Chapter 624: The Protagonist of Fate
In terms of color, the ocean of the new era is actually much more beautiful than the old era. As far as the eye can see, the vast sea looks like a brilliant sapphire. The presence of radiation gives the water a blue color, but this beauty is deadly. After the catastrophe of the day, the entire shijie was contaminated with radiation, and in just three days, most of the creatures in the ocean, large and small, died.
Unfortunately, there was no time for humans to take care of it at that time, otherwise if you went to the beach, you would see a large number of fish and other aquatic corpses floating on the surface. On the vast surface of the ocean, there are even the carcasses of blue whales floating in the sea! Since it is such a behemoth, it is not immune to the intense radiation. Instead, it was the petite beings who survived and gradually evolved silently in the ocean.
Decades later, life in the sea has died one after another, but all that survived were vicious and dangerous lives. They have adapted to the intensely radiating oceans and are highly aggressive. The oceans have become hotbeds of their evolution, and in turbulent times, the oceans are far wider and more empty than ever before. Life in the oceans has a wide range of evolutionary predators, and because they are not as densely distributed as the mutants on land, they have plenty of room to evolve.
In the ocean, the biggest enemy is oneself. If they are unable to evolve life forms adapted to the ocean, the only thing that awaits them is death.
Compared to the land, the sea is simply a new shijie. Because there are very few people exploring it, and life in the sea rarely has the opportunity to see humans, when a U-shaped nose with a streamlined fuselage, and four steel wings raised on both sides erupt with blue flames, pushing the fuselage to drive strange things on the sea, life in the sea is very curious. This curiosity even suppresses their aggressiveness, so when the Destiny is at sea, there are always strange schools of fish swimming next to it or to the left.
From time to time, a king whale even peeks out of the sea and stares at the Destiny with its wheel-like eyes. And even with only a head exposed, the guy looked almost like an island.
The Tyrannosaurus whale is one of those large creatures in the sea, with a huge body the size of a mothership. The head is like a small island, from the head to the tail fin, and there is a dense row of spikes on its back. When needed, these spikes can be fired like torpedoes. The spikes are hollow and have an air sac inside. When the Tyrannosaurus whale launches its spikes, it actually uses the air flow in its body to hit the air sacs and eject them. However, upon hitting an opponent, the air sac will rapidly expand, squeezing the spikes into a splash attack, which can help expand the wound and cause secondary damage.
With this trick alone, the overlord whale has few opponents in the sea, otherwise it would not have won the name of the overlord.
So after the appearance of this dangerous giant whale, there was a lot less aquatic life nearby. However, the people on the Destiny did not seem to know the danger of the Tyrannosaurus whales, and some still stayed on the deck of the side of the ship or on the smooth hull.
Billy wears a standard hazmat suit, which is Asgard's latest development, the Explorer II. It has a constant temperature system, which can allow the wearer to work in a low temperature environment from 500 degrees to minus 50 degrees. It also has a screen capture, information sensing, and jet escape system. Such a set of protective clothing is expensive, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford. Zero also only purchased five sets to facilitate the use of some important but incapable ordinary people on board.
Billy was one of them, sitting on the deck on the right side of the ship, holding a tablet brain. From time to time, I watched the sea and the scattered islands, and followed the marks in my brain.
"What are you doing? Mr. Billy?"
Billy, who had been preoccupied, suddenly became a little confused when he heard this voice. He turned around, but he was dressed in simple clothes, crouching curiously behind him. Su is still wearing short hair, but his facial features are becoming more and more delicate, and even his skin is much fairer and more delicate than before. Some people say that when people with abilities evolve, not only their abilities and physical strength will be improved, but even their appearance will develop towards the beautiful side. It is also an evolution, a self-adjustment of life out of the survival instinct. After all, for people, a beautiful person, whether it is a man or a woman, will have some advantages.
Looking at his beautiful and delicate face, Billy was a little cramped, and even flushed his face because of his rapid heartbeat. He lowered his head, scratched his head with his hand, and said, "It turns out that Master Su, I, I'm making nautical charts." ”
"Nautical charts?" Su said casually, "Don't call me an adult, we only have one head, don't we?"
Billy stood up, and seemed to have mustered up enough courage before he dared to say to Su: "Then please call me by my name directly, the word sir is too foreign." As for nautical charts, they are map-like things. I scanned and marked the geography of Destiny's path, including ocean currents, creatures, and islands. That way, when we return home, we won't lose our way. ”
"Wow, that sounds amazing. I didn't expect Billy to have this kind of talent!" Su smiled.
Billy's face turned even redder, he touched his head hahadaxiao, and said "nothing". Then he clenched his hands again and said, "I'm not a pixel, and Mr. Kaede has the same powerful ability as you." This time, thanks to Mr. Kode, I was able to become a member of the Destiny. So I want to do something more for everyone, think about it, once the Golden Harbor is built, then the Zero will have its first fleet. When the time comes, maybe my nautical charts will come in handy, so I thought, if possible, I'm going to make a complete nautical chart."
Billy puffed up his chest and said loudly, "I'm going to record all the oceans of this era!"
After speaking, Kansu looked at himself with a surprised face. Billy lowered his head and sneered, "I'm so carried away, it's rude for a small character like me to say such arrogant things." ”
Su smiled, and she sat down as well and said, "You know what, Billy." The first time I saw Zero, our heads weren't much stronger than those soldiers on the ship. Of course, I was the same, at that time, we were almost all inconspicuous little characters. ”
"You may not believe it, but the mutant beast, which is not even a trash fish level for us now, beat us to the ground at that time. Every time you fight, you have to fight with blood, sweat and even your life. But that's it, and we're getting there. Su propped his hands on the boat, looked at the sky and said, "Now that I think about it, I don't know that we have been through a lot. These experiences may have been overwhelmingly desperate for others, but we survived. Do you know how we got here? Billy?"
Billy shook his head stupidly.
"It's because of a dream. Su said softly.
Billy shook violently.
"In the beginning, it was Zero who told us that he wanted to build a brand new shijie. Let the wife wait for her husband's return at home with peace of mind, let the children live happily with their relatives, let the elderly not have to work hard and let their children support themselves, so that the men do not have to fight the mutant beasts to get the needs for survival" Su said word by word what Zero said back then: "This is a dream of zero, it sounds very unrealistic, doesn't it?" But we can't help but admit that this almost delusional dream has deeply moved us. That's it, we walked over with him. ”
"I'm fine, Kaede, and Hyvi and the others. We have all taken the dream of zero as our own, and we are willing to work with him to change this shijie with our own hands. Su pressed his hand on his chest and smiled, "It doesn't matter if you're weak now, Billy." As long as you have a dream and work hard to pursue it, no matter how weak you are, you will become the protagonist of your own destiny!"
Billy's eyes widened, and after a moment, he nodded vigorously, "I know, no matter what happens in the future." As long as I have a breath of air, I will continue to draw this nautical chart until it is complete!"
There was a flame burning in his heart, and Billy was now beginning to understand that Weishenme Zero was able to bring together so many people with great powers.
Because everyone has a dream in their hearts, they can go so far. Then I'm going to have to pick up the pace to catch up with these guys!!" Billy clenched his fists and said to himself.
A loud symphony came from the boat, attracting the attention of Billy and Su. Looking at the smooth hull, the two figures were staggered and entangled, and then lightning separated, and then pounced on each other, so fast that only black lines were left, and Billy was dazzled: "This them"
"Man, I can't sit still. Su sighed, she was no better than Billy, Su Qingqing saw every detail of the fight between Feng and Zero. She stood up and shouted, "Head, don't let the water go, let's beat that guy Feng!"
When another high-pitched voice sounded, Kaede fell to the side and turned to Sudao, "Shut up, violent girl!"
Only then did he look back at Zero and frowned, "What kind of ability is this, a kind of materialization?"
At this moment, Zero, the bare skin on his face and arms, which was exposed to the air, was flowing with a metallic luster. And in fact, just now he was resisting the attack of the Feng Na Tang Knife with his bare hands. Kaede clearly slashed his body, but it was like slashing a chunky piece of metal, and not even a white mark was left on Zero's body.
Zero shook his head and chuckled: "It's not a materialized ability, that kind of ability can only act outside the body, but not on itself." This is a new action that I recently unearthed, the memory group to temper the skin. ”
The memories awakened in Zero's body, in addition to repairing their bodies and passively evolving in response to foreign blows, have recently discovered some other functions for them. There is no way around it, he is always busy when he is on land, and he has no time to calm down and study the memory group in his body. Until the Destiny went to sea, he only gave a coordinate, and then how to get to the Abyss Gate was someone else's business.
In this way, Zero has become an idler, so he has time to study the memory group.
In fact, this comes from Quaternary superlife, the creature that Franklin and Agradis called "Gaia". As a clone of him, Zero has 100,000 DNA memories. This latent liliang finally awakened in the white blood cell base, and by the time Midori and Tyr had awakened about a third of the time, nearly 30,000 DNA memory sets had been able to work.
The awakening of one-third of the memory group has significantly improved Zero's ability to repair itself compared to the past, and has formed a defense plan against the backlash against itself after channeling the power of nothingness. In addition to this, the Memory Pack can also spawn small creature weapons like Dr. Kod, which was achieved in the Mobistone Bazaar duel with Bane the Magician.
But Zero didn't use them to form more powerful biological weapons, because they weren't necessary. No matter how powerful the memory set is, it can't generate a biological weapon more powerful than Zero's own. After all, the design and composition of biological weapons are limited by zero experience and liliang, so they cannot form creatures that surpass his liliang. As a result, the role of the memory group in this regard becomes limited.
During these days on the ship, after exploring, Zero has found some other role in the memory group. Tempered skin is one of them, although it does not have any aggression, it can be said to be a kind of auxiliary effect. However, after the composition of the Zero Skin was changed by the Memory Group, the toughened skin that evolved was five times harder than the alloy, which could withstand most attacks, greatly increasing the defense of the Zero.
Just like just now, Zero could resist the attack of Kaede's Tang knife with his bare hands, and even let Kaede slash at himself, but even a white mark was left behind. In terms of defense, Zero's tempered skin is comparable to a ninth-order defense enhancement. But the guy who has developed a ninth-order enhancement in the fighting domain is not a big guy like Tyr. While strengthening the defense, because the proportion of skin and even bones increases, people with this ability are usually very clumsy. But Zero is not limited by this condition, and after maintaining the original speed and the defense of the tempered skin, Zero is a dangerous humanoid murder weapon!
"It sounds scary, but let's just be tough. If you encounter the heavy sword of a violent woman, you will be dismantled with a single sword. Kaede smiled.
"It's going to be that simple, forget it, I'll show you how. Let you see the gun fighting technique in the tempered skin state" Zero gently retreated and slid out a few meters. After thinking about it, he retreated again, and retreated directly to the part of the steel wing of the Destiny, which was more than thirty meters away from Fengzhi.
"Why are you going to retreat so far, do you still want to do your old job?"
"Pretty much. Zero laughed as he sat down and pulled his right fist back. A red flame of energy suddenly appeared on the fist, exuding an aura of destruction.
"Attaching a death crit to your fist, is it a heavy artillery bombardment or an impact?" Kaede also put out the defense, although the two were fighting, but now the power and energy aura on Zero's body have skyrocketed, and it is not fun to be hit at all.
"Wrong, it's a deadly sniper!"
With that, lean forward and blast your fists forward, keeping a precise level with your shoulders. In an instant, Zero turned into a blood-red light and shadow, and the distance of more than thirty meters between breaths swept away, and in a blink of an eye, it was in front of Feng's eyes!
"Wow!" Kaede exclaimed, the long knife and scabbard intertwined to withstand Zero's fist.
The seemingly slender fist, when it was imprinted at the point where the knife and the sheath intertwined, erupted into a terrifying liliang! As bursts of sonic booms came on the blood-red light track that Zero was dragging on, I saw that the waves of Pengpeng's qi were advancing one after another, and finally exploded on the fist and released a circle of gray-white shockwaves, directly sending Feng Zhen flying. Kaede screamed in the air, and her figure was about to fall out of the Destiny. At this moment, one hand grasped the scabbard of Frost, and let Kaede hang under the side of the ship.
Looking up, it was Su, who was holding the scabbard, with a smile on his face. Kaede breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good to have you." ”
At the end of the words, Su threw it hard, smashing Kaede into the shell of the Destiny in a large font. Kaede covered his red face and said, "Damn, you can't move lightly!"
Su spread her hands and said, "No way, who called me a violent woman." ”
"A woman who holds a grudge!" Kaede defined and looked at Zero.
Zero retracted his fist, and his fist actually emitted high-temperature smoke caused by high-speed movement and friction with the air. The metallic sheen faded, and it was clear that Zero had retracted the tempered skin. Kaede looked at the fist and said, "What happened to that punch just now? I remember that you haven't strengthened Liliang above the ninth order."
"Deadly sniping, replacing the liliang of the death crit with the force of propulsion, can instantly reach the speed of breaking through the sound barrier. My fist is a bullet, and all I have to do is aim at my opponent. And shoot!" Zero made a gesture of shooting with his fingers.
Feng stuck out his tongue and said, "Breaking through the sound barrier, it's no wonder that one punch almost knocked Lao Tzu apart." With that speed bonus, and your metal slug-like fists, you're getting more and more like a monster!"
I can take that as a compliment. Zero nodded.
At this time, Leah came out of the cabin and said, "Come back quickly, I feel that the energy magnetic field in the sea area ahead has become extremely unstable, like a harbinger before a storm!"
Hearing her say this, everyone noticed that the sky was flashing with lightning from time to time. Electric snakes swept over the radiant clouds, and then converged into the sky in the sea ahead. The sky on the other side of the horizon has become very dark, and the thick lightning of the Great Avenue and the Great Avenue has slashed down from the sky to the sea, with the momentum of tearing the heavens and the earth apart!
"Let's go, go back to the ship!" Zero waved his hand, beckoning everyone back to the Destiny.
The storms of the new age are deadly, and the rain will carry radiation from the clouds to the earth. This is especially true at sea, where a storm can even destroy a town in the open sea. Coming to the control room, Zero hurriedly said, "Is there an island nearby?"
A staff member immediately replied: "At nine o'clock, there is one about half a nautical mile away from us." ”
"Quick, let's take shelter near the island. ”