223: Chapter 223 Living Encapsulation Experiments

The air was thick with the pungent stench of blood and the smell of scorched flesh.

These were the lingering traces of the previous laser grid slicing and toxic gas corrosion.

Thunder Fiend knelt on the ground.

This Late-stage Grandmaster powerhouse, who normally called the shots in Kyoto, now looked like a stray dog with its spine snapped.

His body was trembling violently, but not from the cold.

It was from a fear that originated in the depths of his soul.

He had watched with his own eyes as the young man in the dark-gold battle armor casually ripped off one of Wind Fiend's arms, as easily as tearing a wing off a roast chicken.

That nonchalant cruelty was far more chilling than any hysterical slaughter.

Lin Fan slowly turned around, his glowing red electronic eyes landing on Thunder Fiend.

Though the expression beneath the mask was hidden,

Thunder Fiend could feel the other party scrutinizing him.

That gaze didn't feel like it was looking at a person.

It was more like looking at a piece of merchandise waiting to be sold.

Or perhaps...

A pile of raw materials.

"Don't... don't kill me..."

Thunder Fiend's voice was hoarse and broken as he desperately kowtowed on the ground.

His forehead struck the floor made of star alloy, producing a dull thud.

Blood flowed down his forehead, blurring his eyes, but he didn't even dare to wipe it away.

"I can serve you like an ox or a horse!"

"I'm a Late-stage Grandmaster powerhouse, I'm useful!"

"The Zhao family gave me many resources, I have them all hidden in a private vault, I can give them all to you!"

"Just spare my dog life!"

Thunder Fiend pleaded incoherently.

In the face of death, so-called dignity was worthless.

He had cultivated for sixty years to reach this stage.

He didn't want to die; he didn't want to end up like those Hidden Guards, turned into a pile of minced meat.

Lin Fan tilted his head.

He didn't speak, but simply took heavy steps, walking toward Thunder Fiend one pace at a time.

"Clack, clack, clack."

The sound of metal combat boots striking the floor was exceptionally jarring in the deathly silent warehouse.

Every step

felt as if it were stepping directly onto Thunder Fiend's heart.

Lin Fan walked up to Thunder Fiend and slowly crouched down.

His hand, covered in a metal gauntlet, lightly rested on Thunder Fiend's shoulder.

Thunder Fiend's entire body froze; he felt an icy chill spread through his body from his shoulder.

It was the scent of death.

"A Late-stage Grandmaster, huh..."

Lin Fan's voice, processed through a voice modulator, sounded somewhat distorted.

It carried an inscrutable tone.

"Indeed a rare and excellent material."

"It would be a bit of a waste to just kill you directly."

Lin Fan was actually calculating a bold idea in his mind.

Since the system upgrade, although more functions had been unlocked,

the handling of 'living organisms' had always been a blind spot.

Previous blind box creations were all based on corpses or inanimate objects.

Even Soul Blind Boxes required killing the person first before extracting the soul for production.

But...

What if it were a living Grandmaster?

If he could directly encapsulate a living Grandmaster powerhouse into a blind box,

what would it become?

A Slave blind box?

A Follower blind box?

Or something even more bizarre?

Once this thought emerged, it grew wildly in Lin Fan's heart like weeds.

One must know.

In this high-martial world, the most precious resources besides heavenly treasures were powerhouses.

If the Myriad Treasures Pavilion could launch a 'Grandmaster Bodyguard blind box' in the future, it would definitely set the entire market on fire.

Imagine those young masters and ladies of great families, or wealthy people who feared death.

Who wouldn't want to carry a Grandmaster bodyguard who was completely obedient to them?

Moreover, products encapsulated by the system would have absolute 100% loyalty.

This was more reliable than any slave contract.

Thinking of this,

Lin Fan's gaze became fervent; this was a once-in-a-lifetime experimental opportunity.

Since this Thunder Fiend was a dead man anyway, it wasn't too much to make use of this waste, right?

"System,"

Lin Fan murmured in his heart.

"Detect target's vital signs."

"Attempt Living Organism Encapsulation."

As Lin Fan's command was issued,

the system's virtual interface instantly popped up in his eyes.

A pale blue scanning beam shot out from Lin Fan's eyes, enveloping Thunder Fiend's entire body.

Thunder Fiend was startled by this sudden light.

He instinctively wanted to resist,

but the hand Lin Fan had on his shoulder suddenly increased its pressure.

Boom!

A terrifying gravity instantly pressed down upon him.

Lin Fan had activated the armor's Localized Gravity Amplification.

Thunder Fiend felt as if he were being crushed by a great mountain; even moving a finger was difficult.

"Don't move,"

Lin Fan's voice was cold.

"Cooperate a little."

"Perhaps, you can live on in a different way."

Hearing this, a glimmer of hope flashed in Thunder Fiend's eyes.

Live on in a different way?

Did he mean planting a slave mark on him?

As long as he could stay alive, being a slave was fine too!

He immediately abandoned all resistance, allowing the blue light to sweep over him repeatedly.

Ding!

"Target scan complete."

The system's notification rang in Lin Fan's mind.

"Target: Human Warrior."

"Realm: Seventh-level Grandmaster Realm (Heavily Injured)."

"Vital Signs: Weak, but conscious, strong soul fluctuations."

"Attempt [Living Organism Encapsulation]?"

"Warning: Current system version is v3.0; Living Organism Encapsulation function is still in the experimental stage, success rate is extremely low."

Lin Fan looked at the warning on the system interface, his brow furrowing slightly.

Extremely low success rate?

He still had to try; after all, there was no loss if it failed.

At most, it would just waste a bit of mental power.

"Confirm encapsulation!"

Lin Fan issued the command without hesitation.

Buzz!

An invisible fluctuation instantly erupted from within Lin Fan.

It was the power of the system's laws.

This power flowed along Lin Fan's arm, frantically surging into Thunder Fiend's body.

"Aaaah!!!"

Thunder Fiend suddenly let out a shrill, miserable scream.

He felt as if his body were being torn apart.

No.

It wasn't just his body.

Even his soul was trembling.

It was as if an invisible giant hand were forcibly erasing him from this world, trying to stuff him into a tiny container.

That sense of squeezing from the level of laws made him wish he were dead.

His skin began to crack.

Blood surged out like a fountain.

His eyeballs protruded, bloodshot, as if they might burst at any moment.

"Help... help me..."

"Kill me... quickly kill me..."

This pain was ten thousand times more terrifying than death by a thousand cuts.

At this moment, Thunder Fiend only begged for a swift death.

Lin Fan stared fixedly at the changes in Thunder Fiend.

A layer of fine sweat also broke out on his forehead.

This Living Organism Encapsulation was also a massive drain on his mental power.

The progress bar on the system interface was slowly climbing.

1%... 2%... 3%...

Too slow.

And extremely unstable.

Thunder Fiend's survival instinct was frantically fighting against the system's law power.

Even if he subjectively wanted to cooperate, his physical and soulful instincts as a Grandmaster powerhouse were resisting this process of being "objectified."

"Warning! Warning!"

"Target's biological resistance consciousness is too strong!"

"Rule conflict!"

"Encapsulation failed!"

Following a series of piercing alarm sounds,

Bang!

A massive reactionary force struck.

Lin Fan's hand was violently thrown back.