1938 The Underground War Billions of Years Ago
Even though his eyes had already been burned into two black holes, Meng Chao still reached out and gently brushed his hand across his comrade’s eyebrows.

He closed his eyelids and sent him on his eternal journey home.
Then, Meng Chao stuck two fingers into his comrade’s eye sockets.

He felt the texture of the skull inside and used a little force to separate the skull that had been burned to a crisp.

Meng Chao focused on studying his comrade’s skull, especially the dried brain matter that was distributed inside.

His rich battle experience led him to a conclusion.

This comrade of his had not been attacked from the outside. He died purely due to excessive brain consumption. His brain cells were overloaded for a long time, and it caused his body to spontaneously combust.

Meng Chao recalled the pain he felt when he deduced the future numerous times. It was a pain that pierced his heart and made his head burn.

He then thought of Su Mulian, “Jackal” Kanus, and others who had the same memories as him.

After he pondered for a moment, he made a bold assumption.

Had his comrade experienced thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of possible futures, just like him?

Unfortunately, the level of his comrade’s brain did not surpass the Deity Realm. Hence, he could not support the computational ability that was required to experience billions of reincarnations.

In the end, the advanced calculations overloaded his brain, and he died from spontaneous combustion.

As for Meng Chao, if he had not thought of “mummified” Lei Zongchao’s warning at the last minute and had not taken that last step, he would have likely followed in his comrade’s footsteps and become a charred corpse lost in endless reincarnation.

Wait…

As Meng Chao examined the corpse, he noticed that there was something strange on the back.

When he carefully turned the corpse over, Meng Chao noticed hundreds of crystal threads that were thinner than hair but were crystal clear. They were extremely tough and had drilled out from the depths of the ground. They penetrated his comrade’s spine and went all the way up to his brain.

“What is this?”

Meng Chao tried to pull out the crystal threads.

However, he discovered that they were intertwined in his comrade’s body and connected to his blood vessels as well as nerves.

Under normal circumstances, even with the most advanced medical equipment and the best medical team in Dragon City, it would not always be possible to remove crystal threads that were integrated with a person’s internal organs, blood vessels, and nerves.

Fortunately, these crystal threads were probably relics of the ancient civilization. They had been buried underground for billions of years. Hence, they were on the verge of breaking and disintegrating.

Even though Meng Chao could not strip all of them out in one go, he could easily and brutally tear them apart after several attempts.

He then waited a little longer…

Meng Chao had helped set his comrade free, but he suddenly felt an unbearable numbing sensation on his back.

He reached behind and found that his back, as well as the back of his head, were also densely packed with crystal threads. He had even more of them than his comrade.

When he thought about how he was sprawled on the ground and connected to the ancient ruins through countless crystal threads, Meng Chao frowned slightly. He did not know if he should feel scared or disgusted.

He gritted his teeth, endured the pain, and struggled with all his might. Finally, he snapped the crystal threads on his back.

Along with the pain of his nerves being severed, there was also a huge sense of emptiness.

It was as if he had just missed the opportunity to perfectly fuse with the wisest and most profound entity in this universe.

Nevertheless, Meng Chao did not regret it at all.

He narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance as he coldly scanned the extremely strange space.

This place…

It should be a man-made ore layer deep in some kind of mineral vein.

All the rocks in his surroundings were translucent, like frozen, colorful smoke.

There were countless crystals embedded in the depths of the rock stratum that were even purer, shinier, and more condensed. Even after several billion years of erosion, they still shone brightly. They were like stars that Meng Chao had seen burning wildly in the endless expanse during his last reincarnation.

There were also many meandering ravines on the rock stratum. These ravines crisscrossed each other and formed a formation that Meng Chao found both familiar and unfamiliar.

It took Meng Chao a long time to realize what these ravines looked like.

They resembled the folds of a brain.

It was like a crystal brain that was a hundred times or even ten million times larger than the monster mastermind.

It was as if this was the ultimate brain that stored all the information in the world. As long as it possessed enough energy and computational ability, it could deduce all the possibilities.

The monster mastermind now seemed like a tiny, laughable, and weak creature to Wu Mo. It was a poor imitation of this crystal brain that contained the ultimate wisdom and secrets.

As for himself, he was just a string of insignificant data stored deep within it.

However, the ultimate brain’s current situation did not seem to be good.

Parts of it were collapsing, and there were cracks and holes everywhere, as though it had tumors that were growing out of control.

Countless tentacles with thorns, claws, and suckers were also poking out of the cracks and holes. They were obviously carbon-based creatures.

Even though these tentacles had died, withered, and decayed long ago, when he looked at the black marks that they left behind, Meng Chao could imagine the violent shock and destruction they brought when they were still alive. They had torn through the rock layer and swarmed forward to devour the ultimate brain like a tide.

Due to the existence of thousands of tentacles, the perfect, supreme, and sacred ultimate brain had become a half-organic, half-crystal nondescript stitched monster.

The reason Meng Chao could tear the crystal threads that pierced his back so easily was probably related to the black tentacles.

“This ultimate brain carved from crystals is obviously a product of the ancient civilization. Judging from its scale and powerful functions, it was likely of great significance to the civilization. It functioned in a similar way to a ‘control center.’”

Meng Chao’s mind raced. “As for those hideous black tentacles, every single one of them is thicker than the flood dragon monsters I’ve seen before. Even though they’re already dead, withered, and decayed, they still release an incredibly violent killing intent. It’s obvious that they’re not the limbs of ordinary creatures. They’re from the ferocious primordial beast that started the ancient war and almost pierced a hole in the sky. Even space-based orbital weapons couldn’t kill it completely!

“It seems that the ancient war didn’t just go on in the sky and on the ground.

“Deep underground, in the ancient civilization’s control center, a more soul-stirring battle took place!”