Chapter VII: Recruitment (5)
The name "Dead Sea" was given by EAS.
When they named this ability, Bud was already a fierce ability, and before that, Bud didn't have a name for this ability.
At the paper level, this ability only causes the salt content of an individual (human or a larger animal) to rise by a small amount of air, and slightly reverses the effect of gravity on that individual.
In the actual situation, the person who is recruited will feel a little dry mouth, and at the same time, he will feel a little light.
At first glance...... This is undoubtedly a very weak ability, so weak that most people will feel that there is no value in exercising at all.
Bud Levins, however, is not the "majority".
Bard is a man with a very strong heart, and if you want to summarize his character and even life, it is two sentences: "make_sence" and "do_everything_he_can".
Bard came from a terrible background, and in four words, it was "poor and ugly".
His appearance is very bad-looking, and he belongs to the type of "it is not easy to make friends at school, and it is difficult to find a job in society".
His family was also poor, poor enough to ensure even basic dignity.
However, Bard never complained about his origins, let alone criticized the world's natural nature to look at faces...... Because he has learned since he was a child that complaining about others does not change the situation or solve the problem, it will only make your mindset worse, which in turn will affect your behavior.
This world is meant to look at faces, and it has been like this since ancient times, this is the nature that is integrated into the marrow of every human being, and it makes no sense to forcibly deny this.
People who are good-looking themselves scold this, which seems hypocritical; People who are ugly in themselves scold this, but "the ass determines the head", which is unconvincing.
Even if you can win someone in an argument, it will only achieve the effect of venting dissatisfaction, and will not change the actual situation.
So, Bud doesn't do that at all, and in his opinion, instead of wasting his time and energy on complaining and venting, it is better to do something practical.
It's still those two sentences: "make_sence" and "do_everything_he_can".
Bard believes that something must be logical and able to change the status quo in order to have the value to do, and on this basis, there is a need to work hard.
If he thinks that something just makes him feel better, but doesn't help his situation in the real world, or even makes things worse, he will never do it.
To sum up, when Bard became an adult, in the face of the current situation of "looking ugly", the solution implemented was: exercise, train temperament, and change the style...... In the end, after saving a sum of money, I went to get a facelift as soon as possible.
It may sound a little too real, but it's not something that everyone can make up their minds to do.
In the same way, in order to get out of poverty, Bard also put in more effort than others in his studies and work...... Although he is also well aware that this kind of effort may not be rewarded equally, it can at least give him a better chance of success.
Bard is not the kind of person who will obsess about "fairness", those people, that is, the vast majority of the world, we generally have this kind of thinking - although we have worked hard, it is still far less than those X second generation who are born with a good family background and have more resources, and the latter can easily succeed as long as they lie on the property of their parents and even grandparents. And I have paid a lot, but I am still barely making ends meet, and my life is very hard.
There is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking, because it is a phenomenon that actually exists; Although not all Gen X members conform to the stereotype of civilians for gentlemen, there are indeed many who do.
Such a comparison will undoubtedly make people resentful, even resentful, and will make people feel that their efforts are worthless and meaningless.
Looking at it from another angle, innate talent, innate beauty...... It is also the same as innate wealth or status, which can cause us to feel similar at a certain time and place.
However...... Is it really necessary for us to generate any negative emotions because of this "unfairness"?
To put another example: the water you waste when you turn on the tap, the leftovers you throw away after eating takeout, can never be delivered to people who can't take a shower or eat due to war and famine...... This is also a fact.
But should you feel guilty for these habits that you take for granted?
Have you ever thought that if you show these actions of yours in front of those who are starving, they may also develop resentment and resentment towards you?
And Bard didn't have that string in his head at all.
He is the one who "can't eat, can't shower", but he doesn't have any emotions when he sees people who waste water and food.
His first reaction would be: it has nothing to do with him, because what those people waste will never fall into his hands, and he does not expect others to improve his life, he only thinks about what he can do to change the situation.
“make_sence”。
“do_everything_he_can”。
Therefore, when he found out that he had a "chicken rib" ability, he was not frustrated by it at all.
What he can do is to accept this and treat this ability as a unique resource of his own, and research and develop it to the extreme.
Time flies, year after year...... Regardless of the identity of the capable, Bard, as an ordinary person, slowly climbed from a grassroots civil servant with no backing at all to a position as a middle-level civilian in the federal army.
Of course, he was sixty-one years old that year, and he was only a few years away from retirement (the retirement age for men in some occupations in the federal era had been raised to 65).
Until the year of Budd's retirement, no one even knew that his closest colleagues, his wife and children were still a powerhouse.
In the blink of an eye, another ten years have passed, and at the age of seventy-five, Bard is still persistently and quietly training his abilities, and has successfully trained them to the murderous level......
Finally, his efforts came to fruition at this moment, and his abilities changed qualitatively when he reached the murderous level.
Because his ability has been continuously tempered and precipitated for more than half a century to achieve a breakthrough, his understanding and use of energy are also very solid, compared to other abilities of the same level, he takes much shorter time to break through the bottleneck of the fierce level to the peak of the fierce level.
Bard mastered his new power level almost within a month, and allowed himself to stop aging on a cellular level, and his appearance began to grow backwards.
That year, he re-entered the federal service as a competent, and was directly listed as an alternate guard officer after being tested by EAS.
Bard is not a genius, if there is anything outstanding about him, that is his heart and mentality.
He is almost the limit of ordinary people's efforts - no matter what position he is in, he takes all objectively existing unfairness for granted, and then uses the cost of his time and energy as a superior resource to others, and at the same time invests it reasonably and at the same time without hesitation, so as to make himself better and stronger.
Now he is a mad-level ability, and he is the oldest, highest-status, and most unfathomable of the seven surviving guards.
And according to his two principles of doing things, it is also natural to dispose of the "capitulationist" Tappe.
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"What are you doing here?" Shimura looked at Tappe, who was floating in the air, and was also shocked for a while, and hurriedly questioned Bud.
Although Shimura is a hawk and Tape is a dove, in the current situation, it seems that the cannibalism between the guards is a bit too much.
"Didn't you just hear that? He not only made it clear that he wanted to take refuge in the other party, but also had a tendency to rebel against others. Bard responded in a very calm tone, and at the same time, the action in his hand did not stop, as if killing Tape was as easy as stepping on a stone at his feet.
"He's just asking for your opinion......" Pang Haoye was also a little unbearable, although he didn't have a deep friendship with these people, but Bud's approach of easily attacking his comrades was really not very particular in his opinion.
"Do I have to answer his question first, and then wait for him to be the first to become defensive or even murderous towards me...... Do it again? Bud asked rhetorically, "Why would I risk being attacked by him to do that kind of thing?" Just to be able to tell yourself with peace of mind afterwards...... Did he do it first? He paused, "If I need to meet such conditions for every person I kill, then not to mention whether I am still qualified for the position of guard officer, I'm afraid my life will be given a long time ago." ”
He said this, nothing else, but make_sence......
Pang Haoye couldn't refute it, after all, he had killed a lot of people, many of whom he didn't even see his face clearly; If he wanted to dig deeper, he naturally couldn't treat everyone to the same standard.
"Hmm-cough-" As they spoke, Tapé in the air had already floated stiffly to a height of dozens of meters, and stopped breathing in the last few moans.
"I'm a little curious, where is he going?" At this time, Liu Qiba, who had not said a word so far, suddenly said with a smile on his face, "Isn't it possible to ascend all the way to outer space like this?" ”
Obviously, Liu Qiba didn't care much about Tape's death.
"If he doesn't lose his breath and can still use energy, it is indeed possible to resist the high temperature of the atmosphere and successfully float into space." Two seconds later, Bard also responded to him in a very casual tone, "Unfortunately, Tappe is not the kind of physique that can survive when the potassium level in his body skyrockets, so ...... He must have been burned to ashes as he passed through the outer layers of the atmosphere. ”
"Huh...... I've heard of the 'Dead Sea' before, but this is the first time I've seen it with my own eyes. Liu Qiba smiled and said, "I just don't know, this ability is ...... to this young master Zilin Is it useful? ”
"Just try it." Bud said, and as soon as his mind moved, he also used "Dead Sea" on Zilin.
The mad "Dead Sea" is actually still the same two effects: first, it increases the salt content in the target's body out of thin air; Second, reversing the effect of gravity on the target.
The difference is that he can only make a small amount of salt at the paper level, but now he can produce various chemicals including but not limited to sodium, potassium, and calcium in the target body, and the proportion can be arbitrary, although the total amount is not exaggerated, but it is more than enough to kill.
Gravity, on the other hand, basically allows people to rise vertically like a balloon, and the farther away from the ground, the faster the rise will be, and it will not stop even after entering outer space, and the target will continue to move in a straight line in the opposite direction of the earth. Of course...... It will not accelerate indefinitely, and it will almost reach the upper limit when it is close to the speed of sound.
As for the number of targets that the "Dead Sea" can work on at the same time, it was one at the paper level, and now it is ...... If Bard wants to, let all the inhabitants of a metropolis of 10 million people "go to heaven".
However, he would not normally do this kind of operation, unless he can be sure that at least 95% of the targets in a certain area are enemies, and then he will launch such a large-scale "Dead Sea" attack outside of his field of vision.
There is no doubt that this crazy "Dead Sea" is very strong...... Take the other six security officers present, any one of them, including Xiwen, will either be hit or killed.
At the moment, Bud is about to make a move, and he leaves no room for it.
Bard's position has always been clear, he is not a hawk or a dove, he just believes that if a person like Zilin wins the world, it will not be better than the Federation, so he wants to resist......
"It seems that you are the most troublesome one......" However, a few seconds passed, Zilin still stopped in place, safe and sound, and his demeanor was calm, "Compared to the kind of person in Shimura, you are the type who can't communicate at all......"
When he said this, between the lines, the killing intent was already clear.
"Is the Dead Sea not even effective for you?" When Bard realizes that his abilities are useless and hears Zilin's words, he has accepted the fact that he is about to die, so he ...... Even so, even so, his tone remained calm, "Even Nakanvo can't do this, how the hell do you do it?" ”
"Change the structural units of proteins in my body at the molecular level, let these proteins automatically strip and isolate the water molecules in my body from the salts you generate, and then ...... these salts" Zilin said this, suddenly stopped, coughed twice as if he was about to spit, and then spit out a crystalline object the size of a walnut from his mouth, and then continued, "...... Just drain it. ”
His answer was tantamount to no answer, because even Bard didn't understand what he was saying, let alone the others.
As for why he didn't "go to the sky", there is no need to explain, because he has already shown the ability to fly like just now, as long as this ability can cancel out the ability of the "Dead Sea" to make people "float", Zilin will naturally not go to the sky.
"You do it, I'm mentally prepared." After a breath, Bard uttered what he himself considered to be his last words.
In his life, there are no regrets, and there has never been regrets, he is a man who always looks forward, even in the face of death; Even at this last moment, he said this "give up" because he thought he had "do_everything_he_can".
At the moment, he only hoped to leave with dignity, nothing more.
"Okay, don't worry, your family will be properly arranged." Zilin said as he took a step forward.
In the next second, but seeing that his figure flashed, he had come to Bard.
At this time, as long as Zilin's finger touched Bud's body, Bard would turn into dust and disperse with the wind......
However, at this moment, a hand grabbed Zilin's outstretched wrist.
The person who stopped Zilin was not someone else, it was Liu Qiba.
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