Commander Wei

Chapter 3

Wei Xiuyuan's mental power was severely damaged, so it was impossible for him to take over a living person's body. However, his luck was extremely good, and he shouldn't have died in this disaster.

When this young man named Wei Xiuyuan, who was extremely compatible with him, died, his mental power just happened to take over this body.

A person's memory was composed of fragments of mental power. In fact, those memories all existed in a person's mind. How much one could remember depended on how strong one's mental power was.

When Wei Xiuyuan was in the Federation, his mental power had reached SS rank. From his birth to dragging the Bug Emperor to self-destruct, he could remember everything that happened every day.

Now that Wei Xiuyuan's mental power was greatly damaged, even though he didn't forget his own memories, it was impossible for him to remember all the memories of this weak body's original owner.

He could only barely recall fragments of the original owner's recent memories, and couldn't remember anything further.

The original owner of this body was the eldest grandson of the Wei family in Peach Tree Village, which was a little far from the city. His name was also Wei Xiuyuan. This was the name his grandfather had given him, hoping that he would cultivate his character and have lofty ambitions.

In this village where everyone worked in the fields, it was a very glorious thing to have a scholar. Not to mention, if one obtained scholarly honors, one would be exempt from paying taxes and not having to kneel in front of an official.

The original owner of this body had liked to read since he was young, and was rather talented. The old man of the Wei family had high hopes for him, and the family of more than ten people had all tightened their belts to support his education.

In this era, there were many people who couldn't read a single word, because the cost of literacy was too high.

An ordinary farmer's family of more than ten people would only earn a dozen taels of silver a year. After deducting the money for food, clothing, and emergency expenses, they would only save a few taels. If they were caught up in a funeral or marriage, they would still owe money.

A scholar, on the other hand, would need several taels of silver just to buy a full set of brush, ink, paper, and inkstone. Moreover, they were of the worst quality. This was the entire family's annual savings.

It could be imagined that his family had suffered because of his studies, so the original owner's two uncles and an unmarried aunt were very resentful.

Although the original owner was the eldest grandson of the family, he was not from the main branch, but from the third branch. Although the original owner was smart, there were many people who were smarter than him. His learning conditions were also not as good as others, so he was only able to pass the County Scholar exam, but failed to pass the County Scholar exam twice.

What was the use of being a scholar?

Only by becoming a Xiucai could one be exempted from paying taxes and not kneeling in front of officials.

However, the Wei family hadn't split up yet, so the one in charge was still Master Wei. He was extremely fond of his eldest grandson, who had been smart since he was young. He suppressed the voices of opposition in the family and continued to provide for the original owner's education.

However, a few months ago, Master Wei suddenly fell ill and passed away. The Wei family's eldest uncle and second uncle quickly drove out the third branch. They only gave them a few mu of land to shut their mouths, and then no longer cared about them. They even went to the third branch to ask for money for the original owner's education.

The original owner's parents were typical honest people who didn't know how to say anything when they were bullied.

The original owner was also a scholar, so his face was thin and he knew shame. His two uncles and aunts used vulgar words to bully him until his face turned red. He was swayed by his emotions and agreed to return the money.

Today, he entered the city and was beaten because the original owner wanted to enter the city to find work to earn money, but he didn't expect to meet the county magistrate's son.

The county magistrate's son was the only son, so the county magistrate and his wife doted on him very much. In addition, they were the parents of this place, so they were as rude and unreasonable as a local tyrant.

Because the original owner's grades in school were better than the county magistrate's son, he bore a grudge against him and repeatedly caused trouble for the original owner.

In the past, he would at most verbally humiliate him, but today he beat him viciously and even beat him to death.

Wei Xiuyuan didn't expect that the young master who dared to beat someone to death was only the son of a seventh rank county magistrate. He thought that he was the son of a powerful family.

This made him realize how much the ordinary people were oppressed under the feudal system of the ancient planet.

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Wei Xiuyuan roughly organized the original owner's memories. After pondering for a while, he left the city and randomly found a corner in the mountains, intending to first repair the damage to his spiritual power. He opened the storage space carried by the optical computer and took out the genetic evolution medicine prepared in the space, consuming it to strengthen his body.

Fortunately, the optical computer and its storage space relied on spiritual power. Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to strengthen his body if he possessed the body of a native of this ancient planet.

It was also fortunate that he stuffed 110 bottles of genetic evolution medicine into the space before entering the battlefield. Originally, he wanted to spend some time to undergo the eleventh genetic evolution before the battle began. However, he didn't expect the bug race to launch an all-out attack so early. This caused him to die together with the Bug Emperor before he had the time to undergo the eleventh genetic evolution.

Thinking of this, Wei Xiuyuan sighed. If he had known this would happen, he would have used the time to evolve first before entering the battlefield.

If he had succeeded in his eleventh genetic evolution, he would have been able to kill the Bug Emperor in minutes. Why would he have ended up in this state of mutual destruction with his body destroyed and his spiritual power greatly damaged?

Now that he had transmigrated to this ancient planet that hadn't been discovered by the Federation, other than the optical computer that every citizen was equipped with, there was nothing else. It was basically impossible for him to leave the ancient planet unless the Federation could find him here to save him.

However, after thinking about it, he knew that the chances were slim. After all, he had self-destructed. His mecha and body were destroyed. The Federation must have thought that he was dead. Why would they spend so much manpower and resources to find him?

Wei Xiuyuan's spiritual power was naturally strong. According to the spiritual power cultivation chant, he recovered 10% of his spiritual power in just one night. It was enough to operate the optical computer and open the storage space.

Looking at the 110 bottles of genetic evolution medicine in the space, Wei Xiuyuan was a little annoyed that he didn't bring more.

After experiencing the apocalypse, humans had developed the use of spiritual power. However, there were cases where their physical fitness couldn't keep up with the strength of their spiritual power and ended up exploding. Therefore, how to strengthen their physical fitness became the most difficult problem for humans.

Those with weak spiritual power didn't have to worry about exploding, but the strong lived on the edge of life and death. Later on, humans developed genetic evolution medicine. Every bottle of medicine consumed would increase one's physical fitness. Consuming ten bottles would allow one to undergo their first genetic evolution.

After genetic evolution, humans could become genetic warriors. Even if their spiritual power wasn't strong, it was still a way out.

However, the second gene evolution required the consumption of twenty gene medicine, the third gene evolution required the consumption of thirty gene medicine, and so on. The eleventh gene evolution required the consumption of one hundred and ten gene medicine. Thus, Wei Xiuyuan had only stored one hundred and ten gene medicine in his storage space.

These 110 bottles of genetic medicine were only enough for him to undergo four genetic evolutions. There were still ten bottles left.

Even if Wei Xiuyuan didn't die in the insectoid apocalypse, he could only live for a little more than a hundred years.

Genetic evolution was related to a human's lifespan. The fifth genetic evolution was a watershed. The first four genetic evolutions could only strengthen the body and increase one's lifespan by a little. However, after undergoing five genetic evolutions, a human's lifespan would increase to 500 years. After six evolutions, a human's lifespan would increase to 600 years. After ten evolutions, a human's lifespan would increase to 1,000 years.

Wei Xiuyuan was only 500 years old before he self-destructed. He had only passed half of his lifespan and was still in the prime of his life.

Moreover, he was about to undergo his eleventh genetic evolution. A person who underwent ten genetic evolutions could be called a perfect genetic warrior. Moreover, this was the eleventh genetic evolution, which was extremely rare in the entire Federation.

If this evolution succeeded, his lifespan would increase by 500 years.

Moreover, he had a 90% chance of successfully evolving before he died. It was just that the situation during the war was too dangerous, so he didn't have the time to evolve.

Wei Xiuyuan only thought about it and felt vexed.

If he hadn't wanted to increase the success rate, even if he only had a 70% to 80% chance of success, it would have been better than dying without having the chance to undergo the eleventh genetic evolution.