Chapter 19 Half a Month Later

Half a month later.

The basement on Grimm Street.

Suren was tinkering with a new combat puppet. He was trying to use steel wires to make it move, but whether it was swinging or dodging, the movements were too clumsy compared to the wooden puppet.

This puppet, almost life-size, wasn't a golem made of wood, but a mechanical puppet pieced together from parts disassembled from the [px-911 Mechanical Limb].

Suren also knew that it wasn't that the mechanical limb wasn't agile enough, but that he wasn't approaching it the right way.

After studying it for this period, he had figured out many of the functions of this mechanical limb.

The limb's outer armor was made of a special alloy that couldn't even be dented by alchemical double-layered shots. The limb also contained various weapons: knives, guns, energy cannons, retractable metal ropes, injectors...

Once disassembled, it was simply a collection of top-tier technological weapons.

There was also a mechanical heart with blood-pumping function, a mechanical lung for oxygen supply...

Moreover, these weren't even the most amazing things.

During this time, Suren discovered that the most incomprehensible technology in these mechanical limbs was the highly sensitive mechanical contacts that could be triggered by bioelectricity.

This was a very cutting-edge, laboratory-level technology, so advanced that it far surpassed steampunk, leading Suren to even suspect that this world's tech tree had reached the level of cyberpunk "neuromechanics."

With these highly sensitive contacts, it also meant that, theoretically, connecting it to the human nervous system could directly control the mechanical limb's movements!

Suren also thought that this limb might be what Danny was talking about, another top-secret project of the Black Tower's Medical Research Department and the Mechanical Department - the Super Mechanical Warrior Project.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been such a coincidence to find it on a transport vehicle heading to the laboratory.

After Suren discovered this, he also reconstructed the complete structure of this mechanical limb in his mind. The missing parts might be a complete human nervous system, or some other driving organization of an alchemical prosthetic.

This world didn't have an intelligent control system, so they just directly installed a human brain to create a semi-mechanical human.

As long as they covered it with a layer of bionic skin, they would look no different from humans!

This was more thorough than these "new school" alchemists in the outer city, who were still at the stage of modifying mechanical limbs, while the top laboratories in the inner city had already researched warriors with almost completely mechanical limbs.

Suren guessed that the woman with the bounty on her head was probably such a mechanical warrior.

.......

However, the mechanical limb involved too many cutting-edge laboratory-level technologies, which couldn't be thoroughly researched by one person.

Suren didn't plan to sell this thing, nor did he plan to cut off his head and connect it to it.

So, in his hands, he could only disassemble the parts.

He disassembled the indestructible dagger from the mechanical limb's arm and put it on his wooden puppet, and the spring-loaded blade on the mechanical leg was also removed and given to another puppet. Then the high-precision boiler parts were useless, so he disassembled the alloy outer panels and made a bulletproof puppet. As for those mechanical organs, they gave him a lot of inspiration for his "Iron Man Mark III"...

Suren was tinkering with the mechanical puppet, enjoying himself.

But suddenly, his ear twitched slightly, and an unusual sound entered his ear.

Suren stopped working and suddenly tilted his head to stare.

He was even more certain that there was a sound of breathing coming from the dissection table in the corner of the basement, separated by a transparent curtain!

"Eh..."

Listening to the faint sound, he was not surprised but delighted: "It's done!"

Suren ignored the puppet in his hand and hurried over.

At this moment, he looked at the corpse on the dissection table with a slight rise and fall in its chest, and his eyes lit up.

.......

Half a month ago, Suren went to the black market to find Mr. Black to translate those obscure secret texts, and then successfully deciphered the "Aberration Inhibitor" formula researched by that crazy warlock who made the living dead a thousand years ago.

Fortunately, Danny's original job at "Research Institute No. 7" was to study aberration suppression. Although the ancient formula was very complicated and there were some incomprehensible links, because many theoretical links were interconnected, he combined the knowledge he had mastered and successfully manufactured the first batch of "Aberration Inhibitor" yesterday!

There was no shortage of corpses in the outer city, and Suren immediately found a fresh corpse to experiment with. After injecting the [Second Generation x Serum] according to the dosage, the corpse also slowly became active. But the effect of the second-generation serum was much worse than the original solution. He had already injected the third one. If it didn't work, he might inject a fourth one.

Unexpectedly, the corpse suddenly started breathing!

It looked like a sleeping living person, but according to the diary, this was just a soulless shell. Even the characteristics of a living person were not the corpse's own, but the active substances in the "x Serum" had completely transformed the body, forcing the body tissues to revive. In a sense, this corpse was no longer a human corpse.

Just a moment after breathing appeared, Suren watched the dark red spots gradually appearing on the corpse, and the overall skin color gradually turned blue, and secretly said: "The skin turns blue, and spots appear. As expected, it is starting to mutate..."

The diary recorded this mutation process in detail, and Suren was not surprised at all.

He didn't delay, took out a tube of aberration inhibitor, and injected it into the corpse.

After a while, the speed of the spread of aberration spots began to slow down.

Suren didn't waste time either, took out the rune pen, and began to draw basic runes on the corpse that had started breathing.

[Corpse Activity Rune], [i-Level Dark Attribute Magic Gathering Rune], [Wind Element Circulation Condensation Rune], [i-Level Life Rune]...

The materials had been prepared long ago, and he had practiced the runes very well these days.

He didn't need to study it himself, just followed the drawing order recorded in the diary, and drew them on layer by layer.

These were all low-level runes, and the drawing difficulty was not high.

In the diary, that Chekhov used this set of low-level runes to create an active corpse that he thought was "useless".

Suren knew that he would definitely not be able to create the terrifying blue-skinned monster in the cursed space with these low-level runes, and he didn't plan to do it.

What he wanted was not the ultimate research of "reviving the corpse", but just a "living corpse" that could maintain normal life characteristics!

.......

Three hours later.

Suren had already drawn various yellow, black, white, and red runes on the corpse.

The runes on the entire corpse brought together the four basic elements of "earth, wind, water, and fire", and then circulated and connected, endlessly.

"The ancient warlock who created this set of rune combinations is really talented..."

Suren put down the rune pen, looked at his work, and sighed.

He could skillfully master these low-level runes, but he couldn't understand the principle. He only needed to consume a small amount of materials to make these runes run continuously, which involved extremely profound rune attainments.

It would also be convenient to redraw the runes in the future.

With the runes drawn, Suren also breathed a sigh of relief.

He had done everything he should, and he began to check the corpse's aberration state.

"The x Serum has changed the corpse's tissue structure, and the muscle strength has been significantly enhanced. But while the aberration inhibitor takes effect, it also inhibits some of the serum's effects..."

Suren was already very satisfied with this result.

All indications showed that the first living corpse he made was about to succeed!

He didn't want to create some "abomination warrior". The strength of the corpse didn't matter. It only needed to be able to withstand the backlash of that black scythe for him.

Before long, the corpse's skin turned completely blue.

"It's done!"

Suren was overjoyed.

This also meant that the corpse transformed by the serum had stabilized. Although there would be some enhancements to the living corpse later, it could already be considered a successful "Rune Living Corpse."

.......

Making a living corpse was only the first step. The important thing was that Suren planned to use it to verify his conjecture.

He pulled the corpse up with steel wires.

The living corpse was like a sleepwalker, standing there blankly with its eyes closed. It was neither alive nor dead. In this dark underground basement, it looked a little creepy.

"The muscle strength is enough to support the body, and the joints are also normal. It fully meets the conditions..."

Suren checked the state of the living corpse.

He had previously measured that using that black scythe required at least two necessary conditions: having life characteristics and having dark spiritual power injected!

The source of the curse backlash was also likely to be directly related to these two conditions.

The "living corpse" just happened to meet both!

After being transformed by the x Serum, the dark spiritual power value in the corpse's body was surging, even higher than that of ordinary professionals, slightly overflowing.

This was just as well, saving Suren from having to find another way to activate the corpse and release dark spiritual power.

Suren fixed the black scythe in the living corpse's hand.

At this moment, the black fire overflowing from the scythe seemed to be stimulated by the dark spiritual power, and immediately burst into flames.

Seeing this, Suren faintly felt that his line of reasoning might be correct.

Taking a deep breath, he tried to pull the corpse's arm gently with the steel wire. He seemed to hear a tearing sound, and a small spatial crack appeared strangely not far from the tip of the scythe.

"A spatial crack really appeared!"

Seeing this, expectation overflowed on Suren's face.

This time, he didn't use any dark spiritual power to inject, but he succeeded.

He could roughly confirm that his guess was correct!

After making this cut, he didn't continue to move.

He put down the puppet and began the long process of waiting for the backlash.

.......

An hour later.

Suren didn't feel anything unusual on his body. At this time, he looked at the right arm of the living corpse in front of him, and a bloodstain suddenly appeared for no reason.

"It's done!"

Suren knew that this was a sign of the scythe's curse backlash.

"My guess was right. As long as the two conditions of living body and dark spiritual power are met, a spatial crack can be cut out!"

Now, Suren's face was radiant, as if he saw a glimmer of light through the fog-shrouded future.

Where the scythe passes, it is cut in two with one strike!

The [Hypnos's Night Black Scythe], which could only be used to gamble with the enemy before, has now become a controllable weapon of mass destruction.

The curse backlash would not be applied to the main body, which meant that he could control the living corpse to swing without any worries.

There was also an unexpected surprise. Because the modification of the "x Serum" gave the living corpse super self-healing ability. After the wound appeared, it was slowly recovering.

This also meant that this living corpse could be recycled as long as it was not killed in one go!

People using the scythe would worry that being disabled would affect their combat power, but the living corpse was different.

What Suren wanted was a puppet. As long as the living corpse could cut out a spatial crack, it didn't matter to him even if it was missing arms and legs. Da Feng Novel

He estimated that before the corpse was backlashed to death, it could probably swing five or six times in a row!

One strike could kill a Spider Queen at the Lord level, what was the concept of five or six strikes?

This also meant that Suren now had the ability to kill high-level professionals!

However, Suren was not too excited. This was the result he had expected.

Next, he would face more problems.

The experiment was successful, but there were still many problems to be solved to reach the level of actual combat.

He looked at the living corpse on the dissection table, stroked his chin, and pondered: "The living corpse is not flexible enough to control now. There are still many places that need to be improved for real combat... The muscle strength of the corpse is enough for it to stand and support its body, but it cannot walk. If I install mechanical bones for it, and add a steam-powered boiler? Well... the current technology is not mature, and it is not convenient."

Thinking about it, his thoughts diverged.

"The phenomenon of dark spiritual power overflowing from the living corpse also needs to be controlled, so that the intensity of cutting out spatial cracks can be controlled..."

"The swing range and the value of dark spiritual power injected determine the size of the cut spatial crack, but it will take more attempts to obtain accurate data for precise control..."

Now that he had a living corpse, Suren didn't have to risk his body in this dangerous experiment.

There were also ninety-seven [Second Generation x Serum], enough for him to create more living corpses and get the precise data he wanted.

But looking at the two-meter-long black scythe, Suren muttered to himself: "Moreover, the biggest problem is that neither the living corpse nor the scythe can be put into the storage ring, making it inconvenient to carry them around."

"Eh... Didn't Mr. Black say before that the advancement direction of the puppeteer's second-level profession can be 'spatial ability'? Certain high-quality spatial curse materials can allow people to obtain the ability to create real folded spaces. Then, it would be perfect to make a folded space that can hold living corpses and scythes. However, that kind of cursed object seems to be not easy to find..."