VAPBDB Chapter 21

Zhou Fei’s mouth twisted, and he didn’t care about teasing that little black face anymore. He got off the motorcycle and smiled at Pei Zhaozhou flatteringly, “Brother, why are you here?”

He was muttering to himself, ‘could it be that this little bad guy has found a big boss to curry favour with?’

Zhou Fei felt a little guilty and had to back down.

Captain Hu, who was not afraid of being beaten by this big boss yesterday, had his face bruised and swollen when he went to attend a meeting this morning. Several people who knew him came to ask Captain Hu who beat him. Captain Hu was too embarrassed to say that he fell down by himself.

It’s so funny. They are all experienced people, but they don’t even know whether he was injured from a fall or a beating?

Judging from the marks on Captain Hu’s face, he must have fallen onto a rock the size of a fist to have swollen like that.

You have to know that people with special abilities have thick skin and tough flesh. For Zhou Fei, Captain Hu’s skin is even thicker. It is not something that ordinary people can do to beat Captain Hu like this.

Zhou Fei thought he was thin-skinned and couldn’t withstand a single punch.

Zhang Lu looked left and right, and asked doubtfully: “Big brother, are you calling me?”

He didn’t expect that Zhou Fei would actually become like a human being one day and be so polite to call him “big brother”. If he really recognized him as his big brother, as long as he was willing to apologize for calling him a little black-faced boy before, it was not impossible for him to be magnanimous and forgive Zhou Fei for those mean words he said before.

Zhou Fei glanced at him coldly: “I’m not calling you, little black face.”

He passed Zhang Lu and came in front of Pei Zhaozhou.

Zhou Fei extended his hand and said enthusiastically, “Brother, nice to meet again. Meeting is fate. I didn’t ask your name at the gate of the base last time. What’s your name?”

Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes were a little subtle. He was not used to Zhou Fei’s overly enthusiastic and frivolous attitude towards him. But last time Zhou Fei helped him enter the base early, it was a big help to him. He didn’t seem to be a bad person.

“Pei Zhaozhou.”

He took the hand Zhou Fei, held it for a few seconds, and then let go.

Zhou Fei’s eyes narrowed with a smile: “It turns out to be Brother Pei. It just so happens that I promised to take you to familiarize yourself with the environment inside the base. I am very familiar with the trading area. If there is anything you want to buy, I can find a way to help you find it.”

Before Pei Zhaozhou could say anything, Zhang Lu angrily said, “No need, Brother Pei will be with me, you, Zhou Fei, better get out of here as far as you can!”

For Brother Pei’s sake, Zhou Fei didn’t bother with this black-faced guy.

But when Zhang Lu saw Zhou Fei’s motorcycle, he asked suspiciously, “Where did you get the motorcycle? Did you steal it?”

Zhou Fei: “Stealing shit, you can’t envy me, little black face, I have my own connections!”

Zhou Fei patted the motorcycle beside him, like a big boy who was excited about getting a big prize, with a look of pride in his eyes. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Pei Zhaozhou and said, “Brother Pei, if you want, I can lend it to you to drive for a while, but you have to return it to my other friend when the time comes.”

The body of the motorcycle is silver-gray, and is decorated with various metal ornaments and chains. The sound of the motor starting up shakes the ground. The metallic-luster cyberpunk-style motorcycle looks very attractive. Passers-by keep looking at it. One of the headlights is broken, but it doesn’t matter as long as it can be driven.

Zhang Lu sneered: “So this is not yours, it’s just your friend lending it to you. Why are you so proud?”

Zhou Fei was not angry either. He raised the corner of his mouth and said in a sly way, “You have no friends, it’s not your fault. Who asked you to have a dark face?”

“Zhou Fei, you… you!” Zhang Lu was so angry that he almost fought with Zhou Fei. As a person with superpowers, he had never been scared before.

Zhou Fei saw that Zhang Lu was about to get really angry, so he didn’t dare to provoke him. He was even more angry than him, of course because he is a fire-type superpower.

Zhou Fei, who was very good at extinguishing fires, immediately pulled Zhang Lu’s shoulder and said, “Why are you in such a hurry? Although I usually insult you and think you are shameless, I still treat you as a friend. How about I let you try your hand after Brother Pei has finished using it?”

Zhang Lu was getting more and more angry, but when he saw Zhou Fei’s wasteland-style cyberpunk motorcycle, which was a temptation that no man could resist, his anger subsided instantly.

Zhang Lu pursed his lips and said, “Okay, Zhou Fei, if you break your promise, I will punish you. I will come to your house every morning and throw rocks at you to wake you up!”

Different from Zhang Lu who always arrived on time or early for every work task, Zhou Fei always arrived on time or even a few minutes or ten minutes late, and his timing was just enough to put him on the edge of being angry.

Sometimes Zhang Lu even felt sad for Captain Hu, meeting such a cheap and lazy guy!

Zhou Fei’s face suddenly changed, and he agreed: “Okay, okay, I won’t break my promise… By the way, Brother Pei, do you want to try driving it?”

“No.” Pei Zhaozhou refused politely.

For him, who had driven mechas and even space carriers, this was just a small toy. What’s more, Zhou Fei’s car was decorated too extravagantly, so he had no interest in it.

Zhou Fei said, “Okay, since you are not interested, Brother Pei, forget it. But Brother Pei, what are you and Zhang Lu doing in the trading area?”

Pei Zhaozhou said frankly, “Find a job that can earn points. I just came to the Lucheng base and I haven’t prepared anything.”

Zhou Fei’s eyes were filled with surprise. “Huh? With your skills, Brother Pei, you can go anywhere. What’s more, you know Commander Si. Why don’t you ask him to put you in a transport team? If you don’t want to leave the base, there’s plenty of work for the psychics staying in the base.”

Pei Zhaozhou: “There are complicated reasons. I don’t plan to do this for too long.”

He promised Si Huaixi to make a new type of generator. Although it is called a generator, it is actually more than just a generator. It is also a high-end and sophisticated machine in the interstellar era. Although the current conditions are not enough, he also wants to try his best to reach the level of the interstellar in his previous life.

In interstellar space, they are called “bio micro-robots”. They can decompose matter and release energy like biological cells, but they do not need to consume the energy required for growth and secrete useless excrement like real organisms.

An outdated generator has an energy efficiency of 30%, which is already quite good. As the internal machinery ages, the energy efficiency will drop even lower. However, these robots can release all the energy contained in the material body, including the energy from the combustion process, energy between molecules, energy from releasing chemical bonds, etc. The energy efficiency can be 16 to 30 times that of an outdated generator.

If it was just to obtain more energy, Pei Zhaozhou would not have made such a high-tech “bio micro-robot”.

High technology means precision, complexity and trouble. He has many ways to improve the world’s backward energy-supplying machines without having to make a robot specifically.

Pei Zhaozhou originally thought that if the conditions could not be met, he could take a step back and try other methods. But since Si Huaixi said that his mental control could reach the microscopic level, he had some confidence that he could produce it.

The most important feature of ‘bio micro robots’ is that they are biological, which means they can decompose food to obtain energy and synthesize different substances to maintain biological development.

Similarly, “bio micro robots” can decompose to obtain energy and various raw material elements, and further synthesize different substances.

To some extent, it can be said that it is like a creator.

The core of the ‘bio micro robot’ is a special chip, just like human DNA, which works just like the brain that guides the body to synthesize any substance.

For example, Pei Zhaozhou input instructions that require the synthesis of natural rubber and other similar substances.

The ‘bio micro robot’ will recode it, adjust the required structure, and continuously produce natural rubber, which is equivalent to a new industrial line that continuously produces the required materials for Pei Zhaozhou.

As long as the conditions of “bio micro-robots” are met and the raw materials are sufficient, natural rubber can be synthesized. The process is same for the production of food, protein, steel, medicine, plastic, wires etc.

Although the efficiency is certainly not as good as the large-scale production line specializing in the production of rubber, the delicate environmental conditions required by the “biological micro-robot” are harsh, and they cannot meet the requirements of some materials that require high temperature, super-strong acidity, and ultra-low temperature to be produced.

But in the apocalyptic world, this environment where everything is lacking is indeed the most suitable. Only with the “bio micro-robot” Pei Zhaozhou can carry out the next step of research.

He did not forget his original idea, to build a spaceship and take Si Huaixi away from this planet full of zombie virus.

Coming to this high-dimensional world, he only cared about Si Huaixi who saved him.

Si Huaixi is a good man who appears cold on the outside but is warm on the inside. He would definitely not be willing to give up everyone. If Si Huaixi wants to take some people with him, he can take them with him as long as the load capacity is not exceeded.

Pei Zhaozhou doesn’t care about other people’s lives. He has become cold-blooded due to the betrayal he went through in his previous life.

Pei Zhaozhou is not so arrogant as to think that he can solve everything. The zombie virus is a virus that has never been recorded in the optical computer. Even in the interstellar space with advanced medical technology, even pheromone disorder cannot be cured.

The universe is deep and contains many mysteries and unknown existences.

‘…the consciousness of the world.’

Pei Zhaozhou’s amber-colored eyes flashed with a dark light.

The susceptibility period that had inexplicably came earlier had never happened before, and it reminded Pei Zhaozhou of the humiliating period when the pheromones in his body were out of control at any time.

Pei Zhaozhou, who originally thought that his pheromone disorder had improved, felt heavy-hearted.

Silver Arc has been strictly monitoring the concentration of pheromones in his body, fearing that in ten days he will officially enter the Alpha susceptible period, and the skyrocketing pheromones will completely confirm the diagnosis given to him by the doctor in his previous life…

Thinking of this, Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes showed a bit more anxiety.

Zhou Fei was also thinking about what kind of work was suitable for Pei Zhaozhou, and that could be done on a short-term basis.

Zhou Fei asked, “Brother Pei, what type of work do you prefer? If you don’t plan to do it for too long, how long can you do it? Do you have any other requirements?”

Pei Zhaozhou thought for a moment and replied, “I’m fine with any type. I may not do it after tomorrow. What I want is a high pay and a short working time.”

Zhou Fei was trying to take notes seriously at first, but he vomited blood later.

‘…if I couldn’t beat the person in front of me.’

Is this a person looking for a job? He also wants a job like this with little work and high pay. With so many demands, it would be better to just rob!

Zhou Fei smiled bitterly and said, “It’s a bit difficult to find this kind of job. How about lowering the requirements a little bit…”

Pei Zhaozhou thought that if he couldn’t find it, then forget it, he might as well go back and wait for Si Huaixi to come back. What he had to do next was more important, and he wondered if Si Huaixi had asked for the laboratory for him.

Pei Zhaozhou didn’t make things difficult for Zhou Fei and said he would not look for him for the time being.

Zhou Fei heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, but before he could completely relax, Zhang Lu touched his arm and shouted, “Is your car naturally emitting black smoke, or is it something that happened later…”

Zhou Fei’s heart skipped a beat and he turned to look at the borrowed motorcycle. Black smoke was coming out of the exhaust hole at the rear of the motorcycle, and there was a burning smell.

After a closer look, I found that I had forgotten to remove the key, so the engine was running but not moving, and it was even emitting black smoke!

Zhou Fei was so scared that he yelled, “Oh my god! Damn it! If I damage Zhang Gaocheng’s motorcycle, he will kill me!”

Zhou Fei panicked and immediately ran over to turn off the engine, but it was no use. When he started the engine again, he could hear the muffled sound of the engine, but the tires of the motorcycle did not move.

The locomotive was already old, and the parts inside were so old that they could be scrapped and used as garbage at any time. In addition, after the fire, the parts inside melted a little, and even the tires could not operate.

Zhang Lu felt that Zhang Gaocheng mentioned by Zhou Fei sounded familiar, and suddenly remembered that Zhang Gaocheng was none other than the leader of the scattered team of psychics in the base.

The Lucheng base has attracted many people with special abilities, but not all of them want to work for the Lucheng base. Some of them are unruly. It can be said that they are not good people by nature. They could have been sentenced to heavy penalties according to the laws before the end of the world.

But now is the end of the world, and killing people is not against the law.

Faced with such unyielding thugs and supernatural beings, the Lucheng Base would not want to force them to accept. They would just treat them as having a slightly higher combat power than ordinary people. As long as they abide by the rules of the Lucheng Base and don’t cause trouble, they would not do anything to them.

This group of scattered psychics are also afraid of the top psychics in the Lucheng base and will not cause big trouble, but they are bound to stir up trouble.

Just like the Lucheng base prohibits the use of grain to make wine, the psychics headed by Zhang Gaocheng brewed wine privately, indulged in pleasure all day long, drank alcohol and looked for women. For a while, this group of useless people were obsessed with taking a kind of poisonous mushroom that could cause hallucinations in the brain, making the base smell smoky and foul.

Zhang Lu was not interested in that group of maggot-like psychics, but he felt a little sorry that such a cool motorcycle was burned out.

Seeing Zhou Fei’s panic, Zhang Lu curled his lips in disapproval: “At worst, you can just take it to the research institute for repair. Are you, a level 6 fire-type ability user, afraid of them?”

What’s more, with the support of the base behind him, he didn’t believe that Zhou Fei was really afraid.

What bothered Zhou Fei was not this, but that he was a hedonist who lived for the moment and drank till the day was turned into night. He had recently bought a batch of new CDs, as that was his hobby. He had collected quite a few CDs of famous singers before the end of the world.

‘This motorcycle is burned like this and I’m afraid all its parts need to be replaced from top to bottom.’

Zhou Fei said to Zhang Lu with a bitter face: “How about you lend me a few mid-level crystal cores, or high-level crystal cores if you have any.”

Zhang Lu snorted twice: “I don’t have any money, but I’ll consider if you call me brother.”

Zhou Fei said humiliatedly: “…Brother.”

Zhang Lu shouted loudly: “No!”

Zhou Fei: “……!!!”

He kicked him but Zhang Lu dodged flexibly and laughed mockingly.

Now it was Zhou Fei’s turn to turn black.

It looked like they were about to embarrass themselves.

Pei Zhaozhou, who was standing between the two of them, held his forehead with his hand, feeling like he was back to when he was an officer dealing with some conflicting subordinate soldiers, who would start a fight over a single disagreement.

Pei Zhaozhou: “Okay, I’ll fix the motorcycle for you.”

Zhou Fei stopped kicking Zhang Lu and asked in shock, “Really?”

“Um.”

Pei Zhaozhou had even repaired a spaceship, let alone a simple two-wheeled vehicle.

Pei Zhaozhou took out a complete set of repair tools from his cold black and gray protective suit.

When he went to attack the Second Prince of the Empire, he was driving the S-class mecha. Before becoming a mecha pilot, he also served as a mecha repairman.

After his mecha was tampered with and got into trouble, he was even more unwilling to let unidentified mecha repairmen touch his mecha, so he repaired all the mechas himself.

The large repair tools were left on the mecha, and a small repair tool is carried in the protective suit.

Originally, he planned to never return and die together with his enemies.

’I didn’t expect he was still alive. I can’t take revenge, but the small repair tools I brought can help me fix this.’

Pei Zhaozhou smiled.

The shell of the locomotive was easily disassembled and the problem was found. A supporting metal rod was burned out, and it could be fixed by welding it back.

Pei Zhaozhou didn’t bring a welding gun, but that didn’t pose any problem for him.

He adjusted the valve of the energy gun to a high temperature suitable for welding, used the energy gun as a welding gun, and repaired the locomotive.

Zhou Fei and Zhang Lu watched from the sidelines in amazement.

Zhang Lu was very curious about the gun and asked, “What kind of gun is this?”

Pei Zhaozhou: “Energy gun.”

Zhang Lu: “Can I try?”

Pei Zhaozhou wanted to refuse, but thinking that Zhang Lu had helped him by bringing him to the trading area, he handed it to him and reminded him, “Don’t aim at people.”

Zhang Lu didn’t aim at anyone, but he imitated the posture of the protagonist in the movie shooting and pulling out the fuse, and adjusted the valve of the energy gun to the maximum value.

Sizzle—!!!

A fist-thick blue-purple beam of light shot through the ground, and a large charred pit with a diameter of half a meter instantly appeared.

Zhang Lu and Zhou Fei: “………………”

“What the hell!”

“What the hell!”

A professor from the research institute passing by also said, “What the hell!”