Chapter 569 Countdown to 162 days

The arrows sliding across at extremely high speeds drew a long trace on the snow, dividing the snow at the foot of the hillside into two.

The speed was so fast that it hit the pillar of origin heavily in an instant.

Accompanied by a harsh friction sound.

The arrowhead of the special arrow could penetrate even the steel plate, but it did not penetrate the Pillar of Origin. Instead, it wiped a spark on the Pillar of Origin and then slid to one side, disappearing behind the Pillar of Origin.

Lin Shi walked to the Pillar of Origin.

Seeing that the Pillar of Origin was completely intact, he frowned and took the giant crossbow back into space.

"Sure enough, this kind of attack power cannot cause effective damage to the Pillar of Origin."

The lethality of the special giant crossbow has been enhanced, and it can directly kill the sixth-order source beast instantly.

However, compared to Lin Shi's own attack power, it was still far behind.

Not being able to touch the Pillar of Origin and not being able to use the ability to control objects really greatly limited Lin Shi's attack power.

However, Lin Shi was not helpless.

In the past six months, Lin Shi had not done anything other than hunting source beasts.

He discovered a new way to hone his mental strength.

In the past, before acquiring meditation, Lin Shi used overdraft of mental power to increase his mental power.

Later, because the upper limit of mental power was getting higher and higher and it was impossible to overdraw his mental power under normal circumstances, Lin Shi stopped using that method.

But the suppression of mental power on this island gave Lin Shi a new way to quickly increase his mental power.

That is to forcefully release spiritual power against the rules of the island.

Doing so will greatly consume mental energy and achieve the purpose of exhausting mental energy.

Although the mental power is still difficult to leave the body.

But over time, Lin Shi was not completely without gains.

The first is that his mental strength has become more solidified than before under this self-mutilating exercise.

At the same time, mental power has also been able to leave the body for a short period of time.

Now his mental power can leave the body about ten centimeters.

Don't underestimate these ten centimeters, it already gives Lin Shi the possibility to separate his mental power from his body.

If his mental energy is about two meters away from his body, he can use his object-controlling ability on the Pillar of Origin at close range without touching the weapon.

You can use your eighth-level ability and attack power to attack the Pillar of Origin!

That's right, Lin Shi still didn't give up on destroying the Pillar of Origin.

If humans still lose after more than 400 days, using Reversal of the Universe is indeed an option, but destroying the Pillar of Origin is also an option.

When it comes to life and death, it's no exaggeration for him to die together.

Lin Shi and Lin Tianrui said hello and went back to Shashi first.

All survivors and most of the soldiers in Shashi Base have moved to the island where the Pillar of Origin is located.

Only the Research Institute has not been moved.

The only ones left were the guards guarding the scientific research institute.

There are too many precision instruments in the scientific research institute, which are not suitable for long-distance transportation.

In addition, being underground, there is no longer a large number of source beast threats from the outside world.

Even if the base has become a ghost town, it will not affect the operation of the scientific research institute.

Li Xianke's scientific research team had previously obtained the runes on the Pillar of Origin and began to study them. However, several months had passed and they still had not figured out the meaning of those runes.

Lin Shi decided to hand over all the runes he saw when it upgraded from the cornucopia to Li Xianke for study. Perhaps with more symbols, it would be easier to study the meaning of these runes.

But even if he could figure out the meaning of those runes, Lin Shi didn't think it would be of any help in the battle for survival.

A civilization that can create a cornucopia and a pillar of origin is obviously far ahead of the technological level of mankind.

Even if you understand the other person's words, you only have a preliminary understanding.

When Lin Shi returned to the Shashi base, he found that Li Xianke's team was researching the Pillar of Origin.

Nowadays, the Pillar of Origin is related to the survival of mankind. In front of the Pillar of Origin, all research must stand aside.

After more than half a year of hard work, Li Xianke and others are still in the preliminary stage of research.

The runes brought by Lin Shi were a timely blessing for Li Xianke.

After handing all the runes to Li Xianke, Lin Shi returned to the island.

He needs to continue to exercise his mental strength, and also observe the rules of this island and the situation of the Pillar of Origin.

Time flies and more than two hundred days have passed.

This is already the fifth year of the Doomsday Calendar.

There are still 162 days left before the end of the survival battle.

More than a year has passed since the Pillar of Origin appeared.

The whole island revealed a lifeless scene.

By this time there were fewer than 500,000 survivors left in the morning.

In the area where the source beasts are located on the other side, the remaining source beasts are less than one percent of the original number.

However, those left behind are basically source beasts of level 5 and above.

Today, the pillar of origin on the other side of the origin beast has lit up 92 points of light.

On the human side, only 89 Pillars of Origin were lit.

It seems that the gap is getting smaller and smaller. In fact, everyone who pays attention to the Pillar of Origin knows that the light spot of the Pillar of Origin becomes more difficult to light as it reaches the back.

The gap between these three light spots is like a seemingly insignificant but insurmountable gap, making people feel powerless and desperate.

In the past year, all the survivors who could light the Pillar of Origin have done so.

It also includes many soldiers and some officers from the base.

Since the emergence of the Pillar of Origin, no one has had an easy time.

In order to force the survivors to light the Pillar of Origin, these survivors must find food themselves.

All the source beasts from the outside world have been killed, and there is no other food on the island. They can only catch sea fish.

Without firewood, they had to eat raw food.

They seemed to be back at the beginning of the end of the world, wandering in despair on the edge of survival.

Lin Tianrui, Wang Chao, Qin Shuang and others, as well as all the soldiers, must bear tremendous pressure.

Looking at the innocent survivors, he bid farewell to them one by one and went to light the Pillar of Origin without hesitation.

Looking at the survivors who want to continue to live, they are called hard-hearted and selfish.

I saw some survivors being driven crazy and even willing to jump into the sea and commit suicide rather than obey and light the Pillar of Origin.

Even a stone-hearted person cannot have peace of mind.

Many soldiers and officers couldn't bear to take the initiative to light the Pillar of Origin.

Some people were even awakened by nightmares at night, broke down, and secretly ran under the Pillar of Origin to end their lives.

As the bearer of the greatest pressure, Lin Tianrui has lost a lot of weight in the past year or so.

Lin Tianrui wouldn't even be able to eat food if he didn't need to maintain good energy and be ready to sacrifice himself to the Pillar of Origin at any time.

Today's Lin Tianrui has long since lost sight of the iron-blooded killing that Lin Shi had when he first saw him.

There was a sense of numbness and exhaustion in his whole body.

In Lin Tianrui's temporary residence on the island, Lin Shi, Wang Chao, Qin Shuang, as well as all the officers and old people at the base who are still on the island are here.

Wang Liang, who was much more mature than a year ago, stood up and said:

"Chief, sirs, according to our latest statistics, there are still 9,321 source beasts. And there are still 485,362 survivors on our side."

"Tell me the specific level."

"Currently, there is one eighth-order source beast among the source beasts. There are five seventh-order source beasts, 42 sixth-order source beasts, and the rest are all fifth-order."

"Among the humans, there are 1 eighth-level human beings and 3 seventh-level humans. There are 11 sixth-level humans, 32 fifth-level humans, 90 fourth-level humans, 60,223 third-level humans, and a total of 425,002 second-level and first-level humans."