It didn't take long for the news of the appearance of the second-level marauders to spread throughout the imperial capital. Even the video of the marauders fighting the border defenders is no longer classified, and it is everywhere on the Internet. When An Xiaoyu and Wang Zhen walked out of the music hall, they saw that many people were already discussing loudly on the handheld terminals.

After receiving the secretary's communication, Wang Zhen did not rush back to the Military Commission, but asked the secretary to put the matter aside for the time being and hand it over to Wang Zhenyan and Xu Shi to deal with.

An Xiaoyu quickly got the file of this second-level predator, and according to the facial recognition on the video, judging that the marauder's original name was Ye Buchong, and he was a driver in Beiyun Province, mainly responsible for delivering food items to the base and other daily uses.

Ye Buchong turned out to be just an ordinary driver, and then I don't know when he got the star energy, and in the process of transporting him home at night, an awakened person attacked his truck, which led to Ye Buchong's awakening, after awakening, Ye Buchong held a wrench and obtained the first unit of star energy that he plundered.

After that, Ye Buchong dealt with the scene, hid the body in the truck, and threw the body in the canyon near the base with the convenience of his position. Then he began a long process of searching for star energy, relying on the disguise of his identity, Ye Buchong evaded the last census and hid his identity as an awakened person.

Because he knew that once the two units of star energy in his body were discovered, it meant that he had killed someone, and he didn't know what kind of treatment he would receive. So he categorically didn't dare to reveal his identity, but could only look for more star energy to make himself stronger, so that they would not have the right to judge themselves.

In the great riot of the awakened set off by Ma Shengshi's subordinates, Ye Buchong took the opportunity to find the awakened who escaped from prison, taking advantage of the physical strength of the unit star energy and the weapons in his hand, he harvested one after another awakened people, and obtained one star energy after another.

Finally, one day, he became a predator of ten units of star energy, and the swelling power and strong desire in his body began to drive Ye Bu to rush to a higher level.

At this time, Ye Buchong sensitively found that his desire for a single unit of star energy began to be extremely reduced, and he was even a little repulsed. At this time, Jiudaoguan's research on Awakened Beasts and Predators came from the Imperial Capital, and Ye Buchong realized that he needed another Marauder's ten-unit Star Energy Core.

But even if they are awakened, they have all disappeared, either hidden by the major powers, or they are in seclusion and dare not see people, for fear of being killed and plundering star energy, where can they find a predator with the same strength as themselves?

At this time, Ye Buchong came into contact with prisoner 10247.

Prisoner 10247 is one of the felons serving his sentence in the Far North. According to the records, when he was young, he once killed all five members of his family because of his loss of reason, and then lived at home on the corpses and leftover food of his family for half a year, killing all 124 visiting guests.

Later, the smell of blood and rot in the house could not be concealed, and the police rushed into the room to contain him. By this time, he had become a bloodthirsty beast, and he had no reason but the urge to kill.

The garrison handed over prisoner 10247 to the Military Commission for trial, and after the trial, after treatment, the prisoner's neurological disease has been greatly alleviated. However, because there were too many killings that were not detected in time, and the disease completely broke out and even lasted for half a year, it was concluded that there was no hope of being cured again in this life.

Due to mental illness, prisoner 10247 was exempted from the death penalty and sentenced to serve his sentence in the Far North, where he worked every day to clear the wasteland until the day he died.

The Far North was where all the felons who were exempted from the death penalty served their sentences, so to speak, a large penal colony. There is no grass here, the frozen ground is as hard as rocks, and the land is close to the pole of the planet, and the day and night are measured in months.

Clearing the wasteland here is a brilliant way for the Empire to confine felons to the brink of life and death.

Among the mortals who came to the Far North to open up the wilderness, some were ordinary people who committed murders, some were officials who were derelict in their duties, some were soldiers and soldiers who made major mistakes in their missions, and some were cultivators who committed the most heinous crimes, all gathered on this frozen wasteland.

After many years, the original prisoners of the Far North were gone, leaving behind simple villages that grew larger and larger over time, and their descendants lived among these villages and became the indigenous people of the Far North.

The wasteland reclaimed by their ancestors in these Aboriginal guardian villages has been given the right to survive with a little rudimentary equipment and tenacious plants.

All the felons who come to the far north have an unspoken rule, that is, they can never harm the natives here, and they can never plunder the villages here, otherwise they will be attacked by all the prisoners together, or they will be killed by the patrol team.

Because the aborigines here are the hope that supports the prisoners to live, and they hope to be able to survive here by clearing the wasteland, and it is precisely because of the existence of such aborigines that the prisoners' reclamation has developed little by little, and the villages have gradually increased.

That's how the empire uses people who have been outcast, to try to transform a vast wasteland into a habitable place.

Because no one knows that the tenacious plants that can be planted in the hands of the aborigines fundamentally originated from the hardy seeds developed by the Empire, which were deliberately sent to them by the Empire in the first place, giving them a hope to work hard.

When prisoner 10247 first arrived in the far north, he was still in a mess, because his brain was not normal, so he had no ability to open up wasteland, so he was placed in a small village near the base as a laborer, receiving regular medication, hoping to be useful in his lifetime.

I don't know if it's because of the effect of drugs, or because life and death have become the most important values in an environment like the Far North, prisoner 10247's mental illness actually got better quickly. In less than two years, you will be able to talk to the doctor who comes with the patrol, and after that, you can also help the villagers with some simple production work.

After another ten years, Prisoner 10247 was completely restored to health, diagnosed as cured, and due to his good behavior, he was allowed to be assigned to the village's place of origin, but he still could not use his original name, and still retained the prisoner number of 10247.

But for him, this situation is even happier.

When he came to his senses and realized that he had killed his own family, and even more than a hundred relatives and friends, he even wanted to die more than once. It was the old man in the village who enlightened him, educated him, and allowed him to survive and make a little contribution to this land.

Since then, Prisoner 10247 has become a model prisoner.

But the good times didn't last long, and the event of the arrival of star energy appeared in the territory of the empire, and the extreme north was naturally not immune.

Prisoner 10247 suddenly found that his body had become stronger, and he began to be so powerful and tireless that he even thought that his illness was starting to recur, only to realize that there was a red energy circulating under his skin.

Caught off guard, he went to the old people in the village, told them about the phenomenon, they had never seen such a condition, and suggested that he report it to the patrol in a week's time.

Prisoner 10247 thought about it and agreed, but it wasn't long before a prisoner with star energy rushed into the village and found him.

The meeting of the two awakened people is bound to be accompanied by sparks of collision. The two lost their minds and scuffled together. Star-Neng seemed to have caused Prisoner 10247's old illness to begin to recur, and he quickly learned from the experience of the past hundred or so lives and beat the other man to death under the hoe.

It was only when the second unit of star energy entered his body that he regained his senses, and he almost collapsed at the sight of his blood-stained hands.

They all realized that the prisoner with the same symptoms as him had come for him, and Prisoner 10247 never dared to return to the village, but struggled to survive in a cave outside the village, hoping to arrive soon in a week.

However, in the course of this week, the Awakened have arrived, level one, two levels, all sorts. Every time he encounters the Awakened, he will be affected by the star energy on his nervous system, and he will fight like crazy, and the whole person only knows about plundering.

And then...... He became a predator.

Prisoner 10247 nearly collapsed after a series of killings, and every time he came to his senses, he thought of his dead parents, dead grandparents, and dead sister, and they spun around in front of his eyes, questioning why he had killed him.

He knelt in front of the patrol and begged them to take him back to be put to death, not to let him suffer like this again. At this time, the patrol pair broke out in a cold sweat, and when they found that they were trying their best to search the outside world, a marauder with ten units of star energy had actually appeared in the extreme north.

They brought prisoner 10247 back to the base, where he awaited disposal. In the end, the result given by the Military Commission was to ask them to hand over the prisoners to the Beiyun Military Commission, and then quickly send them to the imperial capital.

It was at this time that Ye Buchong came into contact with him.

Due to the need for secrecy of his identity and the fact that the presence of the marauders could not be discovered by the horse's life and origin, the Military Commission disguised Prisoner 10247 as a soldier and pretended to go out with a logistics vehicle. And for this task of going out, the candidate for the driver was taken down by Ye Buchong.

When passing through the birch forest, the star energy aura on Ye Buchong's body finally ignited the mad demon blood in the prisoner 10247's body, almost half of the soldiers in the carriage. At this time, Ye Buchong came to the carriage and began a frenzied killing, and fought with the prisoners.

It was precisely because of the thorniness of Prisoner 10247 after his insanity that one of the soldiers of the transport unit was still alive, but fainted to the ground, and did not see where the two of them had gone.

No one knew the details of the battle between the two marauders, and the monitors placed in the birch forest were completely blocked by Ye Buchong by what means, and in the end they only found a large pool of frozen blood, as well as a string of broken footsteps, and lost Ye Buchong's trace.

Everything is in the report, and the gap in the middle can be imagined. Ye Buchong finally obtained the prisoner's star energy core, promoted to a second-level predator, and appeared after recuperation, and finally had the battle video that is now going viral on the whole network.

It's just that no one knows that when Ye Buchong obtained the star energy core, he also obtained a manuscript of the standard cultivation method of the mecha army carried by a soldier. Because this soldier is not talented and his memory is not so good, he hand-copied a book and often took it with him for review, but it turned out to be cheaper than Ye Buchong.

After learning what had happened, An Xiaoyu and Wang Zhen immediately realized that this matter was far more than just a predator.

At present, the star energy that is still scattered outside, excluding the twenty units on Ye Buchong's body, is conservatively estimated to be more than a hundred. In other words, a leaf does not rush to the end, if someone gathers all these remaining star energy on their body, it means that the third stage of star energy holders is about to appear.

The power of the second-level predators is already shocking, and even the cruelty of the battlefield makes the battle-hardened border guards a little weak, so what if it is the third level? Is it level four?

The emergence of such a second-level predator will inevitably lead to the outbreak of the existing awakened, who have had enough of hiding in Tibet like this, and are fed up with hiding in the darkness forever, carefully preserving their lives. Instead of stealing a living, it's better to fight for it.

If you can reach Chengdu of the second-level marauders, you can't even kill the army/team, what else do you need to be afraid of?

Such a thought will completely occupy the minds of all the fugitive awakened, and it will not be long before a great upheaval will erupt in the entire empire, a last, and most insane upheaval after the fall of a meteorite, to end this chaotic era.

But what the consequences of this upheaval will be, and what the consequences will be for the empire, are still unknown, and no one can predict what the outcome will be. Either the Empire has all the starlight in its hands, or a new species of a hundred-unit starlight bearer appears.

100 units of Starlight......

An Xiaoyu shuddered, a Samta could knock himself away when he was a child, what kind of impact would the existence of a hundred units of performance have? An Xiaoyu is getting more and more worried, is the next awakening of Tiandao really going to be advanced?

With their own doubts, An Xiaoyu and Wang Zhen separated, one returned to the Military Commission, and the other went to the Three Thousand Academy, An Xiaoyu wanted to ask the administrator, whether Tiandao would wake up early because of this incident, and whether it would be a greater threat to mankind because of this matter.

But the caretaker said with some indifference: "There is a grave keeper anyway. ”

An Xiaoyu was still a little worried, and said: "The second-level marauders are so powerful, can the grave keeper deal with a hundred units of star energy holders?" ”

The administrator smiled: "You don't seem to understand what a grave keeper is and what a heavenly spirit is. ”

An Xiaoyu was unclear: "What is a grave keeper?" ”

He said, "In this heaven and earth, the power of the Heavenly Dao is always the most powerful. And what is the main aspect of the power of the Heavenly Dao? It is the law of the operation of heaven and earth, the law of existence of all living beings and all elements of the world, and nature. ”

"The creatures between heaven and earth can never defeat nature, even if you can move mountains and reclaim the sea, you can change the terrain, you can fight against natural disasters, but you can never change the laws of the operation of matter in nature, if you forcibly change, it will be automatically repaired, and no one can do anything."

"Star energy is indeed the energy that enters the heaven and the earth from outside the sky, and this energy does not belong to the heaven and the earth, and it produces a very miraculous phenomenon. But although the Heavenly Dao stated, there was still a little bit of residual consciousness, why would a meteorite be allowed to enter the atmosphere? ”

"It's because Heavenly Dao knows that even if more than two thousand star energy are gathered on the body of one living being, it is impossible to disturb the law of natural development. And the chaos you see now is just a normal chaos between living beings, within the scope of the law, and it is not beyond the control of the Heavenly Dao. ”

In other words, if the star energy wants to exist, it must be attached to the creatures between heaven and earth. After all, the creatures between heaven and earth still have to follow the laws of heaven and earth to survive, which is the truth of the existence of the creatures themselves, and cannot be changed by star energy. ”

"Therefore, this relationship between living beings is the basic law of survival under the rule of nature, and this is living beings."

"If the power level of the entire world is divided into five levels, it can probably be divided in this way." The administrator stretched out his hand and drew a pyramid in the air, divided into five levels: "The lowest layer is the level of non-energy, which is the constituent element of the foundation, which does not deviate from the laws of nature, but can only follow the established track of the laws of nature. ”

"The fourth layer above represents the power of living beings, that is, humans, aliens, animals and plants. They follow the laws of nature, seek self-improvement, can have a variety of ways, and even have the possibility of transcending the rules, but it may only be possible after all. ”

"The third level is beyond the level of living beings, this level is close to the power of nature, which can change the terrain, can change space, and can even change time. This is the existence that stands out among the possibilities of the fourth layer, representing the advanced power of living beings, which can be compared to the large-scale phenomena of nature, that is, natural disasters. ”

"The second layer is nature, which regulates all living beings and rules. The power of nature is not only something that can be controlled by a natural disaster, but even when the heavens and the earth are first opened and all natural disasters are rampant, the natural world still has the supreme power to regulate natural disasters. ”

"And the top level is the Heavenly Spirit, the tomb keeper, the ruler of the entire natural world created by the Heavenly Dao, whose power is higher than that of nature, but he has no right to take the initiative to change nature, because the laws of natural development are under the control of the Heavenly Dao itself, and the established laws cannot be interfered with."