Chapter 457 Bad News About Ancient Monsters

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Grant is an institution under the Royal Council of Academicians of Grant and is a cultivation center for scientific scholars in the Principality of Grant.

Although His Majesty King Chen was ambitious and determined to build the Second Academy of Sciences to serve the common people, unfortunately, with the invasion of ancient underground creatures and the catastrophic weapons arms race with the Principality of Sealand, this plan that countless low-level people once desperately desired, Infinitely postponed.

The war between humans and ancient underground creatures is far more cruel than Lei Luo imagined.

…

Today, [Sky Fortress] Celastro, who has been busy for more than half a month, came to the Royal Science Commission.

He's not here to take a break.

Due to frequent wars with underground creatures, the number of Royal Academicians of the Grand Principality has dropped by a quarter over the past year!

As a result, some of the work that should have been done by them had to fall on Serratos's head.

For example, the preliminary review of the examination papers for the extraordinary bachelor's degree.

There was a stack of papers and manuscripts on the table, as well as some fragmentary evidence of ancient civilization relics. Serratos flipped through these papers at will.

As the first reviewer, he needs to classify these manuscripts, and the passing rate is about one quarter.

"Um!?"

Sudden.

Serratos stared at the degree examination paper of this extraordinary scholar and let out a slight doubt.

The content of this paper is about the ruins of an exotic civilization called the United Kingdom of Rotten Sand Tower. This is a brand-new civilization ruin that has not been recorded by the Grant Royal Academician Committee. The content of the paper seems to be quite full.

According to the usual practice, although Serratos will give him a preliminary review, he still needs to send professionals to the ruins to inspect and screen, and then three academicians will jointly review it before granting him a third-level extraordinary scholar degree.

During this period, half of the assessors will be eliminated again.

After obtaining the Extraordinary Scholar degree certificate, you can start to enjoy national subsidies, obtain the title of honorary viscount, associate doctorate research title, enter higher national scientific research institutions or apply for laboratory loans, etc...

The process generally takes two to five years to complete.

However.

When [Sky Fortress] Serratos saw the signature of this assessment paper, he was stunned.

"Lelo Gubo?"

Thinking of something, he took out the crystal ball.

The crystal ball was blessed by the magnetic field of the tower, and the signal was enough to cover the entire Fort Saint-Gran and the surrounding area. He contacted another Royal Academician who was at Fort Saint-Gran, none other than [Fusion Evolution] Pernash.

"That [Solar Energy] Lei Luo is back!?"

Pernash shrugged, looking like he was doing nothing, and said relaxedly: "It's your turn, are you responsible for the preliminary review of the assessment paper? Just in time, Herald Antonio specially asked a few days ago to carry out special arrangements for his assessment and review. Now you , I and [Starfish Touch] are both in St. Granburg, so let’s go through it first according to the master’s wishes.”

Serratos frowned slightly when he heard this.

"I do not deny his talent and wisdom. As one of the two talented scholars rumored to usher in a new era, it is natural for him to join the committee. But now that he has crossed the process, I am afraid that it will be difficult to carry out future work."

Pernash frowned and remained silent for a moment.

"I heard that a few days ago, a scary guy squeezed through the sealed passage in the Dubit Province in the west of the principality. Ankarev, who was responsible for guarding there, has completely lost contact and may have been trapped there. The principality is again Without one academician, it can be said that we are almost at the crater. The intention of these masters is to promote some qualified guys as soon as possible, otherwise it will be really difficult to carry out the work of the committee."

"[Source of Energy] Ankarev!?"

Serratos has an extremely close relationship with him, so he clearly knows the academician’s strength and trump cards.

He couldn't even hold the entrance to the passage, or even escape back?

There was a solemn expression and a moment of silence before Serratos sighed softly.

"I understand, then it's up to you to contact the old woman. The three of us will connect in a while."

…

St. Grant's Castle East Palace.

"Lei Luo!"

The chubby fat man with a trembling belly ran into the hall from the steps. He looked at Lei Luo with his small mung bean eyes and his voice was full of surprise.

The person coming is none other than Xiao Kang!

He gasped for breath, and the old swordsman servant beside him gave him a little support. The two of them carefully avoided the red line.

Lei Luo, who was conducting in-depth research on this weird superhuman next to Laura, stood up with a smile on his face, looked at his friend, and looked at his belly.

"You guy... I don't know how Bai Xing can stand you. How is Bai Xing? Is Bai Xing okay?"

The fat man reluctantly held back his stomach and said with an embarrassed smile: "Well, she just gave birth to her second child, and she plans to continue to promote her compulsory education charity activities, but it's very chaotic outside now, and there are people-eating monsters everywhere. I I didn’t trust her, so I arranged her to live with Vladik.”

Lei Luo certainly knew how terrifying those underground creatures were.

But as one of the two most powerful countries in the Principality, Lei Luo is not worried about the Principality of Gran.

Xiao Kang seemed to want to inquire about the specific situation from Lei Luo, but Lei Luo didn't mention it too much. He looked at Xiao Kang and said with a bad smile: "I've heard all about it in the past few days since I came back. During your absence, you are a popular figure around His Majesty, and you seem to have made a lot of money!"

Well?

Xiao Kang shook his head, looking quite innocent.

"Thanks to your relationship, I did take over some of your majesty's radiation energy factory construction tasks, but that was only on the surface. Privately, I transferred most of the profits to your majesty in other ways. This has been the rule of the principality for many years. .”

Lei Luo was not surprised by this. After a slight pause, he naturally skipped this matter.

Xiao Kang could no longer suppress his curiosity and whispered: "How have you been outside these years? Well... since the laboratory was forced to close due to the Holy See, His Majesty seems to feel that he owes you a lot, so he took a few of us with him. It’s all going very well.”

"Me? Fortunately, I heard that the Holy See was in trouble, so I came back secretly."

Lei Luo's voice was quite relaxed, as if he was just traveling once.

As a shrewd guy, Xiao Kang didn't say anything more, but the red line under his feet had already made his thoughts fly to the sky.

time flies.

Night is coming.

Xiao Kang and Lei Luo were chatting about some insignificant things after Lei Luo left. Pernash outside said "cough" and walked into the hall.

He looked at Xiao Kang and his voice was low.

"Earl Xiao Kang, I'm really sorry. Your Majesty has something to express urgently to Dr. Lei Luo through me."

The fat man stood up quickly, backed away from the hall, and smiled at Pernash: "In that case, I won't disturb the business of you two."

"Wait."

Lei Luo finally said to the surprised Xiao Kang: "If it's convenient, you'd better take Bai Xing to St. Gran Castle. Laura will have someone to talk to in the future."

Keenly aware of Lei Luo's reminder, otherwise he would never care about such an inconsequential disappearance. His astonishment flashed away, Xiao Kang nodded with a smile and left.

After Xiao Kang left, Pernash signaled the palace guards to close the door, with a serious look that made Lei Luo become solemn.

"Master, what happened?"

Pernash sighed.

"First of all, congratulations to you for receiving the Bachelor's Degree Certificate of Extraordinary Scholar issued by the Royal Academician Committee of the Principality of Glen. From today on, you will be an official third-level scholar registered in the Principality."

He took the diploma from Pernash with both hands.

Although Lei Luo was surprised that the committee gave him a degree certificate so quickly, it was obvious that the other party wanted to tell him something serious, and this was not the case.

really.

Under Lei Luo's gaze, Pernash took out another black crystal ball.

This is the Guardian's special crystal ball!

With a solemn look, Pernash said slowly: "A few days ago, you asked me to inquire about Guardian M. Now I regret to tell you that according to reliable information, a few days ago, Redridge, Dubit Province, in the northwest of the principality, Ridge, which is the former site of your solar energy laboratory, a powerful and terrifying ancient underground god descended from a secret passage, not only Guardian M, but also the [Source of Energy] Ankarev who was stationed there in the principality. It is very likely that he also died in the line of duty. This is the latest precious image data received by the principality."

With that said, Pernash activated the crystal ball light screen projection.

Laura said in disbelief: "You said Academician Ankarev...!?"

Obviously, because of Corleone's relationship, Laura seemed to have some relationship with this academician.

Redridge Ridge?

Lei Luo looked at the projection screen in silence.

The person recording the light and shadow is quite far away from the subject creature, so the image is somewhat blurry.

There were countless black shadows flying around in the sky, but because the giant thing was so huge, Lei Luo was still able to distinguish some of its features through the light screen.

Its true form of law is undoubtedly very huge. Even the human balloon fortress is not half as big as its mouth.

Its lower body resembles a skeleton horse carrying rotten flesh. Although it looks terrifying, it is within the acceptable range of scholars.

But its upper body actually has a mouth that looks like a giant pitcher plant!

What’s horrifying is that its huge Nepenthes-like mouth is actually made up of tens of thousands of densely squirming arm bones, like countless desperate arms stretching out from the hell leading from the monster’s throat!

Some human resisters who flew high into the sky, and even scholars who had activated their true forms, were constantly grabbed deep into its throat by these arms.

Like a terrifying creature walking out of a nightmare.

Even Lei Luo, who was born into studying the mysteries of biological evolution, couldn't help but froze slightly after seeing its image.

The image only lasts for a short period of time, and the scene is very chaotic.

As the light screen image ended, Lei Luo took a deep breath, his expression a little unnatural.

"Although I have seen and dissected a lot of ancient underground creatures, guys in this form are still a bit too amazing. It is really hard to imagine that in the distant prehistoric period, the Land of Star Curtain was actually ruled by these terrifying guys."

Pernash's face also looked unhappy.

He slowly put away the crystal ball.

"What's even worse is that after preliminary determination, this ancient creature has at least reached the level of a mid-level god, and is likely to be a true high-level god. That's why the people there were not able to escape."

Pernash looked at Lei Luo: "You should know what this means."