Ashen God
Chapter 160 - 159 Homecoming

Chapter 160: Chapter 159 Homecoming

Of course, if it wasn’t successful, there was nothing that could be done, but by then Zhang Yanhang would have to find another method to take monster corpses out of the Ashen World.

Zhang Yanhang took out an anti-riot shield from his waist bag and attempted to perform the most basic level of fusion between the anti-riot shield and the Crimson Iron Ant Meat.

Initially, Zhang Yanhang’s method involved drilling holes suited to the shape on the anti-riot shield and embedding the Crimson Iron Ant Meat into the shield, but this method failed.

"Although I had a premonition that it might fail, it seems I don’t have any other methods. It’s not like I could just combine the Crimson Iron Ant Meat with the anti-riot shield at a deep level. Even though alchemy could easily achieve it, it would really be troublesome to separate them later..."

Zhang Yanhang thought for a while, and since a simple embedding couldn’t take the Crimson Iron Ant Meat out of the Ashen World, maybe he could slightly change the way the anti-riot shield and the Crimson Iron Ant Meat were combined.

For instance, using the anti-riot shield to make a box to directly encase the Crimson Iron Ant Meat and let the two fuse at a minimal level inside.

"But would this method really work?" Zhang Yanhang doubted the reliability of this method, but he wouldn’t know if it would succeed without trying, so although he wasn’t very optimistic, he still gave it a try.

Zhang Yanhang’s hands lit up with the alchemy array, and under the influence of the alchemy array, the anti-riot shield gradually melted into a black liquid and began slowly shaping; soon, a black metal box appeared before him.

Zhang Yanhang threw some Crimson Iron Ant Meat inside it and then started controlling the metal box, transformed from the anti-riot shield, to gradually merge with the Crimson Iron Ant Meat and achieve a low-level fusion.

This time, Zhang Yanhang once again checked its attribute list, but surprisingly, this unreliable method was actually successful, and the Crimson Iron Ant Meat was really assimilated as an item that could be taken out.

"What principle is this based on? Why did such a strange method work? Never mind, I will analyze it later; right now, I should merge more monster corpses so that I don’t lack materials for future research."

Although Zhang Yanhang’s remaining energy value wasn’t much, using it to merge a small number of monster corpses was still not a problem.

But before fusing, Zhang Yanhang needed to dissect the monster corpses. He didn’t need much of things like the exoskeletons, so he only took a little of those, and the rest of the parts were decided based on the need to be taken back to the Main World.

For example, he needed a substantial amount of Crimson Iron Ant Meat to see any effects. Naturally, he would take back quite a bit, perhaps several hundred kilograms, as that would aptly fit the definition of "a substantial amount."

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Twenty minutes later, Zhang Yanhang silently put back the double bed and the workbench into his waist bag. He couldn’t leave these items here as he was worried that passerby Crimson Iron Worker Ants might destroy them, so, he felt safer retrieving them back into his waist bag.

Zhang Yanhang lay alone on the hard ground of the transmission channel, which was about to close. He was waiting for the corresponding options to trigger, although he could also choose to actively trigger the options, that would consume his energy value.

So, to avoid using energy values, Zhang Yanhang chose to silently wait for the free passive option, since he had plenty of time.

Just as Zhang Yanhang was starting to get bored, counting how many edges the Crimson Iron ore had above the channel, a familiar row of text options appeared in front of him.

[Do you wish to return to the Main World?]

[Option One: Yes (Immediately return to the living room of 702, Unit 3, Building 6, East River District, Qin Island City. You were too exhausted to go home, so you directly lied down on the couch of 702 and fell asleep.

Although a couch isn’t the best place to rest, you were too tired even to walk a few more steps to the nearby master bedroom. You slept until the next morning, but luckily, despite spending a night at someone else’s house, nobody discovered you.)]

[Option Two: No (Although the portal from the Main World to the Ashen World is about to close, suddenly you are no longer interested in returning to the Main World. You think you might be able to clear the entire Crimson Iron Ant Nest and get promoted to Second Tier with the Ashen Treasure box within it.

After harboring this strange idea, you give up on returning to the Main World. But due to exhaustion, you are not ready to start clearing the outer area of the Ant Nest immediately. You choose to lie in the bed for a while, rest for a few hours, then begin hunting the monsters inside the Ant Nest.)]

[Option Three: Self-disciplined Youth (Immediately return to the living room of 702, Unit 3, Building 6, East River District, Qin Island City. Despite being in a state of fatigue caused by excessive physical exhaustion, as a person with strong self-discipline, you didn’t opt to sleep on the couch of 702 or go to the master bedroom.

You thought your own bed at home was more comfortable to sleep in, so, you decided to leave 702 and return to Xingfuli District, Unit 505. Just as you were about to enter the gate of Xingfuli District, you found a Gathering Spirit Jade on the roadside that could increase the speed of spiritual energy recovery.)]

"Hm? How did a Gathering Spirit Jade suddenly appear? Could today’s adventure have been triggered just now?" Zhang Yanhang glanced at his watch, and the current time was just at midnight, "It’s a bit hard to tell at this time, whether this Gathering Spirit Jade is the adventure of October 9th or October 10th?"

"Since no adventure was triggered on October 9th, this Gathering Spirit Jade should logically be the adventure of October 9th. However, by the time I pick up this Gathering Spirit Jade, it will definitely be October 10th." Zhang Yanhang was really puzzled about to which day this adventure should belong.

Because if it turned out that this adventure actually belonged to October 10th, that meant he somehow lost a day’s worth of adventure, which was quite a loss. Although he spent half of the day in the Ashen World, and most of the other half was spent sleeping, that shouldn’t mean an adventure wouldn’t trigger. This was really bizarre.