Currently, most superpowers are physical enhancements. For example, those mutant speed and strength-type zombies only enhance their physical bodies.
You can also embed this ability yourself, but it's unnecessary. Other types of abilities will also make your body stronger, but not as much as simply strengthening your physical body. Even so, it's perfectly sufficient.
Upon arriving at Gu Lingchuan's residence, bursts of spiritual energy surged forth from within. Gu Lingxiao involuntarily took a few steps back, not to mention the lighter items, which were completely blown away.
At this moment, Gu Lingchuan leaned against the wheelchair, his physical body was slowly strengthening, and his useless legs were rapidly recovering.
But this wasn't the biggest change; all sorts of information flooded into my mind, chaotic and disordered.
It lasted for several hours before it stopped.
Once everything had calmed down, Gu Lingchuan slowly stood up from his wheelchair. "It's finally all better."
At first, both legs were crippled, and doctors diagnosed that a full recovery would be difficult. Then the apocalypse broke out, and he became a complete burden. Who could understand the helplessness he felt?
Now that his legs are finally healed, he hasn't even bothered to check if his powers have changed.
"If it succeeds, let's see how the superpower changes."
Gu Lingchuan only came to his senses after hearing Gu Lingxiao's words. He nodded and opened his mental domain, breaking through the radius of 100 meters to its limit.
This time, objects can be moved within a hundred meters, but the smaller the contraction, the stronger it becomes. When Gu Lingchuan was looking at a piece of clothing, a message popped up.
"An ordinary t-shirt"
This unexpected turn of events startled Gu Lingchuan, who then looked at Li Yan.
"An ordinary human woman who has not yet attained a higher rank"
Then look at Gu Lingchuan himself.
"An evolved being in the second stage before entering the extraordinary sequence, possessing mutated mental abilities, with an evolutionary path towards godhood."
A transcendental sequence?
Gu Lingchuan seemed to be deep in thought, then looked at Gu Lingxiao.
"An evolved creature in the second stage before entering the extraordinary sequence, possessing the ability of teleportation, devouring and plundering, evolutionary direction: form? qi? spirit?" The words "teleportation ability" and "devouring and plundering" flickered and finally turned into a bunch of gibberish.
The characters for "form," "qi," and "spirit" also flashed in turn, eventually turning into a bunch of gibberish.
Gu Lingxiao's behavior is a bit strange, with all sorts of gibberish. This should be related to Gu Lingxiao's special ability. He can devour other special abilities, which makes it impossible to determine whether his evolutionary direction is form, qi, or spirit.
It's also possible that all of them are.
Gu Lingchuan tried other items and concluded that when locking onto an item or creature, he would extend some information based on his own understanding.
Gu Lingchuan and Gu Lingxiao discussed the extraordinary sequence.
Ultimately, no conclusions were reached; "there was still too little useful information."
"Let's see what's going on with the zombies and see if we can figure out the origin of this apocalypse," Gu Lingchuan said.
The two made some preparations, mainly because Gu Lingchuan was familiar with the superpowers. The next morning, the two left the survivor base.
Seeing that Gu Lingchuan recovered his legs so quickly, Li Yan was very envious. She also wanted to become an evolved being, and Gu Lingchuan gave her that choice.
But in the end, Li Yan didn't dare to eat the zombie crystal, because Gu Lingchuan had also told her about the previous Blue Fish survivor base.
The chance of success is less than one in ten, and there's a high probability you'll end up as a monster.
This time, the two did not go directly to hunt zombies, but instead went to find Gu Lingchuan's next superpower. Hunting zombies was just a side thing.
Upon encountering the zombie, Gu Lingchuan activated his supernatural ability to lock onto it.
Lines of information popped up
"An ordinary human who absorbed super-powerful pollution energy—more pollution energy than super-powerful energy—is now evolving in an unknown direction."
Gu Lingchuan tested many zombies, including speed-type mutated zombies.
The mutated speed-type zombie is described as follows: "An ordinary human who absorbed polluted super energy, where the amount of polluted energy absorbed exceeded the amount of super energy, and is now evolving in the direction of speed—form."
The strength-type mutant zombies are similar; their evolutionary direction is also type.
He took out a zombie crystal and examined it.
"Pollution-Powered Crystal, containing both pollution power and superpower energy, originating from zombies."
After Gu Lingchuan absorbed the energy inside, all that remained was the power of pollution.
The various pieces of information left both of them somewhat confused, unsure of where this corrupting power came from.
As for why they turned into zombies, Gu Lingchuan had a guess: the power of pollution they absorbed exceeded their superpowers.
Those who became evolved beings during the apocalypse likely absorbed more super energy than the power of pollution.
For ordinary people, the superpowers and the power of pollution were balanced out.
As for whether ordinary people will turn into zombies or evolved beings in the future, it's hard to say, but it's highly likely.
Suppressing their doubts, which were beyond their current capabilities, they realized they needed to improve their strength first.
In the following days, the two began searching for suitable prey, starting by looking for the electric eel along the Li River.
"An evolved being in the second stage before entering the extraordinary sequence, possessing the ability to unleash lightning, with an evolutionary path of—Qi."
Based on my observations over the past few days, the most common type of organisms is the type of evolution, followed by the type of Qi, while the least common is the type of spirit.
In the end, the two focused their attention on the electric eel, which discharged electricity in this section of the river every day. Whenever it came close to the shore, Gu Lingchuan would have a chance to pull it out of the water.
When the two of them put on their insulated suits, they'll definitely be able to kill it.
But ten days passed without any chance. "Forget it, let's go find that salamander. We can't wait another ten days. If we keep hunting zombies during this time, we can enter the third stage."
Gu Lingxiao said.
Gu Lingchuan waited another day, but seeing there was really no chance, he had no choice but to leave. With Gu Lingchuan's mental domain, finding that salamander would be easy.
They're both second-tier creatures, but this one is much easier to kill. No matter how fast it recovers, it can't withstand the combined drain from the two brothers.
Gu Lingxiao's recovery speed from absorbing zombie crystals was extremely fast, making it impossible to outlast him. After Gu Lingxiao suffered some minor injuries, the attack was defeated.
A white crystal was absorbed immediately upon returning to the survivor base; there was no time to wait any longer.
As the crystal in his hand transformed into a white energy that surged into his heart, Gu Lingxiao's physical abilities rose to a new level.
With a sigh of relief, Gu Lingxiao ruthlessly chopped off one of his fingers.
It took five or six hours to recover. "This ability is still in its initial stage, just like the first stage."
In other words, Gu Lingxiao needs to advance to the second stage.
They still had about a hundred zombie crystals. During this time, the zombie crystals they hunted were split 50/50. Gu Lingchuan used most of them, but Gu Lingxiao kept his unused ones.
This was also suggested by Gu Lingchuan. For crystals, a kind of hard currency among evolved organisms, there needs to be a mutually satisfactory revenue-sharing relationship to avoid any discord.
Just like money before the apocalypse, many people became strangers or even enemies because of it.
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