Chapter 284: Yuan Clan Gang’s First Team-building Activity
Inside the 【Haunted House】, on the counter of the semi-open Kitchen, Nie Yin moved all the never-used, dust-covered Tools away. The little girl very perceptively found a rag and cleaned the countertop spotless.
At this time, Yuan Zhu also took out a 【Fallen Seal Flask】 that had undergone 【Ghost Companion Refinement】, always maintaining its 【Holy Light camp】 stance, never lowering its head even slightly to the 【Shadow System】.
(【Ghost Companion】 supernatural ability refinement failed, 【Holy Grail】 iron bones clank. From 【Holy Light】 fallen seal to 【Holy Light】, only the color changed.)
Inside this canister-sized cylindrical Flask, a mouse severely eroded by Shadow Pollution was sealed at the moment. It frantically clawed and attacked the bottle walls inside the Flask, screaming loudly. But everything was meaningless; even the sound couldn’t escape.
The ‘container’ made by the 【Holy Grail】 features extreme fragility when struck from the outside, like an ordinary Glass container that even a child could deliberately shatter.
But if sealed inside and trying to break out from within, sorry, feel what a 【Sanctuary-level】 unshakeable Space fortress is like. Otherwise, how could it perform the 【Demon Seal Wave】 to imprison various Demonic Creatures?
After Yuan Zhu hung the 【Fallen Seal. Flask】 from the Kitchen ceiling, the ‘Fallen Seal Holy Light’ burning and extracting the mouse’s Vitality instantly illuminated the entire Kitchen and dining area. The dim yellow warm light also diffusely lit up most of the Living Room.
Although the 【Flask】 emitted evil ‘Holy Light’, after the ‘Fallen Seal’ processing step of 【Ghost Companion Refinement】, everyone inside the 【Haunted House】 at this moment could adapt.
Even the Shadow Eggplant Vines clinging to the Walls, and the ‘Eggplant Goblin Eggs’ scattered across the floor, Walls, and Roof, only showed brief unease and maladaptation upon instant exposure to the 【Fallen Seal Holy Light】, without any ‘destructive Purification’ phenomenon.
Before long, they settled down and began to endure and adapt.
Of course, it might also be that the Vitality of this mere ‘ordinary Jerry’ was too weak. Plus, the ‘Holy Light’ produced by the 【Holy Flask】 was several grades weaker in quality. Finally, after this 【Flask】 was processed by 【Ghost Companion Refinement】 and forcibly fallen sealed, it could be considered half an ally, friendly to the 【Shadow System】.
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As the room brightened, Nie Yin expressed satisfaction with this crude Laboratory environment.
She glanced at the 【Fallen Seal Flask】 with her peripheral vision, feeling it somewhat similar to the Academy-customized ‘UV Lamp’, yet vastly different.
So she praised aloud: “This thing is interesting. Even 【Fallen Seal Holy Light】 has strong exclusivity and destructiveness. It can destroy and eliminate pollution outside of ‘Fallen Seal’, very helpful for experimental research on the 【Shadow System】.”
If Yuan Zhu wanted to perform ‘orthodox Frog System Surgery’ or produce 【Body Tempering Fluid】, refine other Magic Potions, then lighting a 【Fallen Seal Grail】 in the Laboratory would be either stupid or malicious. Purely sabotaging the experiment, not wanting results, just increasing consumption to skim some off.
But if he wanted to conduct some ‘Shadow System’ evil research, then lighting such a 【Fallen Seal ambiance light】. It adds not just atmosphere, but creates a 【Shadow Version. Sterile Pollution-Free Environment】.
【Holy Light + Shadow】 for targeted experimental research is indeed very fitting!
Nie Yin somewhat understood why her senior student would invest in her employer’s 【Frog Factory】.
The 【Holy Light System】 already has great influence in the ‘experimental R&D field’. But wild 【Holy Cultivators】 are too few; professional talents are usually monopolized by different sects within the 【Holy Church】.
Someone like Yuan Zhu, a pure wild entrepreneurial Holy Light talent, would be very welcome joining any Company or research institute.
Him opening a 【Frog Raising Farm】 and privately doing some 【Frog System Pharmaceuticals】 could indeed greatly save costs. More importantly, no worry about leaks.
Ordinary enterprises, even if hiring Holy Light talents, once involving Company secrets in ‘Forbidden violations’ research, these 【Holy Cultivators】 would usually report proactively to the 【Holy Church, Security Bureau】.
Because the 【Power of Holy Light】 is absolutely idealistic. One’s own behavioral decisions determine whether the 【Holy Light】 ‘Fallen Seals’ or ‘sublimates’. What’s a working wage worth risking life for? Once reported successfully, 【Holy Church Merit】 is added, purifying and elevating 【Holy Light】 quality without burning lifespan.
In contrast, a wild Holy Light player like Yuan Zhu who part-times 【Anti-Law. Shadow】 has Three Views and cognitive thinking different from traditionally nurtured elites.
He actively plays with ‘Shadow’ from the heart. Even if Fallen Sealed, this 【Fallen Seal Holy Light】 remains ‘holy’, and can sterilize and purify ‘Shadow Pollution’.
Thinking about it, Nie Yin became somewhat optimistic about Yuan Zhu’s future achievements in the ‘Shadow Domain’. She also felt the 【Frog Factory】 and its matching ‘Shadow System. Extreme Warrior Modification’ Plan had potential.
Her first internship job after graduation didn’t seem as hopeless as imagined?
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At this time, not only did Nie Yin ignore the negligible foot-soaking Damage from the 【Fallen Seal Holy Light】, but the two siblings from the Otherworld were also immune to the 【Fallen Seal Holy Light】, even feeling warmth, Joy, and comfort.
Whether 【Holy Light (Holy Cough Qi Refining Technique)】 or 【Shadow (Anti-Law)】, both were in their comfort zones. So facing the 【Fallen Seal Holy Light】 shining from above, they were just surprised that this ‘Holy Light”s flavor (Holy Cough Particle) wasn’t very pure? Not potent enough! Too wimpy.
And that was it.
They still preferred more explosive ‘orthodox high-Damage Holy Light’. Breathing it made the entire respiratory tract burn, Lungs stinging hot like drinking hard liquor burning the stomach (stomach bleeding, stomach perforation). Summing up the feeling in two words: warmth!
Feeling the ‘Life’ within slowly flowing, releasing, diffusing, gently nourishing the Body, thriving, growing stronger.
(Yuan Zhu: Indeed, the 【Holy Cough Particles】 burn your lives first, then repair your injuries. Can’t you feel the 【Life】 diffusing, transferring, nourishing?)
In front of the counter, Nie Yin laid out a full set of surgical Tools, potions, high-concentration 【Body Tempering Fluid】… all in order. Then, she placed the long-worshipped 【Headless Skin-Peeling Frog God Bronze Statue】.
At this moment, under the gaze of three pairs of eyes full of curiosity, she began the ‘expert-level torment Performance’.
This feeling of being center stage, highly anticipated, made her both unfamiliarly shy and inexplicably filled with positive motivation, Desire to perform, to show her best side.
Under nervous Pressure, her attitude was exceptionally focused and serious, autonomously cutting off external sensations, placing an 【Eggplant Goblin】 on the cutting board, then selecting handy ‘Tools’ to begin the Modification Surgery.
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The specific process was nothing special, simpler than Yuan Zhu’s experienced 【Half-blood Orc Modification】.
This time, Nie Yin directly skipped the 【Experimental Frog】 skinning Ritual and extraction/injection of low-concentration 【Body Tempering Fluid】 to help the test subject gradually adapt through the 【Frog System Pollution Modification】 process.
Because the 【Eggplant Goblin】 itself was in a ‘deep Pollution (Eggplant Parasitism)’ state, with physique surpassing others of its kind and high inherent Pollution Resistance.
The ‘Shadow Pollution’ depth diffused throughout its Body, able to spontaneously resist invading 【Frog System Pollution】. Thus, skipping the initial adaptation phase for direct heavy medication assault!
Nie Yin now directly operated the ‘school uniform style’ 【Shadow Uniform】, invoking her own 【Anti-Law】 control over ‘Shadow Pollution’ to suppress the Pollution backlash within the 【Eggplant Goblin】.
Next, she discarded the handy ‘Syringe’ Tool, choosing the more precise, ingenious, flexible 【Shadow Threads】 to replace the Needle, forming a hollow injection cavity.
Drawing high-concentration 【Body Tempering Fluid】 and piercing the Eggplant Goblin’s Skin, evenly and deeply injecting ‘Frog System Pollution’ into every inch of Muscle.
With a dazzling flurry of operations, the 【Uniform】 at her right wrist split into hundreds of thread-like ‘injection lines’, inserting from head to toe into the ‘Eggplant Goblin”s entire Body without omission.
Her left hand also split numerous thicker ‘Shadow ropes’, firmly binding the frantically trembling and convulsing Eggplant Goblin to the chopping board, suppressing its internal 【Eggplant Parasitism】 rejection reaction.
With the mind-responsive 【Shadow Uniform】, it instantly saved Nie Yin massive Energy. No need for inefficient ‘Syringe’ use of 【Circadian Star Foundation Establishment Needle Technique】, point by point finding ‘ancient medicine. acupoints’ for injection.
These hundred-plus hollow Shadow Threads were sharp as needles yet changeable and bendable at will. They could simultaneously drill into the Eggplant Goblin’s subcutaneous Muscle tissue, freely shuttling and probing physiological structure inch by inch.
Originally, Nie Yin had only deeply studied 【Human】 systemic anatomy knowledge, understanding ancient medicine ‘Human acupoint distribution’. This knowledge could barely apply to ‘Half-blood Orcs’ with black ancestry, but was ineffective for the more bizarre physiological structure of ‘Goblins’.
But with the 【Shadow Uniform】, she could frantically shuttle and explore the Goblin’s physiological structure in a short time, comparing to the ‘Human acupoint map’, quickly identifying the patient’s ‘pain points’, then frequently injecting ‘Body Tempering Fluid’ to accelerate 【Muscle Pickling】 progress.
As for the Price? Is there a Price! Just some ‘pain sensation’, which she couldn’t feel anyway.
(Goblin emits despairing cry: “Am I not Human? Am I fucking Human or not!”)
As the ‘Shadow Threads’ deep in the Muscle tissue continuously injected 【Body Tempering Fluid】, Nie Yin’s other hand also invoked 【Anti-Law】 authority, infusing pure 【Shadow Pollution】 to replenish the consumed Pollution vitality for the Eggplant Goblin. Merging 【Frog System Mutation】 with 【Shadow Pollution】 into a 【Shadow System. Muscular Goblin Strongman】.
But soon, a disappointing scene appeared for Yuan Zhu. As the 【Frog System Pollution】 penetrated deep into the Muscle tissue, triggering qualitative Reinforcement, this 【Eggplant Goblin】 under unlimited ‘Shadow Energy’ assault began overdrawing Vitality, frantically accelerating the ‘Reinforcement’ progress.
This caused its Muscles to rapidly reinforce to max level in a short time. Its subcutaneous Muscles frantically writhed, twisted, visibly swelling larger, stretching the Skin tight and thin, exposing stringy Muscle Structure.
As it bulked up and strengthened like a small cannon, the internal ‘Pollution Muscles’ began grinding and squeezing the originally pervasive ‘Shadow Eggplant Root Tendrils’ throughout the Body.
Before the Muscles ‘sublimated’, these ‘Eggplant Parasitism Root Tendrils’ pervaded the Flesh, rooted between Muscles and capillaries, bypassing the digestive system, Hijacking the ‘Blood transport system’ to directly provide Nutrients for the 【Eggplant Goblin】, exhibiting ‘Plant Person’ characteristics.
At this moment, although both 【Frog System Pollution】 and 【Eggplant Parasitism】 were eroded by Shadow Pollution, they didn’t coexist; instead, intense Conflict erupted.
The 【Frog System Pollution】 with a complete ‘Inheritance System’ directly crushed the ‘Eggplant Parasitism’, gradually squeezing these plant-like root foreign tissues out of the 【Eggplant Goblin】’s Body.
As for the Goblin itself? No one cared about its feelings. Yuan Zhu only saw it lying on the board, convulsing betwixt life and death, firmly bound by internal ‘Uniform Threads’, only able to twitch violently… eyes full of despair, wishing for death.
The entire ‘Reinforcement process’ lasted half an hour. Finally, all Root Tendrils inside the 【Eggplant Goblin】 were rejected and squeezed out of the Muscles. Only the Head retained a small amount of 【Shadow Eggplant Root Tendrils】, mainly in the low-Muscle scalp, occiput, and brain areas.
It indeed verified the 【Frog God】’s headless and skin-peeling claim.
【Frog System Modification】 has little effect on Skin, and on the Head only limits to facial masticatory Muscles; beyond the face, influence gradually declines. Especially the Cranial Cavity, due to scant Muscles, couldn’t squeeze out the ‘parasitic Shadow Eggplant’.
Thus forming masses of ‘parasitic Root Tendrils’ entrenched in the brain and scalp, delivering Nutrients to the Body via the Head’s few vessels.
After watching the full process of the 【Plant-Type. Eggplant Goblin】 degenerating into a 【Muscle-Type Goblin】, Yuan Zhu felt some regret. This ‘Goblin Strongman’ before him only had its Head still coexisting with ‘Shadow Eggplant’.
But the Nutrients 【Shadow Eggplant】 delivered into it would be rejected by the 【Frog System Pollution】 gradually eroding and controlling the ‘vessels’. This means as the ‘Muscular Goblin’ grows stronger, it will increasingly reject the 【Shadow Eggplant】 symbiotic system; they cannot coexist.
The free 【Photosynthesis Muscle cattle and horses】 perpetual motion failed.
So Yuan Zhu pointed at the freshly produced 【Shadow System. Muscular Goblin】 and said to Nie Yin: “Didn’t you plan to use one 【Frog System. Goblin Strongman】 as Reinforcement material to feed to the 【Uniform】? You can start now.”
Although no need for the failed 【cattle and horses perpetual motion】 Feed, there were other fun things to watch. He also wanted inspiration from Nie Yin’s ‘Uniform Version. Stand User’.
If this experiment succeeded, he wanted to sign an Agent Contract with 【Happy Home】. Planning to become 【Mao Mao King】’s Agent in the New Federation.
No kidding, this 【Uniform】’s performance was indeed very strong, able to absorb any fitting ‘Pollution attribute’. Very suitable as a key accessory for the 【Shadow System】. If possible, he even wanted to acquire 【Mao Mao King Luxury Children’s Wear】, integrate it into the 【Boss Template】 as his own 【Seed】-level mark.
Hearing Yuan Zhu’s prompt, Nie Yin shook her head: “No, this Goblin’s quality is too poor. I accelerated the ‘Muscle Erosion’ throughout, wasting its inherent potential. It’s a forced-growth product, not meeting my feeding standard. Moreover, your ‘Eggplant Goblins’ here have poor base quality; even for feeding, I’d select strong Goblins and carefully cultivate and reinforce them.”
Various Pollution Systems share a commonality: if not pursuing solid Foundation or sanity, just embrace Pollution, drop defenses and accept distortion to rapidly Get Stronger, ascending in broad daylight.
The previous Goblin Modification was the same; Nie Yin ignored its will, accelerating ‘Frog System Erosion’ at the cost of potential exhaustion. Rapidly maxing ‘Muscle Reinforcement’ and squeezing out ‘Shadow Eggplant’. The same 【Eggplant Goblin】, if slowly and gently eroded and conditioned, would be stronger in Strength and more durable (lifespan).
Yuan Zhu then thought that Nie Yin was his key Employee. The better the Goblin quality she fed, the higher the 【Uniform】 Improvement, meaning her Power and safety higher.
No need to force her to feed a garbage one to verify the hypothesis. If it polluted the 【Uniform】, he’d have to buy her a new set. 【Mao Mao King】 Luxury Children’s Wear sounded expensive just from the name!
“Alright, I’ll contact a better source for you right now. These two little ones are yours; teach them some 【Frog School】 basic experimental operation knowledge, cultivate two experimental assistants. Just like when you were in the Laboratory, doing odd jobs for others.”
Nie Yin paused, then nodded with complex emotions: “Okay!”
Meanwhile, Yuan Zhu took out his ‘half-mechanical modified mouse’ and dialed his little brother’s number.
Moments later, the call connected, and he said: “Hey? Little Lu, it’s me, Yuan Zhu!”
