Failure, deformity, incompleteness... these words can all describe Shen Cong's perception of metal bumps.
Immediately afterwards, another perception result also proved this point.
The metal lump emits active radiation to the outside, which can be felt. Its radiation continuity intensity, that is, the amount of activity is maintained at about 0.665 hours, which is quite strong. However, its talent, that is, the limit value of the activity source, cannot be sensed, and the degree of activity is also leaked.
Shen Cong's previous definition of active source was the capacity of the bottle filled with water.
So the active source of this metal lump seems to be a leaky bottle. I don't know how much water it can hold, or it is difficult to fill it with water.
"Why does this happen?"
As Shen Cong continued to study, he used his brain to come up with various answers, and then eliminated and compared them one by one.
"The Iron Man is the integration of vehicles and human life, and the Iron Beast is the integration of vehicles and animal life... There seem to be only three phenomena of metal activation. One is the gradual change of metal in tissues such as the bark of trees, and the other is the gradual change of metal in mutants and semi-human beings. The bone structures of orcs and evolved beasts have metal gradients, and the other is the metal vehicles of iron men and iron beasts.”
"Except for these three, metals seem to be difficult to activate. Metals in this world have rusted to varying degrees. This does not look like natural rust, but should be active rust."
"So what exactly does activity have to do with metals?"
"Is it to promote metal activation or accelerate metal corrosion?"
"How do you define metal bumps?"
Gradually, a thought-provoking answer seems to be able to answer these questions - the activation of metals requires the help of living organisms.
Therefore, all metals related to activation grow on animals and plants, or are integrated with human and animal life, and there is no way for the phenomenon of activation to exist alone.
This metal lump is a special case, and it has an activation phenomenon alone.
The reason why Shen Cong judged that it existed alone was mainly because he couldn't feel that the metal lump was a vehicle.
If the core body of the vehicle is alive, the vehicle will not lose activity, but the metal bumps will continue to lose activity; if the core body of the vehicle dies, the "living" of the vehicle will also die, but the metal The "living" lump is obviously not dead, it is still a "living" activated metal.
So it is a unique metal activation phenomenon.
The reason why this phenomenon occurs, Shen Cong deduces, is that when the "living" metal activation behavior occurs, there is no living body symbiotic with it nearby, so it becomes a semi-finished product, a half-dead living body, or a failed metal life. body.
Shen Cong typed these inferences into the notebook documents.
And that leaves more questions without answers.
"Since a piece of metal in the wild can be activated, why are only a few of the metal castings all over the street turned into vehicles, while the rest have become scraps?"
“If it were a metal mine, would there be a larger failed metal?”
"What is the relationship between metals and activity? Why does it promote the activation of metals and accelerate the corrosion of metals on the other hand?"
"How did the life form of metal come into being, and what is its essence?"
"What exactly did the meteor shower bring to the earth?"
Shake his head.
Shen Cong conducted an activity injection experiment on the failed metal life form.
Experimental results show that failed metal lifeforms react to activity in the same way as normal vehicles. They can store these activities and use the activity to make alloys and devour metal materials to strengthen themselves. If the injection of activity is stopped, the failed metal lifeform will stop alloying. Since the activity continues to leak, the absorption speed will barely exceed the leakage speed.
Without artificial feeding, that is to say, the failed metal life form is basically unable to recover.
Moreover, its recovery has no independent consciousness. Which part of the body comes into contact with metal will begin to alloy. There are no rules in its shape.
Then the strike experiment showed that the failed metal life form and the vehicle such as King Kong have the same strengthening effect.
What's more interesting is that after Shen Cong used the King Kong to interfere with the active radiation frequency of the failed metal life form, although he was unable to alloy the other party, he was able to use Shen Cong's willpower to successfully invade the failed metal life form, and then do some simple things. Guidance, such as - extension.
After spending about ten minutes, Shen Cong made a Qinglong Yanyue Sword grow on the failed metal life form.
The expansion speed is faster and smoother than that of King Kong. Perhaps this is related to the low "viability" of the failed metal life form, which can be kneaded at will.
So, Shen Cong cut off the Qinglong Yanyue Knife from the failed metal life form.
He wanted to see if the same activity loss process would occur after the connection with the King Kong was cut off. The result is affirmative. The difference between failed metal lifeforms and vehicles is that failed metal lifeforms do not have the core body of life integration, that is, iron men like Shen Cong and iron beasts like plastic rabbits.
"So does the failed metal life form have original metal?" Shen Congfu thought again, but this question must be left to the future. Only when the activated metal dies and the activity is lost, will the original metal part be revealed.
Shen Cong is not ready to kill the failed metal life form yet.
He planned to study for two more days and then use the failed metal life form to make a good thing.
…
Two days passed in a row.
The Grape Grove Campground is under construction.
Since a group of thieves and crows robbed the grape groves and destroyed many grapes, flowers and fruits, the interim government of the Habitat area held a meeting to study and decided to build stricter defense measures in the camp to protect the grape groves.
And continue to enlarge and widen the trench to prevent the evolved beasts on the ground from invading the camp.
The carcasses of thief crows were enough to support the camp without hunting for a while, so the hunting team was called back to collectively dig trenches and build stone walls.
Zhu Haifeng also came over and found Shen Cong.
"Boss Huang, I don't know if you will accept such a deal. The camp is building a stone wall, but it is difficult for the stone wall to defend against large evolved beasts, so we plan to reinforce the stone wall with a layer of steel on the outside. This requires a lot of rivets. , It’s a pity that we don’t have iron men here to produce rivets.”
Zhu Haifeng's meaning was obvious. He hoped that Shen Cong would use alloy and ductility to produce a batch of rivets.
Iron Man's vehicles do have the potential to be used as a processing assembly line.
"What do you want in exchange?" Making rivets is not difficult, but Shen Cong doesn't think the camp has the ability to pay. "There are no supplies in the camp that I need."
"This... we still have some unopened bullets, how about it?" Zhu Haifeng grinned excitedly and said, "Yesterday, Li Weijun took the collection team to Juchao District and found the former training base of the Third Reserve Regiment and cleaned up the ruins. , found a well-stocked ammunition depot with many bullets in it, including 87 machine gun bullets for the QJY88 machine gun."
"Ammunition depot?" Shen Cong's eyes lit up.
He prepared many maps of firearm locations before the end, but they were all kept confidential in police stations, armed police detachments, and other places, as well as real military training bases.
Only Li Weijun, an officer from the Third Reserve Regiment, knew the exact location of the ammunition depot.
Shen Cong suddenly asked energetically: "How many bullets do you have, what types of bullets do you have, do you have any guns, machine guns, or machine guns?"
Zhu Haifeng did not hide anything: "I only found that the ammunition depot was intact. It was a temporary ammunition depot at the shooting range. It contained some bullets and grenades. There were no firearms, and there were not many bullets. The grenades were all old-fashioned wooden handles from the early years." Most of the grenades are no longer usable due to loose packaging, so we can only take out the gunpowder and make homemade bombs.”
As the interim government chief of Juchao District promoted by Shen Cong, Zhu Haifeng, at least for now, has no need to hide information from Shen Cong, and he doesn't dare to hide it.
Soon Shen Cong knew what the camp had gained.
There are mainly two types of bullets: rifle bullets and pistol bullets.
Pistol bullets are mainly DAP92-type 5.8mm ordinary bullets. 50 rounds are packed in a carton, wrapped in kraft paper, and 30 boxes (1500 rounds) are packed in a green plastic box. The camp received twenty boxes of such plastic boxes, which equaled thirty thousand rounds of 92 pistol bullets.
Shen Cong's pistol has long been replaced by the military and police standard 92 pistol, which comes in handy.
There are probably more than 50,000 rifle bullets, but what Shen Cong can use is only a box of 1,100 rounds of 95a rifle bullets, and he only has a Type 95 automatic rifle.
The only machine gun bullets available are 87 machine gun bullets, thirty rounds in a small box, ten small boxes sealed in a tin box, two tin boxes packed in a wooden box, a total of 600 rounds of ammunition.
"I want all the 87 and 95a, and give me two boxes of 92 bullets... You can trade all the rifle bullets you don't need with me, and you can also use the grenades. I'll cover them all... As for the price, we can negotiate."