Otherworldly Desert Dust-Chapter 509 - 464 Alien Species Museum

Wu Hen was a worldly man after all.

He strode forward, only to find the interior beyond the gates not the ruin he had imagined. There was hardly any dust or debris, as if separated by a wall there lay another realm. Inside were clusters of architecture combining art and technology, their glass curtain walls as clean as glistening crystals, even some distinctive robots could be seen. They absorbed the gray sunlight for energy and tirelessly cleaned this abandoned Blood Lake Base that housed no living humans.

As Wu Hen stepped through the door into the exhibition building, he subconsciously wanted to use Super Sense to create a map of the structure and a heat map of the biological presence, but squinting made his eyes sore. He suddenly remembered he had closed off his two major senses, even suppressing his hearing to the Third Rank…

Researchers in white lab coats were bustling inside the exhibition hall, moving with heavy, slightly sluggish steps, their hair disheveled. Each worker seemed as lifelike as ever under the gray sunlight, as though they were recreating scenes from before disaster struck. The hall was still engaged in booming life science research and technical innovation, which could unexpectedly propel one to dominate this radiant land of life.

Wu Hen, Guo Hong, and Lu Xian felt an eerie sensation.

They had discovered a rule: the higher the Mutation level of the Alien life, the more it resembled their behaviors before death. The "people" in this life science exhibition hall were reenacting the scenes prior to the catastrophe.

"They don't seem hostile towards us," Guo Hong whispered.

"Then let's not disturb them," Wu Hen said.

"My memory implant suggests the images are in Zone L. We could first get to the rooftop here, then use the corridor between the buildings to reach Zone L," Guo Hong said after observing the layout of the exhibition hall. He quickly confirmed the route.

"Alright, let's head up," Wu Hen nodded.

The three of them moved carefully, even breathing more lightly.

Fortunately, the researchers in white lab coats were docile, paying no attention to the three uninvited guests.

The higher up they went in the exhibition hall, the more spacious it became. The design didn't include a direct route to the top floor; instead, one had to take a sightseeing elevator floor by floor upwards. The elevator was very much like those found in large malls, requiring every visitor to walk through all the showcases before stepping onto the next level.

Thus, the trio had to pass by every exhibit across twenty floors.

"We must be following the tourist route; they must have their own internal paths, right? Otherwise, if employees heading to Zone L took these rounds daily, they'd collapse," Lu Xian whispered.

Guo Hong felt a bit embarrassed. He regretted saying, "We should have spent a lot of money to buy the secret blueprints of this place before coming. That way, we could quickly get to the area we want to explore. This place is really too big, literally a tech megalopolis... No wonder the top-tier Gold Seekers are still obsessed with it. The fact that it's so well-preserved means there are a lot of good things left behind!"

Wu Hen nodded.

He agreed with the latter part of Guo Hong's statement.

The scale here was bigger than imagined, even by Da Xuan Dynasty standards, and could belong to a top-tier predatorial giant city. If this place had once touched the ultimate code of life evolution, then the birth of high-dimensional technology, high-dimensional life, and high-dimensional life energy sources could be possible.

It seems there are benefits to blending into Desert Dust. Standing too high often results in missing the abundant treasures entrenched in the land due to the thick fog.

He was now evolved to a Seventh-rank Life.

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But it was evident that Blood Lake Base had explored higher rungs of life's ladder, because due to an unknown disaster, it had been frozen on its most prosperous day for decades. If he had enough patience to uncover the ultimate life code here, he might even break through to a higher level of life.

Elevating his own life level would significantly enhance his abilities in all aspects, including Little Yi's evolutionary potential…

So the deeper Wu Hen delved, the more enthralled he became.

He finally understood why many top predators and high-dimensional life forms disguised themselves and mingled among the ordinary lives of Desert Dust. Truly high-dimensional resources were not created out of nothing; they were all formed by quadrillions of Desert Dust beings constructing and contributing to an ecological pyramid.

To pluck the top jeweled treasures of the pyramid, high-dimensional life must start from the bottommost layer of the ecological pyramid and climb up layer by layer, adhering to the Laws of the ecological pyramid.

It was futile to think of directly leaping to the pyramid's apex to pluck its jewels because, from a high-dimensional perspective, the ecological pyramid spread out as a plane at low dimensions, and beings dwelling in the clouds couldn't discern which part was the apex.

"There's movement below," Lu Xian suddenly said.

Guo Hong immediately became alert and stood at a glass observation deck where he could look down.

Wu Hen had heard the sound Lu Xian mentioned much earlier.

It was live humans.

And the noise was substantial, belonging to a small military unit.

They were collectively breaking out into this exhibition building, divided into vanguard, firepower, flanking, and rear service teams.

Each team had roughly thirty people, and each member's strength was close to that of Guo Hong, who had previously been the captain of a Gold Seeker squad, even their equipment surpassed that of Guo Hong.

They mostly were armed with heavy weapons and modified cold weapons. The four different divisions coordinated extremely well, making them feel like one whole.

These people disturbed the white lab coat Corpse People in the exhibition hall, and immediately the exhibition hall was filled with screams and howls. The scholars dressed in white lab coats who had been gentle and refined, each one transformed into Corpse Mad Demons. Some grew claws from their bones, some mutated into giant mouths, some grew tentacles covered with teeth, and some even morphed into hulking figures, becoming Invincible Hulks and Poison Liquids...

Cannons exploded in the spacious exhibition hall, minute missiles burst into flames like mushrooms, dense alloy bullets poured like rain, and with smoke and energy colliding, a massive amount of smoke whirled into fierce storms, rampaging through every floor of this gigantic sturdy exhibition building, even reaching the floor where Wu Hen and his group were.

"Looks like they're planning to clear the area, we need to move fast," Wu Hen said.

"This is the Black Deacon Corps of the Black Shirt Organization, they regularly come here to explore..." Guo Hong recognized this formidable unit at a glance.

"Black Shirt Organization?" Wu Hen seemed rather surprised.

That name sounds so familiar.

Back when he first encountered the otherworldly, he was repeatedly harassed by this vile organization. He had thought that the Black Shirt Organization was just a temporary malignancy sect formed by cockroaches and rats in the otherworldly, but to think that there were still Black Shirts in the desolate wasteland of Cang Chu Divine Realm...

That is to say, the Black Shirt Organization was originally a huge force. What he encountered in the otherworldly were essentially just the outer members of the Black Shirt Organization, which was basically present everywhere in the otherworldly, especially in the wastelands and mutated zones.

That's quite interesting.

What sort of people are in the upper echelons of the entire Black Shirt Organization then?

From the equipment of this Black Deacon Corps, they're not just some local tyrants or minor gangs. They've completely reached the scale of wasteland warlords, and according to Guo Hong, the Black Shirt Organization has strong powers and a deep background, mysterious and unified...

"What's the character of Marquis Changqiu like? Wouldn't he spread the news about the Black Angels after we inform him, given that for him, who captures the Black Angel isn't important," Wu Hen inquired.

"His character isn't that great, but he has never broken his word in a deal," Guo Hong said.

"Hopefully, they're not here to compete with us for the Black Angel," Lu Xian slightly worried.

That's a hundred-man elite unit with members whose strength isn't inferior to theirs. If there's no conflict of interest, they might exchange information, but with clashing interests, they will definitely not show mercy to their competitors.

"Yeah, they probably should hope," Wu Hen nodded, and made a small prayer for the Black Deacon Corps of the Black Shirt Organization.

Wu Hen has always disliked how the Black Shirt Organization operates. Back then, the ideals of the Black Shirt Organization even infiltrated his homeland, almost burning him and his family alive.

Old grudges now.

He currently had a mission and didn't want to waste energy on them. If they came to him, Wu Hen wouldn't mind sending them all to their end. After all, in this apocalyptic wasteland, some people who are alive are far more frightening and cruel than those who have turned into Corpse Demons.

"Let's not worry about them for now, let's continue to the upper floors," Wu Hen said.

"With fewer members, we're less likely to disturb the creatures here," Guo Hong said.

...

The three of them moved up floor by floor, each three floors having a sealed design. The lower levels were already in chaos with gunfire, but walking away from the central well, they couldn't feel it.

As the three reached the tenth floor, the exhibits in the floor changed.

The first ten floors exhibited mostly technological items and research items, but starting from the tenth, those display cabinets turned into huge exhibition tanks, which clearly served to present those special life specimens to the world.

Inside, a large amount of amniotic-fluid-like liquid was injected, and the life specimens were mostly connected with nutrition tubes. Various Alien Species were created into living specimens, sealed within these exhibition tanks. There were crawling Alien Species, aquatic Alien Species, beast Alien Species, raptor Alien Species...

Interestingly, Wu Hen had encountered these various types of Alien Species in this wasteland, roaming the radiation-infected soil, often moving in groups. They might not need to feed, maintaining life with radiation from the soil and air, mostly slow and static, yet they were cursed with a killing gene, becoming viciously terrifying once a living being approached!

"Most are Alien Species under Night Ghost..." Seeing these specimens, Wu Hen also generally confirmed that the source of the mutations indeed originated from here.

This matched with the navigators' journals in their quest for Star Mark Cangling, except they hadn't delved deeper initially.