Under the bed, Lupine dug out several boxes of canned food.
Obviously, these were cheap synthetic foods, but Lupine was not picky, so he quickly opened them and started to eat them.
Facts have proved that artificial synthesis does not mean it tastes bad. On the contrary, artificial flavors in this era can already simulate a variety of flavors. A total of four boxes of food puree, Lu Ping tasted red meat stew flavor, black pepper beef flavor, and chicken juice. There are four flavors: potato flavor and orange flavor... For Lupine, who tasted it for the first time, it was actually a bit surprising.
Of course, Lu Ping could also imagine that if you eat this kind of pureed food for a long time, no matter how delicious it is, there may be a day when you feel like vomiting.
Eating is, on the one hand, hungry, and on the other hand, it is also an experiment.
Lupine closed his eyes, and on the game interface, a series of prompts for obtaining new genes appeared one after another.
[Obtain 0.1% of the "soybean" gene...]
[Obtain 0.2% of the "Beet" gene...]
[Obtain 0.1% of the "Sugar Cane" gene...]
"It seems that just like in the game, the way to obtain genes is to eat! The previous injection of gene potions should be regarded as a different kind of 'eating'. After all, not all living things have digestive tracts. The definition of eating in "Prokaryotic Evolution" is, More similar to 'ingested into the body'." Lu Ping thought secretly.
"However, the types and quantities of these genes... As expected, synthetic foods are made of cheap raw materials, and after countless intermediate processes, the genes are almost destroyed." Lu Ping was helpless.
Heating, long-term storage, and various antioxidants may damage the genes in food.
But there is nothing that can be done about it.
This is no longer the Earth that Lu Ping was familiar with. Today's rulers, the "God Lords", come from the region. The living environment they like is very different from humans. Magma, gunpowder smoke, toxins, and dark clouds are all things they like. Therefore, the city has also been Transformed into what they like, like the dark clouds over Dreamweaver City, which makes the entire city unable to see the sun all year round.
Lack of sunlight prevents plants from growing, which in turn makes it difficult for all organisms up the biological chain to survive. Not to mention, there are also ordinary creatures from hell, such as "Hell Fire Bats" that can be seen everywhere in the sky, and "Devil's Grass" that can be seen everywhere on the ground...
In such an environment, almost all life on earth has become extinct. Perhaps in some corners of the earth, there are still wonderful sights of cattle and sheep being seen under the wind and grass, but in cities, almost no life that is native to the earth can be seen.
Except humans.
Every month, the residents of Dreamweaver City can receive a bottle of "divine water" for free. It is a gift from the god "Arachne" of Dreamweaver City, which can protect the residents of this city from being corroded by the toxins of hell. .
"Have you finished eating?" Lupine's spoon touched the bottom of the box, and he realized that he had finished four entire boxes of pureed food at some point.
But still very hungry.
Lifting his clothes and touching his clearly visible ribs, Lu Ping felt that this body was skinnier than he remembered.
"This is reality, not a game. The terrifying power in the form of a 'cow and horse' cannot come out of thin air. It should consume my own energy." Lu Ping thoughtfully said, "The main energy reserve of a person comes from fat. It seems that I will have to pay attention to this issue in the future and try to eat as much fat as possible to avoid draining myself dry in one transformation."
"And try to store as much emergency food with high energy density as possible...I don't even have ordinary food now."
Lu Ping looked at the four empty food clay boxes, feeling helpless.
He had just rummaged through boxes and cabinets in the whole house and only found four boxes of pureed food, which was normally enough for four meals, and he actually ate them all in one go.
"In order to get a chance to gain genetic enhancement, the original person spent all his little savings and even sold everything he could at home... It was a desperate move, regardless of the consequences!"
"Gene-enhanced transformation, is it really so attractive?"
Lupine's eyes fell on several color picture albums beside the pillow.
The edges of the albums are curled, and it was obvious that the original person often looked through them while lying on the bed.
Lupine flipped through it quickly. These were several comic books depicting urban vigilantes and superheroes... They were similar to comic books such as Spider-Man and Daredevil in his previous life, but the difference was that the protagonists in these picture books were all A superhero that I have never heard of.
"Wolf girl?" Lu Ping saw on the cover a young woman with a thin waist, round hips, and amazing curves. Her legs had anti-joints like those of a wolf, and her hands had huge sharp claws.
The stories in comics are usually when a civilian is about to encounter something bad, such as being robbed, murdered, bullied... The wolf girl will always fall from the sky, fight against injustice, save the civilian, and even start a sexy plot.
While looking at the album, Lu Ping clearly felt that it brought back many memories of his original self...
A secondary picture flashed before my eyes.
Old Wei, an honest man at the east entrance of Slum Alley, accidentally soiled someone's luxury car one day. He was severely beaten by the other person's bodyguards and eventually died of internal bleeding...
Andrew, who borrowed a loan at a high interest rate, used seven fingers to pay seven days of interest because he failed to repay it overdue...
Qin Shiyu, the 12-year-old daughter of Aunt Qin who sells steamed buns, was molested by gangsters on her way to school. She resisted fiercely and was treated inhumanely...
Of course, they also called the police, but the operator’s words suggesting more money, the cold response after learning that the other party was a poor person, and the police officer who took a few symbolic photos and left chatting and laughing...
To sum up, in this world, the safety of poor people is not guaranteed.
Gangsters, criminals, and wealthy people can all trample on the vague rules at will.
Lu Ping gradually understood why the original person yearned so much for genetic enhancement...
This is not a peaceful world. If you want to avoid being bullied, you can only make yourself stronger.
Just like the wolf girl in the comics!
The comic is not fabricated out of thin air. It is now 2077. Mechanical prosthetics and genetic recombination technology are both real-life medical technologies. It is true that some people have become more powerful than mortals through mechanical modification or genetic modification.
Lu Ping retrieved a very interesting fragment from his memory... When the original person was surrounded and beaten by gangsters a few years ago, he was saved once by a young woman with sharp claws in his hands.
He has seen truly extraordinary humans!
In my memory, the specific image of the woman was blurred, and I couldn't even remember whether it had an animal claw or a mechanical claw. But since then, the original person has been crazy about the wolf girl and has collected many related picture albums.
"No wonder Lupine in this world wants to become a genetic enhancer so much. As the saying goes, rich people rely on technology, and poor people rely on mutation. Rich people can actually achieve transformation by purchasing powerful enough mechanical prostheses. The goal is to become a super human, but people like the original who are so poor and have difficulty even eating can only place their hopes on illusory genetic mutations."
