Chapter 97: Hidden Worry Of Intelligence
"Those people are?" Heloise questioned.
"People from outside."
"People from outside?"
"The people outside of New Zealand. From the appearance of these people, the situation outside probably isn't as bad as here. Maybe they have managed to control it effectively. No matter what, activated cells isn't some zombie virus, so it can't be transmitted from corpses. Even if people had assimilated with activated cells, they wouldn't lose their minds in the short term either, so it's still relatively easy to quarantine and isolate," Bai Yi said.
"The thing I'm more curious about now is, what are these people doing at New Zealand?" Mavis continued.
"I think nobody can guess this." Bai Yi shook his head.
"Let's change locations!" He continued.
"Why? didn't we just decide to stay at this place and learn the Tai Ji Fist?"
"Because we don't know if they are friend or foe. Although we still treat ourselves as humans now, the other side may not necessarily do so. Don't forget the information we saw at the start through the internet, all countries have banned any living thing from exiting New Zealand. Yeye also said that it's very possible that every other country is planning to turn New Zealand into a natural experimentation ground. Even Doctor Wang left the research facility immediately after he learned of the outbreak. It's just strange that nobody came to retrieve the data from the research facility after more than two months since the outbreak of activated cells."
"Anyway, we need information about the outside world, but I don't approve of recklessly coming into contact with people from the outside." Bai Yi said.
"Let's go, we need to leave this place immediately."
"Ok." Everyone immediately started to move.
……
At this time, the people in the helicopter were very surprised as well. Although Bai Yi's group had changed by a lot, it was still possible to tell that they were humans initially. This group of people that came to New Zealand for the first time were very surprised. Before coming here, their superiors had emphasized many times that this place wasn't some peaceful location, it could completely be said to be a Devil Island.
"I think that we could have tried to communicate with them just now," said a soldier carrying his gun.
"Don't do unnecessary things, we still have our mission to accomplish," the bald team leader said coldly.
"But New Zealand really went through a huge change, seeing those strange and weirdly shaped lifeforms from time to time really gave me a fright." The other soldier aimed his scope at a target from the entrance of the helicopter. Suddenly, he was stunned for a moment. What was that thing hidden on top of that huge building within the forest?
What was that?
Suddenly, the lifeform lying on top of the building suddenly got up. It then rapidly flapped its wings, shooting toward the helicopter ferociously.
"Captain!" The soldier instantly said in fear.
At this time, the rest of them also saw the monster chasing after them, its wingspan was more than 20 meters and it looked extremely savage. If they really had to make a comparison, it was similar to a winged dragon, but there were also some parts that differed from a winged dragon. This winged dragon fiercely chased after them, flying faster than even the helicopter.
"Attack! Damn it!" The captain swore.
Along the way, although they had encountered flying evolved lifeforms, these normally weren't able to cause much trouble to them. After all, the lifeforms in New Zealand had only evolved for a little more than two months, they still hadn't become that strong yet. However, this winged dragon immediately made all their faces change. This guy was definitely an experimental monster that had escaped from the research facility, or a mutant lifeform.
The sounds of gunfire instantly rang, but the winged dragon that chased behind them only closed its eyes, and its body started to spin powerfully in the air. This movement let it dodge a majority of the bullets, and even if the bullets managed to hit the winged dragon they didn't cause any damage.
A soldier inside the helicopter hurriedly took out a rocket launcher and aimed it at the winged dragon.
However, at this moment, the winged dragon flapped its wings powerfully and a few of its feathers on the side of its wings shot out. These feathers instantly pierced two of the soldiers in the helicopter. Especially the guy with the rocket launcher, the feather directly penetrated his forehead. Not only this, these feathers made of unknown materials even managed to pierce through the helicopter.
Grabbing hold of this momentary pause in their attacks, the winged dragon rapidly closed in and grabbed onto the propellor of the helicopter with its claw.
'Kacha!' 'Kuang!', the old skin and dirt on the giant claw was sprayed around, but the rotary blades that were spinning at a high speed actually didn't do much damage to the claw. On the contrary, after receiving this huge obstructing force, sparks and fire burst out from the propeller and it stopped moving.
"Jump off!" The captain roared.
These soldiers were all special forces, so they proficiently carried a parachute on their backs and immediately jumped off. While jumping off, the captain even grabbed the rocket launcher and launched it at the helicopter while he fell. If they still had not jumped at this time, then they could not blame him for being decisive either.
With a loud 'BOOM!', the helicopter exploded, bursting into flames and the explosion immediately made the winged dragon cry out in pain. One must know that the explosion damaged things in all directions, although the claw of the winged dragon was tough, it didn't mean that its other body parts were tough.
Bai Yi's group were still preparing to leave at this time, but they suddenly saw an explosion in the air in the distance. It was already close to evening now, so the explosion in the sky was more noticeable. They looked at each other and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. There was a more than 80% chance that something had happened to the helicopter. Nobody could be sure how New Zealand was like now. Even if the helicopter flew in the sky, it wasn't necessarily safe.
"Let's go and see if there are any survivors," Bai Yi said.
"En." Nobody else had any objections.
They set off again, preparing to go across the city. Looking at the dark road ahead of them, they couldn't help but sigh inside. They had travelled across this street quite a few times today. This time, there were still quite a few rats hiding in the shadows. However, these rat monsters seemed to have become smarter as well, they only stared at Bai Yi's group leaving the city and did not take the initiative to attack.
Even animals could learn to be tame, not to mention these evolved lifeforms which had gained decent intelligence.
When going past a plaza in the city, their breathing gradually slowed because they felt the presence of many rats. After making a turn on the street, they immediately saw more than 100 rat monsters standing at that place. Moreover, there was a rat monster that was more than three meters tall at the forefront, and it appeared to be very strong.
Woolf and the few others immediately gripped their weapons tightly, but Bai Yi gestured for them to not be hasty.
Sure enough, two rat monsters carried over a corpse of a prey in the next moment. Another rat monster carried some other things over and put them in front of Bai Yi's group. What is this, a sign of good will? Bai Yi looked at the rat monster leader, and suddenly many thoughts went through his head, complex and varied.
"We are just passing through the city, if you guys do not attack us, we will not harm you as well. That's all, I will take these things, anything else is unnecessary," said Bai Yi to the rat king as he pointed toward another direction in the city.
"Chi chi!" The rat king didn't seem to want to conflict with Bai Yi's group either. After all, they had killed many rat monsters in the battle this afternoon.
"Woolf, take them away., Bai Yi said. Woolf then carried the carcass and the unknown bag made of monster skin. The group then walked through the pathway the rats had opened up for them. These bunch of rat monsters looked at Bai Yi's group, carrying various glints in their eyes. Even more rat monsters ran and jumped around in the distance, following their progress, but none of them initiated any attacks on Bai Yi's group.
After arriving at the edge of the city, these rat monsters finally returned to the city gradually, disappearing into the shadows.
"This is really trouble!" Bai Yi said as he looked at the direction the rat monsters had disappeared to.
"What happened?" Woolf asked
"It's intelligence!" Mavis said as well.
The intelligence of these rat monsters had apparently reached the level of a small child. If they continued to develop, would they eventually become another civilisation of their own? Don't think that they were being afraid of the sky falling down on them (TN: Chinese idiom that means being afraid of something that is very unlikely to happen, such as the sky falling down), but it was something that could really possibly happen. To think of it, humans also evolved not too long ago from the cavemen age where they were savages.
"Let's go." Bai Yi did not continue to ruminate on this problem, it was too early to be worrying about this.
The group headed in the direction where the helicopter met with the accident. After they had walked a short distance, they saw the winged dragon which was bleeding from its abdomen while it flew toward the city again.
This winged dragon didn't seem to have a good temper. Its stomach was injured, but it wasn't fatal. The most important thing was how it had initially thought that it had managed to catch a prey, but in the end its prey had exploded and the 'skeleton' left behind couldn't be eaten. It would be strange if it was able to eat the metal parts of the helicopter. Really, I shouldn't hunt strange things next time.
However, after seeing Bai Yi's group, this guy immediately judged that these lifeforms walking on the ground were definitely normal prey.
Looking at the ferocious winged dragon-like monster charging toward them, even Bai Yi wanted to facepalm himself. Here it comes again, just at the time when they most didn't want to battle.
Woolf immediately grabbed his greatsword, wanting to act. The only one uninjured here was him. However, at this time, Bai Yi stopped Woolf and came in front of him, facing the winged dragon.
Bai Yi's body was really not suited for intense battles now, but he did not intend to engage in that kind of battle. He stood on the spot silently. When the winged dragon approached, he abruptly opened his eyes. At this instant, Bai Yi immediately felt the special energy inside his body flowing toward his eyes.
Chapter 98: Three Stages
Mimicry eyes!
The giant winged dragon that initially charged toward them ferociously suddenly went into a daze. Then it slowly landed in front of the group. At this moment, Bai Yi walked past Momo, and his right hand naturally swiped across her back. He drew Momo's short sword made from special materials. After holding the short knife tightly in his hands, he walked toward the winged dragon.
Everyone looked at Bai Yi silently as he placed the short knife on the winged dragon's neck. The short knife ground against its keratin-like skin, making a metallic 'chi chi' sound. The sound seemed to be ice-cold and harsh.
"Leave!"
Bai Yi suddenly said and turned around just when they thought that he would kill the winged dragon. At this moment, the winged dragon suddenly seemed like it had woke from a dream, and it instantly jumped back a distance in fright. It then opened its jaw wide at Bai Yi, but no matter how you looked at it, the winged dragon just seemed to be frightened and instinctively trying to make a show of force.
After seeing that Bai Yi seemed to be ignoring it, the winged dragon immediately spread its wings and flew away like it was escaping.
At this time, Woolf jogged over to Bai Yi as the rest of them wondered what was he going to do. He tilted his head and observed Bai Yi head on. Woolf was startled the moment he saw Bai Yi's eyes. After a long while, Bai Yi used the back of the blade to hit him on the head, and Woolf finally woke up from his stupor.
"What are you doing?"
"No no no, I was just curious, just what happened to your eyes? It doesn't seem possible if you say that it's a simple mimicry ability?" Woolf asked curiously. Of course, it wasn't a simple mimicry anymore, Bai Yi knew that his eyes had gone through three stages of change.
"I'll talk about it later. The friend over there, aren't you going to come out?" Bai Yi said.
All of them looked at a bush in the distance, the captain hiding in the bushes knew that they had been discovered from their expressions. Moreover, he was still in shock at the scene of Bai Yi dealing with the winged dragon, what had happened just now?
The bald captain walked out, and behind him were four other soldiers. They were all worthy of being called elites, most of them had actually survived and they hid so well once they landed. These people all held a submachine gun each and carried other weapons on their backs. However, no matter how you looked at it, they didn't seem to be the ones that were at an advantage. All of them stared at Bai Yi's group warily, if not for Bai Yi speaking to them in English first, they would have fired long ago.
"I am Brod, the captain of this squad."
"Bai Yi, was a human!" Bai Yi said, smiling patronisingly.
After the soldiers heard Bai Yi's words, they immediately raised their guns. However, the bald captain was more composed and stopped them, walking over to Bai Yi. Although none of Bai Yi's group looked like a normal human, at least they could communicate now. As such, it wasn't considered too bad a scenario.
"It's ok, you guys can still be considered humans now," the bald captain said.
"Oh it's like that, that's great then," Bai Yi said nonchalantly.
"I think you guys aren't planning to stay the night in the forest right. Let's go, to the edge of the city," Bai Yi said and walked in front.
The bald captain hesitated for a moment but still followed him in the end. They apparently knew a lot about New Zealand's changes. If the helicopter was fine then all would be good, but now that the helicopter was destroyed the higher-ups were unlikely to send people to save them. That was to say, they had to depend on themselves now. Bai Yi's group were apparently humans from New Zealand before. They would be able to understand New Zealand's current situation if they followed this group.
The inner city was the territory of the rat king, so they didn't enter there. They found a house at the edge of the city that was still more or less inhabitable.
"Be careful, don't recklessly attack them." Bai Yi reminded them when he saw the soldiers becoming very tense from the surrounding rat monsters.
"What are those?" The sky was already dark by now, and the vision of these normal people weren't very good as well. They could only vaguely see something hiding in the shadows, running here and there.
"Rat monsters. They were rats before but assimilated with activated cells. They fused with genes from other animals, becoming this messy rat monster. Of course, they are the owners of the city now," Bai Yi explained simply.
"Owners?" The soldiers had a strange look on their faces.
"After the humans left the original city, they naturally took over and became the owners of this place. By the way, don't attack them for no reason, I think that as long as we are still here, they would not attack you either."
"Why?"
"Because they don't want to sacrifice needlessly. Even if they were hunting for prey, they would hunt something within their limits, right?" Bai Yi glanced at that white soldier. The rat king had already displayed its good-will. Disregarding how sincere this good-will was, at least the rat king really had not sent any subordinates to continue attacking them. Bai Yi did not want to renegade on this simple agreement because of them now.
"We'll cook something first, we'll talk after eating," Bai Yi suddenly said just when everyone thought they would exchange information now. Everyone looked at Bai Yi but didn't voice any objections. Only Bai Yi himself knew that he wasn't trying to make himself seem like a glutton, but it was really his body sending out an intense signal to replenish his energy. Bai Yi could more or less guess what was happening, it was the special energy.
Any ability wouldn't have an effect for no reason, Bai Yi's eyes had already gone through three stages.
First Stage: Awakening.
When Martin died, all the blood in Bai Yi's body started boiling. Perhaps, this was what Yeye referred to as deep-level fusion. At that time, Bai Yi's eyes changed for the first time, maximizing the effect of the warning and protective coloration of the colored patterns on his body through his eyes.
Second Stage: When Bai Yi heard the death of Hong Qi Hua.
At that time, his eyes that had not awakened for too long evolved again. It did not just enhance the intimidation of his warning coloration and the befuddlement of his protective coloration, it also developed a simple hypnotic power. However, due to overuse and multiple evolutions of his eyes in a short period of time, Bai Yi's eyes lost their vision for a month. They had only recovered recently.
Third Stage: When he was almost torn to pieces by Woolf.
He couldn't describe how he had felt back then, but overall, he just absolutely didn't want to die in the hands of his teammate for no reason. He didn't have that kind of intense dissatisfaction or desire, he just felt that he shouldn't die at this time when he still had so many regrets.
Perhaps Bai Yi's body had already evolved to this stage, or perhaps it was just responding to his wishes. Nonetheless, the special energy within his body had automatically gathered toward his eyes, enhancing the power of his eyes by another step.
Just like how humans are unable to manipulate their own strength freely, but with greater mastery, their power would still automatically gather at their fist without difficulty. In comparison, special energy was just very foreign and unfamiliar to everybody, to reach the same level of usage as their physical strength would probably require some deep level of sensing or stimulation.
It was just like how intense physical activity would drain a person's strength and make them hungry. After expending his special energy, Bai Yi felt hungry as well, extremely hungry!
Bai Yi didn't dare to imagine how much special energy he had consumed from just the 10 or so seconds of using of his eyes. Apparently, the consumption of special energy didn't seem to have the same limitations as using physical strength. As long as the body needed it, perhaps this special energy could erupt and be used all at once. Maybe this was the reason Bentham was so powerful.
……
While Bai Yi was thinking about the changes to his eyes, on the other side, Woolf was already getting very friendly with the newcomers. They found that although Woolf looked just like a fat dragon now, his personality was at least like a human, and he was also quite nonsensical. After a while, everyone started to get familiar with each other.
These special forces took out their own food. It was all dry rations like some canned food; they offered Woolf to share the food with them as well. Woolf did not reject them and used two fingers to pick up a can. If he really wanted to use this to stave off hunger, would all the food on them right now even be enough?
"Just one is enough, I won't be full from eating things like this. You guys can just wait to enjoy Bai Yi's feast later, he's a chef." Woolf said as he carefully grabbed a canned food, reminiscing about the taste in the past.
This squad knew that Woolf wasn't lying either, that bit of food that they had now compared to Woolf's huge size didn't even seem enough to get stuck in his teeth (TN: Chinese idiom, means very little food). At this time, Bai Yi just happened to be cooking the carcass that the rat monsters had given them. Since it was a gift, then it wouldn't be too small. The carcass was more than 6 meters tall. It looked somewhat like a badger, but its identity wasn't actually important now, they only had to know that this thing could be eaten…Even if that thing was a human.
That's right, human!
It was just that nobody said it explicitly. Take Woolf for example. If he walked outside now, he wouldn't be thought of as a human either. If somebody really killed him, he would definitely be treated like monster meat. There could be no other possibility, it was just this primordial and cruel in New Zealand now.
Seeing that everyone in Bai Yi's group was injured, the only female in the special forces squad came out wanting to help Bai Yi out. Under the shocked eyes of the soldiers, Bai Yi practically finished cooking the entire monster. It took more than two hours, though of course, that was also because the conditions here weren't that good.
"Can you guys even eat so much?" Anna asked.
"En, it's enough," Bai Yi said. He put a giant thigh meat inside a metal basin he found in the room and poured enough meat broth inside before bringing it outside. At this time, many rat monsters were attracted over here by the smell of food. If not for Bai Yi's group still maintaining their composure, the special forces squad would have probably attacked long ago.
"Help me send this to your boss." Under everyone's puzzled eyes, Bai Yi put the metal basin in front of a seemingly smarter looking rat monster and turned around.
After Bai Yi left, a few rat monsters immediately wanted to get a taste, but they were all chased away by that rat monster he picked. Bai Yi paid attention to everything from the corner of his eyes, confirming his deduction that the intelligence of these rat monsters wasn't lower than that of a normal child anymore.
Chapter 99: Exchanging Information
The specials forces looked at Bai Yi's group with shock. Their eyes were wide open and their mouths agape. They were initially worried that Ba Yi's group wouldn't be able to finish the food. Wasn't their appetite really too much? Putting aside Woolf with the largest figure, the one with the greatest appetite was actually not him but Bai Yi. They only saw Bai Yi eating non-stop, stuffing all the food in his mouth. Despite so much food on the table, it was all very quickly swallowed in these people's stomachs.
Not just the adults, but even Momo who was not even a meter tall ate more than what the special forces ate in total.
In truth, the special forces who they had just met were not the only ones shocked, even Woolf and the others felt shocked. Bai Yi's appetite was very abnormal, he definitely did not eat so much normally.
However, nobody said anything. They didn't intend to dumbly tell everyone about the secret of Bai Yi's body. Of course, everyone knew that Bai Yi had his own considerations, he would definitely tell these people some information about the activated cells to exchange for some other information.
While everyone was still in a state of shock, they quickly finished all the food on the table. Brod and his team looked at Bai Yi in amazement. The one who ate the most was him, but where did all that food go to? After eating so much, Bai Yi's stomach only bloated by a bit, and there were practically no changes. This doesn't make sense! That amount of food could even fill a few buckets.
Only Bai Yi knew, it was too fast!
The rate of digestion was too fast, the food got broken down the moment it entered his stomach, transforming into special energy. This kind of transformation was even faster and more efficient than a lifeform's usual metabolism.Perhaps, it was due to his body's urgent need for energy. Bai Yi silently felt the changes in his body and stuffed another piece of fat meat into his mouth.
"Do you guys always eat so much?" Anna asked in amazement.
"More or less, do you guys know what's happening in New Zealand?" Bai Yi asked.
"A mysterious virus appeared in New Zealand, making lifeforms fuse with genes from each other as well as becoming violent. In the New Zealand of now, there aren't many normal lifeforms anymore, most of them have turned into monsters." Anna said, and looked at Bai Yi's group. Apparently, they were the monsters that Anna was talking about.
"The explanation outside is a mysterious virus?" Although they knew long ago that those countries wouldn't tell the public the truth, Bai Yi's group still couldn't help but sneer after hearing this explanation.
"That's right, it's a mysterious virus. Why?"
Hearing Anna's question, Bai Yi did not say much. Instead, hewaved his hand at Mavis, who took out that thick notebook. The notebook recorded information about the activated cells, from the Nascent Stage all the way to the Metamorphose Stage. Bai Yi intended to reveal this rough information in the notebook to the people that they would meet along the way. That's right, Bai Yi never intended to keep these things a secret.
The Progenitor sincerely asked Bai Yi to do something, but he himself did not know what exactly he should do.
However, he must at least let everyone know what had happened to themselves!
Moreover, Bai Yi was never the kind of egomaniac that wanted to control everything in his hands or wanted to accomplish everything by himself. The only outcome to that was nothing getting accomplished. Regarding the activated cells, regarding the evolved lifeforms, it was all an extremely complex topic. The safe path to evolve should be determined and thought out by all the evolved lifeforms.
Without talking about anything else, just the information that plants or animals needed to calm their minds during the LV1-2 Binging Phase couldn't be found by just himself. It was best for all the evolved humans and lifeforms to slowly research this together.
Anyway, even if Bai Yi was slightly stronger than the majority of people now, he still knew his own limits. He couldn't act like he was using a hack in a video game, knowing everything and being able to do anything.
Brod accepted the notebook doubtfully and carefully looked at it. The more he read, the more solemn his expression became. The other members of the special forces also looked at the contents and became more and more shocked.
"This is reason behind New Zealand's transformation?"
"That's right!"
"How are you guys so sure?"
"It's up to you to believe it or not." Bai Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and didn't say anything more.
"I won't ask about why you guys are here, but can we know about the situation outside? This isn't too much, right? In exchange, I will tell you guys some ways to survive in New Zealand now," Bai Yi said to them while they were still in shock over reading the contents of the notebook.
"If it's just about the situation outside, that's fine." Anna agreed before Brod could say anything.
"Then, what exactly is happening outside now?"
"Ever since New Zealand changed more than two months ago, every country started to guard their shores very seriously, but the country that is the most wary is still Australia. The entire southern coast of Australia is under martial law now and is strictly isolated. From the looks of it now, although activated cells have the reinfection capability, it still can't reanimate corpses. As such,it's still relatively easier to quarantine and isolate. So far, things are basically under control." Brod saw that Anna had already agreed so he started talking. Anyway, these things weren't some secret.
"Just Australia?"
"Of course not, just that Australia is the closest to New Zealand. New Zealand is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, so although the activated cells seem to be spreading in the ocean, the effects of it haven't manifested so quickly. Moreover, even if somebody accidentally ate something that assimilated with activated cells and got infected, it can be controlled very quickly as well. This is because it isn't a zombie virus. It won't spread from the corpses, and people won't lose their rationality either. In reality, it isn't too different from an infectious disease, so it isn't too hard to deal with," Anna explained in detail.
Infectious disease?
To think of it, other than the gene fusion capabilities of activated cells, based on just its infectious capabilities, it really wasn't too different from a normal infectious disease. Additionally, it was not even as infectious as those more serious diseases.
"That is to say, other than New Zealand, there aren't many changes in the other countries?"
"En, overall, there aren't many changes. However, the majority of the public is very concerned about New Zealand's situation. You must know, there hasn't been any information coming out of New Zealand for the past two months, so everyone is very curious," Anna said. It wasn't just the majority of the public, practically everyone was very curious. At the start, they had the choice to accept this mission or not, but even they decided to come here because of the curiosity in their hearts.
"So it's like that." Bai Yi nodded. It seemed liked every country was already prepared for something like this.
"By the way, do you guys know about what happened to the people who managed to get out of New Zealand?" Bai Yi asked. When they heard this question, Bai Yi saw that two of them had blank looks on their faces, two of them were calm, and only Anna stiffened slightly.
"As for this question, we aren't sure either. We don't even know if there was anybody who managed to get out of New Zealand," Anna said carefully.
"Then let me phrase this differently, how did the outside world quarantine and stop the activated cells from spreading?"
"Capture and isolated imprisonment." This wasn't a secret either.
Isolated imprisonment, it was probably not too different from how an experimental subject was treated. Bai Yi's group finally knew now. In this situation, they definitely could not leave New Zealand, they would definitely not have a good outcome after getting out.
After this, they exchanged some more information again. Bai Yi's group got to know more of the outside world, while Brod's squad asked about information regarding New Zealand. They revealed some things to each other while hiding other things, but overall, they were quite satisfied with the exchange. Brod's squad slowly relaxed from their initial tension and nervousness as well. No matter when, looking strange wasn't scary, what they feared most was if they were unable to communicate rationally.
In reality, there were many monster movies in the world, wasn't there quite a lot of fans of those monsters that could talk?
From the start till end, Bai Yi's group did not ask them why they had come to New Zealand.
Brod was also seemingly satisfied over Bai Yi's tacit understanding. If he really asked about this, then they probably couldn't get along so amiably like now. Moreover, Bai Yi's group revealed many things as well. They couldn't confirm how accurate these things were, but if they were all true then it was really a huge matter. They understood the importance of this information more than normal people.
However, how would they know Bai Yi's intentions? This was all information that Bai Yi had already wanted to tell all evolved humans, letting all evolved humans find a way to survive for themselves. Maybe, they would need the information that other people discovered in the future.
On the second day, the special forces squad said their goodbyes to Bai Yi's group, preparing to go and carry out that mission of theirs.
……
"I don't get it at all, what a one-track mind. Why are they still going to carry out some mission at this time? Aren't they scared of death?" Woolf said in frustration as he saw the soldiers walk into the distance.
"That's why they are soldiers, while we are normal people," Bai Yi said.
These special forces trained by the country would naturally not give up on their mission so easily. Although the helicopter was already destroyed, there were still five people remaining in their squad. Perhaps, in their eyes, five people were already enough to do many things.
"Ok then, they already left. Let me tell you about my experience yesterday." Bai Yi pointed to his eyes. Bai Yi told them about his experience of the special energy yesterday. He was still unable to actively manipulate the special energy, but if they could passively move it while using some ability, it would still be a significant increase to their strength.
After Bai Yi told Woolf, this guy immediately grabbed his greatsword and tried hard to exert his strength. However, this squatting and shitting posture of his immediately made everyone burst out in laughter.
Woolf tried to exert himself for a long while, but he didn't feel anything at all. It was the same for Mavis and the rest. Everyone was thinking hard, just how were they supposed to move this special energy? Heloise looked at Bai Yi's eyes, and thought about Bentham back at the research facility again, seemingly...this was different from how they usually exerted their muscles!
Chapter 97: Hidden Worry Of Intelligence
"Those people are?" Heloise questioned.
"People from outside."
"People from outside?"
"The people outside of New Zealand. From the appearance of these people, the situation outside probably isn't as bad as here. Maybe they have managed to control it effectively. No matter what, activated cells isn't some zombie virus, so it can't be transmitted from corpses. Even if people had assimilated with activated cells, they wouldn't lose their minds in the short term either, so it's still relatively easy to quarantine and isolate," Bai Yi said.
"The thing I'm more curious about now is, what are these people doing at New Zealand?" Mavis continued.
"I think nobody can guess this." Bai Yi shook his head.
"Let's change locations!" He continued.
"Why? didn't we just decide to stay at this place and learn the Tai Ji Fist?"
"Because we don't know if they are friend or foe. Although we still treat ourselves as humans now, the other side may not necessarily do so. Don't forget the information we saw at the start through the internet, all countries have banned any living thing from exiting New Zealand. Yeye also said that it's very possible that every other country is planning to turn New Zealand into a natural experimentation ground. Even Doctor Wang left the research facility immediately after he learned of the outbreak. It's just strange that nobody came to retrieve the data from the research facility after more than two months since the outbreak of activated cells."
"Anyway, we need information about the outside world, but I don't approve of recklessly coming into contact with people from the outside." Bai Yi said.
"Let's go, we need to leave this place immediately."
"Ok." Everyone immediately started to move.
……
At this time, the people in the helicopter were very surprised as well. Although Bai Yi's group had changed by a lot, it was still possible to tell that they were humans initially. This group of people that came to New Zealand for the first time were very surprised. Before coming here, their superiors had emphasized many times that this place wasn't some peaceful location, it could completely be said to be a Devil Island.
"I think that we could have tried to communicate with them just now," said a soldier carrying his gun.
"Don't do unnecessary things, we still have our mission to accomplish," the bald team leader said coldly.
"But New Zealand really went through a huge change, seeing those strange and weirdly shaped lifeforms from time to time really gave me a fright." The other soldier aimed his scope at a target from the entrance of the helicopter. Suddenly, he was stunned for a moment. What was that thing hidden on top of that huge building within the forest?
What was that?
Suddenly, the lifeform lying on top of the building suddenly got up. It then rapidly flapped its wings, shooting toward the helicopter ferociously.
"Captain!" The soldier instantly said in fear.
At this time, the rest of them also saw the monster chasing after them, its wingspan was more than 20 meters and it looked extremely savage. If they really had to make a comparison, it was similar to a winged dragon, but there were also some parts that differed from a winged dragon. This winged dragon fiercely chased after them, flying faster than even the helicopter.
"Attack! Damn it!" The captain swore.
Along the way, although they had encountered flying evolved lifeforms, these normally weren't able to cause much trouble to them. After all, the lifeforms in New Zealand had only evolved for a little more than two months, they still hadn't become that strong yet. However, this winged dragon immediately made all their faces change. This guy was definitely an experimental monster that had escaped from the research facility, or a mutant lifeform.
The sounds of gunfire instantly rang, but the winged dragon that chased behind them only closed its eyes, and its body started to spin powerfully in the air. This movement let it dodge a majority of the bullets, and even if the bullets managed to hit the winged dragon they didn't cause any damage.
A soldier inside the helicopter hurriedly took out a rocket launcher and aimed it at the winged dragon.
However, at this moment, the winged dragon flapped its wings powerfully and a few of its feathers on the side of its wings shot out. These feathers instantly pierced two of the soldiers in the helicopter. Especially the guy with the rocket launcher, the feather directly penetrated his forehead. Not only this, these feathers made of unknown materials even managed to pierce through the helicopter.
Grabbing hold of this momentary pause in their attacks, the winged dragon rapidly closed in and grabbed onto the propellor of the helicopter with its claw.
'Kacha!' 'Kuang!', the old skin and dirt on the giant claw was sprayed around, but the rotary blades that were spinning at a high speed actually didn't do much damage to the claw. On the contrary, after receiving this huge obstructing force, sparks and fire burst out from the propeller and it stopped moving.
"Jump off!" The captain roared.
These soldiers were all special forces, so they proficiently carried a parachute on their backs and immediately jumped off. While jumping off, the captain even grabbed the rocket launcher and launched it at the helicopter while he fell. If they still had not jumped at this time, then they could not blame him for being decisive either.
With a loud 'BOOM!', the helicopter exploded, bursting into flames and the explosion immediately made the winged dragon cry out in pain. One must know that the explosion damaged things in all directions, although the claw of the winged dragon was tough, it didn't mean that its other body parts were tough.
Bai Yi's group were still preparing to leave at this time, but they suddenly saw an explosion in the air in the distance. It was already close to evening now, so the explosion in the sky was more noticeable. They looked at each other and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. There was a more than 80% chance that something had happened to the helicopter. Nobody could be sure how New Zealand was like now. Even if the helicopter flew in the sky, it wasn't necessarily safe.
"Let's go and see if there are any survivors," Bai Yi said.
"En." Nobody else had any objections.
They set off again, preparing to go across the city. Looking at the dark road ahead of them, they couldn't help but sigh inside. They had travelled across this street quite a few times today. This time, there were still quite a few rats hiding in the shadows. However, these rat monsters seemed to have become smarter as well, they only stared at Bai Yi's group leaving the city and did not take the initiative to attack.
Even animals could learn to be tame, not to mention these evolved lifeforms which had gained decent intelligence.
When going past a plaza in the city, their breathing gradually slowed because they felt the presence of many rats. After making a turn on the street, they immediately saw more than 100 rat monsters standing at that place. Moreover, there was a rat monster that was more than three meters tall at the forefront, and it appeared to be very strong.
Woolf and the few others immediately gripped their weapons tightly, but Bai Yi gestured for them to not be hasty.
Sure enough, two rat monsters carried over a corpse of a prey in the next moment. Another rat monster carried some other things over and put them in front of Bai Yi's group. What is this, a sign of good will? Bai Yi looked at the rat monster leader, and suddenly many thoughts went through his head, complex and varied.
"We are just passing through the city, if you guys do not attack us, we will not harm you as well. That's all, I will take these things, anything else is unnecessary," said Bai Yi to the rat king as he pointed toward another direction in the city.
"Chi chi!" The rat king didn't seem to want to conflict with Bai Yi's group either. After all, they had killed many rat monsters in the battle this afternoon.
"Woolf, take them away., Bai Yi said. Woolf then carried the carcass and the unknown bag made of monster skin. The group then walked through the pathway the rats had opened up for them. These bunch of rat monsters looked at Bai Yi's group, carrying various glints in their eyes. Even more rat monsters ran and jumped around in the distance, following their progress, but none of them initiated any attacks on Bai Yi's group.
After arriving at the edge of the city, these rat monsters finally returned to the city gradually, disappearing into the shadows.
"This is really trouble!" Bai Yi said as he looked at the direction the rat monsters had disappeared to.
"What happened?" Woolf asked
"It's intelligence!" Mavis said as well.
The intelligence of these rat monsters had apparently reached the level of a small child. If they continued to develop, would they eventually become another civilisation of their own? Don't think that they were being afraid of the sky falling down on them (TN: Chinese idiom that means being afraid of something that is very unlikely to happen, such as the sky falling down), but it was something that could really possibly happen. To think of it, humans also evolved not too long ago from the cavemen age where they were savages.
"Let's go." Bai Yi did not continue to ruminate on this problem, it was too early to be worrying about this.
The group headed in the direction where the helicopter met with the accident. After they had walked a short distance, they saw the winged dragon which was bleeding from its abdomen while it flew toward the city again.
This winged dragon didn't seem to have a good temper. Its stomach was injured, but it wasn't fatal. The most important thing was how it had initially thought that it had managed to catch a prey, but in the end its prey had exploded and the 'skeleton' left behind couldn't be eaten. It would be strange if it was able to eat the metal parts of the helicopter. Really, I shouldn't hunt strange things next time.
However, after seeing Bai Yi's group, this guy immediately judged that these lifeforms walking on the ground were definitely normal prey.
Looking at the ferocious winged dragon-like monster charging toward them, even Bai Yi wanted to facepalm himself. Here it comes again, just at the time when they most didn't want to battle.
Woolf immediately grabbed his greatsword, wanting to act. The only one uninjured here was him. However, at this time, Bai Yi stopped Woolf and came in front of him, facing the winged dragon.
Bai Yi's body was really not suited for intense battles now, but he did not intend to engage in that kind of battle. He stood on the spot silently. When the winged dragon approached, he abruptly opened his eyes. At this instant, Bai Yi immediately felt the special energy inside his body flowing toward his eyes.
Chapter 98: Three Stages
Mimicry eyes!
The giant winged dragon that initially charged toward them ferociously suddenly went into a daze. Then it slowly landed in front of the group. At this moment, Bai Yi walked past Momo, and his right hand naturally swiped across her back. He drew Momo's short sword made from special materials. After holding the short knife tightly in his hands, he walked toward the winged dragon.
Everyone looked at Bai Yi silently as he placed the short knife on the winged dragon's neck. The short knife ground against its keratin-like skin, making a metallic 'chi chi' sound. The sound seemed to be ice-cold and harsh.
"Leave!"
Bai Yi suddenly said and turned around just when they thought that he would kill the winged dragon. At this moment, the winged dragon suddenly seemed like it had woke from a dream, and it instantly jumped back a distance in fright. It then opened its jaw wide at Bai Yi, but no matter how you looked at it, the winged dragon just seemed to be frightened and instinctively trying to make a show of force.
After seeing that Bai Yi seemed to be ignoring it, the winged dragon immediately spread its wings and flew away like it was escaping.
At this time, Woolf jogged over to Bai Yi as the rest of them wondered what was he going to do. He tilted his head and observed Bai Yi head on. Woolf was startled the moment he saw Bai Yi's eyes. After a long while, Bai Yi used the back of the blade to hit him on the head, and Woolf finally woke up from his stupor.
"What are you doing?"
"No no no, I was just curious, just what happened to your eyes? It doesn't seem possible if you say that it's a simple mimicry ability?" Woolf asked curiously. Of course, it wasn't a simple mimicry anymore, Bai Yi knew that his eyes had gone through three stages of change.
"I'll talk about it later. The friend over there, aren't you going to come out?" Bai Yi said.
All of them looked at a bush in the distance, the captain hiding in the bushes knew that they had been discovered from their expressions. Moreover, he was still in shock at the scene of Bai Yi dealing with the winged dragon, what had happened just now?
The bald captain walked out, and behind him were four other soldiers. They were all worthy of being called elites, most of them had actually survived and they hid so well once they landed. These people all held a submachine gun each and carried other weapons on their backs. However, no matter how you looked at it, they didn't seem to be the ones that were at an advantage. All of them stared at Bai Yi's group warily, if not for Bai Yi speaking to them in English first, they would have fired long ago.
"I am Brod, the captain of this squad."
"Bai Yi, was a human!" Bai Yi said, smiling patronisingly.
After the soldiers heard Bai Yi's words, they immediately raised their guns. However, the bald captain was more composed and stopped them, walking over to Bai Yi. Although none of Bai Yi's group looked like a normal human, at least they could communicate now. As such, it wasn't considered too bad a scenario.
"It's ok, you guys can still be considered humans now," the bald captain said.
"Oh it's like that, that's great then," Bai Yi said nonchalantly.
"I think you guys aren't planning to stay the night in the forest right. Let's go, to the edge of the city," Bai Yi said and walked in front.
The bald captain hesitated for a moment but still followed him in the end. They apparently knew a lot about New Zealand's changes. If the helicopter was fine then all would be good, but now that the helicopter was destroyed the higher-ups were unlikely to send people to save them. That was to say, they had to depend on themselves now. Bai Yi's group were apparently humans from New Zealand before. They would be able to understand New Zealand's current situation if they followed this group.
The inner city was the territory of the rat king, so they didn't enter there. They found a house at the edge of the city that was still more or less inhabitable.
"Be careful, don't recklessly attack them." Bai Yi reminded them when he saw the soldiers becoming very tense from the surrounding rat monsters.
"What are those?" The sky was already dark by now, and the vision of these normal people weren't very good as well. They could only vaguely see something hiding in the shadows, running here and there.
"Rat monsters. They were rats before but assimilated with activated cells. They fused with genes from other animals, becoming this messy rat monster. Of course, they are the owners of the city now," Bai Yi explained simply.
"Owners?" The soldiers had a strange look on their faces.
"After the humans left the original city, they naturally took over and became the owners of this place. By the way, don't attack them for no reason, I think that as long as we are still here, they would not attack you either."
"Why?"
"Because they don't want to sacrifice needlessly. Even if they were hunting for prey, they would hunt something within their limits, right?" Bai Yi glanced at that white soldier. The rat king had already displayed its good-will. Disregarding how sincere this good-will was, at least the rat king really had not sent any subordinates to continue attacking them. Bai Yi did not want to renegade on this simple agreement because of them now.
"We'll cook something first, we'll talk after eating," Bai Yi suddenly said just when everyone thought they would exchange information now. Everyone looked at Bai Yi but didn't voice any objections. Only Bai Yi himself knew that he wasn't trying to make himself seem like a glutton, but it was really his body sending out an intense signal to replenish his energy. Bai Yi could more or less guess what was happening, it was the special energy.
Any ability wouldn't have an effect for no reason, Bai Yi's eyes had already gone through three stages.
First Stage: Awakening.
When Martin died, all the blood in Bai Yi's body started boiling. Perhaps, this was what Yeye referred to as deep-level fusion. At that time, Bai Yi's eyes changed for the first time, maximizing the effect of the warning and protective coloration of the colored patterns on his body through his eyes.
Second Stage: When Bai Yi heard the death of Hong Qi Hua.
At that time, his eyes that had not awakened for too long evolved again. It did not just enhance the intimidation of his warning coloration and the befuddlement of his protective coloration, it also developed a simple hypnotic power. However, due to overuse and multiple evolutions of his eyes in a short period of time, Bai Yi's eyes lost their vision for a month. They had only recovered recently.
Third Stage: When he was almost torn to pieces by Woolf.
He couldn't describe how he had felt back then, but overall, he just absolutely didn't want to die in the hands of his teammate for no reason. He didn't have that kind of intense dissatisfaction or desire, he just felt that he shouldn't die at this time when he still had so many regrets.
Perhaps Bai Yi's body had already evolved to this stage, or perhaps it was just responding to his wishes. Nonetheless, the special energy within his body had automatically gathered toward his eyes, enhancing the power of his eyes by another step.
Just like how humans are unable to manipulate their own strength freely, but with greater mastery, their power would still automatically gather at their fist without difficulty. In comparison, special energy was just very foreign and unfamiliar to everybody, to reach the same level of usage as their physical strength would probably require some deep level of sensing or stimulation.
It was just like how intense physical activity would drain a person's strength and make them hungry. After expending his special energy, Bai Yi felt hungry as well, extremely hungry!
Bai Yi didn't dare to imagine how much special energy he had consumed from just the 10 or so seconds of using of his eyes. Apparently, the consumption of special energy didn't seem to have the same limitations as using physical strength. As long as the body needed it, perhaps this special energy could erupt and be used all at once. Maybe this was the reason Bentham was so powerful.
……
While Bai Yi was thinking about the changes to his eyes, on the other side, Woolf was already getting very friendly with the newcomers. They found that although Woolf looked just like a fat dragon now, his personality was at least like a human, and he was also quite nonsensical. After a while, everyone started to get familiar with each other.
These special forces took out their own food. It was all dry rations like some canned food; they offered Woolf to share the food with them as well. Woolf did not reject them and used two fingers to pick up a can. If he really wanted to use this to stave off hunger, would all the food on them right now even be enough?
"Just one is enough, I won't be full from eating things like this. You guys can just wait to enjoy Bai Yi's feast later, he's a chef." Woolf said as he carefully grabbed a canned food, reminiscing about the taste in the past.
This squad knew that Woolf wasn't lying either, that bit of food that they had now compared to Woolf's huge size didn't even seem enough to get stuck in his teeth (TN: Chinese idiom, means very little food). At this time, Bai Yi just happened to be cooking the carcass that the rat monsters had given them. Since it was a gift, then it wouldn't be too small. The carcass was more than 6 meters tall. It looked somewhat like a badger, but its identity wasn't actually important now, they only had to know that this thing could be eaten…Even if that thing was a human.
That's right, human!
It was just that nobody said it explicitly. Take Woolf for example. If he walked outside now, he wouldn't be thought of as a human either. If somebody really killed him, he would definitely be treated like monster meat. There could be no other possibility, it was just this primordial and cruel in New Zealand now.
Seeing that everyone in Bai Yi's group was injured, the only female in the special forces squad came out wanting to help Bai Yi out. Under the shocked eyes of the soldiers, Bai Yi practically finished cooking the entire monster. It took more than two hours, though of course, that was also because the conditions here weren't that good.
"Can you guys even eat so much?" Anna asked.
"En, it's enough," Bai Yi said. He put a giant thigh meat inside a metal basin he found in the room and poured enough meat broth inside before bringing it outside. At this time, many rat monsters were attracted over here by the smell of food. If not for Bai Yi's group still maintaining their composure, the special forces squad would have probably attacked long ago.
"Help me send this to your boss." Under everyone's puzzled eyes, Bai Yi put the metal basin in front of a seemingly smarter looking rat monster and turned around.
After Bai Yi left, a few rat monsters immediately wanted to get a taste, but they were all chased away by that rat monster he picked. Bai Yi paid attention to everything from the corner of his eyes, confirming his deduction that the intelligence of these rat monsters wasn't lower than that of a normal child anymore.
Chapter 99: Exchanging Information
The specials forces looked at Bai Yi's group with shock. Their eyes were wide open and their mouths agape. They were initially worried that Ba Yi's group wouldn't be able to finish the food. Wasn't their appetite really too much? Putting aside Woolf with the largest figure, the one with the greatest appetite was actually not him but Bai Yi. They only saw Bai Yi eating non-stop, stuffing all the food in his mouth. Despite so much food on the table, it was all very quickly swallowed in these people's stomachs.
Not just the adults, but even Momo who was not even a meter tall ate more than what the special forces ate in total.
In truth, the special forces who they had just met were not the only ones shocked, even Woolf and the others felt shocked. Bai Yi's appetite was very abnormal, he definitely did not eat so much normally.
However, nobody said anything. They didn't intend to dumbly tell everyone about the secret of Bai Yi's body. Of course, everyone knew that Bai Yi had his own considerations, he would definitely tell these people some information about the activated cells to exchange for some other information.
While everyone was still in a state of shock, they quickly finished all the food on the table. Brod and his team looked at Bai Yi in amazement. The one who ate the most was him, but where did all that food go to? After eating so much, Bai Yi's stomach only bloated by a bit, and there were practically no changes. This doesn't make sense! That amount of food could even fill a few buckets.
Only Bai Yi knew, it was too fast!
The rate of digestion was too fast, the food got broken down the moment it entered his stomach, transforming into special energy. This kind of transformation was even faster and more efficient than a lifeform's usual metabolism.Perhaps, it was due to his body's urgent need for energy. Bai Yi silently felt the changes in his body and stuffed another piece of fat meat into his mouth.
"Do you guys always eat so much?" Anna asked in amazement.
"More or less, do you guys know what's happening in New Zealand?" Bai Yi asked.
"A mysterious virus appeared in New Zealand, making lifeforms fuse with genes from each other as well as becoming violent. In the New Zealand of now, there aren't many normal lifeforms anymore, most of them have turned into monsters." Anna said, and looked at Bai Yi's group. Apparently, they were the monsters that Anna was talking about.
"The explanation outside is a mysterious virus?" Although they knew long ago that those countries wouldn't tell the public the truth, Bai Yi's group still couldn't help but sneer after hearing this explanation.
"That's right, it's a mysterious virus. Why?"
Hearing Anna's question, Bai Yi did not say much. Instead, hewaved his hand at Mavis, who took out that thick notebook. The notebook recorded information about the activated cells, from the Nascent Stage all the way to the Metamorphose Stage. Bai Yi intended to reveal this rough information in the notebook to the people that they would meet along the way. That's right, Bai Yi never intended to keep these things a secret.
The Progenitor sincerely asked Bai Yi to do something, but he himself did not know what exactly he should do.
However, he must at least let everyone know what had happened to themselves!
Moreover, Bai Yi was never the kind of egomaniac that wanted to control everything in his hands or wanted to accomplish everything by himself. The only outcome to that was nothing getting accomplished. Regarding the activated cells, regarding the evolved lifeforms, it was all an extremely complex topic. The safe path to evolve should be determined and thought out by all the evolved lifeforms.
Without talking about anything else, just the information that plants or animals needed to calm their minds during the LV1-2 Binging Phase couldn't be found by just himself. It was best for all the evolved humans and lifeforms to slowly research this together.
Anyway, even if Bai Yi was slightly stronger than the majority of people now, he still knew his own limits. He couldn't act like he was using a hack in a video game, knowing everything and being able to do anything.
Brod accepted the notebook doubtfully and carefully looked at it. The more he read, the more solemn his expression became. The other members of the special forces also looked at the contents and became more and more shocked.
"This is reason behind New Zealand's transformation?"
"That's right!"
"How are you guys so sure?"
"It's up to you to believe it or not." Bai Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and didn't say anything more.
"I won't ask about why you guys are here, but can we know about the situation outside? This isn't too much, right? In exchange, I will tell you guys some ways to survive in New Zealand now," Bai Yi said to them while they were still in shock over reading the contents of the notebook.
"If it's just about the situation outside, that's fine." Anna agreed before Brod could say anything.
"Then, what exactly is happening outside now?"
"Ever since New Zealand changed more than two months ago, every country started to guard their shores very seriously, but the country that is the most wary is still Australia. The entire southern coast of Australia is under martial law now and is strictly isolated. From the looks of it now, although activated cells have the reinfection capability, it still can't reanimate corpses. As such,it's still relatively easier to quarantine and isolate. So far, things are basically under control." Brod saw that Anna had already agreed so he started talking. Anyway, these things weren't some secret.
"Just Australia?"
"Of course not, just that Australia is the closest to New Zealand. New Zealand is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, so although the activated cells seem to be spreading in the ocean, the effects of it haven't manifested so quickly. Moreover, even if somebody accidentally ate something that assimilated with activated cells and got infected, it can be controlled very quickly as well. This is because it isn't a zombie virus. It won't spread from the corpses, and people won't lose their rationality either. In reality, it isn't too different from an infectious disease, so it isn't too hard to deal with," Anna explained in detail.
Infectious disease?
To think of it, other than the gene fusion capabilities of activated cells, based on just its infectious capabilities, it really wasn't too different from a normal infectious disease. Additionally, it was not even as infectious as those more serious diseases.
"That is to say, other than New Zealand, there aren't many changes in the other countries?"
"En, overall, there aren't many changes. However, the majority of the public is very concerned about New Zealand's situation. You must know, there hasn't been any information coming out of New Zealand for the past two months, so everyone is very curious," Anna said. It wasn't just the majority of the public, practically everyone was very curious. At the start, they had the choice to accept this mission or not, but even they decided to come here because of the curiosity in their hearts.
"So it's like that." Bai Yi nodded. It seemed liked every country was already prepared for something like this.
"By the way, do you guys know about what happened to the people who managed to get out of New Zealand?" Bai Yi asked. When they heard this question, Bai Yi saw that two of them had blank looks on their faces, two of them were calm, and only Anna stiffened slightly.
"As for this question, we aren't sure either. We don't even know if there was anybody who managed to get out of New Zealand," Anna said carefully.
"Then let me phrase this differently, how did the outside world quarantine and stop the activated cells from spreading?"
"Capture and isolated imprisonment." This wasn't a secret either.
Isolated imprisonment, it was probably not too different from how an experimental subject was treated. Bai Yi's group finally knew now. In this situation, they definitely could not leave New Zealand, they would definitely not have a good outcome after getting out.
After this, they exchanged some more information again. Bai Yi's group got to know more of the outside world, while Brod's squad asked about information regarding New Zealand. They revealed some things to each other while hiding other things, but overall, they were quite satisfied with the exchange. Brod's squad slowly relaxed from their initial tension and nervousness as well. No matter when, looking strange wasn't scary, what they feared most was if they were unable to communicate rationally.
In reality, there were many monster movies in the world, wasn't there quite a lot of fans of those monsters that could talk?
From the start till end, Bai Yi's group did not ask them why they had come to New Zealand.
Brod was also seemingly satisfied over Bai Yi's tacit understanding. If he really asked about this, then they probably couldn't get along so amiably like now. Moreover, Bai Yi's group revealed many things as well. They couldn't confirm how accurate these things were, but if they were all true then it was really a huge matter. They understood the importance of this information more than normal people.
However, how would they know Bai Yi's intentions? This was all information that Bai Yi had already wanted to tell all evolved humans, letting all evolved humans find a way to survive for themselves. Maybe, they would need the information that other people discovered in the future.
On the second day, the special forces squad said their goodbyes to Bai Yi's group, preparing to go and carry out that mission of theirs.
……
"I don't get it at all, what a one-track mind. Why are they still going to carry out some mission at this time? Aren't they scared of death?" Woolf said in frustration as he saw the soldiers walk into the distance.
"That's why they are soldiers, while we are normal people," Bai Yi said.
These special forces trained by the country would naturally not give up on their mission so easily. Although the helicopter was already destroyed, there were still five people remaining in their squad. Perhaps, in their eyes, five people were already enough to do many things.
"Ok then, they already left. Let me tell you about my experience yesterday." Bai Yi pointed to his eyes. Bai Yi told them about his experience of the special energy yesterday. He was still unable to actively manipulate the special energy, but if they could passively move it while using some ability, it would still be a significant increase to their strength.
After Bai Yi told Woolf, this guy immediately grabbed his greatsword and tried hard to exert his strength. However, this squatting and shitting posture of his immediately made everyone burst out in laughter.
Woolf tried to exert himself for a long while, but he didn't feel anything at all. It was the same for Mavis and the rest. Everyone was thinking hard, just how were they supposed to move this special energy? Heloise looked at Bai Yi's eyes, and thought about Bentham back at the research facility again, seemingly...this was different from how they usually exerted their muscles!
