Alien Dust

Chapter 349 Dark Engine

Will dark radiation turn living people into evil spirits?
Wu Hen has seen evil spirits.

The evil city where I met my aunt...

Could it be that the Zaiwuxie city actually originated here?

I remember that female prison officer just mentioned the dark energy spring.

The spiritual energy that I discovered through perception is a gathering place of spiritual factors that I can absorb and integrate to quickly improve my cultivation. Is it called the dark energy spring here?

For a moment, many questions surged in Wu Hen's mind, and at the same time he had a strong premonition that the place where he woke up this time was most likely his aunt's hometown, but he didn't know where she was now.

Wu Hen was taken to the central square of the town.

Soon, some people in white uniforms brought in a long table and pulled up a warning bar, blocking the residents who came to watch the excitement from outside.

The square is not big, roughly the size of a basketball court.

The prison combat personnel were lined up in a row, the warden and the female prison officer sat on temporary seats next to them, and in the middle were three people in white clothes, who looked like the presiding judge and deputy presiding judge.

Although it was simple, Wu Hen did not expect that he would not be thrown into prison, but would be publicly tried on the street.

"Bai Luobo, you were caught stealing the dark matter spring by us. If you confess directly, we will escort you to the nearest city tomorrow morning and imprison you for ten years to provide energy for the city." said the white-robed judge.

"Didn't you say you would give me a fair trial? If you wanted to convict me directly, there would be no need to go through this formality." Wu Hen also defended himself on the spot.

"This is the soil of our Daxuan. All the springs here belong to our Daxuan. Unauthorized mining, possession, absorption, and theft are all serious crimes!" said the president of the court in white.

"But no one told me this. I came here from the Zhenwu Continent. My body's energy was exhausted, so I naturally collected spiritual springs when I saw them in the wild." Wu Hen also made up a reason.

"Are you a Xuanzhen practitioner?" asked the white-robed president.

"I don't know, but when I was traveling in another dimension in the past, collecting spiritual springs was a very normal thing. I don't understand the laws of your land, so how can it be called stealing?" Wu Hen said.

At this time, the warden also came over and explained the circumstances of capturing the prisoner. It was true that the prisoner had something similar to true qi protecting his body.

"Don't worry, we give foreigners one chance to reform. If you really don't understand our laws and it's a first offense, we won't convict you." The warden said.

"Then you will have to answer a few questions for us. Please answer truthfully. If there is even the slightest deception, we will regard you as having contempt of our laws and increase the punishment!" said the presiding judge in white.

"Okay." Wu Hen nodded.

"Is this your first time stepping into the Cang Chu Divine Realm?" asked the white-robed president.

"Yes." Wu Hen replied.

"Have you ever felt lost?" asked the judge in white.

"I don't know." Wu Hen answered truthfully.

How can a lost person know that he is lost? If he knows that he is lost, then he is not a real lost person.

After hearing Wu Hen's answer, the president of the court and the warden immediately started talking in a low voice, as if they thought this answer was true.

"Are you for Huangchen's life?" asked the judge in white.

"Yes." Wu Hen nodded.

"After you stepped into here, has anyone told you about our laws regarding dark matter springs?" asked the judge in white.

"No."

"Is this your first time collecting dark energy from the spring without permission?"

"Yes."

"Do you know a legal citizen on this land who can testify for you?" the president then asked.

Wu Hen remained silent on this issue.

Wu Hen didn't know whether the old man he knew was a legal citizen.

Moreover, the reason why I ended up in this situation was largely due to the fact that I did not listen to the old grandfather. He specifically told me not to run around and not to travel at night.

Seeing that Wu Hen did not answer the question, the judge in white did not press the issue any further.

The three judges talked for a while and then spoke to the warden.

"We can't convict you for now, but we can't let you go either. Our temporary court has decided to detain you in the town temporarily. You will be required to work for the town on a voluntary basis until someone testifies for you or your information is confirmed by our superiors. Only then will you be set free." said the judge in white.

"How long will it take for your superiors to confirm? If they don't confirm, won't it be equivalent to being imprisoned here forever?" Wu Hen asked.

"Don't worry. If there is no trace of your crime in our criminal database, you will be exempted. We will go to the upper city for rest in about a month. You only need to stay here for a month at most if you are innocent and honest." said the president in white.

Wu Hen couldn't say anything and could only follow the laws they followed here.

"Then what can I do?" Wu Hen asked.

"This suspect has outstanding abilities and can use his body as a container to collect dark energy. Let him help us mine the dark energy spring." The warden suggested. "Good suggestion."

Wu Hen was also speechless!
You think I'm an oil drilling rig, right?

I cultivated to the realm of spiritual fusion, which meant I wanted to conquer the entire universe. I didn't expect that I had just woken up and had not collected much spiritual energy from heaven and earth before I was captured by this high-dimensional technological civilization. As a cultivator, I should have been a master of the universe, but I ended up as a hard laborer.

However, the strength of this prison town also allowed Wu Hen to see the strength of the Cangchu Shendu human race. What cultivators, what cosmic supermen, all have to work as cattle and horses for their cosmic capitalists. You can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, right? Then you can be a humanoid collector...

"Okay, there's no immediate danger to your life. It doesn't matter where you work as a beast of burden."

"Fortunately, no one here knows me. Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for a great human emperor to volunteer in another civilization."

Wu Hen’s mentality is still pretty good.

This is the condition when you wake up, so the days ahead will be harder, which is normal.

If I were to step into this place in the form of a desolate life form, these people would have to respectfully address me as the Supreme Lord from Beyond Heaven. How dare they treat me like this? I could overturn this prison town in a matter of minutes. You have to know that my original body is a sixth-order life form!

……

Neck cuffs must be worn.

Suppressing Wu Hen's extraordinary abilities.

Wu Hen paid special attention to the people here. Most of them were not extraordinary, but very ordinary wasteland creatures, especially the residents in the town, who were at the level of Yinghui and Yeyou.

However, as part of the entire prison town, each of them has a clear division of labor, and they all play a certain role in making the town start like a living thing. When these people form a living vein, the fighting power that erupts from the entire prison town is quite terrifying. Although Wu Hen's body was very weak after waking up and he didn't even reach the first level of physique, but a saint cultivator is not a decoration, and he couldn't defeat this living town.

After working for a few days, Wu Hen's powerful collection ability impressed the townspeople and also won the favor of the town's management. They did not expect this stranger to be so efficient, and the collection effect of one person was equivalent to the labor force of an entire town.

You know, the collectors in the small town are equipped with instruments and machines, but there is no super humanoid collector like Wu Hen.

Soon the prison town was replenished with energy and became noticeably "stronger".

"Warden, we are in great need of vegetables and fresh fruits. The children in this town have already fallen ill with eczema, and the workers often fall asleep at their posts. I'm afraid that if they don't have time to return to the city, evil spirits will breed!" said a woman in uniform.

The main business of this town is the prison, and the warden is actually the mayor, who needs to make decisions for the town.

"I'll find a way," said the warden.

"It must be resolved as soon as possible!" the woman said in a tough tone.

"Got it, got it!" The warden waved his hand.

Wu Hen was right next to them, he was taking some time off.

In fact, he only worked two hours a day and spent the rest of the time wandering around the town.

Because of his outstanding performance, people in the town looked at him with admiration and would give him delicious food from time to time. The women in the town also often invited Wu Hen to their homes for meals.

Wu Hen was sitting on an observation deck in the city, chewing an apple.

The warden walked past Wu Hen, glanced at him, and gave a bitter smile.

"Our town is in such short supply of fresh fruit, and you're still able to get one. I, the warden, haven't tasted fruit for almost a month, and for a moment I couldn't tell who the criminals were." The warden said to Wu Hen.

"Here, if you don't mind." Wu Hen threw the half-eaten apple to the warden.

The warden didn't hesitate to pick it up and took a bite. He was intoxicated by the sweet and delicious taste of the apple and let out a sigh of enjoyment.

"Old Lie, I'm very curious, what drives your town?" Wu Hen asked.

Wu Hen still remembers that night when he was chased like a mole by the prison monster. At that time, the entire town was like an extremely agile hound, hunting on the ground in a way that was quite unphysical!
There are also mechas in my own home.

But compared with such a large prison town, the mecha actually looks like a toy.

If the imperial mechas in the home also had such a powerful drive, their combat effectiveness would be raised to another dimension.

"It's not a secret, and you don't have to wait so long to ask me. We use the dark energy engine, which is what you collect for us every day." said the warden.

"We call it Reiki."

“Yes, Master Xuan calls it spiritual energy, and we call it dark energy,” said the warden.

"That is to say, there is a giant engine in your town, and it is this engine that drives the entire prison town like an ancient war beast?" Wu Hen asked.

"Yes, the Dark Engine is one of the core elements of our Daxuan Dynasty."

"I have been to some countries before. They use steam, electricity, and nuclear energy to drive their engines..."

"Oh, we have experienced all of these, but they were all eliminated in the end. However, these antique engines also have special value to us. If we discover these ancient technological civilizations, we will annex them." said the warden.

"But you can't even afford to eat fruit, and they have long enjoyed fruit freedom."

"What you said is true. They are generally in the protection period of the microcosm. After the protection period, it is good enough to be able to live like humans. If we don't need to fight with the evil country of another dimension, why should we not be free? If we lose, how many low-dimensional civilizations will be destroyed..." said the warden unhappily.

(End of this chapter)