Chapter 47: The Stone Scythe
100% integration success?
Ji Xinghuo was surprised in his heart, according to the law of his own exploration, the higher the success rate of fusion, the more suitable it is for him, which can be understood as the recommendation index of Vientiane Star Pupil.
The highest so far is a rotating magnetic field of 99%!
After fusion, I found that the rotating magnetic field was indeed very compatible with myself.
So, what happens with a 100% fusion success rate? Could it be that etheric sensitivity is more powerful than a rotating magnetic field? It's just a good ability.
Ji Xinghuo was a little confused.
He thought about it for a moment, or was there something special about this aether sensitivity in his hand?
Its most striking feature is that it is born naturally, but the countries and organizations on the earth, as well as the Institute of Abilities, have done countless studies on abilities, and they have never heard of the difference between abilities from different sources.
Ji Xinghuo noticed the last line of text in the interface.
[Upgradeability: Yes]
He suddenly understood a little that this aether sensitivity could be upgraded!
As far as I know, the effect of ether sensitivity has always been fixed, and no one has yet discovered how to exercise. The only way to do this is to be stimulated to mutate during the evolution of life, with a very small chance of progressing to a higher-level ability.
Not only is Aether Sensitive, but many abilities have the potential to evolve as life evolves.
But these are all small probability events.
One level higher than Aether Sensitive is Aether Affinity, an over-the-top ability.
Above the aether affinity is "Aether Resonance," which is a starfall ability!
"Perhaps, I should give this aether a try?"
Ji Xinghuo's mind turned sharply, but his face was impassive, and he handed over the xenos to Jiang Nan Caiyi to pack them in a special xenomorph container, and said: "I'm a little interested in ether sensitivity, don't sell it after I go back, maybe the next xenomorph I fuse will be." ”
Ren Mian was a little strange, "Why do you want to fuse the ether sensitive?" ”
She remembered that neither the Ranger nor the Magnetic Fanatic had Aether Sensitivity in either class template.
"Just have ideas." Ji Xinghuo casually explained, "I want to improve my strength faster, if I can get an expansion strange thing, it is also a very good choice to fuse ether sensitivity at the beginning of the game." ”
Chi Zhonglu suddenly smiled, "Then you are a jobless stranger like me." ”
Ji Xinghuo was stunned, "It seems to be." ”
If you really fuse Aether Sensitivity, then your three abilities come from different class templates, and you become a standard jobless Inhuman.
"It's good to be a jobless stranger!"
Chi Zhongyan hugged Ji Xinghuo's shoulders affectionately, "Not bound by the career template, free and easy, you can fuse whichever ability you want, we two brothers, explore the path of life evolution together, maybe we can create a new career template in the future." ”
Ji Xinghuo was speechless, he didn't have any thoughts about it.
The four of them searched the cave twice to make sure they didn't miss anything.
Ren Mian walked to the entrance of the cave and looked outside a few times, then turned around and said, "It's a starry night soon, we will camp here tonight, and go back to Olympia tomorrow." ”
The cave floor is dry, there is nothing dirty except for dirt and weeds, and the environment is much better than the ground in the Peak Valley, and it is secluded and safe enough.
The team readily agreed.
Taking advantage of the time when everyone set up tents and arranged plant protection, Ji Xinghuo climbed back to the top of the mountain, shot a few big birds parked on the trees, quickly removed the feathers and internal organs, picked up a few bundles of firewood by the way, and returned to the cave to hand over to Jiangnan Caiyi to cook.
After eating a barbecue of big birds, it was already dark outside.
It was still early before the night, and Ji Xinghuo came to the top of the mountain to enjoy the starry night, and took advantage of the cool by the way.
The silver light sprinkled down.
As far as the eye can see, under the reflection of the Milky Way, the majestic and magnificent peaks are shrouded in a faint silver light, with a bit of blue, and I feel like I am in a galaxy, every star on the sky seems to be winking at me, this dreamlike experience is unforgettable for a lifetime.
Ji Xinghuo was lying on a piece of grass, his hands were pillowed behind his head, his legs were crossed, and he hummed a song softly in his mouth: "Twinkle and twinkle, the sky is full of pulsars......
Chi Zhonglan, who had just climbed up, was speechless when he heard the lyrics.
He came up to take pictures.
However, after taking two shots, I found that it was not suitable, the film camera had too high exposure requirements, and the visibility of the starry night was not as good as that of the day, so I couldn't shoot the desired effect.
If you use a disposable flash bubble, it's as if you're shouting at a monster within a radius of several kilometers: I'm here!
"Forget it."
The scales in the pond circled around the top of the hill and found nothing.
Finally, he returned to Ji Xinghuo and lay down, looking at the stars and the Milky Way in the sky, and suddenly sighed: "If the astral boundary is a safe place, how good it would be!" ”
Ji Xinghuo didn't turn his head, and only replied after a while: "That will be a lot less fun." ”
"It's also ......" Chi Zhongliang nodded, "Without the magical birthplace of the Astral Boundary, we would not have been able to have supernatural powers. ”
Then the two were silent for a moment.
"Starfire, how many siblings do you have?" Chi Zhongliang asked again.
"Four."
"I'm one more than you." Chi Zhonglan said: "Our family has six brothers and sisters, three boys and three girls, and we have been very happy since we were children, but unfortunately now we are all adults, not as simple as when we were children, we have our own work and life, and our feelings have gradually faded." ”
Ji Xinghuo turned his head to look at him, "You can contact your family more." ”
"It's useless." Chi Zhongyan sighed, "Actually, except for me, the relationship between the other brothers and sisters is good. ”
"Because you're an alien?" Ji Xinghuo guessed.
"Yes."
Chi Zhong's eyes were helpless, "At first, they were all happy that I became an alien, but later I became stronger and stronger, and gradually became estranged. ”
"The social circle is different, the people and things we come into contact with are different, and the things we experience are different. Even, I have to be careful when I am with them, for fear of accidentally hurting them. When they faced me, although they didn't say it, I could still feel the fear and pressure......"
He clenched his fist slightly, and the air in his palm exploded with a muffled sound.
"It's like the difference between a hunter and a prey."
"The greater the power gap between aliens and ordinary people, the more difficult it is to maintain that kind of equal relationship."
"After all, we can take their lives with just one finger or even a thought."
"This stark contrast between the strong and the weak overwhelms any other social relationship and even transcends the divide between species."
"Even if we try our best to suppress our own power restraint, just that kind of psychological pressure will make ordinary people subconsciously avoid strangers."
Chi Zhongyan looked at Ji Xinghuo, "This feeling, you will understand it soon." ”
Ji Xinghuo was thoughtful.
These words did remind him, the second brother Zhong Ming was the first to become a stranger, and after entering the league club, he was indeed estranged from his brothers and sisters, I thought he was too busy, and he had to train and play every day, but now it seems that this is not all the reason.
Now everyone is very young, just graduated or even not yet graduated, and their social status is about the same, so there will be no problem for a while.
But in a few years, there may be the same problem as the scales in the pool.
"Is there a solution?" Ji Xinghuo asked.
"Nope."
Chi Zhonglan spread his hands, "You can only go with the flow, unless you have a way to make the whole family a stranger." Or go to a higher place, meet new friends, and enter new circles. It may be difficult at first, because people are nostalgic, but time will dilute everything. ”
Ji Xinghuo nodded, no longer dwelling on this issue.
"Woo......"
A long howl was suddenly heard in the distance.
"What sound?" Ji Xinghuo sat up straight and looked in the direction of the source of the whistling sound.
"It's like the cry of a stone sickle." Chi Zhongliang looked into the distance, "This cry is a little strange, it can be transmitted so far." ”
They often hear the cries of stone sickles these days, and they are also active in the starry nights, making a few calls from time to time, as if as an act of claiming territory.
But this voice is markedly different.
The two looked at each other, both having the same guess.
Ren Mian and Jiang Nancai climbed up from the cave, and they also heard the whistle and asked about the situation.
Ji Xinghuo walked to the edge of the Hanging Mountain, where the field of vision was wide, even if the visibility of the starry night was not as good as that of the day, the Vientiane Star Pupil could see the scene five kilometers away.
His gaze scanned back and forth.
Finally, about four kilometers away in front of the left, an anomaly was spotted.
It was a large group of stone sickles, so numerous that it was impossible to count how many there were for a moment, and they ran rapidly from mountain to mountain, as if they were chasing some prey, and in the chaos they were in order, forming a huge encirclement.
Boom Boom Boom ......
The great earthquake below trembled, and the scythes got closer and closer.
"Woooooo
The cries of the stone sickles came and went.
A moment later, hundreds of different beasts were driven into a valley, wildebeests, ferocious boars, dire wolves, large rock sheep, steel-maned beasts, and so on, all of which were larger beasts, all huddled together and ran wildly for their lives.
On the other side of the valley, however, there is a cliff with a drop of more than 100 meters.
Stone sickles blocked the exit to the valley, and there were also stone sickles on the cliffs on both sides that kept throwing stones.
"Woo......"
A loud cry sounded from behind, as if an order had been given.
Suddenly, dozens of ordinary monster-level stone sickles lined up and charged inward from the entrance of the valley, brandishing four scythe-like claws and starting to kill the beast. The beasts in the back squeezed the ones in front, and the space became smaller and smaller, and finally they were squeezed off the cliff and fell directly to their deaths.
In less than two minutes, hundreds of beasts were slaughtered, most of them falling to their deaths.
After killing the beasts, there was not a single stone sickle to eat.
They seem to be waiting for something.
That valley was about three kilometers away from the Hanging Mountain, and Ji Xinghuo saw the whole process clearly.
He was about to speak, when he suddenly saw a huge figure jump into the sky, more than 100 meters above the ground, and crossed a parabola and fell heavily into the valley.
Bang!
The ground shook a little, and the sound could be heard from so far away.
"Stone Scythe Giant Ray!" Ji Xinghuo whispered, "It appeared. ”
"There really is a stone sickle giant ray, and we even ran into it!" The scales in the pool were pleasantly surprised.
Ren Mian didn't see the slightest joy on her face, she shook her head solemnly, and said slowly: "I'm afraid this is not a good thing, this stone sickle giant is not only superb-level, it has evolved again, and now it should be a 'Hong'-level monster." ”
"What?" The scales in the pool were shocked.
"Sister Ren is right." Ji Xinghuo also nodded, "It has evolved." ”
He saw it very clearly.
The stone sickle giant in the valley is more than five meters tall, large and flexible, it can be 100 meters tall in a random jump, its body is covered with a thick layer of rock armor, each of its four arms requires two people to hug it, and the stone claws of the palm are nearly a meter long, like a terrible sickle.
The tail behind it resembles a large python, and the tip of the tail at the end is comparable to a drilling head.
The stone sickle giant just sat down in the valley, and the thousands of stone sickles around it all bowed to the ground, not daring to make a sound.
From such a distance, Ji Xinghuo felt a palpitation.
This is definitely not a monster.
It is a disaster monster that is one level higher than the superior monster and more than ten times more powerful!
The beasts of the astral realm evolve once and are monsters, and as their strength grows, elites will appear among ordinary monsters, usually group leaders.
Elite monsters evolve again to become superior monsters, awakening more abilities.
And, capable of fusing or devouring xenomorphs.
And after the superior monster has mastered other abilities, the third evolution is successful, and there is a certain probability of becoming a "disaster" level monster!
Because of the difference between species and abilities, they are both disaster-level monsters, but the difference in strength is very large.
As a result, the tribes were divided into more detailed levels according to the degree of danger.
The disaster monster benchmarks four natural disasters, namely floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and meteorite impacts, which are referred to as "floods, cans, earthquakes and meteorites" in the Asia-Pacific Community.
The harm caused by flood-level monsters is roughly a county-level flood disaster;
The danger level of Chan-class monsters has risen by another level;
Earthquake monsters are capable of threatening a medium-sized city;
Meteorite-level monsters have the ability to completely destroy a large city, as well as the surrounding area, killing everyone within range!
Even more terrifying than the Calamity Monster is the Killing Star Monster.
In the era when the stargate was first opened, a star-killing monster broke into the earth, but fortunately, the countries reacted in time and killed it with dozens of intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads.
Ji Xinghuo was too far away to accurately determine what level this stone sickle giant ray was.
Just like Sister Ren said, there is a high probability that it is Hong!
Monsters of this level can only be killed by at least legendary Inhumans, and if they are at the Chan level, Legendary Inhumans will also have a headache and dare not face them easily.
"Woohoo!"
The stone sickle let out two roars, and the stone scythe in the valley began to tear the corpse of the beast, cutting pieces of flesh with stone claws and sending them into its mouth, the scene was very bloody.
It chose two of the fattest and ferocious boars of its own and began to enjoy its food.
Ren Mian retracted his gaze and said, "The plan remains the same, we will return to Olympia City tomorrow." ”
None of the three objected.
If it's just a super-monster, they're not afraid, and they're definitely going to hunt it.
But in the face of Hong-level monsters, he will become a prey.
"Damn it!"
Chi Zhongliang scolded, "The people who released the news in Olympia are really damned, they must know that this stone sickle giant is Hong-level, and they don't dare to do it themselves, so they deliberately release the news for others to send to death, and now they may be hiding in some corner around here, trying to pick up a big bargain." ”
"It's better not for me to find out who it is, or I'll make you look good!"
He scolded and scolded for a long time, and was very unhappy.
If the Stone Scythe Giant is a superior monster, it is possible to get the "Earth Pulse" after killing it, and he has been looking forward to this xenomorph for a long time.
This time when he came out, Ren Mian also said that he would get the pulse of the earth and give him priority.
Now it's all in vain!
More than two hours later, the Stone Sickle Group had eaten almost the corpse of the beast, followed the Hong-level leader out of the valley, and disappeared between the vast peaks.
Ji Xinghuo and the four of them returned to the cave to rest, and there was nothing to do all night.
The next day, they packed their belongings and left the Valley of the Peaks and set out on their way back to Olympia.