Chapter 1351: 442. Brain Marrow Imitation_2

Cucumber Slice pondered before responding,

“It shouldn’t be. This game does not allow NPCs to imprison players, nor does it allow NPCs to abuse players. However…”

“However, what?” Winter Melon asked.

Cucumber Slice silently shook his head, without continuing.

His feelings were complicated.

Indeed, it was a fact that ‘Starry Sea’ did not permit NPCs to imprison or abuse players.

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This included players who were apprehended by the United Bureau.

Nominally, they were incarcerated in jail, but in reality, they were forced to log off.

If their in-game sentence lasted a month, then players could only log back in after spending a month in the real world.

No matter how many times they tried during this period, the game would refuse their logins and issue advisories urging players to obey the law.

However, this was the realm of the Angel Enterprise Alliance, not the United Bureau.

Perhaps the Angel Enterprise Alliance possessed some means to prevent players from logging out…

So, it was hard to say, hard to say, everything was hard to say.

Cucumber Slice could only silently wish those few players well.

“By the way, do any of you have those people on your friend list?” Cucumber Slice asked.

Winter Melon shook his head, pointing to Kelp:

“I don’t, but Kelp should have.”

Kelp nodded and said,

“I do. I just added them yesterday.”

Cucumber Slice asked him,

“Then could you help me keep an eye on these players’ online status? It would be best if you could get them to record some videos to see what the Angel Enterprise Alliance is doing with them.”

“No problem, leave it to me.” Kelp opened his friend list, scrolled down to find the icons of those players, and suddenly exclaimed,

“Eh? Captain, although they are still online, it shows ‘in combat’. I can’t chat with them.”

“I see…” Cucumber Slice pondered briefly:

“Then let’s not worry about them for now. Let’s just complete the remaining two rounds of injections.”

The three paused their conversation and took injectors from the staff.

The other players conversed quietly while nervously injecting themselves.

Under the action of a micro-pressure pump, an unknown elixir rapidly penetrated their skin, a warm sensation flowed within their bodies, intensifying and transforming into agitation and heat.

“Hiss.. the previous injection was cold as death, now this one completely flips—it’s scorching…”

One player loosened his collar, constantly fanning himself.

Another’s face turned red, bloodshot eyes appearing as he panted heavily:

“So hot, so hot, I feel like my blood pressure is rising…”

Before he could finish, the man clattered to the ground, his body sprawled out like mud, utterly limp as if boneless.

“He’s not dead, is he?”

“Hey, buddy, are you dead?”

“What do you mean? Can players even die from high blood pressure?”

Someone nudged the fallen player with a foot, seeing no response, they crouched down with difficulty to check his breath.

“He’s completely dead…”

Cucumber Slice and his companions glanced at the corpse but did not intervene further.

At that moment, they were busy fighting the intense heat within their bodies; they had no time to concern themselves with others.

“Captain, I… I can’t take it anymore…” Winter Melon’s game character, who had the weakest constitution, stumbled and fell to the ground, dead on the spot.

About two seconds later, he spoke through the friend system to Cucumber Slice and the others,

“I’ve revived. I revived in the ship cabin. Has my corpse disappeared?”

“No.”

“No.”

Winter Melon could not help but exclaim,

“This is too eerie. The potion that the Angel Enterprise Alliance injected us with can actually leave our corpses behind. They wouldn’t be planning to use this potion to continuously produce player corpses, would they?”

Cucumber Slice didn’t have the spare energy to think about these issues, and could only respond with a simple “Hmm” text message.

Before long, Kelp also collapsed, following in the footsteps of his good brother, and resurrected within the ship cabin.

10 minutes later, the effect of the medicine wore off.

Setting aside the players who were taken away by the staff, in this second round of injections, only 10 players made it through, while the rest died once.

Cucumber Slice had the best physical condition and made it through the second round, but he couldn’t help but worry about the third round.

What if he couldn’t make it through the Third Injection? How would he complete the great GM’s task?

This was not the time to worry about face; clinging to the GM’s coattails was the real deal.

“Boss, Boss, please help me, I feel like I can’t get through the third round.”

Cucumber Slice called out in his mind.

Noland Lee gave a timely response:

“Don’t worry, let’s see how it goes. If necessary, I’ll help you load a patch program to ensure you pass the test.”

“Okay, thank you, Boss,” Cucumber Slice was reassured.

The Third Injection began.

Having been through the first two rounds of injections, players were more composed mentally, and the injections were completed calmly on site.

The sensation of the Third Injection was acidic, a pervasive acidity that penetrated the marrow of their bones.

After the injection, most players collapsed to the ground within half a minute, breathless.

Only those like Cucumber Slice, who focused on enhancing their “Interstellar Warrior” occupation level, barely managed to stand on their own thanks to their physical quality and personal willpower.

Noland Lee watched Cucumber Slice grinding his teeth and fighting hard but didn’t rush to intervene.

Using the Magic Mark previously left on him, he cast a detection spell.

The energy fluctuations from the detection spell were masked by the “Veil of Different Worlds,” undetected by the staff and instruments on site.

The first detection spell Noland Lee used was Blood Magic’s “Flesh Analysis.”

This spell constructed an image of Cucumber Slice’s blood and flesh in Noland’s mind, involving dynamic variations of blood, organs, muscles, bones, and more.

At this moment, Cucumber Slice’s blood was flowing very fast, his organs and muscles were vibrating at a frequency of more than ten times per second within a small range, while his bones appeared to be slightly expanding outward.

It was fortunate that his “Interstellar Warrior” level was relatively high; otherwise, he would have already died on the spot due to these drastic physical changes.

Based solely on the results of the Blood Magic detection, Noland couldn’t draw any conclusions and subsequently cast the second and third detection spells.

“Elemental Vision,” “Metallic Particle Detection Technique,” “Magic Liquid Tracking Technique”…

After switching through several detection spells, Noland finally found the source of the acidic sensation throughout Cucumber Slice’s body.

It was a centipede-like transparent liquid, currently hiding at the base of Cucumber Slice’s spine, releasing a substance into the surrounding blood vessels and muscles that caused an all-over acidic sensation.

“I need to find a way to deconstruct this thing…”

A sudden idea flashed through Noland’s mind.

He quickly scanned the scene and found another player who had just fallen to the ground but hadn’t yet taken his last breath.

After casting a detection spell on this individual, he indeed found the presence of the “centipede” in the same area.

However, compared to the “centipede” inside Cucumber Slice, this player’s “centipede” was nearly dispersing, seemingly about to completely vanish with the player’s impending death.

Noland immediately used the “Veil of Different Worlds” as cover and fired a “Wind Bullet” at the “centipede” inside this person.

The Wind Bullet, composed purely of wind energy and air, accurately hit the “centipede,” instantly shattering it.

Noland successfully triggered Passive Deconstruction, and several lines of system text appeared in front of him.

[You have gained the following Deconstruction Results:]

[Angel’s Cerebrospinal Fluid (Imitation), with one percent the efficacy of the genuine product.]

[This substance is highly toxic and can easily cause death, but if antibodies are produced under the influence of the toxin, it allows for long-term injections, body modification, and increased tolerance to the cerebrospinal fluid.]

With the presence of Angel Crystals in important members of the Archangel Group and the cerebrospinal fluid replicated by the Angel Enterprise Alliance,

and considering the neural connections pilots of Artificial Angels need to establish with Artificial Angels and gain control over them,

Noland gained a clearer understanding of how the Angel Enterprise Alliance might control Artificial Angels.

He now knew for sure.

Only by withstanding this third round of injections and developing a resistance to the Cerebrospinal Fluid (Imitation) could one become a pilot of an Artificial Angel.

Given that, he decided to give Cucumber Slice a little help.

Noland casually snapped his fingers, quietly casting a spell of Blood Magic—”Flesh Fortification” on Cucumber Slice.

Although only around three-circled in power, it was sufficient to briefly enhance Cucumber Slice’s bodily robustness.

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