Chapter 207 - Evolution (1/2)

“Chen Feiyu, I heard that you lost today.”

Five men dressed in camouflage uniforms stood in front of the pot, blocking the rays of the sun.

“At least I’m still alive.” Chen Feiyu said while gently fanning the flame under the pot with a broken paper fan. He spoke without even looking up, “I am never going to be a drug dealer. And don’t even try bringing my sister into this. If she were to find out that the money used to treat her body came from dealing drugs, she would kill herself.”

Amongst the men in the camouflage uniforms, there was one who had a pin on his shoulder that signified the ranking of a Federal Lieutenant. He smiled and squatted down. He asked as he fanned away the ashes from the fire, “You’ve been in Luang Namtha for almost three years now, haven’t you?”

Chen Feiyu did not deny and nodded. It was too easy for a general-level organization to find out about things like this.

“Three years…” said the man with the lieutenant pin as if he was speaking to himself. “That is not a short period of time at all. Previously you were at your peak as a five-star. Three years later you are still at five-star. Besides the purification of your combat skills, nothing else seemed to have upgraded.”

“What about it?” Chen Feiyu remained indifferent and continued to maintain the rate of the Shandong fire. “My ability and capability are limited. A five-star warrior like me is not at all worthy for General Wang to send me daily invites.”

Qin Fen’s thick eyebrows twitched a few times. He felt an obvious difference in the heart rate of the man beside him the moment he heard Chen Feiyu admit that his strength had not improved within these three years.

“Hehe, perhaps.” The people did not refute Chen Feiyu, but instead nodded and said, “To be honest, I think that you have limited talent as well. But our general has his eyes on you. And so, he even prepared an evolution pearl for you.”

Qin Fen looked at the man, somewhat taken aback. Even though it was said on the information that Wang Hao was very generous, the actual reality was still pretty shocking compared to a simple information presentation.

Evolution pearls were very different from violent pearls and armor pills.

As martial artists trains to improve their own strength, the chances of encountering a bottleneck phenomenon would also increase. For some, they could no longer break through the bottleneck after entering the Meteor level. Others would probably be lucky enough to only encounter a bottleneck after entering the Comet level.

When people could not overcome the bottleneck no matter how hard they train or meditate, they would start considering the use of external forces to help them overcome the bottleneck.

So some people put their eyes on the biochemical beast, and some people put their eyes on the medication.

The evolution pearl was a kind of medicine that was created for martial artists who were unable to break through their bottleneck phenomenon.

This was a drug similar to drugs used for the cleaning of marrow, each of which required a lot of expensive materials to make.

It was ironic that with the development of technology, people were still unable to make medicine like the evolution pearl despite the high precision that technology could achieve.

Countless people have tried to use the most accurate instruments to come up with the most accurate manufacturing process in order to create the evolution pearl.

As a result, all of these people failed. Instead, pharmacists could only produce such medicine with a certain amount of luck by using their bare hands and observing with their eyes.

The price of this pearl was very expensive; it could be said to be around the same price of advanced biochemical beasts.

However, because of this, the evolution pearl did not guarantee a 100% success rate in helping these martial artists. All it could do was increase the possibility of them breaking through their bottleneck.

Moreover, the evolution pearl would be almost worthless to martial artists who were already extremely powerful.

Naturally, the effectiveness of an evolution pearl would be higher for Meteor level martial artists than those of the Comet level.

The ability of such expensive medicine allowing a certain breakthrough could also explain why the ability of most sons from wealthy homes were superior to those of average homes.

With the power of money, sons of the rich could use this for accumulation. After all, if one evolution pearl did not work for those who are truly wealthy, they could always get a second or a third one.

Of course, the pearl would first have to be available for purchase.

To a drug lord like Wang Hao, an evolution pearl was only worth a small amount. Regardless of anything else, his power only rose up recently. It wasn’t of a family-based traditional power.

Qin Fen noticed a slight twitch of the muscles located at the roots of Chen Feiyu’s ear with the corner of his eye.

“I am grateful for the overwhelming love given by General Wang,” Chen Feiyu looked up directly into their eyes, “But I would never be a drug dealer.”

The second lieutenant who spoke was in shock. Even for martial artists who were not facing a bottleneck phenomenon, an evolution pearl would still be of great appeal to them.

No one can guarantee that they would never encounter bottlenecks in the future. The second lieutenant had never heard nor seen of someone who had entered a bottleneck phase for at least three years, and still managed to resist the temptations of an evolution pearl.

“Are you not going to even consider it for a while?” The lieutenant was hesitant on giving up, “Our general does not require you to do this for a lifetime. You are free to leave once you have made a corresponding contribution. And if then you wished to get income from places like Gruesome Madness in order to provide for your sister, you would have the advantage of accessing higher levels and winning bigger prizes.”