The ink barely dried on the final contract before Vincent was thrust into the whirlwind of pet shop ownership. A flurry of paperwork, vendor negotiations, and permit approvals later, the "Cats and Dogs Pet Shop" proudly displayed its new name under Vincent's proprietorship. The previous owner, a kind soul, had even left behind Alice, a curly-haired prodigy with a knack for transforming scruffy pups and matted felines into canine and feline supermodels. Her expertise was a godsend for Vincent, a wide-eyed novice in the pet care industry.
After signing the contract, settling the payments, and dealing with some documentation, the ownership of the pet shop had been transferred to Vincent. The documentation for the pet shop was rather simple and only ended up costing a few hundred yuan.
Vincent started becoming busy after taking over the pet shop. He got a contractor to carry out some minor renovations for him, and just like that, the new Cats and Dogs Pet Shop was ready fo
In basement two of the dimensional castle, Vincent stood before a huge beehive-like thing. He felt somewhat shorthanded after beginning to carry out his plan.Therefore, he immediately took out the smallest insect nest from the painting space and placed it in basement two. Since Vincent was not an ant queen, he did not have the mental ability to control all the insects and be the superior ruler in terms of genes.Vincent’s mental talent was information transmittance. That is, he could transmit a huge amount of information through his mind power, which not everyone could. Every individual who had entered the zero-dimensional Inner Space would have his mental talent awakened. Vincent only discovered this after observing the insect queen.His talent was different from the insect queen. If an ordinary insect had not entered the zero-dimensional world, but only had its consciousness awakened by extracting Source Form, its mind power would only act as a special
The sterile white walls of the laboratory echoed with a soft symphony of whines and gurgles. Vincent put on a white lab coat and watched in much anticipation as a wolf give birth to its four new-born pups. Clad in his pristine lab coat, watched with practiced ease and adjusted the sterile white lab coat, the fabric whispering against his skin. Anticipation buzzed through the air, humming alongside the low whine of ventilation fans. He glanced at the sliver-furred mother wolf, which gradually sank into deep sleep. This was a knack he had using his mind power. It was hypnotism, which he had only learned recently.As he approached the cage where the silver-furred wolf lay panting, exhaustion etched across its noble face. This wasn't just exhaustion from physical exertion, but from Vincent's gentle nudge with his burgeoning psionic abilities. He'd lulled the creature into a restful slumber, a skill still fresh in his mind.With practiced ease, Vincent unlocked the cage, th
Ruby dragged Vincent to the side to sit, and the two were immediately surrounded by Ruby’s friends. At once, her friends began bombarding him with questions that were quite private, most of which Vincent did not know how to answer. This caused him to feel very awkward.“You do look super handsome!” one of the girls said. “You’re not a celebrity, are you?”“This is the first time I’ve met someone so handsome. What’s your skincare routine? It just looks too good!” another asked.“Are you mixed-race? Your facial structure looks like mixed-race.”“How did you know Ruby? Have you two…”“Ruby is really a winner in life. She looks so pretty and hot herself. Moreover, her new boyfriend is even more attractive than her ex! Man, I’m so jealous!”On the other hand, Ruby started making up the love story between the two of them, and it sounded as
Vincent sat in front of his computer, trying to figure out a good plan. When he was changing the hair and eye colors of animals previously using blood plasma, he had already come up with an idea about how he wanted to humans in Gaia’s World to be like.He knew he could not make large changes to the human genetic composition, but he should be able to make small changes to the root genetic template. However, small changes alone would not be able to satisfy Vincent“If it’s not just small tweaks, but rather I add different powers to the inheritance information on the genetic level, what would happen?”“For example, I can add genes for powers like eagle’s vision, adrenaline burst, dynamic vision, absolute calmness, and super speed and strength. These genes can be uploaded onto the ancestral genetic template. According to the rules of inheritance, different individuals would be able to have different abilities awakened, just like p
Vincent looked at the tube of plasma in his hand and felt very hesitant. Even though he had tested this plasma a few times before on lab rats and it had worked every time, the success rate was only close to and not really one hundred percent. Therefore, he was still somewhat anxious to use it on himself.The tube of plasma he was holding was precisely an evolution plasma, which he named the Sapient Sub-Brain Evolution Plasma. He had added a talent to his existing genes to make himself evolve. Specifically, he wanted to segregate the part of his brain tissues which he was not actively utilizing and develop it into a sub-brain. In addition, he would upload the operation mode of a computer into the sub-brain to improve its computing powers. In this way, he could become as powerful as a computer.With such a computer-like sub-brain, his ability to learn and his intelligence would be greatly enhanced, which was what Vincent wanted at the moment. The sub-brain intelligence w
“How can I extend life? How can I achieve immortality?” Vincent said to himself. He was sitting in the yard, sunbathing. He felt that no matter how smart or how powerful he was, he could never dream of fighting against the flow of time. He would die sooner or later. Even though he could add inserts into his genes to strengthen himself and give himself different talents, he could not extend the maximum limits of his lifespan. Put aside the limitation of the genes that controls lifespan, he was unable to even prevent the failure of his organs over time – one of the primary reasons why people died.The first step to preventing death would be to prevent the organs from shutting down. And after that, the metabolism and cell renewal could come into the picture. However, those were only the initial steps. If he would like to achieve true immortality, there would be a long and difficult way to go.Even though Vincent had a sub-brain, it was only for calculati
Vincent tossed the shop key to Alice and said, “Keep an eye on the shop. Call me if anything urgent happens.”Alice was in the midst of playing with a kitten. She turned around and nodded, “Alright, I understand. Don’t worry, boss!”Vincent put on his coat and got into the car with Walter. Even though he already knew what Walter was there for using his mind power, he still asked, “What’s the urgent matter? Why were you looking for me so suddenly!”Walter got into the driver’s seat, closed the door and said, “We’re having a reunion, an elementary school reunion. Someone called me suddenly this morning and asked me to attend, and so I thought about you. I then immediately came to fetch you!”Vincent thought back to the days. “Elementary school reunion? Can you even remember what they look like? I might not even remember their names!”Walter immediately replied, &ldquo
Vincent felt memories returning to him. He had been very proud when he was young. Because of his good grades, good looks and a well-to-do family, his actions had been rather arrogant. He had been somewhat of a bully.Aisha had been very pretty when she was young as well, but she was shy, introverted and did not interact much with others. Vincent was very interested in her, but that wasn’t a good thing when you were a kid. Children could have very strange ways of expressing fondness. It mostly started with him bullying her.At first it was just Vincent bullying her, but because of Aisha’s shyness and her reclusive nature, the rest of the class began isolating and bullying her as well. Once, Vincent accidentally broke one of Aisha’s belongings and angered her. A fight broke out between them. Vincent used his backpack to hit Aisha, forgetting that he had a flashlight in his bag that day. The flashlight struck Ai Shu’s head and injured her.A
Because of how useful the biological chambers were, Vincent returned to Earth to order more components. After four days, the materials finally arrived. He took them back to Gaia’s World and finished assembling them.Vincent’s laboratory changed significantly again. The room was now filled with standing biological chambers, various medical equipment, drawings of genetic templates, and a freezing chamber filled with many labelled genetic samples. It really looked like the kind of laboratory only an alien would have!Vincent put Sakuma’s deified body in one of the smaller biological chambers. He had forbidden the ant-people from approaching the particular biological chamber. Even though it had lost its consciousness and only the instincts of its physical body remained, it was still very dangerous.On the other hand, in another larger chamber was a more beautiful creature. It was the result of his experiments for the past few days. Inside the biolo
Vincent arrived on the southern sea, looking for traces of Sakuma. He knew the whereabouts of the creature using the Scroll of the World, but he did not want to capture it with a dimensional door. He wanted to catch it off guard and see if he could draw it into his dream world.His boat shimmered and disappeared. He used the dimensional door to teleport himself hundreds of miles and reappeared in another area of the ocean. Vincent immediately discovered Sakuma. It was currently playing under the ocean, boiling the area of ocean hundreds of meters around himself. A layer of dead fish floated on the water, and Sakuma began feasting happily. Water vapor hung over the ocean, covering the world in a layer of mist. The water of the ocean was bubbling. Vincent approached Sakuma slowly on his boat. Sakuma did not notice anything!Vincent found that Sakuma was five to six times bigger than the last time he saw the creature. Sakuma now looked about half as tall as a full-grown p
“Assimilate!”“Copy the genes!”Vincent could sense that after he set up the templates in the first cell, the rest of his deified brain cells were loading the power for controlling information. As the deified cells finished loading, Vincent felt a change in his mind space. His control over his power was completely different now. His cells could now handle a large amount of information at any given time, and he could change or alter his entire mind space whenever he felt like it. At this point, it no longer felt appropriate to call the space his “mind space” anymore. This was the “dream space” he had aimed to create.Vincent stood in his dream space. This space was pitch black and directionless. There was nothing around him, not even time existed in this realm. A thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately saw the space changing with the passing of the thought. He could see land starting to form under his f
As the ship drew closer, the sailor immediately saw the giant dark shadow under the water and shouted in panic, “There seems to be a rock up ahead!”The call startled everyone, and more sailors appeared on the deck, searching the open water for hidden rocks. The captain hurried to the front of the ship. “That is impossible, this is a very safe route! We have sailed this route many times! How can there be rocks all of a sudden?”Even so, they saw the dark shadow under the water slowly grow larger. A circular black area gradually appeared from under the water. Confusion filled the minds of everyone present, “What is that?”Boom! The water exploded as a large head rose up from the ocean into the sailors’ view. A huge black octopus erupted from under the ocean, its long tentacles immediately entangling the ship. The large suction cups on its tentacles were terrifying to look at it.“My God, what is that?!”
“Sakuma… Sakuma…”“Boom!”“Rumble!”Sakuma was ramming into the stone wall, continuously launching attacks while controlling its power, manically trying to escape from its underground water dungeon. As it used its power, the water in the dungeon evaporated again and again, but fresh water kept flowing into the cell.Vincent observed Sakuma in its prison from a fist-sized small window above. It had been a while since he sent Sakuma into the water dungeon using a dimensional door. Vincent had been trying to find out the limits of Sakuma’s power. “Right now, the highest temperature Sakuma could control was 783 degrees Celsius. The lowest was negative 70 degrees Celsius.”Sakuma discovered where Vincent was and began launching its attacks toward Vincent furiously. However, Vincent was the one that gave Sakuma his power. All he needed to do was control the particles in his surrounding a
What is supernatural power?That was the question that had been bothering Vincent for a long time. To him, this kind ofcreatures shouldn’t be limited to be able to control only its own body. They should be able to interfere with the world and lives around it using mind power as well. This was what a real supernatural creature should be able to do and how mind power should really be used.This required a lot of knowledge about rules of the world. Temperature would be an example. What was temperature? General speaking, temperature was a physical quantity that expressed how warm or cold an object was. But on microscopic level,it measured how violently particles vibrated or moved. According to the kinetic theory, temperature represented the average kinetic energy of the constituent particles. Temperature was a result of the thermal motion of a large number of particles collectively.Vincent thought that a mythical creature would be able to detect t
Vincent poured a test tube of blood plasma into the slot at the top of the biological chamber. He pressed a button and the blood was injected into the seahorse. A day later, the seahorse’s consciousness and memories were wiped completely. Then, Vincent tried to place the soul of the Tree of Life into the seahorse. However, the soul was met with strong resistance, and the seahorse died almost immediately!As he extracted the soul of the Tree of Life, Vincent found that the soul had been weakened as well. The soul, which had been pure and without any form of consciousness before, had become tainted by the seahorse’s mind. As Vincent observed it, he sensed some very chaotic and confusing waves of consciousness being emitted.Vincent tried the same thing with several different kinds of sea creatures and failed every time. The contamination of the once-pure soul was becoming increasingly severe. Vincent knew that if he kept failing, the soul would fall apart.
The Port of London was located along the banks of the River Thames to the southeast of London. Vincent drove to the port in a brand-new Range Rover Evoque, and he could see the London Bridge and the beautiful night scenery in the distance. This was an important arterial road of London. Ships were coming and going very frequently, and it was still very busy here despite the falling darkness.From faraway, Vincent could already see the liveliness of the port. There were still many ships out on the sea. In addition, there were also many ships docking, loading or unloading their cargos. Ships of various sizes packed the dock, creating a busy scene.Vincent walked around until he found where the medium-sized and small-sized ships were docked. The port was twisting and turning. Vincent walked down a straight path and saw dozens of ships docked around. Among them, there were quite a few yachts!This one look good!In the distance, Vincent saw a yacht with three
“What do you think of this one?” a man in suit asked. He was standing beside Vincent and his face was filled with a bright smile.Vincent inspected the villa before him carefully and walked around its huge yard. It was a townhouse in Kensington, London, and it was over three hundred square meters in size. The villa had six floors including the basement and was very secure because Kensington was filled with many rich people. The public transport around the house was also very convenient. In addition, there were plenty of facilities around the house.After inspecting, Vincent found out that most parts of the house were painted white with great attention to details. It had the elegance of European designs, and the furnishings inside were also very modernized. Moreover, the yard was huge and one could sunbathe or play in it to relax.“I’ll take it,” he said with a nod. “How much?”The man’s smile immediately became more friendly. “The house originally costs nine million and three hundred