228: Destruction or control

Attached to the end of the diary was a structural diagram of the laboratory, mostly destroyed by an explosion, and the precise coordinates of the sealed area.

Li Xue凝 closed the file, slowly exhaling a turbid breath.

Regardless of whether that thing was alive or dead now, she had to confirm it with her own eyes.

Any unexpected element left by Qin Wuyan could be a fatal hidden danger for the New Federation now.

This was a forbidden zone within a forbidden zone.

The composite armored gate, thick enough to withstand a nuclear explosion, let out a heavy, grating roar as it slowly opened to both sides after Li Xue凝 entered the highest authorization command.

Before her eyes was a shocking scene of ruins and devastation.

The massive alloy walls were covered with hideous claw marks and charred imprints left by energy explosions.

The residual spatial fluctuations in the air were still highly unstable.

One could imagine how tragic and terrifying the failure of that experiment had been.

Li Xue凝's Ice Phoenix Domain naturally unfolded, smoothing out all the chaotic and violent energy fluctuations around her.

She walked step by step, treading on broken metal debris, towards the very center of the ruins.

There, a life-sustaining pod, shaped like a giant cocoon and made of some unknown black crystal, stood silently in the center of the ruins.

Its surface was covered with complex and dazzling Seal runes, but after years of erosion and energy impact, many of the runes had become dim and ineffective.

On the display screen outside the pod, all life sign monitoring data showed glaring red, indicating zero.

From any instrument, from any scientific perspective, the thing inside had long since completely died, not even a single cell could have survived.

Li Xue凝 slowly extended her hand, her fingertips gently touching the black crystal wall of the pod.

The moment her fingertips made contact with the wall, her body suddenly trembled slightly!

Dead?

No, that's not right!

Within her Domain's perception, inside this cold, solid crystal cage, a life spark, so faint that it was almost undetectable by any instrument, was burning!

It was like a Demonic Seed buried deep beneath ten thousand years of permafrost, seemingly lifeless, yet in the endless darkness and solitude, it was drawing in the ownerless dark energy, which had greatly increased in concentration due to the awakening of the Abyssal Demon Whale, from the surrounding space in an inconceivable way, using it as nourishment for its survival and growth.

Li Xue凝 highly concentrated her Mental Energy, following that extremely faint life fluctuation, to explore deeper within.

At the core of that so-called embryo, a fragmented Divine Soul belonging to Qin Wuyan and the equally shattered Beast Soul of the Netherwind Peng were fused together in an extremely bizarre way.

Directly forming a deformed symbiont!

And at this moment, this deformed symbiont, like an extremely miniature black hole, was very slowly devouring the violent dark energy from the surrounding space.

Every minute, every second, it was growing stronger.

Although this process was extremely slow.

But Li Xue凝 could fully foresee, one day, when it accumulated enough power and broke out of its cocoon, what kind of terrifying monster would be born into this world?

Qin Wuyan, that madman, although he failed, he also inadvertently, by Opportunity, created something he himself could not have predicted—a truly meaningful Demon God's Egg!

She almost instinctively activated the frost Protective Aura within her body, and a terrifying chill furiously condensed in her fair palm!

She wanted to destroy it.

Immediately, right now, at any cost!

However, just as the chill in her palm was about to touch the pod wall, an even crazier thought abruptly arose.

Divine Soul Grafting... Qin Wuyan could do it to create an Incarnation that satisfied his ambition... So why can't we?

He failed because of the fierce conflict between two wills, but this embryo has already completed the most difficult part, the initial Fusion of a human Soul and the Demonic Beast's Origin.

It is a ready-made, unique, and almost impossible to replicate experimental material!

If, if I can use my Ice Phoenix Domain to erase the part of Qin Wuyan's will within it, and then implant a brand that we control, one that is absolutely loyal and born only for battle...

The risk is personally releasing an uncontrollable, hundred times more terrifying than Qin Wuyan himself, peerless Demonic Beast.

But the gain could be adding a crucial piece to this seemingly unwinnable war for the survival of civilization, one that could be unexpected, and perhaps even turn the tide.

Destroy, or control?

...New Federation Supreme Command Center.

Su Lei stood quietly before the massive circular strategic sand table.

On the sand table, the area where the East Sea was located was enveloped in a scarlet color representing absolute death and the unnameable.

The fate of the entire New Federation now weighed heavily on his shoulders alone.

Sending a large army would be tantamount to throwing countless precious lives into an insatiable meat grinder.

This was a war that required the most precise surgical scalpel.

And he would personally assemble this team of surgeons.

"This expedition is not for conquest, but for infiltration."

"What we need is not destructive power, but extreme stealth, precise perception, and the determination to hit with one strike."

"Every person in our team is an indispensable and irreplaceable component."

Xinghui City, Federation Information Hub.

This is the beating heart and thinking brain of the New Federation, where billions of data streams converge, analyze, and distribute every moment.

Xiao Yuwei sat on a throne constructed of pure light flow, like a divine seat.

Her body remained motionless, but her consciousness had long since transformed into a boundless giant net, enveloping the entire Federation, and even the vast areas beyond the Federation.

"Lightless's life support System, energy shield, and my long-range Mental Energy link have all been debugged and reached their theoretical peak."

Her voice echoed in Su Lei's sea of consciousness: "I will be your eyes and ears in the real world."

"For every step you take in the Gui Xu, I will clear ten thousand kilometers of potential obstacles for you in the real world."

Su Lei's Divine Soul thought transformed into a gentle response in her sea of consciousness.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"This is my duty."

Xiao Yuwei cut off the communication decisively, dedicating all her attention to controlling the vast machine that was the entire Federation.

She wanted to build the rear into an indestructible steel fortress where Su Lei could entrust his back without any worries.