My cards can be infinitely combined.

Chapter 534 The Mad Scientist's Laboratory

Time passed slowly, and two and a half hours after the start of the [Seven Realms] instance, Zhou Zhou Nan finally defeated [Astral Invincible], the strongest of the Astral BOSSes.

With this, Zhou Nan's Seven Realms Challenge came to an end, and the 84 BOSSes he defeated increased his attribute data several times over.

"Ding! You have completed the Seven Realms Challenge for the first time in a single game, achieving the save achievement [Laughing at the Seven Realms N1]. The save effect is to start with 100,000 gold, 100 attack power, and 10,000 health."

"Ding! You are now ready to participate in the Secret Realm Challenge!"

"Ding! Explore the secret realm, find the hidden BOSS and challenge it to obtain current attribute rewards or save items."

Zhou Nan pondered, "There are so many challenges. I wonder which boss Yue Baiting and the others have defeated. I'll go check out the secret realm again..."

He entered the secret realm challenge portal and discovered that there were a total of twenty-four secret realms to explore, such as "Sleeping Valley", "Desert Oasis", "Sunken Ruins", and so on.

Zhou Nan was a little overwhelmed by the choices and didn't know which secret realm to explore.

Suddenly, another portal to a secret realm appeared, named "The Mad Scientist's Laboratory".

"Huh, how come there's another secret realm?"

Zhou Nan looked at the portal to the secret realm. It was different from the other twenty-four portals around it. The other portals were black vortexes, but this portal was a starlight vortex, which was particularly eye-catching.

At this moment, the game assistant, Little Fur Ball, crackled with electric arcs. It shuddered and quickly said, "A new secret realm has been temporarily added: The Mad Scientist's Laboratory. This secret realm will appear irregularly, and the exploration rewards are unknown."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Nan pondered for a moment and then chose this newly added special secret realm, stepping into its teleportation portal.

The next moment, Zhou Nan arrived at a rather modern room.

The room contained many instruments that Zhou Nan did not recognize. Around the edges were many cylindrical containers, each about the height of a person, filled with various deformed monsters: white-skinned, hairless monkeys with fish fins; humanoid creatures with eight eyes and heads split in the middle; octopuses with human faces; angel-like creatures with long, thin limbs like mantises; and so on. Zhou Nan glanced at them and felt a chill run down his spine.

He walked forward, through a narrow corridor, and came to a room that resembled an operating room.

The room had bright white operating lights on the ceiling, and in the center was an operating table. Next to the operating table was a high chair, and sitting on the high chair was a red-haired woman wearing a white coat and a mask, who was looking Zhou Nan up and down.

"This is... a hidden boss?"

Zhou Nan immediately adopted a defensive posture. He had a gut feeling that the female BOSS in the white coat in front of him was not simple, because he could not see any attribute information about her.

The female boss didn't react much, and after more than ten seconds she said, "Come here, let me examine your body and do some modifications while I'm at it!"

"Change my ass!"

Zhou Nan thought to himself, "Why would I listen to you?" He raised his right palm and slapped at the female BOSS. The Futian Xuanhuang Great Handprint condensed under the shadowless lamp, looking as if it could flatten the female BOSS in one go.

Strangely, the giant handprint disappeared as it approached the female boss. The female boss then pointed a finger at Zhou Nan and beckoned him. Zhou Nan immediately felt his body being bound by invisible ropes, and then he involuntarily floated up, eventually lying flat on the operating table.

The female boss pulled out a syringe as thick as an adult's forearm from somewhere and said to Zhou Nan with a smile, "Don't be afraid. Not only will I not harm you, I will also give you good fortune. Your body is fake; in reality, it's a card imbued with a celestial soul. I'll add some flesh and blood to it!"

After saying that, the woman plunged the large syringe, as thick as an adult's forearm, directly into Zhou Nan's forehead.

Zhou Nan felt a sharp pain surge through him, and was so frightened he almost lost his soul.

What's going on?

I used to be invincible, defeating eighty-four bosses in a row. How come I became a little chick after entering the secret realm?

He was even more horrified about what the red-haired woman was going to do to him.

Is he going to pour water into his head with such a big syringe?

Overwhelmed by nervousness, Zhou Nan lost his composure and nearly broke his silence.

"Little bald guy, don't worry, don't be nervous. It's just a simple biochemical experiment, there won't be any problems."

The red-haired woman continued, "What I injected you with is a virus modified for cultivating a bio-tyrant. It will change your body, giving you the physique of a bio-tyrant, but your size and appearance will remain the same. You're very lucky; you should know that one dose of this drug is worth at least one million in the Dragon Soaring Continent!"

Zhou Nan continued to feel the pain, wanting to resist, but he couldn't resist at all.

The red-haired woman injected the entire syringe of medicine into Zhou Nan's forehead, then took out a smaller syringe and this time injected Zhou Nan's chest.

"I'll stab you, stab you!"

The red-haired woman smiled as she spoke, seemingly enjoying giving others acupuncture.

Zhou Nan calmed down a bit and, after thinking about what the red-haired woman had said, he understood.

This person is probably a time traveler from the Dragon Soaring Continent of the Dragon Slaying Empire.

Is she experimenting on herself?

To gain the physique of a bio-tyrant? To gain a real body?

Zhou Nan was unsure if his body was real. According to the red-haired woman, he didn't have a real body; he was essentially a card.

This statement is consistent with the information he had previously received.

A moment later, the blonde woman finished her work and said to Zhou Nan, "That's enough. Get up, walk a few steps, hop around a bit, let me see."

Zhou Nan stood up blankly, took two steps as instructed, but didn't feel any change in his body.

The red-haired woman crossed her arms, rubbed her chin, and muttered, "It seems that this alone isn't enough to scientifically revive you. What's missing? I need to do more experiments. Little bald guy, you can go now. Oh, and give me a good beating, and bring over some card game players."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Nan took off running, afraid that if he was too slow, the red-haired woman would catch him and use him as a guinea pig. If he were to be soaked in a cylindrical container, that would be terrible.

Upon exiting this secret realm, Zhou Nan suddenly felt a surge of heat in his body, and an unprecedented sense of power spread throughout his limbs and bones.

He could suddenly feel his Haoyang Gong and the energy within his body more clearly.

"I think I've gotten stronger..."

At that moment, the game assistant, Little Fur Ball, issued a warning: "Warning! The Demon King has appeared! The defense hall is in grave danger! The moment of final battle has arrived! Please rush to the defense hall and defeat the Demon King!"

The next moment, Zhou Nan's body shone with light.

"Ding, you are about to be forcibly teleported to the defense hall."

The white light on Zhou Nan's body suddenly disappeared again.

"Ding, unknown error, teleportation failed!"

(End of this chapter)