Chapter 102: Beauty? I, as a righteous person, must come and see what's going on! [6k2 words]
Three days later.
Lu Wenwu, holding the dog, said goodbye to Zhao Lixin with the energetic Dolphin Girl and set out on the road to the City of Life.
Even the battle-hardened Fifth Brother had to admit it.
The racial advantages of dolphins in certain aspects are indeed amazing, and the excitement they bring is even stronger than that of the two female ghosts in the red and white collision.
When the couple was secretly preparing to kill the Apostle of Life, one of the more than 500 soldiers who had been spared by Lu Wenwu finally managed to contact the headquarters and returned to the headquarters.
There were clanging sounds, and inside the huge steel structure were countless sophisticated machines.
Bearings and gears turn, pistons and levers move.
The majestic steel beams retract part of the mountain structure, perfectly concealing their own existence.
From the outside, it looks like just an ordinary mountain.
Fire base.
This is a super-large underground city built by humans in the middle of World War III. The upper part used for entry is a mountain fortress, which can accommodate millions of people.
At that time, the world hegemons had not yet disintegrated, and the world had not yet fallen into the hands of the seven apostles.
Countless technologies that embody the highest wisdom of mankind in the world are placed here.
It is these technological forces and artillery arrays that can easily kill B-level extraordinary people in seconds that constitute the last line of defense to protect human civilization and human fire.
After the collapse and disintegration of many permanent members of the UN Security Council and the drastic changes in the world pattern, the Spark Base accommodated countless elites and politicians from various countries. Almost all the remaining powerful people gathered here - with their armies.
Therefore, this place naturally becomes the only hope for mankind to defeat the apostles.
At least after the Salvation Army was officially established and the former armies of various countries began to be integrated, the people of the Salvation Army themselves firmly believed this, and this remained the case even after the split.
Um.
Or
At least that's what the soldiers and junior officers below think.
They feel deeply proud of the causes they fight for and are willing to give everything, even their own lives and the lives of others.
However, the sincere cooperation and unwavering unity among countries like that in the wandering little broken ball only exist in the magnificent epic science fiction fairy tales of adults.
The truth is, the so-called slogan of "defeat the apostles and take back our homeland" is just a slogan.
It is the rhetoric used by the majority of the ruling class, who have spent a long time haggling over the division of interests, to the lower classes in order to gather more resources and wealth.
Whether or not the apostle can be defeated is not important.
Can I continue to survive, accumulate more resources to maintain a life of enjoyment, until I die peacefully.
This is important.
However, the team leader Zhao Lixing did not realize that the attitude towards players was not the key factor that led to the initial split of the Salvation Army. It was just a fuse.
The real key lies in their attitude towards "saving the world".
"This is a provocation to us! This is an insult to us! Damn aliens, bastards worse than pigs and dogs, I always knew they had bad intentions!"
The angry roar broke the dull and solemn atmosphere in the highest conference room.
A tall, short-haired, middle-aged white man in a former national military uniform flushed red in the face and slammed his fist on the table.
He was in his fifties and supported himself with his hands, leaning on the large round conference table and looking around.
Seen from the side, he looked like an angry lion with his gray and white beard.
"You all saw it! This damn alien is not only slaughtering our troops, but he's also calling himself the new apostle! The new apostle! We need a war to teach him a lesson!"
His voice was so loud that even the simultaneous interpreter's headphones buzzed.
"Lawrence, calm down."
Opposite him, an old man in a suit had a calm expression and the demeanor of an old-fashioned British aristocrat.
Although Edinson had a smile on his face, he actually looked down on this military officer named Lawrence from the bottom of his heart and despised him from the bottom of his heart.
Don’t you see what era we are in now?
Three years ago, you called yourselves the beacon of the world, and that was enough. But now you are still so arrogant and think that you are the strongest world hegemony?
madness!
"Are you still going to hide in this turtle shell and wait for death? Damn coward!" Lawrence glared at him. "That demon is already heading for the City of War. We need a war to prove our strength!"
"Mr. Lawrence, I think I need to remind you that we don't have many missiles left," an elderly man with an oriental face said in a low voice. "Perhaps we should consider the potential threats and losses, and then carefully formulate countermeasures."
"Plan, plan, plan again! Wu, can't you and Edinson be brave warriors for once?" Lawrence's face flushed with anger, and he sat back in his seat indignantly.
Wu Shoupeng said slowly, "What can being a warrior bring? Lawrence, you really should change your old habits. This is not the era before the World War. The world beacon you were so proud of is now a thing of the past."
"There's an old saying in our East Country: Build high walls, store abundant food, and slowly claim the throne. What we need to do now is to obtain as many resources as possible from the outside world, rather than engaging in this meaningless war and wasting our already limited heavy firepower and soldiers."
"Damn it, are we just going to be ridiculed like this and do nothing?" Lawrence slammed the table in anger again.
Faced with these old foxes who came from a political background, Lawrence, who did not understand what checks and balances were, hated them to the core, but was always left speechless by their refutations in a few words.
If it weren't for the fact that he held a large number of troops, this old guy who didn't understand politics would have been kicked out long ago.
"I propose sending a mechanized armored division to test the capabilities of this apostle codenamed 'Tyrannosaurus,'" another Eastern elder said slowly. "Lawrence, since you're so insistent, I think you should lead the team. What do you think?"
Lawrence was about to agree, but he reacted instantly.
It is hard to say whether I can win the battle if I take my direct subordinates with me. What if there are too many casualties? Will I be able to recover the consequences when I come back?
He is just not good at speaking, but he is not stupid!
"I think we should take a long-term view on this matter," Lawrence said decisively. "I think one mechanized armored division is too many. Wu was right before. We are running low on resources. We need to be frugal!"
The old man and Wu Shoupeng glanced at each other tacitly, both revealing a sneer of disdain in their hearts.
Sir, you are not lying to me. People are always good at compromise.
In this way, the meeting once again followed the familiar process.
What kind of results can be achieved if a bunch of old foxes who have basically never thought about counterattack sit together and discuss something?
After a lot of buck-passing and wrangling, as well as the exchange of interests among multiple parties, it took them a full three days to barely determine the result.
The First Salvation Army finally decided to send two brigades of miscellaneous troops towards the City of War, granting them bombing authority, preparing to launch a surprise attack when Lu Wenwu launched an attack on the City of War to test his true combat power.
However, their troops had not yet set out, and Lu Wenwu, who was traveling rapidly with the wings of the magic dragon, had already arrived at the City of Life.
Countless giant trees hundreds of meters high rise from the ground, like raised devil's claws supporting the sky.
The black tree trunks were not covered with emerald green branches and leaves, but with strange branches twisted together like a tower of bones.
The whole city looked dark.
Gray and gloomy is the main tone here, like an old faded photo.
Looking at the city in front of him that didn't look like a place from the mortal world, Lu Wenwu took out the map and compass and compared them several times, but he always felt that something was wrong.
Where are the Apostles of Life and the City of Life?
How on earth does this have anything to do with life?
The couple stayed in the distance of the city for a full five minutes.
Lan Shan said with a strange look on her face, "Fifth Brother, is this really the City of Life?"
"Probably, right?" Lu Wenwu was also a little uncertain. "Since we're here now, let's just go in. Once we kill all the bosses in the city, we'll know if this is the City of Life."
Lan Shan: “???”
What a simplistic and crude way of judging!
Indeed, this is Lu Wenwu's style of doing things.
When in doubt, just act recklessly.
If the problem is not solved, it means you are not aggressive enough!
Lu Wenwu took the lead, holding Maomao and walking forward, with Lan Shan following closely behind.
As they truly stepped into the gray-white area of the City of Life, the two of them and Maomao clearly felt that an unknown evil force was covering their bodies.
This power is indeed full of vitality, but it is also very evil and seems to be able to affect thinking and cognition.
Walking forward, the appearance of the city's buildings comes into view.
Large areas of crimson vines and plants covered the tall buildings.
The roots, which seemed to have self-awareness, took root in the reinforced concrete, winding and wriggling like snakes.
Lan Shan shuddered and moved closer to Lu Wenwu.
This somewhat disgusting scene made her feel scared.
It's probably similar to how, even though humans can easily crush bugs, many people still instinctively stay away from them.
A faint friction sound appeared in the distance, as if something was dragging a large amount of plants.
Lu Wenwu released his enormous mental power and saw a horrifying scene.
It was a person gnawing on a ball of soft fruit.
In other words, humanoid creatures.
Its entire body was covered with strange plant vines; the roots, stems, and leaves seemed to have merged with its flesh and blood, constantly wriggling as if extracting something.
Where hair should have been was covered with masses of hard growths, and the human arms had been replaced by brown twists as hard as tree trunks.
It opened its gray-green eyes, and its eyelids moved up and down like a stack of leaves as it gnawed at the fruit in its hand.
The food was so delicious that juices flowed all over the body and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.
Looking closely, the dripping sticky liquid looked very much like plasma.
The gnawed fruit twitched and jumped, shaking off the soil covering it.
How similar is this scene to the heart of some creature?
"Phew! What is this! Was it once a person?"
Lan Shan also saw this humanoid creature and felt her scalp tingling.
Lu Wenwu immediately opened the Eye of Insight.
[Human Sub-body of Giant Tree Life Believer No. 1 (C)]: 1458/? ? ?
[Current Status]: Hive consciousness, life instinct, physical transformation, life fusion, life blessing.
"It might have been a person once." Lu Wenwu hesitated, which was unusual for him. "But now, it has probably become part of those big trees."
"Big tree?" Lan Shan was stunned.
"Yes, Big Tree."
Lu Wenwu looked up and saw the confidence of the giant tree.
[No. 7 Giant Tree Life Believer Matrix (A-)]: 8000000/8000000
This thing is only graded A-.
But the blood volume has reached an extremely terrifying eight million!
This was the creature with the thickest blood Lu Wenwu had ever seen.
Should we say it is worthy of being a tree?
But what should be said
This thing is a bit too shady.
Twelve giant trees completely cover the City of Life.
Lu Wenwu felt the direction with the most abundant energy and blood in the city, and walked in with Maomao and Lan Shan.
Along the way, there are a large number of offspring transformed from humans and other animals.
They look strange and varied, but all of them seem to have been fused with some plant limbs, and lack many of the instincts of intelligent life.
The further he went in, the more frightened Lu Wenwu became.
There are no normal people here at all. There is much more mind control and complete body transformation than in the war field.
Or it could be said that this city is a hive consciousness cluster composed entirely of twelve towering trees, and all the life forms moving around in it are just their clones.
Lu Wenwu thought about it and let Maomao merge with himself.
The dark blue battle pattern has quietly emerged from the scarlet abyss.
At some point, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared on the road where the two were walking.
She wears a flower crown and has skin as white as cream.
She was sitting so charmingly on a swing made entirely of flowers and green vines, swinging with a smile on her face.
The two long, slender, white legs swayed gently by inertia, reflecting strands of crystal clear light.
So beautiful.
Even Lan Shan, a woman, couldn't help but be mesmerized by her beauty, and her face looked dazed.
Seeing this scene, Lu Wenwu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he actually walked straight past Lan Shan and strode over.
When the woman saw Lu Wenwu coming, her smile became even brighter.
With every frown and smile, a green gauze curtain seemed to appear out of thin air, making the atmosphere even more charming.
The beautiful woman's delicate hands slid across Lu Wenwu's solid chest with her slender fingers.
"Handsome man, you"
"Bang!"
Lu Wenwu threw a simple right hook that directly blew the woman's head off.
An emerald green spherical organ exploded, scattering mucus all over the ground, and the woman's body instantly turned into countless tangled reddish-brown branches.
[You gained 1 free attribute point]
“Aha!”
Lu Wenwu happily ignited the devil's fire and cleaned the mucus off his body.
Tempted by beauty?
How can this thing really attract anyone?
No matter what, our fifth brother is a man who has eaten a nine-tailed fox!
It's a serious meat-eating experience!
How could anyone be interested in the rouge and powder made from this plant?
He was excited entirely for the free attribute points.
As early as the first time he saw the other party, Lu Wenwu had already been thinking about it after the Eye of Insight showed that this thing was a B+ level flower demon life believer.
Look, it was done with just one punch, very quickly.
As the green core exploded into a pile of slime, the previous charming pink atmosphere suddenly shattered.
Lan Shan shook her head and fell straight into Lu Wenwu's arms.
"Fifth brother, my head is so dizzy, whoosh whoosh!"
The proud breasts kept squeezing Lu Wenwu's arms, and the light gray short hair made people feel itchy.
Lu Wenwu remained calm and did not expose the dolphin monster's little thoughts. He continued to cut through the thorns and move forward in the direction he felt.
The mother doesn't seem to care much about the death of her offspring.
After only walking a short distance, the two had already seen many sub-bodies devouring each other.
Every time it devours a different life, the sub-body will grow a different part accordingly, or a part of its body will change, like some kind of deformed fusion beast.
They are generally at the C level and the benefits they provide are pitifully small. Lu Wenwu is too lazy to care about these little things and just keeps walking forward.
Only when encountering a B+ level sub-body will you take action to obtain some free attribute points.
After walking this way, I have accumulated a total of 37.
Directly adding it, Lu Wenwu's [Physical] attribute soared to 4455 points.
It has been about three hours since I came in.
Near noon, the two found an apartment building that looked relatively well-preserved, opened a door at random, and prepared to take a break and have something to eat.
Maomao was drafted again to make fire.
While cooking the egg-filled pancakes, Lu Wenwu felt something strange.
That Apostle of Life came up with so many fancy gadgets, but he has no ability to sense foreign invasions?
Or was it that the noise I made wasn't loud enough for her to judge me as an enemy?
"Fifth Brother."
Lan Shan suddenly whispered something, interrupting Lu Wenwu who was lost in thought, and pointed to the side.
"Um?"
Lu Wenwu placed the baked cakes in the furnace to keep them warm, signaled Maomao to lower the heat, and then turned to look in the direction of the other person's finger.
The originally intact wall suddenly cracked and split to both sides like the teeth of a hellhound.
In the middle, a pale man slowly squeezed out.
[Life Believer·House Slave (B+)]: 80,000/???
Current Status: Hungry
He wore a faded lead-gray suit on the upper body, and his saffron-colored tie was already covered in white dust.
Countless narrow roots like silk threads connected his lower body, as if it was completely embedded in the house.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, his body wrapped in countless roots and threads, and he moved towards the kitchen that had just been converted into an open kitchen like a sleepwalker, muttering in his sleep.
"It smells so good. I'm hungry. It smells like egg-filled pancakes."
As soon as these words came out, Lu Wenwu's eyes suddenly lit up: "Do you know how to make egg-filled pancakes?"
The man raised his eyelids slightly, and looked intently at the egg-filled pancake, revealing a strong desire.
"Egg-filled pancakes are delicious! I eat them every day at work!"
Eat every day?
Then we must be brothers, my friend!
Lu Wenwu was immediately delighted and took out two plates of sauced vegetables and sausages and handed them to him.
The man obviously hesitated and did not answer.
"how?"
"How much?"
"Hey, a few cakes don't cost a lot. I grew the vegetables and wheat myself, the eggs were laid by my own chickens, and the sausages were bought for free. I just eat them."
Blue Star's technology is quite advanced now, and automated planting and automated breeding are not difficult.
Energy relies on the power of heaven and earth, so just replenish resources regularly.
Lu Wenwu had previously bought a complete set of equipment and placed it in Lingtian Mountain for farming and raising chickens.
The slight difficulty added by this thing is completely negligible to him, he doesn't care.
However, the house slave seemed to be very principled and insisted on paying. He took out a black crystal from his body and handed it over.
Seeing Lu Wenwu take it, he took the two egg-filled pancakes and started eating them.
[You opened and completed the special side quest - Life and Living]
[Task Progress: 1/1]
Mission Description: Life isn't all about violence and violence, nor is it all about social relationships. It must be about food, clothing, housing, and shelter. It's about the family and responsibilities you carry, and the mortgage and car loans that weigh heavily on your shoulders. If you carry too many burdens, you won't find peace even after death.
Your final rating has been significantly improved.
[You have received a reward: Life Crystal]
"What a nice person! Even after death, he's so particular!"
Lu Wenwu casually put the crystal of life into his trouser pocket and couldn't help but sigh.
"If this guy were still a human being with normal sanity, we would definitely become close friends."
"Swish! Why?" Lan Shan looked curious.
"No one can resist the egg-filled pancakes I make, not even gods." Lu Wenwu handed over a few pancakes and said without blushing, "If he gets angry with me, he won't be able to eat such delicious pancakes anymore!"
Lan Shan took it and pondered for a moment before muttering, "Swish! It seems to be true. But then again, it seems like normal people wouldn't chat or make friends with a dungeon boss!"
Lu Wenwu skillfully stuffed a Tianma sausage into her mouth.
"Eating can't stop you from talking, do you want me to do it myself?"
"Woo. Okay, okay! Now?"
".Wait until the Apostle of Life is killed."
Two egg-filled pancakes were not much, and the house slave had finished them while the two were driving towards each other.
After finishing the cake, he looked at Lu Wenwu, and there seemed to be a hint of tenderness in his eyes.
"After you finish eating, leave now." The house slave's voice became more coherent. "If you stay any longer, I'll want to kill you. I can't control it."
"It's not a big deal." Lu Wenwu said nonchalantly. "Come on, buddy, do you still remember what happened before you became like this? Do you still think you're human?"
The house slave thought hard, several flowers bloomed on his head, and then he shook his head.
"I just remember that every day before going to work, I would buy two egg pancakes from the breakfast stand downstairs and eat them on the way. The egg pancakes were delicious and I loved them."
Lu Wenwu immediately liked this guy even more and gave him two more pancakes: "What about you now? Can you leave and come with us?"
The house slave shook his head again: "I am bound to this room and can only move here."
"An Earthbound Spirit?" Lan Shan interrupted. "It just looks a little weird, whoosh!"
Lu Wenwu suddenly had an idea and asked, "Hey, what if I..."
Before he could finish his words, the house slave's expression suddenly changed and his eyes widened.
He struggled to look at Lu Wenwu and uttered two words with difficulty.
"Go!"
Before he finished speaking, his body seemed to lose all strength, and the steaming egg-filled pancake in his hand fell to the ground, covered in dust.
(End of this chapter)
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