244: Saw a ghost

Many ordinary people have not awakened their Xuan Practitioner talent and have already fallen to the bottom of society, but as long as you have money, you can buy compatible gene potions and develop certain special abilities, thereby achieving a reversal in life!

The emphasis here is on the word "compatible." In other words, it's not that you can develop any special talent or ability you want just by drinking a gene potion; rather, the two need to be compatible, meaning the human body matches the potion. Only then will the talent effect be the best.

If they are not compatible but one forces the development, the chance of death or disability is extremely high. In fact, there are many restrictions for ordinary people using gene potions. If one does not meet the conditions but insists on taking it, the result is often counterproductive, and they might not even keep their life.

Long Yuan is now not only interested in the cult's Strengthening Fluid but even more interested in the gene potions of the Snow Eagle Country, War Bear Country, and Flying Lion Country. Thinking about it this way, he seems to have a feeling about the War Bear Country's sudden war of aggression against Great Ming. Great Ming is not a weak country, yet the War Bear Country dared to brazenly start a war. Obviously, they have great confidence in themselves. Then they likely have a new Breakthrough in technological martial arts, and gene potions are likely one of their trump cards!

Why say "one of"? Because Long Yuan also knows that besides gene potions, these three major powers have also made progress in the research of humanoid mecha. If the War Bear Country has major Breakthroughs in both areas, it will likely be bursting with confidence, making the choice to expand its territory through foreign wars a matter of course. Moreover, what if someone in their country has achieved a Breakthrough in cultivation with the help of gene potions?

For example, the appearance of a Martial King expert? Or even a Martial Saint expert?

Just imagine, a Martial King or Martial Saint leading several teams of humanoid mecha warriors, plus a group of gene warriors—such a lineup would absolutely be a dimensional reduction strike against the current Great Ming!

If Great Ming relies solely on experts at the Martial Commander level like Xu Yanran, it would likely be hard to hold them off. It would be necessary to send out hidden experts such as Martial Kings or Martial Saints, provided they even have any... Long Yuan shook his head. Currently, he couldn't see the battle situation on the Northern Front Line, and these matters weren't for him to manage yet. It was better to first strengthen the power he could control... His Divine Sense swept out, and the Soul Net was cast, collecting the helicopters, off-road vehicles, scattered Profound Weapons, and fragments brought by Feng Qin and the others into his space. Broken ones were recycled, and good ones were kept. Except for some traces of fighting, there was no other clutter at the scene. He then identified the direction and walked toward Nanming City... On the other side, Lin Shengnan ran wildly all the way, her heart growing colder as she ran, because it was far too quiet along the way. Except for the sound of the wind, there was no other sound, not even a single mutated beast. She was worried that after she caught up, she would see the corpses of students all over the ground, or that all the students had been captured alive to become hostages of the Blood Wolf Hall, while she could do nothing about it.

A sense of weakness washed over her. Lin Shengnan suddenly realized she had long since overdrawn her Xuan Power. Even if she arrived, what then? Would it be possible to defeat those two hundred-plus people from the Blood Wolf Hall?

"If I had known, I would have asked that young man for help. Sigh, my mind became a mess in my haste, and I didn't even think of this!" Lin Shengnan was filled with regret, but she was already far away from him. It was impossible to go back and ask for his help now; she could only rely on herself. As she chased, she took out several Qi-recovery pills from her inner armor and swallowed them... "Please be safe... please don't let me see corpses... Huh?! Aren't those people ahead students from No. 1 High School?" Lin Shengnan prayed incessantly in her heart, but suddenly discovered figures ahead. Those people were still running for their lives, and the clothes they wore were exactly the school uniforms of Nanming No. 1 High School!

"No way? Since the students are still fleeing, where are the Blood Wolf Hall Evil Cultists chasing from behind?!" Lin Shengnan felt it was somewhat bizarre.

With her speed, she naturally caught up with the students quickly. She saw that these students were all nearly unable to run anymore. The team was stretched out for five or six li from front to back. The students at the rear were practically crawling, wishing their parents had given them two more legs, but fleeing to this point was already the end of their rope... "Stop! There's no need to run anymore!!!" Lin Shengnan screamed at the students in front.

Shi Qing was the one guarding the rear of the fleeing team. Running until now, he actually felt a faint sense that something was wrong. With their speed, how could the people from the Blood Wolf Hall not catch up?

He had long been prepared to fight them to the death, yet after waiting and waiting, the Blood Wolf Hall people simply didn't catch up. At first, there were some sounds of shouting and killing, but later they gradually weakened until now, when they had completely disappeared.

Hearing the shout, Shi Qing's spirits lifted. Looking back, it was indeed Lin Shengnan who had caught up. He hurriedly asked, "Teacher Lin, is it just you? Are they still behind?!"

Lin Shengnan said loudly, "It's just me! They're all dead!!!"

"What?! You killed them all?!!!" Shi Qing said in pleasant surprise.

"I didn't kill them..."

"Not you? Then who was it?!" Shi Qing asked in wonder.

"It was a young man! That passing hunter!" Lin Shengnan sighed.

"Heavens..." Shi Qing was completely stunned. He hadn't expected that the person who saved them would be a strange young man!

Lin Shengnan smiled and said, "Don't worry! Tu Ya and the leader are both dead, and I didn't find those Blood Wolf Hall Evil Cultists chasing us along the way. Do you know where they went?"

"What?! They're not behind?! No! I even exchanged blows with some of them before, but later they seemed to chase slower and slower, and now I haven't seen a single one... No, no, this matter is extremely eerie. How could it be like this?!" Shi Qing suddenly shouted.

Lin Shengnan also stared at him as if seeing a ghost. How could the people from the Blood Wolf Hall chase slower and slower? And they even chased themselves into non-existence?!

She asked, "Didn't you exchange blows with some of them? How were you able to flee here smoothly?"

"This... the weirdness lies right there..." Shi Qing said, pondering.

"What's weird about it?"

"I didn't think much of it at the time, but thinking back now, it's too strange! Those few people had decent strength. After they surrounded me, it should have been impossible for me to escape smoothly, but..."

"But what?" Lin Shengnan asked nervously.

"No, it's too wrong! At that time, I was in a hurry to run, so I just casually thrust out a few sword strikes. How could it be one strike per person, killing them all?! With the strength of those few, any one of them could have traded more than ten moves with me. It's absolutely impossible for them to die so easily by my sword..." As Shi Qing spoke, he began to gesture with his sword...