#2513 - Upgrade

"Don't mind if I try to check the power of the Demon Seed?"

Everyone looked at each other upon hearing this.

"Fang Heng, although the Demon Seed is in a dormant state, it is still very dangerous, and rashly turning on the equipment may cause damage, so..."

"It won't. I'll be very careful."

As he spoke, the Abe Akie vines, which were originally coiled around the outer edge of the laboratory, quickly wriggled and crawled towards the enclosed glass container, entering it through a small ventilation duct on the right side of the petri dish.

Several researchers immediately looked surprised.

The ventilation duct was specially designed with a diameter of no more than 1 millimeter.

Yet, the tip of the vine became extremely thin, successfully passing through the hole!

After Abe Akie's vine forced its way into the petri dish, the front part continued to grow, quickly submerging into the liquid of the petri dish and climbing towards the imprisoned Demon Seed.

In just a moment, Abe Akie's vines completely wrapped several Demon Seeds within it.

Chih, chih chih...

Extremely tiny thorns spread out from Abe Akie's vines, piercing the skin.

[Hint: Abe Akie has absorbed part of the original power of the Demon Seed-Gluttony, gaining 1819 experience points...].

Good.

Absorption successful!

Fang Heng nodded secretly in his heart.

Perhaps it was because the Gluttony had been imprisoned for too long, coupled with the constant extraction of energy by the Revolutionary Army, it was now very weak.

No, that's not right!

Fang Heng sensed the mental link information transmitted from Abe Akie.

Abe Akie, acting directly on the Gluttony, could accurately sense that the Gluttony still contained extremely powerful power within it.

It's just that this power was suppressed by an external force.

Currently, the Gluttony appeared extremely weak under the suppression of this special force.

This resulted in Abe Akie's extraction speed being very slow, and there were even concerns that the Gluttony Demon Seed would die if it continued to extract.

Don't rush to extract it.

Wait a bit longer.

Figure out the situation.

Fang Heng turned his head to look at the laboratory supervisor and asked, "How do you keep them quiet?"

"The Demon Seed of Jealousy left behind special inscriptions that can play a suppressive role, coupled with the sedative effect of special potions, to ensure the safety and reliability of the experiment."

"Not bad."

So it's the rune of the Jealousy Demon Seed?

Relying on runes to suppress the power of the Gluttony Demon Seed?

Fang Heng walked forward, approached the petri dish to observe, and tried to find the inscriptions.

Found it!

There was also a special stone slab at the bottom of the petri dish.

Very good, the elements are complete.

What remains is much simpler.

Just need to find a way to take away the 'Jealousy' stone slab, unlock the shackles suppressing the Demon Seed, and then extract all the power of the Demon Seed!

"Boss Fang, have you found anything?"

"Well, I have a few things." Fang Heng said halfway, raised his head and asked, "The Demon Seed is in a very weak state. I'm a little curious, you have been sealing and suppressing most of the Demon Seed's power, and constantly extracting power from the Demon Seed, aren't you worried that the Demon Seed will be drained?"

"Indeed, but this is also intentional. If the Demon Seed's power is too strong, we are also worried that we will not be able to control it." Guillermo explained, "Secondly, the original power of the Demon Seed will slowly recover over time, so there is no situation where it will be drained."

"That's right, I want to go to the energy crystal area to take a look."

"Okay."

Soon, Fang Heng, led by everyone, came to the energy stone pillar gathering area on the lower floor.

Fang Heng quickly looked around.

In reality, the energy stone pillars were much taller than what was seen in the monitoring, with a single one being more than six meters high.

Hundreds of energy stone pillars almost filled the entire basement area.

Large magic circles and thick wires filled the ground, connecting the energy stone pillars together.

Fang Heng followed the connecting wires and looked towards the right side of the underground area.

"That is the Hell Gate hub."

Guillermo saw Fang Heng's gaze and explained in advance, "At this stage, the energy we extract from the Demon Seed will be provided to the Hell Gate hub as soon as possible."

So that's how it is.

The Hell Gate encountered outside was summoned with the help of the Demon Seed's power.

Fang Heng thought, a layer of blood light attached to his pupils, and he saw the giant Hell Gate in the darkness in the distance.

During the battle, the Revolutionary Army summoned the Hell Gate projection.

The real Hell Gate is here.

While the few were talking, Abe Akie had already sensed the energy stone pillar, quickly wrapped around the energy stone pillar in front, and in the blink of an eye, it was tightly wrapped around the stone pillar.

"Chih, chih chih..."

The game hint appeared on Fang Heng's retina.

[Hint: Abe Akie is absorbing unknown energy and is converting it...].

[Hint: Conversion complete, Abe Akie has obtained the Gluttony Demon Seed energy: 512].

Fang Heng quickly checked the game hint.

Abe Akie can also absorb energy transferred from crystals.

However, after the energy crystal transferred it, the overall energy had a considerable loss.

As Abe Akie fully absorbed the energy, the color of the energy light pillar visibly dimmed.

Fang Heng couldn't help but dislike the crystal's absorption speed.

Inside the research institute's laboratory, the researchers saw the energy value on the screen decrease significantly in a short period of time, and they were immediately horrified, and immediately connected to Guillermo via communication.

"Sir! There is an anomaly in the energy crystal data!"

"We found that the energy value stored in the energy stone is rapidly decreasing!"

Guillermo looked at the few stone pillars tightly wrapped by vines in front of him, lowered his head and said to the walkie-talkie in a deep voice, "Don't be nervous, continue to observe."

Fang Heng looked at Guillermo and asked, "Is the energy output speed a bit slow? Can it be increased?"

Guillermo frowned and asked, "What do you want to do?"

"I have some ideas, maybe I can help you increase the intensity of the Hell Gate?"

"Really?"

"Of course."

"Okay, I'll try."

Guillermo valued the Hell Gate extremely, and listening, he looked a little dignified, and continued to pick up the walkie-talkie and said softly to the other side of the walkie-talkie: "Inject the potion, urge the Demon Seed to proceed to the next test, increase the Demon Seed's catalytic intensity, increase the energy infusion, and reduce the suppression of the Demon Seed."

"Understood!"

The energy extraction instrument was started again.

Soon, energy filled the stone pillar again, emitting a faint yellow light.

Before the energy could fill the entire stone pillar, the Abe Akie vines wrapped around the stone pillar had already absorbed it all in one go.

Absorb as much as there is!

[Hint: Conversion complete, Abe Akie has obtained the Gluttony Demon Seed energy: 801].

Fang Heng glanced at the game hint, still feeling that the speed was too slow, raised his head and asked, "Can it be faster?"

Guillermo picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Research room, continue to increase the efficiency of energy infusion."

"Supervisor, the energy has been urged to the maximum value of the mechanical instrument limit, and it cannot be increased further."