Schemes Within Schemes

By comparison, even the ones who seemed slightly more "practical" were still after things like [Matter Eater], [Rune Symbols], [Legion—Personality Abilities], [Blacklight Virus], and [Perfect Organism]----

Heh.

For these people whose ideas could only be called fantastical----

Li Yun could only say one thing: imagination was full, but reality was painfully thin!

But clearly, when it came to "the rich rely on technology, the poor rely on mutation," these people really knew how to make things happen!

For example, one Exchange that had recently become rather popular among users in Western Europe was [Random Low-Level X Gene Activation]!

As the saying went: one hundred Universal Points and one Common Exchange Card. No loss, no scam! Guaranteed to produce one X Gene mutant ability!

Compared with pricier options like [Superpower Development], [Personal Reality: Reality Warper], and [Random High-Level X Gene Awakening], this Exchange's low price was enough to cover up virtually every other problem.

Whether it was the classic movie-style Porcupine Guy, covered head to toe in long spikes, or the ability to understand animal speech, control water, or turn one's body into metal----

Even if the worst came to worst and someone got the ability to eat noodles with their nose, it was still a superpower!

Clearly, with insufficient starting resources, quite a few users eager for quick success had taken a liking to the abundant "possibilities" involved and let their gambling fever take over!

They only saw others eating meat, never saw them getting beaten.

They only saw people like Eugene Hope, who had gotten lucky enough to develop a relatively stable superpower like "water control" in one go and rise directly to the Third Tier, looking glamorous, cool, and insanely impressive!

Yet they had never paid any attention to what happened to those who developed worthless abilities, or