Chapter 126: Healing Can Also Deal Damage [VIP]

The player left the school with Dead Fish Eyes. The setting sun stretched their shadows very long. Dead Fish Eyes was still lazily holding an unlit cigarette in his mouth, while the player skipped in front of him, his red eyes shining.

She was in a very excited mood, full of desire to explore, just like opening a new map and completing a hidden mission.

"Let's try to find non-cursed creatures first." The player announced his plan, activated [Insight], and scanned the surrounding environment.

She quickly gathered the requirements for her comparative experiment: Animal group: an intact hare (innocently passing by), a slightly injured squirrel (fallen), an injured fox (in a fight), a seriously injured wild boar (fell from a cliff), and a dying crow (killed by its own fault).

Plant group: intact small tree (this is it), slightly injured shrub (gnawed), moderately injured vine (crushed by rocks), severely injured flower (about to wither), dying moss (wilted by the sun).

Human group: intact homeless man (sleeping soundly), slightly injured thug (just beaten), injured robber (beaten by the player), seriously injured wanted criminal (beaten harder by the player), dying killer (beaten to death by the player).

Dead Fish looked at the last three, especially the killer who was on his last breath, and his eyelids twitched: "...Is it legal?"

"Yeah," the player nodded, glancing at the NPCs. "They're illegal."

She felt nothing in her heart. Of course, those used for the experiment were all red-named people under her control. It was just a good opportunity to make use of them.

The experiment begins.

Dead Fish Eyes resignedly used her [Reversal Spell] on these various samples.

The player holds a small notebook (system automatically records) and reads the records while closing the door:

[Animal - Minor Injury: Tissue Repair Speed ​​+30%, 1.2 seconds]

…

[Plant - Severe Injury: Cell activity slightly increased, withering cannot be reversed]

…

[Human-Injury: Accelerated fracture healing, partial repair of muscle tears]

…

The effect was in line with the initial expectations. The [Reversal Technique] was used to repair organisms that were not composed of cursed energy.

After doing all this, Dead Fish Eyes shook his hands, and the faint fire in his heart that was forcibly ignited by the players seemed to dim.

The player keenly captured the change in her mood through [Insight]: a familiar feeling of fatigue from living from day to day took over again.

Ah, why did the NPC lie down just as the experiment began? How can we produce good results like this?

The player teleported her directly to an abandoned factory, a place thick with residual cursed energy. More importantly, there lay a first-level cursed spirit hiding in the shadows, emitting a foul odor. Its form resembled a patchwork of countless pieces of rotting flesh.

Lin Chen pointed at the cursed spirit and turned to the NPC, "Watch carefully."

In front of Dead Fish Eyes, she slowly took out a roll of ordinary medical bandage from the system backpack.

Then, with the confused gaze of the dead fish eyes, the player activated [Vector Manipulation] on the madly twisting curse spirit. The bandage suddenly shot out like a living snake, accurately wrapped around the curse spirit's neck, and tightened it instantly.

The wrapping vector that the player had given the bandage was extremely terrifying. With a soft "puff" sound, like crushing a rotten tomato, the first-level cursed spirit didn't even have time to scream before it was strangled and exploded into a cloud of flying black mist and cursed power residue.

"Look," the player waved the bandage in his hand, "the bandage can strangle the cursed spirit."

At the same time, the player used [Persuasion] on her, firmly engraving this sentence in her mind.

——

Ieiri Shoko stood there, her eyes slightly widened.

She watched the drifting black mist, her ears echoing over and over again with the player's words, "Bandages can strangle cursed spirits," and... her own casual retort last night - "Just like... you can use a bandage to bandage a wound, but you can't use a bandage to strangle someone. They have different uses."

An extremely unfamiliar yet slightly burning emotion surged up from the deepest part of my heart without any warning.

She had always considered herself a calm observer, a stable anchor. A sorcerer? One who harnessed negative emotions to generate power and acted madly? She had never considered herself one of those. Her power was healing, reversing death, representing the power of life.

This power comes from cursed energy but is completely different from the expression of cursed energy. It sounds bright and sacred.

But what was the foundation that supported this "life"? It was her equally vast negative emotions, suppressed beneath a calm exterior—fatigue, numbness, the powerlessness of witnessing her companions injured or even killed, a weariness of the muddy waters of the sorcery world... They never disappeared, but she simply covered them with a thick shell of "indifference," pretending they didn't exist.

At that moment, the player tore off a corner of the outer shell in the most brutal and direct way.

So, could the power of "life" also so easily bring about "death"? This very thought carried a kind of almost blasphemous... crazy attraction.

The dormant cursed energy in her body seemed to become slightly agitated along with the surging emotions.

——

The player watched with satisfaction as the light in Dead Fish Eyes rekindled, brighter and more dangerous than before.

, it's a cursed spirit."

She instructed the system to archive the previous experimental data, and then began the actual Curse Spirit experiment. Players became Curse Spirit couriers, teleporting to various locations to collect Curse Spirit samples of varying levels, then returning them to Dead Fish Eyes for processing.

The dead fish eyes spell is not powerful enough?

The player immediately took out the steaming hot

Dead Fish Eyes: "...What's the principle behind this?"

, just eat it."

Dead fish eyes?"

Although it's confusing, I did it anyway.

The experimental process is very simple and crude:

Level 4 Curse Spirit (intact):

As soon as the Dead Fish Eyes' fingertips touched it, the cursed spirit was like being splashed with strong acid, and it vaporized instantly with a sizzling sound, leaving no residue.

Time taken: 0.3 seconds.

Dead fish eyes: “?!”

The player clearly [saw] her pair of dead fish eyes, which were always half-open. For the first time, they widened slightly, with a look of "Oh my God? Really?!" written all over them.

The player raised an eyebrow in triumph.

Ha! See, I told you healing really does damage!

[Record: The positive energy of the reversal technique has devastating killing power against low-level cursed spirits.

Effect: Instant Kill (Level 4).

Level 3 Curse Spirit (Intact/Minor Injury/Serious Injury/Near Death):

Also kill instantly.

However, the amount of cursed energy consumed by Dead Fish Eyes is visible to the naked eye (the blue bar in the player's eyes) and is twice as much as using ordinary cursed energy to kill a cursed spirit of the same level.

[Record: Positive energy has a very high killing efficiency, but consumes 200% of the normal mana for the same damage.

Reason: To be determined.]

Second level curse spirit (same as above):

Dead Fish Eyes requires continuous output for about 2 seconds to be completely annihilated.

The blue bar dropped significantly.

[Record: Same as above.]

Level 1 Curse Spirit (same as above):

The Dead Fish Eyes exerted their full power, and the black mist on the surface of the cursed spirit boiled and evaporated violently, making a shrill scream. It struggled for three minutes before completely dissipating.

There was a little sweat on Dead Fish Eyes' forehead, and most of the blue bar was empty.

[Record: It seems to have reached its limit. Level 1 recovery is very strong, and only a few can hold on until the blue bar is exhausted.]

The experimental results are also very clear: the positive energy output by the reversal technique does have a devastating annihilation effect on the cursed spirits, causing them to collapse upon contact.

The price is double the consumption of mana.

After a long period of high-intensity observation, the player's knowledge of [Reversal Technique] in the system increased rapidly. By the time she reacted, this skill had been unlocked by herself without anyone noticing.

The player looked at the faint white light at his fingertips, then looked at the dead fish eyes next to him whose face had turned pale and whose spell power bar was almost at the bottom due to the continuous output.

She immediately pulled out a plate of steaming, delicious-looking Mapo Tofu from her system backpack.

Dead Fish Eyes took a big bite without hesitation, his eyes instantly lighting up. As his taste buds savored the food, a warm current surged through his body, accompanied by a rapid recovery of his mana. His depleted mana bar recovered at an astonishing rate.

Looking at the dead fish eyes that were revived with full health, the player came up with a new idea.

Because this idea was a bit risky, she saved the file cautiously to be on the safe side.

The player stared at Dead Fish Eyes, his eyes filled with eagerness. "Dead Fish Eyes, your innate technique is [Reversal Technique]. Normal output is positive energy. So... what is your technique reversal?"

Dead Fish Eyes was confused by the question: "My technique should be the type that doesn't have a technique reversal?"

"No," the player shook his head. "A spell is a spell, and spell reversal is another application. It's just that some people can develop it, and some can't."

Facing the dead fish eyes, the player raised his index finger.

"For example, Noise Monster's 'Cang' attracts, and the reverse 'He' repels. Your technique outputs positive energy, but what about the reverse? Outputs cursed energy? Or something else?"

The more the player thought about it, the more possible it seemed. The ritual itself contained both positive and negative sides.

"I don't know. I haven't thought about it, and no one has mentioned it." Dead Fish Eyes shook her head and told the truth, but the player's words were like a seed, quietly sprouting in her heart.

Spell reversal... a completely unfamiliar field to her.

"Just try it and you'll know." Players have always been action-oriented.

To be on the safe side, she saved the file again.

Just then, after using [Ether Edit] on the dead fish eye, invisible streams of data surged towards it, attempting to decipher the deeper structure and potential of her technique. The player's eyes lit up alarmingly, their vision filled with complex data streams and energy patterns.

Dead Fish Eyes felt a strange force sweep through her, as if the magic within her body was being gently poke and explore by invisible tentacles. She instinctively resisted, but more than that, she was curious.

What can players analyze?

The player's [Insight] combined with [Ether Editing]'s analysis, in the depths of the Dead Fish Eyes' complex technique that was born to transform positive energy, the player caught an extremely obscure and completely opposite fluctuation that was almost completely obscured by the positive light.

It is a kind of... negative structure with a strong sense of erosion and decomposition. It is not that it does not exist, but because Dead Fish Eyes has never thought about or used it in this direction, it is silent.

"Found it!" the player shouted excitedly. The power of [Ether Editing] was like a precise scalpel, guiding the technique to reverse.

Buzz——

The originally gentle white halo in Dead Fish Eyes' palm suddenly changed. The pure white light was like being splashed with thick ink, and instantly transformed into a deep, sticky darkness that seemed to be able to swallow all light.

This is incredible. The color of cursed power should usually be blue, right?

A cold, dead energy wave with a strong aura of decomposition and annihilation suddenly spread out. The surrounding air seemed to become stagnant and heavy, and even the light approaching the darkness seemed to be distorted and swallowed up.

Dead Fish Eyes stared in amazement at the ominous darkness in his palm, feeling the cursed energy in his body surging in an unprecedented way with a strong desire for destruction.

This is... a spell reversal?! Negative output?!

The player's eyes sparkled as he quickly recorded the data. "Success! It's still cursed energy, but its properties seem to have become highly corrosive and decomposing, destroying both matter and energy. Consumption... hmm (checking the cursed energy bar), also double the cursed energy! Awesome!"

The players were ecstatic, as if they had drawn an SSR hidden skill!

The experimental goals were exceeded, so let’s stop here for today!

The player, with a look of shock and bewilderment on his face, staring blankly at his own darkened palm, was [teleported] directly back to the technical high school.

As soon as I landed, I heard a noise coming from the direction of the training ground. Kaigo's signature, overly energetic yet a little weak yell: "Ah - Jie! Be gentle! It hurts, it hurts!"

There was also the strange bangs who comforted helplessly: "Wu, don't move, the wound will split open."

The player and Dead Fish Eyes walked over to see Noise Monster sitting against the wall, his expensive uniform in tatters. His sunglasses were still intact, but blood was still seeping from his forehead. There was a deep laceration on his arm that was visible to the bone, and his cursed energy was fluctuating.

The strange Liu Hai was not in much better condition. His face was pale, and his abdomen was wrapped in a temporary hemostatic cloth with dark red blood seeping through it. His breathing was unstable, and it was obvious that he had just experienced a fierce battle.

Dead Fish Eyes frowned and subconsciously wanted to go forward to treat him, but his steps were obviously a little unsteady.

Seeing her tired expression, the player glanced at his own newly acquired skill, eager to try it out. He immediately raised his hand and said, "I'll do it!"

Noise Monster and Monster Bangs looked at the player at the same time, then turned their heads away at the same time, with "Kid, stop making trouble" and "Glass, please take care of her" written all over their faces.

Players don't care what they think.

She walked over to Noise Monster, squatted, and held out her hand. A faint, life-giving white light shone in her palm, covering the hideous wound on Noise Monster's arm.

The flesh at the wound wriggled, grew, and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, accompanied by a slight tingling sensation.

Noise Monster's blue eyes widened behind his sunglasses. "—Huh?! Huh?! How come in just one day, you already know how to perform a reversal technique?!"

He turned to the dead fish eyes, his tone full of disbelief, "Glass! You taught her? You can teach her?? She can understand your teaching?"

The strange fringe no longer cared about his own injuries. He stared at the faint but genuine healing white light in the player's palm with a look of shock. He then looked at the dead fish eyes and muttered to himself, "Could it be... that what Glass taught us is right? Is this our own problem?"

He fell into deep self-doubt. Could it be that he and Wu were too stupid to learn the reversal technique?

Dead Fish Eyes was also watching the fun, twirling his fingers nearby, "I told you, it was just a 'whoosh' and then a 'whoosh'."

She shook her head, her tone relaxed yet helpless, "You are just too stupid."

"——Unbelievable!" Noise Monster and Monster Bangs looked at each other with expressions of complete confusion.

The player withdrew his hand and found that the wound on Liu Hai's abdomen had completely healed without even a scar left.

She raised her chin and announced to the two stunned special-grade sorcerers in the most matter-of-fact and irritating tone:

"Obviously—" the player drawled, a bright, provocative smile spreading across his face, "Because I'm a genius!"