Chapter Ninety-Eight: Staring into the Abyss
Meng Chao was slightly stunned and said: "I heard that it was a relic of the starry sky civilization that we couldn't understand hundreds of millions of years ago, and it has been buried deep in the underground of the other world, and after tens of millions of years of erosion, it has gradually disappeared in the long river of history.
"After the Dragon City crossed, it underwent a series of geological upheaval before it was exposed to the world.
"The so-called transcendent tower is a large 'Ancient Ruins Research Institute'."
"Excavating the ancient ruins and stimulating the explosive development of the earth's industry, genetic martial arts, and psionic technology, today's Dragon City can have so many powerful transcendents and incredible 'black technology'!"
"That's right."
Luo Hai's eyes were blazing and said, "This is the place where miracles happen, everything is possible, today you, the spiritual veins have been damaged, and you will encounter some difficulties in cultivation, but I believe that with the progress of science and technology, the scope of exploration in the other world has expanded, and the excavation progress of the ancient ruins has accelerated, we can overcome one difficulty after another, and you will definitely have the opportunity to stand on the top of the transcendent tower." β
Only then did Meng Chao understand what Luo Hai meant.
Regardless of whether the other party was sincere or polite, he responded seriously: "Thank you." β
"Don't talk about that."
Luo Hai said with a smile, "According to the rules, the transcendents who have just awakened must come here to register, let's go!" β
Luo Hai was familiar with the road and took Meng Chao to enter through a special passage.
After verifying the registration code and scanning the fingerprint and iris information, they took the maglev platform all the way to the 50th floor.
Meng Chao has also taken the elevator before, but he has never taken this kind of "sightseeing platform" that hangs on the faΓ§ade of the building, is still transparent on the outward side, and can overlook the scenery of the whole city.
The maglev platform was extremely fast, it was simply dragging his hair, and it was hundreds of meters high in an instant, making him a little dizzy and frightened.
Above the clouds, the gate of the maglev platform opens to both sides, and inside is a palace-like hall dozens of meters high.
Not to mention the splendid decoration, just a huge piece of space being wasted like this makes people feel the power of the transcendent tower.
In the center of the main hall, a giant pillar of optimus rises from the ground and leads to the dome, like the spine of a dragon.
The pillars are hollow and branched out like a tree, spreading into different rooms and facilities.
Whether it is the giant pillar itself or the pipes that branch out, they are full of tiny holes, gushing out a rich aura, which makes people feel refreshed and relaxed, and every cell is eager to try.
Luo Hai told Meng Chao that this Optimus Pillar, which stretched from the ancient ruins underground, all the way to a height of thousands of meters, was like a special "oil well".
It can extract the spiritual energy from the depths of the earth and elevate it to the entire transcendent tower.
The concentration and purity of the aura here are ten times higher than that of the outside world, and it is the best holy place for cultivation and scientific research.
Transcendents cultivate here, and they can hit the limit of life more easily and safely.
Monsters or spiritual plants are sent here for modulation, grafting, and hybridization, and it is also easier to breed new varieties that are beneficial to humans.
Even the peerless divine weapons are forged here, inlaid with spars and engraved runes, and the success rate is much greater than that outside.
Undergraduate colleges, research institutes and large corporations, of course, there are places similar to the "Transcendent Tower".
After all, it is not as large as here, the number of communicators is large, and the aura is so strong.
Not to mention many powerful people in society, who advocate freedom and do not like to be attached to any force.
Therefore, after the completion of the Transcendent Tower, it became the cultivation center of Dragon City, and its status was unshakable.
"My dad said that there is everything here, a training room, a medical room, a recovery room, a material trading center, a short-term refresher course, a mission center where the military is stationed...... In terms of services and resources, what can be provided here is definitely the best in the city. Luo Hai introduced with great interest.
Meng Chao was puzzled, since the Transcendent Tower has everything and the quality is first-class, why are there so many training courses and trade fairs in the society, and there are also many secret mission release centers on the deep web?
Everyone ran to the Transcendent Tower to cultivate and trade, isn't it over?
"It's very simple, although the Transcendent Tower is all-encompassing, but trading here, there is an iron rule, no fiat currency is allowed, only 'Transcendent Coin' can be used, and the methods to obtain Transcendent Coins include - completing the tasks designated by the Transcendent Tower, bringing rare monster materials here to trade, developing and revealing new martial arts, technologies and runes, etc., which is equivalent to a second currency system independent of the official currency."
Luo Hai explained, "When you get to the university, you will find that the small circle of transcendents will use all kinds of tokens, and even adopt the primitive barter method, the purpose of which is not to let the existence of transcendents impact the economic system of ordinary people too much.
This is the theory of Fang Mocun, the old president of Longcheng University, who believes that the extraordinary are ahead of ordinary people in physical fitness and intelligence, and have an advantage in social production and economic activities.
"When the time comes, there will be a situation where all the transcendents are rich, all ordinary people are poor, the class trench is insurmountable, and the society is seriously torn, which is not conducive to the colonization of Dragon City in the other world."
Meng Chao thought about it.
Last time I was at the material trade fair with Ning She outside, a demon dragon eye was sold for six million.
Extraordinaries with deep pockets don't take money as money at all.
If it weren't for the strict control of the Transcendent Tower, inflation would have collapsed in minutes.
Even if the economic system is barely functioning, the transcendent earns tens of millions a month, and ordinary people earn thousands of dollars a month, how can they unite to conquer the other world?
With this in mind, the two of them followed the spiraling escalator to a closed door.
The airtight doors are painted with warning signs of biohazards and skulls.
Meng Chao didn't know the check-in process of the new transcendental, but looking at Luo Hai's interested eyes, he also knew that it must be very "exciting".
Sure enough, the sealed door opened, and the temperature dropped by more than ten degrees at once.
In the dim light, huge transparent vessels are placed.
Inside the turbid embalming liquid, soaked in strange-shaped specimens, hideous and terrifying human shapes.
"Wow......"
Meng Chao was amazed, leaned over to take a closer look, and his eyes were almost attached to the deformed organs.
Luo Hai was stunned for a moment.
"You're not afraid?" The student president of Jianzhong High School has mixed feelings.
His father had already told him about the registration process for the new transcendental, and he was mentally prepared.
When I saw these deformed specimens, I was still greatly affected by the spirit and faintly gagged.
Meng Chao didn't even shake his eyelashes.
This kid's nerves are really thick!
"Should I be afraid?"
Meng Chao is a senior reaper, he has seen and even touched any mess of heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, and the specimens soaked in embalming liquid, what's so terrible?
He thought for a moment, "If I'm not mistaken, these are all mutated organs of human beings, what do you mean by putting them here, scaring people?" β
"Almost, these are transcendental beings who went mad and died unexpectedly, and signed a document to voluntarily donate their bodies before their deaths; Of course, there are also many criminals who are killed, and waste is reused. β
Luo Hao took two pamphlets from the door and handed one to Meng Chao, "The Transcendent Tower uses these deformed organs to warn the new transcendentals, don't be arrogant, think it's great to break the genetic shackles, on the contrary, while getting inhuman power, our life system is actually more fragile, more vulnerable to attacks and bugs, so no matter how strong the cultivation is, we must walk on thin ice and tremble." β
Meng Chao flipped through the pamphlet and said with a smile: "Interesting, here the human life system is compared to the mobile phone system, and 'extraordinary' is 'cracked', and it has the authority of managers and even developers."
"The body of ordinary people is like a closed system set by the manufacturer, whether it is safety, stability or ease of use, it is the best, the only one is not a shortcoming, that is, there is no squeezing out the extreme performance of chips and parts, and the efficacy is insufficient.
"Extraordinary, is to attack the original system, infiltrate or even destroy the system, and seize higher-level permissions, from manager permissions to producer permissions, to the lowest engineer permissions, the higher the authority, the more upgrades can be made to the system and the phone itself.
"However, the higher the permissions obtained, it means that the more powerful the system is cracked, the more vulnerabilities there are, the more unstable the mobile phone is, and it is more likely to suffer from external attacks.
"That's right, transcendent is risky, if you are not careful, you will easily 'turn bricks', that is, die."
Luo Haidao, "In fact, death is not the worst, the worst thing is that others take advantage of your system vulnerabilities, implant various viruses and Trojans into your mobile phone, steal your information and even control your mobile phone - the other world is full of all kinds of mysterious powers, and the probability of transcendent people being controlled is often higher than that of ordinary people." β
"It's written here, too."
Meng Chao pointed to a line of words and read, "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you, and when you try to gain inhuman power, the inhuman world slowly opens up in front of you."
"Constantly walking through the abyss, using inhuman power again and again, bearing unknown temptations and erosions, the alienation of the body leads to the alienation of the mind, and finally ...... Just like them. β
Meng Chao looked at the malformed organs and bone specimens in the embalming fluid.
These specimens, which seemed to be the remains of demons, also looked at them quietly.
Luo Hai couldn't help but shudder deeply.
He didn't want to stay in the specimen room with a gust of wind for long, so he pulled Meng Chao and came to the next room.
It's a small exhibition hall surrounded by photographs and objects, and the screens on both sides are "ping-pong" and the sound of fierce fights can be heard.
Meng Chao laughed when he saw a flaming transcendent, as if he had the ability to manipulate flames, floating in mid-air.
Then he was shot down by seven or eight bazookas.
From the hands of the staff, he took a booklet with a black cover and flipped a few pages, and Meng Chao found that it was a transcendent criminal file.