Chapter 18 (2/2)

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Zhou Bai took a deep breath.

“Is this…Professor Zhuang’s diary?”

“I didn’t expect the author of the diary to be him. But where are the other missing pages? And who tore them off?”

Although the diary raised many questions, it also answered many of Zhou Bai’s initial doubts.

Clearly, this base was built by Professor Zhuang and a group of other people. It seemed that they were researching a way to practice when the Spark was polluted, and the Heavenly Tao was twisted.

Their ending was very tragic. It seemed like Professor Zhuang was the only one to survive for some reason.

Then he looked for the other survivors and brought them back to the base. And just as Bando described, he tried to make them practice.

“That’s probably what happened.” Zhou Bai nodded to himself, but he still had many questions.

But Zhou Bai knew way too little. He didn’t even fully know the concepts of Paradise and deities in this world. He could only put away his doubts for now and wait to answer them in the future.

“There are still many things that remain unclear. What are the contents that were torn off and crossed out? Who touched my neck that night in the cafeteria? Was it Bando? Or was it someone else? And what are the effects of the contents taught in demon class? Why did Bando successfully awaken his primordial spirit power…”

Zhou Bai sighed. Everyone was dead now, and he probably could no longer find the answers to many secrets.

Zhou Bai continued flipping through the diary. After many blank pages, he was surprised to find there were a series of coordinates.

“In regards to the battle between Mara and Paradise, it seems like everything is not as simple as we once thought. Perhaps (lots of crossing out)”

“I preserved all the secrets I know in this location.”

Zhou Bai closed his eyes. He really wanted to know what Professor Zhuang found out in the end, but clearly right now was not the time to look for that place. What he needed to do at the moment was to live on and become stronger.

After resting for a while more, Zhou Bai tried to stand up but found he still couldn’t.

“But my primordial spirit power seems to be recovering more quickly. I’ll rest a little more and try to see if I can float using primordial spirit power.”

After another half hour, he heard loud human voices from above.

“Who is it?” Zhou Bai thought for a bit, then committed the coordinate numbers in the diary to memory.

He used his recovered primordial spirit power to destroy the diary, and then closed his eyes and played dead.

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“Captain! There’s still one person alive.”

“He survived all this! How resilient. Bring him up.”

“Did you find any clues?”

“Even if there were, they must be burnt up by now. But this base seems to have many small children and testing equipment.”

“So it’s the survivors’ underground laboratory?”

“Captain! This is bad. Two survivors were unable to adapt to the distorted Spark. It looks like they are old humans who were delivered naturally.”

“How troublesome. There are still surviving old humans in this day and age? Put anti-infection suits on them. Whether they’ll survive will be up to their fate.”

Swaying bodies, clamorous sounds, all kinds of hollering, transporting, and machine noises rang endlessly in Zhou Bai’s ears.

When everything settled down, his eyelashes trembled, and then he slowly opened his eyes. He found that his body seemed to be wrapped in clothing made from some sort of special material.

Outside the suit was a steel ceiling. He looked outside and found that he seemed to be on some sort of transportation vehicle. The scenery around him ran backward.

“I wouldn’t move around if I were you.” Zhou Bai heard a husky man’s voice to his side. “Your body is so tattered it looks like you got hit by a car. What the hell did you guys encounter?”

Christina rapidly said in Zhou Bai’s mind, “I don’t know where these people came from. They turned the entire base inside out and rescued you as well….”

While Zhou Bai was pretending to be unconscious, Christina still retained her full senses in his mind and was able to observe everything around them carefully.