Chapter 1027: The Mystery of the Spiritual Energy Node

f"Sunwalker!?"

"Lin Dui, you said this is the notebook written by that lizard monster!!"

He turned pale with shock, listening to Lin An's reply, for a moment unable to imagine how the Sunwalker's blade-like hands could write.

He shook his head slightly, Lin An explained without turning back:

"To be precise, the notebook's owner first became an Awakened One, then turned into a... Sunwalker?"

Humans turning into zombies isn't strange to Lin An. But humans directly skipping the zombie stage, going from Awakened One to Mutant—he had only seen that in Red-Clothed Mutants. No, not even the Red-Clothed Mutants came from Awakened Ones.

In theory, Mutants can only 'evolve' from zombies, or from infected individuals!

For example, the Bloodbath Witch and the Suturer.

Even if a normal Awakened One is infected with many viruses before death, after death they must at least undergo the corpse transformation process before possibly becoming a Mutant.

But from the continuity of the notebook, Lin An could easily draw a clear conclusion.

The notebook's owner, directly while still human, turned into a Sunwalker!

Such a cognition-subverting event immediately aroused Lin An's deep doubts.

After a moment, Lin An simply picked up the diary and began reading it carefully.

His guess was indeed correct—the Sunwalker has a problem!

"Day 37 after the Apocalypse, clear."

"Although I've been an Awakened One for over a month, I'm still not used to throwing fireballs barehanded."

"I can't imagine where my power comes from; why my hands don't get burned; what is spiritual energy?"

"How does this energy exist? Can I store it outside my body!?"

"I need to research; I need precise instruments!"

"Day 88 after the Apocalypse, overcast."

"All the instruments have been interfered with; the astronomical telescope I barely managed to bring out of the university broke."

"I can't even do my favorite observations."

"Good heavens, I think I'll never see solar flares again, nor my beloved sunspots."

"However, I seem to have found the origin of spiritual energy."

"I've found the reason why communications are being interfered with!"

Seeing this, Lin An raised his eyebrows, his expression showing some surprise.

For some reason, he always felt that the diary's owner, that professor researcher, was basically a copy of Chu An.

Or rather, people like them enjoy researching the Apocalypse, or rather the fundamental nature of the system.

The origin of spiritual energy and the cause of communication obstruction?

Regarding the professor's discovery, Lin An also couldn't help but become interested.

Looking down, a line of handwriting was etched into his view:

"Day 90 after the Apocalypse, overcast."

"I can't tell whether my thoughts are right or wrong. Just yesterday, the survivors with me kept muttering that modern devices are getting harder to use, as if the world were regressing to primitive times. I casually replied, maybe it's a return to the time without electricity..."

"At that moment, I suddenly realized something."

"Why does the system want to add a completely new energy system, spiritual energy, to this world? Why does it want to gradually 'cancel' electrical energy!?"

"If they want to destroy us, why give us spiritual energy and power!?"

"If they want to destroy us, why set tech weapons to reduce damage, causing instruments to gradually fail!?"

"Too troublesome..."

"Later, I began thinking based on the principle that what exists is reasonable, what appears is useful."

"The answer is simple."

"Perhaps the system hopes to replace electrical energy with spiritual energy!"

"Just like three hundred years ago, when our human world had no electricity! For the sake of convenient survival, technological development brought forth electrical energy—a power that originally shouldn't have 'existed' in the world!"

"Then today, after the Apocalypse, the emergence of spiritual energy is like oxygen appearing billions of years ago: whatever species needs spiritual energy, needs to replace anaerobic bacteria, needs to evolve aerobic life—this time, the world must evolve from a spirit-less era to a spirit-era!"

"We are like the anaerobic bacteria clinging to seabed volcanic vents 4.6 billion years ago!"

"Life needs to evolve! If it can absorb oxygen (spiritual energy), then it qualifies to survive! If it cannot, cannot become an aerobic organism (Awakened One), then it should die!"

"Then the question arises: oxygen is produced by aerobic bacteria; who produces spiritual energy? Is it the system or the zombies? I think I need to find the source.."

The penmanship was vigorous; Lin An looked at several lines of notes, excited to the point of incoherent writing, a hint of solemnity flashing in his eyes.

In the past life, the emergence of spiritual energy was also mentioned in many survivors' thoughts as perhaps the system promoting human evolution.

This line of thought is not clever, even somewhat vulgar.

It's quite normal for the professor to think of this.

The only difference is that the professor believes the nature of spiritual energy is like oxygen and electricity; this energy, this environmental change, has occurred in Earth's history.

He is trying to find the source of the source of spiritual energy.

Suppressing his solemnity, Lin An continued reading, also curious about what source the professor finally found.

"Day 103 after the Apocalypse, clear."

"Exactly, same as my guess."

"Spiritual energy, this energy that permeates the whole world, accessible to everyone, contacted by all life, certainly isn't produced in a small range."

"There are no bacteria producing oxygen (spiritual energy); the large environment has changed."

"Discarding the naive assumption that the system conjures spiritual energy out of thin air, the answer to the question is only one."

"The source of spiritual energy is right above our heads."

"That is.."

"Sun!"

"The change in harmonious air temperature rising is generally, being able to possess the ability to change the world, to cover the globe's interference source—only the sun we have always relied on for survival! That natural nuclear fusion body that ejects hundreds of billions, trillions of tons of high-energy particle streams every second!"

"Not only that, I have also found evidence!"

"Haha, what a coincidence; while researching why wireless communications were subject to interference, I discovered this."

"Before the Apocalypse, humans always used radio for communication. But there is a common sense: radio travels in straight lines; living on a sphere,.; how can people at the two poles of the Earth receive radio signals?"

"Straight-line transmitted signals, radio can never reach another point on a sphere."

"Of course, the answer is simple: it is the ionosphere in the atmosphere above our heads, which actually acts like a mirror, refracting straight-line transmitted radio signals to every corner of the world."

"Therefore, after the Apocalypse, the signal being interfered with must be due to a change in the ionosphere—the 'mirror' is gone!"

"Similarly, the omnipresent spiritual energy appearing in our world is also because my protective ionosphere has been damaged! We are enduring the full, unfiltered solar radiation of another nature!"

"Lin An's eyebrows twitched; he never expected that this theory had actually been researched by the professor."

"Sunwalker, sun? Spiritual energy comes from the sun!? As if thinking of something, he hurriedly turned to the next page."

"On the next page, just a few short words were written: the professor's new discovery:"

"If the sun is a source of spiritual energy, then can I find a place on Earth that receives the strongest solar energy?"

"Oh, in fact I don't need to look for it."

"Because I have discovered that those places are spiritual energy nodes."

"I carefully compared the known Safe Zone locations in the Soviet war zone, and found that the positions of these spiritual energy nodes completely match the jet positions when the sun's surface erupts. It's just like a mirror..."

"The only thing that surprised me is that, in the place where human-known solar flares have erupted most frequently repeatedly, which is also where my theory predicts the strongest spiritual energy node would appear. It turns out to be in..."

"The ruins of an ancient civilization."

"At the bottom of the notes, a crude pyramid diagram was drawn."