"This is too suffocating," Bailong couldn't help but say. "These three individuals, trash like them, can kill powerhouses like us just because of their Superman Mode."

Mo Feng suddenly spoke up, "You haven't considered everything. People in this world are divided into two types: the solitary and the collective. Solitary people have their own way of life. For example, after arriving at a base city, they might quietly sell their goods and then leave. If provoked, such a person could completely kill the aggressor and flee the base city before their Superman Mode expires."

"A bare foot fears no one in worn shoes."

"A solitary person who escapes the base city can always disguise themselves and re-enter later. So, the rampant use of Superman Mode is not detrimental to such people."

Mo Feng said coolly, "Collective people have families and subordinates to look after. They can command their underlings to wear down the opponent's Superman Mode, and then kill them—just like those three just now, using successive attacks. Once their Superman Mode dissipates, they need protection from those around them. Solitary people will find an uninhabited place to hide. Everyone has a way to save their own life."

Ye Chen nodded. He shouldn't have been soft earlier. He should have killed the bald man outright and then eliminated those three as well. That way, even if he deactivated his Superman Mode, others wouldn't know if he had activated it, and they wouldn't provoke him so easily.

With his two minutes and thirty seconds of Superman state, Ye Chen could easily use two minutes to slaughter several streets worth of Superman Warriors and use the remaining thirty seconds to escape. Of course, he would only resort to this when absolutely cornered.

"In my previous life, even someone as formidable as Yun Shaojing dared not act recklessly, because every Superman has a moment of vulnerability. Even those Top Ten Superman Warriors had their own factions. That Thor, because of brotherly loyalty, activated his Superman gene and entrusted his life to his subordinates for protection, only to be tragically betrayed by them..."

Ye Chen thought silently. For one person to kill everyone in the entire world was an impossibility in the reality of this world.

Unless...

He succeeded in fusing the God's Blood.

The effect of the God's Blood was to fuse multiple genes. At that time, after activating the Ant Superman state, he could activate another Superman state, allowing him to crush any challenger even when facing successive waves of opponents.

"What a pity..." Ye Chen frowned. "My current physical body is still too weak, only Level 95. Once I reach Level 100, during the life metamorphosis upon talent awakening, I might be able to accelerate the fusion and then integrate a second Superman gene."

Level 100. That was a threshold.

Once crossed, he would awaken his innate talent and experience a massive surge in strength and might.

"After fusing the God's Blood, my genes have changed. I wonder what my innate skill will be this lifetime. If only I could achieve one of the Seven Great High-Tier Talents," Ye Chen mused internally.

"Huh? Ye Chen?" At that moment, a surprised voice drifted from a distance, tinged with a degree of delight.

Everyone paused, turning their heads to look. By the edge of the metal street, a young woman stood amidst a light breeze, clad in a black and white beast-fur garment that accentuated her graceful and lush figure. Below her smooth, flat abdomen stretched a pair of long, fair legs. She leaned into the wind, ethereal, beautiful, and sacred.

"Yo."

"The boss's sweetheart."

"Tsk tsk."

Bailong and Yue Heng exchanged lewd grins, dragging Zhuge Fan and the bewildered Mo Feng along. "Let's go, let's go. Why be a third wheel?"

Ye Chen shot him an annoyed glance. Just then, Murong Xue walked over. Seeing Bailong and the others waving from a distance, she couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle, her lips parting into a beautiful bloom of a smile, a flush of rosy color rising on her cheeks. She was exceptionally lovely.

After laughing for a moment, she looked up at Ye Chen and chided him gently, "You just got back?"

Ye Chen nodded.

Murong Xue huffed, "I thought something had happened to you in the ruins. You haven't contacted me for so long. Do you even consider me a friend?"

Ye Chen offered a wry smile. "I forgot. Um, I have something urgent to attend to shortly and need to leave. I'll find you next time." With that, he turned and walked away into the distance.

Murong Xue froze for a moment, watching Ye Chen's retreating back. She lightly bit her red lip for a long time before letting out a soft sigh and turning to leave.

...

Ye Chen followed the General's Barracks to a metal building. If his memory served him right from his previous life, this was a gene modification factory. Two elite soldiers stood guard at the entrance, their expressions stern, firearms holstered at their waists. Upon seeing Ye Chen, they immediately moved to block him. One of them whispered, "Please step away, sir. This is the Gene Modification Factory. Entry requires authorization."

Ye Chen held out the General's Token. "I have some business to attend to."

The two soldiers glanced at it, and their expressions instantly shifted. They snapped to attention and saluted, "Greetings, General!"

Ye Chen nodded. "Open the doors." A General was a high-ranking official in the Huaxia Base City. While not at the top echelon of Command level, they were comparable to department heads and wielded immense authority.

The two soldiers nodded and pushed the doors open.

Ye Chen stepped inside. The interior was quite spacious, housing ten metal pods resembling gene tanks. Many small robots milled about nearby. At the very front stood a mechanical figure resembling a human woman. Seeing Ye Chen, she hurried forward and bowed, "Greetings, Master."

Ye Chen paused, surprised. "You recognize me?"

This mechanical woman looked identical to a human, with water-blue eyes. She smiled sweetly. "I am Android C-245. All robots in the city have received orders from Elvira to unconditionally obey you, Master."

Ye Chen realized the situation and nodded. "Then help me modify my body. I need to integrate an eye."

"Understood," the mechanical woman replied without surprise, smiling.

Ye Chen flipped his palm and retrieved the eye of the Three-Eyed Wolf from his Rune Space. The black and white eyeball was smooth and glossy, like a pearl. He handed it to the android.

"Please follow me." The mechanical woman led Ye Chen to a metal platform and instructed him to lie down. She secured his head and shone a light onto Ye Chen's left eye, saying with a smile, "Please wait a moment."

Ye Chen waited quietly.

Gene modification was an incredibly marvelous technology capable of transplanting a monster's body parts onto a human. In peacetime, prosthetics, mechanical arms, and the like were merely crude, shallow forms of gene modification, not even touching the genetic level.

However, the gene modification technology of the Atlantean civilization could sculpt creatures like mermaids and unicorns, fusing genes and cells at the fundamental level, making them entirely part of one's own body.

At this point, the mechanical woman applied a viscous fluid around Ye Chen's eye socket, which seeped in. Ye Chen immediately felt the area go numb, completely devoid of sensation.

Subsequently, several small robots gently pried open his eyelid and used a straw-like device to suction his eyeball out of the socket. The scene looked quite terrifying, but Ye Chen's state of mind had reached the Eighth Order of Mortals, and having been mentally prepared, he was not overly shocked.

As the eyeball was removed, Ye Chen felt his left eye's vision suddenly expand. As the detached eye rotated, he could see with his right eye the network of blood vessels and fine filaments connected behind his left ocular globe. The mechanical woman then took a syringe filled with a light green liquid and injected it into the eyeball. The straw-like blood filaments connected to the smooth surface of the eye automatically detached.

Ye Chen instantly lost all vision in his left eye; he couldn't see anything, and the sensation felt uncomfortable. Just then, the mechanical woman presented the processed Three-Eyed Wolf eyeball, which had been treated with various agents, and placed it near the empty socket. The detached blood filaments floated up like tiny snakes and automatically adhered to the back of this new eyeball.

Ye Chen felt a dizzying rush as immense notions of slaughter, ferocity, greed, and bloodlust surged into his mind like a breached Yellow River dyke. It was as if he had been subjected to a deluge of insults, fueling an urge to roar at the heavens and kill everyone he saw.

Ye Chen knew this was the incompatibility felt when the Three-Eyed Wolf's eye fused with his body's genes. He did not panic; maintaining a state of inner calm, he observed himself and the world around him with a macro-perspective, entering a profound, ineffable state.

Time slipped by unnoticed.

After an indeterminate period, Ye Chen felt the murderous intent and bloodlust in his mind gradually suppressed. Having reached the Eighth Order of Mortals, his heart was like a steadfast lighthouse, unmoved even by the curses of ten thousand people—his resolve could not be shaken.

Then, Ye Chen felt his vision return. Opening his eyes, he perceived the world before him had transformed once more. It was sharper, so clear that he could distinctly see the minute dust motes suspended in the air. It felt as if the world had never been so vivid or intimate.

Moving his eyes, Ye Chen felt no discomfort. He sat up from the metal platform and looked at the mechanical woman beside him, asking, "Is it done?"

The mechanical woman nodded, smiling, "Yes. The integration was a success—one hundred percent compatibility!"

Ye Chen nodded, his eyes gleaming. Now, his left eye possessed the same vision as the Three-Eyed Wolf. This eye belonged to an 85th-level Three-Eyed Wolf. Although Ye Chen was only Level 95, meaning his physical strength was ten times less than the wolf's visual perception threshold, the unique structure of the Three-Eyed Wolf's eye allowed it to perceive the movement speed of an individual up to Level 110.

In effect, he now possessed a Level 110 eye.

Ye Chen looked at an eyeball resting on a nearby platform, picked it up with a calm expression, and stored it away. Now, his left eye could be considered the Three-Eyed Wolf's eye, or his own. Thanks to Atlantean high technology, the genes and cells of the Three-Eyed Wolf's eye had perfectly connected with his own body, producing no rejection.

Furthermore, it would strengthen as his body improved, becoming an integral part of him.

"Next time, perhaps a pair of wings," Ye Chen mused internally. That would grant him the ability to fly.

Under the technology of Atlantean civilization's gene transplantation and modification, the human body was essentially a machine that could have any part replaced or repaired like a component. However, the brain cells, memory cells, and similar structures could not be casually swapped; replacing those would result in an entirely different person.