The Favored Son of Heaven

“Of course I believe in you, I just want to double-check…”

“We promise that it won’t affect your handsome appearance at all.”

The staff finally couldn’t bear it anymore. He was answered before he could ask the seventh time.

If it was not for the fact that Lin Liqiang was a martial dao master and they couldn’t knock him out with a punch, these staff would have long tried to knock him out with either a punch or a hammer. They would first knock this noisy guy out so that the lab could be a little quieter.

“Hi beautiful, I mean, after I finished with the operation, are you interested in coming with me to a quiet and romantic place? Let’s have a drink together, talk about life ideals, and perhaps we can even research the sacred mystery of human reproduction?”

“Hey handsome, I see that you look hot. Do you happen to have a sister? Is your sister pretty too? How about introducing her to me? I’m a fine man, you know.”

All staff showed a skeptical look. They were wondering if this guy was really the genius in the field of biology.

The operation was not done in the way that Qin Fan imagined, with a group of mad scientists carrying axes and chainsaws to open up the skulls of Lin Liqiang and Enzo Rota and abusing their brains, leaving the ground bloodied.

Almost no knives were used throughout the entire operation. They didn’t open Lin Liqiang’s skull either. The staff took out some strange tubes, all with a small needle at the end, and quickly inserted the tubes into Lin Liqiang’s head. They inserted the other ends of the tubes into the brain living in the nutrient solution.

Strange liquid flowed along the transparent tubes and into Lin Liqiang’s head little by little. Qin Fen couldn’t tell the difference at that time, whether those were body fluid or data energy. The whole scene was progressing rapidly.

The staff members were carefully staring at complicated data on a screen, and they would manually adjust some strange buttons from time to time. This wasn’t a complicated operation with the procedures involved. However, each staff member had cold sweat on their forehead.

One would never be able to feel the thrill if he was not an expert in this field.

About ten hours had passed, and the heavy iron door opened again. Yang Lie and the others in their stunning military uniforms appeared at the door. The smile on their faces suddenly stiffened when they saw Lin Liqiang and Enzo Rota.

“This is…”

Yang Lie looked at Qin Fen, puzzled. The brain was the most sensitive part of humans. No matter how great a martial artist was, or how highly integrated his biochemical beast was, death would still be waiting for him if his brain or heart was damaged.

Qin Fen called out the mental power clip that he had watched before. The introductory clip would definitely be more clear than his explanation as an amateur.

After Brooks and the others finished watching it, they looked confused, as if they, too, couldn’t accept the fact that technology nowadays had become this advanced.

In today’s Federation, the top leaders in society were not scientists nor politicians and armies, but the incredibly powerful divine beast martial artists.

Such common sense in life and society was the reason why Brooks and the others chose to focus on the martial dao journey and were no longer distracted by other things. Although they all had good high school results, they still couldn’t step into other professional fields.

The brain was still connected to Lin Liqiang. Everyone looked at the projections on the wall, bored. It was playing some clips about the types of creatures in Pandora that required the most attention.

The Queen Bee’s subordinate, Yaglu. It was a name given to the creature by itself. In the eyes of humans, this was a new creature that combined the advantages of humans with the advantages of spiders. It had a strong body without the fat belly of a spider.

Yaglu walked upright like a human, and the front and back of its head each had one eye. It had two strong arms on its back, with its palms possessing the ability to shoot web-like materials. Its ribs could pierce out from under the skin with the firing power of machine guns. It had two teeth as hard as rocks in its mouth.

Compared to the strength of a human master, Yaglu, which was a rare creature, had the strength of a seventeen-star. It might not have the same Humanity or Ground Aura Shield of a human, but its body was extremely strong. Thus, it had that advantage to compensate for the shortcoming of not forming an aura shield with its true energy.

Sudum: this creature could be considered strange even among the other creatures produced by the Queen Bee.

It was three meters in height and had a strong build, like a small-scaled mobile armor. It was burly and tall like Pangu¹ in Oriental mythology. The bronze skin flashed with real metal luster, its long black hair could harden to the point where it could penetrate a steel plate several feet thick easily.

The most surprising thing was that Sudum, who looked about seventy percent human, also had the special ability to control gravity! Its origin was very unique. It was born after the Queen Bee devoured a few humans, a monster that looked like a porcupine, and a human’s gravity machine!

The machine was originally a special training equipment used by the garrisons. They did not expect that the Queen Bee would give birth to creatures that possessed this kind of weird ability after she swallowed the machine.

The strengths of these four Sudums were different, and even the strengths of their gravity control abilities were different. Perhaps the Queen Bee had devoured way too many humans, thus gaining the ability to count. These four children of hers had numbers on their foreheads sorted according to their strengths – 1, 2, 3, 4!

These four Sudums grew up according to the numbers given by the Queen Bee. Even when they had cultivated human martial art later in their lives, the ranking of their strengths was the same as the original numbers, with 1 being the strongest and 4 being the weakest!

Twenty times of gravity! Number one Sudum underwent continuous hardcore training. Under the test of the Founding Society, they made speculations of its potential strength condition. The strength of this monster was definitely comparable to an eighteen-star human master. Plus with its special ability of twenty times gravity, it could even defeat a nineteen-star master with Ground Aura Shield.

Number four Sudum only had the ability of five times gravity and the strength of a sixteen-star peak level. Even so, when it encounters a sixteen-star peak level martial artist, it would be able to reverse the whole situation if it used the five times gravity at the critical moment. It would be the key to a life or death situation.

After initially missing out on the development opportunities of technology, the Queen Bee family had entered the condition of biological evolution. There were all kinds of peculiar creatures, with all kinds of peculiar abilities that were either useful or useless.

Sometimes, one egg would hatch into thousands of creatures instead of just one. These creatures were as tiny as a human’s thumb. They had wings and could fly at a high speed in the sky. Their mouths could squirt highly corrosive liquid acid, and they had pairs of strong teeth that could easily bite through small wood.

When thousands of such creatures came together, they were a group of crazy bandits and thugs. They smashed and bit everything, including the rocks in their way, into dust.

The operation took a total of twenty-four hours to complete. The brain, which had been soaked in nutrient solution, seemed to be a little smaller than before, and even the color looked a little paler. Several staff members carefully took it back to its original position.

“Young man… this surgery is basically a successful one…”

The brain sounded exhausted, and the operation just seemed to have done a lot of damage to him.

“Basically?” Qin Fen didn’t like the word at all. Even if he didn’t understand the top scientific community, he still understood the difference between ‘basically’ and ‘completely’.

The more advanced the technology was, the bigger the difference it would be for ‘basically’ and ‘completely’. When it came to the Integration of Brains, which was extremely mysterious to an extent that no ordinary man could understand it, the results could be completely different even with just a tiny error.

“Young man, don’t worry.” The brain couldn’t seem to recover from the exhaustion, “I said ‘basically’ because I am not sure if their mental power could be successfully stimulated after the Integration of Brains. As for the inheritance of knowledge, it was perfectly done, no mistakes.”

On the operating table, Lin Liqiang suddenly opened his eyes and his biochemical beast activated. Although the Founding Society’s medicine could also cure the small openings in his head during the operation, the recovery rate was slow and could not compare to the speed of a biochemical beast.

Enzo Rota did an unusual move — he raised his arms high over the head and stretched. He gently twisted his waist and blinked his eyes.

“Old Enz, how do you feel?” Lin Liqiang jumped off the operating table and rotated his neck. “I thought I was going crazy. I didn’t expect it to feel good.”

“Yeah.” Enzo Rota nodded and looked up at the brain, “Experiment.”

“Experiment?” The brain didn’t seem to understand so it asked to Enzo Rota, “What experiment?”

“It’s the mental power experiment you’ve said.” Qin Fen said, “Young Master Enz meant he feels good now so he wants to experiment with the mental power right away.”

The brain was silent for a moment. The staff were also silent and looked at Qin Fen in surprise. Enzo Rota said only one word and you managed to translate this much, should we believe you?

“You’re indeed one of the closest friends to Old Enz.” Lin Liqiang wrapped his arms around Qin Fen and Enzo Rota and he looked at the brain, “You can rest assure, Old Qin is definitely not translating Young Master Enz’s words incorrectly. Even if he actually translates it incorrectly someday, Young Master Enz will still say that he is right.”

“I get it now.” The brain immediately ordered, “Bring us ten fighting robots.”

The heavy iron door opened and closed, then opened and closed again. The staff pushed in a batch of fighting robots that was called ‘chicken ribs¹‘ by the military experts.

“How you can detect whether you’ve owned the mental power and how to use it, you should have a manual on these in your brain now.” The brain had high expectations, “So, Enzo Rota, if you feel that you have mental power now, just try and control a fighting robot with the methods calculated by us. Don’t force yourself; according to our hypothesis, someone who has just acquired mental power may not be able to control a fully functioning fighting robot. In the corner of the truck, we have a few practice robots one foot tall, maybe you can…”

The cold room was suddenly lit up by twenty rays of red lasers! The eyes of the ten fighting robots which were still on the truck lit up all of a sudden. They raised their right arms which were modified into the Six-barrel Gatling guns in unison, and then fired at Du Peng. All they could hear was the ear-shattering noise of metal guns firing.

Hong hong hong hong hong… hong hong hong hong… hong hong hong hong…

Ten six-barrel Gatling guns fired with glaring light. The metal shells fell to the ground with loud clinks. The all-shattering metal torrents whistled and slashed the air, penetrating the space and approaching Du Peng.

The staff had yet to scream. Du Peng’s hands glided in front of his chest in an eerie manner as the overwhelming metal bullets stopped in front of him. Then, they were all sliced in half in an instance as if some sort of machines had cut them from the middle. The smooth cut surfaces were shiny and reflective.

The clinks of bullet shells continued. Ten fighting robots had started to move at high speed. They formed a variety of true cover formations, utilizing crossfire, and continued to fire at Du Peng from different directions.

The battle started very abruptly and ended just as quickly. The fighting robots had a firing rate of six thousand bullets per minute. It only took them ten seconds as their bodies were only loaded with a thousand bullets.

The pungent smell of gunpowder filled the icy room, and the room temperature rose rapidly after the roar of the six-barrels Gatling guns just now.

Several scientific experts were coughing due to the smoke — some were even shedding tears — and many had to cover their nose and mouth with their hands. They looked surprisingly at Enzo Rota who controlled ten fighting robots at once.

The red lasers from the ten fighting robots’ eyes were gradually dimming, and finally, they turned completely dark. The people had yet to catch their breath when the ten fighting robots suddenly broke out with the red lasers again. They had no bullets in their hands, but the left hands popped a sharp knife and rushed towards Du Peng who was at the other end of the room.

Ten metal-made fighting robots, under the control of Lin Liqiang, instantly brought out dozens of glaring knives and aimed to attack Du Peng immediately.

A burst of metal colliding sounded as Du Peng stood quietly at the same spot. The fighting robots that rushed towards him had already backed off. The metal knives in their hands were shattered into pieces, and their fiercely red eyes had dimmed again.

The flashing light bulbs that were connected to the brain were flashing rapidly at that moment. The researchers were quiet and all looked at the two of them who had just controlled the fighting robots with mental power.

“You…” The brain couldn’t finish its words. It badly wanted to ask these two if they had mental power before. However, he gave up with the questioning. There was something called the mental gateway which existed for the mental power. one would never be able to use mental power if they didn’t open the mental gateway.

In the operation just now, Number One clearly felt that both Lin Liqiang and Enzo Rota’s mental gateways were indeed closed. As for whether the surgery had helped them open the mental gateways or not, it was something it wouldn’t know.

However! Number One knew one thing: according to their long-term mental power research, when ordinary people first acquired mental power, it would be a very weak mental power. It wouldn’t be an easy task for them to even control a fighting robot that was half foot tall and of low power.

With a newly-awakened mental power, if one could control a normal fighting robot, it would be considered great mental power in their theory. No matter how genius these two guys are in other fields, this was just too out of this world! Are they geniuses in this field of mental power as well?

Not mentioning the fact that they could already control ten fighting robots at the same time with their newly-awakened strength, what was scarier was the movement speed of these fighting robots. The scary degree of controlling proficiency was as if they had practiced millions of times!

It shouldn’t be! It shouldn’t be! This doesn’t match the previously deduced data! The performance of these two is much higher than the speculated data.

The lights that represented the brain’s thinking processes were flashing rapidly, and the other researchers’ expressions were pale too. Do you two feel unsatisfied if you don’t do something to scare people? Such performance… they’ve just finished with the Integration of Brains’ operation, and they could have such performance…

“Holy! So this is mental power?” Xue Tian’s pale face finally had a rosy luster. He patted Lin Liqiang’s shoulder with one hand, “Young Master Lin, you better not keep this toy to yourself after this.”

Several researchers secretly admired this young man carrying katana, as he was really someone who understood science. He had realized at the first instant that if there were mental power masters cooperating with martial artists in a battle, that’ll be absolutely…

“Don’t you worry, Young Master Xue! When you’re pursuing a girl, I’ll do everything I can to help with my mental power.”

“You’re indeed my good friend, Young Master Lin! Always know what I am thinking!”

The people who had secretly praised and admired Xue Tian resisted the urge to slap themselves in the faces, as well as the urge to kick Xue Tian. How dare these two kids use their great invention that they’ve worked hard in developing for chasing girls? This invention could be used to open up a new era for the future human world! Such kids should be dragged out and shot dead for a hundred times as a punishment for not respecting science!

“It’s a pity…” Enzo Rota looked at the projection screen with an extremely disappointed expression.

The thinking bulbs for Number One started to flash rapidly once again. It found out that when Enzo Rota said that it was a pity, he was staring at the unmanned combat aircraft in the projection screen.

A person who just awakened with the mental power wasn’t satisfied even after controlling ten fighting robots; he was now trying to control an unmanned combat aircraft. Although Number One was left with only a brain, it felt a sense of inferiority. These two young men were simply too out of this world when compared to our deduced data.

“I mean, Number One.” Lin Liqiang looked up at it, “How many of these fighting robots do you have with you?”

Number One hesitated and said, “More than two hundred of them.”

“Yes? Would you mind giving Young Master Enz and me one hundred of them each?” Lin

Liqiang smiled and narrowed his eyes, “Old Qin, aren’t you guys going into Pandora? Count the two of us in. Let’s give these things a try. Don’t forget to provide us with enough firepower.”