Wei School's Three Good Students

Chapter 40 The "Loophole" of the Free-to-Use System

In the room filled with the smell of disinfectant, Xiaoqing walked in timidly. Wu Fei, like a doctor, used a stethoscope to check her heartbeat and pulse, and examined her tongue.

After using the Restoration Gem, she became more and more like a human, and even her former scales disappeared.

The subsequent private inspection was conducted by Wu Fei's aunt, who was standing nearby.

Third Aunt was also very interested in what needed to be done, and did everything Wu Fei asked, and even made a record of it.

This was the fifth such examination. During this time, Wu Fei had Xiao Qing transform five times and recorded her physical condition after each transformation. Overall, after each transformation and reverting to human form, she became more human than before, to the point that her heartbeat and pulse tended to be that of a true human, rather than a snake.

However! The other form is different, developing in a different trend.

"Transform." After Wu Fei gave the order, Xiao Qing nodded and closed her eyes. Immediately afterwards, the inner core shone with a rotating light from her abdomen, and her entire body instantly began to "rise." This was because her lower body began to swell and grow larger under the influence of an unknown force, growing thick scales to support her upper body.

The room suddenly felt crowded, with the coiled snake's body taking up almost half of the room.

Now Wu Fei can confirm that after Xiao Qing transformed into a half-snake, half-human state, she was getting bigger and bigger, her snake hair was becoming more and more conspicuous, and the fangs on her snake hair were becoming sharper.

Even these snakes, like their owner, began to go mad in their thoughts. Xiaoqing lowered her body and tentatively tried to touch Wu Fei with her forked tongue. Wu Fei blocked the snake woman's kindness, raised his hand, and a mechanical arm popped out of the room's mechanism box, suppressing her.

Oh, after transforming into a snake woman, she's already a bit crazy. For example, right now, after being stopped from licking, she's being pressed down by a mechanical arm and is actually showing an expression of pleasure, her huge snake body twisting and turning like an eel with its head stuck.

Wu Fei began measuring the scales, prying open the tail scales with a drill bit, and found that the hardness had increased. At the same time, the scales could rub against each other flexibly, making a pleasant sound.

Just as Wu Fei began to explore its size and walked up to its upper body, the snake woman stretched out her long, thin tongue, attempting to lick her master. Wu Fei's murderous aura caused the snake woman to freeze instantly.

Wu Fei remained respectful of Xiao Qing's thoughts.

After the nearly one-ton snake woman was secured by a more robust mechanical frame, Wu Fei began his rough work, prying open the scales and slicing them.

Wu Fei observed under a microscope that its tissue activity was a hundred times stronger than that of humans.

After the inspection was over, Wu Fei took a deep breath and said to his third aunt, "Let's begin. Let's start by extracting a small amount of essence."

Third Aunt nodded, and took out a bronze box from which a red, incense-like flame emanated. Then, the red flame flowed out and entered the snake woman's skin, turning into patterns like branding iron marks that covered Xiaoqing's body.

A groan was heard in the cell, and that expression, hmm, ahegao?

Wu Fei felt a bit hot and, to prevent the fitness tester from indicating instability, he plugged his ears and picked up a bamboo scroll to read. When the hourglass next to him ran out of time, Wu Fei shouted to stop.

The flame patterns receded from Xiao Qing's body, and in an instant, Wu Fei seemed to sense that the snake woman was still not satisfied? Meanwhile, the Third Aunt looked at the bronze box full of red flame ash with a strange expression, as if she had seen something incomprehensible.

…three hours later…

Auntie San turned the burning ashes into "Flowing Ash Pills," her expression utterly bewildered. Meanwhile, Xiaoqing returned to human form, still the charming young girl she always was. Her physical examination revealed no problems whatsoever. As for what had happened in her snake-person form, she told Wu Fei, confused, that shortly after transforming into a snake-person, she seemed to have been pinned to the platform by the mechanical arm and fallen asleep, and she had no memory of it whatsoever.

Wu Fei asked with great interest, "Do you have any memories of transforming into your snake form before?"

Xiaoqing: "Yes, I am aware of my actions and my purpose." Saying this, she glanced at Wu Fei: "General, even after I transform into a snake, I will still fight for you!"

Wu Fei called his third aunt in to continue the examination. When they finally confirmed that Xiao Qing was human, there were no abnormalities in her body and no loss of cell activity.

Wu Fei clicked his tongue in admiration and said to Xiao Qing, "Now you are exceptionally talented."

For a normal person, the loss of vital essence is irreversible, which is why "Jinliu Dan" is an evil elixir.

After Xiaoqing transformed into a snake woman, her essence seemed to be able to regenerate. Of course, this regeneration caused her snake body to grow larger and larger over the course of six months, even swelling up significantly after the last battle. This ever-growing size, coupled with her increasingly erratic behavior after the mutation, made Wu Fei feel that something was amiss.

After all, the snake woman stares straight at him every time she transforms, which won't do. He needs to adjust, um, reconcile.

Wu Fei originally believed that the "essence" between Xiao Qing's human and snake forms was related. He thought that when he used "blood flames" to reduce Xiao Qing's snake-human form's essence, it might have a negative impact on Xiao Qing's human form.

Therefore, Wu Fei was initially quite cautious about extracting the essence from Xiao Qing's snake body. Of course, the snake body's state had reached a point where it needed to be weakened, because as the snake body grew stronger, Wu Fei sensed that Xiao Qing was finding it increasingly difficult to control her madness. This madness didn't seem to affect Xiao Qing's mental state at the moment. But who knew what the future held?

Wu Fei treated Xiao Qing as if she were undergoing chemotherapy. However, the results of the "chemotherapy" were different from what Wu Fei had expected.

After several experiments, Wu Fei discovered that Xiao Qing's human form seemed completely unaffected by the weakening effect of her snake woman form. While the snake woman's essence was weakened, her human form was full of essence, and when she transformed into a snake again, her essence was replenished once more, causing her to continue growing larger.

However, the "Jinliu Dan" extracted through this process is indeed real.

Wu Fei: The system is bugged. This transformation allows for an eternal grind for "spiritual power" pills? — Wu Fei is like a primary school student discovering a system loophole in a mobile game, allowing him to farm resources.

…Six days later…

Xiaoqing transformed six more times, and was examined six times in total. The scales of the blood flames attached to her grew larger and larger. If the first blood flame situation was just a minor inconvenience, the subsequent ones were a complete drunkenness. Red patterns covered every inch of her scales and skin, turning her skin a golden-red color, and her seven orifices constantly spewed out fire droplets that looked like burning wax.

Of course, the reason the experiments became increasingly daring was that each time Xiaoqing's vital energy was burned away by the flames and she was almost reduced to charcoal, she would revert to her human form without a single scar, and even without any memories. And when she transformed again, she would simply be reborn like a snake shedding its skin, and would become even larger.

Even after being bound, the snake woman excitedly called out in a sweet voice, "Come on, come on!"

So much so that Wu Fei had to gag her.

There's no turning back now, because if they don't burn the snake's body, even if Xiaoqing transforms normally, she'll become increasingly irrational each time she transforms into a snake-person. Only after burning it will her mental state be formatted for the second snake-person transformation.

Wu Fei speculated that this was related to the phenomenon of the restoration gem forcibly deleting the memory of "the giant snake form having its essence extracted".

Before the burning, Xiaoqing could inherit the memories of her snake-human state, and the accumulation of these memories would cause her to go crazy once after transforming into a snake. But now that the memories have been deleted, it has actually helped her regain her rationality.

Wu Fei was secretly delighted: This loophole for restoring gems is great, I can get them for free indefinitely.

After the thought crossed his mind, Wu Fei secretly checked the system's response. Confirming that the system wasn't reacting, he became even more smug.

Wu Fei continued to gloat: It's great to get something for free.

At this moment, a system pop-up window appeared saying, "Are you calling me?"

Wu Fei paused slightly, then quickly shook his head, "No, no." — Fearing the system would fix the vulnerability in time, Wu Fei vehemently denied it. He didn't want to lose his freebie-getting channel. However, what Wu Fei didn't notice was that tiny print flashed across the bottom of the system interface: "You're not getting freebies from me."

...Someone has to get hurt...

After the sixth time, Wu Fei said to the woman who had returned to human form, "Wu Qing, stop daydreaming, get dressed and come with me." Xiao Qing, upon being called, immediately began to dress. As she put on her clothes, she glanced at "Wu Fei" but found that Wu Fei had his back to her. The two left the cell together, walked through the corridor, and arrived at a new cell.

Wu Qing sniffed: "Isn't this the place to lock up that pretty boy? Master, are we going to... teach him a lesson?"

In a hotel-class cell, Wu Fei handed a gourd containing the newly refined "Jinliu Dan" to Jiamude.

Jiamu looked at the pills with a puzzled expression. Of course, Xiaoqing, who was standing to the side, was slightly taken aback. She originally thought that the essence Wu Fei extracted from her body to refine pills was for Wu Fei's own use. She did not expect that it was for this person she had captured to use. For a moment, a bitter and aggrieved feeling welled up in her heart.

Wu Qing: She was originally a slave. Yet, amidst the bitterness, there was a strange feeling.

However, at that moment, Wu Fei interrupted Xiao Qing's emotional buildup, turned around and said, "Now, he is your slave."

Wu Qing was slightly taken aback, while Jia Mude, standing to the side, exclaimed in surprise, "What did you say? Slave? Who is a slave?!"

Wu Fei made a hand gesture, and the metal collar around Jiamude's neck tightened immediately, rendering him unable to utter a word.

Wu Fei sat down beside Wu Qing and said, “According to the merit system, you currently have fifteen merits. I’ve been thinking about how to redeem them for you. Hmm, this guy is a direct descendant of the Li Huo Sect and has mastered a lot of knowledge. You know about the experiments over the past two weeks and the situation just now. If he can only survive by relying on the ‘Jin Liu Dan’ that you’ve refined with your essence, then you will be able to control him.”

Wu Qing: "This servant does not want slaves. If the master wants to use him, this servant will provide his essence."

Wu Fei stood up: "Since you earned your military merits, you've no longer been a slave. That's the rule in the army." — (Thinking to himself: Blood money can buy anything, including a partner.)
Wu Fei clapped his hands and said to Xiao Qing, "Everything you've gained with your blood will need an heir to inherit it in the future. His bloodline is good. If you and he have a child, my Wu family will make arrangements."

After saying that, Wu Fei pinched Jiamude's mouth and, amidst his struggling and resisting gaze, directly shoved a Jinliu Pill into his mouth.

Seeing Jiamude looking utterly dejected, Wu Fei sneered at him: "You've used plenty of unorthodox methods, so what are you pretending to be, a member of a prestigious sect!"

After swallowing the pill, Jiamude's pupils turned golden-red, a sign of overflowing spiritual energy. His third aunt, standing nearby, carefully observed Jiamude's condition.

With his shackles removed, Jiamude squatted on the ground coughing. He glared at Wu Fei, who looked at him coldly: "I don't want you to die because you are very valuable. Your bloodline and your position in the Li Huo Sect are both very valuable. If you are unhappy with your current slave status, then contribute your value as much as possible. Here, as long as you pay with your blood, you will definitely get paid with your blood! Also, Xiaoqing is my sister, so treat her well."

Xiao Qing, or rather, Wu Qing now, looked at Xuan Chong with awe.

Wu Fei turned to Wu Qing and said, "He is a slave, not a burden to you. If one day you don't like him anymore, or if you have already completed the task of having offspring and feel that he is no longer useful, you can simply cut off his supply of pills and find a new one."

Wu Fei glanced at Jia Mude indifferently. —Da Yao has the situation of "removing the mother and keeping the child", and in Wu Fei's case, according to the most utilitarian "blood reward exchange principle", it is also possible to "remove the father and keep the child".

The core issue is that one will favor those within their own system of "exchanging blood for blood rewards."

Wu Fei walked out the door, while Third Aunt paused, glancing at Jiamude again, as if confirming something! Xiao Qing spat out the inner core that had enabled her transformation. This inner core was originally pure purple, but now it was firmly locked within a hexagonal grid of gold.

In reality, when a loophole appears that allows for unlimited arbitrage, it's simply a matter of the straw being inserted somewhere...

In space, the purple space, half of which is the surface of a scorching planet, is spinning rapidly.

This space is filled with the sounds of sharp spikes colliding with flesh, mingled with sounds of pain and pleasure. The source of these sounds is the contraction and expansion of flesh within the space. Of course, each such phenomenon originates from the descent of life in the real world.

When the purple dimension descends upon a living planet, it blesses the real-life beings that have fallen into its ways, guiding these poor creatures toward a path of "pain and pleasure."

However, this purple space is now stubbornly invaded by another force. This golden force has formed a rhombus shape, unaffected by any purple spikes or flesh. All the blasphemous tentacles that tried to entangle this golden force were burned to a crisp.

The golden power is highly radioactive, and every so often it sweeps through the purple space, turning the "spikes and flesh" there back into magma and dust on real celestial bodies.

There's been a lot of firing lately, six times already. Purple Space clearly wants to pull this thorn out, but! It's all in vain.

The endless stream of blessings was absorbed by the hole in the very center of the golden rhombus and then altered.

…When one Cthulhu encounters another, it all comes down to permissions…

Over here, Wu Fei, who has just resolved a worry, is now very relaxed.

This cold and impersonal old era placed considerable pressure on Wu Fei, a modern man. Wu Fei was aware of his vulnerability. Although he held military power and could, to some extent, decide the lives of many, and had gained the loyalty of many, Wu Fei understood that loyalty was not given without reason. If he didn't pay his loyal followers with sufficient blood, it would inevitably become a hidden danger sooner or later.

As for Xiaoqing, being from a different race, she had always been extremely "loyal" to him, to an unbelievable degree that frightened him. Now, well, he had given her what she was entitled to, and her power and influence were being channeled in a direction he could control. A weight had been lifted from his heart.

Next, Wu Fei turned to look at his third aunt.

At this moment, Third Aunt lowered her head as if thinking about something. After glancing at Xuan Chong, she avoided his gaze and stepped back.

…night…

Third Aunt stared at a "Flowing Ash Pill." Others might not know the source of the little green snake's ever-regenerating and ever-growing power, but she did. It was "blessing." However, all "blessings" are imbued with the power of the god who bestows them.

However, not only was Xiaoqing unaffected by the "purple" power after transforming back into human form, but even Jiamude, who swallowed the Flowing Ash Pill, was not corrupted by the "purple" power, aside from the pill's original side effects. It was as if a terrifying force of order existed, completely cleansing the power of the Primordial Gods.

Third Aunt stared at the Flowing Ash Pill in her hand with boundless curiosity, the blue flames in her pupils swaying back and forth between rising and falling.

Finally, the third aunt couldn't resist and swallowed a Flowing Ash Pill. In that instant, she seemed to hear her faith rebuking her for her immorality.

A glimmer of gold appeared in Third Aunt's pupils.

Aunt San was surprised when a pop-up window appeared in her own perspective: "A mandatory task has been issued: marry Wu Yuan and stay by his side. Success will reward you with a wisp of your original self, failure will result in the obliteration of your mind!"

Third Aunt: "Who are you? What is mind erasure?!"

Pop-up window: "Mind erasure means you will become a complete naive and innocent person. As for the previous question, it is taboo, and as an additional punishment, you will gradually forget it from now on!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Auntie San felt a great fear welling up inside her, because she felt that many profound knowledge and memories in her mind were fading away uncontrollably.

Something called the Recycle Bin is shredding files with a whooshing sound.

(End of this chapter)