Chapter 432: Chapter 370: Incendiary Bomb
Although most of the accumulated damaged power cores are low tier, keeping them in the residence always makes Li Zheng feel uneasy.
It’s like having OCD; since there’s an opportunity and a means to repair them, why not just fix them!
Fetching out the Radium Light Repair Device, Li Zheng started to get busy. After inserting a piece of radium element, the device was finally activated for the first time. A fine line was emitted from a nano-level needle, which was almost invisible to the naked eye.
"Interesting, if it were the radium element known to Earthlings, just the time I spent fiddling with it would have probably polluted my body with radiation." Li Zheng thought about it, then brought all the damaged power cores and repaired them one by one.
This repair process is quite interesting. The damaged active core looks like a slightly larger transparent glass ball, with a few cobweb-like cracks on its surface.
Place it on a clamp, control the little platform to move under the radium light beam, where the beam reached, those "cobwebs" rapidly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving no trace whatsoever, smooth as new.
Once all damages are repaired, the surface of the power core flickers with a faint light, becoming a perfectly intact powerless active core.
The most amazing part is that Li Zheng noticed that when the empty active core is placed on the repair device, it can actually be slowly recharged through the radium light ray!
In just five minutes, a Black Iron Level power core restored its full energy!
Just like brand new!
"Oh~ amazing!"
Li Zheng’s eyes brightened. Seeing it this way, as long as he possesses enough radium elements, he could even achieve recycling of power cores!
It’s worth noting he has already accumulated countless empty Black Iron Level active cores, all piled up in the corner of his residence, just waiting for the day to find a way to recharge them and reuse them.
"Unfortunately, the energy consumption on radium elements is too great; just to fully charge one Black Iron Level, this piece of radium element shrunk by a tenth, which is too low in cost performance." Li Zheng checked the radium element, frowning slightly.
Radium element is a Gold Level material, yet just to repair and recharge a Black Iron Level active core, it already consumed a tenth. At this consumption rate, even Li Zheng finds it a bit hard to bear.
He speculates there might be specialized instruments for recharging active cores, and the repair device’s functionality for this might only be for emergency use.
"Unless absolutely necessary, it’d be better not to use the repair device for recharging, this is pure luxury play, not affordable for the average person."
Another half hour was used, all damaged active cores accumulated have been fully repaired, and a whole piece of radium element was successfully consumed.
The higher the tier of the repaired active core, the slower the speed, and the greater the consumption. Li Zheng had several Silver Level damaged active cores, just repairing these used up half a piece of radium element.
"I always feel there’s some other function for the repair device apart from repairing damaged active cores. I don’t have time to study it today; I’ll get to it later."
With satisfaction, he put the repair device back in its place and started contacting members of the challenge activity team.
Zhan Zhouzhou and the others have saved three to four exploration chances, today they can at least challenge three activities, and if lucky, they can take down three more mutants.
Everyone happened to be free at this moment, Li Zheng summoned Little Sakura, took out the activity tickets, and teleported into the mutant’s room.
Upon entering the activity instance room, warning bells rang fiercely in Li Zheng’s heart, he shouted loudly: "Retreat!"
Everyone responded, employing their methods to frantically retreat backward.
The next moment, from the center where everyone stood, several thin and long roots broke through the ground, twisting and striking around with great flexibility.
Pa! Pa!
Fragments flew as the hard ground was shattered by the roots; if they hadn’t dodged just now, they certainly would have suffered a significant loss.
[Asano Yuji was once a fervent plant enthusiast, traveling everywhere to protect endangered plant species.
One day, he came to Fudao County to observe some unique local plants, and his life’s path changed thereafter.
Beware, all his body parts can be used for attack!
Rest assured, his inability to move freely might be the only good news.]
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
Before everyone could stabilize, an almost inaudible sound of something breaking through the air emerged, as if something very tiny was shooting towards everyone.
"Hah!"
The Demon Thunder Wings spread out, immediately turning on third gear acceleration, in a flash standing at the forefront of everyone, lightly tapping the waist.
Buzz!
An invisible force field suddenly popped out, surrounding Li Zheng, as if enclosing him within a shell.
Puff puff puff~
Dense black dots hit the force field, causing a brilliantly glowing shield to appear in front of Li Zheng.
"Damn, energy consumption is so fast!" Li Zheng’s eyelids twitched wildly, just one encounter and the energy in the shield belt plummeted by twelve percent, utterly outrageous!
"Phoenix Mountain, flare!"
Behind him, Zhan Zhouzhou’s sword-swinging sound came out, there were still a lot of black dots not blocked by Li Zheng, skirting around to attack others.
Phoenix Mountain yelled: "They’re all used up! I don’t have the production blueprint for flares!"
Puff puff!
Phoenix Mountain let out a muffled groan, seemingly hit by the black dots.
"I’ll do it!"
Yan Guang and Lin Fengjiao, being just behind Li Zheng, were less affected. As they spoke, they raised the left arm and shot a series of micro missiles forward.
The micro missiles passed by Li Zheng, dragging long flame tails, surging against the stream of incoming black dots.
Boom boom boom!
Some of the missiles were hit by the black dots at the tip and exploded halfway, blooming with bright flames.
From the flames, some liquid fuel-like substances spilled on the ground, igniting several fires, burning fiercely.
The flames from the exploding missiles formed a bright fiery path, finally allowing Li Zheng to see clearly that those black dots were actually numerous needle-like plant buds!
The buds were slender, nearly twenty centimeters long, with an intense flesh-tone color, incredibly hard, falling to the ground without breaking even after being blocked by the shield!
Boom!
The last missile also got destroyed by the buds, exploding in midair. Though this round of missiles didn’t solve the crisis, it successfully located Asano Yuji’s main body, less than ten meters away from the last missile.
It was a large tree nearly three zhang tall, with thick roots deeply embedded in the ground, and dense branches and leaves forming a canopy, packed with needle-like leaves.
[Whoa~ I have a bold idea.]
"Great minds think alike!" Li Zheng asked in a deep voice: "Yan Guang, do you have more of those incendiary bombs?"
"Whether I have them depends on the tier you want."
"The kind just now?"
"Gold Level? Only ten left."
"Ten aren’t enough; at least another full volume attack!"
"Then there’s only Black Iron Level, but let me tell you first, Black Iron Level incendiary bombs might cover a larger area after exploding to cause a wider fire, but their power is quite ordinary!"
"A large coverage area?" Li Zheng’s eyes suddenly lit up with excitement: "That’s it, aim for its face and give a saturated strike!"
In this short time, Zhan Zhouzhou and Phoenix Mountain also hid behind him, and the energy in the shield belt dropped by another twenty percent!
"Alrighty!"
Yan Guang opened the ammo compartment on the left arm, feeling inexplicably excited: "Never thought I’d get to shoot something on someone’s face one day as a woman!"