Across countless worlds: Yearning to become a giant of light.

Chapter 20 The Ancient Gene Completion Project

Perhaps it was the restriction Hikari placed within the dimensional core that took effect, as Seven easily subdued Chen Lin, who had transformed into a dark mechanical giant, and together with Hikari who arrived shortly afterward, took Chen Lin to the Space Science and Technology Bureau.

"What exactly is going on? Hikari, didn't you say that the core inside his body had stabilized?"

Seven's tone was somewhat harsh when he questioned Hikari.

"It's true that things have stabilized, but... I'll explain later!"

Hikari didn't mind Seven's tone.

His mind was now filled with the data he had just seen in the technology bureau.

This is the second situation that leaves Hikari feeling helpless, besides being unable to save Arbok from being swallowed by Bogaru.

After placing Chen Lin's body in the restraint device and opening the armor on his chest to reveal the dimensional core inside, Hikari immediately operated the energy pipes in the laboratory to connect to the core.

Then, more detailed data from the Dimensional Core popped up in front of Hikari.

"hiss……"

Watching the light and dark energies react with frequencies as different as two heartbeats, Hikari gasped and scratched his head.

Whoosh!
"Hikari! How is Chen Lin doing?"

Upon hearing the news, Zoffy rushed over in a panic.

"Things have settled down for now. I'm undergoing further testing. I might have overlooked something before."

After saying that, Hikari buried himself in the sea of ​​data in the dimensional core.

"Seven, could you tell me more about what happened in the arena?"

Seeing Hikari busy at work, Zoffy asked Seven about it.

"Yeah, it's that kid Zero..."

Seven reluctantly recounted Zero's challenge to a duel with Chen Lin.

This brat instantly snapped him out of his fantasy of his son's glorious future. If it weren't for the fact that now was the right time, he would have dragged Zero to King Planet to give the Leo brothers a good dressing down... no, I mean to give them a good personality correction.

"We can't keep spoiling Zero, even though he hasn't gotten his hands on the Plasma Spark Tower yet."

"I know."

Seven nodded.

Even if Zoffy doesn't say anything, he will ask the captain for permission later.

Soon after, Father of Ultra and Mother of Ultra also arrived.

"I heard that the power within Chen Lin has gone berserk. What happened?"

Before Zoffy could explain the situation, Hikari, who was in front of the projection screen, turned around and replied, "I've already checked."

Hikari then raised his hand to enlarge the screen to mid-air, just like a movie screen.

"Everyone, please look, this is the energy flow inside this core when Chen Lin is active."

Under the projection, everyone could see that within the circle representing the core, light and darkness were chasing and transforming each other, maintaining a stable energy cycle and providing the body with the energy it needed to function.

"It looks very stable, there are no problems."

Zoffy examined it carefully but found nothing wrong with it.

"Take another look at Chen Lin's data from the training room."

Hikari switched the screen.

The previously stable cycle of light and darkness became active after Chen Lin assumed a battle stance against the virtual monster. Although there was no immediate trend of light diminishing and darkness increasing, Father of Ultra and the others sensed something was amiss. "It's one thing for the powers of light and darkness to coexist without conflict, but why does it feel like... they're competing?"

This was simply unbelievable to Father of Ultra and the others.

The power of light and the power of darkness are actually competing for the position?!

This is as absurd as the Father of Ultra and Alien Empera choosing to cooperate for mutual benefit and then competing to see who can rule the entire universe first!
"Finally, it's about the situation inside the core when Chen Lin was fighting Zero."

It seems that due to the intense external crisis, the cycle of light and darkness within the core is accelerating. At the same time, since the main power Chen Lin uses is light, a situation of light diminishing and darkness increasing is gradually emerging. Meanwhile, Father of Ultra and others also noticed another phenomenon.

At the very center of the core, there is something like a link, which looks a lot like the structure of human DNA.

"that is……"

Zoffy looked at Hikari, hoping he could explain.

"That is the residual gene of Chen Lin when he was human, and it is also the light gene from other universes. It is the gene that is compatible with and connects the light and darkness within the core."

"Human genes... can actually achieve this level of capability?"

The Father of Ultra sighed somewhat.

"But in reality, this genetic bond is extremely fragile. It was previously tightly protected by the light from another universe, which caused the detection system to misjudge Chen Lin's genetic strength..."

Hikari zoomed in on the core image, revealing that the DNA genes were cosplaying as Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, pulling a train while maintaining the output of light power and struggling to control the rampaging dark forces.

Ancient genes: They're about to break down...!
Still the same problem.

When the Dimensional Demon created the Dark Mechanical Giant as the prototype for the resurrection of the Emperor Alien, he never considered that someone other than the Emperor would control this body, which made it difficult for Chen Lin to control this overly powerful body even with his ancient genes.

This is equivalent to buying a PC that costs 10,000 yuan, but the CPU is taken from an old machine from ten years ago, and you still want to run Cyberpunk 2077 with all the graphics settings maxed out.

This is asking the CPU a lot of trouble.

"Is there any solution?"

Zoffy asked Hikari.

"Both the genes of this human and the power of light within them are substances from another universe... To put it simply, apart from the dark power originating from Alien Empera and the technology used to modify this body, everything else is something I've never seen before."

Hikari stated that he had already reached his limit in stabilizing Chen Lin's dimensional core in a short period of time, and he feared that further in-depth research would require him to spend more than a decade at the Space Science and Technology Bureau to achieve any results.

"why is it like this……"

This doesn't mean that Chen Lin can't do anything while staying in the Land of Light.
Although they are happy for Chen Lin to live peacefully here, he may not be able to accept it.

"Besides this, there should be another way."

Upon hearing this, Zoffy really wanted to curse Hikari.

Can't you stop breathing so heavily when you talk?
"What's the solution?"

“Strengthen...or rather, replenish the light gene within Chen Lin’s body.”

Hikari points to the ancient genes in the projection that are struggling to maintain the cycle of light and darkness.

"Can't you do it, Hikari?"

"Unfortunately, the composition of this gene is too mysterious. Even if it can be replicated, it is impossible to make up for the defective parts of this gene."

"but……"

At this point, Hikari looked down at Chen Lin, who was restrained by the restraint device.

"Perhaps Chen Lin knows what to do."

(End of this chapter)