After reading the details of the mission, Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but furrow his brows.
The Earth's atmosphere had long been polluted by the Blood Plague.
Because of this, over the past month and a half, outbreaks of the Blood Plague had erupted one after another around the globe! Even though there were still three and a half months left until the full outbreak on October 8, panic had already spread! According to Xu Zhengyang's understanding, some small countries had already lost order and had fallen into warlord factions! Because of this, even domestically, various strategic materials had all been placed on a control list.
Even though Xu Zhengyang had money, a lot of money, he still couldn't buy any equipment related to generator sets!
Thinking of this, Xu Zhengyang felt an immense headache and said, "One hundred megawatt-hours means generating one hundred thousand kilowatt-hours in one hour. To achieve such a power generation effect, I'm afraid I'll have to build a large thermal power plant in my shelter!"
At this point, Xu Zhengyang suddenly had a flash of inspiration and quickly asked Da Bai, "Da Bai, are there any large thermal power plants that have been abandoned?"
"There are many, Master."
Da Bai replied, projecting a map onto Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses, marking it with dense red dots, each representing an abandoned power plant.
Then, Da Bai explained the red dots on the map to Xu Zhengyang, "Due to the gradual spread of the Blood Plague Virus, light industrial factories such as furniture manufacturing, plastic products, glass, and ceramics have already experienced widespread shutdowns. With a significant reduction in industrial electricity consumption, to conserve resources, not only us, but most thermal power plants around the world are now in a semi-idle state."
"Oh?"
Xu Zhengyang felt a surge of joy upon hearing this and said to Da Bai, "Then filter out a thermal power plant built with the latest technology for me. It must have a power generation capacity of no less than one hundred megawatt-hours!"
"Understood, Master."
As Da Bai spoke, Xu Zhengyang saw the red dots on his contact lenses disappearing one after another.
In the end, Da Bai left only two red dots on Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses and explained, "Both of these meet your requirements. Point 1 is in Xiang Province, the closest to you; Point 2 is in Siam, but this power plant was not abandoned voluntarily; it is occupied by a Blood Plague Heart. If you go there, not only can you retrieve the power plant's equipment, but you can also deal with the Blood Plague Heart, charging the Proof of Leadership!"
"Then let's go to Siam!"
Xu Zhengyang said, immediately storing the Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha into his Dimensional Space Pocket, and then he rushed out of his shelter!
*One and a half months ago, international public transport was only suspended domestically. Just a week ago, even domestic public transport was cut off! However, with the complete version of the Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha in hand, as long as he directly broke through the atmosphere and flew in space, no one would be able to detect him!...
With the speed of the Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha in FPV drone form, Xu Zhengyang successfully landed in the power plant marked by Da Bai in just over an hour!
"Boom—"
With a loud noise, the thirty-meter-tall Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha unleashed two ten-meter-long energy swords, one red and one blue, from its hands! The Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha boasted a staggering 300 points of strength!
Under such overwhelming attributes, Xu Zhengyang easily broke through the Zombie defense line and charged straight to the Blood Plague Heart, shattering it into pieces with just two strikes!
Immediately after, Xu Zhengyang turned around and dealt with the Zombie Horde here, clearing them out mostly before he approached the Blood Plague Heart and extended his right hand.
...
Once the Proof of Leadership absorbed the energy from this crystal, Xu Zhengyang discovered that the crystal actually had two points of Spark!
[Cosmic Oddity: Proof of Leadership]
[Spark: 10]
...
Xu Zhengyang then opened the attributes of the Proof of Leadership, and a prompt appeared before him: [Do you wish to consume 10 Spark to unlock the ultimate skill of Proof of Leadership?]
Although Xu Zhengyang was eager to confirm right away, for safety's sake, he decided to first store the core equipment from this power plant, a 120 megawatt-hour turbine, into his Dimensional Space Pocket before returning to the shelter!
Back at the shelter, Xu Zhengyang tossed the turbine out of his Dimensional Space Pocket for Da Bai to start expanding the thermal power plant. He then returned to his bedroom and reopened the attributes panel of the Proof of Leadership: [Do you wish to consume 10 Spark to unlock the ultimate skill of Proof of Leadership?]
As Xu Zhengyang chose to unlock it, in the next moment, the Proof of Leadership floated before him, separating from his finger!
Then, the Proof of Leadership transformed in a series of combinations, reshaping into that peculiar metallic cube.
At that moment, the Proof of Leadership suddenly transformed from a physical entity into an energy cube composed of blue and white, then surged towards Xu Zhengyang, enveloping him!
"?!"
Xu Zhengyang was taken aback! But before he could react, he felt waves of incomprehensible knowledge flooding into his mind in a way that exceeded his understanding! There was so much knowledge, so vast and complex.
Xu Zhengyang barely had time to discern its meaning before he was nearly overwhelmed and lost consciousness! Fortunately, he was in the shelter, where his mental recovery speed received an extra boost.
Thus, he could continuously use the Total Concentration skill to resist the onslaught of knowledge!
At the same time, the Proof of Leadership began to change from its original energy cube form, ultimately transforming into a three-meter-long, one-meter-wide white cocoon of light, floating in Xu Zhengyang's bedroom...
*Xu Zhengyang had a long dream.
In the dream, he saw himself transformed into a massive metallic celestial body!
Xu Zhengyang couldn't describe how large this celestial body was.
But at the center of this celestial body's combustion chamber, a star was imprisoned as its power source!
Although this celestial body was incredibly vast, as long as Xu Zhengyang wished, he could manipulate any mechanical component within it and transform the celestial body into any mechanical form, doing anything he desired!
He felt like a deity! Just as Xu Zhengyang passively stored all the knowledge within him, a series of system subtitles appeared before his eyes: [You have unlocked the ultimate skill of Proof of Leadership: [Heart of Machinery]]
(End of Chapter)