Chapter 228: Quick Patch For The [tiger Demon Perpetual Motion] Bug!
An unprecedented telepathic experience made Nie Yin, who had been ostracized and suppressed since childhood and was accustomed to loneliness, shudder with fear. It was just like humans suddenly seeing something incomprehensible, never seen before, and impossible even to imagine—a kind of ineffable shock.
In short, the silly girl was still dumbfounded in place, unable to comprehend the shock brought by Anti-Law.
Damn, this is the connection of heart to heart, is this what ‘warmth’ is?
She stood stunned in place for a full ten minutes, numb, before her stiff body showed signs of thawing. Facing Yuan Zhu’s strange and curious gaze, she felt utterly wrong all over, not daring to move even if she wanted to fidget.
Only a pair of long pointed ears visibly flushed red, with even the capillaries clearly red.
Yuan Zhu, sitting opposite her, could capture her mental fluctuations as clearly as viewing flowers in water through the connection of Anti-Law.2 Group.VIP Supreme Client, finding this girl’s series of changes very amusing.
So he complimented, “Pretty cute, huh!”
I got praised?!
Nie Yin, not yet accustomed to the sensations of the Anti-Law Contract connection, stiffened again, her hands tightly clutching the oversized school uniform. The force was so great that the muscles in her palms began to spasm and twitch. The intense pain saved her from extreme shame.
Today’s experience was truly too terrifying; she had lived 17 years, endured so much hardship, but this was the first time in a short hour to experience such an overload.
Now her brain felt blank, unable to focus on thinking, only wanting to find a chilly dark ditch to crawl into and hide, to calm down properly.
“I, I…”
Yuan Zhu said elegantly and amiably, “What’s wrong with you? Don’t be afraid, speak boldly. We’ve established the Anti-Law Contract; from now on, you’re my chief advisor + scientific research expert. Whatever you want, say it boldly; as long as I can do it, I’ll surely satisfy you!”
Nie Yin, whose brain was already overloaded, replied dazedly, “I want to run away and hide, can I?”
“???” What are you saying?
Yuan Zhu hurriedly @ Little Spicy Stick: “Is her brain broken?”
Snake Snake: “Seems like it. Apparently, the stimulation from Anti-Law was too intense for her. Probably the kind where she never felt love since childhood, and you hit her right in the soul with one shot, a critical strike way beyond her threshold, directly dumbing her out.”
Snake Snake showed off proudly: “In your memories, Boss, those Lovecraftian novel protagonists react the same way the instant they gaze upon the unspeakable. She couldn’t withstand the San value impact from you and fell.”
Yuan Zhu couldn’t help but blush shyly (ω): “Am I that handsome?”
Snake Snake said tactfully, “You’re overthinking it; it’s not about appearance. For someone like her, an insignificant edge social-phobic, signing Anti-Law with anyone would stimulate her into a daze.”
“Then what about Law Contracts? I don’t believe she hasn’t signed any Law System Contracts.”
Obviously, the Academy Gratitude Loan on Nie Yin was a kind of Law Debt. Because the instant Yuan Zhu formed Anti-Law with her, an indescribable ‘corner debt’ transferred to his head out of thin air.
And it vaguely told him that this was carrying her burden forward, related to the Rain Courtyard’s many years of raising her. When both parties signed an additional Law Contract afterward, the details of this debt unfolded.
So Nie Yin must have signed a Law System.Academy Gratitude Loan before.
Snake Snake said confidently: “The Law System can be seen as a derivative of ‘Heavenly Will.’ Heavenly Dao is emotionless, providing the Law System platform for all beings to make contracts. Because it treats all things as straw dogs, there’s no feeling. On the contrary, with Anti-Law, you are the Heavenly Dao will of the artificial mini Heavenly Dao, able to spy on user privacy through Anti-Law connections, observing data changes from the backend, making the other party feel a soul-level ‘gaze,’ thus triggering a stress response.”
Realizing the reason for her abnormality, he reluctantly stopped the little game of teasing her. Anyway, there would be plenty of time in the future to tease her slowly.
So Yuan Zhu waved his hand: “Since you’re not in good condition, go back and rest first. It’s getting late; I’ll call you tomorrow, and we’ll meet at the Rain Courtyard entrance. I’ll take you to scout the site for the farming facility first; you’ll be responsible for designing the blueprints. Okay?”
Frog Killer Girl nodded dazedly: “Okay.”
Then she clenched her little fists, turned abruptly like flying, crashed headfirst into the closed door, bounced back two steps, hurriedly pulled open the door, and fled, not daring to continue contact with Yuan Zhu.
This bizarre experience threw her into complete disarray. She must hide, rehearse again, list all possible situations, to cope calmly.
……
Watching Nie Yin stagger away, Snake Snake reminded: “You forgot to set a specific time.”
“You don’t understand the wonder of Anti-Law. Once the Contract is established, as the high-ranking Origin, I have a mystical connection with all subordinates. This is the embryonic foundation of the Anti-Law Demon God; as long as I call, they will surely hear and execute my commands. And their calls and prayers, within sensing range, I can choose whether to listen.”
Snake Snake: “How large is this sensing range?”
“My Anti-Law just born, not yet formed, effective range seems only within ‘Running City.’ As Anti-Law strengthens, this perception can penetrate Spirit Layers, even Bubble Layers.”
Snake Snake: “Now we have the orc test subject and chief engineer recruited; what’s the next step?”
Yuan Zhu lightly swung his arm, and a shadow vine emerged from the cuff of his uniform pants, snaking along the ground shadow, finally closing the open room door.
He drank the tea in front of him alone, pondering the urgent matters at hand, listing them in order.
“Find time to return to Happy Home; I’m quite short on Shadow Magic Worms here. Once Captain anchors the passage, I need to go back and harvest resources from the Shadow Domain. Find a chance to sign a batch of ‘Anti-Law. Labor Dispatch Workers’ in Insect City, bring them to Running to fight black boxing!”
Yuan Zhu’s next move was to carve out a base in the real world, build the Shadow Domain, and create a true safe house of his own.
As for the Domain’s intensity being too low, the next step would be to install the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture.Server as well. By then, the Domain’s strength might not be inferior to the Disease Garden, making it presentable as a lair.
“Before constructing the Shadow Domain, make me a scientific ‘Cultivation Work.Schedule.’ Every day, allocate time to refine Little Pumpkins, hatch the first skill of 2 Seals. Next, remind me to accelerate refining the stored Worm Pillar. Then, have Nie Yin produce Body Tempering Fluid for me; first practice on the first orc, cultivate into a Traditional Extreme Warrior. Then, on that basis, perform Shadow Secondary Rendering. Then, take two more orcs to simultaneously produce Shadow/Holy Light Body Tempering Fluid; I want to cultivate ‘Shadow Dao Soldiers’ and ‘Holy Light Dao Soldiers.'”
Snake Snake filled in the gaps: “Her Tattooing Technique can also be shown; practice on goblins or orcs to open eyes. And the Melon Peel Wallet; estimate the cost—if it’s worth it, we make it ourselves; if not, sell to Mao Mao King. I think their styles match well.”
Yuan Zhu kept brainstorming, suddenly remembering something: “Isn’t this Nie Yin a bit weak? Her knowledge reserve is decent, but she’s just a frail ordinary person with no combat ability. Living in Rain Courtyard is fine; her status as private property cattle and horse student gives her enough safety. Once she leaves campus and enters society, someone like her has no survival ability.”
Snake Snake: “Yeah, if the Frog Raising Farm is built, we could ‘keep her hidden in a golden house,’ isolate her from the outside, ensure safety. If the Shadow Domain is complete, it’s imprisonment play, permanent exclusive possession. Say, should we send her into the Haunted House?”
Yuan Zhu waved it off: “Not appropriate. Though the Employment Contract is strict enough to ensure she won’t leak secrets, her freedom is also high; as long as she keeps secrets, she can job-hop and go solo, choose other Pollution Systems to advance, slowly repay debts, and eventually disconnect Anti-Law. The Haunted House has too many secrets; not suitable to expose to her yet. Wait a bit, until she’s hooked and can’t escape Anti-Law.Shadow control, then tell her.”
“Then after she leaves school, how do we arrange her? Free-ranging is absolutely not okay; we must firmly control her, subject her to 24-hour PUA tactics! Thoroughly conquer her. Once the Server is unpacked and installed, the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture’s espionage and scientific research functions will be fully unleashed, needing lots of reliable researchers then. Start with this shut-in girl! Otherwise, have her move into our house? By the way give your younger brother some tutoring?”
Yuan Zhu: “Live with me? I’m afraid she’ll be nervous, shy, terrified… to death. I’m carrying her debt now; if I drop dead, it’d be a bloodbath. If really no choice, first rent her a temporary house.”
Snake Snake: “Boss, aren’t you also going to live in a big house? Rent one, PUA the emotions!”
“Feasible!”
When Yuan Zhu left Rain Courtyard, it was already eight in the evening.
He thought about it, gave up going home, drove the rented broken pickup truck back to the Haunted House. Another night of diligently incinerating Little Pumpkins.
…
Next morning at eight, the Tiger Demon prostrated in the attic slowly woke from sleep. Then it sensed the powerful sturdy body full of power, thick datafied Shadow Pollution flowing in the blood vessels, an unprecedented sense of fullness.
Unfortunately, it could feel that 10% of this body’s powerful strength was locked by invisible Anti-Law Laws, unable to mobilize.
After exiting Tiger Demon Stance, Yuan Zhu checked his Anti-Law Panel again, his face showing a surprised expression: “It actually succeeded?!”
The Anti-Law.Shadow Law he held was connected in the intangible to the Shadow Pollution Fund Pool; overnight, assets surged 120%!
Put it this way: before sleeping, if the Shadow Fund Pool stored 1000 units of shadow pollution, upon waking, his Anti-Law Assets had skyrocketed to 2200 units.
This extra ‘shadow pollution’ out of thin air was all automatically generated by the Tiger Demon regenerating health and mana while sleeping.
What is called a Pollution Root?
Like a Pollution Spring, ceaselessly producing unique Power of Pollution. The Tiger Demon was such a perpetual motion machine, with its 10% shadow root locked by Anti-Law.
When it entered sleep state, the body would automatically draw spiritual energy from the ‘Shadow Layer’ connected to the Haunted House, automatically filling the deficit.
Before Yuan Zhu took office as Anti-Law Master, the Tiger Demon only needed to refill its mana bar deficit to enter ‘self-sufficient’ state, only absorbing small amounts of ‘shadow pollution’ to develop its mana bar upper limit.
This fully automatic sleep cultivation, natural growth of magic power cultivation process, was very slow, not a day’s work. It required years of accumulation to see growth changes.
But after Anti-Law bound the Tiger Demon as pollution root and locked 10%, Anti-Law would automatically generate an Asset Pool (Pollution Pool) as operating capital to cultivate and invest in every ‘client.’
This Fund Pool is bottomless; the more Anti-Law Assets, the stronger Anti-Law becomes.
Yuan Zhu didn’t know the situation for other Anti-Law Masters, but his Tiger Demon, during nightly dormancy, always had 10% Shadow Pollution continuously leaking from its body, injected into the Anti-Law Fund Pool.
After discovering this, the dug-cornered Tiger Demon didn’t stop it, instead allowing the ‘cultivation loss.’ Anyway, Boss Template auto-regenerates mana; as long as the ‘shadow layer’ connected to Haunted House isn’t drained dry, and Tiger Demon stamina isn’t exhausted, it can keep serving as converter.
So upon waking, the Tiger Demon was still being drained of spiritual energy by Anti-Law, forcibly doubling the total Shadow Pollution Assets by 120%.
At this time, Little Spicy Stick transmitted a segment of footage to Yuan Zhu.
He cultivated until 3 a.m. last night, really couldn’t hold on, so switched to Tiger Demon Stance and fell deeply asleep.
During sleep, the mutated spiritual root automatically drew shadows to convert pollution, injecting into Anti-Law. But it simultaneously consumed a lot of Tiger Demon stamina, so under Snake Snake’s arrangement, Eggplant Goblins got up one by one, frequently entering and exiting the Disease Garden to bring twisted bizarre disease plants, feeding them to the Tiger Demon.
The Tiger Demon that ate garbage continuously refined pollution using its idle Universe Within The Belly, replenishing stamina, continuing to regenerate mana, then injecting into Anti-Law.
After such a night, Tiger Demon was full of spirit, max health max mana; Anti-Law also surged; Universe Within The Belly refinement progress reached 30%.
Yuan Zhu: “You exploited the bug, I freebie myself? If this loops forever, won’t there be problems?”
Snake Snake: “What problem could there be? I wish we weren’t in Underground Insect City; if there was a Shadow Dream Hole nearby, our family’s Anti-Law would be the true perpetual motion machine!”
Yuan Zhu recalled slightly and found the Shadow Dream Hole was a higher-power fully automatic perpetual motion machine than Tiger Demon, ceaselessly drawing power from Shadow Layer and Nightmare Layer, fully automatically refining Worm Pillars, filling Shadow Demonic Domain’s pollution deficits.
Connecting this thing to Anti-Law makes a high-power ‘shadow pump,’ watching assets explode.
“Should we check Captain’s progress at Happy Home? Too slack! If he doesn’t quickly anchor the ‘space-time passage,’ how to serve Mao Mao King the King?!”
Snake Snake: “Exactly! Exactly!
