Chapter 94 Going Home
The bizarre creatures that have never existed on Earth pose a threat to humanity today.
This was a new species that Yu Miaomiao had never encountered in her previous life. Yu Miaomiao even wondered if it was a creature belonging to Earth.
Just as everyone was searching in vain, finding nothing but the strange sphere, and preparing to pack up and leave, He Liang suddenly spoke up: "There's something like a switch at the bottom of the sphere."
It turned out he was wandering in the shadows, having crawled under the ball...
I happened to see that mechanism.
"You opened it?"
"Sorry, I couldn't resist, I pressed it..."
Yu Miaomiao felt a little numb. What if another giant beast emerged from the ball...? She didn't dare to think about it.
But the three little ones didn't react, as if there wasn't anything inside the ball.
The sphere began to rumble, as if it were about to explode.
A loud rumble echoed through the underground passage.
"Temporarily retreat to advanced space."
Yu Miaomiao put the three little ones into her space, then took Lu An and Xu Nanwei's hands and slipped into the small dark room in her space.
Inside the space, the silver sphere emitted an increasingly intense light, to the point of being almost blinding.
"It's really going to explode..." Lu An said anxiously, staring at the screen.
Before the words were finished, a violent explosion occurred, and a dazzling light stung everyone's eyes as the silver sphere shattered into countless fragments.
However, these fragments did not seem to explode randomly, but rather in a regular and orderly manner, with some fragments of information that were not very clear.
And in the center of the sphere, there was a storage device.
"high tech?"
"What is this? I've never seen anything like it before..."
The group started discussing it amongst themselves.
Only Yu Miaomiao, as if summoned by some force, involuntarily left the space and reached out with both hands to the storage device in the center of the sphere.
At this moment, Yu Miaomiao left the space and her body floated in this dark space. She did not feel any difficulty breathing, nor did she feel hot or cold. It was as if she were in a world without consciousness.
She reached out and gently picked up the storage device. The neatly arranged fragments that had exploded around it seemed to be absorbed and quickly flowed into the storage device.
Finally, everything returned to calm. The giant silver ball was gone, leaving only the small black storage device in Miao Miao's hand and a few small black stones scattered on the ground.
"Yu Miaomiao, Sister Miao?" He Liang kept calling out to Yu Miaomiao, whose eyes were glazed over. Yu Miaomiao finally regained her senses.
She looked around in horror and realized that she had just been controlled by some kind of energy.
She released the two people from the space, and Lu An looked at her with concern: "Are you alright? What is this? It seems very dangerous. Should we leave quickly?"
"Hmm, but I think this must contain some secrets. I'm still going to take it back and try to solve the mystery."
Yu Miaomiao suddenly noticed out of the corner of her eye that there were several stones glowing blue on the ground where the sphere had disappeared.
Is it... a meteorite?
Yu Miaomiao stared at the stones, amazed by the coincidence, and in the instant everyone turned around, she used her mind to store the stones into her spatial storage.
The three of them entered He Liang's shadow once again, and returned to the same place as when they entered the bronze stone gate, leaving this strange space.
When they returned to the mountains, it was pitch black all around.
It was already night, and the mountains and forests were filled with an eerie atmosphere, with the roars of wild beasts constantly echoing from all around.
"Looks like we'll have to stay here tonight? Or how about we make do at that dilapidated temple for the night?" Lu An suggested.
"No, we'll go to the mountaintop to collect ice now. Collecting ice is quick, and we've finished collecting the herbs too. We have enough time to go back tonight. It should be before 7 o'clock yet, but since the extreme cold started, it gets dark very early."
It's just that Comrade He Liang has had to work hard driving through the night.
We're only a short distance from the summit. If He Liang gets there quickly, the four of us can collect ice and return the way we came in less than an hour. We should be back at the underground base tonight.
It wasn't that Yu Miaomiao disliked the outdoor environment, but rather that she had a premonition that the weather was about to change again.
She didn't know why, but it was as if a voice inside her was shouting, constantly telling her what to do, so she resolutely followed her heart.
"There are plenty of sandwiches, He Liang. Thank you for your hard work. I'm in a hurry to get back and give the three little ones a bath..."
He Liang and the others didn't know that the three little ones could be bathed inside the space, so Yu Miaomiao made up an excuse.
"OK".
Upon hearing about the sandwich, He Liang readily agreed to work overtime.
The three reached the mountaintop and found a water source, but the water flow was weak, with only a trickle of freshly melted water washing over the ice.
Without needing any tools, Yu Miaomiao simply reached into the water and touched the ice layer, mentally planning the size of the ice to be taken. The neatly cut ice blocks were then obediently stacked in a corner of the space.
"All done, let's go home!"
Yu Miaomiao was eager to go home. After a long day of running around, she just wanted to collapse onto her big bed and get a good night's sleep.
The journey was uneventful, and we arrived at the underground city base before 10 o'clock.
However, the underground city was still filled with flying insects and chaos. These insects did not fly out even when the base gate was opened, but instead flocked into the base, which was very strange.
Nothing happened that night. The next day, Yu An's team prepared to hand in their herbal medicine task and, incidentally, report to the research institute.
At this point, there were less than 24 hours left before the investigation results for the Li Yi incident were released.
The approval for Yu An's team to join the plant research group of the research institute has also been issued. Considering their status as superhumans, they do not need to work like ordinary employees; they only need to participate in the work when it is necessary to complete the mission.
Therefore, it does not affect Xu Nanwei's schooling, nor does it affect Yu Miaomiao and Lu An's occasional relaxation.
Although it was called a research group, it actually only consisted of Yu An's team of three, Ye Jian, and Hang Song.
Hang Song graduated from the College of Agriculture, but his major was animal husbandry, which is somewhat related to the current research on the cultivation of mutant plants, but not much.
What doesn't match his major is his appearance; he looks much younger than his actual age, appearing to be seventeen or eighteen when he's only in his twenties, which makes him very popular in the research institute.
He had always worked at the research institute as Ye Jian's assistant, and he was also the man Ye Jian was embracing when Yu Miaomiao first met Ye Jian in the beautiful country.
Seeing the two of them working so intently together, it's hard not to have some wild thoughts. After all, one is fair-skinned and the other is handsome; they're a feast for the eyes standing together.
Finding the mole among the eight academicians of the research institute in less than 24 hours is no easy task, but since the task was accepted at the time, it must be completed from beginning to end.
So, despite being very tired yesterday, Yu Miaomiao and her teammate still entered the research institute on time as employees early this morning.