164: Revenge Plan

You have obtained a level 1 implant: Subdermal Armor.

You have obtained a level 1 implant: Reflex Tuner.

You have obtained a level 1 implant: Mantis Blades.

You have obtained a talent: Robust Physique.

You have obtained supplies: 10 bags of level 1 drinking water (500ml), 10 bags of premium meat floss bread (500g).

A series of notifications left Ran Quan, who was encountering this for the first time, somewhat bewildered. Immediately after, the talent Robust Physique began to take effect. He could clearly feel his body becoming strong and powerful, and his previous "weakness" seemed to vanish instantly.

Ran Quan took a look and found that his physical fitness had reached 1.8, a threefold increase!

Robust Physique I: Possess a stronger physique (Upgrade requires 1000 source points).

Do you want to implant?

Ran Quan heard the system's prompt, and four options appeared: options to implant the three implants he had obtained, and an option to "Do not implant, keep."

Ran Quan looked at the descriptions of these implants and directly chose to implant them.

Ran Quan felt a brief numbness, and then he felt the difference in himself.

It was as if a special layer existed under his skin. Ran Quan looked closely, but there was no difference. Then, he also felt that there was something in his forearm...

And it could extend at his will...

Swish!

Ran Quan saw his arms open, and two blades popped out.

"So... so cool!" Ran Quan looked at the folding blades that popped out of his arms. The cold gleam shimmering on them and the sharp sensation they conveyed made Ran Quan not doubt that they could easily cut through steel.

Swish, swish, swish~

Ran Quan swung them several times, feeling very unaccustomed... After all, it was his first time encountering implant technology. Ran Quan was even worried he might cut himself...

However, as he swung them, Ran Quan found that his reflex nerves seemed to have been greatly enhanced.

"Is this the implant for the Reflex Tuner...?" Ran Quan pursed his lips. He could now be said to have been greatly "enhanced," but if he wanted revenge, this much ability was far from enough.

Ran Quan looked in the direction the previous transport vehicle had left, and his Mantis Blades retracted into his arms. He narrowed his eyes... He needed more money, and he needed more power!

And his first stop for revenge was to eliminate those human organ trafficking organizations... and then those dirty "upper echelons"!

Relying on himself alone wouldn't work... He needed to form an organization... He must gather people! Ran Quan made up his mind.

He was a calm person. When his only spiritual sustenance had left him, to put it in anime terms, he had completely turned dark.

Ran Quan turned and left, quickly disappearing.

To gather people, putting aside other things, money and supplies were of utmost importance.

To get these, Ran Quan would have to fight and snatch...

"The Wasteland... Let's go take a look!" Ran Quan decided to go to the Wasteland.

Of course, before going up, some preparations were needed...

Night.

At night underground, apart from the front zones, the back zones basically didn't have the kind of bright, well-lit illumination. This was all about energy consumption!

Only the large lights at the very top, like a "small sun"—no, rather, like a "small moon"—cast light that at most allowed you to barely see the path in front of you, with little other practical use.

Not to mention the various dark corners.

Night was an extremely dangerous time.

Day and night underground also had their timings, and compared to above ground, day and night underground were extremely fixed.

During the day, all the lights at the top were on and at high power, making it very bright... At night, there was only one light, and the illumination was suddenly insufficient.

Of course, if you had lighting at home... that was another matter.

In the back zones, very few people would turn on lights at night, as that would be... quite obvious.

However, even if they did, it was highly likely to be fine, as ordinary people wouldn't provoke those who dared to turn on lights; they were usually tough individuals.

Of course, if they encountered some desperate individuals or outlaws, that was a different story.

Pfft!

In a certain dark alley, a figure could faintly be seen piercing another figure with something.

Hiss~

Ran Quan pulled the Mantis Blades out of the other person's body.

Perhaps due to the material, the Mantis Blades did not stain with any blood. They still gleamed coldly, unsullied.

This saved Ran Quan the trouble of cleaning them. Otherwise, without cleaning tools, he didn't know if retracting them into his arm would cause infection... But it probably wouldn't, as theoretically, his hand was no longer a hand... at least, his forearm wasn't.

Ran Quan searched the unfortunate individual and found dozens of coins. Although it was only dozens, these were Saida coins, and their purchasing power was quite astonishing.

A kinetic gun only cost ten to twenty coins.

One coin could buy a hundred bullets.

However, living supplies were relatively expensive.

3rd level drinking water had an "official price" of 1 coin per bag (100ml), but... in the black market, it could sell for over 5 coins, and in situations of extreme scarcity, it could even exceed 10 coins.

Of course, this was for drinking water. If it was just for general domestic use... it was much, much cheaper.

These were all waters filtered and treated with various technologies, even for domestic use!

So, thinking of buying domestic water to boil and drink... you might as well wait to die.

Of course, if you drank it for two days and didn't die, and were discovered, you would likely end up in a research lab... hopefully, you'd live to see your contribution to humanity.

Hmm, there was also a bag of 3rd level drinking water, an extra gain.

This guy, carrying so much money... was he planning to visit a pleasure house at night?

Pleasure houses were legal businesses here, even considered one of the "necessities."

Tsk~ Ran Quan slipped into the alley.

Awakened, it's hunting time!

This was the fastest way for him to raise money.

"Get some more... I can buy a filter... and a radiation suit... then I can go to the Wasteland to search!" Ran Quan pondered.

The Wasteland was not a place one could just go to.

It was an extremely high-risk area. Even the well-equipped search teams from the upper echelons couldn't guarantee returning alive every time; they held the utmost reverence for the Wasteland.

In the Wasteland, besides various harsh extreme weather conditions, there were various mutated monsters... and also strong radiation...

And the filter Ran Quan wanted to buy was to provide oxygen, while the radiation suit was for radiation protection.

Moreover, even with these items, one could not stay in the Wasteland for too long.

Ran Quan heard that even the top-tier equipment could only last about 12 hours in the Wasteland... The outdated items he planned to buy... would probably be good for two hours at most.

These past few days, Ran Quan had secretly collected over six hundred coins, along with 13 bags of 3rd level drinking water and 4 bottles of low-grade nutrient solution.

"This money... should be enough, right...?" Ran Quan didn't know the exact prices, but they shouldn't be ridiculously expensive, as very few people went to the Wasteland.

If they couldn't be sold, they naturally wouldn't be too expensive.

"Let's go to the black market."

In the back zones, there was no such thing as an "official market"; it was basically all black markets. People here bought things in the black market.

Goods circulated in the black market. As for official channels... they were all limited, first-come, first-served... and the intricacies of it needed no further explanation. Suffice it to say, the harder life was for people, the harder it would become.