Chapter 1693: 566. Work Report of the Pioneers Who Lose Ambition Playing with Objects – Additional Update for Brother ‘Huo Zheng Ting Hao’ [8/30]_2
“I’ve learned to be cautious after spending so much time with you guys.”
“Are you going there alone?”
Little Wei Ming glanced around and said:
“Based on the racial traits of the Thorn Clan published on the forum, I guess many players who favor assassination and stealth factions will switch over; their talents are just perfect for that.
And that battle maniac Giant Shark will surely go with you too, right?”
“Yes, a few of us have already agreed, and we’ve communicated with Count Andrei as well. His White Mountain faction strives to rise rapidly amidst the Black Disaster, and the inclusion of elite warriors is indispensable. He hopes we can be the first batch of foreign assassins.”
Sister Pomegranate exhaled deeply and said:
“With the constant emergence of camps from the seven Vampire clans, the current Vampire players will surely be re-segmented based on their professional traits in the future. Not to mention, the best choice for heavy shield defenders under the Graveblade Guardsman profession system is to join the Blood Covenant Clan to become Blood Knights.
That’s the only true heavy-armored high-level defender within the Vampire system, and besides the Winged Cavalry, it’s the second kind of high-tier knight profession.
The Blood Fear Clan, which has appeared in the players’ view, is famous for producing hunters. If someone like Meow Meow Shark, a Blood race hunter, does not want to become mediocre, he will sooner or later become a member of Blood Fear.
The development team set the seven Vampire clans to such a highly specialized degree, obviously to enrich this race’s power system, opening camps one by one, making choices one by one, and finally, the millennium-long disunity among Vampires will truly be unified by players’ hands.
Isn’t there always a topic of discussion on the forum saying that the combined superior troop types of Vampire clans would form an unbeatable army? I guess this vision will definitely be realized by us in the later stages.
At that time, thanks to the unity among Vampire players, our Governor Murphy will truly become the ‘King of Blood’!
I guess that’s probably the ultimate goal of the Vampire racial main storyline.”
“Wow, who said Sister Pomegranate is dumb?”
Little Wei Ming laughed as she leaned on Sister Pomegranate’s back, rubbing her head while shouting:
“Isn’t she quite smart?”
“I’ve always been smart! It’s just with you freaks I seem a little dazed.”
“Alright, alright, but I have one more question, didn’t you say you were going to fight Brother Cat offline? You’ve never told us the outcome, and now you should, right?”
“Shut up!”
“Oh wow, someone’s getting anxious! It seems you lost offline, no wonder you’re eager to reclaim the scene online.”
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“What is this?”
At the rear of the player group returning to Shadow Valley, Meng HaHa sat on a carriage transporting loot, looking at the notes and folded blueprints in her hands, puzzled as she looked at Lord Qin riding a skeleton horse beside the carriage.
“That’s the textual material I found in the laboratory of the Ratman nest; it reveals the truth about the Ratman’s birth.”
Old Qin, pulling the reins, told Meng HaHa:
“Everyone says you’re a scientist in reality, so I would like to ask you to check out the ‘gold content’ of this thing.”
“You old bloke are truly weird; everyone says this is a game, and isn’t the text in the game just fictional?”
Meng HaHa immediately became alert.
Though not a professional agent, she’s been in the field for quite a while, seeing the mysterious Lord Qin probing her identity, she chuckled and planned to “pass off naively.”
Yet, Lord Qin didn’t respond at all, chuckled a few times, then manipulated the skeleton horse and left.
He seemed completely unconcerned with this matter; he really just came by to deliver something.
Meng HaHa watched Lord Qin’s departing figure with doubt, then opened the notes and looked again. Upon reading words like “genetic blueprint,” “truth of creation,” “Spiritual Energy infusion experiment,” this physicist raised her eyebrows.
In a seemingly real fantasy-background otherworldly continent, seeing such terms buried with key insights really sends chills down one’s spine.
According to the diary, Ratmen were created as biological weapons by a faction called “Scholar” using genetic engineering methods, and the process involved “gene splicing,” sounding very high-tech indeed.
In the real world, although genetic engineering isn’t a new technology, its development can be painstakingly slow.
The main issue is that randomly pairing genes requires considering the “scientific ethics” aspect, and indeed, some lunatic scientists disregard morals and ethics, adopting radical methods for so-called “gene improvement.”
To scientists, such individuals are as threatening as “KB molecules,” but most deadly is that the technology they possess can contaminate the entire human gene pool. Problems may not surface in the short term, but once time is prolonged, artificially intervened genes may get disseminated, causing gene pollution, potentially leading to quite terrifying disaster-level consequences.
Meng HaHa knows there are similar maniacs in the country too, a lunatic conducting experiments on his own daughters, causing considerable uproar for a period.
Precisely because of this, after seeing the contents in the notes, Mengha immediately realized there must be more horrifying matters hidden behind the Ratmen incident.