Chapter 639: Destroying the "Overlord" (2-in-1)
"You already have a plan? What do we need to do? Cheng Lin stared at Huang Yin and asked in a calm tone.
Clearly, they already have some kind of plan, and this will require the assistance of the Awakened.
Huang Yin glanced at him, shriveled from busyness and insomnia, her flaky lips twitched slightly, and it seemed difficult to say the "plan".
Shen Shanjing, who was standing next to him, sighed deeply and said in a deep voice: "I'll talk about it." ”
Immediately, without waiting for Huang Yin to answer, this awakened person from this province stepped forward and said in a deep voice:
"Quite simply, after experiments, plants in space are not indestructible, and similarly, its roots, that is, the white hole as a real substance, can also be destroyed, according to calculations, once destroyed, the plant mutation on the earth will be alleviated, or even lifted...... The previous blow was unsuccessful because it was so large that its outer branches and leaves severely hindered the light radiation generated by the explosion......"
Speaking of this, Shen Shanjing switched to a new slide, on which was the observation image of the explosion.
In the image, a "sun" of light rises, and the leaves and branches on the surface of the huge plant wither and die.
However, it was so large that the damaged area was far from the center, and the clump of plants regrew at a breakneck pace, repairing the damaged parts......
"The damage of nuclear weapons mainly relies on shock waves, which account for about 50% of the entire damage, but there is no air in space, so it is impossible to form physical damage such as shock waves, as for the damage in the form of laser rays, electron streams, etc., the threat to it is smaller, and all we can rely on is light radiation, which accounts for about 35% of the total damage, and will produce hundreds of thousands of degrees of high temperature, however, as you can see, because we can only hit the warhead on the surface of the plant through the space shuttle, rockets and the like, even if it explodes, It can't really hurt it either...... So, if you want to destroy it, there is only one way, and that is to let the explosion happen from the inside! ”
Shen Shanjing quickly switched between slides, and a document flashed out of the projector's brilliance, which seemed to be the result of a simulation experiment.
"Internal?" Cheng Lin chewed on the word, and asked with a cold look in his eyes, "So, the difficulty we are facing now is how to transport the warhead to its interior, you ...... Want to be transported by manpower? ”
What the? Manpower to deliver nuclear warheads?
Hearing Cheng Lin's words, the awakened people behind him, including Song Jun, all showed expressions of disbelief.
That's a crazy idea!
But calm down, it seems, this is the only possible way to achieve this.
As for the use of spacecraft, not to mention the fact that spacecraft is difficult to cope with such complex work, even if it can, it will take enough time to research and manufacture the corresponding equipment.
But right now, what humanity lacks is time!
Quiet!
Be quiet!
In silence, Shen Shanjing stared at Cheng Lin deeply, at this moment, he completely ignored the other party's age and identity, probably because Cheng Lin's calmness and maturity far beyond the superficial age made Shen Shanjing have the illusion of a "reciprocal" conversation.
"Yes," he admits with a blank face, "this is the only way that can be thought of in a short period of time, by a launch vehicle, to send a person into space, and a human warhead to carry a warhead into the depths of this mass of plants, and then detonate it!" ”
"But it's not easy, well, I don't know much about astronautics, but even if the whole delivery process is okay, how can you sneak in? Carry one warhead into it...... This shouldn't be something that ordinary people can do, right? Cheng Lin frowned and asked.
Shen Shanjing said seriously: "That's true, it's not difficult to launch, we already have a good amount of technology accumulation in this regard, the question is...... The internal condition of the plant is unknown, and it is evident that it has some kind of living property, though it has been tested to be insensitive to small energies...... Oh, if you compare it to an elephant, human beings are so small that they can't even compare to ants. ”
"To use an analogy, it's like we humans don't notice the existence of a virus that sneaks into the pores, but the internal bactericidal mechanism in the body will kill the invading virus...... And now, we are the virus, which is difficult for ordinary people to resist, and only the awakened have a chance! ”
Cheng Lin frowned: "There is also aura in space?" ”
Shen Shanjing Zhengse said: "'Reiki' is just our popular name, in fact, from a professional point of view, it becomes 'spiritual energy', which belongs to a kind of energy, of course, it exists, and, according to observation, the concentration of spiritual energy near that mass of plants is very high. It doesn't affect the ability of the Awoken, of course, if we can, we'd prefer to deliver a legion, a launch vehicle...... You know, you can't carry too many people. ”
"I guess, I guess I understand." Cheng Lin nodded lightly, his expression calm.
During the whole process, he and Shen Shanjing asked and answered questions in the room, vaguely giving others a strange view of academic discussion, but unfortunately, this is not an academic conjecture, but a catastrophe that needs to be faced.
Finally, an awakened boy said in a trembling voice, "So...... You want us to go to space and detonate ...... Detonate ......"
He could barely say the last two words.
At this moment, they all realized what it meant, and it was almost a lifeless situation!
Even if they arrive and plant the warhead, will there be time to escape?
Even if you run out, how can you return to Earth?
Suffice it to say that once you accept this task, it will be a certain death!
However, in the face of the boy's inquiry, Shen Shanjing shook his head and said with a complicated demeanor:
"There is a limit to the number of people that a rocket can carry, even if it is launched at the same time, we have very few candidates, and we have to choose the most capable person."
The implication is that the vast majority of people in this mortal task, even if they want to do it, are not qualified!
The Awakened are also divided into three, six, nine and so on!
At this moment, everyone seemed to have an understanding, and they all focused their eyes on Cheng Lin who was standing at the front, if only the strongest one was selected, then the strongest among them was undoubtedly only Cheng Lin.
"Do you need me to deliver it?" As a party, Cheng Lin is surprisingly calm.
Shen Shanjing and Huang Yin glanced at each other, and then said with a wry smile:
"No, first of all, we have to make sure that you are good enough, after all, every one of our qualifications is extremely precious, and secondly...... This kind of thing can't be forced, you can refuse without worrying about any punishment, you should be able to think of ...... This kind of thing, coercion is only counterproductive, and ...... If the mission fails, perhaps soon, the human species will die out. ”
Cheng Lin pursed his lips slightly: "Who else?" I mean going together. ”
He ignored the question of his own qualifications, there was no doubt about it.
"A lot of people, this operation is not done by ourselves, other countries that have the ability to space people are doing it, as for the domestic ...... The main candidate has actually been determined, and our Ability Bureau has already organized a team, and the reason why we are still looking for other Awakened Ones is just to form the strongest team as much as possible, within the time limit, and increase the success rate. After a pause, Shen Shanjing suddenly smiled, his tone was much softer, and he pointed to himself, "I'm also in the team." ”
Hearing this last sentence, the Awakened in the room were once again speechless.
"You...... You're going up? But...... That's going to die! A girl covered her mouth and couldn't help but speak.
Shen Shanjing listened and laughed, the muscles on his typical northerner's resolute face twitched slightly, and he squeezed out a relaxed arc: "If no one goes up, everyone will die." ”
Silent.
Silence again.
A minute later, Huang Yin stepped forward and said:
"We won't force anyone, and we still have some time, maybe three days, maybe five days, which needs to be combined with the specific situation, and the outside world is still changing, the awakened are appearing in large numbers, not only you, but many, many, moreover, each awakened person will continue to evolve, we have developed a way to improve, we will teach you later, you can choose to learn, heh, don't worry, even if you are not selected in the end, or selected, but you refuse, this method still belongs to you, after all... … If we fail, we will always struggle to live a little longer, well, if we are lucky, maybe there will be many more years, but ...... No one would like that kind of world, I don't think. ”
With that, she began to hand out the booklets.
Cheng Lin looked at it, and it was a "contemplation cultivation method", but it was slightly different from what he had mastered.
Unexpectedly, no one took the initiative to say that they already had it, but they couldn't help but look at Cheng Lin one after another, and their thoughts were different.
"By the way, we have another discovery," Huang Yin finished distributing the booklet, stroked the slightly yellowed hair with her right hand, and said, "We found that the sap of those aggressive plants contains a large amount of highly concentrated, absorbable aura...... We've captured quite a few of them, and they're stored in the camp, free for all awakened people, and with the exercises issued to you, you can quickly increase your strength, but ...... The increase in strength is not linear, once it reaches a certain level, it will not grow again...... It's like hitting a bottleneck that only a few people can cross. ”
"Alright, so be it, you go and rest first, and then think about it, if you will...... Just fill out this form and give it to us, which also means that you are willing to participate in this operation for the sake of all mankind, and after the final news from the capital, we will select the strongest or most suitable person from the people who have signed up to join. ”
Huang Yin pointed to a form sandwiched in the booklet, or "life and death", and said mildly.
After that, I took them to a separate room to rest.
Before leaving, Cheng Lin remembered something and asked the name of the plant in the void.
Huang Yin was silent for a moment before she opened her mouth and spit out four words: "Plant overlord." ”
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The room is not large, it is a small classroom remodeled, Cheng Lin stands by the window, and can see the gray world through the somewhat dilapidated windows on the first floor and the metal mesh outside.
Military vehicles drove in and out, transporting groups of people from different cities and families from different cities, whose only characteristic was their youth.
Cheng Lin suddenly understood why they were the first batch of students to transfer, one is the requirement of human society, or the tacit understanding of ethnic reproduction, transferring students can avoid the pressure of public opinion to the greatest extent, and it is more convenient to manage.
The second reason is that this age group is more likely to appear awakened and, relatively speaking, more receptive to this "task".
Of course, this is also only relative.
He turned his head to look at the silent people in the room who were sitting in their seats, each with struggle written all over their faces.
Cheng Lin suddenly had an interesting idea, thinking that Shen Shanjing and the others should not have too much expectation for the awakened among ordinary people.
Yes, there will indeed be many geniuses among them, but after all, they are just ordinary people, and they have not been trained, so who knows if they will regret it after agreeing with a hot brain?
Or, when you go into space, you will collapse into a cripple because of fear or something?
Or even drag down the team?
In contrast, it is a better choice to choose someone in a mature ability game, and the reason why this form may be because there are really too few masters in the ability game...... So don't do it.
Otherwise, it is completely possible to organize everyone to hold a propaganda meeting, accompanied by music, and use similar methods to stir up emotions and achieve the purpose of registration.
They don't want emotional, hot-headed "people with lofty ideals", they want sensible people who are calm enough to understand what they are doing.
"Ugh."
Sighing softly, Cheng Lin suddenly turned around and walked out.
"Where are you going?" Song Jun stood up nervously and called for him.
Cheng Lin paused, turned around and chuckled, "Didn't they say that the body fluids of mutated plants can be eaten?" Why don't you try it together? ”
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As Huang Yin said, the bodily fluids of mutated plants are indeed free and open, and there are many stores in the camp.
Some are bottled, some are still "fresh" corpses, have lost their biological signs, are piled up on the ground, waiting to be disposed of, and every once in a while, new mutated plant corpses are transported in.
Cheng Lin directly carried a few cans back, and the Ningcheng awakened people who followed him were relatively restrained, only took one can, and then went back to take it.
"Ahem!"
in the room.
Song Jun choked on tears from the liquid with a strong foul smell, this plant extract was really too unpalatable.
However, when she saw the young man in front of her who had drunk all the liquid in one breath with an expressionless face, she also held back her nausea, pinched her nose and took another sip, and then meditated and began to practice.
She didn't dare to drink too much like Cheng Lin, not because she was squeamish and couldn't stand the stench, but because the aura contained in the liquid was indeed very rich and needed time to refine.
As for Cheng Lin...... Song Jun couldn't understand why he could refine so quickly...... However, she didn't ask.
Cheng Lin silently ran the exercises, feeling the foul-smelling liquid in the stomach into wisps of aura, running Zhou Tian, merging into the dantian, a wave of nausea appeared in his heart, at this moment, he missed the six grades he had just mastered.
"If I were still a sixth product, I could completely release my closed perception and block the sense of smell and taste......"
He thought regretfully.
However, aside from the foul smell, the concentration of this plant liquid is indeed surprisingly high, much stronger than directly absorbing the aura in the air.
As for the refining speed, he had cultivated for so long, practice makes perfect, and he was naturally extremely fast, compared to the biggest hurdle for cultivators, the so-called "bottleneck", which was completely non-existent for him.
"If I was given enough time, I could even go all the way up to the top ...... Well, as for the higher realm, it is impossible to determine it. ”
But at the very least, he knew beyond any doubt that before he arrived at the Liupin Realm, he was all in the same place.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The aura in the dantian was boiling, and when it was dark, Cheng Lin was officially promoted to the third grade.
The camp transported a large amount of military food, he didn't go to get it, Song Jun helped him bring a can when he went to get food, thanks to being an awakened person, there is a certain special treatment, otherwise she can't bring it back at the moment of material control.
Cheng Lin took a bite politely, then put it beside him, and continued to cultivate, after cultivating, he opened the "spiritual tentacles" of the three-grade ability, spread out, and observed the camp and the farther neighborhood.
The situation was getting worse, and all the houses in the camp were full, and tents had to be erected in the squares and in the open spaces.
Considering that there are more than 200,000 people in the province every year...... This is also the reason why the northern provinces have a small population and underdeveloped education, and the southern provinces are hundreds of thousands larger, so you can get a glimpse of the number of students in the province.
Fortunately, there are many resettlement camps, so you can share the pressure, but then consider the population of all ages...... This pressure is enough to crush any organization.
Even if you can bear it in a short time, what if it takes a long time? What about when the city is completely overrun by plants? Billions of human beings around the world are tantamount to collectively traveling back to ancient times, and when the "plant overlords" in the void completely bind the earth and the world has no light, how many creatures will be able to survive at that time?
Cheng Lin thought silently, and then cultivated almost like a machine - he didn't have anything else to do.
The next night, he advanced to the Four Rank Realm.
On the morning of the fourth day, he broke through to the fifth grade, and he was one big step away from recovering the cultivation of the sixth grade.
However, at this time, he stopped cultivating, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the door of the small classroom was opened, and Huang Yin's haggard figure appeared.
She didn't seem to close her eyes in the past few days, her eyes were bloodshot, her face was dull, and her hair was a little greasy and messy, which was very different from the "Dean Huang" style of delicacy in the past.
However, in Cheng Lin's perception, the aura light on her body was obviously much brighter, and it was not far from Sanpin, remembering that three days ago, she was still a first-grade ......
Sure enough, the external environment of this recovery is too strong than in reality, and so is the speed of advancement.
"There's a message from the capital, has anyone signed up?"
She asked without much hope.
She had been so busy these days, and she had seen so many cultivators that she had almost forgotten about them.
The room was suddenly suppressed, and then, after a few seconds of silence, Huang Yin squeezed out a pale smile, said "Excuse me", and was about to leave, and then, Cheng Lin stood up.
"I'll go." He casually took out a filled application form and said in a flat tone.
Huang Yin was stunned, looked at him carefully, and then remembered his name, not for anything else, just because of the last meeting, Cheng Lin left too deep an impression on her.
"You want to sign up?" Huang Yin looked at the application form and said, "I can help you contact your family and discuss ......."
Cheng Lin waved his hand: "No need, I'm the only one in my family." ”
Huang Yin was stunned again, didn't ask more, pursed her lips, and took out a strange device from her pocket: "Hold it, use it to test your cultivation." ”
"Okay." Cheng Lin took it calmly, grabbed it casually, and after five seconds, handed it back, Huang Yin looked down and looked at it hopelessly, and then her eyes suddenly widened, her mouth was open, she couldn't close it, and looked at him with a ghost-like expression, "You...... You ......"
"How? Am I eligible? ”
Huang Yin opened her mouth and said in disbelief: "If the instrument is not broken...... Of course...... By the way, what's your ability? ”
Cheng Lin thought about it and said with some embarrassment: "A lot of ......"
Huang Yin was speechless for a while, so she could only say, "I need to test you." ”
"Okay." Cheng Lin said, opened the door and walked out of the room, Huang Yin took a deep breath, and was about to go out, suddenly, he heard footsteps behind him: "I...... Can I sign up? ”
She turned around, slightly surprised.
A thin and pretty figure stood up.
It's Song Jun.
She took the folded formalized application form out of her pocket and handed it over.
Huang Yin looked at her silently for two seconds, and then cleared the device.
After Song Jun held it for about five seconds, Huang Yin retrieved it, and then raised his eyebrows: "The cultivation speed is good, and it has reached the second grade...... What's your ability? ”
Song Jun bit her lip, straightened her waist, and said as if she was usually praised, "Airflow...... I can control the airflow, compress them, and attack. ”
After speaking, she was a little nervous: "I...... Is that possible? ”
Airflow......
Huang Yin silently handed the application form back: "There is no air in space. ”
Immediately, he gently patted her on the shoulder and turned to leave, leaving only a room of awakened people looking at each other.
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The test was arranged in a separate warehouse, and after Cheng Lin demonstrated his fifth-grade ability, there was no longer any suspense.
Five-Rank Realm...... And the calmness and thinking he showed far beyond his age are impressive enough, and there is no reason to refuse in such a situation.
"Welcome to join us," Shen Shanjing stretched out his hand with an extremely complicated expression after seeing Cheng Lin's performance, "Although I don't know how you did it, but maybe...... That's genius, isn't it? ”
After a pause, he continued: "You can rest assured that according to the regulations, once you participate in this program, your family will receive the highest level of protection and ......"
Cheng Lin stopped him, emphasized his family situation for the second time, and immediately smiled and said, "Time is running out, right?" When do we depart? ”
Shen Shanjing stood up and picked up the hat beside him: "Now." ”
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Ten minutes later, a special vehicle left the provincial resettlement camp and drifted away, escorted by heavily armed soldiers.
Huang Yin and Song Jun stood quietly at the window, watching them leave, while clenching their fists.
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Thirty minutes later, at the flight base of the provincial military district, a fighter plane like an eagle falcon soared into the sky, broke through the clouds and mist, threw the plants on the devastated land at their feet, and carried them westward.
Rush to the satellite launch center located in the desert.
At the same time, on a global scale, the Federation, the Soviet Union and the Xia Kingdom, which have manned space capabilities, launched the "Deep Space" program almost at the same time, organized a team of awakened people, each carrying a "super warhead", and will start the rocket at the same time at the appointed time and rush to the universe!
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