Chapter 35: Its fivefold is still zero

But she clenched her teeth, trying to keep her body from trembling; if the reaction to the injected reagent was too violent, she would be tied up.

Lin Zhi Jing watched her painful yet stubborn expression, a flash of fanaticism for the experiment crossing his eyes.

This reagent is a pain-inducing agent; as the name suggests, whoever is injected will feel intense pain, but it does not cause any substantive harm to the body.

Yet the female before him could remain silent even after the injection, which shows she is qualified to be an experimental subject.

The drug's effect gradually faded, Ye Xi'an's hair was soaked through, but she felt her body—aside from some pain, she sensed nothing else.

Indeed, only human reagents are the most terrifying.

"Any more?"

Ye Xi'an asked weakly, wanting to finish the test quickly and go find Bao Jing.

Ji Jiangci and Yi Yang were also waiting for her at home; as for Ye Ling, she needed to figure out how to deal with him.

Who knows if that snake that once bit a person will, when you're off guard, strike again and give you a nasty bite.

Lin Zhi Jing picked up another yellow reagent, walked to Ye Xi'an lying on the test bench, and hesitated: "Don't rush, there's still plenty. This reagent is the Energy Enhancer I just developed; theoretically, it can increase a person's ability fivefold within ten minutes, which would also cause the user to enter a berserk state, so if I gave it to those muscular males I would definitely have to tie them up. But...."

He held the syringe, looking at Ye Xi'an as if examining cargo: "But for females like you, who only have mental and spatial systems, what would happen if we increased the energy fivefold?"

Lin Zhi Jing leaned down, his handsome face hovering over Ye Xi'an's head, his tone somewhat gloomy: "Do you want me to tie you up, or not?"

Ye Xi'an twitched the corner of her mouth: "Tie me if you want, don't if you don't; why act like a lunatic? Is pretending to be a mad person the tradition of these researchers?"

Ye Xi'an closed her eyes, not wanting to look at that smug face on her own: "Tie me up."

She was afraid she couldn't hold back and would beat him up.

Lin Zhi Jing nodded in satisfaction; he liked this cooperative experimental subject.

He raised his hand and snapped his fingers stylishly; suddenly four metal chains as thick as rolling pins shot up from under the test bench, passing through Ye Xi'an's arms and calves, fixing her in a spread-eagle position on the bench.

Ye Xi'an was dumbfounded—how is this different from before?

Before, she was always bound by the braided restraint straps from under the test bench, which went through her neck, chest, hips, and calves, wrapping her whole body like a caterpillar.

Now it's changed into this configuration.

She was still wearing a skirt; when it was pulled open, a sudden chill made her feel extremely embarrassed.

Ye Xi'an's face instantly flushed: "It's not you—how could you tie me like this? So unprofessional!"

Lin Zhi Jing raised his eyebrows, his handsome phoenix eyes taking on an inscrutable meaning: "How else have you been tied up before?"

If you said the little female had also been tied up by others for experiments, he wouldn't believe it—it must just be some marital fun; then he thought of the red mole on Ye Xi'an's arm, wondering if it was just for play and not for work.

Ye Xi'an, embarrassed, didn't want to speak, turned her head away from Lin Zhi Jing; being tied like this, well, she wouldn't lose any flesh, and she had to admit that since coming to this world, her social anxiety was about to be cured.

Lin Zhi Jing drew the reagent with an extremely fine needle, held it up to adjust the volume; the smooth lenses reflected the lab's ceiling light, while the eyes hidden beneath flashed with a sharp gleam—indeed he looked like a true experiment maniac.

He inserted the needle into Ye Xi'an's arm, slowly pushed the reagent into her body, stepped back, and observed her reaction.

Ye Xi'an closed her eyes and waited quietly for the reagent to take effect, but after a long time she felt nothing; she opened her eyes, looked at Lin Zhi Jing somewhat bewildered, and asked: "Did you inject the wrong thing?"

Lin Zhi Jing frowned; although it was strange that Ye Xi'an had no reaction, he was certain he hadn't injected the wrong reagent.

After a while he suddenly said: "Do you know what five times zero is?"

Ye Xi'an immediately answered: "Zero."

After she said that, she immediately realized what Lin Zhi Jing meant—he was implying her ability was too weak; even if increased fivefold, it would still be barely better than nothing.

When someone is speechless to the extreme, they laugh—just like Ye Xi'an now: "Hehehe, don't say I'm belittling you; my ability is strong, it's definitely your reagent that's problematic."

"What is your ability level?"

Ye Xi'an lay on the bed, puffed out her chest defiantly, and said in a lofty tone: "Level 1!"

"Heh.", Lin Zhi Jing sneered: "Indeed it's your problem, but it's fine; if one dose isn't enough, I'll just inject several more."

Anyone who dares to question his reagent having a problem must pay the price.

Lin Zhi Jing injected five doses of the Energy Enhancer in a row, leaving Ye Xi'an stunned.

Isn't scientific research supposed to be rigorous? Yet you'd inject so many doses just because one isn't enough?

Even if it were water, you wouldn't inject it like that!

As expected, right after the injection, Ye Xi'an felt her body undergoing a subtle change.

Her body began to shake violently; even if she tried to control it, she couldn't, but it didn't hurt—she just felt as if she were in a void, unable to sense the test bench beneath her, like floating in the deep sea.

Her body emitted countless white filaments, densely wrapping Ye Xi'an like a silkworm cocoon.

When her consciousness returned, Ye Xi'an discovered that her feeble mental power could actually spread out over a radius of ten li.

Her ability level also broke through from level one to level three.

Even through the wall she could see soldiers training outside, and fighter jets flying wildly all over the sky.

So could she find Bao Jing?

Thinking this, Ye Xi'an's mental power quickly swept the surroundings, and soon she saw Bao Jing still unconscious in a white room.

Bao Jing's black hair lay neatly on his forehead, his narrow eyes tightly shut, and his thick lashes cast a shadow beneath them.

He was deathly pale, his body wrapped in bandages, and the wing‑bone framework behind him, after treatment, was hoisted up by a machine.

Ye Xi'an wanted to touch Bao Jing's cheek, but her hand passed through his body; at that moment she clearly saw his brow twitch.

She urgently wanted to touch Bao Jing, then touch again, and discovered she could actually touch him?

At that moment, a commotion arose outside, and Lin Zhi Jing rushed in, face flushed with excitement, leading a squad of soldiers.

The instant he saw Ye Xi'an, the madness in Lin Zhi Jing's eyes could no longer be concealed.

"Come back with me!"

He now needed to immediately test all of Ye Xi'an's bodily data.

Ye Xi'an saw Lin Zhi Jing, finally realizing something was wrong—she wasn't supposed to be lying on the test bench? How did she end up here?