Mecha Piloting +8!

Mecha Piloting +8!

"Ugh." Yang Bo looked around the bare Garden, speechless. The Garden was mainly filled with poisonous plants and poisonous insects; there was not a single animal.

In other words, his hope of gaining an ability through the assessment had fallen through.

His assessment score was 98. The points deducted were for improperly handling a Poisonous Spider. The spider was the size of a pigeon egg, and Yang Bo had slapped it to death in one hit.

Yang Bo really had not done it on purpose. The spider had suddenly jumped out, and he had acted on instinct. According to protocol, he should have backed away to maintain a safe distance before dealing with it using tools. With poisonous animals and plants, direct contact should be avoided whenever possible, even while wearing a Protective Suit.

"Forget it. I'll go to work tomorrow." After finishing the assessment, Yang Bo felt thoroughly depressed.

When Yang Bo's assessment results came out, Liu Zhijie's eyes widened as he looked at Yang Bo's ranking.

"98 points? Could Yang Bo's Gene Evolution be in the direction of intelligence?" Liu Zhijie knew how difficult the assessment was. Ordinary people found it hard to remember every poisonous plant and animal, which was why he had specifically said that sixty points was a passing grade.

However, Liu Zhijie could not be sure. Determining the direction of someone's Gene Evolution required extremely complicated tests, with even the most basic ones needing a blood sample.

Even now, no one knew how many directions Gene Evolution could take. First, everyone's constitution was different, so their Gene Evolution directions differed as well. Second, there was secrecy. Gene Evolvers kept their personal abilities confidential, because once others learned of their Gene Evolution abilities, they could devise all sorts of countermeasures.

The next morning, Yang Bo woke after a good night's sleep feeling especially comfortable. Every night, he used Light Energy Control to exhaust his mental energy, which made his sleep incredibly restful. He woke up feeling fully refreshed.

After getting ready and arriving at the bus stop, Yang Bo pondered asking his boss a few questions at work. Would his boss answer them?

Yang Bo did not notice a young man wearing sunglasses and a hooded sweatshirt. Beneath those sunglasses, the young man's gaze was icy, and the way he looked at Yang Bo was filled with rage.

In this world, many people went out wearing sunglasses and hooded sweatshirts with their hoods up. Most of them were residents, and over time, those residents had developed reclusive personalities with virtually no social circles.

The bus arrived, and Yang Bo lined up to board. Without anyone noticing, the sunglasses-wearing young man moved close to Yang Bo, brushing the back of his hand against Yang Bo's.

Suddenly, the young man jolted all over. His mind turned to mush. He did not know who he was or where he was, and his eyes were full of confusion as he looked around. Someone behind him shoved him, and he stumbled into the bus.

Yang Bo suddenly felt a jolt, as if he had been shocked by static electricity. He suspiciously looked around.

After getting off and entering the company, Liu Zhijie called Yang Bo into his office and asked, "Not bad results. How do you feel?"

"I feel like something might be wrong with me. When I killed those animals, I didn't feel any guilt?" Yang Bo said after hesitating for a moment.

"That's human nature. You can look through history. The number of people who died in wars far exceeded those who died from anything else, such as disasters or plagues."

"Humans are also advanced animals, standing at the top of the food chain. Look at the Ferocious Beasts among animals—what do they rely on to maintain their position at the top of the food chain? Killing and hunting. You don't need to dwell on it. You can choose your missions. If you feel uncomfortable, choose jobs without animals," Liu Zhijie said.

Yang Bo nodded. "Okay, boss."

"Go pick up a mission. You're currently at the lowest E-Rank, so you can only accept E-Rank missions," Liu Zhijie added.

Yang Bo nodded and went to pick up a mission. To his surprise, there were quite a few listings—at least a dozen. Some vanished while he was looking, presumably because someone else had accepted them.

"Clean out a basement." Yang Bo accepted an E-Rank mission worth 1,500 Credit Points to clear miscellaneous items from a basement.

After taking the equipment required for the mission, Yang Bo got into the car. The Client had sent a vehicle to pick him up again.

Liu Zhijie had mentioned before that most Clients were celebrities or politicians. Those people did not want certain things exposed. Just like the Garden he had cleaned last time, it contained dozens of endangered protected plants. If that became public, those celebrities would be in serious trouble.

Meanwhile, more than a hundred kilometers away from Yang Bo, a young man in sunglasses and a hooded sweatshirt got off a bus in confusion. He did not know who he was, where he was, or what he was doing. Fragments occasionally surfaced in his mind.

Ring! The word appeared in the young man's mind. He looked at the ring on his hand, took it off, and examined it as he walked.

Suddenly, the young man convulsed and collapsed. The ring flew away as well. A speeding bus coming from behind struck him and knocked him to the ground. Although the bus had an intelligent system, the young man's actions were too unusual, and the system failed to issue a warning in time.

After the bus stopped, its doors immediately opened, and a voice sounded inside: "All passengers, please evacuate immediately. Please evacuate immediately."

Within ten seconds, two black-and-white drones hovered in the air. They were Drone Police, equipped with laser systems.

Twenty-five seconds later, two Anti-Gravity hovercars arrived—one ambulance and one police vehicle.

At that moment, Yang Bo, still in the car, was dumbfounded.

Because a message had suddenly appeared: Mecha Piloting +8! "What the hell?"

Yang Bo was dumbfounded all over again. Then he silently called up his skills and found that he really did have that skill.

"What the fuck..." Yang Bo was confused. What was going on? He had not killed anyone.

He carefully thought it over. From waking up that morning to arriving at work, he had not noticed anything unusual.

After thinking some more, he finally recalled being shocked by static electricity on the bus.

"Could someone have tried to ambush me?" Yang Bo carefully examined the back of his hand and found a faint red dot, like a needle mark.

While Yang Bo was feeling suspicious, the young man from the accident was being examined.

The two police officers frowned. "A C-Rank Citizen. We don't have sufficient authority. This isn't something we can handle. Report it."

The young man was sent into the ambulance, but the doctors found that he had already stopped breathing. Still, the rescue procedures had to be carried out. However, since they did not know his identity, only the most basic emergency measures could be used. Some people were allergic to certain drugs, and some Gene Evolvers could not come into contact with certain medications.

As Yang Bo got out of the car and prepared to work, he roughly pieced together what had happened. "The dead target gave me 8 points. He should have been a C-Rank Gene Enhancer. A C-Rank Gene Enhancer riding a bus—was he specifically targeting me?"

"That person poked me with something, and my Electrical Energy Control discharged. Did it destroy his Biochip?"

"The static shock I felt was actually electrical energy released from my own body?"

"I'll check the news when I get back. The death of a C-Rank Citizen isn't a small matter." After getting himself ready, Yang Bo entered the basement, muttered to himself, and prepared to start work.