Genetic Martial Path

Blue Star.

Great Xia Zone, Chaotic Star Pile, outskirts of 0122 County.

"Honk—"

A truck fully loaded with cargo slowly stopped at an unloading area.

Soon, a group of workers in work clothes immediately gathered around the truck.

Once the unloading crew took the goods down from the compartment, everyone stepped forward one after another, carrying half-man-high boxes toward the warehouse at the other end of the unloading area.

"Qing Zi, carry it right! This batch of goods is very valuable."

A sweat-covered muscular man placed a heavy, half-man-high box onto the back of a slender, tall teenager.

"Got it."

The teenager's body sank abruptly, and he walked unsteadily toward the warehouse.

The teenager's name was Xu Qing.

He had transmigrated to this world half a year ago, only to distressingly find that the once-familiar "Blue Star" was no longer familiar either.

The Blue Star here had undergone a biological great cataclysm amidst a cosmic material mutation two hundred years ago.

Following the cataclysm, biology and technology evolved comprehensively.

Humanity evolved as well.

At the same time.

Human history began to develop toward the depths of the starry sky.

Thus, an era called the Interstellar Great Navigation officially opened its curtain.

Humanity not only made contact with alien civilizations, but all of Blue Star's humanity had even developed into the Milky Way.

As the mother of humanity, Blue Star.

Instead, it was left in a somewhat abandoned state.

Due to the depletion of resources and extreme environmental destruction, the wealthy left here through interstellar migration, heading toward a new, more perfect place to live.

This mother Blue Star.

Instead, it turned into a chaotic and dangerous "Abandoned Land".

Moreover, due to the ozone layer hole, the surface of Blue Star today was affected by a large amount of cosmic radiation.

The lifespans of some humans born on Blue Star in recent years became much shorter.

Such people were called short-lived species.

It was said to be a kind of genetic defect.

If one wanted to make up for these defects.

Except for a few extremely expensive "gene surgery" procedures.

There was only becoming those elusive gene martial artists.

Wanting to accomplish this, the conditions were harsh.

Even so.

Blue Star's permanent resident population still exceeded three billion.

Divided into nine zones.

Xu Qing was currently in the Great Xia Zone.

Xu Qing, who had transmigrated here half a year ago, had terrible luck.

At the very beginning, he was caught by a group of bandits and became a "slave".

Yet, not knowing if the heavens felt pity for him.

They actually had the boss of a fairly decent combat suit manufacturing company buy him.

The boss of this combat suit manufacturing company named Celestial God Armor was named Zhou Yu, and he was a good person.

Even after buying Xu Qing and a batch of others, he still signed labor contracts with "plenty of compensation" with them.

According to Zhou Yu, he was originally a Great Xia person.

His elders had also come over from after the Great Cataclysm.

Therefore, he held deep feelings for this land.

He was not attracted by the wealth deep in the starry sky like others.

Instead, he chose to stay here and inherit the family business.

These people, who originally belonged to Great Xia,

were his final memories of his parents' era and his own childhood.

Xu Qing was naturally extremely fortunate and deeply grateful for this.

So he also worked hard to repay Boss Zhou's saving grace, becoming an employee of the manufacturing plant.

Yet because he lacked experience and was young.

Therefore, he currently only did some simple work.

Such as unloading cargo.

As for Xu Qing, however.

He certainly could not be resigned to being a worker for his entire life.

Because he still had a secret that others did not know.

Name: Xu Qing
Lifespan: 15/60
Available Attribute Points: 1

Looking at this simple and crude attribute panel floating before his eyes, Xu Qing felt somewhat helpless.

That was right, he belonged to that batch of short-lived species born with short lifespans.

According to the panel display, he only had a lifespan of sixty years.

Compared to normal people who possessed a lifespan exceeding one hundred and fifty years through multiple generations of genetic optimization.

His lifespan was only one-third of other people's.

Ever since discovering this attribute panel, Xu Qing had always been anticipating what differences might occur in his life.

Yet until today.

He still saw no help that this attribute panel offered to his life.

Only, after these six months, his available attribute point, which was originally "0", had turned into "1" yesterday.

Yet he did not know where this thing should be used.

At least the lifespan column could not be increased.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but want to curse loudly.

This damn life.

His only recourse for now was to work hard first and survive.

After saving up some money, he would find a way to see if he could find a black-market workshop to get a cheap gene surgery opportunity.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

"Hey! Our company has strength!"

Along with a rhythmic, powerful song sounding from the speakers hung on street lamps all around.

Xu Qing and the crowd of employees accelerated their unloading speed.

Finally, twenty minutes later, they unloaded the entire truck of cargo and hurried toward the company compound's assembly plaza.

This ancient song about workers was a mandatory repertoire at the start of the company's daily morning assembly.

Because the surrounding environment was chaotic, the company gathered the workers together every morning.

First, for captains from each production line to take roll call and confirm whether employees were working normally.

Second, to have everyone sing together to boost the company's cohesion.

Similarly, when the company had major decisions, they would also announce them at the morning assembly.

Over the past half year, Xu Qing had grown accustomed to this rhythm of life.

Softly shaking his sore, numb arms, he followed several familiar workers nearby and walked toward the assembly plaza.

When Xu Qing and the others arrived here.

Hundreds of employees had already gathered on the circular plaza.

The crowd gathered in a dense mass, surrounding a high platform in the center of the plaza.

Only, two people stood on the high platform today.

One was company boss Zhou Yu.

As for the other person, Xu Qing looked at him somewhat unfamiliarity.

That person wore a deep blue combat suit specially made by the company, with a tall, robust figure, a solemn expression, and eyes like stars.

Just standing there, he exuded an aura of murderous intent, making the slightly chubby Zhou Yu beside him appear exceptionally frail.

Soon.

The assembly began.

Roll call, singing.

When all the procedures finished entirely.

Boss Zhou Yu then held a loudspeaker and spoke loudly:

"Brothers, sisters, does everyone remember what I said before about providing everyone an opportunity to learn genetic martial arts?

The opportunity has arrived!"

The crowd immediately stirred in a commotion.

"Today I've invited my good friend Liu Zhankun, Brother Kun!"

Old Zhou said loudly with an excited expression.

"He is an expert from the Sun Star Alliance's stationed Moon Armed Squad.

Starting today, he will stay at the company for a month.

This month, he will do his utmost to guide all employees who want to learn genetic martial arts!"

A murmur arose in the crowd.

Zhou Yu continued to encourage: "If everyone has the intention, you can sign up with your respective squad leaders.

Afterwards, we will conduct intensive training for everyone after get-off work every day.

Once you achieve success in your studies, then I guarantee.

Everyone will have the opportunity to enter the company's Security Department and enjoy higher benefits."

Hearing the boss's words, the employees below discussed animatedly one after another.

Some wore excited expressions, while others lacked interest.

Still others shook their heads, seemingly not looking favorably upon this matter.

Clearly, becoming company security personnel seemed to be a dangerous affair.

And the so-called genetic martial arts was to many people,

more like an illusory thing that could be seen but not touched.

First of all, practicing martial arts cost a lot of money.

Wanting to become a true expert, how easy was it to talk about?

If it were that easy, wouldn't these gene martial artists be everywhere?

And if one merely grasped some fur, in the end, they would probably be treated as cannon fodder by the company.

Were there few martial artists dying in the Security Department every year?

This world was hardly peaceful.

Robbers, bandits, gangs, whose took lives didn't they?

Being an ordinary person, one could perhaps live a bit longer.

Although the benefits were high, to many people.

This was a job where you had the life to earn money but no life to spend it.

Moreover, the vast majority of employees had their own families.

Daily work was already very tiring; who would have time to learn any martial arts during rest?

What was the use?

It was better to spend a little more time with their wives and children.

However.

Compared to those employees.

Xu Qing, who stood amidst the crowd like a mere pawn, became excited.

Genetic martial arts!!

Genetic martial arts that could make up for genetic defects!

It was rumored that those who could truly step into the threshold of genetic martial arts,

could not only extend their lifespan, but could even shake mountains and shatter earth with a mortal body, breaking through human bodily limits to become extremely powerful existences among humanity.

Moreover, gene martial artists possessed extremely high value, making them the most precious resources on Blue Star today.

Not only would they be fought over and recruited by various major forces, but they might even step out of Blue Star and head toward other more prosperous planets!

Xu Qing wished he could rush onto the stage right now to apprentice and learn.

The life-changing opportunity he desperately sought had finally appeared!

The moment he thought about how the life-changing opportunity he desperately sought had finally appeared.

Xu Qing's entire body was filled with drive.

Following the assembly.

The employees dispersed one after another.

Xu Qing also returned to the factory building with the large group and began a day of tense work.

The name of the "Celestial God Armor" combat suit manufacturing company sounded quite "badass".

Yet in reality, it belonged to the lower-middle tier across the entire Great Xia Zone.

However, within the county district where Xu Qing and the others were located.

The Celestial God Armor company was the top-tier Combat Suit manufacturing company.

The entire company could independently complete everything from combat suit design, material selection, to sample making, cutting, and sewing.

The company did not only manufacture batch-produced combat suits.

It also accepted individual orders and team customizations.

It was capable of manufacturing bulletproof combat suits that could withstand ordinary thermal weapons.

Even special combat suits capable of fighting those mutated creatures could be made.

It could be considered quite renowned in the several neighboring counties.

On the production line.

Precise instruments operated by technicians transformed precious materials into combat suits, hailed as the most technological items for humans after the Great Cataclysm.

What Xu Qing was responsible for was the simplest cutting work.

He only needed to use machines to cut highly flexible, highly defensive materials like beast hides and scales into the required shapes.

Then, he just had to sort and classify these cut pieces.

These precious materials all came from the mutative creature breeding farms that currently existed in large numbers on Blue Star.

Although this job was simple, it required extremely high precision and strong patience.

Therefore, saying it was simple did not quite make it simple.

Thus, even though Xu Qing was only an intern, he could still receive a monthly salary of four thousand Alliance Coins.

According to his understanding, this was already not far off from the salaries of regular workers in many other industries.

Until he got off work at six in the afternoon.

Xu Qing looked completely radiant.

After getting off work, Xu Qing found the shift supervisor in charge of his production line to sign up for the training.

Supervisor Li Yuan was a forty-year-old veteran employee who was somewhat harsh in his daily dealings.

Upon hearing that Xu Qing wanted to sign up for the training, he immediately said with dissatisfaction, "What is an intern like you signing up for?"

Although Xu Qing felt displeased in his heart, he smiled and said, "The boss said anyone can sign up, Brother Liu can too, right? With your physique, you will definitely become a Gene Martial Artist."

Hearing this, Li Yuan merely glanced at him sideways. "So young and already sucking up. You can sign up, but you are not allowed to delay your work in the future. If you dare to delay the work, see how I deal with you."

"Yes, yes, yes, I definitely won't delay it," Xu Qing could only ingratiate himself with a smile.

After successfully signing up, Xu Qing returned to his dormitory to quickly shower, eat, and tidy up simply.

Only then did he rush to the company's activity room before half-past seven—

A spacious gym.

And that Gene Martial Artist, Liu Zhankun.

Had already been waiting here early on.

According to the veteran employees.

This Brother Liu was invited by the boss to train the security personnel of the Security Department.

Just to invite him, the company had to spend three million Alliance Coins a month!!

This was still because the two of them had a good relationship.

Three million!

That was the sum of Xu Qing's salary for more than sixty years.

As for the training for the employees.

That was all given as a courtesy.

But Xu Qing did not care about all that.

He was already very grateful to have the opportunity to come into contact with the Genetic Path.

Although the centralized training time was set at half-past seven.

Xu Qing was the first to arrive at seven o'clock.

This also made Liu Zhankun look at him a few more times out of slight curiosity.

Xu Qing originally thought that there wouldn't be few people coming to participate in the training.

After all, this was an opportunity to become a Gene Martial Artist.

Yet when the training truly began, he discovered.

Only nearly fifty people had come here to attend the class.

The entire company had nearly five hundred employees.

This number did not even reach one-tenth of the total.

Moreover, the vast majority of those who came were young people.

"Alright, time's up, we won't wait for the rest." Seeing that the time had arrived, Liu Zhankun immediately swept his gaze across the audience and said in a deep voice.

Just standing there, he exuded a tremendous sense of oppression.

Resembling some kind of fierce beast.

When his gaze swept past, it would involuntarily cause people to feel fear and thus want to avoid it.

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