Chapter 181

Page Thirty-Seven Physical Examination

Miss Kē Màn gave me a thumbs up without expression through the speaker below the window. “Prepare to start the analyzer.”

Little Běihǎi lay on the MRI bed, almost her entire body was pushed into the analyzer’s chamber. I leaned slightly over the bed and reached out to hold her slim ankle, bare of shoes and socks. This was to better absorb the overflowing magical energy.

Xiǎo Kǎi’s divine power limit was terrible, but untrained ordinary people were even worse. Just soaking in high-concentration magical energy for five minutes could cause irreversible serious health consequences. Therefore, I held her like this to absorb the excess magical energy, to prevent her from succumbing to magical poisoning.

As a starting signal, the technique analyzer began to emit purple fluorescence. Visible magical waves scanned Little Běihǎi’s body surface. Soon, her body started to heat up, and even her ankle felt warm. Her face flushed, as I could only absorb the overflowed magical energy, while her body was still being filled with it.

I could only prevent overload, not stop her from being fully loaded.

“How do you feel?” I asked.

Little Běihǎi responded from inside the chamber.

“It’s fine, it feels like drinking strong cocktails.”

Her voice had an echo.

I warned, “Then you really get tipsy easily… If you feel uncomfortable, tell me immediately.”

Now she could still speak normally. At four minutes into the scan, I asked again, “How are you feeling now?”

This time, the response was just a muddled “Wābī wābī, wābī bābo?”

That’s already not good at all!

I shouted urgently, “Director Kē, she can’t handle it anymore! She’s going to lose it!”

Miss Kē Màn decisively turned off the technique analyzer.

“That’s enough, the structure of the technique is clear!”

Before the bed board fully retracted from the chamber, I pulled Little Běihǎi out. Her eyes were like two spinning fans, though not exactly unconscious, she was babbling nonsense, opening and closing her mouth, completely like someone who had drunk too much.

She used to be a candidate for divinity, why would her magical power limit be so poor? The knowledge about divine techniques was erased from him, but why was the magical power limit also so bad?

Furthermore, those pieces of knowledge hadn’t completely vanished; they were still being recklessly used by our mother.

Lubifang entered the room, first nodding to me in gratitude, then carrying her husband, who was making gurgling sounds, from the bed board.

Sighing, she asked, “Běihǎi, how do you feel?”

“Ābā, ābā, ābā.”

The dazed Little Běihǎi stared blankly at Lubifang for a long time before saying, “Mama~ I need to pee~!”

…Oh no, she’s completely lost it. Carry her away, next one.

Lubifang carried Little Běihǎi out.

Mother pushed in Little Qínglán, who was terrified, resisting the MRI. When she tried to get on the bed, she screamed, “There must be something wrong with this machine! Zhú Běihǎi looks like he has become an idiot! No way! I’m not getting on!”

Through the speaker, Miss Kē Màn explained, “You don’t need to worry. The state Zhú Běihǎi is in is called magical inebriation, a negative condition caused by a short-term intake of large amounts of magical energy. It’s similar to being drunk. Drinking is more harmful, theoretically, as long as there isn’t prolonged overload, it won’t cause irreversible brain damage.”

“You mean theoretically?”

Miss Kē Màn smiled more brightly.

“Except for Little Lingmèng, you two are the first clinical test subjects. You can provide me with a lot of reference information.”

“I’m just a guinea pig? Fànnī, come save me!”

At that moment, Miss Fànnī was still visiting in Bā Hé Mèi’s room.

“Alright, don’t say such unreasonable things.”

Mother, imitating Lubifang, lifted Little Qínglán onto the bed and pressed her small shoulders down to make her lie down.

“Listen to the doctor, it’s all for your own good!”

While soothing her, she retrieved medical restraint straps from under the bed and tied Little Qínglán to the bed board.

“Wah! Sister Wēi, you’re even scarier like this!”

Since this analyzer was modified from an MRI machine, the restraints used non-metallic Velcro. However, with her hands bound, Little Qínglán couldn’t struggle free.

I removed Little Qínglán’s ball shoes and white socks, then reached out to grab her ankle… Little Qínglán was even thinner than Little Běihǎi.

I said, “Sister Wēi, please leave first. After the analyzer starts, the room will be filled with overflowed magical energy, which will affect you too.”

“Then Little Witch is all yours.”

Mother nodded and left, closing the door behind her. The bed board slowly slid into the chamber. Miss Kē Màn gestured OK through the glass, then lowered her head, focusing intently on operating the technique analyzer… she didn’t blink once.

“It tickles, what is this feeling? Hahaha!”

Scanned by the analyzer’s magical waves, Little Qínglán let out a burst of laughter, but soon she couldn’t laugh anymore.

“Mmm, I feel dizzy, my body feels full…”

What kind of terrible lines are these?

She started to twist uncomfortably.

Miss Kē Màn shouted, “Little Yīng, stop her from moving around!”

Even though she was tied up, I couldn’t do anything if she kept struggling.

She continued to babble, “This feels amazing! I gradually understand everything!”

In the end, she still went crazy.

If Miss Kē Màn hadn’t controlled the output of the magical waves for scanning, the scalpel would have turned into a cleaver, and Little Qínglán would have become a dish of fragrant grilled meat.

Fortunately, her struggles didn’t last long. The magical energy filling her body made her feel weak, so she collapsed limply on the bed.

“Enough… pull her out.”

Miss Kē Màn was halfway through her sentence when I had already untied the Velcro restraints and pulled the limp Little Qínglán out of the chamber, helping her sit on the edge of the bed.

“Wah wah wah, I’m already at 1000%!”

Her eyes were also spinning circles, swaying her head and babbling nonsense.

Regardless of whether she could hear, I explained, “Because you were moving around in the chamber, the examination took longer than Zhú Běihǎi’s, about six minutes… really辛苦柯主任了.”

Mother pushed open the door and said, “Director Kē and Miss Bìfāng have gone to the office to discuss the inspection report. Little Yīng, you should go too. I’ll take care of Little Witch here.”

It’s time for Miss Kē Màn’s technique analysis?

I was quite interested.

“Understood, you all go rest first.”

When I arrived at the office, Miss Kē Màn was holding a stack of folders. Seeing her struggling, I hurried forward to open the door.

“Thank you.”

After thanking her, Miss Kē Màn asked, “Little Yīng, are you the divine artifact mentioned by Little Lingmèng?”

As a researcher of magic techniques, she was curious about my identity and structure.

I answered, “To be precise, I am the spirit of the divine artifact. The divine artifact belongs to my body, created directly by Heaven’s Path.”

“Is Heaven’s Path’s creation beyond our current understanding?”

“Of course not… it’s like the difference between elementary math and advanced math, no, probably even higher.”

Lubifang sat on the sofa in the office, holding several sheets of the analyzer’s film.

The film wasn’t a human cross-section but the structure of the technique. The main function of the analyzer was to convert the undetectable structure of techniques into visible images, helping researchers to quickly decipher the principles of divine relics.

But there’s still much room for improvement, such as adding a magical energy absorption feature and reducing the harm of magical waves to the body.

I couldn’t help but marvel, “That analyzer is really impressive.”

Lubifang put down the film.

“That’s all thanks to Director Kē’s ideas. She’s a very excellent researcher, right?”

Setting down the folder, Miss Kē Màn modestly said, “I was just thinking about my experience as a doctor, wishing we could display the internal techniques of those relics like taking X-rays. But realizing it was due to everyone’s efforts, since I’m just a doctor, it would be impossible for me to modify that MRI machine alone.”

Lubifang pulled out a file folder and carefully reviewed the documents.

Miss Kē Màn asked, “Has Boss noticed anything?”

“Check it yourself before asking us.”

Taking the film handed to me, I glanced at it and said, “Their bodies have the same technique. Although it appears as age regression on the surface, fundamentally it’s a temporary transformation technique, but its structure differs from the technique Xiao Kǎi received yesterday.”

Miss Kē Màn’s little finger curled her middle part.

“You’re quick to react. I haven’t figured out anything yet, but you’ve already drawn a conclusion.”

“Such formulaic content, my deduction speed is much faster than others… including high school math problems.”

Lubifang nodded and added, “You’re like a computer. If you could join the research institute, it would be great.”

“My mission is to assist Xiao Kǎi in completing the trials of divinity.”

“I’m just saying, you don’t have to take it seriously.”

Seeing my reluctance, Lubifang waved her hand and changed the subject.

She asked, “Can you analyze the restrictions attached to this technique?”

Restrictions were the conditions for activating the technique.

The technique on Lín Zǐyè’s body was simple. It would trigger upon receiving instructions from Mysterious Girl A.

As for the restrictions on Little Qínglán and Little Běihǎi…

“I can’t understand,” I replied immediately.

Thinking my answer was too hasty, Miss Kē Màn asked, “Don’t you want to look at it again?”

“There’s no need. If I can’t understand it after one look, looking a thousand times won’t help. Although my thinking speed is fast, my divergent thinking is weak. This is a drawback of being a divine artifact spirit.”

In short, I was inflexible.

Lubifang flipped through the documents with her head down, but asked, “If I remember correctly, aren’t you Little Lingmèng’s half-soul?”

“Yes, but we were separated by Heaven’s Path when we were very young. I was sent to the Divine Court to learn divine techniques under Lord Hái, preparing for Xiao Kǎi’s trials of divinity.”

“So Little Lingmèng doesn’t need to learn divine theory because you replaced him?”

“Yes, my divine technique knowledge was prepared for him.”

“Little Yīng, after the trials end and all the knowledge is transferred to Little Lingmèng—”

Lubifang seemed to realize something. She looked up, her azure eyes staring into mine.

“—will you disappear?”