Chapter 272: Su Xin's Ambition

In the parking lot at the foot of the mountain.

Xiang Lianyun sat inside the car, holding his phone and leisurely having a video call with his family.

As one of Su Xin's personal bodyguards, his daily work was not considered busy; one could even say it was extremely relaxed.

Usually, he only needed to sit in the car to accompany Su Xin to and from work. Most of the time, Su Xin would stay in the laboratory building all day to focus on research, so he only needed to spend his time freely in places like the lounge.

Except for not being able to leave the laboratory building at will and having to be on standby at all times, his work was far more relaxed than that of most people.

He also had one or two days of rotating leave every week.

His monthly salary was as high as one hundred thousand.

He had priority and free access to all genetic enhancement serums.

There were also various other benefits.

Aside from having no time off during holidays, generally having no freedom, and perhaps a certain level of danger, it could be considered a very comfortable position.

"Wife, don't worry. In a few more days, I'll be able to come home. I swapped my vacation time with a colleague, so I can rest for a week this time..."

Looking at his wife on the video screen, a warm smile bloomed on Xiang Lianyun's face.

Just at this moment.

A sound like a thunderclap suddenly exploded.

Xiang Lianyun was instinctively startled and turned his head to look. He saw a white shockwave cutting through the sky in the distance, leaving a clear white trail in the air.

"Was that... emitted from the mountain?"

After seeing the trajectory and origin of the shockwave clearly, Xiang Lianyun was suddenly shocked. He didn't have time to explain anything to his wife and hurriedly got out of the car to run toward the mountain road, while ordering:

"Tiantian, call the boss!"

His figure was as agile as a cheetah; in the blink of an eye, he rushed out of the parking lot, his entire person almost turning into a white afterimage.

On his left wrist, the exquisite smartwatch emitted the mechanized voice of the Tiantian Assistant:

"Received, calling the boss now."

It took several seconds for the call to connect.

"Boss, are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

"I just saw a huge shockwave; it seemed to have been emitted from the mountain."

"I saw it too."

"What I mean is, perhaps there is some special situation on the mountain. To be safe, why don't we leave here? I'll go up to pick you up down the mountain right now. Where are you?"

"No need, I'll be down in a moment."

"But..."

"There are no 'buts'. Wait for me in the car."

On a gravel path halfway up the mountain, Su Xin hung up the phone.

Then, he looked back at the shockwave trail gradually dissipating in the sky and couldn't help but nod secretly:

"This single-target attack, which combines the advantages of long-range and area-of-effect, is not bad at all!"

"Although the overall destructive power is far inferior to the hurricane caused that one time, it wins in convenience and speed. A direct punch, and the damage is immediate."

Su Xin looked ahead at the road again.

"Next, let's test movement and attacks at different speed multipliers separately."

Ever since awakening the Godspeed Ability, Su Xin had never experienced the various details of his ability so comprehensively and meticulously.

Initially, it was because he was worried about causing too much of a stir and attracting attention.

Later, it was because his body had already shown relatively obvious signs of aging, so he used it as little as possible.

But now, Su Xin had both money and power, he no longer needed to worry about the issue of lifespan, and his ability had indirectly been greatly enhanced.

He no longer needed to be so cautious.

He would keep it secret if he could.

Even if his possession of superpowers were leaked, he wouldn't be worried at all.

He even felt a bit of longing.

After all, since awakening the Godspeed Ability, he had mainly utilized the accompanying Super Intelligence to develop technology, while the power of the Godspeed Ability itself had yet to be truly manifested.

How could an eighteen-year-old boy, who suddenly possessed a near-invincible superpower one day, be willing to remain low-key and dormant forever?

Only he himself knew how much he wanted to rely on the Godspeed Ability to be dashing and unrestrained, becoming an invincible powerhouse respected by everyone.

Young people with hot blood mostly yearn for extreme personal martial power, rather than wisdom.

Su Xin was naturally no exception.

It was just that because he felt he was not yet strong enough to bear the consequences of being discovered as a superpowered individual, he had helplessly kept a low profile, relying on wisdom to slowly develop.

"Soon!"

Su Xin suddenly grinned, looking at the crimson sunset glow in the distance, and stretched out his right hand, overlapping it with the setting sun as if holding it in his palm.

"Once I develop the superpower serum, I will let Blue Star enter the era of superpowers from now on."

"At that time, it might be even more exciting."

"At the very least, it will be much more exciting than this era full of ordinary people, and I will no longer reign supreme through money, but as the king of personal martial power!"

A sense of heroism rose in Su Xin's heart.

Being able to change the attributes of an entire era at will with one's own strength, influence the whole world with economics, and change everyone's life with technology.

Compared to the former Yongji Society, the current Su Xin was more like a world controller in the shadows.

But he still wanted to become the strongest in terms of personal strength.

At this moment, Su Xin thought of the aliens again.

The threat from the starry sky gave him a hint of pressure in his heart, as well as a sense of urgency.

"The matter of human genetic enhancement should also be accelerated; this way, when I develop the superpower potion in the future, it will be able to connect perfectly."

"Furthermore, the potential threat of aliens might become an opportunity to integrate the world..."

Su Xin stood on the mountain peak, pondering for a long time.

Not until the sun had completely set did Su Xin return to the garage and take a car back into the city.

The next day, Su Xin arrived at the group headquarters and issued a new directive—expand the production lines for Tianji Zero and push for the popularization of Tianji Zero as quickly as possible.

Su Xin even personally participated in optimizing the production process, improving the cultivation techniques for several of its core components to accelerate the production efficiency of Tianji Zero.

Plus, several new partner pharmaceutical factories were added.

The production capacity of Tianji Zero increased significantly.

In addition, there was the small-batch production of Tiansui Potion.

After arranging these, Su Xin rested for only two days before setting to work on the research and development of the superpower potion.

Yingjiang Country, Yuanxing Shengwu Shiyanshi.

This was a large-scale P4-level laboratory that Yingjiang Country had established at a great cost.

For the first phase alone, they invested a massive sum of one billion Eagle Dollars and summoned over a dozen top-tier experts in biology from across the world, even granting them extremely high-level authorization to mobilize and coordinate forces from all sectors of Yingjiang Country.

It could be said that Yingjiang Country's investment in Yuanxing Shengwu Shiyanshi was unprecedentedly generous.

They had money when they needed money, people when they needed people, equipment when they needed equipment, materials when they needed materials, and the environment when they needed the environment; they were given almost every form of support.

Added to this were the experimental data and research results left behind by the previous Snowdon Biological Laboratory.

And there were living alien test subjects.

After three months of research, the dozen or so top biological experts still had not made any progress.

"Why is there still no success?"

"We clearly already have Mike, a test subject who is considered a success; is it impossible to even stabilize the effects of the potion?"

"Moreover, you have living aliens serving as your test subjects."

"Why? Why?!!"

"Could it be that the thirteen of you combined are not even equal to a mere Gailun?"

In the conference room, the senior director of the laboratory, Yalike Tisen—who was the person in charge stationed at the Yuanxing laboratory by Yingjiang Country—was currently spitting everywhere, angrily berating the thirteen top biological experts who had been invited with such great courtesy back then.

Originally, Yalike should not have been this anxious.

Being sent by Yingjiang Country to manage this laboratory, he at least possessed basic common sense regarding biological experiments and knew that biological research often took years and was not easy to yield results.

But his superiors questioned the research progress almost every day, leaving him feeling immense pressure.

He could only pass that pressure down to the senior researchers before him.

Moreover, he also knew why his superiors were pushing so hard, desperate to produce results immediately.

Because as the former world's number one power, Yingjiang Country had been declining more and more in recent years; its GDP had been completely surpassed by Long Country, and it had lost its original leading advantages in every industry.

Technology, medicine, Semiconductor, automobiles, software—the top enterprises in every industry had been completely crushed by Tianji Group.

Now, the three core strategic industries of energy, food, and minerals had also almost completely collapsed, and consumer electronics and communications were facing a desperate situation, expected to crash completely within a year.

According to estimates by expert groups, in less than a year, Yingjiang Country would not only lose the title of the world's number one power but would also be reduced to a second-rate country, not even counting as a top-tier power.

Even its military strength, which could still be called the strongest in the world, was becoming unaffordable under the circumstances of a sharp economic downturn.

Therefore, their only hope now was to make a breakthrough in some field, attempting to shatter the invincible myth of Tianji Group and allow Yingjiang Country to catch a breath.

Yingjiang Country's choice was—

To use the world's only aliens to develop the most excellent biological enhancement technology.

Everyone knew that the prosperity of Long Country relied mainly on the sweeping, invincible Tianji Group.

Even if they only defeated Tianji Group once in a single field, it could restore some confidence in Yingjiang Country from the outside world.

And confidence.

That was the core of Yingjiang Country's strength.

Because Yingjiang Country was an immigrant nation, its strength relied on the constant influx of top talent and powerful capital from all over the world.

With so many excellent talents gathering together, they could naturally build the strongest Yingjiang Country.

Once Yingjiang Country lost the halo of being the world's number one power and could no longer attract excellent talent and capital, it would lose the foundation of its strength, and the various industries that were already severely declining would inevitably collapse further, subsequently leading to the total collapse of the entire Yingjiang Country's economy.

Therefore, in the eyes of Yingjiang Country, what was most important now was not actually developing any one industry, but using a breakthrough in a certain field to stabilize everyone's confidence in them as much as possible.

Defeating Tianji Group was secondary.

Defeating Tianji Group to bring confidence to everyone was what was most important.

Even if it was just a defeat in one single field, it held extremely important significance.

This was the only chance for Yingjiang Country to make a comeback.

And there were only a few months left.