The red-haired beauty chuckled softly at the side, inwardly admiring Brian Carter's wild imagination. "This really is a brilliant idea. With the gene optimization serum, you can forcibly unlock the seventh brain region and enhance your own abilities. Maybe you really could become a strong one."

"The most important thing is, on a 0.5-level planet, even if you have money, it's almost impossible to buy gene optimization serum. Primitive man, I have to admit you do have a bit of cleverness." The red-haired beauty's starry eyes sparkled as she said, "Noah Bennett Director, are you planning to grant his request?"

Noah Bennett's chubby face twisted with anger, but suddenly, a thought struck him.

"Heh, it's a small matter." The fat Noah Bennett wore a sly, old-fox smile. "Isn't it just a bottle of gene optimization serum? I'll have someone bring it over in a bit."

Brian Carter couldn't believe his ears. It wasn't until Noah Bennett and the red-haired beauty disappeared at the end of the corridor that he finally came to his senses.

"Damn, I miscalculated this time. Looks like this legendary gene optimization serum is actually a cheap thing to them. I should have asked for two bottles." Brian Carter muttered to himself in annoyance.

……

Noah Bennett respectfully escorted the red-haired beauty out of the secret police headquarters.

"You really agreed to give him a bottle of gene optimization serum? You know, even the cheapest costs at least fifty thousand star coins per bottle, right?" The red-haired beauty asked with a hint of surprise.

Noah Bennett slapped his own belly hard. In fact, he meant to slap his chest, but unfortunately, everything below his head was belly.

"We are the secret police, after all. We can afford this much. After wronging him for so long, we have to offer some compensation, don't we?" Noah Bennett said shamelessly.

The red-haired beauty smiled faintly. With her status, such trivial matters were not worth her attention. She nimbly hopped into a red convertible sports car and disappeared at the end of the street without looking back.

Noah Bennett returned to his office on the twenty-sixth floor, sat in his oversized swivel chair, and revealed a sinister smile.

He pressed a button on his desk with his chubby finger, and a light screen suddenly appeared on the desktop.

On the screen was a man in his thirties, dressed in black, with a lean, bamboo-like figure that made him look very capable.

"Director, what is it?" the lanky man asked.

"Nathan Black, I remember yesterday we seized a batch of smuggled gene optimization serum, didn't we?"

"Yes, a total of seventy-four bottles, with no place of origin or labels. I suspect this batch is completely counterfeit."

"Excellent!" The fat Noah Bennett grinned wickedly. "Give that Earth kid on the seventh underground floor a bottle. Don't say anything. Let him take it after he returns to Earth."

Nathan Black frowned tightly. "Director, this batch of serum has an unknown origin, and the test report isn't out yet. If he uses it, it could be fatal."

Noah Bennett slammed the desk angrily. "Your job is to obey, not to question. Do as I say, and have someone send him back to that damned Earth as well."

Snap!

Without waiting for Nathan Black to reply, Noah Bennett directly shut off the light screen.

"Kid, you brought this on yourself." Noah Bennett muttered to himself, a trace of ruthlessness on his face.

……

A few hours later, Brian Carter boarded the spaceship home, holding a box containing the gene optimization serum.

At the same time, in the office of Blue Ocean Star's secret police chief Noah Bennett, the communication light screen suddenly lit up.

"Director, bad news! The research report is out. That batch of gene optimization serum is Purple Jade!" The skinny Nathan Black said anxiously.

Noah Bennett was slightly stunned. "What is Purple Jade?"

On the screen, Nathan Black rubbed his palms anxiously. "Director, Purple Jade is a super gene optimization serum invented thirteen years ago by top scientist Harris. It's said that he spent sixty years of painstaking effort on it. But in clinical trials, all 179 participants died after taking the Purple Jade gene optimization serum! Harris went on the run out of guilt. This isn't a gene optimization serum at all—it's the deadliest poison!"

Noah Bennett nodded as if suddenly enlightened. "I remember now. Wasn't this gene optimization serum classified as a universe-level banned drug? How did it end up on the market? Send those smugglers to the Planetary Security Bureau. They're finished this time!"

"Yes, sir!" Nathan Black hesitated, "What about that young man?"

Noah Bennett's face hardened. "What young man? I don't know anything about that."

Chapter 0002 Gene Optimization Serum

On the night of April 12, 2019 AD, a spaceship silently appeared at an abandoned construction site in the southern suburbs of Beijing. A few minutes later, the spaceship slipped away into the night sky as quietly as it had come, as if it had never appeared at all.

Interstellar travel is much faster than people imagine. Jump engine technology has made the distances between planets much shorter.

From Blue Ocean Star to Earth is nearly two hundred thousand light-years, but the spaceship made only four jumps before arriving at Earth. The whole trip took just a few hours, and Brian Carter was unceremoniously kicked off before he could even enjoy his time in space.

Orienting himself, Brian Carter strode forward, casually feeling the thin bills in his pocket. He didn't need to count; he knew there were seventy-three yuan in total. This was all he had left in the world.