Ransacking the Hydra Base this time could be said to yield massive rewards.
Putting aside those weapons, equipment, over a dozen researchers, and nearly five hundred soldiers for the moment.
The various cross-generational technologies acquired alone amounted to a full several types.
Among them, the most useful was an energy shield technology.
Moreover, those researchers had already disassembled that device from the Hydra Base and installed it on the island.
The size of the protective shield could be adjusted based on the output power.
At this time, the entire Death Island had already been enshrouded within the defensive shield.
According to Baron Strucker's statement, even missiles would not stand a chance of breaching the defense of the shield.
With the incorporation of the Hydra Base, the development on the island also gradually got onto the right track.
Sauron and the other eight also arrived on the island at Xu Mo's bidding.
As the earliest people to follow Xu Mo, under the physical improvement of a large amount of fierce beast meat, all nine of them had now reached the level of a Prospective Martial Warrior, and their punch power had all exceeded 900 kilograms.
Xu Mo intended for them to become official martial warriors and then act as instructors to train these Hydra soldiers on the island.
His vision was very simple.
Out of these soldiers, individuals with relatively good talent would be picked out, and after training, an assassin organization would be established.
They would specialize in hunting down those villainous figures to help him acquire points.
Through this period of exploration, Xu Mo had also gradually figured out the system's definition of villains.
Almost anyone who had done bad things would all be classified into the villains' camp.
In this way, nearly ninety percent of the people could yield points when killed.
The only difference was the amount of points obtained after killing them.
They only needed a period of fierce beast meat to reshape their bodies, and it was estimated that it wouldn't take long for them to become martial warriors.
Advancing to the Warlord Rank was merely a matter of time.
Those remaining soldiers with inferior talent would form special operations squads, dedicated to purging those evil organizations.
Even though it would be difficult for them to reach very high levels, with the improvement from the fierce beast meat, reaching the level of a Junior Martial Warrior was extremely simple.
Merely reaching this level meant their punch power already exceeded 900 kilograms.
They were more than a cut above those so-called king of soldiers in the outside world.
With a few of them joining forces, they could easily annihilate an armed squad of several hundred people.
In a cleared open space on the eastern side of the small island.
Sauron and the nine others sat cross-legged on the ground.
Does everyone understand!
Xu Mo turned his head to look at the nine people sitting in a row.
I must admit, making these muscle-bound fellows completely understand the [Genetic Origin Energy Cultivation Method] actually took him a very long time.
Of course, it was mainly because Westerners like them had a hard time understanding theories of meridians and acupoints like those in traditional Chinese medicine.
Seeing them all nod, Xu Mo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Good, now begin officially practicing according to the method I taught you!
At Xu Mo's command.
The nine of them all concentrated their minds and held their breaths, slowly closing their eyes to enter a state of meditation.
Judging by Xu Mo's estimation, it probably wouldn't be easy for them to perceive cosmic energy in a short time, so he simply sat down cross-legged in place to prepare for some cultivation of his own.
Presently, his martial warrior cultivation had reached the Planetary Level, while his Spirit Reader strength was still stuck at Peak Wargod.
Wanting to advance to a Planetary-Level Spirit Reader similarly required condensing a stellar core once again within his sea of consciousness.
What he needed to do right now was to continuously temper and re-temper his spiritual force.
Spending half an hour, he found a specialized secret art for tempering spiritual force within his mind: the [Spirit Tempering Art].
With the operation of the [Spirit Tempering Art], the spiritual force in Xu Mo's sea of consciousness instantly boiled, and simultaneously a mysterious totem appeared within the sea of consciousness, with wisps of spiritual force continuously passing through the totem around it.
Every time the spiritual force passed through the totem, it would become a bit more refined.
However, this seemed to be a lengthy process.
After passing several hours, the refined spiritual force was still less than one percent of the total amount.
Yet Xu Mo was not in a hurry either; at this speed, completely refining his spiritual force would only take a month or two.
This continued until the early morning of the next day.
Among the nine people sitting in a row outside, changes gradually appeared.
A short-haired woman in her thirties sitting at the edge experienced a shock in her expression.
Xu Mo, who was at the front intensely tempering his spiritual force, seemed to sense something as well and slowly opened his eyes.
In his field of vision, wisps of cosmic energy were gradually converging toward the short-haired woman's body, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
Vanessa?
He never expected that the first of the nine to perceive cosmic energy would be one of the only two females.
Still, there was nothing strange about this.
Cultivation talent and the speed of perceiving energy had no inevitable connection; the amount of energy one could absorb each day was what mattered most.
It seemed Vanessa's start triggered a chain reaction.
In the next half hour, four more people successively perceived cosmic energy and began their first absorption of cosmic energy to improve their physical fitness.
Until an hour later, everyone had already begun absorbing cosmic energy.
Regarding this, Xu Mo was not surprised.
These people were all mercenaries previously, practically crawling their way out of piles of dead bodies.
Their perceptual abilities were much stronger than those of ordinary people.
At this moment, Vanessa, who started the earliest, also gradually completed her first absorption of cosmic energy and slowly opened her eyes.
Having opened her eyes, Vanessa abruptly stood up from the ground.
Looking at the other's excited expression.
Xu Mo gestured with a silencing motion, then pointed in the direction of the river, signaling for her to go wash the grime off her body first.
Vanessa only then reacted, realizing her body was already covered in a layer of black impurities.
Immediately, she hurriedly dashed toward the river.
Soon, people woke up one after another and headed to the riverside.
Finally, only Sauron was left in the field, continuously absorbing cosmic energy.
He was the second to start absorbing energy; calculated this way, his duration of absorbing energy was longer than anyone else's.
This also meant that Sauron's talent in strength was the highest existence among these people.
It was not until another half an hour later that Sauron finally woke up.
"Boss!"
Once Sauron woke up, he greeted him and stood in place waiting for Xu Mo's instructions.
Xu Mo reached out and patted his shoulder.
"Not bad, go wash up first, and then gather here again!"
An hour later.
Everyone had finished washing up and was standing on the grounds once more.
Right now, two instruments had appeared on the grounds.
A force-testing machine and a speed-testing machine.
Both were items Xu Mo had just redeemed from the system; their technological content was not too high, costing Xu Mo a total of two hundred points.
Following Xu Mo's instructions, they began stepping up to test in the order they had awakened.
Vanessa, who had been eager to try for a long time, was the first to step forward.
Clenching her fist, she struck fiercely against the punching target.
With a bang, a sound rang out.
Under the force, the punching target slid more than two meters backward.
Looking toward the display screen on the side.
1520kg!
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