If you don't want treatment, get out! This doctor has a terrible temper.

Chapter 152 Mental Pollution and "Mighty Spinach"

The voice was neither male nor female, carrying an indescribable stickiness, like a thousand embroidery needles covered in expired, cheap syrup, piercing into the depths of Wang Minyu's mind without any hindrance.

"Well……"

Zhao Shihao and Guan Shan behind them didn't even have time to scream before collapsing to the ground.

Zhao Shihao clutched his head tightly with both hands, writhing in agony in the sewage, his eyes instantly bloodshot, clearly experiencing some kind of indescribable mental torture.

"Are you the 'variable' they're talking about?"

The woman known as "Zero," or rather, the "mother" of this filthy underground world, tilted her head slightly.

Her seemingly holy body still defied gravity and hovered in mid-air, but with her movements, the thick layer of fungal carpet on the surrounding walls began to pulsate wildly at an eerie frequency, emanating a spiritual pressure that was like a tangible tide, wave after wave.

Wang Minyu felt as if his temples were being gripped tightly by two red-hot pliers, which were constantly tightening inwards.

My vision began to blur and distort; the once dark sewers were now filled with bizarre and fantastical illusions.

He saw himself at the orphanage gate when he was six years old, amidst a heavy snowfall, his parents' departing figures stretched endlessly, like two black scissors severing his world; he saw in the medical school's anatomy lab, the cadaver suddenly opening its eyes, questioning the meaning of life with those empty gazes; he even saw himself transformed into a leek, being ruthlessly harvested, crop after crop…

This is spiritual pollution.

It is the most vile invasion of the soul.

The other party is trying to dig into his deepest fears and vulnerabilities, which he is most unwilling to face, in an attempt to break down his willpower from within.

"Want to see my slideshow? Have you bought a ticket?"

A cold smile curled at the corner of Wang Minyu's mouth. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and bit his tongue hard.

The intense, metallic pain, like a bolt of lightning, instantly cleaved through my chaotic mind.

Taking advantage of this moment of clarity, he swiftly pulled a silver needle from his pocket with his right hand and, without hesitation, pierced the Baihui acupoint on the top of his head!

"Wake up!"

[System Skill: Mind Cleansing Mantra (Passive) - Forced Activation!]

[Host detected to be under intense mental attack; sanity level is decreasing... Defense mechanism activated!]

A cool current, seemingly from an extremely cold snow mountain, instantly flowed into the Baihui acupoint, spreading throughout the body and sweeping away all the negative emotions and illusions that had invaded the mind, like sweeping away garbage.

"Hoo..." Wang Minyu exhaled a breath of stale air, his eyes regaining their clarity and sharpness.

"Oh?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Zero's pure black eyes. "You can actually resist my 'resonance'? What an interesting little bug. It seems your shell is a bit harder than I thought."

With a hint of disgust, she extended a slender, pale finger and gently tapped it at Wang Minyu from a distance.

"Then... I'll crush you."

Before he finished speaking, the surrounding fungal carpets that were still wriggling instantly came to life.

Countless viscous, translucent tentacles, like hundreds or thousands of venomous snakes hunting their prey, shot towards Wang Minyu from all directions with a piercing whooshing sound.

"Boss, watch out!!" Guan Shan on the ground struggled desperately to get up and block the knife, but the mental pressure made even lifting a finger feel like a thousand pounds.

Wang Minyu advanced instead of retreating.

He drew a gleaming short knife from his waist—a "surgical knife plus" forged for him by Su Qing using a special alloy, the blade of which he had ruthlessly quenched with concentrated "fire ginger" juice for three whole days.

"call--"

The blade sliced ​​through the air, creating a scorching, distorted wave of air.

When those slimy, cold tentacles touched the blade, they immediately sizzled and emitted plumes of black smoke, just like butter falling into a red-hot pan, quickly shrinking, carbonizing, and emitting a nauseating burnt smell.

"Yang energy?"

For the first time, "Number Zero's" beautiful eyebrows furrowed, as if she had smelled something extremely disgusting. "You smell like the sun. I hate the sun, I hate it so much."

"Then you might have to be a little more annoying today, because I'm going to treat you to a sunbath."

While parrying with his knife, Wang Minyu took out a seemingly ordinary small metal ball from his pocket, flicked the ring with his thumb, and threw it at "Zero's" main body.

"Next! Pierre's specially made—a midnight flashbang!"

This is a contraband product that Pierre rushed to make overnight using high-energy magnesium powder obtained from the "S" organization's laboratory and mixed with some kind of photosensitive material. It is said to be able to release strong light and heat comparable to the midday sun in an instant.

"boom!!!"

In an instant, blinding white light engulfed the entire underground space, illuminating the dark sewers as if it were daytime.

That light contained not only brightness, but also pure physical light and heat energy.

For "Zero," an extremely yin and evil being that lives in dark corners and feeds on negative energy, this is like concentrated sulfuric acid poured on a wound.

"ah--!!!"

A piercing scream, amplified countless times as if fingernails were scratching a blackboard, exploded in everyone's minds.

"Zero's" perfect body trembled violently. Cracks began to appear on her serene and beautiful face, as if countless worms were wriggling wildly beneath her skin, trying to escape this collapsing shell.

While you are sick, I will kill you!

Wang Minyu knew how abnormal the monster's regenerative ability was. He seized this fleeting opportunity, his toes digging hard into the slippery wall, and like an arrow released from a bow, he stepped on the burning tentacles and rushed towards "Zero" floating in the air.

His target was not her body, but the dense network of hair roots behind her, which connected her to the entire underground fungal carpet network like blood vessels!

Once these connections are severed, she becomes a rootless duckweed, a "server" that has lost network support and cannot draw energy from the earth.

"Break it...!"

Wang Minyu roared, and the short knife in his hand, imbued with the masculine energy of the Fiery Ginger, slashed down fiercely.

"Pfft!"

Several of the thickest hair roots snapped off instantly.

What gushed out from the broken surface was not bright red blood, but a viscous, foul-smelling, petroleum-like black liquid.

"You...you're...asking for...death!!"

"Zero's" voice became angry and distorted, all of her previous composure gone. She suddenly turned her head, and two tangible black ripples shot out from her pure black eyes.

The spiritual impact has materialized!

Wang Minyu felt as if his brain had been hit hard by a hundred-pound battering ram. With a "buzz," his vision went black for a moment, and he lost his balance in mid-air, falling like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily onto the sewage-covered ground.

"puff--"

He spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the black water in front of him red.

A mental attack is so powerful that it's impossible to defend against. Even with the protection of system skills, he still suffered serious internal injuries.

"Boss!" Guan Shan and Zhao Shihao, their eyes bloodshot, crawled over with all their might and stood in front of him.

"It's useless...it's all useless..."

"Zero" hovered in mid-air, and the severed "hair roots" behind her were visibly regenerating and reconnecting. "In this domain that belongs to me, I am immortal. And you are merely... food to be slaughtered."

She opened her mouth, and although she had no teeth, a powerful, despairing suction came from deep within her throat.

She was frantically and forcibly absorbing the negative energy and foul air in the surrounding air, and even the faint life force on Guan Shan and Zhao Shihao.

"Damn it, I'll fight you to the death!"

Zhao Shihao pulled a red signal gun from his waist—he had specifically dug it out from under the seat of his flashy pink tractor before getting off the train to "bolster his courage."

"Die, you monster!"

He pulled the trigger on "Zero".

"Bang!"

A red signal flare, trailing a long flame, carrying Zhao Shih-hao's last act of defiance, shot towards "Zero".

However, a desperate scene unfolded.

The signal flare stopped in mid-air as if it had gotten stuck in a quagmire when it was still half a meter away from her.

Immediately afterwards, the burning flame seemed to be swallowed up by some unseen mouth and vanished into thin air, leaving not even a smoke ring behind.

"Physical attack ineffective."

Zero's voice carried a hint of condescending mockery, as if he were looking at a group of ants trying to shake a tree.

Wang Minyu struggled to his feet, supporting himself on his knees, and casually wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

He looked at the seemingly invincible monster, his eyes showing no fear, only an almost insane calm.

Conventional methods are indeed no longer effective.

Then we have to use... something even more outrageous.

The items in the system shop that seem like jokes often have the most amazing effects at the most absurd moments.

With trembling hands, he pulled a small, vacuum-sealed glass bottle from his waterproof inner pocket.

The bottle didn't contain any magic pills, but rather a small handful of... dark green, shriveled, and unremarkable spinach seeds.

This is something he just urgently redeemed from the system shop, using the "special emotion points" he had accumulated over a long time (such as making a famous gourmet in Changxiang City cry or making a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder see a perfect straight line).

[Special Crop: Popeye's Spinach Seeds (Modified Version)]

[Characteristics: This spinach originally requires cultivation, but can be eaten raw in emergency situations. If the person consuming it contains a high concentration of 'pure yang energy' (such as boy's urine, rooster blood, or a virgin's body) and is accompanied by extreme 'anger' as a catalyst, the seeds will instantly germinate and mature in the stomach.]

[Effect: For a short period of time, the user will gain physical strength exceeding human limits and will be granted the blessing of a 'dimensional barrier,' resulting in a 50% immunity to mental attacks.]

[Serious side effect: Users will uncontrollably enter a 'cartoon role-playing' mode and forcibly activate the built-in background music (which cannot be muted).]

"Guanshan!"

Wang Minyu threw the bottle with all his might, shouting, "Catch it! Eat it!"

"Boss, this is...raw?" Guan Shan took the bottle, glanced at the seeds inside, and hesitated. "Can this stuff be digested?"

"Stop talking nonsense! This is a magic bean that came out of Laozi's alchemy furnace! Chew it up and swallow it! Your survival depends on this one bite!"

Guan Shan didn't ask any more questions. Even if the boss offered him bricks to eat right now, he would swallow them without hesitation. This was a trust that transcended life and death.

He unscrewed the bottle cap, tilted his head back, and poured the entire bottle of seeds into his mouth like he was eating peanuts.

"Click, click..."

As he chewed the bitter seeds, he looked up at "Number Zero," who was frantically absorbing the boss's life energy.

His eyes burned with the purest...anger.

He was angry because his boss was injured.

He was furious at his inability to do anything as a bodyguard.

He was furious at this monster that fed on living people.

This anger, mixed with the pure yang energy he had maintained for thirty years as a virgin, instantly created a strange chemical reaction in his stomach, activating those dormant, mysterious seeds.

"Gurgle—"

With a loud, muffled rumbling sound, an indescribable, explosive force erupted from Guan Shan's dantian!

"Ughhhhh!!!"

Guan Shan let out a roar that was both painful and exhilarating.

His muscles began to swell wildly in an exaggerated way that defied human anatomy, causing his already imposing body to grow even taller.

The veins on his arms bulged like writhing dragons, and his skin even had an eerie dark green sheen.

Even more outrageous, two black anchor tattoos suddenly appeared on his two forearms!

"I...feel so...excited!!!"

Guan Shan clenched his fist, and the air in his palm instantly burst with a crisp "snap".

His once honest eyes had turned a deep green, like spinach, and were now gleaming with a light that seemed to stun someone's intelligence.

He slowly turned his head, looked at the "Zero" floating in the air, and grinned, revealing a smile of extreme confidence.

"Monster! Take this from me, Old Sun! ...No, I mean, this punch!"

He suddenly pushed off the ground.

"Boom!"

The thick concrete ground beneath his feet instantly cracked and collapsed, sending up water splashes several meters high. He was like a green intercontinental missile, soaring into the sky with unparalleled momentum.

At the same time, just as Guan Shan rushed out, an extremely catchy orchestral background music that was so embarrassing it made your toes dig into the ground actually started playing in the void.

"I'm your Popeye, the sailor man! Toot! Toot!"

Accompanied by Guan Shan's off-key, mesmerizing, and unstoppable singing, the fist, the size of a clay pot and shimmering with a faint green light, ignored all mental barriers and slammed solidly into "Zero's" astonished face.

"This punch was for the boss's medical expenses!"

"Bang!!!"