Chapter 4 - Chapter 4 The Role of Spiritual Characteristics

This was the Divine Ability Bracelet, which had numerous functions. It was almost equivalent to the combination of the smartphone, ID card, and wallet in Peter's previous life. In this society, without it, one would find it extremely difficult to get around and would also be questioned and investigated by the law enforcement department. "This way, please." Upon hearing Peter's question, the staff lady extended her hand and led him to the relatively quiet VIP area. There happened to be an empty spot in front of the spacious counter. Peter immediately strode up to the counter and stood still. When the staff member sitting inside saw Peter approaching, he immediately waved his hand to activate the virtual scanner on the counter. A blue virtual circular ring was projected onto the desktop. Peter raised his right hand, and a faint white light lit up on the Divine Ability Bracelet as he swiped it across the virtual image. The staff member behind the counter immediately directed his gaze towards the light screen in front of him. "Hello, Mr. Peter. You still have a quota this month of 120 high-energy nutritional mixtures and 30 low-level nutritional mixtures. How many would you like to receive?" After the staff member quickly reported the relevant information. Peter replied politely, "I'd like to receive all of them. Please help me pack them into two parcels so that it's easier for me to carry them away." "Okay, please wait for a moment." After hearing Peter's request, the staff member fulfilled it without hesitation. Two minutes later, the staff member took two parcels from the conveyor belt behind and placed them on the countertop. "Your nutritional mixtures have been packed." Peter immediately reached out and picked up the two parcels to test their weight. "It's okay, I can still carry them. Thanks." He casually thanked the staff member behind the counter, then turned around, hung the two large bags of nutritional mixtures on his shoulders, and strode towards the door. "The problem of food for the next three months is solved. I'll start focusing on seclusion when I get back and develop the Divine Domain well. Let me set a small goal for myself first: ignite the Divine Fire and become a Deity." In a great mood, Peter boarded the free transportation and headed back in the direction he had come from. He aimed to strive to develop and strengthen his believers as much as possible within the three-month school holiday. Once these three months passed, the living environment in the World of Gods would no longer be safe. Those with bad luck might be invaded by others on the very day they were out of the protection period. Without the strength to defend themselves, they would surely suffer heavy losses or even perish directly. He returned home at the fastest speed, put away the two large bags of nutritional mixtures, went into the independent bathroom in the house to take care of his physiological needs, and then took a shower. "Everything is ready. Here I come, World of Gods." With this thought in mind, Peter, who was lying in the Divine Being Landing Pod, slowly closed his eyes. When he entered his Divine Domain again, compared to last time, there were basically no changes. Only five or six days had passed. Sensing that the ant colony was developing well and that no accidents had occurred during his absence, he was relieved. Peter came to the ant nest again. Now, the main thing he needed to do was to thoroughly study the queen ant's gene fusion talent and whether his divine characteristic of genetic adjustment could truly achieve the effect he understood. He gently seeped his divine sense into the body of the queen ant in the ant nest, carefully perceiving the effect of this gene fusion. "Just as I thought. It's exactly the same as I guessed." After two days, Peter had a thorough understanding of the gene fusion talent. The function of this talent was roughly consistent with what was described in the introduction. The queen ant could store the genes of the creatures she ate in her body, and using this talent required consuming the power of faith. When producing larval embryos, new genes were injected into the larval embryos, allowing the embryos to combine with the genes naturally. When the embryos developed into larvae and were born, they would carry the characteristics of other species. The characteristics were not very obvious when they were larvae. After the larvae cocooned and became worker ants, the combined genetic traits would clearly manifest. This method of combination was not as excellent as the Chimera Ants in Peter's previous life memories, which could enable all worker ants to achieve a beneficial enhancement. Instead, it was a random and chaotic fusion with a high degree of randomness. For example, if the queen ant ate a highly venomous spider and fused its genes into the newly born larvae, the new worker ants might not grow venomous fangs or venom sacs at all. Instead, they might grow spider legs or become ants that could spin webs, with extremely high randomness. Peter's divine characteristic of genetic adjustment could perfectly solve this problem. As long as he could fully analyze the genes of the venomous spider and figure out the function of each individual gene in the entire gene chain, he could artificially manipulate the process of gene and larval embryo fusion. He could even use genes to construct new unit templates, allowing the queen ant to produce other units of the ant colony. After figuring out these two special abilities, genetic adjustment and gene fusion, Peter immediately issued an order to the queen ant. "Start collecting and fusing genes immediately as a reserve of gene types." As the queen ant received Peter's order. The two antennae of the queen ant immediately began to sway. The worker ants taking care of her beside her, after touching her antennae, immediately turned around and started crawling out of the ant nest. And along the way, they passed on the queen ant's order to every worker ant they met. As this order spread among the ant colony. These worker ants the size of fists no longer limited their hunting range to the mice and rabbits around the ant nest. All kinds of insects became their hunting targets. At the same time, the worker ants busy around also brought the food stored in the ant nest to the queen ant. There were various pieces of meat. After Peter's observation, they were basically small mammals existing in the Divine Domain. When he felt that the power of faith consumed by the queen ant when using the gene fusion talent was only between tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, Peter was in a very good mood. The ant colony of believers could bring him more than 150,000 points of the power of faith every day. Peter could definitely afford the consumption of gene fusion. As the believer group expanded, the income of the power of faith would continue to increase, and the final profit would far exceed the consumption. "Hmm." The things carried out by several worker ants from the food storage warehouse caught Peter's attention. The food that these worker ants carried towards the queen ant was not meat but a kind of emerald green worm with a round abdomen and a crystal-clear luster. It was the size of a thumb and looked extremely delicious. The queen ant swallowed them one by one, which immediately piqued Peter's interest. From the perspective of species evolution theory, every species would evolve in a direction that was more beneficial to the group for survival and reproduction. However, judging from the reactions of the queen ant and the worker ants, this was a non-toxic, delicious, and extremely easy-to-catch reserve food. Peter was very curious. What on earth did this worm rely on to survive in his Divine Domain?