บท 5: Chapter 5 The Second Fusion
Su Han locked his bedroom door and propped it shut with the sofa before returning to the living room.
Encountering survivors was inevitable since not everyone would have turned into monsters or been killed by them.
What surprised him was that the couple next door, Gan Xinglei and Yan Meiyu, were unharmed.
"Keep observing, better not be troublemakers, otherwise I really could take them down."
Life is not a novel, where would you find normal people slaughtering left and right as soon as the apocalypse starts, unless they were psychopaths who already wanted to kill?
Su Han walked to the corner of the living room, rummaged through a drawer for candles, and lit them, illuminating the dimming living room.
The fog still shrouded the outside of the building, the lighting was already poor, and now, guessing by the time, it was getting closer to four or five in the afternoon, so the natural light was fading.
"Continue the Metal Fusion."
The living room was piled with metal items taken from several rooms today, even including two or three security door panels, which in total should weigh a few hundred pounds, enough for the Angel Envoy's corpse to undergo Fusion.
The flesh of the Angel Envoy writhed and then made contact with the metal, slowly merging with it.
The Fusion Degree on the attribute panel rose slowly from 15%, 15.1%, 15.2%...
Traces of strength enhancement feedback merged into Su Han's body, like a warm and smooth stream flowing through him, feeling increasingly evident.
"The feedback connection feels not only during Fusion but also faintly perceptible at ordinary times, so does the enhancement always continue at a slow pace?"
The stronger sense of connection prompted Su Han to speculate further.
The Book of Blood Spirit had a connection with the monsters, but the method to become stronger was not made clear, leaving one to grope in the dark.
But now it seemed that natural enhancement and feedback did exist, and driving the Angel Envoy to a certain extent could increase the strength of this feedback connection.
In simpler terms, it was about accumulating experience or energy faster to reach the next level of strength.
"Other people's Angel Envoys can also enhance, it's hard to say at what pace, but the longer it takes, the more powerful people there will be, so I need to speed up the Fusion process."
While pondering, Su Han went to the kitchen to prepare some food.
He turned on the gas stove, cut up the large pieces of beef he had found and put them in the pot, along with large marrow bones and pork ribs, simmering them all into a stew.
He found plenty of meat, which is one of the most likely foods to be stocked in everyone's fridge.
After all, with life getting more convenient, meats can be frozen quickly, but vegetables and fruits are usually bought on a day-to-day basis.
The flickering light of the stove faintly illuminated the kitchen.
"The gas pipeline still works now, but it probably won't be long before it stops; I need to prepare more."
Su Han looked at the boiling pot of meat soup, his mind full of thoughts. Suddenly plunged into the apocalypse, everything had changed too quickly, with too much missing information, leaving him to take one step at a time.
The only things he could rely on were the Book of Blood Spirit and the Angel Envoy.
But even with this bestowed power, he knew too little and still needed to explore more.
He muttered, "Perhaps it's possible to have others scout ahead."
About forty minutes later, the stew was ready, a pot brimming with meat. After simply seasoning it, he brought it to the living room.
The Angel Envoy's corpse was still merging with a large amount of metal, its flesh enveloping them and then gradually absorbing them into its body, with the Fusion Degree now reaching 23% and still increasing.
While feeling the power of the feedback, Su Han started to eat his dinner, hungrily consuming the meat to fill his stomach.
The most direct sensation of body enhancement was actually hunger, a greater demand for energy than he normally required.
If it were any other time, he would probably have been full after eating just a third of the pot.
But half an hour later, Su Han had eaten nearly ninety percent of the meat, finally satisfying his hunger.
He threw the pot into the kitchen, leaving only himself and the Angel Envoy corpse in the living room.
The candlelight flickered slightly, dim and obscure.
As time went on, it must have been nightfall, and without the candlelight, the entire room would become extremely dark.
Amidst the shadows, growls and screams arose intermittently from outside the window and between buildings, and even the alarms of cars could be heard in the distance.
This was the first night of the apocalypse, and no matter how slow to react or timid, people were starting to take action.
After all, in modern cities, where people are accustomed to a fast pace, not everyone has the habit of storing large quantities of food.
Some wanted to save themselves, and of course, others thought of hunting monster corpses to activate their "Book of Blood Spirit."
However, to obtain it, one must pay a certain price, and the price was usually very dangerous.
There were still roughly three to five hundred jin of metal in the room, and the Fusion process still required a long time.
Su Han, to preserve the state, completely blocked the main door, and then lay down to sleep, right beside the Angel Envoy corpse.
The night had nearly passed, the candle had burned out, and Su Han woke up groggily, rubbing his bleary eyes, and the room was faintly bright.
[LV2 ordinary metal Fusion complete, "Iron Skin" skill acquired]
The metal in the living room had been fused by nearly ninety percent, and when the second Fusion was complete, the Angel Envoy corpse underwent another transformation.
The height increased by another twenty centimeters from two meters, reaching around two meters and twenty, the reddish muscles became even more swollen and hard, the metallic Claws extending from the fingers became sharper and slightly longer, and the jet-black metal grew backwards to the back of the hands, even more pronounced.
Beyond that, underneath the muscles, the black color began to surge, sticking to the skin as if it were a metallic skin, and in a flash, the entire corpse turned into a jet-black color, distinctly different and colder than its previous brutal appearance.
Su Han touched it and immediately felt a cold sensation, seemingly no different from touching iron skin.
"Clang"
He picked up a kitchen knife and chopped down on it, a faint white mark was left on the surface, and the Iron Skin truly lived up to its name, not harming the muscles underneath.
He was delighted, with his Angel Envoy's defense greatly improved and both offense and defense enhanced by a notch, his strength was not to be underestimated.
Although Iron Skin wasn't absolute defense, it was naturally much stronger compared to ordinary corpses.
Angel Envoy: Corpse
Rank: First-level Intermediate
Skills: [Claw] [Iron Skin]
Fusion: LV2 Ordinary Metal
The strength of the Angel Envoy on the panel had changed, and the power feeding back into Su Han's body suddenly increased significantly.
Bones and muscles resonated, muscles stretched out, his body filled with tremendous strength, a warm current flowed throughout his body.
Feeling the power in his body, becoming more agile and stronger, even without deliberate exercise, he guessed he could easily lift up something weighing two to three hundred jin, and perhaps even more when shouldering it.
Su Han was just about to move a sofa to feel his strength better when he suddenly felt a strange sensation in his heart.
His consciousness immediately entered the cognitive space, which was a boundless pitch-black space, with a blood-red "Book of Blood Spirit" standing in the center.
A page circled around the Book of Blood Spirit, standing tall and distant, the pattern on it the same as the Angel Envoy corpse.
The page transformed into the Angel Envoy corpse and suddenly came to life, a stream of red Energy emerging within his body, like flowing meridians.
A familiar yet foreign memory flooded Su Han's consciousness, and instinctively he began to circulate this power, then continuously modified it to suit his own body.
Time passed, unknowingly, when suddenly a prompt sounded.
[Comprehension successful, "Iron Skin" skill synchronized]
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