I'm In Heaven, I Just Want To Work Overtime

Chapter 83: The Way of Technology

"This is a world of technology, or at least it used to be..." Xia Yi looked at the familiar skyscrapers in front of him, feeling shocked.

After cultivating for three to five thousand years, his memories of his past life had become somewhat blurry.

The seemingly unreal scene before him touched certain memories deep within his soul.

"Roar..."

In the distance, several zombies were walking out of a supermarket, emitting inexplicable roars. Their eyes had a blood-red glow, incredibly eerie.

To his surprise, these blood-eyed zombies were extremely fast and agile. They were about to kill him in just a few flashes.

Moreover, one of them seemed to possess a special ability, shooting out more than ten ice spikes as thick as a child's arm, flying towards him like bullets.

"Interesting!"

Xia Yi chuckled lightly and pointed with one hand, instantly capturing the zombie with the special ability.

Then, with a thought, he dismembered the zombie, separating its bones, flesh, blood, and even its soul, displaying them in mid-air in an organized manner.

"The blood essence is quite vigorous, reminiscent of the Witch Clan..."

Xia Yi was somewhat surprised.

As he possessed the incarnation of the Witch Clan, he was quite familiar with the bloodline of the Witch Clan.

As for the soul, it was filled with a strong aura of malevolence, devoid of any consciousness, leaving only the instinct to kill.

Deep within the head, there was a crystal-like substance similar to a diamond, the size of a thumb, containing a special cold aura.

It was thanks to this crystal that the zombie was able to shoot out ice spikes.

Just as Xia Yi was continuing his research...

In a nearby residential area, five or six young people suddenly appeared, both male and female, surrounding him.

"Surrender the D-grade energy stone in your hand, and our Dawn Squad will let you go!"

The leader, a young man with yellow hair, snapped his fingers, and several throwing knives appeared in mid-air, seemingly ready to shoot out at any moment.

"Our captain is a psychic, surrender the energy stone, and we promise not to trouble you!" A girl in jeans beside him said.

"It seems like someone is offering a pillow when I'm feeling sleepy!" Xia Yi smiled.

Just as the short-haired young man was about to curse, he suddenly saw Xia Yi's hollow eyes and felt as if his soul was about to be swallowed. He felt like he was being dragged into an endless black hole, unable to escape.

After an unknown amount of time, perhaps a second, perhaps ten years, a hundred years...

The short-haired young man finally regained his senses, sitting on the ground, gasping for breath. The throwing knives had already fallen to the ground.

"Jiang Ge, what happened to you?" The girl in jeans hurriedly went forward to support him.

"Let's go!"

The crew-cut youth uttered a word in fear, then turned and ran towards the distance without looking back, as if he had encountered something indescribable.

The denim-clad girl and the other teammates exchanged glances and also fled.

Xia Yi did not chase after them. Through the memories of the crew-cut youth, he learned that this world was originally a technologically advanced world.

Humanity had reached a level 1.5 civilization and established a federal government.

The total population reached a staggering 30 billion.

But one day, a terrifying virus broke out globally, and 90% of humanity turned into zombies.

Only a small fraction of humanity survived.

These zombies initially moved slowly, and ordinary people could deal with two or three of them with a stick.

Under the massacre of the military's heavy weapons, humanity quickly gained a foothold and gradually reclaimed lost territory.

Just as humanity was about to rebuild civilization, those zombies began to evolve!

Not only did their physical abilities greatly enhance, but they also awakened various abilities!

The hot weapons that humanity had always been proud of only worked against some low-level zombies.

The powerful elite zombies were completely unaffected by bullets and artillery fire.

Bullets hitting them did not cause much harm at all! Missiles were easily avoided by the zombies with quick reflexes and speed.

Just as humanity was on the brink of life and death, some adventurers discovered crystals inside the heads of elite zombies. They tried to integrate them into their bodies, but they all ended up becoming mindless zombies with only the instinct to kill.

After countless trials and errors, humanity finally mastered the way to absorb the energy stones and gave birth to ability users.

Ability users possessed various special abilities, including common elemental abilities, combat abilities, and rarer spatial abilities, and so on.

However, compared to billions of zombies and endless mutated animals, humans were still too weak and could only huddle in a corner.

"This doesn't seem to be a virus..." Xia Yi frowned, preparing to go directly to the largest human base, Tianhua Base, to find the truth of the matter.

Through the memories of the crew-cut youth, he flew all the way and soon arrived at a huge base.

The population was about tens of millions, with countless fighter jets hovering in the sky, and many ability users patrolling.

Xia Yi went straight to the Lord's Mansion.

"Who are you? How dare you trespass into the Lord's Mansion?" Zhong Ming exclaimed. As an S-level ability user, he was powerful, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to be the lord of this city with a population of tens of millions.

But he couldn't see through the young man in front of him.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

More than ten ability users appeared in the Lord's Mansion, surrounding Xia Yi.

Looking at the appearance of more than ten A-level ability users, Zhong Ming breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Which base are you from? Are you here suddenly to provoke conflicts between the major base countries?"

Xia Yi didn't say much, but instead sniffed and suddenly said, "Found it!"

With a point of his empty hand, the ground suddenly cracked open, revealing the laboratory inside.

"You can't enter! You will destroy all of human civilization!"

Zhong Ming's face showed a terrified expression. He gritted his teeth, prepared to unleash his full potential, even if it meant perishing together with Xia Yi!

But the other party just glanced at him, and he became completely stiff, unable to move at all.

The underground laboratory was very large, with hundreds of sealed doorways.

It was evident how much humans in this world feared what lay deep within the laboratory.

Soon, Xia Yi arrived at the deepest part of the laboratory.

It was a spacious area with a radius of one kilometer.

In the center, there was a floating severed hand emitting a strange blood-red light.

In Xia Yi's mind, countless tortured souls instantly appeared, along with boundless killing intent surging into his heart, as if it wanted to devour his consciousness.

Even an ordinary person would have likely gone insane in this place long ago.

But with a single thought, Xia Yi severed all of these negative influences.

"It's actually the arm of a great witch..."

Xia Yi was somewhat surprised.

The owner of this severed hand seemed to have perished countless ages ago. Under the erosion of time, its power had diminished by more than ninety-nine percent.

Otherwise, with the abilities of a great witch, this world would have long since shattered.

"Could it be from the Witch-Yao War?"

A speculation arose in Xia Yi's mind.

During the Witch-Yao War, even the primordial chaos was shattered. Countless primordial beings were scattered into the Extreme Void Starry Sky, and even the Myriad Worlds.

After this severed hand accidentally fell into this world, it was studied by humans.

The rulers at the time had intended to use it to research an elixir of immortality, but ultimately failed.

The terrifying aura contained in the blood of the great witch eventually evolved into a horrifying virus, infecting all living beings in this world.

Because the witch clan itself had the ability to control wind, rain, thunder, and the elements of earth, wind, water, and fire.

So a small part of the living beings in this world awakened special abilities and could manipulate some elements.

Xia Yi returned to the surface with the severed hand of the great witch.

By now, Zhong Ming had already regained control of his body and knelt on the ground, saying, "Please, immortal, save our world!"

He was a psychic with powerful mental abilities.

With just a flick of Xia Yi's finger earlier, the laboratory door, which was three meters thick, collapsed with a loud crash.

That door was made of the most advanced alloy by humans!

Even the most powerful sniper rifle would not leave a mark on it.

Unexpectedly, in front of this existence, it was as fragile as tofu, unable to withstand a single blow!

Wasn't this the legendary immortal?

After thinking for a moment, Xia Yi said, "I am indeed an immortal, and as for saving your world, it is not impossible!"

Zhong Ming was overjoyed and said, "As long as the immortal is willing to save us from fire and water, our billions of human races will offer sacrifices to the immortal until the end of civilization!"

"Sacrifices... perhaps it would be useful to sever the Buddhist Gate incarnation..."

Xia Yi nodded. The Buddhist path emphasized the power of vows and the forging of a golden body, transcending the Immortal Dao and being untainted by the mortal world. These were two different cultivation paths.

But what was truly worth Xia Yi's intervention was not the power of the billions of living beings' vows, but the technology of this world!

The path of technology seemed to be one of the three thousand Great Dao.

When developed to the extreme, it could possess unimaginable abilities.

If they were to research some kind of superluminal spaceship capable of time and space travel...

Xia Yi might be able to freely traverse the Myriad Worlds.

He was extremely envious of that primordial world that was being opened up.

Moreover, that was a Great World, not comparable to the small primordial worlds. Even if Innate Spirit Treasures were placed there, they would at most be downgraded by one or two levels, not too many.

"In that case, I will bestow upon you some cultivation techniques!"

With a wave of his hand, Xia Yi caused a pile of books to appear on the ground.

The spiritual energy in this world was extremely thin, so there was no future in cultivating immortality.

He provided them with some cultivation methods of the witch clan, which could greatly enhance their "special abilities."

The manipulation of elements by the ability users in this world still seemed too crude, unable to unleash even one-tenth of their power.

"Thank you, immortal!"

Zhong Ming was overjoyed and carefully collected these cultivation techniques.

As usual, Xia Yi severed an incarnation and merged with the original consciousness of this world.

With the assistance of some witch clan cultivation techniques, the strength of the human survivors in the zombie world rapidly increased. Some ability users even broke through to the SSS level, possessing immense power with every move, akin to human-shaped nuclear bombs.

After thirty years of arduous battles, humanity finally achieved victory, driving the zombie creatures to the edge of the world, barely clinging to life.

Unexpectedly, after the victory, humanity did not develop technology but instead focused on fully developing their special abilities, aiming to follow the path of martial cultivation.

A world of martial cultivation had no use for Xia Yi.

So, through his subtle influence, the abilities of the ability users gradually disappeared after one or two generations.

A hundred years later, there was no longer a living being in the world with special abilities.

Technology once again became the mainstream of development.

(End of this chapter)