Chapter 871: Bound to the Birth System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 872 Global Evolution (32)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

A golden giant sword condensed by a metal-type ability user slashed down from the sky, instantly felling a swath of willow branches.

As soon as one batch of willow branches fell, another took its place; in the blink of an eye, the cleared space was filled again.

Both sides entered a war of attrition, hacking at each other, until the killer willow's ability was exhausted and its recovery slowed; the metal-type ability users seized the opportunity, squeezing out the last trace of ability from their bodies, their long swords extending dozens of meters as they swept across horizontally.

The golden light was like a giant sickle, constantly cutting everything around it.

Shen Chengyi felt this was very similar to a scene she had once seen: large machines constantly harvesting fields, sharp sickles felling swaths of crops, finally carried away by hand to the processing factory.

The lightning ability originally hidden inside covered her body surface in an instant.

Purple lightning flashed constantly, easily blocking the golden giant swords attacking her.

Boom!

Not far behind, the killer willow's trunk was felled, and the killer willow let out a grating cry of sorrow; it did not want to die!

The killer willow, whose trunk required dozens of people to encircle, crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Seizing the opportunity, Shen Chengyi quickly moved toward the killer willow's roots, appearing before the felled stump in a moment.

She raised the long blade in her hand high, condensed all the lightning ability in her body, then slashed down fiercely, plunging it into the stump's interior.

The compressed lightning ability suddenly exploded, releasing all its energy; Shen Chengyi's hair was blown everywhere, while the stump beneath her had become brittle.

After jumping back and retreating with constant flashes, Shen Chengyi stood at a relatively safe place, waiting for the killer willow's life countdown.

The ground began to shake irregularly, the result of the lightning ability entering the roots and causing destruction; cracks appeared on the ground originally sealed by earth and water-type ice, other team members in the distance were shaken left and right, and earth and water-type ability users who had rested and recovered some ability once again took the front to stabilize, but unfortunately their ability could not withstand the rampaging killer willow roots, and were thrown away in a moment.

"How much longer?"

Wei Ran stood with hands on her hips, not forgetting to care for the ordinary team members who couldn't stand steady.

"Don't know, but it should be soon," so many lightning abilities slashed down fiercely; the plant itself could conduct electricity; even if the killer willow was strong, it couldn't escape.

Cheng Nan held her sniper rifle in her arms; during this period, besides using her ability to interfere, she used the sniper rifle in her hand to secretly fire cold shots and stir up trouble, which made the killer willow suffer quite a bit.

Annoying like little bugs, yet it could do nothing about those little bugs; the killer willow's group attack methods were strong, but its single combat ability was slightly weak; when facing agile opponents, it could only use force against force, and even several times the enemy escaped.

"Hurry up and finish it; we still have serious business to do next."

As Wei Ran's words landed, she saw the cracks on the ground become larger, and she and Cheng Nan were almost shaken to the ground.

Ouch, it seems the killer willow has quite a temper; before dying, it still wants to cause such a scene!

She curled her lip and pulled Cheng Nan; the two greeted the people around them to retreat quickly; what they lacked least right now was patience and time; collecting loot was not urgent; at worst, wait until the killer willow side was completely dead.

After about ten minutes, the shaking beneath the ground became smaller and smaller, until after another violent attack it returned to calm; Wei Ran and Cheng Nan looked at each other, knowing the killer willow was at its last gasp.

"You stay where you are and don't move; I'll go find Shen Chengyi to confirm."

"Mm, be careful."

Wei Ran nodded, then ran forward while avoiding branches and fallen leaves around her, until she saw Shen Chengyi squatting before the gray stump, rummaging for something.

A beautiful five-colored crystal drew a semicircular arc in midair and fell into Wei Ran's arms; Shen Chengyi seemed to have grown a pair of eyes behind her, "This is the killer willow's crystal core."

Quite a large one; one could even calculate how many creatures in its territory the killer willow had eaten over such a long time.

Blowing the dust off the long blade, Shen Chengyi pointed at the stump beneath her feet, "Remember to have a fire-type ability user come handle it; inside are corpses already turned to white bones."

Previously, the lightning ability had slashed through, causing some white bones to turn to ash, but the killer willow's roots were too dense; most of the lightning ability still acted on the killer willow itself, while the corpses buried by the killer willow around its roots were merely affected, some still in white bone state.

Fire-type ability users were very useful in this situation; even if team members had accidents and corpses dared not be brought back, fire-type ability users were needed to help; this was also a rule tacitly recognized by the Official long ago.

Wei Ran looked down in the direction Shen Chengyi pointed, only to find the surroundings gray-black, covered with gleaming white bones; tsk, it seemed the killer willow lived up to its name, truly having killed many humans and other animals.

The fire-type ability user was called over by Wei Ran; others busied themselves collecting supplies around, including fallen branches and leaves and tree trunks; the fire-type ability user concentrated ability, with the help of earth-type ability users, hurling fireballs into the stump.

The heat slowly melted the surrounding snow and ice; the water-type ability user ultimately could not rest, using recovered ability from within to solidify the melted water again; the wood-type ability user was responsible for making door handles, with the vines grown evenly tied on top of the supplies, then made to float back to the truck.

The big shots all had their own things to do; everyone had to have idle time; once here was thoroughly cleaned, everyone could finally proceed to the next arrangement.

"Cheng Nan, you take the supplies on the truck back to the temporary camp first; I'll lead others to look around," Wei Ran became excited, wishing she could immediately sprout wings and fly over.

Afraid Cheng Nan, this wooden blockhead, wouldn't understand her true intention, Wei Ran couldn't help but blink, then started shaking her head left and right to look around.

Cheng Nan:...

"You be careful yourself, don't fall in," this kind of thing had happened before; going along fine, but ending up wiped out.

Later others went to find and discovered they accidentally walked into a poisonous snake area; a group of people were all bitten to death by poisonous snakes, bodies stiff as boards, directly lying flat.

Wei Ran patted her chest and guaranteed, "Rest assured, I'm quick-witted; besides, the team has several Big Shots; it's a small probability that I'll have an accident."

Cheng Nan raised an eyebrow, "No matter how many people, they can't withstand someone actively courting death."

"Alright, I know you won't; go."

Holding the sniper rifle in her arms, she called Deputy Captain Liu from the team; Cheng Nan had him and herself escort the truck, first sending the truck full of supplies back.

The temporary camp couldn't accommodate so many supplies; they definitely had to set off first to send a batch to the Shelter; fortunately, when they came out they had done a sweeping cleanup, from near to far, clearing designated points batch by batch; no need to worry about accidents on the truck's return trip.

Wei Ran watched Cheng Nan and them leave, then turned to greet her own team members to rest quickly; they had big business to handle in a while.

"Captain, can we catch more this time?"

"Yes yes, before we only caught that few, not enough to stuff between teeth."

"Nonsense, nearly ten jin of meat per person isn't enough to stuff between teeth; are you iron teeth and copper teeth?"

"Hahahaha team, he's just greedy, wanting more meat to take back for an extra meal."

"Don't just say me; don't you yourselves want to? How rare is this opportunity."

"......"

The remaining team members all had this thought, because normally they had few chances to eat mutated animal meat; even the few times were just a taste, and their bodies hadn't adapted before it was gone.

This time their squad was lucky too—not only did they have a Big Shot in the team, their partner wasn't dragging them down either; such opportunities were rare.

"Hmph, promising!"

Wei Ran smiled and came to Shen Chengyi's side, casually handing over an energy bar.

The energy bar was something developed by the Official Laboratory, rich in various nutrients; one bar could last half a day, very suitable for people going on outdoor missions.

Shen Chengyi looked at the energy bar in hand, then pulled open her protective suit to expose her head.

"This is pumpkin flavor, supposedly containing a small amount of Evolution Crystal," the content wasn't high, because Evolution Crystals were hard to digest.

"Ordinary people can eat it too?" Shen Chengyi tasted the energy bar, yes, there was indeed a clear pumpkin sweetness, but the Evolution Crystal inside was the key—Awakened ones needed energy to maintain bodily circulation.

"They can eat it, but only one bar a day, and they can continue eating only every three days."

Wei Ran quickly wolfed down the energy bar; the feeling of fullness made her squint her eyes contentedly. In the earlier battle Wei Ran had been in charge of command and logistics arrangements, not as exhausting as the squad members fighting on the front lines, but not at all relaxed either.

Only now that the crisis was over did she breathe a sigh of relief; otherwise Wei Ran would have had to keep her nerves tense at all times, seriously vigilant of every stir in the surroundings.

"Does this kind of energy bar have any effect on Awakening?"

"No, its Evolution Crystal content is too low; an ordinary person's body can't retain them."

Wei Ran didn't hide anything from Shen Chengyi, explaining that since Evolution began, the entire world's environment was filled with a kind of energy; they shared the same source as Evolution Potions, the only difference being that the content in the air was too low, while Evolution Potions were concentrated substances that could stimulate the potential within the human body to make it evolve.

"But the Official is researching Natural Evolution; optimistically speaking, in a few more decades, when the energy concentration in the air rises to a critical point, naturally evolved Awakened ones will appear."

This timeframe wasn't long in peaceful times, but placed in the End of Days that was changing day by day, the return rate was too low—humans simply had no chance to wait.

Wei Ran also mentioned that the Laboratory's research found that newborn babies would be easier to Awaken than humans before the End of Days, because they had been exposed to much energy even before birth; "The Official has the idea of encouraging childbirth."

Humans, after all, legacy depends on generation after generation; even in the End of Days, life must be nurtured.

Shen Chengyi had no opinion on encouraging childbirth, because it was the inevitable course of human reproduction; humans were also creatures, this was the continuation of instinct.

Pulling up her protective suit again, and straightening her clothes and Long Blade, Shen Chengyi signaled Wei Ran to go rest for a while; in a moment when they started fighting, everyone would have to go all out.

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"Captain, are there really Wild Chickens and Wild Rabbits around?" They had driven the truck around in circles several times; not to mention Mutated Creatures, they hadn't even seen a few plants.

Basically apart from buildings there was all kinds of accumulated snow; even the roads for driving were blocked and hard to travel, but the modified truck could bear it and hold out; otherwise they would have jumped down and proceeded on foot long ago.

"Don't talk, we're almost there."

Wei Ran interrupted the squad members' questions; she looked seriously at the map in her hand, then angrily put the map away—sure enough, the effectiveness of this kind of thing was just not high; they still had to rely on themselves.

"Park the truck steadily, then take out the equipment; we'll take that building as the starting point and search around the surroundings; send a signal immediately to notify if there's news."

Wild Chickens and Wild Rabbits were no longer what they used to be; they mostly lived in groups, so don't clash head-on with them first.

Otherwise getting kicked by a Wild Chicken or Wild Rabbit half a person tall could result in anything from skin bruising to internal bone fractures.

Wei Ran had caught quite a few Wild Chickens and Wild Rabbits herself; back when she was a newcomer with no experience, she was chased around by half-person-tall Wild Chickens and Wild Rabbits, in such a sorry state she didn't want to recall a second time.

But now she had already completed Evolution; encountering Wild Chickens and Wild Rabbits was easy to handle.

"Captain, just wait for our good news."

A squad member said with a grinning face, then slung the equipment onto his back and rushed into the building not far away.

The buildings here had long been abandoned; all kinds of creatures could appear on ordinary days, but considering the low winter temperatures, the number of creatures that could move about wasn't large; and the area they had come to was a Yang Ji Chang, where the probability of Wild Chickens appearing was extremely high.

Wei Ran herself chose a direction to try; Shen Chengyi was Deputy Captain and chose to follow behind Wei Ran, still listening to Wei Ran's experience of catching Wild Chickens, when she turned a corner and bumped into a wandering Wild Chicken.

Wei Ran: …?

Goodness, what is this? Turning a corner and meeting love!

She didn't even have time to speak before the big net in Wei Ran's hand pounced over.

Evolved Wild Chickens could fly and run; the falling big net only caught empty air, dropping several palm-sized chicken feathers.

Swish!

The Long Blade was unsheathed, and in an instant it directly slashed the Wild Chicken's neck; the beautiful chicken head and chicken body separated, leaving many bloodstains on the ground.

Wei Ran: …Wow~

She had known before that Shen Chengyi was a Big Shot, but now she truly saw the Big Shot's methods—so neat and efficient that people couldn't react in time.

She raised her hand and touched her own neck; she didn't know what was going on, but she felt a chill.

She quickly walked over, picked up the Wild Chicken's body, and put it into the pocket she had brought; since the bloodstains couldn't be dealt with, she could only leave them for now; as for the chicken head that flew to the side, Wei Ran generously said she didn't need it (actually the energy inside the chicken head was too violent for humans to eat).

"There must be a flock of chickens living inside;" the Wild Chicken that had just been beheaded was oily and smooth, with bright fur, showing it had been living well.

Generally when this kind of Wild Chicken appearance appeared, it meant the number of chickens here was huge; there would definitely be Mutated Wild Chickens carrying Crystal Cores inside.