Xu Yuhang showed a hint of confusion on his face: "I don't know what he means either. But over there, I died many times, and only this once did I come into contact with him and have a conversation."

"Other times, either he died or I died, or just as we touched, both of us jumped to the past or future... all in an instant."

Inside the conjoined organs of the Time Flow Device and Time Reverse Device, time jumps are also extremely chaotic.

Xu Yuhang, Kobayashi Hina, and the glass man within, all resemble irregularly moving particles, able to come into contact and form effective dialogue is a very small probability event.

This successful experiment brought a large amount of usable data, making the Mechanical Life led by Turing very excited.

They repeatedly and carefully checked Xu Yuhang and Kobayashi Hina.

"Chairman, they both entered through projections, so in the time-chaotic state of the four-dimensional organ, the impact on them was very limited."

"The energy consumption, however, was terribly high; it required 30 Pupil-shaped Bodies to power it. Such a massive experiment is impossible on Earth; fortunately, we don't lack resources in this area."

"Chairman, we request to conduct a second projection survey experiment."

Zhou Yi announced: "Agreed."

Xu Yuhang and Kobayashi Hina were once again projected into the Green Gemstone.

This time the duration was extended to a full 3 minutes.

Zhou Yi watched the countdown in the lab.

Time passed second by second.

After 180 seconds.

The equipment separated again.

Zhou Yi looked again inside the gemstone device.

Xu Yuhang and Kobayashi Hina seemed emotionally stable this time, discussing something.

"How is the situation?"

Facing Zhou Yi's inquiry, the two exchanged a glance.

This time Xu Yuhang spoke first: "We couldn't talk, I wasn't able to touch him, not very lucky. But Hina made a discovery."

Beside him, Hina spoke: "I saw the moment of his birth."

"At that time, he was a human baby, or embryo, very tiny. Connected to something resembling a shell, and then it turned into the Green Gemstone."

"After the shell and embryo fused, underwent some modifications, it slowly turned into a gemstone, growing larger and more transparent."

"Finally, the glass man was born."

Zhou Yi listened with a bit of astonishment.

According to Hina's observations, the glass man indeed was a special life form formed by the fusion of humans and some other material.

"What did the shell look like?"

"Just... a very ordinary shell, but not a beautiful one, a bit rugged, like barnacles on seaside rocks."

A shell like barnacles.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but think.

The number of glass men is continuously decreasing, unable to reproduce and replicate, the reason isn't humans, but the lack of this shell?

Shell... shell...

Zhou Yi suddenly paused.

The shelter where the Dong clan resides is also a shell, similarly not very smooth or beautiful.

With a mindset to try.

Zhou Yi instructed Turing to use the projection device to focus on the Corridor Palace on his right hand and had the Dong clan bring out the Shell Sanctuary from the Light Core Fist Armor, transmitting the image to the two inside the gemstone device.

"This is it!"

Hina firmly stated: "The exact same shell! Their outer surface looks like this kind of irregular stone, like something polished."

Could these two truly be the same thing?

Zhou Yi immediately inquired from the Dong clan.

Speaking of which, ever since accepting the Shell Sanctuary, he never actually investigated the shell itself. Just regarded it as a safe chamber crafted by the Cave People.

"Mr. Zhou, this shell wasn't crafted by us, it's something naturally existing."

The Dong clan stated: "We just excavated this natural sealed structure and transformed it into a shelter."

"The information on the shelter indicates that the one we are currently in is just one of them, and there are many such shelters. Jupiter has many such natural shell structures, but they are all deep underground, where pressure and energy density are extremely high, very dangerous deep areas."

Zhou Yi was taken aback.

Jupiter produces such mineral shells, an indispensable carrier for the birth of glass men. This implies, Jupiter is likely the place of production for Heavenly People.

And so, the Heavenly People aim to break through and control Jupiter.

"Mr. Zhou, are you interested in the prototype of the shelter? Actually, it has quite a history and there's related records on it."

"Let's hear it."

"This prototype material is called [Ancestral Land], the earliest Cave People were born from the Ancestral Land. In the deep underground of Jupiter, the outside is extremely dangerous, and the ancestors lived within the Ancestral Land. They were born here, died here, thinking it was the entire world."

The Dong clan recounted the history of their group.

"Until many years had passed, bodies of the Cave People accumulated more and more, turning into pathways and records within the Ancestral Land. The Ancestral Land could no longer contain any more bodies, so crowded that even the living had no place to set foot, thus they had to throw the excess bodies out. This was the first step toward the outside world."

"After continuously throwing and stacking bodies, they formed a shell outside the Ancestral Land, making it controllable from the inside. Thus, through the towers of accumulated bodies, they began to step into the outside world..."

"In other words, the Ancestral Land is the starting point of Cave People civilization."

Zhou Yi's head hummed with noise.

The secondary unit of the Heavenly People is the glass man, without which the Heavenly People cannot be born, and the core carrier of the glass man is the mineral shell.

The mineral shell is also the Ancestral Land of the Cave People.

Doesn't this imply.

The Cave People and the Heavenly People have the same origin?

Zhou Yi shared this hypothesis with the Dong clan.

The other party was also a bit shocked: "We and the Heavenly People emerge from different evolutionary branches of the same life? Mr. Zhou, this is... so strange."

"Why are we so different?"

"What made us take different paths... If possible, I really want to sit down with the Heavenly People and discuss this issue!"

Zhou Yi couldn't answer its puzzlement.

Yet merely deriving this clue was already astonishing enough.

The veil of the Heavenly People was lifted a bit more.

However, at this moment, the Electrician Ant Turing hovering beside stated: "Chairman, report a piece of bad news."

"The Green Gemstone has been completely damaged and can no longer conduct experiments through the four-dimensional organ."

Zhou Yi quickly asked: "What happened?"

"Here's the situation."

Turing's electronic eye projected a red dot, pointing to the other side of the lab, landing on the Green Gemstone extracted from the four-dimensional organ.

The gemstone had lost its green glow by now, indistinguishable from a normal White Gemstone.

"Based on our judgment, the remaining remnants of the glass men have been completely exhausted under the action of the four-dimensional organ."

"Neither the Time Flow Device nor the linked organs can arbitrarily accelerate or decelerate the motion of an object or life."

"Materials acted upon will undergo irreversible consumption in the process."

This mechanical expert explained: "The more intricate the life, the greater the degree of consumption. Previous accelerations of the Cave People always resulted in the death of 97% of individuals, and the Pan Tree-adventure vine symbiotic type also would lose over half of its cells."

"The glass man was consumed entirely just being affected twice by the four-dimensional organ."

"According to Xu Yuhang and their feedback, the whole process possibly didn't last even five minutes."

"Only Lady Night God had her gemstone system intact, just losing some gemstones."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but recall the earlier use of the Demon Star.

The purple Sun Dust was similarly consumed and disappeared rapidly after its release.

"Did Xu Yuhang et al. get affected too?"

"They were affected,"

Turing said: "But because it was an awareness projection, the cost was transformed into the gemstone cells serving as the projection carrier being consumed. In just this five and a half minutes, 719 gemstone cells were used up."

"The strength of the four-dimensional organ itself is astonishing; neither it nor the prior Time Flow Device showed any sign of collapse. Truly commendable for Transmutator Level life structures."

Zhou Yi silently murmured.

Remarkable are four-dimensional life forms, the Time Master's damaged organs even have this strength.

Fortunately, we're currently not lacking in gemstone cells.

A viable technological pathway exists, sending from the Heavenly Person Graveyard over here will suffice.

Originally, Zhou Yi planned to stay on the Moon for a while and join Lady Night God again to fetch bodies from the Heavenly Person Graveyard.

The Old Human World here is also being further constructed by Lady Night God.

In-depth research on gemstone cells is also steadily progressing.

Many confidential projects are conducted on the Moon.

But news from Sand Port came in then.

Cat God stated: "Chairman, Shu Yumei reported that the Black Thorn division has completed, all viable, please come and check."

Thus Zhou Yi left temporarily.

Returning first to inspect the status of these biological carriers.

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