"It's so intensely hot... someone... give me water..."
Qin Yumo mumbled in a state of semi-conscious delirium. Her mind drifted through a hazy fog, her body feeling as though it were locked inside an extreme, stifling Turkish bathhouse.
'But isn't this temperature completely absurd?' she thought faintly. She felt as if her outer flesh were literally being boiled alive in a copper pot!
"Water... please..."
A flexible silicone straw was gently guided between her dry, parted lips. Instinctively, her throat began to work, greedily sucking down the liquid.
The cool, sweet stream washed down her parched esophagus, bringing a fleeting wave of pure relief to her scorched core. Yet, because the ambient room temperature hovered at a blistering 60 degrees Celsius, the fluid she swallowed was almost instantly forced back out through her pores as a torrent of heavy sweat, evaporating into the dense air. She had zero choice but to keep drinking, her body trapped in a continuous, rapid fluid loop.
She desperately tried to open her eyes to discern her surroundings, but her eyelids felt as though they had been fused shut with lead. Her body refused to respond to her brain's frantic commands; she couldn't twitch a single finger.
'Am I trapped in a nightmare?' Qin Yumo wondered in silent terror. 'This feels exactly like a terrifying episode of sleep paralysis...'
Yet, could a mere dream feel so visceral, so agonizingly hot? Between the sweltering heat baking her skin and the freezing liquid continuously flowing into her mouth, the sensation was entirely too real to be an illusion.
Outside the reinforced, double-paned glass of the high-temperature chamber, Adrian stood casually, watching Qin Yumo's bare form through the observation window.
"Report her current physiological status," he instructed.
Standing beside him, Number Four—a pristine, highly composed woman in a sterile lab coat—adjusted her glasses. "As per your explicit command, Young Master, we are currently utilizing a targeted chemical bath and accelerated thermal sweating to completely flush and replace her native endocrine system."
Having confirmed that Qin Yumo possessed an extraordinary, world-class biological foundation for a slave, Adrian had decided that such a rare gem deserved an aggressive, top-tier conditioning process.
However, standard topical applications and oral doses were far too slow. Even with Nan Xiang ingesting specialized compounds daily like common meals over two full months, her physical modifications had only just begun to manifest. At that sluggish pace, fully reshaping Qin Yumo into his ideal, continuous-yield milk cow would consume at least half a year.
With barely nine months remaining to fulfill his system objectives in this universe, spending six months waiting for a single target to mature was an unacceptable operational inefficiency.
Consequently, he had issued an absolute mandate to his private medical team: Engineer an accelerated, absolute biological transformation protocol within ten days.
As the old adage declared: A massive reward inevitably summons ambitious genius. After extensive algorithmic modeling, his lead researchers devised a high-intensity metabolic cycle.
The foundational phase required forcing a total replacement of her body's fluid reserves. Trapped in a calibrated 60°C sauna chamber, Qin Yumo was constantly purging her native moisture through forced sweating, while her intake was restricted entirely to a high-potency, nutrient-dense medicinal liquid loaded with specialized endocrine catalysts.
"How long will this initial flush require?" Adrian asked, watching the sweat pour off Qin Yumo like water off a seared piece of meat.
"The human epidermal system naturally undergoes a complete cellular turnover every thirty days," Number Four explained, gesturing toward a series of complex biometric monitors. "We are artificially accelerating her basal metabolic rate by several hundred percent. According to our diagnostic equipment, completing her total physical and cutaneous transformation will require precisely one hundred and twenty hours."
"Exceptional work," Adrian nodded approvingly.
When Vice Mayor Xu Guangxi had originally assigned these elite female handlers to his personal estate, Adrian had assumed they were merely high-end visual accessories. However, over his weeks of residence, he had come to realize that each handler possessed formidable technical capabilities.
For instance, Number Four held a Ph.D. from the prestigious Peking University School of Medicine, independently overseeing the mansion's multi-million-yuan clinical research wing.
Initially, Adrian had found it somewhat absurd that a stunning woman with an exceptional figure and a doctoral degree in medicine would be serving as his domestic handler. But a deeper conversation had revealed the institutional pipeline.
Each year, specialized state agencies recruited a select group of highly attractive female candidates for advanced medical training. They weren't expected to publish groundbreaking academic literature; rather, they were trained to master comprehensive, high-level healthcare protocols.
Ultimately, these elite female doctors were deployed as personal medical caretakers for high-ranking state leaders. After all, compared to greasy, middle-aged male physicians, having a brilliant, beautiful female doctor tending to one's physical health was more agreeable.
The elite handlers surrounding him had been arranged directly by his supreme grandfather in Beijing; even Vice Mayor Xu Guangxi lacked the administrative clearance to command personnel of their caliber!
"It is my supreme honor to serve your interests, Young Master," Number Four replied with a subtle smile. "Compared to my former colleagues who were assigned to care for frail, eighty-year-old party veterans, serving you is an absolute privilege."
"One hundred and twenty hours... that is five full days," Adrian calculated silently. "Can her cardiopulmonary system endure five consecutive days of thermal stress?"
Enduring a continuous 60°C sauna for five straight days was normally a fatal ordeal for a human being.
"Our life-support monitors are the most advanced in the world," Number Four assured him confidently. "Her vital signs are continuously stabilized. The oral nutrient solution we are pumping into her system is laced with micro-doses of cardiac stimulants and cellular protectants. Furthermore, Miss Qin maintained a rigorous fitness routine prior to her arrival, leaving her in peak physical condition. She will survive the five-day protocol with zero permanent organ damage."
"Good. Ensure she is rotated periodically," Adrian noted. "If she remains flat on her back for five days, her skin absorption will be uneven."
"Your instruction is spot-on, Young Master," Number Four complimented smoothly. "We automatically rotate her posture every four hours to ensure every square centimeter of her skin absorbs the volatile compounds equally."
Inside the glass chamber, Qin Yumo's intense metabolic conditioning continued without pause. At her current rate of fluid loss and liquid intake, her body's entire water volume was being completely flushed and replaced every two hours.
Although her immune system naturally attempted to filter and break down the foreign active compounds, the sheer volume of volatile medicine permeating her pores began to alter her cellular structure. In less than twelve hours, her clear, fair skin had shifted into a delicate, radiant pink hue.
Having enjoyed a restful night's sleep in the master suite, Adrian returned to the laboratory the following afternoon. Gazing through the glass, he was surprised to see Qin Yumo's skin glowing like a polished pink pearl.
"What is the cause of this pigmentation shift?" he asked.
"Miss Qin's systemic fluids have been completely flushed six times over," Number Four reported instantly, pulling up her neural response charts. "The active compounds have officially saturated her outer dermal layers and are currently reconditioning her peripheral nerve endings to fine-tune her body's sensitivity."
Adrian raised an eyebrow, a dark, curious smile curling his lips. "And to what degree has her overall physical sensitivity been amplified?"
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