At the same time, the jungle of Fengwei Mountain in the southwest of Shashi was crowded with people. A team of three hundred people slowly emerged from the dense forest, lined up in two columns and set off towards a valley. Next to this valley is another peak in the southwest of Shashi - Nata Mountain.
Looking at the team, there are mostly young and middle-aged men and a few female evolvers. They are all elite soldiers carefully selected from the new members of the base. It can be said that these groups of evolvers, who are generally in the middle to late first order, are the current backbone of the Langya City base. Lang Hua and other capable users are leading the way at the front of the large army. They represent the current high-end combat power of Langya City.
The sun was rising, and three hours had passed since the large army left Langya City. In addition to portable firearms, most people are also carrying various supplies such as fuel, which naturally makes them very tired over time. Despite this, no one complained about the noise, which shows that Lao Chen's military training was very effective.
After passing through a sparse fir forest, the last green color suddenly diminished. In front of us is an empty river valley, and under the towering Nata Mountain are all withered yellow grass and gray-white poplar forests. The hilly landforms all over southern Huaibei Province end abruptly here, and after Nata Mountain is the vast eastern Qinling Mountains.
After walking into the valley, Lang Hua first stopped and observed the surrounding terrain. When Yang Bensheng saw this, he asked the team to stop and repair on the spot.
"Is this here?" Yang Bensheng asked.
"It can't be wrong." Lang Hua nodded, "If there are no accidents, the first batch of gelatin cores will be generated when the sun is at its strongest."
The black mist vortex they had seen was formed by the accumulation of high-concentration black mist energy left after a large-scale eruption of black mist. But the gelatinous core wants exactly the opposite. It takes shape at the moment when the sunlight is at its peak and the density of the black fog is at its lowest. It is like the ultimate counterattack of the black fog energy, forming this magical energy product in one fell swoop.
"Attention everyone, we have half an hour to repair, eat up the supplies you brought, and check the weapons and equipment. Come back here and assemble in half an hour!"
"yes!"
"We're going to build fortifications here for a big battle."
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Lang Hua wandered leisurely in the valley. As the two parties gradually moved away, the orders issued by Yang Bensheng and others gradually became blurred. He looked at everything around him casually, and a strong sense of familiarity came over him. It seemed that countless memories were traveling through time and space, gathering into dots, dots into lines, and lines into surfaces in his mind, and countless pictures were outlined. A three-dimensional life that unfolds scenes from the past.
Lang Hua should be familiar with this place, because this is the former site of the Nata Mountain Scientific Research Base in his previous life. No, it should be said that at this time, the Tashan Scientific Research Base will still be something that will only appear in three years.
When the garrison in Nanqi City wiped out the Chaosandao forces entrenched in Fengwei Mountain in Sha City, the reason for the rapid rise of Chaosandao was no longer a secret. I have to say that Chaosandao's luck is very good. There is not only Fengwei Mountain, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but also a forgotten arms secret warehouse, as well as an extremely precious "refresh point" of the gel melt core.
This place is the Nata Mountain Valley at the foot, and it is also the location where the Southern Qi Military Region later funded the construction of a scientific research base. Only by establishing a biological laboratory here can the true strength of Chen Xinyan, a double expert, be brought into full play.
In the thirteen years of his previous life, Lang Hua had witnessed with his own eyes more than once the battle for the core of glue and melting, both large and small. Those various colloid cores are molten cores wrapped by colored light groups, often in red, green and blue colors, and the interior is similar to an enlarged version of a colloidal droplet.
It can help the host materialize an individual's specific crystal energy into an ability carrier, allowing those with abilities to increase their abilities or those without abilities to have similar evolutionary abilities.
To put it simply, it can strengthen people with abilities, or enable ordinary people to obtain certain special abilities.
Just imagine, if some evolvers who have failed to awaken their abilities several times suddenly had a 100% chance to become espers, would they go crazy about it?
This method is very different from the ability person to create "followers". The evolutionary ability formed after absorbing the colloid core is very stable and can be compared with the evolution of the crystal core. Therefore, people with this type of fusion core ability are also called "sub-ability users" or "free followers."
The ability of the evolved person to awaken is inextricably linked to the evolved person's own experience. The special evolutionary phenomenon caused by the melted core is similar to it, but it is relatively more susceptible to the influence of subjective consciousness. For example, a person who desires power will most likely awaken special abilities related to power after absorbing the gel core. The gel core is more likely to reflect the thoughts of the evolver. This special awakening is also vividly called "projection".
From the time the gelatin core was first discovered to its widespread use in the middle of the end of the world, people have been arguing about its origin. During this period, a total of more than ten interpretation methods appeared, and the two most accepted schools were the "original school" and the "tianwai school".
The original school believes that the natural world is extremely complex, and the various manifestations since the end of the world are always beyond human common sense. Although the "Gel Fusion Core" has strange effects and is rare in quantity, it should also be an earth catastrophe similar to the "Black Mist Vortex" native product.
The second type is the "Tianwai School". Although there is no clear evidence that this kind of object comes from extraterrestrial life, most biological experts in previous lives, including Chen Xinyan, have said that the fusion core is most likely an alien product, that is, it was specifically produced by the alien ecosystem in the black fog disaster. The symbol of the evolutionary system has a parallel relationship with the energy crystal nucleus, which is of the same origin and different species.
Because there are both terrestrial planets with hard crusts like the Earth in the solar system, and gas giant planets like Jupiter. The evolutionary capabilities of Earth's creatures are all derived from the genetic codes produced over billions of years. It is like a universal genetic atavism, focusing on physical abilities. However, the colloid core is more inclined to the construction of the organism's imagination or mental power, and its evolutionary direction is obviously not the same system as the energy crystal core.
Moreover, although the gelatinous core appeared many times in the thirteen years of the end of the world, the scale was not large each time and was far less widespread than the black mist outbreak. What's more, as evidenced by the great counterattack in the last ten years, countless evolvers who used the gel core were instantly wiped out of consciousness and became puppets who obeyed instructions. They turned back and swung the butcher knife to their comrades. It is difficult not to suspect that the release of the "Melting Core" is a long-planned conspiracy by the Star Thieves group.
However, in the apocalypse, power is everything, and the ability to evolve is the source of all wealth and power. Few people can remain rational enough in front of this temptation. Rather than searching for the origin of the glue core, people want to know when and where the next batch of glue cores will be produced.
As for Lang Hua, who was born again, he naturally didn't want these "good things" to go to waste. Lang Hua's advantage over others was that he was the only one in the world who knew how to properly utilize these glue cores. What he has to do before that is to ensure that he holds this batch of gelatin cores firmly in his hands!
Three hours passed by in a flash. During the time when Lang Hua was distracted, the soldiers had already spread out around a tung tree and set up field defenses in sequence.
The old tree with three people hugging each other in front of them is a symbol in Lang Hua's memory.
In the previous life, this place belonged to the Logistics Hospital of Natashan Scientific Research Base. It was one of the small hospitals with a remote location but a spacious status. On the surface, the small courtyard is a place for recuperation and leisure, but in fact it hides the only "Saint-level Gluo-melting Core Refresh Point" in the Central Plains.
With the logistics hospital as a cover, the patient Lang Hua and the director Chen Xinyan can naturally come and go at will without being suspected, and calmly collect first-hand data on the "hair growth" of the gelatin core.
You must know that even in modern China three hundred years ago, it was not an easy task to "learn from the barbarians and gain skills to defeat the barbarians", not to mention that the opponent of mankind in the end of the world is the powerful and mysterious "Star Thief" civilization. Therefore, few people except Chen Xinyan, Lang Hua and the "Chief of Science and Technology Alliance" know about this hidden refresh point. Not only the Qin family who participated in the construction knew nothing about it, but even the senior officials of the Southern Qi Military Region were kept in the dark. inside.
It was not until the late post-apocalypse that Chen Xinyan made breakthrough progress in her research on gelatin cores. By preparing special agents, she could eliminate some of the "correlations" and prevent the tragedy of being deliberately controlled by star thieves. Until the thirteenth year of the end of the world, before the complete defeat of the human race, the names Natashan and Chen Xinyan still held great weight in the world.
In the thirteen years of the previous life, the Logistics Courtyard had a total of six melting cores, which directly led to six animal infestations in the Nata Mountain scientific research base. During this period, the Southern Qi Military Region authorized the Yang Family Garrison Battalion to be stationed at Nata Mountain, not only to protect the two academicians and the military laboratory, but also to deal with the repeated attacks by beasts.
Some of the arms of the Evolvers are full soldiers when they need to build fortifications. Under Lang Hua's instructions, the soldiers set up a circular position with this as the center of the circle. It didn't take long for the defensive position to take shape.
In theory, higher positions should be easier to defend and harder to attack, but the "refresh point" is in the middle of the river valley and will directly bear the greatest pressure from all directions. In the lower terrain, Lang Hua had no choice but to shrink his limited troops to a circular area with a diameter of 1 kilometer. The position forms concentric circles with the old tree as the center. Shooting defense lines and horse-repelling lines are set up at intervals, 200 meters, 500 meters, and 1,000 meters away from the center of the circle. During the battle, they retreat in sequence to extend the attack time.
The position in the center of the river valley faces south and north. The Nata Mountain in the back is steep and theoretically will not be attacked by large-scale black beasts. Lang Hua personally led a group of ability users to garrison it.
The south side of the valley is adjacent to Nata Mountain, but the north side is an open land, far bordering the protective forest on the outskirts of the city.
This inter-valley plain is more than 5,000 meters deep, and the lack of natural obstacles in the open terrain poses a difficult problem for human defense.
However, their enemies are not humans, so they don't have to worry about preventing air strikes, tanks, and artillery attacks. Of course, there is no point in digging foxholes to protect against small arms fire. Time was tight, so everyone could only prepare on the spot, collect wood and sundries to make temporary horses, dig trenches on the ground in front of the position to introduce stream water, and pour in the fuel prepared in advance.
Under the leadership of Lao Chen, the soldiers of the three rifle squads unfolded dozens of rolls of "belly-shaped" barbed wire in sequence, forming two diagonal straight lines left and right on the open ground, like a trumpet, connecting the wide north side The attack direction gradually narrowed to the south.
In order to ensure that the "steel wire corridor" would work, Lao Chen asked Lin Qian to help use the earth ability to set up a high wall behind the barbed wire as a barrier to prevent black beasts from crossing the barbed wire and deviating from the planned route. This will be the key defensive direction of the rifle squad. If the black beasts can flood into the "wire corridor" as they wish, the formation will become more dense and crowded, which will be conducive to these recruits using rifles to shoot.
On the left and right sides of the position, the east and west of the valley are hilly highlands with small differences. There are countless wild animals hidden under the dense vegetation. They are now the biggest competitors of the evolvers of Langya City.
For the slopes on both sides, Lang Hua first asked people to bury three rows of low-level fixed piles in the distance, one at a distance of 20 meters, and then wrapped the barbed wire around them and leveled them along the ground on both sides. With the cooperation of Yang Bensheng and his wife, the ground has formed a smooth ice mirror, which together with the low barbed wire fence further delays the movement of the enemy "infantry".
Originally, according to Lao Chen's idea, anti-infantry mines were laid where the barbed wire fence was erected, but in the end this resolution was not passed. There were only a few Type 67 grenades equipped with trip mines in Langya City, and the detonation time could not be controlled. Considering that the explosion might destroy the barbed wire and be self-defeating, they chose to use ice instead.
It was noon, and the sunlight above was so strong that the ice surface showed signs of melting. However, the temperature in winter is still low, and they still have Li Liping's "humanoid self-propelled ice machine" here, so there is nothing to worry about.
After preparation, the soldiers lined up between the first and second lines of defense, sitting cross-legged and checking their guns. Although this was a nominal rest time, everyone seemed unable to calm down and checked their equipment over and over again.
Suddenly, an orange light spot appeared under the tung tree, like a fruit that suddenly grew out of the ground. It was as colorful as a thumb and was very conspicuous even at noon. The light generated by this light source is refracted by suspended particles in the air, forming a small rainbow one meter above the ground.
Within a few seconds, the light spot gradually enlarged and split into several smaller groups. The rainbow in mid-air became clearer and the colors became more conspicuous.
The ability users were staring at the tree, but when there was any movement, they all stood up and looked at Lang Hua. Lang Hua was also stunned, nodded and said: "It's begun."
"Everyone to your position! Rifle squad, be my first line of defense."
"Different teams are operating according to plans. If there are any changes, report them immediately!"
"Everyone only needs to stick to their respective positions, not to rush away, and follow the command in all actions."
"Anyone who escapes from the battle will be shot on the spot..."
As soon as the words fell, the heads of several areas ran directly to the corresponding positions. The team of hundreds of people was like a river flowing, and it instantly became active.
Behind them, a beam of energy shot up into the sky. The dazzling energy flow broke through the branches and leaves, forming two green and four red in the sky, a total of six dazzling light bands. At this moment, all the evolvers present felt a throbbing deep in their souls, as if a voice was urging them in their hearts: "Eat it, eat it."
This kind of temptation is so terrifying that even a person with one ability almost loses his mind.
Yang Bensheng and Lin Wenjin looked at each other and couldn't help but feel frightened. If what Lang Hua said is true, humans are not the only ones who can enjoy the benefits of gelatin core. Because of the gelatinous core's extremely strong affinity for evolutionary crystal energy, it is an irresistible temptation for all crystalline creatures.
Animals that eat the gelatinous core will get harder teeth, stronger fur, and even plants will have more aggressive branches or root systems. There are many evolved creatures near Nata Mountain. Facing the crazy black beasts, how difficult is it for humans to hold on for an hour?
"Two holy outfits and four noble phantoms. It is indeed the only holy level refresh point in the Central Plains war zone."
Lang Hua gradually narrowed his eyes. After the gelatin core initially solidifies to form a light column, it will take another hour to completely take shape. Only then can the gelatin core be safely removed.
As a result, a war may be difficult to avoid.
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At the same time, a thousand kilometers away in the south of the continent, some kind of strange movement gradually appeared in the devastated cities.
It was noon, the sky over a certain city was covered with dark clouds, and there was a vague ionization phenomenon in the air. Suddenly, a human hand suddenly appeared under the broken rubble and masonry, and gradually an inhuman "person" emerged.
His clothes were in rags, and the skin on his exposed cheeks and arms was torn, and the parts of his skin that were still intact showed an unhealthy dark red color.
If you look carefully, you can see that the skin of this "man" is covered with tiny white vesicles. As he moves around, pieces of meat mixed with dirty blood and grease will roll to the ground from time to time. It looks so soft and disgusting.
Not far away, one after another "people" emerged from the ruins.
"Ho... ho ho."
Their throats seemed to be burned out, and the sounds they made were very dry and rough. These "people" gradually gathered into groups, slowly gathering towards the center of the city. There, the huge circular sinkhole was quietly wrapped in a piece of scorched earth...
