Ashen God
Chapter 158 - 157 Assimilation

Chapter 158: Chapter 157 Assimilation

An hour later, Zhang Yanhang nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the anti-riot shield in his hand, inlaid with a large number of crimson iron balls.

Although the set parts of the Raccoon City standard police gear, which had been looted from the treasure boxes of police zombies, were no longer of much use to him, their feature of being transportable out of the Ashen World could still be utilized in some way.

Specifically, large equipment like the anti-riot shield, which was 1.6 meters tall and 60 centimeters wide, made of metal, could have many more crimson iron balls embedded in it compared to a chopper.

According to the tests Zhang Yanhang had just conducted, a large anti-riot shield like this one could have over 300 kilograms of crimson iron embedded in each side, which roughly equated to 752 crimson iron balls.

It was also at this time that Zhang Yanhang suddenly realized that each crimson iron ball weighed almost half a kilogram, nearly as heavy as one of the options in the treasure box. However, the pattern he had just researched wasn’t related to the weight; it was primarily related to volume.

After an hour of research, Zhang Yanhang discovered that there was a specific ratio when embedding the volume of the equipment with the volume of items that couldn’t be taken out. When this ratio was exceeded, the equipment would be assimilated into the non-transportable items; if it was below this ratio, then the non-transportable items would be assimilated by the equipment.

The specific ratio was 30% to 70%, with the equipment being the 30 percent and the non-transportable items being the 70 percent.

That is to say, the volume of non-transportable items embedded in the equipment could be more than twice the original volume of the equipment itself.

Since he had an energy shield, Zhang Yanhang didn’t particularly like using shields. Therefore, he had accumulated more than a dozen anti-riot shields in his waist bag.

Originally, these were hoarded for synthesizing green-quality shields, but later Zhang Yanhang found that just a waist belt could complete the full set effect, so he became lazy about dealing with shields and other items. If he filled these anti-riot shields with crimson iron balls, Zhang Yanhang could at least take several tons of crimson iron back with him.

But Zhang Yanhang didn’t plan to bring so much crimson iron back to the Main World. The first reason was that the over 300 kilograms of crimson iron embedded in this one shield were already sufficient for him, as his primary purpose of bringing crimson iron back to the Main World was for research, to see what exactly these materials were suitable for.

The main reason was that he wasn’t trying to mass-produce something on a large scale; for research purposes, a few hundred kilograms of crimson iron were quite enough.

Another reason was that Zhang Yanhang had consumed a large amount of Energy Value in the research just now and simply didn’t have the spare strength to embed the remaining dozen or so shields.

After completing the approximate rules of how to bring non-transportable items back to the Main World, Zhang Yanhang silently put the anti-riot shield and the remaining crimson iron balls on the bed back into his waist bag. With roughly half an hour left, he still could research something else.

For example, monster corpses. He hadn’t forgotten about this, and it was quite important. According to his observations, whether it was the crimson iron worker ant corpses in his waist bag or the crimson iron ant appendages in his miscellaneous bag, none had shown any signs of respawning.

So, Zhang Yanhang’s previous guess was almost verified successfully, which was that a simple interference by an Awakener with monster corpses could keep them from the Ashen World’s respawning mechanism, thus allowing him to extract the remaining value from the corpses.

To ensure that the crimson iron flying ant corpses wouldn’t dirty the bed, Zhang Yanhang first took out something resembling a workbench - a metal long table from his waist bag and placed it on the ground nearby, then took out the corpse of a crimson iron flying ant from his waist bag. He intended to dissect this crimson iron flying ant corpse to find valuable parts.

If it were a game, then Zhang Yanhang’s behavior of extracting the remaining value of monster corpses would be commonly known as "Collection Skill." But sadly, in the Ashen World, there was no convenient skill that allowed one to rub a charge bar, instantly separating the useful parts of a monster corpse, and automatically packing them into the inventory slots.

Zhang Yanhang had to dissect the monster corpses himself. Just as he was about to start the dissection, time abruptly came to a halt, and a few familiar text option boxes appeared before his eyes.

[Do you want to continue hunting monsters in the Ashen World?]

[Option One: Yes (Even though you’ve entered the Ashen World again, the date is still October 9th, the first day after the eight-day-long holiday of National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival has ended. Even though you know the holiday is over, still lost in the lingering mood of the eight-day vacation, you choose to stay in the Ashen World.

It’s just missing several days of classes, getting a bunch of academic credits deducted, and being reported to the relevant departments for an Awakener’s disappearance. You’re undeterred by such consequences and once again begin your cleanup operation of the crimson iron ant nest, in which you will successfully kill off most of the Crimson Iron Ants over several days.)]

[Option Two: Continue (The transmission channel from the Main World to the Ashen World is about to close in half an hour. Although you are already exhausted, feeling incredibly tired from the cleanup in Raccoon City, and even your Energy Value has hit rock bottom.

But even when you’re in such a drained state, you choose to continue hunting monsters in the Ashen World upon learning that the teleportation channel to the Main World is about to close. You feel that this is precisely the time to push your limits.)]

[Option Three: Go Home (Even though you’ve just left the Ashen World for roughly half a day to rest, you’ve reentered the Ashen World. Since you’ve already worked for a long time in Raccoon City, even working for less than two hours this time, you still feel extremely tired.

You don’t want to continue staying in the Ashen World while maintaining a fatigued state and just want to hurry home for a good rest.)]

"So the time has finally come, eh? Since I entered later, this transmission channel only lasted a little over three hours before closing. Compared to the eight-hour transmission channel in Raccoon City, this new channel makes time feel especially fleeting..."

Zhang Yanhang reflected briefly, then began to look at the specific options.

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