Chapter 100: The Divine Artifact – Creation of Light Energy

“So you need to become stronger. Even I know that you’re more suited to research, but your own strength can’t be too weak,” Qin Hao said. “But don’t worry, with me around, whatever you want, I’ll provide. If Kyoto isn’t suitable, you can come back to the Demon City with me.”

The reason Qin Hao hadn’t taken Ling Bo away earlier was because he wanted more people to survive.

One shouldn’t put all their eggs in one basket. No matter how powerful Demon City was, each base could only hold a limited number of people.

The Sky Dome base was currently the largest force in Demon City, but it had received only a little over ten thousand survivors. While quality over quantity played a role, the bigger issue was that too many people meant it was impossible to guarantee everyone had enough to eat.

So, to be precise, Demon City had over a hundred survivor factions of various sizes, with even more scattered individuals hiding in different places.

Kyoto was the same.

“No, staying in Kyoto is better. There’s a research institute and many academic talents I need. Demon City’s economy is thriving, but it’s not suitable for me,” Ling Bo replied.

“All right then.”

Facing Qin Hao, Ling Bo didn’t beat around the bush. He continued, “I now need a large number of Star Energy Diamonds to purchase something, something that might prevent the virus from spreading.”

“What is it?” Qin Hao’s heart stirred.

He had schemed meticulously to find Ling Bo for this very reason.

It was said that at the beginning of the apocalypse, Ling Bo had mastered a method to eradicate the zombie virus, and it spread through the air, requiring no individual distribution of medicine.

“It’s a Light Energy Generator,” Ling Bo said. “A divine device, worth one million Star Energy Diamonds.”

One million Star Energy Diamonds was an astronomical price, especially when the apocalypse had only just begun a month ago.

But after hearing the name of the device, Qin Hao seemed to understand something.

In fact, every hero’s system store was different. Aside from the basics, the items one bought influenced what subsequent items would appear.

For example, Qin Hao had purchased Supernatural Gold, after which the system introduced divine supernatural abilities like Supernatural Ice.

Ling Bo’s purchases were very different from others; he bought mostly machinery, showing great interest in alien technology.

“What does this thing do?” Qin Hao asked.

Ling Bo explained, “After the emergence of Star Energy, the technology of Blue Star had to be completely overturned. New technology and theories were all built on Star Energy. Analyzing from the fundamentals, the zombie virus is a mixture of dark elements and toxic elements, with dark elements being paramount as they control the human brain. However, light elements can destroy dark elements.”

“Even the antidote you gave me contains light and water elements. It seems that as long as there’s rain or abundant light elements, the virus can be dealt with.”

“Rain is uncontrollable, so forget it. But light is everywhere. As long as the planet’s interior is filled with light elements, it can suppress the dark elements and reduce the zombie virus. Of course, if someone is bitten by a zombie or killed by a voodoo demon, they will still turn into zombies.”

This method only prevented humans from contracting the zombie virus.

Having heard this, Qin Hao already knew that this device was what Ling Bo had used before reversing time.

For Qin Hao, one million Star Energy Diamonds was not a lot.

“I’ll pay for this!” he declared. Killing three to five thousand first-level evolved hunting creatures could earn that much. Qin Hao had become terrifyingly wealthy.

Moreover, these diamonds didn’t come from hoarding other humans’ resources; they were obtained from the invading alliance’s intelligent civilizations.

As long as he hunted the creatures they sent, substantial Star Energy income would follow.

Qin Hao took out one million Star Energy Diamonds, piling them up like a small hill.

This made the usually calm Ling Bo visibly stunned.

Suddenly, he felt the gap between himself and Qin Hao was too great.

“Take the Star Energy Diamonds back for now. This converter is huge; we need to find a place to put it. It definitely won’t fit here.”

“Where do you think is suitable?” Qin Hao asked.

“Qingbei University,” Ling Bo answered.

Qingbei University was the highest institution in China. Naturally, it had a playground, which was suitable for placing machinery.

In fact, any school playground could hold this device, but Ling Bo had also hidden Tan Xiaowei near Qingbei University.

This place had long established a unique survivor base, manufacturing weapons and researching alien technology, trading food with other survivor bases. Ling Bo had been in charge of it. The Wu family of Wu Qiong was merely a noble family trading with the Qingbei base; they mistakenly believed they controlled it and thought Ling Bo’s refusal to give antidotes for free was a betrayal.

Now, with Qin Hao’s support, Ling Bo’s resolve to build a survivor base was stronger than ever.

The two were not far from the Qingbei survivor base. They killed and slaughtered alien creatures along the way and soon arrived at Qingbei University.

Part of the university had already been cleared. The playground was empty of people and monsters. Qin Hao and Ling Bo’s arrival caught the attention of some survivors in the dormitories, some of whom naturally recognized Ling Bo.

But they had no idea what the two were up to.

Qin Hao threw down the Star Energy Diamonds, and Ling Bo chose to purchase the divine device.

In an instant, a massive spatial black hole appeared before them.

The black hole sucked in the Star Energy Diamonds, then spat out a gigantic machine.

The machine was made of crimson crystals, with a square base measuring fifty meters on each side. At the center was a circular disc twenty meters in diameter.

As the machine settled on the playground, a blinding white light shot straight up into the sky.

The clouds were swept away, as if the sky had grown bluer and the sunlight more dazzling.

At this moment, starting from Kyoto, the light element began to increase.

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Meanwhile, far beyond the star river, the Thousand-Armed God, constantly monitoring Blue Star, sensed the changes on Blue Star and used divine will to contact the Black King God.

“Black King God, the method you once used to achieve a great victory has now been preemptively broken.”

Before Qin Hao reversed time, three billion humans on Blue Star were slaughtered by the Claw Civilization, and nearly another three billion died because of the voodoo demons sent by the Ancient Demon Civilization.

Thus, in the division of Blue Star’s Star Energy, the Claw Civilization and Ancient Demon Civilization were the greatest winners.

Now, Qin Hao had played the card of reversing time, naturally avoiding disaster ahead of schedule.

The Claw Civilization’s first attack had been inadvertently disrupted by Zi Hui.

And the voodoo demons’ toxin disaster had been destroyed by the current Qin Hao.

If this continued, Blue Star might truly succeed in surviving independently.

Yet, the Black King God was not anxious.

“After reversing time, many cosmic rules have granted us more permissions. Humans know how to resist the disasters we send, but we also know their plan. If we target this plan, perhaps we can still kill the human who reversed time.”