Battle Power of 5 Trash

"Watch?" Lin Shen was somewhat surprised.

He had thought that whatever Qi Guan had clutched so tightly even in death would be something precious. He had never expected it to be a watch—an electronic watch that did not look particularly valuable.

The strap, casing, and face were all black, with only white digits displayed on the dial.

"Could this watch have some special sentimental value to Qi Guan? If I get the chance, I can take it back and return it to his family." Lin Shen picked up the watch and examined it, only to find that the time displayed on it was a little strange.

"00:00:07. Is this watch broken?" Lin Shen looked up at the sky. It was clearly not even dark yet, so how could it be midnight?

While Lin Shen was examining it, the time on the watch continued to tick down.

6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... 0...

Soon, the time on the watch reached zero. A voice suddenly came from within it. "Confirming user death... New user detected... Binding successful... Teleportation countdown begins. 10... 9... 8..."

The watch display changed to 00:00:10, and the time began decreasing by the second.

"What the hell!" Lin Shen hurriedly threw the watch away.

The watch that had fallen to the ground continued counting down. Lin Shen instinctively backed away, putting distance between himself and it.

But the instant the countdown reached zero, Lin Shen felt the scenery before his eyes suddenly twist.

The sky, mountains, trees, flowers, grass, and earth all warped together in Lin Shen's vision, spinning rapidly. After a bout of dizzying rotation, Lin Shen, whose head felt as though it were splitting apart, suddenly felt his body sink. He involuntarily collapsed onto the ground, as though he were carrying a thousand catties of weight.

With both hands pressed against the ground, Lin Shen exerted tremendous effort before slowly standing up. The crushing weight on his body made even standing difficult. The trembling muscles in his legs felt unbearably strained, as though his knees could buckle and send him crashing down at any moment.

"What the fuck is going on?" The moment Lin Shen looked around, he froze.

Where were the mountains and canyon? Before his eyes lay a stretch of white beach and blue ocean.

All around the beach, enormous sea turtles with white Steel Bodies, covered in steel spikes and as large as millstones, lay on the sandy shore doing something unknown.

Because of Lin Shen's sudden appearance, several hundred Steel Spiked Turtles all turned to look at him, their gazes focusing on him in unison.

Lin Shen swallowed. He instinctively wanted to raise a hand and rub his eyes, to make sure he was not hallucinating.

Yet lifting his hand was countless times more difficult than before, and there was even a delay between his thoughts and his movements.

Before his hand could reach his eyes, Lin Shen noticed that the black electronic watch was plainly strapped around his left wrist.

Lin Shen's first reaction was to reach for the watch and take it off. His fingers had barely touched the strap when the watch emitted that cold synthesized electronic voice again.

"The Teleportation Device cooldown has not ended. Forcibly removing the Teleportation Device will activate teleportation again. The user will suffer irreversible damage during teleportation."

Lin Shen's hand froze instantly. He thought of the terrifying wounds on Qi Guan's body.

"Could Qi Guan's injuries have been caused by this so-called damage?" Thinking of those wounds, Lin Shen did not dare touch the watch again.

Even an Alloy Gene Mutator had been injured so badly. If a weakling without Gene Mutation like him suffered such injuries, what would he become? Would he turn directly into a pile of minced flesh?

The time displayed on the watch changed to 71:59:54 and continued decreasing.

"Does this mean I can only use this teleportation equipment again after seventy-two hours?" Lin Shen made the obvious judgment.

There was no time for further thought, because after a brief stunned pause, the Steel Spiked Turtles began crawling furiously toward him. From their expressions, it was as if Lin Shen had dug up their ancestral graves; they would not rest until they tore him to pieces.

Lin Shen wanted to run, but after taking only one step, he stopped. His entire body felt burdened by immense weight. He simply could not run.

Lin Shen hurriedly felt around on his body and, with difficulty, pulled out the Pet Key and Pet Capsule. Before the Steel Spiked Turtles could rush over, he summoned the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast.

Under Lin Shen's control, the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast bit down on his chainmail, lifted him up, and flung him onto its back.

Lin Shen lay sprawled on the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast's back, both hands clamped tightly around its neck.

The Heavy Armor Demonic Beast let out a roar. Its alloy thigh, thicker than an elephant's leg, stomped directly toward the charging Steel Spiked Turtles.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of steel shattering rang out. The steel spikes and shells of the Steel Spiked Turtles were crushed apart, and mercury-like liquid splashed everywhere.

Lin Shen could clearly feel that the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast was much slower than before. The Steel Spiked Turtles also seemed slower than the Steel Creatures Lin Shen had seen in the past.

"Is it because of gravity?" Lin Shen guessed, but then he felt the watch on his wrist vibrate.

He tilted his head to glance at the watch and discovered that it was no longer showing the time, but scrolling text.

"Steel Creature Steel Thorn Turtle killed... Steel Creature Steel Thorn Turtle killed..."

As the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast continued stomping, line after line of information flowed across the watch face.

The Alloy Grade Heavy Armor Demonic Beast was like a tiger among sheep amid a group of Steel Grade Steel Thorn Turtles, carrying out a one-sided slaughter.

Knowing full well that they were no match for it, the Steel Thorn Turtles still charged desperately at the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast. Each one was fearless in the face of death, as though they were in a hurry to reincarnate. The Heavy Armor Demonic Beast stomped them one by one, killing twenty or thirty in no time.

Lin Shen had originally been puzzled as to why these Steel Thorn Turtles did not flee. Gene Mutation Creatures were not fools. Even ordinary animals knew to run away. Gene Mutation Creatures were no less intelligent than ordinary animals—perhaps even more so—so how could they not know to flee?

But when his gaze fell upon the place where the Steel Thorn Turtles had originally been lying, he understood in an instant.

There were one sand pit after another there. In some of the still-exposed pits, Lin Shen saw eggs the size of ping-pong balls.

"So these Steel Thorn Turtles were laying eggs! I accidentally barged into a communal delivery room!" Lin Shen suddenly realized.

Looking at the Gene Mutation Eggs in those sand pits, Lin Shen suddenly thought that if he could bring all these Gene Mutation Eggs back, they would amount to an extremely considerable income.

The Steel Thorn Turtles seemed to have a very strong egg-laying ability. With just a rough glance, there were at least seven or eight Gene Mutation Eggs in each sand pit. With so many pits, there might be over a thousand Gene Mutation Eggs.

He just did not know whether the teleportation equipment could send them back with him. And there were the materials from these Steel Thorn Turtles as well. Their value was not especially high, but there was a lot of them. They could still be sold for some money.

As Lin Shen was thinking, he suddenly heard the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast let out a miserable cry.

Lin Shen lowered his head to look and was immediately shocked. One foot of the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast was planted on a Steel Thorn Turtle's back. That Steel Thorn Turtle had not been crushed to pieces like the others; instead, the spikes on its back had pierced through the Heavy Armor Demonic Beast's foot.

"What's going on?" Lin Shen looked at the Steel Thorn Turtle beneath its foot. Whether in size or appearance, it was no different from ordinary Steel Thorn Turtles. It seemed to be an ordinary Steel Thorn Turtle.

But how could the spikes of a Steel Creature possibly pierce an Alloy Creature?

Lin Shen could not help looking at the watch, wanting to see whether it contained information on this Steel Thorn Turtle. Yet he did not see any information about it. Instead, he saw something else.

User: Unmutated low-grade lifeform.

Strength: 5.

Speed: 5.

Hardness: 5.

Toughness: 5.

Theoretical upper limit of lifeform activity: 100 years.

Gene Mutation Talent: None.

Lin Shen could not help staring blankly. "This unmutated low-grade lifeform... couldn't it be referring to me?"

But on second thought, that was indeed right. All five stats were five. He was absolutely Battle Power of 5 Trash.

Even this Battle Power of 5 Trash physique was already the limit for ordinary humans. This body quality had cost a vast amount of Gene Mutation Fluid over many years.