His entire body felt like it was being torn apart, especially the tattoos on his right wrist, it felt like it was being burned.
Fortunately, he quickly lost consciousness.
Otherwise, the pain would have driven him insane.
He didn't know how much time had passed before the soreness returned to his body.
"Ugh-"
He struggled to open his misty eyes, and the first thing he saw was a pretty face full of tears.
"You finally woke up." Ayesha threw herself in front of the bed, her lips trembling, and tears began to well up in her eyes.
"How long did I sleep?" Jiang Chen asked weakly.
"One day and one night." Her face was filled with concern.
Looking at Ayesha's deep eye bags, Jiang Chen felt apologetic.
[That's right! Where is the mutated human?!]
As if a bucket of cold water was poured on his head, Jiang Chen looked around in shock, but he didn't see the mutated human's body.
"Ayesha, did you see-"
"That body? I hid it in the basement. "Ayesha bit her lip and said with her head down.
She broke the promise with Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen once told her not to enter this room no matter what, but the violent noise last night woke her up from her sleep.
Anxiously approaching the door, she heard Jiang Chen's desperate scream.
Without thinking, she rushed into the kitchen, held the knife in her hand, and slammed open the bedroom door.
Then, she saw Jiang Chen lying unconscious on the bed with a monster that was beyond recognition.
She had never seen such a hideous monster. Its body was covered with red flesh and blood, and its head and heart were covered with black metal …
[Is this still human?]
Suppressing the fear in her heart, she walked to the monster and put her hand on its heart.
There was no heartbeat.
She looked at the unconscious Jiang Chen, and then at the monster on the ground. She guessed that the two had some kind of conflict. Although she couldn't understand the abnormality in front of her, she would always be on her husband's side.
Ayesha put down the knife in her hand, took a deep breath, and suppressed the nausea in her heart. She dragged the body and moved it to the basement of the mansion.
Then, she took some disinfectant from the bathroom and cleaned up the bloodstains along the way. She was as careful as cleaning a crime scene.
After everything was taken care of, she brought a basin of water, took off his clothes, and wiped his body.
She did not understand why he had become like this after not seeing him for only an afternoon.
But the heart that was still beating made her feel somewhat at ease.
After doing all this, she moved a chair from the living room and sat by his bed, quietly waiting for him to wake up.
…
"Did you see everything?" Jiang Chen forced a smile.
However, looking at that concerned face, he could not bring himself to scold her for coming in.
Ayesha nodded and then looked down.
"I would give my life for you, if you wish —"
He raised his hand and covered her mouth. Then, under her shocked gaze, Jiang Chen smiled weakly.
"I'm not a member of some evil cult. You don't have to sacrifice your life or anything … Just keep my secret."
So be it, Ayesha's words would not be leaked.
Ayesha silently reached out her hands and held the big hand on her face. She nodded meekly.
"Mhmm."
He turned his head and looked at the hazy sky outside the window. It seemed like the sun was about to rise.
"You should sleep for a while. I want to be alone for a while."
Ayesha nodded and looked at Jiang Chen worriedly. Then, she left the room and closed the broken door.
Leaning against the soft bed, Jiang Chen raised his right hand.
Did the energy of the interdimensional bracelet run out?
Jiang Chen glanced at the lamp on the bedside table, pulled out the plug, and inserted his finger into the socket.
The light bulb on the ceiling flickered. Due to the power limitation, he only drew 2 watts in half an hour, which almost replenished the energy of the interdimensional bracelet by 2%.
Next was the storage dimension.
He took a deep breath, focused his consciousness on his right hand, and tried to open the storage dimension.
But a tingling sensation came from his wrist.
"The energy didn't run out, so I can't use it for the time being?" Jiang Chen looked at his right hand thoughtfully.
He had been thinking about this problem before. If he grabbed a person and forcefully dragged them, would it result in an instant kill? But he never had the opportunity to test this insane ability. After all, in the era of firearms, it was faster to just shoot a bullet than to kill someone.
Moreover, there was another layer of apprehension in this. His own energy consumption was about 40%. If he brought a living person, how much energy would it consume?
The energy consumption of living and dead things should be different.
He vaguely remembered that the last time he brought the hamster, it didn't consume too much energy. But this time, he brought the lead mutated human, but the energy of the interdimensional bracelet was depleted. No, the actual energy consumption was definitely more than 60%. It exceeded this limit, which caused him to faint.
He couldn't use it against the weak, and the cost of using it against the strong was too high. It was useless in combat.
He squeezed his fingers that were no longer sore as he stared at the bracelet that "grew" on his skin.
He desperately wanted to go back. Sun Jiao must be worried about him.
But the bracelet should be in an "overheated" state. If it could be charged, it meant it wasn't "damaged."
Maybe it would return to normal after a while?
Jiang Chen shook his head and took the EP from the bedside table. When Ayesha wiped his body, she took the EP from his hand.
…
User name: Jiang Chen
Body status:
Muscle strength: 30
Bone strength: 29
Reflex: 32
Brain cell activity: 14
…
Radiation value: 0 (safe)
Abnormal status: None
…
Muscle strength increased by 5, bone strength increased by 2, reflex increased by 3. Did his genetic potential further develop? If he was on Earth, his physical fitness would be able to crush superheroes like Spiderman and Batman.
If there was one.
Jiang Chen remembered Sun Jiao told him that after being injected with the genetic vaccine, the genetic potential would be released to a certain extent. But to evolve to a higher level, it could only be achieved through battles with a slim chance of survival.
Speaking of which, that battle was indeed a slim chance of survival.
Recalling the battle, a bitter smile appeared on Jiang Chen's face.
Blowing up a power armor cost more than ten thousand crystals. But what hurt him the most was not the crystals, but the fact that the power armor was hard to buy even if you had the money. In order to help him, Zhao Chenwu had secretly given him almost all of his stock.
Right! Speaking of which, at that time …
Jiang Chen suddenly remembered something. When Sun Jiao was sent flying by the power hammer, he saw Sun Jiao's icon in the team display [Cardiopulmonary Arrest]. He seemed to have entered a berserk state.
He opened the EP's special ability.
It was not berserk, but a new skill!
Looking at the skill description, Jiang Chen gulped.
The three question marks meant that the skill had not been named yet? So no one had activated this genetic code?
After thinking for a moment, he pressed the three question marks, and a dialog box suddenly popped up on the screen.
He paused for a moment.
"Does this mean I can name it myself?"
After thinking for a long time, he really did not have the talent to name things.
Suddenly, Jiang Chen seemed to have thought of something as he slapped his head and typed two words.
Hehe, as the saying goes, unparalleled is cheating. This skill does have a hint of cheating in it.
After typing in the name of the skill, Jiang Chen looked at the skill description again.
Based on previous combat behavior, which meant that the user had used a gun before, the shooting would be OP. After training in all the functions of the power armor, the user would be able to control the power armor without any stagnation.
Jiang Chen recalled the situation of the battle at the time. His combo was executed without any hesitation. That level of proficiency was not something he could do when he had to stare at the meter every time he accelerated.
The last activation of the fuel rod's self-destruct sequence was a trick he had used before.
But why didn't he think of using the interdimensional bracelet to kill the opponent when he entered the unparalleled state?
After thinking for a long time, a look of realization finally appeared on his face.
"Is it because I have never used the interdimensional ability as a combat behavior?" He only experimented with a hamster, but he never considered this behavior as a combat behavior. He never had the opportunity to use this useless "close combat ability."
"In other words, the effect of the skill is to maximize the" combat experience. "Jiang Chen stared at his hand for a long time before a bitter smile appeared on his face.
Using the interdimensional ability to kill people should not be a problem, but it would be a bit difficult to deal with a powerful monster. Traveling through a mutated human made him unconscious for an entire day, and he couldn't even use the bracelet now. If he traveled through a Roshan or a Death Claw, there was evidence that the crystal content and life force were directly proportional.
Jiang Chen shook his head as he put the EP aside and closed his eyes to rest.
Sun Jiao was still alive.
Her [Resurrection] ability must have evolved from [Tenacity] as well. Therefore, the hidden genetic code could be further unlocked?
Speaking of which, as long as he used this type of skill, he would have to endure the side effects. Fury eliminated rationality, and Unparalleled eliminated emotion. What would be the side effect of the next hidden code?
For some reason, he felt a sense of uneasiness.
The gene medicine broke the shackles imposed on one's DNA, allowing one to release the originally sealed ability. However, was this necessarily correct? If breaking the [Shackles] was a good thing, then why did humans bring the [Shackles] with them during their evolution?
Perhaps only time would tell.
Also, it was a pain in the ass to worry about the power.
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