Chapter 288: Yuan Clan Consortium: Abundant Funds, Vast Industry!
In the [Disease Garden], happily letting loose. Left hand Eyeball Fruit, right hand Fallen Seal Flask, Yuan Zhu was gleefully tormenting the Eggplant Goblins, and while extremely happy, he also noticed the situation in the Attic.
At this moment, a dutiful ‘Eggplant Head Ghost’ was flailing its claws to block in front of that Floor Mirror, obstructing Nie Yin and the Brother and Sister’s prying.
Unfortunately, Yuan Zhu had given the three core members extremely high permissions (Anti-Law), so Ghost Companion guards like the ‘Eggplant Head Ghost’ had no right to intercept or attack them. It could only awkwardly extend over a dozen arms, using its body to block.
Sensing this scene, Yuan Zhu couldn’t help but praise: “Little Unique is pretty clever!”
Snake Snake had a proud look: “Of course! All thanks to my [Artificial Stupidity Program]!”
The Snake Tail, which held part of the [Immortal Scripture] permissions on behalf of others, was Yuan Zhu’s dedicated ‘Data Soul Program.Engineer’.
[Tiger Demon] was responsible for refining and producing ‘Brain Eggplant CPUs’ through [Universe Within The Belly + Ghost Companion Divine Ability]. And Snake Snake was responsible for issuing commands, having the Eggplant Head Ghosts plant ‘Brain Eggplants’ on the crowns of one sleeping Eggplant Goblin after another, extracting Memory, Common Sense, and feeding it back to upload into the [Boss Template].
Then, the Engineer Snake obtained a large amount of scattered data samples, and based on their own Boss’s preferences, deleted unreasonable Three Views content, ultimately using big data calculations to establish an ‘Artificial Intelligence model’ for [Intelligent Goblin Behavior Pattern].
Here it’s called [Intelligent Goblin], but in reality, a massive amount of Sewer Goblin bad habits had long been deleted, and large amounts of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education, excellent self-management abilities, willingness to endure hardship and overtime… and other premium qualities were artificially instilled.
Unfortunately, the [Retard Model] computed out of thin air through the [Immortal Scripture] seemed perfect but lacked practical application. So Snake Snake instilled her extracted [Artificial Stupidity Program] into the Brain Eggplants of the [Eggplant Head Ghosts], giving them brains and enhancing their Intelligence. And periodically recycling data for adjustments and optimizations.
Nowadays, the four Eggplant Head Ghosts could be said to have ‘greatly opened spiritual wisdom’, able to understand many simple logical language commands and respond with behavior. They looked about the same as a child with higher intellect, and at this moment even knew to block with a troubled expression.
But if examined deeply, these mature ‘behavior patterns’ were actually the same set of [Artificial Intelligence/Stupidity Program], after fitting the user (Eggplant Head Ghost) body data, giving feedback based on the loaded ‘virtual personality’.
The Eggplant Head Ghosts’ Intelligence hadn’t actually improved, but rather ‘Cyber Ghost Possession’, being endowed by Snake Snake with [Artificial Stupidity] wisdom!
Yuan Zhu greatly appreciated this and encouraged Snake Snake to keep going, collecting richer data through more ‘users’, striving for an [Artificial Intelligence Program] that could be loaded onto hundreds or thousands of ‘Eggplant Goblin workers’ at the same time, simulating thousands of different personalities, with corresponding Knowledge qualities and manual abilities, engaging in different high-end assembly line work.
That scene would be truly marvelous. As the ‘Factory Owner’ himself, he would no longer need to spend big money hiring high-education workers. Nor spend years cultivating one high-quality talent after another.
Just by frequently replacing the flesh body of ‘healthy Goblins’, he could one-click load ’20 years’ of work Experience, instantly becoming a skilled worker. And the loaded ‘mature worker intelligence’ could further improve work Experience through new bodies, learning and evolving.
Nowadays, the five Half-blood Orc users of [Anti-Law Team A] had also loaded this [Artificial Stupidity]. It’s just that they didn’t share the [Eggplant Head Ghost] Database.
Because the two sides differed in race, body structure, Power System, etc. This batch of Orcs only needed to adapt for a period, and the [Soul Data Program] could be adjusted to fit their own race state.
By then, Snake Snake would branch off the optimized [Program] into a brand new [Orc Warrior.Intelligent Combat Program]. As the dedicated program for future [Frog-Type.Extreme Warrior]. Even, she would develop more dedicated [Stupidity Programs] for different races, different Domains, different Power Systems.
This was a blue ocean unique to himself ([Great Desolation Immortal Scripture]), a true proprietary secret skill. Yuan Zhu was willing to call it: [Datafied Cultivation.One-Click Inheritance Mode]
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After appreciating the Eggplant Head Ghost’s spontaneous blocking behavior, Yuan Zhu remotely ordered it to clear the ‘Space Tunnel’, leading the three into the Garden interior.
The Eggplant Head Ghost in the outside world (Attic) that had been blocking suddenly shivered, retracted its many arms, stood respectfully to the side, bowed at the waist, and at the same time didn’t forget to raise seven or eight messy arms on the right side. Some were its own native ones, some plucked from Goblins, and a few puppet wooden arms wrapped in vines…
Then, the Eggplant Head Ghost that usually only said ‘Buddha Buddha Buddha, Eggplant Eggplant Eggplant’ suddenly spoke human words like ghost possession, shouting KTV standard welcome to Nie Yin: “Dear guests, wel~come↑! Please come in.”
The three, startled, stepped through the glass mirror surface, then landed on soft, slightly wriggling flesh ground.
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Nie Yin appeared first, and the instant she entered the [Disease Garden], she felt a strong Death crisis, instinctive rejection and fear.
Almost subconsciously, she directly activated [Shadow Uniform], turning it into a fully enclosed Laboratory isolation suit, wrapping herself up and isolating from the outside ‘Disease environment’.
Then, Younger Brother took the lead for his sister in testing the waters, entering the Garden. His originally amazed expression immediately became tense and vigilant. Those protagonist-level thick eyebrows and big eyes full of sense of justice were now deeply furrowed.
Finally, Little Girl stepped over the threshold, jumping across the Floor Mirror surface and landing on the fleshy soil chunks of the Disease Garden. She immediately let out a disgusted sigh and became on high alert. The ‘True Qi’ dormant in her body quickly activated, spreading through all her Meridians, slowly circulating.
Watching remotely through the mirror versus being immersed in person were completely different. At this moment, all three showed deep rejection, resistance, and Vigilance of life towards ‘Disease System Pollution’. That was the most instinctive disgust and Vigilance.
After Frog Killer Girl realized that her Employer was not only a deeply hidden [Anti-Law Ruler] but also secretly hid such an even more Evil ’emergency Pollution Space’ in Running City Urban Area.
She immediately breathed rapidly, face flushing red, a chilling thrill of discovering an ‘execution-level’ big secret swept her whole body, making her hair stand on end and scalp numb, while also feeling inexplicably excited from peeking into a secret of this level.
She never expected her Employer to hide such an Evil blasphemous place?! No need for bodily sensation, just scanning with her eyes every twisted blasphemous inch of the [Disease Garden] brought a ‘Mental Pollution’ that pierced the eyeballs straight to the brain and soul.
If discovering Candle’s secret of [Tiger Demon] transformation before was Evil, powerful, and cool, bringing her 5-star surprise, making her fascinated by the Evil powerful posture of [Tiger Demon].
Then the impact of this [Disease Garden] far exceeded the bottom line of her, a mental Disease patient with mildly Evil personality baseline.
Too Evil, too blasphemous. Every scene here could not bring her Joy. Instead, Affection Level was plummeting, quickly turning into disgust and hostility.
If her Employer’s true face was a hidden great demon of this level (Disease System), then she must consider jumping ship as soon as possible, cutting off [Anti-Law] ties, joining [Hell camp] or others, then speed-fleeing the [Spirit Layer] to find new Protection, and pay off the [Anti-Law loan] at all costs.
Damn! She had even signed double [Confidentiality Agreement (Anti-Law + Law System)], she had no way and no ability to reveal this Evil secret. Now she was really trapped in the Demon’s Den!
How should she save herself? How to steady the Employer without arousing suspicion, and how to escape?!
Nie Yin’s inner drama exploded wildly, deeply regretting her ‘curiosity killed the cat’ behavior.
Wouldn’t it be good to honestly stay on the First Floor of the [Haunted House]? Why go to the Attic? When receiving Yuan Zhu’s hiring and employment back then, wouldn’t it be good to refuse? Why sign for ‘independent experiment qualification’? The world outside the Academy is indeed too deep!
And the two siblings beside her were much steadier.
The two who originally felt shocked and curious about every piece of furniture, kitchenware, wall painting, Eggplant Goblin… in the Upper Realm ([Haunted House]), occasionally exclaiming in admiration.
At this moment, facing the Disease Plants beside them and the flesh cloud clusters in the sky, they were on high alert like facing a great enemy, no longer having the Joy and surprise from constantly exploring and discovering during the previous dreamlike Immortal Realm stroll.
Everything in the [Disease Garden] only made them feel deep fear, rejection, hostility, tension…
Younger Brother: “Big sis be careful, this place is extremely dangerous, extremely Evil. More terrifying than the ‘Miasma Forbidden Zone’ we passed through when going to the Surface [Moon Worship].”
Yuan Tang nodded solemnly: “Mm!”
It seemed this Upper Realm wasn’t as wonderful as the legends. The high concentration of ‘Disease Pollution’ permeating the Air made her extremely uncomfortable, fully circulating True Qi in her body to resist and offset the Disease Erosion.
Under the Eggplant Head Ghost’s guidance, the three quickly arrived beside Yuan Zhu, only to see three [Flasks] emitting faint holy glows flying towards them.
Nie Yin instinctively raised her hand to grab the [Holy Light Flask], and the Brother and Sister, sensing the familiar [Holy Cough Particles], breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Yuan Zhu’s voice came into their ears: “[Disease System] is the natural enemy of all healthy life, feeling fear and discomfort is very normal. Nie Yin, you can use the ‘Holy Light’ emitted from the [Holy Flask] in your hand to offset it. You two, stop consuming True Qi, directly embrace the [Holy Cough Particles]. [Holy Cough] can effectively kill Disease damage.”
Because [Holy Cough] was precisely the product of burning Disease Pollution. At the same level, it perfectly countered the Garden environment.
Nie Yin, who had long brain-supplemented Yuan Zhu as the [Disease Garden] master, ultimate behind-the-scenes black hand, [Forbidden Pollution.Disease System] great demon, saw Candle also extremely cherishing his life, protecting himself with layers of ‘Holy Light Force Field’.
And through voice commands, ordering the three Eggplant Head Ghosts to diligently harvest ‘Eyeball Fruits’, remotely feeding [Eggplant Goblins] without getting hands dirty, performing blood recovery Purification surgery on ‘Eggplant Goblins’ not yet eroded and tormented to half-dead, roughly sewing [Holy Flasks] into the abdominal cavity after.
Her original disgust, resistance, and wariness towards Candle quickly vanished, thinking to herself: ‘Huh? Could this guy not be the behind-the-scenes black hand here? From his actions, he clearly also extremely dreads Disease Pollution, yet still can’t help using Eggplant Goblins for Pollution experiments.’
The vanished Affection Level now compensated with double the value.
She realized that her greedy and Evil Boss was currently researching and utilizing ‘Disease Pollution’ in a steady yet cautious manner, even claiming it for himself.
Emotionally calmed down again, Nie Yin saw more details she hadn’t noticed before. Her own Boss hadn’t actively embraced and integrated into the ‘Forbidden Pollution’. Nor was it hostile or destructive.
Instead, maintaining restraint, using ‘Shadow Eggplant Essence’ as medium, indirectly absorbing and fusing Disease Pollution, constantly consuming ‘Eyeball Fruits’ for deep Alienation mutation; but at the same time, implanting Holy Light System [Flasks] to counter Pollution distortion, deepening Reinforcement effects.
This operation was 100% illegal, unlawful, and involved abusing and tormenting Goblins… blaspheming Life. All of this was too Evil, too cute!
The dropping Affection not only stopped falling but began rapidly rising. While secretly observing, she regarded Candle as a fellow enthusiast. Although not from the same school ([Frog School] and [Holy Light System]), they shared the same ideals: 100% illegal operations, disregard for Life, enthusiasm for torment, pursuit of Knowledge and exploration, respect for Knowledge…
The thought of fleeing was completely dispelled; she was very willing to work for such an Employer.
Initially signing with Yuan Zhu, she wasn’t optimistic about the Employer, had no expectations for [Frog Factory], just treating this job as the first foothold after leaving the [Academy], to save money for tuition, adapt to society, and find future paths.
Then after contacting [Shadow.Anti-Law], peeking at [Tiger Demon], and understanding the ‘Goblin, Orc’-based [Frog System Modification Plan], she only felt the Employer had some Strength, looked at the job higher, but still on par with other [Frog-Type Magic Potion Workshops].
But tonight, brought to [Shadow Haunted House], seeing large numbers of ‘Eggplant Goblins’. Meeting two Dangerous Species smugglers from the [Bubble Layer], and now seeing the even more exaggerated [Disease Garden].
She confirmed one thing: her Employer had a lot of background! And absolutely Evil camp, all actions illegal and unlawful. But also maintained bottom lines, not irredeemable. Following him would surely be fun and promising.
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Yuan Zhu was unaware of Nie Yin’s inner drama, only knowing her emotional fluctuations were still ‘nervously incomprehensible’. After entering the Garden, it almost turned into enmity. But before he could PUA and raise Affection Level, the other party self-convinced and self-moved, wildly recovering and breaking new highs.
Not knowing what action he made earlier, freezing into what ‘Famous Painting’? Critically hitting her girlish heart.
At this time Yuan Tang spoke: “Brother, is this the real ‘Upper Realm’? So Evil, so dangerous! Very similar to the [Reverse Birth Garden], our Animal Husbandry Village’s [Inner World]!”
Yuan Zhu nodded: “This place is somewhat similar to a [Inner World] Secret Realm, but not the so-called [Upper Realm]. When I was doing ‘spirit removal work’ in Running, I accidentally discovered the conspiracy hidden here. So I became the secret guardian, silently guarding this ‘Pollution hazard’, opposing the Evil forces here, not letting ‘Disease Pollution’ spread to the Present World.”
The latter sentence was obviously said for Nie Yin to hear.
Frog Killer Girl nodded inwardly, mostly matching her guess, but still puzzled. Since you say it so nicely, for guarding Running City, why not report the location to the [Security Bureau]?
As if sensing Frog Killer Girl’s inner disdain and doubt, Yuan Zhu glanced at her. Using eyes to convey: Can’t let heroes silently contribute without fame or Benefits.
Me guarding this Demon’s Den, secretly burning some Garbage to supplement [Soul Seal], what’s wrong? I guarded Running City’s peace, feeding Goblins some ‘Disease Fruits’ for biological experiments, is that excessive?
Nie Yin: Of course not excessive! I just like your unpretentious and genuine style! Employer, you’re the real hero!
In a daze, the Tacit Understanding between the two began rapidly increasing, compatibility improving.
