Night Visit to the Hua Family Residence (I)

A moonless night.

Early spring remained bitterly cold.

Zhou Zhi stood at the end of the dark street, looking toward the long avenue in the distance and the massive residence that stood along it.

"This feeling of hiding behind the scenes, of being the Black Hand, is quite novel too."

Zhou Zhi had changed into a black standard-issue Plague Armor, making his tall figure seem slender and mysterious.

"So this was what it felt like when Miss Twenty-Three used to bestow blessings."

Zhou Zhi raised his right hand slightly.

A sudden, heritable alteration in the DNA molecules of a genome was called a genetic mutation.

This was the true nature of Twenty-Three's [Blessing].

However, Zhou Zhi did not think the term "blessing" was appropriate. In essence, genetic mutations were a form of Pestilence, and the root cause of most modern [cancers].

In other words, a blessing was not necessarily a good thing.

Chen Chaoxun had ambition. Though he was not particularly capable, he was relatively easy to control.

As a casual chess piece placed at his disposal, Zhou Zhi did not care much about him.

Of course, Zhou Zhi had still used heredity techniques to tamper with Chen Chaoxun's chromosomes. Should he reveal Zhou Zhi's existence to anyone else, his chromosomes would fall into disorder and collapse.

The Plague Extermination Art of hereditary Plague Exterminators was indeed useful.

Zhou Zhi even felt that the techniques of this path could accomplish anything—but in truth, even Twenty-Three, the strongest Medical Dragon in history, had been defeated by the Medical Department. Zhou Zhi could not possibly repeat everything completely, then face the Medical Department and fiercely declare, "I'd win."

"This residence is covered by a special spiritual force. It should be some sort of barrier device."

Twenty-Three gave an accurate assessment. "The Depths