End of the World: My Items Can Be Upgraded Infinitely.

Chapter 163: The use of artistic conception, the king spiny worm in the crater

Hearing Liu Yi's report, a hint of surprise flashed in Lin Feng's eyes, and then he silently turned his gaze to the side, where Shen Jie, who was like a baby, was curled up in the black and yellow insect eggs.

At this moment, the outer shell of the insect egg absorbed the layers of armor that had fallen off Shen Jie's body, and condensed into a hard black and yellow shell. Compared with the previous white insect egg, it looked more like a cocoon.

However, whether he can break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly, and finally be reborn, depends on Shen Jie's own efforts to break free from the Zerg spiritual world.

Lin Feng thought for a moment and turned his head:

"What happened to these awakened ones after they woke up?"

Liu Yi swallowed his saliva. What was happening now was even more mysterious than what he had experienced in the underground insect nest. It made him feel uneasy for a moment:
"It's okay..."

"However, their consciousness collectively appeared in the same dream world. According to the description of those who were conscious, the dream world was desolate and there were many second-level tiger-backed insects, leading the black-backed insects to besiege and hunt them."

"After being killed in the dream, the self-consciousness will awaken in the real world."

"Those of them who killed the tiger spine worms were in surprisingly good condition after waking up, while those who died without killing any of them became somewhat confused and listless..."

"But it will be fine after a break."

Lin Feng nodded and watched the first batch of second-level awakeners walk out one after another. Among the thirty people, there were seven or eight people whose identified data showed that their spiritual attributes were twenty or thirty points higher than others.

It is probably related to the killing of tiger-backed worms in the spiritual world.

The fact that they could unexpectedly appear in the Zerg spiritual world that Shen Jie was trapped in might be the characteristics of the Zerg's artistic conception or domain.

A certain spiritual energy, like radiation, invisible and intangible, is spreading outward from Shen Jie continuously. The creatures that are undergoing deep awakening nearby will be intertwined with this artistic conception energy when their spiritual attributes begin to leap forward, and thus be drawn into it.

Lin Feng secretly speculated in his heart, but he still had to ask the Zerg Queen, Ling Yi, about the specific situation.

It is obvious that Longyi knows more about the research theories on spiritual realm and cosmic life than he does.

However, the other party has not returned yet, and this phenomenon has not caused any danger for the time being...

So Lin Feng plans to continue the experiment:
"Let them summarize their experience, inform the next batch of people who have awakened for the second time, and then gather around this insect egg..."

"I will protect them myself!"

Liu Yi nodded. In this situation, only Lin Feng, as the leader, could take the initiative to stabilize people's hearts.

Soon, the second group of thirty first-stage late-stage fully awakened people, who were also the first batch of veterans who followed Lin Feng, killed a second-stage insect egg and drank the organic nutrient solution inside...

They stood neatly among the insect eggs, looking at the sergeant in front of them with a little nervousness.

Lin Feng smiled slightly:
"Don't worry, the dream you experienced with Captain Shen Jie is not life-threatening. Even if you die in battle, you will only be mentally depressed for a while. But as long as you kill the tiger-spine insects in it, you will gain additional improvements in your mental attributes. The more you kill, the faster and more you will improve. This is a once-in-a-lifetime precious opportunity."

"Especially for awakeners like you who have enhanced their physique, the increase in mental strength can give you an extremely strong will, and at the same time, you will be more resistant to mental attacks."

"Hold it well."

"Finally, one more thing. Tell Captain Shen Jie not to forget his identity as a human being. His girlfriend is still waiting for him here."

After saying this, there was laughter from the audience.

Lin Feng nodded, motioning for them to each lie down next to the killed insect eggs and enter the second deep awakening state.

With the protection of the Red Black Armor and the Chief Sergeant personally watching over him, his safety was beyond doubt.

This time, Lin Feng immediately activated his telepathy, focusing it in an area of ​​fifty meters in radius, with the black and yellow cocoon where Shen Jie was located as the center, and then spreading to the awakened people around him.

Sure enough, in the energy radar map displayed in the brain, a very dim energy wave spread out from the cocoon.

It is like the magnetic field of high-energy matter, endless, and when it comes into contact with thirty high-energy light spots nearby, it will produce ripple-like shock waves.

These traces are actually very faint. If you don't narrow the concentrated sensing range and observe them specially, they are extremely difficult to detect under normal circumstances.

It’s a pity that Lin Feng couldn’t enter it.

Unless he also enters the awakening state now and absorbs the source of the artistic conception of killing the node mother, after the two interact with each other, they will have the opportunity to enter the same time and space.

However, Lin Feng did not intend to take any risks.

The combat soldiers and second-level legion members in front of them were not strong enough to deal with possible crises, such as the elite second-level Zerg that were about to come to support them.

In addition, it is already past five o'clock, and the invincible fleet commanded by Chen Yanyan should have arrived long ago, but there is no sign of it until now.

To be on the safe side, Lin Feng planned to let this group of soldiers who had started the second-level awakening go and test the waters first.

Killing the tiger-backed worms in the spiritual world can increase spiritual attributes, and it can also allow the reserves of these second-level legions to prepare in advance.

The increase in mental attributes represents stronger willpower, and is equally effective in resisting the assimilation of Zerg genes.

If they successfully kill the tiger spine worm, they will become the seed candidates for future genetic warriors.

It is also the final complete form of the second-order legion.

Absolutely invincible from weapons and equipment to personal strength.

Such an invincible army still has a great advantage even when facing the elite second-level squads of the Zerg, such as the Pulse Scorpion, the Tank Flame Armor, and the most dangerous Warrior Hunter Zerg in the underground Zerg hive.

So Lin Feng decided to make good use of this opportunity to lay a solid foundation for the birth of the second-level legion in advance.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng opened his eyes, looked at the black and yellow cocoon beside him, and smiled.

It seems that the Zerg's top biotechnology needs to be developed and explored in the future, especially those related to the spiritual field.

When Lin Feng was in the underground insect nest before, he thought that Lingyi was very proud of the automatic production line of the second-order tiger-backed insects, but it was actually not worthy of the reputation.

As a mass-produced unit, the Tiger Spine is not perfect, especially the low spiritual attribute, although this is also related to the Zerg's demand for war weapons...

But flaws are flaws.

The mass production that Lin Feng wants must be perfect in all aspects at the same time.

A device that can effectively enhance spiritual attribute values ​​is very attractive and creates value.

While Lin Feng was staring at the black and yellow cocoon, deep in thought, Shen Jie inside was also caught in a painful struggle in the spiritual world of the spiny worm.

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More than several months have passed since we met that group of awakened humans.

Although Shen Jie was able to stay awake during this period, he would always unconsciously fall into a state of confusion in the midst of killing. His self-awareness was changing and struggling between humans and Zerg, and even gradually torn apart.

Even every time when a new insect armor grew back on the wound on half of his face, Shen Jie would tear it off without hesitation and crush it again.

Use the burning pain to remind yourself that you are a human being, not a bug.

But Shen Jie knew very well that if he continued like this, he would sooner or later become a schizophrenic lunatic. So this time, he looked towards the central area of ​​the sulfur zone, the volcano that was still emitting billowing smoke and continuously releasing dust and magma!
He has already entered the late stage of the second stage for a long time...

But from the moment he was promoted to the late stage, Shen Jie instinctively felt that there was some kind of terrible creature hidden in the volcano, a powerful insect that was ten or even a hundred times more powerful than the second-level tiger-spine worm.

Shen Jie guessed that there might be a high-level Zerg hidden there, and killing it might be the only way for him to escape from the Zerg's spiritual world!

Thinking of this, Shen Jie decided to take this final suicidal step while he still had some sanity and could stay awake.

It took him a few more days to eliminate all the tiger-backed worms in the sulfur zone near the volcano. Regardless of the cost of being completely assimilated, he feasted on them and ate all the high-energy worm meat.

He pushed his strength to the peak of the second level and was at the critical stage from the second level to the third level, infinitely close to the high-level Zerg.

If he faces the second-level peak tiger-spine worm in the underground mother nest again, Shen Jie is confident that he can fight it.

At this moment, his body had expanded twice its size.

It is three and a half meters tall, and has a pair of giant bone blades on its arms, which are six or seven meters long.

Then, with raging madness in his eyes, Shen Jie sat on hundreds of tiger-backed worm corpses. After tearing off the armor on half of his face, his exposed eyes were extremely determined. He turned into a residual image and flew towards the crater in the distance.

The diameter of the base of the entire volcano is several kilometers, and the smoking crater in the center of the top is also hundreds of meters wide.

This is an extremely active volcano.

It has been in a semi-eruptive state...

Unlike the bubbling hot springs in the sulfur zone, the bubbles here are orange-colored liquid magma. The surging lava heat wave bubbles can carbonize organic matter instantly.

The temperature nearby was as high as hundreds of degrees, and the rising air was like surging waves, distorting the space under the refraction of light.

Further down, there was yellow-white poisonous gas, which was drifting in large quantities from the porous rocks of the volcano, spreading halfway up the mountain and forming a continuously sinking circular poisonous miasma.

Ordinary first-level life forms would be poisoned to death by the extremely harsh environment even if they crawled to the foot of the volcano, not to mention being able to step into the crater...

Baidu's high temperature is like an air fryer, which has already fried the flesh and blood to a browned brown before dehydrating them.

At this moment, Shen Jie had already reached the halfway point of the mountain and was about to face the thick yellow and white miasma.

Those are substances such as sulfur, which, under high temperature evaporation, form acidic poisonous mist with water vapor.

The pungent smell made Shen Jie feel slightly dizzy.

After closing his mouthparts and the breathing holes on his abdomen, he rushed in with one breath.

However, Shen Jie still underestimated the power of the miasma.

These yellow and white poisonous mists are not only highly toxic, but the temperature inside is also very high.

The temperature of the rocks on the surface was as high as hundreds of degrees, and the poisonous fog lingering on the mountainside was also heated to sixty or seventy degrees. At the same time, the dust and water merged and became extremely sticky.

Shen Jie's forward speed quickly slowed down, and when the insect armor on his body came into contact with the poisonous mist, it was corroded by the liquid concentrated sulfuric acid in it, making a sizzling sound.

The most painful thing was the half of his face that was torn open. The thin shell that had not yet solidified was quickly corroded by the poisonous sulfuric acid, revealing the facial muscles and blood vessels inside...

The subtle burning pain was like a thousand needles piercing his face at the same time, stimulating the induction of every nerve ending. When the concentrated feedback was sent back to the brain, Shen Jie almost fainted from the pain...

Once you fall into a coma here, the result will naturally be that you will be devoured by the poisonous miasma. Before turning into cooked meat, your entire body will be corroded until not even your bones are left.

Shen Jie gritted his teeth, and began to use the abundant life energy accumulated in his body in advance, pouring it into every tissue on the surface of his body, stimulating them to proliferate and divide, and filling the parts corrupted by the miasma.

After the warmth from his core flowed into his limbs, especially his feet, Shen Jie rushed forward with his head down...

Finally, after more than a few minutes, a figure with pits all over his body rushed out of this poisonous miasma area that was hundreds of meters wide...

Shen Jie fell to the ground, feeling the blazing heat coming from the broken insect armor on his knees and hands, to confirm that he was still alive...

As he gradually recovered from his shock, he looked up into the distance. The final destination of this journey was not far away:
The crater is just the last hundred meters ahead.

Shen Jie climbed up step by step.

The instinctive fear in my heart grew stronger with every step I took.

He could feel the high-level Zerg, right under the armor on his feet, in the molten lava at the top of the crater...

Shen Jie couldn't believe from his human rationality that there existed such horrible life forms in the world that could endure temperatures of a thousand degrees.

Even though he has reached the peak of the second level, he can only hold out for a few minutes in the high temperature of two to three hundred degrees. If it lasts longer, this biological insect armor will not be able to withstand the high temperature and will eventually burn into a pile of charred shells.

So what kind of creature can live in a volcano by feeding on magma?

After going through so many hardships and difficulties...

At this moment, Shen Jie was no longer able to fight, but he was still determined to die, wanting to witness with his own eyes the truth of the fear that lingered in his heart.

As he stepped onto the top of the crater step by step, the thick insect armor on the soles of his feet burned and fell off layer by layer, and then grew back layer by layer.

It was not until more than a minute later that Shen Jie climbed to the top of the active volcano.

He then leaned over and looked down...

In the elliptical crater with a diameter of three or four hundred meters, except for the volcanic rock covering the edge which has cooled to several hundred degrees, the inside is full of black and yellow magma blocks, forming a 300-meter-wide magma pool.

Farther away on the opposite side, from the mouth of the mountain top which was constantly being eroded and collapsed by magma, billowing gray-black smoke rose, and countless volcanic ashes drifted into the atmosphere, over the years, until they completely covered the entire planet.

Shen Jie took a deep breath. When he got here, the instinctive fear from his heart was not so strong anymore.

But it couldn't stop his determination to challenge!
He took a deep breath, and the hot air burned his throat and lungs, stimulating the burning pain...

Using all his strength, he let out bursts of roars!
This is the provocative sound of tiger spine worms fighting, and it is also the spine worms' signal for a fight.

As Shen Jie tried his best to vent his unwillingness, anger, and final powerlessness...

The next moment, the magma pool in the crater suddenly surged like boiling water in a pot, and even the surface of the ground began to shake!

Then, a pale golden leg that was hundreds of meters long emerged from the magma pool like a sharp knife...

And stabbed straight at Shen Jie at the mountain pass.

The next second, Shen Jie was resurrected from the spot.

He tore off his shirt and looked at his fair chest. He could still faintly feel the hot, burning and tearing sensation.

"Level 3... King Spinosaurus!!!"

"Intention to kill..."

(End of this chapter)