Chapter 569 Countdown 162 Days

The arrow slid past at high speed, leaving a long mark on the snow, dividing the snow under the hillside into two.

It was so fast that it hit the Pillar of Origin heavily in an instant.

Accompanied by a sharp friction sound.

The arrowhead of the special arrow could penetrate even steel plates, but it did not penetrate the Pillar of Origin. Instead, it rubbed a spark on the Pillar of Origin and 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 intact, he frowned and retracted the giant crossbow 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-level source beast in seconds.

However, it is still far behind Lin Shi's own attack power.

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

However, Lin Shi is not without any solution.

In the past six months, Lin Shi has done other things besides hunting source beasts.

He found a new way to hone his mental power.

Before he gained meditation, Lin Shi used overdrawn mental power to increase his mental power.

Later, because the upper limit of mental power was getting higher and higher, it was normal to overdraw mental power, so Lin Shi no longer used that method.

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

That is to forcibly release mental power against the rules of the island.

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

Although mental power is still difficult to leave the body.

But over a long period of time, Lin Shi did not gain nothing.

First of all, his mental power is more solid and condensed than before under this self-mutilation-like training.

At the same time, mental power can also temporarily leave the body a little distance.

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

Don't underestimate these ten centimeters, which has given Lin Shi the possibility of letting his mental power leave the body.

If his spiritual power is about two meters away from his body, he can use the ability of controlling objects at close range on the Pillar of Origin without touching the weapon.

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

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

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

If it really comes to the point of life and death, it would not be too much for him to perish together.

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

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

Only the Research Institute has not moved.

The only ones left are the guards guarding the Research Institute.

There are too many precision instruments in the Research Institute, which are not suitable for long-distance transportation.

In addition, it is underground, and there are no more threats from a large number of source beasts in the outside world.

Even if the base has become an empty city, it does not affect the operation of the Research Institute.

Li Xianke's research team had obtained the runes on the original pillar and started to study them. However, after several months, they still had not figured out the meaning of those runes.

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

However, even if the meaning of those runes was studied, Lin Shi did not think it would be of any help in the battle for survival.

The civilization that could create the cornucopia and the original pillar was obviously far ahead of the technological level of mankind.

Even if you understand the other party's writing, you only have a preliminary understanding.

When Lin Shi returned to the Shashi base, he found that Li Xianke's team was working hard to study the original pillar.

Now the original pillar is related to the survival of mankind. In front of the original pillar, all research must stand aside.

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

The runes brought by Lin Shi are simply timely rain for Li Xianke.

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

He had to continue to exercise his mental strength and observe the rules of the island and the situation of the Pillar of Origin.

In the blink of an eye, more than two hundred days had passed.

It was already the fifth year of the Doomsday Calendar.

There were still 162 days left before the end of the Survival War.

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

The entire island was filled with a dead scene.

At this time, there were less than 500,000 survivors left in the morning.

On the other side, in the area where the source beasts were located, the remaining source beasts were less than one percent of the original number.

However, those who remained were basically level 5 and above.

Now, the Pillar of Origin on the source beast side has lit up 92 light spots.

And the Pillar of Origin on the human side has only lit up 89.

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 spots of the Pillar of Origin are more difficult to light up as they go back.

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

During this year, all the survivors who could light up the Pillar of Origin had already done so.

This included many soldiers and officers at the base.

Since the Pillar of Origin appeared, no one has had an easy life.

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

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

Without firewood, they can only eat raw food.

They seem to have returned to the beginning of the end of the world, wandering desperately on the edge of survival.

And Lin Tianrui, Wang Chao, Qin Shuang and others, as well as all the soldiers, have to bear huge pressure.

Looking at those innocent survivors, one by one, they bid farewell to them and go to light up the Pillar of Origin without hesitation.

Looking at those survivors who want to continue to live, scolding them for being heartless and selfish.

Seeing that some survivors were driven crazy and even preferred to jump into the sea to commit suicide rather than obey and light up the Pillar of Origin.

Even people with a heart of stone cannot feel at ease.

Many soldiers and officers couldn't stand it and took the initiative to ask to light up the Pillar of Origin.

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

As the one who bears the greatest pressure, Lin Tianrui has lost a lot of weight in the past year.

If it weren't for the need to maintain a good spirit and be ready to sacrifice himself to the Pillar of Origin at any time, Lin Tianrui couldn't even eat.

Lin Tianrui today no longer looks like the bloody killer that Lin Shi saw for the first time.

He exudes a sense of vicissitudes, numbness and fatigue.

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

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

"Chief, officers, according to our latest statistics, there are still 9321 source beasts. And there are 485362 survivors on our side."

"Tell me the specific levels."

"Currently, there is 1 eighth-level source beast among the source beasts. 5 seventh-level source beasts, 42 sixth-level source beasts, and the rest are all fifth-level."

"Among humans, there is 1 eighth-level, 3 seventh-level, 11 sixth-level, 32 fifth-level, 90 fourth-level, 60223 third-level, and 425002 second-level and first-level."