Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

"These pigs only give me a moment of peace when they're eating. Now it's time to deal with that qualified product."

After the girls in the cell quieted down, the middle-aged woman quickly moved to another, larger, brighter room filled with magical equipment.

In the center of the room, on a platform resembling an operating table with detachable and movable sections, a little girl dressed exactly like the little girls in the cell was being restrained on the operating table.

She was in a state similar to being plagued by a nightmare, unable to sleep, but also unable to wake up.

Beside the operating table were two assistants dressed in sealed clothing. After the middle-aged woman arrived, they quickly used a knife to cut open the little girl's scalp and slowly disassembled her skull.

Chapter 220 Manufacturing Tools for Red Marrow

Two assistants, dressed in sealed clothing, took out specially made metal blades. They injected a tiny amount of magic into the blades, and the tip of the blades became a transparent magical blade with negligible thickness.

These magical blades, while maintaining a low temperature, can easily separate human tissue; they are special surgical knives designed specifically for modifying the human body.

These blades are not limited to manual manipulation. After infusing them with magic, mages can use their mental power to shape the blades and change their length, thereby enabling all sorts of unimaginable physical modifications.

Even in the world before Bell's reincarnation, the fantastical technology of using ultra-miniature robots to remove blood clots was not considered a particularly difficult technique in the magical world.

The super surgical tools that surgeons in the previous world dreamed of can become a reality in the magical world, and even go further.

"Based on the inspection, Huangtan No. 427's physical condition has met the standards for rehabilitation."

After removing part of the girl's skull from the operating table, her vibrant brain seemed to be breathing, twitching slowly and displaying astonishing activity.

A healthy and strong body has a much higher chance of successfully recovering after a dangerous surgery than a weak and dying body.

In the magical world, through special techniques, it is possible to endow the human body with attributes that transcend the characteristics of the human race, thus allowing them to exhibit extraordinary recovery abilities during surgery.

Just like the girl in front of me who was fixed in place, she had been nurtured underground by a secret organization in Chishui City for three months. The intake of large amounts of drugs and special nutrients caused her body to undergo a certain degree of abnormal activation.

[Weakened Version of Body Regeneration] (Temporary)

This is a temporary condition achieved after three months of rearing; maintaining this condition ensures a 99% success rate for the girl's surgery.

This is the best way to raise meat pigs that Chishui City has explored. Although it requires a longer production cycle, it has the least loss and is the most profitable in the long run.

“Leviel, you’ve been my assistant for two years now, and you’ve learned all the theoretical knowledge. Today, you’ll try to be the lead surgeon.”

"Huh? Am I going to play today?"

The assistant, who was wearing a sealed suit, was suddenly asked to perform the surgery. He was a little stunned. Although his theoretical knowledge was quite complete, this was the first time he had personally performed a physical modification surgery.

But the middle-aged woman who entered didn't share his nervousness; she simply said calmly:

"Relax, this modification surgery isn't that difficult. With your knowledge, you just need to stay calm and you can do it perfectly. Don't be afraid of failure; if you fail, you'll only lose one pig."

The assistants, dressed in sealed suits, who are able to infiltrate this underground institution and participate in the girls' transformation surgeries, are of much higher individual value than the bodies to be transformed.

Training such an assistant in Chishui City would require a considerable amount of resources.

"Go ahead and do it. With each cut, recite the principle behind the cut, and your tension will naturally subside."

Under the middle-aged woman's direction, the assistant who had taken over the chief surgeon's position stood formally in front of the girl.

Although the assistant was very flustered, he operated the machine with the stability of a robot, step by step. After hundreds of training sessions, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the probability of him making a mistake was virtually zero.

"According to the theory of the human flesh and blood structure and function of the great mage Haider 1,600 years ago, cutting off a specific location in the front brain region can affect mental state through physical loss."

The assistant's magical scalpel blade extended continuously, removing part of the girl's brain tissue at an astonishing speed.

When the great mage Haider first studied the structure of human brain regions, he discovered that removing corresponding brain tissue would cause various effects on mental states. When the theory of "Human Avocado Flesh and Blood Morphology and Functional Composition" was published, some doctors used the method of removing brain tissue to treat some diseases according to the description of brain region structure in it.

For example, removing specific tissue from the front of a brain region can be used to treat severe epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, and other diseases.

However, with the development of medical and magical technologies, this method of removing brain tissue to treat diseases has been banned because the brain is closely related to mental power. Removing brain areas can even cause trauma at the soul level, and people who have their brain tissue removed are also likely to experience symptoms of personality changes, becoming devoid of thought and emotion.

But coincidentally, Chishui City doesn't need these modified girls to have their own thoughts.

"Specific brain regions have been removed; preparations are underway to implant psychedelic parasites."

The removed brain tissue was placed on a tray next to him, and the assistant reached out and took the long, transparent, soft worm that had just been processed two seconds earlier from the hand of the errand boy next to him.

The worm was about the length of a thumb, but exceptionally thin and long. Apart from its sharp mouthparts, which looked somewhat intimidating, it was no different from a slug.

Bell had also seen this kind of insect in the bamboo forest. It is a parasite that only lives on ordinary wild animals, using its mouthparts to pierce the surface of other organisms and hang on them to suck blood.

To prevent the parasitized creatures from pulling them out, these worms secrete a potent addictive substance that is not a toxin. By affecting the mind of the creatures they parasitize, they are able to stay attached to an animal and suck its blood for a long time.

But the psychedelic parasite that the assistant took was clearly different from the wild individuals that Bell had seen.

This parasite is very clean; its blood-sucking ability has been weakened to the extreme, while its hallucinogenic properties have been enhanced, and the toxins it secretes can induce a false state of pleasure.

These parasites also had most of their bodies cut off, leaving them in a semi-dead state.

"The psychedelic parasite is placed in the brain region of the pig and allowed to coexist with it, thus bringing the pig a continuous source of pleasure and enabling it to develop and grow at the fastest speed, in order to produce reddish medullary fluid as soon as possible."

The girl's transformation is not over yet. She will have to undergo three more transformations in the next two months: implanting a mushroom-man spore-generating organ into her uterus, implanting a toad-dragon venom gland that is only produced in Chishui City into her spine, and installing a ghost fish heart in her heart.

Only after completing a series of modifications can a girl who is completely carefree and happy quickly grow into a deformed and twisted monster. Only in this way can her body continuously produce the core raw material of the Crimson Essence—Crimson Marrow Fluid—during the process of sexual maturation.

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Chapter 221 Child Trafficking

Sitting on the ventilation duct and watching the entire surgery, Bell suddenly felt uneasy.

The assistant's skill in performing the modification surgery was alarmingly high, suggesting that this type of modification surgery has not only existed for a considerable period of time, but also has a well-established system for training personnel in related industries.

After the surgery was completed, the middle-aged woman left the room with her surgeon's assistant, leaving only one person behind to handle the follow-up work.

Bell breathed a sigh of relief only after the middle-aged woman left. This woman was of a high level and her abilities were heavily focused on enhancing mental power. Her presence put a lot of pressure on Bell. If she had stayed in this place, Bell would not have dared to explore this underground facility in depth.

"Let's fall into a dream."

After confirming that the middle-aged woman had left, the dark-skinned Bell poked his head out from the ventilation duct, his pupils reflecting the dream of his assistant below.

Dreams exist in the consciousness of most intelligent beings. Although dreams only become active when one is asleep, it is not difficult for Bell, who has the ability to create dreams, to expend a certain amount of mental energy to influence other people's dreams.

Bell could connect the entire dream world of Huang Tancheng. Although the assistant in front of him who was doing the finishing touches was of a high level, he had not yet reached the point where he could apply protective measures within his own dream world.

After Bell broke into his unprotected dream, he did not violently alter the dream's structure. Doing so would have been detrimental to Bell's subsequent infiltration plans. Subtle, gradual changes are the least likely to be noticed.

He leaped down from the ventilation duct and landed lightly on the assistant working there, without the assistant noticing.

The power of dreams has now affected the assistant's perception; a portion of his real-world perception has been replaced by dreams, and Bell's actions are also obscured by dreams, preventing the assistant from noticing them.

Under Bell's watchful eye, the assistant released the girl from her restraints, leaving her in a dazed and confused state after the surgery.

There was no anesthesia during the modification surgery, because in the mages' surgical plan, anesthesia would affect the efficiency of postoperative recovery. They were feeding these modified little girls so many drugs, it wasn't charity.

Whether the modified individuals suffer or not is none of their business. Their brains are completely emptied, and once the hallucinogenic parasites are released, these modified brats will know nothing. Producing the crimson marrow fluid as quickly as possible is in the best interest of Redwater City.

But are these girls, who have absolutely no power to resist, really powerless to fight back? Bell clearly doesn't think so.

The black rat stood on his assistant's shoulder, following him deeper into the underground organization.

A girl whose brain had been partially removed and whose brain contained hallucinogenic parasites secreting toxins, and who was constantly writhing but unable to move normally, was transported to the largest circular room in the center of the underground facility.

This enormous room contains a variety of sophisticated equipment, as well as numerous well-planned transparent rooms.

Bell looked around; most of the glass-enclosed rooms contained girls who had already been transformed.

Compared to the six- or seven-year-old girls who have just begun their transformation and are still missing several surgical procedures, these girls, aged twelve or thirteen to seventeen or eighteen, already exhibit many non-human characteristics.

The older they get, the thinner they become, the more their bellies swell, and the more inhuman physical characteristics they develop.

The glass cell where they were held was only about two and a half square meters in size, forcing them to pace back and forth in circles. Of course, giving them more living space would be pointless, since their modified bodies were not suited for exercise, and as they got older, these girls would regress to a quadrupedal walking mode.

"Tell me, what's their situation? And where did you find so many girls?"

Standing on his assistant's shoulders, Bell asked his assistant questions through the lens of a dream.

Through [Information Insight], Bell discovered that although all the girls here were completely different from normal humans, their natural talents were not bad, and they could basically become high-level adventurers with a little training.

Several hundred talented girls were mass-produced and imprisoned in this underground place as expendable resources. Bell couldn't figure out where Redwater City got so many talented young people.

In the dream, Bell's question instantly triggered his assistant's thoughts. Without his own awareness, the assistant explained the general situation in a murmured voice.

"In order to produce a sufficient quantity of red marrow fluid of good quality, Chishui City has carried out multiple technological iterations before finding the current method that is efficient and of stable quality. We will complete three surgical modifications before the girls' first growth spurt, so that they can stably produce red marrow fluid after the first growth spurt ends."

After locking the girl, who was not yet fully transformed, in a glass room, the assistant quickly went to the other side of the glass room area and began the work of collecting red marrow fluid.

These girls, after being modified and imprisoned in the room, were still wearing clothes, but the main purpose of wearing these clothes was to facilitate the collection of red marrow fluid.

Behind these straitjackets-like garments, along the spine, is a row of biomass retention needles that allow these assistants to periodically collect reddish marrow fluid.

Basically, each girl who has completed the transformation produces enough crimson marrow fluid in a month to make five doses of crimson essence, and they can steadily produce a large amount of crimson marrow fluid in the more than ten years before they die.

If we disregard other factors and only consider the quantity of resources produced, this is definitely a high-level resource output with an extremely high return rate. You should know that although each girl being modified will consume various resources in the early stages, the resources consumed from the start of the modification until she loses her value and dies are not as much as the auction price of a single Red Light Essence.

The red marrow is a special product of their development. Once these girls have fully matured, they lose the ability to produce red marrow.

At this stage, they become worthless and no longer require any additional treatment from these assistants. After they stop taking large amounts of drugs, the foreign organs implanted in their bodies will completely devour them.

Ultimately, their bodies will be removed from the body.

Once the mushroom spores that grow wildly inside have completely decomposed, these assistants will only need to clean the glass enclosure.

"In order to ensure a stable output of Crimson Essence in Crimson Water City, Crimson Water City has a special organization that collects talented children, so that there can always be more than one hundred Crimson Marrow Mothers underground in Crimson Water City."

After the assistant finished collecting the crimson marrow, he casually took out a magical recording device and uploaded the collection time.