“Um...”

Li Ang looked at the skill description and thought carefully.

As a high-quality skill, Drowning Assassination was quite simple and unadorned.

With an ultra-long casting range of 200 meters, coupled with the effect of causing hot water to continuously gush out of the opponent's respiratory system,

It was enough to silently and easily kill ordinary people without resistance, without being discovered at all.

Even players or monsters with excellent physical qualities could easily suffocate and lose their combat power if they were suddenly hit with this during a life-and-death struggle.

Fortunately, Drowning Assassination had no learning threshold, so Li Ang directly learned the skill.

With the idea of giving it a try, he ran to the bathroom, summoned Miss Chai to protect him, and then faced the bathtub, releasing the effect on himself.

As soon as he activated Drowning Assassination, Li Ang felt a continuous stream of warm water, close to body temperature, gushing out of his lungs, secondary lungs, trachea, nasopharynx, and throat, making it impossible to breathe.

His mouth and nose, like small waterfalls, gushed out a massive amount of water,

Filling the empty bathtub in less than a breath.

The somewhat anxious Miss Chai had to bend down and pull out the bathtub plug to prevent the entire bathroom from being flooded.

The suffocation effect came much faster than Li Ang had imagined.

His body began to tremble uncontrollably, and his lungs, trachea, and bronchi, under the control of the central nervous system, instinctively secreted a large amount of thick snot.

This slippery snot rolled around in the trachea with the water, even floating up into the throat and mouth.

This feeling... was even more terrifying than waterboarding.

Li Ang roughly figured out the intensity and effect of Drowning Assassination, and persisted for a while, until he was about to lose his physical abilities, before stopping the effect.

“Cough cough cough.”

He coughed, spitting out the residual moisture in his throat and lungs, stood up, and calmed his breathing.

This amount of water, comparable to a small waterfall, would probably cause ordinary people to suffocate and faint in less than twenty seconds.

Unfortunately, this skill had a long cooldown time of 10 minutes and could not be sustained continuously. Otherwise, Li Ang could have transformed into a Spitting Water Hero,

Running to the desert to donate water and plant trees.

In the following days, Li Ang was constantly busy back and forth in the pet breeding box.

The first batch of bio-modified earthworms had grown to nearly the size of a human arm, and a few mutated individuals could even compare to pythons.

The pet breeding box, only a little bigger than a basketball court, was already somewhat unable to support them.

Fortunately, the "automatic adjustment ecosystem" effect allowed the internal ecological cycle to barely maintain itself. Li Ang also often rode his bike to the outskirts of Yin City to dig up some soil and plants to bring back to the breeding box.

The development of the bees was also good. The first batch of modified bee eggs had hatched.

Among these bee eggs, the number of drones accounted for only a small portion. Most were worker bees.

The stingers of ordinary bees are barbed, and the venom glands are connected to the internal organs. Once they sting a person, the stinger will detach along with the venom glands and internal organs, causing the bee to die.

The stingers of these worker bees had been specially strengthened, and were straight. After stinging a person, they could withdraw the straight stinger without dying on the spot.

In addition, the size of the bees had also been modified and differentiated into different types. Some retained the characteristics of having hairy bodies and pollen baskets,

While others lost the characteristics of having hairy bodies and pollen baskets, and even their chewing-lapping mouthparts had been degraded into siphoning mouthparts—these bees no longer took on the responsibility of collecting pollen, but simply served as soldier bees guarding the hive.

In addition, the muscle types of the bees had also been differentiated into different types. Some retained their original state,

While the wings and muscles of some had been strengthened. The wings became lighter, thinner, and more slender,

And the flight muscles on the back that controlled the wings had also been adjusted to become higher-intensity asynchronous muscles (a type of flight muscle that contracts more frequently than synchronous muscles),

Increasing the wing vibration from more than two hundred times per second to more than one thousand times per second.

The flight speed was greatly increased, and the speed could approach 50km/h during short-distance sprints.

Of course, this type of specially processed worker bee consumed a lot of energy and had a shorter lifespan than the original ones.

Moreover, because these were the first batch of modified species, some mutated worker bees did not know what they should do. Even though they did not have pollen baskets or chewing-lapping mouthparts, they still flew out to collect honey, watching other normal worker bees work hard, while they flew around randomly and slacked off.

Edge observer, huh? Cunning, very cunning.

Currently, Li Ang had not yet found a way to precisely control the bee colony, so he could only continuously collect pheromone samples to prepare for controlling the insect swarm in the future.

The great undertaking of creating species was a long and arduous task. As the time limit for the script mission slowly approached, Li Ang also began to sort out his equipment, preparing to enter the script world.

Since team cooperation script missions might expose player IDs, Li Ang used the Biomass Template and various pigments to slightly modify the appearance of the Truncated Bone Spike Spear and Venomous Might,

Covering the surface of the bone spear with a thick layer of flesh and blood,

Spraying a layer of paint on the surface of Venomous Might to cover up the mottled green light on the blade, making it look more like an antique Miao sword manufactured by modern industry.

One evening, Li Ang, sitting at the dining table eating fried rice noodles, finally heard the long-awaited system prompt.

Task trigger conditions met

Task type: Script Mission (Team)

Task Name: Mechanical Mansion

Phase One Task Objective: Enter the Williams Mansion

Task Time Limit: 1 hour

Task Reward: None

Task Failure Penalty: None

5 minutes left before teleportation, teleport now?

Li Ang, who was already prepared, immediately dropped his chopsticks, wiped the corner of his mouth, entered the automated pet breeding box, took out the Biomass Template to modify his appearance and body size, summoned Miss Chai, and stood in the living room quietly waiting for teleportation.

"This is another team cooperation script mission. The task objective is the Williams Mansion, which sounds like a Western world background. I don't know the specific era and region yet."

Li Ang thought silently, "The one-hour task time limit means that when I teleport over, I won't be near the mansion,

But will need to travel a considerable distance to reach it, and will encounter dangers along the way that are enough to threaten my life or cause trouble.

In other words, I need to be prepared for battle as soon as I get in.

The empty task reward may mean that surviving to reach the mansion is a reward in itself.

And the equally empty failure penalty means that if I can't reach this so-called Williams Mechanical Mansion within an hour, the outcome will be about the same as dying....

Even worse than death.

Unfortunately, the system deliberately set up Phase One and Phase Two task objectives, without revealing any more useful information."

From the brief information revealed in the task summary, Li Ang could already imagine the difficulty of this script mission...
Chapter 1 The Beginning