Chapter 11: Blood Disaster Syndrome

20 years old: Your strength reached third-level gene warrior, while Lin Ran is astonishing; she still broke the fifth-level gene lock without relying on gene medicine, and you finally understood why Caesar Life wanted to capture Lin Ran back then—her genes indeed hide secrets.

You occasionally gave speeches all over Yongguo; from eighty-year-old grandmothers to elementary school kids just starting school, everyone was fired up by your miraculous speaking talent, and later generations jokingly called this new era the Era of Passion.

During this period you continually researched the gene lock; you recall that during the purge operation you used perfect gene-editing technology to create those muscle monsters, whose physical quality was not inferior to second-level gene warriors, yet they did not break the gene lock—does this indicate that humanity's current gene system possesses another new path?

Because of your status as leader, you possessed good biological research equipment and test subjects, and you immediately began the research.

You attempted to fuse transcendent genes into the life code of white mice, but each attempt ended in failure.

And you are indeed stubborn; after losing count of how many experiments, you finally discovered a pattern, and you happened to find that one of those transcendent gene fragments is extremely similar to the gene fragment you once used that could turn people into muscle monsters.

You successfully created a super muscular white mouse! Only then did you realize that transcendent genes are actually a secondary code for enhancing genes; they need a primary code as a foundation to unfold in a living organism.

You announced this extremely shocking research achievement and named it: Gene Equation!

Your prestige in Yongguo greatly increased! Nobody looks down on you as a young person anymore.

Just as you were eagerly planning to continue researching the Gene Equation, the Heavenly Disaster, long dormant, surged again; they used the devoured city as a blood nest, breeding a large batch of blood disasters, rapidly marching toward two cities.

Everyone was caught off guard by this news; a blood disaster of this scale could swallow three or four whole cities at once.

For this you had prepared beforehand; you used the terrain to set up a defense line, diverting the Heavenly Disaster for extermination, but Yongguo's time to rest and recuperate is still insufficient—even if you dispatched all current gene warriors to the front lines, it would not be enough to exterminate the Heavenly Disaster.

Left with no choice, you hastily conducted clinical trials of the Gene Equation, yet obtained unexpected results.

The Life Equation perfectly matches gene warriors! However, the drawback is that only you can perform the method of imparting the equation, but for you that's hardly a drawback.

All gene warriors enlisted in Yongguo, under the effect of the equation, saw their physiques vastly improve! A group of super muscular monsters, wielding the most advanced gene weapons and biological weapons, faced the Heavenly Disaster head-on; their muscles were like red-hot branding irons, the Heavenly Disaster could not invade their bodies, and after you manually reinforced their genes, the Heavenly Disaster could not assimilate their genes.

This battle, a great victory!

21 years old: After the previous battle, you devoted more time to researching the Gene Equation; over the course of a year, following the Muscle Equation, you successively developed the Will Equation and the Agility Equation.

The Will Equation can greatly enhance a person's will; the Agility Equation, as the name suggests, and you also made a new discovery: the number of equations a person can bear is actually linked to the number of gene locks opened—meaning each opened gene lock allows imparting one life equation, undoubtedly another major discovery.

The success rate of imparting equations also declines with increasing attempts; even so, all gene warriors' strength still underwent a qualitative improvement, and you immediately announced that from now on, Yongguo officially begins counterattacking the Heavenly Disaster!

Your first goal is to retake the city devoured by the Heavenly Disaster and reestablish the Heavenly Disaster front line.

At this time Lin Ran voluntarily requested to fight, wanting to participate in this retaking campaign, starting from a grassroots soldier.

You couldn't refuse her; given her current strength, you have no worries about her getting into trouble, and besides, Lin Ran has been perfectly infused with the three major gene equations by you—what should be feared is the Heavenly Disaster.

Unexpectedly, in the past first month Lin Ran gave you a big surprise; your subordinates told you that Lin Ran single-handedly charged into one of the blood nests and carried out a decapitation operation on the nest's mother body, making a huge contribution to the retaking effort.

And over the following months, Lin Ran consecutively conducted decapitation operations on more than ten blood nests within that city; the original six-month retaking plan, due to Lin Ran's interference as this little monster, was shortened to three and a half months, leaving you unable to help clicking your tongue.

This battle, another great victory!

22 years old: The Heavenly Disaster front line has been reestablished; at this moment, external troubles and internal worries are thoroughly resolved, and you finally obtained a hard-earned short vacation, so you and Lin Ran plan to return to the restaurant to visit uncle.

Zhang Jie! Look! I snatched the cake you love most again!

That cake shop in the southern part of the city hasn't even closed down yet!

Lin Ran's figure was like a frolicking silly donkey, hopping up to Zhang Jie's front, presenting the cake in her hand as an offering to Zhang Jie.

However, what awaited her was not praise, but a light tap on the head.

"What do you mean my favorite cake? Obviously it's you who's craving it; stop blaming me."

At this moment, the long-unseen uncle appeared before the two, wearing a prosthetic limb, holding a large plate of grilled meat, and looking at the two laughing and playing, he teased with a smile.

"You two, when will you get married so uncle can take a look?"

Hearing the uncle's teasing words, this silly Lin Ran felt no embarrassment at all; instead, she straightened her chest and grabbed Zhang Jie.

"Marry! Must marry! Let's go get married now!"

Saying that, she was about to pull Zhang Jie to get the marriage certificate; Zhang Jie rolled his eyes hard and gave her a hard knock on the head.

Everyone chatted happily at the table, discussing the past, envisioning the future, everything full of hope.

After finishing the grilled meat, the uncle told the two of you that he still kept those two small rooms where you used to live, everything unchanged; hearing this, Lin Ran's eyes lit up, and she pulled Zhang Jie toward the back of the restaurant.

Days got better and better; the uncle's restaurant had already been renovated once, but the living area in the restaurant's backyard remained intimately familiar to the two, unchanged at all.

Lin Ran's training equipment is already covered in dust; everything in sight is memories.

Zhang Jie returned to his small room, surrounded by books, a bed, a desk, and nothing else.

Afterward, Zhang Jie went up to the rooftop and once again gazed upon that area that used to be a red-light district, feeling countless emotions in his heart.

Just as he was about to go downstairs to find Lin Ran, he suddenly felt dizzy and blurred vision, then a sweet sensation came from his throat, and a large mouthful of fresh blood was vomited out.

Shockingly, that clump of blood kept wriggling, as if it were alive.

Before Zhang Jie could even think it over, a strong wave of dizziness hit him, he instantly lost consciousness, and collapsed headfirst to the ground.

"Zhang Jie, Zhang Jie! Look, the jasmine-flavored rock sugar you gave me is still..."

"Zhang Jie!"

'Life Entry—Blood Disaster Syndrome—Activated'