Bankruptcy beast.

Mysterious cave.

Just as Jiutong had explored, the space inside was extremely vast, as if someone had hollowed out the mountain.

"This place doesn't look like it was formed naturally."

Li Yang looked around carefully and quickly came to his own conclusion.

"This place does look like it was dug by humans, but judging by the traces, it's probably not a recent excavation. It must be quite old."

The Wind Patrol touched the stone wall and said, "I suspect this place was most likely excavated by some force in the early days, but was later abandoned."

When the patrol envoy said this, Jiang Chen and Li Yang's eyes were stern.

Wuxin was one of the earliest people to rise up in the wilderness. It is conceivable how difficult it would be to open up such a cave right under his nose.

Unless... this organization has been in cooperation with the Heartless from the beginning.

avalanche!

The three of them came to the same answer and became more certain of Jiang Chen's previous guess.

Perhaps this place had been abandoned before, but since the fluctuations of the Creation Cone were sensed here, it is very likely that it had been restarted by the Avalanche Organization.

However, this place is too big, and the Avalanche Organization has only activated a part of it. If it weren't for the arrival of the Ice and Snow Realm that changed the terrain of the snowy mountains and exposed this entrance, they might not have been able to find this cave at all.

"It seems we have found the right place."

Jiang Chen stroked his chin, glanced at the Wind Patrol and Li Yang, and said, "We may have to fight the Avalanche Organization head-on next. For safety reasons, why don't you go back first?"

"Can I understand that you are looking down on me?"

The Wind Patrol rolled his eyes in annoyance and said, "Let's not talk about whether I can beat him or not. Even if I can't beat him, no one can stop me."

"Okay, okay, I know you're good at this."

Jiang Chen smacked his lips, then looked at Li Yang with an inexplicable look.

"Then Li Yang, why don't you go and inform Senior Xiang first? If this is really the Avalanche Organization, there might be a big battle, and we probably won't have enough people."

"I don't plan on leaving either."

Li Yang shook the Huangjing in his hand and said, "The Huangjing's signal is very strong. I can communicate with the outside world here. I will keep in touch with the president at any time."

"Besides, I'm not so weak that I need to escape."

Hearing Li Yang's slightly dissatisfied tone, Jiang Chen's expression suddenly softened and he apologized immediately.

"Sorry, I just don't want too many surprises."

Of course this was false. Jiang Chen's real purpose was just to test Li Yang's attitude.

But at the moment, there seems to be no flaws.

I hope I'm just overthinking it.

"Nine barrels, expand the exploration range to the maximum, and don't miss any suspicious clues."

"Hongzhong, give me a bird's-eye view. The more comprehensive the better."

Meow meow?

Upon hearing Jiang Chen's order, Jiutong immediately started to act, while Hongzhong came out of the Wuxiangze Ding. He was stunned for a moment before he separated hundreds of water droplets and spread them around.

With the complete separation of Hongzhong's true spirit, Hongzhong became more and more skilled in splitting souls, and it was only a matter of time before he had millions of clones.

But what Hongzhong is concerned about now is not just the issue of soul division.

After constructing a complete God's perspective network, Hongzhong ran back to the Wuxiangze Ding again, licking Binglingtan while trying to split his true spirit.

That’s right, it’s about splitting the true spirit!
After comprehending the twin runes, Hongzhong did not stand still, but boldly embarked on a new path.

Since the soul can be divided, why can't the true spirit be divided?

If the true spirit can be separated out while beheading the three corpses, then can these three corpses also be regarded as real living beings?

These are just Hongzhong’s own guesses, and even Jiang Chen is not very clear about them.

After placing his true spirit in the Wuxiangze Ding, Hongzhong's realm clearly reached another level.

This state has nothing to do with combat power, it is simply a state of comprehension of the laws and the origin of the world.

To put it in the words of the fantasy novels of the previous life, what Hongzhong is doing now is to comprehend the way of heaven.

But these are all things that happened later. Now Hongzhong is still completing Jiang Chen's instructions very obediently, and presenting the scenes he sees in front of Jiang Chen in the form of a small screen.

Thanks to Jiutong and Hongzhong's incredible perception skills, this cave exploration mission, which was supposed to be full of dangers, instantly became a lot safer.

But even so, Jiang Chen and the other two did not let down their guard and continued along the road cautiously.

This cave was not only very wide, but its depth also exceeded the three people's expectations.

But even in such a closed space for many years, Jiang Chen did not feel much stuffy.

Not only that, Jiang Chen also saw a lot of similar shelters and air-raid shelters on Jiutong's three-dimensional map.

Although these are all dug out from the stone wall, they have all the necessary functions.

“Perhaps those who opened up this cave intended it to be a refuge?”

Jiang Chen was thoughtful. In the early days of the Dawn Calendar, human society was once on the verge of extinction due to the impact of extraordinary creatures.

But under the leadership of various major forces, humans built shelters to preserve some manpower, and then slowly established the current federation.

But the shelter has a maximum capacity. Even if the major forces try their best to be fair and just, there are still a large number of humans who can only live outside the shelter.

Some people choose to build a town around the shelter to try to win the kindness of the shelter's leader, but others choose to be self-reliant and build an alternative shelter with their own strength.

Today, most of the official shelters have been destroyed, and the remaining ones have been converted into fortresses by the military, while the civilian shelters have completely disappeared.

Now it seems that this might be a civilian shelter.

"But building a shelter right under the noses of the Careless, is this really a big heart or is it as I thought just now, these people have betrayed their compatriots long ago?"

rustling...

At this moment, Jiutong suddenly sent a warning. Jiang Chen and the other two also calmed down and looked forward cautiously.

The stone cave was still very quiet, but dozens of soul fluctuations appeared on Jiutong's three-dimensional soul map.

"There is no energy fluctuation. It should be deliberately restrained."

The patrol officer closed his eyes and sensed for a while, then looked at Li Yang.

"It's not that they are deliberately converging, it's that their energy fluctuations are masked by other things."

“…Sky-opening Cone!”

The three of them spoke at the same time, and the Kaitian Cone would actively absorb the surrounding energy and use it to attract the small world to descend.

If there are a large number of Kaitian Cones, they will indeed have the effect of hiding energy fluctuations.

Thinking of this, a gleam of light flashed in the eyes of the three people, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

"Make a fortune, don't hold back later, attack at will!"

Jiang Chen's face was solemn and he warned seriously.

Da da!

Fa Cai waved his claws vigorously, and the Immortal Golden Body was activated, blocking all surrounding perceptions, and rushed forward at a terrifying speed.

Judging from the soul strength sensed by Jiutong, the extraordinary creatures inside were at most Star Level and posed no threat to them at all.

Instead of wasting time on careful probing, it is better to defeat the enemy directly with a thundering blow.

But when Fa Cai broke through the rock wall and appeared in front of the enemy, he couldn't help but stand there in a daze.

It was not the demonized army they had expected, nor was it the undead army. Instead, there were more than a dozen machines behind the rock wall.

To be precise, there are more than a dozen mechanical pets!
"Mechanical pet spirit? Is it Apocalypse University?"

Jiang Chen looked at the mechanical pet spirit that was wielding a mining hammer to dig ore, and his thoughts suddenly became confused.

Apocalypse University, which rebuilt the Federal Technology University together with Morning Star, is actually related to the Avalanche Organization?

"Make a fortune and leave one person alive."

Thinking that Tianqi University might also be a traitor, Jiang Chen's heart suddenly turned cold.

Da da……

Fa Cai understood and without waiting for the mechanical pets to react, he dismantled them all in a few flashes, leaving only a star-level machine which he threw in front of Jiu Tong.

Jiu Tong was naturally clear about his mission. The Scales of Judgment appeared, and he remotely controlled the Soul Shatterer to pull the soul of the mechanical pet out of the core of the intelligent brain.

Just when Jiu Tong was about to dissect the other party's soul, the core of the mechanical pet spirit suddenly disintegrated, and its soul was destroyed as well.

"Sure enough, there are defenses."

Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes slightly. Mechanical pets had only been on the market for a few months, and he didn't know much about them.

But considering the characteristics of the machine, installing some self-destruction mechanisms does not seem to be very difficult.

But in this way, he couldn't verify the true ownership of these mechanical pets.

After all, deep down in his heart, he still didn't want Apocalypse University to be a traitor.

"Jiang Chen, come and take a look at this."

At this moment, Li Yang seemed to have found some clues. After searching for a while inside the other mechanical pets that were killed instantly by Fa Cai, he came to Jiang Chen with a handful of black iron sand.

"Is this... nanomachine?"

Jiang Chen frowned slightly. He had seen the effect of nanomachines in battle during the evaluation competition. If these robot pets were really from Apocalypse University, the appearance of nanomachines was not surprising.

"It is indeed a nanomachine, but this is not the type that Apocalypse University usually uses."

Li Yang shook his head and said, "You are not from Xiling so you don't know. This kind of nanomachine is quite common in Xiling. You can see them in almost every industry."

"And you are also familiar with the forces behind these nanomachines."

"Su's family."

The Wind Patrol suddenly spoke, looking at these nanomachines with a playful look in his eyes, and Jiang Chen also changed after hearing Li Yang's words.

I almost forgot, Apocalypse University is not the only one in the Federation that knows how to play with mechanics.

Even in this place, the possibility that these mechanical pets belong to the Su family is only high, not low.

The number of suspects became two, but Jiang Chen's mood became heavier.

Tianqi University, Su family.

No matter who is the traitor, it is not good news for the Federation.

But combined with what the teacher asked me to investigate before, this conclusion seems to be a foregone conclusion? (End of this chapter)