Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 422: Wanderer Tribe

Hills rise and fall on the land, and it seems that the only color left in the world is muddy yellow. Even the vitality sprouting from the cracks in the wind-eroded rocks is infected and covered with a dull yellow earth.

In some wastelands where the destruction was not so severe, there are still some roads built before the Seven Lands War. Most of them have fallen into disrepair for a long time, but no matter how old they are, they are always much better to drive on than the original rugged stone roads.

But Song Shi didn't care.

The off-road vehicle delivered by Xu Yudu has a lot of materials piled up, with a spoonful of [Timed Passage] technical patent on the left and a bowl of [Nanyu Heavy Industry] engineering modules on the right. The suspension system and self-balancing module have earth-shattering performance. Even on a 75-degree slope, it is easily and steadily, and the driving experience is as good as walking on flat ground.

Occasionally, I would come across some wind-eroded rock walls and abandoned fortifications. I didn't want to take a detour, so I would just summon a stream of fire to smash them.

If you encounter steep terrain such as mountains and canyons, turn on the off-road vehicle's aviation mode and it will instantly turn into a shuttle and take off into the sky.

Galloping across the country.

The road to Ye'nan is still unobstructed.

"Win! Right at the starting line! Win! That's the best love! Som New Biology, a new generation of adjustment surgery, presents the most sincere gift to your baby, allowing him to step on the ladder to move upward."

On the car TV, videos and photos are cut out at the right time, showing the spotless research institute, the bright and advanced laboratories, and the extremely impressive resumes of all the staff. They are all elite research teams selected from countless people.

Som Biotech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the giant enterprise [Emerald Pharmaceuticals], is a cutting-edge enterprise focused on expanding the boundaries of intelligence at the biological level.

Then, when the words "new humans" and "the future will belong to——" began to appear on TV, Song Shi turned off the TV.

"Intrauterine adjustment surgery. Those company executives have been doing it for a long time." Song Shi opened the car window: "Performance advantage is indeed there, but if you really want to talk about 'new humans', then it's still too early."

Stronger memory, more outstanding logic and thinking ability, enhanced tolerance to prostheses, and more superior neural circuits after directional biological adjustments.
Considering the price of the intrauterine adjustment surgery package just launched by Som New Biotechnology, what they open to the market should be the castration version - the most complete and full-process intrauterine adjustment surgery, which is enough to bankrupt a middle-class family.

Most likely it's not enough.

"He is usually very stingy, but he is very ruthless when it comes to promotion and marketing. He even sent out streaming ads all over the place."

Song Shi was speechless for a while.

"The new human Jade Pharmaceuticals has the most advanced technology in this area." Lapis Lazuli floated in the back seat: "But the master of application is [Fubo Energy]."

"Just say you are the Groden family, new people of God."

Song Shi leaned back and let the off-road vehicle drive automatically. The achievements of [Time Sequential Pass] in the field of intelligent control and navigation are indeed outstanding. It has been very comfortable to drive these days.

"Are you against this artificial division of species?" Lapis Lazuli responded readily.

"I'm not against it, it's just that it doesn't make sense."

Song Shi tapped the window sill with his five fingers and said casually, "Today's adjustment surgery is to double your brain strength. You have become a new human. After a while, biotechnology has advanced, and adjustment surgery has made new progress and new tricks. What will the surgical subjects be called? New new humans?"

"Fubo Energy has been around for so many years, but we haven't seen the Groden family branch out into a first, second, third, fourth, or fifth generation of the God Clan."

[Fubo Energy] has suffered heavy losses over the past six months. After losing Zhuguang City, its market credit plummeted. Faced with the overt and covert attacks from various companies, even though the top management decisively chose to cut off its tail to survive and sold off a large number of assets, reduced its business scale and eased the turmoil, the resulting huge evaporation of its market value is real.

"Besides, if a set of adjustment surgeries can be called a 'new human', then what about psychic powers?"

Song Shi chuckled: "Let's not talk about anything else. Just talking about your transcendence, the difference between the first, second and third rings is not small. Do you have to classify new species in each ring?"

"The gender classification of the current corporate alliance is already a headache." Song Shi sighed as if he had thought of something: "If we really want to add a species classification option, don't you think it's too troublesome to fill out the form?"

Lapis Lazuli was thoughtful. In fact, there was a trend of thought among the omnics to differentiate between automotive omniscients, mecha omniscients, home appliance omniscients, adult product omniscients, etc., but the momentum was very small and almost no omnis paid any attention.

"so."

Song Shi took out a dark silver-painted, tough-lined pistol from the recess of the car door, and without even looking at it, he fired a shot in one direction.

With the blessing of [Forging Flame], this shot burst out with extremely long range and lethality. The red flame flowed across a thousand meters and hit a mound. After a moment of silence, the flame wave rose up and burned the entire mound to ashes.

Including the bandits who were lying in ambush.

The roads in the wasteland are certainly convenient and have a very high transportation efficiency, but the roaming bandits also understand this. There are ambushes and people waiting in anticipation at almost every section of the road.

Their target is certainly not those large convoys with armed security and multiple vehicles, but those vehicles that choose to go on the road alone with a fluke mentality.

——However, Song Shi’s current route is not the highway.

He was not worried about the risks, he just wanted to take a different route, so he chose a wilderness route that was not a public route like the "highway" and was the default route for passers-by over the years.

Unfortunately, the wasteland lacks everything except robbers.

Not long after driving over, this was already the seventh robber that Song Shi had shot down.

".Um?"

An unknown amount of time had passed when Song Shi suddenly lifted his eyes from the fair card strategy game "Oligar War" on the data tablet, and his index finger, which was about to press the ten-pull button, paused.

I sense that there are people several kilometers ahead.

It's not that the robbers have multiple individuals and vehicles, but a convoy.

After carefully distinguishing the smell, Song Shi made a judgment that this smell mixed with sand, engine oil and rusty metal belonged to a "Wanderer Tribe".

"--lapis lazuli."

Song Shi suddenly spoke.

"Hacking has taken over the other party's equipment, and information retrieval is complete." Lapis Lazuli replied in seconds: "They are 'clean'."

It is not an easy thing to live on a wasteland for a long time.

The people here may be weaker in pure "strength", but their minds must be there - otherwise, unless you have the protection of a tolerant enough tribe, most of them will die early.

The wanderer tribe is an important part of it. It is not uncommon for them to be wanderers at ordinary times, but when they see a good deal, they suddenly turn into robbers.

With the power of Lapis Lazuli's [Demon] with a depth of 4, the opponent would never have thought that their files would be searched and browsed completely within a time unit of frames.

"Clean?" Song Shi nodded and asked casually, "How clean?"

Instead of answering in seconds as expected, this time Lapis Lazuli pondered for a moment before uttering a single word.

“Very clean.”

(End of this chapter)