Volume 3 The Mercenary Years Chapter 72 The Crystallization of the Sapper
In fact, Ling Hai still had a secret that he didn't tell Professor Li about them.
The well-read Ling Hai, after reading so many novels, knows a truth, in matters with mixed interests, smart people will hide their secret hands as much as possible, just in case.
As the saying goes, when you meet someone and say three points, you can't throw away all your heart.
For Professor Li and the others, who could not be fully trusted, Ling Hai concealed a physical abnormality, that is: Ling Hai's hands could be turned into the mouthparts of the alien creature poison tail sapper according to Ling Hai's wishes!
The incident originated when Ling Hai carried Liu Song's body back to the camp, and Ling Hai, who had completed the reshaping for the second time, suddenly found that his left forearm had unconsciously turned into the mouth of a sapper!
When Ling Hai saw it, he was first taken aback, then tried his best to calm himself down, and began to observe and feel the distorted left hand.
After some experiments, Ling Hai breathed a sigh of relief, because he found that he could control the distortion of his arm and slowly change back to its original state, without worrying about turning into a monster. Moreover, the only part of the distortion is the forearm of both hands, and Ling Hai can make whichever hand is distorted to turn into the mouthparts of the sapper.
When Ling Hai controlled his arm to transform into the Sapper's [Devouring Mouth], the Devouring Mouth would send a signal to Ling Hai that he wanted to eat, and after Ling Hai plucked up the courage to try to let the Devouring Mouth devour the beast corpse, he found that the Swallowing Mouth felt similar to the feeling of eating food in his stomach, which could counteract the hunger feeling anyway.
The only obvious difference is that the Devouring Mouth is extremely digestive, whether it is animals, plants, or even ores, it can be digested in a very short time. However, for the sake of his health, Ling Hai never let the Devouring Mouth eat the stone again after trying it once.
At that time, after being able to completely control the mouth of devouring, Ling Hai suddenly had a conjecture: after the sapper ate enough food, he would secrete the sapper crystal...... So, can this body part that you distort also produce sapper crystals?
Although Ling Hai didn't know the specific utility of the sapper crystal, the instructors had emphasized the preciousness of the sapper crystal countless times before, and it would be a surprise if he could produce the sapper crystal.
This is what Ling Hai wants to verify at the moment.
After returning to the defensive shield last time, Ling Hai didn't let the Devouring Mouth eat too much food because of some scruples, and this time he came back to the outer realm, Ling Hai naturally wanted to verify whether it was feasible to produce sapper crystals.
Finding a place where there was no one, Ling Hai relied on the command of the "shrunken version" to "punish the beast soldiers who entered the perception domain" one by one, and then easily killed them after approaching.
After accumulating more than a dozen bursting fangs, the sky had already darkened, and Ling Hai walked into a hidden building and began to control his left hand to turn into a devouring mouth.
The time of each conversion was about five minutes, and after the conversion was over, Ling Hai's left elbow down had turned into a tubular blood basin mouth with very good muscle flexibility and fine teeth!
Ling Hai put aside all the hesitation and a trace of fear in his eyes, and slowly placed the devouring mouth on the body of the beast soldier.
Next, in the hidden room, only the sound of "snapping" was left.
When he ate a burst tooth, Ling Hai's hunger that had not eaten for a day disappeared.
When he ate the two bursting teeth, Ling Hai didn't have any special feelings, and the devouring mouth didn't produce sapper crystals.
When he ate the four teeth, Ling Hai's body already felt a noticeable feeling of fullness, so Ling Hai stopped eating.
To Ling Hai's great surprise, he watched as the Devouring Mouth ate eighty percent of the body parts of the four Bursting Teeth, but his left arm and Devouring Mouth did not change at all, as if he had eaten a pile of air.
But the feeling of fullness was real, and Ling Hai could only sigh that the digestion ability of the devouring mouth was too terrifying.
In the following time, Ling Hai continued to eat, as long as he felt that he could still eat, Ling Hai immediately controlled the mouth of devouring to stick to the flesh of the beast soldier and continued to devour.
Waiting until the early morning of the sixth day of the mission, Ling Hai suddenly woke up from his sleep.
Ling Hai, who had just opened his eyes, set his gaze on his left hand, and when he was asleep, the mouth of devouring was uncontrollable for the first time, automatically changing from a normal arm to a tubular mouthpiece.
After Ling Hai stared at the Devouring Mouth for a while, the tubular Devouring Mouth suddenly regurgitated uncontrollably. Half an hour later, I saw a slender prism like a red crystal, spit out from the mouth of devouring!
Putting the small long bun with the big prism in the palm of his right hand, Ling Hai was a little excited, judging from the appearance, the prism spit out of the devouring mouth was exactly the appearance of the sapper's crystal!
The understanding of the crystallization of sappers is currently only limited to images. Humans have never obtained physical sapper crystals, and the utility of sapper crystals is only an inference from human beings based on images.
There are some areas occupied by alien creatures that humans cannot reach, otherwise it will provoke a tide of beasts, so humans can only rely on wireless monitors to observe the habits and daily life of alien creatures. The process of sapper crystallization can promote the growth and evolution of beast soldiers, and it was filmed by wireless monitors sixty-six years ago, so that humans can know the function of crystallization.
The alien creatures' control of the sapper crystals can be said to have reached the extreme.
When a Sapper is captured by a human, the Sapper does not produce crystals. Only after confirming that the surroundings are absolutely safe will the sappers produce crystals for other beasts to use.
Looking at the crystallization of his palm, Ling Hai fell into deep thought. He didn't know what to do with the crystallization he had produced.
The true utility of the sapper crystals is unknown, and Ling Hai does not dare to use it with confidence.
If you want to hand over the crystals, Ling Hai can't explain the source.
Ling Hai was in a dilemma.
After hesitating for a while, Ling Hai finally decided to use it himself, after all, it was something produced from himself, and it was okay for the beast soldiers to eat it, there was no reason why a crystal could poison him.
Breaking the prismatic crystals into two, it looks like crystal clear crystals, and the hardness is not high, just like breaking a popsicle. Ling Hai first put half of it into the Devouring Mouth and controlled it to digest the crystals.
Ling Hai ate half of the crystals for about a minute, and then felt a brief heat in his whole body, and then there was no follow-up. After continuing to wait quietly for more than ten minutes, Ling Hai's body still did not change much, and he completely relieved himself. It seems that crystals are indeed not poisonous, but they do not seem to have any particularly obvious effects.
Probably surmising that the crystals were harmless, Ling Hai picked up the last half and put it into his normal mouth. His teeth opened and closed, and Ling Hai felt like he was eating a piece of chicken crispy bones. Not to mention, the taste of crystals is quite good.
As expected, a minute later, Ling Hai felt a slight heat all over his body, and then returned to normal.
Ling Hai couldn't help but have a question in his heart.
The sapper crystallization did not show a special effect, is it because the number of crystals is not enough, or is it because the crystallization time lags behind?
Ling Hai's groping road is still far away.
At present, it has been confirmed that the devouring mouth in his hand can produce sapper crystals, but it is not yet possible to confirm the specific effect of sapper crystals, and the remaining task time limit does not allow Ling Hai to produce more crystals for experiments, after all, a single crystal has already taken Ling Hai about four days, consuming 20 teeth-bursting flesh. Therefore, Ling Hai can only look forward to the next mission, and then find another opportunity to produce sapper crystals.
With less than two days left, Ling Hai plans to use it to hunt and earn money. On this mission, Ling Hai's equipment consumption was not much, but it was still a little bit.
The rental fee for the submachine gun is 400 Union dollars a day, 2800 for seven days, 5000 per person for the ticket to and from the defensive cover, and almost 1000 bullets are consumed, plus the rental of combat uniforms and various instruments. Ling Hai's total mission expenditure is more than 9,600 alliance coins.
In other words, Ling Hai needs to hunt at least two Burst Teeth alone to save his capital.
This is easy for the current Ling Hai. As long as he is allowed to encounter the orcs alone, he can hunt as many orcs as he wants.
However, Ling Hai didn't want to be too prominent, and in the remaining day and a half, Ling Hai planned to hunt more than a dozen beast soldiers. One is that it takes time to find orc, and now there is not enough time. The second is that such a number of hunts is also more in line with his reshaped combat power.
A warrior who has been reshaped twice will be able to hunt alone in relative safety as long as he does not encounter more than 6 ordinary beast soldiers at the same time.
Time passed in a blink of an eye, and on the evening of the seventh day, Ling Hai and the members of the fifth class met again in the storage camp.
After chatting, Ling Hai found that everyone's harvest was similar, Group A hunted 16 Burst Teeth, Group B 18 Burst Teeth, Group C 9 Burst Teeth, 12 Unihorns, and Group D 14 Burst Teeth. And Ling Hai himself has just 10 teeth.
Of course, the members of the hunted beast corpses were not brought back to the camp at one time, but carried back in batches over the past few days.
Aside from the cost, the additional income of each mercenary is around 40,000 alliance coins on average for this mission.
Because the latter beast corpses are sold directly to the military, a mailing fee is saved, but there is an additional 10% tax. So, everyone's extra income is around 36,000 alliance coins. And this is the result of everyone's deliberate convergence because of the first mission, otherwise they will earn more extra money.
Earn 36,000 in seven days, that's how you make money as a mercenary, but these are all earned by their lives. This time, the members of the fifth class were lucky, and they basically encountered small groups of beast soldiers.
After settling the income and returning the military equipment, the 12 people of the fifth squad happily boarded the transport plane and flew back into the defensive cover.
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On the second night of the mission, Professor Li and Jian Hao's virtual projection sat together at the Ascendas Biological Research Headquarters, watching the verification video brought back by the man in the trench coat.
"Professor Li, you see, the fact that the beast soldier can remain still when facing Ling Hai alone shows that he does have the ability to communicate with the beast soldier. However, when the verifier we sent appeared in front of the beast soldier, the beast soldier's desire to attack reappeared, indicating that Ling Hai's ability to control the beast soldier was insufficient. He didn't shout Hera's syllables when he ordered the orcs to stand still, which is very different from what you said about the [Command] ability......" Jian Hao said as he watched.
"Understandable, after all, humans are different from Hera. After humans are injected with enhancement reagents, they can't awaken the racial talent of the beast soldiers in a short period of time, and they need to be slowly developed to show it. Therefore, Ling Hai's command ability should also need to be stimulated by the day after tomorrow in order to evolve to the same level as Hera. Although Professor Li said yes at the moment, the expression on his face was full of determined excitement.
Jian Hao's face was a little serious, and he said, "Then professor, do you plan to transfer Ling Hai back to the headquarters to cooperate with the experimental research?" ”
Seeing that the old classmate might have his personal freedom restricted by his own consortium, Jian Hao was a little reluctant to go, but Jian Hao had no choice, since his father knew about Ling Hai, he handed over the supervision of Ling Hai to Professor Li, and Jian Hao couldn't do it even if he wanted to let Ling Hai go now. Unless Ling Hai defects to the Alliance government...... However, to be honest, if the Alliance Government knew about Ling Hai's ability, his situation would probably not be much better than staying in the Tengfei Group.
Unexpectedly, Professor Li shook his head at this time and said, "There is no need for this. Ling Hai's blood specimens have been stored in the headquarters, and even if Ling Hai is in the headquarters now, it won't play a big role in our research. With Ling Hai's current ability, the beast soldiers basically can't threaten his safety, so why don't we continue to let him grow, maybe he will give us more surprises. Doesn't he still owe you money, just so that he can come to the headquarters every once in a while to draw blood samples to offset the debt, which can not only reduce his desire to go on a mission, but also keep his whereabouts firmly in the hands of the consortium. ”
"What if Ling Hai has an accident? Things in the outer realms are unpredictable, and the danger doesn't just come from extraterrestrial creatures. Jian Hao thought of some rumors about the Outlands, and it was said that mercenaries often wanted to make money and kill them.
"Don't worry, your father has already made arrangements, and the probability of Ling Hai's death is no more than one percent. It's a simple lack of you, you can usually communicate with Ling Hai more, and strive to become his best friend, sometimes human favor is the strongest lock. Linghai is now a treasure mountain that only we have discovered, and you must make good use of your relationship and control the treasure under our control. Professor Li instructed earnestly.
Jian Hao hummed faintly, and then sighed quietly. He really didn't expect that after introducing Ling Hai into the laboratory, Ling Hai's life would never have a way out. To be honest, Jian Hao regretted it a little.
After being in contact with the family business for so long, Jian Hao still hasn't learned the ruthlessness of an adult.