Evolution game, nothing more than that!

……

The night is getting darker.

Yamasaki An sat beside Yi Shen and fell asleep unknowingly, her head resting on his shoulder, sleeping soundly.

Yi Shen looked at the other person's delicate sleeping face and couldn't bear to wake her up.

While feeling the girl's warmth through her clothes, he began to think about the development of his own abilities.

After all, he can be intimate with girls at any time in the future, but his own strength is related to whether he can still have a "future".

Nowadays, Yi Shen’s strength mainly consists of two parts.

One is the whole body cell control and cellular force field ability he gained through his special experience in the cellular anthropomorphic world.

Although both abilities are very powerful, the former allows him to regenerate his injuries at a high speed like Wolverine, and the latter allows him to greatly enhance his defense, strength, speed and other attributes in a short period of time.

But both of them also have their shortcomings - the former's regenerative ability is triggered actively, so the integrity of the brain and the clarity of consciousness must be guaranteed; and although the latter is full of explosive power, the duration is too short!

These two shortcomings cannot be remedied in a short period of time.

Therefore, the focus of his development is another part of his strength - the Eye of God!

Although he had only obtained the elemental power for a day, he could already feel the usefulness of this power.

Whether it is reconnaissance, combat, or even cooking, this power has brought him great convenience.

But having played the game before, he knew that the way he used the elemental power of thunder was too crude!

In terms of attack, it can only release lightning, and at most concentrate the lightning on the weapon to enhance its cutting and breaking defense capabilities.

It's not that this attack method is not powerful, but it is too monotonous and too easy to be targeted - the former only needs to use a strong insulator or Faraday cage to be basically immune to his attack; the latter's attack range is too short and must be used in conjunction with the acceleration of the cell force field, so it cannot last long.

As for the derivative skills in the game such as shields, treatment, displacement, thunder creation, etc., he doesn't know any of them and has many shortcomings.

"You can ignore the healing aspect for now. After all, my cell control ability is stronger than most healing techniques. As for lightning creation, there's no rush. I don't have any demand for it yet... But shields and displacement are both technologies that can greatly make up for the shortcomings of the cell force field, and they must be developed first!"

He was calculating in his mind.

Of the two, shield skills are undoubtedly simpler and easier to develop than displacement skills that involve many aspects of human movement.

"Using a strong electromagnetic force to generate a deflection field to divert bullets fired at me in other directions? Hmm... that doesn't seem to work. Although the lightning elemental force manifests in the same way as lightning, it's essentially different. Generating magnetism from electricity to form a stable magnetic field is not that easy..."

Yi Shen muttered to himself while verifying with weak elemental power between his fingers. One idea after another was proposed by him, and then rejected one by one.

Time passed by unknowingly.

Chapter 16: Elemental Shield, Brain Division

The next day, when Yamasaki An woke up from her sleep, she opened her eyes and saw arcs of electricity released from Yi Shen's hands, which turned into a purple light curtain surrounding the two of them.

She immediately turned her head to look at him, not even caring about feeling shy about having slept on his shoulder for another night.

"Mr. Smith, what are you doing...?"

"As you can see, it's a shield, and one that can last for a long time!"

Yi Shen said this, his tone filled with excitement that was hard to conceal.

He could be said to have not slept all night last night. After rejecting many plans in succession, he finally discovered that the elemental shield technique was simpler than he had imagined!

There is no need to consider anything like electromagnetism or electromagnetic deflection. All you need to do is simply put your will on "protection" and "defense" into the Eye of God, and the elemental force will respond.

In fact, Yi Shen had been thinking in the wrong direction from the very beginning.

Elemental force is not simply lightning, but a kind of energy that is closer to idealism. Although it is possible to create something similar based on pure knowledge of physics, it will undoubtedly be much more troublesome and require taking many detours. However, if one follows its own idealistic characteristics and gives one's own will to the elements, one can easily reshape them into the form one wants.

The shield in front of him was just like that. It only took him one night, no, to be more precise, three or four hours, to find the technique to infuse his will into the elements and eventually shape them into a shield.

"Here, take this and try to shoot me!"

Yi Shen excitedly pulled up Yamasaki An who had just woken up, and before she could react, he stuffed a pistol into her hand.

"This……"

Yamasaki An didn't react for a long time. After a while, she finally realized what Yi Shen wanted her to do. She immediately waved her hands:

"No, no, no, how could I shoot you?"

"Hey, stop talking nonsense! You know I'm not afraid of getting hurt at all! I just want to test the defensive power of this shield now, hurry up, don't dawdle!"

Yi Shen waved his hand and urged.

"This, okay..."

Seeing the other party's insistence, Yamasaki An had no choice but to comply.

Yi Shen shrunk the shield to cover only his own body, and Yamasaki An stood less than two meters in front of him.

The girl raised the gun, hesitated for a moment, and finally pointed the gun at Yi Shen's thigh.

boom!

A gunshot rang out, and Yi Shen looked down at his leg, finding it unharmed.

After looking around again, he finally found the warhead on the ground at the edge of the shield, which had been flattened by its own kinetic energy.

"Very good, it looks like there's no problem with resisting pistol bullets!"

Yi Shen nodded with satisfaction, and then handed Yamasaki An a rifle.

The latter was relieved after seeing that Yi Shen's shield actually blocked the bullet. With some trepidation, he took the rifle and continued to help the other party test the defensive power of the elemental shield.

So, that early morning, continuous gunshots rang out in the abandoned house and lasted for a long time.

As it turned out, neither a pistol nor a rifle could penetrate the lightning element shield that Yi Shen had opened.

Even if an assault rifle is firing continuously in full-automatic mode, as long as not all bullets are accurately shot at the same point, the flowing lightning element will be able to spread all the impact force to every inch of the entire shield. As long as the elemental power is exhausted, the shield will not be broken.

What is different from the game is that this kind of shield skill has no rigid duration limit. As long as Yi Shen wants, he can continuously draw elemental power from the Eye of God and replenish it into the shield to maintain its "shield capacity".

He can even extend the shield from his body surface to protect others, just like what Yamasaki An saw when she just woke up.

However, this operation requires more elemental force output per unit time. The larger the shield is opened, the more it consumes. Therefore, it cannot be extended outward indefinitely. Currently, it can only be maintained at the level of protecting three to five people.

But in this game, that's more than enough.

Now, Yi Shen can finally proudly announce that he has successfully developed another shield skill that is powerful enough, and it lasts much longer than the cellular force field, which can be regarded as making up for a major shortcoming in his own strength.

……

Although she was dragged into such a terrifying test right after waking up, Yamasaki An was still very happy about Yi Shen's success.

After all, if the other party becomes stronger, he will be able to protect her better, and her own safety will be further guaranteed. How can she not be happy?

"It's just that, Mr. Smith, you seem to have not slept all night. Is this really okay?"

The girl started to worry about this matter again.

After all, even she knew that people's attention and concentration would drop significantly after staying up late, which was very detrimental to the ever-changing battles.

What if I get distracted during a battle?

In response, Yi Shen told her not to worry.

In fact, he had already realized this problem and found a solution himself.

——The method is actually very simple. You just need to let your left and right brain rest separately, just like dolphins.

This is naturally impossible for ordinary humans, but for Yi Shen, who can control all the cells in his body, it is just a matter of thought.

Even though he didn't sleep all night last night and was thinking about how to develop his elemental power skills, in fact, half of his brain was resting at every moment, while the other half was thinking, and they would rotate every few hours.

By daybreak, both halves of his brain had gotten enough rest, and it would not affect his daytime activities at all.

After hearing Yi Shen's explanation, Yamasaki An was shocked, but also couldn't help showing an envious look.

If she also had this ability, wouldn't she be awake half as much as an ordinary person every day?

This extra time, whether used for studying, working to earn money, or even watching TV shows or videos, is pure profit!

Hmm... If she had this ability when she was in high school and put it into practice, maybe she could have gotten into a prestigious university like the University of Tokyo, instead of just applying to a junior college to get a diploma...

Well, that’s a very down-to-earth way of thinking!

It seems that Yamasaki An still hasn't completely adjusted her mindset from an ordinary person who is busy with daily life to an evolved gamer who is accompanied by battles.

But that's hardly a bad thing.

After all, it was precisely because she retained the simplicity and innocence of an ordinary person that Yi Shen was able to look at her differently and was willing to provide protection for her, wasn't it?

Chapter 17: Spreading Shadows, Tough and Powerful Enemies

Da da da! Da da da!

"Damn it, why can't I shoot him to death? Why can't I shoot him to death?!"

Amidst the continuous gunfire, a gunman looked in despair at the figure covered in a layer of purple light, who rushed directly in front of him, defying his plan.

Click, click!

He subconsciously continued to pull the trigger, but found that all the bullets in the magazine had been used up.

"You, what the hell are you?!"

Knowing that he was dead, he asked in a trembling voice.

"As you can see, it's just a human being."

Yi Shen answered this, raised his hand and threw a thunder, killing it directly.

Thus ended the brief battle that had been sparked by this man's ambush and ended with his own death.

Another complete crushing victory.

This is already the fifth day of the game.

During this period, the scope of the survival circle was reduced twice, and Yi Shen also moved Yamasaki An twice.

In this process, as the players' range of activities becomes smaller and smaller, the possibility of encountering each other also greatly increases, and battles like the one just now are naturally unavoidable.

Fortunately, so far, the two of them have encountered ordinary people. Relying on the powerful defense brought by the elemental shield, he crushed the group of players almost effortlessly.

"Win again, Mr. Smith!"

Yamasaki An came running from behind and began to search the corpses consciously and skillfully, collecting all the usable spoils.

"It's just bullying ordinary people."

Yi Shen shook his head, not feeling very proud.

In fact, he was somewhat tired of this one-sided massacre-like battle.

These ordinary players rarely even drop cards. It's just some seized guns and ammunition, which doesn't mean much to the two people who don't lack these things at all.

"But, the enemy is ordinary people, which means we won't be in danger. Isn't that a good thing?"

The girl, however, did not quite understand the man's mentality of "thinking the enemy is too weak". In her opinion, it would be best if they could end the game safely without fighting at all!

"...You're right, I was just being hypocritical."

Yi Shen smiled and did not refute Yamasaki An's statement.

Indeed, this game is ultimately a competition for survival. Fighting itself is not the goal, survival is.

He was probably inflated, and after crushing some ordinary people, he started to feel a little proud. This is not good...

While reflecting on himself, he examined the various spoils handed to him by Yamasaki An.

There's no need to replace guns or anything like that. Just keep the ammunition of the same caliber. As for the food...if it's been eaten, just forget about it. They don't need it.

Other than that, no more.

After dismantling the gun that he was not going to take away into parts and throwing them around, Yi Shen took Yamasaki An and set off again, leaving behind only a charred corpse.

However, he didn't know that not long after they left, a small figure emerged from the darkness and pounced directly on the corpse. Countless wriggling tentacles stretched out from its body, wrapping the corpse and itself, and gradually turned into a cocoon of flesh and blood.

Through the thin layer of flesh on the surface, one can see that the corpse is quickly decomposing into nutrients, and that small body is growing little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye. Indistinctly, one can seem to see the bone spurs extending from its back, and the shape of its head that is completely different from that of a human!

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Day 7 of the game.

After several rounds of shrinking, the scope of the survival circle has become smaller and smaller.