Chapter 264: 【orc Stand】 And 【frog Skin Tattoo】
The journey to the construction site in the suburbs is a bit far, taking at least 40 minutes by car.
After Yuan Zhu and Nie Yin got in the car, they chose to sit in the back row. It was a long journey, and he wanted to discuss some knowledge about the Supernatural Domain with Nie Yin, but he didn’t want the mortal driver to hear.
In case he and Frog Girl got carried away chatting and revealed some dangerous remarks, which the clueless driver misunderstood and reported to the Security Bureau that there were two dangerous elements here, that would be bad.
So when the taxi started and headed towards the outskirts, he lightly snapped his fingers, and a layer of faintly perceptible Holy Light Barrier expanded inside the car, enveloping the back seat space, bringing a faint warmth and sweeping away the dampness and odd smells in the car.
This layer of Holy Light Barrier had extremely low intensity and no defensive capability at all, while its consumption was minimized to allow long-term maintenance. It also blocked sound and external perception, enabling private conversation. As a bonus, it cleaned and purified the car for the driver.
To be fair, just this one Holy Light Purification from Yuan Zhu could offset the day’s car rental fee, and the driver would even have to pay extra.
Unfortunately, the driver felt the wondrous changes in the car, basking in the warm Holy Light Radiation, yet shamelessly stayed silent. He freebie’d the whole way, pretending with a serious face, “I’m focused on driving and have no idea what happened?”
Yuan Zhu didn’t bother making things hard for an ordinary person. While looking at the city scenery outside the car window, he said to Nie Yin: “These past few days, besides performing surgery on the orcs, what else have you done? Are you familiar with Anti-Law? Do you have any plans for your future cultivation direction?”
Frog Girl hung her head, stealing glances at the scenery outside with her left eye. After a moment’s thought, mimicking Yuan Zhu’s operation of sending files to her brain via Anti-Law, she sent back some of her own research results and ideas.
Some things she was too embarrassed to say directly, but this “mind channel” communication conveyed her thoughts better.
Regarding her own future Supernatural Path, Nie Yin always maintained an extremely cautious attitude.
She had been hanging around in Rain Courtyard for so many years, enduring humiliation while killing frogs and hungrily learning, yet still hadn’t made a hasty decision. Now that she had signed with Anti-Law to work for Yuan Zhu, she had even fewer choices, so she was even more calm and steady.
As for fully committing to Anti-Law.Shadow? She hadn’t even considered it!
She had turned to Yuan Zhu only as a springboard to accumulate resources for stepping onto the supernatural path.
She just wanted to freebie from Lord of Anti-Law, using Yuan Zhu’s resources to pave the way for her future. In return, she would keep secrets and conduct a series of “evil research” for the boss, handing over those technologies.
Although she had no ideas yet for her future Supernatural Path, Nie Yin had quite a few little thoughts on strengthening her current strength.
The foundation of her getting stronger all revolved around the Shadow Uniform granted by Anti-Law.
Nie Yin: “I have some ideas for upgrading and reinforcing the Uniform, and I need your support.”
“Oh? Tell me!”
Yuan Zhu wasn’t in a hurry to use Anti-Law to bind her completely, offering her soul willingly. As long as she was willing to put effort into the Shadow domain, continuously investing energy to obtain endless “research results.”
As sunk costs kept increasing, her cognition of Shadow Pollution deepened, and research results grew stronger… eventually, she would find it hard to abandon these results and choose to join the “Anti-Law family” embrace.
It all started with the Uniform upgrade and reinforcement.
Nie Yin didn’t voice the “upgrade plan” but directly sent a strand of mental information.
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Mao Mao King’s uniform can be fed different “Polluting Energy, Pollutants” to alienate and grow.
Yuan Zhu injected Shadow Pollution into the blank uniform, locking in the Shadow Uniform’s evolution direction. Nie Yin could only deepen the uniform further on this basis.
Although she hadn’t seen JoJo, she came up with a bold idea.
Nie Yin hoped Yuan Zhu would approve one half-blood orc for her. After completing “Extreme Warrior” reinforcement modification on it, use the entire orc as “food” to feed the Uniform.
At that point, could her Shadow Uniform digest and absorb an “Extreme Warrior”? Could it host an “Orc Warrior” within the Shadow Uniform, gaining a Power Path “Summoned Creature + Stand (behind-the-scenes spirit)”?
Once facing danger, she could directly summon Shadow Threads to weave a Shadow Orc Stand, letting it ora ora ora… blast everything for her?
Or if the Uniform couldn’t manifest an “Orc Stand.” But after digesting and absorbing an “Extreme Warrior,” it inherited the corresponding super strength and amplified her own in the form of “clothing.” That would still be great!
After reading this bold idea, Yuan Zhu shook his head in denial: “Impossible. The feeding reinforcement of the Uniform has limits, stuck below the Species level. To break this limit, you must convert the Uniform into the foundation of your own Supernatural System. Just like Kunlun’s Spiritual Root, Holy Church’s Holy Mark, Buddhism’s Buddha Cocoon…”
Nie Yin was silent for a moment, then shook her head: “Then forget it. I’ll abandon this plan.”
Yuan Zhu encouraged instead: “No, your idea is good and very bold. It’s just not suitable to feed it an ‘Orc Warrior’—their level is too high for an ordinary Uniform to digest. You can try feeding it a ‘Goblin Strongman’ later, binding a cannon fodder Summoned Creature to the Uniform.”
Yuan Zhu had originally fed Shadow Eggplant to his uniform, so it could manifest “Shadow Eggplant Vine” simulating tentacles. For him in human form, it was quite useful.
If Nie Yin fed a “Goblin Strongman” to her Uniform, it might manifest a “low-spec Goblin Stand” to punch for her.
Hearing Yuan Zhu’s “Goblin Stand” suggestion, Frog Girl wrinkled her nose in disgust and didn’t agree. She also despised goblins as cheap and didn’t plan to waste this interesting Shadow Uniform on them—it was too embarrassing!
At this point, she sent Yuan Zhu another idea, still related to the Shadow Uniform.
But this time, it wasn’t about feeding to reinforce the Uniform. Instead, it was attempting to peel off some “Supernatural Powers” from the Shadow Uniform, which she called the Frog Skin Tattoo Plan.
Through these days of familiar adaptation, Nie Yin could manipulate the Shadow Uniform to split off “Shadow Threads,” assisting her in high-precision micro-surgery on orcs.
So she had a sudden inspiration: use “Shadow Threads” to stitch together pieces of peeled “Frog Skin,” creating a larger leather suit.
At the same time, use Threads in place of pigment for “Tattoo Art (Tattooing Technique),” applying Tattoo Art to the “Frog Skin” in a fine embroidery style.
Permanently stitching multiple Frog Skins, imbuing them with supernatural tattoo effects, crafting a low-spec Frog Skin Clothing. Replicating and inheriting some attributes of the Shadow Uniform.
Nie Yin had some skills in “sewing and needlework.” Her Frog Skin Wallet was quite good; Yuan Zhu even wanted to recommend it to Mao Mao King.
Now, Nie Yin also saw the extraordinary nature of the Shadow Uniform and wanted to use “Uniform Thread” to stitch Frog Skin. But no longer making a wallet, instead a leather suit.
Yuan Zhu: “A ‘Genuine Leather Bodysuit’ with Supernatural Powers?”
Nie Yin’s plan opened a brand new direction for him. He had originally only wanted to cultivate Yuan Shi Worm into thread material for weaving “Uniforms”; now Frog Killer Girl took a different path, directly making Bodysuits, blazing a new trail.
Supernatural leather suit… Bodysuit… Supernatural Powers… Hmm? Skinsuit warrior!
He suddenly thought of Ultraman, who put on the skinsuit and turned ruthless. Perhaps he could consult Mao Mao King to purchase core technology for Supernatural Clothing, presented in the form of Genuine Leather Bodysuit.
Silk luxury children’s wear and genuine leather bodysuits didn’t conflict. They were different tracks; she should tolerate him. Both were Anti-Law Rulers, establishing a brand and walking the Commercial Deity path.
Hmm… Could he trick Nie Yin into proving the Dao via the Bodysuit.Commercial Deity route?
So Yuan Zhu replied: “The Frog Skin Tattoo Plan is very promising. I’ll fully support you. Go ahead boldly!”
Completely unaware of Yuan Zhu’s malicious idea, Nie Yin nodded, indicating she would definitely complete the mission seriously. This sense of recognition made her feel joy.
She had never had the thought of becoming a Leather Suit.Commercial Deity; she was just purely curious about the Shadow Uniform’s form and wanted to use this magical “thread” to perfect her “Frog Skin Tattoo Art.”
As a girl, was it wrong to love crafting and embroidery?
The remnants of Xi State had always used “female needlework” as an important standard for evaluating if a girl was excellent. She had just been poor from childhood to adulthood, unable to afford silk fabric, so she could only sew Frog Skin.
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After this heartfelt exchange, the taxi had already stopped outside the construction site at the foot of the Misty Mountains in the east suburbs. At this time, a bank of rain clouds covered the sky, with drizzle falling in the wind.
Teams of construction crews were busy working on the already leveled foundation. Strange large machines were driving and operating on the flat land.
Yuan Zhu’s arrival immediately caught the attention of the patrol team. Soon, an old man recognized the Investor (Yuan Zhu) and hurriedly called someone to notify Senior Student Chen, who was acting as supervisor.
After a flurry of activity, Yuan Zhu saw a crowd of subordinates surrounding him, with a “maid secretary”-like Senior Student following behind.
He quickly waved his hand in greeting, and Senior Student nodded in response.
Once closer, Senior Student Chen asked: “Why did you come suddenly?”
Yuan Zhu: “Curious about the project progress, so I came to take a look.”
His last visit here, he had only seen wasteland overgrown with weeds and trees, plus a stream. For building Frog Factory, he had no idea where to start.
On the eve of entering Happy Home, he had made a deal with Senior Student; she said she would contract the construction of Frog Factory + Laboratory and contact professional construction teams.
This time upon return, Yuan Zhu came to inspect out of curiosity. The work efficiency far exceeded his imagination; the once weed-infested wasteland had been stripped of a layer of soil, and the main area for Frog Factory had been rammed with foundation, already showing large planned “Building” foundations.
The number of construction crews here was visually over 200, plus a large amount of construction machinery—it was fully mechanized. He could perceive strong Alchemy Element reactions inside these engineering machines.
This was a professional construction team using “supernatural mechanical equipment,” with insanely high work efficiency.
At this point, Senior Student dispersed the employees around her, keeping only that maid-secretary-like attendant, and waved to Yuan Zhu and Nie Yin: “Come on, I’ll show you around.”
Senior Student led the way ahead, explaining her plans for this land as they walked: the leveled wasteland would be reclaimed into farmland for planting medicinal herbs.
Frog Factory’s Farming Area wouldn’t be large; in the future, it would be a fully enclosed indoor structure to isolate from the outside “polluted environment” and maintain sufficient cleanliness.
At present, the Farming Area only had its foundation laid, without walls built yet. Instead, on the ground, there were rows of not-deep but very neat rectangular pits dug out.
Teams of workers jumped into the pit bottoms, adding water to mix and stir a cement-like substance. During processing, they poured in whole bags of Holy Ash, then added another special grayish-white powder material.
When stirring finished, the constructors used equipment to evenly spread and lay the mixture. Using self-leveling, they coated the pit bottoms and let it set naturally.
Yuan Zhu watched from the side and could perceive that with the addition of the last two materials, this cement-like substance also carried a faint supernatural aura.
He understood the intent of adding Holy Ash to the “cement”—mainly for sterilization, disinfection, and antibiosis, killing off possible “Pollution Infiltration” below the foundation.
Once set in the future, these frog-rearing pools, and even the entire enclosed farming space, would be isolated from the outside, maintaining cleanliness.
He suddenly asked: “What was that last grayish-white powder added? It feels unusually special.”
Senior Student replied: “Structure powder! Adding Structure powder to building materials, once it sets and shapes, the building’s strength will be unprecedentedly enhanced. The more ‘Structure powder’ added, the better the building’s strength and pollution shielding effects, and lab-internal ‘Pollution Fluctuation’ will have a hard time infiltrating.”
“Structure… powder?”
Senior Student nodded: “Yeah. Didn’t you go to Taixi? Along the way, you should have seen those ‘Superstructures’ defying natural rules in the scenery, right? Human buildings get harder and less stable the taller they are built. Base materials can’t bear the pressure, and high-rises collapse. But Superstructures are different—a single square Stone Pillar can infinitely proliferate piercing the clouds. Worldwide, lots of Structures break through the surface due to geological movements etc., proliferating and growing at different speeds.”
“Someone once took interest in Structures and researched them. Ultimately concluding they follow some unknown template, using the planet’s internal stress to constantly replicate those ‘models,’ utilizing ‘Structure materials’ from unknown sources to manufacture geometric Superstructures on the surface, venting the planet’s internal stress.”
“Eventually, people mastered methods to cut and destroy Structures, using their material as building material with excellent performance. Later, some companies developed grinding Structures into powder and adding it proportionally to cement etc. to enhance performance, now widely used in major countries. Oh, and Holy Church was one of the initial forces contributing Structure usage.”
Yuan Zhu said he’d gained new knowledge, then asked: “Expensive?”
Senior Student: “Not really. Structures are common worldwide; they grow slowly but are infinite, theoretically worthless. But professional mining tech is only in the hands of a few construction companies, forming industry monopoly—they control pricing, so not cheap either.”
“Then our Laboratory…”
Senior Student: “Don’t worry, I contacted top-grade Structure powder and 4-print Holy Ash, enough to build a private lab with Safety Level Eth. Come, I’ll take you to see.”
