Drinking poison to quench thirst? Digging your own grave!
According to the law of conservation of energy, everything in the world loses an equal amount of energy when it gains something.
That's how games are.
Even mysterious systems are like this! There's no such thing as a free lunch. What humanity spends its entire lives researching is how to use cheap energy to generate bigger reactions and create more good things.
But no one has ever dared to dream of receiving material rewards without giving anything in return.
Now, this inhibitor, which has spread throughout the wasteland ocean and caused all alien races to suffer setbacks and lose all their power at the same time, is just like that.
"You mean, depending on their previous energy levels, the feedback they receive over a period of time also varies?"
"Yes, yes, that's what Sister Ao said!"
Standing at the entrance to the crew quarters on the first floor, Su Mo observed the isolated alien soldiers through the small window in the door while asking questions with a solemn expression.
Currently, the eleven surviving alien soldiers, isolated in the crew activity room, have all lost their powers.
Although they didn't know what had happened, they weren't panicked after Su Mo assured them that there was no danger to their lives. Instead, they were happy and excited about the two-day holiday they had just been granted.
Judging from their condition, apart from a significant drop in physical fitness and the loss of all their power, these alien races showed no other abnormalities.
After questioning the three alien soldiers who had died earlier, Su Mo learned the reason why they had become like this.
Did Oreo predict the timing of its return to normalcy?
After closing the metal plate on the observation window, Su Mo, with Moore behind him, asked questions as he walked toward the deck.
More than half an hour earlier, through checking the Game Panel and communicating with Lu Yongyi, Su Mo had already learned that this so-called "Biological Specificity Inhibitor" was a countermeasure developed by the human elite.
Thanks to the effects of this inhibitor, all the humans on the wasteland ocean will be able to slaughter these previously arrogant alien races effortlessly in the coming period!
Undoubtedly, at this stage, this inhibitor has indeed alleviated the crisis facing humanity.
Furthermore, Lu Yongyi's words suggest that the higher-ups in humanity are not unaware of this inhibitor.
They conducted three rounds of experiments with different races to ensure there would be no problems in the short term before putting it into practice.
However, between Oreo's prophecy and the results of human experiments, Su Mo chose to believe the former! "The first feedback, Oreo's prophecy was that, depending on their previous strength, they would receive this feedback in as little as three days and as little as one day."
"The weaker the strength, the shorter the time it takes to receive the feedback; the stronger the strength, the longer it takes for the feedback to arrive. Moreover, after the feedback begins, their strength will recover to its previous peak within a few breaths, and will surge by at least 50% within half a day!"
After saying the first sentence, Moore thought for a moment and then cautiously added:
"After their strength increases dramatically, the effects of the drug will not stop. Instead, seven days after the moment the recovery begins, they will lose all their power overnight, just like now, and become even weaker!"
"The second round of support will take anywhere from two weeks to one week, and similarly, this round of support will also last for one week!"
"After each feeding, their abilities will be enhanced by at least 50%, but as the number of feedings increases, when their bodies are no longer able to support their continued enhancement, they will..."
"Explode?"
Stepping onto the Main Deck, seeing the solemn expression on Moore's face, Su Mo's heart sank, and he asked with a hint of suspicion.
"It won't explode. Once the energy demand from the first wave is met by the current dose of this medicine, it will no longer draw energy like it did the first time. Subsequent doses will help them grow stronger indefinitely."
"But this kind of strengthening also has side effects."
"Each process of becoming stronger is divided into three phases: the period of weakness, the period of replenishment, and the period of strength. If you do not obtain enough energy during the period of weakness to meet the needs of the next period of replenishment, the massive influx of energy will directly impact your consciousness. This is a severe test. If you cannot withstand it, you will become a mindless monster that only knows how to kill and absorb energy. And this kind of monster..."
"Wait, isn't this a zombie?"
Before Moore could finish describing it, upon hearing the characteristics of being unconscious and only knowing how to kill, Su Mo couldn't help but swear.
"Zombies?"
"Alright, continue." Seeing the confusion on Moore's face, and touching the back of his head which felt a little cold, Su Mo was taken aback.
From the perspective of humanity's higher-ups, this wave is like drinking poison to quench thirst.
But if things really develop as Oreo predicted, it would be digging their own grave! Not to mention that each wave of alien races would snowball, getting bigger and bigger, and endlessly getting stronger.
The fact that they become so powerful that they turn into a different kind of "zombie" is enough to send chills down anyone's spine.
And once you think about this monster, it's dozens of times stronger than the one in that Earth movie.
"There's no doubt that once these monsters land on the New Continent, it will be true doomsday!" Seeing the gloom on Su Mo's face, Moore realized the seriousness of the situation and quickly organized his thoughts, continuing, "Master, you don't need to worry too much. After the alien races transform into these monsters again, they won't retain... well, they won't retain the strength they had during the last catastrophe."
"Take Wolf Three for example. If his current strength is 1, even if his strength evolves to 5 through the feedback, when he can no longer withstand the feedback of this power and becomes a monster, his strength will not remain at 5, but will drop to half of what it was before, which is 0.5."
Wolf Three is a Wolf Man currently in the isolation room.
After being nourished by the Psionic Water, Moore's intelligence has been improved significantly, and he can even use complex linguistic techniques like analogy with ease.
"They are no match for Moore now. If they are weakened by half, Moore will be even less afraid of them. Master, you can rest assured!"
"However, these monsters possess a unique ability: any creature bitten by them will undergo a process of weakening and then strengthening, just like the monsters themselves did. If they cannot withstand this process of strengthening, they will become mindless monsters that only know how to kill."
"The current medicine won't infect humans, but if a human is bitten by this monster, they won't escape either. That's the biggest threat that Sister Ao was talking about!"
As expected, they heard that after turning into monsters, they would have the ability to infect others.
Su Mo was not surprised at all. He nodded heavily and asked the most crucial question.
"Did Oreo predict which round of drastic changes will occur among these alien races?"
"Woof woof woof woof!"
"Four?"
Seeing Oreo nod as he lay on the ground, Su Mo felt a sense of solemnity.
Looking at the bigger picture, based on the current process of replenishing the weak and strengthening the weak, the changes in the four cycles, even if they are slow, will not take more than three months.
Even under the most favorable circumstances, it would take humans at least one to two months to sail to the New Continent.
In other words, when humans first arrived in the New Continent and settled down, they had to face this unprecedented shock within a month.
If we consider that there might be one or two more rounds of disasters during this process, oh dear, we're doomed! And looking closer, the outbreak of the Three Races War human races coincides with the crucial juncture when the time for the alien races to provide support is about to begin.
One day later, on the sixth day after the tsunami, these alien races will begin to slowly recover based on their previous strength.
On the last day of the tsunami, the day after the alien forces disappeared, at least half of them will have returned! Moreover, these alien forces will not only not be weaker upon their return, but will actually become stronger to some extent!
At this moment, when humans once again gleefully believe they can slaughter indiscriminately and rush to confront these alien races head-on, they will once again feel the cruelty of the wasteland! Moreover, due to the humans' pursuit today, once this Three Races War begins, the Land Alien Race and the Ocean Alien Race will definitely unite immediately.
At that time, ordinary humans will face attack pressure that is ten times, or even dozens of times, stronger than before.
"Damn, this time humanity has really shot itself in the foot. This so-called inhibitor is absolutely amazing!"
"I wonder which genius invented this thing. It would be great if we could send it to the homeland of the alien races, but putting it in the wasteland is just like a high-level version of Resident Evil!"
Having analyzed the situation that humanity is about to face.
The thought of moving to the New Continent and facing thousands of advanced "zombies" sent chills down Su Mo's spine.
If the previous wasteland difficulty was considered normal level...
After this series of bizarre maneuvers, the difficulty will rise to an unprecedented "hellish" level.
After much thought, Su Mo came up with the only way to restore the game's difficulty.
Use permissions!
By using the God of Food God's authority to create a food that can purify the drug's power, this crisis can be resolved.
The problem is, the scale of this crisis is simply too large!
The number of infected individuals has reached billions of alien races. If we were to give one to each of these alien races, even if the game were an idiot, it would sense that something was wrong.
"Forget it, there's no point in thinking about what will happen three months from now. Whether these survivors can even make it to the New Continent is another matter entirely. What good would it do to tell them anyway?"
"For these people, the biggest problem they face is how to survive the moment when these alien races launch a frenzied counterattack after the outbreak of the Three Races War, and how to hold out until their strength is weakened!"
Having figured out the problem, Su Mo no longer intended to hide anything about the impending catastrophe facing humanity.
It is known that the alien race will begin to recover one day later, depending on their previous strength.
So now go to the World Channel and tell the ordinary survivors: Don't be fooled by how weak these idiots are now, they will all turn back in three days and become even stronger.
Using such rhetoric to make them stop their current "enthusiasm" for indiscriminate killing out of fear and panic is of no use.
Even at this point, the more humans kill, the less resistance they will face once the alien races recover their strength and the three-race war begins.
"Make contact! We must contact humanity's high command immediately and unite to incite humanity to launch a general offensive right now!"
"Within two days, all humans must quickly eliminate the alien races in their own sea areas in order to greatly reduce the resistance during the great war!"
With a slam on the table, having figured out that the only remaining way out was to open the Game Panel, Su Mo directly sent a message to Lu Yongyi without any politeness, requesting the contact information of the human high-ranking officials.
On the other side, Lu Yongyi didn't hesitate at all. In less than two minutes, a friend card with the name Long An Guo and some introduction were pushed to him.
"This is.?"
"China's strongest Official Shelter? The director of the Dragon Flag Shelter?"