I’m A Wasteland Giant

Chapter 26: Activating the Nervous System!

After a night of chaos, the streets in Nan Yuan City were covered with bloodstains. Tattered strips of clothes and shoes were everywhere, serving as proof of the humans that used to live.

Not only that, but many cars also burned with green smoke. Some had crashed during the day, but more of them were forcibly demolished by those insects.

In just one night, the city, which used to be clean and full of civilization, became dilapidated, and the putrid scent of blood had permeated everywhere.

Du Gang and his group passed a hotel and discovered people looking down from the windows above. But when those people realized that there were still people alive on the street, they frantically hid from the windows.

“Want to go up and talk to them?”

Du Gang shook his head and said: “Forget it. Scan this building for any insects. We’ll leave after grabbing their crystals.”

From the reaction of those people above, it was apparent that they were terrified and concerned that Du Gang and his group would implicate them by causing a lot of noise and luring the insects.

“There are four of them!”

“Two per person then. Move fast!”

He had proposed to let An Ya test if her Vision Manipulation was effective on the insects.

However, An Ya didn’t attempt to, or rather, she was still afraid of facing the insects. That was why along the journey, Du Gang and Chu Zixuan were the only ones who hunted down the insects.

Meanwhile, there was no point in communicating with those people upstairs because they certainly knew less than Du Gang’s group.

Du Gang’s main objective was to head to the nearest police station. He wanted to see if the police station was secure and also find out whether the government had any updates on the situation.

Just like that, the six of them didn’t deal with anyone along the way. They were already far away from the school and just one street away from reaching the nearest police station.

They had also slaughtered hundreds of insects and accumulated hundreds of crystals.

As the journey continued, their expressions became increasingly serious.

Because they didn’t find a single insect carcass on the street.

Apart from human blood and debris, there was nothing related to the insects—not even a drop of their unique green blood!

“Ordinary people couldn’t have put up any resistance against the insects!”

“But the police station will have guns. We’re only one street away from the police station and still don’t see any insect carcass…”

The group had a bad feeling. The police station might have crumbled as firearms could have only dealt limited damage to the insects!

“Let’s divide the crystals first and absorb them first!”

Du Gang called out to the group, walked to the roadside bench, and took out the crystals to distribute them.

His 10 minutes of transformation time was almost finished for the day. If he didn’t upgrade himself, he wouldn’t be able to retrieve more crystals from the insect carcasses.

He did try to retrieve the crystals in his normal size. But even though he was twice as strong as before, he still couldn’t break open the insects’ skull. Fortunately, he transformed in time, or he would have failed miserably.

They collected a total of 101 crystals. According to the distribution ratio of three to two to one, Du Gang took 31, An Ya and Chu Zixuan got 20 respectively, and the remaining three of them received 10 each.

“Everyone, swallow the crystal one by one and stop right away if you feel any changes or abnormalities…”

“Let’s begin!”

As soon as Du Gang said, the other five couldn’t wait to swallow the crystals in their hands one by one.

While they closed their eyes, Du Gang silently recited in his mind.

Absorb!

In a flash, the 31 crystals in the small bag were instantly transformed into energy.

[Absorbed 31 red energy crystals. Gained 66 energy points.]

He had exactly 120 energy points with his previous balance, which was enough to activate the system.

Du Gang held down his excitement and clicked on the page of the nervous system in the second row of the skill tree in his mind.

He gently and quietly said to himself.

Upgrade!

In an instant, 100 energy points vanished, and the originally gray interface of the nervous system lit up.

[Nervous System activated.

The transformation time of the First Order Ancient God is increased to three hours.

Nervous System enhanced to the First Order tier.

Nervous System branch skills:

Skill 1: Super Brain Analysis (100)

Increases the speed of brain operation and enhances the ability of analysis. You can analyze the truth through clues and limited conditions.

Skill 2: Dynamic Vision (100)

Upgrades the retinal nerves to greatly enhance vision. You will gain increased nerve transmission speed and the ability to see objects moving at high speed.

Skill 3: Time & Space Perception…

Note: The First Order Nervous System is limited to learning one branch skill.]

The moment the interface of the nervous system lit up, Du Gang took in all this information in his head.

At the same time, he also felt changes in his body.

First, it was a most intuitive feeling in terms of nerves. He found that everything around him became clearer.

Not only did his hearing, sense of smell, and vision improve greatly, but his thought process also became faster.

He even had a hunch that the size of his transformation would be even larger now!

In other words, this upgrade not only extended his transformation time to three hours, but also strengthened his nervous system comprehensively.

The most significant change was that some of his nerves that learned external perceptions had become stronger. At that moment, without turning around, he was able to clearly use his sense of smell to feel the scent of blood among the mass of rags on the ground 10 meters away.

Compared to earlier, when he could only smell the pungent air drifting around him, he now had the ability to determine the general location of that scent after upgrading his senses.

In addition, he had a vague feeling that his reaction speed had increased dramatically as well.

He roughly looked through the nervous system branch skills. In other words, he could spend another 100 energy points to choose and upgrade one of the skills.

After understanding how the skills worked, he valued the skill Dynamic Vision more than the rest.

After all, he was a human, and most of his perception of the outside world came from his eyesight. Enhancing dynamic vision and coupled with an increased speed of reactions—it could be said to double his combat power.

When Du Gang opened his eyes, it was only then that he realized that the other five had surrounded him and were currently staring.

“Hmm?”

Du Gang said curiously: “What are you guys doing—standing here and watching me? Aren’t you upgrading your system?”

“We’re done!”

“Huh?”

Du Gang was a bit puzzled. It had only taken him a few dozen seconds to upgrade his nervous system and these people were all done?

Chu Zixuan said: “An hour has passed since we started swallowing the crystals. When we were done, your eyes were still closed, so we didn’t want to disturb you…”

“An hour?”

Du Gang shot him a dubious look, before turning to the others.

When he looked at Ma Li and An Ya, both of them nodded firmly: “Yes! An hour!”

He hurriedly took out his phone to take a look, and sure enough, an hour had passed.

This surprised him a little. At the same time, he felt some lingering fear. He counted himself lucky to have upgraded his system when the sun was up. If he were to do it at night, perhaps his flesh and bones wouldn’t have survived the insects for one minute, not to mention an hour!

However, this was also considered to have given him a wake up call. The next time he activated a new system, he had to do it in a safe place!