"I think it's almost time."
Zhou Jin, who was in the middle of the battle, suddenly said this and stopped.
From the beginning to now, the three of them have been fighting for at least thirty or fifty rounds, and Lin Qian is close to exhaustion at this moment. Sweat flowed down his cheeks, soaking a few strands of hair and sticking them to his forehead. After seeing Zhou Jin take the initiative to break away from the battle, she put the ax handle on the ground and gasped, but never dared to take her eyes away from Zhou Jin.
The high-intensity battle also left Yang Xiaoxiao physically and mentally exhausted, with vague signs of spasm in her hands and feet.
She didn't understand what the other party was up to, but it seemed that such Zhou Jin would make Yang Xiaoxiao even more disgusted.
"Pretending and being mysterious!" Yang Xiaoxiao spat.
But Zhou Jin didn't feel dissatisfied. He raised his right hand, and an ordinary miniature lightsaber slowly took shape in his hand. Lin Qian and the two couldn't help but feel nervous when they saw this, but the lightsaber just hit the ball-shaped ice shield set up by Li Liping with a "ding" sound. Then the lightsaber shattered, forming a white dot on the ice shield.
"Hmph." This seemed to confirm his guess. Yang Xiaoxiao snorted coldly, and immediately grasped the only remaining wolf tooth dagger, always preparing for the next round of fighting.
But at this moment, everyone present seemed to hear an extremely small sound. The outskirts of the city were particularly quiet after the snow. The three men of Sun Gui, who were still fighting, clashed their swords, making a tinkling sound in the aftermath of the battle. The sound sounded subtle and crisp, which made it very special.
The direction the sound came from was in the gas station lounge.
"Click, click."
Li Liping almost thought she heard wrongly.
She looked up and saw spiderweb-like cracks spreading crazily around the "white spot", covering every corner of the spherical ice shield in an instant.
"Wow."
The ice shield shattered into fragments of ice crystals.
Li Liping's eyes widened in disbelief, but Zhou Jin was very calm, as if this was a change he had expected.
"Zhou Jin, what did you do again?"
It may be too unbelievable that all this happened, so Yang Xiaoxiao's voice also contained a little panic.
Why can a mediocre light-based flying sword break through ice shields? Will Brother Lang Hua be in danger after losing his ice shield?
"Me?" Zhou Jin shook his head and smiled, "Thank you for imagining me to be so powerful. However, I, Zhou, dare not claim this 'credit'. Are you right, brother Wang Ming?" ?”
As he spoke, he looked towards a corner of the convenience store. People followed his line of sight and saw a human figure reluctantly walking out of the shadows behind the shelves. He was a tall and thin figure in a plaid shirt, with black-rimmed glasses on his burned cheeks. Who could he be if he wasn't Wang Ming? who?
"It turns out it's you!" Lin Qian suddenly felt a surge of grief and anger, her blood rushed to the top of her head, and her hands holding the ax handle couldn't help but tremble.
Wang Ming ignored Lin Qian. He just looked at Zhou Jin with an aggrieved expression.
"Dean Zhou, this is different from what we agreed before."
Zhou Jin had a smile in his eyes: "Brother Wang Ming, as a powerful person, since you want to divide the 'cake', you still have to work harder."
"Dean Zhou, you are really good at calculating!"
The flame of anger burned in Wang Ming's heart. He had hidden it well in secret, and only had to do what Zhou Jin told him. Zhou Jin promised to finish the rest by himself and leave him alone! But what about now? What kind of accident is this? There is no need to say "spread the word" to deceive children. Didn't Zhou Jin just want to drag himself into trouble? Could it be that without him, he wouldn't be able to win over these people?
The evolutionary ability "Extended Shaping" belongs to the "attribute characteristic category", and his qualifications are mediocre, resulting in extremely limited combat power. I wonder if Zhou Jin would be glad that there was one less person to share the spoils with if he had some shortcomings in the battle?
Thinking of this, Wang Ming looked at Zhou Jin with hatred.
"Brother Wang Ming, you have wrongly blamed me. This is a good opportunity for you to make a name for yourself. Since you have strength, instead of hiding it, why not show your skills openly to convince the public? ?”
Zhou Jin's face darkened as he spoke: "Besides, under my men, even the King of Heaven, I can't even imagine that I can eat meat and drink soup just by watching a show. Wang Ming, what do you think of me, Mr. Zhou?" Will it be easy to take advantage of it?"
"Okay", Wang Ming's cheek muscles twitched, "I just hope that after this battle, what Dean Zhou promised will be true to his word!"
Zhou Jin said expressionlessly: "Don't worry, I will definitely satisfy you."
Just like his unfounded threats, Zhou Jin's guarantee has no practical significance. But the arrow has to be fired, and Wang Ming knows that if he decides to stop now, no matter which side wins afterwards, he will definitely not be spared lightly!
He took a deep breath and launched an attack on Li Liping without saying a word!
Although he has no offensive power, he does have an assault rifle in his hand. After all, people with abilities will always receive more preferential treatment than ordinary people.
The rifle fired one after another, and Wang Ming wasted no time in using the magazine. The 7.62mm bullets poured out on the newly formed protective ice shield. The ice crystals burst layer by layer and fell to the ground to form a thick layer of white powder. The ice shield became thinner in a very short period of time, and was full of cracks like a glass window that had been hit by stones.
The ice shield formed for the third time was extremely fragile, which was completely different from the invisible shield formed by "Bing Qinglian" for the first time. The first-level spherical ice shield at that time could catch even Zhou Jin's full-strength shots. Hundreds of lightsabers would shatter in exchange for the protection of the ice shield. But now, just the rifle in Wang Ming's hand can pose a great threat to it.
High-strength ice crystals have a dense structure. With the blessing of the "Ice Clear Lotus" ice-based evolutionary crystal energy, their impact resistance is comparable to the best bulletproof glass in the world. But now that Li Liping has held up the ice shield three times, she is at the end of her strength. The crystal energy reserves in her body are close to the dangerous red line, the energy circulation is disordered, and she is on the verge of coma at any time. The effectiveness of the ice shield has also dropped significantly and is no longer what it used to be.
"Aunt Ping!" Wang Ming added insult to injury, making Lin Qian's eyes wide open. She wanted to step forward to rescue her, but was unexpectedly stopped by Zhou Jin first. Yang Xiaoxiao tried to force a breakthrough, but was blocked by Zhou Jin with a sword.
"Why are you so anxious?" Zhou Jin's side face was as beautiful as jade, but what he said did not arouse the slightest favor between the two of them.
"Two ladies, it seems that the battle between us is not over yet, right?"
"Zhou Jin, go to hell!" Lin Qian's eyes were filled with scarlet red, and she rushed forward in three steps and two steps at a time, raising her ax high and slashing down instantly. In anger, her strength suddenly increased by 30%, and the ax blade struck down as unstoppably as a meteor.
But Zhou Jin suddenly turned sideways, dodged the ax blade, and punched the opponent hard in the abdomen. Lin Qian flew backwards and hit a gas station, feeling pain in her internal organs. Yang Xiaoxiao's dagger attack also failed to work. She was knocked back by a whip kick again. Fortunately, Lin Qian supported her and prevented her from falling and suffering internal injuries.
Zhou Jin is right, if the two of them can't defeat him, any rescue will be just a delusion!
The two looked at each other, separated again, and attacked forward at the same time.
...
The ice shield was clearly unable to support itself under frequent gunfire, which made Wang Ming gradually feel relieved. After emptying three magazines, all the negative emotions in his body were released. Wang Ming felt sincerely comfortable. It could be said that this was the second time he was so happy since he became an ability user.
The first time was when he awakened as an esper, and the second time is now!
That night at the Coast Bar, although Wang Ming successfully awakened his evolutionary ability, he found that his combat power was still at the bottom among several ability users. This had to be a blow to him. Survival in the apocalypse depends on whose fist is bigger. Without strong combat power, and even unable to figure out the actual function of his abilities, what status can a person with such abilities have?
However, when the team went back to collect the airdrop, and people were talking about it after dividing the spoils, no one cared about him, the unlucky guy who was injured by the acid corrosion. Wang Ming walked near the airdrop box and unexpectedly discovered that he could affect the material properties of the box. He squatted beside the box and studied it for half an hour. Then with just one kick, the engineering plastic box, which was said to be high-pressure and high-strength, shattered, as if it were made of paper.
This must be the effect of his ability!
Wang Ming was ecstatic, but the next moment he touched the wound on his face and calmed down immediately. As if nothing happened, Wang Ming took two handfuls of dead grass to cover the airdrop box, and then walked aside as if no one was around. People were celebrating the great harvest of this battle, and no one discovered his secret.
Thinking of this, Wang Ming couldn't help but feel proud. This battle is destined to be his battle to become famous and to rectify his name. He wants to tell everyone that he, Wang Ming, is a genuine capable person! He couldn't agree more with what Zhou Jin just said. Those with ability are the chosen ones and should be looked up to by people!
"Click, click."
Wang Ming glanced at the rifle in confusion. It turned out that he had fired all the bullets.
But this was nothing in his mind. Because he is a person with abilities. As a person with abilities, he naturally has to use his evolutionary abilities to fight. Otherwise, how can he clear his name?
When he hid behind the shelves and made a sneak attack before, it was his evolutionary ability "Extended Shaping" that contributed to his success.
As a real object after materialization of energy, protective ice shield has various structural properties such as elasticity, plasticity, and ductility like other materials. No matter what kind of protective shield it is, it needs to use elastic shock absorption to slow down the impact, form a very high frequency of fine reciprocating motion, and accelerate the attenuation of its own vibration, so as to achieve the purpose of protection. If you only rely on the sturdiness and hardness of the material itself, it will often be unusable in frequent and fierce battles.
The same is true for ductility. It allows the material to create space for expansion after receiving external forces, providing conditions for elasticity to function. Even after the structure or component reaches what we think of as a damaged state, it can continue to carry the load until it reaches the ultimate bearing capacity.
However, the ability to extend plasticity is very special. Since that time, Wang Ming has discovered that he can continuously affect the structural characteristics of the target object through a certain invisible wavelength existing in the air. The most basic operation is to slowly attenuate its ductility and plasticity, lower a certain proportion limit, resulting in an increase in the brittleness of the component, and in the end, damage can occur without any warning with just a light hit.
Although these similar abilities in the structural characteristics category are not outstanding in combat power, they often have some magical effects. When used, they can moisten things silently and corrode bones and marrow, making it difficult for people to guard against.
If Lang Hua was still awake at this moment, he could think of various uses for this ability, such as strengthening city walls, strengthening weapons, etc.
As the saying goes - there is no such thing as completely useless abilities, only those with useless abilities who don't know how to develop their abilities.
Along the way, the protective ice shield formed by Bingqinglian has long been recognized for its powerful defensive power. Even Zhou Jin was not sure of winning it directly. After all, there were many capable people on Lang Hua's side. But last night, he secretly incited everyone to rebel. In order to increase his voice, Wang Ming directly spoke frankly about the effect of "Extended Sculpting" ability. It was like someone came to give me a pillow when I was dozing off, and then today's scene of forcing her into the womb happened.
You must know that "Bingqinglian" can make the ice crystal molecules in the ice shield orderly arrange in a high-pressure and low-temperature environment, and the special polymer formed can effectively absorb and dissipate vibration energy. Therefore, in addition to the extremely high strength of the ice shield itself, Bingqinglian has been able to make great achievements in previous battles. The particularity of this material is also very critical.
If Wang Ming hadn't secretly intervened and the protective ice shield gradually formed a permanent plastic deformation at the microscopic level, how could the ice shield collapse and shatter so quickly? Eventually, the ice shield gradually loses its elasticity, and its ability to absorb external forces continues to decrease. High-strength ice crystals are repeatedly hit by warheads, and the stress balance within the ice crystals is gradually broken.
...
By the time Wang Ming attacked, the ice shield was already on the verge of collapse, and the situation was precarious.
"How about it? If you want to surrender, you'd better do it early. Form is stronger than people. Don't be too stubborn."
Wang Ming did not feel pity, but just acted like a capable person and gave Li Liping a few words of advice.
The other party didn't say anything, but Xiao Heizi not far away couldn't stand it and sneered at him: "You don't have any bullets, why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf!"
"Bullets?" Wang Ming chuckled, "Who said I have to use guns and bullets?"
He had already seen Li Liping's weakness, so he no longer held back. A coil of steel wire suddenly floated up under his feet and flew into the lounge in an instant. The steel wire spread out and tightly wrapped around the last spherical ice shield, like a thin hemp rope binding a rice dumpling.
"bundle!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the tightrope suddenly tightened! The ice shield was overwhelmed, making a dangerous "creak" sound, and ice crystal powder exploded all over the floor!
"You see." Wang Ming said calmly, "This is my ability to evolve. Even a roll of steel wire can become the toughest thing in the world! If you don't want to be crushed by my 'wire array', you should do it as soon as possible. Surrender!"
Before, he would still be afraid of Li Liping using the ice cone technique to attack secretly, but now he was sure! Li Liping's evolutionary energy is almost exhausted, and all of it has been used to maintain the defensive ice shield. Now she no longer even has the strength to speak. Next, it’s time for him to perform the trick of catching a turtle in an urn!
Seeing that the ice shield protecting Li Liping and Lang Hua was tightly bound by the steel wire array, Xiao Heizi was so anxious that he yelled at Wang Ming from a distance: "You ungrateful white-eyed wolf, you forgot that it was Aunt Ping who gave you the injury after your face was injured." Has the injury been treated?"
"Treat the injury?" His question made Wang Ming angry. He turned around and roared, tearing off the soft cloth wrapped around half of his face, "Look at my face, this is what I have been cured of." hurt!"
This face startled everyone. There were no eyebrows on that half of the face, the eyelids were wrinkled, and the nose was half collapsed. Although the cheeks were no longer ulcerated, the new skin was full of red and black hideous scars. There is no doubt that Wang Ming has been completely disfigured.
"But this is not Brother Lang and Aunt Ping's fault!" Duan Qing also said angrily, "If you want revenge, why don't you go find the Type A spitter?"
"Looking for it? It's dead, can I find it?" Wang Ming smiled. On this face, no matter what kind of smile it is, it will make people feel scary.
"If I hadn't treated your injuries, you might have been corroded by the acid and died." Li Liping actually spoke, which surprised Wang Ming.
He seemed to feel that the opponent still had some strength left, so he concentrated all his energy on the steel wire array. Originally, he used a steel armor composed of iron sheets to protect himself, but now he directly removed it and poured all the remaining energy into the attack skill "Steel Wire Array".
"Kaka."
The ice shield continued to explode, and Li Liping's pressure increased sharply, and she no longer had the strength to speak.
Wang Ming felt very satisfied. He said: "It is true that you treated my injury. But this is what you owe me! Yes, Lang Hua did not hurt me, and you did not instruct the spitting black corpse to attack me. But do I deserve to suffer this kind of pain? "
He became angry again: "What did I do wrong? I was just a team member who followed the arrangement and obeyed the command. You didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of you. In the end, it was not Lang Hua's misjudgment that caused this. Have I turned into this kind of person who is neither a human nor a ghost?"
Wang Ming looked at Lang Hua who was in a coma, and his eyes were about to burst into flames of anger: "From the second wave of corpses to seizing the airdrop, which time were there no casualties? It's obvious that we just need to move forward, why do we want to cause more trouble? You You are the captain, the leader, you have agreed to one decision after another. You should bear the main responsibility for Zhang Weibo's death, my injury, and every casualty in the team! Incompetent leader, you have the nerve to say anything about saving it!"
Panting, he finally said what he had hidden in his heart for a long time. After venting his complaints, Wang Ming felt the pleasure of standing on a high place and overlooking others.
Until a cold voice sounded.
"But at least he is saving people," Chen Xinyan turned away her gun and walked through the crowd as if there was no one around. "Do you think if it were you, you could do better than Lang Hua?"
Wang Ming glared at her and said: "Dr. Chen, you are too lenient. You know people and faces but don't know their hearts. Who knew Lang Hua wouldn't want to use us as live bait to lure away the corpses at any time!"
"Haha, you really have the heart of a villain." Chen Xinyan suddenly said sternly, "I don't know what kind of person Lang Hua is, but you behave like a complete scum!"
"You!" Wang Ming gritted his teeth and looked very angry.
Zhou Jin seems to have some interest in Chen Xinyan, but after this battle, Wang Ming's self-confidence has been unprecedentedly expanded, but he doesn't mind using his hands to destroy flowers and use the person in front of him to scare the monkeys!
But Chen Xinyan didn't seem to be able to distinguish the situation, so she continued to speak: "Wang Ming, Wang Ming, you really make me feel disgusted! Letting people like you live in the world is simply dirtying my eyes. So. , just ask you to die!"
As she spoke, she raised her right hand to her chest and squeezed it hard, and a bright light suddenly flashed across her face.
Wang Ming only felt a chill in his throat, and then in full view of everyone, a very thin red line appeared on his neck.
"What? You..."
He couldn't talk any more. The vibration in his trachea caused the red line to suddenly expand, and blood shot out like a fountain. No matter how much he covered his throat, he couldn't stop it.
Wang Ming was destined to die. As the first person to die after the melee started, what killed him was a small blade.
In his last sight, Chen Xinyan held the blade with her fingers and said with regret: "It's a pity that your brother was exposed early because of his trash."
"Ah, he's dead!" Someone in the team of evolvers suddenly screamed. Along the way, many people died in the hands of black corpses, but now Wang Ming died in the hands of his own people. The impact this has on them is immeasurable.
"Get down, everyone get down!"
In the chaos, the three veterans, Lao Chen, threw down the people around them, lay down with their guns and fired directly at the opposite side.
The chaos escalated, and the two parties began to shoot at each other.
