When I woke up, my brain felt like a burning and tearing pain like a server that was about to go down during a big data jump. Apex 23S.
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Lin Chou stared at the figure carefully arranging clothes beside the bed, unable to remember who this person was.
There was a faint breeze blowing through the shadows of trees outside the window. Out of a man's instinct, Lin Chou let out an inexplicable sigh. Fortunately, this girl didn't throw a few hundred circulation points on the bedside table.
Xiao Wu heard the movement behind her and turned around with a smile.
"Mr. Lin, are you awake?"
Lin Chou nodded and forced a smile.
Xiao Wu's eyes were indescribably weird, and she handed over the neatly folded clothes,
"Miss and grandpa are waiting for you by the small waterfall."
When Lin Chou arrived at the small waterfall, he finally understood why Xiao Wu's eyes were so weird. The old man and the cold Tyrannosaurus were holding machetes and were doing "morning exercises" with ping pong pong, which made the dust fly.
"Hey, Xiaolin is awake!"
The old man had sharp eyes and greeted Lin Chou immediately when he saw him coming over. However, Leng Han had no intention of stopping. The heavy machete, which was more than one meter long, went straight to the old man's head.
"Crack!"
A dazzling light burst out around Mr. Leng, and the machete was like a biscuit hitting a rock, exploding into a ball of metal slag.
The old man scratched his head as if nothing had happened.
"Hanhan, you can close and release at the same time. Your control of power is still a bit poor after all."
Leng Han nodded silently.
Mr. Leng said to Lin Chou again,
"Xiao Lin, fight with me."
This is a declarative sentence. Well, usually when Lin Chou's father speaks in this tone, if Lin Chou dares to say no even half a word, it's basically a matter of getting stuck in the broom.
"Um."
The old man pointed to a row of weapons on the shelf and said,
"What to use? Pick whatever you want."
Lin Chou thought for a moment, then simply picked up the sun and moon shovel.
The old man was happy,
"This is really strange. Come on, I heard Hanhan say that you are very strong and don't need to hold back."
Lin Chou nodded seriously, "Okay."
Her legs were slightly bent and the tip of the shovel was raised. The slight breeze formed a small vortex as Lin Chou opened her posture, and then broke into pieces.
Lin Chou reminded loudly,
"Old man, here we come!"
Every time you take a step forward, the hills tremble under your feet.
"Click."
Xiao Wu and Xiao Die, who were watching from the sidelines, felt the most dazzling fire in the world suddenly explode on their retinas.
When the sound of shattering sounded, Leng Han's expression changed instantly, and a crystal clear ice wall separated Xiaowu Xiaodie from the battlefield.
That ball of light seemed to evacuate the entire mountain into a vacuum in an instant, and even the surrounding things became unreal glimpses, as if they were in another world.
"boom!"
The terrifying air wave quickly swept through everything around it and disappeared immediately without causing any damage.
Just when Leng Han was puzzled, the figure of Mr. Leng flew from the mountain far away, but all his clothes turned into pieces of rags.
Old man Leng wiped the dirt from his face,
"Good boy, I thought Hanhan praised you too much. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly... I blame Niu Lanqi for holding on to you. If this is coupled with your ability to walk on the sea, it is simply a kinetic dimensionality reduction attack.
Such an existence, below the sixth level, cannot withstand a slap from you."
Xiao Wu looked confused,
"Xiaodie, if you didn't pay me back just now... why did you fly up from below again?"
"...can't read."
Lin Chou scratched his head,
"It's useless. Niu Lanqi is not afraid of me. I can't hit her at all."
Old man Leng laughed heartily,
"Xiao Lin, don't be fooled by that girl. Did she use Guixu?"
Lin Chou tilted his head and thought for a while,
"At the beginning, it was a ripple-like attack, and it felt like it could cross space. Later, she did shout something about the power of returning to ruins, but I couldn't hear it clearly."
Mr. Leng snorted,
"That's not her own power at all. Do you think the Black Army doesn't have any benefits that can attract people's hearts?"
Lin Chou nodded,
"Apart from Guixu, her previous abilities were also annoying."
Prince Leng was even more disdainful,
"That bullshit Siren's true form is just a defective product catalyzed by the poison of life. I really thought it would be great if I survived that one time. It's useless."
"What's the meaning?"
Prince Leng glanced at him,
"It's not a big deal to tell you. You must also know about the poison of life. It has a very strange effect. After being catalyzed in a certain way, the abilities of certain alien beasts can be extracted and imposed on the evolver. Of course, it is
The castrated version is the most popular especially among people of Niu Lanqi's generation. They are not ashamed of it but proud of it. They even openly call it the 'Second Awakening'. It's nothing more than a foreign object. It makes no sense. Haha, that idea is so powerful.
, is it worth exchanging one’s potential? Childish.”
Lin Chou exclaimed,
"Could it be..."
"Those who have been grafted with the ability of the bloodline of alien beasts are at the end of their lives and cannot make any progress. Only when forced, will some people choose that method."
Earl Leng looked Lin Chou up and down,
"Your awakening ability is really just for cooking, right? Are you sure it's not this strange power??"
Lin Chou was stunned,
"What's the point of having great strength..."
Prince Leng has a strange expression,
"Do you have any misunderstandings about the awakening ability? The old boy from the blast furnace is still capable of blacksmithing. It's nothing strange. There are all kinds of strange things in the world. Do you know that?"
Lin Chou really didn't want to use his cooking skills to say one more thing. The old man is getting old. If his big teeth fall out due to laughter, he might not be able to grow them back.
The old man seemed to understand his thoughts,
"Boy, don't take it too seriously. Let me tell you something. Well... that was at the beginning of the great catastrophe. Are you familiar with the Zhuge family?"
Lin Chou was stunned and looked at Leng Han
"The Zhuge family who has difficulty naming? That's not..."
Mr. Leng patted him on the shoulder, his expression was quite desolate.
"Yes, it's that bunch of old bastards. I can't do anything to them even if I personally knock on their door. The most I can do is teach them a lesson. Shedding some blood will make their memory long. Hmph, do you know why?"
Lin Chou shook his head.
Prince Leng gritted his teeth and said,
"At the beginning of the great cataclysm, humans were walking bread and hams. They were an ideal and abundant source of protein and origin. Alien beasts ate them, living corpses ate them, and even humans ate them."
"Do you know the principle behind the advancement of living corpses?"
"..."
This topic jumps really fast...
Also, old man, I am a cook. Isn’t it a bit overwhelming for you to ask such a professional question?
There was an inexplicable and sinister light in Prince Leng's eyes,
"As long as there are enough flesh and blood soft crystals of the same level to support them, they can advance almost without limit."
Lin Chou was stunned, "This is impossible! If they could advance without limit, humans and beasts would have become extinct long ago!"
Mr. Leng let out a laugh,
"Well, this is the result that the Scientific Research Institute has studied for many years. Although the Scientific Research Institute is rarely reliable, the experiment they demonstrated to the senior officials of the base city when they came up with the results almost made all the old guys scared.
They were all scared to death.”
"The cause of that secret experiment was after the corpse tide in 2143... Oh, in the 123rd year of the New Era, a sixth-order armored corpse appeared in that zombie tide, sixth level! You know, at that time, the base city
The highest level here is only Level 4. You can imagine what a huge impact the appearance of Level 6 living zombies can cause. I won’t say how tragic the losses are. Have you ever thought about it, if the cataclysm is a great change and evolution that changes humankind?
, then can we intelligent creatures think that in this 'great evolution', all creatures are on the same starting line?"
Lin Chou and Leng Han nodded together,
"indeed."
"It's okay..."
Prince Leng sneered,
"Then why, when humans, oh, among the only remaining humans in Mingguang, there is only one fourth-level person, an ordinary zombie wave has sixth-level living corpses? What does this have to do with dropping a nuclear bomb in the cabbage field?
the difference?"
"this..."
Prince Leng said in a deep voice,
"Remember, this world is never fair and starts from the same starting line? It's just a joke!"
"Human beings do not receive any preferential treatment, and there has never been any protagonist. If they do in the future, they will never be human beings."
"Of course, since the corpse tide, the scientific research institute has studied this result, and experiments can also show that as long as there is a sufficient supply of similar flesh and blood, the speed of evolution of living corpses can indeed far exceed that of humans."
The cool breeze blew behind Lin Chou,
"But the current wave of living corpses..."
The old man winked playfully,
"At the same time, the Scientific Research Institute has also come up with some ridiculously good news. The most likely reason why living zombies do not show an exponential increase in strength due to devouring their own kind is that they find the flesh and blood of their own kind unpalatable."
"???"
"It's incredible, isn't it? It hurts, isn't it?"
"In fact, living corpses are just so naughty."
"The Cataclysm gave them unique talents, but they turned a blind eye to this talent, and instead devoted themselves to finding more delicious food... For these brainless things, the higher the strength, the more
Pain, in a community of living zombies, no matter whether the living zombie with the highest strength was originally a male or a female, once it becomes the strongest in the group, it will transform into a female within a few months, and the responsibility of reproducing offspring will fall to it.
Of course, it will be supported in the group and choose a mate at will. Who gives it the most 'powerful' genes, but the reproduction of living corpses... is quite painful, more terrifying than human pregnancy in ten months.
, I don’t know the specifics, but every time a offspring is produced, the mother consumes a lot of resources and her own flesh and blood. As far as I know, no living corpse can advance after becoming a leader."
"Living corpses can be said to live entirely on instinct, food - reproduction - food - reproduction... When reproduction becomes someone else's 'job', they seem to only have to eat."
"Not only do humans dislike their stinky smell, but they themselves will not bite their own kind unless absolutely necessary. Can you imagine that their only organized event is to go to the bright light in groups to eat the most delicious 'food' in their lives?
"
This was the first time Lin Chou heard this statement, and she really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"The sixth-level living corpse that time was..."
Prince Leng looked at Lin Chou seriously,
"hungry."
"???"
"After humans have improved a little, it will be difficult for them to find things to fill their stomachs. Not all living corpses can hunt exotic beasts. It is true that exotic beasts are keen on hunting living corpses. Who allows too many living corpses?
There are too few humans, and I don’t know how many of their own kind they ate before they were able to reach the sixth level, and then... It should be the new boss who took advantage of the fact that he was not pregnant yet and led a large number of younger brothers to Mingguang to fight in the autumn wind, well,
They really hit a group of Qiu Feng hard, so the Research Institute said that whenever the number or strength of the living zombie group reaches a certain level, they will come to Mingguang to create a wave of copies. It is estimated that there are delicious food behind the city wall.
The life instinct is engraved in the bones of the living corpse."
"..."
If this topic hadn't involved countless lives lost and blood spilled, Lin Chou would have burst into tears.
Leng Han frowned,
"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Zhuge family, right?"
Prince Leng "suddenly realized", his embarrassed expression disappeared in a flash,
"What's wrong with me? I went off topic while I was talking. Ahem, I like to talk a lot when I get older... That's what happened. You know how the base city was preserved during the sixth-level zombie siege.
Did you come down?"
"Um?"
Leng Han's eyes widened,
"It can't be the Zhuge family..."
Prince Leng nodded,
"Yes, it's the Zhuge family."
"The bloodline of the Zhuge family... is really a bloodline that even the heavens are jealous of. Their first generation has an ancestor, well, it's called Zhuge Wen, Zhuge Dao, right? It seems that the name is based on the ability of their bloodline.
..Pfft...hahaha..."
Leng Han and Lin Chou looked at each other. Is this old man going crazy? What are you laughing at?
Prince Leng coughed twice before continuing,
"Ahem, Zhuge Wen's ability is to change people's names."
Lin Chou, "What?"
"Yes, it means changing someone's name. For example, if he uses his ability on you, 'Xiao Lin, you will be called Wang Er' from now on,' then you will have to be called 'Wang Er' from now on. Everyone who knows you will know about you.
In the records, your name will be replaced with 'Wang Er', and even you yourself won't think there is anything wrong with this even if your father's surname is Lin."
Lin Chou's face was dark.
"You think it's ridiculous, ridiculous, boring and useless, right?"
"..."
"I thought so too at first. I can laugh all night just thinking about it."
"..."
"What if I told you that Zhuge Dao's ability is to make this person named 'Wang Er' be forgotten?"
Lin Chou blinked,
"This doesn't seem to be anything...wait, it's not that simple, right?"
Prince Leng nodded approvingly,
"Yeah, it's not that simple. It's okay for people to forget the name 'Wang Er', but even this world has forgotten 'Wang Er'? What will happen to this person? He really still exists in this world
In the world?”
Lin Chou took a deep breath.
Prince Leng spread his hands,
"As you can guess, Zhuge Wen gave this sixth-level living corpse a name or changed its name, and then it disappeared. It disappeared without a word. Was it wiped out in ashes, or was it somewhere that could not be destroyed?
Living alone in a corner of the world, no one knows."
"To a certain extent, this is a surname that once saved the entire Mingguang, even though the process was so simple that it was a bit ridiculous."
"To this day, almost no one remembers their achievements, which shows how far the Zhuge family has failed to live up to expectations."
"So if an old guy with this surname dares to attack my granddaughter, I can't kill them all. There are still people protecting them. Having said so much, I just want to remind you that there is no useless person in this world.
Ability, the 'bloodline awakening' you imagined is not that simple."
Lin Chou smacked his lips in a dull manner, and it took him a long time to say,
"So, old man, you have always been so literary?"
Prince Leng was confused for a while, then his anger rose to the sky, and he kicked Lin Chou in the butt.