Chapter 1 The Technician

Lan Ning was coerced by two men in black suits wielding guns. He raised his hands and said in an extremely calm voice, "Gentlemen, your family affairs have nothing to do with me. I'm just an office worker. Can you let me leave?"

"Technician Lan," Bai Jingming glanced at Lan Ning and said with a smile, "Of course this matter won't involve you. The head office has given you a new appointment. From today onwards, you are my subordinate."

"What you're saying makes me feel like I'm a prostitute," Lan Ning had delicate features. Even now, he was still wearing those large sunglasses. He muttered something, and then, seeing the coldness in Bai Jingming's eyes, he quickly changed his tone, "But I resolutely obey the decisions of the head office. Whatever you say goes... Hehe!"

Bai Jingming had firmly grasped the situation.

Even the Evolver, Bai Jingyan, could not physically withstand twenty-odd assault rifles loaded with bullets. He was just a reversion-type Evolver, and he hadn't completed his evolution for very long. His body and bones had not yet reached the strength of steel.

Just like what Li Tianran saw using his Defect Perception, if Bai Jingyan's brain was hit and destroyed by a bullet, he would also die.

At this moment, there were five guns pointed at the space between Bai Jingyan’s eyebrows. As long as the trigger was pulled, Bai Jingyan's head would explode like the most dazzling fireworks.

"It's been a few years... Jingming, you haven't changed at all." Bai Jingyan's eyes calmed down. "Overbearing, shameless, and righteously plundering everything."

"This isn't called plundering, it's called profit recovery." Bai Jingming rubbed his forehead and said with a smile, "The head office and the Bai family gave you everything: research funding, technical support. Now, naturally, we should share your achievements."

"But don't worry. You've created so much profit for the head office, so even if you return to headquarters now, you'll receive huge rewards... I'm not stealing your credit, I'm just taking you back to enjoy a life of leisure."

Bai Jingming paused here, and then looked at Bai Jingyan word by word, "Good brother, your mission is complete. Leave the rest to your brother."

Everyone in the room watched this scene, feeling a chill in their hearts.

This pair of brothers clearly had the same blood flowing through their veins, but at this moment, they revealed endless hostility towards each other.

Everyone was convinced that if Bai Jingyan rejected Bai Jingming, Bai Jingming would not hesitate to have his subordinates shoot his own brother to death.

Big shots... big families, cold-bloodedness seemed to be the standard personality of these people!

"What are you planning to do with the Divine Gene?" Bai Jingyan asked softly.

Bai Jingming took the bottle of blood-red liquid from Professor Wang and gently shook it, a smile appearing on the corner of his mouth. "We are a company, so naturally we must focus on profits... My good brother, do you know how much profit a bottle of this medicine can create for us?"

"In this chaotic world, possessing it is equivalent to possessing the key to the path of supreme power."

"We will build a temple standing on the top of the world, we will become the masters who control Blue Star...!"

Bai Jingming's voice echoed in the spacious research room.

The scene he described in his words was indeed fascinating, almost the pinnacle moment that all power holders dreamed of!

Standing on the top of the entire Blue Star, controlling supreme economic power and strength!

With one word, all directions would submit!

The entire research room was silent.

"Profits... power..." Bai Jingyan suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with mocking divine light: "If the emergence of the Divine Gene is still to serve these two things, then it should not exist in this world."

"Its emergence is to change the civilization level, social composition, and racial structure of the entire human race, to bring the world into a new era of perfection, to change the inherent distinction between high and low classes! No hegemony and bullying, no high-ranking strong, and no humble weak like dust!"

"This is what a true god should do! For this goal, I will not hesitate to dedicate my life!"

"And you, Bai Jingming! Your way of thinking is not on the same level as mine..."

"You don't deserve to get it at all."

Bai Jingyan's eyes flashed with sharp, condescending light, even in desperate situations, he was still as hard as iron.

Bai Jingming laughed loudly when he heard this, as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world. He opened his mouth suddenly and said sternly, "Bai Jingyan, it seems that I really left you with a considerable psychological shadow in the past! What do you think you are? A savior or God? Your words remind me of some cartoons for kindergarten children, haven't you grown up yet?"

"From the day mankind was born, power and profit have been important parts of the composition of human civilization!"

"The distinction between the strong and the weak will never disappear!"

"Anyone who tries to violate this rule will be crushed into powder..."

Bai Jingming said word by word.

"How can a house sparrow hiding under the eaves, only thinking about picking up some grass seeds and wheat grains for food all day long, know the ambition of a swan goose soaring in the clouds?" Bai Jingyan showed a mocking smile and said word by word: "Bai Jingming, I have never expected that someone like you could understand me. The Divine Gene I created will never be driven by your hegemony."

Bai Jingming's eyes finally turned completely cold. He lost his patience, pointed at Bai Jingyan and said to the twenty-odd warriors under his command, "Let him wake up a bit."

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(I'm taking care of my baby today, so there's only one chapter. I'll continue with three chapters tomorrow)

Li Tianran was inspecting the turret's defense range on the farm when suddenly, the detection radar sent a signal.

"A heat source is rapidly approaching the farm!"

"The heat source is human, and the speed is 38m/s!"

"The target has suffered heavy damage, the body temperature is decreasing, and it will arrive at the farm range in 23 seconds!"

"The target has entered the attack range, do you want to attack?"

Li Tianran's heart trembled when he heard this.

A movement speed of thirty-eight meters per second definitely exceeded the range of normal people, even his current physical fitness was only so-so!

In other words, a Mutator was attacking the farm!

And it was a mutated human!

Soon, the image of that mutated human appeared in Li Tianran's mind!

"Grandpa's... This is, Bai Jingyan!" Li Tianran was startled by the image that appeared in his mind.

Eight hundred meters away from the farm, Bai Jingyan was covered in blood, with more than a dozen gun holes in his chest, his hair disheveled, and his face covered in blood, making it almost impossible to recognize his original appearance!

He was carrying a woman on his back, like a wolf escaping from a tiger's den, ferocious and crazy.

"Hold on a little longer, I know a place that will definitely save you... Hold on a little longer!" Bai Jingyan squeezed out these words from between his teeth, not daring to look back, but only feeling the faint heartbeat coming from his back.

And Nan Nan, who was on his back, had already fallen into a deep coma.

There were two hideous gun holes in her lower abdomen, and the blood flowing out had already frozen into ice. Her face was pale, and she looked no different from a corpse...

"Li Tianran, I need your help." Bai Jingyan roared, like a weeping lone wolf: "Save her!"