135: Section 135

"Uh, there was something, but it's fine now. Jing Nan, I'm sending you the coordinates; navigate the Lighthouse here!"

Jing Yuan sent the coordinates to Jing Nan. After seeing them, Jing Nan said in surprise, "It really is inside the Ecological Core Zone."

After carefully checking the route, Jing Nan asked, "Are you sure this route is safe?"

Jing Yuan said, "Coming from your current position, you will still pass through a section of the Ecology Zone. There are some terrifying things deep within the Ecology Zone, so try to stay along the edges and increase your altitude as much as possible. After crossing that mountain range, you'll be able to see the green grassland on The Surface."

"Understood!"

"By the way, is Mark awake?"

After arranging the flight path, Jing Nan said to Jing Yuan, "I've been in the Navigation Control Room and haven't had a chance to go to the Medical Clinic yet. I'll contact Ran Bing."

A moment later, Jing Nan's voice came through the headset, "Jing Yuan, Mark is awake!"

Chapter 138 Mark and clotho

After Bai Yuekui arranged for someone to take the Humanoid Bioweapon away, she led Star Shatterer and the others outside the base.

Outside, Jing Yuan and Taciturn chatted while waiting for the Lighthouse to arrive.

After a while, the Lighthouse appeared in their field of vision.

Jing Yuan glanced at Bai Yuekui and the others, smiling. "Compared to the Big Pot Lid, it looks more like an umbrella!"

The others were speechless, while Bai Yuekui said, "From now on, you are not allowed to call it the 'Big Pot Lid'."

"Yes, Boss!"

Wine Song and the others obediently complied.

"By the way," Jing Yuan looked at Bai Yuekui and said, "Mark is awake. Does Boss Bai want to come up to the Lighthouse with me to meet him?"

Bai Yuekui said coldly, "You should just have him come down!"

As the Lighthouse slowly approached, it grew larger and larger in their sight, looking truly spectacular from the outside.

After the Lighthouse lowered its altitude, many people on board saw the green grassland below.

Since the cataclysm began, most areas of the world had turned into desert, and people had never seen green on The Surface again.

Even the oldest people on the Lighthouse had almost forgotten what a green grassland looked like.

The younger generation of the Lighthouse only knew what green grassland looked like through videos.

Now, there was a stretch of green grassland right beneath the Lighthouse.

The first person to see the green grassland cried out in surprise, and then the word spread like wildfire; a large number of Lighthouse residents gathered around the Outer Ring platform to look down.

In the Navigation Control Room, Jing Nan saw the grassland through the footage captured by the bottom camera and was also filled with disbelief.

"There really is an area that hasn't been infected by the ecology."

On the ground.

Jing Yuan looked at Bai Yuekui with a smile and said, "Everyone, since Boss Bai isn't going, would you like to be guests on the Lighthouse?"

Awkward smiles appeared on the others' faces; if their Boss wasn't going, how could they?

"Alright, we'll come down later!"

Jing Yuan didn't force them. He manipulated all his weapons to float before him, sent the Tang Dao to Bai Yuekui, and said, "Boss Bai, here is your sword back."

Bai Yuekui took the Tang Dao.

Jing Yuan jumped onto the scale disk and then flew toward the Lighthouse.

"Jing Yuan, should I lower the lift platform for you now?" Jing Nan's voice came through.

"No need! I'll come up myself."

Jing Nan was slightly startled before she realized that Jing Yuan had just said he could fly.

Jing Yuan flew all the way up and soon arrived at the Lighthouse's Outer Ring platform.

He saw many people standing outside the platform watching; at first he was a bit surprised, but after thinking about it, he understood. They had never seen a scene like this before, so naturally, they were very curious.

The crowd on the Lighthouse saw Jing Yuan flying up from below.

Since Jing Yuan often displayed the 'miracle' of his ability to fly, everyone didn't find it strange.

"Leader Jing Yuan!"

"Leader Jing Yuan!"

The crowd saluted Jing Yuan one after another, and Jing Yuan responded with a nod to each of them.

Then, Jing Yuan flew directly toward the Navigation Control Room.

Seeing Jing Yuan flying directly outside, the people in the Navigation Control Room actually felt a bit uncomfortable.

Since the glass windows were completely sealed, Jing Yuan couldn't get in, so Jing Nan motioned for him to go to the nearby corridor.

Jing Yuan landed in the corridor, and Jing Nan also walked out of the Navigation Control Room.

Jing Nan looked at Jing Yuan and asked directly, "Have you already made contact with the Ground People?"

"Yes."

"How did they survive on The Surface and even possess a piece of land that hasn't been eroded by the mana ecology?" Jing Nan was extremely curious about this.

"They used a special method to shield the ecology." Jing Yuan glanced at Jing Nan. "Let's go see Mark first!"

"Alright."

The two of them arrived at the Medical Clinic. Previously, Jing Yuan had ordered that the news of Mark's coma must not be leaked.

Therefore, the outside of the Medical Clinic was heavily guarded by layers of Wasteland Hunters.

When Jing Yuan entered the hospital room, Mark was already dressed and standing up.

Ran Bing was with him, and even Snow Peak and Mo Cheng were there.

Hearing someone enter, Mark turned around. Seeing it was Jing Yuan and Jing Nan, Mark looked at Jing Nan and said, "I was just about to go find you. I heard the Lighthouse has navigated over a green grassland. What's going on?"

Jing Nan looked at Jing Yuan, leaving it to him to explain: "I found the Ground People! This grassland below is the area where they live."

Hearing this, Mark's eyes widened.

Waking up from a sleep, the thing he had been dreaming about had actually come true.

Having green grassland meant there was no ecology, which meant they could live on The Surface!

For a moment, Mark felt a bit excited in his heart.

"I also found the Ground People," Jing Yuan continued. "I sought cooperation from them to have them teach us how to survive on The Surface, but they requested that you be the one to talk with them!"

"Me?" Mark was puzzled.

After all, Mark was the City Lord; it was only natural for him to handle the negotiations.

"Alright, then let's go down and talk with them!"

"Mark, I have some things I want to talk to you about alone before we go down."

Jing Nan glanced at Snow Peak and Mo Cheng, and the two tactfully left with her.

Only Ran Bing remained. Jing Yuan glanced at her.

Mark said to Ran Bing, "Wait for me outside!"

After Ran Bing left, the door closed automatically, leaving only Jing Yuan and Mark.

"Go ahead!" Mark looked at Jing Yuan.

"What did Morgan say to you before you fainted?"

"He said he was entrusting the secrets of the Lighthouse to me, and then he took me to the Computational Core. There, he told me about the existence of clotho as well as my origin."

"Did he tell you what clotho actually is?"

"No. He said it might be the brain of some prehistoric creature, but he wasn't sure himself." Mark looked at Jing Yuan in confusion. "Do you know what clotho is?"

"I don't."

"City Lord Morgan said that clotho once predicted the occurrence of the disaster in advance, and with its help, the Lighthouse avoided many dangers. Not only that, but clotho would also provide us with resource coordinates, allowing us to find supplies easily. It's just that later, for some reason, it fell into a deep sleep. Later on, clotho only sent one set of coordinates, and when they searched according to those coordinates, they found me! Thus, the First City Lord brought me back. Because of clotho's previous help to them, they believed that I, found through clotho's guidance, am the key to fighting the apocalypse!"

After hearing these words, Jing Yuan found that this information was almost identical to what Morgan had told Charles in the original story; it seemed Morgan really didn't know any more information.

"Then why did you faint?"

"I don't know either. Before I fainted, I seemed to see some inexplicable images."

"Images? What images?"

Mark tried hard to recall those memory fragments. "A woman, a giant, a... Humanoid Rending Beast!"

A Humanoid Rending Beast?

Jing Yuan was somewhat surprised. In pest control, the only Humanoid Rending Beast that has ever appeared is Mark!