What made Liu Haiyang even more ashamed was that it was obvious that when Zhou Ziwei treated Liu Xiaofei, the strain would be even greater than it was this time, which would naturally put a heavier burden on Zhou Ziwei's body.
Zhou Ziwei, however, did not hesitate and even took the initiative to ask Liu Xiaofei to treat her illness. This... this is clearly a selfless good person like Buddha who cut off his own flesh to feed an eagle. But what have I done to him?
Thinking of this, Liu Haiyang finally raised his hand and slapped himself hard.
Zhou Ziwei, who was pretending to be weak, was startled by this and hurriedly grabbed Liu Haiyang's arm, saying, "Uncle Liu, what... what are you doing? Didn't I promise to do my best to heal Officer Liu? Don't worry... Officer Liu was injured because of me. I will do everything I can to heal her, even if... even if it costs me all my energy and I have to turn back into an ordinary person, I will never give up..."
As Zhou Ziwei said this, a sudden idea struck him. He wondered if he should wait until he cured Liu Xiaofei and then claim that he had lost all his powers... That way, no one would bother him anymore, right?
To everyone's surprise, Zhou Ziwei's words only made Liu Haiyang feel more ashamed and embarrassed. He then suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself hard across the other side of his face again...
After Zhou Ziwei said goodbye to Liu Xiaofei in the ward, Wu Di had already sent another car. It was a very ordinary domestic Audi sedan, almost the same as the one that the Kunming police had sent him before.
It was comfortable to sit in and not too flashy to drive, which suited Zhou Ziwei's taste perfectly. So he gave the "dazzling" Mercedes-Benz RV to Li Yifeng, letting the guy ride in the showy car by himself, while he got into the Audi, kicked the driver out, and drove back to the hotel alone.
Li Yifeng is quite the show-off. After driving his Mercedes RV, he didn't come back to the hotel. Zhou Ziwei went back to the hotel and ordered some takeout to be delivered to his room, but he waited for a long time and still didn't see him.
Later, after finding Li Yifeng's newly assigned phone number and calling him, I learned that this guy had actually driven around town and somehow picked up a beautiful woman from somewhere, and was now taking her for a drive in the countryside!
It's already late, and Li Yifeng actually took her to the wilderness... I bet this guy never had good intentions from the start. According to him... driving that car makes picking up girls so easy, you even save money on hotel rooms. You can just drive to some remote, desolate place, park the car, close the door, turn on the dimly lit interior lights, turn on the car TV... and if you put on some Japanese adult films, that would be even better... plus, spread out that soft bed... what can't that guy do?
Zhou Ziwei thought about it and actually started to envy Li Yifeng. That guy lived a carefree life, unlike himself... He seemed to be doing quite well now, but he was still burdened by the shackles of his past life, and all he thought about was how to become stronger as soon as possible so that he could take revenge... Sigh... Life is so tiring!
Zhou Ziwei was alone and not in the mood for food or drink. He ate a little something and then took the food away.
Then, after sitting in the room for a while in a daze, I reached out and waved my hand, and the little ladybug flew out of my sleeve and began to hover and flutter around Zhou Ziwei.
After several days of continuously replenishing the ladybug with his soul power, Zhou Ziwei noticed that the ladybug was slowly undergoing some wonderful changes.
First of all, the little ladybug's intelligence is gradually improving. If the independent soul within the little ladybug was like a newborn baby when it was first created, then now, after only a few days, the little ladybug's intelligence has grown to the level of at least a one- or two-year-old child.
The speed of this progress is quite astonishing. If the ladybug's intelligence can indeed continue to grow, then Zhou Ziwei believes that at this rate of progress, it will probably take only a month or two for the ladybug to possess intelligence almost equivalent to that of an adult.
If he were to create merely a simple, fleeting, and ignorant soul, Zhou Ziwei could use this independent soul as a weapon or a consumable without any burden.
However, if a ladybug develops true wisdom, then Zhou Ziwei will find it difficult to use it as a tool anymore.
Moreover, the more intelligent the ladybug became, the less Zhou Ziwei could bear to watch it slowly perish as its soul power was exhausted.
In addition, after being infused with soul power multiple times, the ladybug's tiny body seemed to become more and more agile and robust.
At this moment, the ladybug's flight speed gradually surpassed that of ordinary birds. When it flew straight at full speed, even Zhou Ziwei had to extend his vision by more than three times in order to catch a glimpse of the ladybug. If you only looked at it with the naked eye, you could only see a blurry little black dot flash by.
With this amazing speed, Zhou Ziwei was no longer so worried about the ladybug's safety. When he had nothing to do, he would let the ladybug out to play by itself.
In any case, even ordinary birds can't catch it, and even if it occasionally encounters insectivorous predators outside, it can easily escape.
Moreover, the ladybug's thin shell became increasingly hard. Once, when Zhou Ziwei was closing the window, the ladybug suddenly flew back from outside. Unable to stop in time, it crashed headfirst into the window frame.
Keep in mind that the window was made of PVC, and the ladybug flew extremely fast. When it hit the window frame, it made a dull "thud".
Zhou Ziwei was terrified. But when the ladybug hit the window frame and was thrown more than a meter away, it flapped its wings and flew back. Although the little guy flew erratically, like a drunk driving a car, it was a miracle that it survived such a strong impact.
When Zhou Ziwei later discovered that the ladybug had left a noticeable dent on the PVC window frame, he was even more astonished.
Zhou Ziwei even believed that if the ladybug were allowed to continue evolving, it would definitely turn into a bullet shaped like an insect.
If its flight speed and body rigidity were increased by two or three times, then with a single dash, it could crash into a distant enemy and leave a small hole in their body without a doubt.
So no matter what the reason, Zhou Ziwei would never give up on the little ladybug's life. Even though he had noticed that the consumption of soul power he gave the little ladybug was slowly increasing each time, Zhou Ziwei could only grit his teeth and persevere.
The other small insect that Zhou Ziwei caught seemed rather useless. Zhou Ziwei then pulled out a small insect from his pocket that was about the size of a fingernail, looked plump and like a lump of meat, and couldn't help but frown.
This little bug is the same one that Zhou Ziwei took out of the biological bomb. Zhou Ziwei had put in a lot of effort to capture it, and the soul power he used to create an independent soul within it was much greater than that used for the ladybug.
Zhou Ziwei later searched for information online, but still couldn't find out what this little bug was or what its scientific name was.
Zhou Ziwei had some understanding of the insect's special abilities through the connection with its independent soul entity. He knew that the little guy could indeed release bioelectricity and had an extremely strange ability to transform.
Perhaps because this little worm has no bones, it can change itself into any shape of the same volume at will. When it clumps together, it looks like a small lump of flesh. If it is stretched out, it looks like a rope. If it is laid flat on a table, it looks like a piece of paper.
Because of the insect's strange abilities, Zhou Ziwei temporarily named it Amoeba.
Although the amoeba didn't seem to be of much use to Zhou Ziwei, he still couldn't bear to let its soul dissipate, and regularly replenished it with a large amount of soul power every day.
The amoeba had also been raised for several days. After several replenishments of soul power, the amoeba had undergone some changes, but its changes were not as obvious as those of the ladybug. Apart from becoming lazier and only knowing how to sleep all day, the little bug's ability to release bioelectricity had improved slightly. It could now release a voltage of a little over 30 volts, instead of being able to release less than 30 volts.
As for intelligence... Zhou Ziwei seemed to have never sensed that these amoebas possessed any intelligence.
Zhou Ziwei felt somewhat amused and exasperated by the changes in the amoeba; he didn't know whether keeping the little bug was the right or wrong thing to do.
After all, the amoeba needs to consume 50% more soul power than the ladybug every day. As a result, Zhou Ziwei has to consume the soul power of five or six remnant souls every day to feed these two little bugs. Moreover, the amount consumed seems to be gradually increasing. If this continues for only a day or two, it won't matter, but in the long run, it will definitely be fatal!
If these two little insects were like ladybugs, and could eventually be of great use if raised, or if they possessed the same intelligence as humans, Zhou Ziwei would naturally be reluctant to part with them. But the amoeba was really... no matter how Zhou Ziwei looked at it, it felt like a useless piece of trash!
Even if the amoeba's ability to release electricity continues to increase, so what? Generally speaking, if the current voltage is not three or four hundred volts, it will not cause much harm to the human body. At the current growth rate of amoebas, when will it reach the level of three or four hundred volts?
Moreover, even if the amoeba's ability to release electric current is enough to be fatal, it doesn't seem to be of much use. After all, this little insect is not like a ladybug. It can't fly, and when it crawls, it's as slow as a snail. If Zhou Ziwei is hoping to use it to shock people, he might as well just buy a stun gun.
If you consume so much soul power every day, and the only result is that you can use this amoeba as a biological battery, it feels a bit like spending money to build an atomic bomb, but only creating a child's slingshot...
Volume 1, Rebirth of a Prodigy, Chapter 138: The Dyed Soul Power
To give up... or not to give up?
Zhou Ziwei held the small, seemingly asleep amoeba in his hands, his head throbbing for a while... In the end, he decided to keep it for a couple more days. If the amoeba still didn't show any use and its intelligence didn't improve at all, then Zhou Ziwei would have no choice but to give it up.
After all, if this amoeba never shows any intelligence, then it is essentially no different from an independent soul among ordinary non-living things. In that case, Zhou Ziwei would not need to expend so much soul power on it every day.
He put the amoeba back in his pocket and let it go to sleep. Then, after thinking for a moment, Zhou Ziwei picked up the phone and dialed Wu Di's number.
This time, Zhou Ziwei wanted to ask Wu Di for a small favor. When he was playing a challenge game with Wu Di today, he saw many of the gatekeepers using strange hidden weapons in the third and fourth levels.
The shapes of those hidden weapons were varied and could not possibly be mass-produced products from a factory assembly line. This immediately reminded Zhou Ziwei of the cross-shaped dart from the assassin's memories that he had merged with.
After the assassin died, his belongings were definitely taken by the police. Zhou Ziwei estimated that it wouldn't be easy to steal these cross-shaped darts from the police.
However, he couldn't find a blacksmith who could make it by hand, so although he had mastered a powerful technique for throwing weapons, he was unable to put it to use.
Seeing the various uniquely designed hidden weapons used by Wu Di's men, Zhou Ziwei's interest was piqued. He made a phone call and found out that Wu Di indeed said he had a factory in Myanmar that produced various weapons for his entertainment company.
Although most of the weapons in the factory were produced by machine, some special weapons could only be made by hand.
After all, some of the weapons and equipment in Wu Di's game, which are specifically sold to the wealthy, can fetch prices of nearly 100 million yuan. Even if Wu Di is ruthless, he wouldn't be so embarrassed as to just make some mass-produced junk to fool people. Therefore, his weapon factory has several blacksmiths who are responsible for crafting high-end weapons.
Zhou Ziwei was overjoyed upon hearing this and immediately asked Wu Di to order several cross-shaped darts for him.
However, the requirements for the cross-shaped dart were quite strict, both in terms of size and manufacturing process, and Zhou Ziwei couldn't explain it clearly over the phone. So he asked Wu Di to leave an email address, and he planned to draw the blueprint of the cross-shaped dart on his computer and then send it to Wu Di.
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Ziwei immediately ran over and turned on the desktop computer provided for the hotel guests.
The computers in this hotel are from who-knows-when. The monitors are those bulky, old-fashioned designs, and the cases are clunky and heavy. Once turned on, the buzzing noise is like a bomber approaching, making the water glasses on the computer desk tremble.
Zhou Ziwei frowned, thinking to himself that since the laptop left by his predecessor at home in Dangyang was broken anyway, he might as well just buy a random laptop on the street tomorrow.
In a couple of days, the building he bought will be demolished and replaced with a new jadeite rough stone exchange. There's a lot going on during this period, so he'll need a laptop to keep up, otherwise it will be very inconvenient.
Although the computer in the hotel was old and the internet speed was incredibly slow, it was still usable. Zhou Ziwei opened a drawing software and copied the blueprint of the cross dart from his memory in just over ten minutes.
However, after completing the blueprint, Zhou Ziwei did not immediately send it to Wu Di. Instead, he reopened a drawing page, perked up once again, and designed another blueprint for a cross-shaped dart.
Zhou Ziwei's newly designed cross-shaped dart looks similar to the cross-shaped dart he merged with his memories, but in reality they are completely different.
Because the cross-shaped dart designed by Zhou Ziwei has joints and wings. The two short horizontal wings on the cross-shaped dart are the wings of this dart.
The original cross-shaped dart had two conical wings engraved with spiral patterns, and the tips of the two wings were very sharp, making it suitable for killing.
Zhou Ziwei's new cross-shaped dart design changes the two horizontal wings into a flat, blade-like structure. These two horizontal wings are also movable, able to move up and down, functioning like wings.
In addition, Zhou Ziwei modified the tail of this new cross-shaped dart into a swallowtail shape to enhance its balance.
In addition, movable joints have been added to both the head and tail.
After some redesign, this new cross-shaped dart would be completely different. If this new cross-shaped dart were actually produced, it is estimated that even a master of concealed weapons would find it difficult to unleash its full power.
After all, the dart has several movable joints out of nowhere. If it is thrown in a normal way, it will inevitably sway in the air, which will seriously affect the speed and accuracy of the throw.
At that time, it would be difficult to hit a target more than three meters away with such a dart, let alone how much damage it would have.
In fact, this new type of cross-shaped dart was custom-made by Zhou Ziwei for himself. He had long realized that his physical strength was still insufficient. Even if he ordered a traditional cross-shaped dart, it probably wouldn't be able to exert much power in his hands for the time being. So he designed this new type of cross-shaped dart for himself, adding wings and movable joints. He planned to add an independent soul to this dart and then add simulated nerve lines to the body of the dart... In this way, this new type of cross-shaped dart would be a magical dart that has life, can fly, and can accurately control its flight direction.
Of course... so far, this kind of dart only exists in Zhou Ziwei's imagination. The key to whether this new type of cross dart can really come to life lies in whether he can successfully create simulated nerve lines in the dart. If these nerve lines cannot be created, then even if Zhou Ziwei creates an independent soul in the dart, the effect will not be significant. After all, a non-living entity is a non-living entity, and even if an independent soul is added, its controllable space is very limited.
Only by adding neural pathways can a non-living entity truly "come alive" like a living entity.
Zhou Ziwei had already conceived the design of the new cross-shaped dart in his mind, so it didn't take him long to draw it. After finishing the drawing, he reviewed it again, made some minor modifications, and then sent it to Wu Di via email.
Less than two minutes after he sent the email, Wu Di called him, saying that he had seen the email and that the first cross-shaped dart should be fine. He had his craftsmen work overtime and estimated that they could produce twelve darts in three days.
The second type of cross dart, designed by Zhou Ziwei himself, is more troublesome. The joints of the dart designed by Zhou Ziwei are required to be both very flexible and quite resilient. It can't be thrown out with its head drooping and tail sticking up; otherwise, how can it be used to injure people?
Zhou Ziwei was not a real blacksmith after all. The design drawings he made only depicted the specific shape and size of the item, as well as some details and requirements. As for how to meet Zhou Ziwei's requirements, that was a problem for the actual craftsmen to figure out.
Therefore, even if the design drawings are immediately sent to the factory's craftsmen, they still need to redesign according to Zhou Ziwei's requirements, confirm the material of the new cross dart, and the internal design of each joint. Only after the design meets Zhou Ziwei's required standards will they begin to manufacture it. So, it will probably take another ten days or so before the finished product is produced.
Zhou Ziwei needed to stay here for a while longer because of the large quantity of jadeite in the small building and the establishment of a jadeite raw stone exchange. Therefore, he wasn't in a hurry to make these hidden weapons. He told Wu Di on the phone to do his best and not to be too nervous, and then he hung up the phone.
I need to find some time to replenish my soul power.
Zhou Ziwei gazed at the vast night outside the window, muttering to himself.
Today, at Wu Di's place, he unleashed a soul roar that shook the entire floor. This skill was quite impressive, but the soul power it consumed was also terrifying. That single roar directly reduced Zhou Ziwei's soul power reserves by half.
Zhou Ziwei originally thought that his technique, which relied on the large-scale contact between his soul power and the living body to cause the mutation of soul power, was the most soul-consuming. But now he realized that compared to the Soul Roar technique, that kind of soul power mutation was nothing.
After all this turmoil, Zhou Ziwei's soul power reserves in his sea of souls are now reduced to only two hundred remnant souls, which is basically the same as before Zhou Ziwei came to Tengchong.
However, Zhou Ziwei estimated that after repeatedly using his soul power during this period, the capacity of his soul power should have expanded again. Even if his soul sea only doubled in size this time, he should still be able to directly swallow the energy of more than a thousand remnant souls.
Although his current condition should be sufficient for treating Liu Xiaofei tomorrow night, Zhou Ziwei is worried that after treating Liu Xiaofei tomorrow night, his soul power will shrink again. Without soul power as a backup, it would be extremely dangerous for Zhou Ziwei to go to the bat cave in the mountains to devour the soul power of the ghost bats.
Therefore, after a slight hesitation, Zhou Ziwei decided to drive to that mountain road that very night to search for the ghost bat. He had to replenish the soul power in his sea of souls tonight first...
Zhou Ziwei brought the Audi back today and parked it in the hotel parking lot. So, if he wanted to go out that night, he didn't need to bother anyone else. He quickly washed his face, changed his clothes, and then called back the ladybugs that were flying around outside the window. He immediately went downstairs, got into the Audi, and sped away...
It wasn't until dawn the next day that Zhou Ziwei drove his Audi back to the hotel.
When Zhou Ziwei pushed open the hotel door and walked in, he startled the two receptionists who were dozing off at the front desk, causing them to involuntarily scream.
After a night of turmoil, Zhou Ziwei was now covered in mud, his clothes tattered and torn, barely covering his private parts but not his buttocks. As he walked, the strips of cloth flapped wildly, revealing the gaping holes. The two waiters had never seen anything like this before, and they were terrified and screamed.
These days, even beggars on the street have to dress neatly and cleanly in order to get money.
Otherwise, if they get dirty or even expose indecent body parts, pedestrians will walk around them. Who would be so foolish as to give money to such a beggar?