Chapter 7: The 52 Mutants
Morn Planet, Seventh Intermediate Academy, Principal's Office.
There was a quirky atmosphere in the room.
Above the disc on the table are constantly changing images of various figures, all of them young people between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, and the projection of the figures is accompanied by simple narratives. Each image is made up of three parts: the human form, the mutated form, and the description. All sorts of bizarre and bizarre forms appear one after another, and you can't estimate how humans can mutate into that strange shape.
On the couch next to the disc sat six people, both men and women. The vast majority of them are elderly, and the youngest one also has wrinkled faces. Their eyes were all on the holographic projection, but their eyes were scattered and thoughtful.
"I can't think of it." A gruff voice first broke the silence in the room.
"Me too." Another middle-aged woman's voice chimed in.
Everyone declared their failures, and finally, the headmaster looked around and slowly spoke: "In other words, no one can come up with such a precedent - 52 teenagers who have never evolved in an area at the same time to evolve at the same time, the lowest is level three, and the highest is even level eight!" He already had a serious face, but at this time his face was gloomy with more complexity, and his eyes were especially sharp.
Everyone avoided the principal's gaze, only daring to stare at the holographic projection on the table, not daring to say a word.
The holographic projection happened to show a teenager, his mutated form was no different from the human form, and the first line of the description next to it was greatly marked with the words "Level 8"!
The principal clicked on the projector, and the image paused on the teenager's body.
He spoke in that slow but firm tone again: "Chi Chuanle, an eighth-level evolutionary, it is rare to find one in the entire galaxy. This kid is only seventeen years old, and he is still a year away from being completely stable, who knows what else will happen in this year......" He smiled lightly, this smile looked a little strange on his long-term knife-like serious face, "Who could have imagined that before last night, he was still a non-evolutionary? From junior college to intermediate college, eleven years, 64 impact experiments, and no evolutionary potential at all? β
He paused distortedly and snorted lightly: "Who would have imagined that last night, there would be 52 cases of such an evolution?!" β
The room was still calm, this strange situation seemed to shatter everyone's common sense, although all of them were evolutionaries above level seven, the backbone of this intermediate academy, but no one had ever seen this situation! In just one night, all the weak chickens in a whole building have become geniuses!
You must know that except for the few people who stand at the top and exist like gods, the evolutionaries of the galaxy are divided into SS-level, S-class, and eleven levels from one to nine, among which S-level and above are extremely rare, and there are almost only one in 100 million in the entire evolutionary!
And in terms of the normal evolutionary process, the highest level will only reach level nine. In other words, if you evolve into a ninth-level evolutionary at a certain time before a person is born to the age of eighteen, then through a certain opportunity, it is possible to successfully break through to the S-level or above!
As a result, every innate evolutionary above level 8 is like a treasure, that is, a potential stock, symbolizing the glory of millions of people!
It is precisely because of this that Wagley is always honored as "Princess", which not only represents her glorious family background, but also represents her own strength - a ninth-level evolutionary, only one step away from the S-rank!
No one spoke, the headmaster glanced at them dissatisfied, nodded at one of the big dark-skinned men, and said in a deep voice, "Kanglai, you can tell me all about last night." β
Kang Lai is the head of security at the school, and he happened to be the first to lead the patrol yesterday, and he was the first to arrive at the scene to calm the emotions of everyone living there, so that the situation would not deteriorate in an uncontrollable direction. So now the headmaster's tone is noticeably softer when his name is mentioned.
Conley got up from the couch with a "snap"βin fact, he had just sat upright on the soft couch, showing his military qualitiesβand he saluted everyone around him, meticulously repeating what he had reported when he had just entered:
"At 10:13 last night, I was patrolling the campus with a team of five people, and I heard a large number of exclamations from the Zero dormitory, which was suspected to be an accident. At 10:18 a.m., I arrived at the scene, and there was chaos in the dormitory. The number of dormitory students is fifty-three, all of whom are registered as unevolved. Fifty-two of them had varying degrees of evolution, and most of them were still in the process of evolution at that time. The dormitory administrator was not at the scene and has not been found. β
The principal groaned and asked, "There are fifty-three students in the dormitory, and fifty-two people have evolved, but what about the remaining one?" β
The middle-aged woman coughed lightly and said, "I know that this child, Shu Yu, a student in Class 8 of the second grade, has very good grades, except for Class 2, he has been the first in the whole grade for two years in school. It's a pity that this child comes from an unevolved family, and it is reported that there has never been an evolutionary in the eight generations of the family......"
She felt a little sorry in her words, and she could see that she really loved Shu Yu, so she felt even more pity for his origin and experience. However, everyone present also knew the reason why this student did not evolve. There hasn't been an evolutionary in eight generations of the family, what kind of bloodline does this have to be? It is very likely that he does not have the mutation factor in his body at all......
The headmaster nodded and asked again, "What about the dormitory administrator?" β
"No one has seen him since three o'clock yesterday afternoon," Conley said. β
The principal frowned, thought for a while, and asked, "What is the origin of this person?" β
The dormitory manager is also an employee of the school, and it stands to reason that the principal should not be unfamiliar. But the Zero dormitory did live up to its reputation, as if it didn't exist among the school's top officials, and the dormitory administrator didn't pay attention to it at all.
Kang Lai said: "The administrator's name is Ding Hongwei, and he has been serving as an administrator in the Zero dormitory for three hundred and seventy-five years. β
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Three hundred and seventy-five years!
Everyone in the principal's office was shocked!
Nowadays, with the great progress of technology, mutation, or evolution, has given human beings a completely different body structure, and life has been extended. At present, the lifespan of human beings is generally based on the mode and degree of mutation, and some evolutionaries above the S level have not seen signs of aging since they appeared, while others have fallen in just ten or twenty years as if they were burning life.
From the lowest level to the ninth level of the apex of the foundation, the lifespan of a ninth-level evolutionary is mainly based on the way of mutation, and it is impossible to judge it concretely at all. On the contrary, many "evolutionaries" who have mutated but have essentially degenerated into a lower category than humans are capable of living longer...... But even so, what kind of concept is three hundred and fifty-seven years! 99% of humans don't have such a long absolute lifespan!
The headmaster was stunned for a moment before continuing to ask, "What about his rank?" β
Kang Lai hesitated for a moment before saying, "I didn't find out." No one had ever seen him mutate or use his abilities. β
The headmaster immediately clicked continuously on the disk, the holographic projection disappeared, and one symbol after another appeared and disappeared, and so on for nearly five minutes! In today's age of efficient search and finding, it's almost impossible for such a thing to happen!
But in the end, the principal stopped, stared at the projection, and said in a daze, "I can't find ......"
At that moment just now, he not only searched in the school's database, but also connected to the Galactic Public Archives Bureau and the Earth Federal Archives Bureau, among which there were seven hundred and eighty-one people named Ding Hongwei, all of whom had their whereabouts, and none of them could be related to the Seventh Intermediate Academy.
The headmaster's fingers unconsciously tapped on the table, muttering to himself: "A person whose origin cannot be found, has been in my academy for three hundred and seventy-five years, and then disappeared inexplicably......" After a while, he said categorically: "Expand the scope of the search!" Pay special attention to the collection of video data of this person, and beware of him using a pseudonym! β
"Yes!" Conrad stood up and strode to the door, which opened automatically with a swipe.
"Ouch!" An exclamation came from the door, just as someone was about to come in, and almost collided with Conlai. Conrad stepped aside, and the man walked in, and Conrad nodded at him and strode away.
The principal looked at the person who had just come in, frowned and asked, "Yuan Fei, how is it?" Is there a result? β
The man was thin and thin, like a bamboo pole, and his clothes were swaying on him, and he looked extremely ill-fitting, but the eyes of the people in the room looked at him with respect. He walked to the side of the sofa, slumped into Kanglai's seat just now, and said casually, "The initial reinforcement is done!" The eighth-grade student named Chi Chuanle stabilized to the ninth level after strengthening, and the other students also improved to varying degrees! β
Level 9! Another level nine! In addition to the fact that the principal was able to maintain a certain level of calm, the rest of the office gasped in unison.
Regardless of age, when an evolutionary trait first appears, all people have the right to receive a free opportunity for reinforcement, commonly referred to as "initial reinforcement". Initial intensification is carried out in a way and in a physical way, similar to the bi-monthly stimulation guidance, which uses a variety of means to stabilize and promote the energy of the mutation.
30% of people have a chance to mention some ability improvement in the initial boost, but jumping a level is very rare. Especially from level 8 to level 9, there is a threshold in between! Many people are stuck at level eight and will not be able to go further for the rest of their lives! And when you reach the ninth level, you will be regarded as a "quasi-S", and it is possible to step through the door of ordinary evolutionaries and reach the realm of super-grade! The seventeen-year-old ninth-level can be called the pride of the sky, and before they had only one person in the entire academy, Wagley was already able to dominate most of their peers on the entire earth!
Another ninth-grader! Everyone looked at the principal together, but the principal's face was very strange, and he didn't know whether he was happy or worried. He noticed everyone's gaze, sighed, and said, "There must be a reason why 52 students mutated together. Right now...... Let's observe and observe, Yuan Fei, you pay more attention! β
Yuan Fei nodded casually, but a hint of caution flashed on his face.