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The director’s mood remained low afterward. He held the beetle corpse and kept muttering to himself, “How is this possible? Where did the problem occur? This is so embarrassing, ahhh… How is this possible!”

His voice was very, very low, clearly not wanting anyone to hear. However, he forgot that everyone present was a front-line combatant with sharp ears and eyes.

Everyone exchanged a very subtle glance… Could this guy be a fan of their captain too?

These people who have been studying the infinite fragments for a long time seem to have abnormal mental states!

Fortunately, the director’s professional standards were still intact.

The group took an elevator to the underground level. To move forward, they had to pass through several layers of large-scale protective barriers.

These large-scale protective barriers were very effective, but they were time-consuming and labor-intensive to set up and could not be moved. So, the best option was to place the newly arrived infinite fragments directly within the protective layers.

But entering the protective layers also meant they would lose the protection of those layers.

The director led them to change into protective suits.

Ji Yueming nodded, and several team members automatically changed formation. They went in to change into protective suits in pairs, always ensuring that five people were guarding the sealed boxes of the infinite fragments.

The director and security personnel of the research institute really wanted to say that this was inside the research institute, it was very safe, and there was no need to be so cautious. But thinking of that beetle, they all fell silent.

Soon, the team members, security, and the director had all changed into protective suits, but Ji Yueming stood by the transport vehicle from beginning to end without moving, still maintaining the posture of one hand resting on a sealed box.

The director spoke with some embarrassment, “Aren’t you going to change into a protective suit?”

Ji Yueming: “I don’t need one.”

The director vaguely saw lightning flash in the Tianshi’s eyes and suddenly shivered.

Ah… that’s right, the Tianshi doesn’t need protection.

They passed through the protective layers.

A corner of the “Apocalypse Fragment’s” true face was revealed to them. On its surfaces, like broken picture frames, they saw various mutated creatures.

Skyscrapers were submerged in vines with fingers, and rats taller than humans roamed the streets. This was a civilization very similar to theirs, but the human civilization here had long since collapsed. No wonder it was called the “Apocalypse.”

The overly familiar appearance of the civilization inevitably gave people a sense of illusion, especially for those who had experienced the events of twenty-six years ago and still retained those memories.

Several people’s breathing became ragged.

Ji Yueming’s fingers clenched. A thunderclap like the first of spring suddenly exploded in their ears.

“I am still here. What are you afraid of?”

The several people suddenly regained their composure, their恍惚 and uneasy hearts settling back into their chests.

Circling around this terrifying behemoth, they entered a heavily protected sealing chamber.

“We have prepared separate sealing platforms for disposal to ensure that these infinite fragments will not resonate and merge…” The director’s introduction was weak and short of breath.

Next, they were supposed to move these sealed boxes to the sealing platforms and then activate the seals. But the Tianshi still stood by the pile of sealed boxes, one hand resting on them, motionless.

“Alright,” Ji Yueming said, her eyes growing brighter and brighter, invisible lightning overflowing from them. “Now, sound the alarm. All personnel, retreat.”

The Tianshi’s robe billowed without any wind, and the crackling of thunder in the air grew more and more intense. “I’m about to make my move.”

Before the director and security personnel could react, her team members were already terrified, pulling the others and starting to run outside.

The director was dragged out of the door with brute force, shouting, “Wait, what’s going on?!”

The Tianshi’s group of seemingly mute team members shouted in his ear: “Where’s the emergency retreat alarm? Turn it on! The captain is about to unleash her ultimate move—”

Accompanied by the piercing alarm and the roar of thunder, the people in the research institute quickly evacuated through the third gate, then, well-trained, began to retreat from outside the third gate to outside the second.

The director looked pitiful and helpless, tightly grabbing a team member: “Explain to me, what on earth is going on!”

“Explain what? We don’t know either.”

“Aren’t you her team members?!”

“Do you think the Tianshi would consult with us about what she wants to do?”

“What-what on earth does she want to do?!” The director’s face was a mask of collapse.

Shi Qin stroked his chin: “I think the captain wants to destroy all these infinite fragments.”

“Ah?!” The director was greatly alarmed, his eyes turning red with anxiety. “No, no! This is not acceptable!”

“What’s not acceptable? As if your broken research institute is so safe,” Shi Qin said. Taking advantage of his inattention, he took out a seal and slapped it hard on his forehead.

The director was slapped backward, feeling as if his forehead had been branded with a hot iron, and let out a loud cry.

Away from the Tianshi’s heavy and terrifying pressure, the people of the research institute gradually recovered from their panic. The security personnel here were also excellent super-powered individuals. They surrounded them with unfriendly expressions.

“What are you looking at, what are you looking at?” Shi Qin shouted with a loud voice. “You don’t even know you’ve been contaminated!”

Another team member took out a mirror and held it up to the director’s face.

There was no brand on his forehead, only a cinnabar seal. The director raised his hand and touched his forehead, smearing a red mark with his fingertip.

He recognized this seal; it was used to clear contamination. If one was not contaminated, they naturally wouldn’t be burned by the cinnabar.

The director was greatly shocked.

“Don’t move!” he shouted loudly.

His clouded mind and heart began to function again, and he started to realize his own wrongdoings.

Arrogance.

When had he become so arrogant?

Contamination leakage was of the utmost importance. The Tianshi had already told him that traces of contamination from the “Apocalypse Fragment” had appeared outside their containment, and what was he doing?

He was dwelling on his shame, he had decided to continue receiving the infinite fragments and placing them in a flawed protective barrier. He should have immediately investigated the cause of the contamination leak!

When had he started to lose his reverence?

Some people become more reverent the more they research, while others lose their reverence.

On his first day in the laboratory, his mentor had told him: learn to have reverence.

Heaven and earth are vast, the universe is boundless. For a being as insignificant as a human, there are far too many things that can destroy them!

Explorers must be cautious, because no one knows if they are opening the next Pandora’s box.

He was contaminated… no, it wasn’t just him who was contaminated.

All personnel in the research institute had to be tested once every ten days. He had definitely been contaminated for more than ten days! Was there a problem with the equipment? Or had the testing personnel already…

“All personnel! Stand still and don’t move!” he shouted.

“Please help us investigate the contamination!” He bowed solemnly to the group. “I…”

“BOOM!”

A huge clap of thunder came from the research institute behind him.

The bowing director stumbled in fright.

Shi Qin patted him: “Don’t be afraid, that’s our captain. You don’t need to worry about clearing the contamination either. You’ve all passed through the captain’s thunderous aura. Anyone who was severely contaminated would have collapsed long ago.”

The crowd looked in horror at the flashing lightning in the research institute.

The director stammered, “Can the Tianshi-the Tianshi succeed? That’s-that’s the largest piece, and-and our alarm has already gone off. The bureau will definitely react!”

…

Tai Altar.

The Great Dancer’s suburban sacrifice ceremony was only halfway through when a commotion suddenly broke out below the stage. It seemed they had received news, and one by one, with ugly expressions, they got up to leave.

“Where are you going?” Lingzhou Wendi asked with a gentle smile.

He was dressed in ancient sacrificial robes, holding a bell in his left hand and a pestle in his right. His hair was tied up at the top of his head with a jade ornament. Every word he spoke sounded like a chant.

He struck the drumhead with the pestle in his right hand, landing it precisely on the beat of his chant.

Those who wanted to leave the ceremony all froze uncontrollably.

“Great Dancer, you continue. We have received an urgent message and need to return as soon as possible!”

“Once the great sacrifice to heaven and earth has begun, no one can leave,” Lingzhou Wendi said, walking on the altar as if dancing. “If you think you can withstand the pressure of heaven and earth, then go.”

The pressure of the ceremony had already begun to descend on these few unruly people. Sweat beaded on their foreheads.

“The Tianshi is rebelling, you…” The person who asked the question suddenly had a flash of insight. All these people were added to the suburban sacrifice list by the Great Dancer this time. “You and the Tianshi are in this together!”

Lingzhou Wendi ignored him, the drum sounded and the bell sang, his robes flying.

The power of heaven and earth vibrated along with it. The other people in the ceremony all shook, feeling as if they had been cleansed by a great flood, all their illnesses washed away.

Only these few people cried out in pain, falling to the ground either wailing or vomiting blood.

“I am on the side of heaven and earth,” Lingzhou Wendi’s gaze was stern. “This ceremony will eliminate the filth of the infinite. Why have you fallen?”

…

Besides this group controlled by the Great Dancer, there was another group within the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau who had received orders to go to the Infinite Research Institute.

The order was urgent and high-risk. Three captains were dispatched at once, and two teams directly assigned by the Council were also included.

This group arrived outside the Infinite Research Institute and unexpectedly ran into a large mountain.

The mountain was golden, shining with a solemn light in the night.

A woman in sackcloth, two meters tall, with a buzz cut, walked out from the foot of the mountain, sat cross-legged, and closed her eyes without speaking.

“Immovable King?!” The people from the Council cried out in alarm.

The Immovable King of the Ten Thousand Demon Alliance’s “Immovable as a Mountain” was known as the strongest prison in the world. To this day, no one had been able to successfully shake this divine ability of hers.

Now they were all trapped in this mountain. Even though the Infinite Research Institute was within reach, they could not take a single step forward.

“Immovable King, why are you here? Are you Wan Yao Alliance trying to start a war?!”

The Immovable King did not move, did not waver, did not respond.

The people from the Council tried persuading, scolding, luring, and threatening, but it was all useless.

The thunder in the distance had already begun to roar.

He became furious and started giving orders to the captains of the three action teams: “Get her out of the way!”

Black Wolf picked his ear: “What did you say? The wind is too loud, I can’t hear—”

…

The aura of the clash between lightning and the infinite gradually spread. The imposing majesty and the gloomy mystery wore each other down.

The turmoil stirred up the hidden riffraff.

Amidst the background sound of the Spring Festival Gala dance, Zhan Yunkai opened his phone to check his messages, then got up very naturally and said to his children, “I’m going to the balcony to check if the windows are closed properly.”

He walked onto the balcony, looked at the gradually gathering clouds in the distance, and let out a long cry.

A sound inaudible to mortals instantly spread in all directions.

In the living room, Zhan Jinli and Zhan Suiru abruptly looked up in the direction of Qixia Mountain.

The cry of the Chongming, deterring evil spirits.

…

Research Institute Sealing Chamber.

Before the others had even retreated, lightning had already enveloped the sealed box under Ji Yueming’s palm.

The infinite fragments, which should have entered a state of dormancy under the seal, were abnormally active, jumping around inside the sealed box.

The process of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau collecting the infinite fragments had been too smooth. Not a single contamination had erupted, and the transportation process had also been too smooth, with no decent opponents encountered.

The Twenty-Four Councils thought it was because their arrangements were thorough, believing that the infinite was a weakened, powerless relic of the past.

Arrogance!

The infinite had long hidden a piece of its will in a fragment, just waiting for the research institute to open the seal to merge.

With the “Apocalypse Fragment” as a base and these infinite fragments as support, the infinite could be revived immediately!

A storm brewed by lightning billowed in the Tianshi’s robe. Ji Yueming’s arm was wrapped in electric light. With a clench of her five fingers, the electric light formed a cage, contracting fiercely, and extinguished the hidden will of the infinite.

The lightning aura overflowed from the sealing chamber. Ji Yueming’s body was no longer visible. Her arms, her neck, every inch of her exposed skin had turned into dazzling lightning.

Lightning descended from her fingertips, wrapping around each sealed box. The most imposing pressure of heaven and earth descended, wearing down the infinite fragments sealed inside one by one.

The lightning aura lifted her up, floating opposite the “Apocalypse Fragment.”

This huge, terrifying thing stood firmly here. It had smashed a 200-meter-deep wound into this land and had survived here for twenty-six years.

Ji Yueming took off her mask and tossed it aside casually.

Breaking through the research institute’s layers of blockade, heaven and earth sensed it. The wind rose and the clouds moved. Dark clouds gathered above the research institute, and dazzling lightning streaked through them.

Ji Yueming stretched her arms, her body already transformed into a sea of lightning.

The mask was her seal.

Now, she was going to clean up this filth that had been embedded in the wound for too long.

The lightning in the sky crashed down with a deafening roar