A few minutes earlier, at the Bridge Family's temporary headquarters in Africa.
"Any results?" John Bridge asked his subordinate.
"Chief, we can no longer detect that signal pulse from earlier. We can only confirm that it came from somewhere in the Sahara Desert."
The instant Bai Yang had plunged the Mount Hua Sword into the escape pod, their ancient civilization equipment had suddenly detected an invisible signal pulse.
John Bridge scratched at his scalp. He could not let this newly discovered lead simply go cold.
After thinking for several seconds, he gave the order. "Capture the seismic waves in that area!
The desert terrain will make seismic waves travel more distinctly and produce stronger tremors! We'll definitely be able to locate the anomaly!"
"But there hasn't been an earthquake there."
"Then drop a small nuclear bomb near the target! Notify the combat division to assemble! We depart immediately!"
"This..."
"Carry out the order!"
"Yes!"
Bai Yang was not one to hesitate. Even if they were both human, he had no particular feelings about it.
A dragon snake emerged from his hand and instantly swallowed every last bit of Embers' ashes from the ground.
Then he closed his eyes and carefully sensed the information contained within those ashes.
Trying to perceive something that could not even be called corpse remains was truly quite strenuous.
It took Bai Yang quite some time before he reached a few simple conclusions.
To his senses, most of these ashes were utterly worthless.
There was no useful information to extract at all. The only useful discovery was that this Embers seemed to be skilled in the profound mysteries of freezing within the water-origin laws.
If he absorbed another creature with genes related to that in the future, he would be able to obtain this ability