Gene Ability Ceiling

As Xu Tui saw, passing through Xi'an Prefecture was just a pretense; the transport convoy was actually going through Ningyin Prefecture.

It didn't stop in Ningyin Prefecture but traveled rapidly through the night.

However, in Ningyin Prefecture, the convoy merged with the one heading to Kyoto Prefecture.

The number of buses once exceeded 15, but after the escort vehicles joined forces with Ningyin Prefecture's guard, the escort strength directly doubled.

It was obvious that after integrating Ningyin Prefecture's guard forces, both An Xiaoxue and the security personnel in the third vehicle looked much more relaxed.

From then on, they traveled southeast, becoming more prosperous as they went, and the escort strength would continuously increase, making the probability of accidents smaller and smaller.

With a relaxed demeanor, An Xiaoxue told Xu Tui and Gong Ling a lot along the way, and occasionally other classmates would join in to listen.

Only Cheng Mo's state was a constant switch between eating and sleeping.

Let's talk about cyborgs first.

Cyborgs are actually a forbidden product.

They are one of the research projects absolutely prohibited by the Blue Star Alliance Gene Committee.

In an orderly human society, this kind of research does not exist.

The reason for the prohibition is that some people will break the rules.

There are a few gene researchers who are extremely fanatical.

The most famous is scientist Hicks Hall, from the United Federation Zone.

Also known as the Cyborg Maniac.

Over sixty years ago, he announced the successful modification of clones, successfully fusing them with selected animal genomes and maintaining a stable state.

The modified clones possessed human capabilities, their Gene Points functions were normal, but they also had the genetic traits of beasts.

More importantly, the modified clones not only possessed some beast genes, but the beast Gene Points were in a dominant state.

Meanwhile, most human Gene Points are in a recessive state, and a significant portion is even dormant, making it very difficult to activate, strengthen, mutate, or evolve them.

But genes in a dominant state are very easy to activate, strengthen, mutate, or even evolve.

This announcement immediately caused a huge uproar.

Especially the successful image, which made everyone uncomfortable—the incident known as the reappearance of the dog-headed man.

Three days later, the Blue Star Alliance Gene Committee reacted swiftly.

On the grounds of being anti-human, they made the decision to ban the cyborg project.

Any research attempting to study or create cyborgs is illegal, anti-human, and will be subject to the most severe sanctions.

At the same time, they dispatched personnel to search for and destroy related research materials in Hicks Hall's research center and placed Hicks Hall under surveillance.

However, the subsequent developments were somewhat like a plot from a movie.

The Blue Star Alliance Committee's security forces arrived too late.

Hicks Hall had disappeared.

Along with his assistants, research data, and a large number of research samples, they vanished.

A few years later, the infamous Dawn Redemption Traitor Organization saw the emergence of cyborgs with extremely powerful combat abilities and capabilities, causing several tragic incidents, which is how they became known to the world.

At this time, the Cyborg Maniac Hicks Hall was rumored to have become one of the vice-chairmen of the Dawn Redemption Traitor Organization and received substantial financial support.

"Teacher An, why was that Earth Element Extraordinary User so strong? Chief Liu, with so many officers, couldn't stop him?

And the experts in the emergency fighter squadron who chased after him later couldn't stop him either? I heard that the emergency fighter squadron had some very powerful Gene Evolvers.

But you mentioned before that the Earth Element Extraordinary User was only a B-grade Gene Mutant." Xu Tui asked.

"This question is quite complicated to explain."

"Have you read fantasy novels or epic war films? Do you remember the magic that appeared in some novels or movies?" An Xiaoxue said.

Xu Tui and Gong Ling nodded.

"Yes, and our classmates have said before that Extraordinary Users are essentially mages."

"Yes and no!"

"In movies and legends before the Gene Era, magic was extremely mysterious, requiring incantations, rituals, hand gestures, and potions.

But in the Gene Era, Extraordinary Users have shed their mysterious guise; it's merely a science of human potential development.

You will have a series of theories on these topics at school later. Today, I will mainly talk to you about the factors that influence the strength of Gene New Humans."

"Gene New Humans?" Xu Tui and Gong Ling heard a new term.

"Actually, after injecting the Gene Liberation Potion, one can be called a Gene New Human in a broad sense. Due to many reasons, the government hasn't publicized this.

However, what I'm referring to as Gene New Humans is in a narrow sense, and it's also the term used within our universities.

Only after advancing to become a Gene Liberator will one be called a Gene New Human. But once you enter Huaxia Gene Evolution University, you will basically all be considered quasi-Gene New Humans," An Xiaoxue said.

"You should be able to understand 'ability application scenarios.' Today's terrain is more suitable for Earth Element Extraordinary Users, and also relatively suitable for Gong Ling's plant affinity and radiation influence abilities. It's easy to infer from this."

Gong Ling's activated Gene Points were of the Mysterious System Extraordinary type, with Plant Affinity and Radiation Influence.

The grass vines on the ground that entangled Cyborg Ahu's hind legs today, creating an attack opportunity for Xu Tui, were Gong Ling's doing.

"The composition and types of abilities will be explained by professional teachers once you enter the school. I'll tell you about ability ratings," An Xiaoxue said.

Regarding gene ability ratings, Xu Tui and Gong Ling had only had a general understanding before.

For example, the most basic Gene Liberators, powerful Gene Mutants, even stronger Gene Evolvers, and the more formidable Gene Transmuters, and so on.

But in reality, these were just broad stage designations.

Similar to many rating or evaluation systems in the current Gene Great Era, they were divided into seven levels: F, E, D, C, B, A, and S. It was rumored that there was even an SS rating above S-grade, but An Xiaoxue had never seen this SS rating.

To be specific, it was F-grade Gene Liberators, E-grade Gene Liberators, and so on.

Taking Gene Liberators as an example.

Quasi-gene new humans like Xu Tui, who had injected Gene Liberation Potions, could advance to become Gene Liberators, becoming true gene new humans in a narrow sense, once they activated a series of gene point abilities.

What were series abilities?

For instance, if one successfully activated gene points related to speed in the lower limbs, their speed would increase exponentially compared to others.

In the Gene Evolution Academy, this was a series ability called "Rapid."

Of course, this would only allow them to become the lowest F-grade Gene Liberators.

If one formed three or more series abilities after activating gene points, they would be E-grade Gene Liberators.

From then on, odd numbers were the advancement units.

Activating five series abilities made one a D-grade Gene Liberator, seven made one a C-grade Gene Liberator, and nine made one a B-grade Gene Liberator.

As series abilities progressed, they became harder to activate.

Among Gene Liberators, F-grade and E-grade were the most common.

Above E-grade, they became fewer.

Generally speaking, the higher the rating, the stronger the ability.

Of course, this wasn't everything.

Because not all of these discovered and fully explored series abilities were combat-oriented; many were auxiliary or purely auxiliary.

In addition, the ability grading of Gene Liberators represented another matter of immense importance to every gene new human.

The Gene Ability Ceiling!

As long as one became a Gene Liberator, regardless of their grade, they would undergo gene-directed mutation and become a Gene Mutant to enhance their strength.

An F-grade Gene Liberator would naturally become an F-grade Gene Mutant after enhancement.

A D-grade Gene Liberator would still become an F-grade Gene Mutant after enhancement.

However, their upper limits were different.

An F-grade Mutant who advanced from an F-grade Gene Liberator would have their ceiling as an F-grade Mutant.

Under normal circumstances, there was no point for an F-grade Gene Mutant to evolve further into a Gene Evolver; even if they did, they would only ever be an F-grade Gene Evolver.

A D-grade Gene Liberator, after enhancement, would still be an F-grade Gene Mutant, but they could grow into a D-grade Gene Mutant.

The same applied after becoming a Gene Evolver.

The lowest threshold for students at Huaxia Gene Evolution University to advance to Gene Mutants was E-grade Gene Liberators.

In reality, not many at Huaxia Gene Evolution University broke through from E-grade Gene Liberators.

At Huaxia Gene Evolution University, the mainstream was to advance to D-grade Gene Liberator before breaking through, which aligned with the status and societal expectations of Huaxia Gene Evolution University students.

Those who advanced to C-grade Gene Liberator before breaking through were not too many, even at Huaxia Gene Evolution University.

As for advancing to B-grade Gene Liberator before breaking through, they were considered extremely rare at Huaxia Gene Evolution University.

As for A-grade, they were geniuses among geniuses, known as prodigies, who might not appear for several years.

So the answer emerged.

The Earth Element Extraordinary User who could contend with Liu Tianhu and many military officers, and still retreat unscathed under the pursuit of Gene Evolvers equipped by the emergency fighter jet squadron, was precisely because he was a B-grade Gene Mutant.

A B-grade Gene Mutant most likely broke through from the B-grade Gene Liberator stage, or possibly even A-grade.

But whether they broke through from B-grade Gene Liberator or A-grade Gene Liberator, both were very rare, even at the top Huaxia Gene Evolution University in the Huaya Zone.

It would be hard not to be strong!

An Xiaoxue's words gave Xu Tui and Gong Ling a deeper understanding of gene new humans.

They also remembered a keyword—Gene Ability Ceiling.

This was a matter that would be closely related to their future.

"By the way, Teacher An, what is your current strength level? What grade of Gene Liberator were you originally?" Gong Ling asked, her big eyes blinking.

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Alright, as promised to my brothers, in the bonus chapter later, Zhu San will showcase his dominant position at home!

Zhu San is releasing this at great risk.

This is the first update. The second update will be released around 12 o'clock. It's best for you guys to read it tomorrow. I was delayed by family matters today.