National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 231 Flame Tyrant
The first thing is 100 Lifetime Platinum Membership Cards. With the platinum membership card, any personal consumption at the entertainment venues of the Church is free of charge.

The second item is 100 packs of “Blood of the God of Light” 5 ml each, which comes with a special water gun.

This is Lin Zhi's own blood. He accidentally discovered that his blood could actually cause devastating damage to demons.

After experiments, he found that if his blood was injected into the devil's brain, it could corrode the other's brain and achieve the effect of destroying the devil.

So Lin Zhi asked someone to make a special water gun and filled it with his own blood.

Each time 1 ml of blood is emitted, it can cause a fatal blow to a demon of almost any rank.

The reason why the word "almost" is included is because it does not include the succubus sisters, Ma Sengxi and other women who have practiced with her.

For some reason, any succubus that has practiced with me and given me the fountain of life will be immune to my blood.

It is precisely because of the power of blood that the Ma Seng, Koizumi, and Fukutani families agreed to report the auction.

In the past two months, I have drawn a total of 2 ml of blood, kept 1500 ml for myself, distributed 500 ml each to three families, and used 150 ml for experiments.

The remaining 500 milliliters will be used as auction items.

Lin Zhi knew that the effect of this blood was enough to attract people from all major forces.

The last item is a specially made antique bronze box with a complex structure similar to a Rubik's Cube or Luban Lock, which needs to be unlocked to get the things inside.

Forcing it open will destroy the items inside.

But in reality, there was nothing inside.

It was Lin Zhi who released it to deceive people.

You see, the previous 91 members, "Blood of the God of Light" could not be the finale, but this bronze box could be the finale, so there must be good things inside.

Lin Zhi had secretly spread a rumor before, saying that the bronze box contained the secret of the leukemia virus.

The story also tells about a fisherman who accidentally salvaged a shipwreck and found a jade coffin in it. When he opened the coffin, the bull madness was released.

There is a bronze box inside the jade coffin.

Lin Zhi’s goal was simple, which was to sell the finale item and then cause competition among various forces.

In addition to these three items, there are also items sent by various forces.

For example, the limbs of demons, the blood of demonic animals, certain extraordinary parts, modified firearms, specially made cold weapons, etc.

At 100: in the morning, more than representatives of various forces took their seats and the auction officially took place.

As the rankings were taken one by one, Lin Zhi shook his head in the base.

As he expected, even with three first-class ancient families in charge, they were able to establish connections with all aspects of the island of Honshu.

Still, many forces did not dare to send strong men to participate in the auction, and those who came were all demons below the middle fifth level.

"It doesn't matter. It's not like the boss would personally attend the auction. This is within my expectations."

Lin Zhi stared at the surveillance screen until the bronze box was finally photographed by the people from the Flame Demon Church.

At the end of the auction, the auctioneer sends an electronic document to those who participated in the auction.

This is exactly the demon ranking list that Lin Zhi copied.

The free information surprised and delighted the auction attendees.

What’s shocking is that the information is so detailed, it’s chilling.

Finally, everyone dispersed.

But Lin Zhi knew that the real highlight had just begun.

Less than 2 kilometers away from the auction site, the fire demon who bought the bronze box was stopped by someone.

"Hand it over and I'll spare your life!"

A troll in a huge cloak stretched out his hand to grab the Balrog.

The battle for the bronze box soon began, with more and more forces joining in, and demons hiding in the dark waiting for their chance to strike.

Soon, they stopped moving.

Because the sisters Moonlight Dawn, Manengxi and other succubi appeared behind them.

The 12 upper-level demons had already detected all the demons hidden in the surrounding area while the auction was ongoing.

Near the auction site, except for one mid-level ninth-level demon, all others are above level five and below level nine.

There are no higher-level demons, which is easy to understand.

Because the authority for promotion was unlocked just a few days ago.

The succubi easily explored the surroundings and then invaded one by one.

These demons hiding in the dark are either lone rangers who have had adventures or the henchmen of various forces. To corrupt them is to plant hidden cards in these forces.

If it weren't for the fact that erosion could not target mutant source demons, Lin Zhi would have taken the risk and let the succubus sisters infiltrate these forces and erode their leaders.

Although every demon has the ability to erode after the update, no one would ever think that their subordinates would be eroded by others.

Because the erosion ability requires a higher level or nine levels to be exerted.

Those who were corrupted were all demons above the middle fifth level. No matter if they were the ninth level or one level higher, if one wanted to corrupt them, it must be a higher level demon to succeed.

As we all know, the path to promotion to upper demon was just unblocked the day before yesterday. How could someone reach the upper level so quickly?

They would never have thought that there was someone who was not only a high-level demon, but had also reached the fifth level.

Of course, the most crucial thing is that after the erosion of the demon, the newly born demon has the memory of the previous demon.

In this way, the undercover operation is seamless.

After the erosion was completed, the succubus sisters issued orders to these newly conscious demons according to Lin Zhi's plan.

That is to return to their respective forces with false news or even a fake bronze box.

This bronze box was auctioned off one, and Lin Zhi made dozens of them in the same batch at the same time. However, the difference between the imitations and the auctioned items lies in the different surface patterns.

Now the auction items are taken back and the replicas are randomly handed over to these corrupted demons.

The message they were asked to convey was also very simple, which was that the bronze box was about to be obtained, but was snatched away by a certain force.

The demons from more than one hundred forces had different stories, and there were dozens of forces that "stole the bronze box".

When they return and find that the items are empty, they will definitely suspect that they were swapped during the scramble.

If you compare it with the photos used in the auction promotion, you will find that the pattern on the bronze box is different.

This further deepened their suspicions.

The purpose of Lin Zhi holding the auction is to make various forces suspicious of each other and provoke conflicts.

The "Blood of the God of Light" is the best evidence that the bronze box really exists.

Five tubes of blood were taken back by five major forces. They realized the power of the blood as soon as they conducted experiments.

Blood is so powerful but it can’t be the finale, so the finale must be real.

This is the habitual thinking of ordinary people.

In addition, they do not believe that the 91 Church would engage in deception.

Because credit is very important to a person or a force.

Once a person or a force loses its credibility, it will sooner or later lose its foothold.

Those who are righteous have many supporters, while those who are unrighteous have few supporters. This righteousness can be credit.

How can a force that has lost its credibility unify Radiation Island and usher in a new era?
They would never have thought that Lin Zhi’s 91 Church was not meant to unify the island nation for eternity.

The situation is different, so the perspectives and ideas are naturally different. So a very simple strategy can trap most of the forces.

As Lin Zhi expected, on the third day after the auction, frictions and minor conflicts began to arise among the neighboring forces.

Then the situation escalated, small conflicts expanded, and some forces went to war.

Although some forces are unable to hold back, they are secretly preparing for battle at any time.

Church expansion, weapon purchase or forging, personnel recruitment, training...

The virus was released 141 days ago.

Although the conflicts among various forces have gradually escalated, a large-scale war has not yet occurred.

Something unexpected happened to Lin Zhi.

According to news reports, countless monsters have landed along the coast of Radiation Island.

After reading the news, Lin Zhi realized that the so-called monster was actually a fish infected with the devil virus.

After these days of development, almost all the fish in the radiation sea have been infected and acquired demonic abilities.

Most of them were eliminated in the process of natural selection and became food.

A small number of them grow and survive.

When the food in the sea ran out, they came to land.

The reason why the food in the sea is exhausted is that the fish in the radiation sea are infected and transformed by the virus, and their bodies have changed drastically.

Their predatory capabilities increased significantly, and at first fish from the open sea even passed through the isolation shield and entered the radiated sea.

But later, the fish that entered the Radiation Sea could not leave, and it gradually became a "forbidden sea" with no more fish entering.

Back to the point.

The fish in these irradiated seas have had their internal structures renewed countless times and can survive out of water.

Even most fish have grown limbs.

Especially near Fukushima, a large amount of nuclear waste water was secretly discharged, polluting the nearby seas, causing the fish infected with the virus to become like monsters.

The system panel shows that there are currently 2 million people infected with the aquatic virus.

A vast swarm of devil fish came ashore. They ate the grass wherever they saw it, and ate the crops and trees wherever they saw them.

Even humus-rich soil, most wooden houses, and living things on land are their prey.

The ground where the fish monster passed was like it had been plowed, three feet deep and clean.

All forces immediately put aside all their practical tasks to prepare for the fish monster's landing.

The Nine-One Church was also not idle. The succubus sisters roamed around the battlefields, looking for lone, dying middle-level demons and using erosion.

Under attack from the landing of fish demons, all forces united and established lines of defense.

Since fish are an important source of food, the various forces tacitly refrained from using heavy weapons such as missiles and nuclear weapons.

Most of them are demons armed with cold weapons, hacking and killing with blood and flesh.

When the aquatic demons pushed the battle line to less than 10 kilometers within the coastline, the offensive slowed down and even stagnated.

The next few days were filled with hand-to-hand combat between the two sides.
Lin Zhi watched the video sent back by the Jiuyi Church:
Every battlefield is like a meat grinder, devouring lives all the time.

Although those infected with the demon virus are difficult to kill, their bodies repair themselves quickly, and even if their heads are chopped off or their hearts are pierced, they can quickly regenerate with only a head left.

But in this high-intensity battle, it is just a struggle to survive.

Many demons die because their bodies have consumed all the energy left for cell division.

At the same time, in this war, many demons broke through their status and levels.

The infected people kept dying, and Lin Zhi also gained a large number of infection points.

The death of a lower-level demon can contribute 200 to 1000 infection points; the death of a middle-level demon can contribute 2 to 1 infection points.

At this time, the weakest infected person is a lower-level first-order demon.

In just over ten days, tens of millions of lives were lost.

Of course, the largest number of them are weak fish with relatively rare demonic abilities.

Although most of the dead were fish, millions of human demons still died.

Lin Zhi was heartbroken to see so many infected people die.

However, the death of so many demons in the war was not without benefits. Lin Zhi's accumulated infection points once again exceeded 300 billion.

He had no choice but to spend 100 billion infection points to strengthen the virus's ability to spread, allowing "Eternal Life" to be upgraded again.

Extreme Longevity: After the virus fuses with the host cell, the upper limit of the number of cell divisions is increased to 1 time.

Ten thousand means billion, trillion means zhao, and ten thousand zhao means capital.

After Changsheng reaches the limit level, the upper limit of splitting reaches 1 trillion.

As Lin Zhi expected, the strengthening of Changsheng further enhanced the demon's ability to survive.

Especially for demons like the fire demon, earth demon, gold demon, etc., as long as there is flame, light, electricity, soil, water, radiation, etc., there will be a constant supply of energy and nutrients to supply cell division.

The human demons had the home advantage, their ability to survive was greatly improved, and gradually the casualties decreased.

The cases where many demons had clearly reached their breakthrough limits and had undergone secondary mutations, but died in disgrace, have become much less common.

The aquatic demon species were not at an advantage on the shore and gradually retreated.

On this day, the battle went on as usual.

An inconspicuous fire demon suddenly underwent a secondary mutation.

The flames coming out of his body suddenly surged, and the surrounding earth melted into lava. As he walked, the surrounding lava also moved.

Any life that is enveloped in lava will be grabbed by the ankles by the bony hands that suddenly appear from the lava and dragged down into the lava.

The system prompts appeared in Lin Zhi’s mind at the same time.

[A secondary mutation of the virus has been detected. Should 4 million infection points be spent to update the virus structure for all infected people? 】

Lin Zhi opened the system records and found out the content of the virus mutation.

Secondary mutation: Flame Tyrant: The virus structure related to the Flame Demon's ability is greatly strengthened, causing the Flame Demon's ability to transform. The infected person will become a natural upper demon, the monarch of flames, the king of Flame Demons, and his feet will be transformed into a structure similar to a "nuclear reactor", which can devour the earth's matter and convert it into energy, creating a lava field around him.

After seeing this content, Lin Zhi was speechless for a long time.

He felt that the system was magical, but the system was stubborn in describing everything that happened as "scientific" as possible.

The Fire Demon turned into the Fire Tyrant, which is an amazing ability.

Is a direct nuclear reactor okay?
Lin Zhi could predict that if there were no major accidents, under normal circumstances the Fire Tyrant would have unlimited energy and be immortal.

"Don't update the virus yet."

Lin Zhi refused the system's virus update prompt.

Although after the virus update, all fire demons instantly became fire tyrants and possessed the strength of upper demons.

But this is not in Lin Zhi's interest.

Because at this stage he doesn't have the ability to kill the Fire Tyrant!
The Fire Demons have all become Fire Tyrants, and I’m afraid they will unify the Radiation Island in a matter of minutes, and the main quest will be ruined.

"I wonder if the other abilities of the demon virus can be lethal if they are enhanced to level 10?"

(End of this chapter)