Return From Hell

The Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Automaton completed its programmed 30 seconds. The device automatically powered on to stimulate the heart, and the oxygen supply from the mask increased by 50%.

Hiss...

Snap...

Li Qingye, in a state of shock, felt as if his heart had been punched. His eyes suddenly widened. The will to survive and his hatred made him unwilling to end it all here.

Pant, pant... Gasping for air, he grabbed the three syringes beside him and injected Adrenaline, Antibiotics, and Homemade Anesthetic into his body all at once.

His heart pounded violently.

Cold sweat soaked his clothes and the bedsheets.

His eyes unfocused as he stared at the ceiling light.

He drifted in and out of consciousness for over ten hours. Time passed to the evening of the fourth day, and Li Qingye finally felt the discomfort in his body easing. His body temperature dropped to 37.3 degrees Celsius, and his blood sugar and heart rate finally returned to normal levels.

However, his blood pressure remained high, fluctuating between 150 and 165.

He knew the first side effect of the Gene Modification had appeared. He had encountered high blood pressure as a side effect in mice and domestic pigs before.

The Jianmu Factor's modification of his body was still ongoing and was expected to stabilize in about five more days.

But Li Qingye had already overcome the most dangerous part.

The morning of the sixth day.

Li Qingye opened his eyes, feeling an unprecedented clarity in his mind. Suddenly, a large number of memory fragments surfaced in his consciousness.

Huh... What is this...?

He closed his eyes and browsed through these memory fragments, discovering they were his parents' memories. The memories contained scenes from his childhood, his older brother, his grandparents, and other fragments of events.

Another discovery that animal experiments couldn't reveal.

These memories had stopped abruptly the moment he was born. This meant these memories originated from his parents' genes and were inherited by him.

No, it wasn't just his parents' memories; to be precise, they were his ancestors' memories.

However, these memories had a characteristic: the older the time, the more fragmented and blurry the memories became. Even his parents' memories were only the most profound content of their lives.

Li Qingye, who understood gene evolution, naturally knew this was the result of mutations, repetitions, deletions, and rearrangements occurring during the replication of gene sequences.

Accumulated over generations, the older the gene memories, the more fragmented and blurry they became.

For Li Qingye, it was like gaining the authority to access "historical records." These memories were vast, and even though they were scattered, they made his head feel swollen.

Fortunately, by noon on the seventh day, he discovered the second and third activated Gene Abilities: the Memory Palace and Eidetic Memory.

The Memory Palace was a memory management ability that allowed him to clear, categorize, and tag memories in his brain.

As for Eidetic Memory, its function was self-explanatory.

Li Qingye had only known from his experiments on animals that the Jianmu Factor made animal brains highly active, even allowing domestic pigs to understand text and symbols and comprehend his vocal commands.

This powerful enhancement was precisely what made him take the risk.

The eighth day.

Another side effect appeared: he became colorblind to red and green.

However, the abilities hidden within his genes were further stimulated. The fourth Gene Ability emerged: Super Senses.

His hearing, taste, and smell had improved to varying degrees, though he couldn't yet conduct detailed tests.

The ninth day.

Li Qingye felt as if his brain had suddenly opened up. Some of the memories previously organized by his Memory Palace were recombining at an unprecedented speed, generating new insights.

He named this ability "Super Analysis and Super Deduction."

With the emergence of Super Analysis and Super Deduction, Li Qingye felt his brain had reached its limit, and his body could no longer support further advancement.

Just as he had predicted, no other abnormal changes occurred on the tenth and eleventh days.

His body gradually returned to a normal state.

He removed the IV drip, monitoring equipment, drained the water from the urinary catheter, and endured the burning sting as he pulled it out.

"Hiss..." The sharp pain made Li Qingye gasp.

However, this was not the time to relax. He endured the pain and began a full-body physical examination, especially focusing on his genes.

Three days later.

He put down the examination report in his hand.

Li Qingye had already prepared himself mentally. The telomere length of his chromosomes had shortened significantly, and his various organs showed varying degrees of aging.

Based on this data, his lifespan was estimated to be only about twenty years, and he was currently 24 years old.

In other words, if he didn't find a way to resolve the organ aging issue, he might not even reach 50.

As for other issues like high blood pressure, color blindness, and deactivated sperm, they were relatively minor problems.

He had no regrets about this. If he hadn't done this, let alone live for twenty years, living for even two or three years would have been a problem.

Trading decades of his life for unprecedented wisdom was a deal he considered very worthwhile.

If I can't get revenge, what's the point of living a long life.

After washing up, shaving his stubble, and changing into a new set of clothes, he looked at himself in the mirror. It was as if he had matured over a decade overnight.

He checked the time. There were about 7 days left until the appointed meeting with his Mentor.

"It's time to deal with this place."

All data related to the Jianmu Factor in the laboratory was erased by him. Paper documents, like the previous experimental subjects, were all thrown into a high-temperature incinerator.

Hard drive data, used computers, laptops, and instrument data storage devices were all dismantled. He felt no regret, even for equipment worth millions.

These storage devices were poured into Aqua Regia, and the remaining debris was then sent into the incinerator to be completely burned to ash.

After all, a significant portion of this scientific research equipment was imported from abroad. Li Qingye didn't want to risk whether or not a backdoor had been left on them.

If someone were to investigate this laboratory while he was abroad, they might obtain the experimental data of the Jianmu Factor.

The Jianmu Factor and the Gene-Edited Turritopsis dohrnii stored in the laboratory were also sent into the incinerator, completely destroying these items.

In any case, these technologies had already been recorded in his Memory Palace. As long as he prepared another laboratory, he could recreate the Gene-Edited Turritopsis dohrnii and the Jianmu Factor at any time.

As for the issue of funds, he no longer needed to worry about it at this moment.

Because through his Ancestral Memory, Li Qingye discovered that his mother had opened a bearer account at a Swiss Bank before he was born, depositing her income into it every year.

This money was, on one hand, prepared by his mother as a fallback for the Li family.

On the other hand, it was also because there were two children, and one would definitely not inherit the company. This money could also be given to the child who couldn't inherit the company.

According to Li Qingye's estimation, this sum of money was not small. After all, his mother was previously a vice president of the group, with an annual salary and bonuses of around 3 million, plus annual dividends from her 1.5% company shares, which were also substantial.

The Xin Xin Group was founded in 1991, and Li Qingye was born in 1993.

The funds deposited into that account had accumulated for a full 26 years. Even if it were just his salary, it would be tens of millions.

If it were only this, Li Qingye wouldn't be too certain. After all, it was something from over twenty years ago, and his mother might have changed her mind later.

However, after his brain was developed, he recalled some words his mother had said when he gave up on Beiping University, which confirmed that this account had not been abandoned.

Of course, Li Qingye didn't bet everything on this secret account.

If this money didn't exist, he had other plans, but they would require two to three years to execute. This was not good news for someone who was already running out of time.