MTLNOVEL Chapter 469: Aberration
In this star system similar to the solar system.
There exists a planet with an advanced intelligent civilization, called Changli Star by the locals.
Although the living environment on Changli Star is similar to the solar system, the Changli people living there are a longevity species, with individual lifespans reaching five or six hundred years.
This has allowed the Changli Civilization to see a sharp increase in average lifespan after entering industrialization and solving food problems.
This has given those exceptionally brilliant scientists and outstanding leaders more time to contribute to the entire civilization.
Thus, the overall technological development of the civilization is at least an era ahead compared to the Water Blue Star civilization before Su Ping propelled its development.
The Kali Civilization's reach has already touched the edges of the Constant Star System.
While persisting in expanding and exploring the Star Sea.
The Kali Civilization is also investigating and developing the underground world of their Mother Star.
They have built not only various types of Underground Cities but also tens of thousands of underground research mines.
The deepest ones have even touched the outer shell of the core.
On Kali Star, within a large underground mine detection station in the Antarctic region.
As workers piloted large bipedal engineering robots to unload supplies from the rear of a hundred-meter-long transport aircraft.
In the cabin, apart from having pointed ears and a more elongated face, a Kali Civilization security officer, who differed little from a normal human, used an instrument to scan the containers transported up while unloading supplies from the base.
When the underground mines are dug deep enough, there is a probability of excavating a gold layer containing a large amount of Gold.
This Antarctic base is exactly such a lucky one, and thus has received more attention and more resources.
With the development of technological civilization, this precious metal, Gold, has not lost its importance due to the advancement of the times, but has instead become increasingly valued by the civilization as more and more domains require Gold.
As a result, every transport of Gold needs to go through multiple inspections to ensure nothing goes wrong.
"No anomalies."
The security officer pressed confirm, answered, and then walked out of the cabin.
He hadn't been in a good mood recently.
A day ago, he received a video contact from his wife and learned that his sister had given birth to a deformed child.
It was a faceless infant with only a mouth on its face.
As for why it is also... it is unclear why.
Since ten years ago, the number of deformed children in the Kali Civilization began to increase sharply.
In the past few months, it has risen dramatically, to the point that someone broke the news that the proportion of deformed children in the Kali Civilization in the past week has already exceeded half.
Furthermore, the deformities have become increasingly terrifying and bizarre.
The security officer didn't believe these exaggerated claims made by troublemakers.
But he couldn't ignore the fact that these incidents were happening more and more around him, involving people close to him, making him suspicious and worried.
After all, his wife was also pregnant.
Although expert examinations always showed no abnormalities.
The security officer still remembered that the examination report a week before his sister's delivery showed that everything was normal.
As he worried and fretted over this.
The security officer suddenly heard a rapid, slightly delighted voice in his earphones:
"Notice to all Antarctic underground research base employees."
"The research base has finally unearthed ore veins rich in Demon Gold!"
"All employees of this base will receive an additional bonus no less than their annual salary!"
"Then... everyone, stay alert!"
Upon hearing this good news, the security officer was slightly shaken, but despite the joy he should have felt.
His heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He inexplicably had an intuition that a great disaster was about to befall.
It seemed... something bad... was about to happen?
The security officer shook his body, slowed down his steps, and leaned against the wall.
Then, his brow suddenly ached!
The security officer suddenly fell into a faint.
But it was just for a moment, not even long enough for his body to touch the ground.
The security officer then reopened his piercing eyes and stood up with steady breathing.
However, in just this brief moment.
The entity controlling the security officer now was an avatar split from Su Ping's Netherworld Immortal Body.
After discovering that the Netherworld avatar, though weak, could travel through space-time nodes more quickly and save time.
Su Ping decided to use this avatar.
Even if it was weak, it was still Transcendent, and in this world without Spiritual Energy, it should have the power to defend itself.
Then, once the avatar reached the destination, it was as if Su Ping himself had arrived at the destination.
Su Ping could at any time directly descend upon the place, seizing all resources within the Constant Star System.
This Netherworld avatar of Su Ping, compared to other avatars reaching the star system where the Kali Civilization is located, saved about four-fifths of the time.
However, such rapid traversal did not come without a price.
Upon reaching the target planet, the consciousness of this avatar also experienced temporary confusion.
It relied on instinct to find the most suitable indigenous intelligent life form.
It took almost the time of one incense stick for the possession to succeed, giving it control over this body.
And the consciousness of the original security officer was not devoured but was trapped within the Consciousness Sea, forced to watch everything unfold in terror.
"Your intuition was not wrong."
"Your civilization has no idea what it is they have excavated?"
"To have accumulated so much on a single planet, it's hard to say whether it's your civilization's great fortune or misfortune?"