Chapter 232
Chapter 232: Where Is the Turtle?
Everyone watching was stunned.
Then Li Mu took the Ghostface Cudgel and thrust it into the head opening of the turtle shell.
He planted his foot against the lower edge of the head opening and used the Ghostface Cudgel to pry upward.
CRACK!
The Ghostface Cudgel actually snapped in an instant.
The turtle shell also shook violently.
“Hey?”
Li Mu immediately refused to believe it. He tossed the broken Ghostface Cudgel aside.
Then, he used the exact same motion Lu Chenfeng had used earlier.
He stepped on the lower part of the turtle shell’s head opening with one foot.
His hands gripped the upper part of the head opening.
Then he suddenly exerted his strength.
CRACK!
The upper and lower halves of the turtle shell instantly separated, and Li Mu lifted it open on the spot.
Everyone from the Research Institute was stunned.
Even Zu Yuanji and the others, who had been holding a meeting and studying the issue for ages inside the command center, felt their gazes instantly clear.
It was... opened just like that?
Did Li Mu... just cheat?
Or rather, this kid had probably never turned his cheats off in the first place.
Something countless people and countless pieces of equipment had struggled with for half the day had been pried open by Li Mu so easily?
What heaven-defying strength was this?
And the most shocking part was not even that.
After Li Mu opened it, he actually held the upper lid of the turtle shell with one hand, flipped it around to examine it twice, then casually threw it aside.
It crashed to the ground with a heavy thud.
Dust surged up in all directions, and a huge pit was smashed into the earth.
For a moment, the people from the Research Institute were too frightened to step forward.
Inside the opened turtle shell was a turtle corpse.
Before Li Mu could do anything, Greedy Snake quickly moved over and flicked its tongue excitedly.
Even Li Mu, who was not its master, could sense Greedy Snake’s desire.
“You want to eat it?” Li Mu asked.
Greedy Snake very humanly nodded its enormous head with all its might.
Li Mu drew his saber and casually cut off more than half of the turtle corpse.
Before Li Mu could even call it over, Greedy Snake leaned its head forward, bit down on the large half of the turtle corpse, and swallowed it directly.
At this moment, Lu Chenfeng looked at Greedy Snake in confusion.
“Why are you in such a hurry? Is it that good? Give me a piece too!”
Li Mu looked at him suspiciously.
“Are you sure? No one knows how long this corpse has been dead. Are you not afraid of parasites?”
“Should I roast it for you?”
Lu Chenfeng secretly glanced at Mute Nine and said, “Roast it? A real man eats sashimi!”
Li Mu was helpless, so he cut Lu Chenfeng a piece as well.
Lu Chenfeng ate the piece with a series of crunching bites.
Then, he suddenly clutched his neck.
“Ah! Kaah!”
Afterward, his entire body toppled to the ground, convulsing all over.
His hands clutched his neck tightly.
“I cannot make it! Hurry! Have Mute Nine give me mouth-to-mouth!”
Lu Chenfeng spoke with difficulty in a hoarse voice.
Li Mu snapped at Greedy Snake in annoyance, “Are you deaf? Give him snake-to-mouth resuscitation!”
Greedy Snake immediately opened its huge mouth, revealing dark-green fangs as drops of venom dripped from their tips.
“I am fine!”
Lu Chenfeng instantly flipped over and stood up.
But just as Lu Chenfeng got to his feet, Greedy Snake suddenly collapsed to the ground with a thunderous boom.
Its enormous snake body thrashed wildly.
The Research Institute personnel in the distance could not see the situation clearly and had originally wanted to come over to take a look.
But when the giant python went berserk, they dared not come any closer.
Greedy Snake’s tail suddenly wrapped around its own seven-inch weak point.
No matter how one looked at it, it looked just like Lu Chenfeng clutching his neck with his hands.
Lu Chenfeng cursed angrily, “Damn it, you are actually copying me!”
“Get up! I already used that move just now!”
But very soon, Wang Yinhuan’s expression changed slightly.
“Everyone, step back.”
No one dared to be careless, and they hurriedly retreated.
Greedy Snake began twisting wildly on the spot.
The outer layer of its snake body began to crack and peel away as if it were shedding its skin.
Soon, it was clear that the outer skin had already separated from the snake body within, bulging outward into an opaque layer.
It struggled for a full minute.
CRACK!
“ROAR!”
All of a sudden, a massive creature with two horns on its head, a mouth like a giant crocodile, blue-purple eyes, and whiskers beneath its nose burst violently through the giant python skin and let out a heaven-shaking roar.
A fierce shockwave snapped dozens of trees in the surrounding area.
Its body was still more than forty meters long.
However, the middle section of its body had swollen several times larger.
A pair of enormous eagle claws sank deep into the ground.
At the center of its huge body, a pair of black-scaled fleshy wings spread open with a crash.
Its wingspan alone was nearly thirty to forty meters.
“Is this... a dragon?”
Zu Yuanji murmured inside the command room.
Everyone at the scene was completely dumbfounded.
It seemed somewhat similar to a Western dragon.
But Li Mu felt an uncontrollable excitement.
This was not some Western dragon.
This was the genuine ancestor of all dragons.
The Yinglong!
Or rather, its embryonic form...
The Yinglong had fleshy wings and four claws.
But Greedy Snake only had two claws, and its head and body had only developed the faint embryonic shape of a dragon.
It had not completely transformed into a dragon yet.
But this was precisely enough to prove that Li Mu’s conjecture was correct.
Greedy Snake could evolve into a dragon!
At this moment, while Greedy Snake was twisting wildly, its head seemed to “accidentally” fall with a thud onto the remaining half of the Mystic Turtle corpse.
It swallowed that too in one bite.
Only then did it struggle to stand, unable to stop itself from burping.
Wang Yinhuan pressed her lips together hard and looked at Li Mu with some embarrassment.
Li Mu walked over speechlessly and looked inside the turtle shell. Only a large chunk of minced flesh remained.
Li Mu unceremoniously cut it off and stored it away.
It was his dear wife’s pet. What could he even say?
Besides...
Li Mu turned his head and looked at the turtle shell beside him.
He reached into his Storage Ring and took out a large chunk of Black Iron with a diameter of thirty centimeters.
This was the Myriad Forms Iron that Song Chuhe had mined and accumulated for Li Mu over several months.
This supreme divine iron could be used to forge several special-grade or higher weapons with just a tiny piece.
Li Mu’s chunk was enough to forge at least a thousand weapons.
It could be called absurdly extravagant.
Even so, Li Mu still felt it was too little.
Myriad Forms Iron could only shrink. It could not enlarge itself.
This chunk was simply not enough for Li Mu to use as a weapon.
If he wanted it to become a weapon, it had to devour some other materials.
Li Mu did not want it to devour a bunch of random junk.
So, he had kept it stored away all this time, unable to find suitable material.
Now, when he saw this enormous turtle shell, Li Mu was tempted.
Myriad Forms Iron could devour and fuse with all materials, then shape itself however it wished according to the form of the Myriad Forms Iron.
The greater the proportion of Myriad Forms Iron within it, the faster its transformation speed would naturally be.
For the time being, Li Mu did not need it to be particularly fast. As long as it could become a weapon, that was enough.
Therefore, Li Mu directly pressed the Myriad Forms Iron against the turtle shell.
After only a moment, the Myriad Forms Iron slowly devoured the tough turtle shell.
Then, according to Li Mu’s thoughts, it slowly stretched longer.
During this process, Li Mu also snapped off a piece of the turtle shell with his bare hands and stored it away.
Very soon, both the upper and lower halves of the turtle shell were absorbed by Li Mu’s Myriad Forms Iron.
At this moment, the Myriad Forms Iron had become a cudgel.
Two characters were carved upon it: “Ruyi.”
Li Mu held it in his hand and simply could not bear to put it down.
All of this happened a little too quickly.
The people from the Research Institute were standing far away. From Greedy Snake rolling and thrashing on the spot to Li Mu devouring the turtle shell, only three to five minutes had passed.
When the Research Institute personnel saw Li Mu and the others gathered around that area, they assumed things should already be fine.
After all, the pressure of the Low Spiritual-Pressure Region that had been surging outward before had long since disappeared.
So, one by one, they jogged over.
Once they squeezed into the encirclement around Li Mu and the others, the young man leading the Research Institute asked a question that struck straight to the soul.
“Where is the turtle?”
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