Anime Crossover: The Small Workshop System's Aggressive Feeding

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Dozens of hostile gazes, like tangible swords, were fixed on Zhou Ye. Some of the villagers, whose bodies had undergone more extensive modifications, began to emit low hums from their mechanical structures, preparing for battle.

Ma Xianhong's expression changed instantly. He pushed up his glasses, narrowed his eyes behind the lenses, and said in a low, cold voice, "Friend, how did you get in? We don't welcome outsiders in Biyou Village."

His words carried an undeniable air of expulsion; as the king of this "kingdom," he had to maintain order and peace here.

However, Zhou Ye completely ignored his questioning. Like a curious tourist, he looked around with great interest, his gaze sweeping over each of the transformed villagers, occasionally nodding slightly as if evaluating some exhibit.

"Using technology to create objects to carry and guide Qi is a good idea, a new branch of artifact crafting. Unfortunately, the underlying logic has a fundamental flaw." Zhou Ye's gaze fell on a man whose legs had been replaced with multi-legged machines, and he casually commented, "There are delays and conflicts in the conversion between biological neural signals and mechanical commands. Forcing a fusion will only accelerate the disorder of your own life magnetic field. You have nightmares every night now, feeling like your lower body doesn't belong to you, right? In two years, your brain will be completely burned out by these erroneous signal flows, turning you into a true vegetable."

He then looked at another woman who had transformed her arm into a cannon barrel: "The design of the energy circuit is too crude. A large amount of Qi dissipates during the conduction process, turning into useless heat energy. Every time you use your ability, you feel a burning and stinging sensation in your arm, right? This is burning your own life force. You call this Completion? In my opinion, it's more like drinking poison to quench thirst, a form of suicide."

Every comment he made was like a precise scalpel, cutting through the carefully constructed facade these "superior talents" were so proud of, revealing a bloody, cruel truth beneath—a truth they themselves might not even be aware of. The faces of those he named instantly turned deathly pale, their eyes filled with undisguised terror. Because what Zhou Ye said was absolutely accurate.

Ma Xianhong's heart sank. His opponent had not only seen through the principles of his "Divine Refinement" creation at a glance, but also knew its side effects and hidden dangers perfectly! This was no longer a simple matter of eyesight; it was an absolute, superior, and technologically superior crushing victory!

Zhou Ye continued his critique, but his gaze was no longer fixed on the "defective products." He weaved through the bewildered crowd and finally settled on a quiet, expressionless girl in a corner.

Chen Duo.

The girl, dressed in a faded tracksuit, stood there quietly, as if separated from the surrounding frenzy and tension by an invisible membrane.

For the first time, Zhou Ye's gaze became focused. He wasn't looking at a girl, but at a complex "work" full of contradictions and ingenuity.

"The original Gu poison and the living organism are forcibly fused together through unconventional means, and the individual's life level is forcibly elevated through a symbiotic contract. The price is irreversible systemic poisoning and the complete locking of the mental level by the survival instinct of the Gu poison."

Zhou Ye's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone in the square. His words were devoid of any emotion, purely technical analysis, but it was precisely this cold dissection that plunged the entire scene into a deathly silence.

He not only recognized Chen Duo, but also used a language that most of them couldn't understand, yet whose description alone was chilling, to accurately summarize the essence of the "Gu-body Saint Child".

This is the deepest secret of Biyou Village, the original intention behind Ma Xianhong's establishment of this village, even at the cost of making enemies of the entire world of supernatural beings!

"who are you?!"

Ma Xianhong finally lost his composure. He swiftly stepped in front of Chen Duo, completely shielding the girl's frail body. His face was extremely grim, his eyes filled with anger and panic at having his deepest secrets exposed.

"What do you want to do to Chen Duo?!"

As his emotions surged violently, the clothes on his back silently ripped open, revealing dozens of mechanical arms gleaming with cold metallic light. They suddenly unfolded like a peacock spreading its tail feathers, accompanied by a tooth-grinding mechanical creak, with all their attack points aimed directly at Zhou Ye.

That was his masterpiece, his fighting form—Ru Hua.

The atmosphere in the entire square froze at that moment.

Seeing Ma Xianhong looking as if he were facing a formidable enemy and ready to fight to the death, Zhou Ye finally smiled. His smile held a hint of helplessness, and a touch of tolerant indulgence, like watching a child misbehave.

"take it easy."

He shrugged, speaking as casually as if he were talking about something trivial.

"I'm just a doctor who was passing by. I saw that there were quite a few people here who were quite ill, so I came over to give you a free physical examination."

His gaze passed over Ma Xianhong's shoulder and landed on Chen Duo's numb and pale face.

"Let's start with her."

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Chapter 377 Healing Chen Duo

Ma Xianhong's rationality completely collapsed the moment Zhou Ye said, "Let's start with her." Protecting Chen Duo and healing her was his obsession, the root of all his actions. Anyone who tried to harm Chen Duo was his mortal enemy.

"court death!"

With a roar, "Ru Hua" behind him moved. Dozens of mechanical arms of various shapes broke the sound barrier in an instant, whistling sharply as they rained down on Zhou Ye from all directions like a storm. Some arms had sharp drills at their tips, others were high-speed spinning cutting wheels, and still others were wrapped with high-voltage current. Each strike was enough to split mountains and easily tear a tank to pieces.

The villagers of Biyou Village were horrified and retreated hastily, fearing they would be caught in the blast of this violent attack. For many of them, this was the first time they had ever seen their village chief unleash his full power.

However, this saturation attack, which was enough to make any expert feel despair, turned into a scene that made everyone's eyes almost pop out of their sockets the next second.

Those ferocious, gleaming mechanical arms suddenly froze in mid-air, half a meter away from Zhou Ye's body.

There was no violent collision, no clash of energy, not even a sound. They were like a movie scene paused on time, or like they were instantly trapped in solidified cement, remaining motionless in their various ferocious attack postures.

Time seemed to be frozen in this small space.

"The micro-energy core driven by Qi has too low power. Multi-threaded operation leads to instruction delays, and the structure is too bloated. It sacrifices speed and flexibility for functional diversity, which is a typical design flaw."

Zhou Ye stood at the center of the attack, not even the hem of his clothes fluttering. He even had the leisure to give a final, emotionless evaluation of Ma Xianhong's proud "Ru Hua".

He shook his head, seemingly somewhat disappointed with this "work." Then, he simply raised his hand casually and waved it lightly in front of him.

An invisible, irresistible force, transcending the concept of "Qi," instantly acted upon Ma Xianhong.

Ma Xianhong felt an overwhelming force, yet it was also incredibly gentle. He and the massive, heavy "Ru Hua" behind him were lightly pushed away by this force, flying backward for more than ten meters before finally crashing into a wall at the edge of the square.

With a muffled "boom," the wall cracked like a spiderweb as the mechanical arm behind him slammed into it, yet he himself didn't suffer a single scratch. The force that pushed him away had already dissipated all the impact the moment it struck.

This is both a demonstration of absolute power and a manifestation of absolute control.

The entire square fell silent. Everyone stared blankly at the scene, like ducks with their necks choked, their minds completely blank. Their proud village chief, their god, was like a three-year-old child in front of this mysterious man.

Zhou Ye didn't look at Ma Xianhong again; he walked straight to Chen Duo.

The girl's body trembled slightly. The numbness in her eyes was fading, replaced by a long-suppressed, primal fear. The Gu poison within her seemed to have encountered its natural enemy, throbbing wildly, with faint black veins even visible beneath her skin. This was the Gu poison issuing a warning, urging its host to flee.

But her feet felt like they were made of lead, and she couldn't move them.

Zhou Ye stopped in front of her, extended a finger, and gently touched her brow.

Chen Duo subconsciously closed her eyes, waiting for the shock or pain she imagined.

However, nothing happened. The finger simply rested gently on her skin, without any force or fluctuation of Qi.

But deep within Zhou Ye's consciousness, the core of the Herrscher of Reason was operating at a speed billions of times faster than that of a supercomputer.

[Target life form locked: Chen Duo.]

[Initiating analysis of life structure... biomagnetic field, cell structure, gene sequence... scan complete.]

[Discovery of an exotic symbiotic gene sequence: Primitive Gu poison.]

[Analysis of the Gu poison's gene sequence... revealed a deep logical connection between it and the host's nervous, circulatory, and endocrine systems.]

[This is determined to be a malignant symbiotic relationship, with underlying logical conflicts leading to the continuous collapse of the host's life system.]

[Beginning to rewrite the host's life blueprint...]

[The Gu gene is defined as redundant, harmful code...]

[Execute deletion command...]

[Command being executed... Decompose the target gene sequence and its derivatives into basic particles and return them to the material world.]

[Repairing the life blueprint...balancing the endocrine system...stabilizing nerve signals...reconstructing the immune system...]

[Repair complete.]

Outside, in the horrified gaze of everyone in Biyou Village, a silent miracle was unfolding.

Chen Duo's body began to undergo strange and violent changes. Wisps of black aura, deeper than ink, slowly seeped out from every pore of her body, writhing and struggling as if they were alive, but they quickly dissipated completely upon contact with the air, turning into nothingness.

Her pained and contorted expression gradually eased at a visible speed. A faint, normal blush appeared on her perpetually pale face. Her tightly furrowed brows relaxed, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly.

The entire process, from Zhou Ye's finger touching her brow to the last wisp of black energy dissipating, took less than a minute.

Fast, efficient, and precise, just like a perfectly standard surgical procedure.

Zhou Ye withdrew his finger.

He met a pair of eyes that were slowly opening. In those eyes, the numbness, emptiness, and despair of the past had receded like the tide, replaced by the bewilderment and purity of a newborn infant, and a trace of bewildered clarity.

0 ....

"Alright." Zhou Ye's voice was calm, as if stating a given fact.

"The toxins in your body, as well as the symbiotic Gu worm, have been completely broken down into basic particles at the genetic level. From now on, you are an ordinary person. You can decide for yourself where you want to go and what you want to do."

ordinary people...

These three words, like a thunderclap that transcends time and space, struck deep into Chen Duo's soul, which had been parched for over a decade.

She slowly raised her hands, those hands that had once been the source of her deepest fear—the poison that would kill at the slightest touch. Now, her skin was smooth, radiating a healthy glow. She felt her body; the constant, tormenting stinging pain, the sensation of being submerged in venom, was gone. In its place was an unprecedented, indescribable ease and freedom.

She was really... cured?

This incurable disease, which had plagued the entire world of supernatural beings and left countless experts helpless, was defined as "unsolvable." In less than a minute, this man... "repaired" it.

Tears, without warning, streamed down her clear eyes. Not from sadness, nor from joy, but from an instinctive release of pent-up emotions, a release that came after life had finally been liberated.

Not far away, Ma Xianhong, struggling to his feet from the wall, stared blankly at the scene. He looked at the weeping girl who had been given a new life, then at the complex, now utterly ugly and ridiculous, mechanical creations behind him. His worldview, in that moment, was utterly shattered.

Chapter 378 I'll Accept Your Skills

The square was deathly silent.

That clear, resounding cry, announcing new life, seemed to still echo in everyone's ears. Chen Duo knelt on the ground, her hands idly stroking her cheeks, her arms, her body. It was a touch she had never experienced before—warm, smooth, and with the elasticity that life should possess. Gone were the numbness and stinging pain from the toxins, gone was the chilling sensation of the Gu worms crawling through her blood; for the first time, her body completely belonged to her.

She tentatively took a deep breath, and what filled her lungs was no longer the poisonous miasma with the smell of rust, but the crisp air mixed with the fragrance of earth and grass. She opened her mouth, and what she tasted on her tongue was a faint sweetness in her own saliva, instead of the bitterness that had accompanied her for years.

free.

The word surfaced in her mind, yet it felt so unfamiliar and heavy. From the time she could remember, her life had been a long war against the identity of the "Poison-Bodyed Saint Child." All her actions, all her thoughts, all the meaning of her existence revolved around how to control, how to endure, and how to prevent the deadly poison within her from harming others. Now, the war was over, the enemy had vanished into thin air, and she, this battle-hardened soldier, stood bewildered on the empty battlefield, unsure of which way to go.

Tears streamed down her face, soaking the ground before her. These were not tears of joy, nor tears of sorrow, but rather the most instinctive bewilderment and catharsis born from a life whose core had been emptied. She was cured, but who was "Chen Duo"? Was a Chen Duo without the poison still Chen Duo?

The villagers of Biyou Village around them wore expressions of extreme complexity. They stared at the girl who had been given a new life, their eyes filled with shock, envy, and even a hint of jealousy. They had come here, following Ma Xianhong, precisely to escape their own imperfections and achieve "completeness"—yet the mechanical bodies they had risked everything for had just been described by this man as "suicide by drinking poison to quench thirst," while the incurable disease he considered "incurable" had vanished with a flick of his finger.

What is this? The "Tao" they pursued and were so passionate about seemed like a childish joke in front of this man.

Ma Xianhong leaned against the cracked wall and slowly slid down to the ground. He didn't look at Chen Duo; his gaze was fixed on the "Ru Hua" sculptures scattered on the floor. Those mechanical creations that he had once been so proud of, those that shone with the light of wisdom and sweat, now appeared ugly, clumsy, and laughable to him. He had exhausted all his knowledge and countless efforts to try to build a bridge to "perfection," only to have it fly across and then turn back to tell him that his bridge was flawed from the very foundation.

This kind of fundamental denial is more devastating than any physical blow. His beliefs, his ideals, his pride were crushed to dust in that moment.

Zhou Ye had no interest in helping a girl rebuild her mental health, nor in comforting a tech geek whose ideals had been shattered. In his view, he had already solved the core "program bug," and the confusion regarding the software was the user's problem. He had completed the "check-up," and now it was time to collect the "consultation fee."

He turned around and walked back towards the distraught Ma Xianhong.

Every step felt like stepping on the hearts of everyone in Biyou Village.

"Your 'Divine Refinement' is quite interesting." Zhou Ye stopped in front of Ma Xianhong, but his gaze swept past him, sweeping over the mechanical arms still trapped in mid-air by space. "Combining Qi with matter, and using talismans and mechanical techniques to give inanimate objects life and intelligence. Although the idea is still very rudimentary and the efficiency of energy utilization is pitifully low, it's not bad as a reference."

His tone was like that of an archaeologist evaluating a newly unearthed, rough but valuable ancient pottery shard.