Chapter 637: Direction of Superpowers
Zhou He thought that he might be able to learn something from this that their base had never explored, so he pointed to the wood-type mutant on the other side and asked, "What is the rabbit in front of him?"
In front of a wood-type mutant was a tightly tied mutant rabbit, with its limbs tied apart and reaching up to a person's thighs, as if ready for dissection. If it hadn't been struggling and baring its teeth from time to time with a ferocious look, its smooth fur alone would have been enough to make people want to touch it.
There was a deliberately created wound on the rabbit's leg. The wound was not big, and there were only a few drops of blood on the ground. Zhou He took a closer look and found that the wound had already coagulated, but there were a few black seeds of unknown species stuck on the coagulation. If you didn't look closely, you would just think it was dirt.
"She is practicing attacking," Qi Le explained, nodding encouragingly at the wood-type mutant.
The wood-type mutant took a deep breath and reached out to touch the rabbit's wound. The mutant rabbit in front of him suddenly struggled violently, breaking several of the plants that were originally tied to its limbs.
Before Zhou He could understand what was happening, the plant on the mutant rabbit's front leg broke, and as it twitched, a common weed poked out from its smooth white fur, and the originally green branches were covered in blood.
A chill rose from Zhou He's back. He looked at the rabbit's wound. The seeds had already sprouted stems and leaves, but the difference was that they were all growing towards the rabbit's body.
"I'm sorry, Master, I didn't control the plants well," the wood-type mutant apologized dejectedly.
"It doesn't matter. Look at the trend yourself to find the reason for the failure and try not to make the same mistake again next time," Qi Le said, and led them to continue walking.
"What is this white powder?" Zhou He asked about the thing in front of the fire-type mutant, and his eyes inadvertently glanced at the wood-type mutant who just passed by.
The man chopped off the rabbit's head with a sharp knife, then peeled off the skin and bones, revealing the body that was tightly wrapped in plant stems and leaves, as if wearing a layer of green clothes.
They were densely packed and crisscrossed like green blood vessels. Zhou He, a man who seldom lost his composure, felt a sour sensation in his throat and was about to vomit.
He pinched his palms hard and endured it, returning his gaze to the metal-type psychic in front of him.
Yun Bai, who was more interested in metal, had already reached out and touched the white powder in front of the other party. Before Zhou He could stop him, he heard him reply, "Is it lime?"
"Yes," Qi Le said.
"Extract calcium from lime?" Without waiting for Qi Le to explain, Yun Bai immediately understood his intention, "Is this... possible?"
After all, the main component of lime is calcium carbonate. If you want to extract calcium from calcium carbonate...
"No chemical reaction is required?" Yun Bai frowned.
It is not that difficult to generate calcium from calcium carbonate. It is a basic part of junior high school chemistry in the end times. It requires heating and then passing hydrogen through it. But now, only supernatural powers are used...
Yun Bai grabbed a handful of lime and put it in his hand. The supernatural power flowed in his hand. After a while, the metal on his body seemed to be attracted and vibrated, but the lime in his hand did not change at all.
Qi Le did not find it strange, but asked the metal-type mutant next to him, "Tell me, how does calcium carbonate transform into calcium through chemical reactions?"
The metal-type mutant who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old scratched his head and asked after a while, "What is a chemical reaction?"
"..."Zhou He and Yun Bai.
He is not very old and was probably still in primary school when the end of the world came. It is normal that he has not been exposed to it.
"Then how did you extract it?" Yun Bai asked.
"Just... feel it yourself." The boy picked up a handful himself. After a moment, the lime in his hand trembled slightly, and the color gradually changed from pure white at the beginning to white with a little silver quality, which is the color of calcium itself.
"You just know too much, which limits your senses. Now that superpowers have appeared, you are still thinking about how to use chemical methods to get results," Qi Le said to Yun Bai, "Different superpowers themselves are affinities for different elements. People who advance faster have a higher affinity and can use elements more accurately."
"To give a simple example, can you extract metal elements from the soil to make weapons?" Qi Le asked.
"I can only sense it. I can't completely extract it. However...S-level metal system can do it." Yun Bai is still one step away from upgrading.
Qi Le raised his eyebrows, "Who told you that you can only do this after you upgrade?"
Yun Bai shook his head. "I've only seen S-level have this ability. In the future, they can only do it after they successfully upgrade, right?"
"No," Qi Le answered simply, "The level of superpowers is measured by the amount of energy stored in the body, and does not represent the superpower's own perception of the elements."
"The reason why you feel that you are not as sensitive to elements as high-level psychics only proves that the energy in your body cannot support you to do this, not that you cannot do it."
"So...I can do it too?" Yun Bai glanced at the metal-type mutant next to him and realized that he was also S-level, and expressed his doubt in his heart.
The Metal Psychic saw what he meant and explained, "Yes, there were B-Class Metal Psychics before who were also able to extract metals."
"..." Yun Bai, "Can I practice here for a while?"
"Of course, if you don't understand something, you can ask them." Qi Le made a gesture of invitation.
With the direction of training wood-type supernatural powers in front of him, Zhou He originally wanted to stop it, but then he thought there seemed to be no harm in learning it, so he did not stop it.
Qi Le led Zhou He forward. The psychics around them began to become more and more proficient in controlling their powers. They trained in all kinds of strange forms.
The plants in front of the water-type mutant changed one after another, and animals gradually began to appear behind them, from small insects to mutant animals that gradually grew in size.
Even though Qi Le explained that there were swarms of mutant insects in the surrounding woods, Zhou He still felt resentful.
In front of the wood-type mutant were still various mutated animals, but at the beginning you could see exposed wounds on them, but later on there was obviously no wound at all. As someone who had experienced being parasitized by mutated plants, Zhou He didn't want to know what was in the bodies of those animals at all.
As for the metal-type mutants, with Fangtang's experience of extracting calcium from the white-clothed man in the Panshui base, Zhou He didn't want to guess what the purpose of their training was.
After walking around, Zhou He made a rough estimate of the number of psychics here. There were less than two hundred people, in groups of five, no more, no less. This meant that there were at least thirty metal-type psychics and fire-type psychics among them.
As far as Zhou He knew, there were about 6,000 psychics in the entire Yuebanwan base army, and there were even fewer fire and metal psychics. Even all the teams in Yuebanwan combined did not have as many as here.
Such a perfect ratio, coupled with such a high awakening rate of the combat system, made it difficult for Zhou He to not believe that this so-called awakening was all artificially arranged.
"What is Captain Zhou thinking about?" Qi Le saw that Zhou He had been silent for a long time and asked.
"I was wondering... Lord Mountain God can enlighten us to any superpower we choose?" Seeing Qi Le's confusion, Zhou He said specifically, "As far as I know, there are very few awakened metal and fire superpower users in any base at present."
It just so happens that the combat effectiveness of these two departments is famously strong, which is why most of the captains of the base army are from these two departments. Unless it is a team before the end of the world, the captain has not changed, but it is not uncommon for him to be weaker than the team members.
"Of course, the Mountain God took pity on our difficult life and made such arrangements," Qi Le replied.
This... makes sense. After all, the enlightenment ability has appeared, so it is not surprising that the direction of awakening can be arranged.
"Very magical," Zhou He commented, pointing to another place blocked by a plant wall in front and asked, "What's in front?"
"The place in front is for hunting mutant animals," Qi Le said, "Go further in, the mutant animals have not been cleared out yet. Some of the base's psychics will go there to practice their abilities in actual combat, and some will go hunting to satisfy their hunger."
Seeing Zhou He was leaving, Qi Le gave him a heads-up in advance, "Go straight ahead and connect to the slopes of the two mountains. There will be some mutated animals on the mountains, and some of them are very high-level. You'd better be careful if you go out."
"Thanks for the reminder. I will pay attention." Yun Bai did not come over, and Qi Le was the only psychic around him, so Zhou He could not go there at this time. After learning that he could come over anytime he wanted without doing anything extra, he took a few more glances and followed Qi Le back.
When passing by Yunbai, the man had already mastered the method of extracting metals. Although he was still not proficient, he had really figured it out. Nearly thirty people were as happy as fools and even showed off to Zhou He.
On the way back, Qi Le stopped talking about the Mountain God Base and instead asked about the situation in Yueban Bay. After some twists and turns, he finally turned the topic to the crystal core weapons that Zhou He had mentioned before.
"I am quite interested in this. Two S-level mutants who were about to be upgraded at the Panshui base died at the hands of crystal core weapons. The power of this weapon is comparable to that of the atomic bomb before the end of the world."
"It's not that exaggerated, it's just that crystal core weapons are more like energy weapons. Today's zombies and mutants have their bodies strengthened by elements, so this kind of weapon is more targeted and has better effects." After Zhou He finished speaking, he immediately said, "It's a pity that we have used up all the weapons along the way and can't give you some."
Qi Le waved his hands at him, asking how could he take it for free, but a hint of sharpness flashed in his eyes.
Then Zhou He said, "However, we still have a lot of weapons in our temporary base. If Mr. Qi is interested, I will go back and ask the base commander to approve some and send them to you."
Qi Le's eyes suddenly lit up, and his look of abnormal interest made Zhou He's heart tighten. He wondered if he had sent away the jackal and summoned the hungry tiger to the temporary base. However, they had received treatment at the Mountain God Base, but they really couldn't come up with more useful supplies to offset the treatment.
We can only use a temporary base as a pretext to make them wary, but on the other hand we also hope that they can leave smoothly.
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