Chapter 251 Defying Heaven
The system presented a painful truth: "You don't have 100,000 crystal cores right now."
Meng Shiwan: ...
She really doesn't have any right now. Even after going out and hunting so many zombies, she's still far from having 100,000 crystal cores.
"Maybe it will be here soon. Didn't the person who delivered the crystal cores arrive?"
Wu Ming couldn't have come to see her just to have tea and chat.
Meng Shiwan got up from the tatami mat, walked out of the grape hut, and sat down on the wooden steps at the door. She saw Wu Ming walking towards her from the lawn.
It seemed to be gnawing on something, probably fruit it had picked while walking through the orchard.
Wu Ming walked over, took a bite of the peach in his hand, and said, "Let me come to your base. Lei Zhe and the others are unreliable. I can secretly harvest two acres of crops outside, and they won't even know. How are they supposed to guard the house? They wouldn't even notice if the house was burgled."
"I'm different. I used to serve in the military, so I know how to do defense."
He volunteered, genuinely tempted to abandon his duties at the seed base and come to the Dawn base, even if it meant carrying manure – that was the kind of secluded pleasure he'd find in life.
As he spoke, he reached out and picked a few bunches of grapes from the wall of the grape hut, then sat on the steps and ate them while holding them in his arms.
Meng Shiwan pursed her lips, "Where's your good partner, the space-age ability user? Didn't he come with you?"
Wu Ming ate a grape, and hey, it was quite sweet.
"You mean Li Jun? He's an ability user borrowed from the seed base in Shuicheng District. Since he has your spatial card, he doesn't need the spatial ability user anymore, so he returned it."
"Borrowing from him for a day would cost fifty crystal cores, which is much more cost-effective than your space card. Li Jun was reluctant to leave, thinking he'd come back to eat fruit with you again, but now I'll have to eat it for him."
Meng Shiwan: ...
"Stop eating, did you take the crystal core?"
She kept eating and didn't get to the point; she was still waiting for the crystal cores.
Wu Ming took a moment to pull out a spatial card and threw out several large boxes. "I brought 300,000 of them. I'll use 200,000 to buy ability enhancement fluid, and the rest to buy spatial cards. I'll divide each card into 2,000 cubic meters."
Upon hearing the amount, Meng Shiwan's eyes lit up. She activated a grapevine, pried open the box lid, and stored the crystal cores inside into her spatial storage.
"System, did you hear that? Get to work and prepare to put it into the box according to his instructions."
With the system as her little helper, her life became much easier; she didn't have to do all the calculations. She turned to ask Wu Ming,
"Where did you get so many crystal cores on these trips? Did you bring them back from abroad?"
Wu Ming nodded, "Otherwise what? Where would we get so many crystal cores in our country? Things are very chaotic abroad right now, with wars going on everywhere, and the demand for weapons has increased dramatically. Coincidentally, our country has plenty of weapons. We can exchange weapons for crystal cores. They'll be happy, and we'll be happy too."
There aren't that many crystal nuclei domestically, but if we find a way to scour the globe, we can still get some.
The system has been organized. "Six hundred and sixty-seven vials of ability-enhancing fluid, and fifty thousand cubic meters of card space, divided into two thousand cubic meters per card, are all ready and placed in the box."
You now have 183,334 crystal cores left. Adding all the crystal cores stored in your space, you now possess a total of 343,271 crystal cores.
The purchase of 100,000 crystal cores for the defense system has been deducted. The defense system is being deployed. You now have 243,271 crystal cores remaining.
Upon hearing these figures, Meng Shiwan's mood immediately brightened, and she felt instantly wealthy.
However, the seed base can only scavenge a limited number of crystal cores from abroad, and it will probably be difficult to obtain so many crystal cores in a few months.
The most important thing now is to find a way to produce advanced crystal nuclei.
One high-level crystal core is equivalent to many ordinary crystal cores, which is necessary to meet her ever-increasing demand for crystal cores.
Meng Shiwan asked Wu Ming, "Did you bring the black cube?"
Wu Ming suddenly felt the grapes in his mouth were no longer sweet. "Why don't you let our researchers study it again? Don't you already have one?"
Meng Shiwan asked, "Have you made any progress in your research?"
Wu Ming: ...
He answered honestly, "No."
During this period of time, we tried all sorts of methods but couldn't find any more information about the black cube. We couldn't open it or scan its internal structure.
Aside from knowing that it affects zombies, we know nothing else.
Meng Shiwan was speechless. "That's terrible. Take it back and I'll study it from a different angle."
Wu Ming looked at Meng Shiwan with a strange expression. "Are you still planning to use the black cube to create the zombie king?"
Is this something a human being could do?
Even superhumans want to avoid the Zombie King, yet this person actually wants to create one?
Meng Shiwan shrugged. "Don't you think this is a great research direction?"
Wu Ming couldn't understand it. "You created the Zombie King, right? Tell me, what do you need so many crystal cores for? Do you need so many crystal cores to make the ability enhancement fluid? Just the crystal cores I sent you must be worth two or three million."
Meng Shiwan: "Never mind that. Where's the Black Cube? You didn't bring the Black Cube, so don't even think about taking these ability-enhancing liquids you bought today."
Wu Ming seemed to have lost all his strength. "In my car."
Meng Shiwan got up and walked outside.
Wu Ming put the box on the ground into his spatial card and chased after Meng Shiwan. "Where are you going?"
"Take the black cube."
Seeing that she was determined to do it, Wu Ming knew he couldn't stop her, so he opened the trunk and handed her the black cube.
He was still worried. "Do we really have to build a zombie king? What if the zombie king comes out? We're doomed. Be careful."
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. You should go now."
Meng Shiwan gave him the order to leave, and Wu Ming couldn't linger there, so he picked several fruits from a nearby tree before driving away.
Meng Shiwan hugged the black cube, looked at the horizon, and muttered to herself, "Judging by the time, the acid rain should stop soon, and the tsunami is coming."
The acid rain didn't last long, followed by a tsunami, and then a rapid drop in temperature, leading to extreme cold.
The extreme cold will last for a while, up to several months, which will be another new test for humanity.
"The deployment of the defense system is complete."
As the system finished speaking, a transparent monitor the size of a tablet appeared in Meng Shiwan's arms.
It's very similar to a card, completely transparent, and can display page text on it. It's not much different from using an electronic product.
Meng Shiwan scrolled through the various control pages of the defense system, including user manuals, settings, and more.
The base can authorize the use of various thermal weapons to the defense system. When an enemy intrusion is detected, the defense system will analyze the enemy's combat strength and then use the matching thermal weapons to carry out fully automatic bombing.
To put it bluntly, the intelligence level of this defense system has reached an unbelievable level.
All you need to do is issue a command to the defense system; nothing else is required. The defense system will then formulate and execute the optimal strike plan based on the situation within the base.
Regardless of whether the artillery and fighter jets within the base are intelligent cruisers or not, the defense system can control them and make them intelligent cruisers.
In short, it's simply incredible.
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