The Secret of the Crystal Corpse

"This..."

Meng Chao felt a chill slowly creep up from his tailbone. He steadied himself and continued asking, "Then, approximately when did this crystal-clear ancient intelligent life die?"

"We tried many methods, but without damaging the corpse, we had no way to determine its time of death. We could only make rough estimates based on the objects around it—blades, armor, Rune Machinery, and some traces of burning and carbonization."

Wu Haibo said, "We estimate that the items carried by this crystal-clear corpse came from periods ranging from at least a hundred thousand years ago to tens of millions of years ago."

"A hundred thousand years to tens of millions of years ago?"

Meng Chao frowned. "Isn't that span far too broad?"

"That's right. The material foundation of the Otherworld is extremely unstable; even radioactive half-lives are affected. Therefore, dating here is far more vague than it is on Earth."

Wu Haibo continued, "That said, the age span of the Crystal Corpse's belongings is indeed far greater than anything we have excavated from the Ancient Ruins. It was as though it had gathered materials from tens of millions of years into its surroundings.

"In any case, the latest possible time of the Crystal Corpse's death was a hundred thousand years ago. Back then, the coastlines, mountains, and rivers of Eurasia on Earth were completely different from those of the mid-to-late twenty-first century. While it was still alive, how could the Crystal Corpse possibly have foreseen what Earth would look like a hundred thousand years later, much less known that Earthlings would transmigrate to the Otherworld and dig it up?"

Meng Chao sank into deep thought.

There were no fanged, clawed, grotesque monsters in Wu Haibo's account.

Yet he still felt that the secret hidden behind the Crystal Corpse was a hundred