Above Destiny

Chapter 268 Before the Storm (Thanks to the leader of the book "It's Hard to Follow the Book"
To be fair, Ji Jue felt that the exam went very well.

Everything is good, very easy to simulate, which makes Ji Jue's inspiration spin.

You don't have to spend any money, you don't have to take any responsibilities, and you don't have to worry about the consequences. There are monsters everywhere and no one cares. You can enjoy all the resources of the entire island by yourself. There has never been such a good start.

The only pity is that it is not PVP.

Otherwise, it would be so much fun to chop down your peers!

Pull everyone into the simulation without their knowledge, throw them on a deserted island, and then tell them - only one of them can survive and become a craftsman.

Then you can enter into a refreshing massacre of alliances, life-and-death struggles, and intrigues.

This plan is good in every way. Not only is it quick and efficient, it also has a strong program effect. The only thing is... it's too damn Bai Lu.

If the leader of Huangji knew about this, he would probably give a thumbs up and praise Bai Lu for being the orthodox ruler of Tianshu.

Very good demonstration, I’ll do it this way next time I kill a craftsman.

Even ghosts know that the weakest point of the embers is skirmish. In this kind of unarmed, toolless and unprepared survival elimination, I am afraid that no basic qualities can be seen.

On the contrary... after sufficient preparation, the embers bring terrifying dominance in the battle.

Only those who have experienced embers know how uncomfortable it feels to be targeted by thieves.

It's like the suffocating feeling of being stuck in mud, when every weakness is attacked, every strength is suppressed, and every routine is targeted... Even if there is a mysterious trump card that can turn the tables in the end, it is often difficult to achieve any results.

It was a shit-eating experience almost the entire time. Even the big group of people who were saying "Fighting is awesome!" would probably avoid it.

Fortunately, if there is no life-and-death grudge or blood feud, generally no craftsman would go to such great lengths to target someone.

After all, it costs money...

It’s nothing like it is now, where you don’t have to spend any money, materials are everywhere and you can get them at will. You’re not worried about getting too much but you’re worried about not being able to use them all. It’s simply a paradise on earth!

As for the gaming experience that was reduced due to the lack of companions, Ji Jue was ready to get it back from the wild monsters.

"…What a talented and beautiful girl!"

Ji Jue held the telescope and looked at the evil creature looming in the jungle under the distant hills - a thin figure over eight or nine meters tall, with blue-gray skin like the color of a dead person, like a human and a tree, and its hanging limbs had the texture of tree roots. It was bending down and eating the mutant species that came to its door.

His face was covered in blood.

Although she is a little ugly, she still has some charm.

Watching the material twisting and turning vividly in front of you is really a unique kind of coquettishness that makes people blush and their hearts beat fast, especially when thinking about the in-depth contact that will happen next, it makes people breathless.

It does not have the many cumbersome structures of ordinary mutants, and there is no decay or other abnormalities on the outside. It is complete from top to bottom, as if it had been born that way.

An evil creature that has completed its transformation!

When an ordinary ecology encounters evil erosion, it is like ushering in a double violent reshuffle of genes and souls. Creatures that cannot bear the burden usually die on the spot. If they are lucky, they can survive, but they often have no rationality at all.

This type of evil creatures are collectively called mutants.

Just like cancerous monsters that have been polluted by biochemicals, they all have their own unique appearances, and the conditions inside their bodies are chaotic, contradictory and conflicting. Extra hands and extra eyes are just the most common manifestations, and some may even deteriorate and die if left alone, becoming food for other deformed species.

Evil pollution is like heavy metal toxins. It is deposited upwards with the operation of the food chain. Either it cannot bear the heavy burden and dies suddenly in the alienation, or if it is lucky or strong enough, it completes the transformation and rebirth, and "evolves" into a stable posture that is completely different from the past.

There is even further potential and the possibility of reproduction.

If the mutants are leftovers, then the evil creatures are the finished products, another species that is incompatible with the current ecology and was spawned in the evil environment.

When a rapist is alive, he will make rice expensive, and this kind of creature will cause pollution just by existing and breathing.

Therefore, it is called an evil thing.

For the purpose of research, many chosen ones of the Vortex System would go deep into the polluted areas for years to search for traces of evil things. Over the years, the study of evil things has gradually become a discipline.

Ji Jue decided that if he had the chance later, he would find someone to help him with the lessons. After all, he couldn’t have the material right under his nose without even knowing what it was called, right?

What if materials are wasted due to lack of knowledge? !

At this moment, on the hill, the hideous and heavy armor was camouflaged under thick fallen leaves and dead branches. Ji Jue squatted on the shoulder of the power armor, writing and drawing with a pen and notebook in his hands.

Calculation.

He raised his hand from time to time, using the crude anemometer to check data and estimate distance.

If only the approximate regional coordinates are required, humidity and geostrophic factors do not need to be taken into account for the time being, and the gravity and gravitational acceleration in the simulation do not change.

Simple math problems aren't even that troublesome.

He tapped the tip of his pen on the notebook.

The target evil creature should weigh about nine to ten tons. Its spiritual essence fluctuates strongly, and if assessed, it should be above the disaster level. It is almost to the point where it can easily crush me to death face to face without any preparation.

The reaction speed is outrageous, faster than that of ordinary Chosen Ones. It should be the alienation and transformation of nerves. The speed of regeneration is unclear.

At this size...

"Full-area bombing, three rounds first."

After counting the current reserve quantities and types of ammunition in the warehouse with his fingers, Ji Jue decided to try them all. After confirming that the data calculation was correct, he decisively pressed the button on the radio controller.

The radio waves did not seem to alert the evil creatures in the forest. After all, they were just wild animals or dead chosen ones and would not have evolved related senses.

But the low roar coming from afar seemed to attract its attention.

When only the bones were left of the corpse, it suddenly turned around alertly and looked towards the source of the sound.

Then, there was no head——

It was like a smashed persimmon, with juice splattered everywhere.

In the light of the explosion, metal fragments flew out like a rainstorm, and one of them happened to pierce through the head!

Then, loud thunder and strong winds came, and the rough gun barrels extending from the distant mountains were hot and red without any reflection.

And in the hole behind the bunker, a number of mechanical arms made mainly of mercury had adjusted their angles again under Ji Jue's command, and then loaded and fired!
In an instant, it crossed a distance of several kilometers, leaving behind a silver trail formed by the evaporation of mercury. Then, under Ji Jue's observation and the fine-tuning of the internal mercury hand, it came again in a human-guided manner!

Snapped!
The shell stopped in mid-air.

solidification.

Phlogiston explodes, flames burst forth,
Amidst the low, muffled sound, the strong wind spread, blowing down dozens of large trees. However, the spreading metal shrapnel seemed to hit an invisible wall, popping out, bursting, and disintegrating.

In just a blink of an eye, a bloody head regenerated from the broken neck.

The single eye filled with pitch black raised up, and the compound eyes inside, which were as complexly structured as a honeycomb, contracted or expanded, and had already locked onto the whistling shells.

It simply raised a limb and pointed at the air.

As a result, the speed of the shells slowed down and stopped instantly, and even the impact and fire of the explosion were blocked.

Stasis zone of ruins? Spiritual revision of ascension?

"No, it's a force field interference similar to Tianyuan's!"

Ji Jue smacked his lips in a low voice. He had never expected to see such a tricky ability in an evil creature. Also, did his previous shot not damage the key material? !

At that moment just now, the evil creature clearly temporarily generated a repulsive field, excluding all objects approaching at high speed.

The moment the evil creature realized the direction of the attack, it suddenly disappeared.

The same force field repels itself and ejects itself.

At a speed that was almost impossible to follow with the naked eye, it broke through the obstacles in front of it and rushed towards the direction of the artillery fire.

too fast!
"what……"

Ji Jue held the telescope and chuckled, "He's taken the bait."

boom! ! !
At that moment, the evil creature flew backwards at several times its original speed... It rose into the sky in the blast wave and was almost torn into pieces.

The explosives that had been buried in advance in the direction the route must pass through exploded with a loud bang.

After ignoring the critical safety point and forcibly integrating a huge amount of phlogiston, the originally unstable nitroglycerin condensed into a solid state like grease. Not to mention the slightest collision, even a louder breathing sound could cause it to explode in front of you.

At this moment, with the detonation of the manual detonator, the scorching red flames tore through the earth, shot up into the sky, and instantly engulfed the evil creature.

The shrapnel rained down like a torrential rain, but was blocked by the repulsive field. Then, in the drastic change of air pressure, the repulsive field fell apart. In the raging air waves, the limbs of the people, trees, and evil creatures twisted and tore apart.

The shock of air pressure was just the appetizer. What followed was the high heat and flames caused by the explosion of massive amounts of phlogiston, especially after Ji Jue madly added white phosphorus, aluminum powder, a large amount of spiritual essence and many mysterious little ingredients into it. The flames, which could almost be described as sticky, spread everywhere, turning everything into purgatory wherever it passed.

Finally, a shrill scream was heard in purgatory.

The quickly reborn evil creature was rolling and struggling violently, as if shedding its skin, crawling using its hands and feet, trying to escape from the sea of ​​fire.

Unfortunately, the shelling never stopped from beginning to end.

A torrential rain of metal fell from the sky, piercing through the flesh and blood, and embedded into the hardened body, gradually melting into molten iron. The large amount of aluminum powder mixed in it once again fueled the combustion.

The evil creature roared.

Even though it was hundreds of meters away, it was still so piercing, like a knife scraping the eardrum. A fierce light like a heat ray burst out from its eyes, sweeping vertically and horizontally, but unfortunately, it could not cut through the burning cage. Dozens of limbs danced randomly, attacking.

like water off a duck's back.

In the end, it gradually lost its voice, allowing the distant shells to hit it again and again, destroying its body.

The carbonized body cracked and shattered.

It was not until a long time later that the reaction of a large amount of combustion aids ended, and only an empty shell remained on the scorched earth with little oxygen.

The thick smoke lingered for a long time.

The scarlet armor stepped on the charred ground, slowly moved forward, cautiously, and approached step by step.

But there was no response.

"You're going to die now?"

Ji Jue lowered his eyes, raised his foot, and kicked the carbonized evil thing. A cracking sound rang out: "Tsk, it died so quickly... Well, you didn't think I would believe it, did you?"

The moment he turned around, a bloody limb suddenly pierced out from under the carbonized fragments!

--underground!
Different from the chaos and madness of the mutants, evil creatures are rational, and even many of them were originally transformed from humans, so their thinking and survival wisdom are only stronger.

As soon as it realized that it could not escape from the sea of ​​fire, the evil creature's futile struggle had rooted more and more of its limbs into the ground.

Even though the entire ground was burned to a scorched earth by the flames, most of the high temperature and damage were blocked by the isolation of a large amount of soil.

Preserve yourself to the greatest extent possible.

Latent growth.

Just like plants, they recover quickly.

At this moment, the evil creature hidden under the dry and scorched earth suddenly erupted!
Then... I found myself not getting up.

Rise again! Rise again! Rise four times! Rise five times!
It's like a person lying in bed in the middle of winter and not wanting to go to work. No matter how many alarms you set, you can't win the battle against getting up.

However, this time, it was not the warm bed that bound the evil.

But it was blood-colored mercury that had seeped into the soil at some point, and was even meandering from deeper underground!
Thousands of threads were entangled in its regenerated limbs and torso, suddenly hardening, shackled, and no longer able to conceal its own existence, rushing and sweeping, wrapping around it tightly like a snake.

Suddenly, the scorched earth rolled like boiling water, and scarlet mercury and limbs appeared and were swallowed up in the wriggling.

It was like a fight in the deep sea.

Mercury without blessing is completely lacking in hardness and toughness. In situations of extreme demand, it can only serve as a transmission mechanism or other conductor and carrier, and is simply incapable of doing the job of wrestling with evil spirits.

Unfortunately, the evil creature was injured too badly and recovered too quickly.

It's not just the mercury that penetrates through the wound, but also the heavy metal toxins that seep into the roots when they absorb water...

Even the devastation brought by Ji Jue!
Ignoring the squirming roots and limbs, the armor trampled the ground, moved forward, and stepped on the body of the evil creature through the surging ground.

Then, he took out a ridiculous two-meter-long gun from his back.

Holding it in his hand, he pointed it at the body of the evil creature from a distance.

Pull the trigger!

boom! ! !
The flash of iron light pierced through the soil and wedged deeply into the body of the evil creature, like tons of straw hitting a camel's back!

"Judging from the general structure and the type of ammunition, it should be the Anchor Assault Rifle from the Federation."

Before the light came out, Gustav explained to his confused colleagues: "Just think of it as a shotgun for armor. It uses kinetic energy to kill and uses specially made drill-shaped bullets. It is aimed at large war weapons and similar powered armor.

However, it seems that this is a design idea from the previous generation. In recent years, new weapons of the same type no longer use solid bullets, but directly stimulate metal jets to penetrate armor."

"Wow, the kid has learned quite a lot!"

Jiang Tongguang sighed and counted on his fingers, from the initial decoration preparation, construction and construction, to the subsequent assembly line and production...

As for Ji Jue's best subject, mechanical engineering, he was not surprised at all. After all, hadn't Ye Xian been doing research in this area for years? The construction of composite blessing creations was originally her best field besides spiritual essence refining, so it was not surprising that she would teach students mechanical engineering.

Now it seems that Ye Xian is determined to train a trumpet student, a student who is proficient in everything and has no shortcomings just like himself.

"How lucky."

Jiang Tongguang sighed softly.

As a student, it is certainly a great fortune to meet a teacher like Ye Xian. But as a teacher, isn’t it like winning the lottery to meet a student who can teach and learn everything well?

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many schools of thought without successors.

"I see."

Gustav sighed in realization, which brought him back to his senses. He looked at the screen in confusion, and soon realized the key that Gustav was referring to.

"bullet?"

Wrong bullet!

Even the damage caused by the artillery shells just now was just a superficial wound that could be healed by taking a breath, and was not worth worrying about at all.

But at this moment, as Ji Jue fired shot after shot, the evil creature's struggle and movements actually slowed down and sluggishly at a speed visible to the naked eye...

Just as Gustav said, the kinetic killing of physical bullets is already the idea of ​​the previous generation. If it is not necessary, there is no need to stick to the old idea.

Unless, brazing alloy bullets have irreplaceable advantages over metal jets.

For example, as an alchemical creation!

"…the reverse application of fluid alchemy!"

Jiang Tongguang suddenly understood.

At this moment, the alloy drills, which were more than one meter long, shot out under the rough push of gunpowder, pierced through the soil, and wedged into the body of the evil creature. The spiritual circuits engraved on them awakened under the stimulation.

Its effect is simple, it blocks the spiritual essence and suppresses the soul!
Each metal spike that penetrates the flesh and blood is engraved with the results of solid alchemy, forcibly imposing these shackles on the body of the evil creature, blocking the circulation of spiritual essence, and even using this broken body as a container, in turn, sealing the soul of the evil creature inside!
Entangled in the blood-colored mercury and ravaged from both inside and outside, it didn't even have time to pull out the iron rod that pierced its body. It struggled in vain, but saw no hope.

Even self-destruction is impossible.

Watching myself turn into a specimen...

boom!
When the last metal rod pierced into the body of the evil creature, the broken body had been turned into a hedgehog by Ji Jue.

To be on the safe side, Ji Jue used double the amount, strictly guarded against and eliminated hidden dangers, to ensure that his ingredients could be kept fresh, of high quality and in sufficient quantity and could be brought into his workshop.

Soon, under the flow of blood-colored mercury, the entire immobile evil creature was completely swallowed up, covered, and hardened.

It turned into a blood-red metal statue covered with barbs.

Packing is complete, you’re done!
Just like that, I ate canned food, sang songs, and carried the materials to the workshop.

After finishing the first one, Ji Jue even figured out where to find the next one. When he thought about opening his eyes tomorrow and seeing new materials in front of him, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

Compared with the cannibalism of the people in Yousui, the Association is better after all. Not only can they eat people, they can also eat evil things.

The prosperous days never end!

Beyond the floating light, there was only a soft sigh in the long silence.

"I say, is there any need to evaluate this kind of perversion?"

Jiang Tongguang took the pen, thought for a moment, and filled in the score of '99' on the form.

The highest score from the previous assessment.

To be honest, I should have given it '100', but I have to deduct 1 point for the painting style... It's not to leave any shadow on the two directors, but if I don't make any statement, some people might think that the association encourages everyone to develop in the deep direction.

Fortunately, there are not many bystanders now, otherwise the association would be flooded with reporting calls by now - such blatant and cruel exploitation has caused immeasurable bad effects on apprentices!
"Well, let me see..."

He glanced at the form in his hand and said, "So far, 91 candidates have passed the preliminary assessment, and there should be many more to come. We have worked so hard to reduce the number of candidates, and there are still so many left...

The gold content of this year's awards is a bit outrageous!"

As he spoke, his smile became more and more mischievous, and he looked at Gustav, whose face was as gloomy as water:
"Should I say congratulations?"

"Knowing how to follow the script and the rules is at best a job that a mediocre person can do independently. What value does it have? It is natural to plan ahead and be prepared."

Gustav glanced at him, not understanding why he was making such a fuss. "Besides, isn't this week a breathing period reserved for them to adapt to the environment? If they become lazy because of the temporary peace, it would only be slow suicide."

Jiang Tongguang shrugged slightly: "Then when are you going to tell these unfortunate kids that there will be a mysterious little surprise next?"

Gustav remained indifferent: "When they find that the environmental degradation index is getting higher and higher...they will naturally understand."

Since the little frogs in the pot have gradually adapted to the water temperature.

Then, we should turn on the gas stove and give you some exciting little shows...

(End of this chapter)