The bald man was dead, and Sullen began to collect his spoils.

The mechanical arm on this guy's right arm had been damaged beyond recognition in the previous battle. The barrel, air valve, high-pressure pipes, and the like had all been cut open.

However, this did not hinder Sullen's research into this kind of steampunk technology.

He had just stripped the bald man's memory, and his brain now contained some basic "steam machinery knowledge." After taking a look, he roughly understood the structure of this mechanical arm.

"The technology tree of this world seems to have gone awry. It's a combination of alchemy and steam power..."

Sullen looked at the runes engraved on the mechanical arm and fell into thought.

Pure metal materials could not support such a complex structure, especially that ultra-high-pressure steam cannon. These mysterious alchemical runes were a very important factor in stabilizing the structure.

However, his mechanical knowledge was still limited, and he could not yet understand the principles of these inscriptions and enchantments.

.......

Without looking too closely, Sullen began to search the bald man's other equipment.

Unfortunately, apart from the dagger just now, almost all the items on the corpse were damaged. The musket was also cut into several pieces, with only half of the gun handle remaining in the holster.

Sullen couldn't help but feel disappointed. He didn't find the supplies he wanted and wondered, "Is that it? Don't these guys bring food when they go out?"

Just as this question popped into his head, he suddenly saw the three black gemstone rings on the bald man's hand.

Sullen thought that if he remembered correctly, one of them was stripped from the finger of the dead mohawked man.

Taking a closer look, the "Omniscient Eye" immediately responded with information.

[Damaged Spatial Ring]

Details: Inferior spatial equipment, engraved with runes for identifying the owner (damaged).

"Spatial equipment?"

Seeing this, Sullen revealed a look of understanding.

In this desolate underground world, water and food should be more important than weapons. It was abnormal that these guys didn't even have water bottles.

He peeled off a storage ring, put it on his finger, and focused his mind. Suddenly, he saw that the "black gemstone" on the storage ring was a folded space.

About half a cubic meter of space, densely packed with various bottles and jars.

Red and green, row after row, looking like potions.

Sullen casually took out a red test tube potion and identified it with the "Omniscient Eye."

[Inferior Healing Potion (Internal Use)]

Details: Quickly stops bleeding and accelerates wound healing; although it has impurities, it is good that there are no side effects.

Then he looked at a blue one, which was for restoring dark spiritual power.

There were also some advanced potions with inscriptions on the test tubes, but there were only a few of them.

"As expected, emergency medicine is an essential substance for adventurers. Now I probably won't die..."

Sullen was overjoyed.

A second ago, he was still worried that the lack of essential medicines would cause the wounds on his body to become infected and inflamed, bringing him unpredictable fatal threats.

Now, seeing these potions, he directly opened a medium-level healing potion and drank it. He also used an external disinfectant to clean the wound.

If he didn't have the "Omniscient Eye," Sullen felt that even if he saw these potions, he wouldn't know that these test tubes contained life-saving medicine.

Of course, there was also poison.

Now it seemed that this talent ability was really a perfect match for him as a transmigrator.

What was amazing was that after Sullen took the potion, he suddenly felt a slight itching in the wounds on the palms of his hands. He knew very well that this was a sign of accelerated cell division and that the wound tissue was healing.

But normally, this healing sensation would only be obvious a few days after the wound appeared.

"What an amazing potion. If it were in my previous life, it would be a life-saving miracle drug for surgery..."

Sullen's current eyesight allowed him to clearly see his wounds healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It looked like it would be completely restored in about half an hour.

However, he then muttered, "It seems a bit wasteful to use a 'medium-level potion' for this kind of injury..."

It seemed that the super strong medicinal effect of the "medium-level healing potion" should be used to treat more fatal injuries. For the wounds on his hands, the inferior potion seemed to be enough.

But Sullen didn't feel sorry for using it on himself.

.......

In the second storage ring, Sullen found the food and water he wanted, but they looked very unappetizing.

The food was a black bread that was as hard as a brick, and the water was even more muddy.

If it hadn't been identified as [Inferior Drinking Water], Sullen wouldn't have thought that this muddy liquid, which looked like it had been taken directly from the swamp, would be drinking water.

Not in a hurry to eat, Sullen checked the last storage ring, which contained weapons.

There were two punk-style pistols and a sawed-off shotgun.

Then there were dense bullets and some replacement parts for the mechanical arm.

The guns were all good guns, and the bullets were not all simple gunpowder bullets.

After identification, Sullen found that among those ordinary bullets, there were also some special bullets with magic runes engraved on the warheads: [Alchemy Bullet (High Explosive)], [Alchemy Bullet (Armor Piercing)], [Alchemy Bullet (Magic Breaking)]...

There weren't many, but they looked very powerful.

There was no other food in the last storage ring, so Sullen had no choice. Low blood sugar was already making him a little dizzy. He picked up the black bread and took a few bites, then gulped down a few mouthfuls of water with a rotten taste.

As he ate, he also felt very strange.

Judging from the equipment carried by the bald man, the muskets, bullets, and other things were very well made, so the industry in this world should be very developed. But the food was a bit tragic.

"Could it be that those guys can't even guarantee basic clean drinking water and food?"

Sullen, who had transmigrated, found it difficult to understand why these guys could have such sophisticated equipment but not have a pot of clean drinking water.

He vaguely guessed that the living environment in this world might be very harsh.

.......

Sullen sat by the bald man's corpse and ate, watching the physiological characteristics of a living person on the corpse gradually dissipate, the skin turn white, and the body temperature gradually lost...

Just as he was still counting the items in the storage ring, he suddenly discovered that two glowing objects had appeared on the bald man's corpse.

A blue scale armor the size of a palm slowly condensed and appeared from the skin of the corpse; the other was a dark red strip-shaped object like a muscle fiber bundle.

Upon identification, they were two more special items.

[Adamantine Scale Armor (Damaged)]

Details: Already damaged alchemical implant; perhaps you can extract some useful extraordinary materials from it;

[Cursed Object: Tenacious Magic Muscle (Damaged)]

Details: Warlock power system 'Iron Man' job change material; missing a part of the curse characteristics, needs to be re-drawn with curse runes before it can be used;

"This is the bald man's invulnerable scale armor from before? So it was an item similar to equipment..."

Sullen suddenly felt very magical about what this kind of thing was. It could turn into a tattoo covering the body, be stimulated into a physical object with a magic circle, and now it was stripped out after death.

The "alchemy" that frequently appeared in the Omniscient Eye made him more and more curious.

After the "magic muscle" was stripped from the corpse, the bald man's corpse visibly shrank a lot.

Sullen also understood something and suddenly realized: "So that's how 'job change materials' are used... directly integrated into the body to increase body attributes?"

He immediately thought of the "Puppet Master" job change material he also had, which could greatly increase agility and skills after the job change.

Now it seemed that this "magic muscle" was the root cause of his exaggerated strength!

However...

Even after knowing the principle, Sullen found that he still didn't know how to "job change."

......

After barely filling his stomach, Sullen had almost finished counting the resources in the bald man's storage ring.

It wasn't that he didn't want to figure everything out, but the "Omniscient Eye" didn't identify items without a cost.

Identification consumed dark spiritual power.

The more advanced the item, the more it consumed.

The dark spiritual power value in his body now only had a few dozen points left for backup, and even if he drank a recovery potion, it would take several hours to fully recover.

Anyway, the necessary medicine and water had been found, and there was no hurry to know what the remaining items were used for.

Sullen loaded both muskets with bullets.

One loaded with ordinary bullets, and the other loaded with special alchemy bullets, and then tucked them into his waist.

He planned to leave here first, find a human city, and learn about the situation in this world.

As he was about to leave, looking at the bald man's corpse and the desolate manor, Sullen suddenly had another question in his mind.

"Logically speaking, the original owner came to find this ruin. Why did this bald man kidnap the original owner? Was he specifically tracking him, or did a teammate traveling with him suddenly have malicious intentions?"

Sullen thought the former was more likely.

No matter how stupid the original owner was, he probably wouldn't share such an important "Isaac Baron's Treasure" with others. And even if he was looking for teammates, he shouldn't be looking for a "gang" like the bald man who had the ability to kill for money at any time.

And judging from the information left on the retina, the original owner's identity should be very sensitive, like a banished descendant of a large family.

These conditions added together were very intriguing.

"First of all, the probability of encountering someone in such a remote place is very low. And judging from the questions the bald man asked during the interrogation before, they didn't know about the existence of the treasure, nor did they know the original owner's true identity. So, their purpose in following was very simple: to kill and silence him!"

"And the reason why they didn't do it immediately was probably because the bald man was greedy and coveted the secrets on the original owner, which is why he followed all the way here..."

"If they don't know each other, there is no old grudge. So, it is likely to be 'hired to kill'."

Sullen connected the limited information in his mind and roughly restored the truth of the matter.

He speculated in his mind: "Which means that someone where the original owner came from wants him dead? If I go back, I might still be assassinated?"

Thinking of this, he frowned slightly. This was not good news.

Which also meant that even if he returned to the city where the original owner came from, he couldn't reveal his identity.

Otherwise, it might lead to a fatal disaster.

"This is a bit difficult for me..."

Sullen thought of something and muttered, "Such a handsome face is very recognizable."