122: Section 122

Morgan turned to look at Mark and suddenly said, "This same situation occurred when Mark was a child. We speculated that there was some kind of connection between him and clotho. For many years, we never allowed Mark to get close to clotho. Originally, I thought that after Mark grew up, perhaps this situation wouldn't happen again, but I didn't expect that he would still fall into a faint just like back then."

Jing Yuan looked at Morgan; perhaps what he said was true. He couldn't even manage to stand up, so what could he possibly do to Mark?

"I'll take him to the Medical Clinic first."

...Inside the Medical Clinic, Doctor Lottie performed a full-body scan on Mark, and the result was that he had fallen into a deep coma.

Jing Yuan inquired, "What caused him to fall into a coma?"

Lottie looked at the scan results, also appearing puzzled. "City Lord Mark's brain and various organs are all intact, so I can't be certain what the cause of his coma is. Perhaps..."

"Perhaps what?"

"I'm just guessing wildly; there's no scientific basis for it."

"It's fine, tell me your guess." Jing Yuan stared at Lottie.

Lottie thought for a moment and said, "City Lord Mark's symptoms look a bit like Information overload. It's like a computer's operating system suddenly couldn't handle the processing and crashed..." Speaking to this point, Lottie waved her hand and said, "I'm just guessing blindly."

Jing Yuan was thoughtful, but asked, "Then is his life in danger?"

"No, we just have to wait for him to wake up."

Jing Yuan looked at Lottie and said, "Remember, you must not tell anyone about City Lord Mark's coma."

"Understood!"

Afterward, Jing Yuan brought Ran Bing over.

Upon learning of Mark's condition, Ran Bing was extremely worried. However, Lottie had also said that Mark's life wasn't in danger and he was simply in a coma.

Only then did Ran Bing feel relieved... In the Navigation Control Room, Jing Yuan found Jing Nan again. This time, it was to discuss searching for Dragon Bone Village with her.

A map was laid out before Jing Yuan and Jing Nan, marking the resource collection points and ecology zones on the Ao Ya New Continent.

Jing Nan looked at the map and said, "According to what you've said, that purified place is hidden inside an Ecological Core Zone we've never set foot in. But we can't go to an Ecological Core Zone, so we can't confirm the existence of that place."

Jing Yuan asked in confusion, "Why can't we go? Isn't the Lighthouse flying in the sky? Just fly over and take a look; if it doesn't work out, we'll leave."

"It's not as simple as you imagine." Jing Nan pointed at the map and said, "This continent has so many Ecological Core Zones; could it be that all of them have been purified?"

Jing Nan's rhetorical question stumped Jing Yuan.

The plot details Jing Yuan knew were very limited; he only knew that there was no ecology near Dragon Bone Village.

Logically speaking, it was impossible for the Lighthouse not to observe such a large area, so it could only be in an Ecological Core Zone where the Lighthouse didn't dare to go.

However, there were many Ecological Core Zones, and some core zones were truly dangerous.

For example, the core zone where Nirvana was located.

When Jing Yuan last fought Bai Yuekui, a Phage Beast as large as a mountain had awakened, drawing Bai Yuekui's attention.

That fellow might just be a Monarch-level Shi Ji Beast.

"Can't we just let the Lighthouse fly over and take a look?" Jing Yuan asked tentatively.

"I cannot risk the lives of tens of thousands of people on the Lighthouse."

Jing Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Then you drive the Lighthouse to the edge of the core zone and let me down to investigate. If I'm successful, I'll send you word."

"You want to take the Wasteland Hunters down?"

"No, just me alone!"

Jing Nan said in surprise, "You alone? Breaking into an Ecological Core Zone?"

Jing Yuan actually had his own plans, and he said nonchalantly, "It's fine, even if I encounter a Metamorphic Type, I can save my own life!"

"But this is still too risky."

Jing Yuan sighed, "I need to find that group of people on The Surface quickly. Perhaps they know the reason for Mark's coma."

"Now that Mark is in a coma, if you leave, aren't you worried that things might change?"

"Don't I still have you?" Jing Yuan looked at Jing Nan. "Can you stabilize the situation on the Lighthouse?"

"Me?" Jing Nan smiled. "Don't forget, City Lord Morgan is my father and Charles is my brother. Why do you think I'll definitely stand on your side?"

"Uh..." Jing Yuan was momentarily speechless.

"How about you wait until Mark wakes up before you go!"

Based on those words alone, Jing Yuan believed that Jing Nan would not release Charles and Morgan.

"Lady Jing Nan, you and Charles are not the same kind of person; you and I are. For the future of humanity, you will stand on my side."

"Don't be too confident."

"Of course, I have a trump card. I can fly. If you betray me, I have the ability to fight my way back to the Lighthouse."

"So what?"

Jing Yuan looked at Jing Nan, his gaze unconsciously glancing downward.

Seeing Jing Yuan's gaze, Jing Nan asked somewhat angrily, "What are you looking at?"

"Nothing!" Jing Yuan quickly changed the subject. "Lady Jing Nan, can you use the Lighthouse's technology to forge some weapons for me?"

Chapter 126: Charles's Treasure Vault (Eight Updates)

Jing Nan agreed to make weapons for Jing Yuan, so she took him to the Research Department.

Since Jing Yuan was unfamiliar with the Research Department's warehouse, Jing Nan took people to find materials while Jing Yuan rested nearby.

Jing Yuan looked toward the other end of the hallway; the Ecology Research Institute was near the Research Department.

Thinking that Dr. Carrie was still studying Sharif, he prepared to head over to the Ecology Research Institute to take a look.

Inside the Ecology Research Institute.

Dr. Carrie was facing two tall, strong corpses, performing both dissections and sampling analysis.

Jing Yuan was very curious about the gene potion's modification of human warriors; after all, Sharif was already at the second-tier level.

Jing Yuan had relied on his cheats to slay a large number of Phage Beasts to upgrade to the second tier, yet Sharif had managed to reach this level with just a single vial of potion.

How could this not make Jing Yuan curious?

Walking into the Ecology Research Institute, he was met with several large transparent tanks containing several pieces of flesh soil.

He didn't know why Carrie kept these things; didn't looking at them every day feel creepy?

"You're here?" Carrie saw Jing Yuan and walked over of her own accord.

"Dr. Carrie." Jing Yuan asked directly, "Do you have any progress regarding the gene potion?"

"If there were an original potion sample, I could give you a result. But with only two corpses, how do you expect me to research it?"

Jing Yuan smiled helplessly. "I asked Fan Lü; she said there were only two doses. And this potion has flaws."

"The flaws are obvious." Carrie walked to a row of computers and said, "With just this information, there's no need to get it through interrogation."

Carrie always sounded like she was snapping at people when she spoke.

However, Jing Yuan didn't mind. He asked, "Dr. Carrie, does their kind of enhancement have anything to do with ecology?"

Carrie explained, "Their enhancement mode is simply the frantic growth of muscle and nerve tissue; it doesn't actually have anything to do with ecology."

Carrie looked at Jing Yuan. "Why do you ask that? Right, when I took your sample for research last time, one of the items was to study whether you had any connection to ecology."

"So, do I have a connection to ecology?"

"No." Carrie's answer was very direct. "You indeed have no connection to ecology, but their situation is also different from yours."

Jing Yuan looked at Carrie, waiting for her answer.

"I just said that their muscle and nerve tissues grew frantically. Essentially, they rely on stacking cells to grow stronger, but you don't! Your body structure is still that of a normal person."

This news was somewhat useful to Jing Yuan; at least he knew that his second-tier strength and Sharif's second-tier strength were not the same thing.

"Dr. Carrie, I also want to ask a question. Are there higher-level versions of these gene potions from the old world? Is it possible for us to rely on gene potions to cultivate a batch of super soldiers?"

"You can stop thinking about that. The old world did have glorious genetic technology, but by now, a gap has appeared in that knowledge." Carrie looked at those two corpses. "I don't know where Charles got those gene potions; he was clever though, not using them himself but letting his subordinates use them."

Jing Yuan looked at Loriv and Sharif's corpses and said flatly, "Since nothing can be researched, just have them incinerated!"

"Fine, I'll have someone arrange it in a moment."

Just as Jing Yuan was about to leave, Carrie called out to him again.

"I remember that a year ago, the Lighthouse once flew over the old world Jean Nation."

The old world Jean Nation possessed powerful genetic technology and had even researched Bio-modified humans.

These potions were very likely found at the Jean Nation ruins by Charles's private Wasteland Hunters. If you're interested, you can also go look for them the next time we pass the Jean Nation ruins."

Jing Yuan smiled; he was somewhat interested, but not very.

Rather than looking for gene potions, it was better to find the Cultivation methods of Dragon Bone Village.