Chapter 61 Body Enhancement

Currently, the value of a player who can achieve an S-rank clearance in a three-star instance is extremely high.

Qi Qianfan sent a message to Lin Xiangjun as quickly as possible, extending an invitation with the highest treatment the Special Security Bureau could offer.

The major chaebol forces keeping a close eye on the rankings also sent out invitations the moment they saw Lin Xiangjun's performance.

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Lin Xiangjun spent ten minutes having a breakdown over her own explosive name. During this time, the background messages kept pinging incessantly. In a fit of rage, she simply turned off the private message function so no one could bother her.

After staring blankly at the ceiling for ten minutes, Lin Xiangjun finally climbed out of bed and pulled a prop out of her pocket.

[constitution enhancement booklet (Single-use item): The stronger your endurance, the stronger your abilities become. Endure this small amount of pain, and your physical fitness will be raised to the limit of what you can withstand. Usage restrictions: Single-use item. The transformation begins after the user consumes the red pill and is terminated by consuming the white pill. Please note, the transformation limit for this product is two hours; do not exceed the time limit.]

Lin Xiangjun took out the constitution enhancement booklet and set it aside.

Then, she purchased a timed muscle relaxant injection from the Forbidden Mall.

This muscle relaxant could relax a person's entire body for three hours. Within those three hours, none of the muscles in the body could exert force, essentially leaving one in the state of a puddle of mud.

Lin Xiangjun wasn't that confident in her own willpower.

When she was dieting, she couldn't help but sneak food in the middle of the night, let alone this pain which was much harder to endure than the hunger and cravings of dieting. How could she guarantee her willpower would be tenacious enough?

What if she couldn't stand the pain and gave up after an hour or even half an hour? What if she wasted an SS-rank prop? She only had three SS-rank props in total; who could handle wasting a third of them all at once?

Lin Xiangjun couldn't guarantee she wouldn't give up.

So she planned to use a bit of technology on herself, making it so she had no way to give up even if she wanted to!

I'll just take a shot of muscle relaxant; once it's in, I'll be completely weak, collapse on the ground, and won't even be able to speak.

Pain? Go talk to a ghost about it!

Once the two hours of pain are over, it won't hurt anymore!

The overall plan was perfect, with only one tiny flaw: the muscle relaxant's effective duration was three hours, while the booklet's maximum duration was two hours. Once the two hours were up, she had to take the small white pill, or something might go wrong.

Lin Xiangjun was afraid of pain but also afraid of dying, so she called Wang Min over.

Lin Xiangjun planned to give herself the muscle relaxant injection first, then swallow the red pill before the medicine kicked in. After the two-hour duration passed, Wang Min would pry her mouth open and stuff the white pill inside.

“Two hours, not a minute more and not a minute less. Even if I'm dying of pain and begging you, as long as the two hours aren't up, you are not allowed to give me the antidote, understand?”

Wang Min, who had just been promoted to head housekeeper and reached a small peak in her life, patted her chest: “Don't worry, Master. Even if you die of pain here today, I will not give you the medicine early!”

Lin Xiangjun was satisfied.

“Do a good job, and if you do well, I'll give you a two-hundred bonus.”

With the reward of two hundred underworld currency, Wang Min became even more excited. She repeatedly guaranteed that she would plug her ears after Lin Xiangjun took the medicine and listen to nothing, and it would be absolutely impossible for her to take out the medicine even a second early.

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Lin Xiangjun first put on a breathing mask to ensure smooth breathing.

After injecting the muscle relaxant, the muscles of the entire body would lose their strength, and breathing would naturally be affected as well. At this time, it needed to be paired with a breathing assist device.

Otherwise, you would suffocate to death because your muscles were too relaxed to breathe.

Logically speaking, the professional equipment Lin Xiangjun was using now—from the ventilator to the large blue oxygen cylinder—were services that one previously had to go to a hospital to enjoy.

But fortunately, society had changed.

The items sold in the mall were very comprehensive. As long as you wanted it and as long as you had the money, you could have whatever you wanted.

Lin Xiangjun had known this truth since she saw a yacht in the mall.

There were all kinds of specifications. The largest one was a cruise ship called the 'SS Serbia,' which was said to accommodate thirty thousand people simultaneously and featured six restaurants, twelve bars, five ballrooms, a theater, a sunny sports field, three clubs, duty-free shops, imported food stores, a shopping center, a beauty salon, a fitness center, KTV, a Garden... and some shops whose purposes were unknown just from their names.

The ship was beautiful, the swimming pools on it were beautiful, and the price was also 'beautiful.'

Upon seeing the price listed—9,999,999.

One yuan short of ten million.

After adjusting to the feeling of wearing the oxygen mask for a while, Lin Xiangjun finally took out the red pill, swallowed it, and lay flat on the floor.

When she first took the red pill, there was actually no sensation, just like eating a jelly bean. She even had time to recite the multiplication tables in her head.

However, very quickly, just as she started the third round of the multiplication tables, a wave of heat surged through her body. It was like being in forty-degree weather without air conditioning; sweat quickly seeped out and soaked the bedsheets.

Lin Xiangjun wanted to wipe her sweat, but the muscle relaxant began to take effect. Her tongue soon stopped obeying her; she couldn't recite the multiplication tables anymore, and she couldn't speak. Her limbs could barely twitch, but nothing more.

The heat soon turned into an itch, as if ants were crawling all over her body. She wanted to laugh, but her tongue wouldn't cooperate, and she could only make strange 'he, he, he' sounds.

This itch didn't last long before it turned into a piercing pain like being pricked by needles all over. It was as if Nanny Rong was attacking every joint in her bones. The pain made her muscles twitch incessantly like a piece of freshly butchered beef, and she let out one gasp after another.

However, the pain that made her vision go black repeatedly was not the end; the pain was still gradually intensifying.

It was like someone was hammering her bones and carving her flesh with a knife. The pain made her vision darken and her consciousness blur. Her whole body felt like it had been thrown into a giant blender; every part of her felt crushed into a bloody pulp. She couldn't even sense her own body, let alone open her mouth to beg for mercy.

The pain lasted for two hours.

She felt like she was being burned alive in a furnace, fried in a wok of oil, and crushed by a hydraulic press. she couldn't even distinguish what kind of pain her flesh was feeling; she only knew her consciousness was blurred, and she only wished she could die the next second.

Sweat soaked the wooden floor, leaving a human-shaped mark.

Lin Xiangjun lay prone on the ground, devoid of strength, looking exactly like a dead dog.

Two hours later.

The moment the alarm went off, Wang Min decisively rushed in from outside the room, picked up the small white pill, and shoved it into Lin Xiangjun's mouth.

Lin Xiangjun hadn't even realized her mouth had been open for two hours. There wasn't a trace of saliva left in her mouth; it was so dry she couldn't even swallow the pill.

Wang Min had prepared a cup of water, but the muscle relaxant had relaxed every muscle in the body, and the throat was naturally no exception.

Lin Xiangjun had absolutely no ability to swallow on her own. As much water as was poured in, that much flowed out, let alone washing the pill down.