An Auspicious Start

In reality... Li Aoz felt that even if there were truly highly skilled mediums, given the situation with Sky Ring, the kind of mediums who could be considered respectable would at least be from wealthy and powerful families, and he probably wouldn't be able to persuade them.

Li Aoz plans to learn specialized professional knowledge in his own way, find Nomi's body, and then follow the clues to find the "Plunderer" who stole the other half of Nomi's soul and take it back from him.

Compared to aimless séances, once a soul is identified, the subsequent work requires a lower level of skill from the medium; someone of Xue Nuo's or even Agent Ya Wen's skill level can handle it.

Li Aoz glanced at the panel. Having completed five battles against opponents of higher ranks, his template had been upgraded to [Advanced Veteran Combat-Type NPC], enjoying 10% increased maximum health and 15% Damage Rate.

Looking down, the rewards for the "Remember Them" quest, especially the experience, were very generous. Even though he was teamed up with Mouldy Crotch and there was an experience penalty, it was still enough to raise his Main Class to level 40.

[Main Class [Mutant] has been upgraded to level 40]

Based on your expertise, you gain the following benefit: Charisma +15

The base Charm instantly reaches 65 points, and jewelry equipment adds 3 points, keeping Charm as the Primary Attribute, allowing the Perpetual · Love Hunter effect to remain active, resulting in a 130% benefit.

The final actual gain for [Charm] was 88.4 points.

This value has officially entered the top level of the Gamma-rank. Even the professor's Primary Attribute, [Intelligence], is more than 20 points lower than his [Charisma].

Once the score exceeds 100, the [Mutant] will undergo a qualitative change.

[Total Level has met the promotion criteria]

With his Main Class level 40, Li Aoz glanced at the quest requirements for advancing to the Beta-rank: [Rank advancement requirement: Possess three perfect mutations]

The difficulty is quite low. After completing the "Remember Them" mission, you will be given four opportunities to perfectly reset the mutation options for Li Aoz. You just need to wait for the mutation to happen.

After completing this series of operations, Li Aoz had enough experience to reset the game and still had a considerable surplus. He wasn't in a hurry to add it to his secondary profession, [Biochemist], as he still needed to nurture [Craftsman].

Suddenly I'm lacking experience again.

However, Li Aoz thought about it and realized that he would soon face a problem: advancing his profession to level 60.

The [Echo] inheritance that Li Aoz intends to advance to is not on Azure Planet. In fact, there is no path to enlightenment beyond level 60 on Azure Planet.

[It seems I need to get to space sooner rather than later.]

Now that the Blood of Immortality has taken a trip to space, Li Aoz is no longer worried about his lifespan. As long as he hibernates more, he won't have to worry about a short lifespan, and the burden and damage to his genes can also be repaired.

However, the drawbacks of the [Blood of Immortality] soon became apparent, Li Aoz quickly fell into boredom, unable to actively break free from hibernation unless faced with a life-threatening crisis.

However, there is no danger now.

Li Aoz guessed that it would probably be Law Enforcement Division Four and Law Enforcement Division Three who sent people to hunt him down. Given that he could defeat even Beta-rank professor, Law Enforcement Division Three and Law Enforcement Division Four would probably send several Beta-rank to jointly kill him.

The worst-case scenario is that they'll field a professional army; they can't exactly bring a Mobile Armor, can they? Unless Frostplate wants to start a war? However, it's not entirely impossible. Considering Law Enforcement Division Four's habitually vengeful nature, Li Aoz decided to prepare for the worst.

It would take at least an hour for Frostplate to catch up with the Youth Armored Train traveling at full speed. During that time, the Blood of Immortality would be able to repair 30% of the Gene Overload effect.

As long as he can use Aoneng and get up and run, Li Aoz can fight.

The boring time spent recovering from injury was depressing, but fortunately, Qiu Ran kept chatting with him, expressing many of the delicate emotions of a girl. She would occasionally talk about some interesting things at home. The thought of having the chance to go home soon made Qiu Ran feel particularly good. She would often laugh halfway through her sentence, "When I go back and make a lot of money, I want to go to university and try it out, and then buy a D2000 hovercar—hey, are you asleep or not?"

Qiu Ran seemed to realize that Li Aoz was listening to her, and rolled her eyes at him. "You want to keep listening? Forget it, you should just get some rest."

She wiped the sweat from Li Aoz's face with a towel, turned and left, instructing him:

"I'm going to help Lady Seria out, you two rest well!"

As Qiu Ran spoke, she pushed open the car door to the ward, closed it gently, and looked up to see Ms. Seria recording some information on various dashboards.

"Ms. Seria? Is there anything I can do to help?"

"Oh, it's Miss Qiu Ran." Seria chuckled and said, "I was just about to say that we're about to go underground, but there's another wave of Beast Tide that might attack us. I need to stay here and control the weapon system to fight back."

"Oh, I see—that must be really hard work," Qiu Ran said with concern. "How can I help you?"

"If possible, could you please deliver some gasoline to the young men on guard duty at the back of the vehicle? That way, if Mutated Beast get close, they can use the gasoline to start a fire and drive them away."

She pointed to two gasoline drums piled up to the side. "Two drums should be enough; the Mutated Beast generally can't catch up."

"No problem." Qiu Ran patted her barely noticeable biceps and chuckled, "Leave it to me."

"Then I'll leave it to you."

Qiu Ran picked up the two heavy gasoline cans and turned to walk towards the back of the carriage.

She walked through the first-class carriage, the ward, and the sleeper berths, and was about to push open the door of the hard-seat carriage when suddenly, Qiu Ran stopped in her tracks.

For some reason, she seemed to feel a mysterious thought constantly warning her in her heart.

Don't open the door!

Am I just too tired?

Qiu Ran broke out in a cold sweat; she was indeed feeling a bit palpitated. She hadn't eaten anything since the attack on the Nethermark Humanity began six hours earlier.

There seemed to be no movement inside, so it appeared that the argument between the Outland People and the Frostplate Citizen had ended.

Honestly, they are all people from the lower class who are bullied by Frostplate, so why do they have to argue and even fight over this kind of thing? Is there anything more precious than life in the world?

Living means you can earn money and eat lots of delicious food; living means you can bask in the Artificial Sun and get a beautiful tan; living means you can meet interesting people and make friends with them.

In short, being alive is the best thing. As long as a person can live, they can continue to prove their worth.

Qiu Ran thought of:

"Looks like I'm a coward too."

Then, I'll help you out again.

Qiu Ran took out her water bottle, took a sip of water to calm her racing heart, and unlocked the hard-seat train door.

Click—

The sliding door opened to the side, Qiu Ran bent down, picked up two heavy gasoline cans, took a deep breath, and walked forward.

She had just raised her head when she saw a bolt-action rifle pointed at her face, and then, the black muzzle slowly lit up with a flame.

Bang! The gasoline can crashed to the ground, slowly oozing a viscous liquid, and the air was soon filled with a pungent smell.