628: Flexible

“Huh?”

The moment the golden thin meat touched his mouth, Yang Dian felt something was off.

Nothing else, just that the effect was too good.

By now, ordinary heaven and earth treasures offered Yang Dian very little help.

But this golden thin meat was different.

As soon as the thin meat melted on his tongue, Yang Dian felt his tongue become a bit more flexible.

Don't underestimate this slight increase.

One should know that even if an entire ordinary heaven and earth treasure was consumed, it would only increase Yang Dian's energy by a three-digit number on his panel.

Other aspects of improvement were approximately zero.

“This thing...”

After his tongue circled his mouth once and flicked slightly, Yang Dian subconsciously thought of certain special occupation workers.

'A rich woman's pleasure device?'

While Yang Dian was inwardly teasing, Lei Ming, seeing him remain silent for a long time, couldn't help but ask:

“How is it? Are you alright?”

Yang Dian glanced at the golden meatball, about the size of a basketball, floating above the blood pool, with barely perceptible strands of blood merging into it, and began to carefully sense his body's condition:

“The golden meatball is probably concentrated blood essence, and its effect is much stronger than blood essence.”

“It has the effect of vitalizing flesh and blood, making muscle control more effortless.”

As he spoke, Yang Dian sensed the place where his Soul resided:

“Moreover, unlike blood essence, consuming it doesn't cause a mental shock.”

He then frowned again:

“It seems to have no negative side effects.”

“It's a bit too perfect.”

As he spoke, he cut off another piece of golden meat, as thin as a cicada's wing, and then took out a White Mouse from his pet beast space.

As soon as it emerged from the pet beast space, the White Mouse, smelling the scent of meat, began to struggle vigorously in Yang Dian's hand, squeaking.

Yang Dian was not surprised.

This was the state ordinary people or animals entered when they encountered heaven and earth treasures.

Only a very few could resist the attraction of heaven and earth treasures.

He reached out and offered the meat slice to the White Mouse, and the poor White Mouse, as it eagerly took a bite, began to undergo a transformation.

As soon as the meat slice melted in its mouth, the White Mouse's body began to swell rapidly.

Its soft, snow-white fur fell off, revealing bulging veins and blood-red flesh underneath.

In just a few blinks of an eye, a White Mouse used for experiments had turned into a zombie mouse the size of a small calf, inspiring dread.

Looking at the zombie mouse's upturned eyeballs, revealing blood-red whites covered in blood vessels, Lei Ming subconsciously swallowed:

“Didn't you say this meat slice was fine?”

“Why did the White Mouse turn into a zombie mouse after eating it?”

“Check yourself carefully again, see if there's anything wrong with your body.”

Seeing Lei Ming's nervous expression, Yang Dian nodded and carefully observed himself.

After repeated checks, Yang Dian, who indeed found nothing wrong with his body, once again turned his attention to the White Mouse, or rather, the zombie mouse:

“I checked, my body is indeed fine.”

As his words fell, his hand had already touched the zombie mouse's back.

“Click~”

This touch was like flipping a switch on the zombie mouse.

The zombie mouse, which had opened its sharp mouth and suddenly turned its head but failed to bite Yang Dian's finger, had its muscles bulge, and its hind legs kicked off with a slight whoosh, pouncing towards Yang Dian.

He casually patted the mouse's forehead, then extended his finger to pinch the zombie mouse by the scruff of its neck, controlling its fate.

Looking at the zombie mouse, which was still struggling to bite him despite being held by the scruff of its neck, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow:

“Did it really turn into a brainless zombie?”

After a brief thought, Yang Dian pulled out a surgical table from his storage ring.

Seeing this, Chen Ci looked a bit bewildered:

“Commander, what are you doing?”

Tapping the surgical table to have Ya Zi control it to use restraints to tie down the zombie mouse, Yang Dian also condensed a surgical knife from his Qi and blood:

“I studied biology, have you forgotten?”

As he spoke, Yang Dian had already taken up the surgical knife and cut an incision along the zombie mouse's spine.

Watching Yang Dian skillfully use tweezers to extract a piece of flesh and place it in a petri dish.

And the tiny flesh buds that emerged from the flesh and the zombie mouse's wound, constantly extending and twisting towards Yang Dian.

Chen Ci felt a sense of incongruity.

Her Commander wasn't supposed to just slap a monster to death when he saw it.

Why was he doing experiments instead?

This was too incongruous!

Yang Dian didn't know what Chen Ci was thinking; all his attention was now on the zombie mouse, or rather, the flesh buds emerging from the White Mouse's flesh and wound.

He casually cut off a flesh bud emerging from the zombie mouse.

Watching the zombie mouse's body tremble constantly, as if enduring torture.

Feeling its mental fluctuations, which seemed to have fallen into a deep abyss of purgatory, filled with fear, unease, and immense pain.

After observing the severed flesh bud for a while longer.

Yang Dian understood.

“The golden meatball, as I said before, has the effect of vitalizing flesh and blood, or rather, vitalizing nerves.”

“But the problem is that its effect of vitalizing nerves is too strong.”

“The powerful nerve instincts overwhelmed its conscious will, causing its Soul to lose control over its Physical Body, ultimately turning it into a monster that only knows how to follow its instincts.”

“That is, a zombie.”

As his voice fell, Yang Dian used tweezers to pick up the piece of meat cut from the White Mouse and placed it three centimeters above the White Mouse.

In just a blink of an eye, the flesh buds, or rather nerves, that had extended from the White Mouse's wound had already transformed into tentacles, wrapped around the piece of meat, and pulled it back into its body.

Watching the wound on the zombie mouse's back heal at a visible speed, Chen Ci couldn't help but exclaim in wonder:

“Does this count as an immortal body?”

Yang Dian shook his head slightly:

“It's still far from an immortal body; at most, it can only be considered to have outstanding regenerative abilities.”

He casually put the zombie mouse into a storage space filled with a large amount of food, and after putting away the surgical table, Yang Dian looked at the golden core floating above the blood pool, absorbing wisps of blood essence:

“This thing can only be eaten by those with Martial Dao Level 6 strength or above.”

“Anyone below Martial Dao Level 6 who eats it will be unable to handle the nourishment and turn into a zombie.”

Chen Ci blinked:

“Must it be Martial Dao?”

“What about those who reached Late Stage Transcendent through Awakening abilities?”

Yang Dian affirmed:

“No.”

“Unless they are possessors of Physical Body-side or Soul-side talents.”

“Otherwise, whoever eats this thing will suffer.”

After a final glance at the golden meatball, Yang Dian lifted his foot, intending to leave with Lei Ming and Chen Ci.

But after thinking about it carefully, he still cut off half of the golden meatball.

'Old Daoist Qingfeng's strength has been stagnant for a long time; I'll take it back to supplement him.'

'I wonder how flexible Old Daoist Qingfeng's tongue will become after eating such a large piece of golden meatball.'

'His Shita will surely be very happy, right?'

While inwardly slandering Old Daoist Qingfeng, Yang Dian also turned to look at Lei Ming and Chen Ci:

“I'm preparing to leave this dimensionally folded area and explore other parts of Tiannan Star.”

“What about you two?”

Lei Ming and Chen Ci exchanged glances, then the former spoke:

“I'll stay here on Tiannan Star, and arrange for another Machina legion to come over, just in case.”

As Lei Ming finished speaking, Chen Ci immediately followed:

“I also want to stay on Tiannan Star. According to the data, there's a special mineral called Tianji Ore at the north and south poles of Tiannan Star.”

“Tianji Ore has a strong magnetic field; I plan to find some Tianji Ore to research and see if it can complement my abilities.”