Failed Super Gene Evolution Seed

More than two hundred years ago, large numbers of Weird Creatures with metallic bodies suddenly appeared all over the world, becoming humanity's nightmare of survival for a time.

Those Weird Creatures humans called Gene Mutation Creatures were an entirely different species from humanity. Their bodies were actually made of steel and even crystals, completely unlike human flesh and blood.

Even the lowest-ranking Gene Mutation Creatures possessed bodies as hard as steel, and ordinary bullets could scarcely inflict effective damage on them. The bodies of high-level Gene Mutation Creatures were so strong that humans could hardly imagine it. Humanity's proud firearms could barely harm them, and human society was destroyed in a short time.

It was not until someone discovered that the Gene Mutation Fluid within Gene Mutation Creatures could allow humans to undergo unbelievable metamorphic growth, like butterflies emerging from cocoons, evolving bodies like metal armor. They could also use Gene Mutation Keys to control Gene Mutation Creatures and transform them into pets. Only then did humanity gain the means to fight the Gene Mutation Creatures.

Today, more than two hundred years later, it was an era in which Gene Mutators and Gene Mutation Pets ran rampant. More and more bases built from Gene Mutation Creature materials had appeared across the world, and human civilization was gradually showing signs of revival.

"This really exists? This isn't scientific!" Lin Shen stared at the Weird Creature frozen before him like a statue, his eyes brimming with irrepressible delight.

It was a Steel Grade Gene Mutation Creature, resembling both a horse and a bull. Its entire body gleamed like pig iron. It currently stood motionless in the pose of a galloping horse treading upon a flying swallow. Anyone who saw it would have thought it was a cast-iron statue.

But Lin Shen was utterly certain that it was no statue. Just minutes ago, it had charged about like a tank and nearly knocked him to the ground.

Though it was only a Steel Creature, the lowest rank among Gene Mutation Creatures, its strength and speed were beyond anything ordinary humans could compare with. Even naturally powerful creatures such as elephants and rhinoceroses could not rival it.

Yet Lin Shen had merely poked it once with a finger, and this Steel Grade Iron Horned Beast had frozen in place as though struck by a Pressure-Point Strike.

Of course, Lin Shen did not know Pressure-Point Strikes. In truth, the pressure-point techniques in film and television dramas were not the same as real pressure-point techniques. The kind that could immobilize someone with a single poke existed only in film and television.

Even in this age when humans could cultivate and evolve, no matter how formidable one's own strength became—even if one could pierce a steel plate with a single finger—it was impossible to immobilize an ordinary human with a pressure-point strike, let alone a Gene Mutation Creature as hard as steel.

Lin Shen rubbed his finger, still finding it hard to believe. He had actually done it.

Not long ago, he had discovered an extremely strange Gene Mutation Egg in the warehouse. A Gene Mutation Egg was, in fact, simply an egg laid by a Gene Mutation Creature.

Since Gene Mutation Creatures had first appeared, more than two hundred years had passed. Humanity had long since developed a complete set of theories and methods for using Gene Mutation Creatures to cultivate and evolve.

Gene Mutation Eggs were not particularly rare. Some low-grade Gene Mutation Eggs were worth little more than the cost of a meal.

Lin Shen was in the Gene Mutation Egg business, and he had seen countless Gene Mutation Eggs of every kind. Yet he had never seen one so bizarre and uncanny.

That Gene Mutation Egg looked as though it had been mosaicked over, its entire surface covered in tiny, ever-shifting colored squares of light. It looked dreamlike and unreal.

Lin Shen had studied it for a long time without discovering what was different about it. When he even had his employees look at it, they could not see the shifting mosaic on the egg at all. In their eyes, it was merely an ordinary Steel Grade Gene Mutation Egg with a black metallic sheen.

For a time, Lin Shen had thought he was hallucinating. Then, after one night's sleep, the Gene Mutation Egg inexplicably returned to normal, its mosaic phenomenon disappearing. Lin Shen then found an inexplicable piece of information in his mind.

Failed Super Gene Evolution Seed—Pressure-Point Strike: By striking the acupoints on a creature's body, one can affect the creature's state.

After that, things gradually became strange. As long as Lin Shen stared at a creature for a long time, he could see faint points of light appearing on its body. He could see those points on both humans and Gene Mutation Creatures; the only differences were their number and positions.

Ordinary humans had more points of light on their bodies. The higher the level of a Gene Mutator or Gene Mutation Creature, the fewer points of light they had.

Unable to restrain himself, Lin Shen finally tested it today on the Iron Horned Beast his family kept penned up. The result thrilled him beyond measure—he had actually immobilized the Iron Horned Beast with a Pressure-Point Strike.

Standing beside the Iron Horned Beast, Lin Shen extended his finger again and forcefully pressed the location of a faintly visible point of light on its body. The Iron Horned Beast, which had been frozen like a statue, instantly resumed its original charging state. It bolted forward, failed to stop in time, and slammed into the metal fence with a low cry of pain.

"Even a failed Evolution Seed is this terrifying. What about a successful Evolution Seed?" Lin Shen's excitement was beyond words. If such a Fire Seed were used to hunt Gene Mutation Creatures, it would simply be invincible.

As if he had thought of something, Lin Shen ran out of the animal pen, shut the door, and hurried toward the warehouse. He wanted to see whether there were any other Gene Mutation Eggs carrying Fire Seeds.

Inside the huge warehouse, many Gene Mutation Eggs sat on row after row of shelves. Most of them were low-grade goods, but that was not the point, because the Gene Mutation Egg containing the Fire Seed had itself been low-grade. In fact, his shop did not have any high-grade Gene Mutation Eggs.

He examined every Gene Mutation Egg in the warehouse, only to be somewhat disappointed. He did not see another Gene Mutation Egg covered in mosaic.

"That makes sense. I personally put all these Gene Mutation Eggs on the shelves when they arrived. If there had been one, I should have seen it long ago." Lin Shen shook his head, feeling that he was being too greedy. Possessing even one such Fire Seed was already an unimaginable miracle. How could he hope for many more?

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Lin Shen went to the shop.

His shop was an Egg Catching Store, similar to the claw machine arcades that had once been hugely popular. Each claw crane machine contained several Gene Mutation Eggs, which customers could try to grab after inserting coins.

Naturally, the chance of successfully grabbing one had been adjusted extremely low. It was basically a business that guaranteed profit without loss.

"Fifth Brother, there's still hardly anyone here today." When the employee Zhao Li saw Lin Shen arrive, she came out from behind the counter. Glancing at the empty shop, she said worriedly, "Fifth Brother, we need to find some high-grade Gene Mutation Eggs. Otherwise, the Colored Egg store next door will steal all our business."

"Mm." Lin Shen nodded slightly but said nothing more.

He was the fifth child in his family, with three older brothers and one older sister, so Zhao Li usually called him Fifth Brother.

"That Colored Egg store next door is going too far. Their employees openly came to our entrance today to lure customers away. They even said that all the Gene Mutation Eggs in our shop are trash, that our claws are loose, and that even if someone catches one, it'll still be trash..." Zhao Li complained indignantly.

But Lin Shen had no mind to listen to her complaints, because his gaze had been completely drawn to one claw crane machine. He stared fixedly at it.

More precisely, he had been drawn to a Gene Mutation Egg inside that claw crane machine, because he had seen that strange mosaic again.

"There really is another one?" Lin Shen was ecstatic. Hardly daring to believe it, he walked to the claw crane machine and stared at the Gene Mutation Egg wrapped in mosaic. He said urgently to Zhao Li, "Go get the key."

After Zhao Li brought the key over, Lin Shen opened the claw crane machine, took out the mosaic-covered Gene Mutation Egg, and carefully examined it in his hand.

Although this Gene Mutation Egg was of a different species and size from the previous one, the colors of its mosaic were nearly identical.

"Fifth Brother, is there something wrong with this Gene Mutation Egg?" Zhao Li asked doubtfully.

"Don't you think there's something different about this Gene Mutation Egg?" Lin Shen did not answer, instead asking her in return.

"What's different about it? Isn't it just a Steel Grade Little Knife Demon Gene Mutation Egg?" Zhao Li looked it over from every angle but could not see anything unusual about it. The confusion on her face grew even stronger.

"Watch the shop carefully. I have something to do, so I'm heading back first." Lin Shen said no more and left with the Gene Mutation Egg.

He was extremely puzzled. Because business had been poor lately, the Gene Mutation Eggs in the Claw Crane Machines had been placed there a week ago, or even earlier. He had looked at them countless times, yet he had not noticed anything like this before. Why had another mosaic-covered Gene Mutation Egg suddenly appeared now?

Lin Shen could not understand why another mosaic-covered Gene Mutation Egg had suddenly appeared. After returning home, he studied it for a long time but could not figure out how to transfer the Fire Seed onto himself.

In fact, Lin Shen still had not figured out how the mosaic from the previous Gene Mutation Egg had transferred onto him.

Previously, he had held that Gene Mutation Egg and studied it for a long time without understanding why it had a mosaic. Later, he had been too sleepy and fallen asleep with the egg beside him. When he woke up, the mosaic on the Gene Mutation Egg was gone, and Fire Seed information had appeared in his mind.

"Looks like I can only try again. I hope it works." Lin Shen lay on the bed and placed the Gene Mutation Egg beside him. After agonizing over it for a long time, he tossed and turned without being able to sleep. He did not know how much time passed before he finally drifted off again.

When Lin Shen woke up the next day, his first reaction was to hurriedly check the Gene Mutation Egg beside him.

The instant he looked at it, Lin Shen felt as though he had eaten a ginseng fruit, as if every pore in his body were cheering with delight.

The mosaic on that Gene Mutation Egg had actually vanished, and another piece of Fire Seed information had appeared in his mind.