Genetic Testing

Half an hour later, under Li Yang's astonished gaze, a woman wearing clearly recognizable Exoskeleton Armor came leaping over rooftops like a martial artist from a wuxia drama, arriving atop the building.

"Yu Dong, are you all right...?"

The woman carried a large case. After appearing on the rooftop, she looked at the skinny man slumped on the ground, concern flashing in her eyes as she hurried over to ask.

Through the drone's viewpoint, it was clear that the woman had a decent figure. However, the dirt covering her body made it impossible to stir any desire.

Especially for Li Yang, who had eaten his fill and drunk his fill.

"I'm fine. Don't look at this collar anymore. Did you bring everything I asked you to prepare?"

Yu Dong shook his head. Seeing that the woman's eyes remained fixed on the collar around his neck, he weakly shook his head again and asked her.

The woman pursed her lips, pulled out a bag of long, milky-white strips, and handed it to Yu Dong. He immediately ate everything inside. Once he had finished, he instantly felt much better, then nodded at the woman. Only then did she take a testing device about the size of a calculator from her portable case.

Immediately afterward, she took out an iron ball that began hovering automatically.

"It's all here. I cleared Spirit One's data. Only a pure intelligent system remains, along with the operating methods, usage principles, maintenance knowledge, and so on for that computing platform. Everything that could be found and everything I knew is all inside."

The woman opened the iron ball. Light lit up across it, and it floated automatically beside her. A circle resembling an eye glowed blue on its surface, making it look like a small flying robot.

The woman pointed at the iron ball, glanced at the drone flying in the air, and spoke to the man lying on the ground.

"My lord, this is the testing device, and this is Spirit One. It contains only the purest system and a set of operating instructions. Look, is it all right if I give these things to you?"

Yu Dong said nothing. Instead, he looked at the drone in the sky and asked pleadingly. The woman who had come with him to rescue him carefully crouched in the corner, lowering her head and not daring to look any further.

"So this guy's name is Yu Dong."

At the back door of the Gold Shop, Li Yang stood up, twisted his waist, rubbed his slightly sore buttocks, and then sat back down in the chair. Watching the video feed on the screen, he thought to himself.

Yu Dong and Sun Er—those were the only two names of people he knew in this world.

His gaze focused on the hovering iron ball, and he frowned.

What the hell... is this thing?

An information-storage device with an intelligent system?

Damn, having technology that was too advanced wasn't necessarily a good thing. He couldn't use any of this stuff.

"Give me this information in paper form."

Li Yang frowned and turned the drone's camera toward the testing device for a look. The function display on it made him sigh in relief. There was only one testing button, along with several indicator lights labeled no radiation, low radiation, harmless radiation, low-hazard radiation, medium-hazard radiation, and high-hazard radiation.

Clearly, all he had to do was press the test button, and the result would be displayed through the indicator lights. Now that was the kind of technology he liked.

Hmm... there was also the Slave Collar. Simple and easy to understand. How convenient.

Most importantly... the simpler something was, the harder it was to conceal some incomprehensible high technology inside it. If someone installed some technological means in these things to control him, while he remained completely unaware, then he would be utterly screwed.

Everything had only just begun. He could only be more cautious.

Hearing Li Yang's words, the two people on the rooftop froze in astonishment. Even the woman with her head buried against her legs was stunned. Only after the man urged her did she hurriedly put her Exoskeleton Armor back on and go change the method of recording the information.

After waiting a while longer, the woman climbed lightly onto the rooftop with the help of her Exoskeleton Armor, carrying a stack of white paper that looked like A4 sheets. She held the stack up in front of the drone's camera.

"Tie all these things to this drone and send them over. Now I have one more question to ask you."

Li Yang looked enviously at their Exoskeleton Armor. He then operated one drone to descend so they could tie the items to it and send them over. Then, with the first drone pointed at them, his eyes flickered.

"Can Genetic Potion perfectly match every person's constitution? If it's used on monkeys or other animals, can it produce an effect?"

Li Yang deliberately emphasized the word "perfectly." His goal was to guide the conversation without attracting any particular attention, while inwardly looking forward to the answer.

If it couldn't, then what would make it possible? Was there a solution?

If it was impossible to determine whether it could, then how could they test whether a person perfectly matched a dose of medicine?

The second question was the answer Li Yang truly wanted.

Yu Dong, wearing the metal collar, glanced at the screen, his eyes somewhat blank. The woman beside him, however, raised her head at just the right moment.

"My lord, Genetic Potion can take effect without a perfect match. However, a perfectly matched potion will produce better results. Do you want a machine that can test a potion's compatibility? But those are only sold in Base City. Including the price and delivery fee, getting one sent here would cost at least five thousand Base Currency."

"The potions were all developed for humans. For beasts, they can only serve as nutritional supplements and have no other effects. However, I've heard that there are also specialized pet potions, though they're extremely scarce."

He had asked the right question!

Li Yang didn't care about pets or anything like that. The key was... the testing machine.

"Hmm. Do you know how to sell things to earn Base Currency?"

Li Yang spoke into the controller in a deliberately calm tone, while his heart had already blossomed with joy.

"We have Base Network accounts and can sell items online. We've also traded with base stores before, so we can sell items to them as well. However, compared with selling online, base stores offer a lower buyback value."

The woman hurriedly spoke, her voice brimming with ingratiation.

Li Yang watched her attitude and nodded inwardly. In a world where human lives were as cheap as grass, it was understandable for a slave to do everything possible to display her value.

"Not bad. I heard you're short on food, so what were you planning to trade for food before this?"

Li Yang looked at the controller's screen and asked in a more relaxed tone. As he spoke, the sound of a hovering drone came from outside the back door. He got up to retrieve it, undid the straps, and found a total of twenty sheets of paper-based information and a phone-sized testing device. Smiling, he put them into his backpack.

"Chang Yanyan made a fully functional basic Exoskeleton Armor herself. It has a low-level intelligence system onboard and is a good assistant. We hope to exchange it for enough food to survive for three months..."