Ashen God
Chapter 68 Ruby Ring

Chapter 68: Chapter 68 Ruby Ring

Zhang Yanhang was afraid of facing groups of Lickers for this very reason; he feared being treated to the sort of experience that only a Tyrant would enjoy.

However, he didn’t possess the immense strength of a Tyrant. He felt that there was a high probability that he wouldn’t be able to break free, and then he would end up literally ’Five Licks Corpse.’ Even if he wasn’t dismembered right away, he guessed that other Lickers’ tongues would likely puncture him full of holes first.

But now, Zhang Yanhang didn’t need to worry about this issue anymore, because the attacks of the Lickers could no longer penetrate his defense. This meant that he could deal with Lickers more leisurely. Or to put it another way, the status of Lickers had fallen to the same level as Zombies and Zombie Dogs in his eyes, since none could breach his defenses.

After clearing out the monsters from the slot machine, Zhang Yanhang carried the slot machine back to Unit 301. He planned to sort out the various items he had on hand before officially restarting the clearing plan of the outskirts of Raccoon City.

Sitting on the shabby wooden bed, Zhang Yanhang pulled out a gold ring from his waist bag. This ring, which he had just removed from the hand of a Lady Zombie, was set with a huge ruby. He thought it might serve as alchemy material, which is why he brought it back.

If it had been a diamond ring, Zhang Yanhang certainly wouldn’t have bothered taking it because theoretically, given just a pencil, he could use alchemy to create an unprecedentedly large super diamond.

"It even has engravings?" Zhang Yanhang scanned the ruby ring with his Perception and unexpectedly discovered a few English words engraved on the inner band. Translated into Chinese, they would be ’Eternal Love.’ "Could this be a wedding ring? Never mind, it doesn’t matter. I only need the ruby anyway."

After pulling the ruby out of the ring, Zhang Yanhang casually tossed the gold ring aside. The ruby ring itself was an item of Grey Quality and was not transferable, so he thought of using it for an experiment to see if fusing it with transferable equipment might allow for the ruby to be brought out as well.

"If this experiment succeeds, it will definitely play a huge role in the future. After all, the Ashen World can’t just have things like firearms..." Zhang Yanhang had actually already tested something similar before, so he thought this time, it should also be possible to succeed.

And who was the test subject for that experiment? Yes, it was the ’Chopper,’ which, though not very useful, Zhang Yanhang always kept with him. This chopper used to be a broken saber he found in a Goblin’s backpack.

Originally it was a White Quality weapon that could be taken out of the Ashen World. Later, Zhang Yanhang repaired it a bit and then fused it with a kitchen knife of Grey Quality, which was not transferable, to boost its Attack Power. The result was that this fusion didn’t affect the Chopper itself at all; the kitchen knife’s non-transferable attribute wasn’t inherited in the Chopper’s attribute list.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang had always thought that items marked as non-transferable could still be brought back to the Main World in some way. However, deeply fusing non-transferable items with normal equipment, like the Chopper and the kitchen knife, clearly wasn’t a very good choice, as it was too difficult to separate them—after all, they had become one entity.

So, Zhang Yanhang mainly wanted to experiment to see if, when non-transferable items were fused with normal equipment on a superficial level, it would be possible for the non-transferable items to share the same attribute list with the equipment without inheriting the non-transferable attribute.

In this way, when bringing the equipment out of the Ashen World, non-transferable items could also be brought along, and moreover, this method would make separation much easier.

As for the subject of this experiment, Zhang Yanhang still planned to choose the Chopper, because its value was so low that he wouldn’t mind if it was completely ruined.

Zhang Yanhang took out the Chopper from his waist bag and then activated Alchemy to drill a hole in the handle of the Chopper. Next, he manipulated the Alchemy Array to embed the ruby into this hole, "If even this degree of fusion succeeds, then it would mean the criteria of the Ashen World are surprisingly lenient."

Cradling an anxious heart, Zhang Yanhang rechecked the attribute list of the Ruby, but this time, the attribute list of the Chopper directly popped up.

Chopper (Unnamed) +2

Quality: White

Type: Weapon

Origin: Ashen World, Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, Room 301, Zhang Yanhang.

Durability: 24/24

Attack Power: 8

Usage Requirements: None.

Score: 6 (White items have a score range from 1 to 10.)

Description: Originally the weapon of a Big Saber Goblin, it was broken in two halves and then picked up by the novice Alchemist Zhang Yanhang as practice material. As expected, he only managed to produce a piece of trash. Unwilling to give up, the novice Alchemist Zhang Yanhang reforged it but even after that, it remained a piece of trash.

However, unexpectedly, novice Alchemist Zhang Yanhang still didn’t give up on this junk weapon. Perhaps out of some special sentiment, he embedded a Ruby that provided no actual enhancement, serving purely a decorative function.

"Tsk... why do I always feel like this description is constantly mocking me." Although he felt slighted by the description, Zhang Yanhang still felt very pleased with the results of the experiment, because he now believed he could similarly smuggle out other non-transferable items in the future.

After all, this was just a simple embedding. If such a simple action was successful, then as long as he grasped the specific patterns in the future, he would definitely be able to smuggle out other items as well.

Having solved the important issue of how to take non-transferable items out of the Ashen World, Zhang Yanhang started to truly organize the items in his possession. Among the hundred zombies from before, there were a total of fifty First Tier Zero Star Ordinary zombies, thirty First Tier Zero Star Police Zombies, twenty First Tier One Star Zombie Dogs, and ten First Tier Two Stars Lickers.

Zhang Yanhang got a total of seven Treasure boxes from the Ordinary zombies, five from Police Zombies, three from Zombie Dogs, and two from Lickers, but he planned to open these seventeen boxes later.

This time, Zhang Yanhang could finally discard his long-accompanied ancestral single-shoulder bag, as his Waist Bag still had plenty of slots. Moreover, with small miscellaneous items able to be directly packed into the pouch on his belt, the ancestral single-shoulder bag had become utterly unnecessary and could now officially retire.