No strange things are allowed to evolve!

Upon entering the building and looking at the decor, Jiang Shu was somewhat surprised.

Those who know it might think it's a mental hospital, while those who don't might mistake it for a hotel or even a resort.

"Are mental hospitals equipped with such high standards now?"

Upon hearing this, the doctor explained, "We are somewhat special because we are a private institution and responsible for our own profits and losses. Therefore, we can deviate from the standard in terms of hardware and have higher specifications."

"Bearing all the profits and losses? Can you even break even?" Jiang Shu asked suspiciously as he stepped into the elevator.

He heard that some mental hospitals, in order to increase profits, would arrest people who were not sick and treat them as patients.

This mental hospital looks just like it; Shenji doesn't look like a mental patient at all.

But upon closer reflection, it doesn't seem right.

What kind of person could possibly be able to trap Shenji? And if he were truly trapped, he shouldn't be able to see outsiders at will.

"Break even?" Faced with Jiang Shu's question, the doctor didn't think much of it and instead burst into laughter: "Break even more than that! Our annual profits are immeasurable. Do you know how long our appointments are booked?"

Jiang Shu wanted to say something, but by then the elevator had already reached the top floor.

"Please." The doctor showed no intention of getting out of the elevator: "It's at the very end of the corridor."

Aren't you going to take me there?

“We are not qualified to enter this floor.” The doctor bowed to Jiang Shu. “I will wait for you on the first floor.”

With that, the elevator doors closed.

Jiang Shu frowned.

Are patients considered to have a higher status than doctors?

After standing at the elevator entrance for a while, Jiang Shu mustered her courage and carefully walked to the end of the corridor.

Along both sides of the corridor, there are two closed doors every few meters.

Having watched many horror movies, Jiang Shu often hallucinates that hands suddenly reach out from both sides. Fortunately, the door is a fully enclosed wooden door like those in hotels, without any small windows.

Can be sudden.

creak-

Jiang Shu turned around abruptly, only to see the elevator doors open again.

Jiang Shu first tensed up, then relaxed.

It turned out he was just a food delivery worker wearing a yellow hat.

He hurried over, saw Jiang Shu, and asked, "Brother, where is 1001?"

Jiang Shu remembered that this was Shenji's address, so he said, "Oh, give it to me, I'll deliver it for you."

"Okay, thank you." After handing the bag to Jiang Shu, the deliveryman hurriedly went downstairs again.

It's obvious that they have orders that are about to expire.

In their haste, they didn't even notice Jiang Shu's charm.

Regarding dedication.

"What's going on?" Jiang Shujing's tension eased considerably after being interrupted like this. He scratched his head and complained, "Doctors aren't qualified to come in, but deliverymen are, right?"

Muttering to himself, he glanced subconsciously at the bag in his hand, then paused in surprise.

"sanitary napkin?"

It can't be...

Arriving at Shenji's door, he mustered his courage and knocked.

"Enter."

Jiang Shu pushed open the door and entered.

Everywhere you look is pink, with dolls and cushions everywhere, and an entire wall is piled with Disney figurines. The whole room is filled with fairytale elements.

On the balcony, a girl sitting in a wheelchair with a small blanket covering her knees stared curiously at Jiang Shu.

"Why are you dressed like that? And you're all dirty."

"This is what I meant by inconvenience," Jiang Shu said helplessly.

Sensing the wild charm that Jiang Shu was exuding, Shenji understood everything. Without asking any further questions, he simply shrugged and showed Jiang Shu his wheelchair, mimicking her words, "This is what I meant by inconvenience."

At this moment, Shenji noticed the bag that Jiang Shu was carrying.

"Hey? You brought it up here for me."

"Ah, yes."

Jiang Shu shook the bag as she picked it up.

Although they knew in their hearts that the other party was a powerful evolved being with calamity-level skills, who wouldn't feel sorry for her when they saw her like this?

So, being always eager to help others, he blurted it out.

"Want me to help you stuff it in?"

Chapter 185 I've Calculated It

"You're going to give it to me?"

Shenji's expression froze instantly.

Seeing that her reaction was wrong, Jiang Shu belatedly realized what was going on and quickly explained.

"Oh no, that's not what I meant."

He said awkwardly:

"Tampons are for inserting, this should be a pad for you."

"Who asked you how to use it?!"

In the end, as expected, Shenji did not ask the kind-hearted Jiang Shu for help.

She said this was just something prepared in advance, and she wouldn't be able to use it for a few more days.

Because it was their first meeting, even though Jiang Shu was very helpful, she ultimately didn't have the heart to ask for a checkup.

"Then I'll put it here for you." Jiang Shu opened the storage cabinet above the entryway and stuffed the bag inside: "You can reach it by standing on tiptoe."

"..." Shenji remained silent.

Looking back at her, Jiang Shu smiled and said, "I've noticed that you're a very meticulous person."

As she spoke, she closed the cabinet door and placed the bag in a spot where she could easily reach it from her wheelchair.

Then, under Shenji's watchful eye, Jiang Shu tore off his outer packaging, the trench coat that covered him from head to toe like a body bag.

Then he took off his hat, mask, sunglasses, and scarf.

There's also a full-coverage face mask under the hat, and a shower cap under the face mask.

Shenji was clearly not angry about what had just happened. Instead, he asked with apparent interest, "You don't think that charm is body odor, do you? You think that as long as you wear enough clothes, it won't show?"

"I don't really understand either, but someone told me it works," Jiang Shu said helplessly.

"For ordinary people, charm is a kind of temperament, a feeling that emanates from every gesture. But for evolved beings, charm is a powerful and penetrating energy. Doing this will only make you more eye-catching and more likely to influence others with your charm. There are no real benefits, only psychological comfort."

"Hmm?" Jiang Shu hesitated for a moment: "I don't think so. But pretending to be ugly should be of some use, like deliberately bowing your head or something."

"Oh? So you were trying to trick me on purpose just now?" Shenji asked meaningfully.

"No, not at all," Jiang Shu replied truthfully.

Jiang Shu has never distinguished between genders when it comes to people in need of help.

"..." Shenji didn't know what to say, so he simply skipped the topic: "It's somewhat useful, but not very useful. If your charm is strong enough, let alone just being ugly, even if you are of a different gender, or even if you are just a stone, I mean a stone in the true sense of the word, you will still arouse the love and fanaticism of humans and even animals."

"So you mean I don't have to do anything and everyone will like me?" Jiang Shu seemed thoughtful.

"It's not that wonderful."

Shenji shook his head:

"People who are influenced by charm are also influenced by love and desire. What is aroused in them is not the desire to protect or to give, but only the desire to possess."

It was an extremely morbid infatuation. Your thoughts and emotions didn't matter to them; they only wanted to possess you, to have you all to themselves, even if it meant their own death, they wanted to take you with them.

After a pause, Shenji changed the subject again: "Of course, it's really nothing. As long as you prevent your charm from showing, it's not a problem."

“But this…” Jiang Shu frowned, “Isn’t this purely a negative benefit?”

Shenji's description reminded him of a movie he had once seen called "Perfume".

While the content isn't exactly perverse, it's somewhat bizarre. The perfume the protagonist creates using special ingredients has a similar magical power.

In the end, the protagonist sprayed all the perfume on himself, and then the whole of Paris devoured him.

Therefore, Jiang Shu couldn't understand why the spiritual root of love and desire was so abstract.

When charm is low, it is looked down upon by other spiritual roots. When charm is high, the effect is outstanding. But why is it an attribute that attracts yanderes?

"This isn't a negative benefit, is it? At least you're still you," Shenji said dismissively.

Jiang Shu found it somewhat strange.

This clearly indicates a discrepancy in their understanding.

"How to say?"

"These are just some unavoidable characteristics that will appear during the development of spiritual roots. The real negative benefits are not such trivial matters."

Just as the spirit of courage can gradually become warlike, not in the sense of fighting fiercely, but in a macro sense, such as launching wars.

Those with a spiritual connection to life will be eager to explore the meaning of life. For them, people will gradually cease to be people, and life will gradually cease to be life. The group that respects life the most will become the group that disregards life the most.

Those with a strong spiritual root will be attracted to everything unknown, and will go to great lengths to acquire new knowledge.

As for those with a love-lust spiritual root, they will gradually become addicted to pleasure, and in their pursuit of ecstasy, they often transform themselves into monsters that are neither human nor ghost.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu stroked his chin.

So how do I explain this situation now that I'm already like this?

However, after carefully considering the people he had met, he felt that this statement was a bit too extreme.

"It can't be that exaggerated, can it?" he asked. "I've met some important figures with different spiritual roots, and they didn't seem to act that way."

He was referring to the bureau chief.

The bureau chief, who possesses the spiritual root of wisdom, gives the impression of being somewhat overly rational, but at least not to the point of being obsessed with knowledge.

"That's because evolved humans haven't yet experienced the real side effects."

Shenji smiled:

"These are the final forms that my spiritual roots will take, as calculated by my skills. But don't worry, although everything changes from the moment you have a spiritual root, it shouldn't reach such an exaggerated level."

"why?"

"Because the level is a form of protection for those who evolve."

"Protection?" Jiang Shu seemed to understand but not quite: "You mean... level eighteen is the limit for an evolved being, not the limit for a spiritual root?"

Shenji remained noncommittal, and suddenly changed the subject.

"I said, why are you always the one asking me questions? I called you here to ask how you obtained a Cataclysmic skill at level six, not to be my student."

"Wasn't this just a slip of the tongue?"

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to intend to say more, Jiang Shu wisely refrained from asking further questions and shrugged, saying:

"As for the question you want to know, I can only say that I have had this skill since the day I became an evolved being, but if you want to know the principle behind it, I don't actually know either."

As you can see, I don't know anything. What you consider common sense is new knowledge to me.

I am just an ordinary, looked-down-upon, uncertain-for-his-future newcomer with an inherently inferior spiritual root of love and desire.

"You call this normal?"

The strategist laughed:

"Ordinary people wouldn't be noticed by those guys."

And do you know that our Cataclysmic-level skills were obtained through countless hardships and by sheer luck during the second sublimation, while you have had them since the day you became an Evolver? This is no longer a matter of being ahead of the starting line; you were already standing at the finish line from the very beginning.