After taking out the Gene Serum, Shen Jin led the two of them home through the passageway.
When Fu Wei saw such a magnificent underground passage, his brain crashed once again.
"This..."
"Hey! Old Fu, you're making a fuss over nothing! That's just how badass an Earth-based Ability user is!"
Shen Jin rolled his eyes, having no idea what Yang Ao was so proud of.
Yang Ao carried Fu Wei while Shen Jin rode an electric bike himself.
After they had traveled for a while, Shen Jin suddenly remembered something and stopped.
"You take him back first. Let him stay in the room you used to live in underground."
"Okay. Where are you going?"
Shen Jin smiled mysteriously. "I forgot to pick up something."
After Shen Jin left, Yang Ao looked at Fu Wei strangely. "What valuable stuff could still be in the lab?"
Fu Wei thought for a long time. "Nothing, right? There's no food or water, and the Zombies wrecked all the equipment. I can't think of anything valuable that would be left."
"Strange."
"Creak, creak~"
The two rode their battered electric bike back to the villa.
Shen Jin arrived outside the laboratory's outer section and took out the Diamond pickaxe.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
As a temporary resident, Fu Wei was temporarily confined to the underground "testing room," with Yang Ao bringing him food.
"Brother Jin, you don't have cameras installed in the room I'm staying in now too, do you?"
Seeing Fu Wei's situation, Yang Ao suddenly remembered the cameras spread throughout the villa, and his scalp went numb.
"No."
Shen Jin naturally denied it.
"Then why did you turn your head away?!"
"There really aren't any!"
"Don't look at the floor, hey!"
"Relax, there aren't any cameras, but you still need to restrain yourself!"
Yang Ao flew into a rage. "And you said there weren't any installed!"
Shen Jin: (°ー°〃)
A moment later, Shen Jin shouted:
"Drink the Gene Serum already!"
Yang Ao: "..."
The bottle of pale-blue serum sat on Yang Ao's table. Shen Jin pulled over a small stool, preparing to record Yang Ao's reaction to drinking it in real time.
If there was even the slightest danger in the process, he would postpone taking the serum.
He would wait until Fu Wei developed a 100% safe "Gene Optimization Serum 2.0" before drinking it.
Yang Ao stared at the firmly seated Shen Jin in shock. "You're just going to sit there and watch me?"
Shen Jin nodded naturally and adjusted his notebook.
"Don't worry. I'll record your vital signs and accumulate experience for those who take the serum later. If you die, I can dig you a pit right here and give you a proper burial!"
"Hey! The only person taking it later will be you!"
"If you put it that way, then I don't... Fine, it's just me. So what?"
Yang Ao was left speechless.
"Uh... My dad said that after taking this serum, you need to eat a huge amount of food. Otherwise, the altered genes will draw energy from your body and starve you to death."
"Easy!"
Shen Jin went into Room "Yellow" Two and brought out a pile of food—meat, eggs, and sugary foods.
Yang Ao looked at it, opened the bottle, gritted his teeth, and downed the pale-blue serum in one gulp.
Then nothing happened. The two of them simply stared at each other.
Shen Jin took out his notebook and drew several stars to ease the awkward atmosphere.
At that moment, egged on by Li Moxiao, Shang Qian came to Room "Yellow" Two to steal some roast chicken.
Li Moxiao ate the chicken while Shang Qian stood watch in the corridor.
Suddenly, Shang Qian heard some unusual sounds from next door.
Ten minutes later, Yang Ao finally reacted!
The skin all over his body turned red, as if he were having an allergic reaction. Then he began sweating profusely, even giving off wisps of heat.
"Damn, Yang Ao, your body is so hot?!"
Shen Jin hurriedly recorded it.
"Fuck! My body's reacting!"
Body? Hot? Fuck me? Reacting? Shang Qian stood frozen at the door.
Yang Ao's body steamed. Besides the heat, he felt an overwhelming hunger, as though the energy in his body were constantly draining away.
He grabbed the food from the table and began devouring it!
Yang Ao's stomach began churning at a frantic pace, like a massive grinder, breaking down and extracting the energy from all the food he ate, sending it throughout his body to fuel his optimizing genes.
White mist continuously rose from his body, as though special effects had been added.
"Brother Jin, give me more! I still need to eat!"
"Hiss~"
Shen Jin sucked in a breath. In just this short time, Yang Ao had already eaten as much food as ten adults would consume in a meal, and he still needed more energy!
He hurriedly pulled out a large handful of Compressed Biscuits from his pocket.
At the doorway,
Listening to the two men's "hungry" swallowing sounds and "satisfied" exclamations from inside, Shang Qian's face instantly turned red.
She hadn't expected Yang Ao to be won over so quickly.
"Finished eating chicken, let's go, let's go!"
Li Moxiao came out from the room next door and saw Shang Qian standing at the door with a flushed face.
"What's wrong with you? Why is your face so red? Did Shen Jin catch you?"
Shang Qian grabbed Li Moxiao and turned to leave.
"Kids wouldn't understand!"
Another long stretch of eating followed.
Bored, Shen Jin began coloring the stars in his notebook into black stars.
After a long while...
"Whew~ I'm full. Burp~~"
Yang Ao's enormous burp nearly sent Shen Jin, who was drawing stars, straight to the grave.
"Cough, cough... Is the gene optimization finished already?"
Yang Ao felt the changes in his body and discovered that he had actually slimmed down quite a bit. His already fit body had shed all unnecessary fat, becoming even more defined and filled with strength!
"I got slimmer, and I got stronger too!"
Shen Jin clicked his tongue. "Indeed. This evolution is visible to the naked eye, but it feels like something's missing."
Yang Ao looked puzzled. "What's missing?"
"Poop spraying out of your pores."
Yang Ao: (lll￢ω￢)
Having failed to witness that spectacle, Shen Jin felt that webnovel authors had deceived him all these years.
"How much exactly has your physical fitness increased now? Can you quantify it?"
After complaining, Shen Jin still did not forget his purpose.
Yang Ao clenched his fists and swung one lightly, producing a whooshing sound!
Fist wind!
"I feel like my body is overflowing with power. The current me could take on ten of my former self!"
"Damn! Your physical fitness has been enhanced tenfold!"
Shen Jin was stunned. Who the hell would still risk their life unlocking a Gene Lock? Everyone could just drink a bottle of serum and become Superman. What the hell were Zombies worth then?!
Yang Ao looked embarrassed. "Cough, cough... It's not that exaggerated. Overall, it's probably only doubled, but my reaction speed and every aspect of my body have improved. I'm insanely good at fighting now!"
"Ah! Got excited for nothing. So you went from an ordinary person to a special forces soldier?"
Yang Ao scratched his head. "Uh... Maybe a little stronger, but that's roughly what I mean."
Seeing that Yang Ao had no other reactions, Shen Jin returned to his room. He could watch from there anyway.
Hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry! Big shots, please toss this kid a little food as a reward!
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