Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman

Su Ping quickly read the safety officer's memory, learning all the secrets of the middle-aged man named Cavert.

He keenly realized that the Demon Gold excavated by this base was exactly the Grey Gold needed by his main form to refine Abyss Grey Soil.

Grey Gold, like nuclear materials, has strong radiation, a kind of terrifying radiation in a domain that current technological civilization has not yet recognized.

From the situation encountered since the Kali Civilization.

Even without Spiritual Energy, without the awakening of the world's consciousness to spur it.

This radiation from the Grey Gold is still slowly taking effect.

Moreover, Su Ping's Avatar could sense with his Transcendent intuition that this world might be reaching the critical point where the Grey Gold radiation undergoes a qualitative change!

"Just being able to attach to you shows we have some affinity."

Safety officer Cavert stood firm, silently reciting in his heart:

"Don't worry, your family will help if they can, after all, my task is also complete."

"What's next is just game time until my main form arrives."

Safety officer Cavert stretched lazily, then suddenly turned and ran back to the airport.

At the same time, he used the communicator built into his portable helmet to request leave from his superiors, who were still reveling in the joy of success.

Cavert is considered a veteran employee.

Combined with the report on his relatives' matters.

Cavert was granted leave smoothly and was arranged a first-class seat for the return journey.

However, Su Ping's Avatar declined the arrangement, choosing instead to pay extra to board the soon-to-depart transport plane.

Cavert's superior, a grey-haired man standing two meters tall with a neck as thick as his head, saw the report and frowned slightly:

"This kind of psychological quality won't do for a safety officer."

"Although it's understandable since the kid's wife is about to give birth."

"However... having unearthed the Demon Gold, every position in this base is going to be extremely valuable."

"At this time, any problem will be magnified infinitely. It's likely this kid's position won't be secure."

His superior shook his head slightly, but he did not remind Cavert.

There was no way, as he also wanted his own people to come over and help him.

Only when Su Ping's Avatar, using Cavert's identity, took off aboard the transport plane and quickly disappeared over the horizon.

At the underground mine entrance of the Antarctic Research Base.

Piercing alarms already sounded inside.

Researchers in panic saw workers dressed in protective suits climbing out from the shaft elevator.

And with the help of surrounding personnel, once the protective suits were opened, they found all the individuals inside exhibited extremely horrifying mutations.

They almost didn't have an inch of intact skin, all hair fallen off, and everywhere were swollen pustules and lumps of flesh.

Their facial features were completely distorted among these lumps, making it impossible for even the closest people to recognize them.

"What happened?"

"Why did they become like this!"

"What exactly happened in the underground passage?"

"They were just workers in the gold layer, they hadn't even gone to the deeper underground sections!"

"Video recordings are available, they just suddenly felt unwell and started returning collectively."

"Then... surveillance discovered their severe anomalies during the elevator ride."

The scientists and bureaucrats on the surface were all bewildered.

This was a situation they had never encountered before.

There was no dangerous gas leakage, no earthquake-caused passage collapse, or any equipment failure leading to fires or explosions.

But these workers, whose vital signs were normal just moments before.

In a brief time, they had all turned into a group of grotesque meat lump-like beings?

Looking at the mutated workers, many felt their minds were contaminated, and even began to suspect they were encountering the interference of immortals or demons.

However, a portion of the scientists had clearly guessed something, their expressions turning grimly serious.

At the end of the meeting, these scientists quickly convened a small meeting.

After making a decision, they jointly reported their suspicions.

When they were about to head to the workers' wards, hoping to extract some body tissue for research.

They had just reached the passage to the emergency wards when sudden roars like beasts and screams were heard from within.

The few scientists immediately stopped, exchanged glances, and began to retreat.

No one was willing to go further to see what had happened in the wards.

Just as they stepped back, an alarm sounded at the passage entrance.

Fully-armed security personnel came rushing out.

The scientists quickly moved aside and noticed the security personnel were all wielding weapons.

Bam!

The security personnel kicked open the door, and the few team members near the entrance shivered all over, as if they had seen an incredibly terrifying sight.

Then, these members raised their shotgun-like weapons without hesitation, desperately pulling the trigger.

Bam bam bam!

The sound echoed at the passage entrance for a few seconds, then ceased along with a series of screams.

The scientist running at the back, eyes widened, saw the silhouette of a team member who had dropped his weapon appear at the turn of the passage.

The team member also saw the scientist, opened his mouth as if to shout something.

But just as he opened his mouth, his body abruptly jerked, and lumps of flesh started emerging from his mouth.

Then, this team member was suddenly yanked back.

Leaving the scientist's mind in a state of shock, unable to comprehend what had just occurred.

It was only with a pull from a companion that they left the passage entrance and closed the multiple security doors.

"Cough, cough cough!"

These few scientists caught their breath.

Then, they noticed each other's eyes had turned bloodshot.

And their noses and corners of their eyes began to ooze blood.

"Something's wrong, this is wrong."

"Cough cough cough, there's something wrong with our bodies."

"Quick, pull up the data on the employees who first came into contact with those patients!"

"See if they're showing more severe symptoms too!"

The scientists soon gathered evidence supporting their judgment through pervasive monitoring.

The employees who first came into contact with the mutated workers were all showing varying degrees of pathological changes.

Although there were slight variations between individuals, it could be determined that the earlier and longer the contact, the more severe the symptoms!

This type of contagion... was not unfamiliar to the scientists.

The Kali Civilization had encountered the power of nuclear bombs five hundred years ago and utilized nuclear power in various places.

They immediately thought of similar radiation sickness.

But, where was the initial radiation source? How was it turning those people into new radiation sources almost instantaneously?

And most crucially, why did their radiation monitoring equipment still show everything as normal?

"Cough cough cough, we must make the authorities aware, this kind of undetectable radiation... is simply unheard of! And... it might have a huge connection with the current anomalies in civilization!"

The scientists were discussing, when suddenly they felt a tremor beneath their feet.

Subsequently, they felt the entire base begin to shake.

It was a massive explosion in the underground building area.

Flames started to spread.

The underground passage began to collapse.

Up on the base rooftop.

A group of high-ranking bureaucrats boarded a small, vertically taking off transport aircraft intending to leave this base.

But as the transport plane just took off, the pilot noticed the radar began to signal an alarm.

"What's going on?"

Perplexed for a moment, the pilot found that the source of danger was actually coming from high overhead!

In the sky, an iron box from an orbital platform, upon reaching a certain height, suddenly opened.

Then thousands of black balls ejected from the iron box, forming a Heaven and Earth Net over the base.

The transport plane was also caught in this massive net.

It turned into a fireball in mid-air on the spot!

At the same time, a nuclear bomb was quickly approaching from a distance.

As this nuclear bomb struck the base.

A gigantic mushroom cloud rose into the sky, flattening all surface structures of the research base.

The flight Cavert was on did not reach its destination safely either.

Midway, under fighter escort, it landed at a military base where it underwent strict quarantine.

Several generals with high status whispered among themselves as they monitored the plane from hundreds of kilometers away.

"Three hours, and according to life detection, all passengers and crew are normal."

"The smart robot collected saliva from everyone, and tests found no one showing signs of mutation."

"It seems this transport plane was very fortunate, leaving the Antarctic Research Base before the mutation radiation reached the surface."