Star Hunter

Chapter Five: The Capabilities of Chips

Because of the explosion, the sheriff personally came to oversee the operation. People living around the explosion area were questioned every day, causing widespread panic. Many shops in town were closed, so Xilin didn't go to the bar and went unnoticed. Moreover, Xilin lived in the poorest area, so the patrolmen only questioned a few people symbolically before leaving without asking Xilin.

Back on the town streets, Xilin didn't plan to open his shop. Instead, he contacted Old Devon, since he needed to inform the owner about the shop's plans.

Old Devon is currently deeply in love, his face glowing with happiness. Just like his past dreams, he has found a woman of suitable age with an E-grade genotype and is planning their life together after their marriage. When Xilin mentioned that he was going out to make his way in the world, Old Devon assumed that Xilin just wanted to try his luck in a prosperous area. After giving him some advice as an elder, he said nothing more. It's good that young people are energetic and have ambition; they can't stay in that poor, garbage-like place forever, after all, Xilin is only seventeen.

Old Devon had no intention of returning and gave the small shop to Xilin. After all, the bar's location wasn't good, and even if he sold it, he wouldn't get much money. Old Devon didn't know many people in the city and couldn't help Xilin with his connections, so he prepared to give Xilin some more money, but Xilin refused.

After refusing Old Devon's offer, Xilin wished him well and ended the conversation. His savings were far greater than Old Devon had imagined. Xilin didn't plan to sell the bar immediately; instead, he sublet it to people living in the same impoverished area, asking them to deposit the annual rent into his account.

After packing his things in his small, poor room, Xilin returned to Yuanye's residence that night. Unlike last time when he did it openly, this time Xilin was very discreet. This was because the matter was crucial, and Yuanye's residence was well-protected and defended against both internal and external signals, providing an extra layer of security.

In the room, Xilin relaxed his body and began to guide the changes within his body. As the chips integrated into his host's genes had been replicated and spread through his blood, they had seeped into every cell in Xilin's body. Xilin's goal at this moment was to make these chips express selectively. Of course, since the chips were not 100% activated at the beginning, any selective expression was limited.

Instructions are sent from the brain, and information from each central nervous system is transmitted to the chip inside each cell. The chip begins to express itself selectively, and the expression of the original genome is also interfered with and changes occur. The most obvious example is the appearance of cisplatin.

The facial bones began to change; the color of the hair, eyes, and skin began to change, and even the skeletal structure changed. This was not a short-term dyeing or plastic surgery, but a genetic change that even advanced instruments could not detect, because it was a change controlled at its source. This was Xilin's trump card.

Based on the data and information left by Hou Lei, theoretically, the entity can control the chip to recombine, break, delete, or mutate the original DNA in the cell.

For example, if someone wants to test the DNA information of cilime, cilime can control the cells in bodily fluids, hair, or other parts of the body to change just before leaving the body, making it impossible for people to detect the real DNA information of cilime.

However, since the chip is not fully activated yet, after each major change, a period of stabilization and gradual adjustment is required before any further changes can be controlled from the source.

After the cracking sounds of his bones stopped and Xilin sensed that the changes in other parts of his body had also ended, he looked at his reflection in the mirror and was somewhat astonished.

The once healthy, sunny young man with black hair, black eyes, wheat-colored skin, and a sunny disposition has transformed into someone with light gray hair, dark blue eyes, fair skin, and a slightly thinner frame. He looks more like a rich kid from the city. While his face isn't exceptionally handsome, it's still quite refined and stylish. Overall, he doesn't have the imposing presence he had before.

Xilin frowned, not entirely satisfied with the result, but since the chip activation wasn't perfect, there were some changes he couldn't make. "Oh well, this will do for now," he thought, "I'll just use it as is."

Yuan Ye once said that there are only two kinds of people who can change the world: gods and madmen. Xi Lin thinks that the old man Hou Lei belongs to the latter. As for whether he can reach the level of Glory and Code, it remains to be seen, but it must be said that Hou Lei is a genius. With such equipment, many of which are operated manually, he was able to create such a bizarre thing.

Xilin bought a blank ID card from the black market at a high price. The serial number and magnetic seal on it could be verified by the authorities. Xilin entered his name and a picture of his face, along with other forged information, and then swiped it into the card slot of a nearby device. The screen then displayed Xilin's current identity information. As long as the authorities didn't put in a lot of effort to check, this ID card wouldn't arouse suspicion from the inspectors.

In addition to his ID card, Xilin also bought a universal savings card for the entire galaxy on the black market. After a series of complicated and careful operations, Xilin deposited the remaining money into this card.

Xilin spent millions of star coins on these two cards, and now his savings are less than a tenth of that. Moreover, you have to understand that you can't get those things just by having money without the right channels. This is one of the benefits of Xilin's three years as a hunter.

The next day, a completely transformed Xilin boarded flights X-C362 to X-C100 with ease, encountering no obstacles during airport security checks or identity verification.

Xilin sat in a chair on the passenger starship, touching the crease on his left thumb. The security check hadn't detected anything at all. If it were a normal subspace item, it wouldn't have been so easy, especially since there were dangerous items like guns inside.

  

Pressing a button on the chair brought up a screen showing the view outside the starship.

Although Xilin lived in that poor town, he had been to many places on the planet because of his job as a shadow hunter. Now, he had a different feeling about it, a mixture of emotions.

The towering skyscrapers and bustling cities gradually shrank and blurred, revealing a panoramic view of the planet. For the first time, Xilin saw the true face of "Sky Eye"—a satellite array that monitored the entire ground and could take immediate action, just like that night when it deployed a protective light shield to control the destructive range of the explosion.

Xilin took out the pendant hanging around her neck and showed it what the planet looked like.

"Hena, Master, we're about to set off. I don't know when we'll be back."