Chapter 44 There is nothing that Merit Value cannot accomplish, as long as you are willing to pay extra!

"Time and tide wait for no man!"

Yu Fei frowned slightly.

A major battle was looming, and there simply was not enough time for him to grow!

"With my current strength, though I have already far surpassed the boundaries of a normal human, if I were to go through that previous breakout battle again..."

"Even without employing any schemes or plots, I am confident I could wipe out all the Umbrella Corporation's armed personnel in the shortest time possible!"

That was even without factoring in the blessing of those extraordinary skills.

Merely his 1.8 physique attribute and 1.7 spirit attribute, combined with those max-level ordinary skills, were enough for Yu Fei to carve his way through the Umbrella Corporation's encirclement.

"Yet such capability is still not enough to deal with over a thousand people..."

Sometimes, once numbers reach a certain threshold, it becomes a terrifying thing.

Yu Fei might rely on his current strength to forcefully slaughter a hundred people, or even two or three hundred, but what about after that?

In the end, he was only made of flesh and blood.

Even to a certain extent, Yu Fei could already be considered impervious to swords and spears.

——A sharp military dagger combined with fifty kilograms of force—only when both were applied together could they barely manage to break Yu Fei's skin.

Back in ancient times, this would definitely be genuine invulnerability to blades!

Unfortunately.

In the face of modern firearms, Yu Fei's defensive strength was clearly not strong enough.

Any slightly powerful firearm could probably shoot straight through his body.

Unable to defend against modern firearms, if he fell into the encirclement of numerous gunmen, strong as Yu Fei was now, he would still die!

"What method can solve this problem?"

Yu Fei checked his store of merit points.

"There's still a little over five wisps left..."

Subconsciously, he looked toward his max-level ordinary skills.

The Type-T evolutionary serum still required some time to be fully digested and form a true extraordinary skill.

Before that, could he perhaps upgrade one of these skills into an extraordinary skill first?

"It only takes five wisps of merit points to upgrade a max-level ordinary skill into an extraordinary skill."

"And unlike injecting the Type-T evolutionary serum, this acts directly upon myself, so it can instantly achieve an explosive surge in strength!"

Thinking along these lines, Yu Fei focused his attention on his hand-to-hand combat skill and marksmanship skill.

What he needed next was formidable practical combat capability, so the computer skill was immediately bypassed by him.

"Upgrading the combat skill can cause my physique attribute to soar in a short period..."

"Yet under sufficient firepower, the destructive power of modern firearms is incomparable..."

Yu Fei was deeply torn.

Each of the two skills had its own advantages, leaving him in a difficult dilemma.

After pondering for a long time without reaching a decision, Yu Fei could not help but sigh.

"If only my telekinesis could have reached my initial goal, I wouldn't be facing such a dilemma!"

From his very first choice, it was clear that from the beginning, he had leaned more toward using the extraordinary skill of telekinesis to break the deadlock.

Only, he hadn't expected that everything would proceed so perfectly, yet a problem would arise precisely at the final absorption stage!

Though he had now obtained the telekinesis he had longed for, this telekinesis was not in a complete form and required quite a long time to grow.

And what Yu Fei lacked right now was precisely time!

"Wait!"

A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Yu Fei.

"Come to think of it, shouldn't the evolutionary serum be considered a part of my body by now?"

Strictly speaking, his evolutionary transformation was already complete, and all the power within the evolutionary serum had already merged into his body and even his spirit.

It was just that because this power was too immense, Yu Fei still needed a certain amount of time to absorb it.

"If it's just absorption... could I use the power of merit points to accelerate this process?"

The more Yu Fei thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

"System! I want to accelerate the absorption of the Type-T evolutionary serum!"

"Accelerating the absorption of the Type-T evolutionary serum requires one wisp of merit point. Do you confirm?"

As expected!

There was nothing that merit points couldn't accomplish, as long as you were willing to pay the price!

"Confirmed!"

Having already spent ten wisps of merit points, Yu Fei naturally didn't mind spending one more.

On the system panel.

A single wisp of merit point vanished.

Following that, a trace of golden merit appeared, melting directly into Yu Fei's body.

This trace of golden merit acted like a catalyst, instantly activating the medicinal potency within Yu Fei and vastly accelerating the absorption progress.

Yu Fei felt as though with every breath he took, he was growing exponentially stronger; from his body to his spirit, everything was undergoing a frantic enhancement.

And unlike the agonizing metamorphosis from before, Yu Fei now felt an unprecedented comfort.

He was like someone who had been starved to the extreme, rapidly absorbing massive amounts of nourishment to satisfy his hunger.

In reality, that was precisely the case.

After injecting the Type-T evolutionary serum, Yu Fei had nominally transformed into a true transcendent, but he was the kind of transcendent who was quite 'empty'.

He only had the title of a transcendent, yet he did not truly possess the power of a transcendent.

Only when he completely absorbed all the power of the Type-T evolutionary serum could he truly be considered a transcendent.

Yet because his foundational base had been too weak—unable to bear such potent nourishment—if he had forcibly absorbed all the power of the Type-T evolutionary serum, there would have been only one outcome: exploding and dying from the sheer overload!

Facing such a situation, a normal person, no matter how reluctant, could only wait patiently, allowing their body to absorb the evolutionary serum's power step by step.

However, who asked Yu Fei to have the ability to cheat?

With a single wisp of merit point applied,

all the adverse consequences were resolved directly!

In an extremely short span of time—accurately speaking, in less than ten seconds—Yu Fei absorbed the entire power of the evolutionary serum.

"This kind of strength..."

Feeling the immense power, so vastly different from before, Yu Fei's thoughts suddenly stirred.

On the desk, that syringe seemed to be subjected to thousands of pounds of pressure and was instantly crushed into fine powder.

A gust of wind blew, and this powder drifted away along the ventilation ducts, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Only a single fine needle remained quietly resting on the desk.

The next second.

The fine needle vanished.

Only a tiny hole that had suddenly appeared on the wall seemed to be telling a story.

...

"Time is almost up, let's go!"

Yu Fei woke James, Alice, and the others one by one.

The door opened.

Aside from Matt, the spirits of the others had improved considerably; clearly, they had slept soundly over the past hour.

However, the expressions on their faces did not improve because of it.

Exchanging glances, the group silently drew the pistols at their waists.

Following closely behind Yu Fei, they slowly walked down the stairs step by step.