Chapter 380: Lin Xian

"Alive, what does that mean?"

"Through studying the existence form of the mother nest in the Baicheng of the No. 5 Star Abyss that you recorded, I feel very curious about this form of life composition, because the birth of life comes from the division of embryos, and there is a natural growth process. The form of stitching and manufacturing like this is very difficult to understand."

Ding Junyi pushed a large petri dish on the table forward. Inside was a large mass of biological tissue that looked like it had been hardened and dehydrated. She said to Lin Xian: "But look, most of these tissues are derived from humans and the flesh parts of animals. We have been in contact with weird bodies for so long, including the Federation and the Phoenix Society. In fact, we have always thought that weird bodies are another form of life. They don't possess the brain or heart tissue we understand. But the problem is, they clearly have the characteristics of carbon-based organisms."

"Fortunately, they are carbon-based organisms, so our weapons can still work." Lin Xian said.

"Normally, cell tissue will not immediately lose activity after biological death. We have collected a lot along the way, but the problem is..."

"None of them are alive?"

Ding Junyi nodded. She picked up tweezers and clamped a piece of the black tissue in the petri dish. The original flesh and blood at this time looked like it had been carbonized, turning into fine sand and flowing down quickly.

"Human tissue has been 'processed' in some way, so it possesses extremely strong hardness, flexibility, and defensive power, and... it's very heavy."

"You mean, the weird bodies we encountered are essentially not some kind of organism?"

Ding Junyi nodded: "The Phoenix Society discovered this point long ago. I also heard it from some of their recent global bulletins. Besides biological tissue research, there is the most important point, which is biological nature."

"What biological nature?"

"That is hunting and eating, mating and reproduction, the most basic behavioral activities, basically none of them possess. They are like natural killing machines, hunting humans but having no reaction to flesh and blood. The dark mark is like an instruction. As long as there is a living person, they will attack crazily, and they don't even fear death."

Hearing this, Lin Xian was silent. He did indeed discover this point. Not only him, but all survivors understood this point.

Weird bodies, including zombies, seemed to exist only for killing. There was no eating behavior, and they wouldn't stop in the face of artillery fire. This madness was one of the reasons why survivors were increasingly afraid of weird bodies.

"So I combined the fire book information package from the Phoenix Society and the Night Walker organization, as well as the research data synchronized by the Silent City, and reached a conclusion."

Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian: "That is, weird bodies are a kind of mechanized existence manufactured by some kind of power or civilization using the flesh and blood tissue of billions of humans and animals through 'craftsmanship', and what drives them is exactly this."

She said, throwing a sphere toward Lin Xian. Lin Xian took it and looked at it. It was a Level 2 blood essence.

"Weird blood essence..." Lin Xian's expression changed slightly: "Are you saying that this thing is the battery for weird bodies?"

"It should be easy to understand, right."

Lin Xian was silent. At this time, he inexplicably remembered what the professor named Han Qiming said to him when he was in the No. 9 underground city before.

"The reason why this kind of inference cannot be spread is firstly to avoid causing panic, and secondly, it is not rigorous. It is mainly because whether it is from biological pathology, bacterial strain research, or zombie living body investigation, there is no accurate judgment in this regard. Zombies themselves are not a rigorous concept. From a biological point of view, such individual organisms do not exist."

"For example, an adult with extremely poor physical function cannot suddenly possess extremely strong vitality and physical strength without heat metabolism. A body destroyed by a virus will only be worse. How can it be alive and kicking to pounce on people and survive for so long?"

"So the dark invasion toxin is essentially the energy of dark organisms, including zombies, similar to our oxygen, and blood essence is the high-density combination of this energy, which is the main core driving weird bodies to act?"

"Yes."

"Seems to make sense." Lin Xian nodded: "Those weird bodies release black gas every time they kill. It should be high-concentration dark invasion toxin..."

No wonder he heard hellish cries in his ears whenever he approached this black mist before. It turned out it wasn't auditory hallucinations, but the mental impact caused by high-concentration dark invasion on him.

And absorbing this high-concentration dark invasion was a huge burden on the human body. If you couldn't hold on, you would degenerate and mutate. If you held on, you would gain evolution. This was also the reason why those ability user hunting groups encountered before tried to use this method to improve their ability strength.

"Then what do you mean when you say this cell is alive now?"

Ding Junyi pointed to the dark-corrosion cell in the petri dish: "This is exactly what I am curious about. After my research, I found that this cell possesses a form of cell existence completely different from Blue Star organisms. The most critical point is that it possesses the characteristic of being able to absorb dark invasion and is completely unaffected. The only problem is that the Deep Red World configures it on a living human flesh and blood tissue to maintain its activity. Otherwise, it couldn't be brought out of the Star Abyss. So I think this thing is very likely..."

"The real dark organism!"

Lin Xian was slightly shocked and reacted: "I understand what you mean. You are saying that besides some weird bodies that are real dark organisms, most of them are actually flesh-and-blood machines manufactured by the mother nest like the Baicheng."

"Yes."

"Is that A-level, special-level, or S-level?"

"Not sure." Ding Junyi said: "For the abyss worm in Xilan City and the black thorn in the clouds, I asked Shu Qin to help me collect some tissue. However, from my side, I didn't find this kind of dark-corrosion cell."

"So strange, not even S-level?" Lin Xian said in surprise.

Ding Junyi shook her head: "I also find it strange. As the first S-level organism killed by humans, Zhao Yu and Wen Zhuo's team attached great importance to it at the time and collected a lot of data to take away. But including the abyss worm, no weird blood essence was found. So I think this kind of dark-corrosion cell should be in a special part or requires specific conditions. But these are all guesses."

"This dark-corrosion cell is definitely a major discovery." Lin Xian's expression became cold: "The Deep Red World spent such a huge price, and in order not to let us intercept it, they also designed a plan to cross the sea in the dark. This thing is definitely not simple."

"Now humans have been able to separate dark energy from cold dark particles. This is essentially the energy conversion form of dark invasion. You can understand it as a higher-purity cold dark reagent available for human absorption. Wangyue Zhenshi's calculation formula derivation, 18%, is the limit that the human body can convert at present. This limit is also a critical value for the evolution of ability users. So in principle, except for the human body's forced filtering, there is no material on Blue Star that can isolate or store this energy." Ding Junyi said.

Lin Xian looked at the weird blood essence in his hand and the dark-corrosion cell on the table: "Can't find it on Blue Star, but maybe in the Star Abyss?"

"Yes, this is exactly the purpose of Wangyue Zhenshi and the Phoenix Society researching the Star Abyss. Of course, the Deep Red World is the same. Whether it is disaster plants, blood essence, weird bodies, or taboo objects, these organizations all want to find answers from these substances that do not belong to Blue Star."

"So this kind of cell being able to be unaffected by dark invasion is a very good key for research?"

"Correct." Ding Junyi nodded: "At least this point was discovered."

"Damn, so the technology of 95% filtered pure water announced by Dawn City, through their cooperation with the Deep Red World, can they really do this?" Lin Xian said in surprise: "Dawn City wouldn't be betting on this, right?"

"I don't know about politics." Ding Junyi put down the things in her hand: "I only focus on the scientific research field."

"Alright."

Lin Xian had a feeling that the secret of darkness was gradually surfacing, but he didn't know if humans could solve the dark invasion problem before the global polar night, or before they died of thirst for water resources. Fortunately, the Silent City No. 2 city was not involved in the Star Abyss. Lin Xian could obtain a part of water resources from it for supplementation. Otherwise, even drinking water would be a problem now.

"On the Sky-Dome train, there is a high-standard research cabin." Lin Xian looked at Ding Junyi at this time: "Director Ding, I hope you will be my research officer. Jian Xuwei's alliance has some scientists, perhaps they can work with you later and provide you with assistance."

Ding Junyi looked up at the No. 3 carriage and said to Lin Xian: "Are you prepared to give up the Infinite?"

"I..."

"I suggest you can stay for now."

Before Lin Xian could speak, Ding Junyi said to him: "Fighting against the doomsday is a journey destined to be difficult and dangerous. We haven't left the Asia-Pacific region yet. Entering the ocean orbit, there are the East Land islands, the equatorial ocean ridge, crossing the South American storm rainforest, and crossing the endless black ocean to reach the polar region. Many things..."

Lin Xian waved his hand to interrupt and smiled faintly: "I don't have this intention at all. I won't give up the Infinite unless it's a last resort. The situation is relatively troublesome now. Getting the Sky-Dome-class is one of my plans. It will temporarily give our joint train a bottom line. At least we won't need to rely on the Silent City to escape the predicament later."

Lin Xian looked at the carriage of the Infinite. All the armor and weapons on it were manufactured by his own hands. The Infinite currently, except for some structural dark injuries on the car body, had no driving problems.

The firepower and power on this were very precious assets. Even if Lin Xian devoured the joint train in this process, the Infinite would be left to the end.

Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian, her gaze deep, and said in surprise: "So this was all one of your plans?!"

She looked at Lin Xian incredulously: "You used the Aksai taboo object to enter the Star Abyss. In fact, you knew that the Silent City and the Deep Red World were inside long ago, so you leaped through magnetic levitation, rescued the Silent City, and then destroyed the Deep Red World's research institute in one fell swoop, and also seized their dark-corrosion cells!?"

"No, you misunderstood." Lin Xian frowned, thinking that this woman was too good at associating. Was this stretching too far?

Who knew Ding Junyi became more and more surprised as she spoke. As she spoke, she took two steps back. At this time, it was like being enlightened, and she said excitedly: "Now the Silent City has become your right-hand man, and even the world's number one genius Wangyue Zhenshi has become your think tank. The Sky-Dome-class is responsible by Kiki's Linglong Group, and manufactured by Jian Xuwei and the Fenge Group. So you used the Silent City's hand to solve the Wen family, and even the Phoenix Society arrived, causing Dawn City to be wary and hand over Jinhai and the Sky-Dome-class. This... is all this in your plan?!"

"No..." Lin Xian looked at this woman talking non-stop at a fast speed with earthquake-like pupils. He kept wanting to interrupt, but couldn't get a word in. Looking at Ding Junyi's shocked and worshipful expression, Lin Xian swallowed hard.

"No... that... uh, alright."

Lin Xian restrained his expression, too lazy to explain, and simply sighed deeply: "That's right. Don't tell anyone else. I don't want to be a wise man who is good at strategy in the eyes of others. Let's keep a low profile."

Ding Junyi's chest heaved rapidly. At this time, she looked at Lin Xian with a flushed face. Suddenly, she rushed up, and with an excited expression, she began to take off Lin Xian's coat.

"You... you are my god..." She said while panting: "I haven't solved my needs for too long. Please... give me some time."

"No..."

Lin Xian looked shocked: "Weren't we just discussing serious scientific research problems? That living cell..."

Hearing 'living cell', Ding Junyi trembled all over, as if touching some point that made her happy, making her unable to help biting her lower lip, and making a sound~

"Wait, the formula derivation you just said hasn't finished yet..." Lin Xian continued to say.

Mmm~

Hearing the word formula, Ding Junyi felt even more hot all over. At this time, she didn't want to derive the formula at all, she just wanted to push Lin Xian down.

"I heard that there is a large lounge in the research cabin on the Sky-Dome train?" Ding Junyi said at this time. "Should be."

"Then it must not be as exciting as this small compartment..." Ding Junyi grabbed Lin Xian and walked toward the lounge of the research cabin.

"Ah?!"

Lin Xian knew that Director Ding had a contrasting attribute. He thought he already understood it very well, after all... he had experienced it personally. But every time, Director Ding would refresh his understanding of contrast. All the words related to the laboratory that Lin Xian said would make Ding Junyi have a strong reaction, as if those scientific terms that were taken for granted on weekdays became a kind of taboo pleasure for her at this moment. After a calm scientific research life, there would be a long-accumulated explosion.

And this time, after experiencing the thrilling excitement of Aksai and the Star Abyss, it was even more intense.

After a period of time, the two came out of the lounge exhausted. The flush on Ding Junyi's face gradually faded. While calmly buttoning up her white coat, she said to Lin Xian:

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Lin Xian replied inexplicably, then prepared to leave with a black face. At this time, he saw the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes on the table, as well as the blood vine brought back from the basement of the Baicheng orbital station. He changed the subject and said:

"By the way, do these disaster plants have any changes?"

"The conversion efficiency of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum should be improving. I compared the materials we obtained in Aksai. The degree of infection of the food and water on our car is significantly slower than on other cars. This should be the role of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum and your Heterostructure Magic Cube."

Lin Xian nodded.

"The Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes has no changes after coming out of the Star Abyss. It almost stopped growing, and there is no sign of inflorescence generation for the time being. As for that blood vine, when we rushed out of the zombie group just now, I noticed it had some changes, but it was not obvious. At present, I don't know its function. As for the name, do you want to take one?" Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian and said.

"Since you said it's a blood vine, let's call it blood vine..." Lin Xian took a long breath and said to Ding Junyi:

"Director Ding, you should move to the Sky-Dome Interstellar Train as soon as possible. Firstly, it is convenient to communicate with you, and secondly, there are many experimental equipment on it, which should be able to meet your needs."

"I know."

Ding Junyi lowered her head to organize her research data. After a long while, she looked up and pushed up her glasses at Lin Xian. Her gaze was calm but seemed to contain deep meaning:

"I was just waiting for you to come. Now my needs are also met."

Lin Xian:...

Getting off the Infinite, Lin Xian walked directly into the factory where the colonial armor was before, and took the elevator all the way down. At this time, the time had reached 9:00 in the morning. There were still about two hours before dawn. The whole Jinhai was incredibly calm. Except for the dense zombie groups surging around the industrial zone, no weird bodies appeared.

Da Lou, Shu Qin, Liang Lei, and other team leaders dispersed in the area to guard, reporting the situation to Lin Xian from time to time.

The elevator car went all the way down, entering that huge colonial armor factory again. I saw a large number of scanning robots and various types of drones operating in the air. Wangyue Zhenshi stood under the colonial armor. Before Lin Xian approached, he said:

"Answering your two questions, the design plan of that Sky-Dome train, except for the ionized air sheath layer and electrostatic field generator, is only equipped with four electromagnetic railguns and two high-energy pulse ray cannons, mainly used to clear space debris and small meteorites. The orbital star-quaking cannon and space-based weapons you want cannot be added."

He looked sideways at Lin Xian who was walking over: "The disadvantage of this pre-designed space vehicle compared to your train is here. You can't just take any carriage and use it to modify weapons, because it is starship standard, and the internal airtightness and thermal insulation composite layer are integrated."

Lin Xian frowned: "Damn, didn't you say you would help me add weapons?"

"There are other plans." Wangyue Zhenshi said leisurely: "First, redesign the overall blueprint. Second, manufacture an arsenal ship and connect it. This is more realistic. After all, this interstellar train is modular, which can solve your problem."

Lin Xian nodded: "Redesigning is forget it. The second one is more reliable. What is the other question?"

Wangyue Zhenshi slowly raised a finger, pointing to the weird body colonial armor above.

"This is not an experimental device, nor is it a failed design."

"What does that mean?"

"Judging from those colonial armor suppressors and restraint devices, the Deep Red World tailor-made it for it, but this monster was dead in the first place. Why do you think they installed these things?"

"Heh." Lin Xian smiled: "Don't tell me, they can not only control weird bodies, but also resurrect them?"

"Control, resurrection, these are all too subjective." Wangyue Zhenshi pointed to his temple and looked at Lin Xian: "The Deep Red World is a group of lunatics. You can't understand it with the thinking of normal people."

"Speak directly if you have something to say."

Wangyue Zhenshi put his hands into his sleeves, looked at the huge weird body colonial armor, and said plainly: "I don't like to publish sensational guesses. It's just that from a logical point of view, the Deep Red World cannot be unaware that a dead weird body corpse has no research value. They will spend so much investment to manufacture this thing, there must be some reason."

Hearing this, Lin Xian paused, then said in a deep voice: "Alright, then you help me get that standard hull done first. The design and manufacture of the arsenal ship definitely won't be that fast."

"Of course, at this scale, even if I use ready-made weapons, designing and manufacturing an arsenal ship hull will take at least 30 days."

"30 days..." Lin Xian opened his mouth, then swallowed the words he wanted to say.

Normally, the manufacture of those large starships is measured in years. The Silent City built it for 14 years, and now Wangyue Zhenshi is still working at full capacity to perfect the hull for interstellar travel. The Sky-Dome-class can have this scale, which is derived from the foundation of many hull segments that had already been built before the Apocalypse Day. Even so, manufacturing a tens-of-thousands-ton arsenal ship in 30 days is already a god-speed manufacturing power. This is estimated that Wangyue Zhenshi still has to use most of the Silent City's construction robots to do it.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian felt a bit of a heart attack, but he couldn't ask others to rub out a large starship in minutes. With such manufacturing power, the Silent City wouldn't be chased by the Star Abyss.

"Then it's better for you to design a blueprint for me, and then give me two sets of Hyperion directional constraints, and I'll handle the rest myself."

"Sure." Wangyue Zhenshi said lightly: "As you wish, next I will design an arsenal ship for you based on the basic modules."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Lin Xian looked back and prepared to leave: "Did Qian Suxun and your robots find the lair of the Deep Red World in Jinhai?"

"There are a few places, but they are all empty. If there is news, I will tell you, Lin." Wangyue Zhenshi said without looking back.

Lin Xian nodded, then rushed back to the ground without stopping. Underground and the starport were watched by Wangyue Zhenshi and the Silent City. On the train factory side, Jian Xuwei, Chen Sixuan, Shi Diyuan, and others were arranging the train transfer plan.

Lin Xian took over the engineering-class train of Qian Dele's Joker convoy and the train of the Red Rose convoy, and directly started devouring. He now needed a large amount of materials and mechanical source points. The mechanical heart was about to undergo a second awakening, and he had no time to sleep or rest.

In an empty train loading line factory, Lin Xian moved the train in, and then started devouring alone.

【Devouring successful, mechanical source points +50, mechanical devouring skill proficiency +20!】

In less than 20 minutes, a living carriage was devoured by Lin Xian.

【Devouring successful, mechanical source points +400, mechanical devouring skill proficiency +200!】

One hour later, the high-power circum-planetary traction locomotive of the Joker convoy was devoured by Lin Xian, turning into a piece of gray dust.

At this time, the black sky curtain faded, and the whole Jinhai ushered in a piece of light.

Lin Xian looked at the time, knowing that after dawn, there might be large-scale news exchanges in Dawn City soon, so he seized the time and started devouring the nuclear power hub carriage of the Joker convoy.

Three hours later.

【Devouring successful, mechanical source points +800, mechanical devouring skill proficiency +300!】

At this time, the progress of Lin Xian's mechanical heart level had increased by 1,250, and the mechanical devouring proficiency had also increased by 520!

【Current Mechanical Heart Level Lv. 5 (18890/20000)】

Mechanical Devouring: 5 (2585/3000) Improve devouring efficiency

"Continue!"

Lin Xian's expression was incredibly serious. He wiped the sweat from his head and started devouring the train of the Red Rose convoy.

【Devouring successful, mechanical source points +50, mechanical devouring skill proficiency +20!】

After Lin Xian finished devouring a living carriage of the Red Rose convoy, suddenly, a piece of debris fell from the car. Various women's underwear and condom packaging were scattered all over the floor. Lin Xian looked at this scene and smiled speechlessly. He had already greeted Zhou Hongqu, the captain of the Red Rose convoy, and the people of this convoy. After forming an alliance, there would be no more physical transactions. In fact, for these women, they couldn't ask for more. After all, if it wasn't for survival, who would want to sell their flesh to survive under the doomsday...

Just as Lin Xian finished devouring the nuclear power carriage of the Red Rose convoy, a dazzling light screen flashed out.

【Devouring successful, mechanical source points +700, mechanical devouring skill proficiency +200】

【Congratulations, Mechanical Heart successfully upgraded to Level 6, activating Mechanical Awakening!】

Ceng!

At this time, the sound of successful devouring rang in Lin Xian's ears, and the light screen in front of him suddenly went black!

A surging mechanical roar roared in his mind!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 381 =====