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"How complex is it?"

Uto said directly, "We performed carbon-14 dating on the rock layer on the cylinder's surface and found it was buried here at least fifty million years ago."

"Fifty million years!" Star Shatterer's eyes widened in shock. "Are you sure it's fifty million years and not five thousand?"

Before the dating results, they all thought it might be a relic from the old world.

Uto didn't want to explain it to her, so he simply tossed over a tablet. "The results are on there; you can see for yourself!"

Star Shatterer took the tablet and looked; it was indeed fifty million years.

Jing Yuan and the others leaned in to look and were also shocked.

You should know that fifty million years ago was almost the era of the dinosaurs!

Humans have only existed for two million years from ape-men to the present.

As one of Boss Bai's confidants, Star Shatterer knew many of Boss Bai's secrets.

If the age of this metal cylinder was true, then this discovery was no less significant than when Boss Bai's father discovered the mana primordial body!

"In addition..." Uto said with a bitter smile, "we also detected an antimatter reaction inside the metal cylinder!"

"You're saying there's antimatter inside?"

For a moment, many previous speculations became reasonable.

This metal cylinder was indeed linked to those minerals.

Although the specific relationship between them was not yet known, they were all related to antimatter.

"On this continent, no one knows more about the Ancient Civilization and antimatter than Boss Bai," Uto said with a smile. "So, I would like to invite Boss Bai here to study it."

"You want Boss Bai to come here?" Star Shatterer asked.

"Yes."

"Boss Bai probably won't have time recently."

Uto thought his words in the mine earlier had made Star Shatterer a bit resentful, so he wanted to try and persuade her further.

At this moment, Jing Yuan said, "If Boss Bai can't come, you can just send the item to her!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the people from Steel Flame Fortress changed.

In this doomsday wasteland world, once this thing was sent over, there was no telling if it would ever come back.

"No rush, we can wait until Boss Bai is finished with her business!"

Star Shatterer said, "What, you don't trust Boss Bai but still want her help?"

"It's not that..."

Star Shatterer didn't give Uto a chance to speak at all. "Leader Uto, you've seen the cooperation between our Dragon Bone Village and Steel Flame Fortress over the years. When has our Boss Bai ever let you suffer a loss?"

"Indeed, never!"

"We'll take this thing back. Whether it contains resources or technology, we'll share it! How about it?"

Uto fell into hesitation.

They had exhausted their efforts and still couldn't open the metal cylinder; it was clearly not an ordinary object.

He didn't want to hand over something that might contain 'treasure,' but he had no way to open it!

If he didn't give it to the people of Dragon Bone Village for research, it could only sit in the warehouse as a decoration—a lump of scrap metal.

Regarding the people of Dragon Bone Village, Uto still trusted the reputation Boss Bai had established at Steel Flame Fortress.

Although the potential benefits would be split, it was still better than having nothing at all.

Everyone looked at Uto, waiting for him to make a decision.

After agonizing for a long time, Uto finally nodded. "Alright! However, our people must go with you!"

"No problem!" Star Shatterer laughed.

The deal was struck, and Star Shatterer immediately contacted Boss Bai.

Boss Bai told them to bring the item back as soon as possible, even saying they could waive the catalyst shortfall for it.

However, Uto wanted to try a bit more and deliberately kept the Dragon Bone Village group behind... Over at the Lighthouse, everything was as usual.

Ulaanbaatar went up to the Lighthouse once a day. If he found someone who could quickly master Returning to Origin, he would take them aside to learn how to self-trigger their potential.

The fifty people originally selected by Mark and Jing Yuan were considered the elites of the Lighthouse and went down to Dragon Bone Village every day to train.

Some of them had already begun to master Returning to Origin and had started learning self-awakening.

On the Lighthouse, the training for the remaining Upper Citizens and Dust Citizens was a bit later and the intensity was a level weaker.

However, the enthusiasm of the people on the Lighthouse was also very high, especially among the Dust Citizens.

Some Dust Citizens would practice as long as they weren't working, or even secretly slack off during work to practice.

Because if they succeeded, they could change their fate!

Ulaanbaatar walked along the Outer Ring of the Lighthouse, accompanied by Jing Nan.

They chatted as they inspected the area.

"Jing Nan, why haven't you joined the training?"

Jing Nan smiled. "Mark is acting like a hands-off manager, and Jing Yuan is nowhere to be found. Someone has to handle all these matters on the Lighthouse."

Ulaanbaatar said, "They are warriors, so their time should naturally be spent on training. However, I don't understand why the Lighthouse chose Mark to be the City Lord; he is clearly unsuitable."

Jing Nan was stunned. Was he 'chosen'? He had fought for it with his own strength.

"But you should still find some time to practice with them."

Ulaanbaatar smiled slightly; the Boss of their Dragon Bone Village was much the same. Many of the village's affairs were handled by several of them, the Equilibrium Bearers.

When the two of them inspected a certain group, Ulaanbaatar looked at a child in the crowd and was actually stunned on the spot.

He looked closer and discovered that this child had mastered Returning to Origin and had restrained his aura!

Ulaanbaatar exclaimed in surprise, "A genius!"

Jing Nan thought she had misheard and hurriedly asked, "Senior, what did you say?"

Ulaanbaatar didn't even have time to respond to Jing Nan before he walked straight toward the child.

"What is your name?"

The child was startled and gave a string of numbers. "8028!"

That's right, this child was a Dust Citizen.

Ulaanbaatar was also extremely surprised. How many days had it been since the Lighthouse people had come into contact with them?

Not counting Jing Yuan and Mark, five others had mastered Returning to Origin within a few days!

These five included Ran Bing and Penny. Moreover, they had all received careful instruction at Dragon Bone Village.

For large-scale collective training like this on the Lighthouse, the teachers only taught the methods; whether one could comprehend them depended entirely on talent.

Yet under such conditions, someone who mastered Returning to Origin had appeared so quickly.

And this person was actually a Dust Citizen!

Chapter 164: Dust Citizen Genius, Undercurrents

Jing Nan was still very confused. She stepped forward and asked, "Senior Ulaanbaatar, what's wrong with this child?"

Ulaanbaatar did not hide it and said in an amazed tone, "This child has mastered Returning to Origin!"

Jing Nan was also very surprised.

At this moment, she remembered what Jing Yuan had said.

Jing Yuan believed that whether it was learning technical knowledge, combat talent, or mastering Returning to Origin and triggering potential—

The occurrence of these things was just the manifestation of statistical probability.

If the probability of awakening potential was one percent, then Dragon Bone Village would only have a few people who could awaken, but the Lighthouse could have a hundred.

This was because only with a large enough base and enough samples could excellent talent be selected.

Now, a Dust Citizen child had actually mastered Returning to Origin before most of the Upper Citizens. With such talent, could you say he was inferior?

Ulaanbaatar looked at Jing Nan and asked in a low voice, "Do you have any thoughts regarding the arrangements for him?"

"This..." Jing Nan hesitated. She was only managing some affairs on Mark's behalf and couldn't make the call on certain decisions.

As for whether Dust Citizens should learn to self-awaken their potential, Mark and the others had not yet reached a conclusion.

And the reason for the lack of a conclusion was that, to this day, they had not yet made a decision on whether to retain the three great laws.

On the Lighthouse, the Dust Citizens were absolutely willing to abolish the three great laws.

Correspondingly, some Upper Citizens were unwilling.