Millennium Witch.

Chapter 108-107- Sky Whale Project
At the end of April, the sunlight spread like melted butter across every corner of Yangon's streets. The old oak trees along the road sprouted tender green buds, swaying gently in the breeze and casting dappled light and shadow on the asphalt.

Sitting in a white rocking chair in the courtyard, Yvette glanced at the workers bustling about in the corridor, then turned on her magic terminal to check the latest news online.

This is the house she just rented in downtown Fusjiang. It's a two-story villa with more than a dozen rooms, a garage, and a small garden.

The workers currently busy at work are cleaning staff from the housekeeping company she hired. The house has probably been unoccupied for too long; dust has accumulated everywhere. Using wind magic would only make her look dusty herself, so after some thought, she decisively chose to spend money.

After checking the news in New Eden and confirming that her photos were not circulating online, Yvette then logged into her New Eden citizen account and checked her inbox.

There are quite a few messages here from Miss Eileen and the middleman Caster, all sent in the last two days, for reasons that are self-evident.

Not only them, but even the mysterious torchbearer of the Civilization Survival Society forwarded the relevant news to her, adding a thumbs-up emoji, seemingly expressing admiration in a concise way.

So, leaving Miss Eileen and Castor aside for the time being, Yvette sent a message to the Firebearer: "Do you know anything about the Cooks underground base?"

This is the information she has been searching for in her spare time over the past two days, but the information she has obtained is limited. She doesn't know if it has been blocked or if the event is indeed so mysterious that even the local residents of Cookes don't know about it.

"I know," the torchbearer replied quickly.

"how much is it?"

"10 credits."

"So cheap?" Yvette was somewhat surprised, wondering if this was not some important intelligence.

But since the information couldn't be found online, she still paid directly—310 million credits, after deducting 120 million in personal income tax, left her with 190 million, allowing her to indulge in some limited luxuries.

Fortunately, the state where customs is located has no state income tax; otherwise, in a state with higher state taxes, it might have cost another 300,000 to 400,000 less.

After receiving the money, the Fireman immediately said, "The Cooks Underground Base was a research base jointly established by the Federal Government and Lintui Biotechnology, but it has been abandoned. The project researched there in the past was to resurrect ancient giant whales as large-scale biological weapons secretly cultivated by the Federation."

"Ancient giant whale?" Yvette immediately recalled relevant historical information.

According to archaeological discoveries, during the ancient civilization period 3 years ago, Origin Star once had a very prosperous high magic era, with giant dragons soaring in the sky. Equally famous and terrifying as the dragons were two other well-known monsters: giant whales and giant squids.

Among them, whales are believed to possess the ability to fly and are the overlords of the sky and sea who can rival dragons, while giant squid are considered the kings of the deep sea. Once dragged underwater by a giant squid, even a dragon would die without a burial place.

“That’s right, it’s that giant whale from the ancient civilization era,” the Firebearer said. “That was in the latter half of the last century. At that time, the United States of New Eden had a conflict with the Black Tide Federation. Shortly afterward, the Black Tide Corporation discovered a relatively well-preserved fossil of an ancient giant squid in the deep sea. They then cooperated with the Black Tide Federation to formulate the ‘Sea Demon Project’, wanting to obtain the genetic sequence from the ancient giant squid fossil to revive this super monster from 3 years ago and use it as a giant biological weapon to gain control of the sea.”

"The New Eden government already possesses well-preserved ancient whale fossils. Provoked by the Black Tide Federation, it launched a biological weapons competition with them. They and 'Lin Tui Bio' initiated a project called 'Project Sky Whale' in an attempt to revive ancient whales capable of flying and diving, in order to counterbalance the Black Tide Federation's giant squid and ensure that their control of the seas near Black Tide Continent remains secure."

"And then what? Did it succeed?" Yvette thought of the mountain whales under the Purple Commander's command that kept flying from Cooks to the North Sea, and finally understood why he chose that location as his base.

It turns out that the materials he needed to hatch mountain whales were there!
"No, the plan has failed."

"Failed?"

"The world environment is completely different now. How could such a plan possibly succeed? Whether it's a giant dragon, a giant whale, or a giant squid, they are all products of a high-magic environment. Even if they were successfully resurrected, how long could they survive in this world? It's just that people at that time were too naive in their understanding of this matter, and it was just a joke they made."

The Fire Bearer's reply carried a hint of sarcasm: "In short, these two projects, which consumed countless taxpayers' money from various countries and were extremely costly, were hastily aborted. Apart from feeding a few patrons who were lining their own pockets, they were of no significance. The research base in Cux City has been sealed off, and even related information has been blocked. You can only access historical materials on this topic by connecting to the network of Emerald Continent or Silver Mirror Continent."

Now Yvette knew why the Firebearers were so cheap; it turned out that this information could be directly accessed by simply using a VPN that could connect to different continents.

She was somewhat annoyed, then asked, "Did Project Sky Whale leave behind any embryos or anything like that?" The Fire Bearer was somewhat surprised: "How did you know that?"

"So it exists?"

“Yes, but they are some frozen embryos of imitation organisms that are almost impossible to hatch. They are the only thing that can be called ‘achievement’ in this stupid plan…” the Firebearer said. “This is the core secret of this plan. Apart from the relevant high-ranking officials of the federal government and Lintui Biotechnology, no one outside should know about it. Miss Wuming, you are really surprising me more and more for knowing this information.”

“Same to you.” Yvette said, then thought of the Black Tide Corporation’s Sea Demon Project, wondering if she would encounter the mutated giant squid in the water again in the future, but she didn’t know whether its combat power was higher or lower than that of the mountain whale.

"By the way, do you know where Zero and One are?" she asked again.

She didn't say who Zero and Number One were, but given the Firebringer's current behavior, she believed they knew who she was talking about.

“I don’t know, but you must have gone to Rusty Bones. But since you’re asking this question, I guess you, Miss Nameless, perhaps obtained some clues in Fusjiang?” the Firebearer said meaningfully.

……

After receiving some confirmation from the Flame Bearer, Yvette ended her conversation with him and began to focus on how to find Zero and Number One.

From a pragmatic perspective, acquiring knowledge of necromancy from the Holy Spirit Cult should be a priority.

But this is risky, and besides, she herself is more interested in the two little girls, since it concerns her past.

What were those three ultimate questions in philosophy again?

Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going?

Although she already knew where she came from, how could she know where to go if she didn't figure out who she was?

……

That evening, Yvette bought several time capsules and decided to find a good place to bury them.

Even though the Firth River will be submerged after the apocalypse, she can still identify which areas in the surrounding high-altitude mountains have the most familiar terrain and relatively stable geology. Just in case, she will bury several more in different locations at varying depths to ensure absolute safety.

After doing all this, Yvette returned to the city.

Because of the poor infrastructure in Fusjiang, which greatly limited the rune hacker's abilities, she couldn't find a solution for Zero and One for the time being. So she asked the taxi driver to take her to the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters in the Fusjiang diocese, the "Soulfire Church," intending to gather intelligence there first.

As the religion with the largest number of followers in the Rusty Bone Free State, the Church of Soulfire was still crowded at night, with people coming and going, presumably all there for Mass.

Stepping out of the taxi, Yvette surveyed the black-spired church, finding it rather eerie. The arches resembled rows of ribs, the wall reliefs were pieced together from individual skulls, and the clergy were all uniformly clad in black robes and hoods. However, since this was a place of worship for Death, this was somewhat in line with the overall atmosphere.

After looking around at the entrance for a while, she was about to go inside when a thought suddenly struck her, and she glanced at a certain spot above the black church.

There, she saw a somewhat familiar, translucent face flash by and disappear into the twilight.

She withdrew her gaze expressionlessly and continued walking inside, thinking that the evil spirit she had encountered in the human trafficking park was indeed related to the Holy Spirit Cult.

(End of this chapter)