Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 22 Thalamic Core
"The underground people's abilities can indeed be acquired through some method." The man in the suit replied, "But the space station's top brass didn't make this method public. They are very tight-lipped. Even those of us in the Separation Society can't find out."

"So why?" Xie Shen frowned. "Once this method is announced, Tower Prison will be completely helpless against us humans, right? Isn't this a good thing?"

The man in the suit said helplessly: "Who knows what the top management of the space station thinks?"

After saying this, he kept silent.

...

While chatting with the man in the suit, Xie Shen himself was not idle either.

While observing the surroundings, he kept looking for old pine trees and large purple-black thistle flowers.

The reason for looking for a pine tree is because the main ingredient used to refine the Foundation-Building Pill, Poria cocos, grows at the roots of the pine tree.

Especially the old pine trees.

If you observe from the outside that spiritual energy is emanating from the roots of the pine tree, then there is a high probability that there are Poria cocos plants that are more than a hundred years old.

In the world of cultivation, only this type of Poria is qualified to be called a "magic medicine".

The same is true for the purple-black flowers of the great thistle.

When common thistle blooms, the flowers are mostly red or purple.

Only the great thistle, which has been nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and has grown for decades or even hundreds of years, will have flowers that appear purple-black.

This type of thistle can also be called a 'miracle drug'.

Xie Shen had no magic weapon or spiritual pet to use in searching for elixirs.

He had no idea of ​​the direction, so he could only walk towards places with rich spiritual energy. Whether he could find the elixir in the end depended entirely on his luck.

Time passed by minute by minute.

During this time, Xie Shen did not forget to take a look at the tugboat.

After confirming that the green light was on on the probe, he finally felt relieved and began to explore in a farther direction.

It might be because of the abundant spiritual energy and the absence of other practitioners.

Since he started exploring, Xie Shen would encounter some aged spiritual herbs and plants almost every time he walked a certain distance.

He put all these magical herbs and plants into his pocket one by one.

Although we have not been able to find the great burdock and poria that meet the requirements during this process, those two main herbs are hard to come by after all.

So Xie Shen didn't feel that disappointed. He had already prepared himself mentally for a long-term exploration on the surface.

Before I knew it, time had passed and it was already evening.

In the headset.

The man in the suit reminded Xie Shen, "It's already five o'clock. Let's go. If you don't leave now, the thalamus sentinels will come out."

"Row."

Xie Shenxian is only at the Qi training stage.

He did not dare to be careless, so he returned to the tugboat as instructed.

——Although the spiritual herbs and plants harvested today cannot allow Xie Shen to refine foundation-building pills, they are more than enough for him to refine some pills to assist in cultivation and combat.

These pills can be sold on the black market in exchange for points, or kept for future emergency needs.

It was a worthwhile trip.
Thinking of this, Xie Shen couldn't help but lighten his pace.

'Gululu'

When he returned to the vicinity of the tugboat, Xie Shen heard a strange sound of flesh and blood squirming from afar.

The sound made him alert, so he decisively put his hand on the headset and quickly switched to pickup mode.

At the same time, he spoke to the man in a suit far away in the space station: "Are you there? Can you hear this sound?"

"I can hear it." Through the pickup mode of the headset, the man in a suit far away in the space station also heard the sound of flesh and blood squirming.

With a hint of solemnity in his tone, he warned Xie Shen: "Don't go any further. This sound sounds like it comes from the 'thalamus core'."

Thalamic core?
Xie Shen was speechless and said, "The problem is that my tugboat is right in front of me. How can I get back to the space station if I don't move forward?"

"Then hurry up."

The man in the suit said calmly, "First, confirm the location of the thalamus core and then transport the probe back to the tugboat as soon as possible before dark. In short, as long as it's not dark, there will be no danger even if you get closer to the thalamus core."

"Okay." Xie Shen carefully moved a little further towards the tugboat.

In the woods.

As the sound of flesh and blood squirming got closer and closer, a horrifying thing that was more than four people tall and looked like a human brain suddenly appeared in front of Xie Shen.

at the same time.

The suit man's voice also sounded in the headset at the right time: "How is it, did you see the thalamus core?"

Xie Shen was stunned and said, "I saw it, but the problem is that the brain has completely wrapped up my boat. What should I do?"

——Like the spiny jellyfish, the thalamic core also appears translucent.

And just like a real human brain: the surface of the thalamic core is covered with concave grooves and raised convolutions.

Through its translucent body, one can clearly see that Xie Shen's tugboat is being wrapped in it.

There are countless densely packed thalamic sentinels clinging to the surface of the tugboat, crawling non-stop at this moment.

Under such circumstances, it would be extremely difficult for Xie Shen to drive the tugboat away.
"I can only say that you are a little unlucky today."

In the headset.

After listening to Xie Shen's description, the man in the suit smiled bitterly and explained: "The thalamus core will wrap you up in the tugboat. This is completely a coincidence."

"Although the thalamic nucleus is like the stinging jellyfish, it will suddenly appear in places where people are without reason."

"But where they appear, when they do, is completely random."

"It may be next to your tugboat, or it may be far away from your tugboat."

"Anyway, the location where it appeared just happened to overlap with your tugboat, and then it even wrapped up your tugboat. This situation is very rare."

Is it just rare, not non-existent?

Xie Shen asked back, "From what you said, has anyone encountered this situation before?"

"Ah."

The man in the suit responded, "However, since the tugboat has an autopilot system and can fly back to the space station by itself, it's not a big problem. The pilot can just die outside. After all, he can be resurrected by the resurrection spell."

"Of course." The man in the suit added, "If you can survive, that would be the best."

"After all, if you die, it will cost us a lot of points to revive you."

"And if we fail in this zirconium mining mission, we will have to pay a lot of compensation."

“That’s a shame.”

"so."

The man in the suit finally said, "If you can survive until tomorrow morning and wait for the thalamus core to leave on its own, that would be the best. Not only will we not have to pay compensation, but we might even make some money from the zirconium ore we mine."

You have to hold out until the next day before the thalamic core leaves?

In the woods.

Xie Shen glanced at the thalamus core that made a gurgling sound from time to time.

He said with a stiff upper lip: "So what should I do to ensure that I don't die?"

(End of this chapter)