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Cai Haohua closed his eyes, not willing to watch the intimate scene between Shi Xiaoling and Tang Zhishu on the screen. Although he had known that Tang Zhishu was very concerned about Shi Xiaoling, he hadn't thought that the two of them would have such deep feelings for each other.

At that moment, Cai Haohua was swayed by his decision. Due to his impulsive recommendation at the joint conference, Shi Xiaoling was forcefully pushed to the position of executor. Was this fair to Shi Xiaoling? What kind of influence would it have on Tang Zhisu? Could Shi Xiaoling really take on such a big responsibility?

Cai Haohua was also confused for a moment.

Wang Hengjun looked very confident as he looked around and laughed, "I didn't know that Shi Xiaotao had such mediocre quality, and he even had some skills in coaxing girls. The number one beauty of our base, Professor Tang, was actually coaxed by him to such a state. "It seems like I've really underestimated him in the past, and he's still as sharp as ever, haha …"

Although Wang Hengjun said it in a relaxed manner, no one could laugh when they heard it. On the screen, the closer Shi Xiaoling and Tang Zhishu got to each other, the heavier the mood became.

For the past eight years, all the practitioners of martial arts had died on the spot from the outbreak of the ultimate virus. If Shi Xiaoling suffered the same fate today, how would Tang Zhishu feel? And where would Cai Haohua, who highly recommended Shi Xiaoling, go?

At 9: 58 PM, Shi Xiaoling and Tang Zhishu walked hand in hand to the door of the virus inoculation room. Along the way, the two of them did not say much. They just silently held hands with a relaxed smile on their faces.

Shi Xiaoling knew that there was a secret passage in the virus inoculation room that led directly to the spacetime shuttle's launch site. If he successfully passed the test, then he would enter the spacetime shuttle's launch chamber through this secret passage and be immediately transported to the Bright Moon Continent two thousand years ago.

Shi Xiaoling took a deep breath and said to Tang Zhishu slowly, "I will definitely come back."

"I'll wait for you." Tang Zhisu nodded with a smile.

Shi Xiaoling watched Tang Zhisu's warm and beautiful smile. It was as if he was trying to engrave this perfect smile into his mind. Then, he turned around and strode into the laboratory.

The door of the virus lab automatically opened. Shi Xiaoling walked in with big strides without turning his head back.

Tang Zhisu, who was standing outside the door, continued to stare at Shi Xiaoling's back with a smile and waved his hand.

Watching the door of the lab slowly close, Cai Haohua, who was sitting in the main surveillance room, lightly sighed, turned around and asked Wang Hengjun, "Officer Wang, can we start now?"

Wang Hengjun's mouth revealed an enigmatic smile as he announced into the microphone, "Attention all units, I announce that this year's' National Life Improvement Program 'will officially be launched."

After Shi Xiaoling entered the virus inoculation room, he followed the directions of the staff and lay down on a work platform similar to a crystal cover.

As soon as he lay down, his limbs and even his entire body were firmly fixed. A staff member adjusted the oxygen mask for him, connected and tested the various instruments, and then put down the crystal mask and closed it.

In the main surveillance room, a row of green lights lit up on the podium in front of Wang Hengjun and Cai Haohua. Cai Haohua looked at the people around him and announced into the microphone, "Prepare to inject the tenth level X Ultimate Virus."

Inside the crystal case inside the virus room, a mechanical arm holding a syringe slowly lifted up and aimed at Shi Xiaoling's vein. Inside the syringe, there was a tube of liquid shining with a strange blue light.

Cai Haohua stared at the monitor screen and ordered, "Begin injection."

The mechanical arm shook slightly, but did not move forward. All the experts in the command room were stunned. Everyone turned to look at the control panel.

The one who was responsible for controlling the syringe was Professor Zhuang Li, the person in charge of the research lab for the virus. He seemed to be hesitating and seemed to be rather nervous, not pressing the button beside his hand.

Cai Haohua was about to ask Zhuang Li what was going on when Wang Hengjun urged him coldly, "Professor Zhuang, begin injecting."

Zhuang Li's body trembled as he turned his head to look at Wang Hengjun. His expression was extremely complex, but in the end, he still slowly pressed the button beside his hand.

The blue liquid from the syringe slowly poured into the vein on Shi Xiaoling's left arm. Shi Xiaoling glanced at it and didn't feel any pain.

This was the tenth time he had been inoculated with a virus. Every time it had been a blue drug, but this time, the blue liquid in the syringe had a strange luster to it.

In addition, the method of inoculating the virus had changed. Previously, it was Tang Zhishu or the nurse beside him who inoculated Shi Xiaoling with the virus, but they had never fixed his body onto a strange operating table like now.

Shi Xiaotong tried to move his body slightly, but he immediately felt that his hands and feet were tied with a strange kind of bandage. His thighs were also tightly bound by the same special bandage, which was better than lying still.

Shi Xiaoling smiled wryly in his heart. He knew that the virus inoculated in his body was no trivial matter. Once he lost control of the energy released by the Ultimate Virus, its destructive power would be astonishing. When he thought about the furniture in the study room being smashed into a complete mess after he finished his first inoculation with the primary virus and had been too engrossed in cultivating his primeval essence. This time, it was the most powerful ultimate virus that was being inoculated.

According to the plan, after inoculating the virus, Shi Xiaoling would lie in the crystal coffin for an hour. If there were no problems with his physiological parameters in an hour, then he would be sent directly to the time warp shuttle through the secret passage and immediately begin his journey through time and space.

Shi Xiaoling knew that in the last eight years, six Xiantian martial artists had died on the spot in this crystal coffin, and only two of them, who didn't have any foundation in ancient martial arts, had barely made it through.

Of course, even if he managed to survive this one hour, he would still be hit by the second and third waves of the ultimate virus when he entered the shuttle. By then, however, he would be in another time and space.

There was no time inside the crystal cover that Shi Xiaoling was lying on. However, he didn't care about it. Tang Zhisu had already described the situation inside the crystal cover to him in detail.

Seeing that his robotic arm had slowly retreated after inoculating the virus, Shi Xiaoling immediately began to operate his martial arts.

In order to deal with the Ultimate Virus, he had prepared three sets of ABC's, each specially designed according to the route that Tang Zhishu had given him. These three sets of skills didn't have much practical offensive or defensive value, and were purely for the purpose of channeling the energy to accumulate and explode.

Almost at the same time when Shi Xiaoling started using the [A] cultivation technique, a warm feeling rose from his lower abdomen and quickly spread throughout his body. Shi Xiaoling was not in a hurry. He used his small amount of true essence to guide the warm current, allowing it to flow smoothly through his meridians.

Wherever this warm current went, paths that could not be achieved with Quintessential Essence in normal times would instantly be opened up. Many locations where Shi Xiaochun had always wanted to open them, but failed, were also washed away.

This was the state that he had always dreamed of since he had started practicing ancient martial arts. Over the years, even though he had meticulously practiced several sets of ancient martial arts cultivation methods, he didn't have enough true essence to build his foundation, and could only rely on his own consciousness or spirit to practice.

Although he had used his own unique method to practice so many sets of cultivation techniques, these techniques were unable to greatly improve his physique, nor could they display the corresponding might.

Shi Xiaoling clearly knew that these ancient martial arts techniques he cultivated were extremely precious, but he was unable to implement them. This made him very conflicted, and it was also the main reason why he threw himself into this "National Lifetime Improvement Program".

Unexpectedly, not even a minute after he had been vaccinated with the Ultimate Virus, the surging warm current in his body had already surged forth without restraint. The weak true essence that he had painstakingly cultivated for the past year had quickly fused into this huge warm current, rapidly growing along with it as it circulated and vibrated through his meridians.

Under the constant assaults from the warm currents in his body, Shi Xiaoling had long forgotten where he was. He used all of his spiritual consciousness to enter the meridians in his body and followed the flow of warm energy to circulate within his body.

Shi Xiaoling demonstrated the set of ancient martial arts mental skills that he had practiced over the years, recklessly mixing the suddenly strong true essence energy. That carefree feeling really made him forget about it.

In front of the main control room's podium, Cai Haohua and the other veterans were frowning as they watched the sudden burst of physiological data from Shi Xiaoling appear on the screen.

According to past experience, the first half hour before the final inoculation should be a smooth transition period. During this period of time, the first thing that would play a role would be to calm the body down and restore energy. The virus's true energy explosion would only appear after half an hour, which would reduce the impact and damage to the body of the person inoculating the virus.

However, from the real-time monitoring data, Shi Xiaoling's body underwent a drastic change. The situation that should have occurred half an hour later was now apparent in his body.

"What the hell is going on?"

The experts in front of the podium couldn't help but look at each other in dismay. They didn't understand why such a strange situation had occurred. Was it because Shi Xiaoling's physique had an especially strong ability to accept and absorb the ultimate virus? Even if that was the case, it would at least take twenty minutes for the effect to be effective, right?

Only Wang Hengjun and Zhuang Li knew what was going on.

Last night, under Wang Hengjun's orders, Zhuang Li had secretly added the newly delivered reagent X to the final virus inoculated by Shi Xiaoling today. That is to say, the final virus inoculated by Shi Xiaoling today contained two copies of reagent X.

Large beads of sweat flowed down Zhuang Li's head. As a specialist in virus research, he was well aware of the power of reagent X. It was a substance that could cause earth-shattering changes in a person's body with just one tiny drop. One had to add in a lot of rare and precious medicines that had been made using high-tech methods for a long time to neutralize the intense toxicity of reagent X.

Even so, once this reagent entered the body, especially into the bodies of those who had cultivated in ancient martial arts for many years, the number X reagent would still greatly stimulate the true essence energy within the body of this group of people to erupt, and cause an extremely fierce impact on the meridians and organs of the body in a short period of time.

For an entire twenty years, only the talented Number One and Number Two Longevity Geniuses were able to endure this shock. And today, the average talent Shi Xiaoling was about to face the explosion of two sets of Number X reagents, one of which had not even been mixed together yet.

Cai Haohua stared at the monitor screen, and said in a low voice, "Everyone, please take note, the amplification reaction of Shi Xiaoling will appear in advance, and then unexpected situations might occur, please be prepared."