Super Gene Hunting Ground

After two weeks of strenuous cultivation, everyone’s spiritual power had slightly improved, and they could control the chess pieces with their consciousness.

Yang Xia despised the slow speed of everyone’s chess-playing. Even when she played against Xia Luo, it took about a minute for Xia Luo to move a chess piece, which was exasperating. Fed up, Yang Xiao simply went downstairs to play chess with Gu Bo.

After a game with Yang Xiao, Gu Bo smiled and said:

”Your spiritual power has increased quite a bit, it should have reached more than 10 points now.”

”Heh heh, I owe it all to your teaching, I have yet to thank you.”

”Ah, it’s your own fortune, it has nothing to do with me. How are your recent trainings going?”

”Still going smoothly, I suppose.”

”There’s something I’ve been puzzled about and want to ask you,” Gu Bo looked at Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao smiled and said, ”There’s no need to be polite between us. Just ask anything you want, I’ll share everything I know.”

”As the King of both Nanmu City and Shanyun City, you have absolute authority. If you combined the resources of the two cities, you could break through to the Advanced Enhanced Gene. Why don’t you seek to elevate your own genetic evolution but instead distribute resources among your subordinates? This significantly slows down your own evolution.”

Yang Xiao was taken aback and said:

”Do you know how many people were in Nanmu City before the apocalypse?”

”About two million, right?”

”That’s right, but now there are only about 20,000 people left. On my trip to Magic City, I learned that it’s the same everywhere, the population is less than one percent of what it used to be. If I don’t lead everyone to evolve together, if they can’t survive in this apocalypse and all die, even if I evolve to the King Level, what’s the point of being a loner, guarding two empty cities with no one to talk to?”

Gu Bo listened, looked at Yang Xiao, and nodded.

Yang Xiao persisted every day in leading everyone in cultivating the Genetic Transformation Technique, drinking Genetic Transformation Potions, climbing stairs, doing push-ups, and cultivating spiritual power.

Among these fifty people, eight would form a team every day to go to the desert and hunt monsters. Yang Xiao instructed them to bring back the corpses of the monsters.

Everyone knew that Yang Xiao needed to consume the bodies of monsters to advance his genetic evolution, and the current three Giant Eagles and one Flame Horse also preferred to eat monster corpses.

Yang Xiao placed most of the monster corpses into the Black Bottle for refinement, and gave a small portion to the Giant Eagles and the Flame Horse as food.

A month flew by, and in accordance with the City Alliance agreement, Yang Xiao went to Wentian City to attend a gathering.

The Genetic Store of Nanmu City had opened a transmission channel with more than one hundred other cities. However, to be cautious, the transmission capacity between two cities was temporarily limited to no more than ten people. Representatives could be dispatched to exchange information, but large-scale personnel visits were not allowed.

In the blink of an eye, Yang Xiao and others like Xia Luo had persisted in training for three months. Yang Xiao had reached a very high level of Body Refinement while the progress of the others was also substantial.

One day, after having lunch, Yang Xiao was walking in the square with Huang Wen, Qin Yu, and others. He casually kicked a pile of snow near the square and unexpectedly found it to be soft and loose, easily kicked apart.

Yang Xiao found it odd since these snow piles used to be very hard and frozen solid. Why had they become so loose today?

Thinking he might have kicked too hard before, Yang Xiao gently stepped on it again and immediately created a deep footprint.

What’s going on?

Taken aback, Yang Xiao crouched down, grabbed a handful of snow, and indeed, it felt soft and seemed a bit wet and moist to the touch.

This surprised Yang Xiao considerably.

Thus, he ran to another spot and grabbed the snow from the ground again. It was indeed much softer.

”Yang Xiao, what are you doing?”

Qin Yu asked.

”Try this. Why has the snow become soft?”

For the last month, everyone had been inside the high-rise building cultivating and rarely came outside, so they had little understanding of the outside conditions.

So, Qin Yu, Huang Wen, Deng Xiao, and others all grabbed the snow from the ground, and upon trying, found it to be true.

The previous snow piles had been very hard and frozen, and one couldn’t make a footprint by stepping on them, but now a gentle step would create a fairly deep footprint.

Yang Xiao looked up at the sky; at this moment, it was noon, and the sun hung in the sky, emitting dazzling rays.

Yang Xiao felt that the sun seemed even more blinding than before.

”Huang Wen, hurry up and call Xia Luo and the others to the training hall; everyone participating in the training, come over.”

Huang Wen and the others didn’t know what had happened and looked at Yang Xiao.

”What’s going on?”

”Don’t ask now, you’ll know in a moment.”

”Okay.”

Yang Xiao then entered the Genetic Store and found Gu Bo to ask:

”Elder Gu, has the recent weather been somewhat abnormal?”

”What do you mean?”

”Has the temperature risen?”

Gu Bo smiled faintly and said:

”Perhaps, but I don’t feel much.”

”Still, I have the feeling that the snow outside seems to be melting.”

”Hehe, after all, winter is bound to pass, and spring is always set to arrive, isn’t it?”

Yang Xiao nodded, returned to the training hall in the building, and at this moment, Xia Luo and the others had already gathered.

This past month of training, everyone had mostly lived within the building, seldom going out.

”Boss, what’s the matter?”

asked Xia Luo.

Yang Xiao nodded and said:

”Now, all of you go back to your respective workstations and verify something for me. That is to check whether the accumulated snow at your locations has become softer.”

Everyone was shocked, looking at Yang Xiao.

Long Yongjun asked, ”Boss, what do you mean? Is the snow going to melt?”

Yang Xiao nodded, ”Right now, it’s only my guess. The accumulated snow in the plaza outside is already starting to soften, and the snow on the nearby streets is the same. I want to confirm if the other places in Nanmu City, as well as Shanyun City, Star Moon Lake, and so on, are experiencing the same thing. If it’s the case,”

Yang Xiao paused for a moment and said leisurely, ”winter might be passing, and spring is about to come.”

Everyone’s heart trembled, a surge of inexplicable excitement burst forth.

Spring is coming?

Spring?

Everyone had endured nearly a year of winter and had grown accustomed to this winter, losing any expectation of when spring might arrive.

Now Yang Xiao was telling them that winter might be going away, and spring was coming, how could they not be excited?

In many people’s minds, the image of spring with thriving grass, warbling orioles, dancing swallows, and blooming peach blossoms immediately appeared.

”Alright, no more dreaming, go back immediately, and carefully check the situation in various places to see if there are signs of melting snow, and also look at the ice on Star Moon Lake to see if it’s melting on the surface. This is very important. I’ll give you two days to investigate thoroughly. Gather back here in two days.”

Then, Xia Luo and the others immediately ran downstairs, everyone stepped on the nearby snow and instantly screamed in surprise; they all eagerly entered the Transmission Array and returned to their respective places.

(Fourth release complete, thanks to the donation of 500 Qidian Coins from Magic Sovereign, thank you for your support!)