Chapter 69: Go to the Wasteland Hospital and find Dr. Lao Luo
In the Death Desert, a Bigfoot towing a closed truck bed was moving towards the Eternal Life Society's base in the wind and sand. In the car, Jiang Xia was holding the steering wheel with a cigar in the corner of his mouth.
A piece of classical and stirring music echoed in the car stereo.
It is in stark contrast to the sound of wind and sand blowing against the car windows from outside.
Pomegranate stood on the passenger seat.
It is the size of a baby, and it is now lying on the dashboard, curiously fiddling with the buttons and levers that it does not understand.
"Hey, this mechanical car is quite interesting. I like it."
Pomegranate is indeed a mountain monster with curiosity in its character.
I really like new things.
Looking at the way it was staring at the steering wheel, if Jiang Xia hadn't been here, it would probably have snatched the steering wheel and tried out the fun of driving.
Jiang Xia ignored it.
It's fine to let it play around normally, anyway, the cars in this wasteland era all have chip-controlled automatic driving.
But the truck at the back was carrying a group of frightened mortals. If the truck overturned in the desert, things would be very troublesome.
"Why is this secret place so desolate?"
Seeing that Jiang Xia ignored it, Shi Liu bared its teeth, but soon its attention was attracted by the vast desert outside the car.
The mountain monster grabbed the magic money, leaned on the car window and looked out.
it says:
"I can't even sense any living creatures around me. It's so dead silent that I feel very uncomfortable. I hate this secret place."
"Because there was a great war."
Jiang Xia was locating according to the coordinates in the chip, turning the steering wheel, planning the route, and casually said:
"A war that destroyed the world began to end decades ago. This place must not have been so dead before. It must have been very beautiful and developed.
Sadly, they’re all gone.
However, it is said that there are cities where humans gather outside this desert. According to Lao Luo, the civilization in this world is still recovering and has developed very unique landscapes.
If I have the chance, I would like to go and see it.”
"What kind of war between mortals could turn the secret world into this?"
Pomegranate looked unconvinced. It sat back in its comfortable chair, fiddling with its seat belt and saying:
"There is no spiritual energy in this world, and there are no powerful monks. How can the petty fighting of mortals destroy the world? You must be bragging to me."
"It's up to you, but there are many things you haven't seen."
Jiang Xia didn't explain either.
The concept of nuclear war.
It's too difficult to explain to someone like Pomegranate who knows nothing about science. These fairy creatures will never believe that mortals can possess the power to destroy civilization in an instant.
After all, in their world, mortals are just the lowest class at the mercy of the monks.
"arrive."
After several songs were played in a loop on the car speakers for many times, the communication in the chip was finally restored and navigation guidance was received.
Various environmental parameter coordinates appeared rapidly in Jiang Xia’s left eye’s field of vision.
There was also a constantly changing virtual road sign placed in front of Jiang Xia's field of vision. In the swirling sand and wind, a Bigfoot was driving towards them to pick them up.
I'm afraid that small town will be abandoned.
According to Rogge's plan, the Black Hand Society would probably use this stronghold that they had just seized from the Eternal Life Society as their new base.
“This place is nice.”
The Bigfoot towing the truck bed stopped at the outskirts of the town. Jiang Xia opened the door, jumped out with a cigar in his mouth, and saw the familiar straight asphalt road in front of him.
He looked around again.
Although there is still smoke left after the war.
But the well-arranged buildings, the sand-breaking boards around the town, the energy coils standing everywhere, the barbed wire used for defense, and the strange signal tower on the watchtower in front of him made him feel like he had returned to the civilized world.
Jiang Xia took off the cigar butt and threw it aside.
Soon, a cleaning robot that looked like a cylindrical trash can with a flashing light on its head came over quickly on tracks and collected the garbage.
Pomegranate thought it was fun and jumped down.
It flapped its wings and blocked the cleaning robot. The robot hummed twice, then planned another route, bypassing the pomegranate and continued working.
There are many such robots nearby, as well as some cleaning and repair robots that dismantle the ruins and clean up the damaged roads.
They were cleaning up the ruins and wiping the bloodstains on the ground.
Old Jiang watched this scene and said to Rogge who came over in an open jeep:
"It's quite modern. Once we take down Ruyifang and send the two hundred prisoners from Fengshan here, and get some clean water, vegetables, rice and grain, this place will become a great base."
Rogge laughed and took Jiang Xia to another place in the base. He looked at Shi Liu, who was sitting on Jiang Xia's shoulder and looking around like a monkey.
explain:
“The Eternal Life Society left behind a lot of robots, which can be responsible for the daily maintenance of the base.
We will have weapons storage for future training, and we are closer to the edge of the desert than before. There are several strongholds of the Eternal Life Society there. As long as we seize them, we can control the Death Desert area."
"Well, these are things for the future."
Jiang Xia nodded and said:
"The point is the monster? Why didn't you kill it?"
"Because it's undergone some very strange changes."
Roger frowned and said:
"There are some changes that we don't quite understand. I don't even know how to describe them in words. Maybe you can see some clues. They are just ahead."
The two walked forward for a few minutes and entered a vaulted warehouse equipped with automatic turrets.
The place is very big.
A soldier was driving a forklift, moving large boxes of things. An area in the middle of the warehouse had been cleared.
There was a circular platform with a strange-looking man lying on it, his wrists, feet, and neck bound by cables connected from underground electrodes.
The man was lying there, covered with a piece of clothing, and his face could not be seen clearly.
"Where's the monster?"
Jiang Xia looked around and didn't see the huge body of the black wolf monster at all. He turned his head and asked, but before Rogge could answer, Pomegranate, who was sitting on his shoulder, let out a strange cry.
"You're blind! Isn't the monster right there?"
Following the pomegranate's raised claws, Jiang Xia's gaze finally fell on the bound "person" .
His pupils dilated once, and he could see clearly.
Under the clothes covering his body, there was black, burnt mane. The man was lying on his back, and if you looked closely, you could see a long, protruding mouth like a wolf's kiss.
And its weird, recurved knees and legs.
"Werewolf?"
Jiang Xia also said something in surprise. He looked at Rogge, who spread his hands and shrugged.
That's what he calls a "weird change."
"We were going to kill it, but it was so badly injured that it lost consciousness and became like this right in front of us. This is obviously not scientific at all."
Roger glanced at the pomegranate and said:
"But maybe magical?"
"Magic? What is that?"
Pomegranate flapped its wings and approached the unconscious "werewolf".
As it flew, it said:
"You mortals are so ignorant. The demon race's magical power has been broken, revealing its true form. It's probably because of the lack of spiritual energy.
Let me take a look at it first."
“Don’t touch!”
Rogge shouted hurriedly, but still failed to stop Little Pomegranate from doing that.
The latter stretched out his claws and wanted to touch the unconscious werewolf, but before he could touch its body, he was hit by a strong electric current.
The blue ultra-high voltage electric arc lashed Pomegranate like a whip.
The little mountain monster was beaten so hard that he screamed and his whole body flew out, hitting the side of the warehouse with a dull thud. It took him a long time to get up.
Injured, but it wasn't hurt.
But the strong electric shock affected the stone body of the pomegranate, causing the outer shell to crack, and tiny electric arcs to jump in the cracks.
The residual paralysis also caused Shi Liu's mouth to twitch, and a wisp of black smoke came out of his mouth.
"Isn't this trap too vicious?"
The mountain monster trembled and screamed in dissatisfaction:
"I didn't realize that you mortals can use thunder magic?"
“I didn’t expect that either.”
Roger replied quietly:
"A few megaamperes of electricity can melt even steel, but it didn't break you? You have a really tough body."
"That's right. My Stoneskin is my innate magical power. How can it be compared with other spells?"
Hearing Roger's praise, Pomegranate became proud again.
It flapped its wings and inhaled a breath of immortal money's spiritual energy before it flew up shakily and squatted on Jiang Xia's shoulder like a miniature gargoyle.
The pair of red eyes stared at the unconscious werewolf in front of him and said:
"Practice Qi, maintain truth, cultivate spirit, seek the way, sea of suffering, the other shore."
Shi Liu listed the six realms of the human cultivators as if he were naming a dish, and then he said with a hint of pride:
“These are the six realms of cultivation for the human race. Of course, it is generally called the fifth realm. After all, the other shore realm is too ethereal and difficult to find. It is also called the Daozu realm. Just hearing the name tells you how powerful it is.
But in the Ku Mu Realm, it’s not just you humans who have the mighty powers from the other side. We monsters are also protected by the Holy Spirit of Heaven and Earth, Lady Asarum.
Take the monsters for example, any monster that has awakened its consciousness and drawn spiritual energy into its body to transform itself is called a little monster. There are six levels of monsters above them, namely monster soldiers, monster generals, monster kings, great monsters and monster saints.
And the ancestral demons that no longer exist in the world.
The monsters have strong bodies and are very powerful in the early stages of their training, taking advantage of every opportunity.
But it gets harder as time goes on.
Except for some old-fashioned people who follow the orthodox path of demon cultivation and only cultivate physical magical powers, other monsters who want to succeed in their cultivation must transform into human form so that they can have three souls and seven spirits, twenty-four qi, and twelve levels.
After the sea of consciousness is opened and the Dantian heart acupoint is protected, the demonic energy in the body will be refined into purity. Only by practicing the soul and body together like a cultivator can one gain something.
But this transformation is a long stage.
It has nothing to do with the realm, it all depends on fate. Look at this demon general, he has human limbs but still retains the characteristics of an animal.
However, the transverse bone in the throat must have been refined.
So it can speak human language and fly on the wind, which is also a supernatural power."
Pomegranate gave a brief explanation, showing off his knowledge, then stretched out his claws, scratched his bald head, and said with some doubt:
“Logically speaking, when you reach the level of a demon general, you can use some magic in human form. Unless it’s a life-or-death situation, it’s impossible to use this magic to transform into a beast and fight to the death.
I don't know why this wolf demon is so stubborn and insists on fighting you in beast form?
If it took human form, it would be faster and more ferocious. It would only need a few wind blade spells to kill you in the deserted mountains. But why don't you do this?
Is there something wrong with my brain?
Like their wolf demon clan's ancestor Xiao Feng, who was possessed by a demon and went insane? They can't be so unlucky, right?"
"No, it's possible that it is true."
After hearing what Shi Liu said, Roger clapped his hands, reached out and took a platform computer, and said to Jiang Xia and Shi Liu:
"I just used the instruments here to give this monster a simple physical examination, you see."
He waved the tablet, and the pictures on it were projected optically in front of everyone, just like a few CT scans, showing some conditions inside the humanoid wolf monster's body.
"Look at this!"
Roger pointed forward and said:
"There is a shadow on the right side of its brain. It looks like a blood clot, but it also looks like some small-scale energy crystal residue, which is severely compressing the brain nerves.
Perhaps this explains why it is so violent and yet so mindless.”
"Then give it an operation."
Jiang Xia narrowed his eyes and looked at the CT scan in front of him. He said to Rogge:
“Put some of your local specialties in there, too.
I've always heard you say that you were a biologist before you picked up a gun, Roger.
You are the lead surgeon for this craniotomy, are you confident?"
