Chapter 119: Chapter 107: Explosive Start_l
Translator: 549690339
Harrison Clark’s attention returned to Daniel Thompson, “Lion, you actually held your temper for a whole five minutes this time?”
Daniel Thompson glared, “You…”
Not waiting for him to respond, Harrison already turned to run to the side, “Running laps, got it. Piece of cake.”
Pouring fuel on the fire, Thompson roared, “Initially, you only had to run ten laps, now you have to run twenty! You’ll have to finish them in twenty minutes or else you’re done for.”
Harrison lightly raised an eyebrow, “Oh, twenty minutes? Is the standards this high now? We have so many strong people! Has the blood clotting serum become common now? Do they take it every day? How long can it last?”
Thompson looked at him with the eyes of someone viewing a fool, “What in the world are you babbling about. What’s wrong with you today? Got a screw loose? Blood clotting serum has been obsolete for a hundred years, ok?”
Harrison laughed again.
When a technology is scrapped, it’s usually because there’s a new and better technology.
“This is great news. Thanks, Lion.”
“Shut up! Get your ass moving! Or I’ll kick your ass!”
This time another rookie spoke up, “Instructor, I must clarify for Harrison Clark. He had a little fever last night, so his mental state isn’t great.”
Harrison looked at the person, it was Marthus.
The start of this new timeline seemed pretty good, it appeared that he was friends with Marthus.
“A fever? Crazy, Marthus, are you aware of what you’re saying? Since the World Government started popularizing genetic fluid modification technology, fevers have become uncommon.” Daniel Thompson was quite surprised, and also very angry, “As the new recruit class leader, why didn’t you report this to me earlier, Marthus?”
Marthus nervously replied: “I was also shocked at the time, but after I accompanied him to the medical room, the medical staff said that this was a rare phenomenon and there wouldn’t be any sequelae. I just… I just didn’t want him to lose his military opportunity because of it.”
“Well, since you guys share such deep camaraderie. Then you go and run laps with him. If the average time for you two can’t be controlled within seventeen minutes! Then you guys can both go back to the slums.”
More rookies stood up to protest trying to stick up for Marthus.
Marthus’ limit was about seventeen minutes, but there was a definite drag of Harrison, which meant that Marthus had to run into fourteen minutes, which was impossible.
However, Thompson made another threat. Those who sympathize with these two can join their game, and everyone quickly shut up.
Harrison had been watching Thompson secretly wondering why his person didn’t seem likeable this time.
He was threatening to dismiss people from the military all the time, which was a bit over the top even though he knew he was just scaring people.
Did Lion get messed up from too many stimulants in the new timeline?
Or, had the ideological climate of the era once again changed, moving a step further towards a more rational and less emotional military system?
Harrison didn’t know whether this was good or bad, but his quickly turning mind made a judgment and reached a conclusion.
This might be a good thing for him.
After all, the more militarized it is, the better it promotes meritocracy.
This era existed for his talent.
Because he, Harrison Clark, might be mediocre in other areas, but in armored combat, he was an ultimate genius.
Harrison inhaled deeply, there’s no need to be humble now, let’s just release my capability.
“Instructor, I want to ask one last question.”
“Speak.”
“What is the limit of everyone’s speed to run these laps?”
Thompson turned his head to look at the elite in their biological armor, “The lowest standard is twelve minutes.”
“Alright.”
“What fits right. Go run, now!”
Harrison and Marthus started running forward, and you could faintly hear Harrison’s slightly arrogant shout from afar.
“Remember to time us!”
Just as the two of them had just started running, the rookie soldiers gathered around pleading again.
Daniel Thompson looked around emotionlessly, “Don’t you all have your own things to do? Believe it or not, I’ll have you all kicked out?”
“Instructor, you can’t do this.”
“Yeah!”
“Shut up! This is an order! I’m warning you for the last time, whoever continues to plead for these two is disobeying the orders! You know what the consequences are.”
The recruits finally shut up, but there was defiance in their eyes, they felt he was overreacting.
Thompson’s expression was serious, he looked like he was ready to eat people at any time.
But only he knew how comforting it was to see these rookie soldiers, who had just met a few days ago, so united, even daring to challenge the authority of his iron-blooded instructor.
He looked again at the two running laps.
Discharge from the military?
Of course, it was a joke, he couldn’t bear it.
Thompson thought to himself that it was fine if Harrison Clark showed no potential, but since Marthus took the blame with Harrison this time, it would raise his prestige among the recruits, so he should formally enlist him as soon as possible.
Speaking of which, the two of them were running really fast, especially the guy ahead.
Wait, that’s not Marthus in front.
That is so fast!
Good God!
Thompson’s indifferent facade instantly crumbled, he subconsciously covered his mouth.
“Holy shit!”
A muffled voice came out from under his hand.
He couldn’t help it.
Nine minutes passed. Looking at Harrison, who had casually returned with his hands in his pockets, then at Marthus, who was still huffing and puffing, clearly striving to break his best record by running into the sixteenth minute, Thompson opened his mouth wide, speechless for a long time.”Lion, how was it?”
Harrison Clark asked, grinning and seemingly on a high.
Thoughts twisted in Daniel Thompson’s mind.
Known for his strictness, as a senior instructor, Thompson never indulges in smile lightly, earning the nickname Iron-faced Lion at the Black Bear Training Base.
He couldn’t tolerate the playful laughter of his soldiers.
That’s why he got easily angry earlier, and deliberately made life difficult for Marthus and Harrison.
But now he had a rough idea why Harrison’s behavior was so unconventional.
Perhaps his rare high fever last night led to his extremely rare secondary gene awakening, greatly enhancing his physical fitness and personality, making him more active.
In this era, everyone only gets one injection of gene fluid at birth.
Surviving the fusion stage of the gene fluid with their own genes, possessing enough intelligence and physical fitness to survive in this era, they become useful individuals, becoming legally recognized citizens.
If one fails to survive the fusion, they die of genetic collapse, and this happens with a high probability of one in three.
Among all citizens, about one in a million faces a second mutation in adulthood, known as gene awakening.
Currently, with a global population of ten billion, about ten thousand people face the prospect of gene awakening.
The symptoms of gene awakening vary. Some people finish it in their sleep, some self-ignite in dreams, and some disintegrate into meat sauce while walking on the street.
The rate of survival during gene awakening is one in ten.
Gene awakening is not the same as the frequently depicted gene unlocking in novels.
Human genes are never locked; instead, they choose to sleep.
Choosing to sleep and being locked are essentially different.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, when humans first stepped through the door of gene technologies, theoretical research suggested that 75% of human genes had no functionality and were referred to as “junk”.
However, later research and facts proved that there is no junk among the base pairs that make up human genes. All are useful.
It was just that the technical level of human society limited the necessity of gene expression information. People in the twenty-first century did not need to release all gene information to complete normal learning and working.
Simply put, the remaining 75% of genes are too lazy to move.
With the progress of technology and the migration of time periods, when humans need to face an increasingly vast amount of knowledge and increasingly esoteric technologies, it’s insufficient for them to just release 25% of the gene expression information for basic knowledge learning. As a result, more genes start to unlock themselves.
In 2764, Dr. Wright verified a group of genes that were always considered to be in a silent state. Their only function was to prompt the human brain to secrete a very complex structure of Amino acids. These Amino acids would suppress human emotions and greatly enhance human concentration.
This Amino acid was named ‘James Amino Acid’ and was extremely effective. It only needed a single molecular amount to impact the entire human brain extensively, and it had started to appear in the early 25th century. However, it was not discovered until then.
When Dr. Wright proposed this theory in 2764, there have been as many as tens to thousands of James Amino Acid molecules in everyone’s brain.
So, in the 27th century, it was generally believed that the gene development completion of humans had increased from 25% to 25.7°/o.
Well, it’s a remarkably satisfactory progress.
Fast forward to 2913, the gene fluid successfully developed by Dr. Watson Gesslaf could convert this 25.7% figure into 26.8%.
The so-called gene awakening is another spontaneous recovery of the gene, and the 26.8% becomes an varying figure between 28% and 30%.
However, this does not imply that humanity has mutated, because the essence of the human DNA chain has never changed.
In reality, there isn’t a bit of difference between the genes of a person born and raised 3000 years later and a person born and raised in 2000. There’s no absolute reproductive isolation.
Two single strands of DNA spanning thousands of years could still successfully match.
Thompson understood gene awakening and quickly concluded that this phenomenon was indeed happening in Harrison.
But what truly shocked him speechless was the degree of gene awakening demonstrated by Harrison.
Harrison could run twenty laps in just nine minutes, and it was clear that he hadn’t put forth his full effort.
Within the Black Bear Training Base, there are two terrifying individuals who had completed gene awakening.
One of them is the ace soldier in the base, but even he needs ten minutes to run these twenty laps!
The qualifying time is twelve minutes; ten minutes is ace-level.
The two-minute difference seems small, but everyone knows, the closer to the limit, the harder it is to take another step forward.
Apart from the ace soldier who does it in ten minutes, the best among the other ordinary soldiers could only finish in ten minutes and forty-seven seconds!
But Harrison…
He broke not only the record of the Black Bear Training Base but also the global record!
Seeing that Thompson was still silent, Harrison urged: “Lion, can you say something?”
Thompson returned to his senses, showing no emotion, “Well, not bad.”
“Only not bad?”
Harrison managed a tight smile, secretly amused.
Many things have changed, the only unchanged one is Lion’s hard-headed personality.
“Fine, you’re outstanding, surpassing my expectations of being outstanding. The rest of you will train without supervision, Harrison, come with me.”
Thompson turned and walked towards the field.
Harrison followed him closely.
He was pleased with his performance this time.
It seemed that he made a good start, making Lion realize his genius instantly. This saved him a lot of time compared to progressive development strategy he had employed last time.
But this was only the beginning — Harrison knew that in the following days, the shocks Lion would encounter will come wave after wave like a sea.
Hopefully, he could withstand it.
Harrison turned back, looking at the two soldiers in black body armor.
One of them had just used a shrewd move, changing his approach abruptly, controlling a missile-firing aircraft with full force, and broke through the opponent’s defenses, blasting onto the physical body of the other black-armored soldier.
“Harrison, hurry! Dr.. Owen is waiting for you!”