Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 215: Chapter 215: I Come from Magic City

(Thanks to book friend 1710**4184 for the reward of 15,000 Qidian Coins, becoming the first protector of this book, and thanks to book friend Xingyun Piaoxue for the reward of 3,500 Qidian Coins, becoming the Hall Master of this book. Today, I will add 2 more Chapters for the two of them, totaling 6 Chapters.)

According to Yang Xiao’s understanding, for someone like him on the path of Genetic Evolution, his progress has been quite smooth, thanks to the benefits of becoming the Nanmu City King, which allowed him to evolve into the Primordial Gene Advanced Stage for free.

But for people like Xia Luo, reaching the Primordial Gene Intermediate Stage is still manageable, but advancing to the High-Level Stage is not an easy task, and it’s impossible to dedicate all the resources of Nanmu City to satisfy one person’s evolution needs.

Now Yang Xiao is facing a tremendous challenge transitioning from Primordial Gene to Enhanced Gene Stage, which is why he’s so eager to search for resources in the desert, hoping to try his luck here.

Unexpectedly, the teenager before him, roughly the same age as himself, has already surpassed the Primordial Gene Stage and entered the Enhanced Gene Intermediate Stage.

With each attribute increasing by 10 points representing a level, this teenager’s Four Attributes must all be over 50 points, which is a full 20 points higher than Yang Xiao’s current 30 points.

No wonder he could chase after the Saber-Toothed Tiger like he was chasing a dog.

However, where did this teenager get so many evolution resources? It’s been only a little over half a year since humanity entered the apocalypse, and most of that time was in the harsh winter.

The teenager devoured a large piece of Saber-Toothed Tiger meat, then gripped the tiger’s skin and tore it downwards, revealing fresh meat underneath.

His Giant Eagle came running over, followed by the two Giant Eagles belonging to Huang Wen.

Without a word, the teenager wielded his sword and with a few swooshes... sliced the Saber-Toothed Tiger in half at the waist, exposing its innards.

After receiving permission, the three Giant Eagles started snatching away the innards, eating voraciously.

As Yang Xiao and the teenager ate tiger meat, Yang Xiao said:

”Brother, my name is Yang Xiao, from Nanmu City, how about you?”

”I’m Gong Yu, ’Yu’ as in universe, from Magic City.”

”Magic City?”

Yang Xiao was stunned. Magic City was over two thousand kilometers away from Nanmu City, a super city in Xuanming Country. Wondering about the current situation in Magic City, he asked.

”Has the overall Genetic Evolution Level in Magic City reached Level 15 already?”

”Hmm?”

The teenager hummed in response, suddenly stopped eating, glanced at Yang Xiao, and laughed:

”Level 15? Are you kidding? Magic City has already reached Level 25.”

A piece of meat got stuck in Yang Xiao’s throat when he heard this, nearly choking to death, coughing incessantly.

Although Huang Wen and others did not join in on eating the tiger meat raw, they were closely listening to the conversation between Yang Xiao and the teenager. Hearing the teenager mention that Magic City’s Genetic Evolution Level had already reached 25, they were all stunned, exclaiming in shock.

”Level 25? My goodness!”

”Did I hear that right? Level 25? Why do I feel like our Nanmu City is still in the countryside?”

Gong Yu glanced at Huang Wen and the others, chuckled and said:

”To Magic City, everywhere else is just countryside.”

After saying so, he continued eating the tiger meat, resembling a large meat grinder, tossing chunks of meat into his mouth and digesting them swiftly.

Compared to Gong Yu, Yang Xiao’s digestion speed was much slower, only about a third of his.

Yang Xiao swallowed a piece of meat, looked at Gong Yu,

”Brother, may I ask you a question?”

”Go ahead, I find you quite agreeable.”

Gong Yu casually laughed while eating meat.

In his heart, Yang Xiao really wanted to curse, what does ’find you quite agreeable’ mean?

”Cough, that is, is Magic City currently a frozen snowy land?”

”Yeah, everything’s frozen over.”

”Is your city badly damaged? How many people are left?”

”The damage is severe; I estimate there’s still a couple of million people or more.”

Yang Xiao and the others felt their hearts sink once again. Nanmu City only had 20,000 people, while Magic City had more than two million. The gap was just too vast. No wonder everything outside Magic City was considered the countryside. It was like that before the apocalypse, and it seems to remain the same even now.

Yang Xiao struggled to swallow a piece of meat,

”How come the rate of genetic evolution is so fast in Magic City? Are you using Genetic Fragments for evolution? Where do all these resources come from?”

”Hehe, bro, you’re way out of the loop, aren’t you? Don’t even know this? The longest river in Xuanming Country, Good Man River, flows through Magic City and into the ocean. At the onset of the apocalypse, the people of Magic City already had a vast supply of mutated freshwater and sea fish, plus a large stockpile of food saved from before the city’s demise.

Once the Ice Age began, the resources from the mutated sea fish found on the Ice Sea became even more ferocious. Sharks and whales, hundreds of meters in length, just imagine digging one out from the Ice Sea. Do you know what that’s like?”

Instantly, Yang Xiao and the others conjured an image in their minds: a shark hundreds of meters long—that’s like a mountain!

Gong Yu continued:

”That’s just one aspect. There’s another very important factor, which is that most of the survivors in Magic City had parents with master’s or even doctorate degrees from the pre-apocalypse era. These people’s genes were innately excellent and particularly suited for the current genetic evolution.

Not only do we use Genetic Fragments to enhance our evolution level, but many are able to directly upgrade their genetic evolution level by consuming the flesh and blood of Mutated Creatures. Many of them now live directly on the icebergs in the sea, ceaselessly eating the flesh of various mutated fish to boost their genetic evolution...”

Upon hearing this, Yang Xiao and the others felt their heads turn to mush. Damn, there was actually a theory of innate genetic evolution?

The children of masters and doctorates can speed up genetic evolution? Why haven’t I felt that?

”Both your parents are doctorates, right?”

Huang Wen casually asked, looking at Gong Yu.

Without even lifting his head, Gong Yu replied airily:

”My parents, my grandparents, even my maternal grandparents, all hold doctorates.”

1000000.... critical hit!

Yang Xiao and the others felt their hearts couldn’t take it; they gaped at Gong Yu in shock.

Gong Yu smiled nonchalantly:

”Is that really so strange?”

He then buried his head and continued eating saber-toothed tiger meat, gripping the hide to tear off another large chunk with the sword, and shoved it into his mouth.

”Are your parents still alive?”

Yang Xiao suddenly blurted out.

The teen paused briefly before replying indifferently:

”Do you still have any elderly people in Nanmu City?”

”No.”

The teen said nothing more, just continued eating the tiger meat as if he had been starving for a very, very long time.

After about two hours, Xia Luo and Yang Xiao finished eating half of the saber-toothed tiger, and then turned to the other half of the carcass.

”Brother Gong Yu, do you often come to the desert to hunt monsters?”

”I just got here this past month. Some of my companions came out here two months earlier, but they all travel in groups and live in the desert. They’d only return to Magic City every ten days or half a month. I heard from them that there are many Genetic Store outposts in the desert where you can trade directly without having to take the goods out, which is quite convenient.”

”Ah, I don’t think I’ve seen any Genetic Store in the desert yet.”

”There’s one about 20 kilometers from here, I’ve seen it. At night, we usually rest there; it has an orange glow for protection, safe from monster attacks.”