Entry Advancement

The hall was deathly silent; not a single person stepped back.

Having come this far, who would be willing to give up the chance to cross class boundaries? These were all slots they had fought for themselves—others envied them just for having the opportunity.

Jiang Yue expressionlessly stripped off his clothes, revealing a body that, after being squeezed and pressed to the limit, had lines as dense and sharp as if carved by knife and axe. He lay directly into the Medical Pod.

The hatch closed silently, and icy, viscous, high-concentration blue nutrient fluid surged from all sides in an instant, completely submerging Jiang Yue.

"Injection beginning."

With the command from the main console, the mechanical arm inside the Medical Pod extended, and the cold injection needle precisely pierced Jiang Yue's carotid artery.

That vial of [Primary Gene Enhancement Fluid], shimmering with a hazy glow, was mercilessly pushed into his blood vessels at full dose!

Boom!

The moment the fluid entered his body, Jiang Yue's originally steady breath suddenly caught.

He felt an extreme cold rushing straight to his heart along his blood vessels, and then, pumped by his heart, that cold instantly transformed into a terrifying magma capable of igniting even his soul!

Agony! Indescribable agony!

This pain didn't come from torn muscles, but from destruction at the microscopic level.

Jiang Yue could almost hear the collective wailing of trillions of cells inside his body. His originally somewhat thin gene chain was being violently dismantled without mercy under this domineering medicinal force!

If someone had honed their foundation since childhood, this kind of restructuring might have been smooth sailing. But for Jiang Yue's body, which had an extremely poor "base color," the drug's effect was far too violent!

"Beep beep beep—Warning! Subject's heart rate exceeds critical threshold! Severe rejection reaction occurring!"

The intense stress response made Jiang Yue's body convulse wildly in the nutrient fluid.

And at this critical moment between life and death, the panel deep in Jiang Yue's retina was finally fully activated by this massive external energy!

[Behavior: Eating—Trait [Food Digestion] activated!]

[Current Status: +++]

In the underlying logic of [Food Digestion], any energy that enters the body—even a violent gene agent—is still classified as a type of food!

The illusory furnace hidden in his stomach roared into operation, trying to forcibly digest and calm the gene-ripping medicinal force.

However, the energy level gap between the two was too great!

"Can't hold on..."

The intense pain began to blur Jiang Yue's consciousness, but his eyes, open in the nutrient fluid, stared fixedly at the panel in the void, erupting with a beast-like, morbid greed and madness.

"Eat it for me... such massive energy..."

"I earned this with my life in the Gravity Chamber... not a single bit is allowed to go to waste!!"

"EAT!!!"

Extreme unwillingness and a mad will to plunder, at this moment, turned into a tangible obsession, constantly driving his body to operate.

Deep within the panel, a crisp cracking sound came, audible only to Jiang Yue.

[Advancement successful!]

[Gluttony (Green)]!

[Description: Any high-grade energy taken in (high-grade potions, toxins, Exotic Beast blood essence, trace radiation, etc.) can be forcibly stripped of impurities and converted into the purest life foundation. Absorption utilization rate reaches 100%, and ignores any biological drug resistance! Digestion speed increased!]

[Can store massive amounts of currently indigestible overflow energy, and instantly release it in bursts during combat or depletion!]

The moment this faint green light lit up, the gene medicinal force that was on the verge of spiraling out of control inside Jiang Yue's body seemed to meet its true natural enemy!

The stomach, which could only barely grind energy before, had now turned into a terrifying micro black hole.

Domineering! Brutal! Unreasonable devouring!

With just a slight spin of the [Gluttony] trait, the blue medicinal force rampaging through his blood vessels was instantly torn apart, forcibly squeezed and absorbed at a horrifying speed, perfectly integrating into every inch of Jiang Yue's recombining gene chain!

However, [Gluttony]'s appetite was simply too large.

After draining the gene agent in just a few minutes, to fill the massive energy gap left by the gene expansion, Jiang Yue's body instinctively bared its fangs outward.

Gurgle...

Inside the Medical Pod, the blue nutrient fluid, originally used to maintain the new soldier's vital signs and rich in high-energy nutrients, began to visibly fade in color!

The nutrients were frantically absorbed by Jiang Yue's pores like a giant whale drinking water!

In just over ten minutes, an entire pod of expensive, high-concentration nutrient fluid was forcibly turned into clear, impurity-free transparent water!

"Beep—beep—beep—!!"

"Alert! G-876 pod nutrient fluid reading zero! Energy depleted!"

The piercing red alarm lights flashed wildly in this area, immediately alerting the senior military doctors in the distance.

"What's going on?! Is the nutrient fluid leaking?"

Several military doctors and emergency robots rushed to the pod. When they looked through the glass and saw the crystal-clear transparent liquid inside, every single one of them wore an expression as if they had seen a ghost.

"What the hell?! Even someone close to the Martial Artist level takes at least an hour to fully absorb the potion and nutrient fluid for the first time! It's only been twenty minutes?!"

"This kid's body is a black hole! Check his vitals—is his gene structure collapsing?!"

A military medic frantically pulled up the data panel. The next second, he froze on the spot.

On the panel, Jiang Yue's heart rate, blood pressure, and cell activity weren't collapsing at all—instead, they displayed an extremely robust state of health!

"This... might be some extremely rare recessive mutant gene?"

The medic wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, forced to draw a conclusion he himself didn't quite believe.

Pssh—

Just then, the door of G-876 Medical Pod slid open automatically to both sides.

Jiang Yue slowly sat up from the clear water.

Unlike the other new recruits in surrounding pods who had endured the modification and were now completely drained from the agony, unable even to muster the strength to stand, his gaze was terrifyingly clear, with a faint trace of lingering green light still flickering deep in his eyes.

Jiang Yue looked down and clenched his fist.

He didn't feel any explosive surge in muscle strength—because the gene fluid unlocked potential, not immediate combat power.

But he could clearly sense that the heavy shackles inside his body had vanished completely!

Now, he was like an infinitely expanded bottomless abyss, confident that no matter how much blood and energy poured in, he could perfectly contain it all.

However, along with that came another extremely direct and ferocious physiological reaction.

Hunger!

Unprecedented hunger!

That ravenous craving from the depths of his cells, driven by the instinct of the [Gluttony] trait, made Jiang Yue's eyes fiercely predatory at this moment.

He even felt that if there weren't medics nearby, he could bite off and chew up the metal arm of that medical robot!

Jiang Yue took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the wildness in his gaze.

He stepped out of the Medical Pod, casually picked up his terminal, and glanced at it.

On the screen lay the additional reward for ranking in the top thousand of the gravity assessment—[Basic Military Merit Points: 100].

Jiang Yue patted his flat stomach, a slow smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

The Gene Lock was unlocked, and his digestive system had fully evolved into a bottomless pit.

But fortunately, with plenty of merit points now, he could finally have a proper feast.