Chapter 1 Exhausting

After spending three merit points, Fang Senyan successfully upgraded his cold to LV4. Each merit point investment only increased the probability of sneezing, chills, and headaches from 5% to 11%. Each level only increased the infection rate by 2%.

Fortunately, even an S-level ninth-order ability couldn't escape the norm. After reaching the critical level of LV4, a total of four options appeared for the next draw:

a: Reduce the time interval for triggering the cold virus from 10 seconds to 7 seconds.

b: Expand the infectious radius of the cold virus to twenty meters.

c: Shorten the onset period of the cold virus by 3 minutes.

d: Increase the probability of sneezing, chills, and headaches by an additional 3%.

Fang Senyan drew option C, which meant that the enemy would have to wait 7 minutes for the onset of the disease. Fang Senyan was quite satisfied with this. When the cold was upgraded to LV4, its skill name also became "Pandemic Flu." The Nightmare Mark also prompted: "You have met the qualifications to open the next layer of the talent tree. You can choose to continue to upgrade the branch ability: Pandemic Flu LV4, or you can choose to open a new ability in the next layer."

Fang Senyan still remembered his experience in the Dubaiya Great Swamp. Although the Dubaiya people didn't have high attack power, the various viruses they carried made him and Reef feel quite disgusted. The current top priority was to increase the types of diseases, so he decisively chose to open the next disease: "Inputting environmental data, information sampling begins..."

"Information sampling complete, data analysis becomes...." "Prompt: The host can choose three of the following diseases for sampling and infection, and then master the advanced infection disease of Pandemic Flu."

"a: Bronchitis." "b: Pharyngitis."

"c: Rhinitis."

"Prompt: The disease you choose to master will affect the subsequent talent tree generation." "The characteristics, infectivity, and treatment difficulty of the disease you choose will also be reflected in the disease ability effect after the A virus is copied and improved. Please choose carefully!"

"There is no time limit for this selection. Please consider carefully before making a choice." At this time, Fang Senyan had consulted some information before and had some understanding of related diseases, so he could roughly infer the subsequent direction of these three major branches: the ultimate evolution ability of A is mostly pneumonia.

The advancement of B is mostly tonsillitis, and finally myocarditis. C is mostly advanced otitis media, and finally evolved into Coxsackie virus-induced encephalitis.

Taking advantage of the fact that Brother Black was still here, and the A virus's activated devouring, copying, and improvement mechanism still had nearly twenty-four hours remaining, Fang Senyan immediately called a taxi with his group and rushed to another hospital, intending to strike while the iron was hot and advance the infection of Pandemic Flu. Although Fang Senyan didn't know if this would be useful, it was always good to try.

During the taxi ride to the hospital, Fang Senyan decided on his next choice without much consideration: bronchitis.

This time, he neither checked information nor consulted anyone. He chose bronchitis because when he was on the sea ship, Fang Senyan lived with an old sailor named Harrington. The poor old Harrington's disease was chronic bronchitis... His heart-wrenching cough lasted for two whole years for Fang Senyan... and he died directly in the third year.

Fang Senyan went from being disturbed by the cough at night and unable to sleep, to developing a morbid reaction where he couldn't fall asleep without hearing the cough. All of this was thanks to bronchitis. Therefore, it can be understood that bronchitis once occupied a very important position in Fang Senyan's life. The impact it brought him over two full years was huge, so even though Fang Senyan has become a powerful Contractor today, he still locked his choice on bronchitis without hesitation.

Unfortunately, this time Fang Senyan failed. His healthy body successfully resisted the invasion of various germs. He remained alive and kicking until the precious twenty-four hours of the A virus activation passed. Therefore, he could only wait blankly for seven days in the real world, allowing the A virus to reabsorb his life energy, and then continue to accept the test of the virus.

Of course, under this circumstance, Brother Black couldn't leave either, but fortunately, nothing major was happening on his end... Even if something major did happen, Fang Senyan and he would definitely be able to handle it. In short, the weather in Taiwan was similar to their side, so there was no problem with acclimatization. Just treat it as a vacation.

During these seven days, Fang Senyan wasn't idle. On the one hand, he started to spar with Brother Black to hone his combat skills, and on the other hand, he was busy with his new potion-making ability. In the end, he actually came up with two strange new recipes.

The first recipe was: Stink Bug Strength Potion. Breaking it requires deducting 30 points of the thrower's health. The stun effect of the shockwave formed after breaking is increased by 1.4 seconds (the rest of the potions are 1 second), and the slowing effect of the subsequent cloud on enemies is 5% (the rest of the potions are 20%), the range is increased by 33%, the duration is lengthened by 50%, and enemies will experience 15% skill failure in the poisonous fog due to nausea.

This was inspired by Fang Senyan's research on the kind of insect that lives on trees. This insect is common on parasol trees. Once attacked, it will spray a foul-smelling gas from its abdomen, which is very unpleasant! The local slang calls these insects "fart bugs." This was developed by Fang Senyan because he realized that he didn't have any potions specifically for throwing, and finally, it had an effect.

In addition, Fang Senyan overturned the semi-finished Mantis Potion he had made before, and instead incorporated a creature from outside the nose into his experimental subject. This thing is the very famous bullfrog.

The Bullfrog Potion is also the same as the Mantis Potion. It cannot be mixed with other potions, but its effect after taking it is somewhat strange. It immediately reduces the user's stamina by 33%, but increases the forward jumping ability by 2 meters and the upward jumping ability by 1 meter, lasting for 300 seconds. However, this potion cannot be taken continuously and has an hour cooldown.

Don't underestimate the increase in jumping ability of this potion. This increase looks small, but it is actually very terrifying! If Fang Senyan could originally jump over a one-meter-high obstacle, now it has been strengthened to two meters high! When running in complex terrain, whether chasing or escaping, it will have a significant advantage.

It's just that the cost of using this potion is also high, 33% of the current health! For Fang Senyan, if he uses it in his full state, then it undoubtedly means deducting more than 300 health points! For his enemies, as long as the strength of the two sides is not too different, then perhaps only a powerful sniper can hit this effect with one blow. Therefore, the timing of using this potion must be well grasped. If you use a bottle of this potion while chasing the enemy, it may not be a good idea to be counter-killed by the enemy.

Then Reef sent another message, saying that the progress of the soul equipment: the Caribbean Golden Pearl was going very smoothly, and it was expected to lock down Diaz's descendants in another two or three days. Although Diaz wrote his name in history, unfortunately, both World War I and World War II were terrible meat grinders! And Diaz's descendants were very unfortunate to be involved in it, so it was delayed until now. If it wasn't for the fact that Reef's family was really old and powerful, there would really be no way to achieve such high efficiency!

After a discussion between the three, Reef also confirmed that Diaz's descendants also lived in England, so he decided to simply fly over and get the soul equipment done. Because the task given by the soul equipment was accepted by Fang Senyan, Fang Senyan could also solve his pneumonia problem there.

At this time, Fang Senyan probably calculated a series of situations. For now, because of the help of the talent ability: Bulwark, he should now be able to withstand at least the third level of the disease on the talent tree without any life-threatening danger! Of course, the premise of this assumption is: Fang Senyan already has enough merit points. In fact, according to Fang Senyan's speculation, with the few merit points he has left, unless he wants to lower his rank, he can at most learn pneumonia.

Three days later, accompanied by Reef, Fang Senyan took out the dazzling Caribbean Golden Pearl from the box and handed it to a trembling old grandmother, who was already eighty-nine years old. She stroked the box containing the pearl with trembling fingers, tears streaming down her face.

At this time, Fang Senyan and the others realized that all the words that Diaz wanted to say to his descendants were actually engraved on the box containing the pearl! After the old grandmother expressed her gratitude to Fang Senyan and the others, she left the antique box and gave the Caribbean Golden Pearl to them.

At this time, Fang Senyan finally obtained this soul equipment that could greatly enhance his perception, and this thing was not soul-bound, so Fang Senyan placed it in the team warehouse. Although it would make the charm value be reduced by 10 points by default when communicating with all male and male creatures, the 15 points of charm value that were added by default when communicating with all female and female creatures was quite amazing.

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Damn it, will I go around telling people that Point Niang's tantrum caused me to be unable to log in for 20 minutes even after refreshing? Will I tell the readers?!