Chapter 118: Ability Crystallization, Ascending Plan (5,000 Words for a Monthly Pass, Asking for a Subscription)
Rumble!!
Lin Zhiqiang's huge flesh and blood body directly hit the air cushion on the ground and exploded, and the sound of ground shaking was heard more than ten kilometers away, smashing a large crater on the ice-covered concrete floor.
An ordinary person falling from the nineteenth floor could not be saved by an air cushion, let alone such a huge flesh-and-blood rat.
"What is this?!"
The guards downstairs were stunned, they had only received a report that there was a person up there.
"Is that the mutant rat king?!"
Duan Zhengyan reacted quickly, and hurriedly ordered everyone to come out of the building, hold guns on guard, and then contact Qiu Chengguo upstairs to inquire about the specific situation.
"Brother Chen, there is no air cushion downstairs, I guess my ability can't carry you down."
Huang Yuwen glanced down from the window, his legs trembling.
"I'll go down first, you take the stairs."
Mu Xiaoxiao was about to jump down with the sword, Chen Ji said be careful, and gave her a ball of light to warm up.
Mu Xiaoxiao paused, and after saying thank you, his petite body rushed out of the window.
With her current strength, she could easily go down to the first floor by stepping on the edge of the window with her foot, or slapping her sword to ease the fall.
Strength-type abilities are estimated to be able to do it, but no one has tried it, so let's take the stairs honestly.
Downstairs.
The glowing mass of flesh turned into a patty in the pit, and the minced flesh splattered in pieces.
Qiu Chengguo conveyed a series of things that had just happened to Duan Zhengyan downstairs, and at the same time reported to the command center.
"Rats in human form?!"
"Or a completely rat-like powerhouse?!"
Many people were shocked by this news, and when they think about it, it is actually reasonable.
Creatures mutate faster than humans, and now that humans have abilities, it's likely that mutated creatures will evolve into some unknown existence.
Mutated creatures that can transform into human form are actually similar to beast abilities.
"This Lin Zhiqiang must have something to do with the killing on the 19th floor, and it is likely to have something to do with the abnormal intelligence of mutant mice!"
Gao Liqun, the leader of the command center, quickly made a guess.
If you can, it is the best choice to capture Lin Zhiqiang alive for research to prevent such a thing from happening next time.
But according to the current report, Lin Zhiqiang's ability is very strange, and he has both space and life enhancement abilities, so it is estimated that it will be difficult to capture him alive.
"Duan Zhengyan."
Gao Liqun gave instructions to the front line: "The enemy is very strong, you can capture it alive, if you can't capture it alive, you can kill it directly, just seal the body and bring it back." Stay safe, you can call for support at any time, and the rear support team is always ready! ”
"Understood!"
Duan Zhengyan looked at the meatloaf, on the meatloaf, the purifying doomsday effect of Chen Ji's ability seemed to be still taking effect, suppressing Lin Zhiqiang's rat flesh and blood, so that it could not wriggle and grow.
"Dead?"
Duan Zheng was about to bring someone closer, but soon, a huge rat's head quickly emerged from the flesh and blood, and opened its mouth to let out a shrill cry.
A feeling of dizziness hits.
The rat cry is not loud, but it goes straight to the human brain, like a high-intensity infrasound wave, which makes people frightened, manic, nauseous, vomiting, and the heartbeat is so violent that it is about to explode.
"What's it called!"
A sword light fell from the sky, cleanly slashing at the rat's head emerging from the flesh mass, and the sound stopped abruptly.
Duan Zhengyan and the others' violent heartbeat just now slowly calmed down.
Mu Xiaoxiao had already unleashed his sword again, cutting the rat's flesh and blood into pieces, and kicked one of them into the distance with another kick.
"Take, get the flamethrower!"
After recovering, Duan Zhengyan gritted his teeth and ordered, "Get on the rocket artillery and blow it up completely!" ”
He knew too little about this weird thing, and he almost had an accident just now.
Mu Xiaoxiao stood by the flesh pie, hesitated for a moment, stared at it and looked at it again, and only after noticing that there was anything in it did he retreat and give up his place to them.
Modern weapons are still very powerful.
A few rockets went down, completely shattering Lin Zhiqiang's rat body, and then the flamethrower came on, and two flame-based abilities also went up to help, controlling the flames to scorch the flesh and blood on the ground.
"There's something in the distance."
Zhu Gao, who went down to the eighth floor, suddenly stopped and stopped, listened attentively, and said affirmatively: "There is a large group of things coming!" ”
"Mutant rats?"
Chen Ji looked at him.
Regardless of whether Lin Zhiqiang is a human or a rat, his identity as a mutant rat king can almost be confirmed.
"I'll inform them!"
Qiu Chengguo picked up the walkie-talkie and conveyed the news as he ran.
Chen Ji and Zhou Wan quickened their pace, and soon after going downstairs, a large group of mutant white rats also arrived.
The people in the camp had already driven over, the five squads had converged, and the Adepts had gathered together, and the lights were shining in all directions, reflecting mutant rats popping out of the mall one after another.
They emerge from the rooftops, streets, underground, shops, etc., squeaking and slowly surrounding.
The number went from a few dozen to a hundred, two hundred, three hundred.
Zhu Gao heard many chaotic voices running in the distance, conservatively estimated that there were thousands.
"Lin Zhiqiang's voice didn't know how far it spread just now, I was careless."
Duan Zhengyan regretted it a little.
Thousands of mutant rats can also deal with it, but it is an extraneous branch.
Everyone relied on more than 20 armored vehicles to form a defensive circle, and a large number of mutant white rats slowly approached, and the command center knew about it, and Gao Liqun had already ordered the fighter to come to support.
Post-apocalyptic cities can be bombed with confidence.
With such a big movement, it's time for survivors to come out and ask for help.
"Something is wrong."
Chen Ji noticed one thing, "The target of these white rats is not us, but the flesh and blood?" ”
The flesh was still not far away, and someone had already picked up some pieces of flesh and put them in a special collection box, and went back to do the experiment.
The flames had been roasted just now, and the mutant rat king Lin Zhiqiang seemed to have died completely, leaving only a lump of burnt meat, and the air was filled with the smell of barbecue.
These mutant rats gathered around, bypassing everyone, staring at the flesh and blood.
I don't know if it's because I want to eat meat, or if it's something else.
"Stop them from getting closer! Fire! ”
Qiu Chengguo, no matter what the reason, just fired in short.
With a wild bombardment, the power of modern weapons was highlighted, and dozens of mutant white rats were killed on the spot.
The huge rats squeaked, fled into the nearby shops, burrowed into the ground, ran and dodged, and the scene was chaotic.
More rats rushed towards the mass of charred flesh, which was so numerous that the rats quickly broke through, and they frantically gnawed at the scattered pieces of flesh.
The machine guns continued to strafe, and a large number of mutant rats were killed, but many still ate the burnt pieces of meat, picked them up and fled into the distance.
"This ......"
Huang Yuwen was terrified: "Don't tell me that Lin Zhiqiang's mutant rat king is not dead yet, and he can be resurrected from this pile of minced meat!" ”
The hearts of the people sank.
After the bombardment with rocket artillery just now, the flesh and blood of the mutant rat king Lin Zhiqiang were scattered all over the ground, and unless the covering saturation attack was made, the rats could not be stopped.
"I'm guessing they're robbing the rat demon's core, or heart, but unfortunately I don't have the mind to identify it."
Mu Xiaoxiao was a little depressed with a sword, standing in place and not chasing, there were too many mice, she couldn't tell which one was important.
The demon core is the saying of the Nine Domains, and she believes that the mutant rat king of this world also has a core that carries power.
"I'll try."
Chen Ji stood up, and he thought of a solution.
"How do I find the light and heat ability? Or with eyes? ”
For a while, everyone couldn't think of how to find the key from so many white mice, and they were too slow to look at each other.
"Stop attacking, watch the white rats!"
Chen Ji raised his hand, and a large ball of light emanated from his hand, and then slowly rose to the sky, illuminating a range of four or five hundred meters.
The light shone on the mutant rats, causing them to tremble all over, and their running movements were immediately stopped, squeaking stiffly in place.
Among them, two rats that fled more than 100 meters away were almost unaffected, and they still fled frantically.
"I see!"
Mu Xiaoxiao rushed out excitedly, and his petite body turned into a meteor, ignoring the other white mice on the road, looking for the one that ran the fastest.
Zhou Wan also raised her hand, the space squeeze just now was very violent, but it also cost her a lot of strange abilities.
Now you can only throw two daggers and shoot the other one, slowing it down and letting Tiny kill it.
The combat team had stopped attacking the white rats, and looked around with wide eyes to see which mutant white rat was abnormal, Chen Ji's move could only be used once, and there was only one chance to identify it.
Two special white rats were killed by Mu Xiaoxiao, and the remaining thousands of white rats trembled all over their bodies by the light.
After a while, the light disappeared, and the rats regained their mobility and began to scurry again, eating the flesh and blood.
"Nothing special?"
Zhou Wan asked everyone to see if they had found out.
"That's it!"
Chen Ji stretched out his hand and pointed at it, before he could say why it was special, Mu Xiaoxiao had already rushed out and killed all the white rats in that place.
The rest of the rats ran in all directions.
It seems that because the mutant rat king Lin Zhiqiang has died, their intelligence has returned to the ordinary level, and they will take the initiative to attack humans, but they will quickly flee after being frustrated, and they have no cooperation with each other.
They fled like scattered sand, and soon disappeared.
Most of the white rat carcasses on the ground were also taken away by them.
Three special white rats were brought into the car, just in case, other white rat corpses will be taken away by car in the future, including the pile of human corpses on the 19th floor, which will be examined by criminologists to restore what happened there.
Lin Zhiqiang has too many doubts.
Chen Ji didn't even know if he was a human or a mouse.
But the most important suspicion is that Chen Ji only came out with Zhou Wan and Mu Xiao.
"Four years ago, you went on a blind date here, and then you contacted us?"
After listening to his words, Zhou Wan's heart suddenly beat fast, and a wonderful sense of fate surprised her inexplicably.
Chen Ji and her are people from two parallel worlds, there is no doubt about this.
Chen Ji has also confirmed that there are no her parents in his world - her parents are celebrities, and they can be found casually on the Internet.
Zhou Wan has always felt that there is no other person named "Zhou Wan" in Chen Ji's world.
But now.
Chen Ji went on a blind date four years ago, and then had an extra official account plug-in, magically contacted her, and saved her.
What's even more amazing is that the mutant rat king also appeared in the restaurant.
It also has spatial abilities!
"I'm not sure if it's here, I'll check the location when I get back."
Chen Ji looked around again, but unfortunately he went to that place on a blind date at that time, so he couldn't be sure.
Qiu Chengguo and Duan Zhengyan were directing the clearance, and the fighters were late and could only circle around for a while.
"What would you think if there was another you in his world?"
Mu Xiaoxiao asked Zhou Wan curiously.
This 28-year-old female doctor of doom, the first supernatural person, has always been very strong, and she can't help but be silent for a long time at this moment.
"Let's talk about it."
Facing Chen Ji's gaze, Zhou Wan suddenly chuckled, "Whether there is or not, I am me anyway." ”
Chen Ji gave her an encouraging look.
Zhou Wan pursed her lips and smiled, turned to Qiu Chengguo who was not far away and said, "I have a guess, that mutant rat king Lin Zhiqiang is likely to be the first mutant creature after the apocalypse!" ”
"It's a spatial ability just like me."
Before they were shocked and wanted to ask the reason, Zhou Wan added.
Using the same spatial ability to conceal Chen Ji's criticality in it, and then conceal the fact that he is from another world.
Qiu Chengguo paused, nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and reported the matter.
Lin Zhiqiang's identity is already very important, and now with the speculation of the first mutated creature, it has become particularly important here.
Several settlements in Haishi have sent people to seal this place and carefully search for all suspicious points.
……
Chen Ji returned to the bomb shelter settlement.
The three special mutant mice were quickly dissected, and the medical experts found something from their stomachs, but after a brief analysis, they found nothing, so they could only invite Chen Ji and the three to the laboratory.
After Chen Ji put on a white coat and a mask and entered the laboratory, he saw the mutant mice that had been dissected.
In a glassware next to it, there was a pile of things found in their stomachs and esophagus.
There are all kinds of messes.
It's a pity that Chen Ji's ability didn't work, and he didn't find anything.
"I'll try."
Zhou Wan looked at those things, making the space slightly distorted, and the three dissected white mouse corpses shook again, and in one of the corpses, Zhou Wan "saw" something different, which was inside its head.
The experimenters quickly dissected its head, found a small metal particle, cleaned it, and handed it to Zhou Wan.
"You try to feel it."
Mu Xiaoxiao said suddenly.
"Feelings?"
Zhou Wan pinched the metal particles, her mind concentrated, but she couldn't feel anything.
However, after experimenting with the ability, she found that it could amplify her spatial ability, which she could only flash for more than ten meters before, and it would consume a lot of ability through the wall.
Now not only can it flash thirty meters away, but it can also easily pass through several walls.
Leave the lab staff dumbfounded.
This ability is terrifying!
"It's not quite what I imagined." Mu Xiao muttered a little, she thought it was a fragment of the law.
Laboratory staff cheered up, and similar metal particles were found in the other two mouse carcasses.
One of them was quickly confirmed to be a life-enhancing ability, and after losing it to a normal rat to eat, the rat quickly mutated and possessed the same flesh and blood regeneration ability as Lin Zhiqiang, which was very difficult to kill.
I don't know what the other one is for.
"I guess it enhances the intelligence of living beings."
Chen Ji said with a smile: "At that time, all the white rats resumed their actions and scurried around, so it was a beat slower, and it should have been too late to react when it was disguised." ”
Swallowing metal particles, the intelligent mouse is less affected by the sun's rays, but it trembles as cunningly as other mice.
It's just that after the sun's rays disappeared, its camouflage was a beat slower, and it happened to be discovered by Chen Ji.
"Space, life, wisdom."
A laboratory staff was full of shock: "This guy is worthy of being the first mutant creature, and he is ridiculously strong...... It's a shame that you can find it, otherwise it will continue to mutate, and it will probably be stronger than we think! ”
Zhou Wan chuckled: "It should be said that fortunately, there is Chen Ji...... Of course, being small is also important. ”
The shepherd is a little prickly pout.
She didn't play much of a role this time, it was all up to that guy.
"So ......"
Chen Ji propped his chin in his hand and thought: "The massacre on the 19th floor is likely to have been made by Lin Zhiqiang, maybe to learn the words and deeds of human beings, or it may be to tease human beings...... The bottom of the building was so clean, and it was probably his intention to clean it, but he didn't expect me to find him. ”
Chen Ji's speculation was quickly confirmed.
After the relevant experts searched the 19th floor, they found a note on the body of a person, which recorded that he was caught by several mutant mice, and was dragged by the rats to his clothes, which is the 19th floor of the World Settlement Building.
There, he sees a strange, talking humanoid rat that he coerces into killing the others.
"It says that the biggest reward for the last winner is to merge with it and become the king of the world, and I'm crazy to fuse with a mouse! I'll kill the gun as soon as I get it! ”
"Wishing me success, haha, that's a contradiction...... Hopefully this piece of paper was discovered by humans, not the mouse. ”
"My name is Liu Zhanpeng, I failed, that rat can't be killed at all, escape! Later, find a way to escape! ”
These are the last three sentences written by Liu Zhanpeng, and unfortunately, he did fail.
But he also revealed a certain truth to the whole incident, and the experts would bury his body well afterward, and if he had a family, he would also be rewarded with merit points for his family.
"Lin Zhiqiang was the last one to win, and he fused with the mutant rat king?"
Chen Ji can only guess like this.
After the fusion, the new Rat King is not very stable, mistakenly thinking that he is a human, and the scholar burrows into the bed to hide from the cold.
It just so happened that Chen Ji and the others arrived, otherwise after it fused and stabilized, I really didn't know what it would become.
The truth has been clarified, but many questions remain.
The three particles of metal with the ability are called Ability Crystals.
It is not known if there is such a thing in humans for the time being, and other mutated creatures have not been found, waiting to dig up more secrets.
The appearance of the mutant rat king finally made the leaders of the disaster response center finally make up their minds to start a year-long plan to launch a rocket to send a launcher near the sun to see what happened to the sun.
This is a difficult process, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and I only hope that in the process of preparation, I can tap more abilities of the Stranger and the Crystallization of Ability, improve the launch process, increase the success rate, and even speed up the rocket.
While preparations were underway, improvements were made, and the rocket was tentatively scheduled to be launched in a year.
One year is undoubtedly a long time for the end of the world.
But the end times require hope and the courage to keep moving forward.
(End of chapter)