Um?

It took so long to upload the game review before the upgrade prompt appeared?

However, when Ren Suo clicked on the message, he found that it was not a message reminding him that his player level had been upgraded, but a strange system prompt.

"Congratulations to the player for obtaining 200 points of merit. Friendly reminder from Nesser Games: Please try to accumulate merit before you are promoted to level 4. Don't say I didn't warn you."

Ren Suo was completely confused by this prompt. Did the game company that owned this Small World game console find out that he had earned a lot of merits and specifically remind him not to spend them?

It's a hint, and there's also a "Don't say I didn't warn you"; the only thing missing is a sentence like 'Don't be an idiot now that I've told you this'.

It's just like advising people not to become eunuchs in the palace in 1911.

But why didn’t it say it when the merits reached 100, but only prompted it when the merits reached 200?

"It seems that when promoting to level 4 players, there is a threshold that must be related to 200 merits..."

Ren Suo pondered in his mind, but it was meaningless for him to guess this information, as he was still a long way from becoming a level 4 player.

When he opened the content vault, the first things that caught Ren Suo's eye were naturally two treasure chests: a level 2 treasure chest of "Jedi Priest" and a level 3 treasure chest of "Spirit of the Devouring World".

However, Ren Suo didn't have any keys, and this thing couldn't be bought with merit points, so it could only be obtained in reality.

However, Ren Suo had been eating with Dong Chengling every day these days, and he had discovered that there were six students with keys in the two classes she taught. As for the key carriers seen in the cafeteria, there were even more.

Of course, no matter how many keys he has, it has nothing to do with him.

Just like there are many beautiful girls in the university and there is a lot of money in the bank, but what do these have to do with Ren Suo?

And judging from the situations of the treasure chests in the previous times, Ren Suo felt that he was not really lucky. He decided to just let things take their course and wait until he got the key.

Instead, he was excited by the exclusive rewards of "Devouring the World's Spirit"——

"Super evolution"!

This reward does not appear in the equipment interface, but like "Physical Fitness Optimization", it appears directly in the content storage library, which means that this is a consumable reward and will be gone once it is used up.

Ren Suo hadn't thought much about it before, but after playing "Devouring the World Spirit" for more than ten days, his understanding of "super evolution" was extremely profound!

The nine-tailed fox that enchants everyone and changes in a myriad of ways!

The Monkey King with the body of King Kong, a mythical figure!

Ren Suo didn't expect to reach the third super evolution of the Demon King realm. If there was a second super evolution of the Real Person realm to choose from, Ren Suo would be very satisfied!

"Have you activated 'Super Evolution'?"

"It is detected that the player's current evolutionary state is human. Please choose one of the three super evolution cards-"

Oh, that’s good, there are three more!

Then the next second Ren Suo saw these three evolution cards and was instantly dumbfounded——

"Animation: Cat", "Animation: Fox", "Animation: Fish".

Ren Suo put down the controller, took a deep breath, went to the bathroom to take off his pants, pondered for a while about his metabolism, slowly rubbed his palms with hand sanitizer, sorted out his mood, sat back on the sofa, and carefully read the descriptions of the three evolution cards.

Although it is strange that animal evolution is anthropomorphic while human evolution is animalistic, it is still quite interesting to think about it after accepting this setting.

And if he doesn't accept it... For Ren Suo, who abides by the 'three-second rule' even when eating (food can be eaten within three seconds of landing on the ground) and never wastes anything, there is no way to refuse this option.

"Phantom: Cat", a colorless card, has the following effects: the player gains abilities such as dozing, night vision, physical agility, and "cat aura", which allows the player to easily gain favor with cats;

"Pseudo-Beast: Fox", a colorless card, has the following effects: the player gains abilities such as enhanced sense of smell and body odor, and gains the "Canine Aura", which allows the player to easily gain the favor of canines;

"Phantom: Fish", a colorless card, has the following effects: the player gains the ability to breathe and swim underwater, and also gains the 'aura of fish', which allows the player to easily gain the favor of most fish.

"Tsk, I know that the exclusive rewards for 3-star games have a limit no matter how strong they are..."

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In the Pacific Ocean, in an underground research institute on Prison Island, nearly 400 nautical miles from Federal Los Angeles, the 751st experiment is being carried out.

Prison islands are not uncommon in the Federation. The natural barrier of the ocean is more effective than any other barrier. Prison islands are extremely far away from the mainland and are an excellent research location with no other possibility of intelligence leakage except satellite phones.

Moreover, this Kiparian Prison Island is a private prison. It was originally built by a multinational consortium based in the medical field of the Federation. However, over the past six months, other consortiums have continuously invested in it, causing this prison to become the common property of all the first-class consortiums in the Federation. At the same time, countless scientific researchers and death row prisoners have been transported to this prison island.

This prison now only has prisoners on suspended death row. After arriving here, these prisoners will no longer have the opportunity to communicate with the outside world, and they wear electromagnetic prison shoes on their feet - these shoes not only make their movements slow, but the entire prison island is paved with metal floors that match the electromagnetic prison shoes. Once they try to leave the area that "does not belong to them", the circuit of the prison shoes will be connected, causing the shoes to generate huge magnetic force, forcing them to be fixed to the ground.

This is a prison that can keep people trapped forever.

Two strong prison guards escorted the prisoner Keith to the underground laboratory. Keith was not only wearing electromagnetic prison shoes, but also had his hands tied with lead handcuffs, and an elastic mask on his face that stretched his mouth completely open. Only his eyes that kept moving revealed his fear and panic.

When Case came in, it was the end of the 751st experiment.

"Clean this place up quickly."

A middle-aged white researcher instructed the staff to clear the "people" who had melted into ice cream on the steel seats, his eyes fixed on the curve of the display screen: "How many people are there?"

"Three people, Doctor." The female researcher next to him said, "Experimental Subject No. 752 has arrived."

"Well, the next step is to test five people's fatigue in a row... It will start in 30 seconds."

Keith saw the group of lab assistants cleaning up the blood, flesh and internal organs from the seat like a whirlwind, and several stronger assistants took away the lead handcuffs and electromagnetic prison shoes.

He knelt on the ground in fear, making a sound of "Ahhhhh", but the assistants came over and put him on the seat, fixing his hands and feet. A black assistant patted his face and said contemptuously: "You are all scum who deserve to be executed, don't lose control of your bladder, it will be troublesome for us to clean up later."

Ahhh——

No, I was wronged!

But no one was interested in hearing his story, maybe because he was once the CEO of a company and was cheated by his partners;

Maybe he is a banker who found his wife having an affair with her lover in the middle of the night and took action himself, but a passing robber took action and he was framed;

Maybe he was an undercover agent in the police station, but his boss was "forced" to jump off the building, and no one could prove his identity...

And here, he is just the 752nd experimenter.

While he cursed the unfairness of fate in his heart, he never thought that if fate favored him, it would be too unfair to the 751 people before him - who dared to say that the 751 people before him were not wronged?

"The experiment begins."

Keith's whole body tensed, waiting for the electric current or the sharp blade to come.

But no, his seat just turned 180 degrees.

Because the steel seat was so large, Case hadn't seen what was behind it, but now he finally saw it - it was a fish tank.

In the fish tank, there is a thumb-sized blue-green fish.

None of the 751 prisoners in front of him could recognize the origin of the fish. At most, they thought that the fish was too small.

But Case was different. He majored in biology in college. He was obsessed with the Cambrian explosion for a while and had visited museums around the world with other classmates to observe various ancient fossils up close.

The fish in front of him quickly reminded Keith of his college days.

"Is this... Haikou fish?"

Haikou fish is a primitive fish-like creature belonging to the class Jawless. Its fossils were discovered in Yunnan, Xuanguo. It dates back to the Cambrian period and is considered to be the oldest fish discovered so far and the oldest known vertebrate, pushing the appearance of chordates back to 530 million years ago.

The trilobites that are familiar to ordinary people are much more complex than Haikouichthys. Haikouichthys is known as the "world's first fish" and only exists in fossils.

However, the thumb-sized fish in the fish tank in front of Keith made Keith believe at first sight that this was a Haikou fish!

This is an unfounded belief - even if it is exactly the same as the fossil, it is not impossible that fish similar to Haikou fish have appeared over the years.

However, when Keith looked at the fish, his body secreted acetylcholine rapidly, even making him forget his current situation, with only the pilgrimage-like joy remaining in his mind.

But the next second, the table where the fish tank was located quickly approached his body, and only then did Keith see that there was a guide tube under the fish tank.

Soon, the staff inserted the tube into his stretched mouth, the mechanism in the fish tank was activated, and water flowed from the fish tank into Keith's mouth.

Case recalled the tragic scene on the steel seat.

Could it be that those people became like that because they drank this water?

Thinking was soon overwhelmed by consciousness. Keith felt the blood in his body boiling, pain spreading from deep in his bones, and despair groaning in the wrinkles of his soul...

God, as long as I can be saved... no matter you are Jehovah, Satan, noodles, bugs, black goat, computer, game console, or anything else, I am willing to believe in you until the end of the world!

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Kibarian File 752 (Top Secret)

Subject: Keith Troy, 34 years old, male, from Florida

Experimental background: No. 3 (data deleted) first appeared in the stomach of a 45-year-old male corpse in New Jersey. Three people who came into close contact also melted and died within three days. The cause of death was that the cells were overproliferated and the body could not bear it and exploded. It has been found that the impact can be avoided by not making direct contact.

Experimental situation: No. 3 (data deleted) entered the body of the experimental subject through a (data deleted) wide catheter. Afterwards, the physical fitness of the experimental subject was greatly enhanced. The anesthetic needle prepared by the experimental chair was ineffective, and the head broke through the metal floor and drilled into the ground, leaving only a 40cm wide round hole. According to the exploration, the hole leads to the outside of the island and is expected to have entered the Pacific Ocean.

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At night, on a beach somewhere in Los Angeles, a naked man with a bald head quietly came ashore. He spent a lot of effort to steal a set of clothes and some cash, took a taxi on the highway, and said a safe house he bought with someone else's identity.

The driver, who had a beard and a Manchester United cap, looked at his baldness and then his face in the rearview mirror and said, "Your neck is injured, don't you want to go see a doctor?"

"Um?"

Keith touched his neck and saw from the rearview mirror that there was a thumb-sized wound on his neck that was shaped like a fish.

"fine."

Keith couldn't help laughing, and the fish blood and fish fragments in his teeth scared the driver:

"This is the mark my savior left on me."