I Have a Group of Earth Players
Chapter 4

The Limitless D-Earthling!

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Gene trading is an open business in the Great Universe Federation and a key tool for interstellar lords to colonize!

Directly hiring superior races is expensive, usually only done reluctantly when a lord is forming their core team in the early stages. Later, lords with mature armies naturally explore Life Star Systems, invading and colonizing the civilizations they discover.

Of course, there are also poor lords like Lord Xi Ye, who doesn't have a single soldier and comes to fool natives into signing contracts.

But no matter the type, they all need gene bank support.

The Federation's genes are superior ones collected across countless eons in the universe, possessing all sorts of powerful biological traits and evolutionary abilities that no ordinary planet's natives can match. For a lord wanting to rapidly develop their forces and improve their subjects' basic qualities, using gene transplantation for biological modification is the most efficient method!

When Xi Ye left, he also bought a massive stock of genes, but due to poverty, they were all cheap, low-quality goods—the Green Titan being one of them...

Green Titans are tall, with high-strength physiques and muscle density, adaptable to most basic labor, making them the top choice for many down-and-out lords to create miners and basic soldiers.

The surgery went smoothly—so smoothly that Xi Ye could hardly believe it!

That young guy succeeding was one thing, but those two bald men also completed the transplant smoothly on the first try, with an absorption rate as high as ninety percent?

When the data came out, Xi Ye even wondered if his eyes were playing tricks on him!

"Cool!!" Xiao Chen, stepping out of the Biological Storage, stared at his own explosively muscular body, like the Hulk, his eyes full of amazement!

He clenched his fist slightly, veins bulging on his arm, feeling full of power. He even thought that if someone handed him a steel bar, he could twist it into a pretzel effortlessly. So he scanned the surroundings, eager to find something to test his grip on!

"Lao Yang, did you feel that?" One of the bald men, who had just come out after the modification... had actually grown thick black hair. He felt the new body with delight and said excitedly, "The attribute boost and the hundred percent mental link touch are handled so smoothly, with almost no sense of dissonance!!"

In virtual games, the mainstream leveling games still dominate, where players can boost attributes through leveling up or class changes, but it feels unreal. For example, when strength increases, it's usually just a data change, with no actual experience for the player.

Only a few high-quality games try to integrate the perception of attribute boosts into the player's mental touch, giving a more realistic Game Experience. But in reality, this technology isn't mature. Adjusting the player's mental perception to make them feel stronger or faster isn't easy, and often, due to technical immaturity, it creates a sense of dissonance.

But this experience was completely different. The sense of power boost had no dissonance at all, as if it were truly their own strength—it felt absolutely wonderful!!

Behind them, Lao Yang, after the modification, had also become a tall, mighty Green Titan. He stared at his own body in shock and said excitedly, "This is definitely beyond market technology. This game probably wasn't designed by a private designer. It might be a studio full of big shots, backed by a powerful financial group!"

The three were stunned by the game's technology, but Xi Ye was stunned by their physical qualities!

If not for the presence of outsiders, he would have taken off his helmet and knocked his head with a metal handle to see if he was dreaming.

Ninety percent absorption capacity!

How could that be?!

Even the Westans, known as the Federation's best at absorption, could only handle at most fifteen percent of this unprocessed raw Green Titan gene, right?

For other races with poor absorption, getting even 0.5 percent after the first surgery was an excellent result. What did ninety percent mean?

Under the monopoly of the Federation's Fourth Lord, Black Gore Targaryen, a Westan sold for ten thousand God Coins—equivalent to this lord's living expenses for twenty years!!

Ninety percent... if this got out, a D-Earthling would sell for a sky-high price!

And there were billions of people like this??

This wasn't just luck from stepping in dog shit; one of his ancestors must have saved the entire universe, right?

"Great Lord!" Xiao Chen said eagerly, "What do we need to do next?"

Go mine... Xi Ye wanted to say that, but something felt off... Using a Green Titan with ninety percent absorption to mine?

How extravagant would a lord have to be to do something so wasteful?

Green Titans bear the name "Titan" but are used as miners by default. Many newbies might not understand, but anyone who's lived in the Federation knows the reason. Green Titans aren't a low-end race; on the contrary, they're high-level. High-level Green Titans have always been favorites in arenas or armies, but the downside is the high cost of cultivation!

Gene value isn't just based on species quality; it's assessed comprehensively. A mature Green Titan is an excellent warrior, but one with only one percent or less bloodline power is mediocre—just a bit stronger and tougher.

To evolve, they need massive amounts of gene evolution potions, so aside from wealthy arenas, few people bother to cultivate high-level Green Titans. Federation freemen, unless very rich, won't spend money on the Green Titan evolution path. Under the same resources, Wood Elves, the Rune Clan, or the Thunder Clan are better choices.

This market trend drove Green Titan gene prices down and down, eventually making them cheap goods for poor lords to train miners.

In the Federation, many genes like the Green Titan exist, all because their low absorption capacity prevents their powerful biological traits and evolutionary abilities from being realized, turning them into cheap goods.

"Lord?" Seeing no response, Xiao Chen asked curiously.

Xi Ye looked at Xiao Chen's perfectly muscled body and thought to himself, "With this quality, even if I hide that terrifying absorption rate and sell them, I could probably get ten thousand God Coins each from arenas, right? Damn, a Green Titan gene costs only one and a half coins—what a huge profit!"

But he knew he couldn't contact any arena. Once he exposed this treasure trove, he'd be wiped out in minutes. He understood the principle of "innocence is a curse if one hoards jade."

Why could Black Gore monopolize the Westan business? Besides luckily discovering the Westans as a native race, he also had a powerful army backing him that no one dared to mess with!

As a low-level god without many subjects' faith, even a group of Black Goblins could probably beat him to death!

Since he couldn't sell them and his base was primitive, it seemed... he really could only send them to mine...

How damn extravagant!!

Xi Ye sighed inwardly but put on a serious face and said in a deep voice, "Due to your low overall quality, you can only handle miner work for now. But if you work diligently and perform well, accumulating enough points, you can apply to become a soldier!"

"Starting as miners?" The three were stunned, thinking: The bar is that low?

Such a slow pace was rare, but they understood. Although the market favored fast-paced games, that was just the style of some shallow games. Real big productions often used a slow pace to gradually attract players. While it might not be popular at first, once you settled in, the replayability was very high.

It seemed, as Lao Yang thought, this was a big production backed by a major financial group, not a half-baked product. They'd have to go back and rewrite their reviews. But since the game was so interesting, the two veteran testers naturally wanted to stay and keep experiencing it, leaving the task of rewriting the review to Xiao Chen, who had less experience...

Despite his reluctance, Xiao Chen had no choice but to go to work, leaving behind the joy of mining.

Ding! The Green Titan gene is Lord Xi Ye's private property. Without the lord's consent, it cannot be taken through the Teleportation Device!

"Huh?" Xiao Chen was stunned when he heard the device's voice, confused.

"Please enter the Biological Storage to revert to your original body!"

Following the instruction, Xiao Chen entered the Biological Storage. A few minutes later, his consciousness blurred, and he found himself back in his original body, while the huge Hulk-like body lay quietly in the Biological Storage!

"Wow!" Xiao Chen stared at the Green Titan in the storage, whose face was eighty percent similar to his own, and marveled again—it was incredibly realistic!

"But why does this game make logging out such a hassle? As if this body could really be taken back to D-Earth..." Xiao Chen couldn't help but complain.

He didn't see the strange glint in Lord Xi Ye's eyes as he watched him.

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