Chapter 51: Experimental Notes and Infected Cells!

He casually flipped open a page of notes; the text Su Hao couldn't understand prompted him to release a faint psychic force, automatically translating the notebook's recorded content.

【Research on the combination of Stitching Monsters and skeleton soldiers……】

「Holy shit?! Could this thing be……」

After finishing reading the content recorded on this page, Su Hao couldn't help exclaiming aloud, forming some guesses about this notebook.

To verify his guess, Su Hao randomly flipped open several more pages of notes.

【Experimental records of Earth Dragon Stitching Monsters……】

【Speculations on the feasibility of the Nine-Headed Snake……】

【Experimental records of Double-Headed Stitching Monsters……】

【Experimental records of Three-Headed Wolves……】

……

「Whoosh——! 」

「This is actually experimental notes on Stitching Monsters?! 」

After reading the content recorded on these pages, Su Hao let out a long breath, a brilliant smile appearing on his face as he carefully placed the notebook in his hand into his Storage Bag.

Just as he had thought, the content recorded in this notebook is precisely the relevant experiments and research on Stitching Monsters!

As long as he follows the formula recorded in the notebook and finds the corresponding materials, Su Hao could mass-produce even Double-Headed Stitching Monsters, which are Supernatural Second Rank creatures.

Among the pages Su Hao flipped through, he even saw a formula for a Fifth Rank Stitching Monster, as well as——

a speculation regarding a Sixth Rank Stitching Monster.

「It seems the owner of this castle is even stronger than I imagined! 」

Being able to successfully experiment with Third Rank Stitching Monsters, and the formulas for Fifth Rank Stitching Monsters, as well as speculations about Sixth Rank Stitching Monsters,

this shows that the owner of this castle, the old man suspected to be a necromancer, very likely possesses Fifth Rank strength!

Without Fifth Rank strength, it would be difficult to research the formula for Fifth Rank Stitching Monsters, let alone study Sixth Rank Stitching Monsters.

「A Fifth Rank Supernatural being—this already steps into the threshold of natural disasters! 」

Su Hao couldn't help sighing, Fifth Rank is still too far away for him.

Even in his previous life, he had only occasionally heard of matters related to Fifth Rank Supernatural monsters a couple of times.

The most impactful instance was when the Deep Sea Devil Sigil whipped up towering waves, instantly submerging Okinawa region of Sakura Island, showing how powerful Fifth Rank Supernatural monsters are!

In this life, the Strange had only just descended for seven days; Su Hao casually explored a castle ruin, only to discover it was the home of a Fifth Rank Supernatural being—something he never could have imagined.

However, Su Hao felt no particular anxiety.

The reason he entered here was because he knew that in his previous life, the Other Shore Flower Organization had successfully reached the third floor of the castle, exploring every corner inside and out.

Although the Other Shore Flower Organization paid a heavy price, sacrificing many members to fully explore the castle, at least they survived and completed the exploration.

At that time, the Other Shore Flower Organization having even a few First Rank Supernatural beings was already good, topping out at Second Rank Supernatural beings.

With that strength, they could survive and fully explore the castle ruins—so how could Su Hao possibly fail to do the same?

Thereafter, Su Hao stopped overthinking, and once again split up with Da Xiong Mao to check the room for anything missed.

「Roar! 」

After a moment, Da Xiong Mao let out an excited roar, clutching a pile of azure stones, and ran to Su Hao's side.

「One, two… ten, ten Purifying Water Stones, nice! Gulu gulu qi, you're awesome! 」

Su Hao rubbed Da Xiong Mao's head, then stored all ten Purifying Water Stones in his Storage Bag.

Adding the 15 Purifying Water Stones inside the Freshwater Storage Tank, Su Hao now has a total of 25, according to his plan.

Of these, 15 Purifying Water Stones are used to synthesize higher-grade supernatural materials, and another 5 Purifying Water Stones serve as basic materials.

Thus, the main materials for constructing the Purifying Water Device are now complete.

As for glass, plastic and the like, that's no problem—once Su Hao returns to the shelter, he can simply find a few window panes and basins to refine, and obtain them.

With the Purifying Water Device, he can purify the ominous curses in outdoor water sources, start stockpiling water in advance to cope with the extreme heat disaster in one week and the waterless disaster in one month.

Coincidentally, Su Hao also has a Freshwater Storage Tank capable of holding 500 meters × 500 meters × 500 meters of fresh water; if he doesn't fill the entire tank with clean fresh water, he feels he'd be letting the tank down!

Moreover, once the tank is full, he can trade the purified fresh water, both helping more people survive and gaining the resources he needs.

After gathering the Purifying Water Stones, Su Hao and Da Xiong Mao split up to search again, but this time neither person nor bear found anything else of value.

Su Hao felt no disappointment; in this laboratory he had already found far too many good things.

Having settled the main materials for the Purifying Water Device, he also obtained three sets of Stitching Monster manufacturing devices, as well as a related experimental notebook.

If it weren't for lacking the skills and materials for life-form alteration, Su Hao could have assembled a Stitching Monster squad.

「All that's left are these six glass containers. 」

Su Hao turned his gaze to a glass container on the room's right side and used Item Appraisal Technique.

【Glass Storage Jar】

Introduction: A jar made of tempered glass.

……

「Huh? Not a supernatural item? 」

Su Hao blinked slightly; he had originally thought these six cylindrical glass jars would be supernatural items, which is why he saved them for last.

Now looking, it turns out to be just an ordinary glass jar, which is unexpected for Su Hao.

「The jar is an ordinary glass jar—surely the thing inside can't still be ordinary, right! 」

Looking at the constantly writhing, foam-like, bright red mass of flesh inside the jar, Su Hao used Item Appraisal Technique again.

But this time, before he could even see the appraisal result's content, he felt a special power surge in his mind, and simultaneously a message popped up before his eyes.

【Congratulations, your Item Appraisal Technique proficiency has risen to Mastery; you can now appraise Third Rank Supernatural items!】

……

「There's also an unexpected gain, not bad, not bad! 」

Su Hao smiled and nodded, then he turned his gaze toward the appraisal result.

【Infected Cell】

Supernatural Grade: Second Tier

Effect: Take a piece of infected cell, place it into any flesh tissue not exceeding Supernatural Grade Second Tier, and it can convert that flesh tissue into infected cells, or convert a sufficient quantity of infected cells into that flesh tissue.

Specific usage can be controlled via mental power (picture).

……

「Isn't this equivalent to a supernatural item that can infinitely replicate flesh?! 」

Looking at the content displayed on the appraisal result, Su Hao's face showed a look of surprise and joy.

For others, this thing might not be very useful, but for making a Stitching Monster, it's absolutely perfect.

The strength of a Stitching Monster is closely related to the materials used.

The higher the tier and the rarer the materials used, the higher the tier of the resulting Stitching Monster and the stronger its power.

However, the higher the tier of the materials, the harder they are to obtain; perhaps after spending a lot of time, one might only get a single batch, and once used up, they're gone.

But with infected cells, it's different—at least for flesh materials, obtaining just one batch allows infinite reuse, so there's no need to worry about flesh material shortages!

As for the effect of infected cells, it only works on flesh of Supernatural Grade Second Tier or lower; Su Hao has already thought of a solution—namely—

Synthesis!

After synthesizing a few times, perhaps we can produce infected cells effective on Third Tier, even Fourth Tier flesh!

「Alas! All we're missing now are the relevant flesh-modification skills! 」

Su Hao sighed regretfully, storing all six glass jars into his Storage Bag.

Afterward, he checked the laboratory again once more, making sure nothing was missed, then he took Da Xiong Mao and entered the last room on the second floor.

But as soon as he entered, he came right back out.

This damn thing is another toilet……

「Is this necromancer suffering from frequent urination? Is there really a need to build so many toilets? 」

Su Hao shook his head in speechlessness and headed toward the stairs.

Only the third-floor area remains unexplored, and I don't know what good stuff might still be there.