Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

"Sneeze!" Zhuang Xuteng's head shook violently. He took out a tissue to blow his nose and put it into a small paper bag next to him. The bitterly cold Peihe water not only killed a group of mice, but also gave him a cold. He has never been sick since he was possessed by the Lich Master, especially after practicing the dormant martial arts. This time it was a serious disaster.

"I want hot water, I want tea. Not instant, give me real tea." Zhuang Xuteng lowered his eyelids and said to the pretty flight attendant. At this time, he was on the train returning to Peicheng, constantly moving away from danger and constantly approaching the safety in his heart.

"Sir, do you need any medicine to relieve your symptoms?" The pretty flight attendant smiled and added maroon hot tea to his kettle while promoting a certain "universal soothing agent" that was suspected to be added with safety blue. According to the young lady, this soothing agent has no side effects and no actual effect. It cannot replace drug treatment, but it can relieve the symptoms of physical discomfort, let people get rid of the mental pressure caused by the disease, and make the overall feeling comfortable.

"No need, physical and mental pain is a kind of training, but also a kind of entertainment." Zhuang Xuteng quickly waved his hand. What really bothered him now was not the cold, but the almost endless advertisements for safety blue products. He didn't feel like being surrounded and bombarded by advertisements in Peicheng, but this trip to Gaofeng City allowed him to experience it.

"Just let me be quiet for a while... sneeze!" Zhuang Xuteng rubbed his brows, wrapped himself in a blanket, and continued to swallow hot water. He has already taken medicine, and now he mainly has to wait for his body to adjust and recover. Dormant martial arts can only deflect damage, but cannot eliminate it. He doesn't have any mice or protein worms at hand. Who can he turn to to deflect damage? Should he turn to the flight attendant in front of him?

Um? If you think about it carefully, it is theoretically possible to transfer harm to others. Humans are also a type of living thing. Although they are much more complex than mice, the difference is not necessarily huge when it comes to dormant martial arts. Especially after Zhuang Xuteng opened the Wraith Jelly, the necromancy spell was equivalent to extending his body, and he could already "touch" other people, which met the most basic requirement for dormant martial arts to transfer damage.

Wherever the necromancy reaches, any creature has the opportunity to become his guinea pig.

It's just...it doesn't seem right to do this...

The mice are purchased from specialized breeding factories and are originally supplied to various testing institutions for drug or other testing. This is just like breeding protein worms to obtain nutrients, and planting food or cash crops to obtain harvests. Zhuang Xuteng had no psychological burden about letting the mice suffer harm or even die on his behalf. The simple reason was that he spent money, and the money was used to pay for the cultivation of mice specially sent to death.

But it's another thing to put the people around him through harm. He didn't pay for it, and those people weren't born to provide him with medical support. But if you think about it carefully, the mice do not have the right to make their own decisions. They have not agreed in any way to contribute their lives to human medicine and Zhuang Xuteng's dormant martial arts. Hmm... If we focus on raising the awareness of rights in animal protection and target the dormant martial arts on ordinary people while also infringing on the "right to independent consent", we just make one more mistake: not paying them.

"A guinea pig only costs a few cents. You shouldn't care about this small amount of money, right?" Zhuang Xuteng discovered that as long as the power status of non-human beings is increased, the meaning of human beings can be reduced. This is really useful. He looked around and found a new reason: "In case there are bad people causing trouble, I can only protect them if I return to a better state."

Therefore, Zhuang Xuteng used the Wraith Spirit Jelly to activate his dormant martial arts, treating everyone around him as guinea pigs to share the damage from the cold. Through experiments, he discovered two things: the transmission efficiency of Wraith Jelly is very low, far less efficient than placing small animals close to one's body; humans have a sense of self-defense and instinctively reject external harm, unlike mice or protein worms. No objection - unless the person uses safety blue.

It is easy to tell whether safety blue is used or not: those who sleep comfortably and have bubbling noses usually use safety blue; those whose eyes turn slightly upward and whose little finger trembles rapidly involuntarily probably use safety blue. In addition, the stewardess was selling products from seat to seat just now. Who bought and who didn't buy. Zhuang Xuteng has always been alert and can correspond to each one with a little recall, so he will basically not admit his mistakes in this matter.

There are a total of thirty-six passengers in the first-class carriage, seventeen of whom are almost completely immune to the damage caused by the dormant martial arts, and these seventeen people are all intoxicated by the comfort and relaxation brought by the safety blue. They had no awareness of danger, didn't care about the damage caused by dormant martial arts, and had no feelings about what Zhuang Xuteng did.

When a cold caused by cold water is shared by seventeen people - eighteen including Zhuang Xuteng himself - the symptoms of each person can be ignored. Zhuang Xuteng's condition improved quickly, and he had to stop transferring injuries quickly to prevent symptoms such as sneezing and runny nose from disappearing immediately and arousing others' suspicion. "The human body's endurance is too strong. After all, it's much bigger than a white mouse."

Zhuang Xuteng blew his nose, adjusted himself to a more comfortable lying position, and began to think about the meaning behind this matter. Master Lich has long said that although necromancy does not heal, it can restore oneself by hurting others. The underlying principle is exactly the same as dormant martial arts. In order to prove that necromancy is more advanced than dormant martial arts, it also introduced a damage-absorbing creation that is very popular among necromancers: the flesh puppet. It was a living corpse pieced together with pieces of flesh, blood and newly removed organs. It remained active under the power of spells and could undertake simple tasks such as lifting and cleaning. When it follows the necromancer, the necromancer can use the connection of necromancy to transfer its own damage to the flesh golem to protect itself. The flesh puppet can slowly recover from the damage it suffered under the influence of mana so that it can bear the damage again next time.

Both the guinea pig and the flesh golem have their advantages, one is more stealthy and portable, the other is more durable - if the Lich Master's "advertising" can be believed at all - but that's not the point. Zhuang Xuteng couldn't make a flesh puppet anyway, so there was no need to compare the white mice with the flesh puppets. The key point is: why do these people who use safety blue appear to be the same as the white mice when receiving damage from dormant martial arts - or rather Flesh puppet—what about a similar state?

There are two ways to answer this question. One is more academic, which focuses on the similarities between dormant martial arts and necromancy, and how safety blue affects the human body, thereby improving the efficiency of dormant martial arts. This direction requires a lot of experiments and profound research skills, especially proficiency in necromancy, dormant martial arts, and modern medicine, medicine, and chemistry. Zhuang Xuteng couldn't think of anyone in the world who had the above abilities at the same time, so research in this direction was destined to be fruitless.

The other direction is application, which only needs to answer one question: how to use this feature to increase your own advantages. With the promotion of Safety Blue, the number of users will inevitably expand, and these people may become the bearers of dormant martial arts. Especially for gang members, it was very common for them to use blue savage in the past, but now they have all switched to safety blue, which is equivalent to a potential injury-bearing flesh and blood puppet.

"On the one hand, we need to practice the synergy between dormant martial arts and Wraith Jelly; on the other hand, we have to find a way to quickly find the user of Safety Blue. The most efficient use of dormant martial arts is to direct all damage to one target, which is better than Spreading the damage is easier to operate. Suppose I want to transfer the damage to the enemy, locking one and giving them all, it is obviously a more tactical approach."

After using Safety Blue in their leisure time, most people will feel relaxed and happy, and many people will lie down completely, immersed in the enjoyment brought by the drug. This is why Safety Blue users are easily identified among train passengers. However, this state is not absolute. The "symptoms" can be completely avoided. The user can still do what he was doing normally. The feeling caused by the drug only exists in his brain, and it is difficult to see it from the outside. .

This is especially true in battles and conflicts. According to Brother Dao, some mercenaries believe that Safety Blue can be used as a stimulant to enhance muscle strength and increase reaction speed. This is completely consistent with the appearance of "relaxation and pleasure". on the contrary. If you can't tell from the appearance, Zhuang Xuteng can certainly try them one by one to see who can absorb the damage better. It's just that this isn't good enough. It's better to find a way to let him find the target in advance, so that he can plan his tactics.

Taking advantage of the fact that there were all kinds of people in the carriage, Zhuang Xuteng began to "look for differences." He opened the Wraith Jelly and fully mobilized his various senses, especially the sense of smell, to compare the differences between safe blue users and non-users. After trying for a long time, he regretfully admitted that although his olfactory sensitivity was higher than that of ordinary people, it was far inferior to that of a dog, and he was unable to accomplish this goal. In terms of hearing, Zhuang Xuteng tried his best, but he could only hear that someone had a pacemaker, and there was no other useful information at all.

He sighed, but he wasn't angry. If there was nothing he could do, there was nothing he could do. Anyway, he could still try one by one. Knowing that dormant martial arts can harm others is already a surprising bonus, not a loss at all. And this time I went to Summit City, got what the Lich Master wanted and escaped unscathed, this is also worth celebrating.

What the Lich Master wanted had been brought into the Stone Pillar Hall and handed over to him personally. They were a pair of pendants, exuding the same aura as the remains. Eh? Eh! Can the bone retrieval technique be used?

The bone search technique uses a part of the remains as a reference object. After casting the spell, it searches for things with the same characteristics within a hemisphere of 180 degrees and a radius of 30 meters in front of it. Like the Eye of Shadow, if you focus on a relatively narrow direction, the observation distance can be extended, up to the limit of Zhuang Xuteng's mana, which is about two hundred meters.

This spell is mainly to solve the problem that the Lich Master cannot search for his own remains through Zhuang Xuteng. It now despises Zhuang Xuteng all day long, saying that his magic power is low. If it were him, he could search a hemisphere with a radius of ten kilometers. Regarding this, Zhuang Xuteng complained many times in his heart: How shameless is a guy whose lifespan is unknown compared with a thirty-year-old human being like himself?

Now is not the time to discuss thick skin! Zhuang Xuteng quickly retracted his thoughts and began to think about how to modify the bone-seeking technique and use it to search for safety blue.

"Let's start with the simplest part: use safety blue as a reference. Safety blue... I don't have safety blue at hand." Zhuang Xuteng couldn't handle this problem. He used the button on the chair handle to call the flight attendant, pretending that he was still If you are suffering from a cold, buy safe blue products from her.

"The purest one. I'm not a guinea pig. I don't want to try them one by one. Just give me the best one!"

Zhuang Xuteng quickly got the "best", which was a sealed paper package containing safety blue effervescent tablets. According to the introduction of the flight attendant, this effervescent tablet is the best product on the train, both in terms of total dosage and content ratio.

Using it as a reference to cast the bone search spell, the spell quickly failed: due to insufficient purity, the bone search spell could not lock on to the reference object. Zhuang Xuteng was not discouraged, but used all his understanding of shadow servants and necromancy to slowly dismantle the bone-seeking technique. He has already started this work before, and now he wants to continue it.

Spell theory and spell practice will not always coincide, otherwise all spell theorists would be spell masters. Through constant trial and error, Zhuang Xuteng slowly discovered the hidden rules of the bone-seeking technique: it is easier to find energy than to find physical objects, it is easier to find pure objects than to find complex compounds, it is feasible to find light and small objects, but it is difficult to find heavy and huge objects with spells. Take effect.

This is the theory of spells, but at the practical level, the caster's personal mana strength and experience in controlling spells can make the spell effects move in the direction of "more physical, more complex, and heavier", and the search range will also be larger. Zhuang Xuteng finally decided that if he wanted to search for safety blue, he would either increase his mana level or use purer safety blue materials.

Both are possible - just not now, not on the train.

"We've arrived at Peicheng Station. There are passengers who will get off at Peicheng, please..."

Zhuang Xuteng put the blanket aside - it belonged to the train and he would not take it along. He stretched hard and threw away the paper blocking his nostrils, which indicated that the cold was cured and he was a lively and heroic man again. Several people in the same car began to sneeze and cough, some looked flushed, and some felt dizzy as they touched their foreheads. These were all poor people who had been injured by Zhuang Xuteng. Their symptoms are milder than Zhuang Xuteng's. It is estimated that they will be fine after drinking some hot water and resting for a night. But after these people looked at each other, they all felt that there was something wrong with the safe blue drink they used, causing them to have side effects.

Zhuang Xuteng was completely uninterested in how these people argued with the train operator. He just hoped that these people could remember this, especially the side effects of safety blue, and use it less or no longer in the future. And he must leave quickly before those people suspect that they were infected by him. Anyone who can cling to the station can also cling to him. If you can't afford to offend him, hide immediately!

Go back home, feed the meat buns, and clean up. Fortunately, snow leopards have the characteristic of not needing to eat for several days after a full meal. Otherwise, an owner like him who disappears for a few days from time to time would have starved the snow leopard. Now that I'm back, let's report it to Lucy. Brother Dao and the two sisters can't be left behind. Looking at the information on the phone, my parents were having a good time and Zhuang Feifei was fine, which was good. As for Morgana, she sent two words, "Miss you," that had it all.

Zhuang Xuteng quickly replied: I'm back and I want to do it too. Shall I pick you up?

After more than ten minutes, Morgana finally saw this message and replied: Are you at home? I come over.

By calculation, it takes Morgana fifteen minutes to get here from home. If you use martial arts and turn on high-pressure mode, it only takes three minutes to take a bath...