NOVPUB808: Chapter 22: The Forbidden Secrets of the Courtroom
808 -22: The Forbidden Secrets of the Courtroom
Although the doomsday showdown has not yet arrived, it is necessary to boost morale and broaden the horizons of the subordinates.
Tang Xian called Yu Xiaozhe, Lin Sen, and also brought Liu Lang and Ke Ye to the southern island.
This was the first time Liu Lang and Ke Ye saw the scenery of the island.
They didn’t have time to marvel at the island’s beauty and the myriad of beasts they had never seen before, as well as Tang Xian’s terrifying influence—several key members from the Baichuan City teleportation stations and weapons factories were dragged by Tang Xian into the sea for work.
Now, Tang Xian does look a bit like a charlatan.
Especially when he wielded the trident to break through the Ashen Sea, Tang Xian looked like the true Sea God. 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
If paired with curly hair and sea wave effects accompanying him, he would probably be Poseidon himself.
And when the group followed Tang Xian into the deep sea, they encountered countless terrifying sea creatures whose names they couldn’t even pronounce, and had never seen before.
For someone like Lin Sen, a technocrat who firmly believes that Earth or the Pyramid is his home, the mining area’s sea seemed too dangerous.
If it wasn’t for Tang Feiji earlier, and the trident now, Tang Xian would probably be unable to cross this sea area.
The first time he got through, it was largely due to luck.
This is just a normal sea area; it is hard to imagine how dangerous the starving sea would be after all creatures become frenzied and strengthened.
The Gourmet had once battled in the starving sea, but even it had never been to the deepest parts of it.
What challenges lie in the land of the god of destruction’s legacy is something Tang Xian is curious about, but for now, he just thinks about it.
For Tang Xian, excavating Soul Crystals with several scientists is currently his main concern.
As for the starving sea, if everything goes well on Tang Jing’s end, Tang Xian speculates that the strongest workhorse will soon take the stage.
After they reached the Deep Sea Palace, Yu Xiaozhe, Lin Sen, Liu Lang, Ke Ye, and others were so astonished that their jaws nearly dislocated.
The giant sea creatures had already scared them, but when they saw the massive Deep Sea Palace, all the sea creatures seemed bland in comparison.
The grandeur of the palace itself is one thing, but what truly seems surreal to them is the mountains of Soul Crystals casually visible around the palace.
“This… Soul Crystals… The amount here is terrifying.
I’ve never seen so many Soul Crystals in my life!” Yu Xiaozhe exclaimed.
Not just Yu Xiaozhe.
Even Ke Ye, part of the weapons department, had never seen so many, not even if the Soul Crystal reserves from all the armory factories from Sky Guardian Fortress, Lincoln Fortress, and Fifty-One Fortress were combined, could they compare to what was seen here.
For Ke Ye, the quality of these Soul Crystals was even more concern.
Glancing over, he saw mostly blue and purple, with occasional orange ones.
If the Sea God’s treasures were brought to the human world, why would it take hundreds of years to advance the Pyramid to the eighth level?
Perhaps within a very short time, two hundred Pyramids could be simultaneously advanced to the highest tier.
Tang Xian had thought that aside from the Sacred Crystals accumulated from the Sea God’s ceremonies over several centuries, the reason for such an accumulation also related to the twilight of gods.
After all, the Sea God was the only leader who didn’t directly confront the mechanical race but instead intercepted the mechanical armies with beast gods.
During that time, with the Sea God’s body as the battlefield, there must have been many fierce battles between the beasts and mechanical race.
The next task naturally became transportation.
With almost inexhaustible Soul Crystals, Ke Ye and Liu Lang became excited.
These Soul Crystals were enough to arm everyone in Baichuan City and even produce some special equipment in excess.
However, the time was tight, and the equipment brought from the Pyramid couldn’t compare to the Pyramid itself; many heavy weapons couldn’t be manufactured.
But with so many Soul Crystals, equipment like the ultimate gloves could be produced in large quantities.
They didn’t think too much, only aiming to strengthen human combat power as much as possible before the apocalypse.
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A bit later, everyone returned to the surface.
Tang Xian wasn’t in a hurry to go to the starving sea, instead, he was roasting some dog meat.
The aroma of the roasted meat attracted Jin Lu and some beast types.
Fortunately, now that Tang Xian was present, they behaved very docilely, and slowly, people like Yu Xiaozhe also grew less afraid.
“I thought you would catch fish from the sea to eat,” Yu Xiaozhe knew Tang Xian was a Gourmet when it came to eating.
Tang Xian shook his head and said:
“The food I eat mostly comes from what some hunters have recorded in the wilderness survival manual over these few hundred years as being edible.
Or refers to some ancient documents, including Classic of Mountains and Seas.
In general, things that I shouldn’t eat, or haven’t seen before, I generally don’t eat.”
“There once was a hunter named Bear Grylls who wrote about the edible creatures of the mining areas in the wilderness survival manual.
Coincidentally, in ancient times, there was also an explorer of the same name, who liked to eat without removing the heads.
What these two did were largely the same.”
“The mining zone’s Bear Grylls updated the wilderness survival manual based on his own experiences.
Over a thousand years ago, the ancient Bear Grylls did the same, informing people through his travel experiences which things could be eaten and which things should be avoided if possible.”
“That’s really amazing, were they very skilled?” Yu Xiaozhe asked.
“Very skilled, I am inferior to them.
For example, the ancient Bear Grylls, for most insects, he would decapitate them and then eat them as if they were chicken.
The same goes for the snake class, and even animal droppings which he could squeeze juice from.
In short, to survive, he dared to directly eat many things that most people can’t imagine.
But there were also things even he dared not eat.”
