Landing 500 Years Early, I Became a God by Digging for Treasures 138

Chapter 135: Anomalous Phenomenon Outside the Ninth Civilization Branch

Lu Yuan said seriously, “I think the strength of the Monster/Unknown Entity is beyond what I alone can overcome. This victory was due to a lot of coincidences and seemingly destined luck.”

“The bomb transported by the Rize Civilization, my comrade, Old Cat, my pet, Old Wolf, and a drop of the Demon’s blood—all of these were necessary to defeat that terrifying existence.”

“Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to stand here talking to you.”

“As for the Demon, I don’t want to know its strength… because my gut tells me I can’t beat it.”

“If I encounter it, I’ll simply stay far away.”

Lu Yuan revealed information that the Rize Civilization hadn’t shared with humanity.

After all, they are two different civilizations; having reservations is normal, and it’s impossible to discuss major difficulties with each other.

Only through Lu Yuan could they hear this information.

The human team couldn’t help but contemplate a scenario, attempting a wargame simulation: if they encountered a phenomenon similar to the Monster/Unknown Entity, how should they solve it?

It’s difficult.

Very difficult.

Just transmitting information about the Monster/Unknown Entity from Astral Space/Different Dimension is extremely difficult.

Even if it is transmitted, there doesn’t seem to be a good way to transport the bomb to the deepest layer.

The final conclusion is: like the Rize Civilization, they can only cower in the safe zone and avoid external observation; this is the best solution.

Li Chunhong wiped his sweat and said with a wry smile, “It seems that we humans are just an ordinary civilization… we were just a little luckier.”

“By the way, our Ninth Civilization branch actually encountered an anomalous phenomenon. We don’t know what it is. Could you take a look at it?”

Lu Yuan was stunned. Humans encountered one too?!

“Alright, send it over.”

A video appeared on the screen: dark clouds churned and surged, rolling in from all directions, piling up layer upon layer, becoming denser and thicker.

Suddenly, two black eye sockets appeared in the black cloud, gazing coldly and mercilessly at the person filming the video.

An eerie chill enveloped the viewer, spreading throughout their body.

Even Lu Yuan was startled by the sudden appearance of the two eye sockets, let alone the person filming.

The camera fell to the ground with a “thud.”

He calmed himself.

Fortunately, this terrifying phenomenon didn’t seem to have the ability to cross the safe zone.

The person filming wasn’t harmed.

Next came more videos and photographic data.

This mysterious black cloud could stretch and accumulate itself, reaching a maximum size of 1600 square kilometers!

In its normal state, it was about 120 square kilometers, and could even shrink to 10 square kilometers.

Sometimes, it took the shape of a skull, other times it was just a mass of black clouds.

“What are its abilities?” Lu Yuan had never seen such a large-scale phenomenon before.

If he were to face this black cloud and punch it, it would be like—a toothpick stirring a large vat, a drop of water entering a large river (a proverbial expression for a futile effort).

“We don’t know. All the creatures nearby ran away… it doesn’t seem to need food, and it has been floating outside the safe zone for a long, long time.”

“If we had to guess, its ability is probably to lower the temperature; the surrounding temperature sometimes drops significantly.”

Lowering the temperature…

Well, it doesn’t sound very powerful.

But such a large cloud, indestructible and unbreakable, if it could lower the temperature to minus one hundred degrees Celsius, it would be enough to easily wipe out human civilization.

“This phenomenon… doesn’t seem that strange, it’s taking a straightforward approach. It doesn’t seem to have much intelligence…”

“A subjective lifeform doesn’t need food in the conventional sense,” Old Cat suddenly spoke. “Only the Demon is a true subjective perpetual motion machine; other phenomena still require subjective energy.”

“Subjective energy, firstly, comes from highly ‘divine’ intelligent beings, and secondly, from spacetime tides.”

“So I think this cloud may have detected that the subjective energy density near the safe zone is relatively high, so it has stayed outside for a long time.”

“In fact, many phenomena discover the safe zones through energy density.”

This explanation was quite reasonable.

“Is there a way to reduce the subjective energy density?” Professor Zhang couldn’t help but ask.

The Ninth Branch, Lingbo City, is 8,000 kilometers away from their Yunhai City. Whether this large-scale phenomenon will move over is unknown.

“There’s no way, unless all humans die… or the population density decreases significantly,” Old Cat shook its head. “Or you can find some special material that can isolate the transmission of subjective energy.”

“For example, black iron material, but it’s quite rare, and you probably won’t be able to find that much.”

In other words, all of humanity is blocked by this super-anomalous phenomenon?

“It’s not necessarily a bad thing,” Old Cat said again, “Phenomena are also hostile to each other. Since this thing doesn’t have the ability to cross the safe zone, you don’t have to worry about being hunted by other phenomena before it moves.”

The people in the conference room were speechless.

Come to think of it, it seems so?

“I think this might be a Demon… a not-so-powerful phenomenon.”

“If it’s possible to capture it alive, you should try,” Old Cat said surprisingly, waving its paws, and two cat-eye stones emitted a faint glow.

The people on the other side of the screen were immediately astonished.

You just said it considers this area its territory, and now you’re saying to capture it alive…

“Good heavens, Demons, Devils, Ghosts, and Monsters—we’ve got a whole mahjong table! (Refers to a complete set of characters needed to play Mahjong)” Lu Yuan laughed when he heard this, “Are there any other phenomena? Ghouls and goblins? Various monstrous beings?”

“Of course there are. If there were only demons, devils, ghosts, and monsters, this world wouldn’t exist anymore.”

Old Cat diligently searched its database: “Old Lu, you’re really unlucky; you’ve encountered almost all of these major catastrophes.”

“But there are many, many weaker phenomena that can be captured alive, but you haven’t encountered them; you’re incredibly unlucky…”

The difference between catastrophic-level phenomena and other weaker phenomena lies in their absolute abilities, which are generally very powerful.

The absolute ability of a Demon is soul possession. Except for not being able to possess bacteria and viruses, as long as it has a brain, even an ant, they can possess it.

Therefore, they are, to a certain extent, undead.

The absolute ability of a Monster/Unknown Entity is multiple Astral Spaces/Different Dimensions.

This multiple Astral Spaces/Different Dimensions is much stronger than Lu Yuan’s, capable of swallowing a mountain.

The Demon’s ability is even more terrifying. Undying; even if thrown into the sun, it remains undying.

Moreover, the Demon is a subjective perpetual motion machine at the subjective level; it will not die due to the depletion of subjective energy.

As for the Demon…

“The ability is growth.”

“They can grow endlessly, gaining stronger power. A Demon that has grown to its limit can, for a certain period of time, confront a Demon.”

“Generally, this growth also includes an increase in size. If you see an extremely large transcendent lifeform, it’s most likely a Demon.”

Lu Yuan looked at the photo of the huge cloud and sighed softly.

Of course, besides absolute abilities, there are usually additional relative abilities.

The number of relative abilities is vast, such as fields, mental attacks, spatial abilities, dreams, freezing, flames, lightning, etc., and can only be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

Absolute abilities guarantee the lower limit.

Relative abilities improve the upper limit.

Other phenomena do not have absolute abilities to guarantee the lower limit, and their combat power varies greatly.

Old Cat changed the subject: “I believe this Demon is a juvenile, because it’s still in the form of a cloud.”

“You should understand that physical rules still apply in this world; a cloud’s ability to interfere with the outside world cannot compare to that of a piece of steel.”

“So you need to find a way to capture it alive and enslave it. Letting phenomena fight phenomena is the way the world exists.”

Li Chunhong and Zhang Hui looked at each other and smiled wryly.

They haven’t even produced nuclear bombs yet; how can they enslave a cloud in the sky!

But what Old Cat said did make sense.

“That cloud has actually shrunk a bit. It’s been over 4,000 days since it appeared. It has indeed become more condensed.”

Based on this analysis, the Demon is indeed a relatively weak phenomenon.

What people fear is the invisible and intangible; in terms of sheer attack power, humanity still possesses some.

“Does this Demon have intelligence?”

“According to the information I have left, its intelligence isn’t high; it’s more like animalistic intelligence…”

After discussing for a while, there wasn’t really a good solution.

Their hard power wasn’t enough, so they could only temporarily hide in the safe zone.

“At least we need to produce many nuclear bombs before we can try.”

“Yunhai City does have the ability to ‘seal’, there are three people who can do it; other cities should also have them; this ability isn’t that rare, it’s just useless at lower levels.”

“We need to allocate more resources to them.”

“We may need to pool the strength of all humanity… several cities jointly canceling the safe zone and jointly fighting it.”

“Yes, we also need to build a sky city. If we really can capture a Demon alive, our sky city will have a guarantee of protection.”

Failing to plan ahead is certainly a cause of worry.

These people were actually seriously planning.

Of course, the difficulties involved were also clearly visible.

The very idea of “several cities jointly canceling the safe zone” is unrealistic; many civilizations have no desire to fight; they will remain in the safe zone until the end of the world.

Li Chunhong kept shaking his head, it was too idealistic.

Hoping for human unity is less realistic than hoping that Lu Yuan would descend from heaven and punch the Demon to death…

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