CHAPTER 29: CHAPTER 27 MYSTERIOUS RADIATION WAVES

At this moment, the water, land, and air spray car around his neck—a crude Giant Dragon—emits a warm glow, tiny stars of warmth, seemingly absorbed in part by his Spiritual Power.

This feeling is very strange!

To make an analogy, it feels like his own Awakening, like a breeze of spring, except that somehow they were Awakening him in return.

"What’s going on?"

Li Qing was suddenly shocked.

Lately, he had been experimenting every day with this Frankenstein Giant Dragon in the bottle universe:

He watched them daily.

Although it had already Awakened, he continued to try to Awaken them further to see what changes would occur when nurtured to a certain extent.

Seventy seconds were enough for Awakening, but he forcibly watched for twenty minutes a day, and this experiment had only lasted a week before this mutation occurred.

"What’s going on?" Li Qing asked the subordinates in his neck’s guardian squad.

"Ah... I don’t... know ~~"

A simple and cute Consciousness Wave came through.

Li Qing was momentarily silent!

Inside the brain of this Giant Dragon, there were countless single-cell pilots. Usually, when he asked this group of cuties, they would all chime in.

But now inside the test tube, there was only one voice!

Inside, there was only one lifeform.

Because they were his core subordinate troops, he wasn’t worried about rebellion. He opened the test tube and poured out this large-headed, ant-sized creature.

"Ah? This is..."

The cute voice was full of doubt.

He wiped the platform with alcohol, laid the ant on it, and picked up a delicate and sharp hook knife:

"Don’t move, let me see your brain, see what is going on inside, why the other brain pilots disappeared!"

"Ah~ Oh~~"

"Ah~ Oh~~"

"I can open it myself~~"

It emitted a strange, silly-consciousness sound.

Li Qing found he didn’t need to cut it open; the other was very cooperative.

The brain just split open.

Under micro-watching, Li Qing found that the original group of pilot cells in the brain had all merged into one, forming a pomegranate structure built of gem-like pieces.

"They have undergone a secondary Awakening and become an Integrated Consciousness??"

Li Qing was astonished.

In this brain, single cells merged like composite neurons.

Next, Li Qing began testing a bit.

After the Integrated Consciousness formed, he found that the IQ of this large consciousness entity did not soar, not even reaching three cobblers as clever as Zhuge Liang, but certain aspects of computational thinking drastically improved.

The thinking speed was very fast, presumably due to the effect of the Integrated Consciousness.

"This is so interesting!"

Li Qing was somewhat delighted, "I even feel that as long as he harbors admiration or adoration for me, he can emit some Spiritual Power feedback."

He immediately realized what this was about.

This was the original ability of a Zombie Lord!

Ning Guochang had mentioned that in his parallel world zombie life, as a mind-controlling Zombie Tyrant, the zombie lifeforms he controlled would provide him with Spiritual feedback.

But in this world, Ning Guochang thought this power had vanished because single cells couldn’t provide feedback to him.

Now it seemed that the ability hadn’t disappeared.

It was just that the consciousness of single cells was too weak, and it required truly large subordinate lifeforms to feedback.

"Thinking this through, I seem to have found a path to becoming stronger; I might finally become a qualified Zombie Tyrant."

Li Qing pondered.

"It’s just a pity my number of subordinates I can control is limited."

"Currently, it’s just 0.00078 grams, and even a single Integrated Consciousness takes up part of my control quota, consuming too much! I estimate creating a dozen would expend all my subordinate slots."

This is hardly worth the loss.

It’s better to break them up into church high-ups, more convenient for ruling the world as a secret mastermind.

But.

Li Qing was quite interested.

If the Zombie Lord’s ability hadn’t truly disappeared, couldn’t he use it himself?

Li Qing recalled the ability Ning Guochang described.

As a Zombie Tyrant lord occupying Phoenix City, he instilled immense fear in surrounding survivor camps. Controlling the subordinates was no simple feat.

First, the subordinate perspective.

Zombies he controlled would all become ears and eyes for the Zombie Tyrant.

Second, consciousness arrival.

Consciousness temporarily linked to zombies, descending into controlled zombies.

"Let’s try it first...." Li Qing slightly frowned, watching the Giant Dragon, slowly attempting to let his consciousness permeate inside.

Crack.

The next moment, Li Qing seemed to enter the body of the Frankenstein Giant Dragon, observing its actions in the first-person perspective.

"Ah... warmth... father is by my side..."

The other seemed to sense Li Qing’s consciousness attached to him.

Li Qing found it actually worked!

He continued to adjust the consciousness ratio, eventually making sure the Giant Dragon consciousness no longer noticed his peeking presence at all.

From now on, he could peek whenever he wanted.

He then tried another operation, controlling the body.

"Ah... don’t... it hurts... don’t..."

The other consciousness instinctively resisted.

Li Qing, after entering consciousness, controlled the body a bit and found it extremely interesting.

He felt like a child with a new toy, pressing remote buttons, continuously playing with this toy car, moving forward and backward, swimming, and spraying water.

Through repeated tests, Li Qing found that his control range was shorter than that of a third-rate remote-controlled car.

Beyond ten meters, consciousness became fuzzy, blurring the line between people and animals.

Beyond fifteen meters, the connection cut off completely.

This WIFI signal was absurdly weak.

After a series of tests, Li Qing rubbed his chin and concluded, "This is just too weak."

He remembered what Ning Guochang told him about the Zombie Lord’s ability.

They constantly emitted a special signal wave, covering an area up to forty miles, comparable to a ground base station, easily issuing commands to subordinates and triggering a zombie tide!

As an intelligent zombie, he even easily deciphered WIFI and various signals, intercepting military information.

Yet, after mutating in his hands, it became as weak as telekinesis barely able to lift a strand of cotton!

He was evidently also a controlling Zombie Lord, merely controlling a small ant; beyond ten meters, it instantly spasms, blurring the line between people and animals in his vision, whereas even his remote-controlled toy car was more agile.

However, it was still alright; after the crystal core traveled through space-time and mutated, all capabilities weakened by thousands of times while precision increased by thousands, now even allowing single-cell bacteria to become subordinates.

He remembered hearing the parallel world’s Ning Guochang’s cause of death.

He attacked the survivor base, and the military led a group of scientists to decode his signal waves, even interfering with his frequencies, resulting in the forty-mile zombie tide he controlled losing control, the core guard squad losing contact, unable to retreat, and then an enemy decapitation plan executed.

Li Qing at the time thought this was too flashy, writing an apocalypse novel of a villain Zombie Lord, that creativity was decent. If this Zombie King was also about capturing wives, school belles, and CEOs, then it would instantly fit the bill.

But if it was true now...

Li Qing could only smile: "He was too complacent, no wonder he was surrounded and wiped out by the military."

He thought if that parallel universe Ning Guochang, as a Zombie Lord, had built a lab, donned a white coat, researched his signal waveband, developed superpowers, and played information warfare with the opponent, constantly improving himself, adjusting and evolving his Consciousness Waves, would it have been cold?

As a native seizing the city as king, living off natural talent without carefully researching his own powers, definitely a squander of potential.

"Anyway, once I have the funds, I’ll establish a lab to research this signal wave scientifically and based on data, to explore my Consciousness Wave, then evolve and transform."

"I am just too short on range, at least a hundred meters, right?"

Li Qing complained for a while, "If it were me here, I’d undoubtedly research control-consciousness waves, even creating a new WiFi for subordinates to connect and log in and be actively controlled by me."

"But this Giant Dragon turning out this way is quite interesting." Li Qing mused, "I can throw it in now as a temporary medium for descending, allowing myself to enter inside."

From a giant’s perspective, certainly not comparable to viewing this civilization from a civilian’s viewpoint.

He organized all his plans in mind and proceeded to the adjacent laboratory, intending to truly venture into the Otherworld for exploration.