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Chapter 1126 We Have Lu Li's Remains
The company quickly held a meeting regarding this discovery, and ultimately, the higher-ups concluded that conducting such an experiment on two sacred souls simultaneously was too risky.

After all, the Holy Soul was their only hope of contacting the truth, so they felt they should be cautious. Therefore, they selected one of the Holy Souls to conduct the fused wire experiment, which was Lu Li's black egg.

"Technology and grueling work... don't get yourself killed."

Looking at the new large-scale instruments that the scientists had brought, Lu Xueqing had a feeling that before these people could even move the silk threads, they would first kill Lu Li.

"How will we know if we don't try? We have no other way out right now."

Lu Li was quite at ease. If he wasn't worried that his display of a high degree of self-awareness and intelligence would arouse the company's people's apprehension and suspicion, he would even have wanted to go down and discuss the fuse solution with the scientists.

He really wanted to say, "Can we skip the usual methods and go straight to the most ruthless stuff?"

After all, the injuries they sustained were inflicted by beings even stronger than those at the peak of the ninth rank. He had witnessed the destructive power of the company's technology over the years, but he believed that under certain circumstances, the company's weapons could at most reach the realm of the peak of the eighth rank. In terms of point-based destructive power, they could injure explorers at the peak of the eighth rank.

But it's impossible to go any further, which is why Lu Xueqing felt the company wasn't helping them and suggested they run away together.

Soon, scientists began to use various methods on Lu Li, but unfortunately, Lu Li's origin was a ninth-order origin, and ordinary substances would be corroded, brittled, and decomposed instantly upon entering his body.

Ultimately, scientists could only use materials obtained from the sinkhole, embedding them into a super-large space particle collider, and then precisely strike from both sides during resonance to destroy the filaments within the terrestrial body.

As a result, the threads inside Lu Li's body did not break, but Lu Li himself was shaken and felt extremely uncomfortable. If it weren't for the fact that his condition had improved so much over the years, this would have seriously injured him.

To prevent these fools from continuing their useless experiments, Lu Li changed shape while shaking, making it look like it was about to collapse, which frightened the managers so much that they quickly called a halt.

After several more years of such experiments, the company's scientists were at their wits' end, and Lu Li was also somewhat disappointed, thinking to himself that this was no good either.

Later, the scientists met again to discuss other solutions, wondering if using technological means was simply ineffective.

It is said that the end of science is theology, and these old madmen are no exception. However, they discuss it from an academic perspective, mainly in order to find a way out.

Finally, they suggested to Talma that all the old records related to the Holy Soul be collected for them to review again, including details of those who may have had contact with the Holy Soul.

After traversing the information, Talma logically analyzed the various legends and provided some data for the scientists to refer to. However, the results were disappointing because the once glorious and brilliant cultivation and magic civilizations were too ancient, making it difficult to accurately deduce their existence and providing them with any solutions.

Just when everyone was stuck at a bottleneck, Talma retrieved a video from the database based on the relevance of the events, and this video attracted the attention of the scientists.

"Lu Li, right?"

The scene shows a woman interrogating a prisoner. Judging from her attire, she appears to be a woman from a bygone era. The prisoner sitting opposite her is tightly bound in straitjackets. Although he looks somewhat unkempt due to long-term neglect of his appearance, it is still clear that he is a young man.

The scientists were initially wondering what the video had to do with the Holy Soul they were discussing, and thought that Talma was wasting their time. However, when they fast-forwarded and saw the young man in the execution ground shatter the mechanical arm with his own physical strength and kill a leader of an old-era company amidst a hail of bullets, they became excited.

The reason was simple: they knew that in an era when gene modification technology was not yet mature, it was impossible for someone to have such innate superhuman strength; that man was definitely abnormal.

Upon further investigation based on relevant information, they discovered that the information about the Holy Soul, which they had previously overlooked and considered to be an inaccurate speculation by Talma, might actually be true.

According to the records, a group of martial arts masters from the old era went to kill a martial artist named Lu Feng because they believed that Lu Feng had obtained a sacred soul from the sinkhole.

The company had investigated the matter before, but because it was too far in the past, they were unable to accurately locate the site. In addition, the matter itself was illogical, so they concluded that it was a false message deduced from inaccurate information received by Talma during the process of collecting information from the public.

Why is this illogical? Because according to Talma's previous deduction, combined with ancient documents and various myths and legends, the founders of each era were all owners of sacred souls. As long as one could obtain a sacred soul and fuse with it, one would inevitably gain endless power. How could they possibly be killed by a few ordinary martial artists wearing trash exoskeletons?
If the Holy Soul is only at this level, then scientists would think their research is too foolish, so this is impossible.

But this time, after ruling out all possibilities, and looking back at the matter, especially after Talma found this new information, they felt that things were different.

Based on extensive investigation, verification, and speculation, Talma guarantees that there is a 98% probability that this video is related to the Holy Soul, and that the man in the video can be linked to Lu Feng, indirectly confirming that the news that Lu Feng obtained the Holy Soul from the sinkhole is true.

Because Talma projected the video onto a large screen, Lu Li and the other person inside the isolation pod could see it clearly. When Lu Li on the research table saw the video and the several portraits that appeared in the subsequent data association, he also became excited.

Over the long period of time, he had almost forgotten what his master and senior sister looked like. He never expected to see their old photos on the screen, and even the scene of his own counterattack on the execution ground was captured on camera.

"It really is you!?"

Lu Xueqing was also somewhat surprised, "Speaking of which, did your master really use the Holy Soul on you?"

"I have no idea……"

Lu Li had mixed feelings. "Perhaps. There is indeed something unusual in my body. This dark primordial power is also transformed from that thing."

"Then why didn't you become a powerful and influential pioneer of your era?"

Lu Xueqing asked curiously.

"How should I know? What a load of bull! The Holy Soul was completely useless to me when I was a kid..."

Lu Li paused again, because it seemed that it couldn't be said that way. In the fragments of memory from the battle with the Soul Singer, the dark demon god seemed to have also released some power, which gave him explosive power, allowing him to kill a martial artist wearing an exoskeleton while still a child.

However, he felt that Talma's analysis did have some problems. If the Holy Soul referred to the demon god within his own body, then he didn't think anyone who obtained it could instantly become a great master. From another perspective, he simply couldn't imagine what kind of era the demon god within his body would become, or what kind of flourishing cultivation civilization, magical civilization, or fantasy civilization it would create.
Although Lu Li had only a brief acquaintance with the Demon God, he knew that the other party was definitely not a benevolent person. If he were free, he would surely become a great demon who wreaks havoc on the world. How could he possibly create a prosperous civilization?
At this point, the scientists became increasingly excited as they discussed the issue, believing they had found a breakthrough.

"We must find this Lu Li. Where is he buried? Are there any genetic samples left? Even fossils will do!"

"Britney, back then it seemed like regeneration was all the rage. Where can we still find genetic samples?"

"Impossible! Tianyu Company isn't stupid. How could they just throw such a good research sample into the incinerator? Liu, how much more is your company hiding from us?!"

"..."

The scientists started arguing, eventually pointing the finger at a man called Liu, who was an Asian man who didn't look old, but had a stubble-covered face and looked somewhat weathered.

In reality, this scientist surnamed Liu was the oldest among the scientists present. No one knew his true age, only that he was at least a million years old. Some people also said that Liu was one of the first beneficiaries of genetic engineering in the old era, and that he was a scientist at Tianyu Company before the pseudo-cosmic calendar.

When questioned by the crowd, Liu calmly walked to the side and took a sip of strong tea. "Don't get so agitated. Tianyu Company does know more than you do, but haven't they already shared the information?"

The other scientists frowned, recalling many things. This sinkhole operation was spearheaded by Tianyu Company. It was said that at the initial high-level meeting, Tianyu Company cited a recent 'example,' namely the Lufeng incident, as evidence to confirm that the Holy Soul truly existed before they began searching for the sinkhole.

However, scientists are not managers. They value facts and will not draw conclusions based on the possibility of a hypothesis. Therefore, the managers of the top ten companies thought this was worth doing, purely out of self-interest and gambling. When it came to the research stage, the scientists did not think that the Lufeng case was reliable empirical evidence.

But all of that was based on the absence of further evidence. Now that video has already explained a lot of things. Someone gained extraordinary power in the old era, and this person is Lu Feng's apprentice!
That changed the nature of the matter. What angered them was that they didn't believe the video had just been found by the public and entered into the Talma database. They believed it was information that Tianyu Company had already obtained and only released when they saw that Tianyu was stuck in a bottleneck.

Who knows what Tianyu Company is up to? Maybe they just want to profit from this, but they're not hiding it anymore because the research isn't progressing.

"How much else do you know?"

One scientist asked the question.

"Tsk... I didn't want to say so much, but the project team's funding isn't unlimited. If we can't produce results within a hundred years, the company will have to reorganize the team and find a way to reopen the sinkhole. The expenses there will be deducted from our research funds."

Liu scratched his head, which hadn't been washed in a month, and said, "Then I'll say a few words. I figure that since it's something I know, the higher-ups won't do anything to me if I tell them."

Upon hearing this, the others stopped complaining and focused their attention on Liu.

Liu took a sip of strong tea, his expression turned serious, and he said in a low voice, "We have Lu Li's remains."

"What!?"

This one sentence alone caused an uproar among the scientists present.

Not only were they stunned, but even Lu Li himself was dumbfounded. The company actually kept his body!?
He thought that when he entered the space, it was the space that pulled him in and healed his injuries. But was he already dead at that time?!

If I have truly gone to that space, what does my remains mean to the company?

"Calm down. Perhaps it's just a spatial illusion. When you're trying to acquire a target, you have to adjust the normal laws of the world."

Lu Xueqing noticed Lu Li's excitement and whispered something to him.

However, she also felt very strange, because she knew that when a space pulls people in, it simply does so, and often it doesn't provide any special explanations or corrections.

The vast majority of explorers who are pulled into the space are pulled in before they die, such as when they die in a big explosion. It is not difficult to explain why the remains of someone who died in a big explosion cannot be found. Even if the other world finds it strange, it will not cause too much of a stir. At most, it will become an urban legend.

For example, if someone is shot and disappears from the world, and the official explanation to the public is that the person simply vanished from the morgue, the public won't believe it. So, such things don't cause much of a stir.

Furthermore, if Lu Li were to pull Aizen from the Bleach world, it's impossible for the space to create another Aizen in the Bleach world after Lu Li pulls Aizen away; that would not conform to the Explorer's only fundamental law.

So Lu Xueqing had already sensed something strange about the matter, but she didn't want to see Lu Li so agitated, so she wanted him to calm down first.

"What a scheme you've orchestrated, Tianyu Company! It's all part of your plan!"

At this moment, a scientist slammed his fist on the table and exclaimed, "Tell me, did you all know all along that the sinkholes were real?!"

The scientists from the top ten companies were indignant because the other party claimed to still possess Lu Li's remains. Didn't that mean they had known about the existence of a superhuman for a long time? Yet, in the past 1.23 million years, Tianyu Company had never made such a public statement.

Just as everyone was making a ruckus and getting agitated, the hatch outside the research institute opened, and a well-dressed man walked in. He clapped his hands, silencing everyone.

"boss."

Upon seeing the man, Liu abandoned his usual slovenly demeanor and greeted him respectfully.

"Liu, don't be nervous. I came here because I knew there were bottlenecks here. There's nothing wrong with sharing what I need to say with everyone. Anyway, we are all members of the Blue Alliance now. We share the same fate."

The man said with a smile, which, combined with his handsome face, made him very approachable.

(End of this chapter)