Crime Prison Island
Chapter 160 - 71: Becoming a Wanderer

Chapter 160: Chapter 71: Becoming a Wanderer

Gao Xin activated the radiation chamber and walked in.

The blue fluorescence appeared once again, and he faced this deadly light once more.

"Legends say Radiations aren’t afraid of radiation... turned out to be bullshit."

Gao Xin experienced it for a bit and realized it was just a saying.

Radiation could still destroy a Radiation’s genes; he was already feeling some cells on his body’s surface losing vitality, their genetic strands snapped by radiation.

Talking about toxicity without dosage is all nonsense.

The essence of a Radiation’s fearlessness toward radiation lies in their genetic resilience, which is much stronger than ordinary people’s, to the extent that they can absorb radiation to some degree, storing it in high-energy proteins.

At this moment, Gao Xin felt his strength returning, his body heating up.

The high-energy cells squeezed by the fierce battle earlier were being recharged.

Bathing in radioactive materials, far from being a problem, left him feeling refreshed...

As for the cells with destroyed genes, they were soon compensated for by other cells, directly devoured by immune cells, and metabolized away...

"Radiation bodies are really strong, eh? The radiation that could kill an ordinary person is like sunshine to me..."

"Can you up the ante?"

Gao Xin came out, operated the computer again, and increased the radiation intensity.

When he went back in, there was a reaction.

He started showing allergic symptoms... his skin reddening, blistering, his immune system going haywire processing abnormal cells.

Gao Xin felt generally uncomfortable, but that was all.

He wanted to increase it further, but couldn’t; the radiation chamber had reached its maximum.

Radiations are indeed formidable; to cause another genetic collapse, a particularly large dose is necessary, one that can destroy the DNA in all cells in a short time. Otherwise, if worn down slowly, they can self-regulate.

Gao Xin, basking and basking, even became hungry...

Although his energy was full, his hunger was triggered by his digestive bacteria.

"Yeah, yeah, I’m going to eat, quit nagging."

Gao Xin ran back to the hall and devoured a big meal.

Then he ate some blades, grass, water, dirt, searching for a direct route to the radioactive materials.

Soon, he found it, passing through several corridors downwards, he arrived at an area filled with various pipelines and mechanical tanks.

Upon seeing this, along with his father’s reminder, countless nuclear physics knowledge emerged in Gao Xin’s mind.

"Is this a damn power station?"

It turns out that deep within the Radiation Base, there was a complete nuclear fission power facility.

Via underground cables, they supplied electricity to Yamaguchi Village.

As for the radiation they, the Glass People, had been exposed to before, it actually came from nuclear waste.

More nuclear waste would be transferred underground for burial.

Given that the base itself had strong shielding capabilities, pressing down on it, this nuclear waste did not require dilution or any other kind of treatment and was quite minimal in volume.

Even so, there were still some impacts on the surrounding area; no wonder the land near the base was barren.

"Damn, can’t afford Cold Nuclear Fusion, huh? Still using this piece of crap."

Gao Xin remembered that the Silver Tower sold Cold Nuclear Fusion devices for just one million.

The Yakuza were actually still using this thing; well, it was only to supply a village’s electricity, which didn’t have to be too sophisticated. Probably to save money.

Facing the series of complex facilities before him, Gao Xin wouldn’t have dared to mess with them in the past.

But now, with his father’s knowledge, he quickly found the tall and narrow buffer tank.

Inside was enriched uranium, slowly transmitted into the dissolution tank.

Gao Xin got a metal box, dismantled a tank to catch it, and once the uranium content exceeded 16 kilograms, a critical reaction occurred.

In an instant, a blue glow descended, and Gao Xin stood rigidly, receiving the onslaught.

Indeed, such a large dose at such close range caused a gradual collapse of the genes in all his cells.

Gao Xin hurried away to reach the power switch...

Zizz!

He fell to the ground, his entire arm blackened, smoke rising from half of his body, his clothes burning.

But after just a short pause, Gao Xin stood up, ate something casually, and slowly the wounds began to heal.

His genes recombined, and he had become well-versed in this self-taught gene protector operation.

For him, with the placebo effect, if he could succeed once, he could succeed countless times.

However, when he sliced his skin with a blade, he found the flesh beneath unchanged.

"Hmm..."

Gao Xin, refusing to believe it, tried a few more times, but it remained the same.

No matter how many times his genes collapsed, they would always recombine into the current state.

"Tsk... Forget it, not a place to linger, let’s get out of here."

Gao Xin decided to leave the matter behind. Although he had wiped out the people in the Radiation Base, and nobody seemed to care,

it was clear that after a certain amount of time, this incident would come to light. At the worst, in the evening when someone came to deliver food, they would discover it.

"Take some nuclear fuel with you..."

Gao Xin found the settling tanks, where layers upon layers contained different concentrations of uranyl nitrate, mixed to homogeneity.

He used a metal shield box to extract some, packing it away, ready to take it with him to test further later.

Afterward, he ran back to the hall, had another big meal, and then practiced with Silver Hand to digest.

In the span of an afternoon, his weight returned to sixty kilograms, a rate clearly lower than when he was a Glass Person because he could eat much more now than at that time.

You should know, he had eaten the meat of an unknown animal, and that alone made him gain nearly five kilograms, but after that, the efficiency of regular food was absurdly low!

"Sure enough, eating ordinary food now can only replenish my strength and other nutrients that my body needs, but gaining weight is very difficult."

"And I’m still so skinny, looking like a bamboo pole... That’s right, my muscle density has increased."

Gao Xin licked his lips, realizing that if he wanted to gain weight now, he primarily needed to eat the meat of the Radiation creatures.

He looked at the sky, and eventually went to search in the living quarters of another outbuilding, coming up with an outfit.

Around five in the afternoon, Gao Xin emerged, transformed, looking like a red ogre.

Wearing the evil ghost mask and the black kimono he found, which was a fresh outfit from the red ogre’s room and standard clothing of the Black Hand Group, he felt quite the part.

Two katanas hung from his waist, one on each side.

The metal shield box was tucked inside his bosom, which conveniently also helped to fill out his clothes, preventing him from looking too thin.

"Eh? Don’t I look just like the red ogre now?"

Gao Xin discovered that the only difference between him and the red ogre was a head of red hair.

And as for red hair, he had just seen several wigs in the room...

The red ogre wasn’t actually a redhead; he was Japanese.

The guy was balding, with sparse hair and a face full of lumps – extremely ugly; no wonder he both wore a mask and a wig.

Perfect, this sparked a sudden idea in Gao Xin: why not disguise himself as the red ogre and return to Yamaguchi Village?

...

Yamaguchi Village, on this side facing the Radiation Base, had many watchtowers.

This road was not open to the public as it led to the Radiation Base and was not considered an official entrance.

The same was true for the reverse journey; leaving the Radiation Base meant either heading straight into the mountains or taking a long detour to the coast and entering the village through the main gate.

However, Gao Xin chose the third option.

He walked at a leisurely pace, mimicking the red ogre’s gait, hand resting on his katana, the very picture of credibility.

The people in the watchtower saw him and indeed did not stop him.

However, a few guards approached him: "Lord Red Ogre, weren’t you supposed to be guarding the Radiation Base? Why have you left?"

These questions put Gao Xin in a tough spot; how could he answer that?

He simply swung his hand at them: "Baka!"

Gao Xin rudely smacked the Japanese man who spoke up. The man didn’t dare let out even a fart but instead bowed respectfully: "Hai!"

No one else dared to ask further questions; they all bowed and said, "Please, Lord Red Ogre, as you wish."

As they spoke, they had someone open the roadblock, allowing Gao Xin to enter.

With bold strides, Gao Xin walked through two checkpoints where more people intended to ask questions.

But as soon as someone opened their mouth, Gao Xin would respond with a slap: "Baka!"

The person had no choice but to bow their head in bitterness, not daring to speak further.

So Gao Xin, with the strides of someone scornful of all relations, swaggered into Yamaguchi Village unobstructed.

The guards he passed by each received a couple of slaps from him, and after getting hit, they would even compliment him on his striking.

"Is the identity of the Black Hand this useful?"

Gao Xin mused over how these Japanese Black Hands, used to arrogance, behaved so brazenly, and surprisingly, none of them felt anything amiss.

On the other hand, the status of a Black Hand was indeed high.

He remembered Qiao Long and Liu Xu telling him that the highest ranking within the Yakuza was the Black Hand Group.

Theoretically, only Black Hands are considered formal members of the Yakuza.

All the rest are lowly nobodies.

"Sure enough, I’ve infiltrated the place, no registration needed."

Walking on the street, Gao Xin felt free to move around as he pleased, occasionally greeted by guards.

He simply waved them off without paying much attention.

As for those wearing black kimonos from the Black Hand Group, he passed by them silently, without arousing suspicion.

Of course, he was also aware that this disguise could only fool the lower level individuals; if he ran into any Black Hand who knew the red ogre, his cover would be blown quickly.

Moreover, Yamaguchi Village’s detection barrier had certainly scanned him upon his entry.

But they probably didn’t recognize him, since he was no longer ’Slave Gao Xin, the glass man’; the moment he became a Radiation, his genes changed, making him practically another person.

There hasn’t been any disturbance thus far as he walked in, so clearly, while the entrance’s detection barrier didn’t identify him as the red ogre, it might have mistaken him for some independent visitor from another village.

As for exactly which village’s independent visitor he might be, what his name was, what level he was—all of these remained unknown to the Yakuza since he hadn’t registered.

"I can’t use this red ogre identity for long; it’s going to be exposed at any time, and certainly by dinner at the latest."

"I need to hurry up and change into new clothes, blending in as an independent person..."

"Tsk, but I’m penniless."

With no redemption tickets on hand, he thought for a moment and then went to the bank tower.

As the red ogre, entering the village was easy, but it would be inconvenient to visit places like the guard group and the redemption group where Black Hands were stationed.

So the best option right now was to head to the bank tower to exchange for a set of regular clothes.

Even if the Yakuza decided to investigate, they could not get inside the bank tower, and they would only know someone saw Red Ogre’s last whereabouts as having entered the bank tower.

But with so many people going in and out of the bank tower daily, if Gao Xin played a game and then left, who would know who he was?

"I don’t want to delay for too long, a beginner’s game will do. It poses no danger to me."

Gao Xin entered the bank tower, starting his first game since becoming a Radiation.

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