Chapter 114: Thoughts

Zhou Liming flapped his wings and flew into the sky. He identified the direction, then increased the frequency of his wing beats and flew towards the distance.

Zhou Liming had never left Zhe B City since he was a child, so he was somewhat unfamiliar with other cities. Deep down, he still wanted to make his destination Zhe B City. The Communicator had a global positioning system that could accurately guide Zhou Liming to the city he wanted to go to. Unfortunately, on this trip, Zhou Liming had turned off his Communicator, so naturally, he could not use the GPS function.

The Communicator was bound with a tracking signal. Even if it was turned off or the battery was removed, the command center could still know the location of the Communicator.

But the Communicator of the X Squadron, in the eyes of Chen Xiyi, had no technical difficulty. Turning off the tracking signal was just a small technical problem. Chen Xiyi was a member of the first batch of the X Squadron. He was proficient in various electronic devices and was the electronic cracking expert in the Squadron. Not to mention Zhou Liming’s Communicator, he had actually tampered with the Communicators of the entire X Squadron and could turn off the tracking signals of the Communicators at will.

In Chen Xiyi’s words: “The tracking signal is said to be for our safety and so they can know our location when there is an accident, but in fact, isn’t it just a rope? Sometimes when we want to be free, we are still controlled by them. What kind of nonsense is that?” It seemed that Chen Xiyi, who came from a technical background, was not a good bird either, and should be a troublemaker in the army.

This secret matter was also known to Lian Ruixue, but she did not need to say it. What danger could the members of the X Squadron be in? If they couldn’t fight, couldn’t they still run?

Zhou Liming turned off the tracking signal on his Communicator. The command center of the X Squadron knew this. After notifying Lian Ruixue, she didn’t care at all, thinking that Zhou Liming was just angry and needed to vent and calm down, so she didn’t take it to heart.

Zhou Liming, who knew how fast his actual flying speed was, naturally set his sights on the more developed big cities along the coast.

Zhou Liming’s vision now was no longer about small fuss; he used to think taking a little was enough. Anyway, the cities had already fallen into the hands of the Fierce Beasts, so the things he took were ownerless objects, so why feel guilty? You couldn’t say their owners were killed by Fierce Beasts early on, or died on the road of escape, so who cares about these things now?

Of course, the country also knew that there was huge wealth in these cities, but the problem was that they didn’t have the ability to go deep into these cities and snatch back some valuable things. But not having the ability didn’t mean they didn’t want to. As the number of Fierce Beast Warriors increased, they would definitely perform this kind of task in the future.

Zhou Liming didn’t want to go back to Zhe B City, as it didn’t meet his wishes, but Hu City, which was not far from it, was naturally listed as a target by Zhou Liming.

As the situation became clearer and the occupied areas between humans and beasts became distinct, once the country freed its hands, stabilizing people’s lives and stopping the chaos were certain. The current monetary system was severely challenged, the financial system collapsed, and the price of gold soared. If this continued, the suffering of the people that happened in ancient times would surely be repeated in modern times. The urgent need to stabilize prices and restore the financial economic system would become the top priority of the country.

But to restore these, the re-reform of the currency would involve the issue of reserves, and at that time, gold would definitely play a crucial role.

Hu City was known as the financial economic center of the East, and its level of prosperity was at the forefront of many cities in the world. But this was not the main point; the main point was the gold storage center located in Pudong, where at least 30% of the country’s gold reserves were kept. Just imagine, how could the country give up such a gold reserve center that occupied such a huge amount and not use it?

What Zhou Liming was doing now was to strike first before the country reacted, and he had to make a fortune, right?

“Since you don’t pay wages, I’ll create my own revenue, is that okay?” Zhou Liming flew in the sky and said viciously, but he didn’t know how much gold he could move away at that time, one ton? Or two tons? Or empty the entire gold reserve center?

If the country made up its mind and dispatched special forces, and finally arrived at Hu City after paying a huge price, only to find the entire gold reserve center empty, what kind of expressions would they have? Just thinking about it, Zhou Liming had a feeling of wanting to laugh.

“Damn it, see if you don’t pay wages.”

The price of gold rising to ten thousand per gram was not a problem at all; according to current price levels, it might be far more than that number. If he got a few tons of gold… Zhou Liming couldn’t help trembling all over, because this was already beyond his tolerance. You know, before, giving him one thousand bucks was already a huge sum.

“I heard that some gold storage center in the United States stores nearly twenty tons of gold? Damn, if I get that over here, that would be wealth rivaling the country.” Zhou Liming was almost like he was injected with chicken blood: “I have to find a chance to run to the territory of the Yankees and take a look, and smoothly fish some things back to disgust them to death. Tsk tsk, with my current flying speed, it only takes five or six hours to get there.”

Zhou Liming hadn’t tested his flight stamina or how long he could fly. Crossing the entire Pacific Ocean, there were almost no islands to land on. If he ran out of strength, he could just wait to drink water in the sea.

This wasn’t the most important reason. The ocean was the cradle that nurtured Fierce Beasts, and the danger in it was definitely more than ten times higher than on land. Like the Seventh Level, or even the Eighth Level Fierce Beasts, they were still sleeping in the ocean. Who knew if fluttering in the sea a few times would wake them up?

He shook his head and drove these thoughts out of his head. “Be more realistic, sweep through Hu City first. The Yankees can be dealt with later.”

After flying continuously for two hours, Zhou Liming didn’t feel tired, and his stamina was very abundant. This flying ability, which was almost integrated with his body, made Zhou Liming fly very comfortably, and there should be no saying that flying would overdraw his stamina. But whether this was true or not still needed to be tested for a longer time.

Without GPS, Zhou Liming had no way to confirm a too precise direction. A clumsy person has clumsy methods. First, during the flight, he lowered the flight altitude so that when passing some cities, he could confirm the names of these cities. Zhou Liming, who had a rough memory of the map, was not worried that the direction would deviate too much through the guidance of these cities.

Then, naturally, he flew directly out to the seaside, and then in the direction of the south, flying all along the coast.

There were no few Fierce Beasts coming out at night. Among them, like the Flying Bat Beast, there was not much distinction between day and night for them. They could be seen during the day and also at night. There were also some Flying Fierce Beasts that hunted at night, and their sensory systems allowed them to accurately capture the presence of prey.

Like the Fish Eagle Beast, they were active in the coastal area, feeding on catching marine fish, and rarely appeared too far inland.

Don’t think that because the ocean was the cradle of Fierce Beasts, there were no other creatures. In fact, from research, it was found that the appearance of Fierce Beasts caused very limited damage to marine life and the environment. Instead, the appearance of Fierce Beasts completely stopped the world’s marine fishing industry, indirectly protecting the ocean from excessive fishing. Could this be considered fulfilling the greatest purpose of the marine life protection organization?

Rich marine life was usually an important food source for Fierce Beasts. Otherwise, having lost the food chain, wouldn’t they all treat humans as food?

Many Flying Fierce Beasts were also very fast. In the coastal area, Zhou Liming was chased by a kind of Fierce Beast that looked a bit like a pterosaur. They were in groups of three or five, and their flying speed was amazing. They bit behind Zhou Liming and chased him for a while, making crisp calls from time to time. It wasn’t until crossing more than a hundred kilometers that Zhou Liming shook them off behind him.

With flying speed like a Fighter Jet and extremely flexible flying skills, as well as Form Skills that could be deployed in the air, it was no wonder that the Air Force’s Fighter Jets didn’t dare to approach the coast easily. Otherwise, if targeted by these Fierce Beasts, they wouldn’t be able to escape even if they wanted to. Except for flying up to an altitude of 20,000 meters, it might be possible to avoid them.

In the entire Fierce Beast Occupied Area, Fierce Beasts ran rampant. Whether in the air or on land, wanting to cross this vast occupied area was almost impossible.

The sensitivity of the Fierce Beasts’ senses and the distance they covered were definitely far beyond human imagination. Except for a few special cases, even Fierce Beast Warriors who possessed Flying Fierce Beast Genes didn’t dare to cross alone. Like Lian Ruixue’s flying speed, Zhou Liming had seen it and it should be about the same as a civil airliner, reaching a speed of 600 to 800 kilometers per hour. This kind of thing was impossible to shake off the pursuit of some Flying Fierce Beasts known for their speed.

Flying along the coast for a long time, Zhou Liming’s mind was a bit messy, all thinking about the Fierce Beasts.

“Forget it, leave these to the analysis department of the Fierce Beasts to toss about. Why should I worry about this?” Zhou Liming smiled bitterly. In fact, these departments and institutions were urgently established since the arrival of the Fierce Beasts, and began to analyze and research the Fierce Beasts. Many data were compiled by them, and the official naming of them was promoted.

In fact, this kind of naming had nothing new to speak of. Many Fierce Beasts, especially the mutations produced by the combination of Fierce Beast Gene and a certain creature on Earth, more or less carried heavy Earth creature characteristics. So when seeing this type of Fierce Beast, the name of the Earth creature was directly used with the word “Beast” added at the end, which was the name of the Fierce Beast.

Like the Rhinoceros Beast, it was named so because its appearance had some features of a rhinoceros.

But there were exceptions. The mutations of some Fierce Beasts were completely separated from people’s knowledge of any creature. The naming of this type of Fierce Beast adopted names that fit its appearance characteristics or ability characteristics. For example, the Leaf Sac Beast and the Boneback Beast, as well as the Electric Spirit Beast, the Multi-legged Insect Beast, and so on…