Blood test results before and after the Gene Liberation Potion injection showed that Xu Tui had activated fourteen Gene Points.
Xu Tui, who had been feeling rather down, immediately perked up as if he'd been injected with a shot of adrenaline.
He strode proudly into the Mysterious System testing hall.
The blood test results were right there.
The fourteen Gene Points were an objective fact.
The Limitless System had already been ruled out.
That meant Xu Tui was definitely part of the Mysterious System!
Compared with the Limitless System testing hall, which was fully equipped with all kinds of instruments and devices, the Mysterious System testing hall was very plain.
As soon as Xu Tui stepped into the first radiation-effect testing room along the corridor of the Mysterious System testing hall, a strange presence enveloped him and made him feel drowsy.
It might have been a few seconds.
Or it might have been a few minutes.
When Xu Tui came to, he had a test slip in his arms.
"Testing confirms that student Xu Tui has not activated any radiation-effect Gene Points."
The rejection was thorough and swift.
The most famous ability in the Mysterious System's radiation-effect category was mental interference, known among the public as hypnosis!
Xu Tui shook his head and headed to the manifestation-sensing testing room.
He went in quickly and came out even faster.
Once again, he received a rejection slip.
Next, Xu Tui entered the Mysterious System's supernatural category testing room.
The supernatural testing room consisted of a single straight corridor, with all sorts of strange objects arranged along both sides.
Xu Tui walked through the corridor as instructed, but nothing happened.
Then Xu Tui received yet another rejection slip.
Xu Tui began to panic again.
The Mysterious System didn't have many categories. According to the testing order, there should still be a Wisdom Heart Category testing room.
But Xu Tui searched the Mysterious System testing hall and couldn't find it anywhere.
Xu Tui was bewildered.
"Excuse me, where is the Wisdom Heart Category testing room?" Xu Tui asked the security guard for directions.
"The Wisdom Heart Category testing room is Room Five."
"Room Five?"
Xu Tui scanned the row of testing rooms in the Mysterious System hall, still looking baffled.
There was no Room Five.
"It's outside," the security guard added.
"Outside?"
"I mean one of the rooms numbered one through forty, where you received your Gene Liberation Potion injection. It's Room Five."
Xu Tui was stunned.
That really was unexpected.
He was also a little surprised.
Was the Mysterious System really that prestigious?
How come the Wisdom Heart Category not only didn't have a room of its own, but also shared a room with the Gene Liberation Potion injection area?
It didn't make much sense.
Xu Tui still obediently left the Mysterious System testing hall and headed for the Wisdom Heart Category testing room.
It happened to be the same Room Five where Xu Tui had received his Gene Liberation Potion injection.
"How'd it go?"
"Which Mysterious System category are you?"
"Are you a supernatural?"
When Xu Tui came out, Homeroom Teacher Yu Zeping and a group of his classmates surrounded him.
Xu Tui shook his head and pointed to Room Five, saying that he still had one more test to take. Homeroom Teacher Yu Zeping and the students all looked confused.
Why was he going back to the earlier testing room?
Could Xu Tui possibly get another shot?
Xu Tui was just as helpless.
If he failed the Wisdom Heart Category test too, he'd have to consider whether the blood test results had been wrong.
He'd activated fourteen Gene Points, yet he didn't belong to either the known Limitless System or the Mysterious System.
Xu Tui suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility.
The Gene Research Institute will dissect me for research!
After all, dissecting Xu Tui might reveal a new direction of study, right?
Xu Tui was terrified!
He pressed the doorbell and explained why he was there. The person inside told him to wait.
A few minutes later, a student came out of Room Five, and the female researcher inside immediately called Xu Tui in.
It was the same female researcher.
But after being rejected at every turn, Xu Tui was feeling a little timid by now.
"Hello. I'm here to test whether I've activated any Wisdom Heart Category Gene Points," Xu Tui said.
"Your previous test slips and blood test results," the female researcher said.
"The blood test results show that you've activated fourteen Gene Points."
"Hmm, looks like you didn't activate the penetrating-vision Gene Point?"
The female researcher brought that up again.
Xu Tui was so worried about his future that he no longer had any interest in blushing. He just wanted to know whether he'd activated any Wisdom Heart Category Gene Points.
Would he be dissected for research?
"Teacher, when will the test start?" Xu Tui asked.
"So eager?"
The female researcher, wearing a large mask, looked at Xu Tui's tense, handsome face. Her slender eyebrows curved slightly; she was probably smiling.
She took out a card and quickly wrote a few lines on it, then signed and stamped it.
With a whoosh, the card flew straight into Xu Tui's hand.
"Hmm, all fourteen Gene Points you've activated belong to the Mysterious System's Wisdom Heart Category. This is your final test slip. It'll be entered into the system shortly," the female researcher said.
"They're all Wisdom Heart Category?"
Xu Tui stared at the test slip, still a little dazed.
It seemed like there hadn't been any test at all.
At least during the radiation-effect test, he'd passed out for a while.
But with this Wisdom Heart Category test, he hadn't felt a thing, and yet he'd passed.
Just like that?
"Any questions?" The female researcher tilted her head and looked at Xu Tui.
Xu Tui looked at the female researcher, then at the final test slip in his hand, feeling a little dizzy.
"That's it?"
"Wasn't there supposed to be a test?"
"What kind of test did you expect?"
"If you could tell what was happening, would it still be called the Mysterious System?" the female researcher said.
Xu Tui was taken aback.
She had a point.
Otherwise, how could it be called the Mysterious System?
"Then goodbye, Teacher."
Xu Tui politely said goodbye and was about to leave.
"Wait."
Just before he went out, the female researcher suddenly called out to him.
"This is my business card. If you enroll at Huaxia Gene Evolution University and have any questions about the Wisdom Heart System, you can ask me."
"Sure. Don't bother me unless you have a reason."
"Otherwise, I'll block you."
The paper business card flew straight into Xu Tui's hand with a whoosh.
This unexpected show of consideration left Xu Tui confused.
He didn't think he had any relatives or friends like that.
Could it have been because of that little incident with his X-ray vision earlier?
But that didn't seem likely.
The female researcher once again demonstrated her uncanny ability to see right through Xu Tui's thoughts.
"Don't overthink it."
"I gave you my card mainly because there aren't many of us in the Wisdom Heart System." The female researcher shrugged.
"Besides, as long as there's nothing wrong with your head, you'll almost certainly enroll in the Wisdom Heart System at Huaxia Gene Evolution University's Mysterious Academy."
"Nothing wrong with your head, right?"
Xu Tui shook his head in bewilderment and glanced at the business card.
An Xiaoxue.
Professor, Mysterious Academy, Huaxia Gene Evolution University.
A professor couldn't be old, at least middle-aged.
Although Xu Tui couldn't see her face, the female researcher's voice and the youthful aura she gave off both suggested that she wasn't very old.
A professor that young, and at one of the top universities in China, Huaxia Gene Evolution University, no less.
It was truly astonishing.
Xu Tui wasn't an idiot.
In this Gene Great Era, genetic enhancement, mutation, and evolution made anything possible.
He put away the business card, thanked her, and left.
As soon as he stepped out of Room Five, a group of classmates and Homeroom Teacher Yu Zeping gathered around him.
One by one, they stared at Xu Tui with hungry, wolfish eyes.
"How'd it go? Are you in the Mysterious System?"
"Yeah, I'm in the Mysterious System. Fourteen Gene Points." Xu Tui waved the final test slip in his hand.
Cheng Mo, Tang Ting, and the others crowded around Xu Tui and cheered.
They were all incredibly happy.
They were even happier than if they'd been in the Mysterious System themselves.
All the pressure melted away amid his classmates' smiles and laughter.
Xu Tui smiled too.
Homeroom Teacher Yu Zeping smiled along with them, but behind his smile lurked a bitterness that no one else could detect.
These kids would probably only smile so purely at this particular moment.
Today would probably be the last time in their lives they'd smile this happily, this innocently.
While everyone crowded around Xu Tui, playfully snatching his final test slip to look at it, Homeroom Teacher Yu Zeping glanced over and the corner of his mouth twitched.
It was the Wisdom Heart System.
As an educator, Homeroom Teacher Yu Zeping knew a little about the mysterious Wisdom Heart System.
The Wisdom Heart System seemed to have a lot of people doing research and tackling difficult problems.
"By the way, Little Leg, what ability does your Mysterious System actually give you?" Tang Ting suddenly asked.
In fact, Xu Tui had been wondering about that too.
"Once you get your final test slip, go register right away, then pick up the relevant guidance manual.
Same goes for all of you.
Remember, for three months after receiving the Gene Liberation Potion, you'll still be in a period of continuous improvement.
You absolutely must not waste those three months."
Right from the start, Yu Zeping had gone into Class Mom nagging mode.
"Starting tomorrow, and until you report to university in a few days, you must follow the guidance manual you'll get shortly and train according to the direction in which your Gene Points have activated.
After that, you're on your own."
Yu Zeping's voice suddenly grew choked, and two girls immediately began to cry.
"What are you crying for? You'll see each other again when you fill out your college applications tomorrow.
Come on, hurry up. Don't waste time.
From now on, you can't miss a single day of training."
With Homeroom Teacher Yu Zeping ushering them along, the students headed off in different directions to sign in according to their Gene Point categories and collect their materials.
The other students were all lining up.
Xu Tui didn't have to wait at all for the Mysterious System.
The Wisdom Heart Category guidance manual was very thin—extremely thin.
Aside from a few general overviews of the Wisdom Heart System, it contained practically no methods for developing abilities.
Of course, Xu Tui still hadn't discovered what his Mysterious System ability was.
Aside from the faint taste of blood in his mouth.
After leaving the Gene Research Institute, which had served as the examination venue, Xu Tui was left with many unanswered questions.
He also felt an oppression he couldn't quite describe.
He didn't wait for Cheng Mo, Tang Ting, and the others, who were still in line. He went home alone.
All the way back, Xu Tui kept turning over one question in his mind: What exactly could the abilities of the Fourteen Gene Points he'd activated in the Mysterious System do?
Even after he got home, Xu Tui still couldn't come up with anything.
He looked at the business card Professor An Xiaoxue had given him, resisting the urge to call.
Of course, calling wouldn't have helped anyway.
She was still overseeing the exam at the Gene Research Institute, so her Personal Communication Device was probably turned off.
Xu Tui returned home safe and sound.
His father, Xu Jianguo, and his mother, Zhang Xiuli, were overjoyed.
That afternoon, some parents had already received notice that their children's gene groups had collapsed. The parents' group chat had erupted.
The fact that Xu Tui had activated fourteen Gene Points, and that they belonged to the Mysterious System, suddenly seemed unimportant.
Of course, when Xu Jianguo heard that Xu Tui's activated Gene Points belonged to the Wisdom Heart Category within the Mysterious System,
he was momentarily surprised.
Not long after dinner, Xu Tui returned to his room.
With a tap on his Personal Communication Device, an electronic display and a virtual projection keyboard appeared above his desk.
Compared with voice input, Xu Tui preferred the virtual projection keyboard.
Xu Tui began searching the entire web for information using various search engines.
He looked for all kinds of information about the Wisdom Heart Category of the Mysterious System.
Unfortunately, the internet had become so powerful and convenient that it was hard to describe, and information control had reached an unprecedented level.
Sensitive information in particular was tightly controlled.
In short, anything Xu Tui already knew about—especially anything related to the Mysterious System—could be found online.
But he couldn't find anything about the Mysterious System that he wanted to know.
And the even more obscure Wisdom Heart System was nowhere to be found.
He searched until one in the morning before finally giving up in frustration.
"Looks like I can only get in touch with Professor An tomorrow."
A professor in the Mysterious System at Gene Evolution University ought to be able to give Xu Tui some advice, right?
After washing up and taking off his clothes, he climbed into bed.
As was his habit, Xu Tui sat cross-legged and began his evening meditation.
He breathed in through his nose and out through his mouth, relaxing his whole body. Before long, he entered the same profoundly tranquil, completely relaxed state of meditation as always.
But the moment he entered this meditative state, Xu Tui suddenly felt the scene before his eyes brighten.
Something's wrong.
Xu Tui knew perfectly well that his eyes were still closed.
But the space before his eyes really had grown brighter, and gradually, he saw a human silhouette.
It was a cross-legged figure, its outline indistinct, as though countless streams of light were flowing around it. The image was very blurry.
Only at the head were fourteen faint points of light.
Where did this come from?
Xu Tui was puzzled.
He opened his eyes and looked around.
It was gone.
The moment he closed his eyes and eased into a meditative state, it appeared again.
After trying it for fifteen minutes, Xu Tui suddenly realized something.
This looks like me.
It was just a little blurry!
The adorable little one from Zhu San's family in yesterday's bonus chapter got tons of praise. There'll be a second one later.
Mm, Zhu San has a daughter too.
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