Chapter 863 Taking the Initiative

Everything in this world has a price tag.

If Chu Fei wants to gain a firm foothold in Arctic City and get a higher social status, he must not live in hiding. The best step to climb is military merit.

As the saying goes, heroes emerge in troubled times, and people’s backgrounds are judged in prosperous times. When the entire Morning Star was involved in the war, military merit was an excellent opportunity. It can even be said that military merit is often the only way for ordinary people to change their fate.

Although Chu Fei is not an ordinary person, he is still in the grassroots and unstable class in the network of the upper class of Arctic City.

And to be honest, the cultivation level of 12.0 is indeed a bit low.

Perhaps some people will say that Chu Fei has strong combat power, but realm is like a diploma, which is the first impression people have when they see you.

Oh, 12.0 cultivation level, sorry, we are recruiting 14.0 here! You are still a little tender! What, you have killed a 14.0 cultivator? Oh, come on, kick him out, he is a dangerous person!

Sometimes reality is more exaggerated and rigid than literary works. Because, reality has an accountability mechanism.

If someone makes the decision to let a 12.0 guy take the 14.0 position, it's fine if there are results, but if something goes wrong, haha... It was you who made the decision in the first place? You can explain it to everyone!

So Chu Fei has two important tasks next: practice level and military merit! The ultimate goal is of course to go home.

Then you can truly stand at the top level of the pyramid in the Arctic City, and get more resources and more freedom.

Just like those 14.0 guys who don't listen to the transfer order, Li Yaofeng can only choose to ignore them and pretend that these people don't exist.

Chu Fei and the other four discussed for a while and reported the task target; they didn't expect that everyone's eyes were sharp, and there was also a free-moving team that was optimistic about this place, or a new friend they just met: Liu Jindao, 13.0, a martial arts practitioner in the late stage of Sanhua Juding!

"Let's act together. Let's cooperate first and talk about it after we adapt to the environment here." Chu Fei made an invitation.

"Okay!" Liu Jindao also said, "The spoils will be divided 50-50! Let's do two tasks first!"

"Deal!"

The two clapped their hands, which was quite straightforward.

Liu Jindao looked down on the people around Chu Fei, but he was impressed by Chu Fei's combat power; Chu Fei, on the other hand, was impressed by Liu Jindao's level of cultivation.

In the process of hunting alien species, there is a "core alien species", which has a positioning curse. The logic of the positioning curse transfer is: the person who killed the host last; if he died in a bombing, etc., he would automatically search for the person with the highest cultivation level around him!

And Liu Jindao's realm is 13.0, which is very good, just enough to be a shield for Chu Fei.

In fact, everyone here in Qimingxing also knows about the positioning curse, but they are not very clear about the reason.

Knowing that there is such a thing. Because some of the people who are responsible for killing the alien species in the end will be extremely unlucky in the following days, and then become a confused short-lived ghost.

There are not many such things, but they do exist. In a world with good technology, it is easy to find such things.

So, did Liu Jindao have such considerations when he asked me to cooperate?

Chu Fei thought about it.

Then the two teams, with a total of 14 people, headed straight for the target valley.

In the dark world, everyone relied on superpowers to observe the surroundings and hurry on the road. Along the way, they encountered several spiritual aliens. I don’t know whether they were running alone or out for reconnaissance, but they were all directly cleared by everyone.

More than half an hour later, the group flew over 500 kilometers and arrived at the target valley.

There was a howling wind of minus 50 to 60 degrees Celsius here, and in the dark night, ice crystals flying all over the sky kept coming.

There was a human army in front of the valley. It was better to say that it was a "sentry" than an army. There were only about 30 people in total, the strength of a platoon.

For this relatively quiet "war zone" at the moment, the army adopted a supervision strategy.

There was no way. Now the battle line was stretched to more than 2,000 kilometers, and we could only choose a strategy of key breakthroughs, secondary defense, and other supervision.

Chu Fei and other 12.0 masters who were forcibly recruited are generally arranged in the first two areas to participate in the attack and defense of key and secondary key areas. However, Chu Fei and a few others chose the supervision area because they could move freely.

The supervisor platoon leader here didn't know anything. There was no way, Chu Fei and others could only explore by themselves.

At this moment, Chu Fei stood in the air, and his powerful perception ability had spread out, exploring the situation in the valley.

Although it was dark, Chu Fei's "vision" was not affected at all; even without the interference of vision, the effect was better, but it took some brains and required a lot of calculations.

There is a strange life in the valley - maybe it is life, but the perceived shape always feels a little wrong. This is also the difference between vision and perception.

The resolution of vision is at the micron level, while the resolution of perception is at the millimeter or even centimeter level; vision can distinguish colors, but perception is not very good for the time being, not to mention black and white vision is not much better.

Chu Fei quickly searched for "data" from his memory, and it took only ten seconds to find a match, and found a data with a matching degree of 86% - the nest of the zombie queen!

It seems that there is no nest here at the moment, maybe it is a human corpse, or there is not enough protein?

But there are some prototypes.

Chu Fei quickly searched the situation of the D122 Valley. This is a precious metal mining site, and uranium mines have been discovered here.

Of course, uranium is no longer used for nuclear fission and nuclear weapons, but it is still an important industrial material with many unique properties, and its value is much higher than gold.

In order to mine uranium, more than two thousand people work here all year round. It is more like a small basin than a valley, which is enough to build a town.

After the crisis of alien species broke out, the people here did not evacuate at all. No, no one came to rescue them at all. Because, they are all slaves here!

A few supervisors ran away as soon as the disaster occurred.

Then only one platoon of forces came to supervise and prevent the alien species here from rushing out of the valley.

From beginning to end, no one thought about saving people - slaves are slaves, and people are people; in this world, slaves and people are two "races"!

Countless information flashed through Chu Fei's mind. Chu Fei could only sigh about the slaves, but then he became interested in the situation of zombies.

A long time ago, Chu Fei wanted to study zombies, but at that time, he was not good enough, had insufficient knowledge, accumulated insufficient knowledge, lacked research ability, and was entangled in various things, so he never had the opportunity.

It seems to be a good opportunity right now.

Zombies, to be precise, should be called "human parasitic virus aggregate life"; only after billions of viruses gather together can it be considered a "life group".

Anyway, zombies are just appearances. In fact, zombies are no longer "corpses", but a kind of alternative "fungal life".

Zombie viruses seem to survive only in the human body, then rely on the human body to reproduce, and finally steal the human body to form an alternative "mushroom-like life".

It's just that what makes up the body of zombies is not cells or fungi, but "viruses" that are smaller than cells.

A single virus cannot even be called a complete life form. Scientists have discussed for thousands of years whether viruses are considered life.

But what Chu Fei saw was: the unique body structure of zombies!

As a researcher, Chu Fei thought: Can the body structure of zombies be used as a reference?

The life form constructed by cells is really not strong!

It seems better if viruses can replace cells.

No matter how you temper and exercise your body, it's not as fast as updating the structure.

From the structural point of view, if the cell structure can be replaced by the virus structure, the density of the body can be increased by more than ten times, even dozens of times, or even more.

The denser the body structure, the more potential it can have.

This is like computer technology, from the transistor era to the micron era, that is a qualitative leap!

No matter how much transistor technology squeezes its potential, it is not as good as the most basic micron-level integrated circuits; when it comes to nano-level integrated circuits, computer technology is even more unstoppable.

Therefore, through science and technology, we can also deduce a truth of practice: exercising the body is never as fast and effective as updating the architecture and upgrading technology.

If you can complete a "virus body", is it possible to beat the "golden body" of cultivators and martial arts?

Although no one has done this yet, what is big data practice? It is the road of scientific research. If others have not done it, can't you do it yourself?

The so-called technological development is not just updating the architecture again and again!

Faintly, Chu Fei felt that he had found the "body refining" path of big data practice!

Martial arts body refining is too hard, so big data practice is better. After a tube of injection, all the cells in the body turn into viruses, and the golden body is immediately immortal. I just don't know if the life span will increase after it becomes a virus structure?

Chu Fei has studied cultivation. The most important reason for the longevity of cultivation is that the cells in the body almost stop dividing.

But stopping division can only be regarded as a "temporary strategy". If you want to change the life span problem for a long time, you must allow cells, or the basic units of life, to divide forever.

For example, cancer cells, that is the real immortality.

Unfortunately, no matter how cells develop, there are still too many restrictions. And viruses are born to be able to "divide and reproduce" infinitely!

Chu Fei's eyes are getting brighter and brighter. He feels that if this problem can be solved, the life span of big data practitioners will directly break through the sky.

As for whether people who have "viralized" are still "people", that is to be considered in the future. Now let's study this idea first.

At this moment, Liu Jindao used scientific and technological means to investigate the scene, but the situation investigated at the scene made Liu Jindao a little confused.

The imager shows a slowly moving figure.

"What is this? A living dead? Or parasitized?"

At the same time, Yan Xiyong and others also used portable multifunctional reconnaissance equipment to scan the valley. Yan Xiyong looked at the figures and thought:

"I've heard before that there seems to be a kind of zombie-like thing. It should have appeared several times before, but the scale was not large. Once discovered, it was completely wiped out with flamethrowers and incendiary bombs."

Because of the unique environment and good technology of Venus, and the fact that the zombie virus must parasitize human corpses, there are no zombie nests or zombie queens developed here in Venus. Often, they are cleared by flamethrowers in the early stage of the occurrence.

Chu Fei spoke, "This is a zombie, which is essentially a special zombie virus. After the zombie virus invades the human body, it will multiply rapidly and completely destroy human cells to become a virus aggregate.

This virus aggregate is somewhat similar to fungal life, forming a collective life.

This thing should be able to steal a small part of human memory, and even maintain the human body. If it can deceive the human soul, it may allow the human soul to exist or partially exist.

Of course, some of the above things are speculations and are derived based on what I have encountered before. They are for reference only. "

Liu Jindao nodded and asked, "How contagious is this zombie virus?"

"It's not strong. The zombie virus will die when exposed to the air. It can only be transmitted after a person dies and the body's immune system stops.

Even if it is breathed into the mouth and nose, it is not a big problem. Before I started practicing, I killed a living corpse and the blood went into my mouth, but it was fine.

However, if the living corpse virus enters the body directly from the wound, it is equivalent to overcoming the body's protection, which is still relatively dangerous.

Of course, this is just previous experience. This kind of living corpse seems a little different now. I have never seen a living corpse that can move at such low temperatures.

The weak point of a living corpse should be its head. However, please note that some living corpses may have mutations. Even if their brains are fried, they can still move and are even more dangerous. This ratio is not high, maybe one in a thousand, or even one in ten thousand. "

Everyone nodded, feeling Chu Fei's vigilance.

Someone set up a powerful electromagnetic sniper rifle and started sniping from a distance of one kilometer. Regarding this so-called virus collective life, everyone is always a little unsure.

One after another, the living corpses exploded and collapsed, but a new situation soon appeared. There is a "gold tower"-like nest in the back, and tentacles appear, dragging away these fallen living corpses.

After waiting for a while, another living corpse walked out of the "Pyramid". The pyramid is not big, about five meters high, but it covers a large area and is soft overall. According to Chu Fei's scan, there is still a considerable amount of volume in the underground mine.

"Brother's Nest! This is a strange kind of living corpse's nest!" Chu Fei's face was a little solemn. Although the living corpse's nest he saw last time was huge, it didn't seem to have this kind of "resurrection" ability. !

After observing for a while, I found that the total number of living corpses on the scene was 1,476. No matter how everyone killed them, the number remained the same.

"Interesting!" Chu Fei narrowed his eyes, "It seems that he has encountered an extraordinary alien species. This can almost be regarded as a different kind of immortality."

While talking, Chu Fei took out his electromagnetic sniper rifle, aimed in the direction of the nest, and fired decisively.

The electromagnetic sniper shot penetrated the pyramid of the brood nest, but the brood nest was not affected at all, and the brood nest remained stable and motionless. Chu Fei thought thoughtfully, "The core of this thing is well hidden. I'm afraid it can only be detected after getting closer. I'm afraid the core is hidden in the underground mine, which will be troublesome."

The wind of perception spread, and Chu Fei could vaguely perceive the situation more than two hundred meters underground, but it was very blurry. This place is one kilometer away from the mother nest.

Liu Jindao looked at the food that was still swaying unhurriedly and thought thoughtfully: "Is it too cold that these guys have no activity?"

Chu Fei shook his head, "Based on the current speed of the living corpse, how could the people at the scene not be able to escape.

And if you take a closer look, the energy intensity of the living corpses here is at least level 2 9.0; judging from satellite remote sensing, the peak energy level here reaches the peak level 8 13.0!

But it turns out that there are only slaves here, all ordinary people. Two thousand human bodies can be squeezed out, which is only 50,000 calories, and they can support a level 5 11.0 realm. This is still calculated based on the energy conversion rate of 100%. But in fact the energy conversion rate is not even 50%.

Therefore, there is a serious energy imbalance here. There's a problem! "

Liu Jindao was stunned, then became vigilant.

Chu Fei's analysis indeed has the characteristics of big data practice. This kind of presentation of data is indeed convincing. Big data practice is indeed different.

After a pause, Liu Jindao looked at Chu Fei's careful observation and perception, and couldn't help but ask: "Master, I see that the master is very concerned about this place. Is there anything special about living corpses?"

Chu Fei pondered for a while and then spoke, "The most important thing about a living corpse is the living corpse crystal core. This is simply a fruit of life."

Liu Jindao didn't understand, "I've never heard of the fruit of life."

"Let's put it this way, both the Life Fruit and the Living Corpse Crystal Core contain a ray of the law of 'life'!"

At this moment, Liu Jindao's eyes lit up. I don’t understand anything else, but I know the laws of life very well!

It's like the top elixir of cultivation, because it contains a little bit of the law of life - that's what the cultivators say, so the price of the elixir is far higher than that of medicines of the same level, etc.

And because cultivators have long lifespans, the output of elixirs is really limited, further exacerbating the price surge.

As for whether what the cultivators say is true, I don’t know, but it is well known that cultivators have long lifespans. Therefore, the things about the law of life should be true.

Now, with the law of life right in front of him, Liu Jindao's heart was moved, and so were Liu Jindao's men.

After looking at the valley for a while, although Chu Fei's warning lingered in his ears, Liu Jindao couldn't help but step forward and do it. For Liu Jindao, the law of life is very coveted, and military achievements are equally coveted.

Liu Jindao's heels are not as good as Chu Fei's. At least Chu Fei can refine potions, so he is somewhat of a special talent. The value of a "reckless man" like Liu Jindao is even lower, otherwise he wouldn't know how to carry out armed transportation. Wouldn't it be nice to sit in an office?

Chu Fei glanced at Liu Jindao and advised: "My suggestion is to wait and try all our attack methods first to see if there is any reaction.

If Mr. Liu wants to join the battle later, I will not stop him. If Mr. Liu can take this place by himself this time, all the gains will belong to Mr. Liu. "

"Okay. But I will ask Master Chu to support us later. Even if you don't fire a single shot, you will get 10% of the profit. "Liu Jindao agreed, but did not move forward immediately. Chu Fei was so cautious, he was not really a brainless reckless man, and even wanted to ask Chu Fei for cover.

After trying several times with rockets and incendiary bombs, Liu Jindao finally led his men to slowly move forward after finding that these zombies were really honest and clumsy.

Chu Fei didn't say anything, but set up an electromagnetic sniper rifle to cover Liu Jindao. In any case, he is a temporary comrade-in-arms. If possible, try to take care of him. There are too many alien species in this ghost place, and it is better for humans to unite.

Liu Jindao and his party slowly approached the zombies.

Chu Fei asked his men to fire rockets again. The explosive power of the rockets was good, enough to tear apart the zombies at the moment; but the effect of the incendiary bombs did not seem to be very good. These zombies could actually secrete some kind of flame retardant substance.

However, incendiary bombs can also be used for lighting. Although the light is not very strong, it is also very good at the moment.

Under the cover of Chu Fei, Liu Jindao and his party of 10 people quickly entered the mountain Valley, then raised his knife and chopped the zombies one by one, and then took out the crystal cores in the zombies' brains.

At present, these zombies are still a bit low-level, with very small crystal cores, and some zombies don't have crystal cores at all.

Chu Fei continued to observe and think. The crystal core of the zombie is a kind of existence similar to the fruit of life. For most people, this is the greatest value of the zombie.

But this crystal core does not come out of thin air, but requires a lot of life energy. But there are not many people in this valley.

This is why Chu Fei dared not enter rashly.

In fact, if Chu Fei wants to deal with it, he should summon a large bomb to bomb it first.

But Liu Jindao and his party are obviously envious of the special crystal cores of the zombies. If bombing, it will inevitably affect the quality of the crystal cores of the zombies.

Watching Liu Jindao and his party chopping melons and vegetables, Chu Fei was not moved at all, and still watched from a distance.

The subordinates looked at Chu Fei with a little anxiety, and Chu Fei shook his head slightly. "Do you know why I have such achievements?"

The subordinates shook their heads.

Chu Fei: "Because, my enemies are all dead, and I am the only one alive. If you want to live, you have to be careful! No matter how big your dreams and ambitions are, once you die, everything is gone. "

In front, Liu Jindao and his group finally arrived at the mother nest; but Lao Liu is also an old killer. He stood between the zombie mother nest and the dead zombies. When he saw the "tentacles" of the zombie mother nest reaching out, he would cut them with a knife.

The group did not move forward, but just chopped the tentacles here.

In just a short while, the tentacles on the ground piled up like a mountain. For these useless tentacles, Liu Jindao and his group had a magician who directly controlled the strong wind, rolled up the tentacles, and threw them far away.

Chu Fei found it interesting. Although this man looked reckless and greedy, he was also a dog at the critical moment.

So, Lao Liu and ten guys just stood at the door of the zombie mother nest and chopped The tentacles stretched out for half an hour.

Chu Fei just watched for half an hour, but the more he watched, the more he frowned. Zombies are not stupid. This time, the alien species will not bring garbage when they descend on a large scale.

According to Chu Fei, the price paid for the alien species to descend on the current world is not small.

Think about it. It took Chu Fei more than a month to get here by spaceship from the Six Desires Demon Realm.

Chu Fei thought about it and suddenly frowned slightly. The actions of Liu Jindao and his group seemed wrong.

Chu Fei stood in the distance and fired a flare. It can be clearly seen that the mother nest has no tentacles stretched out, but Liu Jindao and his group are still cutting.

"I knew there would be a problem!" Thinking of the experience in the Six Desires Demon Realm, Chu Fei thought, "Is it some kind of rule-based means?

After reaching 12.0 and similar realms, no matter what cultivation system, it will gradually come into contact with super-dimensional power.

Big data practitioners must construct a law to break through.

Yuanying period cultivators become real people, invulnerable to water and fire.

The three flowers of martial arts can fly in the air.

A magician at the level of a mage can launch a large-scale spell by himself, and the efficiency of killing ordinary people is comparable to that of a nuclear bomb; although large-scale attacks are useless against masters of the same level.

And so on, all practitioners will enter a new stage.

This is true for humans and aliens. Moreover, because aliens have many ways of practicing, they often have a "bloodline inheritance" that is useful, and often have many strange magical methods.

For example, this one is likely to be an attack method similar to a meme. ”

Memes are the basic units of information. They have the ability to "reproduce/replicate" like viruses and life.

When a person repeats an action, he or she will often be controlled by the meme. For example, if you listen to a song all day, the melody will be in your mind when you go to sleep.

But practice has enhanced this effect to the limit, and it feels a bit like the law of cause and effect.

Chu Fei does not recognize the so-called law of cause and effect for the time being. In the existing scientific system, there is no law of cause and effect; but the research on memes is deep enough.

So, does this zombie nest have a strange ability similar to memes, imitations, and rules?

Then how to rescue Liu Jindao?

If you want to break a certain meme, the entertainment industry is most familiar with the method - using a bigger news (information) to cover the original one.

The principle is the same, which is the so-called big data overwrite.

Of course, there is something simpler - a wake-up call. Bombs are a good hammer.

A stun bomb exploded above Liu Jindao and others.

Liu Jindao suddenly sat on the ground, then roared, and his figure soared into the air, rushing towards the zombie mother nest in front of him, and the crazy knife light burst out and slashed at the mother nest.

But the mother nest suddenly stretched out countless tentacles.

The entire mother nest is only five meters high, but it occupies a large area, and it is probably more than 30 meters. At this time, there were crazy tentacles around it, entangled with Liu Jindao.

No more pretending! This zombie mother nest is not pretending! That stun bomb means that I have been exposed!

As Chu Fei analyzed, these alien species are not stupid, and they are even very smart. It's just that human weapons and equipment can always make these strange abilities of alien species suffer.

Chu Fei stood in the distance and watched, and the flares slowly fell in the sky, illuminating the valley. After confirming the alien's means, Chu Fei no longer hid and was not so cautious.

The unknown is the most terrifying, and now we know it.

Liu Jindao also knew it, and the knife light in his hand burst out, splitting the tentacles around, and then rushed to the main body of the mother nest in the center. The knife light was cold and clear in the valley, like thunder falling.

"Boom..." The earth trembled, and Chu Fei, who was one kilometer away, could feel the ground under his feet trembling slightly.

"Martial arts masters are really hot-tempered."

Yan Xiyong and others looked at Chu Fei without saying a word. Speaking of hot-tempered, you, Mr. Chu, are not bad!

Chu Fei continued to pay attention to Liu Jindao. Liu Jindao led the team to split the mother nest. The five-meter-sized main body was less than half the length of the knife light. Without a large number of zombies blocking it, it was unable to cultivate particularly powerful zombies-maybe it was too cold here and developed too slowly. In short, Liu Jindao tore this zombie mother nest apart.

As for the underground part, it was also very simple. The knife energy was like a shit-stirring stick, crushing the underground world.

Then there were incendiary bombs and highly toxic chemicals, which were poured into the ground crazily. All kinds of supplies came from the outpost outside, and the outpost had some preparations.

More than two hours later, Chu Fei and Liu Jindao stood at the entrance of the mine, watching the drone exploring below. There was still a burnt smell and the pungent smell of chemicals in the air.

"There is a mass grave below!" Liu Jindao spoke slowly, "According to estimates, this nest of zombies may have come last time, or even longer, and has been surviving until now.

Although there are only about 2,000 slaves alive in this valley, there are many accumulated over the years. Those injured and dying slaves will be thrown into the mass grave. Even slaves from some surrounding mines will be thrown here.

Almost all slaves are still half-breathed when they are thrown down. Those slave owners will not give useless slaves the last bite of food!

Conservative estimates show that there are no less than a million slave corpses here."

Hearing such news, Chu Fei was silent for a long time before he sighed faintly: "It's appalling. Do you know the troops stationed here?"

Liu Jindao sneered: "This is what they told me."

Chu Fei nodded slightly and said nothing. He felt a little heavy. Obviously, the soldiers here are not "militia", but "capital soldiers", and they serve capital.

It is said that the population of the entire Tenglong Galaxy is constantly decreasing. There are millions of corpses in this fucking mining area. What about the entire Venus Star, or even the entire Tenglong Galaxy?

Liu Jindao said nothing about Chu Fei's sigh, and his face was even a little numb.

Chu Fei spoke, "I'm very interested in this zombie crystal core. How about I buy it at 120% of the market price!"

Chu Fei was also a little curious about the rule-based ability. The crystal core of the zombie mother nest this time was very complete. The violent Liu Jindao's first burst of sword light chopped the mother nest half to death.

Liu Jindao immediately took out all the zombie crystal cores, "No need for 120%, 90% will do. After all, we have discussed it before.

But I want recovery potion and Emperor Flowing Slurry."

"Okay." The two quickly completed the transaction. Liu Jindao kept a small part of the zombie crystal core and sold most of it to Chu Fei. It's nothing, Chu Fei gave too much.

As for the zombie crystal core having a little problem with the law of life, Liu Jindao just ate one and felt that it was far inferior to the top potion.

For Chu Fei, it was enough to get the things. As for the price, it didn't matter. Anyway, the profit of the medicine exceeded 1000%, so it didn't matter.

Then Chu Fei used the ability of the domain to directly take some samples from the remains of the zombie mother nest and freeze them.

Now that he finally has the ability to study the zombie virus, Chu Fei will certainly not miss such an opportunity.

After reporting the situation here, Chu Fei and Liu Jindao sat down and began to discuss the next action plan.

In general, this action was very successful, and both of them looked forward to working together again. (End of this chapter)