Hunting the Killer

Chen Zhao was dumbfounded.

Immortality?

System, how the hell did you come up with that?

This technology was way too sci-fi!

Immortality technology—Qin Shi Huang had started researching something that huge, sending Xu Fu to Japan to search for immortals, yet they hadn't figured it out after more than two thousand years. And you wanted me to pull it off just because you issued a mission? Did you think immortality technology was cabbage? Like the big final question on an exam that you could solve with a little effort?

Back when Chen Zhao was in school, he had once gotten into an argument with a cafeteria lady because she shook the serving spoon too hard. He had always had a short temper. The moment the system displayed a few lines, he cursed it repeatedly in his mind.

Then the system began displaying more messages. More precisely, it hadn't finished displaying the first half of the message:

[Mission Hint:]

[The key to immortality technology lies in the ocean.]

[The deep sea contains numerous unknown organisms, harboring abundant genetic codes.]

[Please have the host build a deep-sea robot to capture seabed organisms and analyze their genes. Once sufficient genetic data has been obtained, the door to immortality technology can be opened.]

[This system will provide progress references.]

[Current gene collection progress: 0%]

After reading the system messages, Chen Zhao suddenly understood.

So that was how it worked!

Previously, the system had only issued a mission. It was like throwing him an ugly, out-of-syllabus problem with no clues whatsoever, something impossible to solve.

But now, it had given him guidance for the process, along with a progress reference.

It was like highlighting key topics before an exam. As long as he mastered all the key points and reached 100% progress, he