Chapter 51 Departure! Target: 'Giant Beast Skeleton'!

"Departure!"

Chen Weiguo's calm and powerful voice echoed in everyone's ears through the Command Center's broadcast system.

These two words were like a red-hot battle blade, instantly igniting the flames in everyone's hearts.

The slight relaxation and joy brought about by the birth of the "ghost" were replaced by a more solemn and serious sense of mission.

This was not the end; this was merely the beginning.

A brand-new war concerning the survival of civilization was about to begin.

"Comrade Lin Yuan," Chen Weiguo's gaze passed through the thick observation window and landed on the brand-new, sci-fi-looking connection cockpit, "are you ready?"

"Reporting to the Chief! Ready to depart at any time!" Lin Yuan's voice came through the communication channel, clear, loud, and full of unprecedented confidence.

He took a deep breath and stopped looking at the familiar faces outside the window who were seeing him off. He focused all his attention on the brand-new "partner" in front of him.

This cockpit was worlds apart from the one he had used before.

It was no longer cold metal and exposed wiring; the entire interior of the cockpit was covered in a layer of soft, memory foam-like biological material. When he sat down, the seat would automatically adjust to the most comfortable and fitting state according to his physique.

The futuristic helmet was no longer simply placed on his head; after he sat down, it extended from behind the seat like petals, piece by piece, closing in to perfectly wrap around his head.

There was not the slightest sense of pressure; instead, it felt like enjoying a top-tier head massage.

"Neural connection system, beginning self-check."

"Biological sign monitoring module, connection normal."

"Mental buffer module V3.0, activated."

Li Na's familiar voice rang in Lin Yuan's headset. Unlike before, although there was still a hint of nervousness in her voice, it was filled more with a professional and steady confidence.

In these three months, it was not only Lin Yuan who had grown.

The entire "scavenger" project team was iterating and evolving at a crazy speed.

"Technical Support Department, perform the final parameter calibration on the "ghost"'s 'high-dimensional penetration scanning' system based on the 'biological energy flow map' theory just provided by Comrade Lin Yuan!" Academician Wang was personally overseeing the technical console, his eyes, which had regained their clarity, staring intently at the waterfall of data flowing across the screen.

"Understood!" the Head of Technology Department immediately responded, "Loading the biological energy spectrum database of the 'Eternal Flower' civilization... loading complete!"

"Calibration start! Target: filter out 99% of chaotic background energy radiation and precisely capture ordered energy flows within a radius of one thousand kilometers with an intensity exceeding '1' biological energy unit!"

"Medical Team!" Academician Wang turned to the other side again, "How is the 'mental shield' coming along?"

The Head of the Medical Team immediately replied: "Reporting to Academician Wang! The 'mental pollution' special research group has successfully developed the first generation 'Mental Barrier' protocol based on the defense theory regarding 'high-dimensional information lifeforms' in the 'ashilya' database!"

"This protocol will be run directly by the 'pangu system'. It will construct a 'firewall' composed of high-frequency mental pulses on the periphery of Comrade Lin Yuan's consciousness. Any unauthorized external mental signals containing negative emotions or chaotic logic will be interfered with, neutralized, or even directly burned out when attempting to intrude!"

"Good! Excellent!" Academician Wang slapped the table excitedly, "With this, it's equivalent to putting a 'mental bulletproof vest' on Lin Yuan!"

Listening to the orderly reports from various departments in the Command Center, an unprecedented sense of security surged in Lin Yuan's heart.

He was no longer that scrap yard owner who fought alone, relying solely on grit and luck to gamble with his life.

Standing behind him was the country's top intelligence and most powerful strength.

They were a whole.

"All systems, self-check complete!"

"The "ghost" status is perfect!"

"The 'skeleton' operation can begin!"

With the final confirmation from the Head of Technology Department, the entire Command Center fell silent again.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Lin Yuan.

Chen Weiguo picked up the communicator, his voice as steady as a mountain.

"Comrade Lin Yuan, let me emphasize one more time."

"In this operation, our core task is 'exploration', not 'treasure hunting'."

"Your primary goal is to ensure your absolute safety. On the premise of safety, draw an internal map of the 'giant beast skeleton' for us and establish a preliminary 'monster illustrated guide'."

"Remember, we have plenty of time. Do not be greedy, do not act rashly. At any time, you have the right to abort the mission according to your own judgment and return immediately. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Lin Yuan nodded heavily.

He knew that the Chief was giving him a reassurance.

"Good." Chen Weiguo took a deep breath and issued the final order.

"The 'skeleton' operation, officially begins!"

"Activate the deep space salvage system!"

"Hum—"

Lin Yuan felt his consciousness sink suddenly.

Everything around him began to become blurry and distorted.

The next second, boundless darkness swallowed him up.

When he regained consciousness again, he found that he was already in a dead silent, cold deep space.

And right before his "eyes", or rather, directly in front of him.

A... a corpse that made his soul tremble, so huge that it could not be described in any language... was lying there quietly.

It was too big.

It was so big that Lin Yuan's wide-angle lens couldn't even capture its full picture.

He could only see an endless, pitted, gray-brown carapace that looked like a dead continent.

In the crevices of those carapaces grew some bizarre, tumor-like hyperplastic tissues. Some huge, rugged tentacles like mountain ranges were curled up powerlessly, floating in the void.

The surface of the corpse was covered with countless huge holes, like craters. Some holes were bottomless and pitch black, as if they were entrances to hell. Some holes still had some broken, crystal-like tissue structures remaining, flickering with an eerie light under the reflection of distant starlight.

An ancient, decaying energy field filled with the breath of death and despair shrouded this airspace.

Lin Yuan could even "smell" that faint, lingering stench of... corpse rot, mixed with the smell of rotting flesh and sulfur.

This was... Salvage Area 003.

The 'giant beast skeleton'.

"Holy... shit..."

In Lin Yuan's consciousness, he could only squeeze out these two words.

He felt as if he were an ant, small to the point of insignificance, standing in front of a dead giant whale larger than a mountain range.

That fear and awe of a massive existence, stemming from the instinct of life, made him almost unable to think.

In the Command Center, it was also dead silent.

On the huge holographic screen, the real-time footage transmitted back by the "ghost" was displayed synchronously.

Everyone was shocked into silence by this terrifying scene, which felt like the arrival of a myth and was full of Cthulhu-style horror.

"Is this... is this... a civilization?" Li Na's voice carried an uncontrollable tremor.

"My God..." a biologist took off his glasses and slumped powerlessly in his chair, muttering to himself, "Darwin's theory of evolution... in front of it, is like a joke..."

"Start the scan immediately!" Academician Wang was the first to react from the shock, his voice becoming somewhat sharp due to extreme excitement, "Start the 'biological energy flow map' drawing program! I want to see it! I want to see what secrets are still hidden in this corpse of a 'god'!"

"Yes!"

Lin Yuan forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart and began to execute the order.

With a thought, the black "ghost" silently activated its specially modified 'high-dimensional penetration scanning' system.

"Hum—"

An invisible scanning wave, undetectable to the naked eye, spread out from the "ghost" towards the massive corpse like ripples in water.

The next second, a biological energy signal, massive beyond imagination and chaotic to the extreme, rushed into the Command Center's data processing system like a burst dam!

"Alarm! Alarm! Data stream overload!"

"The 'pangu system' computing power instantly soared to 90%!"

"It's not working! The signal is too chaotic! There are residual energy and mental pollution everywhere! We simply cannot distinguish the effective energy flow!" The Head of Technology Department looked at the chaotic, snowflake-like signal map on the screen, sweating profusely with anxiety.

It was like trying to find a specific book in a library that had burned to ruins and was piled with billions of books; there was simply no way to start.

"Don't panic!" Lin Yuan's voice rang out in time, "Sync a copy of the data stream to me!"

"Comrade Lin Yuan, your brain..."

"It's fine! I have the 'Mental Barrier'! And..." Lin Yuan's consciousness sank into his mind, beginning to quickly "browse" the 'ashilya' database, "I know how to filter out this 'junk' information!"

He directly transmitted an algorithm he found in the database regarding 'biological energy resonance frequency' to the Technology Department.

"Use this algorithm! Re-filter the signal! Only receive the most stable resonance waves with a frequency between '3.14 Hz' and '3.15 Hz'! That is the biological brood nest's core energy circulation frequency!"

"Received!"

The Technology Department immediately reset the filtering program according to Lin Yuan's instructions.

On the screen, the chaotic snowflake dots instantly disappeared by ninety-nine percent.

Replacing them was a... network map that, although still blurry, could barely show its outline.

Countless lines, thick or thin, emitting a faint red light, intertwined and spread inside the massive corpse, like human blood vessels, like the water system of the earth.

They had found the "way"!

"Success!" Academician Wang slapped the table excitedly.

However, right at this moment, an unexpected change occurred!

At the edge of the drawn network map, an area that was originally dark and dim suddenly, without any warning, lit up with a blinding, aggressive... huge red dot!

"Alarm! High-intensity biological pheromone reaction detected!"

"Threat level assessment in progress... assessment complete!"

"Threat level... extremely high! Pheromone characteristics: hunger, greed, and... absolute hatred for all living things!"