20demayo Chapter 70: Kayako has not yet appeared; Zhan Lan unlocks 3 locks single-handedly.
Chapter 70: Kayako has not yet appeared; Zhan Lan unlocks 3 locks single-handedly.
Wang Lu thought about it.
"What obsession does Zhan Lan have? Is there any way to awaken her?"
In the original story, he was infatuated with Zheng Zha's beauty, but that's not the case now. Will using Zheng Zha to wake her up still work?
Whatever, let's give it a try.
"Zhan Lan! Zheng Zha has changed his mind. He doesn't like lolis anymore; he likes a remarkable woman like you with profound knowledge and wisdom!"
Zhan Lan moved her body slightly, seemingly responding, but her reaction was not much different from when her name was called earlier.
"Don't you like Zheng Zha, but prefer Chu Xuan?"
"Zhan Lan! Chu Xuan said he's had a crush on you for a long time."
Sure enough, Zhan Lan's body moved again, reacting a little more strongly, but she was still far from waking up.
"Hiss... Could it be that you're obsessed with this captain?" Wang Lu's lips curled up, and he smiled like a war god.
"Zhan Lan! I'm going to transform you into a flat-chested woman and add you to my harem."
"!!"
Zhan Lan's body shook violently.
Her submerged consciousness could actually hear what was being said outside, but it was held back by countless resentful hands, preventing her from moving.
Before me, only a single flame illuminated the darkness.
But the talismanic flames had begun to gradually die out.
Zhan Lan was very anxious:
"Help! Please don't let the fire go out, or I'm doomed!"
"No, we have to find a way... Chu Xuan, what would Chu Xuan do?"
Zhan Lan's consciousness began to mimic Chu Xuan's thought process.
"Was I attacked by Kayako? No... it shouldn't be, the main god didn't trigger any quest prompts."
"Was I attacked by a ghost that has evolved special abilities? No, not really..."
She began to eliminate possibilities one by one, until:
"Has the mind received too much negative information... and suffered a backlash? It's possible; let's keep that guess..."
"How do we do it?"
She tried to use her most proficient mental scan.
Swah——
The scan started, and she saw Wang Lu, Lingdian, and Chu Xuan standing beside her, as well as her own body, which was standing stiffly in place.
Wang Lu grabbed her and said, "Looks like she's not going to wake up. Why don't we take advantage of her while she's still alive and warm?"
Chu Xuan: "How can we use it?"
"Injecting the T-virus into reincarnated individuals as experimental subjects is far more effective than using ordinary people."
That makes sense.
"!!!"
Stop! Stop right now! You two inhuman bastards! Don't do that to me!!
Zhan Lan, who was losing consciousness, was frantic with worry.
In a moment of crisis, disregarding all directions, he unleashed his life's most powerful technique—a mental shock.
boom--
Wang Lu felt as if something had hit his head, and he felt dizzy.
"Ouch~~~ What hit my head?"
With 1500 points of mental energy, he became immune to Zhan Lan's attack.
Seeing that Wang Lu had already taken out a syringe and was about to stick it into his arm, Zhan Lan immediately shouted angrily.
"Get away! Get away from me!"
Swah——
"Mental breakthrough threshold..." The faint notification from the main god was ignored by Zhan Lan.
When her consciousness returned to her body, she suddenly pushed Wang Lu down, but instead of staying upright, she was thrown back and fell heavily to the ground.
"what!"
After letting out a cry of pain, Zhan Lan looked at her hands, which were covered in sweat.
"I'm back?"
"Wow? The T-virus is so effective? It cured the disease before I even got vaccinated."
Zhan Lan: "…………"
After regaining consciousness, Zhan Lan felt that her mind had become sharper and her mental strength seemed to have increased.
She tried activating her mental scan and discovered that the range was more than 50% larger than before. The maximum straight-line scan distance had increased from 200 kilometers to 300 kilometers.
"Captain, I... I think I've become stronger. My mental strength has increased a lot, and my mind has become much more agile, as if I'm smarter than before."
Wang Lu: "………"
You bastard, that's three locks open.
The Central Continent team is indeed full of geniuses; they skipped the first and second tier locks and inexplicably unlocked the third tier lock. In contrast, Wang Lu is still waiting for Chu Xuan's T-virus to unlock the first tier lock.
He explained speechlessly, "These are symptoms of the third stage of gene lock activation."
If your mental strength doesn't increase much, it means it's not fully unlocked yet. With more practice, it won't be long before it's fully unlocked.
"Really?" Zhan Lan couldn't help but show her delight.
"The third-tier lock primarily strengthens mental strength and the brain, which is a good match for your abilities. Keep it up; you've already transcended the ranks of mortals and entered a level of decent aptitude."
"Thank you, Captain, I will do my best!" Zhan Lan decisively forgot about the two people who were planning to use her as experimental material and chose to thank the great captain for his kindness.
When Zhan Lan reached the threshold of the three locks, she felt much more relaxed when she activated her mental scan again, and her forehead was no longer tense.
Even when scanning while simultaneously sharing information through mental chains, it becomes effortless.
From the perspective of mental energy scanning, countless vengeful spirits gathered near the coast, searching for the presence of living people.
Within the scanning range, not even a single point of light representing the human soul could be found.
However, because the vengeful spirits killed so quickly, many ships that had gone out to sea died near the coast before they could get away, losing the possibility of jumping ship and going ashore.
"It seems we've successfully kept the vengeful spirits on the other side of the sea."
Wang Lu breathed a sigh of relief.
"We can't let our guard down. The Tsushima Strait is under your personal supervision, so there shouldn't be any problems. But there are other directions as well."
"That's true." Wang Lu nodded in agreement.
Afterwards, he placed all the weapons he had brought from the bio-world on Tsushima Island and said to Chu Xuan:
"Give these weapons to the NPCs so they can guard the strait. I'll take Zhan Lan and patrol along the coastline to kill all the vengeful spirits wandering the sea."
"clear."
So, Wang Lu, along with the humanoid radar Zhan Lan, boarded the escape pod and proceeded to slaughter all the scattered vengeful spirits that had drifted out to sea along the coast.
The mental scan located the target, and then a huge red beam of light descended from the sky.
The surrounding countries formed a coalition using the weapons provided by Wang Lu and their own weapons, and launched intensive bombardments along the coast to prevent any escapees from fleeing by boat.
The Central Continent team and the natives each performed their duties, and after three days, they finally succeeded in stopping the overflow of vengeful spirits.
By this time, Wang Lu had already led Zhan Lan on a complete circuit around the coastline.
Zhan Lan, who had been continuously conducting mental scans, looked utterly exhausted.
She slumped into the chair in the escape pod, burying her face in her hands: "Captain, I can't hold on any longer, my mental strength is completely depleted."
Wang Lu nodded: "Okay, you rest, leave the rest to me."
The outflow of vengeful spirits has completely stopped, but there is still no indication from the main god.
"Strange, preventing the extinction of humanity is such a great deed, yet there's been no reward?"
Perhaps the mission is not over yet, and there are still potential crises.
Wang Lu contacted Chu Xuan, who was far away in the United States, directly using a satellite phone.
After distributing the weapons to the NPCs, he went to the United States alone and began capturing people to study the T-virus.
Wang Lu: "Chu Xuan, the vengeful spirits at sea have been cleared away, so why haven't we heard the God's reward notification yet?"
Chu Xuan looked up at his watch and said, "It's simple, Kayako hasn't appeared yet."
"Gaya coconut?"