area51novel Chapter 66 Paralysis
Chapter 66 Paralysis
Chapter 66 Paralysis
night.
Sungai tribe.
This Japanese-style garden complex features winding corridors and a strict hierarchy.
The main family lived in the central area, where the sun was shining and the view was the best. The branch families, on the other hand, lived in the outer courtyards.
Hyuga Katsu returned to his residence.
The small room was even a bit cold. There was a bed inside.
A young man lay on the bed. He was pale and bore a resemblance to Sheng, but was younger.
He had a bandage wrapped around his forehead. It was to cover the curse mark, "Bird in a Cage."
"Brother—you're back." The young man opened his eyes when he heard the noise.
"Yong, don't move."
Sheng quickly walked over and helped his younger brother.
"How are you feeling?"
"Much better."
"That's good, it's time to change the dressing."
Sheng took the earthenware jar out of the cabinet and opened the lid.
The rich aroma of herbs instantly filled the narrow room.
He scooped out a piece of dark golden medicinal paste with his fingers. The paste melted slightly at his body temperature.
He applied it to his brother's arms and shoulders.
Sheng's technique was very professional. As a member of the Hyuga clan, his knowledge of acupoints was ingrained in his bones. He followed the pathways of the meridians, channeling the medicinal power into Hyuga Yu's body.
"This medicine is amazing."
Even after applying the medicine twice, Yong still sighed with relief. A warm current washed over his meridians, making him feel comfortable and relaxed.
"Brother, this medicine must be very expensive, right?" Yong asked, looking at his brother's bloodshot eyes.
"Not expensive."
Sheng put the lid on and placed the medicine pot in its place.
"Compared to this matter—courage."
"Um?"
"Do you want to become stronger? I have a way to make you stronger, but there might be risks involved."
"What method?"
"The medicine I just received was given to me by a businessman named Sosuke. He's conducting a dangerous experiment—"
Sheng told his younger brother everything about the experiment he had seen in the warehouse that night.
"He used electric current to directly stimulate the nerves, forcibly increasing the speed of nerve response."
Yu was stunned. As a member of the Hyuga clan, he knew what this meant.
"This—this can't be right, can it? If we don't use chakra to activate the cells, the nerves will be burned off by electrical current alone."
"That's why I said there might be risks."
Yong fell silent.
The power of Gentle Fist lies in its pursuit of ultimate precision. Precision, in turn, requires the ability to clearly see the opponent's movements and for the body to keep up with the visual feedback. Theoretically, if one could improve their neural reaction speed, their Gentle Fist would indeed possess greater explosive power.
"Brother, since you brought it up, you want me to give it a try, right?"
"That's right. Yu, you must improve your strength as soon as possible. The main clan won't stop you from going to the battlefield just because you're only a genin."
"Then I'll give it a try."
Late the next night, at the West Street warehouse.
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Hyuga Masaru, along with his younger brother Hyuga Isamu, arrived as promised.
Yong looked around curiously, his gaze lingering on the wires and batteries for a long time.
Sosuke was sitting at the table, holding a roll of silver needles in his hand.
Chiba sat to one side. A thick notebook was open in front of him, and he held a pen in his hand, ready to take notes.
"Good evening, Mr. Kakeru." Sousuke looked up.
Good evening, Mr. Sosuke.
Hyuga Katsu gestured for his younger brother to come forward.
"His name is Hyuga Isamu, my younger brother. He has decided to undergo the experiment."
Sousuke sized up the young Hyuga clansman.
Compared to Hyuga Masaru's composure, Yuu's eyes held a hint of resentment.
That was the ambition to become stronger.
"You should be aware of the risks," Sosuke said.
"Mr. Sosuke, my brother told me everything."
Yong remained calm.
"Even if it burns my nerves, I want to try it. I've had enough of being a genin."
Within the Hyuga clan, branch family members without talent are the worst of the worst. Aside from serving as cannon fodder for the main family, they have virtually no other value.
"Let's begin then. Sit in the lab chair." Sosuke nodded.
He looked at Hyuga Katsumi.
"Mr. Sheng, I'm in trouble."
Hyuga Katsu didn't waste any words. He formed hand seals, and the veins around his eyes bulged.
"Byakugan, activate!"
That's God's perspective, seeing through everything.
In his vision, his younger brother Yu's body had meridians that resembled a dense net. Due to years of practicing Gentle Fist without mastering the techniques, some of Yu's meridian nodes were not open, resulting in slow chakra flow.
"First, pierce the Heavenly Pillar" and the large shuttle.
Hinata Katsuyuki lightly tapped on Yu's back to indicate the location.
Sousuke picked up the silver needle with extremely steady movements. Under Byakugan's guidance, the needle tip pierced the flesh, precisely hitting the nerve plexus.
Yong's body trembled slightly. His nervous system sensed the intrusion of a foreign object and reacted instinctively.
"Turn the voltage to the lowest setting," Sosuke instructed Chiba.
"Received." Chiba flipped the switch.
Nourishing.
An electric current flowed through him. Yong's muscles twitched involuntarily.
"Endure, be brave!"
Hyuga Katsu shouted.
In his glazed eyes, he saw that, guided by the silver needles, the current was forcibly confined to several major nerve trunks.
Chiba stared at his pocket watch and calmly counted out the numbers.
"Three, two, one. Power off."
Click. The switch fell.
Hinata Yu slumped in his chair, panting heavily, sweat dripping from his forehead onto the wooden floor.
"How are you feeling?" Sheng asked.
Hyuga Isamu raised his hand. He looked at his fingertips.
The feeling was strange. He felt his hands become lighter, or rather, the barrier between his mind and body disappeared.
Previously, when practicing Soft Fist, he needed to plan the route in his mind first, and then drive his muscles with his will. Now, as long as he sees the target, his body seems to act on its own.
"Brother, I feel great."
Yong stood up and casually pointed to a teacup on the table in front of him.
Whoosh.
His fingers moved swiftly, like knives, and with lightning speed. The moment his fingertips touched the cup, they even produced a faint hissing sound.
Hyuga Masaru's pupils suddenly contracted.
The speed of this finger strike was at least 10% faster than before.
"It really works!"
Hyuga Katsumi muttered to himself.
"In that case—Mr. Sosuke, I'll give it a try too!"
"You? You're already quite strong, why take this risk?"
"If my brother can handle this kind of stimulation, then so can I."
Hyuga Katsumi couldn't wait any longer, so he walked to the lab chair and took off his clothes.
"Brother, don't try anymore. You're already a Chunin, you don't need to risk your life like I did. It really hurt just now—"
Hinata Isamu tried to dissuade him.
"Yoo. Our Hyuga clan will soon be heading to the front lines. You should know that the branch family's casualty rate on the battlefield is three times that of the main family. Every second of faster reaction time gives me a better chance of survival."
Hyuga Masaru ignored the advice. He looked at Sousuke, his eyes revealing the confidence of a strong man.
"Mr. Sousuke, my chakra reserves and physical abilities far surpass Yuu's. If he can handle it, I certainly can too. Please begin."
Sosuke frowned slightly.
"Mr. Sheng, this isn't a simple matter of addition and subtraction. Your chakra reserves are indeed greater, but that might not be a good thing. We haven't conducted any controlled experiments in this regard yet."
"It's alright," Hyuga Masaru insisted. "I have faith in my control."
Sousuke shrugged. He couldn't stop a Hyuga branch family member who craved power.
"Chiba, prepare to connect the wires."
Sosuke picked up the silver needles and inserted them into Hyuga Katsu's acupoints.
Tianzhu, Dazhu, Shendao.
With each needle insertion, Sousuke could feel the resistance from the needle tip. It seemed to be the chakra surging within Hyuga Katsura's body instinctively repelling external stimuli.
This is strange; it's a phenomenon that neither Hinata Isamu nor Sousuke themselves have experienced.
Sousuke hesitated for a moment: "Katsu-san, your chakra—seems a little unstable."
"Let's begin, I can control myself."
Are you sure?
"I'm sure."
"Alright. Well then, during the electric shock, you need to continue observing with your white eyes. If anything goes wrong, stop immediately," Sosuke instructed.
"I see."
Hyuga Katsu closed his eyes and looked inward at his own body.
"Adjust the voltage to 18 volts. Duration: three seconds," Sosuke ordered Chiba.
Chiba placed his hand on the guillotine.
"start."
Click. The switch closed.
"Hmm!"
Hyuga Masaru's eyes widened instantly.
There's really a problem.
The chakra within his body actually boiled on its own without him forming hand seals or mobilizing it!
Chakra repels electrical current.
Just like the immune system discovering a virus, the chakra within Hyuga Katsura's body automatically surges out to block the invading current.
"Stop—stop!"
Hyuga Masaru was horrified to discover that he could no longer control his chakra.
puff.
He sprang up from the chair and then fell to the floor.
Chiba pulled the switch in a hurry, but it was too late.
Hyuga Katsumi was convulsing, foaming at the mouth, and his eyes were rolling back.
What's most terrifying is that his chakra didn't calm down after the electricity disappeared; instead, it rampaged through his meridians.
"Brother!" Hinata Yu rushed over.
"Chiba! Save him!" Sosuke shouted.
He rushed over and grabbed Hyuga Masaru's philtrum.
Beneath my palm, the body was frighteningly hot. The body temperature had soared to at least 40 degrees Celsius. It was a result of a neurological disorder causing an imbalance in body temperature regulation.
Chiba quickly picked up the silver needles.
"Hold him down! Don't let him bite his tongue!" Chiba shouted.
Sousuke immediately pried open Hyuga Masaru's jaw and grabbed a rag, stuffing it into his mouth.
Chiba precisely inserted the silver needle into the vagus nerve node in Hyuga Katsu's neck.
This is to cut off the brainstem's erroneous instructions to the body, forcing a shutdown.
Hinata Masaru's convulsions finally stopped.
"How is it?" Hinata asked, his forehead covered in cold sweat.
Sousuke placed his fingers on Hyuga Masaru's wrist and channeled chakra to probe.
Three full minutes passed before he finally raised his head, his eyes serious.
"I survived. But—I won't be able to move for a while."
"Paralyzed?" Hinata asked, his voice trembling.
"It's temporary. It will recover."
How long will it take to recover?
"One or two months."
Sosuke's back was soaked with cold sweat.
This situation was beyond his expectations. The voltage wasn't strong; even he could withstand it. Why was Hyuga Masaru paralyzed by the electric shock?
"asshole!"
Hinata bravely grabbed Sousuke by the collar.
"You almost killed my brother!"
Sosuke did not resist, letting the boy, who was younger than him, grab his collar.
Might Guy emerged from the shadows, intending to make a move, but was stopped by Sousuke.
"Yong, calm down. I told you there were risks, didn't I? Besides, your brother isn't crippled. I'll heal him."
"Use the best medicine and the best food."
"You will take care of him for the next two months. I will cover your family's living expenses, 200,000 taels per month."
"But you must keep it a secret. Tell everyone that he forcibly opened up his pressure points while practicing Gentle Fist, causing his chakra to flow backward."
"Don't let the rest of the Hyuga family know about this."
Hyuga Isamu's breathing gradually calmed down. He released his grip. He knew this was a gamble. He had to accept the consequences.
"Two months."
Hinata Isamu gritted his teeth.
"If my brother can't stand up in two months, I will kill you."
"Alright." Sosuke didn't argue with the boy.
Hyuga Yu carried Hyuga Masaru on his back and left the place.
"Mr. Sosuke, should we continue the experiment?" Chiba asked.
"Stop." Sosuke felt a lingering fear.
He then realized that this unorthodox method of using electric current to stimulate the human body, without the support of systematic scientific data, was simply a crazy act of suicide.
He was lucky before, and nothing went wrong. Otherwise, he might have been the one paralyzed.
"Chiba, dismantle all of these things. Seal all the records."
Chiba was somewhat reluctant to leave.
"Mr. Sosuke, although there was an accident, we also obtained valuable data. As long as we control the voltage—"
"No."
Sousuke interrupted.
"The risk is too high. I won't use this method again until I understand how it works."
He wanted to become stronger, but he wanted to live even more. If becoming stronger meant becoming paralyzed, then it wasn't a worthwhile trade.
Chiba was silent for a moment, then nodded.
"Understood."
He began to disassemble the wires.
But during the disassembly process, this precocious child prodigy suddenly said something strange.
"Mr. Sosuke, I observed a phenomenon when Hyuga Katsu was having convulsions just now."
"What?"
"His chakra."
A hint of confusion flashed in Chiba's eyes.
"When the electric current invaded his nerves, his chakra—seemed to come alive."
"It's alive?"
"Yes. It wasn't a flow, nor a simple stress response. It was like something alive, blocking the flow of electricity. I guess that's what caused the experiment to fail."
Sousuke frowned.
It's like it has a life of its own? Chakra—isn't it more than just energy?
"Write down this phenomenon."
Sosuke said in a deep voice.
"yes.
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