I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Chapter 136: Chapter 131: Raising a Dung Eater

This time, Mrs. Yun didn’t refuse. She accepted the jar of Tier Three Evolution Honey Water readily. It was a gift from her son, so why stand on ceremony?

”You just wait. I have to evolve successfully. I’ll watch your back from now on!

”Once I reach Saint-level, if the Zhao Family dares to cause you trouble again, I’ll wipe them out! And Ye Muni... I’ll settle the score with him sooner or later!

”And the Filth Earth Organization... I’ll leave them to you. A young man needs to have his own goals.”

Mrs. Yun gave a dry cough. ’The Filth Earth Organization is a bit much,’ she thought. ’Even if I become a Saint-level Overlord, I still wouldn’t be strong enough to take them on.’

Liou Wenxin, however, looked a little puzzled. ”Where did you guys get this Evolution Honey Water? This stuff can’t be kept for five hundred years.”

Su Ze and Mr. Ya didn’t hide anything. Liou Wenxin and Mrs. Yun were people they trusted, so they immediately recounted the conflict they had with the four from Lin Hua Noble Academy.

The expressions of both Liou Wenxin and Mrs. Yun turned grave.

Liou Wenxin said, ”So you got the Bear Transformation Claw, the Thorn Armor Leaf, and the Evolution Honey Water from them?”

Su Ze nodded.

Mrs. Yun said sternly, ”Don’t use these two Anomalous Items casually, and definitely don’t sell them recklessly. That goes for the remaining Evolution Honey Water and the extracts and materials you got from them too. If you want to sell them, you must find someone reliable. It would be best to sell... no, contribute them to the Dongli National Treasury in exchange for contribution points.”

Su Ze agreed. ”Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing.”

Only then did Mrs. Yun and Liou Wenxin’s expressions relax slightly.

To lighten the mood, Su Ze changed the subject. ”I also got the Gravity Demon Extract this time. Mrs. Yun, you’d better work hard. Once I reach the Butterfly Stage, I’ll be counting on you to help me hunt Tier Four S-rank variant beasts. It shouldn’t be too long from now.”

Thinking of Su Ze’s terrifying rate of improvement, Mrs. Yun suddenly felt immense pressure. Clutching the jar of Evolution Honey Water, she headed for the door. ”I’m going back to practice my dancing.”

Su Ze watched Mrs. Yun leave and suddenly remembered he had a video of her dancing by herself... ’Maybe I should put a little more pressure on her?’

He turned his gaze to Liou Wenxin, admiring her delicate profile. ”Wenxin,” he asked, ”do you have a place to keep variant beasts in your lab?”

Liou Wenxin nodded subconsciously, then asked curiously, ”What kind of variant beast do you want to raise?”

Mr. Ya gave an awkward smile. ”It’s not him, it’s me. I want to raise a Feces-Eater.”

Liou Wenxin’s expression froze for a moment. She took a hard slurp of her milk tea, somewhat regretting having nodded.

But she didn’t say anything. She led Su Ze and Mr. Ya down to the lab’s basement, where facilities specifically for containing variant beasts had been built.

Some evolutionary experiments required live variant beasts, so the lab also housed some Tier One variant beasts for testing purposes.

”Mr. Ya, what tier is the Feces-Eater you want to raise?” Liou Wenxin asked.

She had been influenced by Su Ze and also preferred not to use Mr. Ya’s real name.

Mr. Ya replied, ”It’s a Tier Three, and it might not be long before it evolves to Tier Four.”

”Doesn’t that mean it’s about to undergo metamorphosis into a fly-type variant beast!” A deep interest lit up Liou Wenxin’s eyes. Her thirst for evolutionary knowledge had overcome a woman’s natural aversion to Feces-Eaters.

As one of the most unique variant beasts, Liou Wenxin had, of course, studied the Feces-Eater. However, she had never had the chance to study one that was about to evolve to Saint-level, let alone witness its evolution process firsthand.

This was a significant temptation for Liou Wenxin.

She immediately nodded. ”You can board it here. However, my most secure containment cell can only hold a Tier Three variant beast. Once it evolves into a Tier Four...”

Su Ze said, ”That’s fine. When the time comes, I’ll go ask Mr. Zhou for help to kill it and turn it into an extract.”

Mr. Ya quickly added, ”I’ll come feed it and clean its enclosure regularly.”

Liou Wenxin nodded, opened the door to a containment cell, and Su Ze went inside to release the Feces-Eater from his Earring Space.

Su Ze immediately exited the cell and locked the door tightly. The poisoned and injured Feces-Eater was a Tier Three variant beast, after all. It had mostly recovered by now, but escaping from this fully enclosed cell was definitely impossible.

Liou Wenxin peered through the small window at the chubby Feces-Eater inside the cell, her eyes filled with intense interest.

She asked, ”What do you plan to do with the Tier Four fly-type variant beast extract? When you get it, can you let me study it first?”

Mr. Ya said, ”I plan to absorb the extract, but Dr. Liou, please feel free to study it. It’s not too late for me to absorb it after you’re done.”

Liou Wenxin was a little surprised. She didn’t expect Mr. Ya would want to absorb a Tier Four fly-type extract. That was a blind box. If he got lucky, its upper limit was equivalent to an S-rank extract. But if his luck was bad and he absorbed a low-level skill, wouldn’t he be setting up an obstacle for his future fourth evolution?

Every skill was imprinted on an Evolver’s genes. The more high-level skills they absorbed, the higher the ”level” of their genes, and the higher their future success rate of evolution would be.

This was also why someone at the Butterfly Stage had to absorb at least three vials of high-grade Tier Four extract to meet the threshold for the fourth evolution. It wasn’t just because of the greater physical enhancement from high-grade extracts; it was also closely related to skill quality.

Su Ze remained silent, as this involved Mr. Ya’s secret.

But after a moment of thought, Mr. Ya took the initiative to tell Liou Wenxin about his ”curse.”

”Something like that exists?”

A strong interest once again surged in Liou Wenxin’s eyes. The way she looked at Mr. Ya was exactly the same as how she had looked at the Feces-Eater in the cell.

Mr. Ya shivered. He had a feeling that in the next second, Dr. Liou would take out a scalpel and dissect him.

In the end, Mr. Ya left some of his hair, fingernails, blood, and other bodily tissues for Liou Wenxin to study, then fled the lab with Su Ze.

...

Back at the villa, Su Ze and Mr. Ya began to divide the loot.

The Abyss Shadow Lord Extract would go to Mr. Ya, and the Storage Ear Pendant would go to Su Ze. This was something the two had agreed on long ago.

The Abyss Shadow Lord Extract was clearly more valuable, so Mr. Ya didn’t intend to take any of the remaining three Anomalous Items. However, Su Ze insisted on giving him the Bear Transformation Claw.

”Your survival abilities are maxed out right now; what you’re lacking is offensive power. Although this Bear Transformation Claw is only a Tier Two Anomalous Item, it can give you some offensive capability. It’s not much use to me, so just take it.”

Mr. Ya thought about it and realized it made sense. He had long considered using an Anomalous Item to compensate for his lack of offensive power, so he might as well give it a try.

With this Bear Transformation Claw, he could at least easily wear down an opponent at the Cocoon Stage.

The Thorn Armor Leaf was a defensive Anomalous Item. Mr. Ya’s defensive capabilities were already overkill, so he had no need for it. Su Ze, on the other hand, happened to lack any defensive skills, so he kept it.

As for the Anomalous Item formed from the skin of a Hundred-Change Octopus, Su Ze named it the ”Hundred-Change Mask.” This was exactly what Su Ze, who had numerous enemies, needed most.

Obtaining these two Anomalous Items immediately made up for Su Ze’s shortage of them.

Of his previous two Anomalous Items, the Head of the Wailer and the ”Traceless Walker,” the Head of the Wailer had become almost useless since he entered the Cocoon Stage.

Against enemies of the same tier, Su Ze could simply steamroll them without needing an Anomalous Item. Against enemies of a higher evolution level, the Head of the Wailer was ineffective.

In contrast, the Tier One Anomalous Item ”Traceless Walker” was still somewhat useful.

Su Ze had originally planned to pay Mr. Ya 1.5 billion as a reward for Hunting the Gravity Demon, but Mr. Ya didn’t accept it, because Su Ze had also helped him capture the Tier Three Feces-Eater alive.

In the end, the two decided to sell all the remaining materials and extracts they couldn’t use and split the profits. As for the few jars of Tier Two Evolution Honey Water, Su Ze kept two for Liou Wenxin and prepared to sell the rest.

The item was used to increase the success rate of evolution, which Su Ze himself had no use for. It was almost impossible for his evolution to fail.

Although they said they would sell them, how they sold them required careful consideration to maximize profit while ensuring safety.

Selling to Evolutionary Technology through Xu Sheng might fetch a slightly higher price, but for low-tier extracts and materials, they would only pay cash, not exchange them for points.

As his evolution level increased, Su Ze increasingly felt that having more money was useless, as it couldn’t buy high-level Evolution Items.

He still had a hundred million on his card. With just daily expenses, it would take forever to spend it all.

Moreover, those low-level materials and extracts were almost all taken from the people from Lin Hua Noble Academy. Selling them to Evolutionary Technology, while unlikely to be traced, was not entirely without risk.

”Let’s sell all the materials and extracts that can’t be exchanged for Evolutionary Technology Points to the state,” Su Ze said.

As public officials of the Dongli Kingdom, they couldn’t really ”sell” things; it should be called ”submitting” or ”contributing.” The reward Dongli gave them would also be much lower than the market price, but it wouldn’t be money. It would be contribution points.

And contribution points could be used to exchange for high-level Evolution Items from the Dongli National Treasury!

Furthermore, submitting them to the Dongli National Treasury was completely safe and couldn’t be traced.

”As for the high-grade Tier Three extracts and materials, we’ll sell all of them to Evolutionary Technology in exchange for their points. These things were found in the Earring Space, so their origin is clean.

”To be on the safe side, let’s also submit those jars of Tier Two Evolution Honey Water to the state. That stuff is too conspicuous.”

Su Ze’s considerations were very thorough, so Mr. Ya naturally had no objections. He nodded repeatedly. ”You call the shots.”

Su Ze immediately contacted Xu Sheng and arranged for him to come and pick up the items tomorrow.

Then, he sent a message to Zhang Tai to ask about the procedure for ”contributing” resources to the state.

It was already late, so Su Ze decided to get these matters taken care of first thing tomorrow morning.

Mr. Ya stood up. ”I’m heading back to absorb the Abyss Shadow Lord Extract.”

He had yet to absorb an extract after completing his third evolution. Now that he had the Abyss Shadow Lord Extract, he naturally wanted to absorb it as soon as possible. The sooner he absorbed it, the sooner he could assimilate it.

”Why don’t you just absorb it here?” Su Ze suggested.

He wanted to see if Mr. Ya’s ”curse” really worked and if it would guarantee he’d absorb the best survival skill from the extract.