The floating island in the air on the mainland has now become the research center of the guild, and many research institutes in Steel City have been moved here, so as to improve the degree of secrecy and prevent other units from being affected in case of danger.

At present, the most important research facility in the New World is the Biological Laboratory, which I am going to now, and I have always been a strong supporter of their various research as a high-level research institute that has successfully merged the spear, a cross-generational creature. However, compared with my input, the output of these researchers is really unacceptable, but fortunately, this time there is finally a successful product.

As soon as I pushed open the gate of the real yàn area, I saw a group of old guys running over, and then these crazy people who were no more agile than twenty actually lifted me up at a speed that I couldn't even see and rushed towards the real yàn room, so I thought they were going to throw me into the fusion yàn device. Fortunately, as soon as I entered the real yàn room, I was put down, and then Harbo, the former director of the Royal Research Institute of the Sky Clan and the current director of the Issinger Institute of Biology, ran in front of me. "It's not easy to finally invite you!"

"What? What are you doing? "I look at this old guy and I feel like I'm hairy all over.

"We've just completed a few things, and we were going to use them to promote them, but the managers in the guild said they couldn't just use what you didn't confirm. That's why we had to bring you here! ”

"Confirm it, confirm it, why are you staring at me all the time? I feel like a guinea pig in a cage. ”

"Hehe, you don't have to worry. This time we have done everything in the real way, and it is very safe. ”

"Then let me see your achievements!"

This time I don't have to ask Harbour. The other researchers had immediately split up and gone about their operations, and a few others had gone outside to carry their belongings. Through the three layers of reinforced crystal plates, I could see the super biosynth in the center of the plaza outside. This kind of thing is currently only available in our guild, and its cost can make any medium-sized guild go out of business directly, but just like other expensive real yàn equipment, the output value of this thing is also very considerable.

Several researchers quickly pushed a row of small carts in front of me, each with an item on it.

Harbour introduced me, "This is a synthesis direction that we have only recently come up with. Because the previous large creatures always failed, we thought. If unilateral enhancement based on a creature wasn't feasible, we came up with these things. Look, this first item. Harbour pulled a green crystal-like object out of the cart and handed it to me, but it felt warm and rough like wood, not as cold and smooth as crystal.

"What is this?" Because it's a synthetic item, it's an object that the system didn't have before, and I can't see the properties of this thing even if I have identification skills.

Harbour explained to me, "This is the plant-based core of our synthesis. ”

"What's it for?"

"To merge with your combatants."

"Combatants? Are you referring to players or NPCs? ”

"All, as long as it's someone you think needs to fight, you don't even have to think about race or form. As long as it's a physical creature, it's fine. ”

"What about the effect? What happens when it is merged? I continued.

"Increased resilience." Harbour excitedly explained, "As long as you fuse with this thing, it will have a super recovery power similar to that of a plant, and it can be regenerated even if the limbs are cut off." Of course, it takes a long time to regenerate a wound as large as a limb. But after all, it can be regenerated, there is no need to find a high-level cleric or life mage, it can save time and money, and it will be more useful in some places where you can't find a clergy and life mage. ”

Like a creature in reality. Most of the creatures in "Zero" can automatically heal wounds, of course, the speed is generally slow, but this ability is only limited to wound healing, and there is no way to grow limbs from a wound as big as a broken limb. If this plant-based core really has the ability to regenerate severed limbs, then it is indeed a good success product on the ground.

I just wanted to ask about the specific performance of this thing, and Harbour added it in advance. "In fact, the regeneration of amputated limbs is only one of its auxiliary functions, and the real function of this thing is to make the organism have certain vegetative properties. For example, if a plant is cut off, it can be regenerated, and after merging with this core, the combatant has the ability to regenerate limbs. Other than that. Plants do not die immediately after being cut down, and they can grow back again after the broken branches are attached. Our Plant Core has a similar ability, and will not die immediately if our personnel have their arms or even heads cut off during combat. At this point, you have thirty seconds to get the severed limb back together, and although you can't go into battle right away, at least you won't die. ”

"What? You said that after merging with this thing, even if the head falls off, it will be fine? Isn't that a vital attack ineffective? ”

Harbour explained: "It's not that it's completely fine, it's just thirty seconds. For example, if your head is cut off, you can pick it up and put it on within 30 seconds without dying, but because the newly connected head is not firmly connected, it is impossible for you to continue fighting, and you must find a place to heal, otherwise the head will fall off if the movement is too big. ”

"It's okay, it's a big deal to hold your head with one hand and keep it from falling. It is enough to have one hand to hold a sword. ”

"I don't care if you have to do that, but generally speaking, you should find a place to wait for your head to grow before you can fight again, but in any case, it's much better than being cut off and dying immediately, at least there is a better chance of survival. There is one more thing to note. Just because you're infused with a botanical core doesn't mean you're immortal, it's only effective against cutting damage, and if you hit damage that can't be recovered, you'll be killed. ”

"What do you mean unrecoverable damage?"

"For example, if you get your head cut off, this counts as a cut damage, just take the head back. In fact, the parts on your body are equal to no reduction, so you will not die. Or you have an arrow in the heart. Normally, it's a critical attack and you're sure to die, but our plant core can keep you alive for thirty seconds. If it's a sword stab, then you can continue to fight as if nothing happened, but if it's a bow and arrow, it's different. When the bow and arrow hit the heart, it will stop in the middle of the heart, so that the wound will not heal, and you will still die after thirty seconds. But if you can pull the arrow out in thirty seconds, you'll be fine. But in case you are hit in the heart by a gunpowder weapon. That's trouble. Because the bullets will blow up the tissues in the heart all over the place, you can't recover them in 30 seconds, so you'll still die. ”

"I see. You mean that if you have an injury that doesn't fully heal the damaged part within thirty seconds, you're going to die, right? ”

"yes, that's what it means."

I figured it out when I got Habault's confirmation. However, it seems that the gunpowder weapons in the game are very underdeveloped, although there are a lot of cannons and muskets, but the power is not comparable to the real thing, and most people still use magic

Weapon-based. Most of the damage caused by magic is irreversible, and the core of the plant is definitely useless. But most of the cold weapons are cut wounds, as long as you don't get smashed by heavy weapons such as sledgehammers, your brain should be fine. If you think about it a little, you can see that there are significantly more creatures in the game that fight with cold weapons and claws and teeth than with spells, so this plant-based core is still very useful, at least it can completely defend against the cut-throat tactic.

"Invest so much money in you. Something has finally come out and deserves to be commended. ”

Hearing my words, Harbour was immediately unconvinced. "What do you mean by such a little achievement? We're not just here to let you see the results. Just now this plant core is actually the first product of a simple synthesis series, not that we don't have other products. ”

"Oh? So what else do you have? Let me see. ”

"These are all products." Harbour gestured to a row of small carts next to him. "We've just been so excited to get your funding. So for a while, we were a little carried away by happiness, but in fact, we simply don't have the ability to synthesize large creatures right away. Such aimless synthesis is just a waste of time. Later we learned the lesson. After summarizing the previous thoughts, I decided to start the research with the lowest synthetic type, and the result was that a large number of results were obtained. The plant-based core you just saw was born out of this idea. According to this thought, we also got this. Harbour handed the contents of the second cart to me.

"Melon seeds?"

The entire real room was covered by all the researchers. It took a few seconds to get up from the ground one by one. "This is not a melon seed. It's the seed! ”

"What kind of seeds?"

"I can't tell you for a while. I would like to ask you to take me to Isengard. Then I'll show you live. ”

"Isn't there any danger?"

"Absolutely not."

"Alright then, I'll take you there."

Anyway, there are teleportation arrays and flying pets. A round trip doesn't take long. We were soon outside of Isengard. But Harbour asked me to find someone to remove all the trees from outside the city, and he said that the seeds would be used instead of the big trees.

I asked Harbour with some skepticism, "Are you sure you need to clear the trees in the neighborhood?" This large area of forest is a natural barrier to our land, and it will not take much time to clear it. It's not so easy to plant again. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, I naturally have a way to add these trees for you to clean up."

"Oh well! You can be held accountable if something happens. ”

"Don't worry!"

With Harbo's promise, I mobilized a large number of logging tools and a large number of workers. At the same time, some of the destructive personnel in the guild were also brought in to help. Anyway, the task now is to dispose of the trees, not to get the wood, so destructive mining doesn't matter.

Despite the size of the forest, it took us more than two hours to clear a large blank area around Isenger under our fire and insect attack tactics. There were more trees further afield, but it wasn't going to be clear for a while, so I didn't let people move. Besides. Habbo asked me to cordon off the area. The trees were destroyed to keep it from being seen. Therefore, leaving the outer forests is just enough to block the view.

As soon as the cleanup was over, I said to Harbour, "Can you start showing me now?" ”

"No problem, but please make sure there are no enemy observers nearby."

"No, you don't. This area is full of local worker bee troops in the city, and it is impossible for anyone to hide from their places to reconnoitre. ”

The worker bee unit is not a bunch of bees. They are the members of the Zerg who came to our guild after our guild gained the support of the Zerg, including all kinds of Zerg, but we are used to calling them worker bee troops. None of these Zerg are very strong in combat, but all of them are surprisingly fecund, and the number of any single type of land is millions of times greater than the number of players and NPCs in the guild. And there are more than 100,000 types of races. Of course, such a huge cluster of zergs can't be kept in the city. So we put them around the cities that we would control, and be responsible for the guard and the first front. It's also a good use.

Habo didn't hesitate anymore when he got my place, and immediately began to demonstrate to me the role of the "melon seed" in his hand. He dug a small pit in the ground and put the "melon seeds" in it. He gently covered up the dirt again, and then he took out a small bottle from behind his back. Carefully opening the lid and pouring two drops of green liquid onto the small pile of land. With that done, Harbour quickly put the bottle back away, then turned around and took a deep breath, then pulled me up and ran, so fast that I wondered if the old guy was hiding his age.

We rushed back to the gate of Isengh Land like a gust of wind, and then braked suddenly. Harbour turned to look at the place where the seeds were planted in the distance. Then he took a pocket watch and counted it: three. ”

The place where the seeds were buried suddenly opened with a bang, and a huge green flower bloomed in an instant like an explosion at the location of the seed, and its huge flower body spanned at least thirty meters. The highest place is also more than 10 meters high, which is really unusual.

After the flowers were in full bloom, a faint rumbling sound suddenly came from under the ground. Then I saw that there were countless soil strips like ridges on the ground, centered on the flower body. Then the earth above the ground began to stretch out in all directions like tentacles, and the speed was astonishing. As the speed of the strips of soil became faster and faster, suddenly somewhere the entire strip of soil was turned over, and a huge green rhizome as thick as an undersea tunnel pierced out from under the ground. Then it plunged headlong into the dirt again like a diving dragon. After advancing for less than a hundred meters, it was once again free from the ground. Then he plunged into the ground again in the same posture as before. The other roads are in a similar situation. The terrifying green rhizomes quickly rose out of the ground and then dived down again, like a bunch of monsters crawling across the ground.

"This thing grows really fast! How long will they go? Why don't I look right? "Watch as those things quickly spread in all directions. Some of them, stretching towards Isengard, were clearly below the city. I don't feel at ease.

Harbour was stunned when I asked this. I seem to have forgotten about this! ”

"What? You're saying this thing won't stop at all? ”

"It's like...... Seemingly...... Probably...... Probably ......"

"You tenacious science maniac!" I pushed Harbour away, and pulled out the leaves of the City Tree. "Activate the Isinger Power Core and raise the Super Magic Shield."

Just as I finished shouting, a thick tendon suddenly jumped out of the ground and slammed into us. Frightened, Harbour and I both took a few steps back, but just as the thing was about to reach us, it suddenly bumped into a layer of nothing. We heard a bang, and a circle of purple ripples spread out in front of us. The huge root slowly slid down the invisible barrier like a stunned serpent. After following this root, there were many collisions around us, and the entire outside of the wall on this side of the city wall rumbled like fireworks, and the purple ripples continued to ripple and flicker.

I looked at Harbour with a cold face. "Didn't you say it's absolutely safe?"

"It's really safe when it's finished, but I forgot that the growth process is more dangerous."

"So how long is it going to stop? Do you have to cover the entire surface of the earth to stop it? ”

"That's not going to happen. Just wait for the Auxiliary Growth Mana Concentrate I dropped earlier to run out. ”

"How long will it take to run out of that thing?"

"At this rate, it should be about the same in a day or two at most."

The voice of the military god suddenly came through the leaves of the city tree. "I'd like to inform you, the growth rate of that thing outside the city is gradually increasing. At the current rate of growth, they could grow to the nearest guild city in another hour or two at most. ”

I immediately grabbed Harbour and asked, "Is there a way to slow down the growth?" ”

Harbour thought for a moment. Then suddenly he screamed. "That's right, Sunshine. That thing relies on sunlight for energy, and if you can block it with something you can make it stop. Anyway, the speed of the dispersion of the magic essence is a certain amount, and when the essence is cleared, even if the sun comes out again, it will at most grow faster than ordinary plants, and it will not grow like this. ”

"Did you hear that?" I asked, turning to the City Tree leaves.

"Got it, but I can't help it. The only thing the guild can block out the sunlight is the necromancy of the Evil Cloud, but now it can't be released at a rate that can keep up with its growth. ”

"What then?"

"I've figured it out." The computing speed of the battlefield computer of the god of war is really terrifying. "I can immediately activate the Isenger Movement Fortress, move it above this plant, and activate the Divine Mist Wind Chimes to increase the area of cover. This can reduce the growth rate by about 85 percent, which will buy you ten more hours, but they will still grow to other guild cities after that. However, you can use this time to go to the Heavenly Court to borrow their earth to cover the sails, as long as this area is completely blocked and ensure that the sun does not come out for two days. ”

"Okay, I'll go to Heaven to borrow a sail from Heaven, and you can quickly start moving the fortress to block the sun."

The military god immediately said: "Mobilizing the air force of this guild can also play a certain role in shielding, is it to let everyone who can fly be dispatched?" ”

"Yes, wait until I get back anyway."

A loud announcement suddenly sounded in the sky above Isengard: "Attention all non-Guild players in Isengard City. Due to special circumstances, the city is about to close the city area, please enter the nearest teleportation array within 10 minutes to leave the city, after the time limit is exceeded, the teleportation array will be used, and the non-Guild personnel who are still stranded should go offline by themselves. It will take at least 48 hours before you can go online again, otherwise it will be regarded as a challenge to the Bank. End of notice. ”

A big fist is good, and after hearing the announcement, all the people who are not from our guild are all hula and move, and after ten minutes, there is no one who is not from the guild in Issinger. After the crowd vanished, the mobile fortress on top of Isengar suddenly took off and moved out of the city. The dragons and Pegasi in the city also flew out together to help block out the sun, and some clever players even flew out in groups of several people pulling huge canvases, so that everyone grabbed a corner and pulled the canvas to block a large area.

Everyone is working hard, and I'm working hard. rushed to the heavenly court as quickly as possible and directly found the Jade Emperor to tell me about the matter, and the Jade Emperor didn't feel embarrassed about me when he heard it, anyway, he just borrowed it, and he didn't lose anything. An Earth God who has been ordered to return to Isengh with the Sail of Heaven will immediately release the magic weapon. Fortunately, there was no delay along the way, and the crazy plant had not grown to the point of being uncontrollable. After the sunlight was blocked, it only stood for two or three minutes before its wild growth slowed down. Eventually, it gradually became a slow growth rate that was imperceptible to the naked eye.

Because it takes time for the evaporation of the concentrated magic essence to evaporate, the god general and the sky fan will have to stay for two more days, so I can only invite the god general to live in Issinger first. After arranging this god general from heaven, I went to find Habo again, this guy probably knew that he was in trouble, and he was also nervous when he saw me.

As soon as I came up, I stretched out my hand to stop his defense, but reminded him directly: "I can ignore your negligence, but there must not be a next time." He was just about to open his mouth to guarantee that I was the first to say: "Don't be in a hurry to guarantee, this kind of thing can not be done by guaranteeing, I think the key issue is a good thing to improve your management from the system." In this way, after I go back, I will set up a real yàn appraisal department, they will not be involved in the real yàn, and they will specifically assess and identify the dangers of various real yàns. It is not possible to carry out the real yàn without a big license, and the products that do not have safety certification must not be produced. ”

"Clearly, this is indeed a necessary measure. Is it just this kind of sub-......? ”

"This thing is too dangerous to be put into practice until a solution has been figured out. The one on Issinger's side has already been planted, and it can't be planted anywhere else. Thanks to the fact that this time it was next to Esinger, if it were somewhere else, it is estimated that the indemnity would definitely make the rose rush over and beat you into a pig's head. ”

"Accident, this time it was an accident, and there will never be a similar incident in the future."

"It must not happen again. All right. That's the end of the matter this time, let's go and see how the one that has been planted is working. By the way, I forgot to ask, what is this plant called? ”

"This is a real product, and it is impossible to name it before it is finalized. The number we use now is Phytochemon 17. ”

"Phytomorphs? Isn't this a tree? ”

"Have you ever seen a tree grow so fast?"

"But no animal grows so fast?"

"So! It is a phytochemical beast, which has the dual characteristics of plants and animals at the same time, and this growth rate is only the initial development period, even if you water it with magic essence every day, it will not have this speed again. ”

"Thanks to the fact that there will be no more such speed, otherwise the enemy will not have to fight with us in the future, and we will be wiped out if we directly pour a bottle of magic essence on this thing."

Harbaught, in the midst of my criticism, pulled me into a large forest that had just grown out of the forest ten minutes before, but in such a short time, the clearing that had taken us hours to clear was completely covered by this terrible plant.

"This is the Phytochemical Beast? Doesn't it look like a normal tree? I asked, patting the trunk of a large tree.