"Who had defaced the information in the Exploration Log?"
Meng Chao's thoughts raced, and he immediately reached a conclusion.
It had been Lei Zongchao, the "mummy," himself.
The reasoning was simple. If a third party had snatched or stolen the log in order to destroy its information, there would have been no need to scribble over it so frantically and elaborately.
They could have simply destroyed the entire log.
Only Lei Zongchao himself could have stuffed the log back into its waterproof pouch after frantically scribbling over it, then tightly bound it to the inside of his thigh.
Then why had he done that?
"Could he have been controlled by some mysterious force?"
That was entirely possible.
In the unfathomable depths of the ruins, after hearing the "Primordial Summoning," even committing suicide on the spot would not have been strange, much less merely destroying a log.
This conclusion made Meng Chao's spirits rise.
True, the defaced information was deeply regrettable.
But it also proved, in reverse, that Lei Zongchao, the "mummy," must have discovered some vitally important clue.
A clue that even the incomparably mysterious and powerful existence that had slumbered for hundreds of millions of years in the Depths of Ancient Ruins found troublesome.
That was why it had influenced Lei Zongchao's mind, making him destroy the log himself.
"There must be other clues. Otherwise, Senior Lei's death would not have been so 'peaceful.'"
At first, Meng Chao had thought Lei Zongchao, the "mummy," had starved to death.
But among Lei Zongchao's belongings, he found an unfinished Energy Pill.
These Energy Pills were made by repeatedly refining and compressing honey, sesame, butter, and other High-Energy Food. One pill was enough to sustain a professional soldier through at least three to six hours of high-intensity work.
For an ordinary person,