Chapter 169

The spirit branch of Energetics is often mentioned alongside the medical branch.

No named entities.

Because both offer good job prospects, and their study processes are equally difficult and profound.

No.

Moreover, due to the development of the times and technological progress, they have become increasingly difficult and profound.

No.

If this world had only humans, these two disciplines would have an obvious limit and should be exhausted.

No.

But unfortunately, this world is not only inhabited by humans; there are also extraterrestrials and even beings from other worlds.

No.

A completely new bodily structure, a completely new soul combination, and a completely new mental change.

No.

Each year, the stream of newly discovered life forms, spiritual entities, and new cases from exploring new regions and other worlds provides professors and graduate students with fresh directions—so the world is inexhaustible, and thus knowledge is boundless.

No.

Therefore, new projects and new experiments are a natural consequence.

No.

"You're using yourself as a test subject?"

No.

"This kind of experiment involves privacy and possibly safety, so it's probably best that I conduct it myself."

No.

The girl smiled while speaking, even glancing at the mercenary trainer who had just sat up straight, but she paid more attention to the light screen: "I recall there was also a junior girl like that in the high school division—wasn't her name Ailisuzhi? Lin Dun, the trainer."

Here we have:

- Ailisuzhi - from glossary.

- Lin Dun trainer - person name "Lin Dun". Also "trainer" is a generic role, not part of the name. So the named entity is Lin Dun.

- High school division (generic).

- junior female student

「？」 - no.

Omo, who had lifted his head from organizing the coupons, had an expression that was naturally somewhat subtle.

- Aomo - from glossary.

"She only personally goes up when she can't trick a lab mouse."

No named entities.

Zhouri Ningjing said this; as the trainer currently correcting the horse girls, Omo naturally had to defend his subordinates: "We've already launched the largest-scale long-term trial in which I personally serve as the test subject, okay?"

- Zhouri Ningjing - from glossary.

- Aomo - again.

- Horse Girl

Also "trainer" (generic).

It's a shame he couldn't handle the opponent, which immediately drew a sneer from Zhouri Ningjing: "It's really tough on you to describe a contracted race like that."

- Zhouri Ningjing - again.

- Hu Nong? Not sure. "Hu Nong" maybe a name? Could be a place? "Hu Nong" appears as a verb? Actually "Hu Nong cannot deal with the other party" maybe "Hu Nong" is a person's name? The phrase "Hu Nong cannot deal with the other party" maybe "Hu Nong" cannot deal with the other party. Could be a nickname? Not sure. Might be a verb: "hu nong" meaning "to mess up"? Not a name. Likely not a named entity.

Dazhenhan looked astonished at the two people, especially Zhouri Ningjing, having already received several shocks from her.

- Dazhenhan - from glossary.

- Zhouri Ningjing - again.

At first, she was shocked by the way the other's hair first popped out from the screen, a classic horror‑movie style entrance.

No.

Then she was struck by the other's appearance, which resembled her classmate named Manchester Tea Seat; finally, the other presented credentials from the URA Association.

- Manchester Chazuo (a place name).

Also "URA Association".

This young URA Association Inquiry Committee member—she hadn't even heard of it in all these years, and it made her wonder whether she had previously been too indifferent toward the association.

- URA Association.

- Inquiry Committee.

- Committee member (generic).

To be frank, those horse girls who have no intention of going to the association for development also don't really care about that place.

- Association (generic).

- Horse Girl (as a coined term).

Sometimes it's not just indifference; they even scold.

No.

The latter usually refers to unexpected situations involving competition regulations and rules, and they are not common.

- Competition (generic).

Dazhenhan has never encountered such a situation, but what she has faced also similarly requires the URA Association to appear.

- Dazhenhan.

- URA Association.

"Have I gone off topic? Shouldn't we continue to understand the current situation?"

No.

Although unrelated to the URA, the mercenary who can link personal matters to the situation shouted so, sounding as if he were considering the big picture, which made Dazhenhan feel she had been rude and collected her thoughts.

- ura (URA) maybe acronym.

- Mercenary (generic).

- Dazhenhan.

But the black‑haired woman arguing with him just scoffed, clearly aware that this was only because the mercenary was at a loss and thus forced to drag the conversation back to the main topic.

- Black‑haired woman (

Knowing that Ailisuzhi had these days been giving Mei Pu Bo Fang a new medicine, and although those medicines were fairly proper, making someone test this kind of "living body experiment" label is hard to pull off.

- Ailisuzhi.

- New medicine (generic).

- Mei Pu Bo Fang (a horse's name).

Also "living body experiment" (generic).

It's a shame he couldn't handle the opponent, which immediately drew a sneer from Zhouri Ningjing: "It's really tough on you to describe a contracted race like that."

- Zhouri Ningjing.

- Dazhenhan.

"Then let's continue—so did your experiment separate your negative energy?"

No.

"Yes, the direction of my first experiment assignment was the study of manor monsters."

- Manor Monster (a coined term).

"I understand that." Omo nodded.

- Aomo.

"You understand again?" "Yes, Narita Bai Ren should also understand."

- Narita Bai Ren (a person's name).

Considering that Zhouri Ningjing might not be familiar with Bai Ren, Omo deliberately gave his full name.

- Bai Ren (part of the name; see above).

"In her early years, to confirm and understand the shadow of the bound innate talent skill, she visited the excellent opera of the trampling monster, and later she even visited Miss Dazhenhan."

- Innate talent skill binding's shadow (generic).

- Trample Monster (a coined term).

- Miss Dazhenhan (honorific; see Dazhenhan).

"Yes, you know that very clearly."

No.

Dazhenhan is no longer easily shocked; it seems this matter was likely told to her by Senior Bai Ren.

- Dazhenhan.

- Bai Ren (a person's name).

But in fact he took a big detour.

No.

A certain junior high division horse girl who loves adventure stories deliberately visited several of the involved parties, and after obtaining permission, she adapted the process of "investigating manor monsters" into a short adventure tale and posted it on Umastagram.

- Junior high division (generic).

- Horse Girl (same as before).

- Investigating Manor Monster (a phrase).

- umastagram (likely a play on Instagram + Uma (horse)). This is a fan-fiction name for a social media platform. Should be kept as is? It's a coined term. We'll keep as "Umastagram". Not translate.

Omo not only looked at it, but also extracted some information that was partly true and partly false.

- Aomo.

Now the horse girl who wrote the piece has also advanced to the high school division; as one of the parties involved, Dazhenhan might still remember that juniors would turn this bland, plain research into an adventure story, but he finds it inconvenient to mention.

- Writing horse girl (generic).

- High school division (generic).

- Dazhenhan.

- Junior (generic).

All we can say is thank the horse girl called Desert Hero; however, when he earlier gathered public data, he also didn't know how many trainers and horse girls had "provided" assistance, so there are many people to thank.

- Desert Hero (a nickname).

- Horse Girl (again).

- Trainer (generic).

"Because Senior Bai Ren is deeply troubled by the 'shadow', my initial final‑year design was to start from the concept of the 'manor monster'..."

- Bai Ren senior female student (person name with honorific).

- Shadow (generic).

- Manor Monster (same as earlier).

Many people discuss professional knowledge in great detail, and the girl named Dazhenhan is clearly no exception.

- Dazhenhan.

However, this knowledge also indeed helps to understand the eucalyptus, so Zhouri Ningjing listened very attentively.

- Eucalyptus (generic). (We decided not to treat as name.)

And Omo, because he is quite concerned about the negative energy monster, has likewise done the same.

- Omo.

- Negative energy monster (generic).

"The 'manor monster' is a mechanism‑type condensed negative energy directly linked to the fate of horse girls."

- Manor Monster.

- Horse Girl.

- Negative energy condensation (generic).

Each time the manor racecourse opens, whenever 15 to 18 horse girls compete on the track, their heightened emotions strengthen the monster, so it grows faster than Senior Bai Ren's shadow; even if it is shattered, it can reappear, because the horse girls' fates likewise include confronting it as a trial.

- Manor Racecourse (a place name).

- Horse Girl.

- Racecourse (from glossary: Saichang).

- Bai Ren senior (person name).

- Shadow (generic).

"Even if shattered, it can regenerate, because many horse riders' lives involve this trial—do these trials require its existence?" Omo suddenly asked.

- Horse racing (generic).

- Omo.

"Yes, but after being shattered, the manor monster regenerates from scratch, so the horse girls of the past few years have not shown any abnormalities."

- Manor Monster.

- Horse Girl.

"What are you thinking?" Seeing Omo lost in thought, Zhouri Ningjing assumed he had gone off topic again and teased, "Are you wondering whether your two subordinates will encounter it next year?"

- Omo.

- Zhouri Ningjing.

"No."

No.

Glancing oddly at this oddball who might not care about horse girl races, Omo thought, "Next year's horse‑race field will be a chaotic frenzy of monsters—what worry could there possibly be?"

- Horse Girl.

- Racecourse (again).

- Omo.

By then, the horse girls won't even need to step on the ground; perhaps those who first return to the fish pond to blast fish with water buckets will simply smash the manor monster to pieces.

- Fish pond (generic).

- Water bucket number (generic).

- Horse Girl.

- Manor Monster.

Oh Dream Cup, the three goddesses' decree allows retired horse girls to attend the Dream Year, and even failed college‑division athletes can "live a second life".

- Dream Cup (a named item/trophy).

- Three Goddesses (generic).

- Retired horse girl (generic).

- Dream Year (a coined term).

- College division (generic).

- Athlete (generic).

In such high‑stakes matches, a negative‑energy aggregate that is still recovering its vitality can only be sustainably shattered.

- High‑end game (generic).

- Negative energy aggregate (generic).

Fortunately, it is merely a conglomerate of horse girls' desires, lacking any dominant ideology; otherwise, endless regeneration would be a curse directed at it.

- Horse Girl.

"I am thinking about the two negative‑energy monsters I encountered in the Boundary Gate District's foreign lands—could they also regenerate based on this principle?" This is Omo's real question. "Moreover, those two monsters clearly used Miss Dazhenhan's negative energy as a substrate, artificially induced to change; I guess they might have used horse girls as a culture medium."

- Boundary Gate District (a place name).

- Foreign land (generic).

- Negative energy monster (generic).

- Omo.

- Miss Dazhenhan (honorific; see Dazhenhan).

- Negative energy (generic).

- Horse Girl.

- Culture medium (generic).

"That's very plausible," Dazhenhan frowned, saying, "Although horse girls' spirituality is no different from that of most registered sentient beings, considering that I am using my negative energy for a second cultivation, compatibility is also important."

- Dazhenhan.

- Horse Girl.

- Negative energy (generic).

- Registered sentient beings (generic).

"Factor compatibility." Aomo's interface said.

He could certainly pick it up, after all, that was the speculation he had put forward.

"Yes, the fate of the horse girls, their authenticization—all the differences stem from the factor originally bestowed by the three goddesses!" Dazhenhan glanced at Aomo with some surprise.

She was obviously surprised that a trainer would pay attention to something that, being innate, is fixed and thus not a training variable, something that basically doesn't need to be understood at all.

Even those transmigrator trainers who care about this would only get a rough grasp of the situation and then ignore it, and over time they might even forget that such a thing exists.

"Unless there was an incomplete separation during infancy, otherwise it would have to be done by something that is also a divine relic."

"The newborn horse girls registered each year by ura are linked to the three goddesses' divine power, so swapping infants is simply impossible," Zhouri Ningjing said coldly, "At most they would start abducting and kidnapping children, even adults, and then test for the factor that matches yours."

"And there's the state of mind," Aomo added, "If the person in charge wants to strive for perfection, a similar state of mind is also indispensable, and to approach Miss Dazhenhan's state of mind back then—'lonely at the top'..."

Noticing Miss Dazhenhan's slightly embarrassed bowed head, Aomo paused and then said: "Although it's easy for horse girls to find superiority in humans, I believe those girls are inherently talented."

"So you mean changing the investigation angle, right!" As this topic inevitably stirs up anger, Zhouri Ningjing tightened her face, "g2 and even g1 talent—groups of horse girls who haven't returned home for several days!"

"We can't overlook the possibility that those girls aren't missing but are willingly participating in such things, and even that their state of mind similar to Miss Dazhenhan's could be artificial," Aomo said, turning his head to look at the girl who had already composed herself; such an atmosphere indeed leaves no room for personal embarrassment, "Miss Dazhenhan should understand what this means."

"Mental, the suppression, corruption, temptation, and fabrication of will—I have no intention of researching them, but their system is very complete," Dazhenhan sighed.

Each year, quite a few mercenaries also begin with the source-energy cultivation of this path; compared to law-abiding certificate holders, obviously those who break laws and disrupt order are more likely to become known, gaining fame online.

"Since they can all produce negative-energy monsters, they must certainly have some accomplishment in the mental system; moreover, some things don't require accomplishment—just needing to obtain a few expensive instruments, which is highly likely, and starting from our ultimate goal..."

Aomo didn't finish speaking, both because it wasn't yet necessary to mention the Yugel Company in front of Dazhenhan, and because he saw Zhouri Ningjing fall silent and close her eyes.

By this point, although Dazhenhan didn't quite understand, she had always been a well-behaved girl unlike her cold exterior, so naturally she didn't break this silence.

This silence lasted a few seconds; Zhouri Ningjing opened her eyes and bit her lip.

"... I'm going out for a smoke."

As it turned out, she still had this bad habit.

Watching her rise and walk toward the outdoors, Aomo leaned against the chairback and thought.

But at this moment, he also couldn't find any words of advice to give.