Chapter 204  : Genius and Karmic Luck

With victory as a prerequisite, the Flowery Sect thought of a solution to this matter, and Lǚ Yang even looked forward to tomorrow. He was going to defeat Lin Yao in the arena, and he would be able to avenge this insult.

As for the subsequent apology, defeating the enemy and then apologizing to him was not considered humiliating. Instead, he was being magnanimous. No one would criticize him for this. Instead, they would see him as a gentleman.

A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he imagined the scene tomorrow.

‘These crafty plots and machinations won’t affect me!’

Lin Yao was clueless about the discussions going on in the Flowery Sect.

At present, he was on his way to the University of Monster Science and Technology in a taxi. However, he frowned after traveling for some distance.

He felt someone following him.

‘Is it the Flowery Sect? Are they bold and arrogant enough to attack me in the city?’

Upon thinking about this, Lin Yao was a little surprised. The country controlled everything, and he was not an ordinary person but someone with a diamond talent. His talent had been recorded by the country. If he died for no reason, the country would definitely investigate.

Therefore, he was not afraid to offend the Flowery Sect at all.

‘It doesn’t matter if I am arrogant. If I really provoke someone I shouldn’t provoke, at most, I will join the military, where discipline is most important. In order to ensure military combat effectiveness, as well as the country’s control over the military, the country does not allow rich and powerful families to intervene with the military. After entering the military, I could also develop quickly.’

Lin Yao had nothing to fear since he had the military to fall back on. However, that was just a way out. He felt that he would not need to resort to that. The higher management of the Flowery Sect should know about the Skynet, which should deter them from doing anything reckless.

Lin Yao felt perplexed and activated the accelerated thinking, which was very useful. He quickly found something wrong while using his super arithmetic ability.

‘The other party is not very powerful. An assassination should be fast and silent. Even if the Flowery Sect did not expect me to conceal my abilities, they would not send such a person after me. Even if they kill me, they won’t escape. This will implicate the sect. Plus, I don’t sense any malice. Could it be someone from another dojo, or did the country send someone to monitor me?’

Although he managed to sort things out, Lin Yao was a little uncertain because of the lack of information. While he frowned and pondered it, the two people behind him started to speak.

They were 500 meters away from Lin Yao. They did not think that Lin Yao could hear them from this distance, and they were not mindful of what they said.

“Damn, why did they deploy me to this place? I don’t want to be a kid’s nanny. I want to enter a mysterious land!”

“Be quiet. You are not in the right state of mind. You are bloodthirsty and you long to be in a fight, so you can’t restrain yourself. If you entered a mysterious land in such a mental state, you would be easily led to complete madness by evil spirits. They deployed you here so that you can cultivate and recover.”

“Cultivate? I think I’m fine. Killing intent can suppress one’s fear, so those evil spirits will be afraid of me!”

“But you have a higher chance of getting out of control. What we want is a fighter with a killing intent but firm determination.”

“You want me to stay sober while being vicious? It’s easier said than done… Ah, it’s boring!”

After listening to the conversation inside the car at the back, Lin Yao was a little helpless. He had not expected that his diamond talent would be so highly valued. He was surprised that someone would protect him now that he was in a new place.

Lin Yao had really underestimated the treatment given to people with diamond talent. As a super-genius who could protect millions of people when he developed to his full strength, every diamond genius was a valuable asset to the country. The country was willing to arrange ordinary warlords to protect geniuses while they developed.

Given that the country would send someone to secretly investigate for half a year before granting a quota for a diamond genius, one could understand how much the country valued such talent.

After thinking for a while, Lin Yao did not dismiss the two people following him. It was alright for them to follow him. At the very least, he would be much safer.

‘Anyway, I have nothing to hide.’

While sitting in the taxi, Lin Yao exited accelerated thinking and closed his eyes to calm his mind. However, his curiosity about the protection provided by the country led him to focus part of his attention on the car behind him.

He did not expect that this would enable him to get new information.

Over at the back, the untamed man was lazy and bored, and his companion could not help but frown.

After thinking for a while, the man said in a serious tone, “Cui Huo, be serious about your job. Mr. Lin Yao, whom we are protecting, is in danger!”

In response to this, the person named Cui Huo, who did not seem to be from the military but appeared to be an untamed fighter from the night guardsman team, seemed to react indifferently.

“In danger? Are you kidding? With the military as strong support and a powerful surveillance system like the Skynet, who would dare cause trouble in the city? Those rich and powerful families are not crazy or brain-dead.”

“Yes, rich families dare not do anything reckless. Even if they do, they will only attack in the wild and in the mystic realm far away from the city. But what if the attacker is not a human being?”

The untamed fighter sat up straight upon hearing this remark.

“Are you talking about monsters? It can’t be. They can’t break through the defensive deployment of the city. Do you mean those evil spirits?”

As he mentioned the evil spirits, Cui Huo’s face was full of hatred. Something must have happened between him and the evil spirits.

However, he soon looked doubtful.

“That’s not right, evil spirits have no brains. They attack people indiscriminately. How could they specifically target the young lad we are following?”

“Some evil spirits have a consciousness… Of course, this is not the time to talk about this. Even if evil spirits lack consciousness, they will still attack geniuses.”

“What for? To eliminate the potential of our world and prepare for the large-scale invasion of other evil?”

As he said that, the untamed fighter did not believe a single word. Other than him, Lin Yao was also filled with disbelief.

“Regardless of whether the evil spirits would do this or not, the information about our geniuses is kept confidential. How can the evil spirits know about them? Don’t tell me some of them have been lurking around the higher management?”

Just as Lin Yao began letting his imagination run wild, the fighter speaking in a serious tone said, “Of course that’s not the case. According to our investigation, it seems that geniuses have some special qualities. We tentatively call this karmic luck. If the evil spirits kill a genius, they will gain great benefits. At the same time, evil spirits and freaks can also perceive karmic luck. Therefore, every genius is like a beacon in the night to evil spirits, attracting the attention of many evil spirits… If you want to kill evil spirits, you don’t have to go to a mysterious land. As long as you keep a good watch over that guy, sooner or later, you will see an evil spirit.”

The untamed fighter was convinced by his words, and so was Lin Yao.

However, Lin Yao was perplexed when he heard this news. He felt that he had not been targeted by evil spirits.

Lin Yao, who was thinking this way, did not reflect on what he had been doing since the advancement of the Celestial Tree.

He had been undergoing in-depth electric current development of the body and brain development, resting and sleeping in the sun, going through shallow electric current development while sleeping, getting electric shock development and brain development, and sleeping and resting in the sun…

Although evil spirits could rely on karmic luck to find geniuses, it would take time. Besides, the research institute where Lin Yao was located was next to the barracks and the city hospital. There were many powerhouses stationed there. Although evil spirits had no brains, they would still instinctively avoid dangerous areas. Therefore, most evil spirits dared not approach the area where Lin Yao was.

As for Lin Yao, unless it was necessary, he no longer went out at night. It would be very rare for him to encounter evil spirits.

Actually, Lin Yao had encountered freaks. When he had just awakened, he had picked up the tickets to the weird amusement park and had encountered them one after another. Ordinary people would not have such an experience.

At the same time, what Lin Yao did not know was that after he left the armored train, the railway guards got very busy.

“Warning, there is an abnormality during the journey of Train 8773k. There is an increasing number of freak attacks during the ride.”

“Warning, there is an abnormality during the journey of Train 8773k. There is an increasing number of freak attacks during the ride.”

“Warning, there is an abnormality during the journey of Train 8773k. There is an increasing number of freak attacks during the ride.”

Red warning sounds rang out among the guards, and these warning sounds had a lot to do with Lin Yao. Train 8773k was the train he was traveling on.

The freaks would usually attack armored trains traveling in the wild. Trains had traveled through these roads multiple times, so most of the freaks had been cleared. However, there were several bloody battles while Lin Yao was there. This was very odd.

It was his first time taking the train, and he thought that it was normal.

Due to the lack of information, Lin Yao did not know the reason behind the appearance of these freaks. Now that he’d heard the conversation between the serious young man and his partner, he was also a little wary.

Of course, Lin Yao soon relaxed. It was… still daytime.

Lin Yao soon arrived at the University of Monster Science and Technology in a taxi. After taking out the certification given to him by Professor Li to show it to the guard, they were led by the guard to the college. Obviously, Professor Li had contacts in the college.

Lin Yao was very satisfied with this arrangement. Actually, there were indeed Project Thunder God research institutes outside where Lin Yao could develop his body and brain.

However, most of the research institutes outside had commercial interests, and although the research institute in the college was not an ivory tower, it was better than those outside, and he felt more secure while he underwent development.

‘However, I must still be vigilant. I have to stay sober during the first development and I must always detect the good and evil intentions of those people.’

Lin Yao hurried forward while thinking to himself. The University of Monster Science and Technology was very large. One could even travel around by car inside the college. Lin Yao, who was not a student, had movement restrictions. The guard drove him around for more than 20 minutes before he finally arrived at his destination.

‘This is such a big campus. It is no smaller than some cities.”

Lin Yao, who came in, had reported to the guard, so he was greeted by someone when he arrived at the entrance of the research institute.

It was a senior around 25 or 26 years old. However, Lin Yao did not pay attention to him right away. Instead, he looked at the huge research institute and its related buildings, as well as the many young people who walked about looking busy. He could not help but be amazed.

‘There are so many people, and all of them are thunder geniuses. There must be hundreds of them.’

While he was at the entrance of the research institute, he was once again reminded of the stark difference between Shanghai and Ninghai City. Although Lin Yao had met a few people in the research institute in Ninghai, most of the time, no one had entered and left Professor Li’s research institute.

In Shanghai, Lin Yao saw hundreds of thunder geniuses coming and going.

This was merely a research institute inside the university. There were definitely no less than 30 research institutes in the entire Shanghai that were studying Project Thunder God. These were only the formal research institutes. There were definitely many other smaller research institutes.

Although the scale of Project Thunder God had been reduced by 90%, it was not outdated. Back then, the whole country had been dedicated to research. After scaling it down by 90%, 10% of the people in the whole country were still researching the project.

Both before and after the reduction, Project Thunder God was the top research project of this era. Therefore, Lin Yao had once said that if there was a god-level technique that surpassed the king level in this era, it had to be Project Thunder God.

Project Thunder God was important, but research required resources. With so many thunder geniuses developing abilities here, the research on Project Thunder God was definitely far more advanced than in his hometown.

‘I wonder to what extent the research has developed over here. Are there any new developments that can quickly improve my strength? There should be. When I was on the way here, Professor Li told me not to use the opportunity that I obtained in the city competition for diamond redemption. He said that there would be a surprise.’