Weapons made from bio-energy and steel, combined with bio-skeletons?
Zhang Chen suddenly thought of the [Automatic Sentry Turret].
This item required energy crystals as its power source.
It was clearly not a product of the same era as equipment powered by electricity, such as armed mechs.
Perhaps the [Automatic Sentry Turret] was a basic weapon made by the progressive faction?!
Zhang Chen turned to the next page.
Year Three of the New Era.
The progressive faction achieved significant breakthroughs in bio-energy technology.
Bionic aircraft, bionic combat suits, automatic defense puppets, and so on.
Although the survivors' strength did not increase, through these technological products, humanity could now resist external invasions.
In May, the survivors conquered Pingze City, an interface city of the Tengxiang Kingdom!
This marked a major turning point for humanity, shifting from being passively beaten to being able to contend with the new ecosystem!
In August, the unresigned gene scientists announced that they had found a way to communicate with some mutated beasts and had successfully tamed three mutated beasts as pets.
Seeing this business opportunity, merchant merchants made mutated beast pets instantly popular worldwide (although... the human world is a bit small now...!).
People's attitudes towards gene scientists changed slightly.
Year Four of the New Era.
During the New Year period, Mo Pai, the chief scientist of gene biology, was exposed for keeping humanoid mutated beasts and engaging in unspeakable acts with them.
After the news broke, many mutated beasts were abandoned and brutally killed.
Three days later, Mo Pai's body was found at his home, along with a suicide note in which he confessed his crimes.
Gene biologists were henceforth branded as violating ethics and morals.
Countless survivors stormed the gene biologists' homes to blockade and curse them.
Shops also put up signs stating that gene biologists and mutated beasts were not allowed entry, and posted photos of gene biologists at the entrance.
Within months, more than a dozen well-known gene biologists committed suicide.
A few gene biologists were expelled from the cities.
From then on, humanity firmly embraced the school of bio-energy science.
Year Five of the New Era.
An unprecedented insect swarm destroyed the reclaimed land that humanity had painstakingly recovered.
According to the generals who retreated, they also saw terrifying behemoths never seen before.
These creatures easily destroyed the defensive fortifications that humanity was proud of...
The only good news this year was that small numbers of survivors still existed in various parts of the world!
It was truly hard to imagine how they had survived in such harsh environments.
Perhaps this was humanity's resilience!
According to unconfirmed rumors, the progressive faction discovered that the bio-energy within meteorites contained a powerful force.
For this reason, they were researching it day and night.
It was said that this power could reverse humanity's predicament in the new environment.
The theme of the last issue of "The Prophet" in December was: Research has achieved breakthrough progress, and the dawn of humanity is coming!
Year Six of the New Era.
Early April.
The city I was in was destroyed, and I couldn't catch the evacuation convoy in time.
I saw a huge shadow looming over the city walls...
What a terrifying existence that was...
Could it be that... there was no place for humans to stay in this world?
The survivors around were crying out in despair and fleeing.
But I knew very well that doing so was meaningless.
It was just a matter of dying a few minutes earlier or later.
Perhaps... the history of the New Era would end here. Good luck to the surviving humans!
......
The record ended abruptly here.
There were still seven or eight blank pages after that.
Perhaps this history recorder was very optimistic, believing that humanity would at least survive the first decade.
Who knew that they would suffer a devastating blow in just the sixth year?
As for whether the remaining humans were still alive, it was unknown...
Even if there were, they would certainly be living within the high walls of the Tengxiang Kingdom.
Xv Ruina was likely in the third city of the Tengxiang Kingdom now, as Raven's bio-energy technology laboratory was set up there.
Now... all clues pointed to the Tengxiang Kingdom.
Zhang Chen drew a large circle on the map at the location of the Tengxiang Kingdom.
The night passed without incident.
The next day, Zhang Chen got up, washed up, and prepared to go out.
He happened to meet Zheng Hao, Zhao Longchuan, and others.
They had all appeared at the entrance of the villa.
Or rather... it looked like they had been waiting at the entrance for quite some time.
They just didn't dare to knock, fearing they would disturb Zhang Chen's rest.
Zhang Chen, are you going out?
Zhao Longchuan asked with surprise.
Yes... I have some things to take care of. I must finish them before the next suppression is lifted!
The longer this matter is delayed, the harder it will be to handle!
Zhang Chen replied.
But... it's outside now...
Zhao Longchuan originally wanted to say that the outside world had undergone earth-shattering changes and that it was dangerous to go out alone.
But the scene of Zhang Chen instantly killing the insect horde and kicking the drill worm larvae yesterday suddenly flashed in his mind, and the latter half of the sentence was hard-swallowed back.
I know you're worried about the insect tide invasion... How about this, I'll give you 50 [Automatic Sentry Turrets]. They should solve quite a few problems!
When the team members' strength improves later, they won't care about these small bugs anymore!
Zhang Chen said with a smile.
He discovered that after a night, his energy crystals had increased to over 5.3 million.
What was most surprising was that the [Energy Gathering Crystals] had also increased to 321.
The probability of ordinary mutated insects dropping [Energy Gathering Crystals] was extremely low.
However, with such a large number of them, the number of dropped crystals naturally increased.
The extra crystals obtained overnight were enough for a regular high-level awakened individual to advance one level!
So satisfying!
[Automatic Sentry Turret]? Great, that's wonderful!
Zhao Longchuan said with bright eyes.
Then, a look of difficulty appeared on his face, and he said:
But... all the energy crystals have been used to upgrade the team members, and there are not many remaining...
And with your level, you probably wouldn't care about [Energy Crystals]...
Zhang Chen smiled slightly and patted Zhao Longchuan's shoulder, saying:
We've had quite a few transactions before, so we're old customers. I can help you out. If you have steel, I can make them for you!
Steel? Yes, yes, yes! We have plenty of that!
Zhao Longchuan's eyes lit up when he heard Zhang Chen's words.
After his last transaction with Zhang Chen, he had scoured several more steel mills and obtained over 500 tons of steel.
He originally thought he would get some powerful blueprints that would consume a lot of steel.
But in the end, making weapons only used a few kilograms of steel. The 500 tons were completely unused.
Keeping it took up space, and now it was perfect. He could give it to Zhang Chen, and it was neither a loss nor a gain!