Chapter 230: Ruthless Frog Killer Girl
In the dimly lit warehouse, a Tiger Demon with pitch-black fur mixed with some sloppy white patterns was coldly staring at the half-elf whose right eye was glowing.
In the nearby corner, the Snake Demon slowly vanished into the rippling shadows, leaving only the unconscious orc kid lying on the ground, sleeping soundly.
After Yuan Zhu canceled [Tiger Demon] and switched back to human form, he pointed at the orc on the ground and said to Nie Yin, “Here, experimental subject. Do you have confidence in performing Frog School pollution modification on it?”
Frog Killer Girl reluctantly glared at Yuan Zhu, seemingly annoyed that he had made her cool ‘brain tiger’ and ‘big snake’ disappear.
Then, in a cold and feeble tone, she replied, “Yes.”
Through the emotional changes transmitted back via [Anti-Law], Yuan Zhu discovered that this girl had wildly fluctuating emotions, suddenly shifting from excitement, thrill, worship, and desire to get close to disdain, dislike, and wanting to keep some distance.
She simply didn’t equate Yuan Zhu, this human, with the majestic and domineering [Tiger Demon] from earlier.
Candle muttered inwardly, “This girl’s brain is a bit dumb?”
Snake Snake agreed, “Perhaps she’s a purely visual creature? [Tiger Demon] and Snake Tail are both ‘pollution roots’ bound by [Anti-Law.Shadow]. It’s normal for her, as an [Anti-Law User], to feel an instinctive closeness. On the other hand, your human stance holds [Anti-Law] but can’t mobilize even a bit of ‘Shadow Power’; it’s full of righteous Holy Light that reeks of evil, with extremely strong disguise.”
Because all [Anti-Law big shots (Demon Gods)] are generally assumed to hold authority over the [Capital Pool], but are unable to directly utilize pollution.
Just like having billions in wealth, only able to spend money to hire armies, superheroes/villains to indirectly serve and fight for you; but unable to, like Iron Man or Green Goblin, equip yourself with tech armor or engineer genetic mutation to directly gain great power.
Thus, [Anti-Law] comes with super strong concealment and disguise. As long as the [Anti-Law Master] doesn’t actively reveal their identity, outsiders will have a hard time detecting the connection between you and [Anti-Law]; instead, you’ll seem like an outsider.
Just like at this very moment, Nie Yin and Yuan Zhu clearly have a soul-level connection and are fully aware of their employer-employee relationship.
But in her eyes, Yuan Zhu was full of Holy Light aura from head to toe, making it hard to gain her goodwill; she even disdainfully wanted to back away and avoid that latent [Power of Holy Light].
Still, the ‘Dark Big Cat’ is majestic and cute! Really want to sneak a rub.
Unaware of her weird thoughts, Yuan Zhu pointed at the unconscious orc and said, “Then start the demonstration!”
Upon receiving the order, Nie Yin no longer hesitated, walked straight to the sleeping orc’s side, pulled out a pair of gloves from her backpack, began inspection, with a thoughtful expression on her face.
Yuan Zhu watched coldly from the side, then asked, “Any difficulties?”
Nie Yin stood up and said to Yuan Zhu, “There are no traces of Frog School reinforcement modification on his body, but the ‘Shadow Pollution’ intensity inside is very high, and the muscle tissue has mutated. What’s going on?”
Yuan Zhu tossed her a [Little Pumpkin], inside which was sealed a sum of cash and a portion of [Shadow.Insect System Mutated Tissue].
“Your onboarding gift. It contains a portion of ‘Shadow System supernatural crystallization.’ Derived from the muscle tissue of a giant demonized insect, once it contacts living flesh, it will rapidly spread throughout the body, parasitize in the flesh, bringing improvements in power, physique, defense, and more. Does this spontaneous ‘pollution reinforcement’ help with [Frog System Modification]? Or is there conflict?”
Nie Yin replied, “It helps. The higher the physical quality of any life form before undergoing Frog School modification, the stronger the potential and talent it represents. ‘Pollution reinforcement’ below a specific threshold all meets Frog School modification standards. However… the higher the man-made innate physique, the higher the quality of [Body Tempering Fluid] required for Frog School basic modification. From a cost perspective, it’s not cost-effective.”
While speaking, Nie Yin pulled out a glass bottle the size of a small perfume bottle from her backpack, inside which was sealed a pale yellow liquid.
Yuan Zhu was only 3 meters away from her and could clearly perceive a brand new [Pollution Attribute] from this bottle. How to describe it? Extremely restrained, serene, stable, full of a sense of power, and faintly hearing a mental-level ‘frog croak’ like muffled thunder.
Through the [Soul Crystal]’s ‘Detect Evil’ appraisal, this was an absolutely neutral, even leaning toward justice ‘Supernatural System.’ Even its polluting nature and erosion were very weak, quite similar to the [Inert Knowledge] mentioned by Meng Xiyue.
[Inert Knowledge] is actually not stable, but very active, proactively chasing and eroding the spirit; but the ‘pale yellow liquid’ in this bottle is genuine [Inert Pollution], extremely stable.
Yuan Zhu suspected that even if he poured this [Body Tempering Fluid] onto his palm and smeared it on his body, it might not cause ‘Pollution Erosion.’
“This is [Body Tempering Fluid]?”
Nie Yin nodded, “High-concentration extract, can be diluted into 20 bottles of [Standard Version Body Tempering Fluid].”
In her explanation, for ordinary humans or ordinary orcs, as long as their deviation is below 30%, then Frog School entry-level modification only requires diluting the standard version [Body Tempering Fluid] further for use.
After completing the first phase of ‘adaptation modification,’ quasi-Frog School warriors are qualified to use standard version [Body Tempering Fluid] directly under professional guidance.
But this orc was different; after reinforcement from [Shadow.Mutated Tissue], in the Frog School domain, it was an artificially elevated ‘fake genius’; but the price was skyrocketing deviation, greatly increased modification difficulty, even standard version [Body Tempering Fluid] couldn’t pollute it, requiring higher concentration ‘purified version.’
Snake Snake evaluated, “That makes sense logically. The [Mutated Tissue] raised its own pollution intensity, so it can only be covered and reinforced with higher-grade [Body Tempering Fluid (Frog System Pollution)].”
Yuan Zhu said again, “So now, are you going to directly use the ‘high-concentration extract’ to modify it?”
Nie Yin shook her head, “No! Such a sturdy orc is very precious and shouldn’t be wasted easily. I need to do an external test first to confirm the suitable ‘purified concentration’ for it.”
According to [Anti-Law] feedback, Nie Yin felt a slight nervousness when facing his questions; but these stray emotions were all washed away by the intense desire to personally torment and modify the orc.
Thus, she maintained a state of excitement, anticipation, eagerness yet restrained throughout. When answering questions, she no longer hesitated, appearing confident and steady (fake steady).
“Need my help?”
“Yes!”
This time, Nie Yin proactively made requests: “The lighting here is too dim, and I also need a table—there’s one over there, bring it to me. Then I need a few iron chains to hang the orc up, for convenient subsequent modification.”
Above the warehouse, there were two simple gantry cranes for moving stacked goods, with chains naturally hanging down from above, perfect for suspending and binding the orc.
So Yuan Zhu brought over a large table, turned on the warehouse lighting facilities, pulled the chains over, and quickly hoisted the unconscious orc high up. Then he looked at her.
At this time, Frog Killer Girl also placed her schoolbag on the table, continuously taking out items from it. Several glass syringes of varying sizes, an aluminum lunchbox filled with cotton balls and gauze, arranged with rows of needles.
Then a batch of surgical knives, needles, scissors, forceps… and other surgical tools of varying sizes. Soon, she took out a brass [Frog God Statue].
The moment the statue appeared, it captured Yuan Zhu’s attention.
This was a [headless, skinned, muscular frog-type] statue, legs spread standing on a brass tray, upright facing away from Yuan Zhu and Nie Yin, arms raised high in a classic ‘Jingba menswear’ bodybuilding pose, displaying powerful muscle lines to all beings.
Without any extra introduction, Yuan Zhu confirmed at first glance that this brass-made ‘headless skinned frog’ was the legendary [Frog God]!
Not only that, the statue was also entwined with intense ‘resentment, despair, curse,’ as if wrapped by countless ghost souls.
Fortunately, the [Tiger Demon] had absorbed [Yellow Springs Aura] in the ‘Little Xihong Realm’ to complete [Ghost Companion Divine Ability], so he had some understanding of this world’s ‘Underworld, Yellow Springs, wandering souls,’ like half a yin-yang eye.
It could be confirmed that this [Frog God Statue] bound a large number of frog souls, just like a butcher’s pig-killing knife, an indescribable Malevolent Qi. The originally mundane brass material had gradually become supernatural due to the frog souls entwining it.
Yuan Zhu couldn’t help but say, “This is… [Frog God]?”
In Nie Yin’s soft and pleasant little milky voice, a trace of confidence shone through: “Mm! Essential experimental equipment for Frog School. Every laboratory enshrines several. Every student is also required to carry a personal [Statue of God] as an exclusive item.”
“What does it do?”
“Assists experiments to proceed smoothly, a basic element for some Frog School rituals.”
While speaking, she placed the [Frog God Statue] in the center of the table, took out a cloth to wipe the table and clean the statue itself, then arranged the equipment according to her personal habits.
Finally, she turned to look at Yuan Zhu: “Please release [Holy Light] to simply purify this makeshift lab bench and the surrounding environment.”
At the same time she spoke, she moved a bottle of holy water containing [Power of Holy Light] to the side.
Normal Frog School experiments require the academy to perform multiple rounds of sterilization, cleaning, disinfection… on the lab bench. Finally, using a mist spray bottle to spritz [Holy Water] for ultimate purification, then waiting for it to naturally evaporate completely, ensuring 0 pollution.
Nie Yin explained, “If conditions allow, a basic barrier can also be set up around this ‘makeshift lab bench’ to isolate ‘pollution’ from the natural environment. The ideal situation is to conduct it in a sterile, pollution-free ‘laboratory.'”
Yuan Zhu stood by listening, nodding continuously. He secretly sighed that although this girl was a bit timid, a bit reclusive, and prone to emitting black aura randomly, she was reliable in her professionalism.
Yuan Zhu didn’t delay, directly raised his hand for a [Holy Light.Illumination Technique]. The [Holy Mark] began burning the wound, a gentle ‘Holy Light orb’ rose from his fingertip, floating above the table, automatically releasing [Holy Light] to purify everything, even circling the hoisted orc a few times, cleaning all surface residual pollution.
As the leader, Nie Yin also endured the discomfort and accepted the bath-level purification of the [Illumination Technique].
At the same time, she inwardly marveled that the [Holy Light System] was indeed convenient for supernatural research, comparable to a one-click clear master. In specific experimental steps, [Holy Light] could also be useful in many details.
Unlike ordinary personnel like her, who always had to carry ‘holy water, Holy Ash’ to timely clean, dry, and isolate blood-stained surgical knives, experimental subject wounds, repeatedly used medicinal herbs…
Nie Yin took out a mechanical pocket watch, stood in front of the makeshift operating table, waited 5 minutes. Relying on experience and her own keen perception, after confirming the table’s residual [Holy Light] had completely dissipated, she began a performance worthy of being called art.
She first took a glass bottle encapsulating an ‘Experimental Grade Frog,’ unscrewed the cap, and the smell of ether mixed with alcohol quickly volatilized.
The little girl calmly grabbed the comatose frog bare-handed; this thing required no ‘Holy Light Disinfection,’ already confirmed clean before encapsulation, ready for direct use.
Next, she gently picked up a willow leaf knife, hand rose and knife fell; Yuan Zhu didn’t see even a drop of blood as the soft girl used both hands, first fixing the ‘frog body’ with eight fingers, then pressing both thumbs against the frog’s buttocks and pushing hard.
Like pulling off a sock from the foot in reverse, she smoothly pushed the frog out from the skin wrapping its body.
In a flash before Yuan Zhu’s eyes, Nie Yin proficiently completed the skinning step. Left hand grabbed the ‘frog’ with muscles exposed to the air, right hand pulled the everted connected frog skin, then yanked hard, drawing the frog’s arms and legs out from the connected leather sleeves and pant legs.
Splats!
A complete connected frog skin was flung onto the table. In Nie Yin’s hand, a muscular, visually impactful skinned muscle frog was spasming its limbs under the stimulation of pain.
Just like a fitness contestant doing frog swim motions, showcasing the sleek muscles of legs and arms.
At this point, Nie Yin raised the knife again, precisely severing the skinned frog’s spinal cord at the back of the neck. Then the blade rotated 360° along, directly decapitating the frog head; her palm twisted hard, snapping it off.
The next second, Nie Yin discarded the knife and casually grabbed a handful of ‘Holy Ash (corpse protein powder)’ to smear on the wound surface. Before blood could spurt, the wound (decapitated surface) contracted violently under ‘Holy Ash’ stimulation, with only traces of minimal blood seepage…
The entire process was so fast it was dazzling.
‘Rip!’ and the skin was peeled; then ‘crack!’ and the head came off.
Only left with a fully muscular ‘Jingba skinned frog body’ intensely spasming in talent show, muscles developed and full, so similar to the brass [Frog God] statue on the table!
And as the skinless frog head fell onto the table, an imperceptible ‘soul fluctuation’ was absorbed by the [Frog God Statue].
Yuan Zhu realized that the endless resentment, despair, and curse entwining this statue were clearly the frog remnant souls from Frog Killer Girl’s hands. These ‘Frog School Experimental Grade Frogs’ that died on the operating table were perfectly captured and bound by the [statue].
Thus, the more senior the student’s [Frog God Statue], the more frog souls absorbed, the stronger the supernatural properties, and the better the ritual effects… more experience, more bound souls, stronger effects—a positive feedback loop.
