Immortal and Undying, Starting from Prototype
Chapter 41

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Calamity Fire fell from the heavens, destroying everything—!

"Rumble—!!!"

The terrifying explosions destroyed everything within their range. The land heaved like the sea, rising and falling in monstrous waves. Even an Aircraft Carrier would have been reduced to fragments barely larger than scraps of paper under these circumstances.

"What a spectacle. Too bad it all missed."

Chang Wei watched the tens of thousands of suns of varying sizes rise into the sky and sighed. At that moment, the scene was far grander than the thousand suns he had created in the Prototype world.

The nuclear bombs had exploded for nothing.

The moment Chang Wei discovered the Hydrogen Bombs, he immediately devoured the Aliens that might have been killed, lest they go to waste.

Out of human emotion and empathy, Chang Wei had wanted those nuclear bombs to kill the Aliens. But from the perspective of personal judgment and maximizing profits, he could not do that.

More than anything, it pained him to see them wasted. Frugality was a virtue in the great Celestial Empire. Chang Wei had been taught to be diligent and thrifty since childhood; even when he saw a faucet running, he had to tighten it shut.

And these were Gene Points by the billions.

He had actually wasted quite a lot in the previous world, but there had been no helping it. To trick The Jester into taking the bait, he had needed to make some sacrifices.

He had gathered a large number of Blacklight creatures and Nests in one place, creating the illusion that it was his main base and luring The Jester in.

The price was that those Blacklight creatures could not be recovered, which meant he had wasted a huge amount of Gene Points out of nowhere.

In the end, over a thousand disguised forms failed their Nuclear Fusion and turned into Hydrogen Bombs. The Jester had been left with no way into heaven or earth before being blown to death alive, along with an untold number of Chang Wei's Gene Points, likely counted in the hundreds of millions.

After Blacklight Virus microorganisms devoured something, they still had to be recovered before the Gene Points could be counted. Fortunately, Chang Wei could now move at supersonic speeds.

While moving at supersonic speed, he had managed to recover eighty or ninety percent of the Blacklight Virus microorganisms before the Nuclear Bomb Explosion, instantly gaining an astronomical fortune.

At the very least, it had already surpassed his earnings from the previous Prototype world. He had farmed an absurd number of Gene Points.

"If I farm points this outrageously, I wonder whether the difficulty will be raised..."

Having earned tens of billions of Gene Points so easily, Chang Wei could not help feeling concerned.

He had not even spent a fraction of the more than ten billion Gene Points from the Prototype world, and now another huge sum had come in. If the system had such a mechanism, would it drastically raise his evaluation and cause the next world's difficulty to soar, sending him to some world where blowing up planets was as easy as breathing, drinking, and eating?

If that happened, then even with how strong he had become, survival would probably be difficult—Nine Deaths, One Life.

But even if there was a penalty, Chang Wei felt that he still had to earn them!

What was there to lose by earning them? Asking him to give up the Gene Points right before his eyes was simply impossible.

After the nuclear bombs cleansed the surface, the few surviving humans observed that a considerable number of Aliens had disappeared. They cheered for it, only to quickly grow dejected, because they would have to spend an unknown amount of time restoring this devastated world.

It was true that Hydrogen Bombs caused no Nuclear Radiation or contamination, but the destroyed resources and buildings could not simply be rebuilt at will. Reality was not a game where one could just press a button.

Moreover, the harsh environment to come would likely leave fewer than one in a hundred of the remaining humans alive.

"But no matter what, we won! Those damned bastards, those damned monsters, lost to us humans!!!"

"Humanity forever!"

Chang Wei remained for several more days. On one hand, he prepared to depart; on the other, he wanted to see whether there was still any chance to harvest more Gene Points.

After all, he had only absorbed most of the Aliens that would have been caught in the blasts. There were still plenty of Aliens left.

As expected, he gained quite a few more Gene Points.

"What a pity. I can't keep waiting—I have to leave."

Chang Wei estimated how quickly nearby Predator reinforcements could arrive. If they traveled through wormholes, their speed would still be very fast.

So he had to get out of there quickly.

"Detection... occurrence... humans... Aliens... mutual destruction..."

What Chang Wei did not know was that, above Earth's orbit, Predator Ships began Appearing Out of Nowhere one after another, Just like they had suddenly Teleported over from somewhere far away.

This was actually a visual effect of wormhole jumps, as they recovered from their distorted, stretched state to their original forms.

The Predator army had arrived!

No matter what, the death of a Predator Elder was a major event. Chang Wei had made a basic mistake—or rather, he had been misled by the memories of that Predator Elder.

The Predator Elder he absorbed had no memories or knowledge of what happened after an elder died.

It was not that Predator Aliens had never had a Predator Elder die before. It was simply that this Predator Elder had been too young to know about such matters.

Naturally, this drew the attention of nearby Predator Aliens, who reported it upward, attracting further attention and interest.

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