Starting from Prototype to Immortality

Chapter 41: Request for Continued Support!

The tribulation fire descended from the heavens, annihilating everything in its path—!

"Boom-boom-boom—!!!"

A terrifying explosion obliterated everything within its range. The land churned like a vast ocean, waves surging violently, rendering even an aircraft carrier into fragments no larger than a piece of paper.

...

"What a spectacle. Pity it was all for nothing."

Chang Wei sighed as he watched tens of thousands of suns, varying in size, rise into the sky. This scene far surpassed the thousands of miniature suns he had created in the Prototype world.

However, these nuclear bombs ended up being meaningless.

The moment Chang Wei discovered the hydrogen bombs, he immediately devoured the xenomorphs that might have been killed by the blasts, avoiding unnecessary waste.

Driven by human emotions and empathy, he had initially hoped the nuclear bombs would wipe out the xenomorphs. But after weighing the situation for maximum benefit, he chose otherwise.

The main reason was his frugality. As a citizen of the Celestial Empire, thriftiness was a virtue ingrained in him since childhood—he'd been taught to conserve water by tightening leaky faucets.

Let alone wasting this many genetic points!

In the previous world, he'd squandered a fair share of resources. There was no helping it; he had to lure those ignorant masses into a trap, even if it meant sacrifices.

By concentrating a large number of Blacklight organisms and nests in one area, he created the illusion of a base, tricking the masses into taking the bait.

The cost was that these Blacklight organisms couldn't be recovered, resulting in the equivalent of wasting a fortune in genetic points.

The outcome? Over a thousand decoys underwent nuclear fusion and turned into hydrogen bombs, leaving the masses with no escape. They were obliterated along with billions of Chang Wei's genetic points.

To recover those genetic points, the Blacklight virus microorganisms had to be retrieved after devouring the material. Thankfully, Chang Wei could now maneuver at supersonic speeds.

At such speeds, he managed to recover 80–90% of the Blacklight virus microorganisms before the nuclear bombs exploded, instantly amassing a vast astronomical sum of genetic points.

The earnings had already surpassed what he collected in the previous Prototype world, maxing out his genetic points.

"Am I exploiting this system so much that it'll increase the difficulty later on...?"

Having effortlessly earned tens of billions of genetic points, Chang Wei began to worry.

He had barely spent a fraction of the over 10 billion points from the Prototype world. Now, with this massive influx, if the system had any balancing mechanism, wouldn't it dramatically raise the difficulty of his next mission? What if he ended up in a world where destroying planets was as easy as breathing?

In that case, no matter how powerful he became, survival would be a gamble, with odds stacked against him.

Yet even if there were penalties, Chang Wei believed he had to seize the opportunity!

Leaving these genetic points untouched was unthinkable.

After the nuclear bomb cleaned the surface, the remaining humans observed a significant decrease in xenomorph numbers. They cheered but quickly grew despondent, realizing the immense time and effort needed to rebuild their devastated world.

Hydrogen bombs might lack radiation and pollution, but the destroyed resources and infrastructure weren't something that could be rebuilt with the push of a button. Reality wasn't a game.

Moreover, the harsh environment ahead would likely leave only a fraction of humanity alive.

"But no matter what, this is still our victory! Those damned bastards, those damned monsters—they lost to us humans!!!"

"Humanity will endure!"

...

Chang Wei spent a few more days preparing to leave while also searching for additional genetic points to harvest.

After all, he had only absorbed the xenomorphs within the blast range earlier; plenty of them were still out there.

Unsurprisingly, he managed to collect even more genetic points.

"Unfortunately, I can't stay any longer. I must leave now."

Calculating the likely speed of the Predator reinforcements, he determined they could arrive swiftly via wormhole travel.

He had to make his escape.

"Detection... humans... xenomorphs... mutual destruction..."

Unbeknownst to Chang Wei, a fleet of Predator ships had appeared in Earth's orbit. They seemed to materialize out of nowhere, as if teleporting instantly from afar.

This was a visual effect of wormhole travel, where distorted and stretched shapes returned to normal.

The Predator forces were here. The death of a Predator Elder was a significant event, and Chang Wei had made a grave error in judgment, misled by the Predator Elder's memories.

The absorbed Elder lacked knowledge of the repercussions of an Elder's death.

It wasn't that such events were unheard of among the Predators, but this particular Elder was relatively young and unaware of the consequences.

Naturally, the incident caught the attention of nearby Predators, who escalated the matter to their higher-ups.

The Predator army was on the move!