I Have a Friend

"Boss... how much is this pan?"

"Eighty."

"Will you sell it for forty?"

"Sold!"

"..."

Wang Ji blinked, smacked his lips, and casually put the pan back on the shelf... then said regretfully, "The price's pretty fair, but it feels a little thin."

This was Tianhe City, Guangdong Province, at a bustling general market. After eating and drinking his fill at Jinsha Beach in Zhanjiang City, he had spent half an hour getting here for some leisurely shopping.

Since he no longer had to worry about the distant future, Wang Ji didn't need to scrimp and save like before. With nearly a million in savings, he was ready to indulge in some wild spending.

Unfortunately, this Guangdong big bro was just a little too honest...

Sigh!

Two minutes later, Wang Ji stood outside the shop carrying a frying pan, reluctant to leave for a long time.

Gritting his teeth, he gathered his courage and went back inside.

"Boss, I'm buying another one! This time, you have to give me a better deal!"

"Sure! Then how much are you offering, little brother?"

"Ten bucks! Selling or not?"

He held out a blue banknote with his head high, looking utterly fierce.

"Sold! Here, little brother, take it."

"..."

"Boss, are you a local from Guangdong?" Wang Ji asked expressionlessly, holding two black frying pans.

"You bet! If I weren't a local Guangdong man, there wouldn't be any more sincere local Guangdong men than me!" The big bro grinned, his gleaming white teeth radiating simple honesty.

"To be honest, I feel like this pan is a little..."

"Here! Little brother, don't say another word. Since you're a returning customer, I'll give you another one! Take this pan home and use it—the quality's absolutely top-notch!"

"..."

Wang Ji quietly carried three frying pans out of the shop. In this southernmost province of the mainland, he felt a chill from the far north.

He regretted coming here. He regretted stepping through that shop door...

"I hate that muggle." Wang Ji huffed as he tucked one frying pan behind his waist, then slipped the other two into the Dark Dimension while no one was looking.

The Dark Dimension had originally been the storage space that came with PUBG, but as the Gene Engine System improved, its terminology gradually became more professional as well.

Walking through the streets and alleys of Tianhe City looking utterly out of place, he paid no attention to the astonished looks from others.

This frying pan was indeed a little thin, but its greatest advantage was that it was black all over and looked good.

To be honest, Wang Ji didn't have many goals at the moment.

After graduating college and becoming an adult, his top priorities had been making money, then going back for graduate school, finding a girlfriend, starting a family, and building a career.

Later, after gaining superpowers, his first goal had become going abroad to build a career. Now, that plan had been overturned.

From now on, he would protect his home and country. But he didn't know much about alien invasions or Super Genes, though when he had been arrested yesterday, he had secretly hacked into a system called De Nuo No. 3 and downloaded some information...

But clearly, he hadn't had time to learn much. He had no time to examine and study those materials.

He was trying to learn how to operate his own Endless Source Gene Engine System. While aboard the aircraft carrier called Juxia, he had cracked Juxia's system and followed the trail straight into that De Nuo No. 3 thing.

Part of it was his own skill, and part of it was the ability of his Gene System.

Still, De Nuo No. 3 really seemed pretty easy to bully. Once he found the door, he could poke around a little and get right in.

He seemed to have obtained quite a lot. In any case, he hadn't said anything, and neither General Du nor Lian Feng and the others seemed to have noticed, so it should be fine.

He didn't feel the slightest psychological burden. Given the situation at the time, he had needed to ensure his own safety.

Trapped in confinement, of course he had to try to make use of everything around him that could be used or controlled, such as Juxia's automated weapons systems and the lift doors throughout the ship... If things went wrong, those would all become trump cards for fighting or staying alive.

And learning more advanced information was something he felt he ought to do. Being a frog at the bottom of a well was simply too stupid.

One thing he was gradually coming to understand was that his Gene System and other people's superpowers all seemed to be products of technology.

They weren't mystical at all.

For example, his PUBG equipment and hacks should also be manifestations of technology, not things conjured out of thin air.

So the fact that he used hacks was still pretty scientific, wasn't it?

Unfortunately, he still didn't understand the relevant principles well enough to actively create the hacks he wanted. For instance, whenever he wanted to make some insanely overpowered hacks, he was always constrained by insufficient algorithms.

Some weapon effects he wanted to achieve also couldn't simply be created at will.

So he could only take it slowly and work toward the abilities he was most likely to attain.

At present, his abilities were mainly divided into equipment abilities and hack abilities.

Two hacks and five types of equipment—these had all been created because their principles were simple.

Some had been entirely made by the system, while he had participated in making the later ones.

Among them, the Speed Hack, Hand Grenades, and cola had already been openly exposed to the public.

There was also one hack and three pieces of equipment that others didn't know about, and he didn't plan to reveal them casually.

Because he had realized... just one hack of his already seemed frightening enough. He shouldn't rashly expose more, or perhaps he should keep them as trump cards for unexpected situations.

Dig deep tunnels and store up grain. That was the great leader's guidance to us.

Wang Ji proudly praised his own wisdom. In the mall, he picked up a stylish trench coat and called out loudly, "Boss, how much is this coat?"

"Five hundred."

"Will you sell it for two-fifty?"

"Sold!"

"..."

"You must have noticed that you're different from ordinary people."

In an elegant café, three people sat at a window-side table.

A man in a black suit, a red-haired beauty, and a decent-looking but lecherous man.

Jess, Du Qiangwei, and Ge Xiao Lun.

"We're the Super God Academy, specifically established to train people like you."

Jess wore a serious expression, as though he couldn't see Ge Xiao Lun sitting across from him staring at Du Qiangwei beside him with the face of a lovestruck pervert.

Her slender, snow-white neck was half-hidden beneath a small dark green scarf. She wore a sexy fitted red leather jacket, with a low-cut top underneath that was both innocent and alluring.

Her skin was fair and tender, and her chest was spectacular.

Her exquisite, cool, oval face was breathtakingly beautiful. Her clear, bright eyes, curved willow-leaf brows, long eyelashes trembling slightly, flawless pale skin tinged with a faint rosy blush, and delicate rose-petal lips all made her irresistible.

Though her figure was hidden beneath the table, it was slender and graceful, poised and captivating.

Du Qiangwei was a great beauty. There was no questioning that.

Jess knew Ge Xiao Lun liked Du Qiangwei. He had known ever since he and Du Qiangwei had gone to the police station to pick Ge Xiao Lun up that day. Losers all looked at beauties the same way; they couldn't hide it.

So he had deliberately brought Du Qiangwei along, because it would make things twice as easy with half the effort and save him a lot of talking.

Simply put, he would use a honey trap to trick this dumb kid into joining the Super God Academy first...

Time passed bit by bit, and the seduction plan was going smoothly. Though Du Qiangwei was clearly becoming impatient, she still cooperated.

"See? She hasn't said anything, which means she isn't refusing... I don't mind if you move into her dorm room, and I have no objections either." Jess's voice carried obvious temptation.

Ge Xiao Lun, who had been born with an honest-looking face but now wore a lecherous expression from being so enchanted, felt his heart pound. Looking embarrassed yet grinning foolishly, he blossomed with joy. "Can I bring my computer with me?"

Jess sucked in a breath. "No... if you've got this, what do you need a computer for?"

He tilted his eyes toward Du Qiangwei.

"Oh~ Right... right..." Ge Xiao Lun suddenly understood!

"I..."

Ring ring ring ring ring ring~

Du Qiangwei raised a brow and casually took out her phone. When she saw the name on the WeChat video call, the corners of her lips unconsciously lifted into a faint smile.

She answered it, her smile beautiful. "Calling me on video so soon? What's up? Did you get tempted after all and want me to take you to touch a gun?"

Her beautiful smile left Ge Xiao Lun beside her staring blankly...

Wang Ji on the video seemed to be sitting on something. He gave a sound of acknowledgment, pondered for a moment, then said, "It's nothing. I just wanted to ask you, um...

I have a friend. He's also a Super Soldier. Today, while he was shopping in Tianhe City, he found a big alligator by the roadside... I'm asking for him: in a situation like this, does he need to hand it over to the state?"