Chapter 339
The Strongest in the Apocalypse
Chapter 339 The Strongest in the Apocalypse
Hearing Lin Chaoyuan's words, Chu Sheng frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed.
Looking at Lin Chaoyuan, he waved his hand and said, "No need for interest, just take these extraordinary materials as payment."
As a Sequence Six ability user, Chu Sheng had been observing Lin Chaoyuan ever since he first met him.
With his immense mental power, he could clearly see every subtle movement of Lin Chaoyuan, and at the same time, he could also sense some of his emotional fluctuations, so he naturally knew that Lin Chaoyuan was not lying.
That's really all they have left.
In the past, let alone paying interest on debts, he would have simply given up if anyone dared to pay even a little bit late. But things are different now.
Their exchange rule is that ten Sequence 9 extraordinary materials are equivalent to one Sequence 8 extraordinary material.
The exchange terms had been discussed with Lin Chaoyuan and the others during previous transactions.
One sequence eight extraordinary material, eleven sequence nine extraordinary materials, which is 2.1 sequence eight extraordinary materials. There are still nine missing to make up three as payment.
As for the extraordinary materials of Sequence 9, they were not exactly junk to him, but they were not exactly good either; they could only be said to offer little improvement.
Instead of worrying about the interest and sequence materials, it's better to leave a good impression on the other party.
He has passed the point where he needed to rely on ruthlessness and killing to accumulate power.
The most crucial thing is that Lin Chaoyuan and his group are the official seed-planting base.
Although there seem to be only about seventy people of varying ages, who knows what cards the other side might have up their sleeve?
Of course, their relationship is based on transactions, and his having trump cards doesn't really affect him, nor does he intend to be their enemy.
But as I said before, the authorities found a large number of sequence ability users at the very beginning of the apocalypse, including abnormal sequence ability users like the Future Sequence. Who knows if there are any other abnormal users among them?
Even if the other party has a means of communication, if he leaves a good impression this time, he can talk to other Fireseed bases in the future and make transactions smoothly.
For him, establishing stable trading relationships is the highest priority right now.
There are only about nine pieces of extraordinary materials of Sequence Nine, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
Anyway, we won't lose money.
After all, he only consumed a small amount of mental energy; as for the extraordinary material of Sequence 8...
Didn't the other party pay the cost price?
Even if nine extraordinary materials are exempted, there is still one Sequence 8 and eleven Sequence 9 extraordinary materials.
This price is even higher than the internal price he gives to the team, which is the premium for a single Sequence 9 extraordinary material.
Upon hearing Chu Sheng's words, Lin Chaoyuan let out a long sigh of relief and thanked Chu Sheng, saying, "Then thank you very much, Comrade Chu."
Lin Chaoyuan was overjoyed. Fortunately, he had encountered the floating island; fortunately, there were people on the floating island; fortunately, the people on the floating island were Chinese; fortunately, they had no bad intentions; fortunately, they were very strong; fortunately, they could create sacrificial offerings; fortunately, they could solve the problem of the Xuanwu.
Many of them were fortunate, as they were able to come back to life from a state where they could only wait to die.
Without Chu Sheng and the others, Lin Chaoyuan and the others would have been dragged along with Xuanwu to some unknown place on Xuanwu's back, and they would have had to face all the dangers along the way.
Chu Sheng and the others didn't know that he, as the person in charge of the Xuanwu base, was certainly not unaware of the Xuanwu's abilities.
It's purely for show and to intimidate people.
It's not that it has no offensive power at all; Xuanwu can also crush things when it walks.
But that's all there is to it.
As for the chill emanating from Xuanwu, it was simply a product of Xuanwu's breathing, and also an effect of this Xuanwu sacrificial object.
Not long after, Wang Er led his men to bring out all of their sequence materials.
Chu Sheng glanced at the extraordinary materials on the ground, then casually tossed the Crimson Butcher's Knife into them.
As soon as the scarlet cleaver hit the ground, the butcher manifested according to Chu Sheng's thoughts.
"Waiga ga! Guga ga! Gugu ga!"
The butcher started yelling strangely as soon as he came out, and no one except Chu Sheng, who was in tune with him, could understand what he was saying.
Chu Sheng's expression changed upon understanding the butcher's meaning. He looked down at the tortoise shell he was standing on, and in just one glance, he understood.
"So that's how it is," he thought inwardly, but his expression remained unchanged as he gave instructions to the butcher.
"Butcher, take these things back."
"Waaaaah!"
Upon receiving the order, the butcher immediately picked up the extraordinary materials on the ground, taking two pieces in each hand, while the tentacles behind him also rolled up the extraordinary materials on the ground.
It single-handedly took on Wang Er and his entire group.
Seeing the butcher's appearance, Chu Sheng also cupped his hands in greeting to Lin Chaoyuan and the others, saying, "Elder Lin, I'll go back and forge your two sacrificial items first."
As he spoke, he glanced at the sun in the sky, thought for a moment, and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be ready by tonight."
"Okay, then we'll wait for good news."
After exchanging a few more words, Chu Sheng took the butcher back with him.
After learning of Lin Chaoyuan and his group's existence, Youming controlled the floating island to avoid Xuanwu's path and positioned itself parallel to the edge of Xuanwu's back.
At the same time, because Ah Xin's barrier wasn't intentionally concealed, it was clearly visible on the turtle's back.
Chu Sheng and the others returned to the floating island, while Lin Chaoyuan, Wang Er, and the others on the turtle's back looked at the cultivated land on the floating island and the seeds that had already sprouted, and couldn't help but feel a little envious.
"Sir, this is the best way for them to be."
"Although we look majestic on Xuanwu Mountain, our living conditions are not as good as theirs."
Wang Er looked at the floating island. Although the floating island was clearly in contrast to the Xuanwu's tortoise shell, it appeared very small.
But it also depends on who you're comparing it to.
The Xuanwu, which can easily reach tens of thousands of meters in size, also has a shell that is not to be underestimated.
The floating island next to it, while not exactly tiny, is not large either, only about one-third the size of the Xuanwu tortoise's shell.
"You can't envy that." Lin Chaoyuan shook his head. "They can control the rise and fall and direction of the floating islands, and they can even make the floating islands stop."
"In this respect alone, we are no match for them."
"These floating islands were discovered at the very beginning of the apocalypse."
"Back then, the world wasn't this big. Our world was gradually added to this world piece by piece. Although there weren't many floating islands at the time, it was enough for research."
"But after a day of research, everyone concluded that we would not be able to use the floating islands in the short term."
"If we wanted to transform the floating island into an island like Comrade Chu's, according to those scientists, it would take at least six months."
"But we couldn't wait, so we had to find a few floating islands and forcibly connect them together to create a floating island fire seed base."
He paused, looked at Wang Er, thought for a moment, and continued, "But even so, that base cannot control the free movement of the floating island."
"In the end, all we could leave behind were the plans and methods for modifying the floating islands, hoping that we could successfully modify them in the future." "Everyone knows that floating islands are more suitable for survival, but that's precisely why we didn't choose too many floating islands."
Lin Chaoyuan explained things to Wang Er in great detail. He wanted to slowly tell Wang Er some things so that even if something happened to him in the future, Wang Er would still be there, and they would still have hope.
"But no matter what, a floating island is still better than some of the Fire Seed bases, right?" Wang Er scratched his head.
Lin Chaoyuan shook his head helplessly, "I've already thought about this issue."
At this point, his expression turned serious, and he looked at Wang Er solemnly, saying, "Xiao Wang, I'm glad you have the spirit to refute. It shows that you're not someone who just reads from the book."
"But you have a flaw: you like to impose your own subjective opinions on other things."
"Like this time, you're thinking about the convenience of floating islands, but at the same time you're also wondering why we don't build all the Fire Seed bases on floating islands."
"But have you ever considered that if we were all built on floating islands, and the world changed again, and all the floating islands lost their ability to float, wouldn't all of us Spark Bases be wiped out?"
Wang Er was stunned.
Lin Chaoyuan continued, "Furthermore, put yourself in the shoes of someone else. If you were the head of the country, knowing that the end of the world was coming, knowing the conditions for survival in the end times, and that the general trend could not be changed, what would you do in order to ensure the continuation of civilization and the continued inheritance of the name 'China'?"
Wang Er scratched his head somewhat awkwardly, "I will have my people split up and not put all their eggs in one basket."
"And then?" Lin Chaoyuan asked again.
Wang Er replied, "Then I will find someone to discuss it with, not to shirk responsibility, but for everyone's consideration. No one can think of everything."
Lin Chaoyuan nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this, "So that's why."
"At the very beginning of the apocalypse, the official high command convened all the think tank members and scientists who could be gathered and who had not been killed by the strange phenomenon, as well as elites from all walks of life. They all sat down together and finally determined the way for all of us in China to survive in the apocalypse."
"Furthermore, with the help of many Sequence Ability Users who awakened at the beginning of the apocalypse, the Spark Base was successfully built, and the responsibilities of all Spark Bases were clearly defined."
"At the same time, action guidelines and constraints were set for all the Spark bases."
"The future sequence of trenches is still gaining momentum!"
Inside the Dark Moon Tower, Chu Sheng, shielded from all internal and external information, held a pair of scissors and looked extremely tense.
When he saw Xuanwu, he felt a strange connection. At the time, he didn't know what it was, he just had this feeling.
Later, after the butcher came out, Chu Sheng finally understood what this inexplicable connection was through its strange cries.
The butcher's meaning at the time was, "Master, do you have a new favorite? It's so much bigger than me."
Upon hearing the butcher's words, Chu Sheng felt as if he had been struck by a sudden inspiration. He looked down at the tortoise shell and broke through the barrier in his mind, clearly sensing the information of Xuanwu.
[Black Tortoise]
[Ranking of offerings: 49]
[Xuanming: Xuanwu absorbs the black energy flowing between heaven and earth as energy, while simultaneously transforming waste gas into Xuanming cold energy, which is then expelled from its body.]
[Walking: The Xuanwu can be controlled to move freely in an instant.]
[Turning into a Turtle: Except for beings or weapons possessing the concepts and characteristics of absolute killing and absolute attack, Xuanwu cannot be harmed by any living being or object!]
[Cold Poison: The Xuanming Cold Qi fears the divine nature of the Tengshe and cannot penetrate its back; at the same time, the Xuanming Cold Qi will be imbued with poison by the Tengshe.]
[Tengshe: Tengshe will attack any entity that invades the turtle's back. Tengshe is equivalent to the contractor's sequence level.]
[Sacrifice: Extraordinary items; every use comes at a price!]
[Cost of Use: The contractor's lifespan will be the same as that of a normal turtle; it cannot be increased or decreased.]
[Hidden Attribute: If you are Chu Sheng, there is no cost to using this!]
This is the message from Xuanwu: a sacrificial offering!
The offering ranked 49th!
Of course, that's not the key point; the key point is the last paragraph.
A hidden attribute that no one but him can see.
[Hidden Attribute: If you are Chu Sheng, there is no cost to using this!]
Does this sentence sound familiar?
This looks so familiar!
This phrase appears whenever he creates a fusion offering; it is also a symbol of divine craftsmanship.
He himself will not have to pay any price for using any sacrificial offerings he creates.
What did he see?
The Xuanwu with grooves actually has this on its body!
What does this mean?
He's the one who created this Xuanwu.
He never created the Xuanwu sacrificial object, which means that the official obtained it from the future through some means.
"Damn it, could I be the future supreme powerhouse that Old Wang and the others from Mechanical City were talking about?!"
Chu Sheng's emotions had never fluctuated so much since he awakened his sequence.
The six months leading up to the apocalypse hardened his heart to a level colder than the butcher's knife at a street food stall.
Even after his sequence awakened, he didn't experience much emotional fluctuation.
Everything he saw, laughed, and even his expressions were feigned.
His true expression is that he has no expression at all.
But now the defenses have been breached.
This is why he returned to the floating island with the butcher; he was afraid that if he stayed any longer, his emotions would fluctuate too much, making it impossible for him to make a judgment.
"The Future Sequence truly has no sense of martial ethics!"
"Could that thing Old Wang mentioned, which imprisoned the entire world for a year in a bizarre way, also be mine?"
Chu Sheng thought about it and it made more and more sense. Who else but him could create such a terrifying sacrificial offering?
Imprison all the supernatural beings for a year, giving humanity a chance to survive.
"If I have the chance in the future, I must take a look. I just don't know which fire base that sacrificial object is in."
Chu Sheng muttered to himself as black flames clung to his hand, kneading the material of the Sequence 8 scissors.
This is one of his two ways of relieving stress.
The other option is naturally Anxi and Xingzi.
While kneading the scissors in his hand, sometimes rolling them into balls and sometimes stretching them out, his gaze was fixed on the three Sequence 7 extraordinary materials that Lin Chaoyuan and the others had given him.
A bone axe the size of a forearm, radiating a silvery-white light; an unidentified but verdant tree branch; and a two-meter-long fang.
(End of this chapter)