071. Into Space

  The visitor from Tianhuan had arrived just in time to save Li Aozi from N4, allowing him to slip away with the invitation. Using the opportunity, he told N4 that he had urgent matters to attend to and dismissed her.

  After exging pleasantries with the Tianhuan samurai and accepting the invitation to the Kowloon Gathering, Li Aozi immediately flew out le Town. In the dunes of the outer nds, he stripped pletely naked, stood amidst the cold winds and sandstorms, and pced his hand on his chest.

  【Natural Ignition】

  Boom——!

  A blinding fme instantly ed Li Aozi, and he quickly entered a 'near-death state,' his entire body charred and gradually turning to ash.

  Li Aozi watched indifferently as his cyberic body’s life force ebbed away, while a series of messages sloeared in his status bar:

  【MZ-009 Virus—Cleared】

  【Wolf’s Kiss Bacteria—Cleared】

  【Abyss Type Seven Monit Cells—Cleared】

  【Zer-Moduted Parasite—Cleared】

  Uhe thousands of degrees of heat, he purified a total of 29 biochemical parasites. Even with Li Aozi’s extensive experiend knowledge, he couldn’t help but shudder.

  firming that there were no more traces of biochemical parasites left, he activated 【Blood of Immortality】, instantly rest his health to full. To ensure safety, he even burned his sger outfit a few more times before finally feeling at ease.

  "Keeping my distance from N4 was the right call, but I still need something from her."

  Li Aozi dressed himself again, his mind now troubled by the dilemma.

  N4 was a mae devoid of any moral pass—human cepts ht and wrong didn’t apply to her. She didn’t even see herself as human, far surpassing the Professor in this regard.

  At least the Professor could be uood through human standards, but N4 was far more plicated.

  She didn’t need a name, only a coded designation to refer to herself. She truly saw herself as a mae.

  Used correctly, she could be the entire world. Used poorly, she could bring camity upon humanity.

  She was like nuclear energy—one of the est energy sources. Without it, most people would live in polluted air, with diseases and fumes wreaking havo their bodies and minds.

  But at the same time, nuclear ons had devastatiructive power and could even spark a world war.

  Truth be told, N4’s potential was terrifying. pared to Duke Gamos, a crippled Gamma-tier superhuman, N4 had demonstrated in version 2.5 of his previous life that she possessed the potential to step into space.

  Moreover, as a former 【Biotei】 css mentor, N4 had helped tless pyers and had been the pivotal figure in saving Azure Star from the Great Famine during version 1.8.

  After much deliberation, Li Aozi settled on the most straightforward approach:

  "I’ll use 【Charisma】 and transdent knowledge to pletely win her over and make her my tool."

  Having reached this clusion, Li Aozi no longer hesitated.

  N4 had to be won over. If he couldn’t make her his tool, he would o eliminate her pletely before Lord of Entropy’s awakening.

  Li Aozi couldn’t join Abyss Heavy Industries just yet, or his carefully crafted image would crumble.

  Therefore, he po follow through on his earlier idea—head to Tianhuan and acquire those two "masterwork" ons.

  Then, without further dey, he would take the pyers he had handpicked and head straight into space.

  With Alexia on his side, the affairs of Granat and Triaown could be left in her capable hands for now.

  He had also pnted seeds with Duke Dumesby. The pyers harbored intense reseoward the Mai Dewei fa. Frost-Pted had suffered losses on the Granat battlefield, and the bination of diplomatic sdals, the Abyss Humanitarian anization’s disgrace, and the inftion crisis would undoubtedly topple Mai Dewei’s authority.

  inally, Li Aozi had po personally raise David Lin’s favorability, but now it seemed more effit to directly reveal the location of the Elf Isnd to Dumesby. The pyers might even assist in a jailbreak.

  With most things now in order, Li Aozi mused that heading into space wasn’t a bad idea.

  With those two "masterwork" ons and his near-Gamma-tier power, he would have no trouble thriving in the first yer of Star Abyss, 【Layer Abyss】.

  Wheuro deal with current issues—whether it was N4, the Replica Society, or Lord of Entropy—handling them would be much easier.

  "It’s settled then."

  Having made his decision, Li Aozi immediately flew back to his b.

  Soon, he would be heading to Tianhuan, so it was necessary t some surprises to the pyers and the Kingdom of Tianhuan.

  After taking iory of the 【DM-101 Mutation Inducer】 in the biopool, he found that during his ten-day absence, a total of 2,907 doses had been produced. The output was suffit, and Li Aozi wasn’t in a rush to increase produ, as improvements would be er.

  He ied himself with a dose, the halogen-colored serum swiftly entering his deltoid muscle. Li Aozi’s body had already begun to adapt to it, and his genes, which had been in fragments, quickly rebined.

  "It turns out the more I use this, the faster it works—though it makes sense, as this is an ihat requires more of the same pos to create resonance."

  A wicked idea occurred to Li Aozi: why not hold off on releasing the new geion of serum and sell off the current stock first?

  Pyers were well aware of the Osborne effenoung a new product too early without being able to deliver it would severely hurt sales of the old product.

  The so-called "waiting crowd never loses" was exactly the principle at py here.

  If he annouhat a new serum was in development, it would ruin sales of the DM-101. No one would buy it, and he wouldn’t be able to recover the costs of this batch.

  "Speaking of which, I sold a batch of Granat beer and grain during my st livestream. The dividends should be ing in soon. Maybe I should save up some money a a b at the Red Arrow Royal Medical Academy."

  Li Aozi’s current biopool was a simplified version. It was good enough for produg small creatures like little dogs or cats, but creating rger cyberic ons like bio-armor, biokongs, and chimera syic beasts—the signature ons of 【Bioteis】—would be quite challenging.

  In the enviro of Azure Star, he would have to rely either on Abyss Heavy Industries or on the Royal Medical Academy of the Red Arrow Empire. Only these two pces had the right boratory ditions for what Li Aozi needed.

  As for Tianhuaer to leave cutting-edge teology alone. Martial arts were more their forte.

  Carrying his biopool, Li Aozi flew tranat. Along the way, Frost-Pted’s air force detected his signal but dared not take to the sky to engage.

  Seeing this, Li Aozi got an idea and decided to have a bit more fun.

  He deliberately eheir radar dete range, flying leisurely and making sure the Frost-Pted air force spotted him.

  "ahat guy’s deliberately flying through our airspace…"

  The nervous Frost-Pted radar operator asked the air forander, Ein Mald, a man in his fifties who ched his pipe in frustration. All he could do was begrudgingly reply:

  "Launch the Whitebird-11 hypersoniti-air missiles. If they hit, great. If not—well, so be it."

  They watched helplessly as Li Aozi flew through the sky with his ten-ton biopool. They half-heartedly fired two missiles, just to justify the taxpayers’ money.

  FAL