Henry Lincoln smiled and said, “We’re all family here, Old Newton, you don’t need to be so tactful. Among the few of us, I’m the one with the worst talent and the least determination. My only redeeming quality is that I like to eat good food, drink, have fun, and play with new things. That hardly counts as a good trait.”

“Playing comes in different forms.” Old Newton shook his head, but didn’t continue the topic. He pondered for a moment and said, “But now isn’t the best time to strike at Qitianfu. Even if an egg shop gets shut down, it won’t have much impact on the Qi family. We still need to deal with the immediate trouble first.”

“Then let’s go over the details for tomorrow again.” Henry Lincoln knew that Old Newton wanted to say that they shouldn’t lose sight of the bigger picture for something minor, but he didn’t explain, since it really was hard to justify.

The two of them went over all sorts of details together again and again. Close to midnight, Henry Lincoln said to Old Newton, “Go get some rest. We have a tough battle ahead tomorrow, so we need to be well-rested.”

“I’ll sleep in the living room.” Old Newton wanted to say more, but seeing Henry Lincoln yawning nonstop, he gave up.

Henry Lincoln nodded, returned to his room, lay on the bed, and took out the mosaic-covered gene mutation egg from his pocket. He examined it for a long time but still couldn’t find anything wrong.

“Let’s hope for a good result tomorrow.” Henry Lincoln’s eyelids drooped, and he fell into a deep sleep hugging the gene mutation egg.

Chapter 006: The Mighty Strength Contract

When he woke up, it was just barely dawn. Henry Lincoln turned to look, and sure enough, the mosaic on the gene mutation egg had disappeared, and more information appeared in his mind.

Now he could see clearly: this was a gene mutation egg of the Hundred-Refined Steel Beast, and it didn’t seem any different from an ordinary Hundred-Refined Steel Beast gene mutation egg.

[Failed Super Gene Evolution Fire Seed: Mighty Strength Contract.]

“Mighty Strength Contract: Raise a creature and form a contract with it. Every day, run a kilometer while carrying the creature. As the creature grows and its weight increases, you will gain strength equal to the creature’s weight. This fire seed is unique and can only form a Mighty Strength Contract with one creature.”

Henry Lincoln was instantly both surprised and delighted, thinking to himself, “Isn’t this the legendary ‘carrying the calf’ technique?”

According to folklore, there was a cowherd who carried a newborn calf every day from home to the mountain to graze.

As the calf grew bigger, the cowherd’s strength grew day by day. By the time the cow matured, the cowherd had become a strongman capable of lifting a thousand pounds.

This was obviously an unscientific training method. A calf can grow to several hundred or even a thousand pounds in just a few months, but a human’s strength can’t increase that fast.

So in reality, it wouldn’t be long before the cowherd couldn’t carry the calf anymore, and it would be impossible to keep getting stronger.

But the Mighty Strength Contract could turn the impossible into possible, making this unscientific theory come true.

In theory, as long as he could find the young of a gigantic creature, Henry Lincoln’s strength could increase without limit.

Being able to lift a cow isn’t that impressive for a gene mutator, but what if it was a giant gene mutation creature?

According to what Henry Lincoln knew, some gene mutation creatures were much larger and heavier than whales.

All Henry Lincoln needed was to get his hands on such a gene mutation egg and raise it from infancy, and he could gain strength so terrifying that ordinary people couldn’t even imagine it. That was just too awesome.

The only problem was, where could he get such a gene mutation egg?

Among the gene mutation eggs Henry Lincoln could access, the Hundred-Refined Steel Beast was already the largest. Even some giant alloy creatures weren’t much bigger or heavier than the Hundred-Refined Steel Beast.

However, Henry Lincoln had seen some footage before, and some of the gene mutation creatures in those videos were as huge as dragons. If he could get such a gene mutation egg, the Mighty Strength Contract would be a bug-level ability.

But most of those gene mutation creatures were crystal gene creatures. Not to mention whether he could get a crystal gene creature’s egg, even if he could, their growth cycle was long—some needed years or even decades to reach maturity.

By comparison, steel creatures had a shorter growth cycle, but it was hard to find one that was especially huge.

If he wanted the best of both worlds, he’d have to put in some effort to find a super-sized steel creature, and that wasn’t something that could be solved quickly.

Even with money, there was nothing like that in the Xuanbird Base. Unless he went to other large bases, there might be hope.

Henry Lincoln wasn’t in a hurry. Even if he used the Hundred-Refined Steel Beast for the contract now, he couldn’t gain strength immediately anyway, and it wouldn’t be useful for this recruitment conference.

Henry Lincoln stared at the Hundred-Refined Steel Beast gene mutation egg. The information about forming a blood contract appeared in his mind, but he didn’t choose to do it. Instead, he put it into the incubation chamber.

There were two other gene mutation eggs in the incubation chamber: one was a steel gene mutation egg “Steel-Tailed Scorpion,” and the other was a steel gene mutation egg “Xuan Iron Swallow.” Both were gene mutation eggs that had previously contained fire seeds.

Henry Lincoln wanted to hatch them and see how they differed from ordinary Steel-Tailed Scorpions and Xuan Iron Swallows.

When he got to the living room, Old Newton was already waiting there.