In terms of color, the ocean in the new era is actually much more beautiful than the old one. Looking around, the vast sea is like a bright sapphire. The presence of radiation makes the sea water look blue, but this beauty is deadly. After the cataclysm passed that day, the entire world was polluted by radiation. In just three days, most of the creatures big and small in the ocean died.
It's a pity that humans had no time to care about it at that time, otherwise, if you go to the beach, you will see a large number of fish and other aquatic corpses floating on the surface of the sea. On the surface of the vast ocean, there are even the dead bodies of blue whales floating! Since it is such a huge monster, it cannot survive the strong radiation. Instead, those individual petite lives survived and gradually evolved silently in the ocean.
Decades later, the creatures in the ocean died one after another, but all those who survived were vicious and dangerous. They have adapted to the highly radiated ocean and are highly aggressive. The ocean has become the breeding ground for their evolution, and the ocean in the turbulent age is far more expansive and empty than ever before. The life in the ocean has a wide range of evolutionary natural enemies, and because the distribution is not as dense as that of the mutant beasts on land, they have ample room for evolution.
In the ocean, your greatest enemy is yourself. Once life forms adapted to the ocean cannot be evolved, the only thing waiting for them is death.
Compared with the land, the ocean is a whole new world. Because there are very few people who explore it, and the life in the sea rarely has the opportunity to see humans, so when a U-shaped front end has a streamlined fuselage, the four steel wings raised on both sides erupt Seeing the strange blue flames and pushing the fuselage on the sea surface, the life in the sea was very curious. This curiosity even suppressed their aggression, so when the Destiny was sailing at sea, there would always be schools of strange fish swimming by or near it.
From time to time, even a tyrannosaurus whale showed half of its head out of the sea, staring at the Destiny with its eyes as big as wheels. And even with only his head showing, the guy looked almost like an island.
Tyrannosaurus rex is one of those large life in the sea, it has a huge body the size of a mothership. The head is like a small island, from the head to the tail fin, there is a row of dense spikes on the back. When needed, these spikes can be fired like eyes. The spikes are hollow and contain a pocket of air. When the tyrannosaurus whale shoots out the spikes, it actually hits the air bag with the airflow in the body to eject it. But after hitting the opponent, the air bag will expand rapidly, thereby squeezing the spikes to form a splash attack, which is conducive to expanding the wound and causing secondary damage.
With this move alone, the Overlord Whale has few opponents in the sea, otherwise it would not be able to win the title of Overlord.
So after the appearance of this dangerous giant whale, there were much fewer aquatic creatures nearby. However, the people on the Destiny seem to be unaware of the danger of Tyrannosaurus whales, and some people still stay on the side deck or on the smooth hull.
Billy is wearing a standard protective suit, which is the latest "Explorer II" developed by Asgard. It has a constant temperature system, which allows the wearer to work in a low temperature environment from a high temperature of 500 degrees to minus 50 degrees. At the same time, it has screen capture, information sensing, and jet escape systems. Such a set of protective clothing is expensive, and ordinary people cannot afford it. Zero also only bought five sets for the convenience of some important but incompetent ordinary people on board.
Billy was one of them, and he was sitting on the deck on the right side of the boat, holding a tablet of Intellect in his hand. From time to time, he watched the sea and those scattered islands, and then made marks in his brain.
"What are you doing, Mr. Billy?"
Billy, who was preoccupied, became a little flustered when he heard this voice. When he turned his head, Su in plain clothes squatted behind him curiously. Su still had short hair, but his facial features became more and more delicate, and even his skin was much fairer and more delicate than before. Some people say that when capable people evolve, not only their abilities and physical strength will be improved, but their appearance will also develop towards a more beautiful side. This is also a kind of evolution, which is the self-adjustment of life out of survival instinct. After all, for people, a beautiful person, whether it is a man or a woman, has some advantages.
Looking at the beautiful and delicate face, Billy felt a little embarrassed, and even blushed a little because of his rapid heartbeat. He lowered his head, scratched his head with his hands and said, "It turns out that Master Su, I, I am making a nautical chart."
"Nautical chart?" Su said casually: "Don't call me an adult, don't we only have one head? Speaking of which, Mr. Billy, what is this nautical chart?"
Billy stood up and seemed to muster up his courage before he dared to say to Su: "Then please call me by my name directly, sir, the word is too vague. As for the nautical chart, it is something similar to a map. I scanned and marked the geographical environment that Destiny passed along its path, including ocean currents, creatures, and islands. This way, we won’t lose our way when we return.”
"Wow, that sounds amazing. I didn't expect Billy to have such a talent!" Su laughed.
Billy blushed even more, he rubbed his head and laughed, and said "nothing". Then he clenched his hands again and said, "I'm not pixelated, and Mr. Feng has the same powerful ability as you. This time, I was able to become a member of Destiny because of Mr. Ke De. So I want to What should you do more? After much deliberation, once the Golden Harbor is completed, Master Zero will have his first fleet. At that time, maybe my nautical charts will come in handy, so...so I think, if possible, I'll make a complete nautical chart... …”
Billy puffed out his chest and said loudly: "I want to record all the oceans of this era!"
After speaking, Kansu looked at himself in surprise. Billy lowered his head and said with a sneer, "I'm so overwhelmed. It's really rude for a small character like me to say such arrogant words."
Su smiled, and she also sat down and said: "You know, Billy. When I first met Zero, our heads were not much stronger than those soldiers on the boat. Of course I was the same. At that time, we were just You're pretty much just an inconspicuous little character."
"Speaking of it, you may not believe it. To us now, the mutant beast, which is not even considered as a miscellaneous fish, beat us to pieces at that time. Every time we fight, we have to fight with blood, sweat and even life. But that's it, we gradually came over." Su put his hands on the boat, looked towards the sky and said: "Now that I think about it, we have experienced a lot before we know it. These experiences may have been hopeless for others. Crashed, but we made it through. Know how we got there, Billy?"
Billy shook his head silly.
"It's because of a dream." Su said lightly.
Billy shook violently.
"At the very beginning, it was Zero who told us that he wanted to build a brand new world. Let the wife stay at home and wait for her husband's return, let the children live happily with their relatives, and let the elderly not have to work hard. Being able to let their children support themselves, so that men don't have to fight with mutant beasts to get what they need for survival..." Su said word by word what Zero said back then: "This is Zero's dream, it sounds like Quite unrealistic, isn't it? But we have to admit that this almost delusional dream moved us deeply. That's how we walked with him."
"It doesn't matter if I, Feng, or Haiwei and others. We have already regarded the dream of Zero as our own, and we are willing to work with him to change the world with our own hands." Su pressed lightly with his hands. On his chest, he smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you are weak now, Billy. As long as you have a dream and work hard to pursue it, no matter how weak you are, you will become the protagonist of your own destiny!"
Billy opened his eyes wide, and after a while, he nodded vigorously and said, "I know, no matter what happens in the future. As long as I have breath, I will continue to draw this nautical chart until it becomes complete!"
There was a flame burning in his heart, and Billy now began to understand why Zero was able to bring together so many people with powerful abilities.
dream! Because we all have a dream in our hearts, we can go so far. Then I have to speed up my pace to catch up with these people! Billy clenched his fists, thinking.
With a bang, a loud and clear chirping sound came from the boat, attracting Billy and Su's attention. Looking at the smooth body of the ship, two figures intertwined and entangled, then separated in a flash of lightning, and then rushed towards each other, leaving only black lines behind at such a fast speed, Billy was dazzled: "This...they..... .”
"Men, I can't always sit still." Su sighed, she was not like Billy, Su Qing saw every detail of the fight between Feng and Ling. She stood up and shouted: "Head, don't let the water go, give that guy Feng a good beating!"
When another high-pitched voice sounded, Feng fell aside, turned to Su and said, "Shut up, violent woman!"
Then he looked back at Zero and frowned and said, "What kind of ability is this, a materialized one?"
At this moment, Ling, the skin on his face and arms that was exposed in the air actually had a metallic luster. But in fact, just now he was resisting the attack of Feng's Tang Dao with his bare hands. Feng clearly slashed his body, but it was like chopping a piece of heavy metal, not even a white mark was left on Zero's body.
Zero shook his head and chuckled: "It's not a materialized ability. That kind of ability can only act on the outside of the body, but not on itself. This is a new function of the memory group that I discovered recently... Tempered skin."
The memory group awakened in Zero's body, besides repairing the body and performing passive evolution against external blows, Zero has recently discovered some other functions of them. There was no way around this, he was always busy with things on land, and he had no time to calm down and study the memory group in his body. Until Destiny went out to sea, he only gave one coordinate, and then how to get to the gate of the abyss is someone else's business.
In this way, Ling Dao became an idler, so he had time to study the memory group.
In fact, this comes from the super life form of the Quaternary Era, that is, the creature called "Gaia" by Franklin and Agladis. As his body, Zero possesses one hundred thousand DNA memory groups. This latent power was finally awakened in the white blood cell base, and about one-third of it was awakened until the battle between Ludu and Tire, that is, nearly 30,000 DNA memory groups have been able to put into work.
The awakening of one-third of the memory group has significantly improved Zero's self-repair ability compared to before, and has formed a defense plan against the backlash after guiding the power of nothingness. In addition to these, the memory group can also generate some small biological weapons like Dr. Curd, which has been realized in the duel with the magician Bane at the Mobystone Fair.
But Zero didn't use them to form more powerful biological weapons, that's because it wasn't necessary. No matter how powerful the memory group is, it cannot generate a biological weapon stronger than Zero himself. After all, the design and composition of biological weapons are limited by Zero's experience and strength, so it is impossible to form creatures that exceed his strength. As a result, the role of memory groups in this regard becomes limited.
These days on the ship, after exploring, Zero found some other functions of the memory group. Tempered skin is one of them. Although it does not have any offensive effect, it can be said to be an auxiliary function. However, after changing the composition of Zero's skin by the memory group, the evolved toughened skin is five times harder than the alloy, which can withstand most attacks and greatly improves Zero's defense.
Just like just now, Ling was able to resist Feng's sword attack with his bare hands, and even let Feng slash himself, but he never left a white mark. In terms of defense, Zero's tempered skin is comparable to a ninth-level defense enhancement. But whoever has developed a ninth-level enhancement in the fighting domain is not a big guy like Tire. While strengthening the defense, due to the increased proportion of skin and even bones, people with this kind of ability usually appear very clumsy. But Zero is not limited by this condition, and after maintaining the original speed and the defensive power of the tempered skin, Zero is a dangerous humanoid weapon!
"It sounds scary, but let's be tough. If you encounter the heavy sword of a violent woman, it might tear you apart with one blow." Feng laughed.
"Just be harder? That's as simple as that. Forget it, I'll demonstrate it to you. Let me show you the spear fighting technique under the tempered skin..." Zero backed away slightly, and slid a few meters. After thinking about it, he backed away again, directly to the part of the steel wing of the Destiny, which was more than thirty meters away from Fengzhi.
"Why do you want to retreat so far? Do you still want to do your old job?"
"Almost." Ling laughed, while sitting on the horse with his waist down, and pulled back with his right fist. A red energy flame suddenly appeared on the fist, exuding an aura of destruction.
"Attach the death crit to the fist, is it a heavy artillery bombardment or an impact?" Feng also put on a defensive stance. Although the two were exchanging ideas, the power and energy aura on Zero's body has risen sharply now, and it is impossible to get hit. Is not fun.
"Wrong, it's a deadly sniper attack!"
After all, he leaned forward, punched his fist forward, and kept a precise horizontal line with the shoulder point. In an instant, Zero turned into a blood-red light and shadow, passing a distance of more than 30 meters between breaths, and in a blink of an eye, it was in front of Feng's eyes!
"Wow!" Feng exclaimed, the long knife and scabbard staggered to withstand Zero's fist.
That seemingly slender fist, when imprinted on the point where the knife and the scabbard intersect, burst out with a terrifying force! With the addition of sonic booms on the blood-red light track dragged by Zero, puffy air waves advanced steadily, and finally a circle of gray-white shock waves exploded on the fist, directly knocking Feng out. Feng screamed in the air, and his figure was about to fall out of the Destiny. At this time, one hand held Hanshuang's scabbard and let Feng hang under the ship's side.
Looking up, it was Su who was holding the scabbard with a smile on his face. Only then did Feng breathe a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I have you."
At the end of the sentence, Su threw Feng with all his strength and smashed Feng onto the hull of Destiny. Feng covered his flushed face and said, "Damn it, why don't you move lightly!"
Su spread her hands and said, "I can't help it, who called me a violent woman."
"A woman who holds grudges!" Feng defined it this way, and then looked at Zero.
Zero retracted his punching posture, but his fist exuded high-temperature smoke due to high-speed movement and friction with the air. The metallic luster kept receding, and it was obvious that Zero had recovered his tempered skin. Feng looked at the fist and said, "What happened to that punch just now? I remember that you haven't strengthened your strength beyond the ninth level..."
"Fatal sniper, replace the power of death crit with the force of push, and you can instantly reach the speed of breaking through the sound barrier. My fist is the bullet, all I have to do is aim at the opponent. Then...shoot!" Zero made with his fingers a shooting action.
Feng stuck out his tongue and said: "Break through the sound barrier, no wonder I almost fell apart with one punch. With the speed increase and your metal slug-like fist, you are becoming more and more like a monster!" "
"I can take this as a compliment." Zero nodded.
At this time, Liya came out of the cabin and said: "Come back quickly, I feel that the energy magnetic field in the sea area in front of me has become extremely unstable, like a harbinger of a storm!"
Hearing what she said, everyone noticed that lightning flashed across the sky from time to time. Strips of electric snakes skimmed over the radiation clouds, and then converged towards the sky above the sea area. The sky on the other side of the sea level has become very dark, and thick lightning strikes from the sky to the sea, with the momentum to tear the sky and the earth apart!
"Go, go back to the boat!" Zero waved his hand, beckoning everyone to go back to the Destiny.
The storms of the new era are deadly, and the rain will bring radiation from the clouds to the earth. This is especially true at sea. On the open sea, a storm can even destroy a town. When he came to the control room, Ling hurriedly said, "Are there any islands nearby?"
A staff member immediately replied: "At nine o'clock, there is one about half a nautical mile away from us."
"Quick, let's take shelter near the island."