Chapter 4: The child born out of an egg

Douluo Planet, Extreme Northern Land.

In the valley, part of the snow accumulated has already been removed. After a whole twenty-four hours of all sorts of testing, Lan Xiao and his research team confirmed the location shining gold and silver light, that's releasing huge amounts of life energy should not be dangerous.

Lan Xiao accurately predicts that should be a piece of relic. Under normal conditions, a relic capable of releasing hundred thousand years life energy, for them, it's a big discovery.

Next would be to dig out the relic.

After using the two working machines for half a day, the uppermost layer of snow has finally been cleaned. There's still ice beneath it, it's not known how long the ice has been frozen for how long, the older the ice, the harder it is, to prevent the relic from being damaged, they must be very careful.

The ice layer is very thick, but after the snow is removed, beneath the transparent ice, the gold and silver light is much brighter and clearer.

The light flickers constantly, it is not very intense but very clear.

The life detector has been constantly monitoring the situation, the life energy remains unchanged but it also wasn't affected by all the excavating.

This is a good sign, indicating that the level of danger is low.

The soul guidance energy continuously cuts through the life energy emitted by the relic, constantly detecting the location of the relic.

After two hours of cutting through around four metres of ice, they were already able to predict the size of the relic.

"Its diameter is about half a meter and the width is about 30 centimetres. It is round in shape. Definitely not a spirit beast then, more like an egg." Nan Cheng reports to Lan Xiao.

Lan Xiao's eyes shine brightly as he says, "If this is an egg, then we have made a great achievement. Although from the current situation, I still can't predict which species it is, the egg itself was able to emit hundred thousand years life energy, it should be a relic left behind by a spirit king level spirit beast. Seldom do a relic sealed in ice was able to emit such vigorous life energy, incubation is definitely possible. We have really found a treasure!"

Hundred thousand years spirit beast could be found within the two planets, however, it is already extinct in the Douluo continent. But the federation and the two spirit beast planet already has an agreement, once spirit beasts of this level are found, they should all be sent to the spirit beast planet. As for the reward, the two planets will pay taxes and provide the federation with the resources they need, with benefits to both parties.

For the ones who made the discovery, the research team would not only get a promotion but a substantial amount of reward.

"Looks like the heavens have given us our wedding gifts!" Lan Xiao said gleefully while he took the opportunity to hold on to Nan Cheng's shoulders.

"Don't be careless, let's just take it back first." Nan Change said softly.

Lan Xiao laughed and said: "I just like it when you're like this..."

"If you say I'm stupid again, I will get angry." Nan Cheng cuts him off and clenched her hand threateningly.

"Boss, the relic's been brought out"

Lan Xiao hurriedly looked at the screen, on it, the machine is clasping on to a block of ice that was cut out, facing it towards the camera.

Sure enough, in the transparent hard ice, there's an egg, the oval egg has a finely entangled gold and silver pattern on the surface.

The shining gold and silver pattern is very strange.

"Quick, bring it back."

Soon the egg sealed within the ice is in front of them.

A series of inspection devices are installed on the reconnaissance plane, after inspecting, only one thing can be proven, the egg contains huge amounts of life energy.

Comparing to the spirit beast records from the federation's research centre, no spirit beast is similar to this one.

"Should we preserve it in the under low temperature?" Nan Cheng and Lan Xiao stood side by side, standing in front of the egg. The reseason why she asked is because of the surface of the ice, which has nearly all melted during the inspection. This also lets them clearly see the form of the egg.

Firstly the egg is smooth, the gold and silver patterned egg is extremely smooth, the patterns are slender, bending and entangling with each other.

Lan Xiao with his eyebrows tensed, said: "Theoretically speaking, with such intense life energy, it should not be very affected under any conditions, but for its safety, store it in low temperature. We'll see after we return to the research centre. Before submitting the egg, we still need to conduct a series of inspections and tests. Such a chance like this is hard to come by, it'll be hard to conduct experiments like this in the future." The moment he talked about the experiments, his eyes shone, he is extremely intrigued by ancient spirit beasts, coupled with his vast knowledge. During his time in school, he would always be referred to as the ancient spirit beast encyclopedia.

"Cha Cha." A slight sound stunned all of them.

"The egg's making the sound?" Nan Cheng said as her voice went lower.

"Quick, everyone come. Raise the protective cover." Lan Xiao ordered hurriedly. The egg has such a vast amount of life energy, if there really is any life form that pops out, it wouldn't be known how powerful it is, although situations like this are rare, but doesn't mean it didn't happen before.

On the surface of the test bench, the white protective cover raises, the "Cha Cha" sound came again.

"Cha Cha, Cha Cha, Cha Cha..." The sound becomes more intensive, the rest of the research team surrounds it as they look on curiously.

Their research team has eight members in total. Other than Lan Xiao and Nan Cheng, there are two members responsible for collecting relics from the outside, two pilots and two researchers.

Right now, other than one pilot piloting the plane, the others have all gathered, looking at the egg in front of them curiously.

"Cha Cha, Cha Cha, Kacha!" Suddenly, a small crack appears on the corner of the smooth eggshell.

"Is it coming out?" Nan Cheng subconsciously dodged to Lan Xiao's back. The others subconsciously took a step back.

"Don't be afraid. Even if it can attack, as it has just been born, it won't be very powerful." Lan Xiao took a few steps forward, one after another halo rises up from his legs, two yellow, two purple and one black, five rings in total, representing his status as a spirit king. At this age, this is already very extraordinary, which is also one of the reasons why his military rank increased rapidly.

"Kacha, Kacha..." The crisp sound starts to sound as it becomes more intense.

"Pu-----" Finally, the eggshell starts to crack open, a white lifeform pops out from it.

Everyone looks on nervously, their sights are concentrated on the white life form.

That is...

The next moment, everyone was shocked.

Nan Cheng popped out her head from Lan Xiao's back and stared at the white lifeform, she mumbled: "That, that is..., why does it look like a hand?"

That's right, it's white, puffy and small. Although the hand is clenched into a fist, no matter how they look, it exactly like a hand, a human baby's hand.

The next instant, the small hand fell slightly, grabbed the eggshell, seeming like the eggshell is light. "Kacha" a piece of the eggshell broke off and went back into the egg.

"Cha Cha, Cha Cha, Cha Cha."

"Kacha, Kacha, Kacha!"

The sounds went on continuously, at that moment, the hand popped out again, grabbed the eggshell and broke off another piece of it.

"Is he..." Lan Xiao quickly walked forward and looked through the protective cover.

At the moment, the eggshell is still not revealing much, he could only see that a white lifeform exists inside, then "Kacha, Kacha, Kacha" sounded continuously.

"The life energy is decreasing rapidly. It is now at the level of ten thousand year spirit beast." Said Nan Cheng suddenly.

"Hmm?" Lan Xiao looked at her shockingly. Nan Cheng is still looking at the screen, "Still decreasing, even more rapidly now."

"Kacha!" The tiny hand pops out and breaks off another piece of eggshell.

"Kacha, Kacha, Kacha!"

"Now it's only the level of thousand-year spirit beast." Nan Cheng's voice sounded very urgent.

Lan Xiao took a deep breath, decided quickly, "Lower the protective cover."

Only when the protective cover is lowered, can he went further to investigate.

The cover is lowered, there is not energy being emitted from the egg, along with the tiny hand continuously breaking off the eggshell, it finally revealed its true form.

How to describe it?

When Lan Xiao looked at him for the first time, he was instantly attracted by its appearance. He can definitely he has never seen such a beautiful baby in his life, yes, a human's child, a child born out of an egg.