73 The Adept and the Family
With the huge flow of people slowly moving, Lin Mu and Zheng Yun'er finally lined up on the suspended platform back to the ground, with a pleasant female voice, "Please stand firm and hold on, the platform is about to rise." An all-metal platform carrying more than 500 passengers began to rise with a bang, and 120 seconds later, the platform reached the ground with a snort of cushioning and decompression.
"Every time I sit on the suspension platform, I am numb from the shock, and the feeling of rapid lifting is too uncomfortable. I heard that the small platform for VIPs has realized non-sense rides, and the speed is faster, I really envy it. Standing not far from Lin Mu, a young girl dressed in flowers and branches and her male companion complained, "Really? Then we will also buy tickets for the VIP carriage when we go back after traveling, but we can't let my little baby be wronged. The male companion said very spoiled and boldly. However, Lin Mu felt that this man would propose to break up before the end of this wonderful trip, you must know that compared with the tickets taken by ordinary people, the price of VIP tickets has increased nearly a hundred times, who would take a few months' salary just to take a VIP train. It wasn't for the average working-class person at all, and the man didn't look like a rich man.
In the 22nd century, the gap between the rich and the poor is even greater, but due to the high development of science and technology, many resources that human beings could not exploit before are now at their fingertips, for ordinary people, as long as they find a job that does not require too much hard work, they can make the family live a good life, if you are willing to pay more sweat, then several times the salary of the former is enough for you to live the life you want, but the premise of all this is that you have been living in the circle of ordinary people, do not contact those high consumption.
If you want to set foot in the real upper class, the high entrance fee will make you instantly understand the huge gap between the two classes, everything enjoyed by the rich, even a pair of chopsticks and a pen is unaffordable for ordinary people, maybe just a casual meal is enough for you to save for years to empty up in an instant and you may owe debts. This is not something that can be erased through the efforts of one or two generations, and some people may be able to break into the upper class of society for a while with their personal extraordinary, just like Liao Xiaofan. But if your next generation doesn't have the same talent as you, they will soon be pushed back into the ordinary class when you grow old or when you can no longer create wealth.
However, if your bloodline is really gifted, and there have been geniuses for several generations in a row, and they have all survived and won in various bloody battles, then these geniuses around your family will naturally form a group composed of all kinds of blood relatives and friends from all walks of life, this is the family, and then you really stepped into the upper class, but I think it has nothing to do with you at that time, and they have been in the soil for many years.
Therefore, only a strong family can guarantee that in the absence of a successor, the wealth accumulated in the past will continue to maintain the class until the next genius appears. However, what is the chance of a genius appearing in successive generations, and what is the chance that other families will allow you to grow up, so class solidification has penetrated into every corner of the earth now. This is also why the young master of the Yang family no longer disdains Lin Mu's background after checking it, just an ordinary person.
But! The appearance of the Stranger completely shattered all of this. At first, the mortals of the powerful families tried to control or subdue these civilians who suddenly possessed extraordinary power through various means, but the continuous increase in personal force quickly shattered most of the plans of the families. So the tycoons changed their strategy, from control and deterrence to cooperation and marriage, hoping to tie each other to their chariots through wealth and beauty, this strategy did have a certain effect at the beginning, and many people from civilian backgrounds could not resist the temptation to join the family and conquer the city for the family. But as time passed, a terrible thing unfolded in front of the mortals of these families in an unstoppable manner, and that was longevity!
Before Lin Mu was reborn, many of the first batch of awakened supernatural beings were already over 70 years old, and the oldest was even over 100 years old! But their physical condition shows no signs of aging at all, so the rich people all over the world are crazy! This is a matter of life and death, and the laws of nature that no one can escape have been broken now, how can those who hold power and wealth not be excited? As a result, a high-standard laboratory was soon established, and the world's most elite biologists were gathered as quickly as possible, and all funds and materials were oversupplied. Countless wealthy people rushed to provide financial assistance to the laboratory, and at this time, they were only afraid that they would not be able to give enough to be eligible to enjoy the results.
With the help of the world, the lab quickly came up with the results. The reason for the longevity of the supernatural is because their cells are extremely active and aging very slowly, and even the cells of the F-class supernatural with the lowest ability level are aging more than 1.5 times slower than ordinary people, which means that according to the average lifespan of about 80 years old on the earth, the supernatural can live at least nearly 120 years old! This is still the lowest F-class ability, and for more powerful abilities, the cell aging rate will be slower every time you increase the level of ability, and it is estimated that as long as you reach the B-class ability, you will have no problem surviving for 500 years. As for the A-class abilities, with the modern level of technology, it is really impossible to give test results. Along with this astonishing result, there is also a cold news that all the rich people have a cold heart, the cells of the supernatural cannot be transferred to the body of ordinary people, because the activity is too different, injecting into the body of ordinary people is like pouring water into a pot of oil, and the death row prisoner who was the subject of the experiment exploded into a brilliant blood flower from the inside out in less than 5 seconds. Perhaps, with the development of science and technology, one day in the future, a method can be found to neutralize the cell activity of the supernatural, so that it can be applied to ordinary people, but that is obviously not now, so the dream of longevity of the rich is temporarily shattered.
Although the rich have lost hope, the Adepts who have received the news rejoice. Because there are many people who have awakened, but their talent is low and their progress is extremely slow, and they thought that they could only stay at the F level for a lifetime, who would have thought that they would have such a long lifespan, so they could climb up again by relying on the accumulation of time, and maybe they would be able to go one step further before the end of their lives. This method also works for high-level abilities, so as time goes on, there will be more and more B-class abilities!
But that's not a good thing for the family! Five hundred years, how many families have not had such a long family tree. In such a long time, what kind of changes will the times go through, at that time, what kind of family and friendship, contract terms are likely to lose their meaning, only the powerful person is the most powerful guarantee of power and wealth. Therefore, in the period before Lin Mu crossed, the top-level family had gradually shown signs of change. Fortunately, there are families with abilities in their own clan, and those who have obtained abilities through contracts and marriages, or those who do not have abilities, either the center of gravity of the family's power has slowly shifted to the powers, or they have begun to inevitably decline, and it may not be long before the families composed entirely of mortals will be completely eliminated.
The conditions for the awakening of the Alien have always been a mystery, leaving the family with huge resources at its disposal helpless, and according to the proportion of the total population of the upper class, which is less than 1/10,000 of the total population, the chances of the ordinary people appearing are far greater than the former.