"Not bad, not bad. Nearly ten thousand points and a precious permission card. I hit the jackpot."
Xu Long was excited. The trip had been dangerous, but the rewards had been enormous.
An ordinary person only earned a few hundred points from an E-rank mission world, while he had gotten over nine thousand in one go. The advantage of knowing the plot was almost unimaginably great.
As for the permission card, it was an extremely valuable form of currency.
Unlike points, permission cards could not be traded or used to buy attribute points. Their only use was to exchange for bloodlines, skills, and certain special items.
To obtain a permission card, one had to challenge a super boss in a mission world and kill it without any plot characters taking part.
For example, in The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1, one could kill the Moon Worship Sect Leader or the Shushan sect leader. In The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3, one could kill General Fei Peng or Demon Lord Chong Lou. In Journey to the West, one could kill the Jade Emperor or Buddha.
The other way was to do as Xu Long had done: dig frantically into the plot of a world, then earn the highest possible S-rank rating.
A permission card... what should I exchange it for? A badass bloodline? Or a skill so badass it reaches the heavens?
Xu Long pondered. He wanted both, but unfortunately, he only had one permission card. He had to give it some serious thought.
As Xu Long pondered, another notification sounded.
[Global announcement: reincarnator "Long Aotian" has cleared the "Resident Evil 1" world and earned an S-rank rating! "Resident Evil 1" has closed, and "Resident Evil 2" has opened, with an energy level of D-rank!] ["Kung Fu Hustle" has opened, with an energy level of E-rank!]
The announcement sounded a full three times in the mind of every person on Earth.
Then the whole world erupted!
An S-rank rating! It was the only one since the Reincarnation Temple had appeared.
Over the past dozen or so years, countless humans had entered reincarnation worlds, but only a tiny handful had managed to earn B-rank ratings.
Divine Heavenly Emperor, who ranked first in the world by level, had once slaughtered his way through an entire world and still only earned an A+ rating. Yet now someone had actually earned an S-rank!
"Contact this Long Aotian immediately. I don't care how you do it; get me every scrap of information related to Resident Evil. I want the T-virus and the serum too."
"Resident Evil 1 closed, and Resident Evil 2 opened? An S-rank rating? Interesting. Looks like I should get in touch!"
The upheaval Xu Long had caused sent the whole world into a frenzy. Countless people contacted him, hoping to get what they wanted from him.
The global announcement made it clear that Resident Evil was a series. Although the first installment had closed, the information from it would still be of great use.
Besides that, the T-virus and the serum would be coveted by countless people and factions.
Whether for studying biological mutations or destroying the world, the uses of the T-virus tempted everyone.
The whole world's attention had been drawn to him, while Xu Long took out Alice's blood.
He planned to take a gamble. With Alice's blood, he had a good chance of succeeding.
Even if he failed, it would be fine. He still had the serum.
Even if the serum did not work, the Main God was watching over him. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
"The meaning of life is courting death. As long as it doesn't kill you, keep courting it for all you're worth."
With that thought, Xu Long injected Alice's blood into his body without the slightest hesitation.
The T-virus reacted with Alice's blood, but Xu Long felt like an outsider.
[Detected that the conscript is engaging in a high-risk activity. According to the rules, points may be paid for intervention!] [1. Retain the T-virus's toxicity, bloodline, and enhancement effects. Cost: 3,000 points!] [2. Remove the toxicity and bloodline, retaining only the enhancement effects. Cost: 2,000 points!] [3. Remove the toxicity, bloodline, and enhancement effects. Cost: 500 points!]
The choices the Main God offered were simple. The T-virus's toxicity and bloodline were linked, so retaining the toxicity meant getting a bloodline for free. Otherwise, it was equivalent to spending points on attribute enhancements.
There was no need to look at the third option, so he skipped it.
"I choose the first one!"
A free bloodline-any fool would know what to choose.
As for the toxicity, he just had to protect himself and avoid getting hurt.
The T-virus only existed in blood. It was not in saliva or urine, nor was it in that other fluid.
[3,000 points deducted! Enhancement beginning!]
A beam of white light descended from the sky and enveloped Xu Long.
It felt like soaking in a hot spring, so comfortable that he nearly cried out.
It seemed like only three to five seconds, or perhaps several dozen minutes. When the white light vanished, Xu Long felt like a different person.
His hearing and sight were sharper, and his whole body brimmed with strength.
He could see the lines on his palms clearly, and every pore on his skin stood out. His perception had also grown much sharper.
A light jump took him two meters into the air, and a punch sent the wind whistling.
Xu Long reckoned he could now slap a Licker to death.
He opened his attribute panel and took a look. Compared to before, the change was enough to overturn heaven and earth.
Name: Xu Long Nickname: Long Aotian Race: Chinese human Bloodline: T-Virus Enhanced Bloodline Strength: 28 (increases attack power, explosive power, carrying capacity, etc.) Sinews and bones: 27 (increases physical defense, bone strength, etc.) Constitution: 28 (increases cell activity, physical recovery, endurance, etc.) Agility: 27 (increases movement speed, reflexes, dynamic vision, attack speed, etc.) Spirit: 39 (increases danger perception, thought intensity, mental defense, etc.) Skills: none
Strength, sinews and bones, constitution, and agility had each increased by 20 points, while spirit had increased by 30.
That was a full 110 attribute points. Buying them with points would have cost eleven thousand.
Spirit increased the most. Looks like Alice's blood influenced it.
Xu Long pondered. The T-Virus Enhanced Bloodline was a very well-balanced bloodline, and the Main God's intervention had eliminated its original randomness, so each of the four attributes had increased by twenty points.
But Alice was the protagonist of the Resident Evil world. Later on, she could blow up a satellite from hundreds of kilometers away. Her psychic power was absolutely terrifying.
It was only natural that her blood had influenced the bloodline!
I can't afford to bleed easily, so I need to avoid close combat and strengthen my physical defense. So...
With that in mind, Xu Long decisively exchanged all his points for sinews and bones and spirit attributes.
The former increased defense, while the latter strengthened psychic power.
He would exchange for a psychic skill in a little while. Wonderful.
Just imagine: an enemy fought desperately through the attacks of his psychic skill and finally reached Xu Long, only to discover that he could not hurt him.
What despair that would be!