"Dig this up! I want to know what's hidden down there!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Long immediately retreated.
The thing below is terrifying, Xu Long won't come into contact with it face-to-face so easily.
They retreated five kilometers away, simultaneously monitoring the excavation of the altar and the White Ape.
The situation was much better than Xu Long had imagined. Although the White Ape was powerful, he had gone to Raccoon City and should not be able to find Xu Long for a while.
The excavation here went smoothly, and they found something in less than a day.
Just as Xu Long had predicted, it really was a corpse, and a human corpse at that.
He looked to be around thirty years old, with a square face and a resolute expression.
A gash opened up in his chest, and several roots pierced into his flesh.
The wound was very fresh, as if it had just been inflicted.
Although it lay motionless in the mud, it gave off a sense of danger like a prehistoric beast.
"Is this person... dead... or alive...?"
Looking at the man on the screen, Xu Long was very conflicted.
He was considering whether to go and check it out, but he was also afraid of something unexpected happening.
The gap in strength is too large; any oversight could lead to unbearable consequences.
After thinking it over, Xu Long decided to send a cyborg over to take a look.
The so-called cyborgs are actually developed based on the androids in the Dragon Ball world.
However, unlike androids with independent personalities, cyborgs can be understood as substitutes.
They can use telekinesis to manipulate things, possessing the ability to control a small portion of the body.
Controlling the cyborg to approach the corpse, Xu Long carefully examined it and concluded that it was most likely dead.
The flesh and blood were brimming with vitality, but there was not a trace of soul energy.
It must have been that their soul was destroyed and their physical body suppressed.
This is also why the wound on his chest has never healed.
However, the physical body of S-rank powerhouse is terrifyingly strong. This person has been dead for countless years, yet his body still remains active.
If it weren't for that mysterious force suppressing his physical body, his wounds would probably have healed long ago.
However, these S-rank powerhouses are different from monsters like the Goddess of the Night. Even if their souls Oblivion, their physical bodies will not go out of control, but will still maintain their original state.
"This power..."
When Xu Long touched the wound on the corpse's chest, his fingers instantly turned charred black.
The cyborg had no senses, but Xu Long's telekinesis allowed him to analyze the cause of the injury.
The flesh and blood of this corpse contained an extremely powerful force: fire.
In the Resident Evil series, there is a game called Code: Veronica, where the final boss, Alexia, possesses fire powers.
She was a genius girl who created the extremely terrifying Veronica Virus, injected it into her body, and then entered a cryogenic chamber to allow the low temperature to slow down the Fusion of the virus with herself.
Fifteen years later, Alexia was born, possessing not only a terrifyingly powerful physique but also the ability to generate fire.
It is now fully confirmed that the source of the T-virus is this corpse, and Alexia's fire powers also originate from here.
Flame is an extremely violent and destructive force, so it's normal for this cyborg's body to be burned.
Logically speaking, even a tiny remnant of the power within S-rank expert should be enough to instantly destroy this body, so why didn't it?
Xu Long glanced at the blood that hadn't yet congealed on his chest, then at the Stairway of the Sun flower rooted within it, and a bad feeling suddenly surfaced in his mind.
How could such a violent force as fire give rise to plants?
The blood of S-rank powerhouse only managed to burn the body of this bio-engineered human, who barely reached the B-rank.
Could it be...?
Life emerges from destruction, death gives rise to life, and resurrection is possible?
If that's the case, then it's terrifying.
Having survived such a calamity, how strong must S-rank powerhouse who has been resurrected from the dead be?
The Goddess of the Night? What is that? Compared to this person, she's nothing at all!
With this in mind, Xu Long began to consider his next steps.
If his guess is correct, this person will wake up sooner or later.
But what will happen after he wakes up is unknown.
His soul must have shattered and sunk into his cells, rather than being completely Oblivion. If he were to awaken, he would most likely have lost all his previous memories.
Based on this premise, Xu Long had a lot of room to maneuver.
Facing an S-rank powerhouse who is like a blank sheet of paper, it doesn't seem too difficult to deceive him.
With that in mind, Xu Long decided to give it a try.
As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold; when it matters, you have to take the risk.
The cyborg remained there, and Xu Long's real body quickly arrived.
I carefully dug out the roots and placed them in the storage space.
This thing is of great research value; leaving it here is a waste.
The wound of this S-rank expert was very fresh, and upon closer inspection, a faint blue light could be seen.
This is the power of the water element in the Five Elements. Water overcomes fire, and it severely suppresses the energy within his body.
Xu Long tried to absorb it, but then decisively gave up.
The energy of S-rank powerhouse is beyond his current capabilities. Unless he reaches the second stage of soul transformation, absorbing it will inevitably cause injury.
Although he couldn't suck it out, Xu Long had other methods.
He took out the Wood Qi Bottle and poured the liquid onto the wound.
The Five Elements Mutual Generation and restraint; water restrains fire, and the suppressed wounds can never heal.
Water nourishes wood, allowing it to grow and thrive.
Although the sap inside the Wood Qi Bottle is liquid, it is essentially condensed wood gas.
When the juice is poured into the wound, the water elemental energy nourishes the wood elemental energy, which in turn strengthens the fire elemental energy.
Water nourishes wood, and wood nourishes fire. With wood as a transit point, it's as if water energy is nourishing fire energy.
The Five Elements Mutual Generation and restraint—such is their wondrous nature.
The water and fire elemental energies are evenly matched; otherwise, they wouldn't have remained in this state indefinitely, but would have either continued to deteriorate or slowly recovered.
With the involvement of wood energy, this balance can be disrupted.
Sure enough, as Xu Long poured all the liquid from the bottle onto the wound, the previously unhealed wound began to twitch.
Although the process is slow, once the balance is broken, the subsequent recovery will be faster and faster.
A rough calculation suggests that the wound should heal in at most one day.
What followed was a long wait, but Xu Long didn't sit idle. He collected some flesh and blood samples and put them into his storage space for the Red Queen to study.
Time flew by, and by the next morning, the wounds on the body had finally healed.
There was no heartbeat, no breathing, but the blood began to flow slowly.
It's strange how blood flows when the heart isn't beating, but that's how it happens.