“I actually have nine thousand energy points, while Queen Mother only carried five thousand energy when she was in her egg form! What on earth did these aliens do to me? I wonder if their laws have any clauses that would make them take responsibility after playing with my body like this!” Sensing the mental fluctuations of Queen Mother, my mind was running wild with thoughts.

Chapter Twelve: A Life-and-Death Crisis That Shouldn’t Have Happened

Old Chief suddenly stopped in his tracks and shouted loudly, “This is the place! Carter! I will throw you down without mercy, and you will definitely awaken your life potential and become an outstanding man!”

“No! Old Chief, I’m not ready yet... ah!” Just as the modulation process was almost complete, Old Chief threw me off the mountain peak.

“Modulation complete, cell stability check complete, gene structure check complete, bone hardness check complete... splash!”

The impact from falling off the mountain peak made me sink straight to the bottom of the pool. The pool beneath the mountain was extremely deep; even after seven or eight minutes, I still hadn’t reached the bottom. The force of the impact nearly knocked me out. My limbs and chest felt as if they’d been smashed by a giant iron hammer, and blood seeped from all my facial orifices.

Just as I was regaining consciousness, another serious problem surged into my mind. “Crap, I remember I didn’t know how to swim back on Earth...”

I flailed my limbs desperately. Maybe I was lucky, or maybe my modulated body had enough buoyancy, but I slowly floated to the surface. Of course, even after this life-and-death bungee jump, my body structure was still completely different from the local inhabitants of this planet, and I still couldn’t awaken any of that so-called life-origin battle energy.

The sign of this ability manifesting is the faint mist that often appears around Grace Walker.

A few days ago, I secretly ordered Lifeboat 15 to approach Riverdale Village and scan everyone in the village, so I had a general understanding of their physical structure.

Truly worthy of being the crystallization of the giant energy civilization’s wisdom, these villagers’ genetic makeup contains some very special segments. These gene segments are quite unstable and will undergo intense changes when stimulated by external forces, thereby forming energy channels within the body.

To use a simple analogy, these energy channels are similar to the meridians often mentioned in martial arts novels on Earth. They can absorb certain energies from nature, such as solar energy, geomagnetic energy, or various energies produced by chemical reactions within the body, to enhance physical strength and athletic ability.

For the earliest modified people, these energy channels were probably all open, but after several generations of inheritance, some features disappeared, turning dominant genes into recessive ones.

“This won’t do. If Old Chief sees that I haven’t awakened any life-origin battle energy and throws me down a few more times, what am I going to do?”

After finally crawling up onto the shore, Lifeboat 15, which hadn’t contacted me in a long time, suddenly sent me an alert: “A dangerous creature equivalent to a level-seven or higher bio-beast is approaching you. Please use bomb drones for large-scale coverage bombing. Please use bomb drones for large-scale bombing...”

This warning scared me out of my wits. I hurriedly called for the bomb drones, but they were a full kilometer away and would take a few minutes to arrive. I cursed inwardly, “Why are you only warning me now? Couldn’t you have said something earlier?”

Lifeboat 15 replied in a tone like eating dumplings without soy sauce, “The danger is coming from the lake behind you. The water is too deep for my psychic scan to penetrate.”

Hearing that the danger was coming from the lake, I quickly moved away from the shore. A monster that looked like a centipede, seven or eight meters long and dazzlingly colorful, burst out of the water. I don’t know what method it used, but it actually floated above the water, gliding through the air toward me.

Suddenly seeing such a ferocious monster, I was scared out of my wits and ran for my life, grabbing the grenade beast in my hand. After so many days of training, plus the modulation from Queen Mother, my physical fitness was now incredibly strong, and I could run as fast as a monkey. The monster was clearly an aquatic creature; although it could slither through the air on land, its speed was much slower and it couldn’t catch up to me for the moment.

Turning my head, I raised the grenade beast and fired twice, but the centipede-like monster dodged both shots nimbly. However, it was also somewhat wary of the thunderous blasts I could unleash. In just this brief moment, my swarm of bomb drones rushed over. Under the command of my mental waves, the bomb drones split into dozens of bombing groups, and the two closest ones buzzed their wings and dove down.

These bio-guided bomb drones are extremely hard to evade. The centipede-like multi-legged monster, not knowing the danger, actually shrank its body and then suddenly expanded, trying to swallow my two bomb drones.

I was a bit too anxious and didn’t wait for the colorful monster to swallow the bomb drones before giving the detonation order—I triggered it a bit early. The bomb drones’ eyes glowed blood-red, and as they neared the monster’s head, they suddenly self-detonated.

The violent explosion sent a shockwave through the air, and even though I was still dozens of steps away, I felt a wave of pressure hit me.