Chapter 43: lv.2 talent, iron body!
Degree of cooperation.
Perfect!
A search prompt sounded in my ears.
Cheng Ye had never felt that these two words were so pleasant and beautiful.
It's like a stripped screw suddenly snapping into place, slowly turning inside a rusted nut. Each turn is accompanied by the crisp sound of metal friction, making your scalp tingle with pleasure!
"Wait for me first, I need to debug the equipment."
After comforting Dai Zun, Cheng Ye looked at the detector, but actually clicked the search button with his mind.
Lines of illusory text flashed on the panel.
After five seconds, it was combined into an information panel that Cheng Ye could read.
【Dai Zun】
[lv1 skill]: Lock
Level 2 Skills:
Talent: Iron Body (rare, reduced pain perception, improved body toughness, immune to some non-fatal injuries)
Talent: Firearm Affinity (Normal, slightly increases control of firearms)
Skills: Crusader Slash (Normal), Crusader Shooting (Normal)
[lv3 skill]: Lock
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“There are actually grading levels?”
Cheng Ye was stunned. When searching for lv.1 skills, the panel would list all the skills at once, making it overwhelming and difficult to make a decision.
But the LV.2 interface in front of him is completely different. It not only subdivides the talent and skill categories, but also has quality levels, making it clear at a glance who is strong and who is weak.
For example, the Iron Body, which is also a talent, is now emitting a faint purple light, and the remarks column is marked as [Rare].
Gun affinity is also a talent, but it is a white light, marked as [Normal].
"Now it's much more intuitive. I don't have to rely on names to figure out what it does..."
Perhaps Dai Zun was too young and did not master too many level 2 skills, so there were only two standard Crusader skills listed on the panel.
Without any hesitation, Cheng Ye focused his attention directly on the highest-level 'Iron Body'.
Skip-level searches have only a 25% success rate.
But for some reason, he felt that this time he would definitely succeed.
Because Dai Zun on the ground did not choose to cooperate because he was afraid of him, but because he truly wanted to survive and believed in him from the bottom of his heart.
The faint purple color permeates the entire interface.
The panel begins to flicker.
One second later.
Civilization Collector did not disappoint!
【Search successful】
[Civilization Collector has successfully recorded: Iron Body (lv.2; Talent)]
"Really?!"
The panel automatically jumped, and the iron body on Dai Zun's skill bar glowed faintly. With a flash, it was copied to the skill bar available for equipment.
Uncontrollable ecstasy exploded in my chest.
Cheng Ye felt that his thoughts were frozen at this moment, and the overflowing joy was almost about to burst out.
Even though he had a premonition before the search, that premonition was nowhere near as exciting as seeing Iron Body appear in the equippable skill column on his personal dashboard.
"Your Excellency, Attorney?"
Dai Zun was confused. Looking at Cheng Ye's slightly trembling back, he suddenly became nervous. "Is there something wrong with the instrument?"
"It's okay, wait a moment, the instrument is starting up."
He replied with suppressed joy.
Cheng Ye closed the panel, took two deep breaths, and then suppressed his surging emotions.
In fact, there is no need to use any equipment to test whether Dai Zun is infected or not.
However, the quarantine procedure does not allow for any omissions, and skipping it will inevitably arouse suspicion.
Cheng Ye still followed the standard procedure and, by the way, cut off a piece of meat and sent it for testing.
About ten minutes later, the raven came back with the expected news.
"Okay, you passed!"
Cheng Ye pulled off his rubber gloves, threw them into the trash can in the isolation area like shooting a basketball, and walked over and said with a smile.
"ah?"
Dai Zun was stunned, suspecting that he had heard it wrong. It was not until Cheng Ye repeated it a second time that he widened his eyes, and ecstasy instantly overwhelmed all expression control.
Outside the isolation door, Wu Rui also stiffened his back. His iron tower-like body shook first, and then his rough palm swiped across his face and slammed heavily on the isolation net, making a muffled sound.
I've been nervous for so long.
My heart was in my throat.
Fortunately, the final result did not disappoint!
"Captain Wu, I'm from the inner city too. I'm just getting off work. I'll take him there. Is that okay?"
Cheng Ye walked to the door and asked. Wu Rui was stunned for a moment and then nodded heavily.
"No problem, I'll go talk to him now. Take him to the Gate of Happiness and someone will come to pick him up."
"Um."
One more person means one more round of inspection procedures. Cheng Ye turned around and was about to leave when he heard a voice behind him.
"May I ask your name, Attorney?"
"Surname Cheng."
"Cheng... May I ask if Cheng Long is yours?"
"My father."
A look of surprise flashed across Wu Rui's face, but then quickly turned into expected recognition.
No way, Cheng Long is famous among the Crusaders?
Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment, but did not stop. He ordered Owl and Raven to lift the stretcher and follow him.
As he left through the isolation passage, Dai Zun's pale face still contained a daze of having survived a disaster.
When he reached the exit, Cheng Ye hesitated for a moment, but finally dialed the number of the stationmaster, Tangs.
In theory, it is within the inspector's authority to requisition a car under special circumstances, but this is the North Station after all, the territory of Westerners.
"Stationmaster, this is the situation..."
Cheng Ye finished explaining Dai Zun's situation in a few words and was about to explain the necessity of requisitioning the vehicle when he suddenly heard hurried footsteps in the receiver.
No one expected that Towns would rush down directly from the office.
On normal days, it is not uncommon for the stationmaster to show up in person, but a stationmaster on duty just died at noon today. It is obviously not a wise choice to rashly contact a person whose infection risk has not been completely eliminated.
"Stationmaster Downs, why don't you stand further away?"
When there were still more than ten steps away, Cheng Ye reminded.
Unexpectedly, Tang Si curled his lips, quickened his pace with a look of disdain, and muttered, "When the checkpoint was established, your grandfather and I personally cut the ribbon. Do you think I'm the same as He Yun?"
Checkpoint creation?
Cheng Ye didn't pay attention to Towns' bragging, but he caught an important piece of information.
The grandfather of the predecessor turned out to be an old man from the time when the checkpoint was established
So awesome?
"Okay, he's not infected. I'll get you a special car. Take him to the hospital quickly."
Tang Si squatted down and looked at the wound, and said it with confidence, and finally glanced at Cheng Ye strangely.
"It's only the first day, and you've caused trouble in the station, killed the infected, and now you've even saved the Crusaders. Cheng Long... Cheng Long wasn't as capable as you back then."
"Well..."
Cheng Ye couldn't deny it and just took it as a compliment to himself.
But it was also clear that Towns was reminding him that the limelight on this day was really too much.
As the saying goes, everything that goes up must come down. If you continue to shine, you will inevitably attract some unnecessary attention.
It was just a matter of whether to say it or not. Although Towns considered it, he had never thought about it from his perspective.
"I want to keep a low profile, but if I keep a low profile I'll die..."
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The big Jinbei roared out of the checkpoint, leaving a clear black mark on the ground with its tires.
Dai Zun was shaken and coughed repeatedly, with blood foam oozing from the corners of his mouth.
"Brother, drive slower, there are injured people."
Cheng Ye couldn't help but remind the driver, and the driver withdrew his foot from the fuel tank with a wry smile on his face.
In other words, electricity consumption will not be calculated for such urgent official business.
For general official business, there are strict standards. Once the electricity consumption exceeds the standard, the employee will be fined at the very least, or directly dismissed at the worst. This is the same as in the old days when street aunties would be kicked out of the group if they exceeded the average fuel consumption.
"Dude, can you still talk?"
"able."
"Is it okay to ask you something, or is it okay to go against the rules of your Crusades?"
"Your Majesty, please do as you please."
Dai Zun was actually a little curious about the prosecutor in front of him who was younger than himself.
Cheng Ye's behavior was completely different from those old hands in the checkpoint, who were afraid of taking responsibility and danger, and always had a suffocating formalism about them.
It is said that a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger.
The strange thing is that his style of doing things is extremely calm and steady, without any of the awkwardness and immaturity of a newcomer.
Even the team leader Wu Rui was ordered around by him, and he didn't feel awkward at all because of being suppressed by his aura.
"My eldest brother, Liu Bi, also an inspector, went with the inner city's engineering team to support the hydroelectric power station the day before yesterday. Do you have any news about him?"
"Liu Bi..."
Dai Zun thought for a moment, then shook his head. "The Crusaders are responsible for guarding the entire industrial zone, which has a total of eight areas. The hydropower station is in Area B, and we're guarding Area F. We're over ten kilometers away... But don't worry, at least before noon today, the hydropower station wasn't invaded by infected organisms."
After saying that, realizing that Cheng Ye didn't know about the industrial zone, Dai Zun gave a brief introduction to the general situation.
Because the energy supply from the hydropower station is volatile, Xingfu City must operate at full capacity from early summer to mid-autumn in order to accumulate enough supplies for its own use and trading throughout the winter and spring.
Therefore, in mid-spring every year, large-scale recruitment is carried out in the buffer zone, recruiting tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people into the industrial zone at a time.
When the power supply drops in mid-autumn, the workers will be sent back to the buffer zone to prepare for winter.
Personnel changes of this scale will naturally attract the attention of the surrounding infected bodies, who will continue to rush to the industrial area to harass and attack.
"Unfortunately, when I traveled through time, the spring recruitment had already ended, so I didn't get to see this grand event."
Cheng Ye couldn't help but sigh.
Each sanctuary city has its own survival strategy tailored to local conditions. The "migratory bird production model" of Happiness City is particularly essential, and its concept far surpasses that of other sanctuary cities.
It not only perfectly resolves the challenge of long-distance power transmission on infrastructure, but also cleverly dismantles the defense dilemma between residential and industrial areas.
Summer and autumn are the peak seasons for survivors' migration.
The industrial zone actively attracts the attention of surrounding infectious bodies, thus avoiding the risk of infection waves caused by the gathering of people.
When the winter and spring migration waves end, people in industrial areas withdraw to the buffer zone, and everyone stays in one place, which can maximize the survival rate against the infection wave.
"There's no such thing as absolute good or bad, there are only pros and cons. It's certainly safe when there's no wave of infection or riots, but like this year..."
Dai Zun sighed, "Since the beginning of the year, the frequency of infection outbreaks has increased several times over. I wonder what level of infection will hit our Happy City this winter!"
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