Chapter 376 Prehistoric Giant Beast
The team members have now been assigned to various parts of the base to help. Even Li Zhuang, who is very interested, has to go to strengthen the defense of the base. At this time, apart from the pilot who was transferred here, there are only Zhuang Mingxu and Lu Weiyi in the base besides Ning Yuan.
"It's already very slow. Lu Xi has already developed the energy conversion device. Although the loss rate is a bit high, with Antonio's help, there will be no problem in stabilizing it for use. All they have to do is apply the existing technology to the rocket launcher. How difficult can it be?"
Zhuang Mingxu sat at the workbench in the cabin, writing and drawing under a document, sneering with undisguised contempt, "Zhao Changming is capable, but he's been praised for too long and now he feels disrespected and wants to play tricks on him."
"Then how did you do it?" Ning Yuan asked.
"When he told me that he had improved the energy conversion rate, I realized what he was thinking and told him that if it was complicated, I could ask someone else to invest in this research and let him choose another project."
When Ning Yuan heard this, he burst into laughter.
The ship went directly to the side of the South Island away from the coast. Antonio was already waiting there with Zhao Changming and several researchers. On the small car were two individual rocket launchers that looked unchanged.
Several people boarded the boat swiftly and headed towards the distant sea. An hour later, there was only endless sea around them.
"Let's stop here," Zhuang Mingxu signaled the driver to stop.
"Do you need me to drive a motorboat to measure the range?" Ning Yuan asked.
"No, we don't need a very long range for now. Power is more important," Zhuang Mingxu said, looking at Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi's mental power radiated in all directions, and he finally found a huge creature in the sea a hundred meters away.
"What's wrong?" Zhuang Mingxu asked when he saw his serious expression.
"There's a fish over there? It looks to be more than thirty meters long. Do you dare to attack it?" They don't have an advantage at sea, not to mention that the opponent is so big. Who knows the extent of its attack performance? If they are defeated and run away, they may also bring this creature into the base. It's really not worth it.
"...Let's change it," Ning Yuan suggested, "I'm not doubting our abilities, but we've never fought against large-scale mutants or creatures, so we don't know the details."
"Then wait a little longer"
While the group was waiting, Ning Yuan took advantage of the situation and used his special powers to start salvaging seafood. He used a net woven by the water flow to directly encircle the creatures in a local area. As he manipulated the water flow, it formed a movable net to scoop the creatures out of the sea and placed them in a container on the hull.
Antonio found it interesting, so he manipulated a piece of metal to weave a very fine metal wire net bag and threw it into the water. When he felt the creature caught in the net, he raised his eyebrows at Ning Yuan and began to pull it up.
Unexpectedly, as they approached the sea, a bag of fish struggled to break free from the metal wire and fell back into the water, splashing Antonio with water.
Ning Yuan laughed, "That requires a continuous input of supernatural powers, otherwise how could it be possible to control the water flow all the time, and nowadays the mutated seafood is very ferocious." He directly opened the lid of the special container on the boat, and a column of water immediately sprayed out towards him.
"One percent of mutated creatures may develop water-related abilities. If you ignore them, you may be attacked, not to mention being caught."
"Is there any fire-related one?" Antonio imagined the scene and laughed first.
"I haven't seen it, but I have seen a metal creature. It made a hole in our hull. Fortunately, its level was not high and it was killed on the spot." Ning Yuan was speechless. Obviously, that was not a very good memory.
After talking and laughing for a while, a creature more than ten meters long moved towards them. This time, Lu Weiyi did not hesitate and attacked the creature with a rocket launcher.
A small transparent energy ball quickly entered the sea water and shot into the nearby creatures. A moment later, the seabed exploded violently, and the surrounding sea area of hundreds of meters solidified instantly.
There was a moment of silence in the entire cabin.
After a long while, Ning Yuan seemed to have found his voice again, "This..." He didn't know what to say.
"This is an ice converter, and the energy group is also ice-type. The rapid drop in temperature causes the sea area within a certain range to solidify," Zhao Changming explained calmly.
"I divided the conversion rate of the energy converter into three levels. The converter installed in this rocket launcher has a level 1 conversion rate, which is the highest conversion rate. No matter how many levels of crystal cores are installed, every time you shoot, the energy of the crystal core is instantly drained and cannot be used a second time."
Lu Weiyi took down the rocket and passed the place where the crystal core was installed. He saw that the crystal core inside had indeed turned white and the energy had almost disappeared.
"This is a crystal core of several levels, and its power... is pretty good." Ning Yuan looked at the sea surface that had shown no signs of thawing for a long time, swallowed his saliva and said something against his will.
"Grade B" Lu Weiyi answered proactively.
"You mean, if the converter installed inside can only convert part of it, does that mean that one crystal core can be used multiple times?" Zhuang Mingxu did not show any surprise at this scene, but went straight to the point.
"Yes, the second level can convert half of the energy, and one crystal core can be used twice. The third level can convert about 30%, and can be used three times, but the power will be different. According to the data, the effect of shooting with a C-level crystal core at a third-level conversion rate is basically equivalent to that of the previous crystal core gun. I haven't tested it at a lower rate."
"This is only the effect of a B-class crystal core. If an S-class crystal core is installed, then the effect..." Ning Yuan's eyes lit up and he gestured excitedly.
"No," Zhao Changming interrupted the beautiful imagination, "The material of the converter can't withstand any greater energy impact. This is already the peak of what can be converted. There is no difference with any higher crystal core at this point."
That's already very impressive.
Ning Yuan added in his heart.
While the few people were talking, the frozen sea had begun to melt, and the mutant fish that were frozen to death gradually surfaced, until finally it was the creature that was killed. Only then did they realize that it was a whale.
Judging from its size, it is still a juvenile.
"It's not mutated. It must weigh tens of tons. Let's go back and send it to the cafeteria at the base so that ordinary people can have a meal of meat." Ning Yuan froze a section of the sea surface, walked directly into the inspection, and used his supernatural powers to control the dead whale to emerge from the water.
"Okay." Lu Weiyi quickly saved the space and reminded, "Come up quickly. The blood around you can easily attract large carnivorous creatures." Especially sharks. The memory is really not good...
Two rocket launchers, one fire and one ice, were equipped with converters of different levels. They took a whole morning to test from different aspects by several people. Several weapon fans even put forward different suggestions for improvement from a practical perspective.
When they returned to the base, in addition to the whale at the beginning, Lu Weiyi's space also had an octopus with tentacles more than ten meters long, and more than twenty tentacles alone; a shrimp eight or nine meters long, whose claws were longer than those of an adult man, and the velvet spines on its legs could be broken off and used as weapons at any time; as for the other huge crab, Ning Yuan had been thinking along the way that he might be able to hollow it out and use it as a temporary house.
Several researchers were sent back to the laboratory, and a few people went directly to Beidao. In order to enhance the vigilance of fishermen going out to sea, several were placed directly in the most conspicuous downtown area of Beidao.
"This is what Captain Land Base captured when he led his men out on patrol today. I put it here for everyone to see, hoping that everyone can have a better understanding of the mutated creatures around them. Fishing boats out on the road must also be vigilant and stay awake at all times." Ning Yuan stood in front of several prehistoric creatures, looking weak and pitiful.
But he himself had no awareness of this and just asked for credit without hesitation.
"This mutant is too big. If we run into it, it won't be enough for it to bite us. Isn't it a death sentence?"
"This is too terrifying. Could it be that we are entering an era of prehistoric biological resurrection?"
"Luckily we have the land base commander. If someone else had gone out to sea and caught up with us, we wouldn't have been able to escape even if we wanted to."
"Yes, thanks to the base commander."
The onlookers' chorus of praise made Lu Weiyi feel embarrassed after a while. At this moment, he seemed to understand what Zhuang Mingxu meant by "creating a hero".
The person involved said it was a bit embarrassing.
"Ahem..." He coughed lightly and interrupted Ning Yuan's speech. "I have something to do, so I'll go back first. You can ask someone to send this non-mutated whale to the cafeteria later, and you can deal with the rest."
Ning Yuan made an OK gesture.
Lu Weiyi pulled Zhuang Mingxu away from the scene as if escaping.
The appearance of giant mutant creatures prompted Zhuang Mingxu to strengthen patrols in the waters surrounding the base.
The appearance of the crystal core rocket launcher also made them all feel relieved. This power gave them enough sense of security. After several adjustments, Antonio immediately gathered all the metal-type psychics in the base and began to use their psychic powers to make barrel parts.
Everyone at the base is constantly busy preparing for possible crises in the future.
At this moment, news of Lu Xiao and Zhao Qiang’s arrival at the Yuebanwan base was transmitted.
"My uncle sent me a message. He has recruited more than a hundred people with skills in oil extraction and mechanical engineering for us. This is enough for us to restore a batch of oil processing machinery and temporarily process the crude oil on the oil island."
Zhuang Mingxu looked at the message Lu Xiao sent today and sighed, "This message should have been transmitted before we set off, but the communication has been sporadic recently, so we only received it today."
"According to the estimated speed, they will arrive in three days at the latest. During this period, we need to carry out some basic repairs on the Oil Island to make it habitable." This means that the people on the Oil Island need to be dealt with.
He looked at Antonio, who seemed to have nothing to do with it, and Li Zhuang, who began to maintain his triangular knife, and could only call on them, "Do you two have any suggestions?"
"No" Antonio shrugged first.
Li Zhuang shook his head, paused, and said, "What are you going to do with the people on the island?"
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