Chapter X, Section 1

There are still a few kilometers from the periphery of Falling Star Lake to the lake area, but there is no road left. The highway leads to the intersection of Lianjie, Donghai and Jiaqingfu, near the halfway point of Baidu Bridge and Engineering Bureau Bridge. There was originally a Jiashan teahouse there, but it was destroyed by the strange explosion that day, and it has been more than ten days now, and no one has cleaned up the broken walls.

Shen Yao parked his car in a parking lot next to the Engineering Bureau Bridge, and there were already several Jiaqing Mansion security guards waiting in the parking lot. Out of the joint realm, the ability of the Military Investigation Bureau is not ordinary. Since Qiu Lingxiao instructed Xu Zhanpeng to investigate the Falling Star Lake, the Military Investigation Bureau has notified the prefect yamen of Jiaqing Mansion to guard the area around the Falling Star Lake, and the Military Investigation Bureau has allocated funds to build a temporary road from the Engineering Bureau Bridge to the edge of the Falling Star Lake.

The temporary road is actually to clear the wild grass and reeds, and then tamp it with gravel and sediment, as long as the people walk. It's certainly not the road that can walk by car. Even so, it took a week of effort to pave the road to the lake.

After getting out of the car, Shen Yao first took care of the inspection of the Jiaqing Mansion Security Office, and set up a post at the intersection of the temporary road, not allowing idle people to enter. The patrol on duty brought a few horses over, and Shen Yaoxian, Qiu Lingxiao, and Jin Yi rode in one by one.

Because it was the center of the big bang in the East China Sea during the extinction day, decades have passed, and all kinds of radiation are still left here. Electromagnetic and nuclear radiation are particularly severe. Therefore, few people have set foot in this area of the lake area

When the horseback rider reached the lake, the traces of the latest explosion could already be seen. The shore in the direction of the boundary was completely damaged by the shock wave of the explosion, and the original shore of the lake was visibly deformed, but there was no remnant of explosives.

Qiu Lingxiao closed his eyes by the lake, and asked Shen Yaoxian after a while: "When the road was being built here, did you find any explosive fragments?"

Shen Yaoxian shook his head and said: "No, I asked them, except for the traces left by the shock wave, there is no residue, if it weren't for the obvious change in the shore of the lake, that big explosion can be said to leave no traces." ”

Qiu Lingxiao nodded: "Maybe something has sunk to the bottom of the lake, and has the nearby mud lake been sampled for testing?"

Shen Yao hesitated for a moment: "Jiaqing Mansion definitely didn't do it, but when they were building the road, they saw someone from the Lianjie Engineering Bureau coming over, as if they were doing some survey." ”

Sure enough, they intervened first. Qiu Lingxiao snorted, "You tell Jiaqing Mansion that posts will be set up around the lake area in the future, and no one will be allowed to come in without the approval of your Military Investigation Bureau." ”

At the end of the bridge boundary of the Engineering Bureau, a black Tongfu car was parked on the side of the road.

Chase sat in the driver's seat, turned his head and asked Huo Xing, who was sitting in the back seat, "My lord, are we going over?"

Huo Xing leaned back in his seat, fiddled with a box in his hand, took out a pair of headphones connected to the box, put it to his ear and listened: "No need to go over, the Military Investigation Bureau is intervening now, let them get busy first." ”

Chase said: "Fortunately, the survey, sampling, and arrangement of monitoring points were all done in advance a few days ago. Now just wait for the results of our analysis to come out, and then see what Donghua Xuanmen is busy with. ”

Huo Xing said: "Donghua Xuanmen must also know something, otherwise Qiu Lingxiao would not have been able to let the Military Investigation Bureau come over and make a big move." And this Jin Yi, you keep an eye on him. Didn't you see Qiu Lingxiao coming, do you still want to pull him along? ”

Chase said: "Jin Yi is a little wrong. A few days ago, I went to the White Tiger Hall to check the goods and test him, and it was really strange. I've never seen anyone so good at fighting and avoiding automatic pistol fire head-on. Even monks may not be able to do it. ”

Huo Xing snorted: "If this is the ability, I won't let the Inspection Bureau keep an eye on him, he is much weirder." ”

Chase wanted to ask what was weird, but looked at Huo Xing's face, as if he didn't mean what he wanted to say, so he paused and said: "But he is not like the warlock of Donghua Xuanmen, it seems that he has not practiced any Xuanmen exercises, only heard that he has practiced some ancient martial arts of the Kongtong School." ”

Huo Xing said: "Donghua's strange skills are too many, and they are self-contained. Sometimes ancient martial arts and sorcery are also interconnected. ”

Huo Xing told Chase that according to the cultivation method of Donghua Xuanmen, as long as he has a little talent, coupled with diligence and time, he can always cultivate spells. Even if the ancient martial arts are cultivated to the extreme and become an innate martial art, they will be able to have magical powers similar to the magic.

This one is terrible. Unlike other anomalies in the world, including the monks of the Hermitage Order, they must all be gifted abilities, and without innate abilities, no amount of training will help.

Prior to Extinction Day, the Hermitage and the Taixi Alliance jointly developed genetic selection and modification technology, which led to the production of a number of monks. But these monks, despite their great talents, have also lost room for further advancement.

Huo Xing is talking about seven or eight years before the extinction date, because the exercises of the hermit can only choose people who are awakened by natural abilities, and the audience is too narrow, which leads to the gradual expansion of the power of the Xuanmen, and even the global forces of the Donghua Xuanmen and the hermit can faintly fight against each other.

With the strong scientific and technological support of the Taixi Alliance, the hermitage uses gene technology and biomechanical engineering technology to jointly cultivate mutant humans, that is, special gene monks. This special monk is born with a powerful natural ability, and combined with the training techniques of the hermitage, it can become extremely powerful in a short period of time.

However, this kind of strength has an upper limit, and in any case, the cultivation of the most powerful part of them can only stay at the end of the innate stage, that is, the late stage of refining the Qi and transforming the gods, and they can't even reach the realm of the Great Perfection of refining the Qi and transforming the gods. As for breaking through the innate nature, shattering the void, and entering the realm of refining the gods and returning to the void, there is no need to think about it.

Moreover, this particular kind of monk has a short lifespan, with an average life expectancy of no more than forty years, and is very mentally abnormal. This is despite the fact that the monastic has a control program set in their genes from the start. However, due to their genetic instability and strong variability from the beginning, a large part of the monks lost control, and finally became one of the triggers for extinction day.

"In fact, after thousands of years of integration and exchange, some of Donghua's cultivation methods are also understood by other mainland sects and hermitages, but the philosophical basis of this cultivation method is metaphysics, and there are many concepts created out of nothing, which are very different from our training methods. Huo Xing said, "The monks of our hermitage are all born with strong talents, and the root of their magic lies in talent, and their set of cultivation can only be used for reference, but it cannot become the foundation. ”

Chase said with some envy: "My lord, this talent of mine, can I still continue to cultivate." ”

Huo Xing said: "You have a little wind talent, but to be honest, you are not strong enough. The training method I've given you just allows you to move a little faster and be more agile. As for the monk's basic spells, such as the simple wind blade, with your talent and divine thoughts, I think a single blow can paralyze you for half an hour. ”

Chase sighed: "I heard Du Pingshan gossip, their low-level warlocks can also use a kind of talisman, and some powerful talismans are not worse than our spells. ”

"The divine thoughts of the talisman are not something you can support," Huo Xing said, "And according to the research of the hermitage society, the basis of the talisman is to form and solidify the meaning, which is related to the hieroglyphs that they have inherited for nearly 10,000 years, and we don't have the kind of form and meaning that has been precipitated by genes for thousands of years, so we can't make and use it." ”

Huo Xing said this, and he was a little proud: "However, hundreds of years ago, the Taixi League and the Hermit Society borrowed from the Donghua Rune and combined technology and magic to create our own runes and solid forms, which we call runes. ”

The talisman that Huo Xing refers to refers to some personal fixed utensils used by the hermit monks, such as staffs, rings, swords, daggers, necklaces, bracelets, etc. These devices are inscribed with runes that correspond to one's innate attributes, and can be activated by the divine consciousness to further strengthen the innate attributes.

This kind of talisman also needs the cultivation of the monk's divine consciousness at all times, and if a monk's talisman is damaged, his ability will be lost at least one-third to half, and making another talisman containing the same talisman will take much longer in addition to the great cost.

"It's a pity I can't use the talismans!" Chase lamented.

Huo Xing disagreed: "Your talent is like this, no one can become a real monk until you awaken your powerful talent." As he spoke, he picked up the headphones and put them on his head, "Now let's listen to what the Xuanmen Warlocks are discussing, and I hope that the monitoring you have installed according to the design will be effective." ”