Super Gene Optimization Fluid

On the command deck of Tomahawk, Xia Fei was in deep thought while he smoked a cigarette.

“What do you plan to do with Harris?” asked Phantom.

Xia Fei furrowed his eyebrows, slowly exhaling a ring of smoke. “It’s not easy to come across a top-tier geneticist. Although he’s done plenty of terrible things, I don’t feel like killing him.”

Phantom shook his head. “I know that you like talented people, but this man’s done horrible things in the past. Keeping him alive is just like carrying heavy baggage.”

Xia Fei laughed. “I don’t think I’ve ever been free of trouble. If his death means I wouldn’t encounter any more trouble, I would kill him long ago; you can count on that.”

Phantom pursed his lips. Xia Fei appeared to be saying that another problem on his back was not much because of how many problems he already had.

“Are you saying you’re going to keep him alive?”

Xia Fei nodded. “It does seem to be the case.”

With the correct flight route, Tomahawk traversed through the No Man’s space even quicker.

Xia Fei officially entered the Death Trio Star Region seventeen days later.

Just as he reconnected to the interplanetary internet, Avril sent a request for communication. The girl was still worried about Xia Fei’s safety as she bombarded him with questions regarding his well-being. Although it was a bit long-winded, Xia Fei patiently answered each of her questions.

It was a good thing to have a beautiful woman like her thinking about him, after all, and Xia Fei understood that.

Avril’s life returned to normal after the Plumagers were completely removed from the capital ring besides the increase in the number of bodyguards around her. Newman spent a sizable sum just to hire a retired Gold rank Adjudicator as a safety supervisor solely responsible for protecting Avril.

This retired Adjudicator used to be the chief of security forces in the headquarters. This meant that he had plenty of experience under his belt and was quite sophisticated in his methods. With him around, there should be a huge change in Avril’s safety for the better.

Xia Fei did not know it, but Qin Mang actually had a hand in this. The retired Adjudicator took the job all because of Qin Mang. Qin Mang was just like an omnipresent spirit, although he may seem like an inconspicuous curator in an insignificant library, his eyes were actually in every corner of the Alliance.

Now that she was strictly guarded, Avril’s life became ever more boring. Stuck in her room and unable to go anywhere, she began to treasure the time she spent on the beach with Xia Fei more and more, clinging onto her limited memories. The thing she looked forward to the most each day was a chat with Xia Fei. Without her realizing it, Xia Fei had taken a special place in her heart, and he would possibly stay there for the rest of her life.

Xia Fei sighed as he turned off the projected screen.

“What’s wrong? Avril’s doing alright,” asked Phantom.

“I just think that Avril actually isn’t happy; perhaps it really isn’t a good thing to be born in a powerful family like hers,” expressed Xia Fei.

Although Avril’s face was filled with excitement, Xia Fei could feel a loneliness within her. However, there was nothing he could do. Of course, he hoped that Avril could live her own life, but her identity meant that she could not go shopping and watch movies like other girls her age.

Phantom remained silent. This was just how it was meant to be, and nobody could change it unless Avril rid herself of her identity and became a normal girl; but how could she just throw away her identity?

After regaining his focus, Xia Fei looked up everything about Harris using the warship computer. It was not a sign of trust when Xia Fei decided to leave him alive. Xia Fei was also someone with a fanatical side to him, so he knew that the most difficult thing for a crazy person was restraint. Anyone who tried to restrain Xia Fei would receive his strongest objection, yet now, Xia Fei, the madman, was trying to claim another madman, Harris, for his use; this would really take some work.

Harris’s life could be described as brilliant. He was known as a genius since his youth. He entered the Alliance Academy of Sciences as a gene researcher at the age of seventeen and eventually became the leader of a gene research group at twenty-one. At twenty-six, the Alliance established a genetic research institute where Harris became the deputy dean. At thirty-five, he became the dean of the said institute, the first person in charge, and the chief scientific advisor.

“Interesting. Harris is quite an incredible person. Xia Fei, are you confident in claiming someone like him as your own?” Phantom asked worriedly.

No matter how one looked at it, Harris was an excellent top-tier talent. People like that were the most difficult to keep in control and to subdue.

Xia Fei laughed. “Heh, there are more than one way of subduing someone.

“Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times in order to subdue him[1], but my method is much easier.”

“What method?” Phantom was puzzled.

Xia Fei did not respond, instead swiping at the projected screen and producing a silver bracelet.

Phantom could not help but laugh when he saw it. “You’re going to give him that?”

Xia Fei nodded. “Yeah, since he’s a madman, I have to give this madman a rule that he can never break.”

…

DLC-113 was a desolate planet. From the ship, it appeared to be completely covered in yellow sand, with the constant sandstorms looking like massive yellow snakes, circling around the planet they quickly slithered around.

Tomahawk slowly landed outside the perimeter of a city called West Milton. The city was hectic and impoverished; it did not even have its own port, so Xia Fei had no choice but to park at the sandswept desert outside the city.

As the hatch opened, they were met with strong winds with sand particles that left him unsteady. Xia Fei wrapped his head in a blanket, leaving his two eyes exposed, as he walked toward the rundown city. He was heading toward a place known as Windchime Bar in search of a person who was also known as Windchime.

[1] a reference to Romance of the Three Kingdon, that highlights the characteristic of winning someone over via dint of virtue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Huo