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The news from the player "Warriors guard Chris Cannon" instantly changed the atmosphere of the entire world channel.
In the impression of all players, insects, whether in the larval stage, the growing stage, or the mature stage with the ability to fly short distances, are like the initial programs set by the computer, which is a bit similar to the NPCs in role-playing games.
Perhaps even simpler than NPCs, they have no lines, no complex action designs, and are controlled by only one underlying command, which is to devour everything.
In addition to this basic command, there are additional restrictions and interference factors, such as prioritizing attacking units that cause heavy damage to the team and staying away from water bodies.
But now there are bugs that have some intelligence, just as this player said.
Although only one has been found so far, no one can guarantee whether this is a sign of an impending crisis.
Following this player's message, there were also many heartless comments. They just thought he was joking, echoing a few words without taking it seriously at all.
And more players chose to believe it because "Warriors guard Chris Cannon" had no reason to lie, and there was no profit in making up a story about discovering mutant bugs.
Some players also suspect that it is just an isolated case, a genetic mutation that occurs very accidentally, just like winning the lottery, with a probability so low that it can be ignored.
But Tao Sai didn't believe it was just an isolated case. This real-life version of "Zombie Online," a continuous evolution of the single-player game "Zombie," had become incredibly bizarre.
Mutated bugs are bound to appear again. Tao Sai is currently taking a calm wait-and-see attitude, giving himself a shot of prevention in his mind.
There might be more valuable new news on the world channel later. Tao Sai chose not to close the page for the time being, but to shrink it and put it in the corner of her field of vision so that she could see the news as soon as it came out.
He Zhaonian fed us dinner. He brought a plastic bag with various snacks, including squid strips, coconut flakes, Daliyuan chocolate pie, various shelled nuts, and high-calcium milk.
Tao Sai picked it up and ate it with nutrient solution, which not only satisfied his appetite, but also filled his stomach and supplemented the nutrients needed by the human body.
After finishing dinner quickly, Tao Sai leaned on the bed and rested for a while. She looked at the time and it was only eight o'clock in the evening, so it was still early to go to bed.
With nothing else to do in his free time, Tao Sai decided to use the freely allocable attribute points to improve himself.
She very restrainedly increased her intelligence attribute to 10 points. Adding points should be done gradually, as adding too much at once would overwhelm the body.
The strength value will not be changed for the time being, because from experience, the next upgrade and star increase will most likely increase more strength points, so it is better to save the freely assignable attribute points.
The physical attribute is replenished to 20, and the energy bar continues to be expanded to ensure that she has more energy throughout the day.
Agility increased to 10 points, improving mobility and reaction speed. Agility points should also help her better grasp the timing of activating [Tempering].
Resistance also no longer changes, 40 points of resistance is completely sufficient at this stage.
After adding points, the page showed that she now had 150 points available for free allocation. Tao Sai carefully checked her attribute panel.
【Tao Sai [female]
Star rating: ★☆
Level: 6
Experience: 32768/131072
property
Smart: 10/100
Strength: 20/100
Physical strength: 20/100
Agility: 10/100
Resistance: 40/100
Skills: [Energy Steal·D-Rank (11%)], [Tempering·D-Rank], [Gravity Adaptation·A-Rank], [Space Warp·A-Rank]]
Tao Sai artificially changed all of her attribute points into tens, curing her obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The newly added attribute points took effect on Tao Sai immediately, and discomfort came over him in all parts of his body.
The strongest feeling was in the brain. The sudden dizziness made Tao Sai feel that everything became unreal, as if he was floating in a dream, as if the dream would collapse in the next second.
She held her forehead and leaned against the wall, trying to keep herself calm.
Although this was Tao Sai's first time adding intelligence to her own attributes, she had gained experience from Zhou Ning. She tried to use her brain to think, starting with the simplest ones: the square root of 225 equals 15, the capital of Slovakia is Bratislava, the road to Shu is difficult, Li Bai sighs, how dangerous and high the road to Shu is… She tried to mobilize the most distant and dusty memories from her middle school days, recalling those complex problems she had always given up on because they were too difficult. Sure enough, the dizziness eased as her brain worked.
After twenty minutes of intensive brain work, Towse's dizziness subsided to a level she could bear.
Afterwards, Tao Sai, with a slightly dizzy head, performed some aerobic and anaerobic physical exercises, trying to convert the newly added attribute points into his own as soon as possible.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Tao Sai finished his exercise, sweating all over. After cooling down, he went to the shower room to rest.
Season 1, Day 4.
As soon as Tao Sai opened her eyes, she saw the world channel news scrolling in the corner of her vision. She thought there was something new, so she enlarged the page and scrolled up before she found a clue.
[[One Sword Cuts Mountains and Rivers] created the alliance [Jian Ge (1/10)]]
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[Father with a faint smile] created the alliance [The Most Awesome Alliance (1/10)]
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[Dust] created the alliance [Fusang City (1/10)]
During the eight hours of Tao Sai's deep sleep, three new alliances were successfully created.
The alliance list of the [Interaction] module no longer has only one [Sea Tower], but five parallel alliances.
This was inevitable. Tao Sai used the hidden quest reward to create an alliance without spending any gold, but other players had quickly accumulated gold after working tirelessly during Season 1. Players with enough gold and the ability to spare were naturally willing to form their own teams. It was foreseeable that as the season progressed, alliances would mushroom like mushrooms after rain.
A new day, the climb continues.
While looking for a suitable rescue site, He Zhaonian was the first to find a piece of news on his mobile phone.
A day earlier, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Tingzhou City, bringing with it an immediate insect swarm. However, due to Tingzhou's proximity to the Yangtze River Basin, where the Ting River, Tingzhou's mother river, is a tributary of the Yangtze River, the emergency command center dispatched rescue vessels to the city quickly, ahead of the insect swarm, and evacuated the vast majority of the affected residents.
But just as rescue boats, large and small, were sailing along the Ting River toward the Yangtze River near Xiushui Gorge, a massive aftershock struck. The already loose cliffs on both sides shook further, sending countless boulders tumbling into the Ting River. The large boats in the front row were directly sunk by the falling rocks. At the narrow part of Xiushui Gorge, the massive mountain collapsed and slid due to the powerful earthquake, blocking the flow of water and quickly forming a barrier lake.
Only a few small fishing boats saw that the situation was not right and rushed out at full speed, while countless rescue boats behind them were trapped in the long water gorge of the landslide lake, and their retreat was also cut off.
This is not the most desperate thing. The most desperate thing is that the insect swarm from the neighboring city is crossing on a large scale along the north bank of the gorge.
The crawling insects turned around when they encountered water, but countless mature flying insects gathered and hovered above the rescue ship, like a swarm of bees, landing and attacking at any opportunity, and in an instant they could cover the entire deck of the ship.
The desperate survivors on the ship ignored the aggressiveness of the insects and worked hard to clean up the insects that fell on the hull.
A space wormhole opened in safe waters five kilometers downstream from Xiushui Gorge, and three refugee ships entered the Ting River one after another. Tao Sai then opened another small wormhole, transporting all crew members with a certain level of combat effectiveness to the vicinity of Xiushui Gorge.
[Gravity Adaptation] was activated, and Tao Sai rose to a high altitude to scout the situation in the entire area. After observation, she and the members of Hailou decided to use explosive mines to blow up the blockages and cause the landslide lake to burst its banks early, so that the ships trapped in Xiushui Gorge could be rescued.
The four people simply divided the work, and He Zhaonian, Shi Jiahui and others brought enough manpower to lay out the explosive mines and trigger devices.
Tao Sai took her commando team and worked together with Tang Yingxue to build a defensive fortification near the water on the north bank of Xiushui Gorge to attract the hatred of insects.
Unlike previous operations, the insects they faced this time were not the larval reptiles that had just emerged from the ground. This time, the insect tide included a large number of mature flying insects, which was more difficult and more dangerous.
However, the stalemate will not last too long. He Zhaonian and his men should be able to set up the explosive mines in an hour, and they can retreat after achieving their tactical goals.
Since the scale of the insect swarm in this area has increased, a simple firepower network may not be able to withstand it. After arriving at the location, Tao Saixian led some commandos to dig an arc-shaped water trough and divert water. Simple defensive fortifications can greatly slow down the advance of the insect swarm line.
Behind the defense line, diesel generators, oil drums, power supplies, magazines, as well as nutrient solutions and recovery potions were all quickly prepared. Tao Sai threw a blasting bomb at the insect swarm with all his might, firing the first shot.
The commandos pulled the trigger and a web of fire began to weave.
Tang Yingxue was also using an electric sniper to attack the flying insects above the impounded lake in her position. The density of the flying insects was lower than the bulge point of the insect tide, so the damage could not be maximized, but if she aimed properly, one bullet could still penetrate more than a dozen flying insects.
A fire net was woven from the sides and rear of the insect tide. Countless insects were annihilated into powder under the attack of electric bullets, and the insect tide began to turn.
Some of the flying insects above the landslide lake stopped circling and began to move towards the position. The dark cloud of flying insects above the rescue boats began to fade.
As time passed, the insect swarm on the ground advanced to the water tank and temporarily slowed down its movement, but as the number of insects grew, it was only a matter of time before the insect swarm directly crossed the narrow water tank.
However, He Zhaonian and his team's deployment of explosive mines on the landslide lake went more smoothly than expected. In about five minutes, Tao Sai would be able to open the wormhole to pick them up.
"Sister Sai, Sister Sai, I saw the mutated flying insects!" At this moment, He Zhaonian shouted anxiously in the headset.
Upon hearing this, Tao Sai reacted immediately and looked towards the landslide lake, but due to the distance, he could only see a dark cloud of flying insects.
"How many are there?" asked Towsey.
"I've only seen one so far. It's so fierce. I saw with my own eyes that this insect attacked a fishing boat next to us and instantly cut a big gash on the hull!" He Zhaonian said in shock.
"Can you handle it? Let me know if you need backup."
"It should be fine. I'll try my best."
"Sister Sai, be careful!" Tang Yingxue suddenly shouted at Tao Sai.
The sound reached his ears, and the newly added agility points helped Tao Sai react faster, and he leaped forward. The dark green flying insect grazed Tao Sai's back and shoulder like a feather arrow, cutting a long bloody wound.
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