I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 443 - 247: Hiss~ You can fit thirteen succubi in your heart!_2

Chapter 443: Chapter 247: Hiss~ You can fit thirteen succubi in your heart!_2

Gu Shanhai briefly outlined the surgical process, making Chu Zhen’s head spin with disbelief. This was just like when he had integrated with the Demon King before, only without the steps of opening and stitching the chest cavity.

"You wait here, I need to get some tools out. If we tear it with our hands and slip, we’ll be having a rib feast tonight." Gu Shanhai pulled out a saw, a bone-chopper, an axe, a kitchen knife, and a variety of other tools.

Especially when Chu Zhen saw the spatula and cutting board, his eyelid twitched, thinking this wasn’t surgery—it was preparation for a meal.

"Come over here and hold this steady, otherwise if it tilts we could have a problem," Gu Shanhai called to Chu Zhen.

Upon seeing this, Chu Zhen scurried over, thinking he had been lucky when merging with the Demon King to not have needed these kinds of tools.

After securing Liu Lai, Gu Shanhai successfully opened Liu Lai’s chest cavity using a series of tools.

"Uncle, we’re doing this surgery outdoors; couldn’t that cause an infection? And about that succubus, should we disinfect it first?" Chu Zhen, seeing Gu Shanhai bring over the succubus, couldn’t help but point out.

"Hisss~ you have a point." Gu Shanhai inhaled sharply.

Hearing this, Chu Zhen felt a chill in his heart, wondering if Liu Lai would survive this ordeal.

"After the surgery, just cast a few more healing spells on him," Gu Shanhai said and then proceeded to stuff the succubus into Liu Lai’s chest cavity.

Chu Zhen didn’t know what method Gu Shanhai used, but somehow he managed to fit such a large succubus inside.

Then one after another went in, all curling into thirteen black clumps that continued to transform the Demonic Qi.

"It’s done," Gu Shanhai couldn’t hide his delight when he saw the form of the nascent Demon King taking shape.

These thirteen succubi had absorbed all of Liu Lai’s experience, so Gu Shanhai only needed a little trick to turn the Demonic Qi of the succubi back into the Demon King’s Demonic Qi.

After ensuring everything was working without error, Gu Shanhai began sewing up Liu Lai’s chest.

"All set, you can go heal him now," Gu Shanhai said, wiping his hands.

"Uncle, didn’t you say it would take three or four hours? How did you finish in ten minutes?" Chu Zhen was baffled by the time discrepancy.

"Maybe I just got lucky. Besides, he still needs to sleep for three or four hours," Gu Shanhai’s response was dismissive and showed no concern for Chu Zhen’s thoughts.

Chu Zhen assumed Gu Shanhai had been confident from the start, so he didn’t think too much of it and started casting healing spells on Liu Lai.

Meanwhile, Gu Shanhai kept organizing the data. It looked like he had only done a little, but he had actually prepared a lot, even altering the succubi, involving a great deal of technology.

To Gu Shanhai, these techniques made it easier to effectively utilize Demonic Qi, a special form of energy.

He planned to use it to develop further Divine Skills for the Heart Demon surrogate and Heart Demon protector, creating a series, like his Nine States Instrument series, relying on breaking through Divine Skills to form a range of multi-functional abilities. This progress owed much to the two heroes, Chu Zhen and Liu Lai—without them, he wouldn’t have advanced so quickly.

Having more heroes help would allow him to perfect his data further.

Therefore, he needed to visit several worlds.

Even just these two characters wouldn’t be enough to annoy the top brass in Hero World on behalf of the Reincarnator Alliance.

Whether it was one plan or another, Gu Shanhai needed to have a sufficient number of heroes and Demon Kings.

"Uncle, Liu Lai’s level is recovering, what’s going on?" Chu Zhen called out from the side.

"Totally normal; the group of succubi absorbed Liu Lai’s experience and levels to boost their own strength. He will gradually regain his original power as he remains unconscious," Gu Shanhai replied nonchalantly.

Otherwise, if Liu Lai had to level up again from scratch, Gu Shanhai would have to wait even longer. That’s why he took action ahead of time.

The principle was relatively simple: first, use Demonic Qi to put the Hero Panel into a disconnected state, then through a transformation module, convert the power of Demonic Qi into energy for the Hero Panel to achieve level advancement.

If the Hero Panel was connected, Gu Shanhai definitely wouldn’t be able to pull this off.

"Why couldn’t I use this method before? After all, I’m fused with a Demon King," Chu Zhen curiously asked.

"You wish it was that easy. All that experience was Liu Lai’s to begin with. You just got here and you were nothing but an empty shell. Where would you get any experience?" Gu Shanhai’s explanation made sense, although the real reason was that he wanted to collect data, which was why he had Chu Zhen fight monsters to level up.

With all that being said, Chu Zhen had no more questions. Thinking carefully, when he had just arrived, he really was penniless and unknown; while Liu Lai had already achieved fame and defeated the Demon King. How could he possibly compare to that?

At this time, Gu Shanhai turned his attention to another group, the heroes themselves.

He discovered that the overall policy wasn’t just about resolving the Demon King issue, it seemed there was also an intentional purge of heroes. Every hero within the three parts of Hero Continent was living a miserable existence.

If it had only happened once or twice, Gu Shanhai might have considered it an accident. But now that he’d encountered the third unlucky soul, it meant one thing: such a fate was the designed ending for heroes.

From the start, those at the top never planned on bringing the dead back to life.

Gu Shanhai even suspected that if he had chosen the option to go back, he would not have been resurrected but possibly erased.

’So, why do they want to get rid of the heroes? Is it because the heroes themselves get tainted after defeating the Demon King or something else?’ Gu Shanhai was somewhat puzzled in his mind.

If you compare heroes to janitors, normally you wouldn’t fire a janitor after just one clean up and then recruit another one for cleaning the next day.

’That’s not right. Comparing them to janitors obviously doesn’t fit; they should be more like single-use consumables.’ Gu Shanhai quickly realized the truth. The Hero World isn’t short of heroes; after all, there are many at the bottom levels. You could roll over them with a bulldozer and harvest a new one.

Four hours slowly passed, and by that time, Liu Lai’s level had also returned to the maximum once more, at which point he sluggishly woke up.

When he awoke this time, what he felt was not weakness but a sense of power he had not felt for a long time.

"I... am I restored?" he opened his Hero Panel at the first chance and looked at the levels and attributes, a surge of joy welling up inside him.

"Yes, you’re restored. The surgery went very smoothly," Gu Shanhai said with a smile.

Chu Zhen, standing nearby, hesitated to speak but after catching a glance from Gu Shanhai, he didn’t dare to say a word.

"Thank you so much, Uncle Gu. However, it seems like my Demon King’s power hasn’t been restored," Liu Lai said. He had seen Chu Zhen’s Hero Panel with attributes three times his and possessed a large array of Demon King’s abilities.

But his attributes were now just back to what they were when he was at full level previously, and the Demon King’s abilities were still absent.

"It needs some time. After all, what you’ve merged with is not the real Demon King but just an embryonic form of it," Gu Shanhai explained.

Liu Lai only had something like a seed within him; to let a seed take root and sprout certainly needs time, unlike Chu Zhen, who was like a fully grown plant that had been transplanted; the boost was naturally much greater than that of the seed.

"Alright, you’re almost fully recovered now. Next, we need to hurry to the other parts of Hero Continent to rescue the reincarnators who are still suffering."

"This time, Chu Zhen, you’re driving, and Liu Lai, you pay close attention to learning how to travel through. After you shadow me across two or three more continents, you’ll have to act on your own. You can’t rely on me forever."

"What I can teach you is limited," Gu Shanhai sighed, with a look that suggested he was doing all this for their benefit.

Gu Shanhai would have to leave one day, and all he could do now was to collect more heroes’ data to perfect his records. Being as brazen as he was, it was just a matter of time before he’d face retribution.

As for whether the Reincarnator Alliance could continue to exist after he left, that was out of his hands. He had taught them how to resist, and if they still couldn’t manage, there was nothing more Gu Shanhai could do; after all, he was not powerful enough to fight the entire Hero World.