Super Gene Optimization Fluid

YZZ 7526 was just a medium-size planet that was once a human mining colony. Its population could not compare to the commercial planets and was even considered one of the poorer planets during the time of the ancient civilization.

According to the map, there were five main cities on this planet, with small satellite towns surrounding each of them.

Those cities all shared a common trait, and that was its proximity to major mining sites.

The humans who had once lived here subsisted off mining, so their cities were naturally situated near mining sites, making it more convenient for them to commute to and fro.

The Catalyst-class destroyer had landed near one of the five main cities, coded 04. Xia Fei did not head right into the city like everyone else but chose the other main city about 2000 kilometers away, coded 02, instead; this was where he planned to begin his search in the ruins.

He could tell clearly with the map that the ruins of City 02 were far more spectacular than the abandoned City 04. It was at least thrice larger in terms of landmass, making it the second-largest metropolis on the entire planet, meaning that it had been highly prosperous in the past.

The majority of the cadets chose the ruins of 04, which meant that they could help watch out for one another, but it also meant that the purpose of their exploration would be greatly reduced.

Finally, as Xia Fei’s powerful brainwave assault directly broke through the two insectoids’ brains, it was as if a double-kick had been unleashed. Two, crisp explosion sounds could be heard, and the insectoids’ heads split in half. A thick green liquid slowly oozed out from their brains.

“They are dead?” Xia Fei was mildly stunned. He had not expected that completely unleashing the Beast Spirit Codex would result in the brains of these insects to suffer such fatal damage.

Shaking his head, Xia Fei let himself regain his spirit as he paced over quickly to the side of the two black sky beetles.

Their brains were protected by their black carapace, and seeing the injury they had sustained, he concluded that the brainwaves he had produced promptly caused their brains to expand, and the pressure ultimately surpassed the limit that their heads could withstand before ultimately exploding open.

He lightly dipped his finger in one insectoid’s green brain juices and sniffed.

The liquid was as sticky as glue, and it smelled like spoiled cow’s milk, making him have the urge to vomit.

Phantom suddenly appeared next to Xia Fei, rubbing his chin in a thoughtful manner.

“A penny for your thoughts?” Xia Fei asked.

Phantom shook his head. “I’m uncertain. I only feel that your brainwaves have a very limited effect on these insectoids. It’s like having two completely different frequencies; the frequency of your brain waves differed from that of these insectoids, so you failed to implant your commands on them.”

Xia Fei nodded. “I agree with that as well. It’s as if my commands were a foreign language to them, and they were completely incapable of comprehending it. Could the insectoids have a separate brain system that is different from beasts?”

Phantom mulled over this for a while. “I can’t determine that, either. How about this: Capture another insectoid, cut them open and, using the Beast Spirit Codex, observe their Beast Spirit Fire. If the insectoids are different from beasts, that will be an important discovery in the history of neurological research.”

A dead centipede could still move its limbs; though the brains of these two sky beetles had already exploded, their limbs were still spasming. Xia Fei ruthlessly kicked one of these limbs and unsheathed his Chasing Light, continuing his run toward City 02.

After clearing a distance that was no more than a dozen kilometers, a pair of black sky beetles appeared once more in a dilapidated building somewhere ahead of him. It seemed that these insectoids enjoyed moving in pairs, or perhaps they shared a spousal relationship; it was really hard to tell.

Xia Fei was not in a rush to attack this time. Instead, he used the ocular cognition technique from the Beast Spirit Codex to peer into their Beast Spirit Fire.

Doing so, all he saw was a light-green flame rising from within each insectoid’s body.

The flame was not only small but also appeared weak. It was a stark contrast to their huge bodies as if a light breeze was all it would take to extinguish their flames.

It stood to reason that such large lifeforms ought to have a more vigorous Beast Spirit Fire, yet their flames were so weak that they were barely perceptible.

It would take but a moment to cover the few hundred meters of distance the insectoids had with Xia Fei, yet these black sky beetles remained oblivious that death was upon.

Chasing Light pierced the head of one black sky beetle, cleaving it cleanly in half with a vertical slash; that sturdy carapace was as weak as tofu in the face of his cyan blade.

The blade speed and precise cut Xia Fei demonstrated meant he was able to vertically and horizontally cut the brains of these two insectoids respectively with surgical precision, all so for the convenience of examining them from different angles.

Xia Fei had encountered insectoids before when he was in the Wild Star Region, but he had never once killed one of them with his bare hands.

To his surprise, Xia Fei discovered that the heads of these two insectoids also leaked out the same green, viscous liquid that he had previously seen. It turned out that the insectoids’ brains were filled with these juices.

Phantom was in shock, somewhat awkwardly rubbing his head. “I didn’t know that this was what’s inside the heads of insectoids. I’ve seen insectoids before, but I never got the chance to cut the head open of any of them.”

Xia Fei helplessly shrugged. No wonder the Beast Spirit Codex had little success with them. The facts were clear; the brain structure of these insectoids was completely different.

He pulled out a small, shiny, diamond-shaped, black crystal from inside their heads. Every insectoid would have such a crystal growing inside, and according to the difference in their type and rank, the crystals would differ in color and size as well.

No matter what, each of these crystals could be exchanged for a point when brought back. These training camp points were fairly valuable, and harvesting more of these crystals could greatly aid in alleviating the monetary crisis Xia Fei was presently facing.

Pushing the questions he had regarding insectoid brains to the back of his mind, Xia Fei began his extermination spree.

Xia Fei left behind a trail of corpses as he ventured further in the direction of City 02 from this wasteland.

When dawn broke, vast ruins appeared at the foot of the mountain. Everywhere he looked, there was large concrete debris, rocks, and long-rusted steel remains.

Though this city had long been laid to waste, Xia Fei could tell that it had once been quite a majestic sight to behold just from the proportion and extent of the remains before him.