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The dragon's roar pierced through the heavy dark clouds, echoing across the Antarctica continent. In this snow-covered world, it was like a surge of molten lava, melting away all the coldness.

As if witnessing something, the penguins leaped and rolled joyfully on the ice, like black and white balls rolling around. The ice sheet, thousands of meters thick, seemed unable to withstand the penguin army's antics, and it cracked with a sound.

Tesla clearly saw the legendary creature—the dragon.

Not those dinosaurs that actually existed.

No other biological overlord in any era could compare to it.

Perched high above the clouds, overlooking the world, it seems to instantly transport this modern civilized world back to the age of mythology.

Or perhaps it has torn open a corner of the true face of this world, making arrogant and conceited humans re-examine the mysteries of nature.

The dragon, the true dragon, is the totem and the faith of all living beings, the will to live.

Tesla finally understood why so many marine creatures had gathered there: they were there to pay homage to the most ancient and powerful source of life.

It is not the five-clawed golden dragon on the emperor's robe, nor is it an image reworked by literati, though it is very close... It is coiled in the clouds, stretching its head covered with thick scales out from the parted clouds.

It opened its mouth and clamped Tesla between two huge, sharp teeth, as big as icebergs, before plunging into the thick ice.

The thousands of meters thick Antarctica ice sheet was like a thick layer of snow to it, soft and easy to see to the bottom.

It stopped drilling at the bottom of the ice sheet, where it was adjacent to the permafrost, and its body was buried under the thick ice sheet before it spat out Tesla.

Its giant claws reached out and slammed Tesla, who had resealed the Eternal Cabinet, into the hard frozen earth, again and again, as if trying to bury Tesla in the ground where he could never rise again.

Having done all this, it raised its head, arched the ice cap, and calmly looked down at the lifeless city beneath it.

It turns out that beneath the ice sheet thousands of meters deep in Antarctica, there really is a lost continent, the ancient civilization from which Tesla originated.

This is a city, a city devoid of any vitality, its architecture and layout largely the same as modern cities.

The lost continent should remain forever lost, just as many life forms in countless mass extinctions have never left a trace of their existence... Whether it is a lost civilization or a simple primitive creature that once roamed the seas, it makes no difference.

It emerged from the bottom of the ice cap, stirring up the surrounding ice and burying Tesla's Eternal Cabinet nearly five thousand meters below the surface.

The dragon twisted its body again, spun around, and flew into the sky, disappearing into the clouds.

Avrora sat not far away, still in the same position where she had plopped down, but her eyes were vacant and her expression blank. As a bear who had seen a lot and considered herself an ancient creature, she was so shocked that her mind went blank.

Dragon?

Does such a thing really exist? No wonder he was able to make Little White transform into human form.

He stayed in that region because the people there worshipped him and regarded him as a totem.

Avrora's body swayed, as if frozen solid, and she fell stiffly onto the ice. The bear felt the cold out of fear.

Not long after, Avrora got up again, because she saw Liu Chang'an jump down from the clouds and land in front of her.

His feet made the ground tremble... or perhaps it was just her imagination, but Avrora couldn't help but hug his bare calves and kiss the back of his feet.

Liu Chang'an let out a long breath. Ever since he discovered that Tesla's Eternal Cabinet was Shangguan Dandan's coffin, Liu Chang'an knew that a human body simply could not fight against it.

He had spent a long time with that coffin and had long sensed its extraordinary nature, recognizing it as embodying the power of a civilization, and was by no means ordinary.

Looking at Avrora at his feet, Liu Chang'an felt somewhat speechless. How could the former Rasputin have become so muddled and confused? It even reminded Liu Chang'an of Zhu Juntang.

I wonder where Mrs. Karnstein has run off to with Su Nanxiu and the Little White. I suppose they've sensed that things here are resolved and they'll be back soon.

Liu Chang'an turned his head and saw the penguin army retreating, but a few penguins waddled over on their short legs.

Do you want to top up your QQ coins?

Liu Chang'an was stunned for a moment, looking at the penguin that was asking him to recharge QQ coins. Did it know what kind of existence he was?

"How about I get a membership?"

"How about considering a premium membership?"

"Annual memberships are more cost-effective."

"I won't top up," Liu Chang'an refused without hesitation.

"What about yellow diamonds? Green diamonds? Black diamonds? Purple diamonds? Why not get a diamond membership in every color?"

"How can there be humans who don't buy QQ coins?" a giant emperor penguin said, bewildered.

"Human nature is all about buying QQ coins," said the Adrian penguin next to him.

"How can you call yourself a person if you don't buy QQ coins?" said the chinstrap penguin.

"If no one buys QQ coins, we're all going to go extinct," said the Humboldt penguin, which was already on the verge of extinction.

Liu Chang'an didn't want to buy QQ coins, so he grabbed the penguins and threw them off the ice, watching them slide far away before scrambling and rolling away.

Not long after, Mrs. Karnstein, Su Nanxiu, and the Little White returned to the vicinity of the cliff. Their expressions as they looked at Liu Chang'an were very complicated. There was no doubt that they had seen the scene from afar.

They were all very special individuals, but without a doubt, their specialness was utterly insignificant in comparison to him.

They once thought they knew him well enough, that he was special and powerful, but they never imagined he was far more special and powerful than they had thought.

"What do we do now?" After a long silence, Su Nanxiu looked at Liu Chang'an and asked. In fact, she and he were the closest people here. It was precisely because of this closest past, compared to her complete ignorance of him, that Su Nanxiu felt somewhat dazed and unable to accept reality.

She felt somewhat lost, frustrated by numerous failures, and deeply powerless.

Everything she did seemed wrong... The research she had once devoted herself to so passionately seemed especially ridiculous.

Is she trying to conceive offspring with this mysterious creature?

"I want to go take a look there." Liu Chang'an pointed to the glass house in the far distance, then patted his arm. "At least I should find some clothes to put on first."

Su Nanxiu forced a smile.

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