Invincible through Touching Corpses-Chapter 116 - 115: Reaching the Breakthrough Requirement
Hearing the question, Lin Xinghai shook his head. "I don’t have any suggestions. Whatever you guys like is fine."
"In that case, how about we call it the Mountain and Sea Mercenary Corps? What do you think, Brother Lin?" Gao Mountain asked, seemingly having anticipated Lin Xinghai’s response as he immediately proposed a name.
"The Mountain and Sea Mercenary Corps," Lin Xinghai repeated. He instantly understood that the name was created by combining the last character of both their names—Gao Mountain’s "Shan" and his own "Hai."
Of course, he had no objections to this.
Soon, the form was submitted, along with some supporting documents.
The final step was the review process, but that wouldn’t be finished anytime soon, so the group didn’t wait around.
After a brief discussion, they accepted the zombie-clearing mission again.
After all, they were idle anyway, so they might as well go out and gather more Blood Qi Power to keep in reserve.
After Lin Xinghai had upgraded his Body Technique to the Minor Success stage yesterday, he only had 8,253 points of Blood Qi Power left.
While that was still a considerable amount, Lin Xinghai had a feeling that the Blood Qi Power required for his breakthrough to the Blood Qi Mirror realm would be terrifyingly immense.
Stockpiling more Blood Qi Power now was definitely a case of being safe rather than sorry.
Besides that, he also wanted to use his free time to help Gao Mountain and the others. After all, they were his subordinate mercenary corps.
The group boarded the multi-functional off-road vehicle and headed to Qingtang Town once again.
As his relationship with the others grew stronger, he no longer had as many reservations about certain topics. Lin Xinghai directly asked everyone about their Genetic Optimization Level.
Among them, Zhang Meiling had the lowest Genetic Optimization Level, but it was still 45%.
This was already a level above ordinary Mercenaries, as most of them had a Genetic Optimization Level below 40%.
The two brothers, Huang Nuo and Yao Cheng, had the same Genetic Optimization Level of 53%.
Ling Xiu’s Genetic Optimization Level had reached 58%. He would probably be able to break his second Genetic Lock in a week at most.
As for the strongest member, Gao Mountain, his Genetic Optimization Level had already reached 85%, and he was not far from breaking his third Genetic Lock.
Lin Xinghai couldn’t help but nod after hearing this. Their starting point was indeed much better than that of most newly formed Mercenary Corps.
As long as they proceeded steadily, even if they didn’t achieve massive growth, they could at least quickly establish a firm foothold among First Level Mercenary Corps and provide him with a continuous stream of funds.
After arriving in Qingtang Town, Lin Xinghai didn’t rush to hunt Zombies. Instead, he first observed Gao Mountain’s Superpower.
The Earth Wall Superpower, to put it simply, involved manipulating earth to form a wall.
Although the defensive properties of ordinary earth were a bit lacking, Gao Mountain could use his Superpower to continuously thicken the Earth Wall.
If the created Earth Wall was thickened to one meter, its cumulative Defense Power was quite considerable.
According to his own description, at maximum output, he could create an Earth Wall 20 meters long, 5 meters high, and 5 meters thick.
An Earth Wall of this scale could hold back even a zombie horde, if only for a moment.
Of course, doing so would completely drain all the Energy in his body.
Therefore, Gao Mountain’s most common use of his Superpower was to shape the earth into a temporary fortress.
This so-called temporary fortress was just a square with four-meter-long sides. The Earth Walls were about one meter thick and could withstand about three attacks from a High Level Zombie.
After a few tests, Lin Xinghai gave his assessment. "It’s not bad. If your Superpower could undergo a second awakening and increase the Defense Power of the Earth Strong, it would reach the level of a Rare Superpower."
Gao Mountain simply sighed at Lin Xinghai’s assessment and said nothing.
He knew this all too well, but his Genetic Assessment was only C Level. He had already struck it lucky just by awakening a Superpower; the hope of a second awakening was incredibly slim.
Rather than hoping for that, it was more realistic for him to hope he could break his fourth Genetic Lock and advance to the next realm.
Of course, Lin Xinghai had only made a passing comment. He then led the group to start hunting Zombies on a large scale.
Just like yesterday, he was responsible for killing the Zombies, while the other five were in charge of collecting the Elemental Crystals.
And as the hunt began, Gao Mountain finally witnessed just how immense the contribution of a Divine Sharpshooter was to a Mercenary Corps.
The Elemental Crystals were practically free for the taking.
Moreover, the High Level Zombies that they usually had to deal with so carefully were nothing before Lin Xinghai.
He took them down in a single shot.
Just like that, they swept through the streets one by one, only stopping for a quick lunch of compressed biscuits.
Under this frenzied sweep, they had cleared all the Zombies from seven streets by 2:00 PM.
The number of Zombies killed had reached a staggering 2,132.
This clearing speed was astonishing. Even just maintaining this pace, they could clear out all the Zombies in Qingtang Town in just one month.
What’s more, it was only 2:00 PM, far from the end of the day.
With a little more effort, Lin Xinghai could easily kill 3,000 Zombies in a single day.
But at this point, Lin Xinghai said he had something important to do and strongly insisted on returning.
This left Gao Mountain and the others a bit confused, but they could only comply. Besides, their earnings for the day were already more than plentiful.
The reason Lin Xinghai was in such a hurry to return was, of course, because his Perception Range had grown to its limit.
In fact, when he woke up early that morning, he had discovered his Perception Power could already extend out to 180 meters.
And now, after most of the day had passed, it had finally reached its 200-meter limit and stopped growing.
At this moment, his Perception Power felt as if it had perfectly fused with his body. In this state, he could control his body with greater precision and execute difficult maneuvers with more ease.
Clearly, he had fully adapted to his current stage and met the system’s requirements, allowing him to continue increasing his Genetic Optimization Level.
This was why he was so eager to return to the Shelter; being able to increase his Genetic Optimization Level meant he was about to break his second Genetic Lock.
Having experienced breaking the first Genetic Lock, he certainly didn’t dare attempt another breakthrough out in the wild.
It was one thing when he had the Heaven-Sundering Mercenary Corps to protect him, but the current Superpower Alliance didn’t have nearly enough strength to guard him during a breakthrough.
Of course, on the way back, Lin Xinghai was already continuously using his Blood Qi Power to raise his Genetic Optimization Level.
However, since each 1-point increase in his Genetic Optimization Level felt like a fire was burning inside his body, Lin Xinghai didn’t dare to raise it too quickly.
Of course, this reluctance to raise it too quickly was only relative. In reality, he was tapping the "+" sign about once every minute, increasing his Genetic Optimization Level by 1% each time.
In other words, in just about half an hour, he spent 115 points of Blood Qi Power to raise his Genetic Optimization Level from 30% to 59%.
And by this time, the Star Shield Shelter was already close at hand.
