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But now, regardless of whether Biansi did it out of genuine love or false intentions, she had already successfully tied Su Yun and the Black Rose Home together. If they wanted to win over a powerful esper like Zero, they would have to split up and attract more benefits. This investment was the same as building an army. The two old foxes wanted to do this, but they had to consider it carefully.
After all, whether or not he would succeed in the end would still depend on himself. However, from the various things he had displayed up till now, he was not the kind of person who would break his word for benefits.
Chalod and Yue Yang knew that this kind of thing could only be done step by step, they couldn't be rushed at all. Otherwise, it would cause a huge backlash, and it would be even harder to separate him from Biansi by then. Therefore, when Biansi offered to split the rewards, the two of them would agree.
Many of these key points, how could Zero understand them all? He only knew that the black gold dividend was already several times more than the reward for this operation.
As for the loss, it was within his expectations. In the battle outside Pavaric and in Naga's earlier battle, he had lost 327 soldiers. The dead soldiers would naturally send the corresponding pension to the families of those who died in battle according to their nameplate. Those who could survive would receive a reward.
As for Su and the others who had put in a lot of effort, Zero even generously promised everyone a reward of close to a million gold coins. It was as if Su, who had fought to the end, had only received two million. As for Berrien, who had fought in the end, he had also received a hundred thousand for her hard work. Regarding this result, Berrien did not have any objections, after all, not only did he not contribute, he had instead helped Naga in his evolution.
Without even deducting his pay, Berrien was already laughing.
Brown did not contribute much in Naga's battle, but from beginning to end, he had always been the commander, hence he also received the reward of five hundred thousand gold coins. The gorilla was in a good mood, so he stood up and shouted, "You guys drink to your heart's content tonight, I'll pay for it!"
Brown's shout immediately made the atmosphere in the bar burn even more intensely. A few ladies even walked towards Su Wu's table and invited Brown, the rich guy, to the bar to drink. Brown did not say anything else, and embraced the few women and left to play merrily.
Looking at his back, Zero shook his head and laughed, but did not stop him. After the great battle, everyone had to relax, being carefree was just a way for Brown to relax. All of this required survival as a precondition.
He shook the beer in his hand and poured the cold liquid into his mouth, allowing it to flow through his esophagus and enter his body. He silently experienced the feeling of these things flowing into his body. The fact that he could feel the coldness of the beer was proof that he was still alive.
It was good to be alive!
Chapter 418 - Disaster (I)
The blood-red sky illuminated the radiation clouds to the west. From afar, it looked like the entire sky was on fire. There was a stretch of wilderness far below, with no city silhouettes to be seen. Only a few abandoned high-voltage towers stood sloppily on the horizon, as if they were about to fall out of this era.
The scorching wind came rolling in from the distance, ruffling all his black hair. He was standing on the rooftop of a four-story abandoned building, his thick, rubberized soles trampling the cracked ground. Zero changed into a new tactical suit, but still wore a brown cape to protect himself from the wind and sand. The fine sand carried an astonishing heat, as if it came from a boiling volcano.
In Zero's eyes, the depths of his pupils reflected the clouds on the horizon. The radiation clouds were slowly stirring as the fiery red sky continuously churned between the clouds like rolling lava. This was an extremely rare constellation. In Zero's memory, the radiation clouds in the sky above the wilderness were almost unchanging. Now that there was such an abnormal phenomenon, Zero was a little worried.
The light from the sky cast shadows under the buildings, as if hinting that danger was everywhere. The danger did indeed exist. Even if it wasn't right in front of him, he believed that it wouldn't be too far away. When he killed Naga, the words that Prometheus used to directly imprint into his mind through some sort of mysterious mental connection were still lingering in his ears.
It could be seen that Agladis's prison was becoming unstable. Not only had Prometheus created a True King like Lilith, the other races who possessed wisdom had also started to form a connection with him. All of these were not good indicators for humans, especially the question of who the rider Prometheus was referring to. Or rather, what was it?
One thing was for sure, Agladis had picked zero to fight for the sake of eliminating Prometheus. And Prometheus had also chosen or created a Knight who was against zero. Zero could faintly feel that Prometheus's Knight would be a powerful enemy.
Zero looked at the thick clouds in the distance, a smile on his face. Did he not have enough enemies? Since Prometheus was their fake enemy in the end, then everything that blocked in front, including the Knights that it had chosen, would be fine as long as they were killed!
Clenching his fists, he turned around and looked down the stairs. A small clearing had been cleared out and patrolled by soldiers. A few nearby buildings had been temporarily set up as a resting camp. Further outside, there were a few trucks and a command car. These were Black Rose and Zero, the two armies. They had started to evacuate the Pavaric this morning. A portion of the soldiers had already returned to the Asgard with their captured slaves. Right now, there were only around 500 soldiers accompanying them.
If it wasn't absolutely necessary, no one would be willing to travel at night. So the convoy found a village ruins as a makeshift camp for the long night.
When Zero came downstairs, he could smell the aroma of meat. This small building's structure could be considered sturdy. After cleaning the entire first floor, it would be the place where and the others could rest tonight. Su and Yoru were using the army stove to cook food. After heating it up, the synthetic fiber food also emitted a fragrance that was not inferior to the raw materials, causing one's stomach to rumble.
A few high-powered lights illuminated the space on the first floor completely. Biansi sat on the soft, soft military cushion while holding a flat intelligence brain in her hand, gesturing with it. Seeing Zero walk down the stairs, the beautiful clan head raised her head and said, "I've already found all the information you wanted, but what do you need these things for?"
Su Yun and Brown greeted each other and asked about the matter of defense and control of the high ground. After making sure that Brown had made all the arrangements, Zero walked over to Biansi's side and sat down, then took the plate of intelligence brain from her hands.
The page on the intelligence brain's screen was filled with information on light weapons and explosives. Biansi curiously looked at these things and asked, "Do you want to produce these weapons? "If necessary, I can provide you with the appropriate production materials and technical support when we get back."
Ever since that intimate action in the ward that day, the relationship between Zero and Biansi had become a little ambiguous. To Biansi, Zero was the first man in her entire life that had intruded into the depths of her heart. Because of their different identities, the relationship between the two of them was not clearly established. But in Biansi's heart, he had already treated Zero as her man.
Therefore, for the cause of supporting zeros, if it could be said that it was previously due to the common interests of the partners, then right now, Biansi was supporting zero unconditionally, within the limits of her own authority. And Zero did not reject Biansi's good intentions. This made Biansi happy in another way. Although she was not very old, she was very mature and did not, like some paranoid men, refuse to receive help from a woman because of their so-called male dignity.
Zero is like a sponge, accepting insi
stence from all sides without a care if a certain bottom line allowed it. However, Biansi had guessed wrongly this time. The reason he wanted her to find information on these weapons and explosives for him was not because she needed them for production.
He shook his head and smiled mysteriously, "These things are all prepared for me. I think it's time to enrich my personal equipment."
Biansi was confused, and said: "If necessary, I can help you choose the most effective set of equipment. But in that case, I'm afraid that your standard portable apparatus won't be able to hold so many things. Then you'll need a private weapon crate, and I know that the Pranning family has a project to equip themselves in this area. They're trying to produce some folding conventional weapons to make it easy to carry. I think Shylock would be willing to supply some of these weapons. "
Zero smiled meaningfully and said, "I can't tell that you're a very virtuous woman."
Biansi suddenly blushed and said: "I haven't agreed to marry you yet."
"But you promised to owe me one." Zero whispered in her ear.
Biansi's face became even redder, but she whispered into Ling Yun's ear: "If you want, you can do it a few times. "Why don't you sleep in my tent tonight?"
I didn't expect her to be open, but then again. In this era where the average lifespan was almost half of the old era, women did not refuse to have fun with the man they liked. After all, there was not much time to enjoy.
Zero could sense Biansi's enthusiasm, but now was not the time. He used his hand to pinch Biansi's thigh. This intimate action caused Biansi to lower her head, and she said softly, "I see that there's something strange with tonight's sky, I have to be vigilant tonight. After we get back, I'll be ready to accompany you anytime. "
Biansi had long since passed the girl's moment of impulse, and her long years of being in a high position had often given her the upper hand. Hearing Zero's words, she did not pester Zero like a normal lady would. Biansi chuckled: "You said it yourself, but when I return to Asgard, I am afraid that I am unable to handle it. It is up to me to decide when to do it. "
After waiting for a while, Biansi stood up. When she pinched her buttocks, Biansi almost screamed. She turned her head just in time to see Zero's mischievous smile. Zero waved his hand and said, "This is the interest."
Biansi pretended to be angry at first, then smiled, but no longer bothered with Zero, and continued to study with Su and the rest.
From Biansi, she was able to sense the wonders of fate. When he first met with Biansi, how could he have thought that she would develop such a miraculous relationship with the Black Rose Patriarch?
He then turned his attention back to the information of the weapons on the intelligence brain. Just as he said, this information was made up by Biansi to enrich the requirements for his personal equipment. From Angelguet to Bodon, and to the Bidis City battle this time around, he had accumulated 153 points of evolution.
Although the profession that he had recorded was the Shadow Wanderer, its zero practical ability was the materialization of energy. This rule domain's ability could allow a player to have zero aptitude for any role, but out of habit, a player would still be placed in a permanent position. However, he didn't need to rely on his other abilities to level up.
As of now, all he needed to do was focus on materializing his energy. However, Zero discovered that even if there was only one ability, the amount of evolution points needed to upgrade the Rule Domain's ability was staggering. Taking his current situation as an example, to upgrade his materialization from the eighth step to the ninth step, he would need at least four hundred evolution points.
So right now, even if all the evolution points were put into it, it would only allow the progress bar to go up to level 9 by about 26%. Instead, Zero planned to keep the evolution point, accumulate enough evolution points to upgrade, or use it to evolve its own hardware, as needed.
The power of a capable person was incomparably important. However, rank was not everything. Apart from possessing a high level of strength, a powerful esper also needed a body that matched their strength. In addition to strengthening and enhancing their abilities, evolution points can also be used to generate new gene sequences. For example, the people with the ability of the perceptual domain would put their effort into evolving an intellectual center at the corresponding point of evolution, thereby increasing the sensitivity of their senses and the calculation ability of their brain. Or, for example, Fighting Domain's ability users, their evolution point could be used to evolve biological armor s to increase their defense, or to evolve biological weapon s to increase their attack power.
There were many uses for points of evolution, and raising one's ability rank was just one of them. However, the advanced application of the Evolution Point was not well-known by everyone. They were in the hands of a large organisation, and as for those in the wilderness, their potential limits were only at the fifth or sixth step, so they naturally wouldn't come into contact with these things.
In fact, only when an esper reached the eighth step or above would they have an additional evolution point to use to upgrade their own hardware. Only by evolving one's ability and body at the same time could one open the door to the final life form.
As for the current Zero, since he could not increase the quality of his ability all of a sudden, the variety of resources he had was not a bad choice either. At present, the most commonly used materialization abilities for Zero are the sniper rifle Colt, mini submachine gun, military knife and dagger, fragment grenade, high-energy grenade, and the strongest weapon invader.
Materialization had its own rules. What Zero did not know was that it could not be constructed. At least, Zero knew the power and effects of the materialized weapon. If Zero knew nothing about it, it would be impossible to build it.
Now, in front of Zero, there were several pages full of weapons and equipment that he could build with his current abilities. Naturally, it was impossible for Zero to record all of the information and build all of the equipment. Firstly, there was no need for it, and secondly, it was too cumbersome. As for Zero, what he needed was equipment that was specifically designed for different situations. After some consideration, Zero focused on the functional bullets.
These types of bullets include incendiary bombs, cryo-bombs, gas bombs, stun bombs, high-explosive bombs, etc. Like a incendiary bomb, after firing a warhead, the warhead is ignited with a built-in incendiary agent upon hitting the target, resulting in an explosive, incineration, and sputtering effect. If the target is frozen, the target can be cooled by 60 degrees Celsius, with a slow effect, and so on.
Tactics bullets like these were basically the product of a new era's technology, especially high-explosive bombs. According to the description of the data, when the target object is hit, an explosion effect is produced in an area of 50 square meters. This was already equivalent to the reduced version of the Death Strike, but materializing such a high explosive bomb required much less energy than using a Death Strike.
Zero secretly estimated that the energy of a single death blow could materialize ten high explosive bombs. As a result, Zero could use a high explosive grenade to deal damage, or it could even cover the entire area with firepower. In terms of usage, it was much more agile than Death's Critical Strike. Of course, when faced with someone of the same level or higher, the destructive power and explosive power of a death blow could not be compared to that of a high explosive bomb.
With the addition of these functional bullets into his own equipment, Zero's tactics and tactics would be even more plentiful.
In addition to the functional bullets, Zero also took a fancy to a portable tactical platform. This type of tactical platform was palm-sized and round in shape. The barrel has four small caliber inside the outer edge. After activation, the barrel can be rotated 360 degrees through the main shaft rotating device to drive the platform. The platform built-in ammunition 400 rounds, the firing rate is 50 rounds per minute, can support tactical platfor
m independent shooting 2 minutes.
Its power was not high, but it had a firepower coverage of about 300 square meters. It could achieve a defensive killing effect and was a battlefield weapon against ordinary soldiers and low-leveled metamorph.
By the time Zero put down the Treadmill intelligence brain, he had already memorized the information on several functional bullets and portable tactical platforms, and had designated them as his resident equipment. Zero's ability hadn't improved, but his tactics had increased by a lot. In a battle of the same level, the abundance and suppression of tactics had undoubtedly increased one's strength.
Of course, in the entire world of the capable, there were only a handful of people who had mastered the ability of materialization and were able to increase their strength through changes in quantity.
"Zero, stop looking and come over to eat."
When Biansi said this, Zero raised his head. The Patriarch of Black Rose had already brought a small piece of meat into his mouth. Perhaps it was because they were far away from the city, but Biansi who was in the wilderness seemed to be even more straightforward than usual. He stood up from the army cushion, patted her butt and walked towards Biansi.
Chapter 419 - Disaster (II)
Just as Zero and the others were enjoying the hot food, on a small hill that was two kilometers away from the ruins of the village, Alice put down her high power telescope. She turned to look at her companion. King's expression was grave as he gestured in the air with his hands. Each gesture carried a tinge of wonder, as if King were directing something.
In fact, King did command. He was currently commanding Earth Elemental Su to accumulate one round of Sky Phenomenon ability according to a specific rule.
The weather ability was a skill that only those with a high level of ability could use. Through the distribution and movement rules of a specific Yuan Su, it could simulate the special climate of nature. In most cases, the power of the weather was limited and difficult to control after it took shape. Therefore, it was not a special requirement. No one with a high level of ability would be willing to use the weather. At the moment, Jin was busy using the Earth Elemental Su to soak into the ground and use it on the mantle.