Chapter 290: Someone Has Emerged from the Palace in a Corner of Heian Capital

Yoshimura shook his head.

"For now we can't give an estimate. The mysterious fog is indeed expanding incrementally, but at the end of the day it's only been 2 days since the mysterious fog appeared. To research or discover any information about an unknown substance in just 2 days is too difficult — this isn't cooking a meal, it's not that fast.

First of all, we can't be certain what this mysterious fog actually is. It might even be a living organism. To study its genetic sequence and composition, we first have to compare it against existing genetic sequences and compositions, see which existing organisms or things it's related to, and judge from there.

Just this one step alone will take a very long time.

Of course, this time we have the joint research cooperation of nations around the globe, so it is indeed possible to complete testing in a short span of two or three days — provided this unknown thing falls within normal, ordinary categories.

The mysterious fog clearly does not fall within normal categories; it's related to gods, demons, and the supernatural. A breakthrough in the research will be very difficult."

Cigarette smoke filled the conference room; everyone was smoking, at a loss.

"To deal with the mysterious fog, only gods, demons, and the supernatural can do it?"

Professor Zhongtian rubbed his temples, reached out and pressed and twisted his cigarette in the ashtray, snuffing out the ember.

Immediately after, he took a fresh one from the pack, lit it, and kept smoking, with no intention of stopping at all:

"It's just that right now all the gods, demons, and supernatural beings have gone to reinforce the Original Battlefield, and can't spare attention for our side."

"Right, doesn't Miyoshi Sota know Lucifer and Tsukuyomi? We could ask him to contact the gods and demons for help." Professor Beishan suggested.

Before the others could get excited, Director Takahashi directly poured cold water on them, revealing a bitter smile.

"I'd thought of this idea too, but considering the great battle on the Original Battlefield has even affected our side, something urgent must have happened.

If we go to great lengths to seek help from the gods and demons over a mysterious fog of unknown origin that we've preliminarily judged might threaten us — if the mysterious fog really does harm our Earth, then fine, we have nothing to say.

But if the mysterious fog is harmless to us, how will the gods, demons, and supernatural beings view us? Especially with a great battle raging on the Original Battlefield, seeking them out at such a critical moment is no different from wasting their time, and their impression of us will drop to rock bottom.

They might even think we can only rely on them, and see our government as good-for-nothing trash."

At his words, everyone was left speechless.

Just as Director Takahashi said, they still couldn't judge whether the mysterious fog was good or bad. Seeking out the gods and demons at a time when something major was happening on the Original Battlefield — not to mention affecting the gods' and demons' goodwill, it might also affect the course of the battle. If that were really the case, everyone present would become sinners for the ages.

No one was willing to go down in infamy forever.

At once, everyone sighed and gave up on the idea.

"Let's rely on ourselves. Once we've determined the mysterious fog truly endangers the world, and we really can't handle it, then we'll have Miyoshi Sota help contact them."

"Seconded."

"Seconded."

Professor Beishan seconded the motion, and subconsciously looked at the big screen that had switched back to filming the palace in a corner of Heian Capital, sighing:

"If Kamikawa Mitsu were still here, we wouldn't need to bother finding the gods and demons for help."

Director Takahashi and the others froze, exchanging bitter smiles.

Right — if Kamikawa Mitsu were here, why would they need to seek out the gods and demons? They could just ask him for help directly, or failing that, ask Kamikawa Chie.

Thinking of Kamikawa Chie, a glint flickered in Director Takahashi's and the others' eyes.

Kamikawa Chie is Kamikawa Mitsu's sister — this was common knowledge.

As the most outstanding descendant of the Ashinya family, Kamikawa Mitsu had reached the Third Step of Divinity before he was even twenty years old.

His talent was so high it was rare throughout the ages — a monster among monsters.

And Kamikawa Chie, as the sister of such a monster as Kamikawa Mitsu, with such close blood ties — could she possibly be ordinary?

Impossible.

So even though all evidence and the current situation showed she was a descendant of the supernatural yet had not cultivated the supernatural — an ordinary person —

Director Takahashi and the others still believed Kamikawa Chie was extraordinary.

Perhaps she was hiding her strength.

Or perhaps she had some special quality — for instance, what she was powerful in wasn't strength but something else. Or it could be that she had a special constitution. Don't mythic TV dramas and even ancient records often record things like this? Among humans there are special constitutions — being born in a yin year, yin month, yin day, yin hour to make a Grand Yin Constitution, that sort of thing.

Kamikawa Chie might well be such a case — possessing some special constitution that prevents her from cultivating for now, requiring her to reach a certain age or other conditions before she can cultivate. When that time comes, she will astonish the world — a single encounter with wind and cloud, and she transforms into a dragon.

In short, they absolutely refused to believe Kamikawa Chie was an ordinary supernatural descendant who hadn't cultivated, like Tsuchimikado Xia Mei and the others.

Thinking of the Kamikawa siblings, Director Takahashi and the others got another headache.

Professor Zhongtian picked up the coffee on the table to take a sip and refresh himself, hoping to think of a solution, only to find the coffee was already finished. He couldn't help but stand up to make more, and his eyes happened to land on the big screen.

His hand trembled, and the coffee nearly fell to the floor.

"Holy sh*t!!! They're out! They're out!"

His sudden shout startled everyone, who instinctively looked in the direction Professor Zhongtian was staring at.

Their pupils dilated.

On the screen, at the palace in a corner of Heian Capital, after a full five days, someone had finally walked out.

"That's Maierke!"

Director Takahashi stared at the person who had walked out — wasn't that Russia's elite captain Maierke?

No sooner had he spoken.

Maierke walked out of the palace, and behind him another group of people walked out of the palace.

They were the first batch to enter the palace.

"The Codex of Living Beings!" Minister Saito spotted the elite team member beside Maierke holding a book.

The next moment.

"Quickly prepare the fastest plane, I'm heading to Russia." Director Takahashi immediately gave the order.

"Yes sir!"

The news that Maierke and the other first batch of palace entrants had come out alive spread across the internet of every nation at lightning speed.

It caused a sensation.

After a gap of five days, every nation once again focused its attention on the palace.

The internet was already in an uproar, with everyone asking what Maierke and the others had experienced inside, and how they had walked out alive.

A great many people came out — besides Russians, there were people from other countries too, all of them first-batch entrants.

They were taken away by the top personnel of each country stationed near the palace, placed under protection, and questioned at once about what had happened inside the palace.

As for that copy of the *Compendium of Living Beings*, following the agreement the various countries had worked out in advance, the moment it was obtained a press conference was immediately convened, the contents of the book were announced, and they were simultaneously posted online.

The internet boiled over, and offline exploded just the same.

On this day, several billion people worldwide learned of the kinds of beings in the other world, and of the relationship between those beings and the gods, demons, and Transcendents of the Primordial Realm.

It was breathtaking.

They were shaken — it was the first time they clearly understood that the other world's races of beings were so numerous; saying there were ten thousand races would not be an exaggeration.

So the other world had that many — not just one or two, but as many as the stars, countless beyond count — and moreover they were bound by countless threads to the gods, demons, and Transcendents of that Primordial Realm.

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