Li Ge exchanged a blood pack from the Main God and poured it into his mouth, alleviating the after-effects of his Demonic Eye.
Then, he casually tossed a pack to Zheng Zha, advising, "I suggest you drink some now too."
"Ah? Oh!"
Zheng Zha instinctively followed Li Ge's words, bit open the blood pack, and drank its contents.
At this moment, as the Gene Lock automatically closed after the danger passed, Zheng Zha suddenly convulsed and let out a bloodcurdling scream.
This startled Zhan Lan and the others nearby, who looked at Li Ge in shock, wondering how he could poison Zheng Zha after the fight.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Li Ge looked at Zhan Lan and the others with some confusion.
Zhan Lan hesitated for a moment before timidly saying to Li Ge, "Li Ge, there's no need to treat Zheng Zha like this, is there? You've already won, so why did you give him poison?"
Li Ge's mouth twitched. Poisoning, my foot.
He had kindly given Zheng Zha, who had the Vampire Bloodline enhancement, a blood pack to make his Gene Lock after-effects easier to bear.
It wasn't to take revenge on Zheng Zha.
Li Ge rubbed his temples, feeling a headache, and explained to them, "I didn't poison him. That's the after-effect of Zheng Zha activating his Gene Lock."
Huohua stepped forward and also defended Li Ge, "Exactly, exactly! My beloved isn't that bad."
When Zhan Lan saw Li Ge deny it, and Zheng Zha on the side gradually recovered, she immediately realized that they had misunderstood.
She awkwardly smiled and said, "Oh, I see. My apologies, Li Ge, I misunderstood you."
Then, Zhan Lan, as if curious, asked Li Ge, "What exactly is a Gene Lock?"
Li Ge glanced at Zhang Jie, seeing that he had the same confused expression as Zheng Zha, guessing that he was pretending to be ignorant despite knowing.
Since Zhang Jie, the semi-guide, wasn't speaking, Li Ge had no choice but to explain the definition of the Gene Lock to them himself.
"Simply put, the Gene Lock is a hidden potential within the human body, but this potential is very deeply hidden, and most people generally don't have this ability."
Li Ge gave an example, saying, "Perhaps you've seen a news report before, about a 70-year-old man who, to save his grandson trapped under a truck, single-handedly lifted the overturned truck."
"In that situation, the old man opened his Gene Lock under extreme emotion, completely unleashing the restricted functions of the human body, allowing him to do things he normally couldn't."
Zhan Lan nodded her small head, understanding Li Ge's meaning, and asked, "I understand, but since it's about unlocking restricted human body functions, there must be after-effects, right?"
"Is that why Zheng Zha was convulsing on the ground earlier?"
Li Ge affirmed, "Exactly."
"The old man who lifted the truck died from the backlash of the Gene Lock after rescuing his grandson. That's the price."
Everyone collectively gasped, then turned their gaze to Zheng Zha, who was sitting on the ground.
Li Ge also stared at Zheng Zha with a half-smile, not speaking further.
Zheng Zha immediately panicked and shouted to the Main God, "Main God, quickly, full body repair for me!"
The light pillar only lasted for 5 seconds before disappearing, and only then did Zheng Zha finally breathe a sigh of relief.
And only then did Li Ge continue with a smile, "However, what I said was about ordinary people. We, who are enhanced Reincarnators, won't die from the Gene Lock's backlash."
"With Zheng Zha's physical constitution, if he rests for a while, his bloodline's recovery ability will allow him to recover."
Zheng Zha's face stiffened, and he looked at Li Ge resentfully, saying, "I've already been beaten by you, and it scared me so much that my Gene Lock opened. You don't have to scare me like this, do you?"
"Hehe, my beloved is narrow-minded. Who told you to challenge him just now?"
Huohua wrapped her arm around Li Ge's and explained the reason to Zheng Zha.
However, no sooner had Huohua finished speaking than Li Ge playfully tapped her on the head with a Hell's Requiem Hand Blade.
This made her repeatedly beg for mercy.
Zheng Zha's mouth twitched. He was clearly trying to help Li Ge; he believed that with Li Ge's intelligence, he would have seen that.
How could there be such a narrow-minded person in the world!
Li Ge ignored Zheng Zha's resentful gaze and continued to popularize the concept of the Gene Lock to them.
"The Gene Lock is divided into multiple stages. What Zheng Zha just unlocked was the First Stage Gene Lock, which is about combat instincts and complete control over one's limbs."
"After that, there's the Second Stage of Muscle Mastery, the Third Stage of Brain Region Liberation, and the Fourth Stage of Gene Manipulation."
"Furthermore, the enhancements here at the Main God, if you only rely on self-practice, will never catch up to the state of an activated Gene Lock."
"For a D-rank enhancement, the First Stage Gene Lock can fully master and utilize it; C-rank requires the Second Stage, and so on."
Li Ge reminded them, "When enhancement levels are the same, a higher Gene Lock level can completely overpower a lower-level one."
Li Xiaoyi slapped his palm, suddenly enlightened, "Doesn't that mean the Gene Lock is very important! So, Big Brother Li Ge, how do you activate the Gene Lock?"
Although Li Xiaoyi wasn't good at other things, he was quite good at being a hype man.
"Under a life-and-death crisis, when an emotion reaches its extreme." Li Ge calmly provided the method.
"Zheng Zha just now felt the crisis of death, which is why he activated his Gene Lock. However, this method also depends on a person's aptitude."
Zheng Zha thought about what Li Ge said and found that his experience of entering the Gene Lock state was exactly as Li Ge described.
He immediately chimed in, "That's right, at that time, all I could think about was not wanting to die, and the Gene Lock naturally unlocked."
Upon hearing this, Li Xiaoyi immediately thought that after their next enhancement, he should discuss with Li Ge about using his Demonic Eyes to replicate Zheng Zha's unlocking process.
Meanwhile, Zhan Lan suddenly quipped, "By the way, Li Ge, is your real-world profession really a writer? We're all new recruits who came in together, but not only is your combat strength ridiculously strong, you also have such a wealth of strange knowledge."
"Could it be that you're actually some world-class assassin retired and hidden in Longguo, or a mercenary or something?"
Li Ge listened to Zhan Lan's wild guesses and almost burst out laughing.
Besides Zhang Jie, who didn't believe it, seeing that the others also seemed to think Zhan Lan's words made sense, Li Ge didn't bother to explain.
He couldn't reveal his secret of being a transmigrator with a system.
So, he just let them fantasize.
And Zhan Lan, seeing Li Ge not answer, thought she had guessed correctly and quickly waved her hands, saying, "It's okay, this isn't the real world anyway."
"Even if you are an assassin, we won't be afraid or shun you!"
Zhan Lan was truly worthy of being a writer; her imagination was incredibly rich.
"Well, thank you very much, Zhan Lan." Li Ge desperately controlled his urge to smirk.
Even Huohua next to him was red-faced, trying to hold back her laughter.
"Alright, let's end this topic here."
"I'll continue to recommend enhancements to you."
"Next, all of you search for the 'Mental Power Scan' skill and see if you can enhance it."
"Oh, right, Zheng Zha, you don't need to."
Li Ge brought the topic back on track and said to the group.
Everyone except Zheng Zha followed suit.
Zhang Jie was also putting on an act.
"Wait, why shouldn't I try it?" Zheng Zha asked Li Ge, confused.