As the Dawn soldiers who participated in clearing out the zombie tide in JT County returned to the base, many tasks in the base returned to normal, such as in-vivo experiments on evolutionary agents, the construction of the main body of the base, and the training of new members.
As for Luffy's convoy, they also returned to the established track and continued their journey to explore the arsenal.
The entire Shuguang is like an e-sports player that requires complex operations, developing in multi-line operations.
Except for the failure of the evolution potion test as usual, everything went smoothly. The convoy also successfully arrived at the edge of the town where the arsenal was located. According to the plan, they would scout out the evolved creatures in the town and stationed at the arsenal, but Luffy
The road to promotion here has reached its most critical moment. It is estimated that Luffy will be able to reach 100% of the fourth level of evolution in just a day or two.
Therefore, the convoy was stationed near the town, just waiting for their leader to advance to the fifth level.
Lin Qiaoni, Xiao Xiaoling and Ruan Sisi have been standing by Luffy's side for the past two days to protect him.
When advancing to the fifth level for the first time, everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones. Who knows what will happen if they advance to the fifth level.
In the RV, Luffy turned his hands, and a fourth-level energy crystal appeared in his palm. The next moment he held the energy crystal tightly, closed his eyes again, and the old monk fell into trance.
absorb!
absorb!
As long as you absorb this one, you can advance to the fifth level.
"Huh?"
A few hours later, Luffy opened his eyes and asked, "What's going on?"
He shook his head.
"It's obviously the same as before, the energy in the body is saturated, why is it still unable to advance?"
"Do we still need to continue absorbing?"
Thinking of getting another energy crystal, he started to absorb it.
Another two hours passed and Luffy opened his eyes again.
"No! Still not working? Why not?"
"The body can no longer store any more energy, and the benefits of absorbed energy are dissipated."
"what's the situation?"
Luffy couldn't figure it out either. After confirming that he couldn't advance, he had to stand up, stretch his body that was a little stiff from sitting cross-legged for a long time, and opened the car door.
Lin Qiaoni and the other two people, who were bored watching the scenery on the roadside, saw this and came over to greet them.
"Brother, how are you? Did you advance?"
"Is there such little movement in advancing to the fifth level?"
"That's right! I thought there would be a vision coming from heaven."
Luffy shook his head and said, "The energy has obviously reached saturation. It would be beneficial to absorb just a little more, but I just can't advance!"
"Can't advance?" Xiao Xiaoling asked, "How could this happen?"
"I don't know either!" Luffy felt helpless. He shrugged his shoulders and continued, "Who knows why!"
"I know!" At this time, Lin Qiaoni raised her hands and shouted.
Several people's eyes were attracted by her, and they heard her say, "Maybe this is the so-called bottleneck! It's like what is said in novels and movies, if the bottleneck cannot be broken, then the strength cannot be improved! Well, I think it should be
so!"
"Bottleneck?" Luffy closed his eyes and carefully felt the situation when the energy in his body reached saturation. The smooth process of advancing to the first, second, third and fourth levels did not appear at all. He could not touch the opportunity to advance at all.
Thinking about it, he nodded and said, "It seems that it may be a bottleneck, but how to break this bottleneck?"
"Like what is written in the novel, brother, you can fight with evolved creatures and break the bottleneck between life and death.
You can also look for genius treasures, and maybe you can break the bottleneck and advance." Ruan Sisi said quietly.
"Hey, you've been reading too many novels recently, you must have been poisoned!" Ruan Sisi said, "How can you take what is written in novels seriously?"
"Then tell me how to break the bottleneck?" Lin Qiaoni snorted.
"Me!" Ruan Sisi opened her mouth, but in the end she still couldn't tell the reason, and then asked, "What is the genius treasure then?"
Lin Qiaoni scratched her forehead and said, "According to what is said in novels and movies, there are many, such as elixirs and spiritual jade, but these are all fantasy types. Well~ we are now in the end of the world. It seems to be science fiction, so
It might be something containing huge energy. Do you think it might be a fifth-order energy crystal?"
Listening to Lin Qiaoni's nonsense, Ruan Sisi rolled her eyes, "I have never seen a fifth-level evolved creature until now. According to what you said, I also said it might be a matter of qualifications. As it is said in the novel, good qualifications
It's easy to advance, but it's very difficult for those with poor qualifications. You may be stuck in a certain realm for the rest of your life. Hey, big boss, don't look at me like that. I'm just saying it's possible. I guess you are the first one now.
For those who encounter this kind of situation, everything is possible!"
"Well, objectively speaking, this is a possibility!" Lin Qiaoni did not deny it. She continued, "Maybe this bottleneck is the barrier that divides doomsday evolvers into upper and lower levels. Let alone brother, maybe you, I even
Most evolvers will have such a bottleneck."
"Bottleneck, battle, fifth-level energy crystal?" Luffy murmured, "This situation, to be honest, I didn't expect, but it doesn't matter, as long as there is a direction, then we will try the same thing. Since the end of the world, we
Isn’t this how everyone lives?”
"that is!"
"Uh-huh!"
Lin Qiaoni and Xiao Xiaoling clenched their fists and joined in.
Luffy stood on the high road and looked at the town in the distance bathed in the golden sun.
He asked, "What's going on in the arsenal?"
Lin Qiaoni said, "The location of the arsenal has been determined. It is just north of the town in front of us. If we want to pass through, we can only pass through the provincial road through the town. After investigation, we found that there are no zombies wandering in the town. There are some in the farmland around the town.
Traces of post-apocalyptic farming, in other words, signs of survivor activity.”
No one is surprised that there are survivors. There are usually not too many people in villages and towns like this. After the apocalypse breaks out, it is still easy to survive as long as you escape the initial chaos. Unlike the massive number of people in the city,
The population is the graveyard of survivors.
"If nothing else happens, the survivors in the town will be entrenched in the arsenal, and there is a high probability that there will be original employees of the arsenal, and these employees may even be soldiers!" Xiao Xiaoling added.
"It should be like this. Military factories are military industries. There may be ordinary people engaged in production, but in management and key positions, they must still be soldiers, and the weapons and ammunition produced must still need to be tested. These are things ordinary people cannot do. Maybe
That's why there are survivors in this town."
"Brother, what strategy should we adopt this time?" Lin Qiaoni asked.
There are only two so-called strategies. One is to sneak into control quietly. I believe that Dawn's high-end combat power is still invincible among the survivors at this stage.
The second was the push. All the soldiers of the Dawn Convoy showed their fangs, surrounded the arsenal, and used powerful force to force the survivors of the arsenal to surrender.