Chapter 261: Time To Release The Orc Warriors!
Yuan Zhu ignored the cowering muscle orcs huddled in the corner of the warehouse secretly training extra.
He came to the side of the girl who was keeping her head down and not proactively making eye contact with him, wanting to chat and ask about her recent situation and whether she had adapted to her current life.
As a result, he found that after just 2.5 days apart, the tacit understanding they had originally reached had evaporated at lightspeed. Upon meeting again, they had fallen back to strangers. His greeting full of goodwill was met with her hesitant, withdrawn demeanor.
Through Anti-Law perception of her mental changes, it was fine—she wasn’t resisting communication, and was even somewhat eager to try. But she didn’t dare to speak first.
“Holy crap, what is this split-personality girl? She’s really messing with my mindset.”
Snake Snake hurriedly spoke up: “This girl is actually easy to handle. I’ve already completed her psychological profile. Boss, you just need to remember: the better you treat her, the more her affection level will drop, making her vigilant and hostile toward you; if you treat her badly, she’ll hold a grudge and hate you. However, after you show her goodwill, if you promptly follow up with mild malicious suppression and forced commands… her dropped affection level will quickly rise back, return to normal levels, and even improve a tiny bit.”
“Don’t underestimate this tiny bit of ‘affection’—it’s a permanent increase! So, you just need to repeatedly CPU her, constantly pull and suppress to boost affection. Over time, you can thoroughly PUA her and turn her into your simp! But remember, don’t apply real malice or damage, or it’ll permanently lower her affection level and constantly build hatred value. She’d switch directly from tsundere simp to a vengeful white-eyed wolf enduring hardship for revenge.”
Yuan Zhu was numb. What mental illness had he hired? Senior student, refund!
Snake Snake retorted: “Isn’t she just a mental illness? Otherwise, how could the Frog School overlook this pearl in the ocean? Objectively speaking, her knowledge reserve and practical abilities are excellent. She should have been fought over and bought out by various companies, not left stagnating in the Frog School to become a frog killer girl. It’s because of her severe personality defects that she was eliminated, rejected, and ignored multiple times.”
Yuan Zhu: “So by that logic, even if we max out her affection, deeply bind her with Anti-Law, make her devotedly follow you, and excavate and display her talents, it won’t change her essence as an unstable ticking time bomb?”
Snake Snake didn’t care: “Maybe. But on this Du Ling Star, how many people have sound mindsets? Anyway, I think you’ll eventually give her the Three Phases cattle and horses buff to exploit her. Everyone who activates Three Phases is a mental illness, so why make things hard for each other?”
Yuan Zhu thought about it and felt it made sense.
This world is very off. Even so-called ‘normal people and ordinary people’ will, before natural death, have their deviation accumulate and explode due to Anti-Law, ultimately changing personality drastically and meeting a bad end.
So, does Running’s hospital not have a ‘psychological counseling department’? Other companies not hiring Nie Yin isn’t entirely because of ‘psychological defects’; it’s more that cultivating her is too troublesome and costly, not worth it.
For someone like her with severe psychological trauma from childhood, her ‘Tao heart’ is instead exceptionally firm, not easily shaken by deviation increases. Because it’s already a terminal illness, she doesn’t care about minor chronic diseases.
If cultivated properly, she’s more durable than ordinary cattle and horses.
Anti-Law has already been signed; no time for regrets, only intensify cultivation and training. Facing Nie Yin who wasn’t good at eloquence, Yuan Zhu could only unilaterally force questions, making her respond fluently.
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Soon, he figured out that in the days he was away, all five half-blood orcs had completed the primary entry-level modification of the Power Path.
This time, with successful experience, Nie Yin was more composed with the reinforcement surgery.
She no longer rushed for quick success, tormenting one then jumping to the second. Instead, she chose staggered modifications, splitting one surgery into six steps.
After each orc completed one step, she set it aside to silently recover and adapt. Once the remaining three orcs also finished that step, she circled back for the second step modification.
Thus, Nie Yin always performed surgeries (torments) at full status and excitement, fully venting her accumulated negative destructive desires; the orcs also had triple the time to adjust, ready for more intense surgery modifications.
Thus in just two days, they smoothly completed reinforcement, and unlike No. 1 initially, they weren’t weakened to multiple near-deaths.
Yuan Zhu now checked their status via Anti-Law, finding that while orcs 2-5 were healthier, the potential excavated by Frog System Modification was all inferior to No. 1 orc.
If those four were ordinary elite monsters, then No. 1 was the elite leader, with stats a notch stronger.
Snake Snake imported all Anti-Law Group A data into the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture for analysis and summary, quickly concluding:
No. 1’s modification rhythm was too rushed, completing the full set in just two hours. Physical body load broke limits, with multiple near-deaths, forcibly healed back by Yuan Zhu.
This ‘shedding the mortal body and exchanging the bones’ style overclock pollution reinforcement naturally extra-excavated some ‘potential’ beyond its normal upper limit.
For the safer-rhythm 2-5, no surprises—this was their normal level.
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Having figured this out, Yuan Zhu pulled Nie Yin in front of him. Under the frog girl’s hostile gaze, he transmitted this data report directly into her brain via the Anti-Law Contract.
This brand new experience, never had before, instantly overrode the panic, anger, and discomfort from her small hand being held. She stood stunned on the spot, forced to read the ‘experimental data analysis’ that suddenly drilled into her brain.
This ‘forced knowledge gain, brain expansion’ experience shocked her while surprising her passively. At this moment, numerous overlooked experimental details mutually verified with her subjective experience accumulated through surgeries.
Ignored details and oversights, half-understood knowledge—all were now completed and optimized. This rapidly boosted her experience and cognition, more useful than doing several more surgeries.
Yuan Zhu glanced at the four Anti-Law minions whose potential was clearly inferior to No. 1, and curiously asked: “Do you think future Frog System Modifications should restart No. 1’s ‘extreme reinforcement plan’, forcibly squeezing out some non-existent potential to maximize cost-performance ratio?”
Nie Yin understood the boss’s intent, then shook her head: “Not advisable, death rate too high, it’d lose money. Safe modification is their proper level. Success rate guaranteed, higher cost-performance. If wanting to extra-boost individual potential, suggest pre-implanting mutated tissue for muscle expansion.”
Yuan Zhu asked again: “These past few days, have you taught them fighting techniques? You know my arrangement for them is underground fighting.”
He had invested too much in these orcs. From now on, long-term training, feeding, room and board—but no returns yet. This left him dissatisfied.
Nie Yin shook her head: “I don’t know these, but I’ve given them the Martial Arts Illustrated Handbook you provided for self-study. Also, they just finished surgery, rested less than 1 day, not yet at best status. Can consider inserting fighting training during later potential excavation and strength training improvement.”
Yuan Zhu disliked her low efficiency and impatiently wanted to send them to fight a few amateur matches.
“Their physical qualities already far surpass humans. After Power Modification, they’ve transcended the mortal realm. Even not at best status, ordinary people can’t scam them. Now, sending them to amateur matches is pure crushing, a health preservation game! It can make money for us while letting them grow fast in fighting, accumulate experience, adapt to their brand new powerful bodies. Perfect!”
Thus he left Nie Yin behind, commanding the five half-blood orcs via Anti-Law to come before him.
The big boss decided to personally teach, imparting a few West Coast classic fighting martial arts moves. The grace of teaching the way, transmitting skills, and resolving doubts—Boss Yuan’s Gratitude Loan couldn’t be repaid, absolutely couldn’t!
Once they learned the fancy moves, immediately send them to amateur matches, health preservation and money-making both achieved.
Nie Yin thoughtfully followed behind Candle, carefully savoring his approach, then imperceptibly nodded. In her heart, she already approved, secretly feeling this operation made a lot of sense. She was still too kind, too naive.
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In the warehouse, Yuan Zhu ordered the five muscle orcs to line up, while he began demonstrating Red Port Fist move by move. Passing down this classic martial art that was gradually falling out of use but still effective against humanoid creatures.
Expecting that after they learned the basic routine, on the arena where he once struggled, through repeated practical drills, they would accumulate muscle memory. While mastering fighting techniques, also comprehend advanced ‘acting skill’ (fixed match experience).
Once screening out one or two with extreme talent and comprehension (superb acting), cultivate them into ‘fixed match stars’ to perform scripts and make big money. As for those without spirituality, send to the ‘darkness fighting world’ to excavate extreme warrior potential.
In the end, he miscalculated. This group of orcs was unexpectedly stupid?!
He only taught for half an hour before completely losing patience. Yuan Zhu discovered that although these orcs’ physiques had become stronger, their intelligence seemed to have dropped significantly?
They only knew how to swing fists simply, relying on savage instincts to brawl with each other. It was fought quite intensely, with solid punches without holding back, and it was quite a spectacle. But there were too many flaws! Against flexible and agile ordinary people, they didn’t have the advantage and instead exposed vital points, easily getting critically hit and KO’d.
They must master some fighting routines!
And when he began teaching some basic martial arts, this group of orcs’ hands and feet became uncoordinated. After finally managing to perform a complete routine properly, they immediately forgot the moves they had learned before.
Yuan Zhu was somewhat puzzled and called over Nie Yin, asking her: “Why does it look like their brain capacity has shrunk?”
Nie Yin nodded: “Indeed, a little, but this is normal. It’s a side effect from the residual pollution after power modification. After adaptation, it will slightly recover.”
Every system has unavoidable flaws. Practitioners can only try to compensate and repair from other angles as much as possible. For example, his specialty 【Holy Light】 always inevitably burns one’s own life, spirit, soul, lifespan… As the level rises, the fuel for igniting Holy Light becomes increasingly precious and irreversible.
The way to avoid it is to use other ‘lives’ to replace one’s own as fuel. Even so, it can’t be completely substituted; one still has to invest a part oneself. At the same time, it comes with the intense risk of 【Fall Seal】.
The 【Power Path】 extended from the 【Frog God】 has the price of ‘head’!
Nie Yin pointed to the experimental platform, that headless skinned bronze statue of the 【Frog God】 wrapped full of vengeful spirit curses: “Did you see its head?”
“No head either!”
Speaking of her professional domain, Nie Yin nodded calmly: “Right. The 【Frog God】 has no head or skin, so when accepting 【power modification】, even though the whole body’s muscles are eroded and reinforced by 【Body Tempering Fluid】, including the head’s muscles. But the Extreme Warrior’s head is not blessed by the 【Frog God】. What receives the blessing is merely the ‘muscles’ adhering to the practitioner’s head.”
Yuan Zhu: “So, the Extreme Warrior’s brain can’t keep up with the evolution rhythm?”
Nie Yin: “You can understand it that way. 【Power Blessing (Frog-Type Pollution)】 doesn’t actively cause intelligence reduction to make you dumb. In theory, the modified person always maintains the appropriate intelligence level. But as the 【Extreme Warrior】 begins fitness reinforcement, the whole body’s voluntary muscles actively secrete ‘Body Tempering Fluid’ to stimulate muscle fiber reinforcement and excavate physical body potential. But this Frog-Type Pollution will also synchronously erode the brain…”
“So they start getting dumb?”
Nie Yin shook her head: “The Extreme Warrior’s brain hasn’t gotten dumber. It’s just that their body stopped playing with the ‘brain’. All organs, muscles, bones, and nervous systems throughout the body accept, compatibilize, and adapt to the ‘Frog-Type Pollution’. Even if they can’t be reinforced, they aren’t eroded or damaged by it. Only the brain is abandoned by the body.”
Yuan Zhu gradually understood why the 【Orc Warrior】 got dumb. The whole body was being carried away under the blessing of ‘Frog-Type Pollution’, but only the brain remained unmoved. Wasn’t this equivalent to indirectly getting dumber? Even, the brain couldn’t withstand the ‘Frog-Type Pollution’ and would suffer damage.
“Why is this? Why does everyone evolve, but not bring along the brain?”
Nie Yin responded coldly: “Because the 【Frog God】 has no head! The reinforcement of the Extreme Warrior’s head muscles is also an aftereffect produced after physical body reinforcement, spreading to the head, and stopping completely after injecting into the head muscles, not having time to penetrate the skull and enter the brain.”
Yuan Zhu was unconvinced: “Then the 【Frog God】 has no skin either!”
“How do you know if high-tier Extreme Warriors still care about the existence of skin?”
Yuan Zhu’s momentum weakened: “So, high-tier Extreme Warriors are headless and skinless?”
Nie Yin: “Not necessarily, but the head and skin are no longer vital points; having them or not doesn’t matter. Some Extreme Warriors, for aesthetics, will focus on skin care. As for 【head】 and 【intelligence, IQ】, they can also be retained. The 【Power Path】 has also differentiated into multiple schools, including one that emphasizes 【One Body】. But the foundational classic version never cares about the presence or absence of ‘head’ and ‘skin’. Have you heard of 【Xing Tian】? This is one kind of ‘mythical form’ of the 【Extreme Warrior】!”
Yuan Zhu’s brain was very confused; Du Ling’s version of ‘Earth magic-modified mythology’ was really unwatchable.
The 【Frog School】 doesn’t care about having or not having a head, only cares about muscles; the neighboring 【Knowledge School】 plays with ‘head’.
Even, he had heard from Zhou Chu that among the Knowledge School, there was a heretical 【Headless School】, also having only a body without a head. He had even worried that Meng Xiyue might go astray and lose her head.
However, the 【Headless School】 and the Frog-Type’s 【headless warriors】 are completely different things; they just look similar.
