The Star Train's Journey Through the Heavens

Chapter 95 Is this insect cake absolutely necessary?
"Uncle Yang, hurry up and take it out, I want to play with it," Xing said impatiently.

"Don't worry, we haven't had a chance to collect it yet. Lord Morgan will arrange for someone to deliver it in a little while," Walter said helplessly.

“The armory has training gravity bodies; you can try them out first, and I’ll teach you how to use them,” Hongkou suggested.

"Let's go," Xing said, pulling Hongkou along.

"Thank you for your help." Meng Huaifeng followed.

The driving experience of the gravity body is not very comfortable, which is of course related to the fact that Meng Huaifeng's physical strength is stronger than that of the gravity body.

Even though you can punch at supersonic speed, wearing gravity armor reduces your punching speed by at least half, and there's also a very low latency.

This sense of delay is imperceptible to ordinary people, but Meng Huaifeng, with his extraordinary five senses, can perceive it very clearly.

Moreover, the power exerted by gravity is not as great as the power that Meng Huaifeng himself can exert.

Therefore, wearing the gravity suit actually restricted Meng Huaifeng, so the experience was naturally not very good.

Meng Huaifeng experienced it for a while before emerging from the gravity body, while Xing seemed to be having a lot of fun.

Walter is examining the bodies of several people in this world.

Don't get me wrong, it's a very serious one.

Although the human race exists on many planets and may look similar, their internal constitution and structure may differ.

"Compared to people from martial arts civilizations, their meridians are slightly weaker and more often blocked. In martial arts civilizations, this would mean they lack the talent for cultivation and are not suitable for internal energy cultivation. However, this may be due to individual differences, and I need to examine more people."

"Sword intent requires a firm will, which is also a kind of strong emotion. If you try to cultivate this, you might not even grow up before you get killed because you attract too many Devouring Beasts. It's not suitable, pass."

"The Martial Soul system has too many flaws. There are no Soul Beasts in this world, making it extremely difficult for non-Destiny Walkers to break through the Soul Ring bottleneck on their own. My research on Martial Souls is limited, and I don't yet have a way to improve it by bypassing Soul Rings."

"The pineal gland between the eyebrows is too loose and not cohesive enough, making it unsuitable for cultivating spiritual power and magic."

"Hmm, they do have a special life energy within them. Could it be the life essence that Huaifeng mentioned? It seems like they can strengthen their physique through life energy."

Meng Huaifeng said that Devouring Beasts can absorb the life essence of humans, so conversely, humans can also absorb the life essence of Devouring Beasts to become stronger, just like leveling up and fighting monsters in a game.

Walter suddenly had this idea: this way he could not only become stronger quickly, but also clear away the crisis on the ground, allowing humanity to return to the surface.

However, this method is somewhat similar to the practice of "abundant evil," except that it is used for good.

However, the number of Devouring Beasts is limited. What would happen if, after the Devouring Beasts are wiped out, ambitious individuals are unwilling to continue growing stronger?
To raise a butcher's knife against one's comrades?

Walter frowned. Even though this method seemed to be the most suitable for the world, he decided to shelve the idea.

It's better not to forge such a dangerous double-edged sword.

Let's try a different approach; it's okay if the rate of becoming stronger is a little slower.

All sorts of ways to become stronger flashed through Walter's mind.

In the apocalypse, people don't know when they will die, so it's best to build up combat power in a short time and continue to grow stronger.

Ultimately, Walter decided on a path that would begin with gene enhancement fluid to break through physical limits, and then use the unique life energy of this world's humans to continuously strengthen his physique.

The lighthouse has a certain technological foundation and is fully capable of producing gene enhancement fluid.

After finalizing the plan, Walter called Danheng: "Danheng."

"Mr. Walter, what's wrong?"

"I need you to help me look up the various gene enhancement fluid manufacturing methods recorded by the anonymous seniors in the think tank. Regardless of the enhancement level, please select a few that are relatively easy to make and use common materials and send them to me," Walter said.

"No problem, just a moment."

Little Green Dragon is reliable; in just over ten minutes, he sent Walter the recipes for seven types of gene enhancement fluids.

Walter asked Elon and Jingnan about the materials needed, asking if such materials existed in this world. The two were not very knowledgeable about them, so they first called in a materials researcher.

With the help of the materials researcher, it was determined that there were three types of materials for the gene enhancement fluid that could be found in this world, and Walter chose the one that had the best effect on mental enhancement.

The stronger one's spirit, the better one can perceive the life essence within one's body and then use it to strengthen one's physique.

At the same time, it is also beneficial to manipulate gravity bodies and give full play to their stronger performance.

In the early stages, this can assist in piloting the gravity body, and later, once you become stronger enough, you can discard the gravity body, which provides an improvement at any stage.

Instead of the awkward situation where you're inferior to gravity-based beings in the early stages, and controlling gravity-based beings is no different from controlling ordinary people.

As for whether the people of this world will develop their own methods to plunder life essence after they become stronger, that is beyond Walter's control.

The life essence resides within them. Whether he teaches them how to use it or not, they will be able to perceive it themselves once they become stronger, and then they can study it.

This is a unique characteristic of life in this world, and it cannot be changed.

We shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

First, the data was converted into the world's language by analyzing the synesthetic beacon. Then, Meng Huaifeng used his mobile phone martial soul to connect to the world's network and forward the data to Jingnan's communication equipment.

Although the Lighthouse has obtained the production data for the gene enhancement fluid, it will take at least several months to fully understand and produce it, and the train crew cannot wait that long.

Walter also wanted to teach them how to cultivate using life essence, but it was too difficult for ordinary people to sense life essence.

So Welt used the power of the Herrscher of Reason to create a bottle of gene enhancement fluid out of thin air.

This gene enhancement fluid is based on a principle that Walter understood, and it's different from the one given to the lighthouse; its effects are much better.

However, this does not affect the subsequent training instruction.

Jingnan already knew they could conjure things out of thin air, assuming that Walter had taken them from an unknown space, unaware that he had created them out of thin air.

“Instructor Elon, you must be the best instructor on the lighthouse, right?” Walter said to Elon.

Since Lord Morgan asked Elon to bring him to the training room, Elon must have some extraordinary abilities.

"Of course, I'm the one who taught Hongkou," Elon said without any modesty, his face full of pride.

"So, would you be willing to inject this gene enhancement fluid?" Walter asked.

"Is this thing dangerous?" Jing Nan was slightly worried. Before the cataclysm, this world actually had gene enhancement technology, but the mortality rate was terrifying.

"Don't worry, all the products we've brought out are technologically advanced and pose no danger whatsoever," Walter said.

“A little danger is nothing. In the apocalypse, if you don’t get stronger, you’ll die sooner or later. Bring it on. I never thought I’d have this kind of opportunity at my age. It seems I can still shine for the Beacon for a few more years,” Elon said without hesitation.

"Teacher, why don't I do it?" Hongkou said, still worried.

"Hey, you little brat, are you jealous that this old man is about to become stronger and afraid you won't be able to beat me?" Elon joked.

“No…” Hongkou said hurriedly.

“Injecting the enhancement fluid is only the first step to becoming stronger. After the enhancement is complete, I will teach you how to continue to become stronger. Once you produce the gene enhancement fluid, you will be the ones to teach others. Therefore, the first person should ideally be someone with rich teaching experience,” Walter said.

There are countless methods in the universe to strengthen one's physique with life energy. Although the life source of this world is somewhat special, it is still life energy. With Walter's knowledge, it is easy to make slight modifications to suit the people of this world.

"Did you hear that, Hongkou? This first one has to be me, the old man. I admit you're a great fighter, even better than me, but when it comes to teaching, you're far from it. Don't mislead any students." Elon said with a smug look on his face.

"Don't worry, if Uncle Yang says there's no danger, then there really is no danger," Meng Huaifeng reassured him.

"Alright," Hongkou could only accept.

“Gene enhancement takes some time. You should go back to your room and get the injection. I’ll teach you tomorrow morning.” Walter handed the gene enhancement fluid to Elon.

Elon took it and looked at it from the south.

“Instructor Elon, you go ahead. I’ll stay here with you,” Jingnan said.

"The old man is leaving now, Mr. Walter, everyone, see you tomorrow," Elon said, taking his leave.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, something flew over and knocked Elon to the ground.

"Ouch, my back!" Elon said, clutching his aching back.

Xing scratched his head and got up from the side, looking completely bewildered.

It turned out that Xing suddenly flew over and crashed into Elon's waist.

"Hey, what's going on? Ah Xing, what are you doing?" Meng Huaifeng asked in confusion.

"I don't know either. Suddenly, I was ejected from the gravity body with a whoosh." Xing was clearly confused about what had happened.

Meng Huaifeng looked in the direction of the gravity body that Xing had piloted earlier, and saw March 7 standing helplessly next to it.

"So, what happened in March?" Meng Huaifeng asked.

Facing everyone's gaze, March 7th said somewhat awkwardly, "Um, I didn't know that the button on the back was for emergency pop-up. I just pressed it by accident, it wasn't intentional!" "Oh, so it was you who got me into trouble." Xing stormed towards March 7th.

"I've already said I didn't do it on purpose, I didn't know either," March 7th explained repeatedly.

"I don't care, if you want me to forgive you, you have to go in and let me play it once!" Xing made a reasonable request.

“No, no.” March 7th refused without hesitation.

"Then I'll fight you to the death!"

"Help! Uncle Yang!"

Star Chaser, March 7th Escape.

Walter shook his head helplessly.

"Instructor Elon, is your back alright?" Meng Huaifeng asked with concern.

"It's nothing, just a minor injury, nothing to worry about," Elon said defiantly, clutching his waist as he slowly walked out.

Walter did not create gene enhancement fluid for the Wilderness Hunters.

First, the nameless guests are not babysitters; they will provide assistance and help local forces solve things beyond their capabilities, such as the origin of the apocalypse.

But it's impossible to help them all the way through. They are capable of solving their own problems, and they still need to work hard on their own. The anonymous guest won't rush to help them.

Of course, if you ask for help and are offered payment, I'm not unwilling to help.

Secondly, even if the hunters are injected with gene enhancement fluid and their strength increases significantly, they will not immediately surpass the combat power of the gravity body; they will still need to cultivate gradually.

Therefore, in the presence of gravity, whether a hunter is injected with gene enhancement fluid or not makes little difference in the short term.

After the gravity object promised by Lord Morgan was delivered, Walter stored it in his ticket space.

After saying goodbye to Hongkou and Poxiao, Jingnan led the pioneering team to visit other places.

Aerial farm, upper residential area, lower residential area.

Looking at the suspended, pigeon-cage-like residential area of ​​the lower class, Meng Huaifeng sighed inwardly.

March 7th looked somewhat downcast, clearly not in a good mood, but he also understood that only in this way could the lighthouse accommodate more survivors.

Jingnan glanced at the fiery sunset and suggested, "It's getting late, let's all go upstairs for dinner."

"Together with these people?" Meng Huaifeng asked, looking at the so-called Dust People around him.

“Of course not, Lord Morgan has prepared a banquet to entertain you all,” Jingnan said.

“I don’t want to go. Let’s eat with them?” March 7th suddenly said.

“Well… the food of the Dust People is extremely limited, I’m afraid you won’t be used to it,” Jing Nan said hesitantly.

"If they can eat it, so can we. The Nameless Guest is no pampered type." March 7th proudly puffed out his chest.

"Can anything taste as bad as Himeko's coffee? I'm not even afraid of Himeko's coffee!" Hoshi said nonchalantly.

"This time, Sister Ji Zi got off the bus with us. She'll probably be sad to hear you say that, Ah Xing," Meng Huaifeng reminded her.

"It's alright, Sister Himeko isn't here." Hoshi looked around.

“Coffee is a luxury item…” Jingnan looked at Walter speechlessly.

The food of the Dust People is incomparable to coffee. These people actually think that coffee is the worst-tasting coffee. They have never tasted bitterness and would never be able to eat the food of the Dust People.

Walter adjusted his glasses and said, "Since Little March wants to experience life, Miss Jingnan, then please take us there."

“Alright, if you can’t finish your food, you can come with me to the upstairs restaurant,” Jing Nan reluctantly agreed.

The place where the commoners ate was far worse than the hunters' canteen, but this was within the expectations of the pioneering team, so they didn't react.

Seeing that they showed no sign of leaving, Jingnan had no choice but to order five portions of food. After hesitating for a moment, he ordered one for himself as well.

"Are they from the upper class? What are they doing here?"

"Who knows, judging from their young age, they're probably just curious and here to experience life, right?"

"I'm so envious. Why are they the superior people and we are just ordinary people?"

"I bet they'll spit it out."

……

Meng Huaifeng listened to the conversations of those around him and could tell that many people were extremely dissatisfied with the hierarchical system and harbored a hint of malice towards the upper class.

This is inevitable; no one wants to be inferior.

Therefore, all kinds of weapons were firmly in the hands of the common people; otherwise, Meng Huaifeng had no doubt that someone would have launched a rebellion.

Meng Huaifeng looked at the meat pie on the plate. His amazing eyesight allowed him to clearly see that there were many insect tentacles, shells, and legs inside the meat pie, and he felt a little strange.

I took a gentle sniff, and an indescribable aroma rushed to my brain.

This meat pie challenges both the visual and olfactory senses.

"What... what is this made of?" March 7th frowned, looking disgusted.

“These are insect cakes,” Jingnan said.

"What kind of insect?" March 7th couldn't help but ask again.

“Cockroaches,” Jingnan said truthfully.

March 7th froze, as if petrified, and Xing and Zhu Zhuqing's expressions also became somewhat stiff.

"If you want to eat, just eat. Why ask so many questions? The more you ask, the less you'll be able to eat." Meng Huaifeng looked at March 7 speechlessly.

"If you can't eat anymore, please don't. The banquet has been prepared," Jingnan said again.

"No! I said I'd eat with them, and I'll eat with them! What can't the Nameless Guest endure? Mere insect cakes!" March 7 said through gritted teeth. If it had been someone else who suggested it, March 7 might have changed her mind, but it was she who suggested eating with the Dust People... Even if it broke her teeth, she would swallow it down!

"Isn't this also pioneering!" Xing shouted, stuffing the insect cake into his mouth in one gulp.

Is this also pioneering? Zhu Zhuqing was shocked, but as a senior, Xing should be right, so she also took a bite, her little face scrunching up deeply.

Meng Huaifeng gave Xing a thumbs up, then picked up the insect cake and started eating.

If you ignore the unpleasant appearance and unpleasant smell of the insect cakes, they are actually not so bad to eat.

The insect flesh was mixed with insect shells, and a crunching sound came from its mouth.

"It tastes like chicken, and it's crunchy," Meng Huaifeng said to March 7.

On March 7th, he closed his eyes and, with a look of grim determination, stuffed the insect cake into his mouth.

"Ugh~"

I felt slightly nauseous on March 7th, not because of the taste, but because of a psychological reaction.

"Something terrible has happened! Captain Red Bloom has been arrested!" a commoner suddenly ran into the restaurant and shouted.

"What? How could Captain Hongkou be arrested? She's such a good person."

"That's right, if it weren't for Captain Hong Kou saving me, I wouldn't be back now!"

"I heard he violated one of the three laws of survival and has now been taken to the stake!"

"Is Captain Red Bandit going to die?"

"Not necessarily, after all, she made so many contributions to the lighthouse."

"Quick, go and see!"

Meng Huaifeng put down the insect cake in his hand, stood up and said, "Let's go take a look."

March 7th put down the remaining insect cakes with a sigh of relief and asked in surprise, "Wasn't Sister Hongkou fine just now? And she's such a nice person, how come she was suddenly arrested?"

"Let's go save her!" Xing pulled out a baseball bat.

"Don't be impulsive. Hongkou is the captain of the Hunters. She is highly capable and has done so much for the Lighthouse. Even if she made some mistakes, she should be fine," Walter said calmly.

"Let's go see the execution platform they mentioned first. Miss Jingnan, please lead the way," Meng Huaifeng said.

“Okay.” Jingnan also snapped out of his shock and hurriedly led the way.

She couldn't believe that Captain Hongkou, who was always full of responsibility and a sense of justice, would be arrested by the Lighthouse.

(End of this chapter)