Song Kaiji felt a little embarrassed and guilty, thinking that his boss had suddenly come to check on his supernatural power training.
After all, among the three psychics in the team, he is the only one who has not even upgraded to the first level after joining the team: Qu Weiwei was at the third level of the Wood Element before, and after joining the team and gaining a large amount of resources, she quickly broke through with the help of the Krypton Crystal Core and was promoted to the fourth level; not to mention Tang Wenjie, this freak, although he is currently only at the second level of the Gold Element, he has absorbed a lot of healing abilities when he awakened, and his strength is almost equivalent to that of others at the fourth level.
Only Song Kaiji is still stuck at the second level of the Space Department and cannot advance.
But this can't be blamed on him: compared to elemental powers, as long as you keep practicing and killing, you can accumulate experience and slowly level up. Song Kaiji really doesn't know how to correctly practice space-related powers. Does he have to keep collecting and releasing items?
Song Kaiji had tried it before he met Shen Qing. It cannot be said that it is completely useless, but it is indeed not very effective.
He also reached level two very slowly, even confusedly. In fact, most of the space-powered people in the Hongcheng base are below level three, and the few middle and high-level people have not revealed their cultivation methods to the outside world. In today's world that is gradually returning to the law of the jungle, it is indispensable to become strong, but reducing the number of opponents is also very important.
Therefore, even though Song Kaiji was diligently absorbing crystal cores every day, the growth rate of his supernatural powers was indeed not ideal, and he had not yet reached the threshold of cultivation.
Song Kaiji hummed twice: "I am still at level two now, the space area is ten meters by ten meters, one hundred square meters, and two meters high."
When he first awakened his superpowers, the space was only one cubic meter, one meter long, one meter wide, and one meter high. After it was upgraded to level two, it became what it is now. Level three is one hundred meters by one hundred meters, three meters high, and so on. It is not particularly large at the moment, but Song Kaiji does not have much property, and the space is not even half full, which is enough. Even if Shen Qing wants to pick up two cars, it can still fit.
Shen Qing actually didn't know what "ping" meant, nor did he know what "mi" meant - they only had inches, feet and zhang. But he had heard Song Kaiji introduce that the house they were renting was more than 70 ping, and Shen Qing guessed that this was probably used to measure size, so Song Kaiji's space was probably bigger than that house.
The key is that his space does not need to make room for people to move around, so things can be piled up very tightly, so it can hold more. Shen Qing nodded, expressing his satisfaction: I will go to the library in the school later, and I should be able to take away all the books in it.
"I will work hard to improve my ability and expand my space as soon as possible..." Song Kaiji felt more and more guilty as he spoke, and his voice became lower and lower. Shen Qing came back to his senses and smiled at him: "It's okay, don't put too much pressure on yourself. We are doing well now, aren't we?"
Although no one has reached the strongest level yet, they use tactics properly, cooperate well, and can move freely in and out of the zombie pile without any harm. Shen Qing is already quite satisfied.
The group rested for a while in the bookstore. Qu Weiwei absorbed a handful of crystal cores and almost recovered. Then the others did the same and continued heading towards the school.
There were fewer zombies in the school than on the streets. I think it was because the authorities had come to clean them up before, but they still didn't dare to be careless, fearing that one would suddenly appear from somewhere. Tang Wenjie was still holding up the iron cage, but he kept adjusting the shape of the cage according to the size of the space.
No one had been to this school before, and no one knew where the library was, so they had to search floor by floor. The apocalypse broke out on a weekday, and this school must have experienced several fierce battles, with a lot of dried blood in the corridors and classrooms.
Xingye followed them as they walked and searched, looking back at the door of the bookstore with some regret: just now they hid in the bookstore and killed many zombies outside with crossbows through the iron net. After Qu Weiwei finished absorbing the superpowers, she came directly to the school and did not dig those crystal cores.
The criminal industry was short of money, so he naturally felt bad. However, he was a temporary employee, so he had to prioritize Shen Qing's task, and he was embarrassed to ask to go back and dig.
However, when he looked back, Xing Ye found something wrong: "Xiao Song, look behind, are those zombies digging crystal cores to eat?"
They were all surprised when they heard this. They walked a few steps quickly and stood on the second floor looking towards the bookstore. Even though there was a narrow road across, they could still clearly see that most of the zombies followed them into the school and surrounded the iron cage, but a few zombies either did not catch up or were left behind, or the crystal cores were more attractive than living people, so they stayed at the door of the bookstore.
They dug out the brain cores of their own kind and fought over them from time to time. Their movements and actions actually resembled those of living people, which made the people upstairs turn pale.
"According to the novels I read before..." Qu Weiwei murmured, "Could these zombies also absorb crystal cores and evolve?"
Since the end of the world, human evolution seems to be too fast and too smooth, and the zombies have stayed for too long. For example, Qu Weiwei is already a fourth-level superpower, and there are many people in Hongcheng Base who are higher than her level, but the zombies are still exactly the same as when the end of the world first broke out.
Nowadays, high-level psychics and zombies can win a crushing victory in a one-on-one fight. The zombies are currently winning only because of their large numbers, fear of casualties, and high infectiousness.
But the research institute has always believed that once a vaccine to resist the zombie virus can be developed, human victory is just around the corner, and taking back the city is no longer a fantasy.
But what if zombies are also evolving? What if they also develop special abilities, or even become intelligent like those described in the novels...
Looking at those zombies grabbing handfuls of crystal cores and stuffing them into their mouths, everyone felt a little heavy: Or perhaps, the zombies have actually evolved, in the city center, in other cities, and in places they haven't seen.
Tang Wenjie's face was gloomy, and metal spikes flew out from his body, piercing the head of a zombie that was devouring the crystal core. Several zombies nearby were stunned for a moment, and before they could dig open its head, they were also hit and killed by the metal spikes that followed.
It seemed that only these few zombies liked to devour crystal cores. The other zombies were not sure whether they were far away or what, but they were still surrounding the iron cage, reaching out to the fresh flesh and blood, and not paying attention to that side.
"Let's work harder today, kill all the zombies here, and dig out all the crystal cores." Song Kaiji said in a deep voice. This time it's not just for the crystal cores, but also to prevent other zombies from swallowing the crystal cores and upgrading.
The others naturally agreed. Although it would be a bit tiring, if the zombies really evolved, it would be too late to regret in the future. Because of this little episode, several people were more cautious and even discussed in a low voice whether they should report this matter to the base after returning.
Fortunately, not long after, I found a small library on the first floor of Teaching Building No. 2.
It was only about the size of four classrooms, and it was incomparable to the library of Song Kaiji's university. Unlike the bookstore outside the school, which mostly sold handouts, exercises, and test papers, this library was full of classic novels, and even some magazines and comics.
They cleaned up briefly, and Tang Wenjie sealed the doors and windows with iron mesh as usual, intending to do some repairs here. Therefore, Song Kaiji did not put away all the books immediately. Shen Qing searched among them and actually found a copy of "Three Character Classic".
It was not the same as the one in his arms. Shen Qing turned around and glanced at Song Kaiji and the others. Seeing that they were clearing the table and setting out food, he secretly took out the book that Miao Tongsheng had given him to compare.
Apart from the difference in paper and font, the three characters on the cover are the same. The "three characters" are the same. Although the "scripture" looks very similar, there are still subtle differences. Shen Qing read it again and again, and turned the inner pages. There are also many characters with similar shapes but not exactly the same. Shen Qing couldn't figure out why this was the case. After thinking for a moment, he stuffed the book that Miao Tongsheng gave him into the bookshelf.
"It's time to eat." Song Kaiji took out the food from the space and laid it out. It would have been fine for others, but Xing Ye's eyes widened. Even before the end of the world, they couldn't prepare such a sumptuous meal for a spring outing! How rich is this team?
Song Kaiji turned around to look for Shen Qing, and saw him standing by the bookshelf in front of the window. The sun was shining on him, and he seemed to be glowing. "Would you like a drink? Auntie squeezed carrot juice, but I don't like it... Be careful!"
Song Kaiji's eyes suddenly widened. Shen Qing was standing in front of the window. Outside the window was a bunch of wisteria growing very well, lush and green with purple flower spikes. The leaves and flowers moved slightly, and Song Kaiji thought at first that he was dizzy or there was wind - but he soon came to his senses. It was winter now, and it was already difficult for the wisteria not to wither, so how could it bloom? !
He watched helplessly as a green vine stretched out from the window and stabbed towards Shen Qing. The next second, he had teleported in front of Shen Qing and took out a Tang sword from the space to chop at the vine.
This mutant wisteria was probably attacking humans for the first time, and it immediately shrank back after missing the target. The cut part fell to the ground and twisted in pain. When Song Kaiji finished the cut, his Tang sword slipped out of his hand, and he fell backwards.
Shen Qing quickly caught him: "Song Kaiji!"
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