Chapter 230
Chapter 230: It Won’t Open. Wait for Li Mu
After that, Song Chuhe ordered everyone to rest and reorganize on the spot.
He personally took more than a dozen people and patrolled the surrounding area again.
It could now be confirmed.
This giant turtle was the core of the low spiritual-pressure region.
Moreover, the density of the monsters also revolved around this giant turtle.
When he returned to the turtle area, Zhang Zhiwei had already brought people over and started “barbecuing.”
There were so many Fang Tiger corpses. It would be a waste not to use them.
Ordinary people truly would not dare casually eat monster meat.
But the Tiger Roar Army was not afraid.
Moreover, ever since they had consumed Corpse Dissolution Flower Liquid, they seemed to have gained part of the flower liquid’s function as well.
Eating monster meat allowed them to absorb certain nutrients from the monsters.
Although what they absorbed was extremely limited...
Even mosquito meat was still meat.
Back in the Ruined Abyss, they had eaten plenty of deformed, disgusting monsters.
To the Tiger Roar Army, these monsters from the Verdant Abyss could only be called plump and delicious!
The people from the Research Institute soon arrived under the escort of more than a dozen Profound Rank experts.
There were more than twenty of them in total.
They had also brought many unusually sturdy “devices.”
All of them were for opening this turtle shell on-site.
In the end, the moment this group arrived, they saw the Tiger Roar Army holding an open-air barbecue contest.
The scene was extremely out of place!
One had to know that before the Tiger Roar Army arrived, the atmosphere in the low spiritual-pressure region had been extremely heavy.
Countless soldiers had died or been wounded here.
The Military District’s memorial ceremonies for the fallen soldiers had not stopped over the past few days.
But once the Tiger Roar Army arrived, the style suddenly changed completely.
This barbecue gathering looked more like a memorial ceremony held for the Fang Tigers.
No matter what, they had avenged the soldiers of Bloodpool City.
Everyone felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction.
The people of Bloodpool City’s favorable impression of the Tiger Roar Army also instantly maxed out.
Thus, the entire command room turned into a strange livestream.
A large group of people surrounded the scene and barbecued.
Meanwhile, the people in the open space studied how to open the turtle shell in front of them.
Elder Chi and the other senior members of the Research Institute had all been called to the command room.
They held an on-site meeting and provided remote guidance.
The first effective conclusion of the meeting was this.
Since those monsters had all gathered around this turtle shell, then this turtle shell was very likely the main reason the Fang Tigers and lightning giant frogs had mutated.
Someone among them noticed one detail.
When Song Chuhe had ordered the corpse pile to be dismantled, the heads of six Fang Tigers had been stuffed into the large holes of the turtle shell.
All of them had been killed from the outside.
This showed that the soldiers had not stuffed them in.
Instead, those Fang Tigers had still been desperately trying to crawl into the turtle shell before they died.
Why exactly had they done that?
Combined with the situation at the scene, there seemed to be only one possibility.
They wanted to eat the meat inside the turtle shell!
And they wanted to eat it to the point of madness.
Because they could detect the vast life energy being emitted by the turtle corpse inside the shell!
But no matter whether it was the Research Institute’s instruments or Song Chuhe’s investigation, both confirmed that the turtle corpse inside should be completely intact.
If those Fang Tigers had not eaten the meat inside...
Then they could only have been mutated by the life energy emitted from the corpse.
As for this low spiritual-pressure domain...
It was likely some kind of “self-preservation mechanism” belonging to this old turtle.
It prevented any creature entering this region from having a cultivation level higher than its own!
Even Earth Rank experts were no exception.
This showed just how terrifying the defense of this self-preservation mechanism was.
It defended directly from the source...
What kind of creature had to fear death so much to possess such a terrifying defense mechanism?
The final conclusion given by the Research Institute was this.
In any case, the old turtle was already dead.
The turtle shell’s value was far inferior to the turtle corpse.
Then they would break open the turtle shell!
The one leading the Research Institute team this time was precisely the beautiful female researcher who followed Elder Chi.
After receiving the order, the female researcher volunteered, then jogged over to Zhang Zhiwei, who was currently barbecuing.
She lightly bit her lip and said, “Captain Zhang.”
Zhang Zhiwei turned toward her in confusion.
“Could I ask you to use an attack to break open this turtle shell’s defense?”
The female researcher tried her best to make herself look bright and poised.
The look she gave Zhang Zhiwei was filled with rippling charm.
She was a little older this year, twenty-six.
But how could she not be moved by a handsome and fierce young wolfdog like Zhang Zhiwei?
The moment someone mentioned breaking open the turtle shell’s defense, Zhang Zhiwei was the first person she thought of.
She had been worried about having no chance to get closer to Zhang Zhiwei.
But Zhang Zhiwei only gave a faint “oh.”
Then he put down the roasted meat in his hand, stood up, and walked straight past the female researcher toward the turtle shell.
The female researcher pouted lightly, stamped her foot, then turned and followed him.
“Just break it open?” Zhang Zhiwei asked calmly when he arrived before the turtle shell.
“Yes,” a male researcher nodded.
The moment his words fell...
True Qi suddenly surged from Zhang Zhiwei’s entire body!
Terrifying Gang winds blew his hair upward with a thunderous rush.
Then his entire body slowly rose into the air, and golden radiance flared violently around him!
He raised a hand, and a golden giant spear appeared at his command. It swelled against the wind until it was several zhang long!
All the researchers were blown unsteadily in every direction.
They quickly retreated.
Inwardly, they thought, You could at least give us a warning before taking off.
Was this not enough showing off for you?
Then Zhang Zhiwei fell like a golden meteor. The golden giant spear plunged straight down and stabbed directly onto the turtle shell!
Clang!
A tremendous sound rang out!
Not only did the turtle shell remain completely unmoved, the spear did not leave the slightest scratch on it!
Zhang Zhiwei himself was shaken back into the air.
Wrapped in golden light, no one could see his expression.
But they could clearly feel that he was just as shocked.
And...
He was angry!
Zhang Zhiwei’s entire aura surged again!
The sky abruptly darkened!
Rolling dark clouds arrived in an instant.
In only half a breath...
Golden lightning filled the sky and connected heaven and earth!
It gathered wildly in the air, dazzling and brilliant, while Zhang Zhiwei stood at the center of that radiance.
Everyone could hear nothing but rumbling thunder!
It gave them the vivid feeling of the end of the world!
Suddenly!
Zhang Zhiwei swept downward, carrying golden lightning from the entire sky.
His spear pierced through the void and stabbed into the turtle shell!
The dazzling lightning made it impossible for everyone to open their eyes.
They only knew that after the lightning passed...
Zhang Zhiwei had already landed beside the turtle shell.
The people from the Research Institute rushed forward immediately.
Zhang Zhiwei, meanwhile, turned around confidently.
Everyone thought that after Zhang Zhiwei turned away, the turtle shell would gradually crumble.
Unexpectedly, after Zhang Zhiwei took two steps, he said indifferently, “I can’t break it.”
“Wait for Dragon General Li.”
Only then did everyone see the turtle shell.
In the middle of a scorched-black patch...
There was only a shallow white pit the size of a fingernail...
The Tiger Roar Army soldiers had originally stood up, ready to cheer, “Wolf Guard Zhang is awesome!”
At this moment, all of them instantly wilted.
However, being able to leave even a shallow pit was already something ten of them tied together could not do.
If an ordinary person went over, they probably would not even break the outer layer.
Since Zhang Zhiwei had failed...
No one else present dared to try.
The Research Institute could only begin using its equipment.
It could be said that they exhausted every method!
They tied the upper and lower turtle shells with ultra-high-strength steel bars. Then one hundred berserk Tiger Roar Army soldiers pulled on each side in a tug-of-war!
Useless!
They used the hardest crowbars to pry open the seams.
Even the crowbars snapped.
Useless!
A 200-ton engineering rock-breaker hammer vehicle!
Useless!
It could not even break the surface. It was not as good as Zhang Zhiwei’s spear strike.
Spirit Treasures, corrosive liquids, ultrasound—every method the Research Institute could use was tried once.
At first, a few people from the Research Institute had even felt that Zhang Zhiwei’s show-off act had failed.
But as things progressed...
Aside from the scorched-black patch and the white dot Zhang Zhiwei had left behind, the turtle shell showed no progress at all...
A few Tiger Roar Army soldiers who were eating roasted meat laughed quietly.
“Didn’t Wolf Guard Zhang say it clearly just now?”
“Just wait for the boss to come. But these people insisted on trying.”
Another person laughed. “Should we bring them some meat? They look a little exhausted.”
It was now around two in the afternoon.
The Research Institute had spent most of the day struggling with it.
At this moment, Zu Yuanji’s voice suddenly sounded in the researchers’ earpieces.
“Li Mu, Dragon General Li, is heading over.”