Early the next morning after the battle, Lang Hua's team set off deep into the jungle.
After experiencing the battle at Tai Fung Gas Station, the group of survivors was sparsely populated, but Xu was about to reach the finish line, so his mental outlook was much better.
People walked one after another on the path opened by their predecessors, and the only sounds in their ears were the heavy breathing of their companions and the subtle pop of dead branches crushed under their feet. The team included second-level ability users like Lei Li and Lang Hua, as well as ordinary people like Duan Qing who had just entered the evolutionary stage, so they could never increase their speed.
After the disaster broke out, the atmosphere was always filled with a gray mist of varying shades. The fog lingers among the mountains and forests, appearing turbid and gray-white due to the low temperature in the early morning. Looking from a distance, the dense mist surges with the mountain wind, revealing tall fir trees from time to time. It was as if an invisible giant beast was opening its bloody mouth and quietly swallowing the entire mountain.
It was at this moment that the survivor team followed Lang Hua firmly into the Fengwei Mountain jungle.
The fog was originally bottomless, but once people get closer, they will find that the visibility here is actually pretty good. Although it is early winter, there are still many cold-resistant tree species in the jungle with lush branches and leaves. Many small branches and leaves are mingled above people's heads, completely blocking the world outside the jungle.
After walking for a while, I never heard a few birdsong, which made people feel scared. Duan Qing stared at what was going on around her with her eyes wide open, and nervously pulled on her brother Duan Hei's sleeve. The others were not much better. Because they had already experienced the horror of the apocalypse, they maintained 200% vigilance against monster attacks that might appear at any time, causing the atmosphere in the team to become increasingly silent and depressing.
In the dim woods, there were only gray-brown fir trees around. Under the trees, a thick layer of fallen leaves accumulated over the years. Dew and mist enveloped them for many days, forming a smell of humus like rotten wood.
Lang Hua, Lin Wenjin, and Yang Bensheng formed a formation in the shape of "pin" to clear the way in front. The rear of the formation was guarded by swordsmen and swordsmen, and the remaining people were guarded in the center. Hai Ping and Lan Xi were given awakening potions by Lang Hua last night, and now they have become capable persons. When their abilities were awakened, many of their internal injuries were healed, allowing the two of them to not only return to their peak state, but also go one step further.
However, compared to Lan Xi, who volunteered to take care of Yang Xiaoxiao, Haiping was even more taciturn at this time. He was alone in the team with a knife on his back, not knowing what he was thinking.
Except for the few crystal nuclei that Lang Hua used to temper the Mo Dao, the rest of the crystal nuclei that could be found in the team were collected by Lang Hua and used to make three evolution potions, which were given to Lin Qian, Haiping and Lan Xi respectively. Down.
Evolution potions in the apocalypse are usually divided into two types. A potion prepared from a large number of ordinary "homogeneous heterogeneous energy crystal nuclei", such as a medicine made entirely from black corpse and black beast crystal nuclei. The second type is to add "same energy crystal nuclei of the same origin" into the pharmaceutical raw materials.
As for the so-called homologous and homogeneous species, according to the official statement from the "Council of Science and Technology" at the beginning of the third year of the end of the world, this should actually be understood.
As early as the eve of the catastrophe, the black mist of spores infested the earth's atmosphere, giving rise to countless evolved creatures. These creatures have all undergone genetic mutations due to this black mist outbreak, so they are homologous evolution creatures. So at present, all living creatures on the earth should be counted as homologous evolution creatures.
The spore community crystals contained in the brains of evolved creatures are also called energy crystal nuclei or evolutionary crystal nuclei. After awakening evolutionary abilities, they are called ability crystal nuclei or special crystal nuclei.
Due to the existence of dominant necromorphs, recessive parasites, and different species types among homologous evolutionary organisms, they are divided into dominant necromorphs such as black corpses and corpse beasts, and recessive parasites such as black beasts and evolvers. body. The four of them are homologous and heterogeneous organisms, and the evolutionary nuclei in their bodies are also homologous and heterogeneous nuclei.
As for different individuals of the same species, such as Lang Hua and Lin Wenjin, or Black Corpse No. 1 and Black Corpse No. 2, they are both homologous creatures and the same species, and the energy crystal nuclei in their bodies are of the same origin. Allogeneic crystal nuclei.
Therefore, for humans, the "homogeneous and allogeneic energy" crystal nucleus refers specifically to the evolver crystal nucleus. By "obtaining" crystal nuclei from organisms of the same species and swallowing them directly, or preparing medicine and taking them. Because the evolutionary information is similar, the compatibility is relatively stronger, the probability of ability awakening is higher, and the same amount of medicine requires fewer crystal nuclei.
However, although this kind of medicine has powerful effects, it can easily induce cannibalism and violate social ethics. Therefore, it has been widely criticized and has not been on the table for many years.
And if a special crystal core, that is, the ability crystal core of an ability user after awakening, is put into the original solution of the potion as the main drug, the success rate of the awakening potion will be greatly increased, up to more than 70%.
As the saying goes, if capital has 50% profit, it will take desperate risks; if it has 100% profit, it will dare to trample all laws in the world; if it has 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime. . As for the evolvers who can struggle to survive in the apocalypse, there is no one who is not a desperado. For them, a 70% chance of success is almost equivalent to 200%. They can't help but be tempted!
From this, a new category of potions gradually emerged, namely "ability plundering potions". Because it was first discovered in the American theater, the official name is "Raven Power medicament", or RP-type medicine for short.
Depending on the type of catalyst incorporated, this type of potion is divided into enhanced, plundering type Ⅰ and plundering type Ⅱ potions. The effect of the enhanced type of potion is summarized as "promoting the evolutionary ability of people with the same ability", while the latter two make ordinary evolution There is a chance of awakening some kind of evolutionary ability.
Previously at Lin's Club, Lin Qian swallowed Chaosandao's hegemonic core with the help of a potion, thus improving her "hegemony" ability to the first stage of perfection. This is the result of the enhanced RP potion.
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The black mist of spores erupted in a blowout on "Advent Day", which was the first and most cruel natural selection after the apocalypse began. Among them, there were not many people who were lucky enough to escape the fate of being transformed into corpses, and who happened to not be bitten to death by black corpses.
In the first night, the world lost more than 90% of its population. Afterwards, zombies rioted, beasts attacked, and humans killed each other. In the previous life, the number of people who could survive until the end of the three years was less than 100 million.
How many ability users are there among them? Only ten thousand!
In 2275, the world's registered population totaled 8.7 billion, with 10,000 people accounting for only 0.00115%. Based on this calculation, the number of people who can survive three years of the end of the world and become capable persons is far less than one in 100,000. The ratio is simply appallingly low.
The smallest number of capable people have the highest status and the best resources in the world, and they are also the mainstay at the forefront of human resistance. It can be said that humans were able to establish a firm foothold three years before the disaster and were able to compete with the two major camps of black corpses and black beasts. The achievements of the ability users cannot be ignored.
However, the vast majority of evolvers after the cataclysm are unable to awaken their abilities throughout their lives and become espers.
In the crisis-ridden apocalypse, ordinary evolvers who are lucky enough to survive have only three ways to awaken their abilities. The first is to passively wait for the black mist to erupt twice a year; the second is to take the ability awakening potion or the ability plundering potion; the third is to swallow various special crystal nuclei of unknown origin, including black corpses, corpse beasts, black beasts, and even death. of human abilities.
The third method is the most dangerous, and the first method is the least risky, but it is also the slowest and has the lowest probability. But no matter which method is used, awakening abilities is not 100% achievable. Success depends on talent, luck, and timing.
In the early days of the apocalypse, people absorb energy by directly swallowing crystal nuclei to increase the energy level in their bodies and advance to higher levels. At this time, the human body's absorption and conversion rate of foreign crystal nucleus energy is at least 30%.
After the emergence of the "vinegar supplement method", the energy conversion rate of ordinary crystal core medicine is about 50% to 60%. In comparison, the success probability of ability awakening potions is even lower, never exceeding the 50% mark.
Evolution potions are one of the most expensive consumables in the apocalypse. Taking medicine requires spending a lot of money and sometimes even risking your life. And once it fails, at least three years of efforts by an ordinary evolver may be in vain.
Human beings have used their own ingenuity to increase the energy conversion rate of crystal nuclei from 30% to 50%. Although "roulette" has become a "coin toss", for ordinary evolvers with no power or money, awakening abilities is still a very difficult task.
Until the "Ability Plunder Potion" came out, the probability of ability awakening increased from 50% to 75% or even 90%.
But the change in the process is not just a number on paper. Because probability is just some kind of big data, and for many evolvers, it may be that they awaken successfully after taking the potion for the first time and become masters.
For them, ability awakening always has only two results: 0% and 100%. Now that there is a 100% chance of a sharp rise, how can we not make them crazy about it!
Let’s talk about the effects of using the latter two ability plundering potions. Compared with the enhanced type, which can promote the same ability level, the plundering type Ⅰ and plundering type Ⅱ potions are respectively used to promote "ordinary evolvers have a 90% chance of awakening the core." Additional abilities" and "Ordinary evolvers have a 75% chance of awakening random abilities."
"Awakening the abilities attached to this crystal core" naturally refers to the ability to plunder, but the second sentence of Kemeng's summary is worthy of some scrutiny.
Because since it is "awakening random abilities", there is naturally the possibility of useless abilities being produced. Compared to acquiring an unknown evolutionary ability, or failing to awaken the ability directly, it seems safer to directly plunder the original ability in the ability crystal core.
Among the ability crystal cores in Lang Hua's hands, due to the long time since Lao Hu's death, the ability crystal cores have dissipated seriously and are no longer suitable as the main ingredient of the potion.
Whether it is Sun Gui's "Unmoving as a Mountain" or Wang Ming's "Extended Sculpture", they are obviously not suitable for swordsmen who pursue lethality and speed.
Lang Hua, who has been reborn, knows how important the appropriate evolutionary ability is for an ability user.
Although there may seem to be a lot of people with over ten thousand abilities, those who possess the most advantageous ability, that is, the "destiny ability" are very rare. Many people just keep changing their combat habits on the road of evolution, forcing themselves to adapt to the development of abilities instead of complementing their evolutionary abilities.
The strength and characteristics of an evolutionary ability will seriously restrict the development of an ability user in the middle and later stages. It can become a ladder for ordinary people to reach the sky in one step. Naturally, it may also become a fish bone stuck in the throat and a stumbling block on the road.
During the battle at Taifeng Gas Station, Hai Ping and Lan Xi did not take a step back even though they were seriously injured. They had already proven their loyalty through actions. Both of them have good fighting consciousness and good character. Lang Hua has high hopes for them and naturally does not want their talents to be wasted.
He preferred to err on the side of failure and used the Plunder II potion to allow the two of them to continuously awaken random abilities until they succeeded. It’s not that Lang Hua doesn’t have the formula to eliminate useless abilities. Even if doing so will waste a lot of resources, he will find the “destined abilities” for the two of them and make them the strongest swordsmen and swordsmen!
"Ability Looting Potion" is undoubtedly an evil way to increase the probability of ability awakening.
This method had been widely circulated in the dark corners of the world in the previous life, and Lang Hua only learned of it for the first time when he wiped out the Black Blood Altar branch.
In fact, this method is not complicated. It just needs to replace the ordinary black corpse and black beast crystal nuclei in the potion except the ability crystal nuclei, and replace them with homologous and homologous crystal nuclei with higher compatibility. The higher the level of the ability to plunder the potion, the more evolver crystal cores are needed and the quality must be higher.
Since ancient times, one general has achieved great success but thousands of bones withered. This kind of thing has always been difficult to overcome, but difficult to overcome.
Thinking of this, Lang Hua couldn't help but squint his eyes, and the corpses of human evolutionaries lying on the ground seemed to reappear in his sight.
"There is movement ahead."
Yang Bensheng's warning interrupted everyone's random thoughts. As soon as he raised his hand, the team immediately stopped and everyone became nervous.
At this time, a few rays of morning light were tenaciously penetrating through the layers of branches and leaves, making the fog in the forest slightly glow orange-red.
When people calmed down, they heard a few whimpers from unknown animals nearby.
"In front." Lin Wenjin whispered.
"Xiaohua, please stay, Lao Lin and I will come and take a look." Yang Bensheng waved his hand, and people gathered together consciously. The ability users were scattered outside, while the rest squatted on the ground without saying a word, looking around warily.
But just when Yang Bensheng and the two were about to go to see what was going on, the grass in front suddenly shook violently, and the next moment a giant wolf jumped out. This guy was as tall as a calf, and he was all white except for some long tawny hair on his ears, sides and outside of his legs.
"What the hell!"
Lin Wenjin was startled, raised his hand and attacked with a fireball.
But the opponent seemed to be more agile than expected. He just jumped to the side and dodged the fireball attack. Afterwards, the eyes he looked at the crowd became more and more hateful, and the brown eyes in his black slanted eyes shrank into a straight line, which made Lin Wenjin feel chills all over his body.
Only then did people see clearly that there was a lot of dark red blood on the giant wolf. The left front leg was dripping with blood and was half lifted off the ground, as if it had been bitten hard by something.
Wolves are social animals, and a group of wolves can range from 5 to 30. Lin Wenjin couldn't help but become vigilant when he thought of this.
"It's a snow wolf. How can there be a snow wolf in Fengwei Mountain?"
Yang Bensheng backed away cautiously, trying to distance himself from the giant wolf: "You have to ask the executors of the 'Returning Forest Movement'!"
"Ridiculous! These idiots are letting loose wildly, I can't wait to catch them and feed them to the wolves now!"
"Don't think about it. It was the beginning of the century at that time, and all the people had died in the past seventy years. It would be better to ask your grandfather to go there." Yang Bensheng glanced at the other party's lower abdomen, and then reminded, "It's a mutated female wolf. , be careful that the alpha wolf is nearby!”
Wolf packs have always been organized in the form of a nuclear family, with the strongest couple as the leader of the pack. They are typical upper-level predators on the food chain. In their habitat, only humans and advanced species such as ligers pose a real threat to them.
However, compared with southern provinces and cities, the ecological recovery of the Fengwei Mountain boundary after the "Reforestation Movement" is not complete. Judging from the size of the female wolf, she should not be an ordinary member of the wolf pack. Perhaps this wolf also benefited a lot when the black mist broke out.
"Ouch——"
The female wolf let out a low howl, and four wild wolves jumped out of the trees on the left and right of the team. These four wild wolves are relatively small, only as big as a large dog, but they look long and thin, so they are expected to be fast black beasts.
They surrounded the crowd from left to right. The wolf's paws were stretched flat, the fur on its back stood up, its lips were wrinkled so that its front teeth were exposed, its tail was raised flat, its back was arched, and from time to time it let out threatening roars.
"ah--"
Duan Qing belatedly let out an exclamation, then covered her mouth tightly, grabbed Xiao Heizi's sleeve and did not dare to move again, for fear of becoming the first target of the wild wolf.
Xiao Heizi couldn't hold his breath, and a wind blade on his right hand slowly took shape, urging Lang Hua: "Leader!"
We can't wait any longer. Wild wolves are ferocious and agile, and are the kings of the prairie who are good at hunting. Maybe those with abilities are not afraid of these beasts, but ordinary evolved people might be injured by them!
Lang Hua winked at Yang Bensheng and the two people at the front, and then shouted in a deep voice: "Skilled people, follow me. Aunt Ping, the rest of the people are left to you!"
People in the West generally believe that wolves with lighter coats are more aggressive. In fact, this snow wolf is indeed extremely difficult to deal with. When the giant wolf jumped, its huge paws fluttered with the wind, and no one dared to resist. The wolf's teeth were thick and terrifying, and even the wolf's tail was thick and powerful, like a hammer.
With just one face-to-face encounter, Lin Wenjin, who was unprepared, was "swept" out. He was the first to take action before, and he was obviously already resented.
"Old Lin, how are you?"
"I'm fine. Be careful, this beast is very strong."
"Xiaohua, let me attract its attention. You are ready to take action at any time!" Yang Bensheng no longer hesitated, raised his hand and threw out a few water balloons to harass.
The speed of the water balls was not slow. Most of them were not avoided by the female wolf and hit the wolf directly, causing the latter to keep retreating. However, the water ball failed to cause any actual injuries, so while the female wolf was shaking her head, there was a kind of anger after being teased on the wolf's face, which actually looked quite humane.
"Uh-huh!"
The she-wolf rushed over again in a blink of an eye, but unexpectedly, a dead branch pierced the ground half a meter in front of her like a sharp arrow. The dead branch was three inches into the ground, and its tail was trembling slightly, which was enough to show the power of this blow.
The female wolf couldn't help but startled, and her pounce movement stopped abruptly.
But more attacks are coming.
"Divine Mind-Control!"
Water sources are not widely distributed in the jungle, but dead branches and leaves can be found everywhere. Those withered branches and leaves that were originally lying at the feet of everyone were actually turned into countless sharp arrows and sharp blades under the control of Yang Bunsheng and shot at them!
"Whizzing--"
"brush--"
Fallen leaves and dead branches are already close to decaying existence, but with the blessing of "spiritual thoughts" energy, even dead leaves have turned into "blade" with sharp edges.
But the next moment, these "sharp arrows" and "sharp blades" just smashed into the wolf one after another. Apart from making the female wolf even more angry, they did not cause any substantial damage.
"What?"
Only then did people see clearly - the wolf fur had a faint silver-gray sheen, and perhaps had a good defensive attribute.
Yang Bensheng's mind control was limited by the environment and could not exert its maximum lethality.
But he was not discouraged. Instead, he clenched his right fist tightly, and there seemed to be a flash of sharpness in his eyes.
"Think!"
The next moment, people only felt that the airflow in this space seemed to be still for a moment, and then they saw a "fist" as big as a bull's head suddenly appear in mid-air. The fist appeared translucent, and as soon as it appeared, it struck down with lightning speed, hitting the side of the female wolf!
"Bang!"
After this string of airflow columns penetrated the space and hit the target, they immediately dissipated invisible. Only then did people feel that the breeze around them had picked up again and the air flow had returned to smooth flow.
"Ouch——"
The female wolf was knocked to the ground and rolled several times. After getting up, she let out a cry of pain, and a blue-purple electric light flashed when she opened her mouth.
Soon enough, a bolt of lightning rushed towards Yang Bensheng's face! Yang Bensheng instinctively backed up, but the lightning was too fast and unexpected. How could he avoid it?
"Brother Sheng!" "Uncle Yang!"
Lin Wenjin was worried, but he saw a vague figure running past him. It's Lang Hua!
At this moment, Lang Hua's "Crystal Core Field" showed its power, and the space-time stagnation effect was activated instantly, winning a precious moment for him and Yang Bensheng.
"Charge! Re-engraved-Fengxing! Re-engraved-Phantom!"
All the sounds around him suddenly disappeared, and the spherical space with a radius of five meters seemed to have turned into a slow-motion photography. Yang Bensheng staggered back, Lin Wenjin opened his mouth wide in surprise, the she-wolf bared her fangs in preparation for the next attack, and even Lang Hua's thinking seemed to be frozen, the brain's rotation slowed down, and he was unable to think quickly.
In a matter of seconds, Lang Hua couldn't allow himself to think too much. He was just constantly using evolutionary skills related to speed, hoping that this explosive power would allow him to break through the constraints of space power and increase his speed by another level.
Closer, closer still. There's still a little left, just the last little bit left!
Lang Hua opened his mouth wide and let out a silent roar. Finally, he jumped up, unsheathed his Mo Dao, and with a "swipe" sound, it lay in front of Yang Bensheng.
"Bang!" There was an explosion, and a plume of green smoke immediately appeared on the ground. Lang Hua and Yang Bensheng flew out together from the smoke.
