The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

the other side.

Inside the laboratory of a pharmaceutical factory.

It was accompanied by a dull, soft sound.

The pale blue liquid that was rotating at a constant speed inside the glass container suddenly became turbid and eventually turned into a pool of worthless grayish-black waste liquid.

"Failed again..."

Lin Mo watched this scene speechlessly and casually cut off the power supply to the instrument.

This was his thirty-third attempt today to formulate an intermediate-level gene potion.

Without exception, all of them ended in failure.

A faint smell of burning permeated the air.

A sparrow fluttered its wings and landed on his shoulder.

Just a little longer, I think you're almost there.

Lin Mo twitched the corner of his mouth, too lazy to even turn his head.

"You said that before."

Lin Mo was speechless for a moment, then continued, "Don't you feel guilty saying so many things against your conscience every day?"

The sparrow seemed completely oblivious to the absurdity in his words, and continued to preen its feathers with its wings.

This time it's for real, it's really for real.

[And you're really talented, you'll definitely succeed if you try again!]

Lin Mo finally turned his head and glanced at it.

"..."

"Come on, do you think I don't know my own level? Do you need to treat me like a child?"

The series of failures left Lin Mo's mind a complete mess.

He desperately needs to clear his mind or do something else.

Lin Mo always believed that people who only know how to compete with themselves rarely end up with good results.

He pulled out a chair and sat down, habitually opening the system store panel.

However, the next second, he froze completely.

On his personal account page, a glaring "0" was prominently displayed in the number column representing available assets.

Lin Mo blinked, thinking that he was hallucinating because he had been working for too long.

He closed the panel and reopened it.

It remains "0".

Lin Mo: "???"

I dared not open my eyes, hoping it was just my imagination.

"What happened? Where's my Source Crystal?"

He sprang up from his chair with such force that he almost knocked the sparrow off his shoulder.

To cope with various emergencies, he always kept at least one million Source Crystals as reserve funds.

Not to mention the steady stream of revenue generated by the remote store during this period.

That's no small sum.

How could they all have disappeared so suddenly?

Lin Mo suddenly turned his head and stared intently at the sparrow that was still flapping its wings.

In the entire safe zone, the only people who could access his core account, besides himself, were this guy who called himself the system.

The sparrow's feathers bristled from his gaze, and it immediately spoke.

Your authority is above mine; I cannot bypass you to use your Source Crystal.

Lin Mo didn't say anything, but just looked it up and down.

"real?"

Even the sparrows' chirping has changed its tone: "What about the trust between people?"

Lin Mo looked him up and down, then snorted coldly: "First of all, you're not human."

"Secondly, I can only guarantee that I didn't do it myself, and you are well aware of this."

"Besides you and me, is there anyone else here with this authority?"

"so......"

A series of rhetorical questions left Sparrow speechless.

It paced anxiously on Lin Mo's shoulder, finally managing to utter a single sentence after a long while.

"Would you like to check the transaction history first?"

Lin Mo also thought it made sense.

He quickly retrieved the transaction records.

However, when he saw the contents of the record, he was stunned again.

The transaction history page was stretched to a very long, densely packed page, with almost no end in sight.

And all the transaction entries were remarkably consistent.

[Expenditure: 10 Source Crystals. Purchased Items: Black Armor's Hard Shell x1]

[Expenditure: 80 Source Crystals. Purchased Items: Black Armor's Hard Shell x8]

[Expenditure: 30 Source Crystals. Purchased Items: Black Armor's Hard Shell x3]

......

They're all the same thing.

Lin Mo's fingers trembled as he quickly scrolled through the page, his heart sinking lower and lower.

He quickly opened the warehouse interface on the system panel.

Good guy.

In a brand-new storage compartment, a material he had never seen before had piled up to an astronomical figure.

A total of 232537 copies were collected.

[The hard shell of the black armor]

[Quality: Elite]

Item Level: F

[Description: The carapace of a certain arthropod monster, with a hard texture, is an excellent material for crafting some low-level Origin Soldiers.]

Lin Mo's breath hitched for a moment.

Two hundred and thirty thousand elite-level materials.

He stared intently at the small icon on the warehouse interface, and the long string of chilling numbers in the lower right corner of the icon.

My head was buzzing.

Who?

Who did it?

Did they wipe out the entire lair of an elite monster?

Monsters that can produce elite-level materials are definitely not ordinary.

Monsters of this caliber are manageable with just one or two, but once they form a large group, their combat power increases exponentially.

230,000 materials, 230,000 monsters...

What does this mean?

Even if you tied all the players in the entire safe zone together and stuffed them in, there wouldn't be enough room for these monsters to even fill their teeth.

Lin Mo was completely dumbfounded.

"Who is it? So brave!"

Acquiring so many elite-grade materials at once was something Lin Mo never dreamed of.

"Could it be Zhou Jian?"

He thought it was very likely.

No, it's not just very likely, it's 100% him.

Looking at the entire Wasteland Era, he's probably the only one with that kind of power right now.

Once Lin Mo understood this, his doubts vanished instantly.

Instead, there was an indescribable ecstasy.

You can earn more Source Crystals if you lose them.

But this is 230,000 elite-level materials!

It's what he urgently needs right now!

"That guy..."

"He is indeed a down-to-earth person who gets things done. I've known him for a long time."

Lin Mo chuckled, his face, which had been tense just moments before because of the zeroing out of the Source Crystals, was now beaming with joy.

He even felt that he had made a killing on this deal.

The purchase price of ten Source Crystals per share, even if the quality is only F-grade, is still more than three times cheaper than the system store price.

The key point is that the system's online store requires a certain amount of revenue.

The acquisition task he issued only required the consumption of source crystals.

With these elite-grade materials, many things that were previously impossible due to material limitations can now be put on the agenda.

For example... Yuanbing.

The thought of this made Lin Mo's heart skip a beat.

He quickly opened the system store, his fingers swiping rapidly until he found the category he had long coveted but which had been left unused.

[Would you like to spend 30000 revenue points to purchase "Beginner's Guide to Source Soldiers"?]

Lin Mo clicked "Confirm" directly.

The next second, a vast sea of ​​memories, in the most despicable way, burrowed into his brain.

Become!

Lin Mo slapped his thigh excitedly.

It's a good way to change your mood.

They failed nearly a hundred times with intermediate-level gene therapy.

To be honest, it put a lot of pressure on him.

Okay, I'm mainly upset about all the materials that were wasted.

The materials for nearly a hundred intermediate-level gene-based drugs are worth almost 50 source crystals.

Now is the perfect time to switch tracks and adjust my condition.

Just as Lin Mo was immersed in joy, a pitiful cry rang in his ears.

[Is no one going to speak up for me? You just completely wronged me.]

The sparrow had flown back to his shoulder sometime earlier, as if seeking comfort.

Lin Mo took out a Source Crystal from his pocket and flicked it with his finger.

Clang—!

With a crisp sound, the crystal-clear Origin Crystal drew a beautiful parabola in the air.

Almost the instant the source crystal was released, a black shadow darted out like lightning.

With a speed completely disproportionate to its size, the sparrow accurately caught the source crystal in its beak mid-air.

The entire movement was fluid and seamless, completed in one go.

Only after doing all this did the sparrow belatedly realize what had happened.

The little bird's face was filled with grief and indignation.

I hate this damn conditioned reflex!!!