RPAGF Chapter 330 Initial Exploration of the Crack
Chapter 330 Initial Exploration of the Crack
As the fragments of bronze coin nails emitted a faint glow in Jiang Ye's palm, Ye Shuli had already pulled him away three thousand miles in an instant.
The blood-red sun above the holy land was so hot it burned their eyes, and a bluish-black viscous liquid seeped from the cracks in the rocks where they landed.
"This is much more disgusting than nuclear waste in the lab." Ye Shuli used ice crystals to form a protective mask, and her modern chemical knowledge allowed her to instantly analyze the corpse poison components in the slime.
Jiang Ye was squatting down, poking at a piece of dry bone on the ground. Hearing this, he looked up, revealing his signature tiger tooth: "If Miss thinks it's dirty, I'll carry you over?"
Before he finished speaking, eighteen bone thorns burst forth from the ground.
Jiang Ye spun around and threw out seven bronze coin nails. Amidst the clanging sounds, the cultivators, tainted by evil energy, crawled out from the depths of the cracks.
The glowing moss wrapped around their necks had turned dark purple, and magma-like substances were surging where their pupils should have been.
"Take three steps back!" Ye Shuli's fingertips exploded into a black hole vortex. The surge of spiritual energy after awakening should have been devastating, but the monsters opened their mouths and devoured all the energy.
She stumbled and crashed into the rock wall, her knowledge of modern physics immediately making her realize the problem—these organisms had energy converters embedded in their bodies, similar to nuclear reactors.
Jiang Ye's spiked club grazed her ear as it struck the charging monster, corrosive liquid splattering and hissing against her ice crystal mask. "Young Miss's new move is really environmentally friendly," he panted, wiping blood from his mouth with his sleeve, "like delivering takeout to the enemy?"
The rumble of gears turning came from deep within the crack, and the manipulated cultivators suddenly arranged themselves into a six-pointed star formation.
Ye Shuli touched the magnetic restraint device on her waist and felt it was slightly hot. This modern technological creation from her dantian was actually resonating with the underground fluctuations.
She suddenly grabbed Jiang Ye by the back of his collar and pulled him backward: "Their energy nodes are..."
Three bone arrows grazed the spot where they had been standing and embedded themselves in the rock. As the arrow fletching was still trembling, the leader, wearing a star-patterned cloak, walked over, stepping on the slime.
His decaying right hand clutched half a bronze compass, clearly the family's most prized possession that had disappeared twelve years ago during the massacre of the Ye family.
"Miss Ye's quantum awakening is truly disappointing." The leader's vocal cords sounded like they'd been sanded, and with a flick of his wrist, he sent Jiang Ye's spiked club flying. "Why don't you dig out that foreign object from your dantian and use it as a toy for my children?"
Jiang Ye suddenly groaned and knelt down on one knee. Glowing moss had somehow appeared on the inside of his wrist.
Ye Shuli stared at the wildly proliferating purple mycelium and suddenly recalled the scene of healing creatures crashing into the barrier in the holy land—these evil beings were mimicking the life forms of psionic beings.
"Want a magnetic restraint device?" She deliberately lifted her hem to reveal a silver ring at her waist. "Come and try if you dare..."
Before she could finish speaking, she grabbed Jiang Ye and jumped into the suddenly appearing spatial rift.
This is a quantum leap comprehended during awakening. Although each use causes them to cough up blood, it is enough for them to fall into the middle of the rift.
In the cave filled with rotting flesh, Ye Shuli pressed Jiang Ye against the relatively dry rock wall.
The mycelium on the young woman's wrist was fading, just as she had guessed—these evil things would degenerate in a pure energy environment.
She removed the magnetic confinement device and pressed it to his chest: "Modern technology can simulate an absolute vacuum; hold it up."
"Shouldn't we be giving him artificial respiration now?" Jiang Ye's pale face was illuminated by the blue light of the device, and the fact that he could still grin and laugh meant that he wasn't going to die anytime soon.
Just as Ye Shuli was about to retort, she suddenly noticed that the bronze veins in the cave wall were embedded with countless tiny gears.
She pried off a piece of rusty metal, and modern materials science knowledge automatically generated an analysis report in her mind.
When the fingertip touched a protruding rivet, a mechanical sound, similar to the activation of a magnetic confinement device, suddenly came from deep within the mine.
The fragments in Jiang Ye's palm suddenly floated up, forming the words "Be careful," with blood seeping out.
The slime condensed on the surface of the bronze vein into a spider web-like barrier, and the ice cone that Ye Shuli condensed at her fingertips turned into black smoke as soon as it touched it.
Jiang Ye swiftly severed the two bone spikes that had attacked him, and the runes on the surface of the spiked club suddenly emitted a red light—a sign that his spiritual energy was about to be depleted.
“Three inches to the southeast!” Ye Shuli suddenly grabbed his wrist.
Jiang Ye instinctively inserted the spiked club into the crevice she specified, and the clicking sound of gears meshing revealed a hidden channel.
The two fell into the foul-smelling water, and behind them came the sound of the corroded barrier shattering.
After floating in the underground river, which was filled with animal remains for about half a cup of tea's time, Ye Shuli suddenly touched the carvings on the rock wall.
It was a location map marked with modern chemical symbols, with a test tube diagram drawn next to a triangle marker somewhere. "The Crack Research Institute has a laboratory," she said, pulling Jiang Ye out of the water. "Find the tritium tube marker."
Jiang Ye, flicking his wet bangs, was about to tease her when he suddenly turned around and pulled Ye Shuli into his arms.
Three bone arrows were embedded in his left shoulder, the corrosive liquid instantly burning through the fabric. "A minor injury," he said, tearing away the arrows and drawing blood, yet still managing a grin. "Perfect, saves me the money for a tattoo."
Ye Shuli stared at the purple spots spreading on his collarbone and suddenly pressed the magnetic restraint device onto the wound.
The modern medical equipment hummed as it combined with spiritual energy, and the mycelium-like substances writhed wildly in the blue light. "If you keep pushing yourself, I'll freeze you into an ice sculpture," she said, her voice strained, as she dragged him crashing through the rock above.
As the starlight illuminated the moss-covered stone house, Jiang Ye's eyes were already glazed over from the heat.
Ye Shuli kicked open the rusty iron gate and bumped into an old man with white hair who was wielding a bronze microscope as a weapon.
The star chart on the laboratory wall is oozing slime, and the glowing moss in the petri dish is exactly like the one chasing them.
"You've done experiments with the psionic particle collider," Ye Shuli suddenly said, pointing to the dusty device in the corner.
The old woman shuddered. She immediately lifted the hidden compartment under the lab table—piles of parchment scrolls were stored in sealed plastic bags. "1024 failure records," she read out the scroll numbers, "why not hear my mass-energy conversion formula?"
The old man's cloudy eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light.
As Ye Shuli drew Einstein's equations in the air with ice crystals, he trembled as he pulled out an ancient book with a metal cover: "They're imitating the Twelve Constellation Formation, but the key to the formation needs..."
The roof collapsed with a loud crash.
The affected cultivators cascaded down the sludge waterfall, their leader's rotting hands now covered in bronze scales.
Jiang Ye suddenly sprang into action, his blood-stained spiked club drawing a crimson arc in the air as he shielded Ye Shuli from the first three monsters that pounced on her.
"Here it comes!" The moment the old man threw the ancient book, his ankle was entangled by mycelium.
When Ye Shuli swung her ice blade to cut the mycelium, she discovered a piece of gear fragment sandwiched between the pages of the book—a perfect match for the one she had pried off from the mine.
Jiang Ye's back slammed heavily into her shoulder, and the two slid three zhang away through the sticky liquid on the ground.
Ye Shuli suddenly caught sight of a star map on a page of the ancient book; it was clearly a diagram of the internal structure of a magnetic confinement device. "Retreat to the Xun position!" she roared, tearing open her collar and pressing the magnetic confinement device against her chest.
All the affected cultivators suddenly stiffened, and the moss on their necks emitted a blinding purple light.
The leader let out a laugh that sounded like sandpaper scraping, and raised the half of the bronze compass with his decaying right hand: "You think this is just an ordinary array core?"
Ye Shuli suddenly felt a sharp pain in her dantian, as the modern technological artifact embedded in her body began to draw spiritual energy in reverse.
Jiang Ye's blood-stained hand suddenly covered the back of her hand, the young man's burning body temperature transmitting through the sticky blood: "Does Miss trust me?"
A deafening roar came from underground, and all the bronze artifacts in the laboratory began to resonate.
Ye Shuli felt a slightly raised engraving in the interlayer of the ancient book's tattered pages. The sensation from her fingertips sent a shiver down her spine—it was a spacetime coordinate carved using nanoscale technology.
"Hold on tight!" She dragged Jiang Ye and slammed him into the vibrating bronze cauldron.
When the magnetic confinement device and the ancient book fragments glowed simultaneously, all the affected cultivators adopted a worship posture like marionettes.
Amidst the leader's roar, Ye Shuli saw a semi-transparent operating interface appear inside the cauldron.
That was the login interface of the quantum teleportation program she had designed herself before she traveled through time.