Chapter 373: Lin Xian, the Farsighted One
"Alive, what do you mean?"
"Through studying the existence form of the mother nest in the White City of Abyss on Planet 5 that you recorded, I became very curious about the form of this life composition, because the birth of life comes from the division of the embryo and there is a natural growth process. It is difficult to understand the form of stitching like this."
Ding Junyi pushed a large petri dish on the table forward. Inside was a mass of biological tissue that looked like it had hardened and dehydrated. She said to Lin Xian, "But you see, most of these tissues come from human and animal flesh. We have been in contact with strange bodies for so long, including the Federation and the Phoenix Order. In fact, we have always believed that strange bodies are another form of life. They do not have brain or heart tissue as we understand it, but the problem is that they clearly have the characteristics of carbon-based organisms."
"Fortunately, it is a carbon-based creature, so our weapons can still work." Lin Xian said.
"Normally, cell tissues will not lose their activity immediately after a period of time after a living thing dies. We collected a lot along the way, but the problem is..."
"No one alive?"
Ding Junyi nodded. She picked up the tweezers and picked up a piece of black tissue in the culture dish. The original flesh and blood seemed to be carbonized and turned into fine sand that quickly flowed down.
"The human body's tissue has been 'planed' in some way, giving it extreme hardness, flexibility, and defensive power. It is also... very heavy."
"You mean, the strange bodies we encountered are not some kind of biological creatures in essence?"
Ding Junyi nodded: "The Phoenix Society has discovered this a long time ago. I have also heard from some of their recent global reports that in addition to biological tissue research, the most important point is biological nature."
"What biological nature?"
"They don't even have the simplest abilities to hunt, eat, mate, or reproduce. They are like natural killing machines. They hunt humans but have no reaction to flesh and blood. The Dark Mark is like an instruction. As long as there is a living person, they will attack crazily. They are not even afraid of death."
Lin Xian fell silent after hearing this. He had indeed discovered this. Not only him, but all the survivors understood this.
The strange entities include zombies, and their purpose of existence seems to be only to kill. They do not eat at all and will not stop in the face of artillery fire. This madness is one of the reasons why the survivors are increasingly afraid of the strange entities.
"So I combined the Fire Book information package of the Order of the Phoenix and the Night Walkers, as well as the research data synchronized with the Silent City, and came to a conclusion."
Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian: "That is, the strange bodies are a kind of mechanized existence created by some kind of power or civilization using the flesh and blood of tens of billions of humans and animals through 'craftsmanship', and this is what drives them."
As she spoke, she threw a ball towards Lin Xian. Lin Xian took it and saw that it was a level 2 blood essence.
“Strange blood essence…” Lin Xian’s face slightly changed: “Are you saying that this thing is the battery of the strange body?”
“It should be easy to understand.”
Lin Xian was silent. He inexplicably recalled what the professor Han Qiming had said to him when they were in Underground City No. 9.
"This speculation cannot be spread because it is not to cause panic, and it is not rigorous. This is mainly because there is no accurate judgment in biological pathology, bacterial strain research, or zombie live investigation. Zombies themselves are not a rigorous concept. From a biological point of view, there is no such biological individual."
"For example, an adult with extremely poor physical function cannot suddenly have extremely strong vitality and physical strength without calorie metabolism. A body damaged by a virus will only be worse. How can it be full of energy and survive for so long?"
"So the Dark Attack Toxin is essentially the energy of dark creatures including zombies, similar to our oxygen, and blood essence is a high-density combination of this energy, which is the main core that drives the strange body's actions?"
"Yes."
“It seems to make sense.” Lin Xian nodded: “Every time those strange creatures are killed, black gas will be released. It should be a high concentration of dark invasion toxins…”
No wonder he heard hellish cries in his ears every time he got close to the black fog. It turned out that it was not an auditory hallucination, but a mental shock caused by the invasion of high-concentration darkness.
Absorbing this high concentration of darkness is a huge burden for the human body. If it can't bear it, it will degenerate and mutate, and if it can bear it, it will evolve. This is why the hunting groups of psychics encountered before tried to use this method to improve their psychic powers.
"So now you say this cell is alive, what do you mean?"
Ding Junyi pointed to the dark erosion cells in the culture dish and said, "This is exactly what I'm curious about. After my research, I found that this cell has a completely different cell body form from the blue planet creatures. The most important thing is that it has the ability to absorb the invasion of darkness and is completely unaffected. The only problem is that the Crimson World has to place it on a piece of living human flesh and blood to maintain its activity. Otherwise, it cannot be brought out of the Star Abyss. So I think this thing is very likely..."
"A true dark creature!"
Lin Xian was slightly shocked, then reacted: "I understand what you mean. You mean that except for some real dark creatures, most of the weird bodies are actually flesh and blood machines similar to those created by the White City Nest."
"Yes."
"Is that A-level, special-level, or S-level?"
"Not sure." Ding Junyi said, "I asked Shuqin to help me collect some tissues from the Abyss Worm and the Black Thorn in the Cloud in Xilan City, but I didn't find any of these dark erosion cells from what I have."
"So strange, not even S-level?" Lin Xian asked in surprise.
Ding Junyi shook her head. "I also find it strange. The Cloud Black Thorn was the first S-level creature killed by humans. At that time, Zhao Yu and Wen Zhuo's team took it very seriously and collected a lot of information. However, including the Abyss Worm, they did not find the existence of strange blood essence. So I think this kind of dark erosion cell should be in a special part or require specific conditions, but this is all speculation."
"This dark erosion cell must be a major discovery." Lin Xian's expression was slightly stern. "The Crimson World spent such a huge price, and in order to prevent us from intercepting it, they also designed a secret plan. This thing is definitely not simple."
"Now humans can separate dark energy from cold dark particles, which is essentially a form of energy conversion of dark invasions. You can think of it as a higher purity cold dark reagent that can be absorbed by humans. Mochizuki Shinji's calculation formula derives that 18%, which is the current limit of human energy conversion. This limit is also a critical value for the evolution of psychics. So in principle, except for forced filtering by the human body, there is currently no material on the blue planet that can isolate or store this energy." Ding Junyi said.
Lin Xian looked at the strange blood essence in his hand and the dark erosion cell on the table: "I can't find it on the Blue Star, but maybe in the Star Abyss?"
"Yes, this is exactly the purpose of Shinji Mochizuki and the Phoenix Society to study the Star Abyss. Of course, the same is true for the Crimson World. Whether it is disaster plants, blood essence, strange bodies, or taboo objects, these organizations want to find answers from these substances that do not belong to the Blue Planet."
"So this kind of cell is not affected by the invasion of darkness, which is a good key to research?"
"That's right." Ding Junyi nodded: "At least I found this."
"Fuck, so the technology that Dawn City announced to filter 95% pure water, through cooperation with Crimson World, is it really possible for them to achieve this?" Lin Xian said in surprise: "Is Dawn City betting on this?"
"I don't know much about politics." Ding Junyi put down the things in her hands and said, "I am only responsible for scientific research."
"All right."
Lin Xian has a feeling that the secret of darkness is gradually coming to light, but he doesn't know whether humans can solve the problem of darkness invasion before the global polar night or before they die of thirst for water. Fortunately, Silent City No. 2 was not involved in the Star Abyss, and Lin Xian can obtain some water resources from it for replenishment, otherwise even drinking water will become a problem now.
"There is a high-standard scientific research cabin on the Sky Train." Lin Xian looked at Ding Junyi at this time: "Director Ding, I hope you can be my scientific research officer. There are some scientists in the Jian Xuwei Alliance who may be able to work with you and provide you with assistance in the future."
Ding Junyi looked up at Carriage No. 3 and said to Lin Xian, "Are you ready to give up on Infinity?"
"I……"
"I suggest you stay for now."
Before Lin Xian could speak, Ding Junyi said to him: "Fighting the doomsday is a journey that is destined to be difficult and dangerous. We are not out of the Asia-Pacific region yet. To enter the ocean orbit, there are still the East Continent Islands, the equatorial ridge, and the South American storm rainforest. We must cross the endless black ocean to reach the poles. There are many things..."
Lin Xian waved his hand to interrupt and smiled faintly: "I have no such plan at all. I will not give up the Infinity unless it is absolutely necessary. The situation is rather troublesome now. Getting the Sky-class is one of my plans. It will temporarily give our joint train a backup. At least we will no longer need to rely on the Silent City to escape from the predicament in the future."
Lin Xian looked at the carriage of Infinity. All the armor and weapons here were made by him personally. Apart from some hidden structural damage to the body, Infinity currently had no driving problems.
The firepower and power on it are very valuable assets. Even if Lin devours all the united trains in the process, the Infinity will remain until the end.
Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian with a meaningful look in her eyes and said in surprise: "So this was all part of your plan?!"
She looked at Lin Xian in disbelief: "You used the Aksai forbidden item to enter Xingyuan. In fact, you already knew that Silent City and Crimson World were inside, so you used magnetic levitation to rescue Silent City, and then destroyed the Crimson World's research institute in one fell swoop, and also seized their Dark Erosion Cells!?"
"No, you misunderstood." Lin Xian frowned, thinking that this woman was too good at making associations. Was she going too far?
Unexpectedly, Ding Junyi became more and more surprised as she spoke. She took two steps back and said excitedly, "Now Silent City has become your right-hand man. Even the world's number one genius Mochizuki Shinji has become your think tank. The Sky-class is produced by KIKI Linglong Group and manufactured by Jian Xuwei and Finger Group. So you used Silent City to solve the Wen family problem. Even the Phoenix Society showed up, causing Dawn City to be wary and hand over Jinhai and Sky-class. This... all of this is in your plan?!"
"No..." Lin Xian's pupils trembled as he watched the woman talking very fast. He wanted to interrupt her but couldn't get a word in. Looking at Ding Junyi's shocked and admiring expression, Lin Xian swallowed hard.
"No... that... uh, okay."
Lin Xian restrained his expression, too lazy to explain, and simply sighed deeply: "That's right, don't tell others. I don't want to be seen as a wise man who is good at strategy. It's better to be low-key."
Ding Junyi's chest rose and fell rapidly. At this moment, she looked at Lin Xian with a flushed face. Suddenly, she rushed forward and began to take off Lin Xian's shirt with an excited look.
"You...you are my God..." She panted and said, "I haven't met my needs for too long. Please...give me some time."
"no……"
Lin Xian was shocked: "Were we not discussing a serious scientific research issue just now? What about living cells..."
Hearing the word "living cells", Ding Junyi shuddered all over, as if something had touched her heart, causing her to bite her lower lip and hum~
"Wait, you haven't finished the derivation of the formula you just mentioned..." Lin Xian continued
Hmm~
Hearing the word "formula", Ding Junyi felt even hotter all over. She didn't want to derive the formula at this moment, she just wanted to push Lin Xian down.
"I heard that there is a large lounge in the research cabin on the Sky Train?" Ding Junyi said at this time.
"It should be."
"That's definitely not as exciting as this small compartment..." Ding Junyi pulled Lin Xian and walked towards the lounge of the scientific research cabin.
"ah?!"
…
Lin Xian knew that Director Ding had the attribute of contrast. He thought he already understood it very well. After all... he had experienced it personally. But every time, Director Ding would refresh his understanding of contrast. All the words related to the laboratory that Lin Xian said would make Ding Junyi have a strong reaction, as if those scientific terms that she was accustomed to in daily life had become a kind of forbidden pleasure for her at this moment. After the peaceful scientific research life, she would usher in a long-accumulated explosion.
And this time, after experiencing the thrills of Axai and Xingyuan, it was even more intense.
After a while, the two came out of the rest room exhausted. The blush on Ding Junyi's face gradually faded. While calmly buttoning up her white coat, she said to Lin Xian:
"Thanks."
"polite"
Lin Xian replied inexplicably, and then prepared to leave with a dark face. At this time, his eyes saw the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Wrongs on the table, as well as the Blood Vine brought back from the basement of the White City Rail Station, and changed the subject.
"By the way, are there any changes in these disaster plants?"
"The conversion efficiency of Hell Black Chrysanthemum should be improving. I compared the supplies we obtained in Aksai. The food and water in our car were infected more slowly than those in other cars. This should be due to the effect of Hell Black Chrysanthemum and your Heterogeneous Rubik's Cube."
Lin Xian nodded.
"Silver Dragon Shiwancuo, there has been no change since Xingyuan came out, and it has almost stopped growing. There is no sign of inflorescence formation for the time being. As for the blood vine, when we rushed out of the zombies just now, I noticed that it had some changes, but they were not obvious. I don’t know its function at the moment. As for a name, do you want to give it one?" Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian and said.
"Since you said it's blood vine, let's call it blood vine..." Lin Xian let out a long sigh and said to Ding Junyi
"Director Ding, please transfer to the Sky Interstellar Train as soon as possible. Firstly, it will be convenient for us to communicate with you. Secondly, there are many experimental equipments on it, which should be able to meet your needs."
"I know."
Ding Junyi lowered her head to sort out her research materials. After a while, she raised her head and looked at Lin Xian, her eyes calm but with a hint of meaning.
"I was just waiting for you to come, and now my needs have been met."
Lin Xian: …
After getting off the Infinity, Lin Xian walked directly into the factory where he had been working before and took the elevator down. It was already 9 o'clock in the morning, and there were still about two hours before dawn. The entire Jinhai was extremely peaceful, and except for the densely surging groups of zombies around the industrial zone, no strange creatures appeared.
In the building, Shu Qin, Liang Lei and other team leaders were scattered in different areas and on guard, reporting the situation to Lin Xian from time to time.
The elevator car went down and entered the huge colonization factory again. There were a large number of scanning robots and various types of drones running in the air. Shinji Mochizuki stood under the colonization factory. Before Lin Xian approached, he spoke.
"To answer your two questions, the design of the Sky Train is only equipped with four electromagnetic rail guns and two high-energy pulse ray guns in addition to the ionized air sheath and electrostatic force field generator. They are mainly used to clear space debris and small meteorites. The orbital star cannon you want cannot be installed as a space-based weapon."
He glanced at Lin Xian who was walking over: "This is the disadvantage of this pre-designed space vehicle compared to your train. You can't just take a carriage and use it to modify weapons. Because it is a starship standard, the internal airtightness and thermal insulation composite layer are integrated."
Lin Xian frowned: "Damn, didn't you say you would help me equip me with weapons?"
"There are other plans." Mochizuki Shinji said leisurely: "First, redesign the overall blueprint. Second, build an arsenal ship to connect it. This is more realistic. After all, this interstellar train is modular, which can solve your problem."
Lin Xian nodded: "Forget about redesigning it, the second one is more reliable. What's the other question?"
Shinji Mochizuki slowly raised a finger and pointed at the strange body suit above.
"This is not an experimental device, nor is it a failed design."
"What's the meaning?"
"Judging from those colony suppressors and restraints, the Crimson World was tailor-made for it, but this monster was originally dead. Why do you think they installed these things?"
"Heh." Lin Xian smiled: "Don't tell me that they can not only control the strange body, but also revive it?"
"Control, resurrection, these are too subjective." Mochizuki Shinji pointed to his temple and looked at Lin Xian and said, "The Crimson World is a group of lunatics. You can't understand it with normal thinking."
"Just say what you want to say."
Shinji Mochizuki put his hands into his sleeves, looked at the huge strange body suit, and said calmly: "I don't like to make sensational speculations, but from a logical point of view, the Crimson World cannot be unaware that a dead strange body has no research value. They spent so much money to make this thing, there must be some reason."
Lin Xian paused after hearing this, and then said in a deep voice: "Okay, then you help me get that standard ship hull first. The design and manufacture of the arsenal ship will definitely not be that fast."
"Of course, at this scale, even if I use readily available weapons, it will take at least 30 days to design and build the hull of an arsenal ship."
"30 days..." Lin Xian opened his mouth, then swallowed what he was about to say.
Normally, the construction of those large starships takes years. It took 14 years for Silent City to build it, and now Shinji Mochizuki is still working hard to perfect the hull for interstellar navigation. The Sky-class can have this scale because many hull sections have been built before the Apocalypse Day. Even so, it is already a lightning fast manufacturing capability to manufacture an arsenal ship of tens of thousands of tons in 30 days. It is estimated that Shinji Mochizuki still needs to mobilize most of Silent City's construction robots to do it.
Thinking of this, Lin Xian felt a little heart-attacked, but he couldn't ask others to build a large starship in minutes. With such manufacturing capabilities, Silent City would not be chased by Xingyuan.
"Why don't you design a blueprint for me and give me two sets of Hyperion directional restraints, and I'll do the rest myself."
"Sure." Mochizuki Shinji said calmly, "As you wish, I will design you an arsenal ship based on the basic module."
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."
Lin Xian looked back and prepared to leave: "Have Qian Suxun and your robot found the nest of the Crimson World in Jinhai?"
"There are several places, but they are all deserted. I will tell you if I have any news, Lin." Mochizuki Shinji said without turning his head.
Lin Xian nodded, and immediately returned to the ground without stopping. Shinji Yozuki and Silent City were watching the underground and the star port. At the train factory, Jian Xuwei, Chen Sixuan, Shi Diyuan and others were arranging the plan for the train transfer.
Lin Xian took over the engineering-grade train from Qian Dele's Joker team and the train from the Red Rose team and started to devour them directly. He now needed a large amount of materials and mechanical source points. The Mechanical Heart was about to awaken again, and he had no time to sleep and rest.
In an empty train loading line factory, Lin Xian transferred the train in and then began to devour it alone.
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +50, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +20! ]
In less than 20 minutes, a living carriage was completely devoured by Lin Xian.
[Swallowed successfully, Mechanical Source Points +400, Mechanical Swallowing Skill Proficiency +200! ]
An hour later, the Joker team's high-powered Huanxing traction locomotive was swallowed up by Lin Xian and turned into ashes.
At this time, the black sky faded away and the entire Jinhai was filled with light.
Lin Xian looked at the time and knew that after daybreak, there might be a large-scale exchange of information in Dawn City, so he seized the opportunity and began to devour the nuclear-powered central carriage of the Joker team.
Three hours later.
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +800, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +300! ]
At this time, Lin Xian's Mechanical Heart level progress has increased by 1250, and his Mechanical Devouring proficiency has also increased by 520!
[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.5 (18890/20000)]
Mechanical phagocytosis: 5 (2585/3000) Increases phagocytosis efficiency
"continue!"
Lin Xian looked extremely serious. He wiped the sweat off his head and began to devour the train of the Red Rose Fleet.
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +50, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +20! ]
After Lin Xian finished devouring a living compartment of the Red Rose Team, a pile of debris fell from the car in an instant, and various women's underwear and condom packaging were scattered all over the floor. Lin Xian looked at this scene and smiled speechlessly. He had already informed the captain of the Red Rose Team, Zhou Hongqiu, and everyone in the team that after forming an alliance, they would no longer engage in flesh trade. In fact, for these women, they would love nothing more than to do so. After all, if they were not forced to survive, who would be willing to make a living by selling flesh in the end times...
Just after Lin Xian finished devouring the nuclear-powered carriage of the Red Rose Fleet, a dazzling curtain of light flashed out.
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +700, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +200]
[Congratulations, your Mechanical Heart has been successfully upgraded to level 6, and the Mechanical Awakening is being activated! ]
rub!
At this moment, the sound of successful swallowing rang in Lin Xian's ears, and the light screen in front of him suddenly turned black!
An extremely powerful mechanical roar boomed in his head!
(End of this chapter)
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