Gene Unlocking: I Evolve Every Day

”Hey, buddy, I’m Golden Cauldron. What’s your name?”

”So you’re the ’Big Kill Weapon’ Golden Cauldron, huh? It’s an honor, it’s an honor. I’m Copper Furnace from Squad Thirteen, and the few people next to me belong to my squad too. We might not be well-known and can’t compare with big figures like you. Oh, they’re called Kamu, Luo Mountain, Pi Fu, and White Light.”

”Hello, everyone.”

”Hello, Big Brother Golden Cauldron.”

”You are the idol of all the soldiers of the Overlord Race.”

A group of Overlord Race soldiers appeared very excited upon seeing Golden Cauldron.

Leaning against the transparent window of the rest cabin, Golden Cauldron casually gazed at the distant stars and then turned his attention to Copper Furnace, ”Hey, weren’t we supposed to guard the border this time? Why did they suddenly order us to transport battle supplies? Is there some war about to happen?”

Copper Furnace took a sip of his special drink and clicked his tongue, ”I seem to have heard the officer say that something big might happen at the border. The specifics are unknown for now.”

Golden Cauldron furrowed his brow, ”Don’t you find it strange?”

The only female soldier present, White Light, who was a medic, also appeared perplexed, ”It’s quite odd that I, a medic, was sent to transport battle supplies, but my superior told me that if we complete this mission, I could be promoted three ranks upon returning, so I came without hesitation.”

A fierce-looking Pi Fu speculated, ”Could it be that some powerful cosmic entity has entered our Milky Way Galaxy? If so, I hope you won’t act impulsively then. Otherwise, you might really lose your lives far from home. Let me tell you a story, and you’ll understand how dangerous it is. About two years ago...”

Pi Fu began narrating.

About two years ago, Pi Fu and his team encountered a peculiar cosmic entity.

This peculiar cosmic entity is said to be a plasma life form, typically found near stars like brown dwarfs, red dwarfs, or yellow dwarfs.

Since plasma life forms need to constantly absorb high temperatures to survive, if they move too far from stars, their lives will gradually fade away.

Therefore, it’s rare to encounter such unique creatures in the cosmos.

But Pi Fu and his team were rather unlucky, unexpectedly encountering them on a journey transporting food.

That Flame Giant, resembling Surtr, seemed anxious due to the lack of high-temperature exposure. Seeing that the Cosmic Transport Ship had nuclear fusion generating endless high temperatures inside, the Flame Giant came to seize the ship.

The transport ship’s captain wasn’t about to comply easily and ordered an immediate attack.

Unexpectedly, the more the light energy cannons fired, the more heat the Flame Giant absorbed and grew stronger.

The captain realized this wasn’t working and issued an order to retreat.

Who knew, at that time, there was a group of self-proclaimed mighty ”Soldier Kings” in the fleet who wanted to act tough and insisted on taking high-tech single-combat weapons to eliminate the Flame Giant.

And then...

Well, then there was no more then. Not only were those ”Soldier Kings” reduced to ashes, but even a transport ship was destroyed due to the delay in retreat, resulting in the deaths of four or five thousand soldiers.

The story quickly came to an end, and Pi Fu said meaningfully, ”There are many powerful entities in the cosmos, and plasma life forms are not the strongest. They can easily destroy a transport ship. If we encounter even stronger life forms, like iron-based life forms, should we choose not to flee and instead seek our own doom?”

Golden Cauldron nodded in agreement with Pi Fu’s words. Although he hadn’t witnessed many strange cosmic creatures, he had seen Lu Li’s extraordinary prowess in the Large Magellanic Clouds and heard about the terrifying nature of iron-based life forms. Naturally, he understood that sometimes personal heroism isn’t the answer.

He was quite curious, ”I was fortunate enough to see a plasma life form once and know what it looks like. Can you tell me what iron-based life forms look like?”

”Iron-based life forms? Honestly, even within the Galaxy Alliance’s database, there’s only been one mention of iron-based life forms entering Hanoi. However, that data was classified as top secret, so we only know they came, but don’t know what they look like,” Pi Fu shook his head. ”Maybe only those big shots have the privilege of viewing images of iron-based beings’ appearance. We can forget about it, but I hear iron-based life forms’ bodies are immensely large.”

Hearing this, Pi Fu attempted to scare everyone, ”It’s said that the smallest iron-based entity is the size of an asteroid, and the largest is as huge as a star. They can ignore all kinds of super cosmic rays, even unafraid of supernova explosions. You tell me, how terrifying are iron-based life forms? So, we’d better pray we never encounter them, or it’ll be a disaster.”

Pi Fu finished his speech, wanting to see everyone’s frightened expressions.

However, when he looked around, he found Golden Cauldron staring blankly out the window, as if he hadn’t been listening carefully.

Pi Fu asked puzzled, ”Golden Cauldron, what are you looking at?”

Golden Cauldron spoke with a tone of horror, pointing outside, ”Is this... the legendary invincible iron-based life form?”