Doomsday Roulette

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"Last night, I really couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep~~ This chapter counts as yesterday's."

Through Xia Bai's narration, Ye Zhongming had a rough idea of what had happened.

In Ye Zhongming's imagination, after being bathed in this magical golden light, humans should also undergo a secondary evolution, similar to those mutated life forms.

The copper ink sea anemone lying in the domestication tube had already proven the power of secondary evolution.

Ye Zhongming was extremely eager about this.

Once he and Xia Bai underwent evolution again, their overall strength would significantly increase, and Xia Bai might even directly possess the power of an eight-star evolver due to her high evolution level!

Eight stars, even ten years from now, would still be a dominant force!

With such expectations, Ye Zhongming stood under the golden light, but reality left him extremely disappointed.

He had even prepared himself for the possibility that humans could not enhance their strength through the golden light.

However, Xia Bai's situation made Ye Zhongming realize that the golden light still had its effects.

Generally speaking, normally evolving humans do not need to consume low-level evolution potions again; it is a waste and will have no effect.

Ye Zhongming was an exception; he could enhance his strength by injecting evolution potions, and warriors like Ayang, who mastered secret realm techniques, could do the same.

Of course, there were limits. For example, for Ye Zhongming now, the first two levels of evolution potions no longer had any enhancement effect on him.

Xia Bai's changes due to the golden light were quite similar to those of Ye Zhongming and Ayang, but there were also significant differences because she had obtained the Sea King mark.

The wonders of the apocalypse often lead survivors, who are aware of being under some mysterious control, to selectively forget, and then they flock to inexplicably powerful forces.

After Xia Bai was illuminated by the golden light, she received a mental imprint called the Sea King mark, granting her the qualification to possess nine Sea King abilities.

Yes, it was not secondary evolution, nor was it a direct enhancement of strength; instead, it was the acquisition of imprint abilities, and the 'key' to activating these abilities was the evolution potion.

This indeed counts as a form of strength enhancement, but it was somewhat different from what Ye Zhongming had imagined. This enhancement only allowed those with the imprint to gain abilities.

According to Xia Bai, when she consumed the one-star evolution potion, she gained the ability to breathe underwater. When she consumed the two-star evolution potion, she acquired the ability to reduce underwater resistance, and when she consumed the three-star evolution potion, she gained enhanced sensory abilities in the sea.

Upon hearing this, Ye Zhongming found it hard to describe his feelings. Saying these abilities were useless wouldn't be accurate; these basic skills in the water could very well be the foundation for obtaining formidable abilities later on. But saying they were useful didn't quite ring true either, as he couldn't find many opportunities to apply them.

Therefore, aside from looking forward to obtaining more practical abilities from other levels of evolution potions, Ye Zhongming felt that, for now, the Sea King mark wouldn’t be much help to him and Xia Bai.

The most frustrating part was that even if these abilities were not very impressive, at least there was hope for the future. Yet, Ye Zhongming couldn't even obtain that; he didn't have any Sea King mark appearing in his body, which left him feeling a bit gloomy.

As for the reason, Ye Zhongming was sure he couldn't figure it out. But perhaps it was related to the experiences in the secret realm—he had learned the secret techniques and had consumed evolution potions multiple times, which likely caused him to lose the qualification to obtain the imprint.

Regardless, Xia Bai obtaining the Sea King mark was still a form of progress, marking another gain from this deep-sea expedition besides scavenging corpses.