The Cost-Effectiveness Ratio Is Too Low

In the evening, the Super Seminary cafeteria.

The usually noisy and chaotic cafeteria was filled with a near-stagnant low-pressure atmosphere.

The members of the Xiong Bing Lian sat around a long table, heads bowed, mechanically pushing the food on their plates, which tasted like wax.

Ge Xiaolun was particularly dejected, his head almost buried in his plate. The scenes of him mistakenly attacking a teammate that afternoon replayed in his mind, making him feel utterly ashamed.

Liu Chuang rubbed his still-sore chest, occasionally glaring at Ge Xiaolun. He wanted to curse him out, but seeing Ge Xiaolun's miserable state, he swallowed his words, letting out only a heavy sigh.

Zhao Xin, Qi Lin, Rui Mengmeng, Cheng Yaowen, and the others also wore dejected expressions, remaining silent. They hadn't even gotten a chance to show their skills before being inexplicably taken down. They hadn't even seen the opponent's shadow, and this sense of frustration was even worse than being defeated.

Qiangwei's face was pale, her gaze complex. As the tactical commander, she had been almost completely useless in the recent battle. She had even been momentarily confused by illusions and attacked her own teammate. This was a particularly heavy blow to her.

Lena sat in the main seat. Looking at her subordinates, who were like frost-bitten eggplants, her heart was filled with regret and irritation.

She regretted suggesting that damn sparring match!

Su Xiao Li's weird mental abilities and illusions were completely beyond the scope of conventional super soldier combat. Let alone these rookies, even she herself wouldn't dare to say she could remain completely unaffected in such an environment.

Although she knew that after this lesson, Lianfeng would definitely start developing targeted mental protection "firewalls," for now, these guys were clearly traumatized and their morale had hit rock bottom.

Before they could even achieve anything, their morale had collapsed... This start was terrible!

In stark contrast to the lifeless atmosphere on this side, another corner of the cafeteria was bustling.

Si Yao sat alone at a small table, eating slowly.

Su Xiao Li, on the other hand, was like a cheerful little bird, flitting around him, her face beaming with excitement and anticipation, chirping non-stop.

"Boss, boss! How was my performance today? That great fog! And my tail! Wasn't it amazing?" Su Xiao Li's eyes sparkled, and the fox tail behind her unconsciously swayed gently with her excitement.

"I took down several of them in one go!"

She paid no attention to the low-pressure atmosphere on the Xiong Bing Lian's side, immersed in the joy of "victory" and the excitement of wanting Si Yao's approval.

Si Yao glanced up at her and gave a faint "Mm."

Despite being just a simple syllable, it made Su Xiao Li almost jump with joy, her smile becoming even more radiant.

Actually, Su Xiao Li had been very nervous before the fight.

Si Yao had analyzed it with her beforehand, stating that Ge Xiaolun and Liu Chuang in the Xiong Bing Lian were very dangerous. Their weapons and strength were enough to pose a fatal threat to a Third Generation God Body. He had repeatedly warned her never to confront these two head-on, and that even Suo Dun might not be able to withstand their combined attack.

Therefore, from the beginning of the battle, she had held nothing back, fully activating her Kongshi Realm Divine Power and Yongzhen Realm Divine Power to create a large-scale mental illusion and mist domain. The core strategy was to interfere, divide, and create chaos, making the Xiong Bing Lian fight amongst themselves, especially to make Ge Xiaolun and Liu Chuang, these two "killing weapons," consume each other.

The facts proved that Si Yao's judgment was completely correct, and her tactics were executed very successfully. Her attacks indeed couldn't truly break through Ge Xiaolun and Liu Chuang's defenses, but she had successfully made them each other's biggest threat.

As for the other members of the Xiong Bing Lian, her power was sufficient to cause effective control and strikes, quickly reducing the enemy's effective strength.

This victory, though somewhat opportunistic, undoubtedly proved her value and the success of Si Yao's "remodeling."

Su Xiao Li solicitously served Si Yao food and poured him water, exuding an aura of "seeking praise."

Her cheerfulness contrasted sharply with the deathly stillness on the Xiong Bing Lian's side, making the atmosphere in the cafeteria even more bizarre.

Lena watched Su Xiao Li's elated demeanor, then looked at her own dejected team members. She was furious but helpless.

If you're not as skilled as the opponent, what else can you say?

Dukao watched this scene silently in the monitoring hall, his mood complex.

"Lianfeng, develop the mental protection program as soon as possible. This ability is too restraining for them."

"Understood, but I don't know the opponent's mental algorithm. I can only develop a general-purpose program, and the effect... probably won't be very good," Lianfeng said.

The battle between super soldiers was essentially a competition of algorithms, computing power, and energy levels.

Among these, algorithms had the highest priority, while computing power and energy levels were about brute force.

She didn't know Su Xiao Li's mental ability's basic algorithm, making it very difficult to develop a corresponding protection program.

"Do your best," Dukao sighed.

He had intended to test Su Xiao Li's changes and also gauge the Xiong Bing Lian's combat effectiveness. The result?

They were directly depressed!

There was still an exercise coming up...

Lena looked at Su Xiao Li's excited appearance and then at her own dejected team members. The feeling of being stifled and the doubt in her heart could no longer be suppressed.

She picked up her plate and sat down in the empty seat opposite Si Yao, staring at him intently.

Si Yao looked up at her. "Speak your mind. Don't stare at me with those vengeful woman eyes."

"Su Xiao Li... what exactly is going on with her?" Lena gestured with her eyes towards Su Xiao Li, who was still in an excited state.

"Even if you're rich and powerful and upgraded her super gene, super genes need to be developed! It's not like changing parts; you can use them once they're installed!"

"It's only been a few days? She was just an ordinary girl before, she hadn't even touched the surface of micro wormhole transport! How could she master such complex and difficult mental abilities so quickly? And use them so proficiently? It's like she's practiced for hundreds of years! This is unscientific!"

Super genes related to mental abilities were extremely rare and expensive, even more so than spatial genes.

This was not only because of their complex encoding but also because the development and training costs were astonishingly high.

The Deno Civilization and Lieyang had considered research in this area in the past, but the final conclusion was—the cost-effectiveness ratio was too low.

The applicability of mental abilities in actual combat is not high.

Or rather, for truly powerful gods, this kind of ability is often not worth mentioning.

Divine body strength, dark plane scale, energy level, algorithms, and computing power—these are the fundamentals that determine the outcome of god-tier battles.

For example, Ge Xiaolun and Liu Chuang, if they could fully master the power of their super genes, with their vast dark planes and divine body strength, Su Xiao Li's mental interference would not have been able to cause the level of chaos seen this afternoon. It might have been completely ineffective.

Mental abilities, in large-scale wars, exist more as support and surprise tactics.

Moreover, this kind of move is basically most effective the first time it's encountered. Once the opponent is prepared and develops corresponding protection programs or algorithm firewalls, its threat level will drop sharply.

True god-tier duels, in the end, will always return to algorithm clashes, computing power suppression, and absolute "god-slaying" level bombardments.

Super genes in the mental direction, to some extent, belong to taking a niche path. The investment is huge, but the late-stage growth potential and general applicability are limited.

The "first encounter kill" effect Su Xiao Li displayed today was indeed astonishing, but Lena knew very well that such a surprise attack could only be used once.

The Xiong Bing Lian will inevitably be prepared next time, and Lianfeng must already be working on developing a "mental firewall."

But what she couldn't understand was the speed at which Su Xiao Li mastered this high-difficulty ability! This completely violated the objective laws of super soldier growth!

Si Yao put down his chopsticks and picked up a napkin to wipe his mouth. "Very simple. Just write it directly into her brain."

Lena was stunned. "Write... write it in? What do you mean?"

"Literally," Si Yao said lightly.

"I initially hoped she could develop it herself, but after a day of training, I gave up. If I waited for her to master that set of complex mental power usage and combat logic on her own... I'm afraid I wouldn't live to see that day."

Hearing this, Su Xiao Li subconsciously cast a melancholy glance.

What did he mean? Was she very stupid?

"So, I changed direction," Si Yao ignored Su Xiao Li's melancholy.

"Through special means, I directly embedded a large amount of mature combat logic, energy manipulation algorithms, and mental application techniques deep into her subconscious, making these things exist like her instincts."

Qiangwei frowned deeply. "Thought writing? This involves direct interference with the brain and the dark plane's information layer. Any slight misstep could cause irreversible damage or even consciousness collapse. This is far riskier than gene modification. You..."

"The risk does exist. But I have my methods to avoid it. As long as the price is sufficient," Si Yao said lightly.

The "price" he spoke of was naturally the "true points" required by the [Seed of Delusion].

As long as there were enough "true points" to pay, the [Seed of Delusion] could bypass conventional technical barriers and risks, directly anchoring "lies" and "settings" as reality, and even directly modifying the information layer to complete this unbelievable "consciousness infusion."

Even the forceful adaptation of different super genes could be achieved this way.