They took a bus to a weedy open space not far from the Academy of Sciences. Looking at the surrounding buildings, it used to be a shopping mall square, but now it still looks like a wilderness.

Cong Zhenzhong patted a weed as thick as a small tree and more than three meters tall. Such weeds were everywhere. "Try it first, Shen Changze ignites the fire, and rolls the weeds into the wind vortex to increase the fire area. I'll see how long it will take to completely burn it." After saying that, he stepped back.

Chen Changze took a step forward and clenched his hands into fists.

Cong Xia stared at Chen Changze intently. This was the first time he saw Chen Changze show his abilities. The strength displayed by Yao Qianjiang and Zhou Fenglan last time shocked him. He didn't know what the scene of the fire ability was.

Chen Changze suddenly opened his five fingers, and two boiling flames suddenly burst out from the palm of his hand, burning wildly on his hands. He gathered the fireballs in his hands together, and a larger fireball was brewing in front of his chest. Then, the fireball was swung out from the air and hit the weed not far away. The flames spread wildly on the weeds and would not burn completely.

The sky wall immediately formed a flowing wind around the burning weeds, constantly stimulating the flames to burn more and more vigorously. Finally, the fire spread to the grass next to it. The fire immediately swallowed up plants within a range of more than ten meters. For a moment, the flames soared into the sky, and it was like a prairie fire.

Everyone was stunned. It took less than ten seconds to create such a huge fire from scratch.

Cong Zhenzhong immediately said, "Stop, it's enough."

Chengtianbi stopped and the fire suddenly became weaker, but there was still no stop. Instead, it continued to spread outward. The weather was dry and there were plants nearby. If it was not extinguished, it was very likely to keep burning, which would be troublesome.

Cong Xia smiled dryly and said, "How to put out the fire this...?"

Tang Tingzhi glanced at Chen Changze, "I just let you try it."

Chen Changze said: "It was his wind blowing too hard."

Cheng Tianbi said coldly: "It's because he used too much fire."

In fact, everyone can see that when the two strong encounters, neither of them will be at a disadvantage. So they both showed it intentionally or unintentionally, which resulted in the current surging fire.

Cong Zhenzhong frowned and said, "You are not good at this. You are just wasting energy. The internal space of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is effective and it is an ancient architectural structure. You are afraid of fire. You cannot let the fire burn unscrupulously. Instead, you must achieve the purpose of eliminating insects and shaking insects, and buy time for others to take away the puppet jade. Remember, you are not going to set fire to the tower, otherwise a long-range missile will solve all the problems."

Zhuang Yao said: "Chen Changze must learn to microcontrol the fire. You must have a precise grasp of how much energy it takes to burn an object to burn, otherwise it will be a waste of energy. In the sky wall, you must control the direction of combustion and let the fire concentrate to eliminate the target, rather than blowing everywhere, and eventually you can't control the fire yourself." He pointed to the raging fire in front of him, "If you make such a big fire inside the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, then the mission will fail."

Tang Tingzhi said: "The training of the two of them will be temporarily left to Zhuang Yao." He called back to the Academy of Sciences and found someone to put out the fire.

He was educated by a child of eleven or two, and Cheng Tianbi had already become accustomed to it, but Chen Changze's face was not very good-looking, so he couldn't help but look at Shan Ming.

Shan Ming sneered: "Desire."

The group returned to the Academy of Sciences. The power caused by wind and fire really shocked them. Although the effect was a bit too much, with such powerful teammates, they also had more confidence in entering the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

As soon as he returned to the Academy of Sciences, Zhuang Yao took Cheng Tianbi and Shen Changze away.

Cong Zhenzhong asked Cong Xia to go with him to check out the protective suits.

The protective clothing has been improved, from the original white to the black one. The shape is not much different from what I saw before, but the details have changed a lot.

Cong Zhenzhong said: "We plan to put the cotton you modified into the inner layer, and have an extra layer of protection, so it is difficult for insects to bite. This black paint is a paint with a special odor that we developed based on the research of insects. People can't smell it. The insect hates this smell very much and can play a certain role. This is a gas tank that provides fire-jet spray, and the material is replaced with titanium alloy, with a larger capacity than before, and has reduced a certain amount of weight. Of course, according to each of you're mutating abilities, such as those with wings and those who change their body shape, the protective suit has also been tailored." Cong Zhenzhong introduced the various characteristics of protective suits one by one, and Cong Xia listened very seriously.

Finally, Cong Zhenzhong spread out a drawing, "This is an improvement plan designed after research by Colonel Tang and I. This material is four layers, inner cotton layer, mild steel layer, fireproof layer and coating layer. We hope that you will transform the materials of each layer and strive to improve their performance by more than 50%. For every point you improve, this protective suit will be able to increase the time it takes to fight insect bites by one."

Cong Xia nodded heavily, "I understand, second uncle, leave it to me."

Their main defense is to rely on this set of protective clothing. Protective clothing is not omnipotent and will sooner or later be bitten by countless insects. Once the protective clothing is broken, they will use their flesh and blood to face the attacks of thousands of insects. Therefore, striving to allow the protective clothing to withstand more insect attacks is to buy them time for themselves.

Cong Zhenzhong pointed to several large boxes in the corner, "There are the main materials for protective clothing, which you can use to practice. Xiao Xia, the safety of you group of people depends on you."

Cong Xia gave him a soothing smile, "Don't worry."

After Cong Zhenzhong left, Cong Xia sat alone in an empty laboratory, studying the drawings. In order to facilitate his understanding, the content of the drawings was marked very clearly, and all professional terms were explained. Cong Xia could still understand them with his knowledge.

After studying the drawings, he put all kinds of materials on the table and began to transform the materials.

Cong Xia was busy until midnight and unaware of it. He tirelessly transformed the molecular structure of the material through energy over and over again. The materials that became strange due to failure were piled up on the table, and he kept exploring better material structures.

Suddenly, a knock came from outside the door.

Cong Xia was startled and turned to look. Cheng Tianbi was looking at him through the glass wall. He rubbed his eyes and walked over to open the door, "Tianbi? Have you finished training?"

"Do you know what time it's now?"

Cong Xia looked at his watch and it was almost three o'clock. He yawned and smiled and said, "I forgot everything."

Cheng Tianbi's thumb stroked his eyebrows, looking at his tired and red eyes, "Are you tired?"

Cong Xia nodded, "It's okay, I forgot the time if I have something to do. What about you? How is today?"

Cheng Tianbi said, "Not bad." He looked at the pile of materials on the table, "Is there any progress?"

"Yes." Cong Xia picked up a piece of mild steel woven material. "I found that the metal structure is easier to transform than the woven fabric structure. I have improved the strength of the material woven with mild steel, but I am not very satisfied with this strength. There is also a little progress in this fireproof material. Give me a few days to make these things more resistant to bites."

Cheng Tianbi hugged him tiredly, pressing almost half of his body on Cong Xia. He sighed softly: "Thank you for your hard work."

Cong Xia patted his back and smiled and said, "Tianbi, what's wrong with you? Are you tired?"

"No, I just..."

"Um?"

"Before we came to Beijing, we agreed not to live like this." He didn't want Cong Xiaguo to live in danger all day like him.

Cong Xia was stunned and remembered that Cheng Tianbi was seriously injured and quarantined in Chongqing. The two of them imagined their life after they arrived in Beijing through the door panel - looking for a few acres of land, planting some vegetables and fruits, raising a few livestock, gathering places, hunting, and living a leisurely and peaceful, self-sufficient life.

Unfortunately, ideals are beautiful, but reality is far from each other. They do not have to worry about food and clothing now, but they have to step into a dangerous battle for themselves and for the future of the human race.

They had no choice, and God gave them the ability to take away their peaceful life.

Cong Xia hugged Cheng Tianbi tightly and whispered: "We may not be able to live that kind of life, it's just that time hasn't come. When we seal the puppet jade and the world returns to normal, everything we thought would be realized."

Cheng Tianbi said in a muffled voice: "Yeah."

Cong Xia smiled and said, "Let's go back and rest. There are still many things to do tomorrow."

"Go back."

In the next few days, everyone was preparing for the pre-war period.

Because of the advanced science and technology and weapons of the Academy of Sciences as their backing, their equipment has been greatly improved. Everyone has equipped them with suitable weapons and received basic training in the use of weapons. Cong Zhenzhong alone prepared 300 arrows for him. Compared with the batches made in Xi'an, it is a difference.

Cheng Tianbi and Shen Changze have been undergoing secret training. Deng Xiao and Liu Fengyu learned melee fighting with the mercenaries of the Dragon Blood Clan, while Cong Xia was in the laboratory from morning to night, renovating their protective suits.

Everyone is busy working day and night to improve their chances of survival.

Four days later, Tang Tingzhi's search for insect mutants made new progress. The people below reported that there were many missing incidents in Dongcheng District recently. If a few people were missing for no reason, it would not attract anyone's attention. After all, mutant animals and plants have recovered, and eating a few people at any time is hard to guard against. However, when the number of missing people reaches a certain number, it will attract others' attention. Finally, they used Zhuangzhuang's sense of smell to search and found more than ten corpses broken into rotten meat in an abandoned residential building in Dongcheng District. The insects ovulate and reproduce on those people and raised them through their flesh and blood. However, because they grew very slowly, the room was full of larvae, and they quickly destroyed them, but they did not catch the mutants.

When Tang Tingzhi brought this result to everyone, they were all surprised.

"Use people to lay eggs? Didn't those people get alienated?"

"No, it's really laying eggs."

Cong Xia said: "I have seen this situation. Yao Qianjiang's leg injury had never been healed. He thought that the insects ovulated in his leg injury and sucked their flesh and nurturing the larvae. It was because of the sterile compartment that prevented the spread of the insects, otherwise Yao Qianjiang would have died long ago."

Liu Fengyu curled his lips, "It's so disgusting."

Tang Tingzhi raised a photo expressionlessly, "This is a photo of one of the corpses, look at him..."

Liu Fengyu shouted strangely, "I-Fuck, who wants to see?" After that, he quickly turned his head.

Cong Xia swallowed and subconsciously lowered her head.

Zhuang Yao took the photo and looked at it. "It's true that the situation is different from what we saw in the video. People with alien species, insects move under the skin, and people with parasitic ovulation, all over their bodies are covered in flesh and blood, and they are tragic in death. I don't know what these insects are selected for alien species and those who lay eggs."

"It would be great if we could capture a bug alien alive. Even if these people lose their self-awareness, their IQ is still there, they can think and speak, and they must know what we want to know."

Shen Changze said: "It's easy to kill them, but it's a bit difficult to capture them alive."

Cong Xia smiled bitterly and said, "It can split into countless insects in an instant. I can't think of how to catch them. Cover them in a glass cover?"

Zhuang Yao said: "As long as they can find them, there are ways, but the actions of these people are too difficult to find. In the past few days, I don't know if they have created more aliens."

Tang Ting's way: "You don't have to worry about these things, just concentrate on preparing for your battle. If it were just these few people, it wouldn't be a big climate."

Everyone is really distracted now, and the dozen bodies they found are under pressure.

After ten days of each racing against time to prepare for the battle, they officially set off.

They went to Xi'an by calling a steam vehicle. After arriving in Xi'an, they joined the local army and entered the tower. The troops were ready outside to prevent insects from leaking out of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

The steam aircraft is an improved version of the balloon boat. Because it is the most practical flight tool at present, its performance has been greatly enhanced.

Their weapons and equipment were moved one by one to the balloon boat. Cong Xia felt much more at ease when he looked at the black protective suits made with the materials he had modified. The materials of twenty sets of protective suits used up all his energy-accumulating jade talismans, and he had to make more jade talismans overnight, but no matter how much energy was used, it was worth it. The performance of these materials was seven times higher than before, and it could help them fight the attacks of insects from forty minutes to an hour. With such a long time, they had a great hope to take the puppet jade from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

However, they analyzed that it is probably their most dangerous time to get the puppet jade. Although they don’t know why the insects were trapped around the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it is very likely to be related to the puppet jade. If the puppet jade is the reason why they do not leave the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, then taking the puppet jade is equivalent to liberating these insects. The insects will definitely pursue them without hesitation, and they cannot leave, otherwise the remaining hundreds of thousands of people in Xi’an will be over. If the insects chase them away from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, they will be responsible for leading the insects to a designated place and then let the military solve them with bombs. This plan of one link is full of dangers. Once it fails, they will be submerged by the insect army and Xi’an will be completely destroyed. However, they cannot wait until the insects are strong enough to establish an army of aliens in the insects before taking action, it will be too late.

In this mission, they could not take Abu. Before leaving, Abu was reluctant to leave and rolled in front of the balloon boat entrance. Not only did they block the door, but they also slapped the balloon boat with their claws and tails, as if they wanted to overturn it, which scared the maintenance staff.

Its hair has grown halfway, and even heart-shaped neck hair has grown on its chest, which looks extraordinary. When it opened its wet purple eyes and whispered to "meow" and act coquettishly, many people present could not stand it.

Deng Xiao whispered: "Why don't we ride it?"

Zhuang Yao said firmly: "It's impossible. Compared to the balloon boat, it's too slow, and it's too dangerous to go to Xi'an this time, so you can't take it."

Abu meowed loudly, and there was a deep reluctance in his screams.

Zhuang Yao held its nose and comforted softly, "We will be back in just one week. You stay at home honestly and have fish to eat every day."

Abu let out a grievance.

Cong Xia rubbed its soft hair, "When we come back, take you to take a shower, let you go out to play, and take you to find Zhuangzhuang."

Abu whispered several times, and finally moved away, revealing the entrance of the balloon boat to them.

Zhuang Yao kissed it, "Abu, wait for us to come back."

Cong Zhenzhong patted Cong Xia on the shoulder and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Xia, you must protect yourself. Do you understand? You are our hope."
To be continued...