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

Feixue, who was walking ahead, stopped abruptly, unaware of what had happened.

"what happened?"

Jingyuan walked forward, squatted down, and carefully examined the footprints on the ground.

Jingyuan pointed to the footprints and said, "There are some footprints here."

"Is it from a Devouring Beast?"

"No, it's a human footprint, but the foot is very large!"

Jingyuan roughly estimated that the footprint was about fifty centimeters long. If it were a human, it would be at least a giant with a height of about three meters.

"The footprints here indicate that someone has been here recently."

Is it an eco-chimera?

Chapter 251 Gene's Remnants

The tallest human being is only a little over two meters tall.

According to relevant records, even the cyborgs of the Old World were not this tall.

Jingyuan suspected that these were footprints left by an eco-chimera of the descendants of the Zeon people.

If these people were humanoid Devouring Beasts like Mark, they might have left such large footprints.

However, Jingyuan still had some doubts.

He had seen not only Mark, but also Tao Jun, and they all had animal feet and did not need to wear shoes.

These footprints were clearly left by shoes.

Jingyuan said doubtfully, "Let's follow the footprints."

Jingyuan and the others followed the footprints further inside and found that these footprints appeared in many corners of the research institute.

However, due to the complex environment in the laboratory, not every place was covered with footprints.

Where no clear footprints were left, it wasn't that there were no marks, but rather that the marks were too messy to be identified.

It seems that there was more than one group of people at this research institute.

Feixue walked to a room, looked at the footprints inside, and then came back out. "The footprints in several rooms show that they went in, walked around, and came out. It seems like the owner of the footprints was looking for something."

The newly discovered giant footprints filled Jingyuan with curiosity about the place.

He began to scan his surroundings with his mental powers.

As they ventured deeper into the research institute, they came to a dead end.

This area is buried under a large amount of gravel and silt. It appears to be a collapse caused by a geological disaster.

"There's no way out, let's go to the other side!"

Jingyuan stared at the area blocked by rubble and said, "I sense there is another huge space ahead."

Jingyuan's mental power can only sense the aura of life essence on a large scale, but on a small scale, it can perceive the structure of the surrounding space.

The ruins blocked the road, and were at least ten meters deep. Most people would have found another way.

But Jingyuan is different.

He manipulated the scales to form a giant drill bit, which he then used to drill directly into the ruins.

With the current strength of the scale plate's material, even a king-level body could be drilled through it, let alone a pile of rubble and ruins.

Before long, Jingyuan used a drill to forcefully drill a passage.

Jingyuan led the way into the passage.

Emerging from the passage, it was still pitch black.

Jing Yuan scanned upwards and discovered that this place was more than ten meters above the ground.

He turned on the lights and looked around.

This is also a laboratory, but unlike the previous laboratories, it is very clean and tidy.

The others who followed Jingyuan in were also somewhat surprised by the layout of the laboratory.

The six searched around and found a power switch.

Jingyuan walked over and pulled the power switch, and the room suddenly lit up.

"There's electricity here!"

So many years have passed, it's impossible for the research institute to still have intact circuit facilities.

The fact that this place has electricity means that someone must be maintaining it.

Jingyuan scanned again with his mental power, but still found no trace of anyone.

"Everyone, search the area!"

"it is good!"

The crowd dispersed and searched the area.

In the laboratory, Jingyuan saw many rusty experimental devices, and even some bottles and jars containing slices of some kind of organism.

"There's a passage here!"

Fei Yuan's voice came from next door, and Jing Yuan quickly went over.

Outside one of the laboratories, there is a long, narrow passageway.

This underground laboratory has five rooms and its total area is about the size of two basketball courts.

They found a generator and experimental equipment here.

All of this indicates that someone has been here recently.

And they weren't just there for a quick visit; otherwise, they wouldn't have left generators and experimental equipment here.

Of the five laboratories, there was only one passageway, so Jingyuan led his men toward the other end of the passageway.

The passage is about 100 meters long, and there is a door at the end.

Jingyuan opened the door and found a small garage outside, with a motorcycle parked inside.

Feixue turned on a switch next to her, and the outer door of the warehouse opened.

On the other side of the door was the desert outside.

Jingyuan came outside and looked back at the small garage. After the door was closed, it was hidden in the yellow sand and not very noticeable.

Two shallow tire tracks are still faintly visible in front of the gate.

Jingyuan estimated that the presence of the tire tracks indicated that the people who lived here had left recently.

Clearly, while this laboratory could evade the Devouring Beasts, it did not meet the conditions to become a long-term living base.

However, a generator and experimental equipment were left in the laboratory.

If they came to collect supplies, then the generators and experimental equipment were left behind.

Jingyuan looked in the direction where the wheel tracks disappeared.

He thought to himself that even if the Zeon were creatures with Mana genes, they wouldn't live in the wild.

In that direction, that's exactly where they're headed next, the J-41 marker, which is an abandoned city!

"Let's go! Let's follow the wheel tracks and take a look!"

Jingyuan controlled the scale disc to fly everyone back to the spaceship's location, and then they all flew away together in the spaceship.

The spaceship arrived over the ruins of J-41 city, but he was in no hurry to land.

Finding a group of people in the wilderness is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

Even if Jingyuan's mental power could cover a range of twenty kilometers in diameter, he could only rely on luck.

Inside the spaceship, Jing Yuan unleashed his mental power, taking in the entire city ruins.

There are many Devouring Beasts in the ruins of this city.

When not hunting, the Devouring Beasts mostly wander aimlessly.

Jingyuan's consciousness traversed the city ruins, observing the condition of these Devouring Beasts.

Suddenly, amidst the life essence aura of a group of Devouring Beasts, he detected several different auras.

"It's the scent of a human!"

There were nine human auras in total, and it seemed they were trying to escape!

Jing Yuan got up from the pilot's seat and said to Penny beside him, "Penny, you pilot the spaceship and keep it hovering here. I'm going out to take a look!"

"it is good!"

Jing Yuan manipulated the scale disc to transform into a sword shape, leaving the spaceship and flying straight towards the direction of human presence.

Jing Yuan moved very fast, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived above those auras.

Looking down from the air, he saw an unexpected scene.