NCCnovel Chapter 77 Erii's Brief Treatment
Chapter 77 Erii's Brief Treatment
A clang!
The swords clashed, producing a sound.
Onimaru Kunitsuna struck the nameless man, and Ye Jingchen took a step back with his left foot. The wooden floor beneath his feet instantly cracked, revealing spiderweb-like cracks!
Power equals speed multiplied by force. Power represents the effect; with force remaining constant, the faster the speed, the better the effect!
Inuyama He exerted his strength a second time and swung his sword. With a bang, Ye Jingchen was sent flying and hung on the load-bearing wall of the sword-gathering room, where he became embedded in the wall.
Onimaru Kunitsuna pressed the blade against Ye Jingchen's throat. If he hadn't activated the Word of Immortality, the sharp blade would probably have already severed the blood vessels in Ye Jingchen's neck.
Inuyama He retrieved Onimaru Kunitsuna, sheathed his sword, and pulled a small square white handkerchief from his chest to wipe the sweat from his forehead. He was finding the ninth-level divine speed somewhat overwhelming.
Ye Jingchen clapped his hands against the wall, using the rebound force to shake himself out of the wall, sheathed Wuming, and looked into Inuyama He's eyes, "Thank you, Inuyama-senpai, you have given me a clear understanding of the Word of Power: Moment."
"I should go," Ye Jingchen said, walking towards the door. "There are more important things waiting for me."
As he spoke, Ye Jingchen walked up to Erii and took her hand.
Inuyama He watched Ye Jingchen's retreating figure and said, "I wish Deputy Director Ye all the best!"
Inuyama Setsuko bowed slightly to Inuyama Kazuya.
Inuyama He nodded at her, "Make sure to take good care of Deputy Director Ye and provide him with convenient work arrangements."
"Hi!" Inuyama Setsuko nodded in response to Inuyama He, then turned and followed Ye Jingchen and Erii.
She jogged over and opened the car door.
After all three got into the car.
While fastening her seatbelt, Inuyama Setsuko glanced at Ye Jingchen in the rearview mirror. "Ye-san, I thought you came to see the head of the family to arrange work. I didn't expect you just wanted a simple competition. How about it, isn't the head of the family amazing!"
"She's impressive, but unfortunately she's getting old, making it difficult to advance any further." Ye Jingchen sighed inwardly as he gently stroked Erii's hand. "Let's drive back to Genji Heavy Industries. The Northern Expedition should be coming to an end. We've already taken Asakusa Temple, the hardest place to attack, and the scattered Oni-shu hybrids in other areas are no threat."
"Once Uesugi Koichi and Genjiro's southern expedition concludes, we will move on to the next phase of our plan."
"Next step?" Inuyama Setsuko inserted the car key, shifted gears, and turned to look at Ye Jingchen. "Ye-san, what's the next step? I've never heard you mention it before."
"To kill the dragon in the sea, you people from the Eight Families of Snake and Demon in Japan should be considered gods, right?" Ye Jingchen said, leaning back in his seat and looking at the white sunroof handle embedded in the ceiling.
Upon hearing this, Inuyama Setsuko's sphincter tightened involuntarily. She wondered if she had misheard and gently pressed the accelerator. "Ye-san, do you mean... there are still dragons in this world now?"
“Of course there are, they’re everywhere.” Ye Jingchen closed his eyes and pulled Erii into his arms. “Don’t most hybrids want to become Dragon Kings? If they didn’t know that breaking through the blood limit would turn them into Deadpools, I bet many of them would still be hoping to increase the proportion of dragon blood in their bodies.”
Upon hearing Ye Jingchen's words, Erii rested her head on Ye Jingchen's collarbone and wrote in her notebook: "Erii doesn't want to become a dragon, she just wants to be with Ye-kun like this."
Ye Jingchen looked at the words Erii had written in her notebook, raised his hand to rub Erii's head, brushed the hair from her forehead and kissed her.
Erii immediately closed her eyes. In the manga she read, the heroine usually closed her eyes when she was kissed.
Ye Jingchen looked at Erii, who had closed her eyes, and whispered in her ear, "It's okay. Even if you become the Dragon King, you can still be with me."
Hearing Ye Jingchen's words, Erii was a little puzzled. She wrote in her notebook, "Didn't Ye-kun want to slay the dragon?"
“Compared to slaying a dragon, conquering one is naturally more fulfilling; destruction is always easier.” Ye Jingchen placed his hand on Erii’s shoulder, rubbing her red hair and making a soft rustling sound.
As Ye Jingchen spoke, Inuyama Setsuko remained silent, driving quietly. She shouldn't have thought this way, but she couldn't resist the thought: "In the future, everyone in the world will become hybrids, and eventually, they will all become dragons—a world where only dragons exist..."
As she was thinking, she drove her car to the entrance of Genji Heavy Industries.
Looking at the signboard of Genji Heavy Industries, Ye Jingchen vaguely remembered that he had given a speech here not long ago, mobilizing those hybrids to work for him.
He took out his phone from his pocket and dialed Yuan Zhisheng.
"dududu~"
Yuan Zhisheng: "Moshi moshi? Is there something you need from Ye Sang's call?"
Ye Jingchen: "You guys should have finished fighting by now, right?"
Yuan Zhisheng: "Yes, it went surprisingly smoothly. No one on the Demon Clan could withstand my father and me. We drove the Demon Clan in the south back one after another. Now there are no Demon Clan members who can organize their forces anymore. We are capturing those Demon Clan hybrids who are hiding and trying to escape. What about your Northern Expedition?"
Ye Jingchen: "We've already taken Asakusa Temple, the hardest place to attack. What I told Ryoma Genichiro and Miyamoto Shio was that if we can't take the rest of the place, we should have our subordinates commit seppuku as an apology. You two really are father and son fighting side by side."
Yuan Zhisheng: "..."
Ye Jingchen: "By the way, I encountered two Shadow Dancer puppets of King Generals here. What about you guys?"
Yuan Zhisheng: "He only appeared once and was instantly killed by my father, who cut his body into four pieces. My father said that his puppetry skills were quite valuable."
Ye Jingchen: "Well, the King General's Fierce Ghosts card is now useless. You can return now, let's start preparing to deal with the dragon below Japan."
Genjiro: "What?! So fast?"
Ye Jingchen: "The Sacred Remains, the Blood of the White King, and the Ancient Dragon Embryo at the bottom of the sea—these are the key points in our struggle against the King General. Don't forget, the King General is someone who wants to become the White King."
Yuan Zhisheng: "Okay, I understand. I'll inform my father right away."
Ye Jingchen: "If he's determined to hide, he won't be easy to find. I'm hanging up."
Ye Jingchen hung up the phone, put it back in his pocket, and looked down at Erii's hand. The veins, like black snakes, were bulging. Erii needed to be injected with the serum.
"It's time to get medical treatment." Ye Jingchen patted Erii's hand, smiled at her, opened the car door, and pulled Erii out of the car.
Inuyama Setsuko followed behind the two.
When the two guards at the gate saw that it was Ye Jingchen and Erii, they lowered their heads. Through word of mouth among the family members over this period of time, they had come to understand how formidable Ye Jingchen was.
Ye Jingchen ignored the strange looks from these guys, and pulled Erii upstairs to the research room, where they found the researchers who usually treated Erii.
Ye Jingchen looked at the researchers in white coats and pointed to the dark veins on Erii's hand.
Following Ye Jingchen's pointing finger, the researcher saw the veins on Erii's hand and instantly understood what he had to do. He turned to the research room and shouted, "Assistant, get ready to inject the young lady with the serum!"
Seven assistants, dressed in white lab coats and wearing masks, came out of the lab immediately after hearing the researchers' calls. They looked at Erii with hostile expressions.
It was as if they had seen a plague god.
They didn't realize that their ability to work and live here was entirely dependent on Erii; if Erii didn't have this need, they wouldn't have any reason to exist.
Ye Jingchen glared at his assistants and snapped, "What are you all standing there for? Do you want to die?!"
Faced with Ye Jingchen's rebuke, the assistants lowered their heads and led Erii into the life support pod in the research lab. They dared not offend Ye Jingchen, who was currently enjoying great influence.
The researchers turned and went into the room, and Ye Jingchen followed.
Seeing Ye Jingchen about to follow, the researcher adjusted his black-rimmed glasses. "Deputy Director Ye, over here..."
"Stop talking nonsense. You probably don't know as much as I do." Ye Jingchen glanced at the researcher. He wasn't bragging. In a certain world, Ye Jingchen had also served as an honorary doctorate in biology, a highly prestigious title that was renowned in that world.
The researchers, unable to resist Ye Jingchen's insistence, could only nod helplessly, taking it as an excuse to fob them off. They didn't believe that this fierce-looking Ye Jingchen could have any academic achievements.
Ye Jingchen walked into the research room and looked at Erii, whose eyes were tightly closed in the life support capsule inside the glass window.
I looked again at the blood purification equipment below the life support chamber. Black blood was flowing into the blood purification equipment from the glass tubes.
It contains a polymer-recognition target filter screen that can easily filter out some toxic physiological substances.
Many black blood clots are intercepted by the polymer target recognition filter.
Subsequently, the blood enters the turbocharged centrifugal rotating gyroscope for the next step of the process. After this process is completed, the blood flows back into Erii's veins, completing a blood purification cycle.
Generally, the treatment is repeated for three courses.
It's not exactly a sophisticated blood purification technology.
"Hiss! Ah!!"
suddenly!
From inside the glass window came a roar similar to that of a wild animal cub!
Ye Jingchen subconsciously clenched his fist and looked in the direction of the sound, which was to the lower left of the life support pod!
It was a creature floating in a green nutrient liquid inside a cylindrical glass container. It had a white body covered with tender white scales and wrapped in filamentous amniotic membrane. A thin tail was flicking and struggling, and a thick umbilical cord was connected to the placenta.
It looks like a small white lizard.
The slightly translucent claws scratched at the inner wall of the cylindrical glass vessel, producing a sizzling, grating sound that was unsettling, much like a mischievous child scratching at a blackboard with their fingernails.
It couldn't even open its eyes, yet it could open its mouth and let out a painful roar. A steel needle was inserted into its spinal cord, or perhaps it couldn't even be called a spinal cord, as its bones weren't hard. The bones of a fetus in the womb are soft, like a slightly resilient, crisp, and chewy cow's stomach.
Assistants wearing white lab coats and masks controlled the instruments at the control panel, manipulating steel needles to easily insert into its spinal cord and begin extracting its life essence.
The special serum needed to make Erii.
Seeing Ye Jingchen watching the process intently, the researchers assumed he was shocked. He adjusted his black-rimmed glasses with his index finger and said with a hint of arrogance and pride, "There's nothing surprising about this. It's a dead servant fetus. Its purpose is to provide for the young lady's survival."
Ye Jingchen listened to the researcher's words and gave him a cold glance. "This is thanks to Tachibana Masamune. You are just copying him. Where does this sense of superiority come from?"
Are you tired of living?
Do you consider yourself irreplaceable?
"These operations, couldn't any meticulous master's student from Tokyo Medical School do them?"
Faced with Ye Jingchen's questioning, the researchers were instantly paralyzed. The sense of superiority they had just felt was like a blue and white porcelain vase, which was instantly knocked to the ground and shattered into pieces.
He looked at Ye Jingchen and hesitated for a moment, wanting to try to refute, but the words that came out were so ridiculous; what Ye Jingchen said was true.
No matter what he says, he's only humiliating himself.
They haven't made any significant technological breakthroughs over the years. On one hand, Herzog has been enjoying all the technological achievements, but that's understandable since he's the one who developed them and he has the right not to share them.
On the other hand, Kassel College has a very tight grip on key technologies in dragon research.
Ultimately, however, it comes down to a lack of open-mindedness and insufficient effort on the part of these researchers at Genji Heavy Industries.
The Deadpool fetus inside the cylindrical glass container gave up struggling; it had lost all vitality. The blades below began to rotate, like a juicer, instantly squeezing out the last bit of value from the Deadpool fetus.
This mixture of Deadpool fetal flesh paste and culture liquid in a cylindrical glass dish, once solidified, is far more nutritious than beef jelly.
Clean blood flowed back into Erii's body, and serum was injected into her blood vessels, causing the black snake-like veins on Erii's body to recede.
Ye Jingchen looked at the blood purification machine below the life support pod and coldly glanced at the researcher standing beside him. "After each blood purification, Erii always leaves a little blood in this machine, right?"
Faced with Ye Jingchen's cold gaze, the researchers swallowed hard.
In that instant, he realized that he was indeed not irreplaceable, and it would be better to keep a low profile in front of Ye Jingchen.
He looked at Ye Jingchen with some fear and stammered, "Um...yes, yes, we collect all of Miss's remaining blood. Sometimes we study it, but most of it is stored in the cold storage."
"Oh? How much?" Ye Jingchen pressed the researchers. If there was enough blood, his idea might be possible—a grand idea: to turn Erii into the White King!
Herzog will serve as the cocoon...