Chapter 64: Evolution Reward
Even if Gwen hadn't said anything, Russell would have dealt with Mr. Negative's body.
If Gwen hadn't shown up, he would have already called the cleanup crew to handle the body.
"Thanks for the reminder!"
Russell said slowly to Gwen.
Although he couldn't see Gwen's expression right now, based on her tone, she didn't seem to care about Mr. Negative's death at all.
After hearing Russell's reply, Gwen didn't say anything else and nodded.
Then, under Russell's gaze, she shot a web towards the adjacent building and quickly disappeared into the night.
Watching Gwen's departing figure, a thought suddenly popped into Russell's mind.
Gwen became Spider-Woman because she was bitten by a radioactive spider, which awakened her superpowers.
Although in Gwen's parallel universe, little Peter's fate was to become the Lizard.
But clearly, this was not Gwen's parallel universe, but a mixed universe that included superheroes like Captain America and the Fantastic Four.
If he let her bite little Peter, perhaps it could awaken superpowers in him.
Although this idea was a bit fantastical, Russell didn't think there was any harm in trying.
However, he quickly dismissed the thought.
No!
It's not good to let Gwen bite Peter!
If someone had to be bitten by Gwen, it would be better for Gwen to bite him.
Peter is still too young right now; it's better for him, the adult, to bear this kind of thing.
Right!
This kind of thing should be borne by him, the adult!
After Gwen's figure completely disappeared from sight, Russell deactivated the Symbiote form and returned to his normal human appearance.
After making a call to Charlie the cleanup guy, he went to the edge of the rooftop and sat down, gazing at Hell's Kitchen under the night sky.
Charlie was very efficient.
In less than fifteen minutes, Charlie arrived on the rooftop with his burly subordinates.
After Mr. Negative's body was bagged and taken away, he gave Charlie a gold coin.
"Good night, Mr. Bradley!"
Before leaving, Charlie took off his hat and said to Russell.
"Good night, Charlie!"
......
After dealing with Mr. Negative, Russell returned to his ordinary life.
Time flew by.
Unconsciously, another week had passed.
This week, he didn't take on any more commissions.
Whether it was commissions from the Continental Hotel or the detective agency, he didn't accept a single one.
Currently, his main focus was on adapting to the Symbiote and Negative Energy.
Although the Symbiote was stronger than Venom, the Symbiote evolved from Venom, so adapting to it wasn't troublesome.
He adapted to the Symbiote completely with almost no effort.
Perhaps due to the appearance of the Symbiote and Negative Energy, the system gained two new functions it didn't have before.
"Evolution Reward function enabled!"
"Free Reward function enabled!"
"Evolution Reward: Symbiote; Status: Activated; Activation Condition: Evolve Venom using Negative Energy; Activation Effect: Upon activation, gain all abilities of the Symbiote. Evolution Count: 1!"
"Free Reward: Negative Energy; Status: Activated; Activation Condition: Kill Mr. Negative; Activation Effect: Upon activation, gain Negative Energy."
On the surface, the system just organized the Symbiote and Negative Energy into two completely new reward types.
However, things were not that simple.
Unlike the regular rewards, the system did not provide a list for Evolution Rewards and Free Rewards.
But among the activated rewards, some had a note that had never appeared before.
Evolution Count!
"Infinite Reward System!"
"Activated Rewards: 5!"
"Regular Rewards: Blessing of Wonder Woman, Assassin of Destiny, Inner Symbiote Armor!"
"Evolution Reward: Symbiote!"
"Free Reward: Negative Energy!"
The appearance of the Evolution Reward Symbiote caused the Regular Reward Venom to disappear.
Or rather, the Regular Reward Venom was upgraded to the Evolution Reward Symbiote.
Among these 5 rewards, besides the Evolution Reward Symbiote, there were 2 other rewards that also had this new note, Evolution Count.
"Regular Reward: Blessing of Wonder Woman; Evolution Count: 0!"
"Regular Reward: Inner Symbiote Armor; Evolution Count: 0!"
The system maintained its usual cool and distant style, providing no explanation for this new note, Evolution Count.
However, by just looking at how the Regular Reward Venom turned into the Evolution Reward Symbiote, it wasn't difficult to guess what Evolution Count meant.
Simply put, the two Regular Rewards, Blessing of Wonder Woman and Inner Symbiote Armor, still had the possibility of evolving.
But the system didn't say what the evolution conditions were.
As long as he met the evolution conditions, these two Regular Rewards, Blessing of Wonder Woman and Inner Symbiote Armor, would turn into Evolution Rewards like the Symbiote.
Although he didn't know what the evolution conditions were, the appearance of the Evolution Count note at least let Russell know that those rewards still had the chance to continue evolving.
Besides the Evolution Rewards, he was also very interested in the system's newly enabled Free Reward function.
If Evolution Rewards were the upgraded version of Regular Rewards, then Free Rewards were an additional supplement to Regular Rewards.
Although the system provided quite a few Regular Rewards, the vast majority of them were in an unactivated state.
Russell had been transmigrated to this world for three years, and the system had only activated 4 Regular Rewards.
At this rate of activation, who knew how long he would have to wait for other rewards to be activated.
So, to compensate for this, or rather, through his accidental actions, the Free Reward function was enabled.
He had no say in when Regular Rewards would be activated.
But Free Rewards were different.
If he could replicate other people's superpowers like he replicated Mr. Negative's, then when Free Rewards would appear was entirely up to him.
To give a simple example, if he were to replicate Gwen's superpowers right now, he would quickly gain a new Free Reward.
Although his replication ability had certain limitations, the Free Rewards he obtained couldn't possibly be as powerful as Regular Rewards like Infinite Ultron, Dark Strange, or Odin Force.
But the advantage of Free Rewards was that he could choose them himself.
The system enabling new reward functions was the happiest thing that had happened to him in the past week.
Other than that, other things were a bit boring and tedious.
Let's not even mention adapting to the Symbiote and Negative Energy; just the military technology laboratory alone had been giving him headaches recently.
He had originally thought that with his current wealth, opening a military technology laboratory wouldn't be a big problem.
However, only after actually starting did he realize how troublesome it was.
Spending large sums of money, that wasn't a big deal.
Problems that could be solved with money were basically not problems; the trouble was the various top-notch equipment needed for the laboratory.
He finally understood now why many top scientists had to be affiliated with various large corporations and institutions.
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