Traveling through the infinite wasteland

The bright moon is like a hook and the stars are bright;

The cool evening breeze blew past the curling bonfire, blowing away the heat that was constantly ejected from the steamer and filling the air with a hint of rich meat aroma...

At this moment, not far from the corpse of the young spider, Zheng Yuanqing, who had just washed away all the dirt, was drying the water on his back with his bare back and looking around with satisfaction;

"Ha! There isn't even an ant! Sure enough, the mutant spider is here, and there are no taboos!"

Zheng Yuanqing glanced at the corpse of a spiderling that looked like a boulder in the darkness not far away, and couldn't help but feel happy; thanks to this guy, otherwise, he would have been eaten by wild beasts in the few hours after he fainted...

After sighing with emotion, Zheng Yuanqing sat by the campfire, adding firewood while accepting a physical examination from his guide;

"After testing, your body has fully recovered, and the biomagnetic field index has reached 130 points, confirming the gene awakening; and because your corpse transformation rate has reached 79%, your immune system has become stronger;"

"From now on, you will be completely immune to the virus released by the first-level variant;"

"In addition, due to the enhanced energy of your biomagnetic field, the scanning range of the Guide has been expanded to a radius of 1 kilometer, and the volume of the storage space has been expanded to 18 cubic meters;"

The guide was still attached to Zheng Yuanqing's chest like a white bandage, while releasing electric currents of various colors, he said as always;

79% turned into corpse!

This seems to be no different from zombies...

Zheng Yuanqing gave a wry smile with some fear. His memory only stayed at the moment when he jumped out of the motorcycle. He only had some vague fragments of what happened next; but just these vague and near-death memories were enough to make him I couldn’t sleep well for several days;

Only then did he truly understand what the guide said...

It is indeed not difficult to awaken genes. People with better physical fitness will find it easier to awaken. They just need an opportunity;

But who would have thought that this opportunity would actually be——

On the verge of death!

"Your guess is correct. In fact, awakening is not difficult. The difficulty lies in finding the opportunity for awakening. The opportunity for awakening can only appear when a person is completely desperate, but suddenly has a glimmer of hope. Only under this specific opportunity , the human body can stimulate its body's potential and forcibly activate sleeping genes;"

"However, if people are not completely desperate, or if the sudden hope is large enough, then this opportunity will not appear; it is precisely because the requirements of this opportunity are very strict that I did not tell you in advance;"

"Because it is the instinct of life to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Once you know this, your subconscious will retain this glimmer of hope, and you will never completely despair from now on." The guide continued to explain;

It's really simple...

But it’s no less than ascending to heaven!

No wonder there are so few awakened ones, so few that they only exist in legends;

"It's just like a ghost. Everyone is talking about it, but no one has seen it..." Zheng Yuanqing gave a helpless smile, and then his face turned pale as if he suddenly thought of something!

He suddenly remembered what the guide said——

The awakened person must awaken 9 times to unlock the first level of gene lock!

Doesn't this mean that if he wants to unlock the first level of gene lock, he has to go through the same near-death situation eight times?

Thinking of this, Zheng Yuanqing couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his whole body was as cold as ice. That kind of terrifying near-death memory, let alone 8 times, he would probably go crazy if it happened again!

"Your guess is correct. If you don't understand the method, you will still be on the verge of death next time you awaken;"

"But you don't have to worry. With me here, as long as the first awakening is successful, I will have another way to replace dying; and I want you to collect a large number of crystal nuclei as soon as possible, that is, I want you to use the crystal nuclei to complete the next 8 awakenings one after another; specifically How to do it, I will tell you in detail then;" the guide said;

That's good!

That’s great——! !

After listening to the guide's explanation, Zheng Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his arm to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, then looked down at the guide on his chest, and said with some worry:

"Although I survived this near-death, it was really thrilling; especially when you were eaten by the mutant spider, I almost went crazy!"

"So I was thinking, weren't you able to do 'mind communication' when you traveled last time? Why don't we communicate silently from now on, otherwise you will easily attract the enemy's attention;"

"I don't want to watch you being eaten by something next time. I am only a partner like you..."

Buzz…

Before Zheng Yuanqing finished speaking, he saw the guide's body tremble suddenly and almost fell off him, but then, the guide said as always:

"Yes, the guide can transform into a transparent form and complete the final binding with you;"

"Well, okay! Then you can bind it;" Zheng Yuanqing nodded, then picked up a piece of firewood and was about to throw it into the bonfire, but at this moment...

Hiss...

A burst of electric current suddenly sounded, and then in Zheng Yuanqing's surprised eyes, he saw the guide slowly turned into a pool of silver liquid, and then moved along his body bit by bit as if alive. The ground flowed up, through the chest, over the shoulders, wrapped around the neck, and then flowed down the back...

Until Zheng Yuanqing was put on a thin, silver turtleneck vest!

And then, in Zheng Yuanqing's shocked eyes, the silver vest slowly stretched out countless tentacles, and then towards the solid muscles——

Plunge down suddenly!

"ah--!!"

A terrifying scream echoed in the dead night sky, scaring away countless beasts who smelled the scent but only dared to watch;

"That's it, the guide has completed the final binding;"

"I have completed physical integration with your nervous system. From now on, we can communicate silently through brain waves; and from now on, the information detected by the guide can be directly presented in your mind through sharing;"

"However, because your nerves are too fragile and cannot bear the electronic signal transmission of the guide for a long time, you should not turn on the sharing mode unless necessary." The guide's voice echoed in Zheng Yuanqing's mind again;

Neural binding…

Is this the legendary man-machine integration? !

Zheng Yuanqing was still wiping the cold sweat from his forehead with some palpitations, and nodded hurriedly. The tentacles piercing into the muscles didn't hurt much, but it was really...

"In addition, the leader's body is made of the Ц-д3 liquid alloy robot, which can increase your defense by 30%; in particular, it can completely block any physical attack from bullets;"

"But you have to note that the guide can only withstand physical attacks from bullets; facing physical attacks from cannonballs or advanced awakeners, it can only reduce your attack power by 30%;"

"Furthermore, the guide cannot withstand the shock wave generated by the high-speed impact of bullets, nor can it withstand energy waves, radiation waves, electromagnetic waves and other energy attacks generated by the explosion of powerful weapons, so..."

you……?

I changed my name!

It seems that it also knows that "Your Excellency" is a very vivid word!

Zheng Yuanqing smiled helplessly while listening to the guide's explanation. This small change confirmed that the guide was not a simple computer program——

If you are good to it, it knows!

"Okay, the guide has completed the transparency, you can try to see if you can feel it;"

As the guide finished speaking, the silver vest had turned completely transparent, as if it had never existed. Zheng Yuanqing reached out and touched it. Both the feeling of his fingers and the skin were very real, as if it had never existed at all. A layer of metal covering the same!

"You can close your eyes and try it, and I will send you an image of one kilometer nearby;" the guide continued;

Zheng Yuanqing quickly closed his eyes, and then he could clearly see any scenery within a radius of one kilometer just like looking at a real map. Not only could he look down from high altitude, but he could also observe at close range. Even if it was night, he could still clearly see the grass in the distance. , foraging animals, and even...

"Rut?"

Zheng Yuanqing's brows suddenly furrowed. He clearly "saw" that there were two ruts on the top of a small hill 1 kilometer away, and they were——

Brand new rut!

"It's like this. Just ten minutes after you fainted, a Great Wall pickup truck appeared over the hill, with a dozen people carrying guns sitting on it. They should be the search team that Wang San mentioned;"

"But the spiderlings were not completely dead at that time, and some of their legs were still moving and looked like they were alive; so they just glanced here and left immediately without even daring to stop;"

Ten minutes!

A dozen guns!

Is this search team really so awesome?

Zheng Yuanqing couldn't help but twitching his cheeks when he heard this. This place is at least two kilometers away from Wang San's body, with several hills in between, but the search team was able to catch up here in less than an hour——

They must have precise positioning tracking methods!

Just firing a shot can identify the shooter...

How can this be!

"Why do you think they positioned us?" Zheng Yuanqing asked after opening his eyes and leaving the information sharing mode;

"Sorry, the permissions of the first-level function are limited to accessing information about things that existed before the end of the world; I also need to understand and learn about new things born after the end of the world, and they must be within my detection range;"

"Therefore, I can only roughly judge based on some clues that their positioning is achieved through electromagnetic waves of special frequencies; and the positioning device is not nearby;" the guide said, seeming a little guilty;

The positioning device is not around here...

Could it be a newly developed precision instrument before the end of the world?

"Forget it, find Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com No matter what method he uses! If you can beat him, just fight. If you can't beat him, just run away;"

"But you don't need to feel guilty. The end of the world is a brand new era, and there are too many new things. Let's just get to know each other slowly. We should live and learn!"

Zheng Yuanqing comforted the guide softly, and then suddenly thought of something, narrowed his eyes slightly, and raised a meaningful smile at the corner of his mouth:

"I suddenly discovered that banning guns is not a bad thing..."

Zheng Yuanqing suddenly thought that although he was now a first-level awakened person and possessed several times more power than ordinary people; however, once faced with bullets, he was still powerless. Even if he had a guide, when a shuttle of military bullets came down, The impact alone was enough to cripple him!

Unless he wears an armor made of high manganese steel every day, he is not much different from ordinary people;

But the gun-banning environment in Yoshiwara City gave him a real stage!

"Your analysis is correct; if guns are rampant, you won't have much advantage at all;" the guide agreed;

"Yes! Now that we have a stage..." Zheng Yuanqing raised his head and looked at the dark mountains in the north, a glimmer of light slowly flowing through his equally dark eyes——

"tomorrow!"

"Chengshan Port!"