The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

After a simple "digestion" exercise, Shen Ge returned to her dormitory and took a shower.

Warm water was washing over his skin.

The man in the mirror had a perfect physique, but only he could see that beneath his skin flowed a black, eerie mist.

"He's becoming less and less like a human being..."

Shen Ge looked in the mirror and sighed softly. The emptiness and sense of disconnect that came with gaining superhuman power were particularly clear at this moment.

Just as he dried his hair and stepped out of the shower, he paused slightly.

Next to the sink, there was a set of clean, neatly folded casual clothes that still smelled faintly of fragrance.

Cheng Shengnan was leaning against the door, holding a document in her hand, seemingly waiting for him, or perhaps just lost in thought.

Hearing the noise, she turned her head, her gaze gentle and calm, as if she were looking at a husband who had just come home from get off work, rather than some awe-inspiring human weapon.

"Finished washing? It's getting windy outside, don't wear that training uniform that smells all sweaty." She handed him the clothes.

Shen Ge took the clothes, and the realistic feel of the fabric and the warmth from Cheng Shengnan's fingertips instantly dispelled the sense of separation in his heart.

He smiled, a genuine sense of relaxation.

"it is good."

As Shen Ge put on the clothes, the sense of reality of being "Shen Ge" returned to her body.

He realized he really needed to control this force.

At least……

In order to be able to hold her hand again without any hesitation, just like a normal person.

……

……

The headquarters of the Special Operations Department in Fuzhou City, 42 floors underground.

This is the highest-level state-secret research core area in the entire country, codenamed "Deep Blue".

"Quickly! Keep up the coolant circulation! That tumor is about to become active again!"

"A3 area energy pipeline overload! Cut off the secondary circuit! Put that parasitic energy suppressor brought back from Amazon in place!"

"What? It doesn't match? Can't you adjust it if it doesn't match?"

Amidst the sirens and the roar of machinery, Li Xiang, sporting an explosive hairstyle that looked as if he had just been struck by 100,000 volts, stood in front of the bulletproof observation window with shining eyes.

His white coat was covered in stains of various colors, but he was as excited as a monkey that had just been given stimulants.

Behind him were Shen Ge, who had been specially called over to "see the new toy," and the senior staff of the Rong City Special Policy Department, their brows furrowed.

"Open your eyes and look carefully!"

Li Xiang slammed his hand on the control panel in front of him: "This is the 'version of the answer' we came up with after analyzing Amazon's 'living lab' technology and the precious hard drive data that Yoona brought back!"

As he finished speaking, a heavy metal curtain slowly opened in the huge isolation experimental field in front of him.

What was presented to everyone was neither the familiar steel mechs nor the common individual exoskeletons.

Instead, it was a fluid armor bound in the center of a strong magnetic field, its entire body displaying alternating black and red colors, constantly writhing and contracting like a living creature.

It is attached to an alloy skeleton that mimics the human body. Those muscle fiber-like tissues are growing and covering wildly, and every now and then a sharp tentacle pops out, trying to pierce through the surrounding force field shield.

"This is... a biological weapon?" Deng Yuqi frowned as she looked at the somewhat nauseating-looking thing.

"No, this is evolution!"

Li Xiang corrected, "This is a prototype of the 'Sixth Generation Symbiotic Monster Energy Armor.' It abandons the traditional mechanical transmission structure and adopts 'bionic muscles' derived from the technology of the monster organization. Its output is twenty times that of a traditional hydraulic rod, and it has the ability to self-repair, adapt to the environment, and even absorb low-level monster energy to replenish itself!"

"It's not just clothes you wear, it's your second skin!"

Deng Yuqi frowned: "Isn't this Shen Ge's Red Mist Armor from before?"

"..." Li Xiang was speechless. The Red Mist Armor was completely unreplicable, and even this "Sixth Generation Symbiotic Ghost Armor" was not as good as the Red Mist Armor.

But can that be compared?
The Crimson Mist Armor was created by Shen Ge by feeding it several strangely shaped traits, including the rarest trait, "Endless".

"Warning! Sample activity out of control! The erosion index has exceeded the critical value!"

Suddenly, alarms went off in the laboratory.

The black fluid that had been "docile" in its envelopment of the alloy skeleton suddenly became violent. It expanded violently, like some kind of predatory deep-sea mollusc, and forcefully snapped the alloy skeleton, which could withstand being run over by a tank, in two.

"crunch-"

A piercing metallic cracking sound rang out, and the so-called "symbiotic armor" turned into a runaway mass of flesh, frantically crashing against the force field wall.

"...Looks like the 'version of the solution' hasn't been solved yet." Shen Ge looked at the out-of-control thing, put his hands in his pockets, and commented casually.

Li Xiang's face fell instantly, and he grabbed his hair in frustration: "This damn biological rejection! The raw materials brought back from the Amazon are too active. We tried all sorts of synthesis formulas, whether it's high molecular polymers or special inhibitors, but none of them can suppress its 'wildness'. If someone wears this thing, even someone with a captain-level physique, they will be assimilated and devoured by it in less than half an hour."

“We need a stronger ‘suppressant’,” Li Xiang said, pacing back and forth in the laboratory.

Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks.

He suddenly turned his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Shen Ge.

To be precise, they were watching Shen Ge's wrist, which was hidden under his sleeve.

"Old Shen...can I talk to you about something?" Li Xiang rubbed his hands together, a lewd smile on his face that he only showed when he saw S-class experimental materials.

Shen Ge looked at Li Xiang's demeanor, smiled irritably, and didn't say anything more.

He rolled up his sleeves, picked up a lancet from the medical tray that had been prepared nearby, and pricked his arm.

There was a "dang" sound.

The needle is bent.

Li Xiang was stunned for a moment, forgetting that his skin was now harder than diamond.

Shen Ge shrugged: "Take it if you want, do as you please."

"..."

A body capable of withstanding a nuclear bomb can be pierced by a needle – that's even more absurd.

Li Xiang tried various methods to no avail. Finally, Shen Ge tried for several days and found a way to control the "immortality" property and then use "invisibility" to cut open the skin.

……

With Shen Ge's blood as a "catalyst" and "suppression core," the experiment progressed so quickly it was as if it had been accelerated.

Li Xiang used only a small amount of diluted Shen Ge's blood, dripping it into the berserk bio-armor sample, and a miracle occurred—

The black fluid, which would normally get out of control, stiffened instantly upon contact with blood, like a mouse seeing a cat, and then trembled violently.

Then, he collapsed.

"Keep up the good work!" Shen Ge patted Li Xiang on the shoulder and left the lab.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

The next second, Li Xiang's roar echoed through the laboratory.

……

……

half a month later.

The gates to the experimental field opened. Yu Tiexiong, fully armed, and several top captains walked in.

They shed their original bulky mechanical power armor and, enveloped by the black fluid, transformed into steel warriors clad in black and red biological armor.

Yu Tiexiong tried to throw a punch.

"boom!"

Before the punch even landed, the target in the distance had already been crushed.

This armor grants them physical strength approaching level five, and even reaching level six when unleashed. More importantly, it is as flexible and self-healing as skin.

This is the perfect combination of technology and supernatural abilities, achieved with the help of Shen Ge, the "key".

On this day, the Special Operations Department achieved a qualitative leap in combat capability.

Another half month has passed.

Late at night, in a residential area outside the Third Ring Road in Fuzhou.

Although it was winter, the banyan trees were incredibly lush. Their thick aerial roots, like giant pythons, hung down, forcefully breaking through the cement flower beds and taking deep root in the soil beneath the asphalt road. The veins of the leaves emitted an extremely faint, eerie energy fluctuation under the streetlights.

Nearby, a stray cat that was rummaging through a trash can heard the engine and suddenly turned around.

Shen Ge parked a black car on the side of the road. In that instant, he saw a pair of vertical pupils burning with green flames.

The cat was the size of a hunting dog, with clearly defined muscles, and even small, bony horns.

Instead of running away, it let out a low, defiant growl at the car Shen Ge was driving before nimbly leaping over the three-meter-high wall and disappearing from sight.

"The frequency of these bizarre occurrences has been increasing lately..." Shen Ge thought to himself.

Then, a string of messages was sent out, and soon, a buzzing sound rang out in the sky, indicating that the drone was coming to deal with the recently mutated cat.

The car drove through the commercial street.

A sudden commotion broke out in the crowd ahead, but strangely, there were no terrified screams or chaotic routs as before.

Suddenly, a roadside vending machine came to life, its spout transforming into a massive metal maw full of fangs, frantically spitting out canned cola as bullets.

Behind the vending machine, in the receiving window, lay the rotting carcass of a stray dog, its entire body part transformed into a "monstrous heart."

This kind of fusion-type weirdness, capable of integrating machinery, is becoming increasingly common in "reality".

If this had happened four years ago, it would have been a bizarre attack that caused panic throughout the city.

but now?
"Hey! Hey! That's a Tier 4 Fusion-type Anomaly! Quick, quick, get behind those blast pillars over there!"

"Old Zhang, stop filming! The Special Operations Department's patrol drone is here!"

Although the pedestrians were panicked, their movements were practiced. Everyone quickly sought cover, and a few daring young people even used their mobile phones to livestream from a distance.

In less than two minutes, two special operations officers wearing new lightweight exoskeletons arrived quickly. They skillfully used the psychic electromagnetic capture net and freezing agent, and in no time, turned the crazed vending machine into an ice sculpture.

Scattered applause even rang out from the surroundings.

Shen Ge parked the car in the shadows, watching this scene with a playful smile on his lips.

Human adaptability can sometimes be more terrifying than the bizarre.

Once terror becomes a daily occurrence, it ceases to be terror and becomes a new way of life.

He stopped in front of a long-established noodle shop by the roadside, found an outdoor seat, and ordered a bowl of beef noodles with extra spice.

At the next table sat a few middle-aged men who had just finished their night shifts, chatting and drinking beer.

"Have you heard? That 'Potential Training Class' in the West District has started again. It's said to teach people how to use conventional supernatural equipment. Even if they can't become superhumans like those in the Special Operations Department, they can at least barely deal with the creatures that have just undergone mutation."

"Forget it, that's all a scam. If you really want to succeed, you have to take the Special Operations Department's selection exam. My kid had his physical yesterday, and they said his compatibility with that weird energy mech reached level 3! He has a chance to get into the Special Operations Department!"

"Wow! That's a secure job! You'll even be able to wear armor in the future!"

Listening to these down-to-earth conversations, Shen Ge finished the last sip of soup.

"A bizarre symbiosis..."

Li Xiang's previous assumptions were correct.

This world can never be the same again.

Regardless of whether there was an ancestral mystery or not, the Earth has been irreversibly altered.

If humanity wants to survive, it can no longer think about completely eliminating the supernatural power, but must learn... how to ride on the back of this beast.

"As expected, 'reality' is also developing towards those worlds in the fragments..."

After finishing his noodles, Shen Ge restarted the car and drove towards the branch office.

He was passing by a construction site where nighttime construction was underway.

In that instant, his progenitor's strange cells seemed to sense something.

Shen Ge slammed on the brakes, and the car left a long trail of sparks on the road before coming to a stop across the middle of the road after a beautiful drift.

He slowly raised his head, opened his eerie eyes, and looked around.

No high-level anomalies descended, nor did any spatial rifts open.

But this "calm" made him feel more depressed than any bizarre frenzy.

ten minutes later.

The rooftop of the Fuzhou branch.

Shen Ge stood on the edge of the railing, his strange eyes gazing at the dark night sky. He felt that the atmosphere tonight was somewhat unusual, just like when "Omnisiah" was about to awaken in the fragmented world.

The strong wind tousled Shen Ge's hair, but it couldn't dispel the solemnity in his eyes.

Shen Ge raised his hand expressionlessly and pressed the "warning button" on the special communicator.

This "Level 1 Warning" command could only be activated by him and Deng Yuqi. As soon as he pressed it, piercing alarms sounded instantly at both the Rongshi Special Operations Department and the Quanlongshan Base.

at the same time.

On the other side of the Earth, there are unknown coordinates that even the most advanced satellite maps cannot display.

Thousands of meters underground.

In the central region, strong strange energy fluctuations had already appeared.

This is a... eerie space.

Deep within, there was a massive, silvery-white, circular facility that even surpassed the current understanding of human civilization.

Countless incredibly precise robotic arms are busily operating, maintaining the massive floating pod in the center, which is filled with a pale golden nutrient solution.

And in the center of that nutrient solution.

There was only one... a brain that looked wrinkled yet had an eerie, translucent crystalline texture.

It floated there silently, with countless optical fibers inserted directly into its channels.

Sudden.

The brain tissue twitched very subtly.

[Activation of the "container" has been detected...]

[Revised Plan...]

[Initiating... the "Awakening" phase.] (End of Chapter)