End of the World Cycle

There are not many psychics sent to the research institute, so the speed of refining reagents is not fast. Basically, only one is sent in every day, and only when you are lucky will a second-level one be sent in.

After asking around for several times, Xie Qin finally understood that these were all death row prisoners. The order of the end times was already chaotic. Although there were many people who committed crimes under the jurisdiction of the First Base, almost all of them were not sentenced to death. Among those who committed capital crimes, there were very few people with special abilities, which was the reason for the small number of people.

But Xie Qin knew that things would not be that simple. After all, this was the early days of the apocalypse, and the evil in many people's hearts had not been aroused, such as Du Yuexuan and the dignitaries in the First Base.

When everyone has tasted the benefits of the reagents, more and more people with special abilities will be sent here. It has been a week since the first batch of reagents were sent out. When Xie Qin saw Du Yuexuan for the second time, she knew that her chance had finally come.

It was obvious that Du Yuexuan was stronger. This time, Du Yuexuan was followed by three people, one of whom was a third-level fire-type mutant, whom Xie Qin liked very much. However, when she heard that this person was the leader of the base mercenary group, she became unhappy instantly. She probably couldn't attract this person.

These four people have all used reagents, and the three following behind are close to the fourth level. Xie Qin only needs to take a quick look to know that if each of these people has at most fifty syringes of reagents, they can reach the fourth level.

This is a terrifying thing. You know, in the original plot, when the fourth-level superpowers slowly appeared, it was already the eighth year of the apocalypse. This time, it seems that because of their own reasons, these people's road to becoming stronger has been shortened by six years. And in this world, the hero and heroine don't even know where they are at this moment.

The sudden change forced Xie Qin to think more about whether the plot would change completely in the future, whether the emergence of the beast tide and the mutation time of marine life would also change. Just as Xie Qin was lost in thought, Lu Chaoyun pushed Xie Qin and asked her to go to the prison with the mercenary group to select people.

Xie Qin immediately put all these worries behind him, and followed the three people excitedly to the prison of the first base.

The prison was built in a valley about ten kilometers outside the base. It looked like five curved fortresses, all made of reinforced concrete, without even a window. The four surrounding ones were relatively small and didn't look very solid, but the one in the middle was different.

The huge arc exterior is actually covered with a layer of iron sheet. There is only one exit, and it is a door that is twice as thick as a bank vault. What's more amazing is that this door has no lock, and in addition to the password, iris recognition is also required. After entering, you have to pass through two doors at the same angle to reach the innermost part.

After entering, Xie Qin realized that all the prisoners here were people with special abilities. There were about seventy of them. There were three floors inside. Each floor was a small single room. Just like an ordinary prison. There were about three hundred rooms.

"Professor Xie, we need 200 syringes of reagents. How many people do you need?"

"Thanks. Professor?"

"Ah? Isn't that right? Isn't your last name Xie?"

"Yes, my last name is Xie. About 20 people will be enough." Xie Qin curled her lips under the mask. It was a bit funny for her to be called a professor when she was only fifteen years old.

Xie Qin walked around and happily selected the people he needed. The harvest was good. He found five water-type people, seven strength-type people, and even happier, two fire-type people. For the remaining six, Xie Qin randomly found a few earth-type and wood-type people close to the second level. This way, even if he absorbed more of these people, it would not delay the extraction of reagents.

Half a year had passed in a flash, and now Xie Qin could extract crystal cores independently. The task of extracting reagents was almost entirely handed over to Xie Qin, while Lu Chaoyun was devoted to the implantation of artificial crystals. He locked himself in the laboratory all day long and did not see anyone.

Xie Qin didn't care. After all, a steady stream of people with special abilities were sent to the First Base over the past six months, and his own special abilities had also made a qualitative leap.

The power and water types had already broken through to the fourth level, and the fire type was about to break through to the fourth level. As long as he could find a second-level fire type mutant, he would be able to break through. But there had been no fire type mutants for two months. So when he saw the mercenary group leader Jin Zhichen wandering in front of him, he couldn't help but want to suck.

Because I looked at him with such passion, he even misunderstood me as liking her. If I hadn't rolled my eyes, I would have been misunderstood.

Now, in addition to upgrading the fire and spiritual abilities, the most important thing is to choose your fifth ability. As early as three months ago, when the fire ability reached the third level, Xie Qin felt that there was an empty space next to the virtual crystal in her brain. She knew that she could choose.

After three months of picking and choosing, I still haven't found the right one. Ordinary abilities are the fastest to upgrade, after all, I have the resources, but it's a rare opportunity, so rare abilities are definitely the most attractive to me. For example, the fourth-level powerful and terrifying thunder-type ability user Du Yuexuan.

I really want his ability. It would be great if I could drain him dry at once, but it's unrealistic. Another one is a space-based ability user. But ordinary space-based abilities can't survive, and I can't enter the space at any time like the heroine, not to mention that there are spiritual springs and other messy things in the space.

Apart from being able to store things, it really doesn't have much use for me. Another one is a wind-type ability user that I met once. It's also a rare ability, and its power is no less than that of the lightning type. But the disadvantage is that there are few of them, and it's too difficult to upgrade.

After thinking about it for three months, Xie Qin finally decided to either absorb a fourth-order rare superpower at once, or wait and see if he could meet a person with healing superpowers.

Even Xie Qin himself felt that he had a talent for scientific research. He had learned a lot from Lu Chaoyun. Now, everyone who had met Xie Qin outside would respectfully call him Professor Xie.

Xie Qin also found it funny. Maybe it was because she had been wearing a mask for a long time and almost no one had ever seen her childish baby face underneath the mask.

Although I had high-purity supplements every day, they were of no use to me. Fortunately, I worked diligently here for more than a year, and I chose supplements as my reward. In addition, Lu Chaoyun paid for my expenses. After a year of feeding, my younger brother and Uncle Liu Bo both reached the fourth level.

Afterwards, as five fourth-order supernatural beings appeared in the base, the prestige of the First Base grew higher and higher. Many bases not too far away submitted to it, erected the flagpole of the First Base, and obeyed the management of the First Base. Groups of management teams went from the First Base to the other bases.

Du Yuexuan's strength also reached an unprecedented height after the bases surrendered one after another. The most obvious change was that more and more psychics who committed crimes were sent to the First Base Prison.

Xie Qin was the most welcoming one. Ever since Lu Chaoyun connected the prison entry system to the research institute, Xie Qin's happiest thing was to sit on a chair, holding the tablet in his hand and selecting the psychics he liked one by one.

Finally, among this group of superpowers, there was a second-level fire superpower. Xie Qin read the text description in the lower left corner (Rape. Robbery.) It was not a death sentence, so there was a possibility that he would not pass the appraisal review and be sent here.

If there were not many people with special abilities in the past, anyone who wanted one would be sent here. But since there were more and more people with special abilities in the prison, basically only those on death row and those serving life sentences do not need to be reviewed, and all others have to pass the review of the base before they can be sent here.

Xie Qin was in a dilemma. There were more than 300 prisoners in the prison, but there was only one fire-type prisoner. She was reluctant to let him go. She had to wait for a long time to find the next fire-type prisoner, and a second-level fire-type prisoner at that.

So Xie Qin, who had not used his supernatural powers for a long time, changed into all black clothes at night and went to the mountain outside the prison. Xie Qin took out two daggers from the blind spot on the north side of the prison, climbed up the seven-meter-high wall with his bare hands and climbed in.

He controlled the guards nearby along the way and slowly moved in.

Xie Qin knew the password and had the spare key, so he went in relatively smoothly. When he arrived at the place where the prisoners were held, Xie Qin discovered that in just one day, there were more than a hundred more people with special abilities in the prison.

Xie Qin frowned. This speed was too fast. There were about 500 superpowers in the prison. This was a number that Xie Qin could not understand. You know, superpowers are basically one in ten thousand. Survivors in this world are already rare, and superpowers are even rarer.

But now, there are so many people in one prison. It must be abnormal. Xie Qin probably knows the rules of mortal detention and quickly found the more than 100 new people.

More than a hundred people were in a closed warehouse, with only a little light coming through the door and a few cracks. Xie Qin quietly walked to the door and looked inside through the crack.

Everyone had their eyes closed as if they were asleep, but Xie Qin knew that they were not asleep. They were scattered all over the place, their breathing was uneven, and there were men, women, and even children. As far as he could see, there were three or four children lying on the ground, who looked about the same age as Xie Ran.

Obviously, these people are definitely not as simple as the criminals that Du Yuexuan said. It is very likely that the people who took the crystal cores by themselves in the past year or so are ordinary people disguised as so-called criminals.

For a moment, Xie Qin didn't know what to do. A bad premonition came over her. Would Lu Chaoyun know about this? If he knew, then this Lu Chaoyun was too dangerous. The auras of more than a dozen people gradually approached her. Xie Qin climbed up to the ceiling and hid in the darkness.

Seeing the three people leading the group opening the door, the light shone on their faces. How could Xie Qin not recognize them? The leader was Jin Zhichen, and the other two were Huang Bing, the brain of the mercenary group. Although he was not a psychic, he was a top hacker. The other one was the deputy leader, Gu Chunian, a power psychic who had just reached the fourth level.

"Why are there still children?" Jin Zhichen frowned in dissatisfaction, looking at the children on the ground.

"This batch was sent by Country J. As you know, many people died in their country due to nuclear pollution before the apocalypse. Only a few could survive the apocalypse. It must have taken a lot of thought to send these here." Huang Bing explained as he opened the metal box and took out the identity cards.

"It's really funny. What crime did this kid accuse him of? Does he really think those people in the lab are fools? They will definitely find something wrong."

Hearing this, Xie Qin breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that his teacher didn't know about this. But why would Country J send people with special abilities here?

"Don't send these children over there. Find a place to lock them up."

"But this child is a psychic. If we send him there, Professor Lu's project will definitely need him."

When Xie Qin heard about the psychiatric department, her eyes lit up. She wanted this child. You know, in such a long time, besides her brother, she had only met one psychiatric department. She couldn't miss this child. She had to find a way to take him away.

The three men moved quickly, waking them up one by one to make new identity cards, and then easily sending them to solitary confinement in prison based on a crime.

Seeing that this amount of work would definitely not be completed in a short time, Xie Qin turned around and rushed into the room of the second-level fire-type mutant. Because of Xie Qin's control, time on this level seemed to have stopped, and it was extremely quiet, which made the sound of Xie Qin breaking the lock seem a bit loud.

As Xie Qin entered, the man inside was so frightened that the first thing he said was "Shit." Xie Qin frowned, obviously a little surprised.

But after the accident, the slight sense of guilt in his heart seemed to disappear. After all, this person was going to die, it was just a matter of time. Even if he was a foreigner, there was a reason why he was sent here. So Xie Qin kicked the man unconscious against the wall without hesitation, and sucked him dry without leaving a single drop.

After more than a minute, Xie Qin clearly felt that his fire ability had reached the fourth level. The burning sensation from the inside out felt like his bones were being burned, but it was not uncomfortable. When the people downstairs heard the noise and rushed upstairs, Xie Qin had already left.

At daybreak, Xie Qin had already left the prison with a child on his back.

The remaining people soberly looked at the traces left by Xie Qin and began to feel scared. A living person died in prison, and a living person disappeared without a trace in front of hundreds of people. Who wouldn't be scared?

After Du Yuexuan learned the news, the entire base began identity verification that day. It was called a census, but Xie Qin knew what he was looking for.

Everyone had to re-verify their identity and abilities, but Xie Qin was so busy making supplements that he stayed in the laboratory for two days and avoided the turmoil.