Chapter 478: Thousand Life Stone

“Lost camera feed for Candidate ID 0072999!”

“Lost camera feed for Candidate ID 0072999!”

“...”

Taicang’s monitoring system emitted a piercing alarm.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, without Chu Kuangsheng needing to remind them, the Staff Members, whose professional competence was excellent, immediately sprang into action.

“Locating Candidate ID 0072999 via tracker...”

“Location confirmed!”

“Checking Candidate ID 0072999’s vital signs...”

“Normal!”

“Coordinates sent to dedicated monocular camera!”

“Estimated arrival at coordinates: 24 minutes!”

Upon hearing the number 24 minutes, many people frowned.

Sun Ping looked at Chu Kuangsheng again, who had maintained a poker face for a long time: “Looking at the coordinates, the monocular camera and Mingxi’s current ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) location are not close, but the examination site’s terrain is extremely complex, and they are currently underground.”

“Do you think the monocular camera can really re-acquire Mingxi in 24 minutes?”

Chu Kuangsheng glanced at him.

“What exactly are you trying to say?”

Sun Ping sighed, saying with some worry: “With the camera feed lost, none of us know what Mingxi is doing or what she’s experienced. What if she enters that area and finds that item during this time, would she...?”

Chu Kuangsheng frowned: “You’re worried she’ll pocket the item?”

“I am absolutely not questioning Mingxi’s character, but facing that item, even I wouldn’t be confident in not having improper thoughts. After all, some temptations are irresistible to ordinary people. And Mingxi is still a child, what if...”

Chu Kuangsheng, however, shook his head: “You’re overthinking it. Although she’s only 14, her resolve is firm, and she has a clear understanding of herself. Even I wouldn’t dare say I’m absolutely stronger than her.”

He paused.

He then said: “Even if she really can’t resist the temptation, what then? As you said, she’s still a child, and she doesn’t owe anyone anything.”

Sun Ping sighed again, knowing that worrying about these things now was useless.

He could only hope the monocular camera would find Mingxi as soon as possible.

In fact, dangers abound on the Creation Fruit, so it was inevitable that the monocular camera would lose track of candidates.

Therefore, every candidate carried a tracker before entering the examination site.

Moreover, it was a high-tech, skin-implanted tracker, resistant to water, electricity, and shock, with painless insertion and no side effects.

After the examination, it only required an injection of a Supporting medicine to naturally dissolve the tracker.

Of course, the tracker and monocular camera were not foolproof either.

Even SS-grade items could be damaged, let alone such high-tech products.

However, as long as the scoring device was intact, the candidate’s score remained valid.

So Mingxi didn’t care if the monocular camera kept up or not; it was even better if it didn’t.

No one liked living constantly under a camera’s gaze.

At least, she didn’t.

Especially in this environment, Mingxi felt the fewer people who saw it, the better!

“Ling Ling, Ling Ling Ling.”

Lan Yue had a pained cat face, indicating that it was truly too smelly here. It had never wished so much to lose its sense of smell.

The aloof cat even couldn’t help but raise its right paw to cover its nose.

Mingxi expressed understanding.

The smell in this place was indeed very strong.

How to describe it?

Perhaps similar to a mass grave.

This strong odor was indeed a disaster for Lan Yue, whose sense of smell was exceptionally keen.

“Then Lan Yue, you’ll be in charge of perimeter alert. I’ll get this thing into the Time Realm right away.”

“Ling Ling.”

Lan Yue did not refuse its Beast Tamers’s arrangement.

It really couldn’t stand this smell; it was too overwhelming!

Even though it knew the item before it was very precious, it didn’t stop it from disliking its smell.

So what exactly was it that appeared before Mingxi and them at this moment?

A corpse.

More precisely, it was a stone that looked very much like a highly decomposed giant’s corpse.

This stone was called Giant Corpse Stone, also known as thousand life stone.

The reason it was called thousand life stone was not because it possessed a thousand lives, as it was inherently a lifeless object.

Rather, it was because it was the best breeding ground for natural treasures.

The 'life' in thousand life stone referred to natural treasures.

Throughout the history of the Alliance, only two thousand life stones were recorded to have been unearthed by humans.

Both of these thousand life stones had cultivated priceless rare materials.

For example, the Ten Thousand Year Sacred Sun Flower, which was rated SSS-grade.

thousand life stone’s value simply could not be measured in star coins.

She estimated that even if her mission failed this time, if she was willing to offer up the thousand life stone, it would be enough for the nation to protect her for a lifetime.

Her luck was indeed very principled.

The more convoluted and dangerous the process, the greater the reward!

It was quite good.

“It’s just a bit creepy,” Mingxi sighed.

The thousand life stone truly resembled a highly decomposed corpse.

Rotten flesh, foul blood, lividity, corpse bloat, corpse odor—it possessed almost all the characteristics found on a corpse.

The kind that would make forensic doctors shake their heads.

But as long as you had the courage to touch it, you would find that it was indeed just a stone.

“If this thing is put into the Time Realm, I wonder if it will pollute the Time Realm’s air?”

“It would be great if the Time Realm could specially open up a functional room for it.”

Mingxi muttered to herself as she endured the intoxicating smell and approached the thousand life stone.

But she knew a functional room was definitely out of the question; if it were possible, Guangguang would have spoken up already.

Alas.

What a pity.

Mingxi stood beside the thousand life stone, looked at the putrid eye sockets with their vibrant flowers, the pale lips biting an iron thorn vine, then scanned the body covered in colorful crystals and lividity...

Her gaze finally settled on the concave left knee.

The original patella had shattered into a large bowl, and the bowl contained more than half a bowl of silvery-white liquid mixed with red dots, somewhat resembling mercury.

Mingxi endured the possibility of being fumigated into a zombie sister, and leaned in a little closer to look: “Why does this thing look so much like molten saliva incense?”

Oh, wow!

It really is molten saliva incense!

Could this be the legendary... ‘what you dream of at night, you gain in the day’?”

Normally, molten saliva incense would only appear inside active volcanoes.

Only magma with extremely high temperatures and a large amount of molten element could condense into molten saliva incense.

But the thousand life stone obviously couldn’t be categorized as normal, so finding molten saliva incense here wasn’t incomprehensible.

However, the molten saliva incense produced by the thousand life stone might not be heavy enough to melt that mermaid amber.

Mingxi estimated the weight by eye, roughly 4 or 5 grades.

But Guangguang had said that at least ten catties of molten saliva incense were needed to melt the amber.

Half a difference, huh.

“No rush, maybe we’ll gather enough soon?”

Mingxi maintained her composure, first put away the molten saliva incense, and then began to work on the thousand life stone.

“Click, click!”

The thousand life stone had long been inextricably linked with the ground in this area.

For Mingxi to move the entire thousand life stone, she naturally had to separate it from the ground first.

For a time, cracking sounds echoed continuously.