Chapter 32 Civilization Gene Archive

"It's open! Get in quickly!"

Chen Weiguo's roar and the cheers from the Technology Department exploded in Lin Yuan's earpiece almost simultaneously!

At that moment, Lin Yuan felt as if his head was being pricked by thousands of needles at once, aching so much it felt like it was splitting open.

The forced overload just now had consumed a massive amount of his mental energy.

But he couldn't worry about that now.

His instinct for survival drove him to use his last shred of strength to maneuver scavenger no. 2, like a stray dog being hunted, and dive straight into the crack of the door that had just opened!

The moment the front half of the drone entered the gate, the white sphere behind it, which had switched to "Elimination Mode," launched its attack!

There were no lasers, no projectiles.

From its rotating core, a torrent of gray, mist-like nanobots suddenly split off and surged toward the drone at supersonic speed!

Wherever that gray mist passed, whether it was the smooth walls or the hard floor, everything was silently decomposed and annihilated, leaving behind a shocking, perfectly smooth black trail!

"Damn it!"

Lin Yuan caught a glimpse of that terrifying gray mist out of the corner of his eye, and he was scared out of his wits.

If even a little bit of that touched him, his drone probably wouldn't even have any scraps left!

He slammed the engine power to the limit!

"Vroom—!"

Under the immense thrust, the entire drone body shook violently from the overload, and in the split second before the crystal gate closed, it narrowly, dangerously, dove all the way inside!

"Boom!"

Almost at the same time, the incredibly thick crystal gate slammed shut.

And that torrent of gray nanobots slammed hard against the newly closed gate.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

Only a teeth-grinding "sizzle" sound.

Lin Yuan looked back and saw that the indestructible crystal gate, where it had come into contact with the gray mist, was actually starting to show signs of decomposition!

A layer of crystalline powder fell from the door with a rustle.

However, the material of this door was clearly extraordinary, and the decomposition was very slow.

As for the white sphere outside, after realizing it couldn't destroy the target immediately, it seemed to give up the attack.

It retracted the gray mist, turned back into that smooth white sphere, and then, silently, like a most loyal guard, hovered outside the gate.

It seemed to be waiting for Lin Yuan to come out.

"Hoo... hoo..."

Lin Yuan gasped for air, feeling as if he had just made a round trip from the gates of hell.

In the Command Center, there was also a silence of survivors who had just escaped disaster.

Everyone slumped in their chairs, soaked through with cold sweat.

Those few short seconds just now were more heart-stopping than anything they had experienced in their entire lives.

"We... we survived..." Li Na's voice, trembling with tears, was the first to break the silence.

"We succeeded! We succeeded!"

"Lin Yuan! You kid! You're a fucking genius!"

After a brief silence, the entire Command Center erupted into earth-shattering, hysterical cheers!

Academician Wang was so excited that he hugged an elderly professor with white hair standing next to him, crying and laughing like a child.

Chen Weiguo also leaned back in his chair and let out a long, heavy breath.

His back was already soaked with cold sweat.

At that moment just now, he truly thought he was going to lose Lin Yuan, to lose the only hope of this country.

"Comrade Lin Yuan," he picked up the communicator, his voice somewhat hoarse from excitement, "How... how are you feeling? Your mental energy..."

"It's... it's alright." Lin Yuan felt the stinging pain in his head slowly subsiding; the system's "Neural Signal Buffer Module" and self-repair capabilities were taking effect, "Just a bit dizzy, like I drank two jin of fake liquor. I'm not dying."

"Good! Good! When you get back, I'll grant you a first-class merit!" Chen Weiguo said heavily, "Medical Team! Immediately formulate a recovery plan based on Comrade Lin Yuan's physical data! When he returns, I want him to receive the best treatment immediately!"

"Yes!"

After confirming that Lin Yuan was not in mortal danger, everyone's attention finally shifted from the terrifying moment just now to the place they were currently in.

—The Central Gene Temple.

Lin Yuan maneuvered the drone, slowly floating up within this massive space.

It was even more vast and spectacular than what he had seen from outside the door.

The entire space was an incredibly huge sphere.

There was no distinction between up, down, left, or right.

And all around him, thousands of translucent, jellyfish-like objects were floating and emitting various colored lights.

Some emitted a tranquil blue light, some emitted a warm golden glow, and others emitted a vibrant green light... Thousands of different lights adorned this dark space, making it look like a dreamlike sea of stars.

A colossal, unimaginably pure life energy permeated every inch of this space.

Lin Yuan felt as if his drone was soaking in a giant hot spring.

The mental energy that had been damaged by the forced overload just now was recovering at an extremely fast rate.

Along with it, he felt that the fatigue of his own physical body had dissipated quite a bit.

"My God..."

In the Command Center, all the biologists and genetic experts were speechless as they looked at this scene, which was like a miracle.

In their eyes shone the purest longing and pilgrimage for the unknown and for truth.

"Is this... is this the final backup of a civilization?" Academician Wang muttered to himself.

"Lin Yuan, get close to one, scan it! Hurry! I need to know what it actually is!" an old genetics expert shouted excitedly into the communicator.

"Received."

Lin Yuan suppressed the shock in his heart and carefully maneuvered the drone, approaching the nearest "jellyfish" emitting a soft blue light.

He activated the scanning function.

[Scanning...]

This time, the scanning took longer than any other time before.

After a full half-minute, the system's prompt finally sounded in Lin Yuan's mind.

[Scan complete.]

[Target: "Eternal Flower" Civilization Gene Archive (Individual: ashilya)]

[Content: Contains the complete genetic sequence map of the species, cellular structural memory, and the complete consciousness matrix of the individual from birth to the moment of upload.]

[Status: Deep sleep. Can be activated via compatible biological incubation pods or consciousness download technology.]

When Lin Yuan relayed this scan result word-for-word to the Command Center.

The entire Command Center was deathly silent.

Everyone was stunned, their minds going blank from the sheer volume of information contained in that text.

Complete genetic sequence...

Cellular structural memory...

Complete... consciousness matrix?

This was no longer just some technology for "immortality."

This was... a power that only a creator god would possess!

What they had found was not a hospital that could help people live longer.

What they had found was a library of souls... storing thousands of different races and different individuals!

After a long while, Academician Wang finally found his voice, his lips trembling, and he spoke a sentence in a dreamlike tone.

"We... we have found their... ark."