"My son called me? He said the black fungus inside him wants to play dirty?"
Wang Qiqi amplified the conversation, and Ansheng heard Lin Bingyun's words, showing a hint of astonishment on his cheek.
The fungal parasitic beast and parasites inside are contracted during a trip to Europe, aren't they?
How are they linked with the pesky dragon then?
"It seems the deceased Dragon People are more pleasing to the remaining black fungus in the world than when alive. Now, sensing the corpse's return to Blue Star, they're almost ecstatic..."
Li Wenkang glanced at the tent's metal cabinet, repeatedly confirming there were no anomalies inside, then took a phone from his pocket, dialing two numbers consecutively.
The first call was to the Security Bureau, instructing headquarters to strictly monitor Second Epoch items.
The second was to Professor Wu, asking her to immediately go to the national highway and cooperate with local woodcutters for complete eradication and extermination of the emerging black funguses.
"Sometimes, things too fresh might end up attracting hordes of flies."
Li Wenkang hung up, shaking his head, feeling some regret about these unforeseen events but not showing any sign of panic or anger.
Despite being unexpected, the current situation hadn't reached the worst-case scenario envisioned by the Security Bureau.
The worst-case scenario anticipated by the Security Bureau is the corpse's return accidentally triggering [Terrifying Monster], and Longevity Club and foreign forces interfering.
The Security Bureau is ready with a King of the Universe loaded with a ton of Spirit Particle Potion in a hypersonic missile.
If they dare come, they'll blast an old semi-tamed antique of Master Fuli over.
At present, Li Wenkang didn't even move from his chair. He continued to wait quietly.
Everything else was false. The first priority was to seal the corpse in the return capsule in a container and immediately escort it to the maglev train; that was real.
"I'll go outside to check the situation."
Ansheng said to Li Wenkang, signaling the Triangular Hammer to follow his steps, and went outside the tent, allowing the Triangular Hammer to cover the airborne iron steed, beginning the ascent.
The Northern Desert region is a no man's land, lively only with a few off-road vehicle teams racing around. Outside the drone-covered area, even a glimmer of light is unseen.
"Everything is fine..."
Ansheng commanded Triangular Hammer to hover the iron steed, staring at the surroundings where Spiritual Particles were lingering.
In the desert area, there were no creatures capable of influencing the Spiritual Particles lingering in the sky.
As long as such creatures didn't exist, heavy firepower could usually flatten the area.
"Beep beep..."
While Ansheng was staring, the airborne iron steed controlled by the Triangular Hammer started retreating rapidly.
[Something returning from the starry sky is heading for your head, Master, preparing to swell a huge bump...]
A thought transmitted from the Blood and Flesh Will mark to Master Fuli's mind.
In the sky, a flash of flame suddenly ignited, heading straight toward the desert area. As the flame cooled on the surface, the cylindrical return module expelled a decelerating parachute.
Then, the actual parachute deployed, gradually descending the return module onto the desert.
Its landing point was within three miles of the camp.
"Old Li really isn't afraid of the parachute malfunctioning and dropping the entire return module on his head."
Ansheng jokingly commented, kicked the iron steed's fuel tank, prompting Triangular Hammer to ascend quickly toward the return module, cutting off the parachute.
Ansheng raised the return module with both hands, riding the iron steed, plunging rapidly towards the ground.
"Old Li, collect your package!"
Ansheng dropped the return module to the ground, where the logistics support team, already waiting, approached clad in full biochemical protection gear, setting up isolation barriers for comprehensive eradication and installing disinfection devices.
The metal coffin was pushed out from the truck, one layer cover after another, revealing the cylindrical glass column inside.
Members of the logistics support team removed the glass cylinder, entered the isolation barrier, opened the return module door, extracted a set of astronaut gear, placed it inside the glass cylinder, and put it into the first-layer metal coffin.
During management, they directed liquid nitrogen into the glass cylinder through pipes for further eradication and moved the metal coffin to the outside, placing it into the metal sarcophagus.
"This Dragon Person is most thoroughly dead....."
With the return module opened and in connection with the external environment, there's a period when it's within Blue Star's Spiritual Particle environment. Yet neither the corpse nor the surrounding Spiritual Particles showed any anomalies.
Upon seeing the object, Ansheng offered his conclusions from observation.
Though the Dragon Person was still very fresh, its internal cellular structure had lost all activity.
If it's too thoroughly dead, they might not even be able to extract genetic information from the corpse.
"Retreat retreat! Pull back!"
As if rehearsed countless times, once the metal sarcophagus was received, woodcutters sprang into action, hoisting the sarcophagus onto the cold chain vehicle, Golden Leopard firmly pressed on the sarcophagus.
Li Wenkang flipped himself into the windshield cover atop the car, the convoy started neatly, quickly departing along the blocked road.
"This coffin lift is really grand. The Law Enforcement Bureau preemptively blocked roads, six armed helicopters paving the way, hundreds of fully equipped soldiers, and robots coordinated protection, plus woodcutters and Spirit Beast accompanying..."
"Just if the Dragon Person resurrects, seeing the debt for coffin lifting and burial costs might trigger a heart attack," Ansheng joked to Old Li from the convoy.
"Don't mess around, we hope it keeps quiet and just comes home with us obediently," Li Wenkang grumbled.
The research value in this corpse is remarkably high; it might even overthrow humanity's understanding of itself, science, and the universe. It doesn't fall under a mere scientific episode and could be categorized broadly under [Humanity's Fate Direction].
As long as results from the Dragon Person's remains are produced, it would be a monumental milestone for Xia Country's Spiritual Particle research.
Regarding money, as long as the Dragon Person peacefully stays in the coffin, Li Wenkang is willing to set up a shrine for it.
"Old Li, be alert; something's coming..."
Ansheng originally intended to joke a bit more, but the shifting of Spiritual Particle lingering in the sky abruptly changed.
An invisible pulse emanated from five miles southeast of the convoy, forming a circular rippling wave.
A furious screech arose, a body distorting black tower emerged out of nowhere.
The tower's spire, resembling octopus tentacles, appeared to be waving and screaming.
A few completely shattered clay boxes dropped from the spire toward the ground.
The fusion of Spiritual Particles intensified, the tower expanded, its surrounding space distorted with rippling waves, an invisible wave swept over the convoy.
"What the heck..."
Upon seeing the bizarre thing appear, Ansheng's cheek revealed a touch of surprise, propelling Triangular Hammer to confront it.