Chapter 23: Angel or Birdman?

"Wow" Li Gang opened the curtains, and the dazzling sunlight sprinkled the entire room. Accustomed to the light, looking out the window, under the bright sunlight are the ruined walls that cannot be seen at a glance, and the dots of emerald green between the ruined walls?

"Wait a minute, where does this verdant come from? Although I was a little hurried when I came here, I couldn't see so many green plants, and it grew so much in one day, and it was too fast! I subconsciously looked at the electronic desk calendar on the table, and saw that the number on it was April 29.

"Dazzling?" Li Gang rubbed his eyes, and then looked at the desk calendar, it was indeed April 29. When Li Gang came to this room, he casually glanced at this calendar, and the date on it was April 18, and after thinking about it, it was indeed true. That means he slept for 11 days!

Li Gang has no doubt about his memory, and he can even read the semi-literary "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with a punctuation of silence, can't he still remember a few numbers?

The corners of Li Gang's mouth twitched, and he said in his heart: "No wonder it will become this virtue, I don't die after lying down for 11 days without eating or drinking, I am also a wonder." Or is it true that the Evolver is different from ordinary people? ”

In fact, for evolutionary beings, their physical fitness is far beyond that of ordinary people, and their lives will not be in danger if they do not eat or drink for ten days and half a month. However, this refers to the situation when the body is in its heyday and is in a state of low-energy hibernation. Li Gang is injured, his yuan power is exhausted, his physical strength is overdrawn, and most importantly, he has to carry out an extremely energy-intensive genetic level improvement, so that he can survive for 11 days without energy replenishment and complete genetic demutation, which can only be described as wonderful.

It's already spring now, and spring comes late in the north, but germination is normal now, especially after the plant mutation, the adaptability is stronger.

Since you want to find food, it is too unprofessional to be empty-handed, although this is a company office building, it is not a problem to find some weapons, such as the fire axe in the fire cabinet.

I took out the fire axe and checked it in my hand, so light! This should be two or three kilograms of fire axe, how can it be lighter than a feather, Li Gang can't feel the weight in his dry hands. He wondered, "It's not papier-mΓ’chΓ©, is it?" As he thought about it, he casually slashed an axe at the wall.

The "ding-click" fire axe smashed a bowl-sized hole in the wall, and the wooden axe handle broke in two because it couldn't withstand the force.

Li Gang looked at the half-cut axe handle in his hand, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "Okay, this wall turned out to be a load-bearing wall, strong enough!" And this axe is too sturdy, I don't have any strength at all! Is it really fake? ”

After taking a closer look at the broken handle of the axe, it is indeed high-quality mulberry wood, which is the same as what has been seen in the material before. That means the axe is fine, and it does make a lot of holes in the hard, load-bearing wall.

"Is that your own strength too great? Mummified and this special effect? Even if it really is, I'd rather not give me back my handsome and straight body! Even if the girls' eyes are strange now, they won't fall in love with a mummy. ”

Imagine a soft girl intimately holding a dry mummy in the afternoon street leisurely walking, crisp silver bell-like laughter and hoarse quack laughter, what a strange scene this will make!

Throwing out the strange picture in his head, he found two fire axes again, and Li Gang walked out of the eight-story office building. He is going to find a supermarket to have a big meal, and I believe that the supermarket stock in this area is still very rich.

In addition, because the jacket had been lost a long time ago, Li Gang took a piece of work uniform from the seat in the staff area, which was a suit, and put it on his body. In fact, I also wanted to change the pants, but unfortunately I didn't find the pants except for a few tops. In addition, when Li just changed clothes, he found that there was a bad smell on his body, and he had been in a room before, and his nose was numb from smelling, and he didn't feel it. Now I came out to change the air, and immediately noticed the smell on my body. Li Gang felt that he hadn't washed it for 11 days, and it was normal to smell. But if such a big smell goes out, doesn't that tell all the mutant beasts to come out on their own? In order to be safe, Li Gang still spent a lot of bottled water to roughly scrub it, making the taste smaller.

Along the way, Li Gang was very cautious, avoiding those green plants from afar, and the ghost knew if these plants would be more deadly than the octopus tree. There is nothing wrong with being careful, especially now that the body is weak, although the inexplicable strength is quite large, it is not enough to deal with any high-level mutant beast or strange mutant plant.

After Doom Day, T City has been transformed beyond recognition, and it is difficult to distinguish the collapsed buildings and ravine-filled streets from what it used to be. Li Gang, who has lived here for more than ten years, is also a little confused at the moment, which is too different from his memory, even if he has a super memory, it is useless to clearly reflect the original route in his mind, because this earthquake has displaced many places, and some places have even directly become sinkholes.

Standing at a suspected crossroads, Li Gang looked left and right, thought for a moment and said slowly: "This is Dongsheng Road, if I remember correctly, I saw a shopping mall from here a year ago, I hope it hasn't closed in the past year." ”

With a fire axe in his hand, Li Gang let go of his speed and ran towards the road on his right.

"I don't know how Xiaowei and the others are, they should have returned to the camp by now." Li Gang was not very worried about the safety of Xiao Wei and the others, because after successfully sneaking up on the brain-dead man Fang Ming, Fang Ming's three high-level servant beasts all went to chase him, and at the same time, most of the living dead were also affected by the king-level living dead to chase him over, which greatly reduced the resistance of the rescue team. Li Gang remembered looking at them for the last time, the survivors of the rescue team had broken through to the encirclement of the living dead, and as long as their brains were not broken, it would be safe to return the way they came.

"Here we are."

From afar, I saw the exterior wall of the shopping mall with a large advertisement for beautiful women. The mall looks very intact, there is no sign of collapse and deformation, mainly because the mall is only three floors, a total of only 15 meters high, the entire steel structure, even the outer wall is an iron structure wall, as long as this structure is not subsidence, ground crack directly under it, the earthquake shock is difficult to destroy it.

Seeing that the mall was safe and sound, Li Gang was not happy, because it was weird. It's far away from where the octopus tree is, and without the god-killing tree deterrent, there should be other mutant creatures around here, how can it be so clean now, so clean that you can't even see a bone slag.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

Li Gang raised his vigilance and slowly approached the mall. As for giving up this mall, Li Gang has not thought about it, at least not yet. Although he is a cautious person, prudence does not mean cowardice, if he retreats first without even seeing the danger, it is better to find a shoelace and hang himself. Knowing that eating will choke people, don't you eat?

In the same way, although it may seem strange here, it is a sign that danger lurks, but it is only a sign that the danger may just be too much. Of course, Li Gang raised his vigilance because of the potential danger that could be.

On the contrary, if there was a powerful mutant beast sunbathing at the entrance of this mall, Li Gang would definitely turn around and leave without saying a word. Knowing that it is dangerous and hitting it up, it is not bravery, it is looking for death!

Passing through the broken glass door and carefully picking on the ground without glass shards, Li Gang quietly entered the mall. After entering the door, he lifted his nose and took two deep breaths, not to take a deep breath to relieve his emotions, but to smell the taste. Li Gang is not a dog and does not have a keen sense of smell, but there are some smells that can be smelled without a keen sense of smell, such as the stench of mutant animal excrement, or the smell of certain food residues, especially rotting meat.

There was a faint musty smell in the air, which was caused by the long-term lack of air circulation, and there was no stench or rotten smell that Li Gang was worried about, indicating that this place was not used as a nest by mutant beasts or the living dead. This is also expected, the main body of this shopping mall is steel, and then covered by iron sheets, which can basically be said to be a fully enclosed structure, that is, a large iron can, cold in winter and hot in summer. During normal use, there are high-power exhaust fans for ventilation to maintain air circulation, and all the rooms are illuminated, and there is no natural light source. In addition, there is a built-in wireless signal relay device, and the mobile phone signal will not be blocked inside. The shopping mall with this building structure is generally leased land, and the contract requires the ground building to be removed at the expiration date, so this all-steel building will be adopted, which is very convenient to dismantle and has less investment! Okay, let's go aside, and move on to the reason why this isn't a lair for mutant beasts. As I said before, this place is fully enclosed, with poor ventilation and no lighting, even if it is placed in the past, few animals choose this kind of place as a nest, and the current mutant beasts should not be so brain-dead as to find guilt for themselves. Of course, in order to prevent the truly interested unique mutant creatures from making this place their home, Li Gang was still very careful.

Confirming that there should be no mutant beasts living dead here, Li Gang let go a little and sped up his progress. It's just that when you get out of the light range of the doorway, you're basically going to move forward in the dark.

"Grandma, you bear drop, you don't even leave a window, and you won't be unable to see anything if you leave a window." Li Gang complained in his heart and groped his way forward in the dark.

After walking for a while, my eyes turned out to be a little accustomed to the place where I should not be able to reach out and lose my fingers, and I could see the dim outline, and it was better to be unclear than to be completely blind.

On the first floor of this shopping mall is a daily necessities food store, and Li Gang didn't have much effort to find something to eat. Piles of snacks, biscuits, snacks, etc. were scattered all over the floor, and the shelves where they were originally placed were toppled over. Although the earthquake did not collapse the sturdy steel structure, the shelves inside were not so stable, and they were all knocked down.

grabbed a package that looked very large, and couldn't wait to tear it open, it turned out to be a bag of potato chips, can this thing be full? Li just stuffed the potato chips into his mouth with a few handfuls, and at the same time looked for other food on the ground, he wanted to find some top-notch food, such as compressed biscuits, canned meat, and the like.

Ten minutes later, in a closed staff locker room, a flashlight hung upside down on the handle of the locker added a lot of brightness to the small room. Under the flashlight, Li Gang sat on the ground, with a mountain of various foods in front of him: ham, instant noodles, biscuits, canned food, candy, everything, and several large bottles of drinks on his right.

Now Li Gang is reincarnated as a starving ghost, quickly tearing open the food package with both hands and stuffing it into his mouth, chewing two bites casually and swallowing it, picking up a drink from the side from time to time and pouring two sips. It's not a meal at all, it's cramming! Even the African refugee brothers who are suffering from hunger will be ashamed of themselves when they see Li Gang's appearance.

Li Gang was really hungry, and after smelling the fragrance of food, he was not only hungry, but also as if every cell was full of hunger, constantly urging him to eat quickly. And Li Gang himself knows that things can only be relieved when they are eaten in the stomach, who knows what moths will come out in the next second?

For more than two hours, Li Gang didn't know how much he had eaten, he only knew that he had replenished the food three times, and the leftover packaging had been piled up in half of the dressing room before he felt full, and he really didn't know where he ate so many things. During this period, Li Gang went to the toilet once, and the smell made him feel the taste of hell, and he almost vomited all the food he ate. In fact, there is a lot of waste produced in evolution, and the food Li Gang eats has a very high absorption rate, and there is very little leftover after digestion. He basically digests while eating, and every cell in his body absorbs nutrients like a sponge. After eating this meal, Li Gang found that his mummy body seemed to be a little 'fat'.

After eating and drinking for the time being, Li Gang leisurely sat on the chair in the dressing room, and just sat directly on the ground in order to facilitate the food.

Li Gang plans to live here, when will he finish eating when his body is not like a mummy. Because of this weak state now, let alone walking through the entire city and returning to camp, even if it is just a high-level mutant beast, it will be finished.

Also, Li Gang feels that what he is lacking very much at present is not a lack of strength but information! Too little is known about the characteristics of the various mutated organisms. If they had known from the beginning that the baby was in an inhuman disguise, and knew how strong it was and how good it was in attacking, the rescue team would definitely not have suffered so many casualties. If I had known from the beginning that the purple-haired wolf would spit out 'missiles', I wouldn't have been so embarrassed by a sudden attack. If you knew that the octopus tree was locked on to the target by Yuan Li, where would it take so much effort to escape and almost be slapped into a meatloaf. That's why I have too little information.

Speaking of information, Li Gang took out the second-hand "Mutant Creatures Illustrated Book (Tentative Edition)" given by Guo Furen in his trouser pocket (the title of this book has been changed in the previous chapter), and only flipped through it slightly, and looked up the two mutant beast types brought by the brainless man, as for the king-level living dead, you don't need to check it to see it.

The book is just over 20 pages long, and each palm-sized page introduces 4 mutated creatures. The whole illustrated book is mainly divided into four parts: mutant beasts, mutant insects, mutant plants, and non-humans, and some of the known species of these four types of mutant creatures are described, and most of them are illustrated, but these pictures are basically hand-painted, and it seems that it is not easy to take pictures of these mutant beasts. At the end of the book, a section of 'Introduction to the Classification and Advancement of Evolutionary Beings' is appended.

Li Gang started flipping through the first page, uh, this is the next page of the table of contents!

"The living dead, mutated creatures transformed from dead humans, are gregarious and aggressive, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand per living dead. There are many types of living dead, with the ordinary living dead accounting for 70% of the total number, and the remaining 30% having some kind of mutation ability, very similar to evolutionary ones. The living dead of the same rank are generally one to two times stronger than the evolutionary, and fortunately the living dead have a very low progression rate, with only one percent of mutated living dead making it to the next level. The beginner living dead are called soldiers, the middle ranks are generals, and the high ranks are kings, and the superiors have control over the subordinates."

A total of 31 mutant beasts are introduced in the illustrated book, 17 mutated insects and 9 mutated plants, all of which have been found and considered to be more dangerous. In fact, most of these mutant creatures introduced are beginner-level mutated creatures, with only a small number of middle-level and a few high-level. It seems that the collection of information is also very incomplete, and there is no way, this illustrated book was printed when it was destroyed for a month, and it is good to be able to collect these and sort them out.

There is no description of the octopus tree in the book, and it is not recorded that anyone who has seen it has become its feeder. Of course, Li Gang is an exception.

Finally, I turned to the additional 'Introduction to the Classification and Advancement of Evolutionists'. This is really not knowing if you don't see it, and you still don't know it when you look at it! It is worthy of an introduction, and the introduction is very simple.

What was said earlier was similar to what Xiaowei said at that time, and it was not even as detailed as what they said, Li Gang had read it before, so he didn't repeat it, he directly turned to this part of the introduction.

"The so-called advancement is an improvement at the genetic level. When the conditions of the evolutionary at this stage are mature and reach the highest bearing level of the current gene, under the guidance of the evolutionary under sufficient conditions, the gene will begin to undergo secondary and tertiary optimization to improve the gene level, which is commonly known as advanced, also known as evolution.

Under normal circumstances, after the evolutionary meets the conditions for advancement, he will naturally feel that he wants to advance. At this time, the evolutionary needs to be aware that progression is a relatively slow and complex process. After the evolutionary decides that he wants to advance, he should make preparations before he or she advances: first make sure that his physical condition is in the best condition, and ensure that he or she has sufficient energy or physical strength, because the advanced will consume a lot of energy. Secondly, the advancement should be carried out in a safe and quiet place, because the advancement is the optimization of all genes in the whole body, it generally takes about a week or even longer, during this period the genes are in an active state, if the advancement is disturbed or interrupted, it will cause unimaginable harm to the evolutionary, and in severe cases, it may cause genetic collapse. Finally, even if you have all the physical conditions, you feel that you are about to advance, and if you really want to advance, you still need the guidance of consciousness, which is like a switch. As for the guidance method, everyone is different, and you need to explore it yourself. Once started, the progression will follow naturally. ”

Seeing this, Li Gang suddenly realized, it turned out that the advancement was not a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly opened up the second pulse of Ren Du, and his combat power soared hundreds of times in an instant! That is to say, even if he really started to advance when he was chased by the octopus tree at that time, he would not beat it all over the ground like a small universe explosion, but would die of genetic collapse in minutes! Thinking of this, Li Gang patted his chest happily.

"After the energy system evolver advances to the middle or high level, the 'Yuan Pattern' will appear on the back in the state of Yuan Force Explosion, which is an external manifestation caused by the resonance of the Yuan Force of human cells, which floats behind the shoulder blades, and the shape is like two narrow blades that spread out in the shape of wings, and generally have light, so it is also called 'Light Wing'. The size and shape of the pattern and the details and colors vary according to each person's physical condition, and there is not much difference in general, with a length of between 30 cm and 50 cm, and a width of no more than 15 cm. Just like everyone's fingerprints, although they are different, they will not look too strange. The Yuan pattern itself does not have any special effect, it is just a phenomenon produced by the resonance of the Yuan force, and the Yuan Force is used to explode in the dark, and the Yuan pattern is easy to leak the position, so it needs to be noted. ”

Seeing the word 'light wing', Li Gang naturally thought of the angel eyebrows patting the white wings, does he also have the potential to be an angel, in other words, his own shape, even if he is a mummy angel, enough to hunt for curiosity!

Yuan force exploded, Li Gang heard of it for the first time, but it is easy to understand, it should be the blessing of Yuan force, it is just a matter of name. After waking up today, he was busy looking for food, and he didn't encounter any danger, so Li Gang didn't use the poor Yuan Li in his body to break out and play. After reading the introduction on the illustrated book, he suddenly wanted to try it, and his body became like this, maybe it was caused by advancement!

In fact, the normal use of Yuan Force and the so-called Yuan Force explosion are the same as jogging and sprinting in running, one is stable and the other is violent.

"I'm exploding! Ay? What about my wings? "Li Gang turned on the state of Yuanli explosion, looked at his back through the dressing mirror, and didn't see any 'Yuan Pattern' and 'Light Wing', only saw that there seemed to be a vague light on his back, and if he looked closely, he didn't seem to have it. But with that faint light and shadow, I can already be sure that I have indeed advanced, but this advancement seems to be a bit problematic.

"After a sleep, I inexplicably updated the new version, and the most hateful thing is that it is not the full version, just a trial version! Do you want to upgrade manually? Li Gang relieved the state of Yuan Li explosion in pain and continued to eat.

In the next two days, Li Gang completely stepped into the era of pigs, in addition to eating and sleeping, he occasionally walked in the mall, and it was called exercise after meals to help digestion. In addition to allowing him to evolve from an Egyptian mummy to a Mawangdui wet corpse in the past two days, he also found a lot of good things from the mall, a complete set of outdoor supplies, a first aid kit and the like, and even a small diesel generator. And the symbol 'Yuan Pattern' unique to the mid-level energy system evolutionary has finally appeared. This means that this Li Gang has officially stepped into the ranks of middle-level evolutionaries.

Looking at the pair of suspended yuan patterns on the back of the mirror, Li Gang sweated for a moment, this pair of white light things said that it was 'wings' is really lifted, each is only more than half a meter long, with arcs, like two glowing blades, if it expands by five or six times, maybe it can really be regarded as a 'wing' or a blade. No wonder people are officially named 'Yuanwen' instead of directly 'Light Wing', it seems that the name Light Wing is just a common name that people who love stinky beauty, such as the editor of "Illustrated". Of course, if you have to think of it as a deformed version of Cupid's wings, no one will stop you.

I thought that this yuan pattern would be more windy, and maybe I could point to it to pick up girls in the future. Now it looks like neither an angel nor a birdman, but a clown carrying a strange-shaped glow stick, which is really painful.

Not to mention the visual effects of Yuan Wen for the time being, Li Gang now feels that it is not at the same level as before, no wonder there is an insurmountable gap between the grades.

The first is the Yuan Force, the Yuan Force in the body is not only quantitative but also qualitative, the cells produce and store more Yuan Force, and the strength of the Yuan Force is also greatly improved. Comparing the previous Yuan Li to a bottle of air, it is now a bucket of water, which is not the same.

Then there is the physical strength, the genetic level increases, and the most direct change is the physical body. The strength of the body has increased more than ten times compared to before, if there used to be 10 adult strength, now it is 100, and there will be more when the body fully recovers, and it will increase if you improve the exercise! In the state of Yuan Force explosion, it is no problem to flip it a few times. Of course, the improvement of physical fitness is not only manifested in strength, but also in reaction, recovery, and resistance to blows, but now Li Gang can't test it.

Now, Li Gang has the confidence to chop the octopus tree as firewood!