Chapter 311 Iron Beetle

Customizing the prosthetic limbs went more smoothly than Wang Tao expected, and he didn't even have to spend any money.

"Lao Xiang, after we move to our new home, I will take you to the Hope Research Institute. You must cooperate well!"

Wang Tao patted Xiang Hongbin on the shoulder and said sincerely.

"I suddenly felt that just wearing this ordinary prosthetic leg would be quite good..."

Xiang Hongbin spoke weakly. ,

"Um?"

Wang Tao had never seen Xiang Hongbin like this. It was said that he was impassioned when he was dying.

"Didn't you say before that you would rather die standing than live on your knees? You said that if you become a disabled person, it will be no different from dying..."

Wang Tao frowned.

"Ahem, that was before. Now I see it. Sometimes it's good to be a loser. Anyway, you guys protect me..."

Xiang Hongbin spoke unnaturally.

"Lao Xiang, this is not your character! Would you say such a thing?"

Wang Tao looked surprised.

"People always change. This is normal!"

He turned his gaze towards Hong Bin's one eye, not daring to look at Wang Tao.

"No!" Wang Tao shook his head, "The Lao Xiang I know is not like this! Are you... afraid?"

Hearing this, Xiang Hongbin was furious and turned to glare at Wang Tao.

"What do you mean by being afraid! Even if I go to Xiang Hongbin to die, I won't even blink an eyebrow!"

"Then why don't you dare to go there?"

"Oh, I just don't want to trouble others!"

Xiang Hongbin was still arrogant.

"No trouble, no trouble at all!"

Qu Shilin suddenly interrupted.

"...It's just a custom-made prosthetic limb. If it's a big deal, just go for it!"

Seeing that he really couldn't refuse, Xiang Hongbin had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

It's not that he is timid, but when he made eye contact with Qu Shilin just now, he felt like his hair was trembling! His many years of combat experience told him that it was very dangerous...

When Wang Tao saw Xiang Hongbin agree, he nodded with satisfaction.

He knew that Xiang Hongbin was very concerned about disability, especially since he was a combatant fighting on the front line. This level of disability is no different than killing him.

In the future, when everyone gets stronger and stronger, but Xiang Hongbin is still standing still or even regressing, Wang Tao won't be surprised if he commits suicide one day.

Therefore, if there is an opportunity to restore Xiang Hongbin's combat effectiveness, Wang Tao will definitely do his best!

"Lao Xiang, don't worry, you will be fine!"

Wang Tao patted Xiang Hongbin on the shoulder.

"...How about you ask Lightning to accompany me?"

Xiang Hongbin said suddenly.

"no!"

Wang Tao immediately touched Lightning's dog's head.

Xiang Hongbin is in this state. To put it bluntly, he is like a broken jar. But Lightning is a good person and we cannot let Lightning fall into the hands of this woman!

And to say the least, if Qu Shilin really had any bad thoughts, it would be very dangerous to send lightning into her hands. But Xiang Hongbin is different, this is a living person! As long as she's not stupid, she knows what to do.

"..."

Xiang Hongbin was speechless when he saw Wang Tao's decisive refusal. Wang Tao really knew everything.

Qu Shilin came to the two of them and said seriously:

"I want to study him, because this is the first time I have seen an example of someone who was injured to this extent but did not die. Moreover, he is also a soldier and has strong willpower, so he just happens to be my experimental subject! Don't worry, he will definitely do it. living!"

Qu Shilin promised that Xiang Hongbin was alive, but the problem was that Xiang Hongbin was alive and well now... And while she was talking, she subconsciously touched the pliers, electric drill and other tools.

"Ms. Qu, don't explain, we believe you!"

Wang Tao quickly interrupted. If she keeps talking, Xiang Hongbin may really give up.

At this time, Gu Yun came over with an agreement.

"Mr. Wang, take a look at it. If you confirm that there is no problem, please sign."

The content of the agreement is naturally about opening the meteorite.

There are a total of 100 fourth-level meteorites here, and they are planning to open all 100 meteorites. If it can't be finished today, it will probably take a few more days. After all, everyone wants to know what is in it.

Then there is the issue of the specific funding ratio - the city hall produces both crystal cores and meteorites; others only produce meteorites; and Wang Tao only produces crystal cores.

What Wang Tao told Cui Sheng before was that he could take out a crystal core for every meteorite. But Wang Tao didn't expect that there would be 100 fourth-order crystal energy star meteorites here...

"Mr. Wang, are you sure you don't want to change the investment amount?"

Gu Yun asked very thoughtfully.

It is too difficult for one person to take out 100 fourth-order crystal cores!

Even leaders of big forces like Qi De and others couldn't just take it out. After all, they are now cooperating with the city hall, obviously to save money...

Gu Yun didn't look down on Wang Tao, but he felt that Wang Tao couldn't get it out.

Of course, it's his fault for not making this clear. The main reason is that he himself didn't expect that they would get together and get 100 meteorites, and this was the first batch...

Therefore, he felt that if Wang Tao wanted to change his mind, he could do so within his ability.

But Wang Tao waved his hand.

"No, it's just 100 fourth-order crystal cores."

hiss--

Gu Yun looked at Wang Tao with some surprise and uncertainty, could he really take it out?

100 fourth-order crystal cores! This means that Wang Tao killed 100 fourth-order zombies, and most of them were lord zombies!

Because the fourth-order elite zombies appeared after the rain, and Wang Tao happened to come to the Changhe base at that time. Even if he encountered fourth-order elite zombies at that time, he couldn't kill too many, after all, they didn't stay outside for long and soon entered the base.

And after they came to the base, the fourth-order elite zombies outside basically merged into the large corpse tide.

Faced with a large number of fourth-order lords and fourth-order elites, even the six legions with abundant firepower did not dare to act rashly. They all tried every means to seduce and slowly nibble away...

So the fourth-order crystal core is still difficult to obtain now.

If Wang Tao has 100 fourth-order crystal cores, it means that he has killed many fourth-order lords!

Gu Yun doubted the authenticity of Wang Tao's words, not only because of whether Wang Tao's strength was enough, but also because there were really so many fourth-order lords for him to kill?

Wang Tao was speechless after seeing Gu Yun's distrustful look.

One hundred fourth-order crystals... He really has them!

To be precise, he still has 130 fourth-order crystal cores left.

After all, he can get a lot of crystal cores when he kills a lord zombie.

But Wang Tao didn't plan to take out all these fourth-order crystal cores, because some of his crystal cores either have superpowers or are special crystal cores. It would be a waste to use these crystal cores to open the meteorite, and he couldn't bear to do it.

However, there are 30 crystal cores without superpowers. This was when he came to Changhe Base before, and encountered the last wave of zombies. There were many fourth-order elite zombies blocking the road. Wang Tao got them by killing those elite zombies.

Wang Tao waved to Nie Siyan who was not far away.

Nie Siyan walked over quickly with a small box and opened it in front of Gu Yun. There were 20 white and blue fourth-order crystal cores without superpowers neatly placed inside.

This was prepared by Wang Tao in advance. He originally thought that 20 crystal cores would be enough. There were still 10 purple-quality ones left in Wang Tao's space backpack.

Gu Yun's eyes lit up when he saw these 20 crystal cores.

Although there were only 20, this also showed Wang Tao's strength. As for the fact that these crystal cores were all without superpowers, Gu Yun was not surprised. Basically, the ones prepared by their city hall were all without superpowers.

This should be the crystal core obtained by Wang Tao when he killed the fourth-level elite zombies on the way to Changhe Base. At that time, the fourth-level elite zombies had only appeared for a short time and were relatively easy to kill. After those elite zombies and the fourth-level lords joined, they would be difficult to kill...

"Take these 20 fourth-level crystal cores first. I still have 10 high-quality fourth-level crystal cores in my hand. If these 30 are all used up..."

Wang Tao looked at Gu Yun and said with a smile.

"You can lend me some, or I can ask you to lend me some money."

Since Wang Tao didn't want to take his own crystal cores with superpowers, he could only borrow from other places. He thought the City Hall must have it.

"..."

Gu Yun was a little speechless.

The City Hall did have crystal cores. After all, the City Hall was the official of the Changhe Base. All taxes in the base were collected by the City Hall. Many organizations were also under the City Hall, such as the Changhe Bank... so they had a lot of money.

Gu Yun was speechless because if Wang Tao hadn't shown these 20 fourth-order crystal cores first, he would have been suspected of getting something for nothing.

But Wang Tao took out these fourth-order crystal cores to prove his strength. This was equivalent to telling Gu Yun: Lend me the crystal cores, I can pay it back.

"Then follow the rules of the Changhe Bank for VIP customers. Our City Hall will lend you 70 low-quality fourth-order crystal cores. If you can pay it back within seven days, there will be no interest. If you can't pay it back, you have to pay a certain percentage of interest... But this crystal core can only be used to open the meteorite, and I will keep it..."

Gu Yun was afraid that Wang Tao would run away with the money.

Although he thought the probability was very low, after all, Wang Tao was a fourth-level psychic, and it would be too low to run away with such a small amount of money, but the so-called rules were rules, and they must be made clear first.

"Haha! OK!"

Wang Tao laughed.

He just wanted to try to see if he could borrow the crystal core with his identity as a fourth-level psychic. It would be best if he could borrow it, so there would be no trouble. If he couldn't borrow it, he could only use other things as collateral to borrow money. He still had a lot of good things in his hands.

But now it seems that he can still borrow the crystal core with his identity as an awakener.

Wang Tao and Gu Yun signed another supplementary loan agreement.

After confirming that there were no problems with the two agreements, they could finally start!

Since there might be monsters in the meteorites, these meteorites had to be taken out. Otherwise, it would be troublesome if the monsters were opened and the equipment inside was destroyed.

These equipment belonged to the Hope Institute. In order to study the things in the meteorites nearby, they moved some equipment out.

"Let's take 10 meteorites to test the waters first."

Gu Yun took the ten meteorites and led everyone out of the big tent to an open space half-surrounded by the army.

The surrounding heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, vehicle-mounted machine guns, tank main guns, howitzers...all kinds of firepower were aimed at this open space.

If a monster appeared here, it would probably be shot into a sieve.

"I can't wait!"

Qide rubbed his hands, his eyes full of excitement.

The others were the same. After picking up these meteorites, they didn't have time to open them. They were still very curious about what was inside.

The 10 crystal energy star meteorites picked by Gu Yun are numbered 1 to 10 respectively.

Meteorites No. 1 and 2 are basically the same size, and both can be opened with two crystal nuclei. No. 3 and No. 4 also have similar appearances and require four crystal cores to open. No. 5 and No. 6 require six crystal cores to open... No. 9 and No. 10 require ten crystal cores to open.

After everyone was ready, Gu Yun looked at everyone.

"Who will open it?"

He himself had only just been promoted to the third level, and he was the weakest among everyone. If any monsters were to appear, it might be dangerous...

Not only him, but several other third-level superpowers also shook their heads. Including Qu Shilin, who is very interested in meteorites. After all, life is the most important.

Everyone looked at the four awakened ones.

"I come."

Wang Tao spoke directly.

The other three awakened people were a little moved, but also a little worried. After all, no one knows what is inside.

The monsters are actually not bad. According to what the bald man said before, the monsters inside are not meant to be attacked when opened. The monsters also have an expansion time, which is enough time for them to react.

What they worry about is that there are other dangers. For example, if there is something unpredictable like poisonous gas inside, then even if they are awakened people, it will be difficult to hide.

But Wang Tao is not afraid, after all, he can see the attributes.

After Gu Yun saw no one objected, he handed over the crystal core and meteorites No. 1 and 2 to Wang Tao.

"Then I'm sorry to bother you, Mr. Wang. Please be sure to pay attention to your safety."

Everyone else stepped back some distance. Wang Tao asked Xiang Hongbin and the others to lead Lightning away.

Then Wang Tao looked at the two energy star meteorites.

Both of them are about the size of a basketball, and both are of white quality, which means they require two fourth-order crystal cores to turn them on.

Because the two meteorites were relatively similar, Gu Yun and the others prepared to conduct a comparative experiment that was not very rigorous. The four crystal nuclei prepared are two epic crystal nuclei and two ordinary crystal nuclei. Epic crystal cores are very precious, but they have no special powers, so they can be used for testing.

The epic crystal core opens the No. 1 meteorite, and the ordinary crystal core opens the No. 2 meteorite. Then look at the differences inside.

Although this experiment is not rigorous, as long as similar experiments are repeated enough, some problems can still be discovered.

For example, if the things produced by using epic cores are generally better, or the monsters produced are stronger, then it can basically be determined that the quality of the core will affect the things inside.

Wang Tao picked up two epic crystal cores and placed them in the grooves on the No. 1 Crystal Energy Star Meteorite.

Click——

The crystal core emits a faint orange light, and the meteorite breaks apart.

Then a palm-sized black shadow suddenly emerged from the meteorite.

"A monster the first time? No--"

Wang Tao subconsciously wanted to avoid it, and the people not far away also had serious expressions on their faces and were ready to fight.

But Wang Tao discovered that this thing was not a monster, so he grabbed it!

It's cold when you get it.

Only then did everyone see that Wang Tao was holding something that looked like a beetle.

"Mr. Wang, are you okay?"

Gu Yun shouted.

Monsters are generally large in size, but that doesn't mean there are no small ones. So everyone was a little surprised when they saw Wang Tao grabbing the "bug" directly with his hands.

If this thing is poisonous or something, Wang Tao will be in trouble.

"I'm fine. We were lucky. We got something good the first time."

Wang Tao said with a smile.

Seeing that Wang Tao seemed to be fine, everyone quickly gathered around.

Wang Tao let go of the thing in his hand. It was a palm-sized black beetle. It didn't move much after being caught by Wang Tao.

[Level 4 weapon·Iron beetle]

[HP: 10000/10000 (upper limit 100000)]

[Status: Awakenable]

[Amplification: independent attack, armed (needs to consume a fourth-level Zerg corpse to activate)]

[Fitness: 0%]

[Independent attack: You can follow the master’s orders to attack alone]

[Armed: Covers the owner's whole body and provides a certain attribute increase]

This is a level four weapon!

However, this is somewhat different from the weapons Wang Tao has seen before.

The first weapon he saw was entangled tree roots. The increase provided by entangled tree roots was to add some attributes to Wang Tao when worn on his body. Although the entangled tree roots are of the third level and can no longer provide much help to Wang Tao, they are still worn on Wang Tao's wrist.

Later, Wang Tao encountered the Iron Tree Vine. The increase provided by the vine was splitting and independent attack. This weapon is very useful. Although it is a third-level weapon, it gives Wang Tao a few more arms, so Wang Tao still uses it now.

Then there is the Night Demon Type I. This kind of weapon can only attack independently, which is equivalent to Wang Tao bringing a thug.

Finally, there's the Bloody Chainsaw, which provides a boost to "cutting," a purely offensive ability.

Now, the increase provided by this iron beetle is independent attack and weaponry. It’s hard to say whether the independent attack is strong or not, but this weapon should obviously be of the same type as the one wrapped around tree roots, which is equivalent to a set of biological armor!

The entangled tree roots before provided Wang Tao with great help, giving Wang Tao the capital to cross the next level and challenge!

Therefore, Wang Tao still likes this type of weapon.

But what is this "Zerg"? Could it be the cockroach monster that I killed before?

"This is……"

Everyone was a little confused.

This shouldn't be a monster, otherwise Wang Tao would definitely be attacked. But this is indeed a bug... It can't be an ordinary bug, right?

Gu Yun and the others obviously haven't seen this thing, or maybe they have seen it, but don't know what it is, so they missed it.

"This thing... I call it a 'weapon'."

Wang Tao said with a smile.

"Weapon? Is it a weapon?"

After seeing that Wang Tao was indeed fine, Shang Heng touched the bug in Wang Tao's hand with some curiosity. But the other party didn't react, as if it was dead.

Qu Shilin, who had been silent, had her eyes lit up. A small box suddenly appeared in her hand, filled with various torture instruments, oh no, tools.