Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Chapter 249: Injection - [Spiritual Enhancement Potion], Intense Pain and Awakening

Hello, I Have a Reservation!

Quality: Special

Function: Can consume two [War Tokens] to schedule an invasion war against a target player. Once the target player's [Peace Period] ends, the invasion war will be launched immediately. If multiple players schedule an invasion war against the same target, this reservation has priority!

Yu Yuan looked at the card in his hand. One side had the word [VIP] written on it, the other side had [Reservation].

He felt a sense of novelty.

"There are actually items like this."

He had truly broadened his horizons.

Yu Yuan put the card away. Up until now, he had never actively launched an invasion war.

But in the future, he was bound to walk the path of invasion. This card would come in handy then.

The harvest from this invasion war wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either.But this time, not only was the threat of the Giant Mutant Rat resolved, but he also obtained a Rare Treasure: the Stealth Rat.

Yu Yuan naturally wouldn't complain.

He checked the time. It was already the afternoon of Day 39.

"Since the threat has been eliminated, it's time to inject that bottle of [Spiritual Enhancement Potion]!" Yu Yuan got up and headed for the [Spiritual Creature Laboratory].

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Inside the Spiritual Creature Laboratory.

Yu Yuan lay on the examination bed. Several straps bound him firmly in place, and electrodes from monitoring instruments covered his body.

Outside the lab, Fang, Mie Mie, Masier, Dale, and the black coal ball Zhi Zhi were all pressed against the window, watching.

After disinfecting Yu Yuan's arm and checking the data, Doctor retrieved the [Spiritual Enhancement Potion], drew it into a syringe, and then looked at Yu Yuan.

"I'm starting then!"

"Go ahead!" Yu Yuan took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

Hearing this, Doctor didn't dawdle. He bent down, angled the needle towards the vein in Yu Yuan's forearm, and slowly pushed it in. Soon, the needle pierced the blood vessel, and blood was seen flowing back.

Doctor slowly pushed the syringe plunger. The pale purple liquid followed the plunger, bit by bit, being injected into Yu Yuan's body.

Yu Yuan's palm involuntarily splayed open.

He felt a faint stream of warmth enter his body, flowing back along the venous blood towards his heart, then, squeezed by the heart, entering the arteries and rapidly spreading throughout his entire body.

Soon, the entire [Spiritual Enhancement Potion] was injected into Yu Yuan.

Doctor quickly wrapped a bandage around Yu Yuan's arm, then took two steps back, the bottle of [Ultra-Stinky Perfume] already in his hand.

Even Doctor, who had long experienced life and death, felt immense pressure at this moment.

Soon, the Promiz virus within the [Spiritual Enhancement Potion] began to take effect.

Yu Yuan's entire body tensed up. His hands and feet strained against the restraints with all their might. He stretched his neck back desperately, the veins on his neck bulging clearly.

Pain~

So much pain~

Too much pain~

Yu Yuan felt as if his entire body, from the inside out, was burning with pain. He could feel some wondrous changes happening within his body, rapid and violent, like a chemical experiment.

It felt as if countless tiny figures inside all his blood vessels were constantly stabbing the vessel walls with spears.

It felt as if the marrow in all his bones was rioting, wanting to break free from its current cage, to throw off its shackles.

Riot.

His entire body was rioting.

Yu Yuan had never experienced such a sensation before.

His body now felt like a lump of dough, being flattened, kneaded, and rolled by a strange force trying to reshape him. One moment it wanted to change him into one shape, the next moment another.

It was also as if he had transformed into a piece of red-hot steel, being constantly hammered by an invisible forging hammer, undergoing crucial shaping and strengthening.

Impurities within his body were being purged. The hidden potential within him was being fully unlocked.

One moment being kneaded and rolled, the next moment clanging and banging.

These sensations gradually receded from Yu Yuan's consciousness because, under that insane, intense pain, he was on the verge of collapse.

Bang bang bang—

Yu Yuan struggled, but he was tightly bound by the straps.

"Doctor......." Knowing it was about time, Yu Yuan looked towards Doctor, who was already on high alert, and shouted...

Pssht.....

Without any hesitation.

The moment Doctor heard Yu Yuan shout the first word, he decisively sprayed the [Ultra-Stinky Perfume] directly at Yu Yuan's face.

An intense, extreme stench instantly filled the entire [Spiritual Creature Laboratory].

And the moment Yu Yuan inhaled the foul odor, his consciousness, which had been on the brink of collapse and scattering, became clear once again.

It was like someone about to stumble and fall off a cliff being yanked back at the last second.

At this moment, Yu Yuan felt a sense of having narrowly escaped death.

But before he could feel any relief.

He was once again engulfed by boundless, excruciating pain.

"Ah—"

.......

"Doctor—"

Pssht.......

.......

"Doctor—"

Pssht.......

........

Outside the lab, the few spectators watching the enhancement process, which had already lasted half an hour, were at a loss for words.

The black coal ball Zhi Zhi had, at some point, climbed onto Mie Mie's fluffy head.

Masier had one hand covering Mie Mie's eyes and the other held up in front of Zhi Zhi.

But she kept getting swatted aside by Zhi Zhi's tail.

Inside the lab, Doctor, looking at Yu Yuan whose face had long turned deathly pale, was also swallowing nervously.

The monitoring instruments had long since lit up with red alerts, alarms blaring incessantly.

But he had no time to pay them any mind, fearing that a moment's inattention would delay the timing of spraying the [Ultra-Stinky Perfume].

Under the examination bed, a puddle of pale red sweat had dampened the floor.

Just as he was poised to spray the perfume again at any moment, he suddenly noticed the alarm indicator lights on the monitoring instruments went out.

It was like a signal.

Soon, all the other instruments also deactivated their alarm modes.

Yu Yuan's monitoring data began to recover.

Doctor also noticed that Yu Yuan's cries gradually subsided. His originally deathly pale complexion visibly regained color, becoming rosy. His body began to swell, he grew taller, his hair fell out, and new hair grew in, black and thick.

His entire skin split open, revealing fresh, pink new skin beneath.

Even though it was new skin, Doctor thought he saw a flash of metallic light.

Yu Yuan, who had been tightly clenching his eyes shut, opened them.

A flash of pale purple light passed through.

Yu Yuan took a long, deep breath, feeling his body back under his control, then looked at Doctor.

"That's enough! Untie the straps!"

"Huh..." Doctor was momentarily stunned.

"What's wrong?" Yu Yuan asked, puzzled.

Doctor snapped back to reality and immediately stepped forward to help untie the straps, explaining as he did so:

"It's nothing. I just thought you'd burst the straps open directly to show off your newfound strength?"

"Before the wasteland, that's how they always acted on TV!"

Yu Yuan pushed himself off the examination bed and stood on the floor, examining his body.

"Gathering supplies is so hard now. Why would I, with a full stomach, go around breaking beds?"

As he said this, he noticed Doctor's eyes were fixed intently on the examination bed.

"What is it..."

Yu Yuan followed Doctor's gaze. Before he could even finish his sentence, the words got stuck in his throat.

He saw that on the metal bed frame where he had been gripping the bed earlier, there was a clear depression—a distinct palm print.

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