Seeing the message sent by Roger, Lin Xinghai was a little stunned at first. Then, he immediately replied, “I’m going with you!”
However, after sending this message, Lin Xinghai quickly thought of another question, “Rog, after buying this mecha, who will be piloting it?”
Roger quickly replied, “I will be piloting it for the time being. Whoever reaches 90% genetic enhancement degree first will have the final right to pilot this mecha.”
“Really?” Lin Xinghai asked in surprise.
Inside the headquarter, the eager and excited Roger had his expression frozen.
Only now did he realize a serious problem. With Lin Xinghai’s ridiculous improvement rate, it was impossible for him to break through the third genetic limiter faster than this competitor.
Moreover, his biggest competitor previously was Wu Yan. However, for them to determine a victor, it would take at least two months, or even longer.
Then, even if he lost, he still got to pilot the mecha for two months.
However, if the competitor was Lin Xinghai, it was hard to guess how long the mecha would be under his possession.
In the end, Roger reluctantly replied, “For real!”
“I mean, come on, Rog, why are you looking so melancholic? Why are you acting cool here!? If I were you, I would have set off firecrackers to celebrate.” Xu Haishui, who was passing by, saw Roger’s expression and couldn’t help but complain.
Xu Haishui had no chances for the competition. Since his genetic assessment was only Grade D, trying to compete with others in terms of improvement speed was simply impossible.
“You’re wasting your time observing me. It’s better to spend more time improving yourself. We’ll start recruiting on a large scale tomorrow. If the new recruits have a higher level of genetic enhancement degrees than you, I doubt you’ll still have the face to be the captain.” Roger retorted immediately.
“Why did you pick up the bad habit? Is it fun to imitate Wu Yan who always criticizes others?” Xu Haishui cursed angrily and left.
Wu Yan: ???
…
Lin Xinghai on the other side couldn’t help but clench his fists after reading the message popping up on the wrist computer.
He knew that Roger’s genetic enhancement degree was 65%, and Wu Yan should be about the same. These people wouldn’t be able to compete with him!
He possessed a cheat system, and breakthroughs could be achieved in the snap of a finger.
Of course… that needed the Blood Essence.
When Lin Xinghai was reminded of Blood Essence, he became somewhat disheartened.
System panel. Lin Xinhai commanded.
Host: Lin Xinghai
Constitution: 25 points
Strength: 21 points
Speed: 30 points
Blood Essence: 16 points
Genetic Enhancement Degree: 30%+
Ability: Extreme Speed (speed increased by 100% within ten seconds) (Energy Value: 10/10)
Basic Shooting Skill: Proficiency 100%+
“These 16 points of Blood Essence are far from enough!”
Judging on how Blood Essence was typically consumed, after the genetic enhancement degree exceeded 30%, 3 Blood Essence points were needed for every 1% increment. Then, increasing the genetic enhancement degree to 40% required 30 Blood Essence points.
By analogy, it would take 40 Blood Essence points to increase the genetic enhancement to 50%, and 50 points to increase it to 60%.
In other words, he needs at least 120 points of Blood Essence.
However, it remained mandatory to increase the ability’s level. In this case, Lin Xinghai had to come up with an additional 100 points of Blood Essence.
In other words, he needed at least 220 points of Blood Essence for the breakthrough.
“After the mercenary group is promoted to level two, it seems like they will recruit new members and so on. It is likely that the mercenary group will not head out to perform tasks in a short period. Then, how do I obtain Blood Essence?”
“Do I gain it through the genetic serum? That’s an option, but it will be a great expense.”
“Still, I don’t want to spend any points, since Blood Essence can be gained for free! Forget it, let’s wait until tomorrow and ask Roger if I can leave the shelter to hunt zombies alone.” Lin Xinghai muttered to himself. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any solid plan yet.
Suddenly, he thought of something, swiped the system panel to the bottom, where there was a mission panel, and opened it.
The expedition with the mercenary group that day left him in a highly tense state. He almost forgot that he seemed to have taken on some main missions.
Of course, the main reason why he had forgotten about it was that even if this main mission was completed, there was no reward.
Lin Xinghai had never paid attention to such things that have no benefits.
Main mission: Kill 100 zombies. (Completed)
Note: Abusing the cheat is only temporary. If you want to obtain Blood Essence, you still need to rely on your own strength.
Reward: None.
Looking at the status of the completed mission, Lin Xinghai breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he killed more than 100 zombies today, these zombies were all killed via the Shredder Rifle.
Lin Xinghai was also afraid that the system would go haywire and have conditions, such as “You’re not allowed to rely on external tools to kill. Otherwise, it’s not counted.” That would be a scam.
Of course, having a main mission with no rewards already felt like a scam.
Lin Xinghai tapped on “Mission Completed!” with resentment.
Soon, a new mission appeared.
Main Mission: Break the 1st genetic limiter (Completed)
Explanation: Breaking the 1st genetic limiter and becoming Enhanced is a small step of becoming stronger, and it is a significant step for yourself.
Reward: 1 point of Blood Essence.
Lin Xinghai read it again and again. Did I read it wrongly?
This system reward is simply…
Lin Xinghai was certain beyond doubt that the system only wanted to gain more rather than giving.
Just look at the various functions of the system and the Blood Essence that needed to be consumed, its demand would grow exponentially in a terrifying manner.
Especially the Energy Value of the ability, replenishing 1 point actually required 100 points of Blood Essence.
It was beyond outrageous but simply fanatical.
What about the system reward? It was either nothing or 1 point of Blood Essence. For Lin Xinghai, that meant nothing.
As for the 1st mission completion, Lin Xinghai was rewarded with an appraisal feature, which looked good. However, the problem was that only the first 10 uses of appraisal feature were free, without consuming Blood Essence.
That was like giving a sweet drug at the start but tempted Lin Xinghai to grow dependent on it. At the later stage, when Lin Xinghai wanted to appraise a target…
Lin Xinghai could guess that the system would definitely demand more Blood Essence.
Of course, while Lin Xinghai complained, the system was beneficial. He tapped on the mission-complete button and received the reward.
His Blood Essence accumulated to 17 points.
“No matter how little it is, it’s still something.” Lin Xinghai comforted himself in his heart, and then looked at the main mission that was refreshed.
Main Mission: Break the second genetic limiter
Explanation: Breaking the second genetic limiter and becoming Enhanced is a small step in becoming stronger. Moreover, it is a big step for yourself.
Reward: 2 points of Blood Essence.
Lin Xinghai: “…”
“You copied and pasted the system mission, right?” Lin Xinghai complained in his mind, and hid the mission panel. Out of sight and out of mind.