At that moment, a message popped up in Yang Tianxuan’s mind, indicating an incoming video call.
After establishing the connection, a screen of light appeared before him, displaying a man with a slicked-back hairstyle, slightly grey hair, and a face surrounded by a dense ring of beard.
"Xiao Ye, what’s up?" Yang Tianxuan curiously asked.
The man on the screen was Cheng Ye, one of the team leaders in their Weapon Development Department.
After entering the game and creating the Doomsday Technology Guild, Cheng Ye chose a path completely different from theirs, embedding Star Veins with close-combat type Life Souls.
The purpose of doing so was also for weapons development.
Recently, they were preparing to build a simple Melting Furnace for Melting Spirit Ore, an impossible task for these physically weak researchers; they needed a player with Strength to take on the job of manually crafting the smelting furnace.
Cheng Ye’s chosen role was similar to that of a Mechanical Engineer, responsible for manufacturing, maintenance, and other strenuous tasks.
The recent batch of measuring tools was also his responsibility.
In response to his question, a smile appeared on Cheng Ye’s face on the screen:
"Boss, have you seen the latest Life Soul assessments on the forum?"
"The ones about the Extraction Life Soul I was just alerted to?" Yang Tianxuan asked with some curiosity.
"Yes, that’s the one, go check out the forum..."
Ending the call, Yang Tianxuan was curious and didn’t understand what Cheng Ye was trying to convey.
But still, he decisively called up the function panel and opened the forum page.
His gaze searched the hot topics list and quickly locked onto the assessment post published by Dark Night Will Come.
As he read through the post, Yang Tianxuan’s expression gradually changed.
"Extracting the essence of plants?"
He suddenly realized why Cheng Ye had looked him up.
The Primordial Trait of the Extraction Life Soul reminded him of a special department at the Sky Dome Technology Research and Development Center: the Genetic Transformation Department.
This department was established after the Moon Eclipse Clan gifted the Human Clan Federation with gene editing technology.
The initial goal at its inception was to create a batch of Super Gene Warriors for the Human Clan Federation using gene editing technology, and secondly to explore the mysteries of Life and to promote the advancement of biological science.
Up until now, the Genetic Transformation Department has created a hundred thousand Super Gene Warriors for the Human Federation and has contributed much to the fields of agricultural biotechnology and healthcare.
Currently, there are two types of genetic modification experiments.
The first is gene editing modification, optimizing gene sequences to give warriors strong constitutions and Strength.
The second is the implantation of Spiritual Seeds for transformation.
The most commonly used materials for this type of modification are: Spirit Plants.
Unlike the wild Spirit Plants of Monster World, the real world’s Spiritual Plants are all cultivated indoors, catalyzed to grow by the continuous infusion of Energy.
Both their medicinal effects and growth rates are far inferior to those from Monster World.
The strengthening method is through stimulating with Spiritual Liquid Extraction, enhancing the human genes, and thus achieving Evolution.
This is the most advanced transformation technology at the current stage.
However, this process carries significant risks; the success rate of creating Genetic Warriors is less than 30%, and most of the warriors participating in the experiments die from a series of diseases following rapid genetic collapse, physiological dysfunction, immune system failure, neurological abnormalities, and more.
He once discussed with an old friend from the Genetic Research Department and learned that solving the problems of gene transformation required improvements from two aspects.
Firstly, the quality of the Spirit Plant.
The Human Clan Federation’s technology for cultivating Spirit Plants is limited and unable to produce high-quality Spirit Plants. If they have high-quality Spirit Plants, the Genetic Transformation Liquid obtained from Extraction could reduce the death risk during the transformation process.
Secondly, the Physical Fitness of the experimental subjects.
The higher the physical fitness, the lower the risk of genetic modification that can be withstood.
And these two problems can be solved in Monster World after the Extraction of Life Soul is implemented.
Firstly, for the extraction of potions, the real world requires highly precise advanced equipment to assist, preserving the essence of Spirit Plants while eliminating various impurities.
However, in Monster World, it can be completed in a short time through the Extraction Characteristic.
Most importantly, Monster World has a wide variety of high-quality Spirit Plants to choose from.
Secondly, there’s the issue of the physical fitness of those receiving the modifications.
Essentially, Monster World is a game, and those who are modified and die during the experiment need only wait an hour for the cooldown to end before they can be resurrected, hence there is no risk of personnel casualties.
With his heart pounding, he felt that the "Extraction" trait, which was ranked as the bottom in the eyes of forum players, was simply a divine skill in the eyes of the Genetic Transformation Department.
This means they can conduct genetic modification experiments in the game without any risk consideration.
As long as they have enough sacrificial power, they can buy as much Spirit Plants as they want.
Once they take over the Cloud Field Domain Node in the future, the Player Faction could even mass-produce Spirit Plants.
As for the effects of the transformation, he believes it is probably related to the enhancement of Body Refining Experience.
If that’s the case, those guys at the Genetic Transformation Department could even gain massive sacrificial power profits by selling potions that enhance Body Refining Experience, and then invest those funds in creating genetic modification laboratories and purchasing Spirit Plants.
Thinking of this, Yang Tianxuan immediately decided to inform his old friend about this news.
Summoning the function panel, he chose to exit the game.
Accompanied by the countdown of the 30-second timer appearing before his eyes, Yang Tianxuan couldn’t see it, but inside his body, Spiritual Patterns were rapidly forming and interconnecting.
When the countdown reached zero, the internal consciousness transmission array was activated.
Sky Dome Technology Research and Development Center.
"Old Yang, so you’ve already started weapon development in the game?"
Looking at the surprised expression of his friend on the video call, Yang Tianxuan nodded without hesitation:
"The game has a virtual environment with a perfect simulation of real-world physics, which is very suitable for weapon development and power testing. Of course, I won’t miss out. Your genetic modification technology can also make progress there..."
After listening to Yang Tianxuan’s narration, Yu Ze’s face showed a helpless expression:
"Your idea is good, but the problem is we can’t even buy the game qualifications for Dark Land, including the brother who was in charge of purchasing from the trading center last time... Qin Ye, right... every time he clicked on the hacked game link, it’s always a pop-up window saying the quota has been exhausted."
Hearing this, Yang Tianxuan fell silent.
He had encountered the same problem, but didn’t expect that his old friend hadn’t managed to get the hacked version’s qualifications either.
"Alright, I’ve heard your suggestions. I’ll find a way to solve the game qualification issue. I will submit another application soon, asking the higher-ups to acquire a batch of Dark Land game qualifications through diplomatic efforts."
After hanging up the video call, Yu Ze sat in his office with a helpless expression.
He had indeed thought about Old Yang’s suggestion.
But the problem was that the official version of game qualifications distributed by the Moon Eclipse Clan were very limited, and it was nearly impossible to obtain the qualifications, let alone to grab the hacked version, which was quite frustrating.
Sighing, he looked up at the virtual desktop and tried clicking the shortcut URL at the bottom right corner of the desktop.
The opened web page directed him to the download address for the hacked version of Dark Land.
Yu Ze, with no expectations, chose to click on the download button again.
[Ding~ Download initiated, progress: 0.01%]