Huayu 05, our science fiction movie universe

Clang!

On the rocky outcrop, Huang Ji and his men continued to attack the steel plate, the sound growing louder and louder until it was almost deafening.

They didn't know if the attack would be effective, but it seemed to be the only option at the moment.

Fortunately, this is a movie, and the plot has to move forward, so soon, their attack seemed to have exceeded the security system's limit, and then...

The metal gates opened automatically to both sides.

"Buzz!"

A colossal metal monster, eight meters tall, leaped out from within. It had a human face and a tiger's body, and its entire body was silver with beautiful white-gold patterns covering it. It shimmered in the sunlight and remained as bright as new even after thousands of years. Huang Ji and the others were so frightened by it that they took a few steps back.

This is the Kaiming Beast, the guardian of the nine wells of Kunlun in the legend of the Classic of Mountains and Seas!

After the initial shock, Huang Ji curiously examined the metal monster in front of him.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Western Section on the Seas Within, states:

“The southern abyss of Kunlun is three hundred fathoms deep. The Kaiming beast has a body that resembles a tiger but has nine heads, all with human faces. It stands facing east on Kunlun.”

The real-life Enlightened Beast doesn't actually resemble a crouching tiger; it stands upright, but its body and limbs are proportionally similar to a tiger's, and it even has tiger-like tattoos.

As for the human-faced and nine-headed beasts, the Kaiming Beast had a solemn expression on its face, which resembled a bronze mask, and it kept staring wide-eyed at Huang Ji and the others.

On its shoulders, four objects on each side, resembling cameras or searchlights, emitted blinding light, casting beams of light that swept in all directions.

The beam of light not only swept across the summit of Gangyan Mountain, but also pierced through the clouds and shone down into the mountains below.

Occasionally, a light sweep across Huang Ji and the others would trigger their mechanical exoskeleton sensors to emit a loud "beep beep beep" sound.

Clearly, this beam of light was not as harmless as it appeared.

Hmm, the legendary Enlightened Beast glares angrily at the television, staring down on Kunlun and intimidating all the spirits. Seeing it today, it is indeed extraordinary, powerful and domineering enough...

Everyone knew that it was only threatening them for now, but if they stood their ground and didn't retreat, then what came next wouldn't necessarily be a beam of light.

Even in the face of the intimidation of the Enlightened Beast, Huang Ji and his companions remained determined to enter the ancient Kunlun Ruins to find the legendary Hundred Gods and perhaps save humanity.

So, a battle between humans and "gods" ensued.

Lasers, explosions, and the clanging of metal echoed across the top of the rocky outcrop, making the battle extremely fierce.

The Enlightened Beast was quite powerful. Although it was just a security robot guarding the gates of Kunlun Void, it was still equipped with weapons that far surpassed current human technology.

For example, the lasers that could melt gold and forge iron, the anti-gravity engine that allowed them to fly and change shape flexibly, and the repulsive shields—all of these caused Huang Ji and his group a lot of trouble.

Fortunately, they are not bad either. Although the team is mostly composed of researchers like Huang Ji, there are also combat-capable units like Liu Peiqiang.

In particular, Liu Peiqiang was also wearing China's most advanced individual mech. In an instant, the two mechs, one with a human head and the other with a tiger body, collided and separated. Countless red lasers and brass-colored bullets flew back and forth, and the clanging and explosions were deafening.

The entire mountaintop became their battlefield, with howling winds and snow, flying sand and stones, dazzling light, and figures dancing wildly in a chaotic dance.

Liu Peiqiang's armor even had a jet aircraft attached, so both sides could fly. This kind of battle was a three-dimensional combat, and it was not uncommon for them to fight head-down.

The people around were stunned. They never expected Liu Peiqiang to be so powerful, on par with alien high-tech robots.

Finally, after delivering a spectacular battle scene with amazing special effects, perhaps due to the long standby time, the light in the eyes of the Enlightened Beast dimmed for a moment. Liu Peiqiang reacted quickly, seizing the fleeting opportunity and activating the jetpack on his back to its maximum power.

Although the Enlightened Beast quickly recovered, Liu Peiqiang had already closed in on it and used a clever trick to seize the javelin from its hand, then stabbed it back at it.

This attack pierced through the armor of the Enlightened Beast, embedding the javelin deep into its abdomen as easily as inserting it into tofu.

When Liu Peiqiang released the javelin and took a few steps back, the Enlightened Beast was already unable to move. Its eyes, which had been flashing with electricity, were now lifeless and dull, not to mention the eight searchlights on its shoulders, which could no longer emit any light.

"go!"

Having dealt with the security guard, the Enlightened Beast, the group didn't linger and went straight into the open doorway.

Behind the portal was a vertical metal passageway. There were no mechanisms or weapons inside; after all, judging from the map we had just deduced, this place was just an elevator pipe.

As the group descended the pipe to the bottom, a breathtaking view suddenly opened up before them.

Beneath their feet was a large alloy disc, which was probably connected to the previous support frame. The place where Huang Ji and the others were standing was probably the place where the aliens came down from Kunlun Hill in the elevator.

Before me was a square hall with a dark passageway on each side, the destination of which was unknown.

Huang Ji and his team turned on the lights on their exoskeletons, and the light instantly illuminated the entire room.

At this moment, Qin Yanni exclaimed "Wow!"

"What a beautiful mural."

Everyone looked in front of them and saw that the wall in front of them was uneven and had delicate, smooth pixelated images. The key was that the images would keep changing when light shone on it from different angles.

They moved a little closer and realized that what looked like a picture made up of countless tiny LED lights was actually pieced together by grit glued to the wall.

The grains of sand shimmered constantly, sometimes red, sometimes blue, sometimes black, sometimes white...

The alternating rises and falls, the changing colors, make the entire mural flow like an animation.

"Is this an alien display screen?"

The crowd curiously examined the mural in front of them, and as they approached, as if sensing their gaze, the shimmering frequency of the sand grains became regular, first rotating like a nebula, and then gradually enlarging.

The image then became clearer, revealing a planet within the nebula. "Wow!"

This time, the voices came from the moviegoers in the theater.

Because the scene in the mural didn't look like a planet, but rather a horned half-dragon as big as a planet.

It has a human body and a snake tail, maintaining a posture with its tail upright. It is surrounded by clouds and mist, radiating light, and is majestic. It floats in the dark space, with the stars and planets of the entire galaxy around it revolving around it.

It is neither a living organism nor a metal mechanical creation, but a colossal cosmic wonder sculpted from an entire ecological rocky planet, consisting purely of rocks, soil, and other materials.

Even the ecological environment on this statue has not been damaged; you can still vaguely see lakes, glaciers, and green forests and grasslands on its surface.

Everyone was captivated by the painting made of colorful sand, feeling it was simply a masterpiece. Huang Ji even exclaimed:
"This should be one of the important cities where our Chinese ancestors, the dragon race, lived."

No wonder the ancient text "Classic of Mountains and Seas" used those phrases to describe those divine beings.

Surrounded by the sun, moon, and stars, enveloped in atmospheric clouds, draped in the ocean, cradling the continent, with the North Star above and the South Pole beneath.

We used to think those descriptions were exaggerated, but now they seem to be true.

The crowd was awestruck by the mural, but just then, a faint sound suddenly reached their ears from the dark passage to the right.

There are people here! Or maybe aliens!

Huang Ji and the others were initially shocked, thinking that there were still living aliens in the base, after all, Hou Mingyu had managed to survive until now (from "My Love from the Star").

But they quickly realized that it was impossible; if there were aliens in the base, the battle with the Kaiming Beasts wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

They were the previous group of climbers that the guides were talking about!
Liu Peiqiang and Huang Ji exchanged a glance. They had already guessed that the other party was very likely a remnant of the ETO organization.

After all, the Trisolaran civilization has sophons monitoring the entire globe, so it's impossible that they didn't discover Huang Ji and his group's actions.

But since the other party entered Kunlun Ruins at the same time as them, it means that this place must have the function of shielding Zhi Zi. Otherwise, with Zhi Zi's abilities, it would have been impossible for him not to have discovered this place for so many years.

In fact, it is quite possible, because based on Huang Ji's speculation alone, we know that the ancient dragon race was already capable of interstellar travel and colonization, which is enough to show that their technological level was higher than that of the Trisolaran civilization.

So the Dragon Clan must have studied things like the Sophon and had specific countermeasures.

Liu Peiqiang and his team became more alert, turned off their lights, switched their helmet goggles to night vision mode, and aimed their weapons at the other end of the passage.

However, the sound only rang out once, and then the passage was deathly silent again, as if what they had just heard was just an illusion.

"That couldn't possibly be a hallucination," Liu Pei emphasized, pointing to the mecha's internal storage system. "The voice from just now was still clear and easily distinguishable."

He waved his hand behind him, and the group slowly retreated, moving cautiously and silently.

The group left the main hall and carefully made their way along the left-hand passage for a distance, eventually arriving at a new main hall.

This hall is exactly the same as the one before, except that the murals on the walls are different. It depicts a huge metal building falling to the ground and deeply embedded in the earth's crust, with a red river flowing out from beneath the metal building, and several dragons receiving worship from humans on the ground.

"This mural... seems to depict the ancient times when Kunlun Hill carried the dragon race to Earth!"

Huang Ji's eyes shone brightly as he stared intently at the mural.

"Go to the next one!"

"Those people?"

"We are worried about attacks from those people, but those people are not afraid of us either. In the current situation, we are both on guard against each other, which actually helps us maintain a balance."

The conflict will only begin after we have searched the entire Kunlun Ruins and found nothing.

Huang Ji's analysis was quite accurate; at least in the subsequent operations, they did not encounter the expected enemy.

The underground of Kunlun Ruins seems to correspond to the rock formations on the surface, with eight halls below, arranged according to the eight trigrams.

As Huang Ji and his companions walked along, the rooms and halls were all identical, except for the murals on the walls, which Huang Ji found fascinating because the content of the eight murals clearly had a certain continuity.

Leaving aside the first and second murals they had just seen, in the third mural, the dragon race was teaching humans on the land, while a huge spaceport was being built in the sky, with many spaceships coming and going. A thin line connected the spaceport to the dragon race's "Kunlun Hill" on the ground, which should be the "Buzhou Carrying the Child" space elevator described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. However, at the edge of the mural, a large tree grew out of the sea, and on the tree crown, nine three-legged giant birds radiating golden light were perched.

This is after the Dragon Clan descended upon Earth, the Phoenix Clan followed suit and arrived on this habitable planet.

In the fourth picture, the increasingly powerful Phoenix Clan clashed fiercely with the Dragon Clan.

As can be seen in the mural, the dragon and phoenix clans are engaged in a fierce battle, which is so intense that the sky and earth are collapsing, volcanoes are erupting, and floods are raging.

Then, a male and a female dragon race rescued humans on the ground. The male dragon race controlled a giant tortoise-shaped monster as big as a mountain to carry the humans, while the female dragon race held up a huge multicolored light shield to block various meteor attacks falling from the sky.

During this process, both the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan must have suffered heavy losses. Therefore, in the fifth painting, they each established their own agents on Earth, using the outcome of the human race's battle to determine the division of their respective interests on Earth.

Huang could tell that in the fifth painting, one side of the humans was physically strong and different from ordinary people, obviously genetically modified, while the other side had various strange tools and weapons.

This should be the famous Battle of Zhuolu between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou in ancient Chinese legend.

The outcome of the battle was quite clear: the Yellow Emperor, representing the Phoenix Clan, defeated Chi You, representing the Dragon Clan. However, the Yellow Emperor was clearly unwilling to be controlled by the Phoenix Clan.

Therefore, in the sixth mural, the Yellow Emperor, who had already occupied the Central Plains, sent envoys to pay tribute to the Dragon Clan in order to maintain the balance between the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan, so as to strive for more living space for mankind in the middle.

It was in this picture that Huang Jiyou noticed a small figure slowly rising into the air on the "Buzhou Fuzi" space elevator that connects Kunlun Hill to the spaceport in the sky.

However, humans at that time were merely a primitive race on Earth, so this fragile balance did not last long.

In the seventh illustration, the great war between the Dragon and Phoenix clans has begun again. This war is likely to be even more devastating, as not only has the land been flooded once more, but even the "Buzhou Carrying the Child" space elevator on Kunlun Hill has been broken and collapsed due to the Phoenix clan's Golden Crow warship soaring in the sky. (End of Chapter)