Blending Medicine

Chapter 113 Blending Medicine (7k)

In a corner of Chang'an District, Simon was looking at a pale blue holographic screen displayed inside a black hovercar parked by the roadside.

The screen presents a group of tiny creatures in the soil through a 360-degree stereoscopic view.

If Qiao Yuan were here, he would definitely recognize those as silkworms and grayish-white bone fragments!

Simon licked his lips with great interest and said to Veronica beside him, "Alternative progress is still progress. Most of the hatred of these new-stage creatures is focused on Legalist Heavy Industry."

"I suspect these little guys will hide deep underground, lie dormant for a while, and then use their memories to revive the skeletal giants and reopen the magic circle."

"Keep summoning the skeletal pterosaurs continuously until they are all summoned and their numbers can no longer be contained underground, then launch a final assault!"

"It's truly amazing; this soil was collected using high-speed drones," Veronica emphasized. "Right beneath our Silvermoon City!"

"Hahaha, these new-stage creatures are like soldiers who have been defeated and died time and time again, reincarnating with memories. They have a good understanding of the power of Legalist heavy industry."

Simon was in high spirits: "It's just in time! I've said it before, these new-stage creatures have only been missing an opportunity. Hundreds of years have passed, and they've finally gotten this moment."

"So this time, judging from the fact that these little guys are migrating day and night, it will definitely be a huge undertaking, and it will certainly have an impact on Silvermoon!"

Veronica was unusually tempted: "Aha, this way the Night Plan can begin."

"That's right, once the outside world is in complete chaos, we'll add fuel to the fire inside!"

"There's still work to be done. Let's use all our connections with newspapers and media outlets to help Fajia Heavy Industries publicize this victory!"

Meanwhile, Qiao Yuan was sitting on the balcony, panting heavily, with beads of cold sweat on his forehead.

Just now on land, in order to verify the first answer, he drove towards New London, and was chased and besieged by a large number of monsters along the way.

Smaller monsters are manageable; you can dodge them with dogfighting. But it's much harder with larger monsters.

These monsters, constantly fighting and evolving in the ouroboros ecosystem, do not follow the scientific logic that the larger they are, the slower they are.

On the contrary, the bigger these beasts were, the faster they went, which completely baffled him.

The monster, over a hundred meters tall, moved as fast as a sports car. With one strike of its tail, it shattered the mountainside, sending countless pebbles raining down like a shower of petals.

It was the first time he had ever experienced being embarrassed.

He kept traversing through the city ruins, and in order to maintain his original route, he finally had to fly into the sky to shake off the enemy.

But for some reason, these monsters kept staring at him from below, their eyes glued to him.

He then tried to break out several times, but not only did he fail, he also attracted more large monsters, and even the kilometer-long amphibious jellyfish was brought over!

But he didn't believe in superstition and insisted on going anyway.

Then, some monster, I don't know what, hurled a giant tentacle at the car and blew it to pieces!

The tiny floating sports car exploded like a piece of paper in front of those tentacles.

His protective suit and metal helmet were completely pulverized.

He even saw his own bloody, mangled heart being squeezed out of his body and explode into pieces!

The intense pain abruptly stopped, as if he had been jolted awake from a nightmare and brought back to reality.

This was the first time he had faced death.

The sheer real pain, the body being torn apart bit by bit, even the despair of realizing your heart is gone only after seeing it shatter—

This allowed him to somewhat understand the history of the destruction of the lower city hundreds of years ago.

It's more painful than hell.

Wait, something's not right!

Yesterday he was in New London. The journey wasn't exactly smooth sailing, but at least he made it to the end.

Why is it that when it's Silver Moon's turn, the hatred is immediately at its peak? That's really strange.

Moreover, there are a lot of large monsters.

Qiao Yuan thought about it and figured it might be related to the previous firepower coverage of the Legalist Heavy Industry beneath New London.

The skeletal giants over there had just been wiped out, so all the large monsters had fled, and things were relatively peaceful for a while.

Silvermoon City, on the other hand, has not experienced a large-scale disaster for at least twenty years.

Yes, that should be the case.

Let's go again.

Since I'm just idling around anyway, I might as well give it another try.

Anyway, most of the time I have more timeline attempts than I need each day, and it's already late at night.

The second time he went down, he robbed the same young woman's hovercar.

This time, he didn't drive directly to land, but instead started speeding northward at an altitude of 500 meters above the land.

This area used to be the downtown area. Although many high-rise buildings still remain, most of them have collapsed, and only a few are still standing.

He has now changed his plan; instead of constantly staying close to the ground to sense things, he is now looking for opportunities.

Following the straight land route towards the New London Floating City, he would quickly swoop down into any area without large monsters.

Regardless of whether there are silkworms in the soil, he will quickly pull the car up and return to the air.

Once, twice, three times.

They've got their eyes on me again!

Qiao Yuan is feeling a bit numb now.

It can be confirmed that the monsters in the lower city of Silvermoon are extremely hostile.

But he himself is invisible and has no aura, so there are only two possibilities.

The first type is similar to the silkworms mentioned earlier, because their hostility towards Legalism is so strong that they want to fight back from afar.

These monsters likely still remember the wars they fought with humans in the past, and the hatred continues.

The second type is the scent of humans.

After all, there was a woman by his side, who had already been corrupted and begun to become twisted.

Numerous black spots, resembling lividity, appeared on the skin's surface, and the facial features, hands, and feet began to mutate, indicating that the creature was about to transform into a monster.

But this was his third time coming.

I had already seen him last night when I was robbing that blond young man's sports car.

The problem is not big.

Even after turning into a monster, he still used the Azure Nether Technique to pin him firmly against the car window, preventing him from moving.

New technology is great!

If it were ancient martial arts, you would at least need to free up one hand, or use a device to immobilize the opponent, which would be much more troublesome.

We now need to verify, as far as possible, whether or not the Silkworms have come to the Silver Moon City.

Perhaps none of this meant anything to him, but he still wanted to know.

Previously, there was no way to know; one could only passively wait for anything to happen.

Now that you know, just do it!

It's okay not to use it, but it's essential to have it.

Like the beef I bought last night, I didn't actually use it at all when cooking.

But when you buy it, you feel at ease, because if you need it, you don't have to run back and forth or buy it again, which wastes time.

If you don't need it, you can use it later.

Even if the meat is rotten and we don't use it later, at least we feel at ease when we buy it.

After each dive, he has come to the same conclusion: nothing!

It's very strange that there wasn't a single silkworm carrying any giant bone fragments.

The time continued for 10 minutes, then 15 minutes. After several dogfights with the large monster, he was still killed in a car crash and was forcibly brought back to reality.

well----

Looking at the scene around the balcony, Qiao Yuan was somewhat unwilling: "Damn it, let's try again!"

On his third trip, he flew in the air the whole time, and based on his previous memory, he flew more than 30 kilometers before diving down to land.

Each time, shorten the initial journey to maximize the use of time.

No matter how far he drove, he never found any clues about Silk City, as if these guys had never come to Silvermoon City at all.

The more this was the case, the less he believed in superstition.

Qiao Yuan continued to try, search, and deal with those large monsters time and time again.

A completely fleshy, four-legged, hundred-meter-tall black carnivorous plant, as big as a mountain, chased after him, constantly spewing poisonous mist.

Just a tiny bit of it—and the sports car, like melting ice, quickly rotted into molten iron, turning his body from solid to liquid.

The mud monster, covered in crimson lava, was over a hundred meters tall and looked like a black bear. The fire and wind it stirred up when it charged could shatter his car windows from a great distance.

Oh, and there was also the dark green, translucent octopus that killed him the first time. It could walk on land, but it still preferred to occupy a pool or lake.

The tentacles that burst forth in an instant are faster than lightning. By charging up their power, they can launch themselves directly from the water, leaping hundreds of meters into the air with an arc that can extend over two kilometers, crushing their prey with the force of thunder.

Besides these large monsters, he gradually discovered even more terrifying creatures. Often, he would drive into a mountain range that stretched for several kilometers only to find that it was not a mountain, but a crocodile lurking there.

The mountain-like shape on its back contains a powerful force field that can alter everything within its range, making even large monsters afraid to approach.

He seemed like a regional overlord.

The monsters around him either submitted to him or were mercilessly annihilated.

Qiao Yuan died here for the third time.

The vehicle was inexplicably crushed, and the people inside were also run over and turned to dust.

It's a force field!

It is a force field second only to the rotation of a magnetic field!

He's sitting on the balcony now, panting heavily, his forehead covered in sweat.

It was truly insane on land.

However, this was the first time he had gained a new understanding of the altitude of the floating city.

He had always thought altitude was relative to the land, but now it seems it should be relative to the terrain.

The area we just passed through was mostly mountainous; the actual plains were even lower.

If we calculate it that way, the altitude over Huanxizhou should be around three to four thousand meters, while the altitude around here should be around seven to eight thousand meters, so there's not much difference.

Because the landmass of this so-called Yaoguang Star is basically all mountains, and he also discovered that...

Most of the mountains seem to have been pushed over, forming the land that now looks like a plain.

It may have been caused by previous wars, or it may have been worn down by these monsters that were hundreds or even kilometers long after being fought over for hundreds of years.

However, he prefers the former.

I had previously read some reports that said every time the Legalist Heavy Industry used firepower to cover the ground, it could blast deep abysses into the earth, let alone mountains.

The wars raged on and off for a thousand years.

He couldn't even tell whether the plain he had just seen was land or the mountain that had been blasted through; he felt a little confused.

When a piece of land is blasted into countless giant craters, the remaining fragments of land may become what we see as mountains today.

Oh well, never mind.

Anyway, this altitude is the distance from when he steps on the ground to the bottom of the floating city.

Furthermore, there are beings even more terrifying than these mountain-shaped monsters with positions of power.

That is the Legalist heavy industry machine used for mining minerals on the surface, truly achieving a situation where there are no monsters within a radius of several kilometers.

He hadn't paid much attention, but he still noticed that as soon as the monster got close enough, it would evaporate completely, leaving no trace.

There are also force fields near those machines, even more powerful multiple force fields.

He still remembers borrowing the power of threefold forces, mastering the three transformations, until he mastered the ten forces of the force field, and the magnetic field rotated and superimposed to ten thousand layers, stepping into the absolute domain.

One section of this is actually abridged.

That is mastery.

Control and force field are separate.

To be precise, the process of learning spiritual power involves three stages: borrowing power, controlling power, and mastering power. Only after mastering power can one develop a power field.

It's just mastering something without the distinction between leveraging resources and controlling it at different levels; it's simply having a basic grasp of it.

He didn't know the specifics either; it was just a brief mention.

Anyway, he's still a long way off.

He has one last timeline to go today, and he needs to make a breakthrough.

Qiao Yuan thought for a moment, then decided not to rush off. Instead, he went out first and bought some items at the supermarket downstairs.

High-strength waterproof tape.

Two pairs of leopard-print titanium alloy handcuffs.

When paying, the cashier stared at the leopard-print handcuffs for a long time, and her cheeks couldn't help but turn red.

I don't know what she's thinking.

After returning home, Qiao Yuan brought with him the silenced pistol, a legacy from Caesar, which Nina had initially taken out to kill him.

Not just the gun, but also the loaded bullets.

This time, we're going to do something big!

Qiao Yuan put his protective suit back on, this time changing the anchor point to the previous time.

They kidnapped the woman in white high heels and hijacked her sports car.

After suppressing the opponent with the Azure Nether Technique this time, he handcuffed all of the opponent's legs and feet!

In addition, they also applied high-strength waterproof tape to the other person's mouth and eyes.

That's what kidnapping is like.

Faced with the woman's struggle, he pulled out a silenced pistol and pressed the muzzle against her forehead.

The other party immediately stopped moving.

Then she started crying, sobbing and begging him all the way, twisting and turning her body.

It wasn't until he slammed the other person's gun barrel into him several times that the situation finally quieted down.

Upon reaching an altitude of 300 meters above the land, he headed north, continuing to drive the longest distance he had ever covered.

Qiao Yuan changed his strategy along the way.

Whenever a dive is required, he personally flies down wearing a protective suit.

The woman was bound tightly, unable to speak or see anything.

Since he is invisible, as long as he flies down quietly, he will not cause any disturbance to the monsters. After the inspection, he will return to the car.

After a while, they became quite skilled at it.

After no longer attracting monsters, the efficiency has increased significantly, even though it takes time to fly down each time.

After driving for fifty or sixty kilometers, he finally caught a new clue.

There were still silkworms behind, but they no longer just converged on the surface of Silvermoon City; instead, they converged on the underground caverns below.

There are seven minutes left.

Qiao Yuan was standing at the entrance to a huge underground cave. This time, he activated his flight pack without hesitation and rushed in, becoming more and more astonished as he looked around!

This underground cave appears to be descending, but it actually forms a slope that continuously approaches the land below Silvermoon City.

He passed by twisted underground caverns and dark rivers, discovering more and more silkworms and bone fragments of skeletal giants—

Everything was exactly as he had predicted; in fact, there was only one possibility.

As time finally ran out, Qiao Yuan returned to reality with a complicated expression.

This is troublesome.

He now even has a feeling of not wanting to care about anything and just waiting for the disaster to break out.

How should we manage it?

He didn't know how to talk to Director Fan.

Is it said that these silkworms, carrying bone fragments, traveled thousands of miles over several days to gather and hibernate in the underground caves near Silvermoon City?

Who would believe that?

The question is, how will he prove it?

All he could say was that he suspected the skeletal giant would be parasitized and fused with a new type of creature after its death.

But this 500-kilometer journey, undertaken day and night, was so clever that they even ventured into underground caves—

So annoying.

Even if it's annoying, I have to say it!

Of course, I can't go into that much detail; I can only offer Director Fan some ideas.

Whether the other party could make the connection or whether they could hire Legalist heavy industry to conduct a search was no longer a concern.

The reason he was so concerned this time was simply because he sensed the aura of impending catastrophe.

In the past, most monster invasions were caused by the creation of a time layer, which allowed monsters or civilizations from other universes to accidentally enter their world, thus leading to war.

In summary, these intrusions all occurred due to some kind of accident or coincidence.

Even these unexpected coincidences often result in disasters that could kill hundreds of millions of people.

This time, however, it is no longer just a coincidence, but a crisis that has been meticulously planned. If we do not take precautions, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Qiao Yuan pondered for a moment and then shook his head.

I'm not going to think about it anymore. I'll talk to Director Fan tomorrow, and leave the rest to fate.

Preventing problems before they occur is certainly a good thing, but you can't reveal your hand or arouse suspicion.

The ability to predict the future is an absurd claim.

A prophet is a messenger of God in any age, and he knows this better than anyone.

He took off his protective suit, drank a cup of hot water, and continued practicing the Azure Nether Technique.

This new technique is excellent, with a wide range of applicable scenarios, far surpassing ancient martial arts.

I practiced for a while last night, but didn't do anything today. My current height is only 12.4 meters.

It feels like it gets harder the higher you go.

Just thinking about Tu Shanlin's hundred-meter range, it's clear that as a descendant of a god, he can't be viewed from a normal perspective at all.

He practiced until the baby came home, and he only grew to 12.6 meters tall. My goodness, that's not good enough.

That's all for today. I'll upgrade Canghai Jin when I get back tomorrow night.

"Yuan? I have good news for you."

The baby walked over happily: "Tonight the newspaper will publish an article about the great achievement of Legalist Heavy Industry. Although it's flattery, it's still a good thing."

"Hahaha." Qiao Yuan suddenly felt an urge to discuss this with the baby.

He had actually thought about it earlier that evening: would it seem a bit deliberate if he contacted Director Fan directly? This made him hesitate.

We usually communicate through the baby, so suddenly skipping over the baby seems abnormal.

After all, in Director Fan's eyes, his relationship with the baby was even better than that of siblings.

No, that won't work.

Qiao Yuan pondered for a moment, then decided to approach it from another angle: "You all seem very optimistic."

"No, not at all," Yan Baobao laughed. "Actually, Sergei had already reported it to the bureau before."

"What was the reaction?"

"Yeah, he feels the same way you do. He has a feeling that things will change later," Baby said as she unfastened her mecha suit. "He said the mechanism for activating the magic circle is very special. It would be troublesome if it were to be fused with by those new-stage creatures."

"Really?" Qiao Yuan was secretly delighted, but feigned shock: "I hadn't even considered this idea. Do creatures at this new stage have this ability?"

He couldn't help but recall that night when Sergei had spoken to him about his heroic dreams.

It seems that the other party not only wants to be a hero, but also has the awareness to truly be one.

He's a talented person.

Yan Baobao smiled and said, "It is indeed a very novel angle. I have thought of it before, but I feel that it is unlikely unless someone deliberately guides us."

Qiao Yuan listened and continued to ask, "Is someone deliberately guiding us? Could it be those cult members? Do they have that much power?"

"So, even if there are subsequent changes, the possibility is extremely slim." Baby shook her head slightly: "Even the Night of Parasitism back then didn't shake it."

"You seem to have a lot of trust in Fajia Heavy Industry?"

"No," Yan Baobao shook her head again, "Actually, I don't like Legalist Heavy Industry, but I understand these greedy giants very well."

"In what aspect?" Qiao Yuan asked with a smile.

"They cover all the major aspects. Although they ruthlessly exploit the people, frequently wage war against each other for resources, and endlessly dream of ruling the Federation, they are all very protective of their lives."

"Especially for highly concentrated interstellar giants like Legalist Heavy Industry, Silver Moon is Legalist's headquarters, so they will go all out no matter what."

"Even if problems arise later, they won't be considered major problems, at least not here."

Qiao Yuan listened attentively to the baby's analysis, which seemed to make a lot of sense.

There is an in-depth analysis of the strategic location of Silver Moon Capital from the perspective of Legalist heavy industry.

That's good, that's good. His plans have changed accordingly. Directly inviting people to dinner would be too deliberate.

Although Director Fan has a high status, strong abilities, excellent insight in all aspects, and considerable authority to communicate, the more you deal with such a person, the more you need to control the details.

It's not that he doesn't trust Director Fan; quite the opposite, he now has a very good relationship with Director Fan.

It's just because there's a better way now.

Just go directly to Sergei!

It's so much better than going directly to Director Fan.

As the baby just mentioned, Sergei expressed his concerns about the skeletal giants a couple of days ago, especially emphasizing that they have reached a new stage of life.

He basically conveyed the gist of what he wanted to say.

Perfect mouth double!

Everyone at the Tiandu branch knows about it; it's probably already spread, although nobody seems to care.

Then all he needs to do is contact Sergei alone, go along with what he said, and subtly probe a few more times.

Of course, you still can't use his phone.

Being meticulous in every aspect may not be of much use, but it gives you peace of mind.

In this way, he will be completely cleared of suspicion, and there will be no trace of him at all, which is a pleasant surprise.

It seems I should talk to my baby about current events in the future, instead of always thinking about them on my own.

He chatted with the baby for a while longer before going to bed, as it was getting late.

When Qiao Yuan woke up in the morning, he thought for a moment, then locked the door from the inside, put on his protective suit, and went to the future.

The timeline was set after 8 o'clock.

They continued to search for sports cars around the Jiangnan Building, then hijacked them and sped to the underground cave they had arrived at the previous night.

He simply wanted to see it one more time.

Let's see if there's any new progress with these silkworms after one night.

To increase efficiency and speed, he drove his sports car straight down into the cave.

The underground caves are enormous and intricate, estimated to extend for tens of kilometers.

This place is indeed the perfect location to store an army of skeletal pterosaurs.

As the sports car sped in, it quickly attracted a large number of monsters from the outside world, who once again surged in relentlessly, pouring into the underground cavern in an endless stream.

Qiao Yuan had a slight headache, but he kept driving until he finally drove to within ten kilometers of the land below Yingyue City.

Its depth, according to the detection on the protective suit, is twenty kilometers underground.

He even heard a roar coming from ahead, from the massive machines of the Legalist Heavy Industry, as they extracted energy from the ground.

I remember the energy source of spiritual helium-6, which is located tens of kilometers underground on the planet Yaoguang.

Here he sensed that the first Silkworms to arrive were already assembling the Bone Giants.

Seeing himself being engulfed by the surging tide of monsters behind him, Qiao Yuan's gaze sharpened as he stared intently at the shape of the soil beneath him, a look of suspicion on his face.

After being overwhelmed by the dense monster horde, this time he chose to go home immediately.

"It seems like they're only using their hands?"

He quickly took off his protective suit, stuffed it all into the closet, then opened the door, went out of the bedroom to wash his face and brush his teeth, and went out with his baby.

After arriving at school, he continued to think about what had just happened, and it seemed that he had found a new clue.

In the final scene, the silkworms had pieced together the hands of seven skeletal giants.

Something feels off.

It seems they're not interested in anything other than their hands. Why is that?

The instant the 8 o'clock school bell rang.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Qiao Yuan's mind: "Could it be that these silkworms are just trying to pry open their palms to activate the magic array?"

It should be.

Since the skeletal giant itself activated the magic circle with its hands, the other parts are not important.

In this way, as its size decreased and it was hidden inside a cave, it became even more concealed.

I called Sergei at noon!

I don't use his phone.

At that moment, Ms. Daisy walked in, her red high heels clicking away.

This scene reminded Qiao Yuan of Victoria's red high heels from before.

Ms. Daisy is so beautiful, she must have a lot of admirers at school.

"Students, it's a new week, a brand new university life," Ms. Daisy said with a smile. "Last week we taught a new technique called Azure Nether, and today we'll learn how to make medicine."

"Combined medicine? What is combined medicine?"

Qiao Yuan was completely confused.

Hu Tu looked puzzled: "I don't know, but it sounds really high-class!"

Most of the students around were also confused by this new term and discussed it among themselves.

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