Wei Keng's Earthly Days

Chapter 20: Wei Keng's Earthly Days

In this world, life exists in a state of mutual radiation!

When Wei Keng sang, for himself, it was the self-awareness of life integrating at an unprecedented height, forming controllable temporary telepathy, and disabled individuals could regenerate and heal like jellyfish and starfish.

And for this world, it was a powerful emission!

This radiation phenomenon brought about considerable tremors in the ecological field on a large scale.

Fifty kilometers away, a tribe that had been decimated by Wei Keng in a campaign was preparing to rebuild its genetic communication nodes. In the pond, their newly grown life embryos had transparent muscles with few blood vessels, and their skeletons and muscles were not yet clearly distinguished. However, there was no more. They were like dead fetuses whose development had stopped due to sudden cold, and the heart that had just grown in the pond stopped beating. The remnants surrounding the pond fled in panic.

One hundred and fifty kilometers away, life that originally belonged to a tribe seemed to be stimulated to madness and began to bite each other. The node creature of this tribe—a colossus with a wing membrane wingspan of fifty meters—cast moving shadows in the air, its hanging tentacles grabbing ground savage creatures one by one, sucking their blood dry, and after fifty minutes, it stopped the chaos in its territory.

Five hundred kilometers away, on both sides of the natural waters formed by the confluence of two rivers, two aquatic creature tribes had always hunted each other here, but today they suddenly stopped fighting and retreated into the water.

A thousand kilometers away, the giant trees in the Great River Canyon seemed to sense something. Willow-like branches sprouted from their trunks, like streams, hanging from the gullies on the canyon to the rolling Yangtze River. The river water was immediately blocked by these branches, causing the water level to rise by half a meter.

Returning to the center of all these events, it was a bright and sunny morning. At least, that's what Wei Keng thought.

In the early morning, after a night, the branches and leaves of the shrubs were covered with dew.

Wei Keng began his day's work, walking to the shaded area north of the accommodation area, where there was a ditch.

Within a hundred meters of the accommodation area, the Wei Kengs used cups made of rolled leaves to hold water, squatting by the drainage pool to clean their mouths and spit out water.

As for fifty meters downstream from the ditch, one side of the ditch was a steep slope of about seventy degrees. Wei Keng, who had eaten too much meat last night, shot out streaks of gold in the sunlight. Further downstream, the ditch was lined with clusters of fences, where farts were constantly heard.

The Wei Kengs confirmed one thing again: they only ate meat, and it was big and stinky. The smell seemed to have driven away even the small animals around.

In fact, in nature, animals also know the smell of carnivore feces and would never approach the territory of these creatures for no reason.

Several severely wounded Wei Kengs, according to system checks, the bones in their legs were growing on the newly grown limbs from muscle hyperplasia last night. During this process, their leg muscles twitched involuntarily, and a growth pain appeared whenever they carelessly stretched their legs. At the current rate, as long as there was sufficient nutrition, their legs could recover quickly.

Therefore, the primary task in today's plan was to chisel stones and prepare to make stone mills to grind dried bones into powder, so as to quickly supplement the calcium elements needed for limb repair for their wounded.

Today, the exploration team began to explore the outer areas in six directions.

During the exploration, they were inevitably harassed by some creature groups. Mosquitoes landed on the Wei Kengs, sucked a mouthful of blood, and then large bumps appeared on their bodies. However, after a minute or two of itching, the swellings disappeared.

Wei Keng noticed this phenomenon and found it very strange. He then confirmed that this was the life link phenomenon caused by his life radiation, which could equalize damage to a certain extent. What Wei Keng did not notice was that every mosquito that bit Wei Keng died in the grass within a minute! Wei Keng's life radiation phenomenon was no less than nuclear radiation to foreign species.

As Wei Keng recorded the time it took for each of his swellings to disappear on his self-system, the Observer seemed to find an opportunity to interject for the first time, offering advice and persuasion: "In the state of multiple individuals with the same gene, the phenomenon of self-repair has been discovered for the first time in the exploration of this plane."

Wei Keng: "Oh, discovered for the first time? So you still can't provide data service? It's okay, it's not your fault."

The Observer seemed to be choked by this statement.

After a few minutes, the system directly said: "Alternatively, you can apply for a mission and set up a temporary station here. You don't need much time, just three years."

Facing this proposal, none of Wei Keng's communication individuals hesitated, giving a unified answer: "Let's go back first, we'll talk about it when we get back."

Even though they had fought a battle and wiped out the opponent, no Wei Keng would represent their group by saying "they" were not afraid of death and then recklessly provoke anything.

An hour later, in the grass to the east.

A searching Wei Keng shouted with trembling excitement: "Over the mountain peak, over the mountain peak, use a stick to pin the snake's head, then step on its tail, kill it and bury its head, don't let it bite."

Six Wei Keng approached with sticks, carefully controlling the large white-flowered, black-bottomed snake. None of them dared to show off by grabbing the snake's seven inches, relying on the 'group sharing of damage'.

Currently, the Wei Keng were not teammates with each other! Because teammates could be sold.

The Wei Keng exploring the edge of the city ruins saw the railway foundation that had turned into a hedge. The steel rails were still on the ground, but the foundation was squeezed and twisted by huge root systems. The Wei Keng marked this area, planning to extract these steel resources if there was an opportunity in the future.

The Wei Keng also found some good things. For example, some metal items buried in the soil, which they now pulled out and prepared to take back to melt down, replacing their current sabres.

Upon returning to the camp, Wei Keng found that what he lacked most was bricks.

The trees he had cut down to prepare for building houses began to "grow mold" after encountering a day's dew. The fungi on them sprouted upwards section by section, dozens of times faster than bean sprouts.

The system prompted: "In the Pandora Biotic Field, while organisms with simple structures may remain simple, their energy exchange is not singular. Life Radiation can quickly support the energy of each individual."

Wei Keng drew his sabre and cut off a large cluster of fungi from the wood, discovering that much of the wood had already been transformed by mycelium. The outer layer of the original wood had turned into a powder that crumbled at a touch. Cutting the wood open completely, he found that the root system of the fungi had penetrated deep into the wood core.

In response, Wei Keng could only say: "Good heavens, if this were a foot fungal infection, wouldn't it be an incurable disease?" Wei Keng had a deep understanding of athlete's foot, which was itchy and rotten, rotten and itchy.

He reconfirmed with the system about his immunity and the impact of his life radiation on the gene fragments of various organisms, and only then did he confirm that he was indeed in a state of being invincible.

Fungi, he still had to consider how to deal with them.

Wei Keng looked at the various fungi sprouting section by section and his first thought was, "Can these things be eaten?"

System: "The remnant human civilization colonies on this plane rely on this. They collect organic matter from the wild and hand it over to the fungi for processing. However, these fungi are diverse and cannot be eaten directly. They must be screened by species and then pickled twice to eliminate their toxicity."

While Wei Keng was checking where the fungi were most abundant, he suddenly thought through the system's words: "There are other human colonies in this world."

He opened the system's human civilization data.

Humanity had now lost control of the natural world. Water sources, sunlight, and temperature, the best areas, were the foundation of human large-scale agriculture in the past. Large-scale agriculture supported the global human population of billions. The collapse of large-scale agriculture also meant that the existence of large cities lost their material basis.

Wei Keng's current stationed place was a former large city area, with conditions such as convenient transportation and open terrain. Native humans could not compete with the gene colonies in this area and could only station themselves in former Fourth Tier Cities.

Each settlement has a population of no more than 20,000. If it reaches over 50,000, it is considered an Overlord Human Faction within that region.

Wei Keng: "Hmm, hmph?"

In the system's introduction, Wei Keng discovered that the humans in this world played a very wild game!

To deal with the various Giant Beasts and even some highly vital Node Creatures in this world, humanity here had developed the Beast Tamer profession.

This was the symbiosis between creatures and large machinery.

Before the Pandora Field was about to engulf Earth, humanity in this world had also gained a detailed understanding of Life Radiation. The final death throes of human groups in various laboratories were attempts to find Node Creatures and control them using human life information.

Of course, the results were futile. Although some individuals had very strong wills and could indeed influence the life tissues of Node Creatures using Life Radiation within the Pandora Field, replacing the creature's neurons with their own cells, this kind of forceful subjugation resulted in a deformed loser that could not survive independently in nature.

The life scientists at the time were very dissatisfied with this outcome. They believed: "If we had a little more time, more manpower, and more abundant resources, we could have coordinated Overlord-level Node Creatures subordinate to humanity."

Of course, just as everything was about to turn to despair, another group of technicians applied this failed semi-finished technology. They cut off the deformed organs and connected mechanical structures. These deformed creatures still possessed strong Vitality and quickly completed their growth along the organic conduits on their mechanical limbs.

Thus, Beast Tamers gained dominance by coexisting with subspecies collected from Node Creatures, controlling the fused subspecies and mechanical creatures to increase combat power.

For example, the system listed the states of some symbiotic beasts for Wei Keng.

Wei Keng saw the first interface and almost blurted out: "WarGreymon?"

It was a mechanical beast like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with 50% of its body being organic. Its head was covered by a mechanical Helmet, its vital parts like the chest were protected by gleaming metal plates, its arms were embedded with mechanical devices, and its outer shell could open at any time to reveal a machine gun. Its right hand was a pure Steel Shield.

Putting aside everything else, this thing looked very cool, practically a living figurine monster.

Of course, precisely because this thing was too cool, it blocked the plans of past Transmigrators who arrived in this world and wanted to start anew. The High Ministers from Earth who had visited this plane, while cultivating their battle beasts along the established "Beast Tamer" system of this world, were already locked onto this path.

It was precisely Wei Keng, who before this accidental transmigration, before the Observers arrived, had very "simplistically" processed his Information Enthalpy into thousands of himself, that made it possible to stumble onto another path.

Just like history, when a faction develops into a highly advanced and complex entity, and then falls into decline, it loses the ability to adapt to new things. Most Dynasties in China, after their ruling foundation was shaken, despite possessing far more resources than when they first rose to power, had no possibility of a Comeback. This is because the Last Emperor would not willingly shed his Honor Guard, and the Bureaucratic System would not abandon its Hierarchy.

[Humans can be simple, even crude.]

On the camp side, Wei Keng had finished investigating where the mushrooms grew best. Damn it, it was on the Fence next to his Latrine. They grew lush and green, and a sweep of a Stick would release a large amount of Spores.

"Damn it," "Son of a bitch," "Masks," "Set it on fire!" Wei Keng and the others retreated, voicing their opinions without restraint.

Wei Keng: "When defecating, one can be surrounded by Vegetation, but never by Mushrooms."

To solve this problem, A group of Wei Keng volunteered to handle the toilet. First, they lit torches, then used flames to burn these mushrooms to death, and finally scraped them away.

The mushrooms had a roasted smell. Well, since it was in the toilet, the side effect was that the Wei Keng who handled the toilet would not eat mushrooms for a long time.

However, just as the cleaning work was underway, a spark from a torch fell onto the dirt pit. The spark suddenly flared before extinguishing. The Wei Keng from the Excrement Removal Group, who was responsible for the operation, realized something. The manure pit had only been established for two days. This microbial fermentation speed? It was a bit too fast!

A new work project had begun.

Four hours later. Outside the living area, in an open space, inside a temporary shed.

The Wei Keng from the Chemistry Group followed the instructions provided by the system. They filtered with coal, then heated with collected pottery pots, and after a series of operations, finally obtained

dried white crystals. Mixed with a certain proportion of charcoal and ignited, it crackled. It could be confirmed to be nitrate crystals.

The Wei Kengs looked at each other. After their gazes met, they communicated mentally.

A Wei Keng 1: "In three months, we'll be leaving, never to return. The output is uncertain. So, should we do this?"

A Wei Keng 2: "But playing with shit like this is only possible here. It's impossible to do this back in Shenzhou, and impossible in the Main World." The former wouldn't allow themselves to linger around latrines and manure pits, while the latter wouldn't let you produce such dangerous goods.

The Wei Keng had already begun to discover a little bit of joy in this world. They could speak loudly, and no one would mock them. They could freely express their ideas and aesthetics, and no one would dismiss them as unfashionable. They could do what they wanted to do, and no one would call them an idiot.

Ps: While removing excrement, the Wei Keng ignored the possibility of the Observer gagging. Oh, and in the morning when they collectively competed at spitting far, they didn't turn on the shield either.

I don't want to eat mushrooms anymore.