"Ugh... my back..."
The moment he said that, students passing outside the institute all looked at Ye Lan strangely, and quite a few gathered together to whisper among themselves.
"No wonder Ye Lan got such great treatment the moment he arrived at school. Turns out he sold himself to Professor Nishinomori's institute!"
"Exactly! The Nishinomori family is loaded. They must've given Ye Lan a ton of money!"
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Ye Lan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but had no idea how to begin.
Strictly speaking, they were completely right, but no matter how he heard it, it just sounded weird...
After once again experiencing the laboratory's metal examination table, Ye Lan climbed down feeling nothing but aches in his back and waist.
Inside the institute, Ye Lan had not only been scanned by all kinds of high-tech equipment, but also had a strand of hair taken as an experimental sample.
It had to be said that the Nishinomori family's wealth was truly astonishing. Their research equipment was far superior even to that at Professor Oak's Laboratory, and this was not even the Nishinomori family's best-equipped laboratory.
After discussing matters with Professor Oak and accepting a great deal of resources from the old man Nishinomori, Ye Lan was not only unopposed to the man's research, but actually hoped he could achieve some results.
Only Ye Lan himself understood the true nature of his ability, "Absolute Monarch of Grass." It was a fusion of a system ability and Snake Guardian Village's guardian power, a special ability that the system could not make sense of and Andrew could not make sense of either.
If the old man Nishinomori could truly discover something, it would be a huge help whether in Ye Lan mastering his own abilities or understanding the secrets of the