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Apocalypse Forecast - Chapter 172

Published at 7th of March 2024 01:08:49 PM


Chapter 172

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At eleven forty in the evening, Huai Shi seemed to wake up from a dream as if he had set an alarm. He washed his face, put on his pajamas, and then pushed open the door to the basement, sliding down the rope straight into the cellar.

In the familiar stuffy heat, only the low-quality air purifier was buzzing.

"Is it time?" Huai Shi sat down on the ground, staring at the silent operation of the layers of steel in front of him - or, it should be called the runic sealing furnace.

This thing, which looks like a huge hot water tank set up at a rural banquet, was not particularly impressive. Huai Shi spent over three million to buy it, and it was a second-hand item eliminated from a regular alchemy workshop.

As Crow put it, even with thirty million, you couldn't buy a brand new one, so it's better to buy a second-hand one that can be used once and then thrown away.

A disposable refining furnace.

To this extent of luxury, Huai Shi could only hope that it would be worth it.

Without a clock, Crow listened to the low echo in the refining furnace, "Five minutes left."

No one spoke in the silence.

Apart from the buzzing air purifier, there was only the faint sound of dripping water coming from the furnace.

Different from other alchemical cauldrons, this furnace used a low-temperature cold refining method, using a special solution to fully atomize the materials and then carry out molecular coupling and extraction at the molecular level, sacrificing time and efficiency in pursuit of absolute caution and gentleness.

As the developers put it, even if you overload it with highly flammable explosives, there would be absolutely no explosion.

Absolutely no leakage, absolutely safe.

Huai Shi could only hope that what they said was true.

Otherwise, once the stuff inside leaked, not to mention the Stone Marrow Hall, there would be a risk of contamination for the entire Qingxiu Mountain.

Most of the things Sublimators study are like this, requiring extreme caution or extreme risk. Any slight mistake would create a hell on earth.

What was being refined and purified inside now was pure venom.

According to Crow's formula, using half of Huai Shi's blood as the base material, it underwent hundreds of processes over a period of three days, incorporating various materials to completely transform the Yin Soul Blood, which was filled with pure negative energy, into a toxin containing various primitive malice and dark essence.

Whether it was the original plague formula or the essence of wolf poison, they were all hidden within it. Following that were terrifying plagues such as smallpox, dengue fever, Ebola, and other viruses and bacteria that must be properly preserved in various biochemical laboratories, and even various viruses and bacteria circulating on the border...

Throughout the entire process, Crow demonstrated a terrifying skill that would be enough to win the championship in the World Finals of the Culinary Demon Contest.

Even recalling the scene a few days ago when he carefully operated these things, Huai Shi would have nightmares.

The things he made to kill Crow in the past two days were completely childish in front of it, not even worthy of being mentioned.

In Crow's work, one-third was to create this kind of rapidly mutating venom, and the remaining two-thirds were to use various methods to make it degenerate, revert, preserve the most basic structure, and then forcibly put it into the most stable dormant state.

It was like creating a demon and then forcibly turning it into a baby.

If Huai Shi could still understand a little bit of the first third, then in the latter part, he had no idea how Crow accomplished such a miraculous feat.

And...

"What's the point?" Huai Shi asked, "You go to great lengths to build a building, and then you flatten it, leaving only the foundation. Isn't it a waste of effort?"

"Doesn't this just prove that this foundation is enough to support a towering building?" Crow said calmly. "As long as this is proven, it's enough."

Huai Shi wanted to ask more, but he heard a crisp echo coming from the furnace.

The long smelting process had come to an end.

"Go ahead and turn off the air purifier and the ventilation fan," Crow said solemnly. "Just in case."

Soon, all the electrical appliances were turned off.

Huai Shi closed layer after layer of cover boards, then completely sealed the final alloy gate, cutting off the connection between inside and outside, making the narrow cellar even more stuffy.

Fortunately, Crow was not a living creature, just a blob of ink, and it could enter the Yin Soul state, minimizing the need for oxygen to avoid suffocation and death.

As each layer of the furnace door opened, a test tube with sparkling water droplets slowly rose from the core, emitting vapor from the atomized ammonia and various solution vapors.

In the test tube, about twenty milliliters of blood had been refined to colorlessness, looking like some kind of new physiological saline, unremarkable.

In the cold ammonia, it remained in a liquid state. Once it returned to room temperature, it would quickly vaporize, and then, with infinite variables, the demon would occupy every corner of the cellar.If no one actively catalyzed it, in a few days, tens of thousands of viruses would burst out like a market, turning this place into a forbidden zone.

"Are you ready?"

Crow turned to look at him.

Huai Shi subconsciously took a deep breath, held his breath, and then nodded slowly. Carefully, he picked up the tweezers and opened the box beside him.

The box contained one of the prizes he had seen in the lounge before, a bowl containing a handful of ashes, an ordinary-looking broken bowl.

It was a gift from one of the judges of the Kitchen Demon Contest.

Although he didn't know what was going on, at least he had good taste in choosing a mask.

In Crow's words, it was something of little use—although it wasn't part of the plan, since it was encountered, it was a pleasant surprise to be able to use it.

Although it looked like a bowl, it seemed to be subjected to some kind of law. No matter how it was shaken, the ashes in the bowl would not spill out. Even if it was turned upside down, the ashes would hover in the air inside the bowl.

As if it were bound inside.

But this binding was extremely fragile, and it only took a pair of tweezers to puncture it.

When Huai Shi's tweezers reached into it, countless ashes suddenly collapsed inward as the tweezers closed, eventually turning into a speck of dust caught in the middle by the tweezers.

That nearly infinite resentment and anger condensed into a single point.

It was a dark essence far beyond the ashes, enough to throw Huai Shi's negative energy out of the disaster crystal for tens of thousands of streets.

Huai Shi couldn't imagine what kind of fate and experience would leave such a huge amount of resentment and despair after being burned to ashes.

And now, as the tweezers swung and loosened, the speck of ashes silently fell into the test tube.

Merging with the virus that had no consciousness.

Without any resistance or abnormality, without any rejection or resistance, the two merged as if they were born that way.

As a result, the unconscious virus seemed to be endowed with a dark soul, stirring up waves of gray ripples, rapidly changing colors, and finally turning into countless pitch-black that even the scorching sun could not penetrate.

"So, that's how it is."

Crow quickly closed the lid of the test tube, took a deep breath, as if relieved, "Although this kind of thing doesn't require much technical skill, it's extremely stimulating to do it in an environment with almost no protection. If something goes wrong, your home will explode..."

"Can we find another place next time?" Huai Shi wiped away a cold sweat. "There are so many uninhabited places on Qingxiu Mountain, but it has to be at my house."

"Don't forget, the Stone Marrow Pavilion is equivalent to a semi-finished spirit coffin. With the old house here, it's like having a spirit coffin suppressing the earth veins and wandering spirits. At least the purity of the source material can be guaranteed. Do you think alchemy is like inviting someone to dinner, and you can just set up a table anywhere and get it done? Even if it's inviting someone to dinner, it shouldn't be so casual, right?"

Crow carefully placed the test tube in the dry ice-filled storage box, nodding in satisfaction. "Now, we can start the advancement of the Yin Soul."

With that, she pointed to the bed in the middle of the cellar, her tone becoming coquettish, like a late-night female anchor, "Alright, hurry up and lie down. Time is precious, let's not waste it."

Huai Shi rolled his eyes.

Sure enough, he was wasting time hoping that this woman could be more serious.

Huai Shi lay back, leaning on the pillow, rolled up the sleeves of his pajamas, deftly tied the rubber band around his pale forearm, and then flicked the raised veins on it, examining them carefully.

"Come on," he closed his eyes, not daring to look again. "Don't pity me because I'm a delicate flower..."

Crow was stunned for a long time, and after a long time, she said awkwardly, "Sorry, that joke is so old, I didn't react for a while."

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"...Can you just hurry up, okay?"

Huai Shi was completely powerless.

The big characters were flattened, waiting for Crow's transformation.

In short, he was preparing for a blood dialysis.

Yes, this was Crow's plan, a shortcut for Huai Shi to advance from the Yin Soul to the Mountain Ghost.

As a miracle of the legendary wandering spirit and ghost, once confused with a divine spirit, the Mountain Ghost Holy Mark in the Heavenly Kingdom lineage was essentially the same as the Yin Soul.

Their talents lay in being able to spread their attributes to the surrounding environment.

The only difference was the medium.

The Yin Soul used source material, while the advanced Mountain Ghost, in addition to the original source material fog, could also obtain vitality that was completely in tune with plants.

In fact, this talent was particularly suitable for growing flowers and plants...

But unlike the Druids' Tree Shepherds, the Mountain Ghost couldn't make plants grow and wither out of thin air, but achieved the effect of bestowing and extracting through the circulation of vitality.In short, after advancing, in addition to greatly enhancing the effect of the ash-gray mist on himself, Huai Shi will also gain the affinity for plants and the ability to bestow and extract the vitality of plants to a certain extent.

He's practically a plant whisperer.

Originally, the advancement process was not so simple, but with the Tree Blood Urn in hand, one can easily skip the lengthy rituals and painful transformations, and obtain the best results in the fastest and most effortless way.

And in the midst of this process...

Crow suddenly had a whimsical idea and decided to give Huai Shi a little boost.




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