Chapter 1714
1714 Geno Tree
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Lan Se brought Han Sen to a testing room . She wanted to test his fitness and see what sort of job he’d be eligible for .
Han Sen thought Planet Kate resembled a modern society, so the testing methods should also resemble those of the Alliance, where all tests were conducted through various apparatus .
When Han Sen went in, though, he quickly realized his assumption was wrong .
The test room only had one lobby, and there was no proper room full of equipment . There was a semi-circular table with a vase on it . A small tree was planted in it, and the bark of the tree was dark . It had no leaves and looked rather dead .
Dozens of people were queuing, and Lan Se told Han Sen to go and join them in line .
Han Sen watched a man up front step onto the table and extend his hand . With a dagger, he cut his finger to raise a drop of blood . He let the drop fall onto the planted tree, and when the liquid landed on the bark, it was as if the plant was a sponge .
It was quickly absorbed .
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And then, an even stranger thing occurred . The dead tree that absorbed the man’s blood came to life . It did not grow leaves, though . Across the tree, red flowers began to bloom . They grew rapidly like red bells, all across the boughs . It was rather beautiful .
Han Sen took a look and counted how many red flowers there were . There were twenty-three of them, and they were all red .
“A flower power of twenty-three . That’s not bad for a commoner . Fire elemental sorts take up most jobs,” Lan Se said .
“Officer Lan, how much is a decent flower power?” Han Sen didn’t know much about the metric .
“One flower is one flower . What do you need to compare it to?” Lan Se looked at Han Sen .
Han Sen did not say anything . It looked like the Alliance, but it was different in certain ways .
Quickly, the bells started to die . Eventually, nothing was left behind, and the tree returned to its dead state .
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After that, the other people in line tested it out, one by one . Just like the man, they would drop a smidgen of their own blood onto the bark of the tree . The tree would shortly bloom with a different color and a different number of flowers each time .
Only adults came to the clinic, and they each had around twenty flowers . The colors Han Sen saw included red, yellow, blue, green, purple, white, light green, and black . They were their elements .
It was Han Sen’s turn for the test next . He went onto the table and cut his finger, just like the others had . He let a drop of blood fall onto the tree .
Han Sen was curious to see how many flowers he could make bloom . In the Alliance, his fitness had reached one hundred thousand points . But those numbers were different from the flower metric, so that figure wasn’t very useful in comparison to this . The Planet Kate people had only managed to get around twenty flowers, so he didn’t think he’d be able to bloom much .
Not many people had come to the test, though . Han Sen and Lan Se had gone to the crime scene, so they had arrived late . There were two more Planet Kate people behind Han Sen, so there were only four in the clinic now .
Lan Se looked at the tree . There weren’t many people of a different race there, so she was curious to see what the little Han Sen would show .
When Han Sen dropped his blood onto the tree, there was no immediate difference between him and the others . The tree started to bloom .
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The flowers were white, so the element was undetermined . But the number of flowers was quite depressing . He only bloomed eleven flowers, and that meant his fitness equated to eleven flowers . That was far worse than the average adult of Planet Kate .
Lan Se looked at Han Sen’s fitness and merely shook her head . Letting him work with a fitness like that was like putting a kid in a sweatshop . It’d be very difficult to find him a job .
The eleven white flowers then started to open . They were really beautiful . The colors represented the element, while the number of flowers represented strength .
“Weak,” Han Sen thought
He wasn’t really upset, though . He was prepared for a low score, and it was much better than he expected . He thought he would die in there .
When Han Sen came off the table, he heard the sound of bells ringing . He looked underneath him, and the eleven flowers were shaking and chiming .
Han Sen did not know what was going on . When the people from Planet Kate had been tested, all their flowers had died when they stepped off the table . Han Sen thought he might have made a mistake, so he quickly turned to Lan Se .
Lan Sen’s eyes were wide open, fixed on the ringing flowers . She looked to be frozen in shock .
When the two people behind them heard Han Sen’s flowers ringing, they seemed to be in absolute shock . Earlier, when they only saw the lifeless eleven, they looked at him with disdain .
The tree for the test was called a geno tree . It used genes to survive . The flowers that bloomed upon it showed the strength and element of whoever put blood on it .
The colors were the elements, and the numbers were strength . Usually, that was all that happened . Very rarely, however, something else could happen: if the tree enjoyed the genes it was given very much, it might request more . That ringing was a pleading for more of Han Sen’s genes and a proclamation that they were truly excellent .
Ordinary people could not make it ring . People said a Noble with a geno weapon could make it ring, but the Nobles never tested in front of commoners, and the validity of the claims could not be verified .
If a young man without a geno armor could make the flowers ring, there was a high chance he’d one day earn a geno weapon and become a Noble himself . It wasn’t a 100% guarantee, but it was definitely a fifty-fifty chance . There was a higher chance than there was for commoners, at least