civilwarnovels Chapter 552: Intelligence Confirmation and Changes
Chapter 552: Intelligence Confirmation and Changes
Chapter 552: Intelligence Confirmation and Changes
Strictly speaking, a large part of the power of Dragon Kings, gods, and immortals comes from authority, and generally the authority itself comes from the gift of the planet or the universe.
Especially the Dragon King and ancient Greek gods.
In a sense, the former is entirely a creation of the will of the Dragon World planet, while the latter's body and power mostly come from the restraining force of the Type-Moon World planet.
Even a force as powerful as the Dragon King cannot fly away from the planet. The elements in the sky become thinner as they go higher, and eventually the Dragon King will completely lose all his power in the stratosphere.
The twelve mecha gods of ancient Greece were even more extreme. Even though they had enough power to cause irreparable damage to the surface of a planet, they were restricted by the planet's willpower and could not even leave the ancient Greek area.
After all, the powers held by these types of enhanced templates are basically rule-distorting abilities granted by the world.
A world with a stronger sense of autonomy would never casually grant power to an invader, and a world without autonomous consciousness would be even less likely to actively divide its own power.
This level of restriction has surpassed the differences in the laws. Theoretically, any normal world would not be able to use this type of enhanced template.
But these enhanced templates can be used in this world.
This means that not only are the rules of this world quite loose, but it is also very common for the world to autonomously differentiate its own power.
"Something's wrong..."
Zheng Shu frowned in confusion, then stretched out one hand and made it into a hollow ball, with various lights flashing in the palm of his hand.
After a long while, after various attempts, Zheng Shu's brows furrowed even deeper.
"Based on the energy feedback from all aspects and the performance evaluation of various techniques, the strictness of the rules of this world is completely different from what we expected?"
Since it can adapt to all enhanced templates, the world rules should be quite relaxed.
However, after Zheng Shu's previous test, although the rules of this world are not as strict as those of the world under One Person, they are definitely not up to the expected level.
In comparison, the strictness of the rules is roughly the same as that of modern society after the disappearance of the Great Source in the Type-Moon World.
Most of the conventional spells can be used easily, but some special super-specification abilities - such as skills such as heaven or inherent barriers, need to be adjusted accordingly before they can be released.
"The upper limit of my strength tolerance is quite high, and I haven't felt the limit yet. Could it be that..."
Thinking of a possibility, Zheng Shu quickly called out the enhanced template of the complete Black King on the light curtain and clicked on it with his consciousness very decisively.
[This reinforcement template conflicts with the physical rules of this location and cannot be used temporarily. ]
"really."
Looking at the information fed back by the panel, Zheng Shu nodded as he had expected.
A conflict with the physical rules of "that place" means that there is another place in this world where the physical rules are different, and that is where all the enhanced templates can be used.
According to the characteristics of the universe, the physical laws within a universe should be consistent in most cases.
As for those crystal wall worlds or the worlds with round sky and square earth, Zheng Shu has not been there yet, so he is not too sure, but at least the universe-type worlds are indeed like this.
Since this is Manhattan in New York, it is most likely still a universe-like world.
"So... is it something like the multiverse or an alternate world?" Zheng Shu quickly came to the conclusion.
Because of the existence of the panel, Zheng Shu's definition of "world" is quite broad, so even if the "locals" think that a place is a different world, it is the same world for Zheng Shu.
So if there are two different basic rules in a universe-type world, apart from the small probability that someone has created another small universe or a small alien world, the greater possibility is that this world also contains other parallel universes.
"There is a high probability that a multiverse exists that can accommodate most of the supernatural powers, and the universe itself is also very 'adaptable' to the fact that power is divided..."
So many conditions combined together gave Zheng Shu an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
"DC? Or Marvel? No! No, it's not these two worlds."
Two guesses popped up in his mind, and Zheng Shu immediately denied them very quickly.
The reason is simple. He didn't see anything special related to it in this world.
Yes! I'm talking about the so-called Stark or Oscorp, or something very unique in these worlds: superheroes.
Although Zheng Shu's physical strength was greatly weakened due to the stripping of the Ort reinforcement template, his mental strength had been trained for a long time in the world of Under One Person, so his insight ability did not decrease too much.
Therefore, even though he had only been in this world for a short time, Zheng Shu had basically collected most of the intelligence inside New York City by relying on his terrifying mental power and extraordinary magical abilities.
"At least in the past ten years, there have been no superheroes or anything like that in this world. Well... there have been quite a few casualties caused by supernatural powers, but they have all been suppressed. This way of handling things is very unlike the logic of the world of American comics."
Zheng Shu could understand the supernatural powers in this world very well. He could even be sure that the upper limit of supernatural powers in this world was quite high.
However, at least from the information he collected in a short period of time, he speculated that although there are many hidden supernatural powers in this world, most of the super powers are hidden behind the normal human society.
Even some villains who use their extraordinary powers to seek benefits for themselves basically maintain the most basic principles of secrecy when taking action.
Even if a few extraordinary powers were accidentally exposed to people, they were quickly suppressed by relevant organizations.
In other words, the most common superheroes and super villains in the American comic world do not exist at all in this world.
Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that this is a rather special parallel universe in American comics, but from a probabilistic point of view, it is more likely that the world Zheng Shu is in now is not the American comics world.
Standing there with his eyes closed and thinking for a while, Zheng Shu looked down at the ground beneath his feet, half-knelt down and reached out to touch the ground.
"Fourth skill, activated, target... the entire New York City!"
There was no earth-shattering movement. The moment the skill was activated, a light screen that only Zheng Shu could see popped up on the ground that he touched. On it was a panel similar to the one that introduced the properties of items in the game, which contained a lot of information related to New York City.
After a slight hesitation, Zheng Shu stretched out his hand and stretched the attribute panel in front of him. Even when he stood up, the attribute panel was still not stretched to its limit.
Next, what Zheng Shu did was to keep sliding the panel in front of him, memorizing all the messy information contained in it, and analyzing it quickly.
The information is extremely complex, ranging from the history of the city's establishment, its population, the reasons and process for its establishment, to its current development and even legal reforms.
There were so many of them that even with Zheng Shu's brain thinking ability and analytical speed, it took him nearly an hour to finish reading them.
After reading this information, Zheng Shu rubbed his temples tiredly. Although his brain power could still keep up, this was not just a matter of simple memory, but also required complete understanding.
After thoroughly understanding all the messy and subtle information of the entire city at once and stripping off the enhanced template of the Ort and dragon hybrids, Zheng Shu felt tired for the first time in a long time.
"So it would be so hard to lose the resilience of dragon bloodline?"
After deeply realizing the convenience of the dragons in the dragon world as biological weapons, Zheng Shu kept massaging his brain to relieve the tingling in his head. He sighed and decided to postpone his previous action.
"Panel, show me all the enhancement templates of the pure-blooded dragon species in the Dragon World."
Looking at the series of enhancement templates listed on his panel, Zheng Shu decisively eliminated all options related to the Dragon King, even the incomplete Dragon King.
It is not clear at the moment to what extent the entanglement between power and the world will lead to the forced deprivation of all reinforcement templates when leaving the world. Zheng Shu decided to be a little more cautious.
Anyway, the dragon's enhanced template is auxiliary in his combat power structure, not the main force in combat, so it's no big deal if it's a little worse.
"Hmm...Huh? This guy is an old acquaintance, and his abilities are quite suitable. Let's go with him!"
After picking through the panel, Zheng Shu randomly pointed to one of the names.
The king of sal trees.
It was created by the Dragon King as a bodyguard-type second-generation species specifically to protect his safety when he is resurrected.
The difference from other second-generation species is that in order to better protect its king in human society, the Sal tree king has evolved into a form closer to that of humans after thousands of years of evolution.
Although its absolute strength is far inferior to other second-generation species that use the original body, it is stronger in regeneration, defense and certain auxiliary functions.
From this perspective, this second-generation species may even be more suitable for Zheng Shu's needs than some first-generation species.
A green light burst out from the chest, wrapped around Zheng Shu, and then quickly shrank back down.
As Zheng Shu's strength increased, the enhancement that was previously painful for him now seemed much easier, and the speed was also much faster.
Zheng Shu, who had just strengthened the enhanced template of the Sala Tree King, immediately felt the gap. Although his brain was still running at full power, the fatigue generated was dissipating at an unimaginable speed.
Of course, the price he paid was that his physical strength was rapidly declining.
However, when Zheng Shu summoned a large ball of instant noodles into his stomach, his originally declining physical strength quickly recovered.
"Perfect, let's go ahead."
He snapped his fingers twice and used magic to drive away several pedestrians who were about to turn into this dark corner. Zheng Shu continued to touch the ground with his hands and began the second round of information search.
This is the usage that Zheng Shu discovered when he was tentatively using the fourth skill. The amount of information that the fourth skill reveals about an object mainly depends on the amount of known intelligence about this object.
Zheng Shu had discovered during his earlier exploration that the judgment related to the so-called "known intelligence" could be continuously increased, and the information obtained using the fourth skill could also be included.
Of course, the prerequisite for being able to be judged as "known intelligence" is that Zheng Shu must memorize this information and fully understand it.
But this also means that Zheng Shu can eventually fully understand all relevant information about the target object by continuously using the fourth skill on the same object.
There is too much messy information contained in an entire city, so this method takes a certain amount of time, but even so, it is much simpler than Zheng Shu going out in person to collect other information.
More importantly, this method can also collect some information that cannot be collected under normal circumstances.
"found it."
Zheng Shu paused for a moment as he swiped the message, and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face as he looked at the message in front of him.
"It only took three rounds and four skills to find it. It seems that I am lucky."
The piece of information that caught Zheng Shu's attention was very simple, even brief:
Fifteen years ago, LHOS (League of High Order Spirituals) discovered anomalies in the New York area space and invited other organizations to hold a meeting.
This solitary piece of information was placed in the middle of all the other information. The previous piece of information was about the annual growth rate of the total amount of feces on the streets of New York, and the next piece of information was about the decadent private life of the illegitimate son of a former New York mayor.
This is also the more troublesome part of the fourth skill. All the information is gathered together. If you want to find useful things, you can only rely on your own eyes to search it bit by bit.
"League of High Order Spirituals...Warlock Association? Hiss...This thing is hard to confirm."
Zheng Shu was scratching his head as he looked at this information. The name of this organization was too general and it couldn't provide any more information.
However, from this information, it can at least be confirmed that the main supernatural power organization within New York is not some melee magicians who can open space gates.
Touching his chin and thinking for a while, Zheng Shu paused his search for information and instead used his third skill.
"Tell me about the Magic Conch, what can I do next?"
A light bulb suddenly lit up in his mind, and Zheng Shu immediately knew what he "wanted" to do next: he decided to stay where he was!
"Tsk! I'm not surprised at all."
Sensing the answer given by the third skill, Zheng Shu's mouth twitched unconsciously.
Despite all his complaints, Zheng Shu still chose to stay here. After all, he didn't have any specific goals at the moment, so he might as well wait here and see what would happen.
After thinking for a while, Zheng Shu simply squatted down and continued to put his hands on the ground to activate the fourth skill to view more intelligence information.
Although it is very difficult to process all the messy information, it is still a pretty good source of intelligence.
Zheng Shu was immersed in processing various intelligence and time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, another five hours had passed.
At this stage, the level of information that the fourth skill can provide is becoming deeper and deeper, and the amount of useful intelligence is also increasing rapidly.
Zheng Shu looked at the information in front of him and frowned involuntarily.
"From the summary of information, the situation seems to be more complicated than I thought. It's troublesome..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Shu suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky.
The originally clear sky suddenly became a little dark, and large patches of fog gradually rose.
Looking from the sky, the whole of New York was quickly shrouded in sudden fog, as if a cloud had fallen to the ground.
Ordinary people were still curious about why the fog suddenly appeared, and some people even picked up their mobile phones to take pictures.
Zheng Shu looked at the rapidly thickening fog in front of him and raised his hand. A brilliant light flashed across his palm, and the technique, which was originally slightly blocked when performed, became extremely smooth.
Faced with such a result, Zheng Shu's face turned extremely ugly:
"Now we're in big trouble!"
(End of this chapter)