Chapter 203: Wanna Try?

Chapter 203: Wanna Try?

“Hmm… no effect on inanimate objects; it can only attach, right?” Zheng Yichen mumbled, pinching his chin as he watched the eyeball land on a stone slab. The veins spreading around the eyeball pulled on the semi-solidified mucus, wriggling slightly, keeping it moving slowly.

After observing for a while, this creepy thing was actually crawling spontaneously toward him and Lily. Their targets were simply whoever was closest to “themselves.”

Touch it? Zheng Yichen didn’t do that. Instead, he grabbed a small animal and tossed it onto one of the eyeballs. The mucus around the eyeball reacted immediately upon touching the small animal. The mucus actually began invading it, but the startled little creature easily pulled it off… Okay, this thing was just too fragile.

Before the eyeball could be crushed, Zheng Yichen directly restrained the small animal’s movements. He watched the eyeball’s follow-up actions. It took a full half hour for the mucus clinging to the animal’s surface to merge into its body. The veins also merged along with the mucus. At first glance, it looked like a tumor had grown on it.

Then, after about another hour, the traces of the merge completely disappeared. However, the eye itself remained. It moved, transferring to the small animal’s head area, and even forcefully squeezed toward its eye socket, overlapping with one of its own eyeballs.

This turned the little animal, which originally had blue eyes, into one with blue and red eyes.

“Huh… Parasitism?” Zheng Yichen pinched his chin and observed for a moment. After discovering this parasitism, he actually couldn’t find any way to remove it. Should he just gouge out the small animal’s eyeball? That seemed a bit cruel. How about trying another one?

But this time, when the mucus-covered eyeball touched the small animal, it showed no reaction at all. “Only one host?”

Zheng Yichen thought for a bit, then collected all the remaining mucus eyeballs. Besides the one he used, six were left. As for the little animal looking at him with teary eyes, Zheng Yichen directly tossed it into Lily’s arms. Anyway, this thing’s lethality was almost zero. That little lolita was already nearly turning into a super-strong lolita; letting her hold it was fine. They had wasted quite some time already; he could research the rest on the way!

Along the journey, Lily’s basket gained six different harmless little animals. Zheng Yichen had roughly figured out the mucus eyeballs. First, these things were genuinely quite useless. They couldn’t merge into any creature with even a bit of mana; they only worked on ordinary creatures. Also, the stronger the creature, the slower the parasitism. Even for similar creatures like rabbits, complete parasitism took at least an hour and a half.

What use was such a long time?

Zheng Yichen now had only one mucus eyeball left. This one was prepared for some follow-up processing to make full use of it. Put simply, his research along the way made him discover that these mucus eyeballs had a certain connection among themselves. They still maintained the effect of “seeing,” but the link to the lens Zheng Yichen originally wanted to connect was broken. So, to see images, another method was needed.

He already had a preliminary idea for a method, but implementing it specifically would take a bit more time. So, after changing locations and temporarily staying, Lily propped her chin, puffed her cheeks, and stared at Zheng Yichen. At this moment, Zheng Yichen had undoubtedly fallen into a new research state. Before her were many test tubes and other connected transparent tubes, filled with eerie liquids of various colors.

During the processing, she accidentally saw a drop of liquid that Zheng Yichen carelessly spilled react with the ground. The ground was directly corroded into a sizable pit!

She was confused. What did what Zheng Yemen was doing now have to do with getting stronger?

“Woohoo! Done!” Zheng Yichen looked with satisfaction at a small square box in front of him. Inside was some transparent liquid enveloping something resembling a contact lens. However, the edges of this contact lens had many faint “blood vessels.” These blood vessels gently floated and wriggled. After inspection, Zheng Yichen had understood the structure of that mucus. The mucus part was mainly semi-magic potion stuff. It became like that because it mixed with other substances and underwent some unknown changes. The reason it seemed semi-living was because those rabbit eyes still maintained life activity when Zheng Yichen processed them.

The mucus part was like the “body.” Without that body, the eyeball would quickly wither and die. But there were always ways to solve this situation, right? For example, a human brain could be separately removed and its life functions maintained. Zheng Yichen now possessed quite a few similar methods from some forbidden alchemy knowledge he had mastered.

The extracted eyeball retained its mutated characteristics. After follow-up processing, it became this contact lens state. When not in use, it must be placed in this liquid to maintain its activity. Otherwise, this contact lens would quickly “die” and lose effect.

If used by someone with power, they must withdraw the mana’s passive protection on themselves… How to use it? Just use it as a contact lens, of course!

“Wanna try?” Zheng Yichen waved the container holding the contact lens, which was at least three times larger than a normal contact lens, in front of Lily.

The little lolita tightly clenched her small face and vigorously shook her head, indicating she had absolutely no interest. Zheng Yichen slightly pursed his lips. Really, no spirit of dedication at all. This thing looked big and seemed very difficult to insert into an ordinary person’s eye. Actually, it didn’t need to be laid flat into the eyeball. This thing itself had strong plasticity. Even if folded and put into the eye, it would soon unroll and lay flat. Moreover, based on the two isolating films Zheng Yichen coated on it, it could partially merge with the wearer’s eye but not completely merge.

As for when not using it? Just pull it out. The few blood vessels connected to it were very fragile; a gentle pull would break them. The parts left in the eye… Hmm, they weren’t the main body anyway. Without the main body’s blood vessels, those parts would easily be decomposed and absorbed by the human body. No need to worry at all, because the main components of those blood vessels were magic potion that enhanced individual activity, mutated and transformed.

Absorption was just absorption.

Seeing Lily refuse, Zheng Yichen said nothing more. To see if it matched his plan and calculations, he still needed to try. Muttering, a mana thread wrapped around the contact lens in the container and flung it into Zheng Yichen’s left eye. This magically modified contact lens awkwardly stuck onto Zheng Yichen’s eye; no matter what, it couldn’t penetrate the naturally tough protective membrane on his eye…