Chapter 462: Seeds of Death

After comforting AnXia, Lin An affectionately glanced at the well-behaved AnXia sitting on the sofa, and his unease eased considerably.

Many debts, no fear of lice.

Not a single member of the squad is normal.

If AnXia has hidden dangers, then so be it; just protect her well.

Speaking of which, Lin An couldn't help but get a headache whenever he thought about the squad's condition.

Mo Ling had an accident and became a Death Spirit Lord, while Wen Ya is a psychic mutant; the incident didn't cause much destructive power.

But after Zhang Tie's resurrection, he used the body of an Indestructible Asura's suturer.

Once out of control, it becomes an unsolvable existence, even more terrifying than the Indestructible Asura of his past life.

He himself is also full of problems.

Not to mention the Black Dragon.

An Jing Tian looks somewhat better, but he is also a special profession obtained through converting the abyss's aura.

In other words, aside from Gao Tian, the entire team has no normal person.

However, there are both advantages and disadvantages.

Precisely because everyone has their own problems, they likewise have been granted great power.

Although AnXia has hidden dangers, there is one good point.

She possesses third-rank strength, the strongest combat power at this stage.

One could say that as long as she doesn't encounter a third-rank mutant, in the apocalypse world AnXia can walk sideways.

Strictly speaking, AnXia has become Long'an Base's strongest trump card.

A third-rank mutant with human thinking—who could beat her?

If it weren't for considering AnXia's identity too sensitive, Lin An would even have planned to bring her along to destroy surrounding forces all the way.

When going all out, AnXia's killing speed is much faster than mine...

Wherever she goes, death follows; she is a humanoid nuclear weapon.

Worldly affairs are unpredictable.

Once the little girl most in need of protection, she has, by a twist of fate, become a top-tier combat existence.

I don't know what AnXia encountered while fleeing that caused her to actually advance to third rank.

No way to investigate.

Even if Colonel Chu tried to read AnXia's memories, he could only regretfully find that there is absolutely no clue as to how she became third rank.

In the memory fragments, Chu An could barely see a few strange scenes.

An altar, a towering tree.

Besides that, there is no useful information.

Seeing Lin An's brows sometimes furrow, sometimes relax, Chu An couldn't help but smile and walk up to him.

"Did you forget something?"

"Huh?"

Lin An startled, looked up, "What did I forget?"

He had just been thinking about how to arrange the next actions.

Should he first hold an "artifact" auction to obtain supplies, or take advantage of other forces not reacting yet to suppress them one by one?

Or perhaps first annex the Wangjiang Military Region and then talk?

Chu An pulled out an energy bar from his pocket, as if seeing through his thoughts, and said while eating:

"I've already arranged the next plan for you; I'll organize it and show you later."

"Did you forget that reward in the system announcement?"

"The special reward draw, and the 100 prestige reward?"

"Um."

Lin An suddenly realized, only then remembering he still had an unclaimed reward.

His expression was strange.

If someone else knew he could forget this, they'd be so angry they'd vomit blood.

Global announcement, system rewards!

He, Lin An, actually managed to forget it.

Actually, it's not that Lin An has a poor memory; rather, he subconsciously overlooked this point.

He intended to save up prestige for exchanging things.

Last time he looked at the items in the prestige shop; good items require a lot of prestige.

As for other equipment, he couldn't really take a liking to them, and none were suitable for the squad members.

It would be better to obtain them through trade.

Prestige is something rare.

As for the lottery given by the system...

First, Lin An knows the system's "temper" too well.

The system's stinginess was famous in his past life.

Second, obtaining rewards through the lottery is a damn trap.

In his memory, this is pretty much like a penguin lottery.

Besides being able to make people angry, you hardly ever get anything good...

Someone once, in a heavenly-disaster-level mission, drew a bottle of Jianlibao—can you believe it?

With an indifferent attitude, Lin An directly clicked open the roulette representing the draw.

I don't know whether it's the system's mischievous taste.

On the draw roulette lay several pieces of orange equipment, even a green set.

Skill fragments..

White equipment fragments..

Epic Tier weapon exchange voucher...

Safety Token...

Battle mech..

The roulette divided into thousands of zones, looking utterly tempting.

But Lin An unsurprisingly saw several options mixed in among them.

Bread..

Mineral water..

Vise...

Not expecting much, Lin An expressionlessly clicked to start the draw.

"Deng deng deng-deng"

Just like a certain game's draw interface from his past life, the golden-yellow pointer began to spin rapidly.

The prize options flew past.

As time passed, the pointer began to slow.

Watching the pointer gradually creep past several Epic Tier equipment, Lin An couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

Exactly!

This is exactly the feeling!

Every time you think you'll win powerful equipment, the seemingly stationary pointer will jerk a bit.

Even knowing full well the system's mischievous taste.

But when the pointer oddly stopped near a green set, Lin An's heart couldn't help but race.

Don't move again!

Move again and it's a bottle of mineral water ahead!

Moving like a snail.

Lin An forcibly suppressed his excitement, watching wide-eyed as the pointer that had originally stopped on the green set: Heavenly Base weapon twisted again.

Damn!

Rarely wanting to curse.

Seeing Lin An's expression suddenly turn ugly, AnXia couldn't help but move to his side, curiously watching the pointer on the roulette.

As she watched the pointer sweep past an orange equipment again, she also couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"Don't move again!"

One must admit, this mischievous draw most easily stirs emotions.

When Lin An speechlessly watched the pointer stop on a bottle of cola, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

I knew it...

This damn system just likes to mess with people's minds.

"Move just a bit more!"

Just as AnXia was angrily about to curse, the pointer seemed to hear the little girl's words, suddenly twitching and sliding into the black zone.

Before Lin An could react, a system prompt suddenly sounded:

"Congratulations, player, you have obtained the black item 【Seed of Death】"

"Seed of Death: black, special, consumable item"

"Item property: This seed can absorb the life force and spiritual power of nearby deceased humans and temporarily store it."

"Item description: The power absorbed by the Seed of Death will be purified, removing negative effects, turning into pure spiritual power and life force."

"Item evaluation: The power that dissipates upon death is the essence of life."

Astonished, shocked.

Lin An incredulously stared at the black seed lying in his hand, his excitement instantly reaching its peak.

This... how is this possible!?

Beside him, Chu An sensed his intense emotional fluctuation and quickly glanced over the item's attributes.

After a long silence, Chu An's face showed an expression half surprised, half as expected.

After thinking, he let out a sigh with a smile:

"Lin An, it seems your luck is indeed not bad."

Gripping the seed tightly in his hand, Lin An actually felt his excitement impossible to contain.

Beside him, AnXia looked at him puzzled, not knowing what this thing was used for.

After forcibly calming his emotions, Lin An couldn't help but hug AnXia, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

His voice uncontrollably excited.

"This thing..."

"It's used to resurrect your Uncle Zhang Tie..."

The Seed of Death absorbs the deceased's final strength, converting it into pure life force and spiritual power.

This means he doesn't even need to enter the Secret Realm to obtain the source of spiritual power; he can resurrect Zhang Tie directly.

Lin An's eye sockets were somewhat reddened in a daze.

He subconsciously glanced at the empty seat always reserved for Xiong Hanzi, as if in a dream, looking toward Chu An:

"Why... how could the system...?"

It's too coincidental, too caring toward him.

Lin An only felt as if he were dreaming, unbelievable.

The system's stinginess has been proven by a hundred billion experiences from his past life; it simply doesn't care what you actually obtain.

In silence, Chu An pondered for a moment, then countered:

"Do you feel it's too coincidental?"

"How would the system know you wanted this and then almost give it to you for free?"

"But have you ever considered... if this thing was also stolen by some 'one'?"

"The Savior System stealing what you want—isn't that quite normal?"

Lin An froze on the spot, suddenly recalling the scene when he obtained the anti-toxin pendant.

At that time he also wondered, how could the issued task be so coincidental, exactly the reward for saving AnXia's siblings?

Wry smile, mixed feelings.

Lin An couldn't help but sigh for a moment.

Who knows from which task the Savior System stole the Seed of Death.

Having a backer is just great...

Unable to wait, Lin An abruptly turned his head toward Chu An, enunciating each word:

"What do you think, how many deaths would be enough to gather the energy Xiong Hanzi needs!?"

"Ten gathering places, enough or not?"

Island nation, cherry blossom nuclear power plant.

"Mr. Yamamoto! We finally completed the mission!"

"Quick, claim the reward! Claim our reward!"

Yamamoto Ichiro looked at the devastated interior of the nuclear power plant, excitedly covering his severed arm as he opened the mission reward.

Two weeks ago, they had accepted the death-level mission from the floating island nuclear power plant.

A mutant absorbed nuclear energy, becoming a special event.

This special mutant not only could rely on nuclear energy to strengthen its power, but could also extract the life force of the dead, converting it into nearly infinite energy.

After expending large numbers of troops and Awakened Ones, under the stratagem of a certain genius Awakened One in the East Ying War Zone, they in one go used over three dirty bombs to bombard the homeland.

Utilizing the special mutant's trait of absorbing scattered nuclear radiation, they desperately fed half-finished chain-reaction enriched uranium into the monster's interior.

By relying on the monster's trait, they successfully manufactured a special nuclear bomb inside the monster's body, making the monster equivalent to suicide, triggering the chain reaction, and successfully blew up the opponent.

A genius-like conception, a tragic sacrifice.

Detonating nuclear weapons on the homeland, half of the floating island was almost destroyed, casualties uncountable.

Even the land beneath their feet will remain uninhabitable for the next ten thousand years.

But!

Such a cost is worth it!

Looking at the Seed of Death in the reward, the team members couldn't help but show excited smiles.

Obtaining this Seed of Death, they can transform the spiritual energy core, at the cost of ordinary people's lives, to quickly produce a large number of Awakened Ones!!

After wiping away a tear with some heartache, Yamamoto Ichiro tremblingly pointed his hands toward claiming the reward.

In an instant, under the nearly reverent gazes of everyone.

A bottle of cola appeared in his hand.

"Ding, congratulations player, you have obtained one bottle of cola."