New Discovery

In the rental room, Lin Chao's phone screen lit up.

"Lin Chao, there's new progress in the excavation of the Great Wilderness Mountain Range!"

It was a message from Qi Xueyan.

After parting ways back then, Lin Chao had asked Qi Xueyan to keep an eye on Heize's remains in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range. Now, it seemed the results were about to come out.

"Looks like I need to make a trip to Cangxi City."

Heize's remains were also his remains, so Lin Chao naturally had to go see them.

He had a feeling that the simulation reincarnation wouldn't just end like that.

If he saw his own remains, there might be other gains.

Besides, his spear, the one with the Gun Soul, was still left in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range.

Great Wilderness Mountain Range.

Liu Chengchao frowned deeply, as if lost in thought.

Beside him, Liu Jiao's face showed excitement: "Old Liu, this discovery is huge, isn't it? Will it help us a lot in verifying this historical event?"

Liu Chengchao's tightly knit brow relaxed: "Indeed. Based on what we've found so far, there were survivors from the battle that took place here. Those survivors probably lived a long time. If they left behind any traces or written records, it would be a great help to us."

For the past few days, the work team had been excavating continuously.

Tonight, a team member discovered a cave.

After a preliminary assessment, this cave showed signs of past human habitation.

This discovery was the biggest new find since the Shrine of Life and Death and the Blacksmith Shop.

"Old Liu, which side do you think survived that war? Heize's side, or the Wolf Guard?" Wang Jiao asked.

At that moment, she was livestreaming, occasionally picking out questions from the barrage to ask Liu Chengchao.

"It should be the Wolf Guard," Liu Chengchao replied after a long hesitation. "If Heize's army was confident they could wipe out the Wolf Guard and survive, they wouldn't have driven themselves into such a dead end. They could have just used the natural disaster to besiege them without attacking. The main thing is, the Wolf Guard were too strong back then—the world's number one army, far surpassing Dafeng's forces. Although our Great Xia Clan is powerful, I have to admit, we couldn't match the Wolf Guard at that time."

"Old Liu, I heard they've already done a basic gas test and safety check inside, and it's preliminarily confirmed safe. How about we go in and take a look?" Wang Jiao suggested.

Liu Chengchao hesitated for a moment. "Alright."

Wang Jiao's face lit up with joy.

The five of them slowly walked toward the cave ahead.

At that moment, the livestream's popularity skyrocketed.

Barrages sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

"Looks like we're about to witness history!"

"Haha, the survivors might have left some records. You filial descendants of Heize, you'll soon know that Heize didn't defeat the Wolf Guard alone! Heize is human, not a god! Using a dead man as your faith—how pathetic you are."

"Heize was human, but still better than you."

"The factory boss told me to find employee Xiao Li. He loves spouting nonsense in the livestream. If anyone sees him, contact me—the factory boss is still waiting for him to scrub the sow's back!"

"Stop arguing, can't we just watch the stream properly?"

"Yeah, I want to see history!"

"No matter what, Heize is a godlike figure in my heart—an overlooked unparalleled warrior, comparable to the overlooked Emperor Gaozu."

At that moment, the livestream's view shifted.

A pitch-black, deep cave entrance appeared before everyone.

The flashlights and lamps behind them immediately turned on.

The area ahead lit up.

"This cave is probably very deep," one of the staff members judged based on the echo of their voices.

Liu Chengchao nodded. "I think the survivors might have tried to dig their way out."

The others nodded as well.

After all, with tens of thousands of Wolf Guards and Giant Wolves, it was possible that several hundred or even a thousand survived. In such a desperate situation, their will to live would have been incredibly strong. It was only natural they'd try to dig a tunnel to escape.

Of course, they were doomed to fail.

The terrain of the Great Wilderness Mountain Range was complex and deep—there was no way to dig through it.

"If everyone has their protective suits on, let's head in now." Liu Chengchao spoke.

"Got it on."

"Got it on."

This time, aside from Liu Chengchao, about a dozen others were entering.

Among them, four were security personnel armed with thermal weapons.

The rest were mostly members of the expert team.

Of course, there were also media people like Wang Jiao.

"Let's go in now."

Liu Chengchao walked at the front, with a security guard beside him.

The lights shone, illuminating the entire cave.

"There really are traces of human habitation here." Liu Chengchao crouched down, gently digging with a tool in his hand.

Instantly, a small segment of a skull bone appeared before everyone's eyes.

Against the backdrop of the cave, it looked especially eerie and deep, but no one was afraid—they all wore expressions of fervent excitement.

"There are tooth marks on these bones. It seems..." Another expert mentioned, but stopped short, mindful of the live broadcast.

After all, if he said something too sensitive, what if the stream got shut down?

Of course, that was just a passing thought.

The streaming platform probably wouldn't dare to block the Justice Association's broadcast.

Everyone else understood what he meant.

Those who survived must have fed on the corpses of the dead.

After all, food was scarce here.

A few days ago, they had already excavated the Wolf Guard's logistics supply depot, far from this spot.

The survivors could only live this way.

"Old Liu, look—there seem to be scratches on this cave wall." Wang Jiao suddenly pointed out.

Actually, she hadn't noticed the scratches herself; it was the viewers in the livestream who spotted them and sent bullet comments, which caught her attention.

Liu Chengchao looked up, immediately turning his gaze to the cave wall.

On the wall were many stones with smooth cross-sections.

On these stones, numerous marks appeared.

Crooked and twisted, like chicken scratches.

"These are the Wolf Clan's timekeeping symbols. It seems the survivors were from the Wolf Clan. These numbers represent... ten years. Looks like the surviving Wolf Clan members were afraid of losing track of time, so they kept recording it. He actually lived here for ten years."

Hearing this expert's words, Liu Chengchao felt a surge of excitement.

A survivor who had lasted ten years.

And judging by the fact that he could write, he was certainly no ordinary Wolf Guard.

A Wolf Guard like that, surviving ten years, would definitely have left behind plenty of useful information.

There would likely be a lot of information about that battle too.

"Everyone, check the cave wall for any similar Luohuayan Stone—there might be a lot of useful material on it." Liu Chengchao's voice was excited.

Luohuayan Stone was a special type of rock, often used as a tombstone in many places.

Carving characters into it wasn't very difficult, and under normal circumstances, the carvings could last for thousands of years.

Someone once said that storing human civilization on memory cards or hard drives wasn't as long-lasting as the most primitive method—carving it into stone walls.

PS: Thanks to [Good Names Are All Taken By Cats] for the thousand-tip reward, and thanks to [Ba Wazi] for the tip!