A 10,000-fold Increase System, Picking Up Garbage and Becoming a Technology Giant

99: Chapter 99 Dragon in Flight Injects Omega Mutant, National Security Bureau IntervenesIn the main control room, Long Zaifei could only hear the monotonous ticking of the instruments.

The chief engineer slumped in his chair, muttering to himself, ”Energy conversion rate... monitoring shows over 40%... this violates the laws of thermodynamics... it’s impossible...”

Long Zaifei did not speak.

He quietly watched the shallow crater on the screen, the fragmented warhead at the bottom, and the perfectly intact Fanxing Technology Park. Then, he pulled up the operation logs and began checking the ”Xingtian” system’s launch records line by line.

His movements were steady and slow.

But everyone could feel it—something inside this man had snapped. It wasn’t anger or frustration, but something deeper—the conviction that had sustained him until today had crumbled into dust at this moment.

He thought he was the chess player, believing that holding a strategic weapon like ”Xingtian” was enough to crush any opponent.

But Chen Fan had used a miracle that defied physics to tell him: your so-called trump card doesn’t even have the right to make me frown.

”Com... Commander...” a young technician spoke up timidly, ”Graden Headquarters has sent a seventh inquiry. They demand an immediate explanation for this unauthorized launch and order you to... return to headquarters to face the Arbitration Committee’s inquiry.”

Long Zaifei closed the communication request.

He turned around, looked at the subordinates who had followed him for years in the main control room, and suddenly let out a very soft laugh.

There was no warmth in that laughter.

He now knew what kind of opponent Long Zaitian had been facing. Perhaps Long Zaitian wasn’t stupid; it was simply because the opponent was too powerful.

Long Zaifei walked out of the main control room alone and into the private laboratory at the deepest part of the base. He opened the silver refrigerated cabinet that required triple biometric identification and took out the only item inside—

A syringe filled with a viscous, dark red liquid.

The liquid writhed slowly inside the tube, as if it were alive.

The syringe label was printed with a simple symbol: Ω

Below it was a line of small text:

[Project Number: Zero-Ω]

[Codename: Flesh Ascension]

[Warning: This sample originates from ’The Other Shore’; its use will irreversibly cause the user to transcend the scope of human life forms]

Long Zaifei did not hesitate.

He pressed the syringe against his carotid artery and pushed the plunger.

The moment the dark red liquid flooded his blood vessels, his entire body began to convulse violently! Twisted veins bulged under his skin, his eyeballs became bloodshot, and a non-human rasping sound escaped his throat.

But he gritted his teeth and did not let go.

Until the entire tube of liquid was injected.

Three minutes later, the convulsions stopped.

Long Zaifei slowly climbed up from the floor, his movements somewhat stiff, somewhat... unhuman. He walked to the mirror and looked at his reflection.

Deep in his pupils, a hint of dark red slowly spread.

”Chen Fan...” His voice had changed, gaining a raspy, metallic quality, ”You blocked the spear of ’Xingtian’.”

”Then next... try a monster returned from ’The Other Shore’.”

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Shanghai, Fanxing Factory Base Office.

Chen Fan slumped in his office chair, drenched in cold sweat. The aftereffects of the Amplification system’s overload were still throbbing in his nerve endings, every heartbeat bringing a sting of pain.

”Boss, the analysis of the impact point residue is complete,” Xiao Zhi’s voice sounded. ”Trace amounts of ’Palladium-13’ isotopes were detected inside the projectile—this is a common marker for interstellar navigation beacons.”

Chen Fan rubbed his temples.

He walked to the window; dawn was approaching.

The time was 5:40 AM.

The piercing air-raid sirens had just ceased, and the perimeter of the park was surrounded by flashing police lights. A convoy of twelve black government vehicles drove into the park gates, the logos of the ”National Security Bureau” and the ”Military-Industrial Technology Security Department” exceptionally prominent in the morning light.

Inside the main control center, Chen Fan watched the rapidly advancing investigation team on the surveillance screen and whispered, ”What was bound to come has arrived. With an attack of this level, it’s impossible for the state not to intervene.”