C52 Contract

In the safe house.

Liu Sishan sat cross-legged on the ground and was in the middle of meditation.

Many people would immediately think of all kinds of secret manuals when they saw meditation.

However, the meditation in this world was actually the same as the meditation on Earth. There were not many magical effects.

On Earth, people had to be busy with their three meals a day. Most people would find it difficult to calm down and meditate. On the other hand, the Awakened in this world could easily achieve the effect of meditation due to their strong mental strength.

Meditation could reduce stress, depression, anxiety, improve focus, memory, creativity, improve sleep, relieve pain in the body, and increase immunity.

Therefore, many Awakened in Pearl City would meditate when they were on the night watch.

Suddenly, Liu Sishan opened her eyes and was surprised to see a semi-transparent attribute panel in front of her. It showed Zuo Xiangming's attributes.

Not long after she finished looking at Zuo Xiangming's attributes, Feng Laixian's attribute panel appeared.

"Zhang Ping?" she tried to call out.

However, Zhang Ping in her body did not respond. In other words, Zhang Ping's consciousness should still be on the other side of Pearl City. She guessed that Zhang Ping had used the appraisal, but because his body was here and in her body, she also saw the result of the appraisal.

"Captain, there's new information."

Liu Sishan closed her eyes. She compared Zuo Xiangming and Feng Laixian's abilities in her mind. After a moment, she opened her eyes and took out the badge to contact Situ Shibai.

...

Pearl City.

Chen Weihua walked in front. Two Awakened walked up the city wall with six boxes of fruits.

She quickly arranged dozens of Awakened to throw these fruits. As these fruits were covered with thorns, the Awakened she arranged were all tall and strong, and they had all kinds of protective arms.

"Weihua, don't keep us in suspense. What are these fruits for?" Zhang Ping asked helplessly.

He had asked Chen Weihua about it once in the warehouse, but Chen Weihua didn't tell him. Instead, she kept him in suspense.

Although Zhang Ping had learned from Liu Tiefeng about the identification of materials and the fruits of plants that were not found on Earth, he really didn't know what the fruits that Chen Weihua had brought with her were for.

This was a fruit that he had never seen before.

"You'll know soon enough." Chen Weihua smiled proudly.

Zhang Ping was speechless.

Actually, he could use the appraisal to directly identify the answer.

However, at this moment, Chen Weihua would also see the appraisal result when he used the appraisal. Therefore, he was not too comfortable to use it. The main reason was that Chen Weihua obviously wanted to act cool and interrupt a woman pretending to be cool. It was not a graceful thing to do, so he decided to quietly watch.

Under Chen Weihua's arrangement, a few Awakened threw the fruits at the zombies one after another, but the fruits were quickly blocked by the zombies.

When the zombies blocked the fruits, the fruits exploded one after another.

The fruit was completely indiscriminate.

It took care of all 360 degrees. If the Awakened was nearby, he would also be blasted.

Fortunately, the living corpse was very far away from the Awakened on the city wall, so the explosion of the fruit did not reach the Awakened. It only blew up the living corpse and the living corpses around it.

Of course, some of the thorns landed on Feng Laixian's body. Feng Laixian immediately felt a wave of poison in his body.

"This poison!"

Feng Laixian immediately felt a different kind of pain.

The corpse poison in his body and this unknown poison were both eroding his body, but the two toxins were counteracting each other, giving him a chance to breathe.

Furthermore, because the other poison was extremely damaging to his body, his recovery speed was also increasing, which was alleviating his current situation.

He tore the flesh and blood on his body that contained corpse poison with great difficulty and roared towards the sky, "Continue! Again!"

Just now, many Awakened on the city wall saw that the attack had affected Feng Laixian and stopped him. However, when they heard Feng Laixian's roar, they immediately realized that it was actually helpful to Feng Laixian. They looked at Chen Weihua awkwardly and confusedly.

"This fruit is called Thousand Needles Fruit. Once it is hit by a large impact, it will explode and shoot out the thorns on the surface. These thorns contain fire poison, and the poisoned will feel as if their bodies are being roasted by the scorching sun."

Chen Weihua smiled and said to the Awakened around her.

The scorching sun?

Zhang Ping immediately realized that the Thousand Needles Fruit might be able to speed up his speed of releasing the Scarlet Emperor Flames.

In fact, there were many abilities that could be significantly enhanced by certain materials or stimulation, or some hidden abilities would be easier to be activated.

Liu Sishan had once guessed that his ability had a hidden mechanism similar to this. For example, he had awakened the Wind Speaker when he came into contact with the Wind Gemstone. This made it hard for people not to think that the Wind Speaker was related to the Wind Gemstone.

This kind of substance that could enhance abilities or activate hidden special characteristics was called a "couple" in Pearl City.

In fact, the simpler the ability, the easier it was to guess what the "couple" was.

For example, water-type Awakened would usually bring a few jars of water with them when they were weak, and fire-type Awakened would bring kerosene with them...

As for the Awakened other than the elements, most of them did not know what their "couple" was, and they did not even know what their abilities were.

If one's body was like a cell phone, then the ability was equivalent to an APP program.

As the only user of this program, the user only needed to use it, and did not need to understand the program's structure and how it worked. As the user continuously feedbacked on their own usage habits, the program would automatically update and gradually conform to the user's habits, eventually becoming the version that the user wanted.

In other words.

Everyone used their instincts and habits to use their abilities. In any case, their abilities would gradually become the shape of the habits of the Awakened.

In fact, in Pearl City, most of the Awakened who knew their own compatible substances were lucky. They accidentally encountered such substances and discovered what the compatible substances that could strengthen their abilities were. However, very few Awakened would specifically study them.

The main reason was that it would take a lot of time, money, and energy to study them.

Furthermore, they always relied on the compatible substances. It was very easy for them to gradually develop their abilities to the point where they needed to rely on external objects to be strong.

The more the Awakened relied on external objects, the more likely it was for their abilities to be stimulated or activated by external objects.

For example, an Awakened could release a fireball, but he would always add fuel to the fireball to increase its power. In the future, after he advanced, he might obtain the ability to strengthen the fireball with fuel.

This ability could increase the power of the fireball by ten or even a hundred times after he added fuel to it. However, from the result, this was not beneficial to the Awakened. It would only make the Awakened more dependent on the compatible substances.

Once the Awakened did not have any external objects such as fuel, they would be far inferior to the normal Awakened.

Therefore, even if most Awakened knew what substances could strengthen their abilities, they would not use them often. At most, they would use the compatible substances when they needed to risk their lives.

Right now, Feng Laixian was in such a situation.

If the Thousand Needles Fruit could really speed up his speed of releasing the Scarlet Emperor Flames, it would undoubtedly have the effect of turning the tide of the battle.

This was a very unusual situation.

At least, he did not mind borrowing external strength right now.

Next, a few Awakened continued to throw the Thousand Needles Fruit at the living corpses.

Zuo Xiangming was not stupid. He immediately saw that these fruits had a positive effect on Feng Laixian, so he controlled a few living corpses to block the attacks of the Thousand Needles Fruit.

However, the penetrative power of the Thousand Needles Fruit was extremely strong. After the explosion, the speed of the attack was extremely fast. Unless Zuo Xiangming built a castle around Feng Laixian, it was impossible for him to block all of the needles.

After a few rounds of attacks, dozens of needles from the Thousand Needles Fruit were stuck on Feng Laixian's back. The spots where the needles were stuck bulged out with red pustules, and they were emitting traces of heat.

The needles melted in the high temperature, forming a kind of black liquid that slowly flowed down from his back.