All My Superpowers Come from the Law of Causality-Chapter 201 - 193: At Any Cost (2)

"The most crucial aspect is that with our current technology, we have no effective method to determine if the target laboratory possesses superpower potential."

"In other words, this technology relies purely on chance using a massive number of human lives, with an already incredibly low success rate, and even if we are fortunate enough to succeed, the target might die before being of any use."

"Moreover, each individual's superpower awakening is random; even if it succeeds, and the target's side effects aren't severe, no one can guarantee the power's strength or practicality."

Ma Zhonglin's expression grew increasingly grave:

"The only advantage of this technology is that as long as the number of test subjects is large enough, someone is bound to successfully awaken a superpower."

"Other technologies can't guarantee that."

The man behind the desk became lost in thought.

Though he wasn't a technical specialist, being the head of this experimental base, he had a basic understanding of the experimental projects and was also somewhat informed about the research projects at other bases under the Yonghui Financial Group.

The Yonghui Financial Group places great importance on superpower research.

They have over a dozen research bases with various projects related to superpower users, each with different technical paths and research directions.

Some research involves cloning superpower users.

Others focus on how to awaken superpowers in people.

Some study transferring the superpowers of one superpower user to another designated person.

Each path and direction has different bases pursuing independent research and competition.

This underground base, much like the former Kangbo Biological Company Lening Branch, is responsible for researching how to awaken superpowers in people.

Last month, he heard that Kangbo Biological Company had developed a potion that successfully awakened a superpower in a regular test subject. Although the technology was still imperfect, it attracted HQ's attention.

The original plan was for Kangbo Biological Company to send all their technology and experimental data to HQ, but the Nirvana Association intercepted it, resulting in the test subject's death and the destruction of much company data.

Fortunately, not all data were destroyed, and with most researchers still around, the basic technical data were preserved.

Recently, they acquired all of Kangbo Biological Company's records and absorbed their researchers, and under the orders from HQ, rushed to study the technology to cultivate superpower users.

The man was acutely aware that the organization was heavily relying on this research base to defeat Su Xin.

Existing superpower users were no match for Su Xin, so they could only rely on creating new superpower users, hoping one might have the power to counter Su Xin and thus subdue him.

The awakening of superpowers is random.

Randomness can be a drawback sometimes.

But in a desperate situation, only randomness might bring hope.

Reflecting on this, the man said earnestly:

"Professor Ma, proceed with this technical plan, and quickly produce as many finished potions as possible. I will apply to bring in as many experimental materials as we can."

"I won't just get you hundreds, but thousands!"

"HQ currently only wants results, essentially at any cost!"

"If we don't produce results, the consequences won't be good for us, but if we produce excellent results, the rewards will be incredibly generous."

Ma Zhonglin nodded seriously: 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"Supervisor Liu, rest assured! As long as we have sufficient personnel and resources, I will certainly produce results!"

...

On the road near the mountains.

After Su Xin slashed an airborne missile in half, he glanced at the helicopter escaping further away without any intent to intervene.

He sheathed his blade.

Su Xin continued running along the trail.

His feet almost became a blur, resembling two black wind wheels, swiftly propelling his body forward.

The mission progress for "Heaven and Earth" rapidly increased, updating every second multiple times.

When the resurrection effect of Unyielding Dead was about to end, he stopped and sat by the roadside for a few seconds, waiting to die and then resurrect, restoring his energy fully before getting up to continue running.

He ran for several hours.

From midday until dusk, running from one city to the next neighboring city, and finally, the sound of the mission completion notification echoed in his mind.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host, the mission [Heaven and Earth] is completed. Superpower awakening opportunity rewarded. Would you like to use it?"

"Use it!"

With Su Xin's thought, a prompt for superpower awakening immediately sounded in his mind.

"Ding! Awakened superpower [Heaven and Earth]"

[Heaven and Earth LV1: While moving on foot, all traveled distance accumulates into journey points, allowing instant movement equivalent to any utilized amount of journey points.]

"Another Instant Teleportation superpower?"

Su Xin couldn't help but furrow his brow.

The Stealth Prayer Superpower already lacked the limitation of needing clasped hands for instant teleportation and was considered a fairly complete teleportation-type superpower. Having another like Heaven and Earth was evidently redundant.

If there were no limitations to the number of superpowers he could have, he might consider keeping this one and upgrading it to Level 5 to see if it developed a powerful trait.

However, with limited superpower slots, he certainly couldn't keep redundant abilities.

After testing the Heaven and Earth Superpower on a short run, he decisively chose to forget it.

"Since the awakened power isn't useful, these 80,000 causality points should be spent on Burst Shooter. Its auxiliary effects are pretty decent and might further enhance battle capabilities."

Su Xin silently issued the command in his mind:

"Burst Shooter, upgrade!"

"Ding! Burst Shooter upgraded to LV3!"

"Ding! Please choose from the following two traits: 1. Charged Shot, 2. Flowers In Storm."

[Charged Shot: Holding a shooting stance can charge for up to ten seconds, providing a maximum tenfold boost to shot kinetic energy.]

[Flowers In Storm: Creates a hundred smaller physical replicas of the projectile, each one percent the original size, for synchronized attacks. The replicas' flight speed, maximum range, shooting direction, etc., are based on the original projectile.]

Comparing both options briefly, Su Xin decisively chose the Flowers In Storm trait.

Originally, Charged Shot was a good trait, with a maximum tenfold kinetic energy boost—especially effective for stronger individuals, resulting in more outrageous destructive power.

But the tenfold boost requires ten seconds of charging, a condition that is almost impractical in actual combat, making its usefulness limited.

Su Xin currently does not lack attack power; one could even say he has an overflow of attack power. As his strength grows, his attack power will continue to increase indefinitely, so wasting a trait on attack amplification seems unnecessary.

He desires more unique effects.

The Flowers In Storm trait is similar to the Frenzied Slash trait within Sword God Slash, in that both transform single-target attacks into area attacks.

The difference is.

Frenzied Slash only allows the blade aura from Sword God Slash to expand and attack, centering from the endpoint to attack a radius of ten meters.

The Burst Shooter superpower acts more like an auxiliary power, enhancing all shots—which includes the Sword God Slash attack skill.

The Flowers In Storm trait allows all shot objects to become area attacks, and based on its literal meaning, the original attack doesn't disappear; it essentially adds a hundred smaller attacks.

If the two superpowers are combined.

When Su Xin emits a blade aura, with that blade aura as the center, it can further create a hundred miniature blade auras only one percent in size, resulting in a total of one hundred and one blade auras for the attack.

Whether the miniature blade auras can still perform Frenzied Slash was unknown to Su Xin before making the choice.

What he knows is that the Flowers In Storm trait significantly enhances his area attack capability, turning a single slash into a rain of blades with a single motion.

Considering his immense strength, this rain of blades passing through could likely slice many objects into fine debris.