……information?
Shen Zening and Bai Yang were stunned at the same time.
They really...didn't hear about it.
Not only them, but even the guests in the hotel had never heard of it, otherwise they would have started talking about it in the hotel.
"Fellow Taoist, where did you just say that the corpse tide has arrived? The border of Dongzhou? When did this corpse tide start to appear?"
Shen Zening asked anxiously.
If the corpse puppets are scattered everywhere, even if the overall number is large, but they are not clustered together, it will be easier for others to kill, especially mortals.
But if thousands of zombies gather in one place and pour into various cities like a tide, not to mention the mortals in the city, even ordinary monks cannot withstand this.
And this situation is quite tricky when it appears in zombie movies or zombie-themed novels.
Zombies are easier to say, after all, they can die with a headshot, but corpse puppets are different. Headshots have no effect on corpse puppets.
The little Taoist priest looked at the two people with anxious and solemn expressions in a daze, and gradually realized that something was wrong.
Those walking corpses were overrun in Southern Continent, and suddenly one day, as if commanded by someone, they gathered together and headed towards other continents.
After this matter was discovered by the cities on the borders of the three continents except Beizhou that bordered Nanzhou, they quickly notified all the major sects, informed them of the matter, and asked them to come over and help eliminate the walking corpses.
Although those sects, especially the Xuanmen Hundreds headed by Feng Qi, had long known that the demons were secretly infecting people with unusual demonic energy, but when they saw these endless walking corpses, they realized that something was wrong, so they He immediately used paper cranes to send messages to other cities in the four continents.
Why is it that now that the zombie puppets have completely occupied Nanzhou and have gathered into a team, turning into a zombie tide and heading north, why does it still look like they haven't received any news from Dongzhou?
Their news...hasn't it spread...
A few days ago, the little Taoist priest once made a divination out of boredom, predicting the good and bad luck in the world of cultivation.
Because he always heard rumors about the appearance of demons in the world of cultivation, his fellow disciples also heard about them, and often whispered in his ears. There were also rumors in the sect that the demons were going to bring trouble to the world of cultivation again, and they also said that they were in the world of cultivation. Arresting people everywhere for experiments.
So when he received the sect mission, he simply chose a mission that required a trip to Beizhou, and the location of the mission happened to be near Zhufeng Road.
After completing the sect's mission, he went to take a look at the barrier of the demon realm.
The barrier was intact, with no signs of fragmentation at all. When he chatted with other sect disciples guarding the barrier, those disciples also said that they did not notice anything strange.
The boundary between Zhu Feng Road and the Demon Realm is very important to the entire world of cultivation. The task of guarding the boundary falls on several large sects, and the guards will rotate every ten years.
The next ten years will be the sect's turn for the little Taoist priest, and now there are less than three years left before the change.
He took advantage of the fact that it was about to be their sect's turn to come to guard, and wondered whether the task of guarding the barrier would fall on him. He got a lot of words out of the mouths of the guarding sect disciples. But none of them are related to the rumors about demons in the world of cultivation.
The guarding disciples were very confident in the barrier of Zhu Feng Dao. They told the young Taoist priest on the spot that there would never be any problems with the barrier. They were guarding it here all day long and no demons could sneak into the world of cultivation.
While chatting, the little Taoist priest discovered that the disciples guarding the barrier were completely unaware of the recent rumors about the demons in the world of cultivation, so he told them, but the disciples ignored them and only thought that someone was making up stories.
Although they had to squat here for ten years and not be able to leave, Zhu Feng Road was sparsely populated because it was close to the Demon Realm, and they rarely saw a few outsiders. All the information was obtained by passing paper cranes to relatives and friends, but the disciples I swear that demons don’t behave that way, and this story is too false.
Over the past hundred years, the impact of the demons on the world of cultivation has been gradually forgotten by people, and because the barrier of Zhu Feng Dao completely separated the two worlds, for the curious young monks and demons, the demonic realm gradually became A mysterious place. There are many jokes about demons in the world of cultivation. The few outsiders the disciples responsible for guarding the barrier have seen in the past ten years are basically from other states and continents. This side of the border is for sightseeing.
Similarly, they were tired of hearing jokes about the Demon Realm and the Demon Clan. Even if the little Taoist priest told them any more rumors about the Demon Clan, they would not believe it.
After returning to his sect from Beizhou, the little Taoist priest listened to the rumors that were getting worse. In addition, there was news of the spread of the plague from Nanzhou. He couldn't help but predict the future of the cultivation world.
The young Taoist priest is considered to be very talented among the disciples of the sect, and the accuracy of his divination is also very high.
On weekdays, if he wants to calculate what the weather will be like tomorrow, whether it will rain, or whether there will be chicken drumsticks for dinner, such trivial matters in daily life are irrelevant, and they do not count as spying on the secrets of heaven.
But if he wants to know the future of the world of cultivation, then he has to pay a small price when doing divination. Similarly, this kind of behavior is also expressly prohibited by the sect and written into the sect rules.
But he was really curious.
In addition to curiosity, there is also an indescribable sense of ominousness.
With all kinds of emotions mixed together, he still chose to do divination.
But the result of the divination was...a very bad omen.
He hesitated all night and decided to tell his master. But early the next morning, before he could reach his master, the sect sent word that there was something strange happening at the border of Nanzhou. It seemed that there were a lot of... A moving corpse.
His heart skipped a beat, and he quickly requested orders from his master, saying that he was willing to go to Nanzhou with his senior brothers, and informed his master of yesterday's hexagram.
His master had actually measured the good and bad luck in the world of cultivation with the leader and other elders, but the master did not expect that the little Taoist priest could be so keen without knowing the inside story.
From the time the sect set out and on the way to Nanzhou, the master's expression was very serious and his eyebrows were tightly knitted. The atmosphere on the flying boat was made extremely serious and tense.
When the little Taoist priest saw the black walking corpses, like an army pressing down on the territory, he couldn't help but take a step back.
At that time, they just felt scary when they saw the walking corpses, and did not understand how difficult these things were to deal with. Seeing that the walking corpses had occupied almost all the territory in Nanzhou, they thought it was just because most of the people in Nanzhou could not resist these walking corpses. Because of the corpse.
After most of the disciples underestimated the enemy, the end result was...
"The team was scattered by the zombies, and our spiritual energy recovered extremely slowly, as if the demonic energy on the walking corpses would hinder the gathering of surrounding spiritual energy." Xiao The Taoist priest said to Shen Zening and Bai Yang, "I was accidentally bitten by a walking zombie. I was separated from my brothers and sisters, and my master was nowhere to be found. I managed to pull myself together, ran all the way forward, and came to the boss Here."
The little Taoist priest and the others saw the tide of corpses at the border of Nanzhou, but because they could not resist the increasing number of corpses, they could only retreat again and again. As he said before, the tide of corpses would reach the border of Dongzhou. , which is measured by calculating the speed of the corpse tide.
"Fellow Taoist, please rest here for a while, and I'll bring you something to eat." Shen Zening had many thoughts in her heart. After saying this to the little Taoist priest, she hurriedly left with Bai Yang.
He told Bai Yang yesterday that he was going to ask Xu Xiaoyan about the recent situation in the world of cultivation, but he was interrupted because of various unexpected things that happened later.
After leaving the room where the little Taoist priest was temporarily staying, he first stopped the employees passing by and asked the employees to help bring some food to the little Taoist priest. Then he and Bai Yang went directly to the workshop, preparing for the workshop to produce two hundred bombs first. Come out in case of emergency.
After filling in various values, determining the quantity, and paying the corresponding points and raw materials, Shen Zening immediately passed the inquiring paper crane to Xu Xiaoyan.
I don't know whether it was because of the long distance between the two sides or because Xu Xiaoyan was busy handling matters. Shen Zening waited for two hours but did not get a reply, so he had to send Xu Xiaoyan another paper crane.
Now that the tide of corpses was approaching, not to mention the little fox was starting to feel restless, even Shen Zening was extremely nervous.
If they can't solve the corpse tide and let them sweep away the corpse tide in the world of cultivation, the number of zombie puppets will only increase. Especially when he just listened to the little Taoist priest talking about the details of their sect's resistance to the zombie tide at the border of Nanzhou, the little Taoist priest said From his words, he discovered that the contagion of demonic energy was getting faster and faster.
...Those weird demonic energies... are evolving again.
"System, how's the ordering of those raw materials going?" Shen Zening rubbed his brows and tapped the system.
He did not use a nickname when he called the system out this time, and the system also became serious when he heard it, and hurriedly checked the orders signed with merchants from various planes.
In order to quickly produce weapons to deal with corpse puppets, Shen Zening not only ordered a large number of bomb materials by the ton from the system, but also many other raw materials for new drawings.
After returning to the workshop, Bai Yang directly asked Shen Zening to bring him the interface of the prestige store and began to spend points to refresh the drawings.
The second puppet created, Shen Si, was a sniper. When Shen Zening and Bai Yang chose her, it was not because they misunderstood the puppet attributes, but because the puppet album from the prestige store had this If there are different types of puppets, then the blueprints of firearms will definitely be found in the boxes in the prestige shop.
Even if he doesn't have a gun for a while, Shen Si's accuracy is still much higher than other puppets. Even if he can only use weapons such as bows, arrows and slingshots, it won't have much impact.
Shen Zening originally thought about whether guns could be purchased directly from other planes.
After all, there are many arms dealers in each plane. Let's exchange resources with them and purchase a batch first, especially the special firearms whose bullets will explode after being hit. It's faster than the workshop where you first draw the drawings and then find the raw materials before producing them.
However, after he discussed this idea with the system, the system listened and said helplessly that it also wanted to help Shen Zening directly build an arsenal, but conditions did not allow it. This kind of lethal weapon was explicitly ordered Private transactions are prohibited.
In other words, if you want to develop some powerful weapons, fine, you can report it first, and after you get the permission, fill in a lot of forms, and then you can legally trade weapons with other planes.
But there are no such restrictions on the raw materials of weapons.
If you can't get the finished product, you are only allowed to get some semi-finished products. If you can put together the semi-finished products, try it. If you can't, you can pull it down.
Shen Zening: "..."
That's outrageous!
Which military | fire | chamber of commerce sells parts separately! ! !
He had no choice but to place his hope in his lucky little fox, who was full of European spirit. Maybe the little fox would be able to get the blueprints for the firearm soon!
Bai Yang was sitting on the sofa here, brushing up on drawings, while Shen Zening, in addition to purchasing materials from various planes with the system, also called Shen Yi over and was about to start stocking up on supplies.
Especially for food, a small part of their hotel's food now relies on the system mall, such as some cheeses that are not available in the world of cultivation. Most of the rest are purchased from fixed merchants.
Every morning, there are many delivery carriages or flying boats parked behind the hotel. The employees are busy unloading and receiving the goods. Just transporting the ingredients to the kitchen takes a long time.
"Increase the purchase volume from now on." Shen Zening said to Shen Yi, "Buy everything you can buy immediately and go quickly." This was the first time Shen Zening
asked Shen Yi to purchase so many ingredients. Even a fool can spot something wrong.
Upon seeing this, Shen quickly asked Shen Zening a few more questions about what happened recently.
Shen Zening did not hide anything from him and directly told Shen Yi about the corpse tide.
The little Taoist priest speculated that the zombie tide should be about to arrive at the border of Dongzhou, but Shen Zening and the system just went back and forth at the warehouse, workshop, and hotel gate to calculate the total amount of items that needed to be purchased from other planes. When purchasing in the world was more cost-effective or using the resources here to trade with plane merchants, I didn't hear any customers discussing the zombie tide at all.
The customers seemed to only stop by the corpse puppets because they heard that there seemed to be corpses that could bite people in various continents in the world of cultivation. They did not expect that there would be a huge zombie tide not far away, approaching each continent.
It seems that everyone in Dongzhou has not received the news?
Shen Zening couldn't think about it anymore, so he walked back to the workshop, picked up the little fox, kissed him on the lips, and said: "Baby, you should paint the drawings first. If the kids are out of school, you can go there when you have time." Take it. If you don't have time, ask the puppet to help bring it here. I have to go to the city." "
...You want to go to the city lord's mansion? Is it about the zombie tide?" Bai Yang quickly reacted and turned around to leave. Shen Zening asked, "After you enter the city, what about the interface of the prestige store? Can I still use it?"
Shen Zening didn't know if the other person was not within the scope of the hotel, and whether the little fox could still use him from such a long distance. The prestige store in the game system bound to him had no choice but to shout: "System?"
"Here you are, here you are!"
The system was busy talking to merchants from several planes about bulk purchases. While they were bargaining with them about the price, when she heard Shen Zening's inquiry, she said directly, "Theoretically, yes, but if it really doesn't work, I'll help you cheat, but it can't last too long." Shen Zening nodded and kissed again. Kissing
the fox ears in the white hair, he directly used the teleportation array inside the hotel to deliver food to Shuowang City, and went straight to the city lord's palace.
As soon as he entered the city lord's house, Shen Zening noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the house. He thought they had also received news of the corpse wave. However, when he explained his intention to the city lord Wen, the city lord Wen and the young city lord almost fell in love with each other. The chair stood up, obviously not hearing about this.
"The tide of corpses...when did it happen?" Wen Zhao asked.
"The little Taoist priest I rescued said that three days ago they were dealing with the zombie tide at the border of Nanzhou, but the zombie tide moved too fast and was extremely difficult to eliminate. They were quickly dispersed by the zombie tide. Do the math. The time...should be not far from Dongzhou."
After Shen Zening finished speaking, he heard that the city lord's face became more and more serious, and immediately called his subordinates to ask for news about other cities.
Shuowang City is in the middle of Dongzhou. Logically speaking, Shuowang City should not have heard the news first, but the little Taoist priest actually ran all the way here and bumped into Shen Zening's barrier. Could it be that the Taoist priest didn't Any place to stay?
"I set up a barrier in the back mountain last night. There are sparsely populated areas and there are almost all large forests and mountains. If the Taoist priest had been walking in the wilderness, he might not have encountered any city." Shen Ze Ning said.
But at the same time, other cities in Dongzhou, especially those close to the border, have not told other places about corpse puppets in recent days.
Did the zombie wave come so suddenly that they were caught off guard and had no time to send the message to other cities, or was it that...something had happened?
Hearing that the city lord sent people to inquire about the cities near the border, he also sent paper cranes to several city lords.
When Shen Zening saw City Lord Wen's actions, he was shocked to realize that he had not received any reply from Xu Xiaoyan in the past few hours.
It has been more than two hours since the first paper crane flew out.
Three or four hours have almost passed. Did Xu Xiaoyan...didn't he receive his paper crane?
He remembered that Lang Yi said that if there were too many corpse puppets, the demonic energy escaping from their bodies would stop the paper cranes from flying.
Is it possible that Xu Xiaoyan is resisting the tide of corpses at the moment? So due to the accumulation of demonic energy, his paper crane might not be able to reach him?
But there was a big event like corpse puppets gathering and forming a corpse tide. Why didn't Xu Xiaoyan notify them?
...It's really strange.
Shen Zening couldn't sit still anymore, so she spoke to City Master Wen, walked outside to the courtyard, and passed ten identical paper cranes to Xu Xiaoyan one after another.
The first two can't be received, but among the ten at the back, one can always fly to Xu Xiaoyan's hands, right?
Chapter 202(1)
After watching the paper cranes fly away together, Shen Zening continued to tell City Lord Wen and Young City Lord Wen Zhao about the corpse puppets.
They were told how the demonic energy in the corpse puppet's body was transmitted, how quickly it was transmitted, how monks and monsters should be treated after being bitten by the corpse puppet, how to eliminate the corpse puppet, and how the infection rate was getting faster and faster.
City Lord Wen and Wen Zhao had heard of some ways to deal with corpse puppets before, but they didn't expect that after being bitten by a mortal corpse puppet, it would no longer take two or three days to transform into a corpse, as they had heard before. .
The time for corpse transformation has been greatly shortened.
And if a monk is bitten, it is best to remove the evil energy from the wound immediately to avoid new incidents.
Shen Zening reminded City Lord Wen and City Lord Young to be prepared to resist the tide of corpses as soon as possible, and talked with them for a long time in the City Lord's Mansion before leaving.
Soon after he left, Lord Wen sent someone to post a notice on the bulletin board in the city to strengthen the management of entry and exit gates and remind people to pay attention to safety.
By the time Shen Zening returned to the hotel, it was already dark, and Shen Yun and Pei Nian were also taken to the workshop by Bai Yang.
Time was tight, and Shen Zening didn't have time to cook, so he simply asked Huang Xiaoqi to deliver the dinner directly.
Naturally, the fact that he suddenly started purchasing supplies on a large scale could not be hidden from the hotel employees, nor from the guests coming and going. Soon, some people began to ask if something had happened.
Just when Shen Zening was thinking about how to tell customers and employees that Dongzhou was about to encounter a wave of corpses, Xu Xiaoyan's paper crane finally flew to the hotel.
The paper crane seemed to have experienced a great battle. Not to mention the many black marks on its snow-white wings, Shen Zening discovered as soon as he picked it up that the paper crane had actually been entangled with demonic energy. , but the demonic energy that once wrapped around its wings was quickly torn off by someone.
He unfolded the paper crane and looked at it. Xu Xiaoyan's reply indeed confirmed what the little Taoist said. However, the zombies were not only approaching Dongzhou, Xizhou and Zhongzhou were not spared either.
The corpse tide was actually divided into three waves...
Xu Xiaoyan also mentioned in the letter that the corpse tide was indeed controlled by the demons, but those demons were too cunning and hid in the corpse puppets, allowing the corpse puppets to Acted as a shield.
This makes it difficult for them to catch people.
In addition, Xu Xiaoyan asked confusedly among the paper cranes. He had sent a letter to Shen Zening and them about the sudden appearance of corpses in Nanzhou. Didn't they receive their paper cranes?
Shen Zening and Bai Yang... indeed did not receive Xu Xiaoyan's paper crane.
There are always a lot of paper cranes flying back and forth in the hotel on weekdays, but there are indeed fewer paper cranes recently. They are basically paper cranes passed in by guests from Synogate City and the hotel to order takeout.
Not to mention the hotel, even in Shuowang City, there are far fewer paper cranes flying around.
Shen Zening didn't pay much attention to it before, thinking that everyone was very busy and didn't have much time to send messages and chat.
But now it seems that it is probably the demonic energy on the corpse puppet that is hindering it, trying to block everyone's communication.
Under the current situation, it was very difficult for him and Xu Xiaoyan to spread paper cranes. He sent a total of twelve paper cranes to Xu Xiaoyan, but Xu Xiaoyan only received one.
Shen Zening went to Bai Yang with Xu Xiaoyan's paper crane.
When he entered the city to discuss the corpse puppet issue with the city lord, Bai Yang had already drawn out a lot of drawings. He was almost collecting all the drawings of the talismans of all elements. He even drew some drawings of firearms.
But the blueprints of the firearms looked like relatively basic models, and they were not guns with interstellar future technology as Shen Zening imagined.
Now there are blueprints for the gun, but even if Shen Si can use a sniper|gun to shoot the corpse puppet in the head, this is of no use to the corpse puppet. The corpse puppet will still move when it should move, or It will knock people down and bite them.
He could only continue to study the system to see if he could make some special bullets, such as those that would explode after hitting the zombie's head, or make some small modifications to these firearms.
Bai Yang glanced at ten lines and quickly read the paper crane sent by Xu Xiaoyan, and immediately sent a letter to Bai Ying, his parents and others.
The Demon Realm is close to Beizhou, while the Demon Realm borders on Xizhou. If the zombie tide reaches Xizhou, it will sooner or later run into the Demon Realm.
He had to remind Bai Ying and Rong Qing to be prepared.
I don’t know if the island where Bai Wan and Zhu Mingshu live in seclusion will be affected. It would be terrible if those zombies could swim.
Bai Yang told Shen Zening what he was worried about.
When he talked about swimming, Shen Zening instantly thought of the shots of zombies floating on the sea in many zombie movies and zombie dramas, and his scalp suddenly went numb.
The corpses here can't float to the sea...
They are all corpses. It's really possible for them to float. It's really difficult...
Ji Tingqiu doesn't know which continent he is wandering in, so he has to remind him.
Shen Zening thought about it, and used his spiritual power to fold twenty paper cranes. The same words were written on them, reminding Ji Tingqiu to pay attention to the corpse puppets that have appeared in various places in the world of cultivation recently. If there is nothing wrong, it is better not to play outside. Go home quickly.
If it were anyone else, Shen Zening might have thought of saving some trouble and passing around ten paper cranes at most would be enough. But since Ji Tingqiu returned home during the New Year, he continued his pre-New Year's travels, ahem, traveling.
Shen Zening couldn't tell where he was hiding. What if he went to the deep mountains and old forests where he went to see rare flowers when he sent him special products last time, or went to a cave in the ice and snow to look for endangered species? What to do with ice spiritual beasts.
I don’t know why Young Master Ji suddenly changed his temper and became interested in outdoor adventures. In the past, he would go to the most prosperous cities in various continents to play.
The kind of inaccessible places that Ji Tingqiu has recently fallen in love with, especially those where certain flowers, plants or spiritual animals grow and live in special environments, paper cranes may not be able to fly there.
It’s better to prepare more.
After sending all the paper cranes out, Shen Zening saw that the little fox only passed five more spare paper cranes to his younger brother and parents, and couldn't help but said: "Baby, please pass on a few more paper cranes." Well, so as not to lose them on the road."
Bai Yang: "...five are not enough?"
Shen Zening spread his hands and said: "When I was in the city lord's mansion, I passed ten paper cranes to Xu Xiaoyan in a row. His Bian was able to successfully receive the paper cranes."
Bai Yang had no choice but to add five more paper cranes.
The machines in the workshop are still running continuously. From the time Shen Zening entered the city to discuss the zombie wave with the city lord, to now, the machines have produced half of the bombs.
By early tomorrow morning, all two hundred bombs will be produced.
This speed is actually very fast, but for the current crisis situation, there are only two hundred bombs as weapons, which is not enough at all.
The machines in the workshop can only produce one kind of item at a time. If you want to continue making other items, you have to wait until tomorrow morning when all the remaining one hundred bombs are produced.
"It's okay. Let's let the workshop get the bomb out first." Bai Yang said to Shen Zening, "What did you just say to add to the bullets of the sniper rifle? Why don't we study this first? .”
The blueprints for the sniper rifle were pulled out, and the blueprints for other firearms were also opened by Bai Yang from the box in the prestige store. However, different firearms require different bullets. Currently, he only I got the blueprint of the bullets for the sniper rifle.
First produce guns, and then produce bullets. If the total time is added up, I am afraid it will take another two days to start.
The only person in the hotel who can use a sniper rifle is Shen Si. Even if Shen Si is asked to train the other puppets immediately, it will be too late to train the puppets before the zombie wave arrives.
When you get up early tomorrow morning, you will first put the drawings of the sniper rifle into the machine, produce one for Shen Si to use, and then start producing matching bullets.
Seriously speaking, although the machines in the workshop are very trouble-free and can produce items very quickly, they are only relatively "fast" when there is no zombie crisis.
...By the way, I haven’t bought the raw materials yet.
The materials required for sniper guns and bullets are basically not found in the world of cultivation, and they have to rely on the system to help do business with other planes.
"Tong'er, here comes the work, here comes the work!" Shen Zening looked for the system everywhere in the workshop, "Yangyang, have you seen the system?" "
It was here just now." Bai Yang After recalling it, he said.
But at this moment, Shen Zening couldn't find any trace of the system in the workshop, and she didn't know where it had gone.
After Shen Yun and Pei Nian were taken to the workshop from kindergarten by Bai Yang, they saw that their father and dad were busy tinkering with weapons, so they both sat obediently on the sofa, chatting and eating snacks.
Bai Yang was worried that the two cubs would be bored, so he went to get their toys.
"Actually, I want to play with the tablet..." Xiao Longzai looked at the building blocks and comics placed on the coffee table and whispered to Pei Nian.
When Pei Nian heard the words, he first glanced in the direction of Shen Zening and Bai Yang. Seeing that they were both busy and had no time to pay attention, he quietly reached out and took out his small schoolbag from under the sofa, and then dug inside. After a while, he took out the tablet.
Shen Yun: "!!!"
The little dragon cub's eyes shone brightly, he hugged Pei Nian excitedly and gave him a kiss on the face. He said "Thank you, brother Pei, for being so kind to me" before he could finish, he was covered by Pei Nian. Mouthed.
"You play secretly, don't let Uncle Bai and the others find out." Pei Nian turned his head nervously, and when he saw that Shen Yun's voice was not heard by the busy couple, he breathed a sigh of relief and whispered.
Shen Yun nodded quickly, looked around for a while, and saw that there seemed to be a small blanket on the temporary bed in the corner, so he jumped off the sofa, ran over and picked up the blanket.
The little dragon cub hid the tablet under the blanket and said to Pei Nian very proudly: "This way, daddy and the others will not find out!" Shen
Zening searched for the system for a long time, and the system came belatedly. Before Shen Ze When Ning opened his mouth, it complained: "I didn't expect that many raw materials in the order must be submitted first. Those forms almost made me vomit. Damn it! Which bastard came up with the new regulations!!!" There are really a lot of application forms
, and the system has stopped complaining just now. In fact, almost every weapon-related raw material needs to fill in an application form.
After filling it out and submitting the form, you still need to sign a series of agreements.
In fact, the system can understand that those departments are worried that Shen Zening will develop high-tech weapons in the world of cultivation and mess up the plane. Then they don't want the federation to find out that they have given such authorization, lest they have to give it again. The fucker wipes his ass.
The system sighed quietly.
Alas, if it hadn't argued hard when it was shut down for updates last time, let alone filling out forms, Mr. Shen might not have been able to buy so many raw materials.
Seeing the system's cyber fur getting higher and higher, Shen Zening hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her, "Okay, okay, don't be angry. Can I buy you a new skin?" "...
Okay." The system Within a second, he became well-behaved and looked at Shen Zening eagerly, "I haven't bought the rabbit skin yet..."
Shen Zening: "?"
Shen Zening: "Didn't you just buy it during the Chinese New Year? "?"
The system was stunned for two seconds and said quibble: "That's the white rabbit! I haven't bought the three-flowered marble rabbit skin yet!" "
...Okay." Shen Zening responded helplessly, without asking how much he wanted. The points were directly sent to the system as a red envelope.
The system accepted it happily and immediately went to buy the rabbit skin. With the new skin that was too cute, he went to help Shen Zening place a new order.
In addition to buying the raw materials for making bullets, Shen Zening also plans to have the system contact some planes with more developed agriculture and trade some food with them.
After the news of the corpse tide spreads in Shuowang City, in addition to them who are eager to collect food, other people will definitely rush to buy food. Shen Yi may not be able to buy much, and he cannot buy too much when buying. , you have to leave some for others.
After one night, many customers of the hotel left, especially the mortal guests. They all quickly left the room after hearing the news about the corpse tide, preparing to avoid the corpse tide and leave Synogate City.
And more people think that the corpse tide is all based on various gossips. Even Shen Zening has never seen the corpse tide with his own eyes. Maybe it is just a small wave of corpse puppets, without paper cranes. It's so exaggerated.
"Are you crazy? That is the paper crane that Master Fengqi personally passed to Boss Shen. Do you mean that Mr. Yanfang is talking nonsense?" On the
first floor of the restaurant, several monks were sitting on the sofa and chatting. There were still things on the coffee table. There is a pot of hot fruit tea and some refreshments.
"When did I say that Mr. Yanfang was talking nonsense? You just don't talk nonsense, okay?" The monk hurriedly defended, "I just think it's just a few moving corpses. Just chop them up with a knife. . In some secret realms, there are many weirder things than this, and there are no solutions to those things." "
Hey, that's what you said. Maybe Mr. Yanfang is passing the paper crane to Boss Shen. After that, we almost finished those corpse puppets." Another monk took a sip of tea and said, "Hiss--it makes me sour! Third brother, what the hell did you choose when you went to order? If you don’t know how to choose fruit, don’t order it next time!”
The monks and monsters had completely different reactions from the mortals.
The monks were still laughing and sharpening their swords, waiting for the tide of corpses to come and kill them. There were also many monsters sitting near the monks. After hearing this, they immediately joined the monks. During their chat, the two parties reached a friendly consensus and decided to form a team together and join in the fun with the zombie tide.
It's just corpses, so what's there to be afraid of? Those corpse puppets can only bite people anyway. They are not mortals, so they can't be bitten as easily as mortals, right?
It was in sharp contrast to the mortals on the side who were going to the front desk to check out with trembling hands.
These people are not afraid, they are worried to death. After all, if a mortal is bitten, there is no way to save him!
Shen Zening also knew what the monks and monsters in the hotel were thinking. They had said many times that corpse puppets were really troublesome and extremely difficult to kill, but many people didn't think so at all.
Even though the wife and daughter of the monk in white were transformed into corpse puppets and made a big fuss in the hotel, biting so many people, some old customers still felt that it was just because it was their first time seeing corpse puppets and they were not familiar with such things. It’s just that they understood, and then the two corpse puppets, one big and one small, succeeded easily.
...There is really no other way. Once they have seen it with their own eyes and learned that corpse puppets are not so easy to kill, they will know better.
Shen Zening shook his head, turned around and walked back to the workshop.
Due to the news of the zombies that came out last night, there were fewer children who took leave today and did not come to the kindergarten. Most of the remaining ones only attended half a day of class before being picked up by their parents.
Seeing this, Shen Zening thought that he might as well suspend classes for a while and deal with the corpse tide and zombie puppets first.
Otherwise, it would not be safe for these cubs to run around every day, and they would not be safe when their parents come to pick them up.
"Well, let's suspend classes." Bai Yang said, "There is no need to specify the entertainment items in the hotel. Anyway, there are always brave monks and monsters coming over. But in the kindergarten, the cubs are still allowed to go out at this time. It's better." What
the little fox said was that Shen Zening nodded and planned to pick up Tiao Tiao and Pei Nian in person later and talk to the teacher about the suspension of classes.
They have been in the workshop since early today, preparing the machines to produce various weapons.
Just now, when Shen Zening was walking around the hotel to see the guests' reactions, Bai Yang was discussing with the system what kind of modifications he should make to the bullets of the sniper rifle.
It would be best to put a mini bomb in it, which would explode directly when it hits the corpse's head. But the principle of the bomb that Shen Zening knows is that it needs to be impacted before it explodes, and a bullet is too big. If it is small, it will be difficult to trigger when it hits. If it is made into one that can be detonated, a receiver will need to be installed inside the bullet |
...it seems to be getting more and more troublesome.
Shen Zening went directly to ask the system what to do. The system was admiring Bai Yang's drawings. When he heard Shen Zening's words, he replied without looking up that they had new technology from the interstellar.
new technology?
Shen Zening got excited when talking about hot weapons. There were a few men who didn't like guns, so they casually asked about the principle.
The little fox had been busy with the system all morning. Seeing that Shen Zening seemed to be bored, he came over to intervene and was still struggling with the principle. The system rolled its electronic eyes angrily.
"Mr. Shen, why do you talk so much? Can you just use it? I can't explain the principles to you in a short while." Shen Zening: "..."
Shen
Zening: "Good morning. This is a system. When you receive points, I am your dear host. When you ask questions, you think I am a hundred thousand whys. You, you, you - you simply have no moral integrity!"
System: "..."
Bai Yang: "...Pfft."
After all, the system still didn't explain the principle clearly to Shen Zening.
Obviously the system is not a good teacher, and this kind of thing can be said to be commonplace in their interstellar plane. If it is explained by Shen Zening, who grew up in a modern plane where technology is not very developed for them, , it doesn’t know where to start.
Anyway...it can be used anyway!
However, according to the system, this technology was successfully developed by it and Bai Yang after it asked its superiors for help and found other more powerful commanders to help.
The system's boss was teaching the system how to apply this new technology to the machines in the workshop, and while the system was listening to what the boss said, he was simultaneously talking to Bai Yang about how to draw the drawings.
Shen Zening didn't want to disturb them, so he went to the machine to check the manufacturing status of the weapons.
Everything went well. In the morning, after he and Little Fox inspected the bombs produced by the machine overnight, they found that the materials for the bullets were not available yet, so they assigned other new tasks to the machine.
The weapons that the workshop can now produce, and the weapons they have obtained the drawings for, in addition to bombs and various firearms, also have some auxiliary equipment.
For example... military night vision devices, telescopes and infrared bio-sensing devices.
There are already two hundred bombs. Even if the zombie wave comes, they can be used...for one day, right? Bullets cannot be manufactured by the workshop today. The system and Little Fox are still tossing around in transforming bullets specifically for sniper rifles. Shen Zening thought for a while and simply added this auxiliary product to the machine. task.
The eyesight of monks and monsters is good, and some monsters can see at night, but they are still not as clear as night vision goggles.
Although the sensing device is similar to modern ones, it can only sense and detect the movements of living things. However, corpse puppets are dead objects. Shen Zening originally wanted to keep this drawing for later, but he changed his mind and monitored It doesn't matter if they can't get rid of the corpse puppets. They can use this to find out the demons mixed in the corpse puppets!
Materials for auxiliary equipment are not too difficult to find. During this period, he not only made a lot of transactions with various planes through the system, but also went to the magic weapon store. There were a lot of materials stored in the system space. Once you get it together, you can make three or five of each.
Shen Zening first looked at the manufacturing time required for these auxiliary devices one by one, and saw that they were not much different, so he chose to let the machine in the workshop make the military telescope first.
The remaining night vision and biometric sensors can wait.
Shen Zening's mind was almost filled with the scenes of dense zombies surrounding the base that he had seen in zombie movies, and for a moment he was almost disgusted by his imagination.
Forget it, I haven't seen the corpse tide yet, so I don't think about it for now. There might not be as many as he thought.
For lunch, as usual, they had something to eat in the workshop.
Shen Zening and Bai Yang didn't sleep well last night because of the corpse tide. Now they had lunch and were a little sleepy.
"Yangyang, if you are tired, go and rest first. I will help you draw the drawings." Shen Zening held the sleepy little fox's face and coaxed softly.
In fact, it wasn't that Bai Yang didn't sleep well because of the news about the corpse tide, as Shen Zening thought, but that he always felt sticky and uncomfortable everywhere on his body, with an indescribable discomfort.
Could it be the tail...
The little fox turned his head slightly, stared at the position of the tail, and frowned unconsciously.
When the first few tails were about to recover, they all gave him the same feeling. They were all sore and swollen in the tail and felt a little uncomfortable.
But when the rear tail, especially the eighth tail, recovered, it felt just like... that something.
The little fox blushed and shook his head quickly to get rid of the strange thoughts.
In recent days, those uncomfortable feelings have returned, but they are different from the eighth tail, and the time is not fixed, coming and going, so he did not tell Shen Zening.
Bai Yang thought that it was better not to let Shen Zening worry about things that he didn't understand yet.
It's just that...
the dragon energy seems to have been replenished a little less recently. I don't know if it is for this reason. When the ninth tail recovered, he felt that it was different from the eighth tail.
The little fox lowered his head and shook the tips of his ears, not knowing yet what to say to Shen Zening.
It seems inappropriate to take the initiative at night, especially at this time...
"Yangyang, what's wrong, what are you thinking about?"
While the little fox was thinking wildly, Shen Zening looked at his wife and shook her head. The head, even the soft fox ears in the hair were thrown around, and for a moment he lowered his head as if he was shy. He couldn't figure out what his wife was thinking about. She just thought that such a little fox was so cute, even for the tide of corpses. And the tense mood relaxed a lot.
After Shen Zening finished asking, without waiting for Bai Yang's answer, he grabbed his waist and kissed him for a while.
And this is a good opportunity for Bai Yang to absorb the dragon energy.
Bai Yang reacted quickly, his fair arms climbed onto Shen Zening's shoulders, and his soft lips also took the initiative to open.
After the kiss ended, Shen Zening hugged the trembling little fox, rubbed the furry snow-white fox ears, and waited patiently for the little fox to recover.
He was not sleepy at all now, and was in such good spirits that he urgently needed to find something to divert his attention.
"Nothing...just a little worried..."
Worried about the tail, and worried about the zombie tide.
Bai Yang didn't finish his words, and Shen Zening automatically understood the second meaning. He was worried about the tide of corpses that might have arrived in Dongzhou, and wondered whether those zombies would come to the hotel.
"If the zombie wave has entered Dongzhou, City Lord Wen should have received the news. Should I go and ask?" Shen Zening said.
It just so happened that he could go to the spiritual weapon store in Shuowang City to see if there were any spiritual materials that he could get his hands on immediately and use immediately.
After confirming that he couldn't get the stone crystal soul needed to restore the fire talisman paper, he didn't have time to find new spiritual materials to replace it.
Bai Yang nodded in agreement and leaned into his arms, "If you haven't come back by the time Tiao Tiao and the others finish school, I will pick them up. By the way, tell the teacher that classes have been suspended recently. By the way, has Boss Pei told you? Contacted? After you asked City Master Wen, why not go to Boss Pei's casino to find him and ask what Xiao Nian said, whether he will continue to live with us or if he wants to take Xiao Nian back." "Okay." Shen Ze Before
Ning
left, he was thinking about making the auxiliary equipment, so he simply put the drawings on the table. He even took out the materials needed for the equipment, piled them on the ground near the table, and put them in categories.
"Yangyang, Tong'er, please pay attention to the display on the screen next to the machine in a moment. If the telescope is ready, just replace it with the next one." After he
finished explaining, he quickly left the hotel and went to Synopsy through the teleportation array. in town.
Almost half of the residents in Shuowang City are mortals. As soon as Shen Zening walked out of the teleportation array, he saw that the atmosphere in the city was much more solemn than that in the hotel. Everyone was in a hurry. After going out to buy things, they returned home and closed the door tightly. .
Those who will return home can be considered courageous mortals, and some who are timid are discussing forming a group to charter a flying boat, planning to go to Beizhou to avoid the corpse puppets first, and wait for the city lord and others to clean up all the corpse puppets in Dongzhou. , they come back when the matter is over.
That's fine, just leave while you can. If the zombie wave comes and the demonic energy fills the sky, you won't be able to leave even if you want to.
In the city lord's palace, city lord Wen was taking Wen Zhao and a group of subordinates to discuss how to deal with the zombie tide.
As soon as Shen Zening saw their expressions, he knew that something was serious.
"City Lord, where are the corpses now?"
Wen City Lord pinched his brows, as if he was extremely tired, and said nothing.
The subordinate next to her saw this and spoke for her, "There has been no response from several cities near the border of Dongzhou, and the city lord of Buyun City said that the corpse wave seems to be coming to them soon." Shen Ze Ning Wei
frowned invisibly, a little strange, "...seems like?"
The subordinate nodded and explained: "Buyun City is located on a high ground, and it is easy to see movements thousands of miles away. However, there has been a lot of fog recently, and the visibility is poor. Lower, we can only wait for the fog to disperse for a short while before we can observe the movement of the corpse tide."
Even if Buyun City waits for the fog to disperse for a short while, it will be difficult for them to wait for the fog to disperse in just a few seconds. After calculating the distance, what they saw at a glance was that the forest outside the city seemed to be constantly being shaken by people, with the top branches and leaves shaking back and forth, as if a large number of people had entered the forest.
"What about the number of corpses? Did Buyun City mention it?" Shen Zening asked again.
This time it was Wen Zhao who answered him.
The girl squeezed the hem of her skirt tightly, and her voice had an imperceptible tremor, "Many...so many...it's impossible to estimate." The
movements in the forest that Buyun City saw were just walking in the forest for a long time. There is no intention of weakening at all.
Buyun City has been put under martial law, the city gates are closed, and preparations are being made to resist the tide of corpses.
Shen Zening understood that a city would not stop the corpse puppets at all. The better luck was that Buyun City was defended. Seeing that Buyun City could not be attacked, the demons who controlled the corpse puppets planned to Change the city with the zombie tide.
If you are unlucky... you may be trampled by the zombie tide.
But no matter which one, there is no way to avoid Shuowang City.
The zombie tide destroyed Buyun City, so Shuowang City was next. If Buyun City persisted, then the first target of the corpse tide would be Shuowang City.
Buyun City and Shuowang City were very close to each other. Shen Zening did not expect that only two days later, the zombies would have arrived at the center of Dongzhou from the border.
Hearing that the city lord had built watchtowers around the city wall, he also arranged for guards to be on duty day and night, observing the movements outside the city. At the same time, he also asked the people living in the countryside outside the city to take refuge in the city first.
After telling Shen Zening about their arrangements, City Lord Wen and Wen Zhao were both worried about the hotel outside the city.
After all, Shuowang City is guarded by a city wall, but the hotel only has a wall, which may be a bit dangerous.
"Boss Shen, do you want to move to the city for a while?" Wen Zhao suggested.
Shen Zening knew they had good intentions.
Indeed, compared with Shuowang City, it seems that it is safer inside Shuowang City, and his hotel is outside the city, so it must be very easy to be attacked by corpse puppets.
However, Shen Zening is not too worried. First, the direction of the zombie tide is not to pass through the hotel and then to Shuowang City. If you are lucky, the demons who control those corpse puppets may have to wait until they see that Shuowang City is difficult to enter. , then he decided to change his approach and prepare to flush the hotel first.
But the hotel was so easily destroyed by corpse puppets and demons. Shen Zening had already upgraded the security and made three new puppets to help protect the safety of the hotel, plus the AI system that comes with the game system. , observing the movements of the demonic energy 24/7, and will never let any corpse puppet or demon enter the hotel.
...if it hadn't gone offline then.
After talking to City Master Wen about the business, Shen Zening went to the Spiritual Weapon Shop to take a look.
It has been almost a day since last night, and he still has not received any news from Ji Tingqiu. He is a little worried whether he has not received the paper crane, or whether he has received the paper crane but was too busy to reply in time.
Hmm... This seems unlikely. Something has happened, right...
When he was selecting spiritual materials, he also asked the shopkeeper of the spiritual weapon shop if he had heard any news about his young master recently.
However, the Ji family's properties are spread all over the continents of the cultivation world, and are not limited to a few cities in East Continent and Central Continent.
There are so many shops, and not every shopkeeper can meet Young Master Ji, and not everyone can contact Ji Tingqiu.
Seeing that the shopkeeper couldn't talk to him, Shen Zening had no choice but to give up and planned to pass some paper cranes to Ji Tingqiu to look at.
If something really happened, he wouldn't know where to go to save people.
Back at the hotel, on the way to the small building, when passing the kindergarten, Shen Zening happened to see the demon teachers in the kindergarten packing their things and closing the door of the kindergarten.
"Do you want to go back to the Monster Clan first?" Shen Zening asked casually as he passed by.
But those monsters all shook their heads and expressed that they wanted to stay with His Highness. After hearing this, Shen Zening told them to stay in the hotel and not to go out casually.
Of course, it's best not to go out. In the world of cultivation at this time, only hotels should be absolutely safe.
If the game system doesn't suddenly go offline.
"Bah, bah, bah! Mr. Shen, can't you think of something better?!" The system said "bah" several times, as if it was trying to "bah" Shen Zening's crow's mouth, ah no, crow's brain. Out of the world of cultivation.
The system swore: "There will really be no more downtime for maintenance recently!"
In addition to no news from Ji Tingqiu, Xu Xiaoyan also did not receive any response.
Xu Xiaoyan didn't say where he was at that time, and Shen Zening didn't know what he was doing and whether it was dangerous or not.
If it was dangerous, he would still help because of the little friendship value.
But Xu Xiaoyan's reply stopped at Shen Zening's twelve-for-one paper crane, until Shen Zening finished making all the auxiliary equipment he could. Before waiting to get the raw materials for the special bullet | While the workshop continued to produce bombs and talismans, there was still no news from Xu Xiaoyan and Ji Tingqiu.
There were also fewer people ordering takeout in hotels and Synopsy Town. It would take a while before a few paper cranes would appear in the sky and fly towards the kitchen.
Bai Yang also waited for a long time before receiving replies from Bai Ying and Rong Qing, as well as Bai Wan and Zhu Mingshu.
Bai Wan said that they don't need to worry about herself and Zhu Mingshu. Corpse puppets should not be able to learn swimming. She has never encountered anything so disgusting and sacrificial in her thousands of years of life. Just because those demons use those in the demon realm. With such pitiful resources, it is impossible to produce such a thing.
Zhu Mingshu also told Shen Zening and Bai Yang not to worry about the small island. There was a lot of food in their house, and there were also a lot of medicines they would bring with them after the new year. Even if the existing food was used up, the cultivation world would be over again in a while. If they can't deliver it, they can still sit on the beach and fish, or... just don't eat it, and go without food first, and wait until everything is over.
In fact, Bai Wan had the idea of coming back to help.
Chopping up corpse puppets and stuff, it’s so exciting just to see it!
But she thought that her husband's injuries had not fully healed, so she stopped thinking and told Bai Yang and Shen Zening to be more careful not to be bitten by the corpse puppets. Of course, they should also watch over the little ones and ensure that keep them safe.
"By the way, what did Pei Zhaosu say, do you want to take Pei Nian back?" Bai Yang was looking at his mother's reply to him. When he saw this paragraph, he immediately confirmed with Shen Zening where Pei Nian lived.
Shen Zening thought about the scene when he saw Pei Zhaosu at the casino just now.
The tide of corpses was coming, and people in the city had no intention of gambling. The business in the casino was somewhat deserted, but Pei Zhaosu didn't care about it, and instead asked his subordinates to train people.
They said that the people in their casino must not be embarrassed. When the zombie tide comes, they must not be bitten by the corpse puppets.
Also, most of the people in the casino were mortals. If they were bitten, Pei Zhaosu might as well dig their graves and erect monuments for them on the spot. He couldn't even save them.
When he told Pei Zhaosu about Pei Nian, Pei Zhaosu thought for a long time and decided to leave Pei Nian with them.
According to Pei Zhaosu, if he and Xiao Zhi hadn't been able to leave, they both wanted to go directly to the hotel and stay for a while.
Pei Zhaosu has never seen with his own eyes how the hotel's AI system can automatically lift people out. It stands to reason that he should not know how powerful the hotel's protection is. How can he trust the hotel so "blindly"?
Shen Zening couldn't figure it out, so he had to attribute it to his identity as a dragon.
Maybe dragons seem to feel more secure.
After saying this, Shen Zening was not surprised to receive a speechless look from the little fox.
"Isn't it bad to believe in the safety of the hotel? Don't worry about other things. It doesn't matter why you trust him."
After the couple exchanged information, they started to prepare for the zombie wave.
But they didn't expect that the very next day, a wave of corpses would appear near Shuowang City and approach them.
At that time, the sun had not yet risen from the east, and there was only a faint gleam of light in the clouds.
The guards had been conscientiously watching the movements outside on the city wall all night. They were about to change their shifts soon, and it was the time when everyone began to relax their vigilance.
One guard yawned, and the yawn quickly spread to the other guards.
There were yawns all around, but there was only one young guard who had just joined the job at a young age. He was a passionate and unrelenting young guard who was still staring at the outside of the city.
"It seems that there are mountains everywhere. Those zombies shouldn't have arrived at Shuowang City so quickly."
The guards patted his shoulders and motioned for him to get up and move around in preparation for his shift.
But the young guard remained unmoved and continued to observe outside persistently.
Soon, he noticed a large number of birds flying into the sky in the distance, as if they were disturbed by something.
The guards couldn't stop yawning and put down their hands in a daze.
"This, this is..."
Immediately afterwards, the trees in the mountains began to tremble, and the branches and leaves at the top were shaken vigorously. Even on the city wall, the sound in the forest could be clearly seen.
"The zombie tide, the zombie tide is coming!"
The young guard reacted faster than them. He immediately dropped the telescope-like spiritual weapon in his hand, flew to the middle of the tower, raised the drumstick in his hand, and knocked hard on the tower. The big drum placed in the center.
"Dong-dong-dong-"
The huge and unknown drum sound soon woke up the residents in the city. Not long after, Wen City Lord came to the tower in person.
In such a short time, the corpse tide has walked out of the forest in the distance. It is crowded with people and the darkness is like locusts crossing the border, attacking in the direction of Shuowang City.
City Lord Wen took the telescope-like spiritual weapon from the hands of the young guard, and when he was about to look at the tide of corpses, he discovered that in addition to the tide of corpses, there was a person outside the city, riding a monster and heading towards the city gate. Running wildly in the direction.
The man's speed was faster than the tide of corpses, and he had already rushed outside the city gate in a short time.
"Open the door!!!"
The man seemed to be injured, half of his body was stained with blood, and he was shouting hoarsely, "Open the door quickly!!!"
City Lord Wen frowned and motioned to the guards to open the door.
"Buyun City, Buyun City is gone..."
When the man saw the city gate opened, he rushed in. As soon as he entered the city, he said this, and before everyone had time to react, he seemed to lose his strength. Fell to the ground.