Super Gene Optimization Fluid

Under the cover of night, a shuttle activated its stealth function and quietly landed on a hill a hundred meters or so away from Old Porter’s factory.

Sonny opened the sealed cabin and glided down the shuttle. He did not turn on any of the lights throughout his journey here as per Xia Fei’s instructions and landed amid this blanket of darkness by relying on the vehicle’s automated navigation system.

Xia Fei made his way over without making a sound from a spaceship wreckage and spoke in a hushed voice. “Sonny, I’m over here.”

Sonny shuddered and held his hand to his chest. “Boss, how are you not making any sound when you move? You’ve given me quite the fright.”

Xia Fei made his way to the shuttle and boarded it. “Let’s leave this place before we continue our conversation.”

The shuttle silently took off slowly from this spot. Sonny only turned off the stealth function after they got far from Old Porter’s factory. The shuttle’s engine let out a series of sputters before speeding off into the night sky.

“Where are we going?” asked Sonny, somewhat puzzled. He did not know why Xia Fei had asked to be picked up this late at night, and he also had no idea where they were heading to.

“Do you know where Old K resides?” asked Xia Fei instead.

The hover car very slowly moved past the courtyard as it went along the programmed path.

When the vehicle neared the garden, Xia Fei promptly gathered strength in both his legs, then let his body fly out like a bullet, all along maintaining a low altitude!

*Whizz!*

Keeping his body streamlined, he cut through air like a thin blade as his nose maintained barely a one-centimeter distance from the ground.

Xia Fei quickly and soundlessly tucked himself to the undercarriage of the hover car, which was sliding across the ground like a flying saucer.

*Slap!*

He spread his fingers and palms wide and utilized the barbs on his gloves to lightly grab onto the chassis of the hover car, spreading his two legs symmetrically for stability. The sides of his combat boots also had similar barbs, allowing Xia Fei to plaster himself on this vehicle’s body!

Only microseconds passed as he performed all these actions, and the two people inside the hover car remained unaware of what had just transpired.

The hover car came to a halt right at the garage entrance, and the blond driver poked his head out to wave at the surveillance camera. The garage door slowly opened, while the security devices were temporarily disabled.

The car drove into the garage and parked beside the other luxury shuttles.

The vehicle would abruptly fall in place once the hover system was turned off, so if Xia Fei failed to separate himself in time, the shuttle’s several tons of weight would likely crush him into a meaty paste.

Xia Fei softly pulled both his hands away as his body did an implausible twist before crawling away from the vehicle without creating a noise, which also happened to be the driver’s blindspot.

With quiet footsteps, Xia Fei managed to hide behind the back of another vehicle.

The blond-haired driver turned off the engine and hopped out of the hover car to open the backseat door. “Mr. Qin, please follow me. Old K is waiting for you on the third floor at this moment.”

A man in his forties stepped out from the back seat. This person, with a portly figure, was wearing a pressed suit. His nose was red from alcohol and his pair of beady eyes were glimmering slyly.

The blond man led Mr. Qin up the stairs, and when the sound of their footsteps faded, Xia Fei studied his surroundings with great wariness, only standing up after he had confirmed that there were no intruder-detection devices installed in this place.

The defense outside of Old K’s abode was near flawless, yet there was hardly any camera of the ilk inside. Most likely the man disliked being watched while in his home, so the internal security of this mansion was rather lax.

Xia Fei went upstairs, sticking his body to the wall with his ears pricked for any movement.

The first floor was the lounge and dining room, and the lights here were dim. There was hardly anyone around, so Xia Fei was able to proceed onto the second floor smoothly.

Xia Fei was still leaning closely against the wall. He pulled out a small mirror from his spatial ring and used it to reflect and observe what was happening in the corridor.

He spotted the blond man idly chatting with an armed guard by the stairwell.

“Aside from Old K and Qin Sansui, who’s the other guy there? I could sense a vague yet frigid aura coming from him when I walked near that caused all my hair to stand up,” curiously asked the bodyguard.

The blond man lightly chuckled before he mimed a gun with his fingers and aimed it at the bodyguard’s head. “That’s on a need-to-know basis. Don’t ask too many questions, or you’ll have to take care of your head.”

“You’re right. The less I know, the better it is for me.”

The blond man wondered aloud, “Porter’s factory should soon be on its last leg, shouldn’t it?”

“Yup. Old K has been putting the screws in them over these few days; Porter’s workers were all taken care off yesterday, then we sent someone to plant a bomb today. The way I see it, Porter won’t be able to hold out much longer.

“Actually, we should’ve done this from the start. By sending our men to grab that old b*st*rd who doesn’t know any better, this matter would’ve been done and dusted by now; why even go through all the trouble? Say, is Old K having some doubts or something?”

The blond man laughed and pointed at the bodyguard’s head again. “Old Wu, why can’t you fix this gossiping habit of yours?”

Old Wu smiled foolishly as he slapped his head heavily. “Ah, d*mn! I’m really asking for it with this mouth of mine.”

Xia Fei quietly kept his mirror. The stairs to the third floor happened to be blocked off by the presence of the two men. How was he going to get up there?

His eyes shone when he discovered a dumbwaiter diagonally across him. There was always a dedicated chef in huge households and the dumbwaiter would be used to send the food up the stairs once they were done.

An idea came to him almost instantly the moment he saw it.

There was only a short distance of ten meters to the dumbwaiter opposite him, so it would only take Xia Fei .025 seconds to reach the dumbwaiter if he used his top speed. Furthermore, the dumbwaiter was positioned such that it was on the blindspot of the two guards.

Xia Fei took a deep breath and searched for the opportune moment, zipping past and diving into that open dumbwaiter.

It was a small and narrow dumbwaiter, barely enough to fit in a person. Using two hands to prop himself against its walls, Xia Fei quickly climbed up the shaft to the third floor.

Using his fingers to pry open a crack, he took a peek around.

The third floor was not partitioned into separate rooms, like what Xia Fei had seen on the first and second floors, but was an entire chamber itself, instead.

In this brightly lit room, he saw two men sitting on the sofa, having a discussion. Xia Fei was angled somewhere behind them, so all he could see was their backs.

The one in the middle of the sofa should be Old K, as this person only had a sparse tuft of white hair at the center of his head, while that middle-aged man on his right went by the name of Qin Sansui.

“Do you understand what I’ve just told you?” asked Old K.

Qin Sansui nodded his head repeatedly. “I thought you had called me over in the dead of night for something important. You could’ve just told me this matter over the phone… Rest assured; from tomorrow onward, there’ll no longer be any courier company that can deliver a parcel to Porter’s factory. The director for the Galaxy Spaceship Authority is my brother-in-law, so as long as I give him a call, I can guarantee that Old Porter can no longer register even one spaceship.”

Xia Fei furrowed his brows. It looked as if they were planning to isolate Old Porter completely, limiting him from both inside and out just to force him into submitting.

Old K handed Qin Sansui a thick envelope, and the man was beyond delighted, thanking the former profusely before leaving.

The moment Qin Sansui departed, a man in a black windbreaker stepped out from behind a secret door. This person seemed to be in his thirties and had a very prominent hooked nose as well as eyes that exhibited a quiet ferocity.

“This is your plan?” That hooked-nosed fella chuckled mirthlessly.

Old K sighed. “Mountain Hawk, you don’t understand what Porter is like. There’s no use doing things the hard way toward such people. You can only slowly drive his kind to desperation so that he will take the initiative to hand that item over, or else he can simply be more resilient in the face of adversity, potentially choosing to go for a mutual destruction instead, and that’s a least ideal result, for the cons outweigh the pros.”

The man called Mountain Hawk sat beside Old K and spoke in a placid tone. “Perhaps what you said makes sense, but my patience is running thin. I can only wait for three more days. If you’re still unable to get me that overclocking chip within these three days, I’ll just have to get myself involved in its acquisition.”

Old K held a liquor glass in hand and took a sip as he arched his lips. “At the end of the day, the warship graveyard is also my territory; there’s no need for you to interfere.”

Old K showed an old pirate’s true colors with that veiled threat, countering Mountain Hawk without a hint of regard for the man.

Mountain Hawk was momentarily stunned before he chuckled. “Don’t be angered Old K. Let’s carry on with your plan.”

“Yes.” Old K nodded his head lightly. “I’ll naturally help you get hold of what you want, but what about what I want?”

Mountain Hawk pulled out an exquisitely stitched leather pouch and placed it softly on the table, saying mysteriously, “I have it here.”