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Chapter 410 Another Time Travel! A Shocking Change in the Era of Mutants?

Chapter 410 Another Time Travel! A Shocking Upheaval in the Era of Mutants? (Part 2)

"Tegri, you can't eat that! That fruit is a deadly poison for us mutants! I'm begging you, please listen to me this once!"

Panic-stricken shouts rang out from behind.

"Teghru," crouching in a rainforest, was momentarily dazed, his gaze shifting from blank to clear.

"What era of mutants have I traveled to this time—?"

Teglü murmured and stood up.

The companion who had just caught up was ready to grab Tegru from behind to prevent him from committing suicide, but upon seeing this, he was stunned.

Why is this usually reckless and stubborn big guy suddenly so obedient this time?

In fact, what his companions didn't know was that Tegru already had a soul from billions of years in the future inside him.

The soul of Xiafa.

"Where am I?"

At this moment, Xia Fa murmured to himself as he stood in the rainforest, gazing out at the horizon.

Beyond the rainforest lies a golden beach, and in front of the beach stretches a vast and magnificent sea, its blue waves so deep they are intoxicating.

He seemed lost in thought, turned around, and was about to look around again when suddenly he froze.

Even though the rainforest is quite lush and its branches and leaves are wide, it cannot hide the giant city with walls tens of thousands of meters high in the far distance.

If Xia Fa hadn't already visited the city where gold pounds converged, he admitted he would have been absolutely awestruck.

The colossal city was constructed entirely of blue-gray metal, with patterns on its outer walls resembling electrical circuit erosion. Surprisingly, the outer walls were not intact; instead, they were riddled with large and small pits, as well as marks from claws and teeth.

Even from a distance, Xia Fa could tell that this bluish-gray metal had a strength comparable to that of copper, an extraordinary metal, and that ordinary wild beasts would have absolutely no chance of damaging it.

Even a wolf king, if it bites, will at most leave a faint white spot, and will instead break its teeth.

But at this moment, the tooth marks that are almost a hundred meters deep and the claw marks that are a thousand meters long on the metal wall all point to one thing.

"To cause this kind of destruction, it must be at least a demigod-level creature, right?"

Being in a rainforest on an island, and then having such a huge city just a few islands away, Xia Fa couldn't help but wonder if he had once again traveled through time to the Worm Islands.

That giant city was very likely the Worm City, which was the predecessor of the City of Ten Thousand Stars.

However, judging from the exaggerated scale of this metal city wall, it is estimated that countless years have passed since the last time we traveled through time to the mutant era, possibly hundreds of millions of years.

Just as Xia Fa was about to inquire further, a hand grabbed his arm.

To be precise, because the "Teglü" he transmigrated into was exceptionally strong, with arms as thick as an average person's thigh, the hand could only barely grasp a part of his arm muscles.

"Tegl, we can't delay any longer! The subterranean creatures will launch another attack soon. If we can't destroy their mother nest this time, Worm City won't be able to hold out!"

Upon hearing the words "Worm City," Xia Fa thought to himself, "As expected." He turned around and saw that his companion was a freckled young man with light yellow hair.

Only then did he notice that he and the blond, freckled youth were both wearing black special operations uniforms, made not of simple linen, but of high-strength special fibers.

This indicates that the technology in Worm City—or rather, in this era of mutants—has already developed to a certain level.

He was just about to subtly inquire about the "subterranean creatures" when countless fragments of memory surged in like fine sand, merging into his original memories.

"Is this the era of mutants—over thirty million years ago?"

If he hadn't already known that the era of mutants spanned billions of years, the information contained in this memory fragment alone would have been enough to astonish him.

After all, the extraordinary era has only been around for a little over 30,000 years, and the most terrifying catastrophe is just a year away.

"More than 20 million years ago, after their struggles, the Animal Mutation Association and the Element Mutation Association finally chose to compromise and join forces to develop together."

"At the same time, a large number of mathematicians, chemists, and even physicists emerged from the private sector."

"With the help or even the personal participation of animal mutants and element mutants, all sorts of scientific theories and experiments conceived by scientists can be rapidly verified."

"Thus, starting from Worm City, technology has developed greatly, and now, the mutated humans have entered—"

The interstellar era.

"Led by spaceships, the mutated people began to spread throughout the surrounding galaxies."

"However, due to the limited speed of the spaceship, the mutants have never been able to reach some star systems that are farther away from Caligia, and can only settle on a few dozen planets around them."

"But this doesn't affect anything. The mutants still discovered a huge treasure trove—countless mutant crystal sources on various planets, as well as mutant flesh spheres hidden in the bodies of certain animals on some habitable planets with natural environments."

"The mutants who went on interstellar explorations brought back an unimaginable number of mutant crystal sources and mutant flesh balls, which enabled the mutants to develop and grow stronger at an increasingly rapid pace."

"Especially after the prices of mutant crystal sources and mutant flesh balls were driven down, each ordinary household can now selectively cultivate one or two mutants."

"It is clear that mutation combined with technology will soon allow mutated humans to truly begin to rule the entire universe, provided that spaceship speed is increased or scientists develop warp technology."

"But everything changed after the mutated people landed on a planet inhabited by life."

As he sorted through the jumbled fragments of memory in his mind, Xia Fa also saw a scene that was quite unexpected.

It seems that because "Teglü," the being who lost control and traveled through time, was also a witness to that great upheaval, he was able to witness through fragments of Teglü's memories that "that life-bearing planet, when it was first discovered, was named Panridas," meaning a place of paradise-like beauty.

"That's true. Panridas's ecosystem, oxygen content, and even atmospheric pressure are similar to those of Caligia, making it another planet that is extremely suitable for human habitation after Caligia."

"Not only that, but Panridas also has countless mutated crystal source deposits, and it is easier to obtain mutated flesh balls after hunting wild beasts."

"Hundreds of millions of mutants arrived on Panridas in spaceships, worked hard to develop and build it, and made it humanity's second home."

"But just a few years after the arrival of humans, a company that specializes in mining mutated crystal resources got into big trouble."

"In a wasteland, they accidentally discovered a giant mutated crystal source vein, and the main products produced were intermediate and advanced mutated crystal sources, and even some top-level mutated crystal sources."

"Even though the price of mutant crystal sources had been driven very low at that time, high-quality mutant crystal sources could still fetch a good price."

"The huge profits made the mining company eager to make a move. They recruited a large number of low-level animal mutants and element mutants, put on protective suits, drove super-large drilling machines, and frantically mined this giant mutant crystal source vein."

"What the company didn't expect was that as the depth of excavation and mining increased, the quality of the mutant crystal sources that could be mined actually became higher and higher."

"Seeing that they were about to break through the Earth's crust and reach the mantle, the company's chairman ignored the advice of the scientific advisor and insisted on continuing to dig."

"Because at that time, all the mutated crystal sources that were dug out every day were high-level, and top-level ones were not uncommon."

"But on the very day they dug into the mantle layer, the entire human population of Panridas was wiped out."

"In the mantle layer, there are actually a large number of subterranean creatures. They are thick-skinned, extremely fast, and each has its own strange abilities."

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"Even the most powerful whale-level mutants at the time would have had a hard time withstanding the siege of the subterranean creatures."

"Including that mining company, the humans of Panrida were quickly wiped out by the subterranean creatures. Surprisingly, these subterranean creatures quickly learned how to pilot human spaceships."

"Then, the subterranean creatures—piloted their spaceships and headed to Caligi."

As Xia Fa sorted through the clues, the scene that Tegr had witnessed firsthand—a scene that was the most terrifying nightmare for the mutants—could not be ignored.

Countless spaceships, blotting out the sun, descended from the atmosphere. Before they even landed, all sorts of bizarre subterranean creatures leaped or flew down from them, slaughtering humanity.

These subterranean creatures not only feed on humans, but also enjoy the thrill of killing.

This led to the near extinction of the once-prosperous planet Caligia within days, with the surviving humans, led by mutated individuals, seeking refuge in the Worm City.

Tegl had just returned from Panridas on vacation when he witnessed the arrival of the subterranean creatures a few days later.

Fortunately, Worm City, as the birthplace of mutants, had long ago built a massive city wall with extremely strong defensive capabilities, thanks to the concerted efforts of the presidents of the Animal Mutation Association and the Elemental Mutation Association. This was enough to barely stop the attack of the underground creatures.

Not only that, the two associations also organized the mutated people to launch wave after wave of counterattacks against the subterranean creatures.

However, to everyone's surprise, even though the subterranean creatures had already arrived on all the spaceships in the first place, their numbers should have been limited.

But strangely enough, in the past few months, the underground creatures have seemed endless.

Finally, after several suicide squads dispatched by the two major associations risked their lives to explore the area, they brought back a shocking piece of intelligence.

The subterranean creatures have actually established numerous nests around Worm City and even throughout the entire planet Caligi, constantly breeding more and more subterranean creatures!

Thus, the mutants' goal shifted from exterminating subterranean creatures to destroying their nests at all costs while doing so.

After repeated clashes and fierce tug-of-war, the mutants, empowered by both mutation and technology, especially after developing super-heavy uranium cannons specifically targeting these subterranean creatures, finally saw the dawn of victory and hope.

The nests of the subterranean creatures were almost completely destroyed, and the remaining tens of thousands of subterranean creatures gathered in the last mother nest, putting up a desperate resistance.

But ironically, precisely because of this, the mutated humans couldn't break in, and the mother nest built by all the underground creatures reproduced exceptionally quickly.

A balance was thus reached between the two sides, a balance achieved at the cost of lives.

However, this balance was recently broken.

In the past, the most powerful subterranean creatures could only be on par with whale-level mutants. But perhaps because of the establishment of a huge mother nest, alien subterranean creatures were born in the mother nest!

Such alien subterranean creatures often require a dozen or even dozens of whale-level mutants to pay a terrible price to eliminate them.

Not only that, the blood spilled by the exterminated alien subterranean creatures will cause plants to mutate, producing fruit that is deadly poisonous to mutant humans.

Wherever the blood of alien subterranean creatures has been spilled, it is basically impossible to grow cash crops.

The alien subterranean creatures were being born at a rate that had increased from once every two weeks to once every few days, and the frequency seemed to be increasing.

Ultimately, the presidents of the Animal Mutation Association and the Element Mutation Association, after much painful reflection, made a bold decision.

That is, to mobilize all the high-level mutants in Worm City and destroy the mother nest of the underground creatures at all costs!

This time, a total of over a thousand squads were dispatched, each squad consisting of two to five people, each carrying an elemental incendiary warhead.

The Element Destruction Warhead is a tactical bomb developed by combining technology and mutation, possessing the ability to rapidly spread and burn carbon-based organisms.

If we can break through the defenses of the subterranean creatures, drop such a warhead into the center of the mother nest and detonate it, we can completely destroy the last nest of the subterranean creatures!

Now, Shafa knows that he, who has traveled into the form of "Tegl," has formed a team with his teammate "Sansk" and is on his way to destroy the Mother Nest.

Actually, they were a five-person team, but three of them had already sacrificed their lives.

At this moment, Sanskr, with his blond hair and freckles, set off again and walked to a large tree.

Upon closer inspection, Xia Fa saw a hole beneath the large tree, surrounded by piles of soil and turf, indicating that it had been dug for quite some time.

"We're only a hundred meters away. If it weren't for a dozen or so underground creatures suddenly emerging, we would have already dug through. Tegru, once we successfully destroy the mother hive, we'll both become heroes, and my father will never look down on me again."

Sansk spoke with a piercing gaze, as if, to him, destroying the Mother Nest was more of a heroic feat than a deadly adventure.

Or rather, these two factors depend solely on success or failure.

Xiafa didn't speak, but only glanced one last time through the dense broad leaves at the terrifying tooth marks and claw marks on the giant metal walls of Worm City.

It now appears that this was caused by the alien subterranean creatures, meaning that the strength of these creatures is...

Equivalent to a demigod among the extraordinary beings.

Based on the fragments of memory he had just heard, Xia Fa learned that even now, tens of millions of years later, the strongest of the mutants is only at the whale level.

However, this is much better than last time. When he lost control and traveled through time last time, the strongest of the mutants was only the Eagle-level "Tegl!"

Sanders then urged again, laughing, "Don't blame me for being impatient. Without our support, I really wouldn't dare to continue, especially..."

He suddenly changed his expression halfway through his sentence: "Teglü, watch out behind you!!!"