The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 704 - 702: Remodeling

[Stairwell]

The staircases in the Chaos Building were even more chaotic and jumbled, with stairways of various styles and materials crammed into a corridor the size of a soccer field. Each staircase led to a special area of the Chaos Building.

The young nurse hadn’t visited for a long time and had no idea which way to go.

Just as they were hesitating, a beam of moonlight fell from above, illuminating a segment of the staircase on its own.

Not only that,

Lorrian, donning a white lab coat and wearing rubber gloves, volunteered to walk out from the doorway and stood at the end of the staircase.

"William, you’ve learned something new... The fusion of the Abyss and physical bodies is terrifying. With just a palm strike, you disabled the high-quality Moon Beast I had cultivated.

Moreover, you were still able to escape through the Abyss amid the spatial disturbance.

You truly were someone I valued in the past. Come on up, I’m currently conducting stability transformation experiments. If you can help me advance my progress, indeed you can join your circus with the Moon earlier."

"Hmm."

As William ascended the stairs, the young nurse stopped following and said with her head bowed, "Director! Since you are here, I will take my leave."

However, Lorrian, with a smile, said, "No~ no need to leave, come up with us."

"Yes."

Following Lorrian up the stairs,

They reached the floor known as the [Pharmaceutical Transformation Room],

"Lorrian, the transformation methods here seem to be more than one kind?"

"Of course, there’s more than one kind. The world connected by Galon, I too am in contact for the first time; the entities inside it are too exaggerated, with no semblance of rules.

Combining these chaotic and disordered creatures with Moon Transformation Disease patients is quite difficult.

Doctor Fana was just luckier. Among the first batch of clinic staff who underwent transformation, only Fana retained self-awareness and survived. I even wonder if the success of the transformation is related to the individual’s strong emotions and obsessions.

To find a more stable and systematic transformation model, I chose the most heavily infected marine areas in the world and used the creatures here for experiments.

Currently, the mainstream transformation methods include four types:

Bone marrow transplant, blood replacement, brain stitching, and the recently developed drug transformation.

Of course, before the transformation, individuals will connect to the [Brain in a Vat] just like you, to experience some chaos in the Illusion Dream Realm in advance. This early adaptation can significantly increase the success rate; sometimes, they can even undergo the transformation directly in the tub.

As of now, drug transformation is the direction I regard most highly, but it is still in the research phase."

"Drugs?"

"Exactly, come in and take a look, this is the pharmaceutical workshop I have set up."

Lorrian turned and walked into the silver wall, and William immediately followed suit. Passing through the wall’s liquid-like surface, they entered a chemical laboratory equipped with multiple rows of distillation columns.

At the beginning of all the parallel and series equipment were three discharge outlets.

As Lorrian gestured, a male technician with a microscope structure for a head opened the main valve on top, and three different substances flowed out of the outlets.

Utter chaos, brain tissue resembling noodles,

Various twisted spines,

And blood of different colors and transparency,

All poured into the mixing kettle below for the most basic mixing, and the mixture entered the distillation column for purification at different degrees.

The final concentrated liquid was dried and loaded into capsules,

"These capsules, which have undergone multiple purifications and targeted selections, should only be consumable by individuals below Open Source, right?"

"Impressive, William~ You are correct. These capsules are primarily for transformations below Open Source. Moreover, we have found that the lower the individual’s plague infection, the better the transformation, and the higher the success rate.

After the transformation, they can continue to grow with the ’Chaos Attribute.’"

"What’s the success rate for those below Open Source taking the medicine?"

"17.3% maintain physical stability, and 3.1% retain self-awareness."

"That low?"

"It’s already very high; other methods are even lower~ However, I’m currently planning to feed the next batch of trial subjects your instant noodles to see how they affect, follow me."

Passing through the workshop, they arrived at a clean and pure white drug trial room,

Five differently shaped deep-sea patients sat obediently in their chairs, unrestrained and unaffected by any illusion technique. It seemed they were voluntarily willing to undergo ’transformation.’

"Only ’obedient’ individuals qualify for the trial medication. What’s your name... Nurse, sit down too! Since you have experienced a Moon Beast’s sneak attack and survived with William, perhaps your ’luck’ will be good."

"Yes, Director."

The nurse was well aware that the drug trial bore a nine-to-one chance of death, but she would never go against the head of the clinic’s wishes. Previously, she trembled in fear in the face of Moon Beasts, but now she confronted death with serenity on her face.

She found a stool and sat down; the blood on her medical bandages had completely faded. She was ready to die.

After all, she was initially nothing more than a discarded medical bandage. Being able to become a Non-Normality, possessing self-awareness, and living in the clinic for such a long time to experience the beauty of the world, were all due to the illumination of the moonlight.

Now, all she needed to do was return it to the head of the clinic, not to mention there was still a chance to survive.

First, six buckets of instant noodles were distributed.

The Deep Sea Patients immediately sensed a profound essence of the deep sea within the noodles. During the eating process, their bodies even began to swell, showing exceedingly positive conditions!

The nurse pushed the noodles through the gaps in her bandages and sipped the soup through them. She seemed quite excited, and bandages began to grow out of many places on her body.

After the meal,

the doctor, dressed in a white lab coat and with a microscope tube for a head, handed out white capsules to the individuals testing the drug, along with a silver liquid for swallowing the pills.

"Let’s start, everyone, as long as you survive, you can continue living on my Moon," said the head of the clinic.

At Lorrian’s command, the patients present immediately took the medicine.

However, just as the nurse was about to swallow her dose, William suddenly interrupted by placing his hand on her shoulder, "Wait, wait until they show results before you take your medicine... After all, Lorrian didn’t specifically say you had to take it right now."

The nurse naturally wouldn’t listen to William, instead she looked at Lorrian for confirmation, and after getting a nod of approval, she gripped the drug in her hand again.

Gurgle~

The five Deep Sea Patients finished swallowing, and the effects of the drug began immediately.

Just one second before, they were full of confidence because of the noodles, and the next they started to go mad, fiercely scratching at their facial skin, even digging their own eyes out.

Countless thread-like substances instantly grew out of their eye sockets, tearing open their skulls like blossoming flowers to reveal the essence of their physical forms.

Pop!

The person seated at the very edge exploded on the spot.

The remaining four continued to struggle as their bodies twisted and multiple uncontrollable arms grew from them, tearing open their chest cavities and revealing their now conjoined proliferating organs.

The "rules" of their bodies were being destroyed by chaos, and their consciousness was under the most intense primal assault,

Soon, two more completely deteriorated into indescribable heaps of rotting meat,

In the end,

only two survived.

And among the survivors, one had a body half devoid of a fixed form, transformed into a heap of randomly assembled flesh clusters. The other appeared to have been successful, but observations needed to continue for some time.

"The effect is pretty good, surprisingly two survived. One of them even seems to have a chance of stabilizing his self-awareness. It seems your instant noodles really work, William.

By the way, are you being charitable and trying to save this nurse?"

"No, she belongs to you, and I have no right to decide her fate. I’m just adding a temporary variable condition to see if we can further increase the success rate."

"What modification?"

William tapped his own head, "Madness Brain imprinting, followed by my assistance in stabilizing her. What do you think? If she stabilizes, I’ll remove the enslavement effects of the Madness Brain afterward."

"Hmm... We can try that, let’s do as you say."

With a look between the nurse and William, a pitch-black fingertip etched the character for "Madness" directly onto the surface of her brain,

Education complete.

What surprised William was that her personal rating registered on the academic credit network was actually a C+.

"Teacher," the nurse also immediately changed her form of address.

"Go ahead and take it, the teacher will guide you."

Gurgle~ The capsule went down.

The nurse’s face began to bleed profusely, eventually causing all the bandages to fall off and revealing a face of indistinct flesh with no features.

Threads of blood floated from her face and then drilled back in, opening her skull from the front and revealing the brain inside.

The surface of the brain that was branded with the character for "Madness" was also covered with root-like structures, and the entire brain even began to twist. It seemed poised to undergo a deep and chaotic transformation, when

Hum!

The character for "Madness" shone with a pitch-black luster, slowly suppressing the chaos and harmonizing it,

The threads surging on the surface of the brain turned into ’stitches’, mending the damaged parts. They even stitched up the nurse’s opened face, and on the indistinct flesh of the face, a precise ’Blood-colored Cross’ was stitched, reflecting her identity as a medical personnel.

A large number of blood-soaked bandages poured from her arms and back, raising her up against gravity, looking exquisitely beautiful.

As a teacher, William’s eyes widened as the individual assessment on the academic credit network changed to a B+.

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