Chapter 198: Begin the Scavenge!
What a hard-won, tragic victory!
Those who survived decided not to clear the battlefield yet.
After all, the corpses strewn everywhere were difficult to move, and the fallen teammates weren't actually dead. They had already been transferred to the player community, incoherently describing the epic battle they had just witnessed, boasting about their MVP performance, and enjoying their bragging rights.
What's more important than tallying the spoils is not collecting the dead!
Ye Xing was quick and efficient, quickly scanning the giant dragon's corpse. Then, in the center of the area where the dragon had been lying, he found a very inconspicuous touch button.
Unexpectedly, this button had no security lock and was activated immediately upon touch.
Accompanied by a not-so-intense tremor, a cylindrical structure slowly rose from underground.
Inside was a well-preserved experimental control room.
Lu Yuan walked in and saw the control panels encircling the room, marked with the Infinite Deep Space abbreviation 'DSI'. The keyboards were still the familiar standard 26-letter version, identical to those from over 1000 years ago.
This was a symbol of the legitimate inheritance of human civilization.
Above the control panel, the holographic screen was already lit. Lu Yuan fumbled for a moment and successfully activated the control room terminal, finding a large amount of scientific research data stored within.
These materials explained the origin of the Radiant Dragon.
It was indeed a biological weapon developed by Infinite Deep Space, and a proud achievement at that.
This gigantic dome, spanning 400 meters, was originally built as a breeding and experimental ground.
According to its functional positioning in human warfare, the Radiant Dragon belonged to the category of 'biological fighter jets'.
As for the 'Gaia Swarm Species' envisioned by the radical faction of Infinite Deep Space, it was the most basic combat sub-entity, with limited intelligence but excellent combat instincts, and absolute loyalty, making it a perfect soldier.
Radical scientists used the Whip Wielders from Emerald Star as a base for genetic editing, artificially evolving them to finally breed the 'basic model' of the four-legged reptilian beast, the Radiant Dragon.
Afterward, they integrated multiple mature military industrial technologies from the golden age, further modifying the genome to 'optionally equip' this biological weapon with various artificial organs for combat.
The Radiant Dragon's dozens of pairs of magnificent elytra were actually an advanced flat-panel electric thruster, ten times more efficient than similar products equipped on Apollo fighter jets.
Its trachea was coated with liquid metal ceramic capable of insulating ultra-high temperatures, performing far better than Cangyuan's zero element Armor, and showing great promise in resisting nuclear weapons in the future.
Its control over the zero element field was astonishing; when flying, it could effectively reduce its 3000-ton weight to less than 1.5 tons, a magnitude about 30-40 times that of Cangyuan's Zero Element Furnace.
Furthermore, it could continuously spew ultra-high temperature plasma flames for extended periods without consuming rare gases, relying only on its nuclear fusion reactor and ordinary air.
If this technology were completely deciphered, it would undoubtedly advance Cangyuan's plasma weapon technology tree further!
Perhaps in the near future, melee players launching 'sword energy' will truly no longer be just a dream!
The 'Dragon Breath' shotgun could also achieve near-infinite ammunition!
Finally, the Radiant Dragon's biological reactor, biological electromagnetic cannon, gravity trap skill, and body parts such as scales, claws, and bone spurs, all corresponded to military technologies from the golden age around 2750.
While these might not be the top technologies from humanity's most prosperous period, they could definitely overpower the Star Alliance factions!
"Quick, quick, quick! Those still in the game, help me download all the data!"
Jubian, who had already died, was staring eagerly at the live stream on the computer screen, feeling incredibly anxious. He could only post a sticky thread with top-level permissions in the player community.
"Copy it onto a hard drive and transport it back to Li Star as quickly as possible. If we act fast enough, the two battleships there will still have time to utilize these technologies! Oh, and remember to transport my hibernation pod back too. I want to revive directly on Li Star and immediately start working hard after waking up!"
He roughly calculated in his mind.
If all these technologies could be recovered and integrated, they would definitely cause Cangyuan battleships' 'three dimensions' to skyrocket, with mobility, firepower, and defense all rising by a notch.
Even the combat power of power-armored infantry would make a leap. "Okay, okay, I see."
Black Smoke also understood the importance of this matter and immediately asked the Executive Officer for instructions, wanting to contact the transport plane circling overhead to add an extra return trip home.
Lu Yuan, of course, would not object to such a request.
He nodded and continued to carefully read the research logs here, discovering that the Radiant Dragon was not a biological weapon limited to atmospheric use.
It didn't need to breathe air, nor was it afraid of vacuum and cosmic radiation. Therefore, it could easily fly into space using its biological Zero Element Furnace and electric thruster elytra, cruising at a maximum of 0.12 times the speed of light for extended periods!
In terms of behavior control, Infinite Deep Space implanted a central nervous prosthetic plug called 'Guardian's Nail' into the Radiant Dragon's brain, which interfered with its thoughts and established obedience.
The 'Guardian's Nail' could operate autonomously according to preset modes. In this case, the Radiant Dragon would instinctively adhere to simple tasks.
The experimental subject in the research institute had been operating in this mode, with its task being to 'guard the great dome', which is why it had lain there for years, refusing to retreat even unto death.
Thinking about it carefully, it was a pitiful wage earner...
Aside from autonomous mode, the 'Guardian's Nail' also had a remote control mode.
In this mode, the Radiant Dragon's objectives, movement routes, and skill release logic would be taken over by a human operator, but it would still autonomously perform various skills and combos, without requiring the operator to precisely control its muscles and organs, combining the beast's hunting instincts with human tactical wisdom to leverage strengths and mitigate weaknesses.
At this point, it transformed into a semi-automatic biological drone.
Calling it a Pokémon would also be perfectly fine.
Clearly, the combat power in remote control mode was stronger, but this mode also had a weakness: it was susceptible to interference.
The Radiant Dragon had the potential for natural reproduction, but Infinite Deep Space scientists artificially removed their fertility, strictly stipulating that this biological weapon could only be hatched through cloning and cultivation.
The research institute's database stored a complete set of incubation pool blueprints.
The structure of this incubation pool was very similar to the cultivation tanks Cangyuan used to raise livestock, but it was the size of a football field, allowing the Radiant Dragon to grow to adulthood within it.
According to the user manual, clone cultivation was very simple, only requiring power to the incubation pool and the input of two raw materials.
These were nuclear fuel and a large number of remains of local Emerald Star animals!
"It seems Infinite Deep Space had a bottom line," Lu Yuan muttered to himself.
"Mm!" Black Smoke nodded beside him. "They also knew that if something like the Radiant Dragon proliferated and got out of control, it would evolve into a cosmic locust-level biological disaster within a century, which is very dangerous!"
At this point, the gains from this dungeon run had met expectations. If these research data were considered the 【Interstellar Relics】, it wouldn't be unacceptable.
But Lu Yuan's intuition told him that this wasn't over yet.
"Does anyone else have any discoveries?"
"Yes!" Ye Xing, who was fiddling with another computer, raised his hand.
"Boss, this room is also an elevator, and now that power is fully restored, it can go all the way down to the deepest part of the research institute!"
"Good! Then a few more people come in, we'll consolidate our remaining weapons and ammunition, and activate the elevator to go down and see."
The BOSS has been defeated, it's absolutely impossible not to go to the last room of the dungeon and scavenge every last bit of material!