Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 580 The Mystery of the Gene Lock

"Why destroy these things now?" Zheng Zha scratched his head. "Didn't they say the celestial beings wouldn't arrive for some time?"

Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses: "Did you think I was going to destroy all the satellites?"

Zheng Zha paused for a moment, then muttered, "Isn't that right?"
At this moment, Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha are outside Earth, watching the satellites overhead and the planet beneath their feet turn in the same direction. The electromagnetic satellites that interfere with cognition interfere with, first and foremost, with our understanding of them... Most Earthlings are unaware of their existence, and even technicians, upon seeing them, will skip the thought process altogether.

It must be said that with Zheng Zha's current abilities, he cannot yet listen and speak freely in a vacuum... The reason he was able to talk to Mu Xiang was because he used energy as a medium to transmit his voice.

Damn, this is even worse than the abyss beneath the Dream Realm... Zheng Zha thought to himself.

"It's alright. Once your cultivation level is higher, you'll be able to ignore this limitation." Mu Xiang shrugged.

Zheng Zha sighed and sent his voice out: "What are you saying? Aren't you only at the beginner level of the fourth rank?"

Mu Xiang smiled and said, "There's nothing I can do about it. My bloodline is just that unreasonable."

"Didn't you say before that different versions of Superman breathe and hear differently in space? So what's your situation now?" Zheng Zha asked curiously.

"I can't say for sure. I originally wanted to compare the effects of the Superman bloodline and Ripple to determine how I'm breathing now." Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses, his expression seemingly somewhat helpless. "Theoretically, if I'm unaffected but Ripple can't be used, it means I'm not actually breathing in space... Even if I feel like I'm breathing like a normal person, it's still very different in essence."

At this point, Mu Xiang held out his hand to Zheng Zha, where several dazzling golden lightning bolts crackled: "But in fact, I can still use my Ripple Qi Gong, and the decrease in power is negligible. At least when I was still of Kryptonian blood, I couldn't do that. Although I could move around in space, I was ultimately relying on solar energy to sustain myself."

Zheng Zha pondered for a while: "Hmm, I remember you told a joke, that at one point in time Superman had to wear an oxygen mask in space, but later on, Kryptonians didn't need to breathe... they just needed to sunbathe."

Mu Xiang nodded: "Yes... But as a fourth-tier person who has exchanged for the Superman bloodline, I don't need to refer to anything else. I just need to understand my own situation. My current conclusion is that when I am in a vacuum environment, internal breathing will take absolute control. If I can't even do internal breathing, it will consume the solar energy in my body."

Zheng Zha remained silent for a while, then scratched his head vigorously.

"What are you doing?" Mu Xiang was taken aback.

Zheng Zha's face was a little ugly: "I was thinking about what the definition of internal breathing is... Damn it, I've forgotten everything I learned from my teacher."

Mu Xiang chuckled upon hearing this: "I thought something was wrong... Anyway, you can understand it as, even when there is no oxygen outside, I can still maintain balance using internal breathing. I thought about it carefully, and the principle of Ripple Qigong is to use breathing to draw oxygen and cells from the blood. Since I don't necessarily have to use external breathing, then powerful internal breathing can certainly guide Ripple Qigong."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zha suddenly slapped his forehead: "Damn, then aren't you a plant?"

For a moment, Mu Xiang thought Zheng Zha was making a joke, but he forcibly suppressed the urge to respond: "Is this some kind of novel thing...? Kryptonians live by absorbing sunlight, so it's not surprising that it's like a plant." Zheng Zha shrugged: "Okay, okay, I know your bloodline is awesome, so I'll have to work harder, alright?"

Mu Xiang was surprised for a while before realizing that Zheng Zha was serious. Then he reached out and tapped Zheng Zha on the forehead: "Have you forgotten that you have a fourth-order gene lock? I'm so envious and jealous. Why don't you adjust your genes yourself? It's easy to adjust them just to cope with the current environment, isn't it?"

"Oh, right." Zheng Zha suddenly realized, and activated the fourth-order gene lock, preparing to make some adjustments... After all, he would also have to fight in this kind of environment during the final battle, right?

But speaking of which... he really couldn't see through Mu Xiang's current strength. The tap on his forehead just now wasn't so bad that Zheng Zha couldn't even see it, but Zheng Zha just felt that there was absolutely no way to dodge it.

Just how much of an improvement did this kid get after exchanging for Superman bloodline?

Seeing that Zheng Zha had started adjusting his genes, Mu Xiang patted him on the shoulder and went to do his own thing. He didn't need to put in much effort; he simply began using his thermal vision to massively destroy satellites outside Earth. Whether he sliced ​​them horizontally, vertically, blasted them into dust, or melted them into liquid, it all depended on his mood.

In fact, after Zhang Jie destroyed the Deep Network, the remaining portion of the Deep Network lost control of these satellites. Although these satellites were placed there by the Celestials, both the Deep Network and the Celestials could monitor their operation. Based on the deciphered communication mechanism, the riot alarm was triggered only when the satellites were destroyed and the Deep Network was destroyed.

The Celestials have probably received the message from the Deep Network, but with their lackeys taken down, there's no need for them to mobilize their entire force... So Mu Xiang will increase their intensity and destroy all the cognitive interference satellites covering the United States.

Not to mention the referee committee, even those Celestials couldn't have imagined that the rebels could destroy the Deep Network without damaging the satellites that interfere with cognition... The reason Mu Xiang didn't take down these satellites earlier was to help the other side reach a different conclusion.

That is, the rebels themselves are not afraid of electromagnetic interference from satellites... There are two possibilities: someone has unlocked the genetic lock, or a large number of genetically modified humans have joined the rebellion. Mu Xiang was puzzled as to why those aliens would know about the genetic lock. Theoretically speaking, in this kind of large cosmic plane, only Earthlings should be able to unlock the genetic lock.

However, the Celestials have a fairly scientific understanding of the Gene Lock, a level of knowledge that even humans on Earth cannot match... According to the data deciphered by Liu Xi, although humans on Earth are technologically advanced, they know very little about the Gene Lock, only recording some mechanical dragons' "extraordinary powerful state".

Mu Xiang had no doubt that with the technology of the Earth Federation era, they were fully capable of saving those who had unlocked their genetic locks. However, judging from both publicly available and censored information, this Earth civilization had not widely promoted the use of genetic locks; their understanding was still far from complete.

So, what made the Celestials aware of the Gene Lock and understand that electromagnetic interference technology could not affect those who had unlocked it? Their wariness of the Gene Lock was practically ingrained in their bones. One of the major tasks of these lackeys on the Tribunal Committee was to assassinate any mechanical dragons that might have unlocked the Gene Lock at any time!
"Did those celestial beings with rather unimpressive physical forms find out all this from somewhere...? Although they possess some runes, it's a bit far-fetched to say they came from the Primordial Continent. Why would the lords of the Primordial Continent want to mess with this Earth? Not to mention that the celestial beings only overwhelmed Earth's space force with sheer numbers."

"Then another possibility... there are other human forces existing in this world, just not on Earth. And they haven't had their technology locked down, and they've also demonstrated the ability of genetic locking?"

"This would normally be ridiculous... but considering that a certain man has been to this world, I'm suddenly starting to have some doubts..."

As Mu Xiang cleaned up the satellites that were affecting the Allied nations, he fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)