Superhuman stats

Lin Mo threw a punch in excitement. The rush of air sent the nearby nurse's bangs flying.

Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen exchanged a glance, fervor igniting in their eyes.

They immediately gave the order,

"Give him a thorough full-body examination!"

Surrounded by a crowd, Lin Mo was ushered into a pure white medical pod.

All kinds of cutting-edge instruments extended from the ceiling and walls, surrounding him completely.

Lin Mo lay on the examination table, looking up at the densely packed sensors and blinking indicator lights.

"The last time I got this kind of VIP treatment was during a company physical three years ago. The program was called 'Caring for Your Colorectal Health.'"

"Life really is full of unexpected surprises."

The young nurse beside him snorted with laughter, then stole a glance at the academicians and hurriedly clamped her mouth shut.

The examination lasted a full five hours.

Outside the medical pod, in the command center.

Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, Zhao Gang, and more than a dozen core scientists from the Ark Project all stared at the enormous screen.

Displayed on it were Lin Mo's various readings.

Strength test: 1.1 metric tons!

An ordinary person could only manage a little over fifty kilograms!

His speed test reached a staggering twenty-two meters per second. He could finish a hundred-meter sprint in four seconds!

Next came the neural response test!

Lin Mo was taken to an empty room. After sitting down, he held the tablet a staff member had given him, looking utterly bewildered.

"Have you played this game before?"

The staff member asked.

Lin Mo nodded in surprise.

"Good. Then we won't need to teach you the rules. Our resources are limited, so this will have to do for now."

The game displayed on the screen was none other than Rhythm Master!

"For this test, play Rhythm Master on its highest difficulty for three minutes. Please tap start."

Lin Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He took a deep breath, then tapped to start the game.

The song began gently. After the first ten seconds or so of adjustment, all kinds of arrows began raining down like a torrential storm.

Lin Mo's fingers instantly tensed. His dazzling flurry of movements was almost too fast to follow.

Three minutes later, as the song gradually faded, the test ended.

Lin Mo glanced at his game stats. He had only missed one note.

This was a game he had played as a kid, after all. He wasn't a streamer who played it every day. A result like this was already inhuman.

Yet when Lin Mo remembered a streamer who had played this game with his tongue a few years back, he still felt outclassed.

Back then, he had even wondered why all the viewers sending gifts were women.

The staff member took the tablet from Lin Mo and immediately shared the data with the room next door. He glanced at the detailed readings along the way and froze on the spot.

"Monster..."

He murmured to himself,

"Your dynamic visual acuity, reaction speed, and physical coordination during that test have completely surpassed the limits of human physiology!"

"Even the very best elite agents couldn't do this!"

In the next room, Academician Liu Chengen reacted even more intensely. Both hands clenched into fists, he kept muttering,

"Perfect evolution!"

"How is this still a human being? He's a biological mech wearing human skin!"

Even the usually composed Zhao Gang couldn't suppress the excitement that appeared on his face.

When the medical pod's door slowly slid open, Lin Mo felt as though he had just finished a triathlon.

He was tired, but a deep sense of comfort filled him from the inside out.

Seeing the crowd gathered around the entrance, every face full of tension and anticipation, he asked curiously,

"How do my stats look?"

"Is my medical report completely ridiculous?"

Academician Qian Zhenhua adjusted his glasses, his gaze behind the lenses extraordinarily conflicted.

"Lin Mo, 'change' is no longer enough to describe what has happened to your physical indicators."

He uttered a single word.

"It's... transcendence."

"Your cellular metabolism, energy conversion efficiency, neural response speed..."

"Everything has reached an utterly inconceivable dimension."

Qian Zhenhua's voice trembled slightly.

"By the biological definition, you... are theoretically an entirely new species."

Lin Mo grinned.

"A new species? Doesn't that make me the chosen one?"

"Does that mean I won't have to take the ordinary route when I go out anymore?"

"In theory, your physical resilience really would let you star in any sci-fi blockbuster without needing stunt wires."

Academician Liu Chengen handed him a tablet, an incredibly complicated expression on his face.

It was like being constipated for half a month, finally getting some relief, then looking down and discovering the toilet was clogged.

He pointed at the glaring conclusion on the screen, printed in bold red.

"But here's the problem..."

"We... can't reverse-engineer it."

"What do you mean?" Lin Mo asked, stunned.

"It means that we can't identify any active component of that Life Fruit in your blood, your cells, your genes, or even in every breath of carbon dioxide you exhale."

Academician Qian Zhenhua let out a long sigh. His tone held the profound disappointment and helplessness of a scientist who had run up against a barrier to the unknown.

"To put it another way, you've eaten a state banquet. We can tell that you're now full of vitality and bursting with energy."

"But there's no way we could extract that serving of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall intact from your digestive tract."

Academician Qian rubbed the space between his brows and added,

"Forget Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. We can't even find a shred of chopped scallion."