Doomsday Sacrifice

Chapter 156 Conjecture
The yacht slowly left the shore, headed east along the Silong River, entered the sea after ten minutes, and sailed north close to the coastline.

Yu Qingming on the yacht feels very fresh everywhere. He grew up by the sea, and getting on a boat and going to sea is naturally a common occurrence, but yachts are rich people's toys, and he has never seen them before, let alone sat on them.

Like a curious baby, he looks here, touches there, and after turning around, there are two favorite places, one is the U-shaped sofa area at the bow, where the sea breeze blows and the sun basks, It's not too comfortable, there are a few fishing rods, and fishing is not bad.

There is also a kitchen on the main deck, which is quite large in size. It has four burners, oven, microwave, refrigerator, ice machine, and dishwasher, which is very much to his liking.

The only bad thing is that the stove is an induction cooker, which is not as easy to use as a gas stove.

Seeing that he and Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden, Lao Fan couldn't help but joked, "How is it? Lao Yu, is this yacht okay? Are you satisfied with the kitchen?"

"It's really good, and the kitchen is also good." Yu Qingming couldn't help but nodded.

"That's fine, you can come up with all the things later and make arrangements, and I'll take the initiative to give you this yacht."

"It's okay to make a good meal. I brought up a lot of things. I have everything that should be in the kitchen. Let everyone have a taste of my real craftsmanship. There is no need to send a yacht. If you send me a yacht before the end of the world OK." Yu Qingming knew that Lao Fan was fooling him again.

"Hey, you can use whatever skills you have. If the boss eats happily, maybe he will catch a few evolutionary fish at night, and it will be a blessing."

"Evolving fish? Same as evolving oranges?" Yu Qingming's eyes lit up.

"Almost." Lao Fan was not sure.

"It's far worse. The energy of evolved fish is much less. The reason why evolved oranges contain so much energy is in Aurora. However, the number of evolved fish is much more than oranges. You can only ask the boss for this matter. His fishing level is so high." He is a professional, and he caught two to three hundred catties in three to four hours two days ago." Cheng Xi said.

"Oh, it turned out that the load of fish that Wang Zongwei brought back was caught by the boss." Yu Qingming suddenly realized.

"Hey, those are ordinary fish. The boss also caught a 200-jin evolutionary bomb fish. We ate less than half of it. The rest is stored in the cabin below. I don't know if it's broken." Cheng Xi remembered the grilled fish he ate that morning, and his mouth watered.

"I'll go and have a look." Yu Qingming heard that there were evolutionary fish, so he couldn't wait to go to the cabin below.

There is a large bucket in the cabin, which contains bomb fish cut into pieces. There are many small ice cubes in the bucket, and a quilt is wrapped around it. It is well preserved and quite fresh.

Yu Qingming was overjoyed, took the bucket to the kitchen, and immediately started cooking. Before becoming an evolutionary, he was a chef first. He wanted to prove his worth in cooking and conquer everyone's stomach first.

He very much agrees with what Lao Fan said, if the boss eats happily, he will definitely catch more evolutionary fish.

At this time, Li Xunzheng and Shen Yiqing were sitting on the pilot's seat of the flying bridge. Ever since Shen Yiqing learned to sail, she had been at the helm.

Although there are beauties who are eye-catching, Li Xun stared straight ahead, obviously distracted, his thoughts were like a kite flying in the sky, erratic.

He was thinking about the sacrificial system.

Since the system evolved to the third level, after the human customer service went online once, there was no more movement, and it didn't even go online again when it evolved to the fourth level.

This made Li Xun feel strange and at the same time a little depressed, because he could no longer obtain information from the system, especially many questions about polar beasts and evolution could not be confirmed. It is better to ask the system directly.

Although it's been a long time since the system was obtained, it's only recently that I have actually come into contact with it. Li Xun feels that this sacrificial system is like an artificial intelligence, the kind of artificial intelligence that has its own consciousness and thoughts.

To be honest, he is a bit against the system.

The main reason is that the system's first sacrifice requirement is himself, a living person.

Later, there was another one. He always felt that artificial intelligence did not seem to be a good thing, especially an artificial intelligence with thinking that could communicate like a human. This was related to the fact that he had watched many movies about it.

There are several questions that have troubled him for a long time, that is, where did the system come from?Why did you choose him?What is the purpose of choosing him?
If these problems are not clarified, he will always feel like a stick in his throat, and his heart will not be at ease.

If it were someone else, they might not care so much after getting the system, even if something as mysterious as the system appeared, it would be reckless.

But Li Xun was cautious by nature, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten the system. He had been entangled with the system for more than a year, and he didn't take any action until the end of his life before sacrificing himself.

Judging from the recent offerings and rewards, Li Xun still felt that there might be a problem with the system.

First of all, the sacrifices that the system likes seem to be very targeted. Creatures should be its favorite sacrifices, such as extreme beasts, zombies, the corpses of ordinary survivors and evolutionaries, as well as evolved bamboo shoots and fish.

Moreover, the system prefers living sacrifices, designated sacrifices have always emphasized the integrity of extreme beasts, and the system's recent rewards for consciousness control methods are also related to living sacrifices.

But there is one thing that is strange. The polar beast egg he sacrificed in the supermarket yesterday should be considered a living thing. After all, when the polar beast laid the egg, the little polar beast inside had already formed, but there was no reminder that it could not be sacrificed.

Based on this, Li Xun speculated that whether a living thing could be sacrificed should be related to the autonomous consciousness or complex thinking of the living thing. Although the beast egg is a living thing, it may not have consciousness, or the consciousness is not strong enough, so it can be sacrificed.

But a new question arises, is a zombie a living creature with a strong consciousness or a weak one?
Zombies have lost their sanity, but they have powerful instincts for eating and evolution. Judging from the inability to sacrifice living zombies, they seem to be considered as creatures with strong consciousness.

Originally, it would be appropriate to use those beast eggs to verify this point. Under normal circumstances, it takes three days for an egg to hatch, so you can try to sacrifice an egg every two or three hours.

If it becomes impossible to sacrifice after one or two days, it is obviously that the system has nothing to do with the little polar beast after its consciousness has increased.

It's a pity that Li Xun didn't think of this at the time and missed it.

However, he has already thought of other ways, which can be obtained from animals, such as fish in the sea, chickens, pigs, etc., which can be determined through experiments.

In addition, you can also try the mind control method by the way.

In fact, he had already experimented on zombies last night. He inserted a white spike into the back of the head of a young zombie in a normal school, and then used the mind control method to successfully transmit command consciousness to it.

He tried to transmit a variety of consciousnesses, such as making the zombie stop walking, run up, attack, kill another zombie, etc., and the zombie complied.

But there were also times when he disobeyed orders. When he told the zombie to stop eating a zombie corpse, it caused a strong resistance from the zombies, and finally ignored his orders.

Then when it sacrificed itself, the zombies resisted even more strongly, and even let it get rid of the order not to hurt him.

Obviously, the consciousness control method also has limitations. According to the method Li Xun has mastered, this situation should be due to his insufficient evolution. With more evolutions, he can definitely order the zombies to complete the sacrifice.

But extreme beasts are hard to say. Li Xun thinks it is impossible to control such a super creature with consciousness, but the system thinks it is feasible.

In any case, there is no problem in controlling zombies with the mind control method. Although the transmission of consciousness requires a huge amount of energy and there is a distance limit, it can play a big role if used well.

In addition to creatures, the system's favorite offerings also include books, various technological items, etc. These things are simply knowledge.

From this, it can be inferred that it is collecting knowledge, inventions and creations on Blue Star, as well as various substances, which are more likely to be unique substances. In the end, Li Xun came to the conclusion that the system should be interested in the achievements of various civilizations.

This can be seen from the different rewards for the same sacrifice. The reward given by the same sacrifice is the best when it is first sacrificed, and the rewards given by the system plummet when it is sacrificed again. The energy rewards are also gone. Obviously, the system has been encouraging more sacrifices of different sacrifices.

In addition, the rewards given by the system can also prove this point. So far, among the rewards Li Xun has received, hunting proficiency and weapon proficiency obviously come from different civilizations. One is mainly about the body, while the other is about technology.

The drawings of the three bases, the design drawings of the all-terrain vehicle, the design drawings of the communicator, the drawings of the hunting bow and the hunting knife, and the drug formula also illustrate this point.

And the energy simulation model of system rewards seems to come from another civilization.

In addition, there are various gene conversion models, occupations, and rewards such as biological proficiency and medical proficiency, which are obviously obtained from the corresponding zombies and survivors, and then rewarded to him, it should be regarded as taken from the people and used for the people.

From this, Li Xun strung together the clues he got, and after some deliberation, he finally made a conjecture: the system should come from a certain civilization in a certain universe, and it seems that it was an accident, or random, that he was chosen to coexist. Its purpose should be to deal with extreme beasts.

The extreme beasts seem to have destroyed one civilization after another, and now they have taken a fancy to Blue Star, so the system somehow came to Blue Star, attached to Li Xun, trying to combine the achievements of several civilizations, coupled with the evolution of human beings, Destroy the polar beast.

Everything makes sense, doesn't it?

Then there is only one question left, if this is the case, why doesn't the system just give him all the rewards, instead of asking for sacrifices?
Could it be that it is worried that human beings are no match for polar beasts, so it wants to collect materials unique to human civilization and Blue Star?

This is a question that Li Xun has been thinking about recently but can't figure it out.

In any case, so far, the system has been helping Li Xun, indirectly helping humans through him, which is why he is willing to sacrifice continuously.

It's just that for some unknown reason, the system's manual customer service has remained silent, which made him feel a little uneasy.

"What are you thinking about?"

Shen Yiqing became more proficient at driving a yacht as time passed. While driving the yacht to the north at a cruising speed of [-] knots, she saw Li Xun beside her frowning. She seemed to be confused, so she couldn't help asking road.

Her question woke up Li Xun from his contemplation.

He forced a smile: "It's nothing, when calculating the harvest this time, the genetic energy is always not enough."

"Isn't there a lot of genetic energy harvested this time?" Shen Yiqing felt that she had killed a lot of extreme beasts and zombies.

"I was robbed by that second-class winged beast, and I got a little more than 2 units." Li Xun had already counted it, and he should have gotten more than [-] units, but in fact it was less than half.

Shen Yiqing stuck out her tongue: "Not a lot, if you let other evolutionaries know, they will definitely think you are Versailles."

Li Xun also smiled: "I always think that I can reach the sky in one step, and it would be great to go up to the tenth and eighth ranks at a time."

"Hee hee, I often think so too." Shen Yiqing's eyes curved into a crescent, and then asked curiously: "Can we keep evolving?"

"No, the essence of evolution is the evolution of chromosomes. Humans have a total of 23 pairs of chromosomes, that is to say, they can evolve up to 23 times."

"Oh, the number of times of evolution is quite a lot, but the energy required is probably an astronomical figure. How many zombies and beasts have to be killed?" Shen Yiqing couldn't help thinking of Li Xun's saying that the higher the level, the more energy needed. A little discouraged.

"Well, the higher the level of the extreme beast, the higher the energy. The gene energy extracted from the second-class extreme beast is five times that of ordinary extreme beasts, so it is better to kill more extreme beasts."

"Well, there are many good things on them, the more you kill, the more benefits you will get." Shen Yiqing laughed.

"By the way, how many spikes are left?"

"Six 310, should be enough, right?"

"It's about the same. This thing is very useful for long-range attacks, and it can be recycled. If you save more, it can replace the spiny-fin arrow."

"It's a pity that I only found three spiked fin arrows." Compared with spikes, Shen Yiqing felt that hunting bows were better.

However, after searching for a long time in the south of the International Trade Building, they only found three arrows, and the rest were crushed under the rubble, which is a pity.

After driving smoothly for an hour, Cheng Xi came to the flying bridge and asked the two of them to have dinner. Yu Qingming worked hard for a long time and tried his best to prepare a table of a luxurious meal in the apocalypse.

The yacht just sailed near a small pier, Li Xun asked Shen Yiqing to park the boat, and everyone had dinner together first.

Yu Qingming successfully conquered everyone's stomachs, after a meal, everyone was full of praise.

I haven’t told you about the next itinerary yet. Li Xun said during the meal that his plan is to land from Dongfang City in Donghai Province and find a car to go to Zhoucheng along the expressway. About [-] kilometers, not too far but not too close.

Everyone naturally has no opinion.

After eating, Shen Yiqing continued to sail north, but encountered an accident half an hour later.

They encountered a group of extreme beasts in the sea unexpectedly.

(End of this chapter)