Through trial and error with countless death-row prisoners, Professor Zhou gradually uncovered the secret of the runes in the data.
These runes could turn what a person imagined into reality!
The odds were vanishingly small, but if someone visualized the runes every waking moment, sooner or later that one-in-countless-trillions chance would come through.
But that raised another problem.
A person could keep visualizing the runes and looking at them every moment, but no one could guarantee that their thoughts would stay exactly the same.
One second, they might be thinking about becoming a god; the next, about taking a shit.
If the first thought failed to trigger the chance but the second succeeded, the person would turn into a pile of shit.
Professor Zhou quickly came up with a solution: visualize the runes only at set times.
The rest of the time, they could go about their lives. When the moment came, they would gather their strength, look at the runes, and try to gain extraordinary power from them.
But he could hardly test this on death-row prisoners. Most were vicious criminals, and if one gained power beyond even the army's ability to restrain, they would become a terrible threat.
So Professor Zhou selected ten soldiers with the strongest wills and greatest loyalty for the experiment.
A month later, all ten had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Soldier One had swollen to five meters tall, his entire body packed with solid muscle. But his thoughts had grown sluggish, and when angered, he could even lose his senses. His temper was explosive.
Soldier Two's ten fingers had become gun barrels. Two long ammunition belts had grown from his back, and tracks had grown beneath his feet. He needed to consume metal and gasoline to survive; he had become a Silicon-Based Life form.
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