification, Song Fengying even abandoned filming the biological disaster and specially arranged for multiple cameras to wait.

But Montesbatton did not appear in Blanpeda; instead, he headed to the far north.

“I used many methods to find the source,” Montesbarton said. “Look at these photos and videos!”

After taking out a palm-sized storage medium, Zhang Xuezhou used a visual instrument to perform a simple disk reading. One by one, photos taken and selected by Montes Barton came into view, as well as several videos with dim lighting.

The photo shows rows of egg-shaped objects about half a person's height, with countless black spiders moving around.

These black spiders were not the size of a fingernail, but the size of a millstone.

If their chelicerae were stretched out, these spiders would be about three meters long.

Large creatures are ferocious, but the effect of some small creatures in nature becoming gigantic is also savage. "The source shouldn't be just these black spiders causing trouble," Zhang Xuezhou said. "What is the ultimate source you're investigating?"

"A God, a true God!"

As Zhang Xuezhou flipped through the first photo, then the last, and then opened the video, scrolled through several frames, and closed it, he directly asked Montespatton, who had clearly already noticed the problem.

That wasn't something Montesbarton could openly film, nor did it appear in these records.

“I don’t believe it,” Zhang Xuezhou shook his head. “The risk of falling into another dimension is too high. They couldn’t possibly have come here from such a place!”

“Your understanding is profound,” Montespatton nodded. “The source is a true god, but she did not descend in her true form. Instead, she continuously supplies dark power, thereby constantly generating disasters!”

“Power doesn’t come out of thin air, so why would she keep supplying it?” Zhang Xuezhou said. “Don’t tell me it was her son and daughter who came on a fire meteor!”

In Qinmeng, there are tigers that breed second-generation tigers, and Zhang Xuezhou is genuinely worried that another second-generation spider might appear.

Putting aside the strength of the second generation, the key issue is that they either possess deadly treasures or may have the ability to communicate with beings from beyond the heavens, making them unapproachable to outsiders.

Even if you find an opportunity to pursue and kill, it could still trigger a comeback by your opponent.

“It shouldn’t be my son or daughter,” Montesbarton said. “The thing pulling the power at the end of that cave is the corpse of a giant human-faced spider. It died after the ritual to pull the power!”

"Dead still imbuing you with power? Who forgot to turn off the tap? Does a real god have that much free time?"

Zhang Xuezhou exclaimed in surprise, and for a moment he wondered if the second-generation spider had died, and the entity behind it could only vent its power, thus guiding this non-naturally reproduced spider to continuously divide and grow.

“A very powerful life form has emerged in that cave, and it is likely to become even more powerful over time,” Montesbarton emphasized. “If we cannot eradicate the various spiders inside and outside the cave on a large scale, it will be almost impossible for us to eliminate these individuals, let alone cut off the source!”

"Very powerful life forms, various kinds of spiders?"

Zhang Xuezhou felt as if he had heard an alternative version of the virtual furnace.

The same situation occurred with the Void Furnace back then. It relied on the Wild Serpent to occupy countless snake groups in the snake cave, leaving no place for anyone to put their feet.

There's no way to squeeze in, let alone target the Wild Serpent, let alone find the remnants of the Void Furnace.

Zhang Xuezhou never expected that similar things would happen again.

He could only suggest that Montespatton acquire more firearms and use methods such as bombing and burning to attack, or even throw poison gas canisters to kill spiders over a large area, thereby making it possible to eliminate the source.

"It's hard, it's hard!"

Montesbarton shook his head repeatedly.

While rocket launchers and other thermal weapons are highly powerful, they cannot penetrate deep rock layers to reach underground spaces; toxic gases require ventilation and other favorable conditions.

The objects they need to eliminate are not wooden stakes, but powerful beings that also possess advanced intelligence.

Montesbatton estimated that those powerful beings likely possessed strength comparable to the Seventh Sequence.

If the source cannot be eliminated, and instead the beings at the source continue to grow stronger, Montesbatton believes that the Omega Alliance is likely to become the second Qin-Meng Ruins in the future.

Given the possibility of national annihilation, the Grand Speaker of the Omega Alliance held no appeal for him whatsoever.

Putting aside the various troubles of transporting firearms to Qinmeng, and the unreliability of methods such as airdrops, Montesbatton did not want to engage in a war of attrition.

In his plan, the best way to handle the situation would be to gather Ren Yisheng and others into an elite team and then eliminate them silently and precisely using mental combat techniques.

It is somewhat regrettable that Ren Yisheng was locked in this small world and could not get out.

Montespatton, having figured out the situation, looked utterly dejected.

After a while, Montespatton turned his gaze to Zhang Xuezhou.

If I'm not mistaken, Zhang Xuezhou's mental combat skills are also quite good. He could combine with Montes Arthur to fight, which might be equivalent to half of Ren Yisheng's skills.

It was uncertain how long it would take for Ren Yisheng to leave his small world, and Montespatton felt he couldn't wait any longer, so he decided to take the risk and try.

Having missed this cold wave, he fears that the Omega Alliance might not survive until this time next year.