58: Section 58

Since unlocking his talent last time, the system had not issued any further notifications.

However, Jing Yuan could clearly perceive that each time he absorbed the life source essence of a Phage Beast, his psychic power would continuously strengthen, and his body would also grow stronger.

In the original pest control world, there was no power level system.

Jing Yuan thought the system only had the ability of slow enhancement.

Now, with the system prompting his advancement from First-Order to Second-Order, it seemed that a ranking system did exist in this world, but the system still hadn't revealed the specific tier divisions.

As the system prompt appeared, Jing Yuan's physical constitution also began to change.

From the subtitle prompt, the physical changes originated from the psychic power upgrade, and the system rewarded a matching physical constitution upgrade to Second-Order.

It seemed that physical constitution and psychic power were two separate paths; Jing Yuan relied on psychic power for upgrades, with physical constitution being a secondary benefit.

Jing Yuan stood still, feeling an energy from an unknown place integrating into his limbs and bones, continuously strengthening his muscles and skeleton.

This upgrade was faster than the last one.

When the upgrade was complete, Jing Yuan felt his life source essence emit a tremor.

An invisible energy diffused outwards with Jing Yuan as its center.

Loriv, less than ten meters from Jing Yuan, suddenly felt his head grow heavy and fainted.

Jing Yuan looked at Loriv in confusion. In Jing Yuan's perception, it was as if he had stretched and thrown a punch, accidentally hitting Loriv.

At this time, Jing Yuan was still wearing his gravity body. When he started to walk, he felt the gravity body was a restraint.

Jing Yuan quickly checked the gravity body's power system and found that the power was fine and the energy was sufficient.

Jing Yuan went to Loriv's side, sensed that he had only fainted, then picked him up and walked towards the vehicle.

Soon, Jing Yuan realized the problem.

It wasn't that the gravity body had a problem, but that his own physical strength had increased, and the current gravity body was no longer sufficient, which was why Jing Yuan felt a slight restraint.

Jing Yuan threw Loriv into the passenger seat, then drove the gravity body onto the vehicle's cargo bed.

Jing Yuan emerged from the gravity body and immediately felt much lighter.

He stretched his body, threw a few punches, and delivered a few flying kicks.

He could clearly feel that his body had become stronger!

The first time his physical constitution was enhanced, Jing Yuan's physical strength was only comparable to Mark's.

It's important to remember that Mark himself was equivalent to a superhuman.

In the original work, Mark, in hand-to-hand combat, disabled Sharif, who was wearing armor.

Sharif was over two meters tall, strong, and possessed peak human physical qualities. Moreover, he was wearing powered armor, making him much stronger than ordinary people.

Such a person was disabled by Mark with bare hands.

Mark's individual strength definitely exceeded human limits.

And after Jing Yuan's first physical enhancement, he could fight Mark to a draw, meaning his strength also exceeded human limits.

So, most people were no match for Jing Yuan.

With this latest physical enhancement, Jing Yuan felt that the gravity body was no longer sufficient.

His strength and speed might already be comparable to the power and speed unleashed when operating a gravity body.

However, Jing Yuan couldn't verify this now; it was just a conjecture.

Jing Yuan secured the gravity body and turned to enter the driver's seat.

By this time, Loriv next to him had woken up.

He hadn't been unconscious for long.

"You're awake!" Jing Yuan asked proactively.

"What happened to me?" Loriv felt a bit dizzy.

"You fainted!"

Loriv saw himself in the car and asked, "Did you save me?"

"Yes!" Jing Yuan didn't elaborate.

He had already planned to keep someone alive, which was why he intervened when Locke backstabbed Loriv.

Jing Yuan didn't want to keep Locke.

"Thank you!" Loriv was silent for a moment, then said, "For this mission, thanks to your help in slaying the Phage Beast, I will report all of this truthfully to Leader!"

"I can't control what you say. Even if you say I caused their deaths, I still had to save you."

"No, I won't!" Loriv said, "Fann and Locke brought it upon themselves! They tried to harm you, which led to all these subsequent events! I'm sorry, I shouldn't have agreed to their plan just now! It's because you hit Locke, and he wanted revenge!"

"I know, you couldn't make the decision! I don't blame you."

Jing Yuan secretly chuckled. As the saying goes, "birds of a feather flock together." How righteous could this Loriv truly be?

Perhaps he was genuinely grateful to Jing Yuan for saving him, or perhaps he was just pretending to be a good person.

But for Jing Yuan, none of that mattered.

Loriv clutched his forehead and asked, "Was it the attack from that Phage Beast that knocked me out just now?"

"I'm not sure!"

Jing Yuan truly wasn't sure, but he vaguely sensed that he himself might have knocked Loriv out, though he had no evidence, only a guess.

Jing Yuan pressed the accelerator, and the vehicle sped across the desert, quickly encountering the Lighthouse's flight path.

After synchronizing coordinates, the Lighthouse began to lower the lift platform ahead of time.

When Jing Yuan arrived, the platform had just landed.

He drove the vehicle directly onto the platform.

As the platform slowly ascended, Jing Yuan and Loriv arrived at the Lighthouse.

Seeing a crowd of people standing on the outer ring of the Lighthouse, Jing Yuan was stunned!

Normally, when Wasteland Hunters returned, there would be a welcoming party, which was normal.

But this time, even City Lord Morgan came to greet them. What kind of reception was this?

Besides Morgan, next to him were Charles, Jing Nan, Victor, Elon, and other department heads.

On either side of this group of high-ranking officials were the City Defense Force led by Senge, and the Wasteland Hunters.

Penny and her group had come up earlier and were standing among the Wasteland Hunters.

While on The Surface, Jing Yuan had already guessed Charles's scheme.

From afar, Jing Yuan saw Charles's smug expression, indicating his scheme had succeeded.

Jing Yuan and Loriv got out of the car. Charles's expression subtly changed when he saw only Loriv left.

Loriv, in front of the crowd, simply nodded slightly, and Charles's smug smile returned.

But Jing Yuan didn't see this; his gaze was on City Lord Morgan.

He hadn't seen Morgan specifically come out to welcome the Wasteland Hunters back before, wondering what means Charles had used to invite Morgan.

Jing Yuan walked up and jokingly said, "So many people, you're not here to pick me up, are you?"

Charles smiled, "Captain Mark will be here soon. You can wait here too, and we'll all go back together!"

As expected, arranging so many people was just to wait for Mark!

To celebrate Mark's triumphant return?

Charles clearly wouldn't do that!

Judging by Charles's smug look, Mark's situation down on The Surface must have been very difficult.

The Lighthouse was continuously navigating and soon reached the agreed rendezvous point with Mark.

As the lift platform slowly descended and then ascended, Mark's team appeared in everyone's sight.

Jing Yuan looked at their disheveled appearance and felt a strong sense of foreboding.

Mark's team had damaged armor, broken weapons, and everyone had varying degrees of injuries on their faces and bodies.

Once the platform stabilized, the Wasteland Hunters quickly stepped forward to help their teammates.

Penny also ran over to support Ran Bing.

"Ran Bing, what happened down there?"

"The Phage Beast offensive on The Surface was too fierce, much more than expected."

"How could this be!" Penny was incredulous.

Chapter 60: Why do you have medicine?

In the past, when Captain Mark went on missions, he not only collected the most supplies but also had the fewest casualties.

However, in the recent few times, Mark's team encountered various problems when performing collection missions on The Surface.