NOVEL NEXT Chapter 385: Climbing the Mountain
"I didn't expect this place to have those corrupted spirit beasts. This can only mean that zombies have existed since ancient times.
It is not something that cropped up in the modern world. However, this also confirms our earlier speculation about the genesis of the apocalypse." Chu Miao said as she followed Ye Xuan to the mountain.
"What do you mean, Bunny?" Chu Hao didn't know what his sister was referring to so he decided to ask directly.
"Professor Song had accidentally found a way to open a space portal and mentioned it off-handedly during a science conference.
Some other scientists heard him and took his idea to research a way to get back to the past.
Of course the research didn't succeed complete. But three months before the apocalypse, scientists in Country M managed to open a space portal for a second or so.
We believed that it was through that portal that some things from the ancient era escaped into our modern world and caused the zombie virus.
It was only a speculation before, but now seeing these creatures, doesn't that mean that we were right?
That portal had somehow caused a catastrophe that is about to annihilate humanity." Chu Miao explained to her brother and of course, to everyone else there.
When they heard what Chu Miao said, the others were shocked.
"You are saying that what is happening on earth now was a result of a few people being selfish and wanting to go back to the past?" Qi Long was usually quiet but even he was alarmed.
"Yes, it is a result of some scientists who wanted to have their names left in history as the people who created a space portal and went to the past.
Unfortunately, they brought the entirety of humanity disaster instead." Chu Miao was also indignant, but she could do nothing.
Since the destruction of the world was prophesied so many years ago, then it meant that even without that space portal, something else would have happened to cause the apocalypse.
"That is so…I honestly don't know what to say. But now that it has happened, we can only fight it." Fu Nie who had also managed to advance to the foundation establishment before the ancient battlefield opened lamented.
"That's the only thing we can do. However, I have a concerning question. From what black tortoise said, these corrupted spirit beasts don't seem to have been a problem in the ancient times.
Even though we had a somewhat tough battle with them, it wasn't a life and death situation.
So, obviously, these beasts didn't threaten humanity in the past, why is it that in the modern world zombies are almost sending humanity into extinction?" Jing Xian asked with curiosity.
The others also had the same question in their minds. Yeah, why didn't these spirit beasts, which are obviously stronger than zombies not threaten the existence of humans?
"If these spirit beasts encountered a group of ordinary humans or normal superpowers users, what do you think would have happened?" Ye Xuan who had been listening to them discuss suddenly asked.
When the others heard his question they went quiet. Yes, they didn't find the battle too straining because they were cultivators with relatively high cultivation and strength.
However, if it was just using their superpowers, then things might have been different.
Thinking of this, they understood why these beasts didn't threaten the immortals and gods from the past. After all, a god could crash even the strongest beast with a finger.
In that case, the only way to eliminate the problem if zombies is by becoming strong. If we are too much stronger than the zombies, then even if they continue to exist, they won't be a threat." Pei Ming said with the tone of sudden realization.
"Exactly. If we are strong enough, then zombies will be like ants we could crash. That's why cultivating is the best way for humans to take back control of our world and eradicate zombies.
It's also why our sect will focus nurturing cultivators, especially children and young adults.
This will ensure that the next generation will emerge stronger than the zombies and protect humanity. In this way, humanity will also recover and if all the zombies cannot be eliminated, then at least, they will be like these corrupted spirit beasts.
Things that don't threaten us at all." Chu Miao was starting to understand why she had been brought from the past to the future to lead the fight against zombies in the apocalypse.
As they talked, the group had walked close to the foot of the mountain. At first, it appeared close but as they walked, they found that they weren't reaching and it was only after walking for almost two hours that they arrived at the bottom of the mountain.
Looking at the huge mountain range in front of them, they felt awed.
The spiritual energy here was over the charts, and to think that they were still outside the mountain. It could be imagined how dense it would be at the top.
However, they weren't sure whether they could climb to the top. But they wanted to see what treasures black tortoise talked about.
"Let's walk a bit around the mountain and see if there is a place that is more suitable for climbing or getting into the mountain." Chu Miao had heard of some spirit stone veins found in mountains before, she knew that it wasn't easy to locate them, thus, she made this suggestion.
"Alright, we will do as you say." Ye Xuan had long figured that Chu Miao might not be from their world, but that didn't change his feelings for her.
From how familiar she was with cultivation and things that involved ancient knowledge, he figured that she must have come from the past, but he didn't think of prying.
He was in love with the current her and had no issue with wherever she came from.
Therefore, he decided to just follow her lead.