National Survival: I Supported the Dragon Nation by Hunting Dinosaurs

The guards descended straight down from above the crater...

With its six wings folded close to its body, the twenty-ton body transformed into a free-falling projectile, piercing through the dome's cracks and squeezing into the volcano's interior...

The wingspan is too large.

Six wings scraped across the inner rock wall, stirring up a shower of rubble, and the pressure shock wave pressed a depression more than ten meters in diameter into the surface of the lava lake.

Zhang Li jumped off the rock platform immediately.

With a super-bouncy kick, he shattered the rocks beneath his feet, propelling his body horizontally for fifteen meters. His fingers gripped a protruding quartz vein on the inner wall of the cavity, leaving him suspended on the vertical rock face.

The guardian body crashed above the lava lake, spread its wings to slow down, and suddenly opened its six membranous wings. The shockwave overturned the lava shell, and orange-red lava splashed onto the 30-meter-high rock wall.

Zhang Li was hit on the right shoulder by a splash of lava...

1200 degrees!!!

Extreme environmental adaptation reduced the damage by 90%, and the super body recovery worked its best to repair the damage with the energy infusion from the conversion of thermal energy, but a large chunk of muscle tissue was still directly carbonized.

He gritted his teeth, gripped the rock face with one hand, and pulled out the Desert Eagle with the other.

They did not fire immediately.

Because that dark gray mineral shell, which is the same material as the Ark Pyramid, is simply impenetrable!

The guardian hovered with its wings spread in the inner cavity, all six abdominal segments extended, with its hook-shaped horny claws pointing downwards.

The cool green light from the compound eyes refracted repeatedly within the narrow space, illuminating the entire inner cavity in a deep, dark green hue, like that of the deep sea.

It is searching.

Zhang Li activated his optical adaptive camouflage, instantly blending his skin color into the dark red rock wall behind him.

But then the guard's compound eyes turned directly toward his position.

Zhang Li couldn't help but start complaining.

"It has compound eyes like a fly, yet its perception doesn't rely on vision..."

With his all-knowing eye, he was astonished to discover that this thing actually sensed things through heat sources...

In the volcanic cavity, where temperatures exceed 900 degrees Celsius, Zhang Li's body temperature is only 37 degrees Celsius...

He was the "coldest" thing in the entire space, yet he was also the most conspicuous target.

The two twitching limbs moved first, their keratinous claws shooting out towards Zhang Li...

Zhang Li let go and fell, his body sliding down the rock wall. Two flying blades swept past his head and embedded themselves in the rock wall.

The depth of penetration into the stone exceeds thirty centimeters.

Zhang Li thought to himself how close he had come to disaster; if he had been hit, his body would probably have been pierced through!

The guard body swoops down.

Because of its enormous wingspan, it was almost impossible to turn around inside the 40-meter diameter cavity...

It chose the most direct way, with its six segments pointing downwards, crashing straight down into the lava lake like a giant spider.

"Last draw!"

S-Class Hunting Roulette - Third Time.

The golden roulette wheel exploded in view.

Four options—

[Strengthened Bone Density: Overall bone density increased by 40%, limiting compressive strength from 15 tons to 21 tons.]

Agility Enhancement: Motor nerve conduction speed doubles, reaction time is halved.

[Matter Analysis: The All-Seeing Eye has been upgraded, capable of analyzing the nanoscale structure of matter and reconstructing it at the nanoscale using electromagnetic pulses.]

[Energy Symbiotic Link: Establishes a permanent energy symbiotic relationship with any individual, sharing life force and perception. Commands can be transmitted remotely. Host, please choose carefully!]

The pointer is spinning at high speed.

Zhang Li stared intently at the number three and number four positions.

Strength and agility are useful, but they can't save lives.

Energy symbiosis can directly control the guardian.

Although this might be the only chance, considering that my Zombie Tyrannosaurus Rex is gone, the Guardian Body can fill this gap perfectly!

The pointer slows down.

It swept past position one, position two... and swayed violently at the edge of position three.

The guard was less than five meters away from him.

The pointer finally jumped... and plunged into position four!

[Energy Symbiosis Link] is active.

A surge of warm energy welled up from my chest and spread along my skin to my fingertips.

But not now... He hasn't touched any targets with the Ark pattern yet.

To activate the connection, physical contact is required.

The guardian body had already crashed down in front of them.

In the final moments, Zhang Li activated his physical ethereal transformation...

His body transformed into a semi-transparent, misty shadow the instant the six limbs of the guardian closed in to capture him.

The keratinous claws pierced through his chest, abdomen, and thigh... without touching anything substantial...

The twenty-ton mass crashed into the lava lake, and the shockwave it generated sent Zhang Li, who was in a ethereal state, flying upwards.

Zhang Li returned to his physical form a second after being lifted up by the blast wave, and slammed his palm down heavily on the patterns at the base of the guardian's wings.

contact.

The warm energy surging from the palm instantly poured into the network of patterns on the guardian's body.

[Energy Symbiosis Link... Target Locked: Ark Native Guardian. Link Established...]

The guard struggled violently.

The process of establishing a connection is not smooth.

Zhang Li's palm was welded to the patterns at the base of the guardian's wings, and warm energy seeped in along the geometric lines... The guardian emitted a sharp screech like metal scraping, its six limbs frantically pounding the surface of the lava lake, its wings vibrating violently as it tried to shake him off...

Zhang Li was jolted so badly that his internal organs shifted, and blood gushed from his mouth and nose, but he didn't let go of his grip.

When the energy connection reached 47%, his consciousness entered the guardian's sensory channel...

Fragments of the Guardian's memories flooded into his brain...

A complete pyramid, with all the blue light patterns lit up, and underwater passages connecting countless identical architectural nodes.

Non-humanoid creatures wearing dark gray exoskeletons moved inside the pyramid. They were less than 1.2 meters tall, with slender limbs, enormous heads, and compound eyes that took up two-thirds of their faces...

The builders of the Ark.

They created the guardian bodies...

From the moment the insect hatches, it is nurtured from egg, genetically edited, and has energy patterns injected to control circuits. The neural interfaces are welded to the base of the wings... The guardian has never been free from the moment it emerges from its shell...

Then the catastrophe came.

Something appeared in the sky.

The image was blurry; Zhang Li could only catch a glimpse of an outline... It wasn't a meteorite, nor a volcano, but a regular geometric grating that covered the entire sky.

After the grating was applied, the oceans began to acidify, the atmosphere became poisoned, and species began to go extinct...

All the builders are dead...

Only three pollution devices operate continuously according to some kind of automatic program, keeping this land in a "dead state".

The guardians are programmed to stay in the sky and patrol around the volcano.

From the Late Devonian period to the present...

Four hundred million years.

Connection progress... 89%.

The defenders' struggles weakened...

This is because, after the energy symbiotic connection was established, it sensed the life force of another organism for the first time... the warm, brief, yet exceptionally vibrant body temperature of a carbon-based life form...

100%.

[Energy Symbiotic Link - Established Complete.]

The guard body came to a complete stop.

Six wings slowly unfolded, spreading out flat on the solidified crust of the lava lake...

The cool green light of the compound eye went out, replaced by a very pale amber color.

Zhang Li released his hands, knelt on the wings, and gasped for breath.

The "voice" of the guardian body came from the empathic channel.

The guardian's wings flapped on their own for the first time.

Zhang Li felt the emotion emanating from the empathic channel... a fleeting, unbelievable, extremely faint pleasure!

Then comes the request.

The guardian pushed a piece of dark gray mineral carapace that had broken off from the wing joint toward Zhang Li.

Omniscient Eye Scan—

[Ark Builder Core Technology Fragment: Bio-Energy Circuit Disruptor. Capable of targeting and disrupting any bio-modified entity based on "energy pattern circuits," causing its implanted components to be completely rejected within 45 seconds.]

Zhang Li gripped the shell.

A bio-modified entity based on "energy pattern loops".

This thing might be able to interfere with Tek Bio!

[SSS-rank dungeon "Ark of Annihilation: Judgment of the Last Pure Land": All three core sources of contamination have been purified.]

Survival time: 71 hours 56 minutes / 72 hours.

Four minutes left in the countdown.

Zhang Li sat on the wings of the guardian body, waiting.

The guardian opened its eyes, raised its head, and looked at the dim yellow light shining through the cracks in the volcano's dome.

It struggled to stand up, its six limbs trembling, its muscles, which had not moved on their own for 400 million years, could barely support it.

But it still stood up.

Survival time: 72 hours 00 minutes.

Purification complete: 3/3.

[The Pure Land Seed... is automatically activated.]

At the center of the lava lake beneath our feet, a beam of emerald green light shoots out from deep within the bedrock, piercing through the solidified crust, penetrating the volcano's interior, and soaring into the sky through a crack in the dome.

Zhang Li looked up.

The dark yellow clouds were split open by the green light, and for the first time in 400 million years, a wisp of non-toxic air poured into the volcano's interior.

The guardian looked up at the light, the amber in its compound eyes growing brighter and brighter, while its body became increasingly transparent.

It is dissipating...

The Ark's programming was deactivated, and the energy supply that sustained its life was cut off.

It was supposed to have died 400 million years ago.

Zhang Li received its final consciousness projection through the empathic channel... feeling incredibly relaxed.

The guardian's body transformed into countless dark gray specks of light, slowly rising along the emerald green pillar of light, passing through the crack, and drifting towards the sky it had hovered over for four hundred million years but had never truly seen.

A white light engulfed everything...

[SSS-rank dungeon "Ark of Annihilation: Judgment of the Last Pure Land"... Cleared.]

The white light faded.

Zhang Li opened his eyes and found himself standing on basalt from the Devonian deep seabed.

The pyramid was right behind us. The blue membrane on the door frame had disappeared, and all seven crystal grooves were glowing blue. Geometric patterns extended from the door frame to the four walls, and the entire pyramid seemed to have been awakened as if electrified...

He stood in the deep sea, his gills functioning smoothly, his vision clear even in the dark.

The system settlement unfolded in view...

[SSS-rank dungeon "Ark of Annihilation" completion rating: SSS.]

[Items: 3 Tier 4 Evolution Potions, 5 Tier 3 Evolution Potions]

[Item: Fragment of a Mysterious Map (3/4)]

[Note: This is a fragment containing the coordinates of the core area of ​​the "World Laboratory." Collecting all fragments will unlock ultimate access.]

Zhang Li's expression remained unchanged.

He's waiting for another one.

Sure enough, the national fortune reward arrived next!

[National Fortune Reward: The technology to materialize the will of Blue Star has been transmitted to the Dragon Kingdom's Supreme Academy of Sciences.]

[Technology Name: Tektronix Full-Band Jamming Technology]

[Technical Summary: Based on the core technology of the Ark Builder, it can be deployed as a fixed ground array or an airborne mobile device.]

With a coverage radius of 3000 kilometers, it can directionally interfere with all Tektronix energy circuits within its range, temporarily eliminating Tektronix's energy shield. It has no effect on pure carbon-based life forms.