Chapter 18 Regaining the power of blood and energy
Faced with such pressure, ordinary people would have been in a panic, but the people in the car, except Lin Xinghai, were all veteran mercenaries with rich combat experience, and they still aimed and fired calmly.
At the same time, because the zombies were approaching, the shooting accuracy of the mercenaries was also increasing rapidly. When they
pulled the trigger for the second time, two zombies were shot in the head. The number of zombies shot in the head instantly increased to four in
the third shot. As for the fourth shot, sorry, there was no fourth shot.
It took too little time for these zombies to rush to the armored vehicle from a hundred meters away, and these mercenaries only had time to aim and shoot three times.
However, at this time, nearly half of the zombies had fallen, and they no longer posed any threat in terms of number, and as for strength, they posed even less threat.
Five physical gene optimizers jumped out of the car, holding their swords or axes, and met the zombies rushing over.
As for the mercenaries who stayed in the car, they took advantage of the moment when their companions resisted and aimed and shot at close range.
The remaining seven zombies were either hacked to death or shot in the head, and soon all fell down.
Of course, there were twists and turns in this process. The two intermediate zombies showed their extraordinary qualities.
In the head-on confrontation with the mercenaries, they did not lose the upper hand at all. One of the intermediate zombies even used its claws to bounce off the mercenary's axe and grabbed his chest.
Fortunately, the combat uniform worn by the mercenary was not a decoration. Although it was cut open, the lining inside was not broken.
After the mercenary took the blow, he quickly rotated the axe in his hand, and the axe blade spun around and chopped off the head of the intermediate zombie.
According to Lin Xinghai's estimation, the strength of this intermediate zombie is equivalent to that of a person with 30% genetic optimization. Fortunately,
there are few of them. If all of them are this kind of zombies, then this battle will never be so easy.
After the battle, the next step is of course to clean up the battlefield.
"I'll go too!" Lin Xinghai said immediately when he heard Roger assigning people.
Why did he follow the mercenary group to carry out the mission? It was for this moment! He couldn't miss it.
"Uh!" Roger didn't know what to say for a moment.
In fact, collecting Yuanjing is more like doing odd jobs. Sometimes, if you don't pay attention, you will be splashed with blood. No one wants to do this kind of dirty and tiring work.
Although the newly joined mercenaries must do this kind of chores, geniuses like Lin Xinghai are naturally treated preferentially and can be exempted from this kind of work.
But Roger didn't expect Lin Xinghai to take the initiative to bring it up, and his attitude seemed very high!
This reminded him of the other party's performance in the "First Lesson" yesterday, which made his expression become a little weird.
This can't be a hobby!
But thinking about it, it has nothing to do with him, so Roger didn't hesitate and said directly: "Okay! I'll let the deputy captain Xu Hao teach you some anatomical techniques."
Xu Hao, who was sitting and resting on the side, looked bitter in an instant.
"No, no, it's too much trouble for Brother Xu. I can just learn by myself with other members." Lin Xinghai quickly refused.
Are you kidding? How can he collect blood and energy when someone is watching him?
"Hey, self-study is good, self-study is good! Xiaohai, if you don't understand something later, remember to come to me and I will teach you everything I know." Xu Hao immediately said. At the same time, he was quite satisfied with Lin Xinghai's attitude.
Seeing that Lin Xinghai said this, Roger certainly had no objection.
Soon, Lin Xinghai followed the five members named by Roger and got off the car.
However, Lin Xinghai did not immediately collect the Yuan Crystals, but pretended to be humble and asked for advice, looking around, looking serious.
Of course, no one noticed that every time someone dug out the Yuan Crystals, he would quietly touch the zombies' wounds.
The five people collected the Yuan Crystals very quickly. In less than a minute, the Yuan Crystals of 13 zombies were all dug out.
At this time, Lin Xinghai also harvested 13 points of blood energy. He opened the system panel and confirmed that the blood energy had increased from 14 points to the current 27 points.
He still had two bottles of gene medicine given to him by Roger that he had not absorbed. If he counted them, the blood energy he could use would be as high as 37 points.
"If everything goes well, I can awaken during this mission!" Lin Xinghai was very happy and followed the other mercenaries back to the car.
...
"How do you feel?" As soon as he sat down, Roger came to his side and asked.
"Ah?" Lin Xinghai was a little confused.
"I'm talking about the strength of those zombies." Roger said.
"Very strong!" After a little hesitation, Lin Xinghai spoke the truth.
Don't look at the people of the Lietian Mercenary Group, who easily solved these zombies, but you have to look at what kind of strength these people have. Except for him, they are all gene optimizers.
And the weapons are so good that they can fully exert the combat power of these mercenaries by 200%, but even so, one mercenary was almost injured.
Let me ask, if it is not the Lietian Mercenary Group facing these zombies, but some ordinary people?
Even if there are guns in hand, it is estimated that there will be heavy casualties.
After all, zombies have strong vitality, fast speed, and have a beast-like instinct for danger.
When you aim at them, they will subconsciously dodge.
If it is an ordinary person, or even an army composed of ordinary people, if they encounter a group of zombies in the wild, it is estimated that there will be no good end.
This is also the reason why humans can only survive in underground shelters after a whole year of the disaster.
Roger looked at Lin Xinghai in surprise. Seeing that he didn't look fake, he nodded and said, "I'm glad you have such an idea."
"Zombies are indeed very strong. What you see now are just the most common zombies. If you go to the city, there will be more zombies and intermediate zombies will be very common."
"There are even more powerful advanced zombies. The strength of zombies at that level is equivalent to that of a strong man with 60% genetic optimization. Even for me, it is difficult to win in a 1-on-1 situation." "
What's more, among these zombies, there is a certain probability that they will evolve into 'mutated zombies', which are truly terrifying."
"So, even if your strength improves quickly and you have good equipment in hand, you must not take it lightly. It's never too much to be cautious outside." Roger said seriously.
The reason why he said so much was that he was worried that Lin Xinghai would be young and vigorous.
It's nothing here, but if he enters the city and doesn't listen to orders, he may really cause some big trouble.
Chapter 19 Encountering a natural disaster
The convoy continued to move forward. Lin Xinghai sat in the car and pondered. What Roger said was really beyond his expectations.
"This end of the world is more dangerous than I thought before! It seems that I have to take some risks." He couldn't help muttering.
Originally, according to his plan, he would become stronger step by step, collect blood energy when there is a chance, and continue to wait when there is no chance. He can't take risks.
But now, he must speed up the collection of blood energy.
Under Lin Xinghai's expectation, the convoy moved forward for more than 20 minutes and encountered a group of zombies again, but this time the number of zombies was a little less, only 5.
The 5 zombies did not pose much threat at all, and were quickly dealt with. Before Roger called his name, Lin Xinghai actively jumped out of the car first to collect Yuanjing.
Roger looked at this scene with some astonishment, but he just shook his head and said nothing.
After all, it was not easy for him to control such things as personal hobbies.
Since he had used watching and learning as an excuse before, Lin Xinghai could not just watch this time. He took the vibration dagger and prepared to try dissection.
To be honest, dissecting corpses is a bit weird, but he had seen it several times before, and he was mentally prepared, so he didn't feel like vomiting.
The vibration dagger was really sharp. Even without the vibration function, it easily cut through the flesh and skull at the back of the zombie's head.
Soon, Lin Xinghai saw a crystal the size of a quail egg 3 cm deep at the back of the head. This was the Yuan Crystal.
The Yuan Crystal was crystal clear and beautiful like a diamond.
Lin Xinghai was also very curious about why there was such a beautiful thing inside the zombie's body.
He picked it out with the dagger and held it in his hand. It felt as warm as jade.
"Ding! Yuan Qi is detected. Since the host cannot absorb it, do you want to convert it into blood energy?"
"This..." Looking at the system prompt that popped up, Lin Xinghai wanted to choose: Yes!
But in the end, he could only choose no with some regret. The Yuan Crystal had to be handed over. He was not sure what would happen to the Yuan Crystal after he absorbed the Yuan Qi inside.
If it was not obvious, he could still fool around, but if it was very obvious, it would be hard to explain.
"The system cannot be exposed. I can only see if there is a chance later." Lin Xinghai silently absorbed the blood and energy of the zombies.
He turned his head and looked. The Yuan Crystals of the other zombies had been taken out. After all, there were too few dead zombies. One person dissected a zombie, and the speed was very fast.
"Xiao Hai is very good." At this time, a mercenary passed by and saw that Lin Xinghai had taken out the Yuan Crystal. He couldn't help but praise him.
Another mercenary also gave him a thumbs up.
Looking at the praise from everyone, Lin Xinghai smiled on his face, but MMP in his heart.
"You collect Yuan Crystals so quickly, how can I find a chance to collect blood and energy?" While complaining in his heart, he walked towards the two nearest zombies, bent down and pretended to observe the wounds, and collected their blood and energy.
But that was all he could do, because everyone else had already gotten on the bus.
He could only walk back quickly, otherwise, under the gazes of so many people, his little movements would easily arouse suspicion.
In the following journey, they would encounter a wave of zombies almost every ten or twenty minutes.
The number of zombies varied, sometimes there were only a few, and sometimes there were more than 20.
During this process, the blood energy collected by Lin Xinghai was also increasing.
When the convoy had been driving for more than two hours and was about to arrive in Tianshan City, the blood energy he had collected had reached 63 points.
"It's almost there, there will definitely be more zombies when we enter the city, and if we encounter a few more waves of zombies, we should be able to accumulate enough blood energy to break through." Lin Xinghai was secretly excited, and he didn't expect everything to go so smoothly.
Suddenly, the alarm sounded again.
Lin Xinghai immediately showed a happy expression. To him, the alarm sounded as a sign that blood and energy were coming to him again.
But soon, he found something wrong, because this alarm sounded different from the previous one, and the sound was more urgent and loud.
From the display screen, it can be seen that this time it was not the zombie detector that sounded the alarm. The split screen seemed to correspond to... a weather detector.
And more importantly, he actually saw the... fear in the eyes of the mercenaries.
"Run! Quick!" Roger almost shouted these two words.
At the same time, Fang Tianhe's anxious evacuation order came from the intercom.
Creak!
The fifty-ton armored vehicle actually made a 180-degree drift.
If it weren't for the excellent suspension system and balance system, it would probably have overturned.
But it is undeniable that this is the fastest U-turn speed, and the next moment after the U-turn, the deafening roar of the engine sounded, like the roar of a beast.
The incomparable strong feeling of pushing back made Lin Xinghai feel that he was not riding a 50-ton armored vehicle, but a light sports car.
In almost three seconds, the speed of the armored vehicle soared from 60 kilometers per hour to 120 kilometers per hour.
And... this is not over yet.
The armored vehicle is still speeding up, and in this process, Lin Xinghai can see through the observation window that the metal baffles on the side of the car body opened, revealing one by one... rocket thrusters?
Boom!
Light blue flames spurted out, and the car body suddenly shook and soared at an unimaginable speed.
At this moment, the entire armored vehicle seemed to be flying. Lin Xinghai could not estimate how terrifying the speed was at this time.
"Escaped." Roger breathed a sigh of relief and slumped in his chair. The other members were not much better.
At this time, Lin Xinghai looked back through the observation window and found that a tornado with a diameter of 1 kilometer appeared at some point in the place where they had just passed.
It was like a pillar of support, standing between heaven and earth.
Lin Xinghai could see that the soil and rocks on the ground were swept up by the violent hurricane and rushed into the sky.
In less than a breath, the land with a radius of 1 kilometer disappeared, replaced by a dark deep pit.
Moreover, as the tornado moved, the deep pit continued to spread, gradually forming a large rift valley.
"Gudong!"
Lin Xinghai couldn't help swallowing his saliva. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would really find it hard to believe what he saw.
"This is the most terrifying natural disaster during the catastrophe: the hell tornado."
"The most terrifying thing about this tornado is that there is almost no sign before it appears."
"And it only takes 10 seconds from appearance to formation, but the range ranges from 500 meters to 3 kilometers. Ordinary creatures can't escape in such a short time." At this time, Roger finally recovered and said.
"Isn't the catastrophe over? Why is there still such a tornado?" Lin Xinghai asked, feeling a little scared. He felt that this kind of power of nature was not something that humans could resist.
"The great disaster has passed, but various natural disasters still occur occasionally, but the probability of occurrence is very low, and it may not happen once a month."
"Today is really unlucky, I hope everything goes well in the future." Roger frowned as he said this, this is not a good sign.
Chapter 20 Arrival at Tianshan City
After the armored vehicles escaped from danger, they began to slow down. Finally, the convoy stopped 5 kilometers away from the hell tornado.
Even here, the terrifying hurricane can be felt. Stones as big as washbasins will be swept up and blown in the direction of the hell tornado.
However, the hell tornado appeared quickly and disappeared just as quickly. After only 3 minutes, it dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Countless mud and rocks swept into the sky by it were like hail at this moment, constantly falling down.
Even though the convoy was 5 kilometers away, it was also attacked by these mud and rocks. Even
the armored vehicle was hit by a boulder weighing hundreds of pounds, which made Lin Xinghai feel the horror of nature again.
If it weren't for the protection of the armored vehicle, even if it was not directly swept into the sky by the hell tornado, when the tornado dissipated, he would not be able to withstand this indiscriminate range attack.
"Everyone, get off the car for inspection." After the sand and stone attack ended, Roger ordered.
Lin Xinghai also jumped off the car. He found that the people in the other cars also got off. It was obvious that this was a unified process.
There was actually nothing to check about the armored vehicle. This thing was not made of iron, but of high-strength alloy. Even if an ordinary stone weighing hundreds of pounds fell on it, it would not cause any damage.
Even two multi-purpose off-road vehicles could withstand this attack.
Therefore, there were only two main aspects to check.
The first was the engine. After all, the situation just now was completely overloaded. If the engine was not repaired and maintained, there would be a high probability of problems later.
The second aspect was the rocket thrusters. Lin Xinghai counted them carefully and found that there were 16 rocket thrusters distributed in the back half of the entire armored vehicle.
No wonder this 50-ton iron lump was able to soar to a speed that it was almost flying in just a few seconds.
In addition to completing basic inspections, the most important thing for these rocket thrusters was to refill the energy.
The energy used by rocket thrusters was not fuel or nitrous oxide in the conventional sense, but a kind of energy crystal.
Seeing the pain on Roger's face, he knew that this thing... must be very expensive.
"Is this the energy crystal we are looking for this time?" Lin Xinghai asked.
"Almost, but this is a second-compressed energy crystal, which is more expensive. The energy crystals added together will cost about 3,000 points." Roger said with pain.
Lin Xinghai was also a little frightened when he heard this. According to his understanding, if an ordinary first-level mercenary group goes out to perform a mission, after deducting various expenses, the points they can save are only this number.
After half an hour of maintenance, the convoy was back on the road.
There were no more emergencies on the next section of the journey, and they soon entered the suburbs of Tianshan City.
What they saw were either dilapidated houses or ruins.
The disaster lasted for 20 years, and all the houses that could be left behind were enough to prove their solidity.
At the same time, the zombie detectors on the car kept sounding the alarm.
At the beginning, only one or two zombies appeared in the detector.
But this number, as the vehicle continued to move forward, was rapidly increasing, and soon exceeded 10, then reached 20, 30.
These zombies were simply scattered at first, but as the convoy moved forward, they actually began to gather.
What surprised Lin Xinghai even more was that almost half of the red dots displayed by the detector were dark red, which represented intermediate zombies!
This indicated that the zombies here were definitely an order of magnitude more dangerous than those outside.
Looking at the red dots on the zombie detector, which were still increasing, Lin Xinghai couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
He didn't know what the situation was if he continued to go deeper, but even the zombies that appeared now were not something their first team could deal with.
Especially those zombies with intermediate danger levels, they really had a strong killing power when they got close.
Fortunately, the Lietian Mercenary Group did not advance in the same way as before.
The two multi-purpose off-road vehicles that had been playing soy sauce all the time actually came to the front of the team at this time, driving side by side.
At the shooting position on the roof, a mercenary had sat down at some point, and the "heavy machine gun" mounted on the roof had been activated.
The statement of activating the heavy machine gun sounds a bit strange, but it is true.
Because the barrels of the two heavy machine guns actually began to extend, and the entire gun, starting from the base, was rendered with a layer of blue light.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Lin Xinghai always feels that there is a flash of electricity flowing at the muzzle.
It can be said that the heavy machine guns after activation are cooler and more domineering than before, and they don't even feel like heavy machine guns.
Of course, no one said that these two are heavy machine guns. That's just what Lin Xinghai thought after seeing them.
At this time, Roger came to his side and began to tell him about the next tactics, "Use two electromagnetic railguns to form crossfire. As long as there is enough energy and ammunition, even if there are thousands of zombies rushing towards us, they can be quickly killed."
Lin Xinghai smiled bitterly in his heart. The so-called heavy machine guns were indeed his wishful thinking.
Roger certainly didn't know what Lin Xinghai was thinking, so he continued: "Teams 2 and 3 will coordinate in the middle. In addition to dealing with the zombies on both sides, they will also handle all emergencies."
"Strictly speaking, it is the 'Splitting Sky' and 'Sky Frost' mechas that handle it."
When Roger said this, the two armored vehicles behind them had passed them and came to the middle of the convoy, and the decks on their roofs slowly opened.
Fang Tianhe and Shen Han, the two most powerful fighters, have entered the mecha class and are on standby, ready to attack at any time.
"Then our job is to be responsible for the rear?" Lin Xinghai looked at them who were originally in the lead and came to the back, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Of course, whether they are comfortable or not is secondary. What bothered him the most was that if he continued to advance according to this tactic, he would never stop to collect Yuanjing!
What about his blood power? He was also planning to make a fortune!
"Well, the work of the rear guard is relatively easy, and it can be regarded as a disguised rest for us."
"Of course you can't rest. There are so many zombies here as targets. This is a perfect place to practice shooting. You must seize the opportunity and try to improve your shooting skills in the shortest time." Roger said.