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Chapter 381 - 350: Ghost Infant

Chapter 381: Chapter 350: Ghost Infant

Despite the size of its resources and funds, the World Nuclear House is already a mid-tier guild, but under Zhangsun Yao’s leadership, it still retains the initial sense of camaraderie.

Following Li Cheng’s instructions, everyone stood in the surgery observation room, nervously watching Tie Gu put on a patient’s gown and lie down on the operating table through the one-way glass.

"First, sign the contract."

Li Cheng casually took out a scroll and handed it to Tie Gu, who was lying flat. In the slum, it’s prohibited for players to harm each other, so to perform surgery, a contract must be signed in advance. Some entertainment venues operate similarly.

Tie Gu traced a line across the surface of the scroll in the air, taking a deep breath nervously, "Doctor, will I be given anesthesia?"

"How can I perform surgery on you if I give you anesthesia?"

Li Cheng looked confused, wearing a mask and gloves, "Don’t worry, it’ll be over soon."

He then pressed his hand on Tie Gu’s chest, activating the Assembly Puppet·Modified effect. With a crisp sound, he effortlessly removed the entire chest bone along with the flesh.

Exposing the open chest and abdominal cavity, along with the internal organs inside.

"Whoa."

The people observing in the surgery room almost jumped in shock, You Anjian turned pale and spoke to Tie Gu through the observation room microphone, "Bro, does it hurt?"

"...No, it doesn’t."

Tie Gu lay on the operating table, looking uneasy and puzzled. He indeed felt no pain, just a cool sensation in his belly.

"Hmm... let me take a look."

Li Cheng placed Tie Gu’s chest bone aside in a sterile dish, bent down and carefully observed the exposed organs.

Nine, ten, eleven...a total of eleven ghost infants were nestled within Tie Gu’s chest and abdominal cavity, each holding onto organs such as the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.

The ghost infants, half-virtual and half-real, squinted their eyes and slightly opened their mouths filled with sharp teeth, sucking Tie Gu’s spiritual energy and blood.

Li Cheng first poked them with his fingers, which passed through their bodies. After contemplating for a moment, he took out the Toy Factory Key, the most mysterious item he had, and poked the ghost infants again.

This time, the key directly touched the ghost infants’ tangible bodies.

A ghost infant shrieked in pain, opened its eyes suddenly, and bit Tie Gu’s liver.

"Argh!"

The pain receptors in the liver capsule were stimulated, causing Tie Gu to break out in a cold sweat.

"It definitely can’t be violently removed."

Li Cheng nodded and again fell into contemplation.

These ghostly creatures can only be contacted by highly mysterious items, but upon contact, would immediately gnaw on Tie Gu, potentially causing severe internal injuries.

Wait a minute.

His eyes lit up, immediately pulling from the Three-dimensional Warehouse an IV stand, a box of fresh coconuts, a drink oxygenation machine, a red plastic bucket, and a bunch of miscellaneous small appliances.

"... What is he doing?"

In the observation room, You Anjian was baffled and unable to comprehend.

"Maybe he’s preparing casting materials?" A companion whispered, "Just like the grandpa in ’Jackie Chan Adventures,’ able to cast magic using dried geckos or dried pufferfish."

Poof!

In the next second, Li Cheng stuck a straw similar to those from Mixue Ice City into Tie Gu’s right neck blood vessel.

The red-gray blood contaminated by the ghost infants immediately flowed down the straw into the red plastic bucket.

?!

Are you slaughtering a pig and draining its blood? What’s next, adding salt, scallion, tofu, and cornmeal to make pig blood cake?

The best friends of Tie Gu from the World Nuclear House guild instinctively tried to rush into the operating room, but Zhangsun Yao waved her hand, releasing a barrier to block their steps.

"If you suspect someone, don’t use them. If you use them, don’t suspect them. I’ve known Ant for quite a while; he’s still reliable..."

Zhangsun Yao pursed her lips, also feeling a bit uncertain, "Right?"

While Li Cheng quickly drained Tie Gu’s blood on one side, he also activated the Assembly Puppet Effect, cracking open coconuts, pouring out coconut water, oxygenating it with the beverage machine, then putting it into plastic bags and hanging them on the IV stand.

After finishing all this, he stuck the second straw into Tie Gu’s left neck, transferring the oxygenated coconut water back into Tie Gu’s body.

Coconut water is sterile and has an osmotic pressure similar to blood, able to temporarily substitute for plasma in extreme conditions.

As for why Li Cheng didn’t use saline solution, it was simply because he wanted something sweet to drink.

Gulp gulp.

Li Cheng drank the remaining coconut water in one sip, wiping his mouth.

Under the absurd effect of Assembly Puppet·Modified, Tie Gu’s whole body blood was replaced with coconut water, yet he remained healthy and conscious.

But the ghost infants entrenched within Tie Gu’s body couldn’t take it, one after another, they opened their eyes.

Now, they can only suck coconut water, deprived of the vibrant blood of the body-enhanced Transcendent.

The ghost infants exchanged perplexed glances, their large heads filled with confusion.

Boss, this tastes off.

Before they could react, Li Cheng moved swiftly, using Assembly Puppet to remove all of Tie Gu’s internal organs, placing them into a sterile dish.

Then he picked up the air purifier, water pump, and grinder, stuffing them into Tie Gu’s chest and abdominal cavity as temporary organs.

Tie Gu, lying on the operating table, couldn’t feel pain nor see Li Cheng’s actions,

but he heard clinking and clattering noises, turning pale with fright, "Doctor, something feels wrong, are my internal organs still there?"

Li Cheng replied matter-of-factly, "Of course they are. Look, there’s a Jiuyang stomach, Midea heart, Gree lungs, Haier liver, and they’re functioning well."

??? Appliance countryside promotion.

Tie Gu was utterly bewildered, instinctively trying to sit up but was pressed back down by Li Cheng.

"Don’t move,"

Li Cheng glanced at the sterile dish, the eleven ghost infants realized what was happening, floated in the air, intending to return to Tie Gu’s body to continue inhabiting it.

Heh, Knight Never Dies Unarmed, activate!

Li Cheng’s eyes hardened, holding the Toy Factory Key, instantly mastering the Key Fighting technique, knocking away the eleven approaching ghost infants one by one.

The piercing cries filled the air, Zhangsun Yao and others instinctively covered their ears. Thankfully, the soundproofing effect of the Star-casting Anvil was good; otherwise, the patrons downstairs would definitely think the owner was listening to death metal rock.

Li Cheng multitasked, his right hand continuously knocking away the ghost infants while his left hand activated the Assembly Puppet Effect, cracking open Tie Gu’s skull, revealing the last ghost infant hidden in the brain.

This ghost infant was noticeably larger than its ordinary counterparts, firmly entrenched on the surface of the cerebral cortex.

Li Cheng couldn’t use the Coconut Water Technique to drive away this ghost infant, nor could he directly remove Tie Gu’s brain—he currently lacked any item that could completely replace the human brain.

The only solution was... Qilin Blood Plasma.

Li Cheng flipped his left hand, retrieving a large bottle of shimmering crimson liquid from the void, suspending it above Tie Gu’s head.

"..."

The ghost infant in the brain, sensing the extraordinarily rich life energy in the bloody scent, slowly opened its eyes, instinctively stretching its head out.

Now!

Li Cheng threw the Qilin Blood Plasma high into the air, using his freed left hand to grab the Ape-man Degeneration Gun, firing consecutively at the large ghost infant.

Bam bam bam bam bam bam!

All six bullets struck the ghost infant, causing its size to shrink continuously until it regressed to thumb size, Li Cheng grabbed it and threw it to the ground.

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