Evolution of life

Chapter 2: Consumption

Seventy-five years ago, interstellar traveler Proni discovered Earth, a planet located at the edge of the Enya star system, during his interstellar journey. Since then, this planet located at the edge of the star system has joined the Universal Human Alliance family.

At that time, Earth, which was not particularly large among the planets in the human alliance, was divided into more than 200 countries and regions!

This was also a rare sight in the Universal Human Alliance. The discovery of Earth soon drew the attention of the Alliance's top leadership. They sent in a large number of personnel and, under the supervision of the Alliance's top leadership, Earth quickly achieved political unification.

Soon, with the help of the Universal Human Alliance, more and more people who were referred to by the Earth's original inhabitants as "aliens" from the Alliance came to Earth. Earth, a closed planet, also quickly opened up its trade channels to the outside world. The Earth Federation Coin also had an exchange rate with the star coin.

In just a few decades, Earth underwent a dramatic transformation. However, as a species with exceptional adaptability, humans took only a few decades to fully accept this reality.

Among the many factors that changed Earth, there was one that changed the It would not be accurate to say that the ability to use abilities was introduced, as the ability to use abilities already exists within the human brain. However, for thousands of years on Earth, no one has ever discovered or developed this closed ability domain.

However, the Universal Human Alliance has a medicine that can develop this closed ability domain! Ordinary, common people who have their ability domain developed will gain powers that are different from normal people. This power is called an ability.

After being developed, different people often acquire different abilities...

In response to the different characteristics of these skills, humans generally categorized them into the following categories... simpler ones, such as having immense strength or having superhuman speed, are referred to as superhuman-type abilities. More complex ones, such as ice and fire, are referred to as natural-type abilities.

There are also beast-type abilities, where humans can instantly beastify their bodies and gain immense strength. There are also some very obscure abilities with scattered characteristics, so they are not included in these three categories...

People who have their ability domain developed are called ability users. These people can be said to be completely superior to normal humans. Because after they gain abilities, they can develop their own abilities and gradually change their bodies, obtaining things that normal humans are unable to obtain. For example, they have incredibly strong physical resistance and an unimaginable lifespan. Especially on the current Earth, mutants are a highly sought-after existence. Because of brain development, in the Pan-Human Alliance, it is a fairly common thing. But on Earth, it is still relatively rare.

Brain development requires brain development drugs, which cannot be made on Earth. They can only be introduced from the Human Alliance. And such goods are monopolized, and the drug has already been overpriced on the low-level civilization of Earth.

Additionally, the Earth Federation Coin is not very valuable in the universe, and the exchange rate with the star coin is already eye-popping at 1500:1. So even if the Earth government wanted to introduce it, it was helpless and could only passively wait for the Human Alliance's annual benefits to low-level civilizations, which is free distribution of 500 bottles.

Although the current population of Earth has been controlled for many years and has been reduced to around 500 million. But 500 bottles distributed among 500 million people is really an exaggeration...

Therefore, in order to maximize the utilization of these drugs, the Earth Federation government will continuously search for outstanding individuals from Earth and let them take these drugs... After getting home, Li Xing lay on his bed, thinking about these things, while the TV set at the end of his bed was broadcasting the excited faces of the 500 people who had been selected this year after receiving the medicine.

Li Xing fully understood their performance because his own little heart was also pounding non-stop.

He had also gotten a bottle, but it was not distributed by the government, but was obtained by begging. However, now in his mind, how he got it was no longer important. What was important was that he had gotten it! Among the 5 billion people, this stroke of luck had fallen upon him!!

Now the medicine bottle was right by his side.

He had just got home and had not had time to take it yet. And he felt that his body was not in good condition just now, so he was afraid that it would affect the effect of the medicine. So he had been putting it off, and now after resting for a while, he had adjusted his condition to the best. It was the right time to take it...

He took out the tightly wrapped box, removed its outer packaging. A silver-white alloy box appeared in front of Li Xing.

He looked at the box from all sides, and found a button on one side. Then, he almost approached it reverently and pressed the button... Li Xing found that his palms were sweating and his arms were trembling uncontrollably...

It was just too exciting! Even now, he felt as if he was still dreaming...

"Click" the sealed alloy box opened, and inside was a small, transparent glass bottle that was not very large. Inside the bottle was a thick, purple liquid...

Why was it purple? This small detail made Li Xing slightly confused. He looked up at his old TV at home and noticed that the people who had received the serum had either blue or green serum...

As far as he knew, the color difference seemed to be due to the concentration difference. The blue concentration seemed to be higher than the green... Then what about his purple? Could it be...

Li Xing swallowed a mouthful of saliva and dared to guess: The prison warden had given him a bottle of brain development serum that was of very high concentration!

Thinking about this again, his heart was filled with excitement once more!

The upgrade of the supernatural ability is very dependent on the degree of brain development. The more developed the brain is, the easier it is to upgrade. And the degree of brain development is closely related to the concentration of the serum... In other words, his luck was not only good enough to stumble upon a falling pie, but also to stumble upon a huge pie!! No longer thinking much, he took out the glass bottle from the box. Opening the cork, Li Xing drank it without saying a word!

After drinking it...

One minute, two minutes...

Strange, no special feeling at all?

Standing up, he bounced around and spun in place for a couple of rounds. There was still no strange feeling on his body... No way, Li Xing suddenly had an ominous feeling. Could it be that the bastard prison warden had tricked him? Had given him a bottle of something that was useless?

Just as he was feeling disheartened, his body underwent a sudden transformation!

First, there was a fiery pain in his stomach! It felt like a whole bottle of hot pepper sauce had been poured into his stomach!

In an instant, Li Xing's face turned red, and his forehead veins stood out!

The reaction... was actually... so strong...

He gritted his teeth and held on,

He had never felt such intense pain before, and in an instant, Li Xing couldn't even think.

The pain quickly spread throughout his entire body! His arms, legs, even his head started to hurt! It felt like someone had hit him on the head with a hammer!

Water...

He stumbled to his bathroom, falling several times along the way...

It felt like there was some energy trying to burst him apart, and he felt his body temperature rising... He really wanted to soak himself in cold water now... He managed to crawl to the bathtub in the bathroom, but found that he could not control his arms at all. He had to press the water release button with his forehead. Then he controlled his body, without even taking off his clothes, rolled into the bathtub.

Cold and hot water hit him all at once, and he closed his eyes and fainted...

"Warden, didn't we give that Earth kid a bottle of brain development agent? Why isn't it listed as an expense on our books?"

In the interstellar prison, the middle-aged man who had always taken care of Li Xing asked curiously. "Oh, I mean that one. The medicine was not paid for, I just took it from the storeroom," the warden replied, looking at the screen indifferently.

Storeroom? The middle-aged man was stunned. He had been working there for so long, but he had never heard that brain development agents were stored in the storeroom. After all, wasn't that place usually used to store stolen goods?

Seeing that he didn't understand, the warden was rather smug in his explanation: "We used to have a batch of illegal brain development agents that we hadn't dealt with yet. The kid wanted it, so I just gave it to him."

What! The middle-aged man's eyes bulged. He didn't know about that! "Warden!" "But you know, the death rate of those who take the illegal brain-enhancing drug is..."

"I know," the prison warden interrupted impatiently, smirking malevolently. "But that kid wasn't just trying to change his life, was he? Without paying a price, how can he change it so easily?"

"You...," the middle-aged man's words were almost out before the prison warden glared at him with a single eye. He also scoffed, "What? Don't want to work here anymore? "No...," the middle-aged man looked dejected as he lowered his head...

...In the bathtub, the water had already reached the top of Li Xing's head. And he was still in a state of unconsciousness. If he couldn't wake up soon, the water would drown him alive...

Two minutes had passed quickly... It seemed that he would die here soon...

At that time, as a