Evolving infinitely from ground zero

She wanted to grow up quickly, catch up with Lin Zichen’s footsteps, and fulfill her wish to be known as the unparalleled duo along with Lin Zichen.

Lin Zichen was somewhat surprised.

He hadn’t expected Shen Qinghan would take the initiative to want to do missions to train herself.

He could only say, she had really grown up.

“How about in half a month? I’ll take on an appropriate mission then, and we can do it together.”

“Okay.”

Shen Qinghan nodded her head.

At that moment, Luo Yongjian, who was covered in bandages from several gunshot wounds, walked up to the two of them.

Seeing Shen Qinghan’s deep blue hair, he couldn’t help but ask in puzzlement:

“Shen Qinghan, how did your hair turn blue?”

He clearly remembered Shen Qinghan’s hair was jet black and shiny, so how did it change to blue all of a sudden?

Shen Qinghan replied, “I’ve integrated the genes of the Azure Jellyfish King.”

“You underwent Genetic Fusion?” Luo Yongjian’s eyes widened in shock as he asked, “When did you do the genetic integration?”

Shen Qinghan had a thought, and let the genes of the Azure Jellyfish King enter dormancy within her body, changing her hair back to black again before saying, “Not too long ago, just recently.”

“I see…”

Luo Yongjian nodded, feeling a bit defeated inside.

He had originally thought he could become the third Genetic Integrator in the class, following only after Li Moyu and Ma Xiwei.

Unexpectedly, Shen Qinghan had beaten him to it.

This beautiful girl really kept her talents hidden well. On the surface, she seemed like a pretty vase, but in reality, she was an absolute genius, and he had been completely fooled by her.

Indeed, the most deadly weapon was the invisible show-off.

I’ve learned something…

Luo Yongjian’s mind was full of thoughts, taking a small lesson in showing off from Shen Qinghan.

While the three of them were chatting, the square-faced team leader walked out of the factory.

He came to a stop in front of the trio and said with a smile, “Thanks to the three of you coming to support the operation tonight, we were able to complete it smoothly.”

“As a reward, after we’ve cleared the scene, I’ll treat you to a late-night meal.”

“You can choose anywhere you’d like to go.”

“Thanks for the kind offer, Captain Fang.” Lin Zichen smiled and politely declined, “My girlfriend and I have some things to attend to later, so we need to head back to school. We won’t stay for the late-night meal.”

“That’s too bad, then.”

The square-faced team leader expressed his disappointment but was tactful enough not to invite them again.

Immediately afterward, he turned to a female security officer nearby and called out, “Xiao Liu, Zi Chen and Qinghan have to get back to school later. Please drive them back.”

“Yes, Captain Fang!”

The young female security officer replied excitedly.

Driving two top-tier geniuses back to school was certainly a fine task.

If she could build even a slight connection with the two elites on the way, it would benefit her greatly for the rest of her life.

It wasn’t for nothing that she often brought gifts to the square-faced team leader and cozied up to him in his office. Now her efforts had paid off.

“Captain Fang, we found a box of very strange seeds inside.”

A security officer responsible for cleaning up the factory jogged out and stopped in front of the square-faced team leader to report this matter.

Upon hearing this, the team leader immediately followed the officer into the factory.

Very strange seeds?

Lin Zichen’s first thought was of the Gu Seed from the Divine Plant Cult, so he followed inside the factory to see what was going on.

Seeing this, Shen Qinghan and Luo Yongjian also quickly followed.

…

Inside the factory.

Lin Zichen followed the security officer to a wooden box about the size of a shoebox and stopped.

The box contained a half-full assortment of colorful mysterious seeds, each seed strangely shaped with what appeared to be veins wriggling on their surfaces.

Familiar strange shapes.

Familiar vein movements.

The appearance of these seeds was very similar to the Gu Seeds of the tree demons.

It seemed to be related to the Divine Plant Cult indeed…

With this in mind, Lin Zichen’s brow furrowed slightly, feeling uneasy.

He was very cautious of the Divine Plant Cult.

Whenever the words “Divine Plant Cult” crossed his mind, he remembered the incident when he’d been schemed against by Lu Gang and Wang Shu Jie some time ago.

Meanwhile, the young female security officer—who would later drive Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan back to school—looked at the odd seeds in the box and questioned with curiosity, “Captain, are these plant seeds, or do they look more like insect eggs?”

“They are plant seeds.”

The square-faced team leader explained, “These seeds might be related to the Divine Plant Cult, a heretical sect that has been active in various universities recently. The mysterious plants that have been appearing in the city are likely connected to this sect.”

He quickly had the five captured drug traffickers brought over for questioning.

From their accounts, they learned that a couple of months prior, a mysterious masked person had approached these traffickers, offering them a hefty sum to scatter these seeds everywhere.

Once the seeds took root and sprouted, they would grow into those mysterious unknown plants reported in the news within just a few days.

As for the purpose of these mysterious unknown plants, the five traffickers claimed they didn’t know.

“Not content with drug trafficking, you’ve also become human scum, worse than animals!”

After listening to the traffickers’ tales, Luo Yongjian couldn’t hold back his anger and cursed loudly.

Then, he kicked at the five traffickers in front of him, venting the anger from having been shot.

The square-faced team leader stepped in to moderate, to prevent the traffickers—who were only human— from being beaten to death.

During this time, Lin Zichen reached out to touch the mysterious seeds in the wooden box, to see if he could assimilate them.

Unfortunately, he could not.