Standing at the Very Front
"Gao Gao, why are you risking your life like this? Your family isn't short of blood serum, and you'll have no problem acquiring suitable gene weapons in the future. Besides, your Gene Fighting Technique are already quite advanced. As for that cash, it's just a passing cloud!"
The Luo family has its own sanatorium.
Since Luo Gaogao won the battle of sequences despite being seriously injured, he has been lying in the Tangshan Sanatorium, and Zhu Kuang has been helping him with some matters that require his presence.
The relentless pursuit caused Luo Gaogao great harm.
His individual strength was inferior to his opponent's, so he had to resort to a desperate, mutually destructive fighting style to win.
Luo Gaogao could only be thankful that he had shown his skills at the sequencing conference, and that the Luo family held a fairly good position in Western Capital City, which prevented him from going through layers of screening. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for Luo Gaogao to participate in the sequence competition in his best condition.
Looking at Zhu Kuang, who was criticizing him, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless.
Zhu Kuang's Lineage operates in cultural tourism and film and television, and is far less powerful than the Luo Lineage, which controls finance. However, Zhu Kuang has far more Lineage resources at his disposal than Luo Gaogao.
Luo Gaogao felt that her success was only superficial.
He could only contact Luo Hui within the Lineage, while Luo Tianming held the reins of the Lineage. As for Luo Burang, his biggest asset was the research institute in Beirehe.
The strange relationships within the Luo family make Luo Gaogao seem more like an outsider.
If it weren't for Luo Burang's guidance and Luo Hui's occasional extra help, Luo Gaogao felt he would have been quite ordinary.
He had no choice but to work hard and strive for this reward, using it to pave the way for his future.
Even if he were beaten to death, let alone seriously injured, Luo Gaogao would still try.
He lacks sufficient salamander blood serum, and his genetic weapons change as his sequence strength increases, so his Gene Fighting Technique are not perfect.
Of course, 100 million in cash is also very important to Luo Gaogao.
These rewards could keep Luo Gaogao lying down for three to five years.
Once he chooses not to lie down, Luo Gaogao will speed forward, and even with the full support of Zhu Kuang's Lineage, they cannot catch up with his speed.
"Only Zuo Teng, Zhang Manqian, Zhou Tianhao, and Ning Que are potential candidates... Zhang Xuezhou might also be a possibility!"
Most people need time to catch up with those who came before them, and there won't be many young people who can surpass the middle-aged and younger generations in terms of age.
Luo Gao counted them and felt that there was only a chance of talking about counting people.
Players like Zhu Shengnan, who are ahead of their time, can only barely keep up with the younger generation. They face a large number of competitors at the same level; otherwise, they would not have lost in the competition for ranking.
The higher Luo Gaogao climbed, the clearer she became about who her kindred spirits were and where she stood in the competition.
Just as the many members of the Sequence Committee sat in a row, fully aware of the situation, Luo Gaogao also had a basic answer in his mind at this moment.
"Besides, you need to work harder too," Luo Gaogao said to the nagging Zhu Kuang. "Strive to stabilize in the Third Sequence as soon as possible, then push towards the Fourth Sequence, or even the Fifth Sequence, and then seek to completely establish a foothold in Western Capital City in the Sixth Sequence!"
"Gao Gao, are you delirious from the fever?" Zhu Kuang retorted. "This sequence isn't something we can decide with our mouths. Technology accounts for four parts, luck for four parts, and the remaining two parts are all based on effort."
"Waiting for technology and relying on luck is too difficult!"
"As long as we have the advantage in resources and power, those eight points will be ours, and those remaining two points, no matter how hard they try, they could never catch up with us in eight lifetimes!"
Zhu Kuang's ideas actually represent the ideas of the powerful and wealthy in Western Capital City. As long as they occupy the top, they will be at the strongest level.
But as Luo Gaogao continued forward, he increasingly felt the stale nature of this kind of thinking.
Zhang Manqian could handle him perfectly, while Ning Que could fight his way through dozens of levels to reach the final victory.
These may seem like two special cases, but they could also represent the upward trajectory of ordinary people after gaining opportunities.
If gene technology becomes more readily available one day, such exceptional cases may become commonplace.
Western Capital City may seem to have many young geniuses, but most of them started learning earlier and had a better educational environment, which is why they stand out from the crowd.
Even those who enter the higher levels of the hierarchy remain the same, simply because they have more money and more resources.
But as the sequence moves upwards, these people will eventually revert to their original state.
Luo Gaogao never believed that true geniuses would be confined to the Third Sequence.
He wouldn't, Zuo Teng wouldn't, and Zhang Manqian and others certainly wouldn't.
There are many true geniuses in this world, and if these people were given the opportunity, Luo Gaogao believed it would be a violent shock to the order of Western Capital City.
This era will inevitably come; it's just a matter of sooner or later.
If he couldn't stand at the forefront before this era arrived, Luo Gaogao felt that everything Zhu Kuang relied on would be diluted.
He repeatedly advised Zhu Kuang, and only stopped talking when Zhu Kuang nodded.
"You should prepare the full blood potion as soon as possible, and then spend some money to borrow the belt from Zhang Manqian. Doing it sooner will give us a greater advantage in the future. Don't be too late!"
Luo murmured in a low voice.
He slowly drifted into a deep sleep in the recovery pod, allowing his body to heal.
Zhou Tianhao and others relied on being beaten to promote the absorption and effectiveness of the blood agent, but the self-healing properties of Luo Gaogao's salamander blood agent were related to the injuries.
Despite Luo Gaogao's apparent illness or injury, his speed in advancing the gene sequence did not slow down much.
"Borrow a belt? Come to think of it Zuo Teng and Zhou Tianhao have been frequently traveling to North Rehe since their last trip back to Western Capital City. Is saving a little time with that belt really that important?"
Zhu Kuang felt that spending millions of blood serums or funds to extend the lifespan of the Beast Belt and accelerate the absorption of the blood serums was not worthwhile.
He knew about the news, but Zhu Kuang did not go to Beerhehe to queue up for use. Zhu Kuang also could not outrank Zhou Tianhao, Zuo Teng and others who were more proactive in this matter.
Seeing his few close friends repeatedly reminding him, Zhu Kuang couldn't help but scratch his head.
He ultimately decided to lose money to try it out, since everyone else was queuing up to use it, and he would seem out of place if he didn't.
"Unsociable? Unsociable... What the heck? Are you kidding me?!"
Zhu Kuang pondered for a while before belatedly realizing that a crucial element was missing from his normal thinking.
Zhou Tianhao and the others seem to have traded resources for six months or a year or two, but this timeframe doesn't seem significant. After all, the Qin Meng hunt can easily affect several months, and whether they have one more or one less hunt, the difference in time will be negligible a few years later.
But the most important problem is that Zhou Tianhao, Luo Gaogao, and others have rushed to the front, and if he can't keep up, he will fall behind.
If someone falls behind, it's impossible for them to advance and retreat together; and no one can take care of this temporary burden.
This also means that Zhu Kuang will be missing the top team of the younger generation that he previously worked with.
What he lacks is not the time he saved by paying to rent the beast belt, but the fact that he will miss out on the most important team spot.
This difficult period of pairing up might take three years, or five years, or perhaps once the team is complete, it will be difficult to insert someone else, thus forever losing the opportunity to advance and retreat together.