Before his fall, although his strength was strong, he was not known for his mental strength. And now, his spiritual power is growing at an unusually fast rate, and I don't know if it's the talent of this body itself, or the effect of the mysterious rune.

Just a few days ago, because the food was about to run out, he ventured out again, but he didn't get the food, but he unfortunately ran into two Gambino warriors who came out to patrol, and after a hard fight, he killed the two guys together at the cost of serious injuries again, and then forced himself to crawl to the shelter to recuperate!

What surprised him even more was that after this almost desperate fight, the genes in his body had been slightly adjusted and had accumulated a genetic optimization point on his own. This means that as long as there is the right ability to induce a drug or a specific genome, a new first-order ability can be formed.

A gene point is a specific position that a gene occupies on a chromosome. The number of genes is large, but the number of chromosomes is limited, so each chromosome can contain many genetic codes. The number of gene points determines the number and rank of the ability that the gene itself can carry, and more gene optimization points mean more powerful strength and status!

The Empire's Extraordinary Beings are a special group with strong strength because their genomes are stable enough to withstand a large number of genetic optimization points and obtain a variety of high-level abilities!

Since the first superpower-inducing potion appeared from the laboratory, the evolution of humanity has taken a new direction, with the continuous investment of financial and material resources from the top of the empire, all kinds of new potions and high-level abilities have emerged one after another, and the group of supernatural people has become increasingly large!

In the empire's thousand-year-old expansion, a large number of alien legions have played an irreplaceable role in the expansion of the empire's territory, and it is also a guarantee of human civilization's ability to sit on an equal footing with other powerful alien civilizations!

Especially later, the Empire established the Silent Star Temple of the Celestial Sea World Realm to conduct systematic research in this area, and based on this, the Empire's most powerful ability unit: the Polar Star Warrior Order. It has become an important strategic force for the empire to open up living space and protect human civilization!

Xiao Junling took a breath lightly, being able to obtain gene points proves that he still has hope, although in the current situation, he can't get the relevant ability-inducing potion, but as long as he can survive, when the Imperial Legion comes back and drives back this group of disgusting guys, he naturally has a way to grow up and re-enter the ranks of high-level abilities!

There are many ways to get gene points, among which fierce battles, battles hovering on the edge of life and death, are the quickest and least side effects, and of course, the risks are also the greatest!

The second is through the injection of genetic evolution drugs, although this method is simple and easy, so that many ordinary people can apply, but in addition to spending a huge amount of money, there are also a lot of risks to take, once the injected person's own genes are not stable enough, it will cause a variety of unpredictable consequences, the most common is genetic collapse, at least all kinds of diseases, reduced to waste, or a life!

Perhaps, he should go around more often, and he has experienced more battles in order to quickly improve his strength, he secretly calculated.

Although the risk is very high, it will not work otherwise, the food is about to run out, and in order to survive, he has no choice!

Slowly tidying up his clothes, he picked up the high-frequency particle concussion knife placed on the table, then walked to the door and removed the sandbags blocking the door.

After probing the outside again and making sure there was no unusual movement, he finally opened the door. Outside is a narrow staircase, clogged up with all sorts of messy debris, obscuring the entrance to the basement.

The ground part of the house has long been destroyed, and the ruins have become the best cover.

At the end of the stairs was a somewhat deformed alloy door, which had long been torn off from the frame by a huge external force, and was barely hanging on to it. When the door was opened, there was a large pile of waste clothes, furniture, mechanical parts, and other miscellaneous items outside.

As long as he walks through these debris, he will appear on the abandoned street, but what the situation is outside, Xiao Junling has no bottom in his heart.

Just as he was about to use his spiritual power to probe again, his body suddenly trembled slightly for a moment, and the mysterious rune flickered lightly in his body a few times, and then a brief message appeared in his mind:

"First-Order Ability: Environmental Sensing, Spawning. It can monitor all hostile targets within a radius of 50 meters in real time, and consume the number of gene points: 1. ”

He couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, according to the empire's established ability level classification system, environmental sensing is a first-order skill, which can monitor the external environment within a radius of twenty meters in real time, but the effect of his skill has obviously been strengthened a lot! It's almost catching up with the second-order perception ability!

And more importantly, he didn't inject the corresponding ability-inducing potion now, and it was really unexpected for him to be able to generate such an enhanced version of the first-order skill on his own!

Obviously, if there are new gene points generated in the next battles, then it will be obvious to get more and stronger abilities, and there is no need to find a way to get ability potions in the future!

The next thing was much easier, and in his mind, the image of his surroundings slowly took shape, although not very clear, but it was enough for the current situation.

There was a dead silence in the realm of perception, not even a slightly larger animal.

He breathed a sigh of relief, slowly got out of the debris, and appeared on the street.

Looking up at the sky, it was almost dusk, and the orange sun hung low on the horizon, sprinkling the little light and heat left on the war-torn planet!

More than 700 meters ahead, there is a small supermarket, which is not very stocked, but it should not be a problem to find some emergency food and water. However, this time the freshman has become a perception skill that can detect enemy traces in advance, and Xiao Junling already has a new idea.

Perhaps he should have looked further afield, walking along the street that turned left a short distance ahead, and finally arrived at the largest supermarket and logistics distribution center in the neighborhood, which not only had a much richer variety of food, but also a variety of highly concentrated nutrients, purified water, first-aid medicines, and other daily necessities, all of which he could use now.

If he's lucky, he'll be able to get his hands on some energy blocks, and most importantly, the eco-food synthesizer, and even the new medical pod isn't impossible to find.

The wide streets were silent, littered with debris, nearly disintegrating speedcars, twisted alloy railings, half-melted metal lampposts, and large patches of solidified, dark red bloodstains! Some of the high-rise buildings still have traces of light cannons raging!

Occasionally, one or two small animals would run by, most likely homeless pets. And the entire city of humans has been taken captive as food by those disgusting Gambinos! Very few have a chance to escape their repeated searches.

Xiao Junling walked silently, the high-frequency oscillating knife was tightly held in his hand, the environmental perception ability continued to open, and the mental power slowly declined, consuming about 3 points a minute, which can support about half an hour according to the current total. But from time to time, the mysterious rune would emit a faint stream of heat, causing his spiritual power to slowly recover. Combined with the ratio of consumption to recovery speed, he can maintain this ability for nearly an hour without any problem.

It didn't take long for the supermarket to arrive.

The gate had already been blown away, most of the walls facing the street had collapsed, the shelves inside were crooked, all kinds of goods were thrown everywhere, and several exhausted machine attendants were paralyzed on the ground motionless.

The once bright floor was littered with gnawed bones, and the dark brown blood still smelled pungent and fishy, and it was needless to ask that some of the people who had survived the first wave of the sweep had been targeted by the Gambino when they came here in search of food.

"These damn beasts!" Xiao Junling cursed secretly and began to rummage through the things he could use.

Although many of the packages were damaged, causing the food inside to spoil, after some searching, he still found a lot of good goods, including half a box of concentrated nutrients, two large boxes of portable energy blocks, an emergency medicine kit, a few bottles of red wine, and a large bag of cakes and biscuits.

Finally, he found a large suitcase, packed all the things he could use, and carried it on his shoulder, picking up some suitable clothes from several abandoned shops along the way.

What made him a little unbelievable was that this time around, the road was surprisingly quiet, and the ability to sense the environment was always on, but he didn't find anything suspicious! It seems that this neighborhood has been completely forgotten by the Gambino people.

Of course, reason told him that there could be no such good thing, unless the Imperial Legion had already fought back!

After returning to his lodgings and sorting the loot into categories, he spent a few minutes weighing the pros and cons, and finally decided to try his luck again. After all, the current harvest is only enough to last for a week, and there is nothing left in that place.

Thereupon. A moment later, a lonely figure reappeared in the street.

It's getting late, and the once prosperous city is becoming more and more quiet, and the silence is terrifying!

Xiao Junling suddenly felt something, and his thin body suddenly leaped into a half-collapsed room on the side of the road, hiding his figure.

Above his head, three small flying saucers of the Gambino skimmed the edges of the dark gray clouds at high speed.

Only when this group of guys was far away did he dare to come out slowly and continue to march towards the set goal.

Twenty minutes later, he finally arrived at the large supermarket, and it seemed that the place had not been damaged too badly, at least the gate and façade were largely intact, and there was not much debris and blood.

The rich variety and complete categories of goods were neatly stacked, and he was not in a hurry to choose, but found a hidden position in the innermost layer, sat down and rested for a while, and restored his physical strength to the best state before he began to act.

There must be a demon when things go wrong, and his instinctive instinct for danger has already told him that this time the operation will never go so smoothly!

This time, instead of taking those foods that taste good, he specially chose highly concentrated nutrients, these special foods containing high energy, which are indispensable for those with huge energy needs!

He is now considered a beginner-level powerhouse in the Yuan Star Realm, and he has just stepped into the threshold of cultivation, and his body's demand for energy far exceeds that of ordinary people, so this is an inevitable choice.

After going back and forth a few times in the commodity area with an area of tens of thousands of square meters, I went to the logistics and distribution warehouse next door to find two boxes of compressed energy blocks, as well as a set of knives, an intelligent optical brain, and some odds and ends that he thought could be used.

In the depths of the warehouse, he found several unopened intelligent robots, ecological food synthesizers, and new sealed medical cabins, but these things are large in size, and it is obviously unrealistic to get them back at once.

Just when Xiao Junling was thinking, a dangerous throbbing suddenly appeared in his heart, which made him have to end thinking and hide behind a pile of tall cargo boxes.

After a few breaths, a heavy footstep came from far and near, unhurriedly.