Super Gene Optimization Fluid

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Tony took the money and went to fill out the paperwork.
Xia Fan sent off Big Eyes and his brothers to go and play, and then went with Gerry to sit on some empty chairs in the lawn.

Xia Fan said some comforting words to Gerry and told him to live a good life here.

Gerry nodded, and then untied a cord from his neck.
There was a simple computer chip on the cord, which he stuffed into Xia Fan’s hand.

“What is this?” Xia Fan asked curiously.

Gerry solemnly replied, “The chip contains a set of coordinates, the coordinates of the place where I found the remains with the winged symbol.”

Gerry awkwardly scratched his head.
“According to the rulers, salvagers listen to everything their employer says, going wherever their employer goes.
During the voyage, they’re usually in a complete lockdown so that they don’t get access to any useful coordinates.
They’re also searched every day and managed very strictly.”

Xia Fan nodded his understanding.

Salvagers made a living by scavenging shipwrecks; the coordinates of those shipwrecks were secrets held by the salvage companies or the bosses of the private salvaging teams.

After all, there were no laws in the Outer Frontier.
Anyone who found the wrecks could salvage them!

If the salvagers sold the coordinates of wrecks to a competitor for their personal profit, they could cause massive losses to a salvage company.

Thus, salvage companies managed salvagers very strictly.
They were locked up in a lower hold and were searched whenever they boarded or left the ship.

In such conditions, how had Gerry managed to bring a coordinate finder into the salvage company and ultimately obtain the coordinates to that wreckage?

Before Xia Fan could ask, Gerry very bashfully said, “I wasn’t a very by-the-books person back then.
I snuck the coordinate finder into the salvage company, and then I naturally sold coordinates to others.

“At the start, I made a lot of money.
But I was also very reckless when I was younger, spending all my money in bars.
After all, the money came easy, and it was fun spending it all.

“Alas, the good days didn’t last for long.
The people at the salvage company slowly realized that I wasn’t following the rules, so I lost my job as a salvager.
The other companies knew I wasn’t clean, so no one else wanted to hire me.

“After I lost my job and spent all my money, I could only be a junk collector.

“Junk collectors make much less than salvagers, and my living conditions grew harder and harder.
By the time I was older, there was no turning back.

“Now that I think back on it, I’m truly filled with remorse.
If I hadn’t been so greedy and just done my job, I wouldn’t have ended up a beggar.

“Alas, there is no medicine for regret.
I have to bear the punishment for the sins I committed in my youth.”

Xia Fan nodded.
“How did you bring the coordinate finder into the salvage company?”

Gerry’s face reddened, and he embarrassedly pointed at his butt.
“I put it in there.
Even if I was stripped naked, nobody would check there.
It just hurt a lot.”

Xia Fan was enlightened, and Traveling Buddha was gobsmacked.
He had never imagined that someone would put a coordinate finder in a place like that just to get the coordinates of a wreck.
Could it really fit? Would it not bleed?”

“Understood,” Xia Fan nodded.
“So if I go to these coordinates, I can find the place you spoke of? Right, what sort of place is it?”

Gerry suddenly turned grim.
“Boss, are you really going to try and find that place?”

“Of course.”

“Personally?”

“Mm.”

Gerry slapped his head and regretfully said, “If I had known that, I wouldn’t have told you.

“Boss, you have so much money, so why go yourself? You should find someone else to help you.
After all, that place is truly very dangerous.”

Traveling Buddha only got excited after he heard that it was dangerous, curiously asking, “Come on, tell us, what sort of place is it? Is it fun?”

“Fun?” Gerry looked at Traveling Buddha in disbelief.
He very seriously said, “Trust me.
That place isn’t fun at all.
That place is outside of a circular cosmic storm!”

…

On the road to the spaceport, Xia Fan pensively looked out the window at the passing scenery.

According to Gerry, the wreckage where the Skywing symbol was found was located outside of a cosmic storm vortex.

The salvage company’s technicians had deduced that there was more wreckage inside the storm, but the fierce rotation of the storm would still occasionally shoot wreckage out of the storm.

The salvage company had found that wreckage.
As for the wrecks that were still in that cosmic storm, even if the salvage was priceless, the company did not dare to go in.
Cosmic storms were not anything to be played around with.
The slightest lack of caution would lead to death.

Cosmic storms were a product of energy, matter, space, and high-speed rotation.
They were often accompanied by extremely powerful electromagnetic radiation and waves.

This cosmic storm vortex was one of the most terrifying kinds of cosmic storms.
Energy was created in a flat plane in a certain area, around which everything else rotated in a circle.

This circular cosmic storm would keep rotating until its energy ran out.
That process might go on for a hundred thousand, a million, or even ten million years!

Xia Fan was feeling rather anxious.
The energy storm vortex was like a hurricane.
The inside was stable, but the outer layer was a powerful wall made from energy, space, and matter.

Unless one had a ship that had been specially designed for the task, there was no way of getting into the center of the cosmic storm.
But if Xia Fan couldn’t get into the center of that cosmic storm, he would never know the truth.

‘It would be fine if I had a defense core,’ Xia Fan thought to himself.

The Disaster had come with a mechanical core, and Xia Fan now had an energy core.
The two cores had massively boosted the Disaster’s performance.

But just high performance wasn’t enough.
He needed powerful energy shields to resist the power of the storm.
Otherwise, inside the storm, the danger levels would still be off the charts

‘In any case, it’s not that far, so I’ll go and take a look.’ Xia Fan pondered, ‘If it’s really no good, I’ll go and beg Traveling Buddha’s father to help me get a defense core.
He should be able to do it.
Once I have the defense core, I’ll take a vacation and come back.’

Xia Fan had made up his mind.
No matter what, since he had come to the Char Star Region, he would at least go and take a look!

——

It wasn’t long before the hovercar arrived at the spaceport.
When the hangar door opened, Tony and Big Eyes saw Xia Fan’s strange frigate, the Disaster.

Tony and Big Eyes seemed rather reluctant to see the two men from the Inner Territories off.

Xia Fan chuckled and patted Big Eyes on the head.
“Why don’t you seem very happy?”

Big Eyes blinked.
“Boss is leaving, but I don’t want you to go.”

“This kid,” Xia Fan chuckled.
He stroked his spatial ring and produced two Tier 3 energy crystals, giving them to Big Eyes.
He then took out five more energy crystals and gave them to Tony.

“Boss, what is this?” Big Eyes and Tony exclaimed in shock.

Xia Fan replied, “Take it.
You deserve them.
In addition, Tony, there’s something I need your help with.”

Tony quickly said, “Whatever you say, boss!”

Xia Fan pointed at Big Eyes and his brothers.
“These kids are rather sharp, and I consider them to be kindred spirits.
I hope that you can look after them once I’m gone.”

Tony chuckled.
“Boss, you can relax.
Even I can tell that Big Eyes is very smart!

“Thanks to your care, I’ve made a little money, and I will definitely be able to expand my business.
Big Eyes and his brothers can be my assistants.
Although their wages might not be high, at least they won’t go hungry!”

Xia Fan nodded, very satisfied with Tony’s arrangements.

Although Xia Fan felt like Big Eyes should also go to school, this was the Outer Frontier.
Even if one went to school, it would still be difficult to find a job.
Having Big Eyes follow Tony would at least let him learn a skill that would allow him to feed his family.

There was nothing else to be done.
Poor children often took charge of the family early on not because they matured early, but because their living conditions forced them to mature quickly.

After reluctantly saying their goodbyes and leaving behind a way to contact each other, Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha boarded the Disaster and left Beacon City.

The Disaster was once more on the way.
Its next destination was the mysterious cosmic storm!

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