Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies-Chapter 1086: The Mysterious Totoro

Chapter 1086: The Mysterious Totoro

Old You understood that his foundation wasn't very solid.

Although he was only in his forties, his age did seem a bit old within the shelter.

Therefore, after receiving the Divine Source fragments given by Zhang Yi, he felt immensely grateful to Zhang Yi in his heart. He also swore that he absolutely must not betray Zhang Yi's trust, and even more so, must not hold him back.

Thus, Old You trained exceptionally hard every day.

After several months of training, Zhang Yi assessed Old You's strength based on his experience. Old You's superhuman ability index had now reached a shocking 7,000 points or so!

Placed within the investigation squads, that was already at the level of an elite member.

In comparison, that fellow Fatty Xu was much lazier.

He was naturally fat and not very physically capable. But to train him, Old You dragged him out every day to run in the heavy snow, which utterly exhausted Fatty Xu.

Every time he finished training and returned, he would lie in his room panting heavily, just like Lele.

However, Zhang Yi didn't pity him for this. Instead, he told Old You to increase the training intensity.

The superhuman ability index is a comprehensive score.

Physical fitness, ability, technique, combat thinking, and so on are all criteria for scoring.

Fatty Xu's talent, in theory, was a bit stronger than Old You's.

But he was inherently timid, cowardly, and rather lazy. So when it came to actual fighting, he wasn't nearly as brave and fierce as Old You.

Zhang Yi gave him a low score, around 6,800 points.

"If you improve your physical fitness a bit more, enhancing your evasion and escape abilities on the battlefield, you'll be stronger."

Zhang Yi said to Fatty Xu, who was tired like a dog.

Fatty Xu took several big gasps, finally catching his breath before swallowing his saliva and saying to Zhang Yi,

"Boss, I'm inherently useless! Can't I just stay in the back and play long-range like you, holding a sniper rifle? I can't run!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yi's gaze gradually became distant.

"You like playing sniper, huh? Fine."

He didn't waste words. He directly took an anti-materiel sniper rifle from his Dimensional Space and threw it onto Fatty Xu's belly.

This almost sent Fatty Xu off.

"Damn..."

Fatty Xu rolled his eyes, nearly having his stomach acid knocked out.

"On the battlefield right now, only this kind of large-caliber sniper rifle is effective. It weighs 15 kilograms. You don't have spatial abilities. When you're carrying it, let's see if you can run or not."

Fatty Xu's face immediately turned green.

"Huh?"

"Huh your head! From now on, train properly for me!"

Zhang Yi said, then turned to look at Old You, who was shirtless, revealing a body of solid, well-defined muscles.

Old You usually trained like this too. His physical condition was good, and he wasn't afraid of the cold.

"Old You, from now on, take the attitude you had when you were a squad leader training new recruits, and train him hard for me!"

Old You scratched his head with a simple, honest smile. "Alright!"

He glanced at Fatty Xu lying on the ground, and his expression quickly turned serious.

Then he walked over and gave Fatty Xu's fat thigh a hard kick.

"Get up! You've run less than ten kilometers, and you're lying here like a dead dog for who to see?"

"If you don't finish running twenty kilometers today, you won't get dinner!"

Fatty Xu's face grew increasingly grim. Before he could respond, Old You grabbed him like a chick and hauled him up, then walked outside.

Zhang Yi shook his head helplessly.

For a two-hundred-pound fatty, going through this kind of training was indeed torture.

But to increase Fatty Xu's survival rate on the battlefield in the future, Zhang Yi had to do this.

If you can't endure the hardship of training now, you'll have to endure the pain of injury or death later.

"Training Fatty Xu again?"

Zhou Ke'er walked over, smiling, holding a cup of hot tea.

Recently, her abilities had also been improving. However, improving an auxiliary ability like [Doctor] didn't require physical training; it needed repeated practice.

Zhang Yi took the cup of hot tea, and Zhou Ke'er immediately sat down beside him.

Her elegant figure was captivating no matter how you looked at it.

Over in the living room, two adorable creatures were playing and roughhousing.

One was Hua Hua, and the other was none other than the Totoro that Zhang Yi had captured and brought back.

It was covered in fluffy fur, with huge, deer-like antlers on its head, extremely cute.

Especially when it ran, it looked exactly like a cute creature from a Hayao Miyazaki animation.

Of course, Zhang Yi knew its true nature.

This thing's combat power was not inferior to a squad leader level superhuman.

That's why Zhang Yi had Hua Hua keep an eye on it.

Now, Hua Hua also possessed Epsilon-level potential and a superhuman ability index as high as 9,800 points.

At first, this Totoro was very uncooperative and liked to bare its teeth and snarl.

But, there was nothing that Hua Hua couldn't solve with one slap.

If there was, then just add two more slaps.

So now, the reason the Totoro behaved so obediently at home was entirely because it had been beaten into submission.

"Any progress in the research on this guy?"

Zhang Yi looked at the Totoro and asked Zhou Ke'er.

Back when he brought the Totoro back, it was because this strange creature had a special reaction to the Divine Source.

So as soon as they returned, Zhang Yi had Zhou Ke'er take its blood samples for research.

Zhou Ke'er smiled and shook her head helplessly.

"I've researched its blood, fur, and feces. But this creature has already mutated. It's impossible to determine which creature it mutated from."

"However, part of its genetic sequence is actually similar to humans. About 30% of its composition is the same."

Zhang Yi raised an eyebrow. "So you're saying, it's just a mutated creature that appeared on Star Island. Is that all?"

Zhou Ke'er rolled her eyes upward. "Hmm... but there is one thing about it that's truly interesting."

Zhang Yi looked at her curiously. "Oh, what is it?"

Zhou Ke'er replied, "It can survive in an oxygen-free environment. For a land creature, that's hard to imagine."

Zhang Yi raised an eyebrow again. "I see. That's probably why it isn't worried about being affected by the toxic miasma. Because it doesn't need to breathe oxygen, so it doesn't care about the toxins?"

Zhou Ke'er's eyes shifted. "But there are also some strange aspects. I discovered some... never-before-seen genetic sequences on it. They don't match any known creature in the world."

Zhang Yi blinked. "That's hard to say. After all, in the Great Mutation Era, many people have undergone genetic mutations."

"Or perhaps... it has some connection to those monsters deep under the Mist Valley abyss?"

Zhang Yi's imagination ran wild. "Subterranean creatures?"

If this were in the past, he would definitely think this was a ridiculous notion.

But he had personally seen that giant Black-armored Strange Man.

And he had heard about the strange events in the Qinling Mountains from the Deng Family.

At this point, he couldn't help but suspect that perhaps this world truly had many existences they had never heard of, which began to slowly appear after the apocalypse.

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