38 Chapter 38
◎Reaction after the spiritual rain◎
Chapter 38
The world is changing dramatically, and the entire world is being nourished and mutated by spiritual energy as time stretches on.
The little ornament beside Chu Xinran was able to mutate and acquire consciousness simply because of its deep obsession. Then how could the little stone doll, which already had consciousness before the changes in heaven and earth and suffered from not knowing how to practice, not change?
Because of the rain, the amount of spiritual energy that can be absorbed increases, and the largest proportion of it is water spiritual energy.
When this part of spiritual energy passed through Nuonuo's house, a suction force appeared inside the house, pulling the water spiritual energy outside towards the house.
The little stone doll that Nuonuo held carefully in his arms was slowly changing because of the nourishment of the spiritual energy.
But the change is too subtle, and not much has changed in its body. If you don't look carefully, you may not be able to see it.
But Nono, who held it in his arms, benefited a lot.
Before returning to Daxi Village, there had been no unusual changes in Nuonuo.
Because of the water spirit energy, even though she failed to introduce the water spirit energy into her body and awaken her abilities last night, she still benefited a lot because her own attributes matched.
Apart from anything else, she was very energetic when she got up in the morning, and her face, which had been a little pale due to the long journey, became rosy again.
This was not the case before. In the past, Nono's travel was a big problem for Nono's parents.
The child usually looks healthy, but if she really walks a long distance, she will start to feel dizzy, whether on airplanes, trains, cars, etc.
She always feels dizzy. Every time she walks, she needs to rest for a few days before she can recover.
This time, even if Nuonuo didn't stay at home listlessly, he would still look pale for a few days.
But she didn't. When she woke up the next morning, not only did her face look rosy, but even her head, which had made her feel a little dizzy the day before, felt better.
Unbeknownst to Nuonuo, the changes in her were not limited to this.
Apart from the obvious changes on her face, her body, like a small stone doll, also began to slowly change.
And this change happened along with the little stone doll.
The abnormalities caused by this rain are far more than just those in Daxi Village, but also in other parts of the world.
Just like the group of people who are in chaos in the laboratory now.
Looking at the report in his hand, which had already reached its previous data peak, the researcher felt terrible.
Not long after the rain last night, they detected that the abilities of some animals and plants were constantly increasing.
This climbing speed is much faster than that of humans.
"What's going on now?"
"Leader, we tested the data from last night's materials. The spiritual energy content in that rainwater is much higher than that in normal air. We also continuously monitored that plants and animals were rapidly absorbing spiritual energy. What puzzles us is that humans don't seem to be able to absorb spiritual energy from this rain."
Hearing the question, the researcher turned around and saw the leader who came in anxiously. Behind him was a man in a Taoist robe. Knowing the other party's purpose, he did not delay and reported the news he had just learned.
"Oh, it's not that I can't, I can absorb it, but I simply don't have the ability to absorb it."
Hearing the researcher's words, the Taoist chuckled and added.
"Ever since the world underwent a catastrophe and the resurgence of spiritual energy, humans have been lagging behind those animals and plants. If we don't keep up, you can imagine what kind of disaster will happen when those creatures' abilities increase to a point where even thermal weapons can't be controlled."
As the Taoist said this, he turned his head to a transparent cover set up in the center of the research institute, where a very large plant was placed.
The Taoist had seen this plant since the first time he came to the research institute, but at that time its mutation tendency was not serious. It was just a small plant. Even if the degree of mutation increased later, it could only interact with people who entered, and it would not be fatal.
But now, the Taoist simply took a look at the transparent cover that was being beaten and making banging sounds. He was sure that if it were not for the good material, it would have been broken by now.
According to its current strength, if it comes out, the researchers at the research institute present will at least be injured. If they are unlucky, they may lose their lives.
This is also a high-risk job.
"You're looking at it... Are you free today? Stay a little longer? We might need some more materials for our experiments, and I'd like to ask if you could help us get some."
After the researcher nearby told his leader what he had figured out, he turned around and saw the Taoist observing the plants in the transparent cover.
He originally wanted to talk to the Taoist about the mutation of this plant, but suddenly as if he remembered something, he made this request.
When unexpected events occurred outside their research institute and they realized that they could not complete the important research with their own frail bodies, they also applied for assistance from people with special abilities.
But how could those people's abilities compare to the Taoist in front of him?
This person is a special assistant who was invited back by the higher-ups at the beginning of the changes in the world.
In addition, his identity itself is unscientific. In this world that has become unscientific, even the researchers who are currently specializing in this area have not been able to figure out how powerful he is now.
But he knew one thing: the person in front of him was probably the one with the strongest special abilities currently known to the upper echelons of the Flower-Growing Country.
Now that he is right in front of me and his abilities are so strong, it would be a shame not to look for him.
With this thought in mind, he turned around and asked, without paying attention to the leader who had just listened to his report next to him, nor did he think about the Taoist's strong abilities and how good his skills were.
"Sure, that's perfect. I'd also like to know the extent of my current abilities and how they compare to those mutant plants and animals whose abilities are increasing even faster."
The Taoist nodded, and after saying this, he walked in the direction indicated by the researcher, preparing to pass through the special door and walk into the transparent cover.
The leader initially wanted to stop their conversation and decision, after all, the Taoist priest was leading Captain Dai and his entire superpower team.
Whenever the team goes on a special mission, they need him to follow and guide them. Now if the Taoist gets injured in this research institute, how will he follow them out?
But before he could say the words to stop it, he thought of something else.
If the plants in this research institute that have rarely grown outside cannot compete, how will they face the increasingly powerful mutated plants and animals in the outside world?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his gaze to a team member who had been silent beside him.
The other party is also a member of the special team led by Captain Dai. Because there are not many people with special abilities discovered and reported now, in order to facilitate management, they are all managed by Captain Dai, who has been leading his soldiers all year round.
Although there are slightly more people than before, it is still less compared to the population of the entire Flower-Growing Country.
None of them believed that only so few people in the entire country had awakened. There must be some people who were either unaware of their inexplicable abilities and therefore ignored them.
Or maybe they are afraid of being treated as an alien or being sent to the wrong place, so they hide their abnormality and dare not reveal it at all.
Thinking of the latter point, the leader had a headache.
The degree of mutation of animals and plants is originally higher than that of humans. Now, the only way to maintain stability is to suppress them with thermal weapons. However, at the speed at which those animals and plants mutate and grow, the day when they truly grow up and are no longer afraid of thermal weapons is not far away.
Although humans themselves have realized this, unfortunately, there are still very few people with special abilities that they can control.
Given that the proportion of humans with special abilities is already so low, the rain that occurred last night was another catalyst.
This has caused their efforts to clean up mutated plants and animals to regress several notches.
It can be imagined that in the places that had been cleared by the ability team before, mutant plants have now emerged again. The other party can grow into a strong person who can fight back and forth with human ability users in a very short period of time.
Thinking of this, the leader felt a headache.
"Could your research institute research an energy-suppressing agent, similar to the pesticides of the past, that could inhibit the growth of plants and animals by simply spraying them?"
After listening to the leader's advice, the researcher turned around and explained to the leader somewhat helplessly.
"We thought about this from the beginning. Since we can't keep up with their energy absorption and cultivation speed, we should suppress it!
After we had this idea, our boss took us to study it, but we found it was not feasible.
At this, he shook his head.
"There's no way. Simply put, the resurrection of spiritual energy that occurred during this sudden change in the world is a new type of energy that we are completely unable to analyze and have no understanding of.
We haven't even fully understood this energy yet, and we're trying to kill it like a bug sprayed with pesticides. How difficult!"
Sighing, he turned and walked to a special cabinet on the side, carefully opened the door, and took out a very exquisite box from it.
This box is the best isolation and insulation box that can be made now. It was specially made after the great changes in heaven and earth, and is just right for storing this type of medicine.
"Here, this is the potion. It's useless, so after making the sample, it can only be put aside. It has no effect on spiritual energy at all."
As he spoke, he placed the medicine he was carefully holding in front of him and motioned for his leader to take a closer look.
After seeing the leader's serious expression after seeing clearly, and making sure that the other party had understood what he said, he put his hand down and carefully put the medicine back.
Then he turned around and picked up another potion in the empty space next to that potion.
"We thought, since we can't deal with spiritual energy, then we can deal with those mutated plants and animals."
"It's still ineffective. Not only can it not kill the mutated plants and animals, it carries a strong toxin that could easily kill the person who placed the potion. Furthermore, the inactivating toxin it produces can actually be absorbed by some of the mutated plants in the Gnashing Teeth, becoming their nutrients and eventually turning them into poisonous plants."
At this point, the researcher thought about what happened during the experiment, and he felt terrible. It seemed that he recalled something, and the look in his eyes as he looked at the medicine in his hand was full of bad luck and disgust.
Fortunately, when they conducted the experiment, they chose small plants instead of large ones.
Even so, several of their colleagues were implicated at the time.
Just by luck, he was rescued.
Not really in the lab.
Unfortunately, although they were rescued and most of the deadly toxins were excreted, some of them still remained in their bodies.
It was because of this part of the residue that he lost face.
He is a grown man in his thirties. Except for the fact that he couldn't control his poop, pee and fart when he was a child, and drooled because of teeth growing on his face, he can take care of himself well when he is a little older.
Who would have thought that after more than 20 years, he could still relive the highlights of his childhood in a place where his mother couldn't see him.
They maintained that state until all the toxins in their bodies were drained out and their bodies recovered, and only then did they break free from the control of diapers.
The final result was that after the entire department determined that this direction was useless, they found a cabinet and put all the samples in it, so that they could out of sight and out of mind.
If his leader hadn't asked him today, he wouldn't have wanted to take out these medicines.
I don't even want to mention it.
But thinking about the research materials their laboratory wants to apply for recently, they still need the leader to give orders to his capable subordinates to get them.
I just said it anyway, just to let these two potions exert their final effect.
Thinking of this, after making sure that the leader had finished looking at the two potions, he hurriedly reached out and put them back.
It hurts my eyes just looking at it, so I'd better let go of my already shaky face.
The leader watched silently as the person put the potion back, but he was thinking in his heart, this potion may not be useful for their original purpose, so is it useful in other aspects?
For example, can he cultivate Mo Shan's morning glory so that it can have another function?
It's a bit risky, so it shouldn't be put into practice now. We have to wait until the children have improved their abilities before letting them come here to experiment.
Thinking of this, the leader glanced at the researcher lightly, his mind full of calculations.
The researcher who was carefully putting the box away at this moment had no idea that after just a simple introduction, the leader next to him actually took a liking to his medicine that made his head hurt just by looking at it.
He is still planning how to enhance the strength of his subordinates in the future.
If he had known that today's plan was just a complete scam, he would not have taken out these medicines to show his leader.
Unfortunately, the researcher, who was still unaware of what would happen next, concentrated on putting the potion away. After closing the cabinet, he breathed a sigh of relief and then turned his gaze to the Taoist who was wandering in the transparent cover.
The plant they placed in the transparent cover seemed to have developed its own thoughts due to the changes in the world. It was no longer willing to stay in the transparent cover for research by researchers in the institute as it did at the beginning.
It has changed from cooperating at the beginning to now, when it sees someone come in, it knows what the other party is going to do, and starts looking for weaknesses in the other party, trying to defeat the person in the shortest time possible and then keep him!
That’s right, stay.
It is now very impatient to stay in this cramped space where there is no real sunlight.
It wanted to get out of this upside-down transparent cover, it wanted to get out of this research institute full of metal and stone blocks, to feel the sunshine, rain, and spiritual dew after the changes in heaven and earth.
In its opinion, if it wants to get out of here, it must leave the person who came in behind and take its place so that it can escape.
It has only recently gained consciousness and is not yet aware of the size difference between itself and humans. It cannot replace the other's position and leave by simply swapping the two.
But it is smart. Even if it can't figure it out now, it is very likely to figure it out in the future.
"Bang!"
A loud bang was heard, which was the sound of the Taoist being thrown onto the transparent cover.
Before this sound, it and the Taoist had already tested each other several times.
This time, it took action only after it was sure it had found the opponent's weakness, and it was a success.
It can be seen that its IQ is growing in a very terrifying way.
The newly born intelligence has not yet figured out the difference between itself and humans, but because of its long stay in the research institute, it has learned to observe carefully through osmosis.
Moreover, just now, it used the knowledge it had learned from humans in a short period of time to successfully find the Taoist's weakness and throw him out.
The Taoist himself is not a strong person in terms of physical fitness, and he is mostly in a supporting role.
Just like the mage in the game, he has strong abilities, but his physical fitness is still far behind those soldiers.
Those who came to the research institute to take samples from this plant before were all the soldiers under Captain Dai. Apart from anything else, their physical strength and agility were something that the Taoist couldn't match with his own physique.
But in the eyes of the mutant plant that had been beaten by those highly qualified and strong soldiers, he had many flaws.
"Hey, this thing won't fight me with spiritual energy, it'll just attack me physically."
The Taoist slid to the ground, using his spiritual power as a blade. When the opponent just retracted the leaves, he quickly cut off a small part of the leaves on the opponent's body, grabbed it and ran out of the transparent cover.
Although it is only a small part, since this mutant plant is very tall, even if it is only a small part, it is still like a big plate, which is enough for researchers to conduct experiments.
As soon as he walked out of the transparent cover, he saw the researcher standing with the leader coming towards him. He didn't even look at him, but stared at the material he had just cut in his hand.
The Taoist found it amusing, so he raised his hand slightly and shook the disc-sized material left and right in front of him.
"You have to come. Ever since this plant mutated, its abilities have increased, and the materials on its body have become increasingly difficult to obtain. Not only does it like to fight with anyone who enters it, but ordinary users with weaker abilities won't be able to get much material from it."
Listening to the researcher's voice next to me, and watching the researcher in front of me who seemed very steady before staring at the materials in his hands, his eyes leading his head, following his movements, turning left and right, it was very interesting.
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Seeing him like this, the leader couldn't bear it anymore, coughed lightly and stopped him with his eyes.
He is just teasing the dog. I wonder what the director of this laboratory will think when he comes back and sees him teasing his subordinates like this.
Seeing the leader's appearance and thinking about how pleasant they had been together during this period, the Taoist didn't continue and stuffed the materials into the researcher's arms.
"You don't even reach out when I'm dangling around. You don't like it."
After stuffing the materials into the man's arms, he turned the tables and beautified the prank he had just played on the man.
After hearing his words, the researcher didn't feel anything was wrong at all. He thought that he really thought so. He smiled a little embarrassedly, as if to thank the Taoist for his help, then turned around and ran out.
"Hey, I see. I didn't think about it just now. I won't do it next time. Oh, by the way, I heard my senior brother say that he detected something last night and he's still sorting it out. It should be almost done by now. I'll go and call someone over to help."
After he finished the last sentence, he had already gone outside.
The laboratory door closed automatically because he went out and there was no one at the door.
"Okay, let's wait here. We don't have an ID card, so we can't open the door. Let's wait for that guy to come back and let us out."
The leader just wanted to follow the researcher's instructions and go to his senior brother's place.
Now seeing the door shut like this, I knew I couldn't get out, so I gave up and waited there.
Fortunately, the researcher who went out earlier didn't make them wait long. After a while, he brought back someone who looked familiar.
Isn’t he one of the ones who was testing energy near the hole in the mountain last time?
At this moment, his face was pale and his eyes were dark blue. It was obvious that he had not had a good rest during this period, so he was so tired.
"Hello, leader. I just heard from my junior brother that you want to see the data we have done. I will give it to you and briefly explain it."
Knowing that the leader himself is not a professional, the information he brought was not complete and detailed, but only approximate.
But even this layman like the leader might not be able to understand it, so he added a sentence at the end to explain the meaning.
It’s not that the leader in front of him is in charge of so many areas that it involves all the departments of their research institute. They have to tell him whatever they want to know unconditionally.
The leader now only has the simple right to know, and more detailed information is confidential.
The report application must be submitted to the higher-level general manager for review first. The leader will only know after the higher-level person decides whether to make it public internally and the degree of disclosure.
What he brought now was simple information that could be known by the other party.
"Just last night, after we discovered it was raining, we collected rainwater and tested it. The spiritual energy content in the rainwater is very high. My junior brother should have told you about this just now, right?
Let's skip the explanation for now. After making this discovery, we will look for the source."
As he spoke, he noticed a puzzled look on his leader's face.
It seems very puzzling. Doesn't all this rain come from the sky? Where else could it come from?
“What’s different is that the rain this time was not within the initial forecast. It was a sudden cloud cluster that merged with the original cloud cluster.
Although our weather forecasts were not accurate in the past, at least we could give some signs beforehand. But last night’s rain had no signs at all.”
The senior brother spread out the documents in front of the leader, turned over one of the pages and motioned for the other party to look at it.
"Since we've determined that the rain is coming from a strange source, we must find its source. That's why my boss went out to our research institute overnight in the rain to investigate."
At this point, he rubbed the tip of his nose, which was a little itchy. "I'm in good health now. I don't have a cold or any other signs of feeling unwell, so I can come and talk to you. My master and the others are either suffering from a cold or a fever right now."
After briefly explaining why he was the one reporting this information to his superior, he changed the subject.
"Back to the topic, last night's trip in the rain wasn't in vain. We found a very similar pit on another mountain opposite the pit we found on the mountain. This time, the rain seems to have been caused by the spiritual energy inside, which impacted the environment that was already mutated, causing such a downpour."
"A new pothole?"
The leader keenly heard what he wanted to hear and immediately shifted his attention.
"Well, there's another one, and it's still emitting spiritual energy. The way it's emitting spiritual energy is similar to the previous one, except that there's an additional blowout process. Under the impact, there's this rain with a relatively high spiritual energy content."
"After we discovered this pit, we compiled a report last night and submitted it. Now, we'd like to ask you to take someone to the pit to see if we can guard and protect it. We're worried that some mobile plants and animals might migrate there and take over the area."
As he spoke, he looked at the leader with burning eyes.
"I'll go, boy, take me there."
Before the leader could react, the Taoist priest next to him spoke first and pulled his senior brother out.
Ying Huai was not aware of the official investigation for the time being. Even Xiao Tiandao, who was imprisoned, was not paying attention to them.
At this time, he struggled hard and knocked off another piece of debris.
This time, there was no Hanzi to compete with him. After he knocked it down, he absorbed the power within with peace of mind.
I don’t know what’s happening outside yet.
【Author’s words】
Corrected the typo ~ Happy reading, my friends ~
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