Chapter 322: Land, Sea and Air! Simplified Version of the Ultimate Creature!
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Located at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, New York, there is a crescent-shaped beach that connects to the Atlantic Ocean, and there is an island visible to the naked eye on the west side.
Originally, this was a tourist resort under a high-end hotel, but later it was acquired by the Water Group and turned into a public beach with a superhero theme. Shen Hai, a member of the Super Hero Seven, often came to the hotel with his wife for vacation.
"Sorry, I couldn't help you this time." Shen Hai, lying under the parasol, said with some shame.
"It's been two days since the Starry Night. How is the situation of the motherland now?"
Xia Shang opened the panel, looked at the data on it, and frowned slightly.
[Super-powered chest cannon is being fused, and the current progress is 40%]
It took almost half a month, and after absorbing a large amount of compound No. 5, the fusion progress on the panel increased from 2% to 40%.
Although this progress is not slow, compared with the ghoul world, it is a world of difference. You know, in the ghoul world, it takes no more than a week to fuse a talent skill, and it can even be completed in just a few days.
But now, in order to fuse the super-powered chest cannon, he has to wait for more than a month. Such a huge contrast is difficult for even Xia Shang to digest.
But on second thought, the super-powered chest cannon is the top superpower of the black robe after all, and it is understandable that it is slowly integrated. If it is Billy's laser eyes, Xia Shang is sure to complete the integration within half a month.
"As soon as he returned to the company, he kicked Xingguang out of the position of co-captain, and then held a celebration dinner." When mentioning this, Shenhai's tone was a little excited, "Damn it! He actually forced me to eat Timothy alive, he is simply a beast!"
"Timothy?" Xia Shang, lying on the beach chair, asked while flipping through the panel.
"That's my dearest friend, a sexy and gentle octopus. There are many unforgettable good memories between me and it." Shenhai took a sip of soda with great sadness.
"But all these were ruined by the motherland. He is a demon, Satan who climbed up from the abyss of hell."
"What a pity." Xia Shang felt sorry for missing the famous scene.
"Thank you. I'm afraid you're the only one who can understand me. I met it here. At that time, it was as shy as a little girl. It hid in the reef and refused to come out. After its sisters persuaded it, it swam to me." Shenhai looked reminiscent, as if remembering that good time.
But Xia Shang's eyes flashed with surprise, "Wait, she has sisters? You have more than one octopus?"
"Is it strange? I call them the Timothy family. Since Timothy died, only Afia and Liliana are left to accompany me."
Outrageous.
Xia Shang can only use this word to describe Shenhai's hobby. Although people's XP can be unpopular, Shenhai's XP can be considered weird.
"Let's stop talking about octopus for now. What does the Water Board think of Homelander's actions?"
"What else can we think? Edgar's retirement is a foregone conclusion. No one can change it. I estimate that in a week at most, those old men will be forced by Homelander's pressure and announce Homelander as the new CEO of Water Group."
To be honest, Shenhai wants to die now. Timothy's death has caused him a huge psychological shadow, and who knows what kind of crazy things Homelander will do to him in the future.
"It would be great if you were still in Water." It must be said that the period when Xia Shang served as vice president was the most comfortable time for Shenhai. At least he could avoid being persecuted by Homelander.
"Don't worry, there will be such a day. By the way, did you bring what I want?"
"It's been prepared for a long time." Shenhai took out a document from the backpack beside him, which recorded his physical changes at various depths of the ocean.
"Thank you. Next time if you encounter something like Timothy, you can report my name. I believe Homelander will give me face."
After that, he stood up and walked towards the ocean.
At the same time, he called up the fantasy value on the panel, [Fantasy value: 10720], which was not much different from half a month ago. After all, he did not expect that three days had passed and the soldier boy had not taken action. It was estimated that he was probably tracking down the whereabouts of his former team members.
One of Xia Shang's clones was monitoring Water's experimental base. If there was any movement, Xia Shang's original body would know it at the first time.
As the warm sea water submerged his body, he saw several cracks on both sides of Xia Shang's abdomen, just like the body structure of the deep sea, with flesh and blood tissue similar to gills inside.
"It has some effect, but not much." The cracks in Xia Shang's abdomen opened and closed, swallowing a lot of seawater, absorbing oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide, as well as deoxygenated water, but this way of absorbing oxygen was so inefficient that it was outrageous. There was no way, because he did not have the corresponding superpowers, and Xia Shang did not want to integrate the superpowers of the deep sea, after all, he had no interest in listening to marine life.
This was even a side effect in Xia Shang's view, the sequelae of integrating deep-sea superpowers.
Therefore, Xia Shang could only continuously improve its internal structure according to his own ideas.
First, he thought of the lungs used for breathing, so he imitated the working principle of gills and transplanted them on the lungs.
If Xia Shang's body is cut open, it will be found that layers of internal skin flaps similar to gills gradually grow on the inner wall of his lungs, and they swing at an extremely regular frequency.
But there is still a problem that cannot be solved, that is, how to absorb oxygen from seawater. However, if you swallow seawater with your mouth, it will be less efficient than growing a few gills on your abdomen. After thinking again and again, Xia Shang thought of the largest organ in the human body, the skin.
Without any hesitation, he swam directly to the deep sea. The high-temperature steam gushing out from behind made him rush straight to the bottom of the sea like a torpedo.
"Adapt to self-healing."
As a passive talent skill, Xia Shang has not used it many times, especially after so many times of walking in the heavens, it is really difficult to meet a person who can make him evolve again after being injured. Moreover, the speed of evolution of this ability is very slow and inefficient. However, this is only an ability in a one-star fantasy world after all, so it cannot be too harsh on it.
With the cooperation of adapting to self-healing and Xia Shang's subjective control, the pores on the surface of his skin changed from absorbing seawater to absorbing part of the oxygen in the seawater.
Because Xia Shang in the normal state consumes two or three times more oxygen than ordinary people, even if the oxygen content in the seawater is very low, it can still meet Xia Shang's needs. (End of this chapter)