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

Chapter 232 Demonic Seaweed
Lin Zhi hesitated.

Now he still has more than 10 billion infection points in his hands, and he suddenly wants to strengthen the remaining two abilities to level .

New abilities will appear at level 10, and I always feel like I'm missing out if I don't strengthen them.

Lin Zhi couldn't control his hands.

He closed his eyes and strengthened the remaining two abilities.

Lin Zhi opened the system panel and checked the infection point records.

Through comparison, Lin Zhi confirmed that after the demon turned into a magic core, it could still gain infection points.

However, the number of infection points decreased by about 10%.

In this regard, Lin Zhi guessed that the 10% less infection points might be the price of turning into a magic core.

However, Lin Zhi soon discovered that a demon in the video killed a hostile demon and picked up the magic core before it sank into the ground.

Then, the magic core turned into a stream of air and drilled into his palm. As his body trembled, his aura actually increased a little.

"Magic cores can actually help demons improve their rank?"

Lin Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. The magic core was still useful. He almost thought that he had strengthened himself into a "self-harm" ability.

……

With this update, and the battle with the aquatic demon species lasting longer and longer, a large number of demons broke through on the battlefield, and their status continued to rise.

A small number of demons undergo secondary mutation and become the "kings" among demons.

The 153rd day since the virus was released.

1 billion infection points have been accumulated.

Lin Zhi strengthened his infection ability without hesitation.

Virus:Demon Virus
Evolution level: C
Enhancement level: lv11
Virus Effect: Virus Effect: Demonization (After being infected with the virus, the player gains demonic abilities and becomes a demon. There is a small chance that the demonic abilities will mutate a second time.)
Virus Capabilities

Final transmission: The virus acquires the ability to infect all vertebrates, can be transmitted through droplets, and can survive in the external environment for 3 days.

Extreme Bewitching: The mutant demon gains the ability to bewitch others. The bewitcher can control those infected with the same mutant virus through the mutant virus.

Intermediate Corrosion: A high-level demon can stimulate the evil thoughts in the hearts of low-level demons to corrode the souls of low-level demons. When the demon consciousness is extinguished, the virus will devour the souls of the life in the higher dimension, giving birth to a new consciousness subordinate to the high-level demon. The generation of the erosion relationship cannot act on the mutant source demon, and the difference between the two must be one level or five levels.

……

Infection Enhancement: lv11 (0/1 trillion)

Resistance enhancement: lv10 (0/1 billion)

Communication Enhancement: lv10 (0/1 billion)

Adaptive Enhancement: lv10 (0/1 billion)

After the infection was strengthened, just as Lin Zhi had expected, the conditions for successful erosion were reduced from surpassing nine levels to five levels.

What surprised Lin Zhi was that the ability to deceive changed again.

Before, if a source mutant demon wanted to seduce others, it needed its own status or level to be "one" greater than the other party.

Now that this restriction has been removed, any demon of the same origin can be directly bewitched.

With this upgrade of Guhuo, Lin Zhi no longer has to worry about other succubi surpassing the succubus sisters in level and thus escaping from control.

Control over the September 1st Church is further strengthened!
……

The virus was released on the 155th day.

The battle against the aquatic demon spawn ended, and when the number of monsters in the sea dropped to less than ten million, they retreated.

The human demons won a tragic victory. In this battle that lasted for more than a month, the forces on Radiation Island won at the cost of losing more than 20 million demons.

At the same time, the levels of the demons who participated in the battle and survived also reached the median level on average.

There are also many demons with extraordinary talents. They were originally just ordinary cannon fodder, but they underwent secondary mutation in the battle and became the "kings" of the demon race.

The corpses left by the demons on both sides were all transformed and strengthened by the virus, becoming extraordinary substances. They were used for cultivation, making weapons, or extracting blood to make medicines, and they were all quickly recovered.

Then they are processed and used, and flow to various major forces, or even sold to civilians.

Stimulated by the war, the enthusiasm of the whole nation for practicing cultivation was high, and three months passed quickly.

Although these three months seemed calm on the surface, in reality all major powers were engaged in an arms race and massive expansion.

With the Nine One Church adding fuel to the fire, stirring up trouble, and secretly manipulating those who were bewitched, the situation became increasingly chaotic.

Driven by their growing ambitions, many people living on Honshu Island moved to the areas occupied by various forces with their families.

In this regard, even though the Cabinet has a million troops and tens of millions of law enforcement officers, it cannot completely stop the people's determination.

Small conflicts were followed by constant bloodshed, and all the demons were practicing like mad.

The practice of demons is very simple. As long as there is enough food, a stable supply of emotional substances, and a suitable environment, there will be no bottleneck growth.

For example, the Fire Demon can continue to grow in strength by soaking in volcanic magma.

For example, Thunder Demon can upgrade comfortably by climbing up the high-voltage cables.

Earth demons eat dirt, water demons drink water, trolls absorb radiation, cowards watch horror movies, and succubi exercise...

……

In three months, the aquatic demon species were almost extinct, with only dozens of upper-level demons left.

There were only a few dozen land animals left, all of them high-level demons.

There is no way. Animals, such as humans, have a very low "compatibility" with the demon virus. Their strength grows very slowly, and there is a bottleneck.

As humans became stronger, they quickly died out.

The reason why dozens of them are able to break through and become upper-level demons is that they are source mutant demons.

In addition, there are more than 1 million people who have been vaccinated. Because the virus is inactive, Lin Zhi cannot learn the specific situation through the system.

There are only more than 5 million infected humans left.

Previously, there were 1.2 million infected people and more than 5 million people immune to the vaccine.

In the battle with the aquatic demon species, the total loss was only more than 20 million.

The war was over, but in various struggles, two-thirds of the troops were lost again.

However, it is precisely because of this that the demon's strength can grow by leaps and bounds.

Their numbers are far less than before, but their strength has increased many times.

Two-thirds of the infected people died due to various reasons.

In fact, not many people died, most of them disappeared.

The largest number are demons who are on the verge of death, or have no desire to fight, and have directly transformed into magic cores and disappeared deep underground, numbering as high as tens of millions.

Most of those who choose this way to survive are the elderly, children and some peaceful people.

Lin Zhi was very satisfied with this situation.

He is not spreading the virus on Radiation Island purely for selfish reasons, but is fighting for a mission that will wipe out all of humanity if it is not completed.

He could have released the virus directly to the whole world, but if that failed, all of humanity would be finished.

And success is not easy for all mankind.

So he chose the Radiation Island which was more acceptable to him.

This was done out of necessity. If we could complete the task with less killing, that would certainly be great.

Those who are content with their lot, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled are willing to transform into magic cores to linger on. When the world is at peace again, they can revive and return to their lives.

For those who have ambitions, are unwilling to settle down and only want to fulfill their desires and ambitions, Radiation Island is now also a stage for them to display their ambitions.

Once you enter the "jianghu", life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor are in the hands of God. God gives you the capital to become stronger, so you can't blame others if you die.

……

On the 269th day of the virus release, all the people's rank reached at least the upper fifth-rank demon. However, Lin Zhi was not happy.

He estimated that more than 7 million upper demons, even if they all grew to the ninth level and were eliminated, could only provide less than trillion infection points.

There is still three trillion away from level 13.

Besides, Lin Zhi didn’t have the ability to eliminate them all.

Although the ability of bewitchment is strong, it is only effective against succubi and those with weak minds.

It is easy to make them obey, but difficult to make them die.

In fact, when the human population was reduced to 100 million, Lin Zhi was trying every means to reduce the death of demons.

Because according to his calculations, one hundred million ninth-order demons can provide ten trillion infection points.

It would be a waste if the demons died when they were not of high rank.

However, although Radiation Island is small, it has a large population and complex forces, and the 91st Church cannot control it.

It would be good enough to be able to stir up the situation in one area, but it is impossible to expect to control the entire Radiation Island or even stop the war.

Besides, if it weren't for the brutal fighting in the past few months, the demons' strength would never have grown so quickly.

This result was the result of Lin Zhi doing his best to analyze the situations of all parties and finally choosing the best.

"It's a pity that after becoming a demon, I lost my fertility. Otherwise, the chickens, ducks, fish and meat wouldn't have become extinct. If we unified the radiation islands and everyone raised some mice, we could pass the level..."

Lin Zhi sighed and opened the system panel.

Today is a good day, the dead demons finally provide enough 1 trillion infection points.

The infection ability can be upgraded to level 12.

"I wonder if the ability to confuse others can continue to change?"

Lin Zhi upgraded his infection ability with trepidation.

Virus:Demon Virus
Evolution level: C
Enhancement level: lv11
Virus Effect: Virus Effect: Demonization (After being infected with the virus, the player gains demonic abilities and becomes a demon. There is a small chance that the demonic abilities will mutate a second time.)
Virus Capabilities

Final transmission: The virus acquires the ability to infect all vertebrates, can be transmitted through droplets, and can survive in the external environment for 3 days.

Extreme Bewitching: The mutant demon gains the ability to bewitch others. The bewitcher can control those infected with non-mutant viruses through the mutant virus.

Advanced Corrosion: A high-level demon can stimulate the evil thoughts in the hearts of low-level demons to corrode the souls of low-level demons. When the demon consciousness is extinguished, the virus will devour the souls of the life in the higher dimension, giving birth to a new consciousness subordinate to the high-level demon. The generation of the erosion relationship cannot act on the mutant source demon, and the difference between the two must be one level or one rank.

……

Infection Enhancement: lv12 (0/10 trillion)

Resistance enhancement: lv10 (0/1 billion)

Communication Enhancement: lv10 (0/1 billion)

Adaptive Enhancement: lv10 (0/1 billion)

After seeing the updated content, Lin Zhi was overjoyed.

The erosion ability has not changed much, but the bewitching ability has been epically enhanced.

The restriction condition for the target of the bewitching ability no longer has the word "same origin", which means that bewitching will not only work on demons of the same race, but also on demons of different races.

In short, the succubus sisters, who have been practicing day and night with him and have broken through the limitations of the upper ninth level and reached the level of "ultimate demon", can theoretically control all the demons on the radiation island except the source mutant demon.

As for the source mutant demon?
The succubus sisters, with their status as extremely powerful demons, are enough to charm most mutated demons.

The opportunity to unify the Radiation Island has appeared!

"First, unify Radiation Island and stop the war from expanding. Then, find a way to solve the 3 trillion shortfall."

Lin Zhi set a goal and answered the call from the succubus sisters.

Before he could say anything, his sister Chaolu's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Brother, the Cabinet has released a message inviting all major forces to hold a meeting at Mount Fuji."

"Meeting?"

"Well, it's a meeting to discuss stopping the war and rebuilding our homeland..."

Chaolu began to explain the situation.

It turns out that during the fight, people and animals died.

Today, Radiation Island is in a mess, food is scarce, and it is about to face a food crisis and an energy crisis.

If the fighting continues, all forces will be destroyed together.

Therefore, the Cabinet proposed a ceasefire.

And produced some scientific research results.

For example, a controlled nuclear fusion reactor can use the upper troll cells to create an isolation shield that is perfectly resistant to radiation.

The superior Flame Demon cells can be used as materials to build nuclear fusion reactors, which can withstand terrifyingly high temperatures.

The use of nuclear fusion can turn the ocean into an inexhaustible source of energy.

With energy, you have everything.

Many new technologies have been developed through the use of demon viruses and demon cells as well as modified bacteria.

For example, a pavilion has cultivated a kind of "devil seaweed", which is cultivated using bacteria and devil cells, and can absorb energy to grow.

The grown seaweed is not only nutritious for the demons, but also can replenish extremely large amounts of energy.

These technologies are enough to rebuild Radiation Island and enable society to leap forward by several eras.

The reason for cooperating with major forces is that we need their help.

For example, the devil kelp can be easily destroyed at sea without the cooperation of all parties.

For example, nuclear power plants require a large number of demon cells. Higher-level demon cells cannot be cultivated artificially, and this requires contributions from strong people from all parties.

That's why this parliament is being convened.

All parties are somewhat tempted. As for negotiations, if the interests are right, it's fine. If not, the worst that can happen is that both sides will suffer.

"Then attend and try to ensure the success of the meeting."

Lin Zhi thought about it and felt that this was a good idea. As long as the fighting on Radiation Island ended and began to develop, it would not matter who unified the entire island.

If technologies such as nuclear fusion reactors and demon algae become popular, the growth rate of demons will definitely increase significantly.

This is a good thing.

……

Mount Fuji.

A huge open-air platform made entirely of metal.

An enormous round table was placed on the platform, with more than a hundred leaders of various forces sitting around it.

With his back to Mount Fuji is an old man, the actual ruler of the Cabinet - the "Devil Prophet" Kosha Hosoyuki.

"Everyone, this is our plan - we will build one hundred nuclear fusion reactors in the waters around Radiation Island, and then use them to promote the growth of devil seaweed."

"That's a good idea, but I have one condition."

A demon covered in a black robe said in a deep voice.

His voice was majestic and deep.

"I? What are the conditions, Lord Abyss Lord?"

Koche Hoshizhilang asked with a smile, squinting his eyes.

"This world belongs to me!"

The black-robed man said, "Show your true face."

(End of this chapter)