"Oi, over here!"
Ansheng waved at the black Navigator, sat in the front passenger seat next to Wang Qiqi, and took a look around the car with some curious questions:
"Why haven't I seen Old Li and the others? Aren't they leaving with us by car?"
The Navigator driven by Wang Qiqi had a plastic sheet over the roof, covering Master Fuli's iron steed.
In the car, there was only the Golden Leopard and the Triangular Hammer. The Golden Leopard shrank back to the rear of the car with a disdainful expression, clearly disliking the Cosmic Triangular Hammer inside the car.
"Li Xiao and the others are taking a military aircraft. Some precision restraining equipment can't be transported by maglev."
Wang Qiqi explained to Master Fuli.
The maglev trains in the underground high-speed are indeed called maglev trains, but they don't consider the comfort of the passengers; they prioritize speed.
The responsibility of the underground high-speed is to transport things as quickly and safely as possible to their destination.
Other matters, human willpower can overcome. If they can't overcome it, it must be due to human weakness.
Some high-precision instruments can suffer from even a slight vibration causing errors. They can't withstand the violent output of the underground high-speed and must rely on stable railroad transportation. Li Wenkang and a group of technical experts flew to the Northern region in the morning to adjust the equipment.
"I understand..."
"The underground high-speed trains were developed and improved by automotive soldier experts!"
Ansheng had a look of sudden realization, understanding the core of Wang Qiqi's words.
Automotive soldiers driving emphasize, "My car carries comrades with iron will; even if they fall out of the car, they will crawl back in, and my job is to deliver them to the destination."
"Uh... That can be one way to understand it." Wang Qiqi thought for a while and felt Master Fuli summarized it quite well.
The Navigator entered the ecological base, and Wang Qiqi led Master Fuli to the station following yesterday's route.
In the underground high-speed station, as always, it was deserted with only a few repair squad soldiers completing train inspections, looking at Master Fuli's group as if seeing an immortal, watching them board the train.
After the Golden Leopard boarded, it immediately sat in its seat, buckled the seatbelt, and adjusted its breathing with a look of concentration.
Wang Qiqi also took out a Spirit Particle Potion, injected it into her thigh, and tightly clutched the armrest of the seat.
"Is it really that intense..."
Ansheng muttered in his heart, and followed Wang Qiqi and them, fastening his seatbelt as well.
"Ding ling ling——"
The departure bell rang, everyone cleared out, the metal door closed, and the train started, leaping to two hundred kilometers per hour, followed by an even stronger pushback sensation.
The train entered the pipeline structure tunnel, and Ansheng felt the seat beneath him start to lift, as if unable to bear the acceleration, with slight vibrations.
The speedometer showed [1063km/h]
"Is this speed reasonable?"
"At 800 million per kilometer in cost, it would be unreasonable if it didn't have such speed, right?"
The train sped through, completing the turnaround at the Imperial Capital's underground dispatch terminal before zooming into the Northern Desert region.
They reached the location to transfer to an armed helicopter, headed to the southern sand area where the return capsule was originally scheduled to land.
"Have they arrived?"
Li Wenkang emerged from the tent to greet Master Fuli stepping off the helicopter:
"The return capsule has entered the atmosphere and will be landing soon. Before we return to the lab, we'll have to trouble our Master Fuli to bear with it."
"Were you kidnapped? Why do you sound so strange? Shouldn't you be asking me if I can jump up and catch the return capsule like a baseball?" Ansheng stared oddly at Li Wenkang:
"If you're under duress, just blink. I get it."
Old Li's overly polite speech was making the fox anxious.
"That side is recording, possibly making it into textbooks for the next hundred years..."
Li Wenkang maintained a courteous smile, gritting his teeth to push out a sentence to remind Master Fuli to be mindful and not create a black mark in history, or for the next century, students would sing about today's events daily.
Even university professors might ponder the frenetic mindset of the predecessors who established Spirit Particle Science.
The first joint exploration between humans and Spirit Beasts of a conceptual existence was destined to be recorded in history books.
"....Well, damn, why didn't you say so earlier."
"If I knew we'd be in textbooks, I would have come with nine tails after a bath at home."
Upon hearing this, Ansheng was shocked, looking at the corner of Old Li's eyes and indeed saw high-speed cameras and a professional recording team.
"Is it 4K?" Ansheng asked.
"Native 12K multi-camera recording, achieving 16K resolution through multi-frame post-editing," Li Wenkang replied.
"....Which fox could withstand this!"
Ansheng complained, giving up on worrying about how he appeared on camera, followed Li Wenkang inside, and sat on a chair, glancing towards the monitoring station.
Before Ansheng arrived, both the air and ground of the sand beach were filled with numerous robots.
Drones in the sky were responsible for surveillance and illumination, while four-wheel off-road patrol robots on the ground would swarm in the moment the return capsule landed and surround it for monitoring and protection.
"The space station's facilities are limited, so they could only simply seal the corpse for return..."
"That thing, unless it's dehydrated, is very fresh in some sense, even fresher than pork just from the slaughterhouse..."
Li Wenkang sat on a chair, passing a tablet to Master Fuli.
On the screen displayed an image of the corpse taken on the space station.
The Dragon Person had no clothes, and like humans, its body was very tall, about three meters, with some pointy features on its forehead and frontal skull.
Its body was shriveled, a bronze color, with some varying depth scratches and minor pits on its skin's surface.
This Dragon Person's corpse has floated in space prison for hundreds of years, with its body bombarded by countless micro-meteorites and dust, yet it remained intact; in life, its physique might have greatly exceeded steel and diamond.
The term [Immortal] wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it.
But physical physique wasn't a strength of the Dragon-man Civilization's lifeforms...
"Report! Li Xiao, an anomaly has been detected in the directions of National Roads 105, 207, 239."
The logistics team member sitting at the monitoring station, responsible for closely watching the surveillance and receiving information, swiftly turned to face Li Wenkang, reporting the anomaly phenomenon discovered by the local Forest Rangers in the Northern region.
While speaking, the monitor sent all data to Li Wenkang's tablet.
On a pitch-black corridor, a car dashed forward recklessly.
And atop the driver's head was a clay box, speeding towards the sand area.
On another national road, a large wave of black fungi was seen.
However, this wave moved very slowly, crawling with infant strength, moving only about twenty to thirty centimeters per hour.
Beside the black fungal wave, a Forest Ranger even couldn't help but let out a "pfft."
All these anomalies erupted only after that Dragon-man's corpse approached Blue Star.
"Ding ling ling...."
As Li Wenkang watched the video, Wang Qiqi's phone rang in her pocket.
Wang Qiqi froze, frowned as she took out her phone, saw the name displayed as [Master Fuli], and looked at the Master Fuli sitting in front of her with an odd expression before picking up the call, asking: "Hello?"
"I'm Lin Bingyun. A minute ago, someone claiming to be Master Fuli's son rushed to call, asking me to inform Master Fuli."
"Something is approaching from the sky, very ferociously. Fungi are currently in a stir, wanting to control themselves, intending to return to the approaching object.... or you could say, adhere to it?"
Lin Bingyun relayed the words of the Fungal Parasitic Beast directly to Wang Qiqi without missing a word.
The Fungal Parasitic Beast, made up of humans, parasites, and fungi, sensed the fungal portion becoming exceedingly agitated and lively the moment the Dragon-man corpse neared Blue Star, transmitting a thought to it.
Force it!
Return to its body, in the north, go to the north and snatch that corpse back.
The parasite didn't hesitate, immediately reporting the fungal desires within to Master Fuli, of betraying like a ball in a game.
Kidding!
The betrayal would be you, and the one getting beaten would be me! Do you think I'm stupid, bug?
Whoever wants to eat Master Fuli's heavy punch can have it.