47: Chapter 47 Quiet Down, Little Wildcat

"Be quiet, little wildcat."

Facing the cat-eared girl's hostile and warning hiss, there was not the slightest ripple on Su Chen's face.

In his deep, cold eyes, there was not even a trace of pity.

In this wasteland world that practiced equivalent exchange and valued strength above all else, compassion was the cheapest and most lethal poison.

He had spent a sky-high price to buy this little wildcat, not to keep her as a pet in a cage for amusement.

What he needed was a sharp dagger that could hide in the darkness and slit the throats of his enemies at any moment!

"Click."

Ignoring the surprised gazes of those around him, Su Chen reached out with his large, bony hand and gripped the thick combination lock on the black iron cage.

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding sound of twisting metal.

That massive steel lock, which claimed to be unbreakable even by a Tier 3 strength-type mutant, was, under the monstrous strength Su Chen gained from the terrifying feedback of the [Monarchs Halo], crushed into twisted scrap metal like a fragile biscuit!

"Clang!"

Su Chen casually threw the scrap metal on the ground and pulled open the heavy cage door.

"Hiss—!"

Although the cat-eared girl in the cage was weak to the point of exhaustion, the fighting instincts of a top-tier assassin still remained.

The moment the cage door opened, a flash of resolute ferocity erupted from her heterochromatic eyes—one blue and one yellow.

With a final sliver of strength gathered from who knows where, her body sprang up like a fully drawn bowstring. Opening her mouth to reveal two sharp little fangs, she bit fiercely towards the carotid artery of Su Chen's neck without hesitation!

Even if she had to die, she would tear a piece of flesh off the human who had bought her!

However.

In front of Su Chen, who had 16 points of Agility and had mastered [Thunderclap Step], this desperate struggle in a near-death state was like slow motion played back countless times slower.

"Too slow."

Su Chen didn't even lift an eyelid.

He casually reached out his right hand and, as if taking something from his pocket, accurately grabbed the girl's slim, fair neck, which had veins bulging from her violent struggle.

"Ugh..."

All of the girl's attack movements came to an abrupt halt at this instant.

The suffocating sensation, as if her throat were locked tight by iron pliers, made her already pale face instantly turn bright red.

She waved her hands desperately, trying to pry open Su Chen's fingers, but the disparity in strength, like a mayfly trying to shake a tree, filled her with a deep sense of despair.

"Your gaze is quite good—unruly, bloodthirsty, and carrying a death wish that would drag someone down to hell with you."

Su Chen held the beast-kin girl, who weighed no more than ninety jin, with one hand, looking down at her heterochromatic eyes filled with hatred from a position of dominance.

"But without absolute strength, this kind of gaze will only make you die faster."

After saying this, Su Chen didn't waste any more words and strode up the train's gangway, carrying the cat-eared girl like a little chick.

"Ruyan, come with me to the medical carriage."

"Understood, Train Master~"

A glimmer of excitement flashed in Liu Ruyan's seductive peach-blossom eyes.

As a mad scholar passionate about human anatomy and genetic potion research, being able to personally dissect—oh no, study—an extremely rare beast-kin mutant made her even more excited than obtaining a Silver-grade blueprint.

She immediately clicked her heels, swaying her alluring, water-snake-like waist, and followed closely behind Su Chen.

...

Inside the [Life Science Research Carriage] in the middle of the train.

The temperature here was kept constant at 24 degrees, the most comfortable for the human body.

The entire interior of the carriage was set up as a sterile laboratory filled with sci-fi elements.

The air was filled with a faint scent of disinfectant, and various high-tech culture dishes and component analysis terminals emitting a faint blue light were operating in an orderly manner.

Like throwing a rag, Su Chen tossed the cat-eared girl, who was about to faint from lack of oxygen, onto a miniature biochemical operating table that emitted a cold, metallic luster.

"Click! Click! Click!"

Several restraint straps made of high-strength memory alloy immediately popped out from around the operating table, pinning the girl's wrists, ankles, and waist tightly to the table, leaving her unable to move.

"Let me see just how badly this little wildcat is injured."

Liu Ruyan changed into a pristine white coat, but it still couldn't conceal her explosive figure that seemed ready to burst out.

She walked to the operating table and skillfully operated the high-level perspective terminal above, which had been modified from a junior medical scanner.

A green scanning light curtain scanned from the girl's head all the way to her feet.

"Beep—!"

Looking at the shocking red alert data fed back on the holographic screen, the pretty face of Liu Ruyan, which had originally carried a playful smile, instantly became grave.

"Train Master... the situation is even worse than we imagined."

Liu Ruyan pointed to a huge black shadow area on the girl's abdomen on the screen and gasped.

"The energy circuits in her body have completely collapsed."

"The most fatal thing is that her ability core, which originally belonged to the S-rank [Shadow Stealth] talent, has been completely shattered by someone using extremely cruel means."

"Those shattered core fragments, mixed with an unknown neurotoxin, have already spread through the bloodstream to all of her organs."

Liu Ruyan shook her head, a trace of helpless regret flashing in her peach-blossom eyes.

"With my current S-rank [Life Recovery] healing ability, I can only barely remove the external injuries on her skin and ordinary toxins."

"But to reshape an S-rank ability core that has been completely shattered..."

"Sorry, Train Master, this is beyond the scope of conventional healing techniques. Unless there is a legendary God-rank recovery potion, she is destined to be a cripple even worse than an ordinary person for the rest of her life."

Hearing Liu Ruyan's words.

The cat-eared girl, fixed on the operating table, saw her heterochromatic eyes, which had been struggling desperately, instantly dim.

In fact, she knew her own broken physical condition better than anyone.

As a top-tier assassin who once struck fear into everyone in the wasteland, losing her abilities and stealth capabilities meant she had lost all value and meaning to live.

She slowly closed her eyes, a tear of despair sliding from the corner of her eye, seemingly resigned to waiting for the man who had bought her to unleash the most brutal venting and torture upon her.

"Ordinary healing techniques are useless?"

However.

Standing to the side, Su Chen, upon hearing this "desperate" verdict.

Not only did he not show any anger or disappointment, but he instead let out a cold laugh filled with arrogance and dominance.

"The person I, Su Chen, have set my sights on—even if the Grim Reaper comes, he must obediently return her life to me!"

"It's just a broken ability core. Ruyan, step back."

Su Chen strode to the operating table, and a blinding, extreme silver-white light suddenly erupted from his deep, cold eyes!

He flipped his hand casually.

He took out a crystal from his spatial backpack that emitted a rich, deep black light.

This was the [Silver-grade Dark Attribute Core] that had dropped with extreme luck after he killed a mutant mother worm deep in the abandoned titanium alloy mine earlier!

Following that, he took out several [junior physical strengthening potions] developed by Liu Ruyan.

"Omni-Modification, give me... reshape!"

Su Chen let out a low roar in his heart.

He gripped the Silver-grade Dark Attribute Core tightly with both hands and slammed it onto the cat-eared girl's flat, bruised abdomen!

That was the location of the shattered ability core!

"Boom—!"

The only SSS-rank talent in the entire server erupted fully!

A terrifying mental power, so immense it was suffocating, like a tangible storm, instantly swept through the entire Life Science Research Carriage!

Under the forced intervention of this god-level power.

That incredibly hard Silver-grade Dark Attribute Core instantly melted into a mass of rich black energy liquid in Su Chen's hands!

These liquids, mixed with the medicinal power of the high-level recovery potions, were, under the precise guidance of Su Chen's formidable mental power.

Like countless tiny black energy tentacles, they followed the pores of the girl's abdomen and, in an incomparably savage and domineering manner, crazily drilled into her riddled meridians!

"Ah—!"

A sharp pain, indescribable in words, instantly made the girl's eyes snap open.

Her slim body convulsed violently on the operating table as if electrocuted, her ten fingers gripping the cold metal tabletop tightly, even leaving several deep scratch marks on it.

That feeling was as if someone were using countless red-hot knives to scrape away the shattered bone marrow and rotting flesh inside her body bit by bit!

But immediately after.

After this heart-wrenching pain.

A powerful, surging life force, warm like a sweet spring, began to breed and spread crazily within her body!

Those shattered meridians were forcefully reshaped!

The neurotoxins that had spread throughout her body were directly devoured and purified by the even more domineering energy of the Dark Attribute Core!

What the girl found most unbelievable was.

At the core position in her abdomen, which had originally been completely shattered and empty.

A brand-new, more solid crystal, emitting a heart-palpitating deep black light, was re-condensing and forming at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"Mm... ah..."

The sharp pain was gradually replaced by a bone-deep itch and extreme pleasure.

The girl couldn't help but lift her long, snow-white neck, emitting a seductive moan from the depths of her throat, mingled with a hint of cat-like laziness.

This sound echoed in the empty, quiet sterile carriage, making Liu Ruyan, who was observing from the side, unable to help but blush and secretly spit out "little vixen."

Ten minutes later.

When the blinding silver-white Omni-Modification light slowly dissipated.

Su Chen panted slightly and withdrew his hands from the girl's abdomen.

Even with his current capped mental power of 100 points, he had consumed nearly half of it in the process of forcefully reshaping an S-rank ability core.

But looking at this "masterpiece" before him that had been completely renewed, a look of extreme satisfaction curled the corners of his mouth.