Chapter 86: Probability of Gene Awakening

Inside the conference room.

"So far, according to the multi-sensor detection of three super-resolution patrol satellites, the satellites' intelligent monitoring system has temporarily found no suspicious targets on the surface violating the escape from Lin'an City."

"After the patrol and public security forces sealed off all key roads, all personnel have also been carefully verified, and there are no abnormalities for the time being."

"The city and surrounding underground waterway systems have not been damaged either."

"As for the unknown underground passages... based on the three-dimensional modeling simulated by GPR combined with MSM data, four illegal underground passages have been discovered so far, two of which lead outside the city; patrol forces and drones have been dispatched to seal them off."

"In summary, if the Original Research Institute really has criminal activities in Lin'an City and has dispatched personnel to assist Chu Tianyao's actions... these people should still be within the city."

On the conference table, the three-dimensional projection of Lin'an City, with the technician's fingertips lightly touching, would sometimes enlarge or shrink, sometimes analyze a specific part, and sometimes rotate or shift sideways.

Surrounding them, fifteen patrol officers and technical experts from relevant fields were seated around the table.

After listening quietly, Tang Wanqiu finally spoke: "In other words, the people from the Original Research Institute are currently still hiding within Lin'an City, correct?"

"The possibility is very high."

A technical expert nearby pushed up the glasses on his nose, "But current underground space detection technology can accurately detect down to about fifty meters at most. Simply put, if someone dug an underground passage below fifty meters and it was long enough, for instance, extending beyond the current detection boundary of latitude 29°11′, then it would also be possible to escape."

Tang Wanqiu looked at him and asked, "What is the probability?"

"Very low," the technical expert said. "Even if someone truly had the ability to silently build a hundred-kilometer-long underground passage, the maintenance difficulty and cost would be ridiculously high, unless it was some black technology from Wisdom Star."

"That is enough."

Tang Wanqiu nodded slightly, looked at the bearded man beside her named Gong Ming, and said, "Go connect the headquarters' life detector to the three-dimensional projection of Lin'an City."

"Yes."

Gong Ming immediately moved an instrument made of silver-gray metal and black stripes from the side; it looked like a sixteen-faced polyhedron about half a person's height.

The experts nearby watched with eyes shining.

Such a technological creation surpasses Earth's civilization outside the urban circles by many levels; even disassembling and analyzing it is difficult, let alone replicating it.

Even within the urban circles, apart from Wisdom Star Group, I'm afraid only the Dawn Group, which received foreign investment and introduced such technology, could produce such an instrument.

"This is the life detector provided by the Dawn Group to headquarters; it can release a large number of automatically searching micro-invisible sensors."

Tang Wanqiu casually explained, "By combining it with the map projection of Lin'an City, it can accurately capture all life field presences within Lin'an City; filtering out the abnormal life fields is enough."

Even the patrol officers, some of whom were somewhat illiterate, understood her meaning.

Most personnel of the Original Research Institute are people who have undergone genetic modification; their life fields are inherently stronger than ordinary people's, and those who successfully practiced the techniques and underwent transformation also have abnormal life fields.

Such people are ultimately a very small minority, which effectively narrows the search range to a great extent.

If it weren't for the major incident of a patrol officer being killed, headquarters would not have produced such a precious instrument.

"Begin."

Tang Wanqiu glanced around and ordered, "The three senior patrol captains will lead you fifteen patrol officers to conduct searches simultaneously, verifying and clarifying all suspicious targets at any time."

Lin Qing couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Headquarters is indeed headquarters; they truly have their methods.

He had long wanted to eliminate those people secretly monitoring him, but he could not expose Zhao Jiayi's identity as a telepathic awakener; otherwise, there would be no way to explain how he discovered those hidden individuals.

Fortunately, headquarters' methods are powerful enough; although not as clear as telepathic detection, they are sufficient to discover those suspicious targets.

"Maintain communication at all times and follow assignments immediately."

"Anyone who resists will be shot on the spot."

"Then... the operation begins."

Under the leadership of the three senior patrol captains, the operation proceeded smoothly, exceeding expectations.

All suspicious personnel were carefully verified, including the communications department, which maintained cooperation and retrieved trajectory records from communication devices at any time.

Unregistered residents or criminals were temporarily detained; resisters, without exception, were doomed to die.

What a joke.

A group of patrol officers acting collectively, with three senior patrol captains of terrifying strength stationed there; with such a lineup, even ten Crimson Oriole Societies would be completely swept away overnight! Moreover, a patrol commander of unknown terrifying strength was stationed to oversee the entire situation!

Lin Qing had already asked Zhao Jiayi to investigate, so he naturally knew those suspected to be from the Original Research Institute; most were probably just survivors of genetic modification experiments, merely slightly stronger than ordinary people.

Only about five or six of them had life fields reaching the level of the 77th Edition Technique.

Even if they cultivated and mastered a few combat techniques, it would be useless in front of the senior patrol captains.

However, there were indeed some hard bones who resisted to the death.

"Boom!!"

In the spacious and wide corridor, two patrol officers were almost simultaneously blown out of the room; only the sound of shattering window glass was heard, and the two patrol officers immediately broke through the window to escape.

"Die!"

Amidst the angry shout, a man as tall and strong as an iron tower chased out of the room; every step caused cracks to ripple across the marble floor.

At the same time—

"Whoosh!"

A blurry black shadow suddenly appeared in the corridor; rushing toward the tall man like an iron tower, a metallic luster appeared on his single hand, instantly turning into a blur as he swung out an arc of light.

In an instant, they had passed each other.

And the tall man like an iron tower froze stiffly in place; immediately after, his neck turned slightly, and his head had already fallen off.

The head rolled away, blood sprayed forth, and the headless body fell to the ground.

Lin Qing quietly turned his head to take a look.

The two patrol officers who had escaped through the window also hurried back, their expressions relaxing.

"I didn't expect this person's strength to be so great; fortunately, Captain Lin acted in time. Thank you."

"Captain Lin killed this man with a single move; he truly possesses the strength of a Patrol Chief."

The two patrol officers hurriedly thanked Lin Qing.

"It's nothing; you two continue the search," Lin Qing said, shaking his head slightly.

With his strength, even if he only exerted half of it, he would still be slightly stronger than Xu Qiu.

As for this iron-tower-like muscular man whose head was severed, his strength ranked at best sixth or seventh among the seventeen patrol officers of Lin'an City; compared to him, the gap was far too great.

The senior patrol chief responsible for commanding their group was that frail genius youth, only sixteen years old, named 'Shu Feiyu'.

After the sound of the broken window, this senior patrol chief also rushed over immediately.

Under the severe crackdown by the Patrol Headquarters, combined with the Life Detection Instrument, within just three hours, all hundreds of suspicious personnel in Lin'an City with abnormal life fields had been verified.

Among them, many dared not be checked; some attempted to flee, some attempted to resist, and some attempted to end their own lives.

But in the end, it was all futile.

Within the entire Lin'an City, the Xiangshan District had the most suspicious personnel.

Especially near Lin Qing's home, it was as if they had stumbled upon the suspects' den, hiding one after another. Yet, with the effort of the Patrol Headquarters, the result was no surprise.

Three hours later.

"The operation officially ends."

Tang Wanqiu's gaze swept over the patrol officers one by one as she said, "All suspicious personnel have been brought under control; handing the follow-up over to Headquarters is sufficient. Everyone may disperse."

Lin Qing's heart couldn't help but stir.

They are dispersing already? The number one person in charge of the Yuanhong Society has not even been found!

Patrol Commissioner Tang clearly knew that the person who attacked Xu Qiu possessed overwhelmingly strong strength, yet she simply stopped investigating? That person was at least one who had cultivated the original Chaoyang Method to completion, a powerhouse comparable to a senior patrol chief, and had no opportunity to leave the Lin'an City area; logically, the Life Detection Instrument should have been able to discover them.

Yet there was still no trace.

Where did they hide?

Lin Qing immediately sensed something was wrong in his heart: "Could it be... Patrol Commissioner Tang is deliberately creating a smokescreen?"

However, he did not ask further.

After all, with his current strength, he did not wish to get involved in the struggle between the Patrol Headquarters and the Primordial Research Institute.

At this moment, Lin Qing was already very satisfied in his heart.

At this moment, as all suspicious personnel in the entire Lin'an City had been investigated and even criminals including Chu Tianyao had disappeared, the Order Level had risen to an unprecedented height.

【Current Order Level: 5.7】

A few days ago, due to the arrival of personnel from the Primordial Research Institute in Lin'an City, who monitored him constantly, the Order Level had dropped by as much as 1.8 levels.

But today, the Order Level not only fully recovered but, because Chu Tianyao was also resolved, plus among the suspects, some additional gains were discovered...

Therefore, the Order Level skyrocketed to 5.7 all at once.

The key lay in the thorough investigation by the Patrol Headquarters; compared to the patrol missions of the branch stations, it was truly a thunderous method, leaving no suspicious person uncaught.

"Rise another 4.3 levels, and the conditions for unlocking Level 10 will be met..."

Lin Qing became even more expectant.

At the latest within one week, the First-Class Merit would also be issued.

By then, not only would he be able to freely learn all martial arts within the Martial Arts Secret Chamber, but he could also learn those three Awakening Methods, as well as the original 'Zizai Body' martial art that only Special-Class Merit authorization allows one to learn!...

After the patrol officers dispersed, only Tang Wanqiu and three senior patrol chiefs remained in the meeting room.

"We did not find that person."

Tang Wanqiu frowned slightly and said, "It seems that person has either already fled Lin'an City or is hiding somewhere capable of blocking the Life Detection Instrument."

"There is such an instrument?" Ouyang Ze, who was nearby, couldn't help but ask.

Tang Wanqiu said calmly, "Spear and shield have necessarily coexisted since ancient times; if there is a Life Detection Instrument, naturally there is also one used for shielding and hiding."

"Director," Gong Ming said softly, "There are still many missing persons in Lin'an City whose whereabouts have not yet been discovered; even the corpses do not match, but even for genetic modification experiments, there must be survivors."

"Perhaps these people are hidden somewhere in this Lin'an City."

Tang Wanqiu pondered and said, "The goal of the Primordial Research Institute is ultimately genetic modification, not killing, yet finding not a single one is very strange; a group of people mysteriously disappearing must sustain their lives, right?"

Gong Ming nodded slightly and said, "Perhaps it is a large-scale special shield?"

"Then we can only wait slowly," Tang Wanqiu said. "Such a large-scale shield consumes a considerable amount of electricity. Starting today, we will compile statistics on the city's power usage; once an anomaly is discovered and the location confirmed, we will immediately seize the opportunity to search."

"Yes," Gong Ming said. "Then we must let the Primordial Research Institute know that we have not actually left; only then will they be nervous and continue to maintain the shield."

Tang Wanqiu nodded slightly and said, "Rest assured; when I just said the operation ended, anyone with a brain would know there was a problem and would inevitably guess that I intended to investigate secretly."

After this grand operation ended, life seemed to return to calm, and Lin'an City became more stable than ever before.

But those with insight could guess that this was merely the calm before the storm.

Lin Qing saw that the martial art 'Yi' was nearly complete, yet he did not rush to continue learning the next martial art in the Divine Transformation series.

After all, as long as he waited for the First-Class Merit to arrive, he could go to the Martial Arts Secret Chamber to obtain those great benefits.

"Just right to test the gene awakening progress."

That day, after Lin Qing went to the branch station to have his blood drawn, his blood was also sent to the Testing Center.

Soon, the gene test report came out.

Looking at the report in his hand, Lin Qing received a simple result.

"11% probability of successful gene awakening?"

Lin Qing nodded silently to himself. "There is actually 11%, which is quite high; it seems that after cultivating the original Chaoyang Method to its limit, the genes were optimized, raising the gene awakening probability by about 10%."

According to the description of the original Chaoyang Method—

Once the original Morning Sun Cultivation Method is cultivated to its utmost limit, it can increase the probability of gene awakening by 10%.

In other words, if he had not cultivated the original Morning Sun Cultivation Method, his awakening probability would likely be less than 1%!

According to investigations, for Earthlings' genes to achieve gene awakening by borrowing mysterious energy from the Third Energy Level, the average success rate is only between 0.6% and 0.9%.

Only a few people are born with a gene awakening probability exceeding 10%.

Statistics show that the highest recorded gene awakening probability detected globally is 37%, and there is only this single case.

Meanwhile, the extraterrestrial civilization of the Wisdom Star Group seems to consist entirely of gene awakeners.

This gap is far, far too large.

According to theory, the greatest strength of a gene awaker is that their own genes are controllable, allowing their genes to adapt to different environments and evolve different advantages.

As long as the energy supply keeps up, they can alter their own genes, and their combat techniques will also receive a boost.

"11%. There's plenty of work to do..."

Lin Qing sighed with a hint of helplessness. "An 11% success probability. If it fails, at worst the genes will collapse and kill me; at best, the gene shackles will become even more solid, making the breakthrough even harder. I must wait until I have sufficient certainty before attempting..."

Therefore, he can only place his hope on the gene optimization benefits from headquarters.

Days passed one by one.

In the blink of an eye, the city-wide commendation conference organized by the Municipal Bureau had arrived.

After Lin Qing finished speaking, he sat in the audience, casually scrolling through his phone, occasionally refreshing the patrol backend data, hoping the First-Class Merit would be approved soon.

Suddenly—

The Patrol System sent him a new message.

【Dear Patrol Chief Mr. Lin Qing, you have a new merit change. Please check.】

"The First-Class Merit has finally been approved!"

Lin Qing's eyes instantly brightened.

(End of this chapter)