Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 126

Chapter 126 The Second Condition for Becoming an Enhancer

People have long discovered that zombies harbor brain cores. Their brains mutate into crystals, imbued with an unknown energy.

This energy had never been seen before, and people didn’t know how to harness it. Scientists attempted to combine the power of brain cores with modern technology to enhance the power of firearms.

However, research progress in this area was prohibitively slow, requiring national-level research labs to spend years, even decades, to develop effective results.

Humanity simply couldn’t sustain such a long-term effort.

The zombies took a month to overrun the world, nearly crumbling social structures and disorganizing order. Even assembling a team of scientists to research the integration of brain core energy with weaponry proved difficult.

Meanwhile, someone discovered the power of brain cores.

Rather than integrating them with weapons, they could directly target humans, absorbing their energy through their bodies.

While crude and simple, this method proved effective.

Thus, the Enhancer was born.

The emergence of brain cores was like a ray of light at the end of the world, piercing the darkness and offering hope to humanity.

In Kyushu, brain cores have a charming name: spirit stones.

The spiritual energy of Jiuzhou is so abundant that it can produce spiritual stone mines, while the spiritual energy of this world is so scarce that not even a single spiritual stone can be condensed. The difference in spiritual energy concentration between the two worlds is obvious.

The energy in the brain core is concentrated spiritual energy, but becoming an enhancer is not simply about absorbing the spiritual energy from the brain core.

If this is simply absorbed, without the correct spiritual energy circulation path, every one who absorbs it will be crippled.

According to Jiang Li’s observation, becoming an enhancer requires a second condition: the presence of the zombie virus in the human body.

The zombie virus spreads the zombies with extreme terror, spreading through airborne contact. Every breath humans breathe contains the zombie virus.

This trace amount of virus is not enough to transform a human into a corpse, but it acts as an essential lubricant, helping the body absorb spiritual energy. There is no specific route for the spiritual energy; it is absorbed by the cells. When the cells absorb a certain amount of spiritual energy, they become enhancers.

The enhancer system requires the concentrated spiritual energy from the brain core to activate the physical body. While there are methods to concentrate spiritual energy, such as the Spirit Gathering Array, they are not within the reach of a mere cultivator at the first level of Qi training.

The brother and sister need to go out hunting zombies.

Luo Ying had originally planned to wrap the books with tape and use them as protection, which would have been effective against zombies at this stage. However, now that he possessed the Ming Wang Immovable Dharma, such tactics were unnecessary.

…

In the classroom, the twenty or so survivors huddled together, shivering. They had been trapped here for three days and were starving.

Fortunately, the classroom always had a few buckets of drinking water, which they used sparingly, so they didn’t have to worry about water for the time being.

Otherwise, they would die of thirst if not eaten by the zombies. This was no solution either. The water would eventually run out, and they were doomed to take a desperate gamble, fleeing the classroom and seeking another way out.

And now, they faced a life-or-death test.

“Is it gone?”

“Luo Ying is right, there really are zombies.”

“I wish I had listened to him.”

“I miss Mom,”

the students whispered to each other, more venting their fear than discussing.

Having lived in peace for so long, they had never seen such scenes before: blood and flesh flying everywhere, the walking dead. Recalling a zombie pulling out five or six meters of intestines, they felt the urge to vomit.

Unfortunately, they had to suppress this urge, as the noise would attract the attention of the zombies outside.

Some female classmates bit their clothes, tears welling up in their eyes.

They had also witnessed the battle between the army and the whales, and they hoped the army would defeat the whales and rescue them. However, the harsh reality revealed the power of the fourth-level zombies, shattering their hopes.

“Shh—”

The female teacher who had once scolded Luo Ying for sleeping in class gestured to the students, refusing even whispers.

Although she was terrified and worried about her parents’ safety, she was now a teacher and had to protect her students. She mustered her courage, holding onto the wall, and carefully approached the small window in the classroom door, making no sound.

On the first day of the zombie crisis, the school became a slaughterhouse. The students were so densely packed that escape was impossible. The number of living people plummeted, while the number of zombies soared.

Luo Ying’s class was on the top floor. The students sensed something was wrong and prepared, so only half of them died.

The survivors, nauseous as they were, smeared the windows with the blood of their friends’ corpses, obscuring both the view and the smell, keeping the zombies away. This method kept them hidden for three days.

This was ultimately a temporary solution. A different zombie appeared in the building, possessing incredible strength, even deforming the metal stair railings with its blows.

This zombie also possessed remarkable insight, and many surviving students and teachers were not spared. Their screams still echo in our ears.

And now, this zombie roamed the top floor.

The teacher pressed her ear to the door, closing her eyes to listen carefully to make sure there was no sound outside. Then, she wiped a little blood from the window and peered out with one eye.

She saw the other zombie gnawing on a corpse from a distance, seemingly oblivious to them.

She knew this zombie: a lewd physical education teacher, reported by several female students for unethical conduct. If it weren’t for the zombie crisis, he would have been expelled in a matter of days. “I

wish I had fired this scumbag sooner,” the teacher thought bitterly.

She returned to her seat and reassured the students in a whisper, “Don’t worry, it didn’t notice us.”

“Teacher Huang, Teacher Huang…” A female student raised her hand tremblingly, pointing to the spot where Teacher Huang had wiped the blood. An eye popped out!

The zombie had spotted them.

Teacher Huang suffered cardiac arrest, and the students screamed.

The classroom had two doors, and a clever student tried to escape through the other. However, when he pushed open the door, he found two zombies crouching at the door, gnawing on the corpse of someone unknown.

Three zombies staggered into the classroom, and the zombie that was the physical education teacher’s corpse pounced on Teacher Huang.

A steady hand suddenly appeared, grabbed the zombie’s ankle, and exerted force with the right arm, throwing it away, knocking down the other two zombies.

The owner of this hand was naturally Luo Ying.

“It was a close call.”

Luo Ying sighed. In his previous life, he and his classmates hid here and encountered this zombie. In the end, only Luo Ying was lucky enough to survive.

He hurried all the way and finally arrived before the zombies wreaked havoc, saving his classmates and teachers.

“Be careful behind you!”

Teacher Huang reminded Luo Ying loudly. The three zombies stood up and pretended to attack Luo Ying.

A petite figure flashed by, holding a dagger in her hand, and easily cut off the heads of the three zombies and took out a brain core.

(End of this chapter)