Ling Cage: I am a spiritual master, devouring source matter to become a god.

To ensure safety, please back up the information in the beacon regularly.

Awaiting confirmation, I will send you a message. Please prepare a full-band receiver and data storage device!

After hearing this, Jingyuan immediately turned to Jingnan and said, "Jingnan, go and prepare full-band receivers and storage devices right away. Take as many as you can."

Chapter 204 Super Weapon "Soul Annihilation"

Hearing Jingyuan's words, Jingnan was puzzled, but she was the first to react.

Jingyuan kept asking everyone if they had heard the sounds coming from inside.

This indicates that the metal cylinder is sending a message to Jingyuan.

Jingnan didn't ask a single question and turned to get the equipment.

The others still looked puzzled.

Quaid asked impatiently, "Jingyuan, do you know what this is?"

Jingyuan nodded and said to everyone:

"This is a beacon from an ancient civilization, or in layman's terms, a time capsule. Inside are messages sent to us by that ancient civilization. It sends signals via brainwaves, requiring a sufficiently powerful brain to receive them. The reason your workers kept fainting was because it forcibly activated the communication mode, causing them to faint due to information overload."

Bai Yuekui stepped forward and asked, "What information is inside it?"

"After the information is transmitted, it will be translated, and then you will know."

Soon, Jingnan and the research department brought the equipment and, as Jingyuan instructed, arranged it around the metal cylinder.

Once everything was ready, Jingyuan said to the metal cylinder, "Confirm, send message!"

The time capsule is bound to the first person it communicates with.

After Jingyuan sends the command, the time capsule transmits data via electromagnetic waves.

The research staff member kept a close eye on the receiving and storage devices. He exclaimed, "We have over a hundred hard drives here, all writing at full speed simultaneously. Just how much data is that!"

Jing Yuan said, "Don't worry, this data is definitely huge." Jing Yuan knew that there was a weapon manufacturing plan inside, which was bound to be substantial.

After only a few minutes, the data transmission stopped.

None of the one hundred hard drives were full, but each had about 30% of its capacity filled with data.

Jingyuan had the technicians connect the hard drive to the computer, and the programs inside began to automatically organize themselves under the system's guidance.

At that moment, a human-shaped image appeared on the computer monitor.

This is a female figure, and also a human being, similar to modern humans, with some differences, but not significant.

She began to speak:

"Our civilization has been fighting against the mana ecosystem for the past few centuries."

"For hundreds of years, our countless soldiers have fought and died one after another in war..."

What she said was exactly what Jingyuan had just heard.

Others were unable to directly receive the raw brainwave information, so they all found Jingyuan's behavior somewhat strange.

However, after they heard the information left behind by the ancient civilization, everyone's face was filled with shock.

Even Bai Yuekui, who had been calm and composed all along, was extremely shocked.

Bai Yuekui knew of the existence of an ancient civilization, and also knew that the ancient civilization was destroyed by the Mana ecosystem.

Master Lai also told her many things.

But she didn't know that the ancient civilization had left behind a super weapon that could destroy the Mana ecosystem.

After hearing the information above, everyone reacted differently.

After listening to this, Xia Tianlai said, "The ancient civilization fought the Mana ecosystem for hundreds of years, and their population only dropped to one-thousandth. We've only been here for fifty or sixty years since the apocalypse, and our population is already only one-hundred-thousandth. Clearly, this ancient civilization is far stronger than us! If they couldn't defeat the Mana ecosystem, do we really have any hope?"

Mark stepped forward. "They left behind a method for manufacturing a super weapon. Perhaps we can use this super weapon to fight the Mana ecosystem!"

"They themselves failed! How can we succeed?"

"How will you know if you don't try."

"They didn't succeed because they didn't get a second chance! But we can build on their success and make a second attempt!"

"We've reached the final stage. Do we even have the capability to manufacture the weapons?"

The people from Lighthouse and Dragonbone Village chatted amongst themselves.

Jingyuan then looked at Jingnan and asked, "Jingnan, with our strength, can we create this weapon?"

Jingnan was also unsure. She said, "I will gather all the engineers at the lighthouse to study this together and give you an answer as soon as possible."

Since the equipment all belonged to the lighthouse, the main research work was carried out by Jingnan and Jessica, along with the lighthouse engineers.

During this brief pause, Jing Yuan approached Bai Yuekui and asked, "Boss Bai, you just mentioned the sacred artifact of the Heluo civilization. Did you already know that the sacred artifact of the Heluo civilization was also a time capsule?"

Bai Yuekui pondered for a moment and said, "I've only seen the sacred objects of the Heluo civilization in ancient books. They just seem somewhat similar, so I'll let you try them with electricity."

According to the records of the ancient Heluo civilization, they discovered a sacred object that could communicate with people after being struck by electricity.

Judging from a modern perspective, if that sacred object wasn't a product of extraterrestrial technology, it was either a product of ancient civilization's technology.

Did that sacred object mention the ecology of Mana?

"Probably not!" Bai Yuekui said uncertainly. "The ancient Heluo people discovered the sacred object thousands of years ago. The sacred object itself has long since disappeared into the river of history. What we know is just a little information passed down by the ancients through written records. Even if it was mentioned, it probably hasn't been passed down."

"The images in the time capsule say that they left behind ten thousand time capsules, and perhaps that sacred object is one of them," Jing Yuan analyzed.

Bai Yuekui also did not rule out this possibility.

Soon, Jingnan and his team used computers to organize all the information.

Over the course of fifty million years, this information has become damaged to varying degrees.

Even so, this information preservation technology is already quite impressive.

Jing Nan handed Jing Yuan a tablet computer and said, "They used special methods to preserve the weapon manufacturing methods to the greatest extent possible, but there are only a few words describing their civilization."

Jingyuan glanced at the computer and said, "It doesn't matter. We're not doing archaeology. For us, the most useful thing is weapons."

Jing Yuan glanced at the beginning and asked in confusion, "The Star Twilight Civilization?"

Jingnan explained: "This is a transliteration. A direct translation would be 'Earth' or 'humanity.' The name that any civilization uses to refer to itself, when translated from a semantic perspective, corresponds to how we refer to ourselves, so transliteration is generally used."

Jingyuan nodded, then continued looking at the documents.

The same information was also given to Mark and Bai Yuekui.

According to the translated information, the Stardust Civilization once achieved great success, establishing a global empire that unified all people on Earth.

They are technologically advanced and militarily powerful.

Even at the very beginning of the Mana ecosystem, everyone was able to unite to fight the enemy.

It is precisely because of their unity that they have been able to persevere for hundreds of years in their struggle against the mana ecosystem!

The Devouring Beasts, now considered a great enemy by humans, are insignificant in the eyes of the Stardust Civilization.

They had wiped out all the Devourers on the planet, thinking that this would defeat the Mana Ecosystem.

However, the Devouring Beasts soon returned.

They realized that the Mana ecosystem itself was the key; as long as the Mana ecosystem existed, killing more Devouring Beasts would be useless.

Through years of research, they discovered that the ground vine possesses a massive amount of life essence. Since the Mana ecosystem primarily absorbs life essence, they speculate that the ground vine may be the main component of the Mana ecosystem.

The ground vine is very large; what people see in reality is just a very small branch of the ground vine.

The earth vine's main body is still beneath the entire earth's surface, covering the entire planet.

In some ways, the earth vine has even become one with the earth.

If we physically eradicate the vines, the Earth will also be destroyed; such an act is tantamount to suicide.

So they developed a weapon to destroy the soul of the earth vine, believing that this would end the Mana ecosystem.

This weapon is called "Soul Destroyer"!

They originally thought that by attacking any part of the Earth Vine with Soul Extinction, "Soul Extinction" could destroy the Earth Vine's soul from the local to the whole, just like a virus erodes it.

Unfortunately, they failed.

However, they still believe that this plan is feasible, but they should not attack the local parts of the vines, but rather the core.

Scientists from the Stardust Civilization speculate that if they can find the core of the Earth Vine and release Soul Destroyer there, they can completely annihilate the Earth Vine and end the Mana ecosystem.

After reviewing the information, Jingyuan looked at Jingnan and asked, "Can we create the weapon 'Soul Destroyer'?"

"Wait a mininute!"

Since the information was being explained and shown to them simultaneously, Jingnan was the first to see the information.

After a moment, Jingnan said, "We are fully capable of manufacturing weapons, but we lack the materials."

"Killing the earth vines is useless!"

Chapter 205 The Higher-Dimensional Life Behind It