Chapter 142 Chapter 140 Debt Transfer

"At worst, if you die inside, you are considered a warrior. You can't be scared to death outside." Ge Gongdao stopped by the pond covered with mealworms and kept cheering himself up. "Hehe, hehe... Ge Gong said, you'll be fine."

"You talk too much." Zhuang Xuteng took off his underwear with trembling hands, endured the constant pain that traveled throughout his body, and put his left foot in it. "Shasha...it's so exciting..."

"How does it feel?" Ge Gongdao asked loudly.

"It's really covered with mealworms, and they can definitely bury you in it - it's much better than a bathtub." Zhuang Xuteng said, holding on to the wall of the pool with his hands, slowly moving his body, and finally putting both feet in. "Don't worry, mealworms have no mouths and have no ability to bite people. I'm not worried about them at all. I just don't know what this purple potion is."

"I don't know. Maybe after we finish the training, he will decrypt it..." Ge Gongdao gritted his teeth, first put his hand into the pool to feel it, then frowned and stripped himself naked. His movements were stiff, shaky and slow, like an old man in his dying years.

Zhuang Xuteng was already lying down, with his head submerged in the pool water. His body caved in and squeezed away the mealworms, and he was enveloped. The Famine Stranger was right, those squirming bugs brought nothing but itching.

Ge Gongdao was still in the process of slowly entering the water, and he was still trembling. Although laughter was not suitable for this scene, Zhuang Xuteng really couldn't help it. "Hahahahaha... It's so weird... I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. Hiss, haha, it hurts and itches! I didn't mean it, hahaha, does it look a bit perverted..."

"Damn it, fight!" Ge Gongdao's spirit continued to be tortured by Zhuang Xuteng's laughter, he couldn't bear it anymore! He pinched his nose with his hands, left his fate to gravity, and sat down. His pool was significantly deeper and had more mealworms. The water in the pool was rippling, and Gonggong Road was completely submerged and disappeared. Many mealworms were squeezed by him and floated on the water.

Zhuang Xuteng raised his hand to cover his laughter and kept staring at Brother Dao to see if he needed rescue. After a while, Brother Dao surfaced. He slowly spit out a mouthful of purple liquid, his eyes were closed tightly, and there were a few mealworms lying on his head and face. His body was still shaking, and he was obviously still trying to overcome his psychological resistance. "Don't say anything, feel it yourself..."

"Okay. Persevere and train." Zhuang Xuteng gradually got used to the itching, and at least he could hold back his laughter. He took his hand away and saw blood on his palm, knowing it came from the skin of his face. He suddenly thought of Meteor. She would get her face covered in blood when she was spying for information. He didn't expect me to do the same.

"I think what you did is right. You can't be shameless. It also needs treatment and should be soaked under the water." Zhuang Xuteng looked around and said, "Brother Dao, do you have a breathing device over there?"

"No...unless it's this." If Zhuang Xuteng didn't need him, Brother Dao would never open his eyes again and let mealworms enter his sight. "There is an iron pipe right next to the pool. Maybe you can hold it in your mouth and breathe?"

"If I have one here... Sure enough, it does. It seems that this thing is for us to breathe underwater - why didn't Mr. Ke tell us directly?"

"No... I don't know, maybe he wants us to find out by ourselves?" Brother Dao shook his body and closed his eyes again. "He must have said that we should understand it ourselves during the process of exploration."

"It seems like this." Zhuang Xuteng picked up the iron pipe and blew on his mouth. Its length is about twenty centimeters, which is completely sufficient. "Okay, Brother Dao, let's meet under the water. Don't forget to practice breathing and feeling your skin."

"Okay, okay, let's not talk anymore, I..." Before Ge Gongdao could finish his sentence, he had already sunk into the water with the pipe in his mouth.

Zhuang Xuteng smiled, held the tube with his hand, and also sank. In a short time, the mealworms had crawled all over his body, covering him tightly.

The skin is the largest organ of the human body, the main source of touch, and the first layer of protection for the body. It can be exercised to be very hard or very soft and silky. It is also one of the organs with the strongest self-healing ability in the human body.

Capillaries and nerves are spread throughout the skin, which is also one of the channels for the body to exchange material and energy with the outside world. Sweating to detoxify and warming up are all functions of the skin. Now Teacher Ke asks Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao to further develop the ability of the skin to make it a bridge to communicate with other creatures.

It sounds amazing, right? Zhuang Xuteng doesn't quite understand how to do such a thing. Teacher Ke said to them: Those people can make their skin not afraid of fire and cuts. The reason is actually the same.

The specially formulated purple potion is the medium, and the mealworms that absorb nutrients through the skin are teachers in another sense. The external conditions for training are already in place, and the guest teacher also teaches them breathing methods. The rest depends on their inner efforts.

Breathing is the core of dormant martial arts. It is actually a set of techniques for controlling the body. Among the various basic functions of the body, breathing is far more controllable than heartbeat, gastrointestinal motility, and hormone secretion. It is actually the gateway to controlling the inside of the body. All strengthening methods involving the internal organs begin with breathing.

Zhuang Xuteng strives to maintain a specific rhythm and concentrates on the subtle changes within the body. The expansion and contraction of the chest, the rhythm and intensity of the heartbeat, the pain and itching traveling in the nerves... Zhuang Xuteng slowly felt that he was becoming less like himself. He was manipulating his body from the perspective of a bystander; then, he He feels more like himself again because his ability to control himself is improving.

They need to make the skin learn to "breathe", just like the existing respiratory system. This does not mean turning people into frogs. Human skin can never be a way to exchange oxygen. Breathing here has two meanings: one is the control method, and the other is its exchange ability.

Human breathing can be done autonomously without being controlled, of course it can also be actively controlled. Dormant martial arts require the skin to breathe to this extent. As for the exchange ability, in addition to what the skin can do originally, under the effect of special potions, the skin will have the characteristics of the shadow implant.

There is no implant modification involved here. The skin is still the original skin and can still accept new implants. The "implant" feature here refers to deceiving other implants and making them think that the "human body" does not exist.

The ability of the implant and the side effects are an equivalent exchange. To have a strong ability, you have to pay a price, just like you have to pay back the money you owe, and you have to pay it back in time, otherwise the interest will roll up and it will cost you your life. The essence of the so-called side effect transfer is to deceive the implant and make them find the wrong "creditor". Starting from the skin, the human body is disguised as another implant, and it joins the ranks of creditors in disguise.

So who will bear the debt? It is the other animals around. Famine Stranger uses experimental mice because they are stable, easy to obtain, and have strong receptive capacity. Of course, the best receptors are organisms such as mealworms that can absorb nutrients through their skin, or amphibians that have the ability to breathe through their skin, represented by frogs. However, mealworms and frogs cannot leave the water environment for a long time, so they are not as convenient to carry as experimental mice.

You owe money and others pay it back, this is the essence of dormant martial arts. Famine Stranger was quite frank with his apprentice. He said that he was like a parasite, and this martial art is to greedily and ruthlessly absorb everything that does not belong to him.

"Once, all my mice died, and there were still many enemies. In order to survive, I put on the dying people and used them as stepping stones to kill them out - so this martial art can be used on any creature you can touch with your skin." Famine Stranger said: "But I don't recommend you to use other people. On the one hand, that condition is difficult to achieve, and on the other hand, there will be sequelae - you should practice normal first, and after you have experience, I will tell you about the improper ones."

Even if it is just to be able to listen to the improper ones, Zhuang Xuteng has to practice well. He continued to control his breathing, while paying attention to keeping his mind focused and controlling the rhythm of his body in a specific state. The purple potion entered through the wounds on the skin, healing them while acting as a medium between them and the mealworms.

The mealworms crawled around and it was very itchy, but they still only stayed on the touch, and the absorption and transformation effect did not appear. Zhuang Xuteng was a little anxious, because he was not sure whether these wounds could heal on time relying only on the purple potion, and whether the next training would be delayed.

After thinking about it, Zhuang Xuteng decided to add more to himself and activated the ear enhancement. In an instant, the sound of hundreds of mealworms swimming and crawling rushed into his ears, and his sensory ability was greatly enhanced. At the same time, the implant will have an impact on the body, and the side effects always need to find a bearer. At present, the bearer is still Zhuang Xuteng, but this time Zhuang Xuteng can use dormant martial arts to chase the side effects and collect debts from him.

Well, Zhuang Xuteng performed the bone spear technique with both hands, keeping it in his hands to simulate the effect of the bone spear pistol-the same is true for the shadow eye. Although they are necromancy spells, they also contain some shadow from technology, and the underlying principles are the same. Mental exhaustion and shock caused by mana consumption can also be regarded as side effects, which are creditors on another level.

Physical injuries, implant side effects, mana consumption, Zhuang Xuteng has found himself three times more creditors... Now, the debt pressure has become clearer, and the accumulation of interest has become more intuitive, and he has to continue to control his breathing, adjust his state, and constantly examine the changes in his body.

Perhaps the debt pressure is too great, they always have to find a breakthrough, and changes occur at this time. The adaptive implant, located in Zhuang Xuteng's arms, was originally designed to alleviate the side effects of shadow from firearms. It gave Zhuang Xuteng his first revelation.

Just like suddenly seeing a bright light in the dark, Zhuang Xuteng suddenly "enlightened": it turns out that the feeling of skin breathing is like this, or it should be like this. Through his arms, Zhuang Xuteng found the feeling, and he used this feeling as a reference to find a breathing rhythm that can make the feeling clearer and the exchange process more efficient. Then, he let his whole body enter that rhythm, and then let the feeling he found spread from his arms to his whole body.

Interestingly, wherever that feeling spreads, the itching will disappear. The mealworms seem to have become a part of his body, just like the upper and lower lips pressed together will not make each other feel itchy.

So, the mealworms were tricked by him to take on the debt...

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