Courier Guy

"Spider-Man's Ability!"

Chen Feng was impressed.

Without question, this Gene Ability was outstanding, even in this world. But its terrifying price was enough to deter most people. Chen Feng also looked over the other genes. There was a dazzling variety of Combat Genes, and even the cheapest ones cost ten thousand yuan.

The expensive ones went as high as several hundred thousand yuan, and those were the truly popular items.

Chen Feng's eyes were dazzled by the selection, but he quickly steadied himself and looked over the transaction rules in the Virtual Community, searching for a suitable trading channel.

There were four ways to sell Gene Reagents.

The first was to find buyers yourself and chat with them privately.

The second was to sell directly to Gene Shops that were buying.

Many small Gene Shops were managed by robots. For instance, they might purchase Wood Bear Genes for 4,500 yuan and sell them for 5,000 yuan, earning the difference. This was especially suitable for ordinary producers and those short on time—automatic transactions, simple and fast!

The third was to consign them to shops in the Virtual Community for sale. There was a 5% handling fee per day, and you could set your own price, but whether the item sold or not, the fee was nonrefundable.

The fourth was to open a shop yourself.

"The first option is too troublesome. The prices are low, and it wastes a lot of time. The second is too unprofitable. The fourth requires too much capital to open a shop, and without traffic in the early stages, you basically won't be able to sell anything."

"Then only the third option remains."

Chen Feng decided to consign his goods to another shop for trading.

However, there was one prerequisite: he had to buy a Transaction Transmitter.

The Transaction Transmitter was a technological product of the new era. Rumor had it that the founder who created the Virtual Community's Trading Department was a powerful figure with a miraculous spatial ability! He had imitated the founder of that Wristband company, compressing his ability into a special device to create the Transaction Transmitter.

As long as one purchased these devices, small trade items could be transmitted directly. Those who could not afford a transmitter could only use courier services.

Price: 100,000 yuan.

Chen Feng bought one immediately. He did not have time to receive and send packages every day. Since he intended to trade repeatedly, a transmitter was essential. He purchased the Transaction Transmitter directly from the Virtual Community's official store and arranged for courier delivery. As for everything else, it would be more convenient to buy them once the transmitter arrived.

"Done!"

"I'll rest for a while first."

While waiting for the courier, Chen Feng caught up on some sleep.

He was exhausted!

He had been busy since yesterday without resting, and Chen Feng soon fell into a deep sleep. However, when he woke from that slumber, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Danger!"

Years of vigilance brought Chen Feng fully awake in an instant.

Whoosh!

A Wind Blade instinctively formed within him. Chen Feng sprang to his feet and looked toward the source of the danger. At the window stood a terrifying Mutated Beast.

Sharp claws, eyes like lightning—it was truly frightening.

"An enemy?"

A cold glint flashed through Chen Feng's eyes.

Wind Blade ready!

Luck Aura ready!

Though the creature before him was huge, Chen Feng was not afraid in the slightest. The instant burst of the Wind Blade could unleash strength far beyond his current limits!

Just as he was about to strike, a figure unexpectedly appeared atop the giant bird.

Familiar clothes...

A familiar emblem...

The man gave an honest smile and held out a box through the window. "Bro, your delivery."

Chen Feng: "..."

Damn it, this was actually the Courier Guy!

"Couldn't you use the front door?"

Chen Feng sighed. It was not that he had forgotten—in even the original owner's memories, the Courier Guy had used the front door. Who came to the window to scare people like this?!

"I called for ages, but no one answered."

The Courier Guy looked a little embarrassed. "Then I saw the window was open, so I thought I'd come take a look."

Chen Feng signed for the package.

"Whoosh—"

The giant bird took flight.

The Courier Guy rode away on the bird.

"Cloud Soaring Bird."

Chen Feng narrowed his eyes.

That was the Gene Ability of the F-Grade Gene Cloud Soaring Bird. It gave you a natural affinity for Cloud Soaring Birds, allowing you to capture one with average combat power but incredible speed as your companion. Many Courier Guys had fused this gene—it was the standard work gene.

"What a magical world."

Chen Feng looked forward to this fascinating world.

So...

He opened the package, revealing a gleaming Transaction Transmitter.

The poor relied on delivery, while the rich relied on transmission. These days, even online shopping could make the poor feel deeply wounded.

The Transaction Transmitter was not large, but it could handle the vast majority of small items.

With the transmitter in place, buying all kinds of materials became a one-step process, and selling Gene Reagents became more convenient than ever. Chen Feng's life as a Gene Producer had truly begun.

He returned to the Virtual Community.

Chen Feng chose a Gene Shop with fairly high traffic, put the Wood Bear Gene up for consignment, bought a large batch of Wood Bear Gene materials, and threw himself into another frenzy of production.

The Luck Aura was activated at full power, and Chen Feng plunged into a mad production spree.

During this time, aside from waiting for his Luck Value to recover, all he did was study!

Study without end!

The original owner's memories were more like movies to him. He knew everything in them, but none of it was deeply ingrained. Besides, given the original owner's limited horizons, he could not have known much in the first place. So Chen Feng needed to understand this world himself, to truly see it through all kinds of virtual tutorials!

"Virtual Reality Image—Feel the Pulse of the Planet"

"Virtual Reality Image—The Gene Era"

"Virtual Reality Image—What You Don't Know About the Data Wristband"

"Virtual Reality Image—From Simulation to Mastery: A Guide to Hunting Mutated Beasts"

"Virtual Reality Image—Five Years of Assessment, Eight Years of Hunting: How Mutated Beasts Survive"

And so on.

Chen Feng watched nearly all the popular recorded images and guides. With the aid of virtual reality equipment, he experienced them firsthand. After seven days, Chen Feng knew more about this world than the original owner ever had. In those seven days, he had truly integrated into this world.

His Gene Production progress was also incredibly fast.

Luck Value?

Twenty-four uses a day were nowhere near enough!

Run out of Luck Value?

Then buy materials and make them directly!

This formula, which had once been utterly unfamiliar to Chen Feng, gradually became familiar and mastered through repeated successes and failures. For someone who had never succeeded before, success was a hurdle! But once they succeeded even once and found that feeling, the odds of succeeding the next time would be a little higher.

It was a feeling, but one that could be grasped.

As his Luck Value was consumed, Chen Feng's control over gene fusion became more precise, and his understanding of so-called "uniformity" grew deeper. With every success, Chen Feng felt himself advancing another step. Even failures brought considerable gains, and his success rate steadily rose.

After seven days, Chen Feng had finally mastered it completely!

And in his personal gene test data, his Beginner Gene Production level had finally changed from 0-star to 1-star!

"I've finally gotten started."

Chen Feng sighed with deep emotion.

Thus ended Chen Feng's first period of seclusion.

And the price...

Chen Feng looked at the giant zero in his account and felt a wave of frustration.

To thoroughly grasp the Wood Bear Gene Formula as quickly as possible, he had poured all 400,000 yuan into it. That was only because many batches of Wood Bear Genes produced along the way had already been sold; otherwise, 400,000 yuan would not have been enough at all. The cost of Gene Production far exceeded his imagination.

Even he, with the Luck Aura, had it this bad. What about everyone else?

Becoming a qualified producer was truly difficult.

That was also why the original owner had been determined to get into university. At university, classes provided all kinds of free experimental materials. Even if you had no money at all, you could continue improving! You could even obtain rarer and more valuable gene formulas through various channels!

"What a pity."

Chen Feng felt somewhat regretful.

But he did not lose heart. Since failing the college entrance exam was already an established fact, worrying about it was useless. What mattered now was calculating how long it would take to master the Wood Bear Gene Formula. Yet after calculating the time and money he had invested, Chen Feng looked at the time remaining and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"In other words..."

"Seven days, plus all my starting capital, just to master a one-star formula?"

Chen Feng felt even more frustrated.

He was still a full nineteen stars away from the twenty-star requirement for registration eligibility!

Nowhere near enough!

"This won't do."

Chen Feng frowned.

The profits from One-Star gene formulas were truly too low!

If he kept producing the most basic One-Star genes like the Wood Bear Gene, then even if he could burn money without limit, he still would not reach the standard of twenty star ratings.

"The next formula must be a combat formula."

Chen Feng was certain.

Combat formulas started at two-star difficulty, while exceptional combat formulas were even three-star difficulty! Chen Feng's current approach relied on using the Luck Aura to force his way upward! Therefore, for him, the higher the formula's difficulty, the better! He had to choose his second formula carefully.

"I'll save up some money first, then buy a high-star Combat Gene."

Chen Feng thought to himself.

At present, his only capital was the Wood Bear Gene Reagents he had just produced.

"I'll sell these first."

As usual, Chen Feng entered the Virtual Community and went to the Gene Shop he frequented. Just as he was about to list them for consignment, a hulking figure of light suddenly blocked his way, glaring at him viciously.

"Kid, who gave you the nerve to consign goods here?"