Chapter 242: Subsequent Impact
After returning to the small building, Zhou Ming devoted all his energy to the Petrification Toxin and the Fusion Worm.
One could enhance his own strength, while the other concerned his future path.
As a result, he had no energy to pay attention to the faint sorrow in Aina’s heart.
As for the reason, after learning about what had happened in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range, Aina thought that her clansmen might have been completely annihilated, and she naturally felt grief in her heart.
No matter what, she was still a catgirl of the Shadow Cat Clan.
While Zhou Ming focused on researching the Petrification Toxin and the worm agent, Su Mei also began making preparations to establish a city-wall fortress.
The low-tier Ferocious Beasts that had originally been planned to remain in the cave were now arranged to be cleared out. After all, the Dark Domain did not lack Ferocious Beast resources, and leaving them behind would only threaten the ordinary people within the camp.
Su Mei handed this task to the Department of External Affairs and Mu Ye to handle, allowing everyone to gain experience in underground combat in the process.
Meanwhile, Lu Tao, who was in charge of managing the Department of Internal Affairs, began arranging for various engineering machines to enter the cave, excavating ore and refining the required metals in preparation for constructing the city-wall fortress.
However, before these tasks began, Su Mei personally led the Snake Guards and, following Zhou Ming’s orders, surrounded the dimensional rift with ultra-strong alloy and installed high-explosive charges powerful enough to threaten High-tier Ferocious Beasts.
After all, some things were not meant to be known by the ordinary people in the camp.
While the camp bustled with activity in preparation against the threat brought by the Dark Domain, new changes were also unfolding in the outside world due to the nuclear explosion in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range and the personal intervention of the Alliance’s Legendary Saint.
The nuclear bomb manufactured by the Alliance had minimized the harm caused by nuclear radiation to the greatest extent possible, but residual radiation still remained in the short term.
Even after the Legendary Saint took action, the Ferocious Beasts that survived in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range were more or less affected by nuclear radiation.
This impact was particularly evident among low-tier Ferocious Beasts and mutated animals.
As a result, the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range became a biological experimental ground in the short term, where various bloodline genetic changes could potentially emerge.
If beneficial mutations appeared and were captured, they would bring enormous benefits to certain factions.
If obtained by Beast Tamers, they would not hesitate to pay the price to replace their own beasts, since the potential of a beast was one of the key factors determining how far a Beast Tamer could advance.
Therefore, several days after the Sudden Upheaval in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range ended and it was confirmed that the nuclear radiation could no longer affect the human body, many hunters wearing specially made protective suits began entering the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range.
This trend became increasingly apparent. The originally somewhat desolate Qinghui Base once again revealed signs of prosperity because of this matter.
Of course, conflicts in the wilderness intensified somewhat due to the arrival of various factions.
However, compared to the losses previously caused by the Giant Clan, these skirmishes were far from comparable. Thus, the Alliance officials at Qinghui Base did not intervene.
Compared to the impact brought by the Giant Clan to Qinghui Base, the higher-ups of the Alliance valued the restoration of Qinghui Base’s prosperity more.
As for the nuclear explosion and the intervention of the Alliance’s Legendary Saint causing the Giant Clan’s plan in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range to fail, the foreign races to the west of the Alliance did not show much reaction.
According to intelligence obtained by the Alliance through special channels, quite a few foreign races were actually pleased by the failure of the Giant Clan’s plan.
In the region where Blue Star intersected with the Tam World, it was primarily dominated by foreign races and Ferocious Beasts.
Among the foreign races, the major forces were the Giant King’s Court established by the Giant Clan, the Night Council established by the Blood Clan and the Werewolf Clan, and the Tide Empire jointly established by the Sea Demons, Mermen, and Naga.
These forces were all led by upper-tier foreign races and ruled over various lower-tier subordinate foreign races of different sizes.
Because the territory occupied by the foreign races to the west of the Blue Star Alliance contained only one Giant Dimensional Rift, this Giant Dimensional Rift was jointly owned by several major foreign race forces. Thus, there was mutual restraint among the various factions.
The Giant King’s Court had attempted to use Void Magic Crystals to transform a Large Dimensional Rift into a Giant Dimensional Rift. This private plan clearly harmed the interests of the other foreign races, so they naturally would not retaliate against the Alliance because of it.
Instead, due to the failure of the Giant King’s Court’s plan, other foreign races seized the opportunity to obtain benefits from the Giant King’s Court.
It could only be said that at the collective level, there were no eternal friends—only eternal interests.
However, the Giant King’s Court’s plan also indirectly reminded the other foreign races to begin planning to transform the Large Dimensional Rifts within their own territories into Giant Dimensional Rifts.
Once successful, they would no longer need to consider the constraints imposed by other forces and could fully prepare to compete for the Heart of the World.
However, obtaining a spatial treasure comparable to Void Magic Crystals was not an easy task for any force.
Whether the plan could succeed would depend on each faction’s capability and fortune.
While various forces and Beast Tamers were heading toward the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range, Lei Yuan, who was at the Academy of Sciences, also wanted to return to Qinghui Base to confirm Zhou Ming’s safety after learning about the events there.
Unfortunately, in response to Lei Yuan’s request, both her teacher and the Academy of Sciences’ Administrative Council directly refused.
Faced with this outcome, Lei Yuan immediately protested by halting her work.
It should be known that aside from energy pulse communication technology, after entering the Academy of Sciences, Lei Yuan had also demonstrated profound insight into energy crystals.
In research regarding the utilization and development of energy crystals, she had already reached the forefront, capable of influencing the Academy’s reform of Blue Star’s technology.
Technological research and development combining energy crystals with the rune system was the primary direction of the Alliance’s future development, and it was the foundation for Blue Star humanity to establish itself in the Tam World.
At this time, Lei Yuan was no longer the little girl who needed to take part-time jobs for living expenses. She had already become a rising star of the Alliance Academy of Sciences.
Although she was an ordinary person, relying on her extraordinary intellect, she had begun to stand out within the Alliance and gained a status far beyond that of ordinary people.
Faced with Lei Yuan’s protest, both her teacher and the Academy’s Administrative Council were extremely troubled.
They could neither hit nor scold her, fearing that something might go wrong with her research.
That group of elderly men and women could only sigh that her high intelligence must have been exchanged for a love-struck brain.
With no other choice, the Academy of Sciences dispatched a professional Beast Tamer squad to Qinghui Base to confirm Zhou Ming’s whereabouts and safety.
Zhou Ming, however, was completely unaware of this matter. At this moment, he was hiding in the laboratory, beginning to refine his plan.
The Fusion Worm’s genetic devouring, the catgirl’s bloodline transformation, the corrosive nature of dragon bloodlines—
Combined with the Iron Thread Snake genetic structure diagram that Su Ningfeng had already successfully researched, as well as the subsequent genetic structure diagrams of other snake species, he was perfecting how to evolve his Iron Thread Snake group, ultimately forming a new snake race and advancing to Transcendent Master through bloodline transformation.
In addition, Zhou Ming had not neglected recording the changes in Tianqiong’s psychic power. Occasionally, he would also have Tianqiong cooperate with Aina in his experiments.
After all, the reason he had kept Aina and Tianqiong in the first place was precisely because he valued the benefits they possessed.
Catgirl Aina, in cooperating with Zhou Ming’s experiments, gradually forgot the sorrow brought by her concern for her clan.