Chapter 655 - 654: Bodies Piled Like Mountains! What is the Alien Race Trying to Do?
Chapter 655: Chapter 654: Bodies Piled Like Mountains! What is the Alien Race Trying to Do?
The death rate among the Nipogen Race was extremely high.
Vast numbers of Nipogen died nearly every day.
Chu Sheng waited outside the mysterious factory in Drake City.
Before long, two Nipogen hurried over, carrying a corpse covered by a white sheet.
With a thought, Chu Sheng immediately reverted to his Primitive Form.
He transformed into an ordinary White-striped Aedes Mosquito and concealed his entire aura.
Then, he silently flew over and hid in the dead Nipogen’s hair.
’Shit! This guy hasn’t washed his hair in years!’
An incredibly pungent and sour smell shot straight up Chu Sheng’s nostrils.
It nearly knocked him out on the spot.
Chu Sheng fought back his nausea, clinging tightly to the greasy hair, not daring to move an inch.
Fortunately, he didn’t have to wait long.
The factory’s heavy metal gate slowly opened.
Two Nipogen in white uniforms walked out.
They didn’t say a word, simply taking the body, placing it on a small cart, and turning to enter the factory.
Inside was a long corridor lined with cold, metal walls.
The corridor was dimly lit and silent, the only sound being the rolling of the cart’s wheels.
After about a five-minute walk, they reached the end of the corridor.
There, an ordinary-looking elevator was all that stood.
The workers pressed the elevator button.
The elevator doors slowly opened.
They pushed the corpse inside and followed.
Then, they pressed the button for floor -1.
’Why does this feel like heading into a morgue?’
Chu Sheng grumbled inwardly.
But on second thought, it seemed perfectly logical.
’Nothing wrong with that. A corpse is supposed to go to the morgue, after all.’
But soon, Chu Sheng realized something was wrong.
The elevator had been traveling from the first floor to the negative first floor for nearly five minutes, and it showed no signs of stopping.
Even the eighteen levels of hell couldn’t be this deep!
Chu Sheng quickly focused his Divine Thought to carefully sense the surrounding Space.
What he sensed stunned him.
This seemingly ordinary elevator was actually a stable spatial channel inside!
Although they had only been in the elevator for five minutes...
...in reality, they were now thousands of miles away from the factory they had just entered!
’They’re even using a spatial channel just to transport a corpse?’
’Are they really that extravagant?’
Chu Sheng’s suspicions deepened.
Another five minutes passed.
The elevator finally came to a stop.
The doors slowly opened.
Outside was another identical metal corridor.
The workers pushed the corpse out of the elevator.
They walked along the corridor for another ten-plus minutes.
Finally, the path ended.
In its place was an immense, bottomless circular pit.
Chu Sheng peeked his head out and looked around.
He discovered that the overall structure here resembled the inside of a giant beehive.
The massive pit was in the center.
The surrounding walls were riddled with countless chiseled-out tunnels.
From time to time, corpses were pushed out from the various tunnels.
They were then thrown into the pit, plummeting into the unfathomable abyss.
Just then, the two Nipogen pushing the corpse Chu Sheng was on gave it a hard shove.
They tossed the body into the pit.
Chu Sheng quickly flapped his wings and flew off.
He did not fall with the corpse.
He hovered above the pit and looked down.
Instantly, an indescribable stench—a mix of rot and blood—assaulted his senses.
It was overwhelming!!!
Chu Sheng almost threw up on the spot.
’Dammit, fortune is sought amidst danger!’
Chu Sheng gritted his teeth and immediately blocked his sense of smell.
He then cast [Formless Myriad Phenomena] on himself, completely concealing his presence.
Only then did he flap his wings and begin to slowly fly downward.
After flying down for over ten minutes, the situation at the bottom of the pit finally came into view.
Countless Nipogen corpses were piled up like mountains.
Layer upon layer, there were at least a million of them!
Most of the corpses were still perfectly intact, looking as if they had been there for no more than three days.
Only a small portion showed slight signs of decay.
Judging by the degree of decomposition, even the oldest of these bodies couldn’t have been here for more than seven days.
’What is the Alien Race collecting so many corpses for?’
Chu Sheng was deeply confused.
He had crossed paths with the Alien Race on the Blue Star battlefield many times and knew them well.
The Alien Race had never been in the habit of collecting their dead on the battlefield.
When they died, they died. Their bodies were left right on the battlefield to rot.
But now, on their own planet, they were going to great lengths to set up a spatial channel.
They were deliberately collecting the bodies and transporting them to this secret location.
They wouldn’t go to all this trouble just for environmental reasons, like a centralized cremation, would they?
That was absolutely impossible.
Chu Sheng didn’t act immediately to retrieve the bodies.
If he retrieved these bodies now, he would definitely alert the Nipogen.
Then, he would never be able to find out what the Nipogen were planning to do with all these corpses piled here.
With a thought, he summoned an Outer Body Avatar.
He had the Outer Body Avatar stay on the wall at the bottom of the pit, also hidden with [Formless Myriad Phenomena], ready to act at any moment.
He himself immediately changed direction and flew upward.
He wanted to see if there were any clues above.
Once he figured out the Nipogen Race’s true purpose for collecting the corpses...
...he would immediately have his Outer Body Avatar retrieve every single body here.
And score a huge wave of Life Essence!
Chu Sheng flew continuously upward.
In a short while, he reached the dome at the top of the pit.
The dome was made of a special metal similar to an aluminum alloy. It looked extremely sturdy, with nothing out of the ordinary.
However, at the edge of the dome, Chu Sheng discovered some small, regular cracks.
’If this isn’t the result of shoddy construction...’
’...then these cracks must be traces left from it being opened so frequently that it can no longer close completely.’
Chu Sheng made an immediate judgment.
Next, he activated [Chaos True Sight].
The structure of the entire underground facility instantly appeared clearly in his mind.
Just as he had seen before.
The entire building was a massive beehive structure.
Countless tunnels extended from all directions.
And the endpoint for all these tunnels was the giant pit in the center.
’Such a massive scale.’
’I’m afraid all the cities in the southern part of the Nipogen planet have spatial elevators leading here.’
Chu Sheng was secretly alarmed.
What was the Alien Race planning by doing things so secretly?
Just then, Chu Sheng noticed an area to the east that looked like an office complex.
Inside, over a hundred well-dressed Nipogen were sitting at their respective desks, busily working.
And at the very back of the office area was the largest, most luxurious office.
The one sitting inside, a Nipogen who looked like a chairman...
...was actually an Emperor-level powerhouse!
The Emperor-level Nipogen’s head had no facial features.
It only had a single, enormous compound eye that took up its entire head.
’Are the Alien Race’s Emperor-levels as common as cabbages?’
Chu Sheng couldn’t help but roast them in his mind.
He had only been on the Nipogen planet for a few days and had already seen two Emperor-level aliens.
He recalled what Immortal Venerable Shi Xi had once said.
The supreme ruler of the Nipogen Race was a true Immortal Realm powerhouse.
Considering that, having a ridiculous number of Emperor-levels seemed pretty reasonable, then.