Second Confrontation

After the micro scale disaster, human odors have a special allure for organisms. For most organisms, facing miniature humans is like a hungry person smelling hot and delicious food that is difficult to resist. Of course, if it is a person who is full or has anorexia, then human taste is a relatively ordinary taste for them.

Haiwei Mini Industry absorbed many experts and scholars before the miniaturization disaster, but in terms of biology, it was not as comprehensive because Shen Liansheng was not aware that shrinking humans would have such a temptation to insects. Until the micro disaster, shelters rescued many survivors throughout the city, including several professional biologists.

The R&D department has been tirelessly conducting research on human odors, but the results have been minimal. Because of their limited detection methods, they are completely unable to verify why the reduced human scent can have a striking attraction to other organisms.

It was not until a scholar unexpectedly awakened and became an awakener that the issue was re examined from another perspective.

The first thing to be re evaluated is that the scent of a dead person can attract other creatures, but as long as the surface is burned and carbonized by a large fire, the corpse no longer attracts other creatures.

The scholar of the Awakened One combined the signs of the Awakened One activating the crystal and obtaining superpowers, inferring that the shrinking human body constantly radiates a radiation energy outward. This energy resonates with humans and crystals, working together to generate abilities that can achieve various superpowers.

Those creatures who covet human flesh crave the energy contained within the miniature human body, and he named this energy the X element. The young man who worked as his assistant liked to read online novels, but jokingly referred to them as "the vitality of heaven and earth.".

This X element is constantly circulating in the human body and does not react with other substances. But trace amounts of X element will adhere to the odor of the human body and spread outward. For some unknown reason, other organisms detected trace amounts of X element in the odor emitted by the human body, which attracted them.

This X element cannot be detected by their existing methods and can only be captured on devices modified with blank energy storage crystals. This is also why they have been unable to explain why miniature humans attract other creatures before.

To filter out the diffusion of this trace X element, sealing off human odors is a very simple approach. They have conducted experiments in which people were dressed in fully enclosed clothing and exposed to creatures such as ants. However, experiments have shown that wearing a closed suit alone still cannot prevent the diffusion of X element.

After multiple repeated research experiments, it has been finally proven that the inclusion of this trace element X emitted by miniature humans is sufficient to penetrate most substances, including fabrics, plastics, steel, and so on. What can effectively block is actually the simplest and most simple rock and cement walls. That's why the shelter has gathered 100000 people, and the strong human scent has not attracted too many creatures.

Creating an electric vehicle enclosed in cement and tiles is not a problem, but the additional weight will increase the consumption of engine power and battery energy. Moreover, after arriving at the destination, it is quite troublesome for people to come down and explore, even wearing iron armor, and fully enclosed cement clothes are completely unrealistic.

As for other methods that can mask the X element in the scent of miniature humans, the R&D department has been fully researching them, but so far, there have been no successful results.

Finally, the shelter summarized a set of wilderness escape suggestions, one of which is to try to hide in narrow corners of large houses and other places to avoid the wind, so as to minimize the risk of one's own odor drifting too far.

Although the people at the old medical camp may not have conducted scientific research on this point, they can still deduce this pattern through repeated summarization. Of course, the effect of this method is actually very slight. If it is not clearly threatening, it generally does not make much difference whether it is used or not.

Now that Lin Meiqi has been notified by the camp, Tom believes that Uncle Wei and Pozi will definitely mobilize everyone to complete the hiding action as quickly as possible. After all, this emergency hiding behavior is often practiced and everyone is familiar with it.

As for his own side, he could only set aside the charcoal left by the campfire and drag the tin house to the corner at the end of the house, making Shen Jiayi shrink as close as possible to the corner to avoid the smell being detected by insects or mice passing by the door.

Perhaps due to the remains of this Jingba dog, they hid in a corner all night peacefully, without even ants crawling under the door to inspect the room. Until around 7 o'clock in the morning, Tom's calling card had a reaction, and he held it to connect with Lin Meiqi's soul.

This 16-year-old genius girl had previously admitted defeat in front of Shen Jiayi. Now, facing Tom, she was full of resentment, but she still understood the importance and urgency, and directly explained the situation of the campsite to him: last night, due to Shen Jiayi's warning, the campsite quickly entered a hidden state, and everyone was hiding behind a mud wall that had been built, with no mosquitoes or other creatures infiltrating temporarily.

Just now, Bozi sent out the injured skinny Wang Sanli, who was skilled in stealth, to investigate the situation around the house and confirm that there was no threat within a certain range. That's when Lin Meiqi notified Tom.

Tom and Shen Jiayi decided to take a risk and return to the camp.

If we were to walk back, it would be very likely to encounter other insects, but the longhorn wood can now fly, which is much simpler.

Yesterday, Shen Jiayi communicated with wood through green crystal and even made shallow spiritual connections with it, easily helping it adapt to the new body's flying posture and fly more proficiently and accurately.

The variation of wood makes its body larger and naturally heavier, so its wings can no longer carry such a heavy body. The same applies to queen ants with increased body size after mutation. However, in the end, its wings also underwent mutations.

Typically, insects have a pair of Coleoptera, which are very hard and not used for flight. The true flight function is achieved by a pair of membranous wings covered by the Coleoptera, which are used to protect the membranous wings when not in flight.

However, the previous time the wood underwent another mutation, and the membrane wings under the sheath wings were strengthened. Not only did the joints become harder and stronger, but the membranes also became thicker and wider, flapping more vigorously and quickly. They were already able to carry a heavier weight and fly into the sky,

Tom carefully slipped out of the room door, confirmed that there were no insects around, and then let the wood fly out. He climbed up and sat on top of it, holding Shen Jiayi. Then it spread its wings and took off, navigated by Shen Jiayi through shallow spiritual connections, accurately and quickly flying up to the third floor and landing in front of the iron gate of the campsite.

There was someone on duty behind the iron gate, and soon the door was opened to let Tom in. The two of them, who had disappeared all night, returned to the camp again.

To Tom, the night seemed inexplicable, but he found that Shen Jiayi seemed very beautiful. It's not about describing her as beautiful, but when he thinks of her, he feels a sense of beauty in his heart, just wanting to see her and get along with her. Unlike before, when she was simply treated as a like-minded person or superior, his Bole didn't know what it was.

And after this morning, her attitude towards herself was no longer cold, but rather a bit enthusiastic. Upon returning to the campsite, he went straight to the laboratory to find Lin Meiqi.

Tom was afraid that Lin Meiqi would play with a childish temper and give her a bad face. He wanted to ease things up with the past, but was rejected by Shen Jiayi, saying, "With you around, things are easier to collapse. Come in ten minutes later, and you'll be busy later."

He doesn't quite understand this statement. I'm really worried about the second daughter falling out, as it would embarrass him as a middleman. But Shen Jiayi said he wouldn't go, so he wouldn't be able to follow. So Bozi and Wang Zixiong frowned and looked at Tom eating absentmindedly, even choking on a sip of water and coughing, almost gasping for breath.

Ten difficult minutes passed, but no news came from the laboratory. But since Shen Jiayi said to let him go ten minutes later, Tom naturally walked over with a nervous heart after waiting for ten minutes.

As a result, the tense atmosphere did not appear, but instead saw Shen Jiayi and Lin Meiqi connected together through a guiding rod, with their eyes closed. Upon seeing Tom enter, the second woman opened her eyes and released her power stick. Shen Jiayi turned around and poured herself tea.

The guiding rod is made of crystal energy metal conductive material, which is a substitute to avoid sweating and other problems caused by prolonged hand to hand spiritual connection. Lin Meiqi gave Tom a cold glance and snorted unwillingly, "Hmph, I won't care about this matter for now. I want you to take a look at me. Lin Meiqi is also someone who knows how to do big things."

What did they talk about?

Tom was even more confused, but looking at the situation, Lin Meiqi seemed to have no intention of holding him accountable for not coming back last night, or even planning to use her as a calling card for himself, for the "old lady" Shen Jiayi. She didn't even resent Shen Jiayi forcing her into her thinking space.

During Tom's brief encounter with Lin Meiqi, he felt that the little girl was a stubborn master with high intelligence and a good family background. It is estimated that parents are also very spoiled, and with qualifications and skills, arrogance is normal. So when she came to Morikawa City curiously to enter the Haiwei Mini Industry for a big show, she was brushed off by Shen Jiayi for playing with her phone during the interview. So, despite her usual smooth sailing, she has a deep resentment towards Shen Jiayi, so she mercilessly drives people away when she meets her.

Now that it seems that Shen Jiayi is in peace with him, Tom naturally feels a misconception.

If you don't understand, don't think. There are indeed more urgent things that they need to worry about at the moment.

Nowadays, more and more creatures are coming to the old street, and their purpose is very clear. They are heading straight towards the old rental area of the old street, and there must be a black hand behind them manipulating them to find the survivor camp here.

What they currently need to do is to enhance their combat effectiveness and increase their self-protection capital. Among them, the giant armor named Reinhardt, which is 28 centimeters tall, is the main combat force. However, the armor's poor control over the field of vision, weak focus and attack when bare handed, as well as insufficient training time for the two drivers, have constrained the performance of the giant armor's strength.

Because Tom's folding metal buckle technique solved the second problem, the rest still affected the battle of the armor.

It was Shen Jiayi's new ability, and Tom thought the fourth one could be used on the giant armor, but for a moment he didn't know how to apply it.

"Tom, we need to quickly upgrade the new technology of the Giant Armor," Shen Jiayi took a sip of tea and her originally gentle gaze became resolute. "We don't have much time left."