55: A complete transformation! The Dragon Team is born!

Time passed second by second in the tense wait.

48 hours, two days and two nights.

For everyone in the National Destiny Operations Center, these two days were incredibly torturous.

The countdown for the second dungeon was like the Sword of Damocles hanging overhead, constantly shortening.

In the laboratory, the vital sign data in those twenty hibernation pods was like a roller coaster, tugging at everyone's hearts at all times.

Su Yuan stayed in the observation room almost without leaving.

His Administrator panel remained locked on the status bars of the twenty players.

There, the data was more detailed and intuitive than what the laboratory's monitoring equipment provided.

[Wang Yi: Gene recombination in progress... Progress 7%... Strength +1, Agility +1... Warning! Detected cracks in the mental barrier!]

[Li Bingyao: Gene recombination in progress... Progress 12%... Spirit +2, Constitution +1... Warning! Cellular energy dissipation, vital signs decreasing!]

[Chen Hu: Gene recombination in progress... Progress 5%... Strength +3... Warning! Signs of gene chain collapse detected!]

Red alerts popped up on the system panel from time to time, causing Su Yuan's heart to tighten as well.

He knew that this was the terrifying aspect of the t-virus serum.

Even with the aid of the stabilization fluid, the transformation process was still full of danger.

The pain and mental shock originating from the genetic level had to be endured entirely through their own willpower.

"Comrade Su Yuan, No. 4 Chen Hu's situation is critical! His gene collapse rate is continuing to rise!"

The voice of the Scientific Research Commander came through the communicator, filled with anxiety.

"Is there any way?" Su Yuan immediately asked.

"We are increasing the dose of the stabilization fluid, but the effect isn't obvious! His body seems to have developed a certain resistance to it! If this continues, he... he might..."

The Commander didn't finish his sentence, but everyone understood what it meant.

Su Yuan's brow furrowed tightly as his mind raced.

He had very few national fortune points left and couldn't exchange for a higher-level stabilization potion from the mall.

What should he do?

Suddenly, he remembered his personal mall!

Inside, he had over a hundred thousand personal points accumulated!

He immediately opened the personal mall and quickly searched through the wide array of items.

Soon, an item that wasn't too expensive but seemed to be the perfect remedy caught his eye.

[Item: Junior Life Spring (10ml)]

[Price: 1000 personal points]

[Effect: Spring water containing gentle life energy; can repair bodily damage, nourish cells, and stabilize vital signs.]

This was it!

Without hesitation, Su Yuan immediately spent 1000 points to exchange for a small bottle.

[Exchange successful. The item has been sent to your personal space.]

He immediately issued an instruction to the system: "System! Manifest this bottle of 'Junior Life Spring' directly into the nutrient fluid of hibernation pod No. 4 in my name!"

[Instruction confirmed. Consuming 100 personal points as a manifestation handling fee.]

[Manifesting...]

Almost at the same time Su Yuan issued the instruction.

Inside hibernation pod No. 4 in the lab, a small globule of liquid emitting a soft green light abruptly appeared in the light blue nutrient fluid and quickly merged into it.

This change was extremely subtle, and no one noticed it at all.

However, the data on the monitoring equipment underwent a miraculous change!

"Look! No. 4's data has stabilized!" a researcher shouted in surprise.

"The gene collapse rate has stopped rising and is slowly decreasing! Vital signs are also recovering! Heavens! What happened?"

"I don't know! It's like... it's like a surge of gentle energy suddenly appeared in his body, helping him repair his gene chain!"

The Commander and all the researchers gathered around the screen of hibernation pod No. 4, their faces filled with disbelief.

In the observation room, Su Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw the alert clear on Chen Hu's status bar on the system panel.

It worked!

The items from the personal mall really worked!

For the remaining time, Su Yuan acted like the most diligent guardian deity.

Whenever a player's status reached a crisis point, he would unhesitatingly exchange Junior Life Spring from the personal mall and provide "support" silently.

Finally, after Su Yuan had spent nearly twenty thousand personal points, the 48-hour transformation period came to an end.

Hum—

hibernation pod No. 1 emitted a slight hum, and the pod door slowly rose.

Everyone's gaze instantly focused on it.

A figure slowly stood up from the hibernation pod filled with nutrient fluid.

It was Wang Yi!

He was completely naked, his skin a healthy bronze color, and all the scars on it had disappeared.

In their place were perfect, fluid muscle lines.

He didn't look much bulkier than before, but the feeling he gave off was completely different.

It was a sense of pressure filled with explosive power!

He slowly opened his eyes.

Those eyes were still deep and resolute, but in their depths, there seemed to be flashes of electricity.

He looked down at his hands and then gave a gentle squeeze.

Crack!

A crisp explosive pop actually rang out in the air!

Outside the lab, Lin Zhan and Li Guodong's pupils suddenly contracted!

"The air... was crushed by him?" Li Guodong murmured to himself, feeling his worldview being repeatedly crushed.

Wang Yi also seemed somewhat surprised by his own power.

He stepped out of the hibernation pod and moved his body.

Every movement was filled with a sense of power and coordination, like a waking leopard.

A researcher plucked up his courage and stepped forward holding a specially made dynamometer:

"Comrade... Comrade Wang Yi, could you please test your strength?"

Wang Yi nodded and took the sturdy-looking dynamometer.

He didn't use all his strength, but simply threw a casual punch at the dynamometer's sensor area.

Thud!

A muffled sound.

The numbers on the dynamometer's LCD screen began to soar upward frantically!

100kg... 200kg... 500kg!

Finally, the number settled on a value that made everyone's eyes nearly pop out.

[1447kg!]

One and a half tons!

The power of a single punch exceeded one and a half tons!

Was he still fucking human?! He was simply a humanoid tyrannosaur!

Wang Yi himself stared at the number, momentarily stunned; it seemed he hadn't expected a casual punch to have such immense power.

In the laboratory, thunderous cheers erupted once again!

Success!

The perfect version of the t-virus serum had been successfully injected!

And this was still only the beginning.

After Wang Yi, the doors of hibernation pods No. 2, 3, 4... opened one after another.

Li Bingyao, Chen Hu, Zhao Zihan... all twenty players, without exception, successfully completed their gene recombination!

Every one of them had obtained a transformation-like enhancement.

When the twenty brand-new players, wearing specially made combat suits, assembled in the operations center once more.

Everyone in the Command Center who saw them felt a deep sense of shock.

They were no longer ordinary soldiers, doctors, or Firefighters... they were a truly invincible team composed of superhumans—the Dragon Team!

General Long looked at the twenty energetic and high-spirited young people before him, his eyes full of excitement and pride.

He knew that the sharpest sword of the Dragon Country had been forged!

No matter what the next dungeon was, they now had the confidence to face any challenge!