Hearing this unexpected news, Lin Cheng was also startled: "It's been these days, and those who have some ability have all gone to dominate their own mountains. Who else can ride on your head?"
Master Jiu smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said: "It's not that simple! No matter before or after the apocalypse, the power of the country will always be greater than that of an individual! On the surface, I am the local emperor of Guanzhou, but in fact? I am not.
He's just a lackey..."
"Tsk..."
Hearing this, Lin Cheng asked with a strange look on his face: "I don't understand this. These days, various communication methods have been interrupted long ago, and the army has also suffered a fatal impact. It may not be possible to recover its strength.
What happened overnight! In this case, how did the 'country' you called find you and coerce you?"
But Master Jiu shook his head and suddenly asked him a question: "Do you still remember the strengthening liquid we talked about before?"
Lin Cheng nodded, "Of course I remember! But what does this have to do with my problem?"
"It's very relevant! I don't know the specific time. In short, the strengthening liquid seemed to appear out of thin air, and suddenly spread among the senior officials of the Xiangyang Military Region! After tasting the benefits, the Xiangyang Military Region responded to the strengthening liquid.
The demand is getting bigger and bigger, so much so that they have to send people to the heavily occupied city to hunt for the original strengthening liquid! In this case, my manpower will inevitably have some contact with those soldiers...
"
Having said this, Master Jiu looked around at the miserable situation around him, sighed again, and continued: "But you have to know, before this, we didn't know the existence of the strengthening liquid at all! So the consequences are ours
People, including myself, are no match for those ability users who have already started taking enhancement fluids! After several bloody crackdowns, the huge Xiangyang Military Region finally integrated us. They promised not to annihilate us and let me continue.
To be the local emperor of Guanzhou, as a price, we need to help them collect the original strengthening liquid in Guanzhou City, including surrounding counties and cities!"
"Because the situation in the city is too dangerous, the big guys in the Xiangyang Military Region don't want to lose too many of their manpower, especially the ability users who have taken the strengthening liquid! So, later someone came to me specifically to give me a message. As long as we
If we can turn in enough strengthening liquid stock every week, they can provide us with ten bottles of purified strengthening liquid every week! In fact, they just want us to get more strengthening liquid stock for them after we increase our strength, and we can taste it.
After the sweetness of the strengthening liquid, we are even more inseparable from the Xiangyang Military Region. After all, we do not have the technology to purify the strengthening liquid..."
Hearing this, Lin Cheng couldn't help but frown deeply.
He knew better than anyone else how the strengthening liquid came from, but didn't the old man Fang Xiucheng vow to make this matter public at that time? How come it has now become just a rumor among the top brass of the Xiangyang Military Region?
Is it time?
Faintly feeling that something might have gone wrong on Fang Xiucheng's side, Lin Cheng could only shake his head helplessly. After all, they were too far apart, and there was nothing he could do to help him with the situation he might encounter...
After shaking his head to bring his thoughts back, Lin Cheng then asked: "Then what do you mean by the three paragraphs you mentioned before?"
Hearing this, Master Jiu leaned against a tree, took out a cigar from his robe, lit it, took a deep puff, and said in a deep voice: "This is a way of classifying ability users spread by the Xiangyang Military Region!
The first stage represents those who have just awakened their abilities and do not yet know how to use them; the second stage represents those who have initially mastered their abilities and are ready to enter combat; the third stage represents those who have mastered their own abilities.
The development of espers has begun in depth and has achieved certain results! And so far, the highest-ranked esper I have ever heard of is only third-level!"
"So after you saw my abilities before, you thought I was at least a third-level esper?"
After hearing Master Jiu's explanation, Lin Cheng laughed and asked.
Master Jiu nodded and said with a wry smile: "Yes... but I never would have thought that you are not even a third-level ability user at all! Your terrifying ability development has at least surpassed 99% of the ability.
Or, maybe, you have already reached the fourth level!"
"Three sections...four sections..."
Seeing Master Jiu's expression of amazement, Lin Cheng shook his head, "To be honest, this way of distinguishing the levels of ability users is really interesting, and maybe it's also very effective..."
Having said this, Lin Cheng stood up and continued: "But you guessed one thing wrong. I actually don't mind killing you at all, because I really want the big guys behind you to come and cause trouble for me!"
"boom--!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Cheng raised his pistol and shot Jiu Ye on the shoulder!
He didn't shoot the old man directly, because he wanted to test whether this scheming Master Jiu would tell him any useful information!
"hiss--!"
Holding his bleeding shoulder, Master Jiu took a breath of pain, said in a cold voice with a sullen face: "It's really cruel! But didn't you still want to see my trump card before? Then I'll give it to you.
Let's see!"
After saying that, without waiting for Lin Cheng to react, he suddenly made a gesture behind him!
“Bang bang bang—!”
When he saw Master Jiu making the gesture, Lin Cheng had already reacted and quickly dodged to avoid the sneak attack from behind. Then, he also pointed in the direction of You Shan who was invisible at the side, and then heard a "crack" sound.
A blood flower suddenly splashed out in the transparent air!
Taking advantage of the opportunity that the twin sister who woke up finally helped him, Jiuye quickly rolled a few times to avoid the bullets that were fired at him again, and then whistled hard!
"Woo——!!!"
Following Master Jiu's whistle, an unusually dull but harsh cry suddenly came from below the ice lake that was previously frozen in Lincheng!
Immediately afterwards, the ice surface, which was at least two to three meters thick, suddenly "clicked" and cracked into several lines. Then, with a "boom", a huge creature rushed out of the lake below in an instant!
Because the size of the monster that jumped out was so large, the water that came out of the lake was like a downpour. It took two or three minutes to gradually stop dripping. As the water in the lake drained away, the appearance of the monster finally appeared in front of Lin Cheng.
!
This is a super turtle with an unusually huge body. It has reached more than ten meters in height alone. Its huge body almost covers the entire lake. It has four paddle limbs as big as billboards lying on the ground, and its fusiform turtle shell is on the ground.
Under the shroud of the moonlight, streaks of silver-black light flashed from time to time, while the giant turtle's head was looking down, as if communicating with Master Jiu, who was extremely small compared to it.
Lin Cheng was almost stunned when he saw this giant sea turtle that looked like a prehistoric monster. After reacting, he thought very strangely that in addition to being big enough to bluff people, this guy didn't seem to be able to control himself.
How is it?
Thinking of this, Lin Cheng finally recovered from the initial shock, no longer worried, and continued to shoot at Master Jiu!