Read Novel Full Chapter 1397: Chapter 730: The Military's Trump Card
Chapter 1397: Chapter 730: The Military’s Trump Card
“Rune Technology? What kind of Rune Technology do you have?”
Liang Yuan tentatively asked.
Zhang Yujiang thought for a moment and said, “Before we discuss this topic, I want to ask you a question.”
Liang Yuan asked with interest, “What question?”
“When do you think the flood apocalypse began?”
Liang Yuan raised an eyebrow and asked, “Wasn’t it more than two years ago?”
Zhang Yujiang shook his head slightly and said, “Actually, this is not the first flood apocalypse. According to our research, the flood apocalypse happened thousands of years ago.”
“Even the emergence of superpower users was not the first time.”
“I know what I’m saying is shocking to you, and it’s indeed hard for most people to accept.”
Liang Yuan: …
Zhang Yujiang continued, “Pangu creating the world, Nuwa patching the sky, maybe these mythical stories were not lies by the ancients, and they weren’t myths at all…”
“Hold on.”
Liang Yuan interrupted Zhang Yujiang and said, “Let’s get to the point, did you get your Rune Technology from some ancient tomb? Did you uncover the corpse of an ancient superpower user?”
As soon as these words were spoken, Zhang Yujiang, Zhang Wenjing, and Feng Jiangong were stunned on the spot.
Zhang Yujiang suddenly raised his head, shocked, “You, you actually know about ancient superpower users?”
Zhang Wenjing incredulously said, “Did you steal our confidential documents?”
Feng Jiangong also stared intensely at Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan couldn’t help but roll his eyes, especially at Zhang Wenjing, only thinking this woman was hopelessly foolish.
He sneered and said, “Is it possible that you’re not the only force to have contact with ancient superpower users?”
Zhang Yujiang and his group immediately held their breath, then Zhang Wenjing quickly asked, “Did you also discover ancient superpower users?”
“How, how, how is this possible? Ancient superpower users hide extremely well, if we hadn’t discovered them by accident, we wouldn’t have found their existence.”
“How did you at Yangshan discover them?”
Liang Yuan was too lazy to argue with her and simply said, “Zhang Yujiang, your daughter’s nonsense is excessive, let her go out.”
“Bastard, what are you saying!” Zhang Wenjing became furious, immediately glared with anger at Liang Yuan.
Zhang Yujiang hurriedly scolded, “Wenjing!”
“Dad!”
“Call me Commander!”
Zhang Yujiang scolded sternly, “Get out, you have no voice here!”
Zhang Wenjing, helpless, could only stomp angrily and give a fierce glare at Liang Yuan before leaving the conference room.
It was only then that Liang Yuan pulled out a chair, sat down directly, and said calmly, “We’ve long discovered the existence of ancient superpower users at Yangshan. Not only that, I’ve even interacted with three still-living ancient superpower users.”
“What!”
“Living ancient superpower users?”
At this, not only was Zhang Yujiang shocked, but even Feng Jiangong, who was half-human half-beast sitting on the side, suddenly stood up, full of shock.
Liang Yuan said slowly, “What, did you only find corpses and not discover the consciousness of ancient superpower users?”
Zhang Yujiang hurriedly asked, “What do you mean? No matter how powerful, ancient superpower users couldn’t possibly live until now, right?”
Evidently, although the military had contact with ancient superpower users, they hadn’t delved into their methods of longevity.
Liang Yuan shook his head secretly, estimating that the ancient superpower user hidden within the military might have already been revived.
They might even be silently regaining their strength.
The military’s reaction was too slow.
Liang Yuan stopped wasting words and said bluntly, “Ancient superpower users have a way to divide their spiritual consciousness into several Split Minds, which merge into their genes.”
“Through the method of genetic inheritance over generations, they sleep within the bloodlines of their descendants.”
“When the great flood causes the apocalypse once more, and humans awaken their superpowers again, it will activate the ancient superpower user’s Split Mind hidden within the genes.”
“At that time, these ancient superpower users can engage in gene-level combat, devour the original host, and live a second life.”
Reaching this point, Liang Yuan looked at the shocked faces of Zhang Yujiang and Feng Jiangong and shook his head slightly, “You don’t even know this? How did you learn about those ancient secrets?”
Zhang Yujiang and Feng Jiangong took a while to digest what Liang Yuan had said.
Hearing this question, Zhang Yujiang gravely said, “Remember the letter I sent you before, telling you we discovered an underwater ancient tomb?”
“Back then, we found that the tomb not only contained the corpses of ancient superpower users but also many documents recording the flood apocalypse during the Ancient Era, as well as the rise of ancient superpower users.”
“Moreover, there are also many ancient superpower runes recorded in them.”
“It’s through these documents that we rapidly developed a spaceship device capable of breaking through the thunderstorm.”
“Not only that, but the interior of that ancient tomb, too, was engraved with numerous rune reliefs, seemingly operable during ancient times.”
“We researched and modified it, which then advanced our military’s Rune Technology continuously.”
Liang Yuan gave a half-smile and said, “So, after that, you stopped contacting me and sharing matters about the ancient tomb with me.”
Zhang Yujiang’s expression instantly turned awkward. At that time, he sent a letter to Yangshan because the tomb was perilous, and powerful mutant beasts appeared inside.
However, Zhang Yujiang and his group were not aware there would be such vital information in that ancient tomb, only assuming there might be some secret within.
So he eventually wrote a letter inviting Liang Yuan, a gene recombination expert, to explore together.
But Liang Yuan was occupied with matters in Mist City at the time, so the military explored alone and discovered some secrets of ancient superpower users.
So Zhang Yujiang decisively suppressed any further contact with Yangshan and never mentioned the matter again.
“Mr. Liang, if it were you at that time, you probably wouldn’t want any further complications either.”
“The secret of the Ancient Superpower User shouldn’t be so easily revealed to others. You must understand my decision back then.”
Liang Yuan sneered, “Understand? Of course, I understand. But, Commander Zhang, understanding is one thing, acceptance is another.”
Zhang Yujiang sighed helplessly.
He thought his greatest bargaining chip was the mysteries of the Ancient Superpower Users and the Rune Technology they left behind.
Now it seems that Liang Yuan already knew that, and his trump card was immediately reduced by one.
And it was the most important one. He couldn’t help but feel defeated, “So, Mr. Liang, what do you intend to do?”
“What I can offer at the moment is only this.”
Liang Yuan slightly shook his head and said, “I’m not interested in the secrets you’ve obtained about the Ancient Superpower Users. As for the Rune Technology they left behind, to be honest, I don’t think there’s anything special about it.”
Feng Jiangong, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke, “Does spaceship technology not hold any significance for you?”
Liang Yuan glanced at him and chuckled, “For us at Yangshan, we’ve long developed our own spaceship.”
“You all are seriously lagging behind.”
Upon hearing this, Feng Jiangong and Zhang Yujiang’s expressions changed drastically once more.
“Impossible. We know very well how formidable that Thunderstorm Zone is. How did you achieve a technological breakthrough to get through it?”
Zhang Yujiang immediately protested, face full of disbelief.
Liang Yuan didn’t waste words and directly took out his phone, opened the album, and tossed it to them.
Zhang Yujiang instinctively caught it, only to see it was a video.
The video showed a large-scale test flight of the Yangshan spaceship.
The flying saucer-shaped spaceship could change directions freely in the air, fly vertically up and down, and even break the sound barrier, shooting into the clouds in an instant.
It navigated safely back and forth within the thunderstorm.
At the end of the video, there were even scenes of the Floating Island.
It was evident that this ship indeed flew above the Thundercloud.
Seeing these contents in the video, Zhang Yujiang’s expression shifted from shock to disbelief, gradually turning bitter.
Feng Jiangong saw this scene and immediately approached, asking, “What is it?”
Zhang Yujiang sighed and handed the video to Feng Jiangong, “Take a look yourself.”
He sat down dejectedly, as if his Essence, Qi, and Spirit had been drained away.
All the military’s painstaking research and exploration efforts over the years, yet they never expected a civilian shelter group to have succeeded long ago!
This was really hard for him to accept.
Feng Jiangong watched it too and then put down the phone, silently unsure of what to say.
Liang Yuan gestured, and the phone flew back into his hand.
“These are our Yangshan spaceship training videos, and our exploration situation above the Thundercloud.”
“Now you should understand that I truly don’t care about your Ancient Superpower Rune Technology, right?”
Putting away the phone, Liang Yuan stood up and said, “Commander Zhang, you invited me here, but with just this little sincerity, you want Yangshan’s help against this so-called Sprout Organization…”
He chuckled and said, “Sorry, this price is too low.”
“Back when Yangshan was besieged by the Three Great Sects, to ask for your assistance, we paid such a price. I think you’re more aware of it than I am, right?”
“Alright, if this is all you have to offer, I’ll be leaving now.”
Seeing Liang Yuan about to leave, Zhang Yujiang quickly stood up and immediately shouted, “Wait a moment!”
Liang Yuan smiled and looked at Zhang Yujiang.
Zhang Yujiang’s expression flickered, and he suddenly asked, “May I boldly ask, what stage has your gene recombination reached now?”
Upon hearing this, Feng Jiangong immediately looked up at Liang Yuan, his eyes intense.
Liang Yuan thought about it and, without hiding, said straightforwardly, “30%.”
“What!”
Feng Jiangong was the first to exclaim in shock, his face full of disbelief.
He immediately asked, “How did you achieve that?”
Zhang Yujiang also looked at Liang Yuan with a complex expression, asking, “If I’m not mistaken, you possess multiple superpowers, right?”
“Logically speaking, for a Superpower User like you, speeding up gene recombination shouldn’t be that fast.”
“The more complex the superpowers, the more complex the genes, and the slower the progress, right?”
“Do you have some special method?”
Liang Yuan asked, “What does this have to do with you?”
“Do you really have such a method?” Zhang Yujiang looked up, staring at Liang Yuan.
Feng Jiangong also breathed heavily, looking at Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan casually said, “You could say that.”
Feng Jiangong and Zhang Yujiang immediately became excited.
Almost instinctively, they both asked in unison, “What method?”
Liang Yuan chuckled and said nothing.
The two of them immediately realized that a method to improve gene recombination progress wouldn’t be something Liang Yuan would easily disclose.
Zhang Yujiang’s expression shifted. Just as Liang Yuan grew impatient and prepared to leave,
he suddenly spoke, “Mr. Liang, I still have something that I can offer for a trade with you.”