3: Chapter 3: A fierce battle; the rock-loving fungus succeeds.

Zhao Feng watched the fireworks exploding in the sky, filled with hope.

The soldiers watched the fireworks in the sky, filled with hope.

The common people watched with hope.

Amidst the fireworks, a triangular aircraft rushed out, topped with a transparent shield.

"It's an energy shield!"

Fighter jets tried in vain to intercept the aircraft, only to be instantly shot down by blue beams of light.

Anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns roared, spitting out angry bullets! The soldiers did not retreat.

After destroying two fighter jets, the triangular aircraft hovered at a low altitude. Ignoring the roaring anti-aircraft weapons, a small muzzle emerged from its two wings.

Streams of blue particle beams sprayed out, causing the air to ripple from the impact.

Bang! The particle beams hit the people, instantly shattering them into pieces.

One soldier after another sacrificed their lives, and the resistance was instantly wiped out.

Zhao Feng trembled as he held onto the door frame, "This is real! This is real!"

Having never seen the scenes of war before, Zhao Feng could not face such tragedy; living people were being shredded by weapons!

But this was war, a war between humanity and the Aliens!

No soldiers ran away; they were still resisting fearlessly, buying time for the common people to evacuate.

Ugh! Zhao Feng couldn't hold it back and finally vomited.

But his eyes burned with the fire of revenge!

"Come on! You Alien bastards."

He tried not to think about the carnage outside, as there was nothing he could do about it. The cheat, my cheat!

Filled with rage, Zhao Feng suppressed his anger. He didn't have many Modification Points, so he had to calm down and think of a suitable solution.

As the "beginner difficulty" for the Planet Modification System, this planet didn't seem too harsh in various aspects.

Compared to those planets with temperature differences of thousands of degrees, this Mars-like planet was actually quite mild.

Although volcanic eruptions constantly released gas, giving the planet a certain atmosphere, the thin atmosphere could not provide a smaller temperature difference on the planet's surface.

During the day, under the illumination of the star, the surface temperature of the planet could reach over one hundred and fifty degrees, while at night, the temperature would drop to over forty degrees below zero.

The drastically changing temperatures could not guarantee the presence of liquid water on the surface, making it impossible for normal life to survive on the planet, let alone the generation of microorganisms or plants.

Zhao Feng had to think of a way. He needed the mission rewards, and he also needed the cheat to help him get rid of the Aliens outside, or even eliminate them.

Zhao Feng quickly came up with a plan.

The mission objective was to increase atmospheric pressure; the current planet had no atmosphere, so naturally, there was no atmospheric pressure to speak of.

Gas could come from volcanic eruptions or be brought by comets.

But neither of these was realistic for Zhao Feng.

His plan was to create a rapidly reproducing super microorganism that would decompose surface materials to produce a large amount of gas, first stabilizing the atmospheric pressure.

Only a stable atmosphere could provide normal temperatures; this was the prerequisite for everything.

Zhao Feng focused his consciousness on the Paleo-bacteria to observe the characteristics of the microbial progenitor.

The Paleo-bacteria had extremely strong adaptability, fast metabolic rates, and strong reproductive capabilities. Loading heat resistance would be too wasteful, as it already possessed a certain degree of adaptability.

Two faint blue glowing pipes on the helmet connected to the display screen, and Zhao Feng began to conceive the ability to decompose Yan Shi in his mind.

Under the sunlight, Yan Shi constantly turned into powdery substances, while simultaneously releasing large amounts of gas...

Golden filaments of light flowed rapidly through the pale blue pipes, constantly flickering.

A large number of patterns and formulas began to jump on the display screen, with images constantly forming and disappearing.

When Zhao Feng's attention returned to the screen in front of him, it was no longer jumping; instead, an exquisite picture appeared, showing a glowing sphere with Chinese annotations beside it:

Yan Shi decomposition: under the action of light and heat, general Yan Shi is decomposed by acid into corresponding gas and salt. Value: 1 Modification Point.

Yes! This is it. Zhao Feng paid 1 Modification Point and obtained this skill sphere.

"Load into Paleo-bacteria."

"Loading successful. Do you want to name the microorganism you created?"

"Since its function is to decompose Yan Shi, let's call it Rock-eating Bacteria."

Just like that, the microorganism carrying Zhao Feng's hope was finally completed.

In the planet editor, the microorganism was a blinking little green ball of light. Zhao Feng knew that as long as he placed it into the planet, it would begin to reproduce rapidly and have the intended effect.

Rock-eating Bacteria: Strong adaptability, reproduces through fission, fast reproductive speed. Note: This is a microorganism that creates strong acid by absorbing stellar light and heat energy.

It can obtain nutrients for survival and reproduction by decomposing some Yan Shi.

"Deploy!"

Rock-eating Bacteria are super microorganisms. Although they reproduce quickly through fission, it would take thousands or tens of thousands of years for them to have a noticeable effect on the planet.

The System continued intelligent acceleration.

Time, symbolizing years and months, passed rapidly, and the blue color representing the Rock-eating Bacteria on the planet's surface increased more and more.

Without a doubt, the atmosphere also thickened significantly, and the planet finally wouldn't experience extreme temperature differences of hundreds of degrees during the day and dozens of degrees below zero at night.

"Ding! Planet atmospheric pressure reached 100,000 Pa. Mission complete, received reward of 10 Modification Points. Current balance is 18 Modification Points. Reward: one mysterious small wooden box."

The pleasant prompt tone of the System rang out, and Zhao Feng finally obtained a huge sum of money.

"Mission complete. Do you want to return?"

It was useless to go back now; only five minutes had passed in the cabin, and there were still twenty-five minutes left. It would be better to continue completing tasks here to see if he could get some useful rewards.

"No!"

"The host will return in 25 minutes."

"The host has not returned, mission continues to be released."

He quickly clicked open the mission mailbox, and a new mission prompt appeared:

Mission 2: Lower the planet's temperature

Mission Brief: A sufficient atmosphere can ensure that the planet obtains a mild day-night temperature difference, but a large amount of carbon dioxide gas retains huge amounts of heat, and the planet's surface still cannot retain liquid water.

Mission Objective: The path to a life-bearing planet is long and arduous; please lower the planet's temperature to below 40 degrees Celsius.

Mission Reward: 10 Modification Points, one mysterious small wooden box.

Mission Failure: Do you know about the fish exposed to the sun in the desert?

It seems the System's ultimate goal is to transform this desolate planet under his feet into a life-bearing planet. The path is truly long and arduous! Zhao Feng sighed silently.

Take a look at the so-called mysterious small wooden box.

The mysterious small wooden box was an ordinary dark yellow small box, sitting quietly in the material center, with the two Chinese characters for "mysterious" written in large letters on the lid.

"Pfft!" Zhao Feng almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Regardless of which big shot is playing this malicious joke, let's open it and see.