Chapter 382 Lu Xiao Upgrades
Lu Xiao drank two big bowls of wine happily and sighed, "When I get old, I will come and live here with you."
"You can come over anytime now," Zhuang Mingxu handed over a cup of hot ginger tea to make up for the coldness of the crab meat.
"I still have to give it a try." Lu Xiao leaned comfortably on the sofa. The TV in the middle of the living room was playing a disc. The old Japanese movie was accompanied by light music, which was so comfortable that it made people intoxicated.
"I thought you and Zhao Qiang would separate"
"Are you afraid that Zheng Yi will do something behind your back?" Lu Xiao made his thoughts clear.
"Yeah." Zhuang Mingxu did not hide it. After all, their departure was the best time to take action. If it were him, he might also try to give it a try.
"I left the base. Zhao Qiang closed the base to visitors on the pretext of upgrading, and I left secretly." Lu Xiao brought a lot of supplies and people with him, so it was impossible for him to hide from others, so he just said openly that he wanted to see them.
Now that he had made himself clear, Lu Xiao stopped talking and directly asked Zhuang Mingxu when it would be convenient for him to upgrade. "Zhao Qiang at the base said that he would take care of us, but who knows if other forces will get wind of it. We still have to hurry back."
Zhuang Mingxu looked at Lu Weiyi.
"Anytime," Lu Weiyi said.
"Then let's do it now," Lu Xiao said readily.
Lu Weiyi didn't say much and took him to the South Island. The surrounding area was pitch black, the road was uneven, and the lights of the sightseeing car were shaking. Lu Xiao felt like he might vomit the food he had eaten.
"Why are we here?"
"This side is quite desolate. If the energy is not well controlled, it will not have any impact on the surrounding areas."
Lu Xiao had no experience, so he chose to agree with what the other party said. He looked around with the dim light and could detect some rustling sounds in the darkness around him. "Is there no danger on this island?"
"...There is a mutant animal on the island, it should be A-level," said Zhuang Mingxu.
"Almost S-level." The last time he went out, Li Zhuang found out that the crystal cores of the psychics could also be upgraded, so he dug out the crystal cores of the psychics he killed and brought them back. Lu Weiyi didn't want to use them on humans, so he fed the mutant ivy after he came back, and it is not far from upgrading.
"......Then let's go again" Lu Xiao almost jumped up.
"It's a base... controlled by a wood-type mutant," Zhuang Mingxu didn't tell the truth, "It's guarding some things here, and it won't attack humans for no reason."
Lu Xiao wondered if he was hallucinating, "Mutated plants as guards?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw out of the corner of his eye the shadow of an airplane where the light passed by, "Am I hallucinating? I seem to see...a plane."
"That's right, airplanes, helicopters, and a fighter jet," Lu Weiyi said with a boastful tone.
"This thing...can't be used anymore, right?"
"If it can't be used now, who knows if it can be used in two years." Lu Weiyi didn't feel that he had brought back garbage at all, and said confidently, "If it can't be used in two years, you can still dismantle it and use it as metal. The parts in some places are rare and precious, and people with metal abilities can re-synthesize them and use them in various places."
Lu Weiyi said earnestly, "Uncle, every time I go out now, I feel like there are treasures everywhere outside. The steel bars in the collapsed buildings, the twisted alloy windows, and the broken glass are all very useful."
"...You..." Lu Xiao was silent for a long time before saying, "You are quite good at living."
Zhuang Mingxu was so amused by this remark, which was not sure whether to belittle or praise him, that he turned around and told Lu Xiao about the part-time positions that Lu Weiyi had arranged for the various psychics in the team.
"The metal department repairs the combined machinery? The lightning department generates electricity? The water department manages the ice cellar?" Lu Xiao was amazed and observed a minute of silence for his team members. "Xiao Yi, you should restrain yourself. What if one day they are driven crazy and work together to hunt you down? I, your uncle, will not be able to save you even if I am thousands of miles away."
"Don't worry, uncle. Abilities are forced out of them. They are used to it." Lu Weiyi didn't feel that he was cruel at all. He even sighed that he had become smarter recently.
The car drove to the center before finding an open space to stop. The three got out of the car, and Lu Weiyi took out a bag of crystal cores.
Seeing that the lowest level among them was also A-level, Lu Xiao hurriedly took out what he had prepared and said, "I have prepared it, just use mine."
Most of them are B-level, and less than half are A-level, but the number is sufficient.
"Then let's switch. There are quite a few people in the team who haven't been upgraded to A-level yet, so we can give them the crystal core." Lu Weiyi put away his crystal core and gave him his.
Lu Xiao didn't hold back at this time. Since the level of the absorbed crystal cores was high, there was no need to make up for the number, and the possibility of survival was higher.
He held the crystal core and wanted to say something, but in the end he just patted Lu Weiyi on the shoulder and didn't drink anything.
"You may sweat a lot. Uncle, have a drink to replenish water in advance. It will be very painful later, but you will be fine after you get through it." Lu Weiyi handed him a cup of peach milkshake.
Lu Xiao drank it down without saying a word, then turned around and sat under a tree.
As soon as the crystal core was absorbed, severe pain came all over his body. Lu Xiao, who had fought on the front lines, couldn't bear it and fell to the ground, rolling in pain.
"Uncle, hold on." Lu Weiyi stood aside and looked at him.
Zhuang Mingxu watched this scene, and no matter how many times he experienced it, he could always think of the pain Lu Weiyi went through when he upgraded.
The difficult time came and went quickly. Although it might seem extremely long to Lu Xiao, in fact only a few minutes had passed.
When the pain subsided, Lu Xiao was still covered in a sticky and foul smell and he didn't even have the strength to sit up.
"Absorb the crystal core." Lu Weiyi handed the fallen crystal core back to him.
Lu Xiao forced himself to concentrate and quickly absorbed the crystal core.
With the purifying effect of the peach, Lu Xiao's subsequent upgrades were no longer surprising.
Lu Weiyi released his mental power, drove away the mutant ivy that was approaching, and also drove away the small animals around, and whispered to Zhuang Mingxu about the recent developments in the base.
"How's the situation over there with Zhuang Mobai? It's running low." Lu Weiyi was a little worried that the last bit of snow water had been used up, and he still had no solution.
"There was no breakthrough before. Some time ago, Lu Xi heard that he was researching this, so he went to talk to Zhuang Mobai about some of his ideas. A few days later, he came up with a new idea. He asked me to go over and see it a few days ago. He was able to achieve the effect with the instrument, and the energy produced was even purer than what you observed with your naked eyes."
"I have to say, your brother is really a little genius. Zhuang Mobai praised him to me many times. I heard that he wanted to take Lu Xi as his student, but Lu Xi simply refused, saying that he was more interested in weapons research and development. Last time, he kept telling me what a pity it was."
Zhuang Mingxu felt that if Lu Xi was not uninterested in this area, he might be able to figure it out in a short time.
"Does that mean I don't have to..." Lu Weiyi asked.
"It may not be achieved for the time being. He can just make it, but the speed is very slow, and it is purely manual, which requires someone to observe it at all times. I asked him to try his best to study the mechanical aspects." But it may not be that easy, and Zhuang Mingxu is also worried about this.
"We have to hurry, the stock here is running out." This is under the premise that the crystal cores they have purified are only circulated among a few teams of psychics and are absolutely prohibited from being circulated outside.
“I’ll find a way.”
The two chatted for a while. Lu Xiao completed the upgrade quickly. As expected, he failed to control the energy. The energy impact at the moment of the upgrade made the surrounding trees look like they had been hit by a hurricane. If Lu Weiyi had not used his supernatural powers to resist, Zhuang Mingxu would have been directly blasted away.
"This energy is so powerful, no wonder it can be used as a weapon energy source." Zhuang Mingxu was envious and horrified.
"An uncontrolled explosion of an SS-class crystal core could destroy half a city."
"How do you know?"
Because I tried.
Lu Weiyi did not answer, and Zhuang Mingxu did not hesitate. Instead, he asked, "If our base stores enough SS-level crystal cores, can we directly replace other energy sources in the future and form a new type of pollution-free energy?"
"It's unlikely," Lu Weiyi denied. "Think about it, how many crystal cores does an SS-level mutant need?"
"Take me as an example. The limit of the number of crystal cores absorbed per day for C-level is 10, which is 300 per month. It cost about 400 to upgrade to B-level. After that, I can absorb more than 20 per day. It took four months, and it cost more than 2,000 to upgrade to A-level."
"Then I can absorb more than 40 crystals every day. It took me six months to upgrade to S-level, which cost me more than 4,000. After that, the daily absorption reached about 70. It took more than 10,000 to upgrade to SS-level in two months. It is about 40,000. This is based on the premise that I converted all of them into C-level crystal cores."
"Not to mention, after my level increased, I basically stopped using low-level crystal cores, which means that my upgrade alone requires at least 50,000 zombies. This is when I am consuming the bead cores, under the premise of the shortest time. If others simply use crystal cores, it will be at least one and a half to two times more than me."
"Even if there are enough zombies now, how many SS-level mutants and SS-level zombies can be squeezed? As long as humans are alive and continue to improve, the zombies will eventually be hunted down."
Zhuang Mingxu calculated for a moment, but then he thought of something else, "Have you noticed that there are more mutant plants and animals?"
"What's the meaning?"
"The last time we went to Cangnan, I felt that mutant animals were reproducing faster than before. Moreover, even if many mutant animals don't have superpowers, they have crystal cores in their bodies. Compared with zombie crystal cores, they are more suitable for human absorption. So is it possible that mutant plants and animals will become a source of crystal cores in the future? At worst..."
"Can we find a way to breed mutant plants and animals?"
Lu Weiyi was so shocked by his words that he was speechless for a long time. He turned to look at Zhuang Mingxu in the dark and felt that compared to his own wild and clever ideas, this was the real power.
"Hahaha, Xiaoyi, uncle is also S-level." A circle of fireballs appeared in front of Lu Xiao who had recovered, illuminating the surrounding lights.
Lu Weiyi came back to his senses, moved his lips for a long time, said to Zhuang Mingxu approvingly, "You can go and try it", and walked towards Lu Xiao.
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