Chapter 360: Chapter 360 The Origin Elite Squad (Seeking Subscription)
"I have no opinion on obeying the organization’s arrangements, but I still have two small requests or questions to ask!" Pei Yan said, taking a cigarette from the pack on the table, placing it in his mouth, and continuing; "First, I want to ask, when his alternate dimension’s origin body Lin Ruxue said that the expansion of the origin would make the spatial wall thinner and create more issues, is it really okay for us to continue converting Origin Superpower Users?"
After listening to Pei Yan’s question, Gu Shenghui took a lighter from his pocket and lit his own cigarette, casually throwing the lighter to Pei Yan and answered, "That’s what they say, if you have too many lice you aren’t afraid of being bitten. Compared to the origin body expanding on its own, our small-scale conversions don’t even count as a fraction. If the world really collapses, it won’t be due to this tiny energy conversion. Rest assured, we’ll control the number of conversions."
Pei Yan nodded, took the lighter, lit the cigarette in his mouth, and continued, "Then second, we must complete the origin conversion for our team members, including Instructor Hu, first, before I can convert others. Rest assured that my current origin is enough to support such conversion work, and besides, isn’t there still my sister?"
"I knew you’d make such conditions, agreed, but Pei Yan, I want to remind you, that in the future, you may not appear as a squad anymore. Ye Jiumu must have told you that we’re forming an Elite Origin Task Force centered around you and your sister!" Gu Shenghui nodded in agreement and said.
Pei Yan opened his hands and looked towards the ceiling, pondering for a long time, and nodded silently, as a gesture of agreement. He actually understood that even in their original squad, their power was constantly widening, and the dangerous nature of future tasks no longer allowed for such a team with mismatched power levels. This disparity would not only drag down the team’s combat effectiveness but also put the members in danger.
After reaching an agreement, Gu Shenghui handed Pei Yan a list. Looking at several familiar and unfamiliar names on the list, Pei Yan softly said, "Both Jiang Donghu and Zheng Jia Ru are at fifth-stage awakening; I can transform them now, but it’s a bit strenuous, so let my sister do it, it should be very easy for her! As for the others, like Liu Piaoxu, leave them to me."
After the discussion, the conversion work immediately began. Compared to the past where Pei Yan could only convert one Superpower User at a time with great effort, he seemed much more composed now, converting four Origin Superpower Users from his squad just in one afternoon before showing signs of fatigue.
Just after converting Qi Weidong’s origin, hearing his words of gratitude in his ear, Pei Yan stared at his broken arm in a daze. After a while, he gently squeezed the broken arm area and said softly, "Old Qi, I’ll get you a mechanical arm like mine. Although it can’t be as nimble as your previous arm, it should be fine for normal life and even general combat!"
Upon hearing this, Qi Weidong and Xue Buli’s eyes lit up, excitedly saying, "Pei Yan, can you really do it? That’s amazing! Even if it’s only half as flexible as your current arm, I’d be satisfied!"
Pei Yan nodded, "It should be fine. I’ll make it driven by an internal power source, so you just input the internal source here to activate it. If there’s any damage, you can find me anytime to repair it. Although connecting it might cause some pain, you might need to reopen your wound!"
Qi Weidong waved his hand, saying loudly, "Oh, what does it matter! A little pain is worth it for a complete arm, I’m willing! When can you do it?"
"Hmm, wait. The day after tomorrow, after I’ve finished converting everyone’s internal sources, I’ll make it for you!" Pei Yan promised.
"Great!"
Over the next two days, Pei Yan carried out the conversion work for Shangxing and the others as promised, doing the mechanical arm transplant for Qi Weidong, which was ultimately very successful. Under anesthesia, Qi Weidong felt almost no pain at all, and upon waking up, he had a mechanical arm. He was now indulged in the joy of adapting to his new arm, and Pei Yan’s surroundings were filled with such joy, including his senior officers Shangxing and Hu Wenjun, who were not exempt from the ecstasy of acquiring new abilities.
Compared to their joy, Pei Yan wore a troubled face. Originally holding a lucky thought that if he didn’t think about it, the day would not come, he finally received a notice from Lin Junzhao in his mind that she would awaken and take over his body in a day.
When trying to communicate with Cen Xiaoran hoping to evade to Lin Ruxue for a few days to escape, he got a firm refusal, and he could only accept the fact that he would again give up control of his body, awaiting the arrival of that moment in a day.
During this period, he wasn’t entirely idle either. First, the new strike squad list was established, consisting of their original squad, along with Wang Wenze, Liang Qian, Shangxing who had completed conversion, and the remaining members were Ye Ruozai, Zheng Jia Ru, Jiang Donghu, but what surprised Pei Yan was that Jiang Feiyang was also added to the list. As Ye Jiumu had predicted, his elder brother Ye Ruozai was appointed as the new captain, while unexpectedly, Pei Yan’s sister Pei Jin was made the deputy captain.
Later, Pei Yan learned that the squad captain should have been his sister Pei Jin because she was the strongest in the team, but she declined for two reasons: one being her recent arrival at the Investigation Hall making it difficult for her to convince others, and also because she wasn’t familiar with the specifics of tactical warfare, so after much discussion she was given the standalone role as deputy captain, while the remaining internal source converters formed a second team led by Hu Wenjun and Liu Piaoxu.
The newly formed team, consisting of elite young talents from the Investigation Hall, had its first mission to monitor Pei Yan, who was about to be possessed by Lin Junzhao.
With the feeling that tomorrow his body wouldn’t belong to him anymore, Pei Yan indulged himself the night before Lin Junzhao’s possession, carrying his sister and companions, and acting wildly. Now able to drink seven or eight bottles of alcohol without getting drunk, he feared no one that night, guzzling alcohol like a bull oblivious to his companions’ advice, hoping to intoxicate himself, harboring a glimmer of hope that if he was too drunk, Lin Junzhao wouldn’t be able to take control of his body.
The next day, watching Pei Yan who was drunk like mud the previous night now striding energetically around the Investigation Hall yard, Wang Wenze sighed deeply beside Ye Jiumu and said, "It’s over, Yan Zi’s little tricks stand no chance against this big shot. Now he looks even more spirited than when Pei Yan himself was here!"
Squatting by the railing, Xia Yu stared at Pei Yan, who began doing chest expansions, and skeptically said, "Do you guys think he is Lin Junzhao or Pei Yan now? I can’t see any difference! He even greeted me this morning!"
Before her companions could answer, Xia Yu’s mouth opened wide in surprise as Pei Yan, who had been doing chest expansion exercises a second ago, suddenly soared into the air!