I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Chapter 142: Chapter 136: One Glimpse of Ye Jin Wastes a Day

Inside the cell was a large octopus.

It was about the size of a sow.

The octopus quickly scuttled up the wall, constantly shifting its position as if preparing to attack.

Ye Jin stood calmly before the cell door and asked Su Ze, ”Do you know why I wanted to absorb the Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract?”

”Miss Ye, were you after the ’Frenzied Electric Body’ skill?” Su Ze guessed.

Frenzied Electric Body was the strongest and most iconic skill from the Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract. It allowed the user to store electricity, imbue their attacks with electric shocks, and insulate their own body.

Mrs. Yun had mastered this skill.

Ye Jin nodded. ”It’s mainly to add an electric shock effect to my attacks.”

Just as she finished speaking, the octopus suddenly leaped up, jumping straight for Ye Jin’s face.

Ye Jin retreated two quick steps, sidestepping the attack and lightly tapping the octopus with one finger.

Su Ze then watched as the octopus began to writhe madly on the ground.

Its skin gradually turned a shade of green as blue blood seeped from it. Meanwhile, a few small flames erupted from the spot Ye Jin had touched.

The massive octopus looked as if it had fallen ill. It grew weaker, its writhing more and more feeble.

But its ferocity hadn’t diminished, and it lashed out at Ye Jin with several tentacles.

Her movements were swift. She dodged in a flash and touched the octopus again.

Then she pulled Su Ze back a good distance, and they quietly watched the octopus.

After Ye Jin’s second touch, the various negative status effects on the Pupa Stage octopus intensified. As time passed, it rapidly weakened, and parts of its body began to corrode and fester.

Su Ze was beginning to understand. It looked like Ye Jin had only touched the octopus twice, but she had inflicted a ton of negative effects on it.

From what he could tell, these included poison, burn, and bleed effects.

’Could this be the fighting style Ye Jin pioneered? What would you even call it? The Attack Effect build? The Negative Status Stacking build?’

’No wonder she wanted the Deep-Sea Electric Eel’s Frenzied Electric Body skill. That way, she could stack another powerful electric shock effect.’

’How should I put this... There’s really something to this,’ Su Ze thought.

He’d have to wait and see just how much potential it had, though.

It shared some similarities with Su Ze’s own ”every basic attack is a skill” philosophy. But while Su Ze relied on overwhelming power, Ye Jin stacked various skill effects to make her basic attacks hit like an ultimate ability.

At that moment, the giant octopus finally stopped writhing and breathed its last.

”So? Impressive, right?” Ye Jin asked, a confident smile on her face.

”Very impressive! Miss Ye, you’re quite innovative!” Su Ze praised her generously.

Ye Jin smiled. ”I studied evolutionary science to help me develop and perfect this build. The foundation is agile movement and solid survival skills. Once I can guarantee my own safety, I can focus on stacking various skills that attach to my attacks.

”Right now, a single casual strike can apply several negative effects: poison, burn, bleed, reduced healing, and disease. And my build isn’t even complete yet. The more skills I master later on, the more effects my attacks will carry, and the stronger I’ll become!”

”Once you’ve perfected your art, Miss Ye, I bet Dongli will have another Guardian God,” Su Ze said, laying on the flattery.

Ye Jin beamed, feeling like she had met a kindred spirit.

”Miss Ye, what do you call this build?”

”Um...” Ye Jin fell into thought. ”I haven’t decided yet.”

”What do you think of calling it the ’All Dao Return to One’ build?” Su Ze suggested.

Ye Jin’s eyes lit up. ”That’s a great name!” she said, delighted. ”Thousands of skills, all channeled into a single strike.”

She found herself liking Su Ze more and more.

Su Ze felt he had done enough. He didn’t plan on following Ye Jin back to her office. He had only come because he was curious to meet her.

Now that he’d met her and spent some time with her, he hadn’t noticed any real problems. She was good-looking, had a decent personality, and was filthy rich.

Still, Su Ze had no interest in matchmaking or anything of the sort. He wasn’t even an adult yet, so there was no rush.

Besides, he had a feeling Miss Ye didn’t even know Ning Yushen intended to set them up.

Su Ze walked Ye Jin to her office door, then stopped. ”Well, Miss Ye, I’ll let you get back to it. I won’t disturb you any longer.”

Ye Jin blinked her large eyes. ”You’re not disturbing me. I’m not really busy. Why don’t you come in and sit for a while?”

Su Ze froze. ’That was just a polite way of saying goodbye,’ he thought. ’Any normal person should have understood that.’

Su Ze had no choice but to be more direct. ”No, thank you. It’s not every day I get to visit a naval base. I was planning on looking around a bit.”

”Then I’ll go with you! You’re our guest, and I happen to be free. I can be your guide.”

’Miss Ye sure is enthusiastic and polite,’ Su Ze thought, ’but is she genuinely not getting the hint, or just pretending...? I can’t tell. From our interactions so far, she doesn’t seem like the scheming type.’

’Could my charm be so great that I’ve already swept her off her feet, and now she can’t bear to leave my side? ...Nah, that can’t be it.’

Su Ze was starting to get a nagging feeling that something was off.

But since she’d put it that way, he had no choice but to agree. ”Then I’ll have to trouble you, Miss Ye.”

And so, the two of them set off on another tour of the base.

The entire way, the conversation never stopped. They just kept chatting.

It wasn’t that Su Ze wanted to talk, or that he even had that much to say. It was simply that Ye Jin never let the conversation die. She replied to every single thing he said, never allowing for an awkward silence.

Su Ze also realized it wasn’t that she was particularly chatty; it was just a matter of pure politeness. She would respond to anything anyone said and would proactively offer up new conversation starters for them to respond to.

She wasn’t chirping or chattering nonstop. She wasn’t long-winded. She just carried on a normal conversation with you.

For example, if you asked her, ”Have you eaten?”

She would tell you whether she had or not, and would invariably add, ”And you?”

If you said, ”The weather’s nice today.”

She would definitely agree and then follow up with questions like, ”Do you prefer sunny days or rainy days?” or, ”What do you think that cloud up there looks like?”

The good thing about talking with her was that there was never an awkward silence. The bad thing was that there was *never* an awkward silence.

You had no idea when the conversation would ever end.

Su Ze was suddenly beginning to understand why people avoided Miss Ye. ’Surely she isn’t like this all the time, right?’

’Who could possibly stand this?’

’Who could handle it?’

Su Ze’s mouth was getting dry, but Ye Jin didn’t seem to notice, relentlessly continuing the conversation.

’Should I just ignore her? Stop replying and end the conversation?’

’But she’s so enthusiastic and polite. Just ignoring her would be incredibly rude.’

’And then there’s her Overlord grandmother to consider...’

’An Overlord grandmother who has the Mutated Electric Eel Extract he wants...’

Su Ze could only bite the bullet and keep the conversation going.

He finally managed to hold out until dinnertime. Su Ze saw his chance to escape, but Ye Jin enthusiastically invited him to eat with her.

When they arrived at the cafeteria, any soldiers they passed gave them a wide berth. Not a single person came within a twenty-meter radius.

This gave Su Ze a taste of Miss Ye’s deterrent power. It seemed her reputation was well known.

The crucial part was that she herself seemed completely oblivious, not noticing how everyone was avoiding and distancing themselves from her.

Su Ze was exasperated. ’Miss Ye, can’t you have a little sense of personal boundaries?’

’She’s such a nice girl, how can she be so clueless!’

’No wonder your grandmother is worried you’ll never get married.’

’Speaking of which, do you even have any friends?’

Su Ze ate dinner with Ye Jin. On their way out, he even resorted to the ultimate escape tactic: the bathroom excuse. But the girl actually waited for him right outside the restroom entrance!

Su Ze was at his wit’s end.

’Fine,’ he thought. ’We’ll just keep talking, then.’

He gave up on trying to run. It was dark already, anyway. If he just held on a little longer, the day would be over.

’She can’t possibly make me stay the night, right?’

Finally, a little past eight in the evening, Su Ze successfully escaped Ye Jin’s clutches with the excuse that he ”needed to go back and rest.”

He finally understood what her nickname, ”Time Devourer,” meant.

Ever since meeting Ye Jin that afternoon, he hadn’t gotten a single thing done. The day had just slipped by, his time successfully devoured.

In truth, Ye Jin’s personality wasn’t that scary. What was scary was that she had an Overlord grandmother...

Su Ze shook his head and walked toward the base exit.

Ning Yushen hadn’t returned all day, so he planned to come back tomorrow.

Jia Yuan had offered to arrange lodging for him earlier, but he had refused. So now, he planned to find a hotel outside the base for the night.

But just as he reached the gate, he saw the same tall, thin soldier who had taken him to see Ye Jin earlier.

The tall, thin soldier was smiling. ”Mr. Jia told me to wait for you here. He’s already arranged lodging for you and wants me to take you there.”

”Mr. Jia must have predicted I wouldn’t be able to get away until now,” Su Ze said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. ”Is Miss Ye always like that?”

The tall, thin soldier suppressed a laugh. ”We have a saying around here: ’A moment with Ye Jin costs you a day.’ Sometimes you just say hello to her in the morning and, whoops, there goes your entire day.”

”Truly terrifying,” Su Ze said from personal experience. He decided that the next time he saw Miss Ye, he would have to give her a wide berth.

The soldier lowered his voice. ”I heard that after Miss Ye graduated, she originally planned to stay at Dongli University as a teacher. But Mr. Zhou, the headmaster, personally delivered her here.”

”Is that so?”

Su Ze recalled Zhou Wenshan’s mischievous smile. ’That old codger didn’t even give me a warning. He just wanted to watch me suffer for his own amusement. In that case, what if I...’

’...tricked Miss Ye into going back to Dongli University and let Zhou Wenshan deal with the headache?’

A mischievous smile spread across Su Ze’s face. The plan seemed entirely feasible. It was worth a shot.

’Letting the faculty and students of Dongli University once again remember the terror of being dominated by Ye Jin... Just the thought of it was amusing.’

The lodging Jia Yuan had arranged for Su Ze was right inside the naval base, and he quickly arrived there with the tall, thin soldier as his guide.

He entered the room and looked around. It wasn’t luxurious, furnished in a spartan, military style, but it had all the necessities.

Su Ze washed up, practiced his Swan Dance for a while, and then went to bed.

Early the next morning, Su Ze was jolted from a deep sleep by a piercing alarm.

Outside, Jia Yuan’s voice boomed from a loudspeaker: ”All hands, assemble!”