Chapter 44: Aftermath

I took it over and looked at it in confusion. It still had a wrapping paper. I squeezed a little out and licked it. Although I didn't feel any taste on my tongue, a strange feeling spread throughout my body instantly, and I immediately felt more comfortable, as if all my worries were no longer worries. I looked at this thing in surprise, and then looked at the big K. "Isn't this a drug?"

A B1 team member next to him said: "It is a synthetic stable hormone that does not cause physiological dependence, is non-toxic, and has no side effects."

I raised the thing to Big K. "Thanks."

Big K smiled and walked into the cabin to help carry the heavy limb fragments. For those researchers who lacked exercise, these human bodies equipped with metal skeletons were too heavy.

They moved theirs, and I led 6 classmates and my subordinates towards the base gate. After entering the base, I asked the Ring Knight to rest first, leaving only Scott and Vina to accompany me and 6 classmates to the reception room.

When the door was opened, there were already two people sitting inside. One of them was an investigator from the base's confidentiality department, and the other was from the base's technology development department. I let them go in first at the gate, and I walked last. People sent by the two departments immediately stood up and saluted when they saw me coming in. All six classmates looked back at me in surprise. I ignored their gazes and returned the greeting to the two men and motioned for them to sit down.

I walked to a relatively independent seat and sat down. My magic pet and the representatives from the two departments in the room sat down one after another when they saw me sitting down. However, the six classmates came in unceremoniously. I just found a seat and sat down by myself.

I said, "Okay, now let's make it clearer." I gestured to the representative of the Secret Service sitting behind me.

The representative of the Security Department took a notebook and stood up. Just as he was about to read it, he saw my signal, so he sat down again and started reading the notebook.

"Song Ning, female, was born on July 41, 2016, in Nanjing Gulou Hospital. The birth record has been verified to be true. At the age of 7, she entered the third primary school of the Longyuan Group. She performed well during the period and served as the monitor until graduation. In the third grade, I was hospitalized for a month due to a car accident. The hospitalization record has been verified to be true. In the fourth grade, I won the first place in the national XXX knowledge competition. In the same year, I participated in the XXX competition and won the third place in the country..."

The representative place of reading was Song Ning's personal files. The contents were so detailed that even Song Ning himself could not remember many of them. After a long paragraph of personal records, the representative continued to read: "The family relationship includes a pair of parents and a twin sister. His father, Song Deguang, currently serves as the technical foreman of the emergency power department of the Nanjing Branch of the Longyuan Group's heavy machinery company. His social relations are simple. There are basically no safety risks. Her mother, Liu Yuan, is the special research director of the Longyuan Group's technical reserve department. She has the rank of major and reliable social connections. Her sister, Song Ya, is currently studying language at Peking University. She has a boyfriend with a suspicious identity in her social connections and has been dispatched. People have gone to investigate and a definite report will be available in 48 hours."

After reading Song Ning's information, she was dumbfounded. Let alone others, there were many things in it that she didn't even know. The file she usually kept in the Archives Office was definitely not as detailed as the one she heard.

Before everyone could recover, the representative of the confidentiality department read again: "Kang Lei. Male, born on November 7, 1940 in Xinhai Development Zone Hospital, Shanghai. The information is verified and reliable. His specialty is sports. He has participated in various competitions and won awards many times. …”

The information of the six people was read out one by one. Everyone was dumbfounded. The last one who read out was Yin Ni. His own record is mediocre. If social relations are not taken into account, he is the most ordinary among the six classmates, but as he said, this kid does have a good background.

Yin Pi's father is called Yin Cui. There is nothing special about this person. But his identity is exaggerated, because Yin Zui is one of the major shareholders of Long Yuan Di. Although the state holds a large number of Longyuan shares, these shares are not directly in the name of the state, but are listed through several agents. On the surface, Longyuan does not include state shares. And this Yin Zheng is the one with the largest proportion of the names. He holds 15% of the shares of Dilongyuan. With these 15% shares alone, he can be listed among the top 100 richest people in the world, and currently Longyuan is one of the richest people in the world. Yuan shares are hard-to-buy. As long as someone sells them, there is no need to worry about no one buying them. It's just that Yin Zui is a nominal shareholder. In fact, he cannot fully control these funds, but after all, he is a direct shareholder, and the fact that the state can put funds in his name shows that his status is not low, otherwise the state would not dare to put such a large amount of funds on him.

Although Yin Pi's mother is not as exaggerated as his father, his mother's father, Yin Pi's grandfather, is a real big fish. Although Yin Pi's grandfather has retired now, the people he promoted are basically current military and political officials, and no one is easy to mess with. With such an identity as a background, Yin Piu does have the ability to be arrogant. And it really counts. This guy isn't exactly a prince either. Blindly belittling the enemy will only make you blind and arrogant. If you study on your own, you will find that Yin Piu is actually a talented person with considerable achievements. It's just not on the right track with me.

After reading all their files, the representative of the Secrecy Department put away the information. I then said, "Today's trouble is really unexpected. Under normal circumstances, I shouldn't have brought you back, but you are my classmates after all, so I I thought of a compromise."

As soon as the six people heard what I was going to say, they all recovered from their initial surprise, and they all listened with their ears pricked up.

I began to explain: "Actually, my idea is that since it is impossible to silence, we can only use confidentiality regulations. But for you, confidentiality regulations are of little use. After all, you are not from us. This... is not good anyway. Restrict you. So I wonder if you can join the Longyuan Group, and I will arrange your future work. In exchange, you must keep it secret. In fact, you have nothing to lose, and you must abide by the confidentiality regulations when you join Longyuan. Xinlong College is our talent reserve base for Long Yuan. Regardless of this incident or not, you will most likely be from Long Yuan in the future, so I just settled this matter in advance. You can get it a few years earlier. In terms of salary, we can get safety guarantee. Neither party will suffer. As for you..." I pointed at Yin and said, "You are the person I feel most at ease with."

"Me?" Yin Bu looked at me in surprise.

I nodded and said: "At first I thought you were a threat, but after knowing your information, I felt that you were also very pitiful. Instead of being scolded to death by my father for you, it would be better for everyone to take a step back. I don't need to explain the turtle theory, right? Your family The local people should know it well.”

"You...!" Yin Pi stood up and wanted to get angry, but he sat down again after seeing Chili sitting on the arm of my sofa with a lightning ball in his hand. "Don't be too bullying! Our family has shouldered such a big burden for the country, and we should be up to the country and the people."

"Don't get excited." I stretched out my hand to signal him to be quiet. "Last time you openly started a war with me for Li Ting, this time you made it clear that you were against me on the plane. Don't say I am someone who never gets angry, even ordinary people will not give up easily, but this time I will definitely take the initiative Give in." Seeing everyone's puzzled eyes, I added: "I'm not afraid of you, but I respect your family. Although your family's contributions are not comparable to ours, I think that your family's sacrifices are absolutely Ranked first in the country. In addition to the information I just read, I have another information here that is not convenient to talk about. It seems that you are a martyr family. I don’t want to be your enemy. My conscience cannot bear to deal with you. But my tolerance is not unlimited. Yes, I hope you understand my position."

To put it bluntly, the Yin Pi family is a family that takes the blame for the country. They are responsible for many unfortunate events. Being Long Yuan's nominal shareholder is actually acting as a cover. This kind of work is a typical thankless job. According to the information I have, this happened to the Yin family not only once but twice, and many generations of people died as a result. But they never said anything. At first, he just let it go if it really happened on the plane, but now that I know these things, if I continue to act out of anger and become his enemy, then I really have no humanity.

Yin Pu didn't say anything after hearing what I said. He just sat there and shed tears. Their family history is too tragic. No one can fully bear it, so Yin Pi's character is rather twisted. On the one hand, family education requires tolerance and peace, so he is not like ordinary princes. On the other hand, excessive suppression has the opposite effect, and his emotions are easily out of control.

"I..." Yin Tuo wanted to say something but I interrupted him.

"You don't need to say anything, the matter is over here. Although I am not a gentleman, but what I say is absolutely true. I will not cause trouble for you in the future. Take me back to show respect to your elders. I represent Long Yuan Thanks for their contribution.”

He nodded and stopped talking.

I turned to Song Ning and said, "Squad leader."

"You'd better stop calling me squad leader. It seems like you're not an ordinary person. We, the officials' children, are just common people when we come to you."

"Then let me get straight to the point. What department would you like to be assigned to work in?"

"I want to go to Longyuan Electronics Research Department."

I asked the others individually, and then representatives from the local Technical Development Department recorded their requests. I said to them: "Then it's settled now. I'll send you to the unit you want. You have to treat this matter as if you haven't seen anything. After that, we will study a set of external press releases. You can follow this Get the words right first, and when everyone agrees, no one will doubt the authenticity of the incident."

After everyone nodded, I continued: "Okay. Let's deal with the matter like this. I promised to give you an explanation. Now is the time to explain the problem. You can ask the questions in your mind."

Yin Pi first asked: "Who are you?"

"Me?" I was stunned for a moment. "Don't you know?"

Yin retorted: "I heard from my dad that Longyuan has a plan to create artificial gods. The content seems to be about human enhancement. After seeing you today, I determined that you are one of the results of that plan, so I called you Artificial God. I always thought you were just an experimental subject, at best an operations captain. But now it seems that your status is not at all lower than that of my father."

"How do you know that my status is not inferior to your father's?"

"It's simple. Because of this base. I know that Longyuan has many secret bases, but shareholders except researchers are not allowed to enter these bases. The group's board of directors only allows 5 special directors to enter the base. Apart from my father, But you can come in and out at will. What's even more strange is that you can actually direct the staff and security personnel to do this and that at will along the way. Unless you are a high-level figure, it is impossible for you to command them."

"Your observations are very detailed. Those you guessed at the beginning are basically correct. I am indeed the experimental subject and the operation captain. As for my other identity... let's put it this way! Shen Jianguo is my father."

"Who is Shen Jianguo?" As soon as sports committee member Kang Lei asked, he was immediately beaten up by Lu Yingying next to him.

"Did you make a mistake? You don't even know Shen Jianguo! Don't you know who the chairman of Longyuan Group is?"

Kang Lei held his head and said, "I usually only watch sports news and don't care about the economy!"

Song Ning over there said: "Even if you don't care, at least you should know a little bit! Just like people who don't do science should know about Einstein. Even if you don't care about the economy, you should know about Shen Jianguo! He is the richest man in the world after all! 51% of Longyuan Group belongs to him."

"Isn't it?" Lu Yingying only reacted at this time, and she covered her mouth in surprise. "So, Shenlin, you are... No wonder! You all have the surname Shen, and this surname is so rare! Oh my god! Then aren't you super rich?"

"The money belongs to my dad. For the time being, I'm just working in Longyuan."

The organizing committee member said angrily: "Yes! Is this a high-paying job?"

Yin Pi actually spoke for me: "High salary is not necessarily a good thing. If we use the special tax rate for personal income tax, it is as high as 30%. If it were you, can you afford it?"

"Is it that high?" Lu Yingying asked dubiously.

I nodded and said: "Last year, my dad paid 1.7 billion yuan in personal income tax alone. And you must know that the group itself also has taxes. There is actually a huge gap between our real profits and what we put into our pockets." of."

Lu Yingying said: "Then let's change. I would rather pay 30% of the local tax with an annual salary of several hundred billion. Even if I pay 90%, I will do it! At least there are still tens of billions left!"

Kang Lei said: "Damn it, doesn't that mean your dad earns more than a thousand dollars every second? And this is based on making money every second, 365 days a year. If we use an 8-hour work system and remove holidays, Oh my god! I finally know the difference between a rich man and a common man!"

Song Ning said: "Don't be too surprised. You don't know how big Longyuan Group is. Shenlin's family holds 51% of Longyuan's shares. This amount of income is small compared to our ratio."

I retorted to Yin: "Do you understand my position?"

Yin Ni nodded. "I apologize for what started."

"I said this matter is over and you don't have to apologize."

"It's your business if you don't care. I'll do my part."

I laughed. "As expected of being from the Yin family, the foundation accumulated over the years is still worthy of admiration."

Kang Lei suddenly asked: "Rather than your identity, what I want to know more is whether the land you use to subdue those people is magic? Are the fantasy novels published on those novel sites real? Is there really magic in this world? Aren't the things in "Zero" adapted from reality?"

As soon as Kang Lei finished speaking, Wei Na and I all laughed. Only the six of them looked at us stupidly and didn't know why we were laughing. I waved my hand to let the two department representatives leave first and then explained to them: "First of all, you need to understand that science is the truth in this world."

"But when you rescued us, it was obviously thunder and lightning. At that time, my whole body was numb and the lightning jumped out unconsciously." Kang Lei didn't believe what I said.

Song Ning also said: "Although I am an absolute materialist atheist, and I don't know what the thunderbolt and lightning that Kang Lei mentioned is. But I still think that what you are using goes beyond the scope of science! Thunder on a sunny day is rare, but It's not that there was nothing, but the time and place where the lightning struck was so accurate, it was obviously guided by humans, and I felt the induced electricity very thoroughly at that time. It was definitely not fake."

I explained. "I'm telling the truth. Magic does not exist in this world, but Song Ning's words are also good. That thunder was indeed guided by us."

Song Ning immediately asked: "How did you do it? The machine that guides thunder and lightning must be very big, right? I don't think I saw you carrying anything at that time?"

I pointed at Vina: "Actually, she guided the thunder and lightning. It was not guided by a machine."

"You mean special powers?" Kang Lei asked.

"It's not bad to call it a special function, but this is not a special function in the general sense, but an artificially increased ability. We can control the intensity and general type of the ability."

The organizing committee member suddenly shouted: "You mean you can add special abilities to ordinary people?"

"Not yet." I thought for a long time before saying cautiously: "Because it involves some high-level secrets. I can only tell you that we can add some special abilities similar to superpowers to certain groups of people, and this ability is completely It’s scientifically sound.”

Song Ning shouted: "If one person can shoot lightning, is it scientific?"

This time Vina explained herself: "I didn't generate that lightning. I just gathered the electrons and guided them to the landing point. The energy of the electrons itself was formed by frictional static electricity caused by air convection, and I just used it. Just like if I dug a river and introduced the river water into the village and destroyed the village, it only means that I borrowed the power of the water itself, not that I created the water and swept the village."

"But how can the human body guide thunder and lightning?"

Wei Na smiled and said: "The principle is very simple. Flowing electrons are similar to flowing river water. They both flow in the direction of low pressure. I can use my own will to generate electromagnetic fields. With electromagnetic fields, I can easily ionize the air . Usually air is non-conductive. But ionized air is highly conductive. I just need to arrange these ions into a wire and connect it to the place where I want lightning to attack, and all the electrons in the air will be concentrated there without any need. I 'manipulate' it. You can think of the clouds as a big battery. The neatly arranged ionized air is a wire. Whoever I touch by grabbing the wire will be shocked. It's a simple reason."

Yin Pi asked: "But how do you generate an electromagnetic field?"

This time it was me who explained: "Humans themselves can generate electric fields. Virtual game helmets actually use the human body's electromagnetic fields to achieve the purpose of exchanging information."

"But the strength of that magnetic field is far from enough to affect lightning, right? Even if you want to develop the technology to strengthen brain waves, it won't be very simple, right?" Song Ning is indeed smart. The key issues can always be found.

I explained. "You all know that Longyuan's main industry is biopharmaceuticals, so our technology is mainly based on biotechnology. In fact, biological research is different from mechanical and electronic research. We don't need to develop our own theories completely independently. Our teachers are everywhere around us. Electric eels can produce super strong instantaneous voltage. Its intensity can knock down a buffalo instantly. In addition, there is a kind of lightning jellyfish in the ocean. That thing is simply a small nuclear power plant. You will never imagine that it actually Cell core fusion can be carried out. We don't have to 'explore' the method of forming a biomagnetic field by ourselves. Nature has ready-made technological achievements, so just copy them. Nature is a generous inventor, and she never competes with us for patent rights, and The wide range of other inventions basically covers all the technologies we need.”

"Learn from nature? This is too..." Song Ning and the others couldn't accept it.

"We learn from birds to make fixed-wing aircraft, like dragonflies we learn to make helicopters. We learn from frogs to make frog-eye radars. Since we can learn these, why can't we learn more? Sharks only need one-sixth of our power. Reaching more than 3 times the propulsion force, dolphins can use clustered ultrasonic waves to stun small fish within two meters, the unicorn fairy can lift objects 500 times its own weight, and the venom of the grouper squid is mixed with seawater to become a super Anesthetics can even make blue whales comatose for several hours. Don't you think that these seemingly inconspicuous creatures are much more technologically advanced than humans? After all, nature has been doing biological research for hundreds of millions of years."

"But it's too exaggerated for you to play with lightning?"

"Nature uses natural selection to eliminate the fittest, while we use artificial selection. We remove the dross and extract the essence. Just pick out the most needed things and concentrate them on one organism."

The organizing committee member asked: "According to you, your research should be very simple!"

"Simple?" I looked at him and said: "Simple is simple. Compared with the research on electronic machinery technology, which is blind and blind, biotechnology has a clear purpose and a large number of examples to learn from. But that is only a relative term. It has never been No technology will be discovered simply and directly. All the achievements of nature have anti-piracy mechanisms, and the cells of every living thing on the earth have a genetic protective layer. These damn things exclude all non-body cell structures. So it is a very complicated project to uncover the essential secrets of any kind of organism."

Song Ning asked: "Then how did the lightning ball reach the ground?"

I pointed to the peppers. "She uses her own energy to create a spherical electric field, and then vibrates the electric field to produce a large number of charged particles. Then Vina can use the surrounding electric energy in the same way as lightning."

Kang Lei said excitedly: "So how did you do that chain lightning?"

Wei Na said: "The chain lightning you are talking about is actually thunder and lightning, but because the electrical energy used at that time came from Chili's body and could not be wasted, I used a more energy-saving method. After lightning hits a person, most of the energy They are all lost, and not much of them actually affects the human body. So in order to reduce the burden on Chili and others, after the current passes through a person, I guide them out so that they do not flow to the ground but enter the next person's body again. However, Thunder and lightning are very fast, and the strong light produced by lightning in the air will leave afterimages on people's retinas, so what you see becomes chain lightning. And since everyone consumes some electricity, this Chain lightning becomes less powerful as it progresses."

Kang Lei sighed there: "Halo! It turns out that chain lightning is the power-saving mode of thunderbolt lightning! It seems that there is always a gap between reality and imagination!"

I concluded: "In fact, all forms of electrical energy utilization are just the result of a series of electromagnetic conversions. There is no real difference at all, they just look different."

Lu Yingying suddenly asked: "Besides magic, your physical abilities don't seem right, right?"

I raised my arms. "We just used special methods to strengthen the muscles." This kind of thing cannot be explained too clearly. After all, there is still a certain level of confidentiality involved.

Song Ning sighed: "Long Yuan's technology is much better than we imagined!"

The organizing committee member also said: "So your technology should be enough to fight many diseases?"

"Aren't we the place where medicine is made?" I asked.

The organizing committee member added: "Since you can strengthen muscles, then you can definitely cure muscular dystrophy, right?"

"Absolutely!" I didn't understand why he asked this.

"If you can, why don't you treat him?" The organizing committee member suddenly rushed over madly, but Jingjing and Lingling appeared in front of him almost instantly and blocked him. No matter how hard he pushed, it was useless.

"Does anyone in your family have muscular dystrophy?" I roughly guessed the reason.

"how do you know?"

"You can tell by your hysterical look."

"I would be hysterical if you were me." Organizing committee member Chen Kai also wanted to push Jingjing Lingling away and rush over, but was blocked by two girls shorter than him and unable to pass.

"To tell you the truth. It's not just muscle atrophy. We can even treat some cancers, but generally we won't do it. Unless there are people who have contributed to the country or are currently making great contributions, we won't do it. treat."

"Are you just going to watch them die?" Chen Kai, who had just recovered, exploded again.

I nodded firmly: "Yes. We just watch them die without making any effort. In fact, saving them is very simple. All we need to consume is a biological cultivation tank and a little electricity."

Song Ning asked in surprise: "Since it is so easy to treat these patients, why don't you treat them?"

"In order to ensure the dominance of human species."

"Population advantage?"

"Bacteria and viruses have been evolving, and the human immune system has also evolved. However, drugs are gradually replacing the human immune system to resist diseases, which will lead to chaos in human genes. Natural selection has disappeared, and humans no longer Evolution, while other organisms are evolving, the final result is that we become a backward species and are eventually eliminated. At that time, it will not be a matter of one or two people dying. It will be the extinction of human beings. Maybe there will be new species in many years. Study us like we study dinosaurs, and I don’t want that to happen.”

"But if humans are so powerful, how could they be wiped out by other species?" Song Ning tried to convince me.

"Species are not only animals, but bacteria and viruses are also part of the natural biological chain. Human beings can indeed rely on medicines to resist diseases. With the advancement of science and technology in the future, our medicines will become more and more advanced, but human beings The immune function is getting more and more degraded. What if a new virus is born one day, and this virus is highly lethal and spreads quickly. Before the specific drugs can be completed, they will have killed all humans. .”

Kang Lei said: "The human immune system can suppress the spread of the virus, even if it cannot kill it. At least it will not kill humans immediately! Besides, how can there be such a strong virus."

"What you are saying is that under the premise that the human immune function is intact, if we rely entirely on drugs and the immune system loses its function, a weak virus can wipe out all humans in a short time. Don't think that technology Being developed can transcend natural selection, and we are still a part of nature. Although humans seem to dominate life on earth, we are still in the cycle of survival competition and may be eliminated at any time."

"But isn't this too inhumane?" Lu Yingying asked.

I replied very solemnly: "The purpose of Longyuan is to pursue human progress. Our goal is not to save one or two lives. But you can rest assured that once the contradiction between improving human immunity and artificially treating diseases is resolved, we will Immediately start making treatments for basic diseases more accessible. And the good news is we’re almost there.”

The b13 in me is where that hope lies. Theoretically, b13 will kill all harmful viruses and bacteria and control the balance of human flora, but I cannot tell them due to their identities.

"Then can we make a special case for Chen Kai?" Song Ning still did not forget to plead.

"I'm sorry, this is impossible. If everyone makes exceptions, the rules will cease to exist. An effective system must have no exceptions. If you have no other problems, shall I have someone send you away from here?"

Kang Lei suddenly asked: "Can we take a tour?"

"Impossible. There are classified agencies from here down, and you have no authority to enter such a place."

Kang Lei didn't give up and said, "Can we make an exception? Anyway, we don't know where this base is. Your plane flew all the way over and we couldn't see the road. We don't know where this place is at all. Even if we did, we wouldn't know where this base is." what relationship?"

"It still doesn't work. Regulations are regulations. Specific issues can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, but issues of principle will never be compromised. This is my creed."

"Alright alright!"

I stood up and pressed the switch on the wall next to me, and a man walked in carrying a metal plate. There are 6 cups on the plate, and there is water in the cups. The man walked out after the plate was put down. I said to them: "One cup per person."

"What are you doing? Are you going to poison us?" Kang Lei asked half-jokingly.

"It's not a poison, it's just a powerful sleeping pill. It will probably allow you to sleep until the day after tomorrow. We will transfer you to the hospital after you fall asleep, and then when you wake up, you will be treated as you were given. That’s all the information says.”

After listening to the explanation, all 6 people took the cups and drank. They didn't need to doubt my words at all. It was so boring to poison them if I really wanted to kill them. After they finished drinking, another person came in from the door and handed them the completed information.

I said to them: "Look at the rhetoric quickly, the sleeping pill will take effect in 30 minutes."

After they started reading the information, I took the demon pets and left the room. When I came back more than thirty minutes later, they were already lying all over the room. Kang Lei was still lying on the ground. This time several researchers and some security personnel followed me in. After confirming that they were all asleep, I said to the researcher behind them: "Take them to the operating room to implant a semi-permanent biochip."

"Leave it to us." A person from the security department nodded to me and then led the staff to carry them out.

I know it's not fair to them to implant a biochip into them without their knowledge. But what does Long Yuan do? We are arms dealers and a state secret agency. We are not children playing house. How could I trust them not to tell their secrets based on credibility and reassurance alone?

As long as they don't tell the secret, the chip will have no impact on their lives, but once they start to reveal the secret, the chip will immediately take over from the brain to control their bodies in the middle of the conversation. . The controlled body will not have advanced intelligence. The chip will use some functions of the brain to direct their bodies to find a place to 'suicide'. No one will find out that this is related to Long Yuan. The biochip is also a cell tissue, and even if the body is dissected, nothing will be found. The reason why sleeping pills have such a long duration is to make time for surgery. In order to avoid body rejection, we need to extract their own cells and transform them into biochips, otherwise there is no way to safely colonize them.

After the 6 of them were carried away, I took everyone back to the network connection room to prepare to go online to see if the gourd in the game had exploded. It should be almost done based on time.

As soon as I entered the game, I found that there was water all around me. I quickly summoned the little dragon girl first. Then she started to take me to explore the surroundings. I want to confirm first whether I am still in the gourd or whether I was washed into the sea by the flood after the gourd exploded.

After the little dragon girl transformed into a dragon, she took me swimming in the water for a while and I got a rough idea. The surrounding trees are obviously not from the sea. We are still in the gourd, and this damn gourd didn't explode! During the exploration, I found that the experience barrier no longer existed. It seemed that the sea society destroyed the integrity of the barrier, so the magic failed.

"Little Dragon Girl, let's go up and have a look."

"Okay, hurry up." The little dragon girl reminded me and quickly started to swim upwards. I hung on the dragon's head and grabbed her horns to be led upwards.

Now the whole gourd is like a huge fish tank. The water flooded all the way to the top of the gourd. There are a large number of animal carcasses suspended in the water around us, including some who were once very powerful, but now they are all dead bodies. The fairies who transformed into fish are really at home this time. The whole gourd is full of water and they can swim around as they please. And after those powerful guys are drowned, they can get a lot of demon power for free.

We were heading upstream when a huge black shadow suddenly appeared. With darkvision I can see this guy in full view, but I'd rather not be able to see him. This guy's appearance is really... ugly, which is not enough to describe how disgusting it is!

The overall shape of the monster is like a hairtail fish. Although it is not as long as Xiao Longnu, it is much thicker than Xiao Longnu. I think the size should be larger than that of Xiao Longnu. However, this monster just glanced at us and swam past us, and did not actually attack us. The Shenlong race is quite special. In modern terms, they are the kind of bleached gangsters. Dragons were originally considered monsters, but later they became very good in cultivation, so the gods gave them a fairy position, so that dragons became mythical beasts and fairies instead of monsters. Although he has become an immortal, the dragon is still a model of super monster after all. Those little monsters will habitually retreat when they see dragons. When this big monster saw us, he naturally felt that he could not mess with us, so he ran away without stopping. Anyway, there are monster corpses everywhere around that can replenish the monster power. There is no need to provoke such a fierce dragon just to increase the power.

Continuing upstream, we saw a large number of strange aquatic monsters, and the level of the monsters became higher as we went up. It is estimated that when they were about to reach the top, some non-aquatic monsters actually appeared. The fact that these non-aquatic monsters can support themselves in the water until now shows that their strength is quite terrifying, but they are not aquatic monsters themselves. Plus I don’t know how long I will stay here. Therefore, these monsters all remained quite quietly, and no one dared to fight here. Wasting demon power is tantamount to 'suicide'.

Seeing that there was already light on the top, the surrounding monsters gradually became mainly humanoid. Like a tour guide, Xiao Longnu introduced me to the monsters around me and their strength. I found that the monsters that can take human form are basically those that are over a thousand years old. As for the beautiful and handsome ones, they must be over three thousand years old. If I see otherworldly statues, Like gods, most of them are monsters that are more than five thousand years old. Some even Xiao Longnu couldn't tell whether they were monsters or not, they were all monsters that lasted ten thousand years. According to Xiao Longnu, the fighting power of monsters that are over ten thousand years old is basically the same as that of gods. If monsters that are over fifteen thousand years old are basically not enough to be seen by ordinary gods, you have to have Erlangshen who can fight. Only in this town can you live.

As we ran, the monsters around us suddenly became sparse. Everyone seemed to be restricted by something and did not dare to swim upstream. Moreover, I could clearly feel that something was suppressing our power here. Further upward, a vacuum zone of monsters actually appeared. There was a stretch of more than ten meters of water where there was not a single monster. But after I continued to travel up this level, I suddenly saw a lot of humanoid monsters.

Originally, these monsters were looking up and attacking something, but my appearance immediately attracted their attention. With a flick of the brush, hundreds of pairs of eyes focused on me.

"Is that you?" One of the monsters actually recognized me.

He knows me and he knows me. "Oh it's you!"