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

Jing Yuan advised, "If you just wanted to vent your anger, then I've already done that! Transforming Mark into a Devouring Beast was Mark's own choice. It's just that the plan failed. They wanted to extract Mark's life essence, so we had to take him back."

Now that things have developed this way, our top priority is to wake Mark up, even if his appearance has turned into a Devouring Beast, his soul is still Mark!

Ran Bing stepped forward and said, "Jing Yuan is right, Mark is still alive. No matter what he becomes, we cannot give up on him!"

Carrie added, "Even if we wanted to awaken Mark, we couldn't. We still know too little about the Mana ecosystem and the Devourers."

Jing Yuan was silent for a moment, then said, "Let me think about it some more!"

Jingyuan looked at Mark.

Suddenly, he felt a surge of spiritual energy.

"Jingyuan!"

"Master Lai?"

Jingyuan sensed Master Lai's spiritual power, and he was trying to communicate with Jingyuan using his spiritual power.

"Master Lai, what do you want to do?"

"I just learned from Bai Yuekui that you took Mark away!"

"Yes."

"I know you're all angry about Mark's current situation. But this is something none of us wanted to see. Since things have come to this point, Jingyuan, we have no choice but to continue!"

Jing Yuan sneered, "I will not allow you to extract Mark's life essence for experiments."

"No! No, no!" Master Lai quickly denied. "Actually, Bai Yuekui and I also have disagreements on this matter. She wants to extract Mark's life essence for the next experiment. But Mark's body is already in its most perfect state. All of this is thanks to the fact that Mark is a naturally grown individual. It would be difficult to repeat this success in another cloning experiment."

Jing Yuan angrily asked, "Then why did Bai Yuekui still do this?"

"Perhaps it's because she's failed so many times that she's become accustomed to thinking that if a plan fails, it has to be scrapped and started all over again. But... Mark still has a chance to wake up."

"Mark has a chance to wake up? How?" Jing Yuan asked hurriedly.

"Although Mark has integrated with the spinal worm, he is only a chimera, not a complete mana creature."

To restore Mark's full craniosynthesis abilities, he needs to be modified with triple-stranded DNA. And to do this, besides Ecology's intervention, only the remnants of the Zeon Empire possess this capability!

"The Republic of Zeon?" Jing Yuan looked puzzled. He was still at the Ecological Research Institute. He looked at Carrie beside him and asked, "Dr. Carrie, do you know about the Republic of Zeon?"

“The Republic of Zeon?” Carrie nodded and said, “The Republic of Zeon is one of the countries in the Old World. It is a technologically advanced nation on par with the Hela Empire and the Hela Empire. They focus on gene modification technology, hoping to break through the limits of human lifespan with biotechnology. The Miracle Potion and Angel Potion of the Old World are both supported by the technology of Zeon scientists.”

Jingyuan then asked, "Are there any survivors in the Kingdom of Zeon?"

“Nothing has been found yet!” Carrie said, then suddenly remembered something and quickly added, “Maybe! The gene serum that Charles’s men took, and the miracle serum that Charles used, might have been made by the descendants of Gene!”

Jingyuan didn't speak, but continued to communicate with Master Lai using his mental power, "How do you know that the descendants of Gene have this ability?"

Master Lai said, "Right now, I cannot access Mana's ecological network to obtain information, but I can communicate with the Devouring Extremes. Over the years, I have been communicating with the Devouring Extremes all over the world and have learned that there are ecological chimeras in some place."

"An eco-chimera like Mark?"

"Correct!"

"If we can find the remnants of the Gene race, with their help, perhaps we can awaken Mark!"

Chapter 247 Searching for Clues to Gene

Jingyuan fell silent. After a long while, he finally responded to Master Lai, "Where are the descendants of the Gene?"

"I do not know."

"If you don't know, why are you telling me all this?"

"My information came from low-level Devouring Beasts. Those creatures only possess simple consciousness; they only know of the existence of the Eco-Chimera. I also deduced, based on other information, that it was done by the remnants of the Zeon."

After Master Lai finished speaking, he added, "Jingyuan, hand Mark over to me. I'll go find the remnants of the Zeon people. If we can get them to change Mark's genes to the triple-chain mode, perhaps we can awaken Mark!"

"I will not hand Mark over to you!" Jing Yuan said, then severed his mental connection with Master Lai.

Jing Yuan stared at Mark's Devouring Beast body, lost in thought.

"Jingyuan, what's wrong?" Penny noticed that Jingyuan's expression was a little strange, so she asked.

Jingyuan looked at Penny, then at Jingnan and Ranbing beside him.

"Penny, Jingnan, Ranbing, the three of you come with me!"

The three of them didn't know what Jingyuan was going to do. They only heard him say one sentence before they silently followed him away.

Jingyuan led the three of them to the archives room.

This surprised the three of them.

"Jingyuan, why did you bring us to the archives?" Jingnan asked.

"I'd like you to help me find some information about the Old World's Zeon Kingdom in the archives."

"The Republic of Zeon?"

Jingyuan had just asked Jiali about the Kingdom of Gene, and now he wanted to find information about it. The three of them couldn't help but find it strange.

"If you need to find information, why not bring more people?"

"I don't want to know about too many people."

Ran Bing asked疑惑地问道, "Is it related to Mark?"

Jingyuan nodded and said, "Master Lai just sent me a message, asking me to give him Mark. He said that the remnants of the Gene Kingdom can awaken Mark!"

"What?" Ran Bing asked hurriedly, "Are you going to hand Mark over to him?"

“Don’t worry, we won’t hand Mark over to anyone.” Jing Yuan looked at them and said his thoughts, “I want to find the Gene survivors myself.”

Jingnan was skeptical about this matter. "Didn't you say that Master Lai is untrustworthy?"

"Yes! That's why I'm going to find the Gene survivors myself, instead of handing Mark over to him!"

Jingyuan looked at Jingnan and said, "Jingnan, have the lighthouse leave this place."

"where to?"

"Let's look for clues about the remnants of the Zeon people first. Until we find any clues, let's go to a supply depot!"

"Okay! I'll arrange it right away."

Jingnan left the archives, leaving Jingyuan, Peini, and Ranbing to search for clues inside.

The archives in the archives room are numerous, and there is no computer system for searching them.

Jingyuan and his team had to take each hard drive to the computer and search for it one by one, which was a very slow process.

When Jingnan returned after arranging the lighthouse route, they still hadn't found anything.

While reviewing the materials, Jingyuan discovered that a lot of information in the archives had been cut.

In particular, much of the content about the old world was removed.

"Isn't this an enlightened practitioner?"

Hearing Penny's exclamation, Jingyuan quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

“I saw a 30-year-old file on the lighthouse that recorded a rebel who appeared on the lighthouse at that time!”

This rebel possessed strange abilities and was identified as a devil and a heretic.

Based on the description of him in the file, I speculate that he should be a person with superpowers.

This superhuman not only demonstrated his powerful abilities, but also led a group of people to overthrow the city lord's rule.

However, he was later suppressed by Morgan and his men.

It was from that time onward that Morgan became very wary of people with superpowers.

Jingyuan wasn't too surprised to hear Penny say these things.

When Charles launched his first coup, Morgan wanted to kill Jingyuan on the spot as soon as he heard that Jingyuan was a superhuman.

If Jingyuan hadn't possessed a system that allowed him to level up quickly, and if Morgan hadn't been powerless to stop him by the time he discovered it, he probably would have suffered the same fate as that other superhuman.

"I've made some discoveries," Ran Bing suddenly said.

"What did you find?"

Ran Bing said, "There is a fragmented file here that records that when Morgan was still the commander of the Wilderness Hunters, he encountered a strange Devouring Beast on the ground. When the recorder Gordon was recording, he made sure to preserve some of the things Morgan said at the time."

"What did he say?"

“Monsters, they are not human, they sacrificed their souls to the devil.” Ran Bing looked at the others. “Gorden didn’t know what the monsters were either, so he deliberately kept Morgan’s original description of those monsters.”

Jing Nan said, "Perhaps it is a Devouring Beast. Some Devouring Beasts can imitate humans, and we have encountered quite a few in the past."

Jingyuan was skeptical of this.

He went to Ran Bing's computer and looked through the records in the files one by one.

I only saw half of it before the rest of the content disappeared.

According to the operation log, it was deleted manually.

If this is just an ordinary file about an encounter with a Devouring Beast, why would it need to be deleted?

"It's a pity that there's nothing more!" Ran Bing felt puzzled. "At that time, Morgan's hunters had already fought against the Devouring Beast. If it was just a simple Devouring Beast, he had no reason to say those things."