"Contract"
Su Han quickly reacted, without any hesitation, he directly chose to make the contract.
In fact, he had no other choice.
He had no idea what kind of hell this world had turned into.
Merely being in his shared rental house, just dealing with his "roommate" had made him so wretched, his hands were wounded, he was panting heavily, his heart was still pounding violently, and his whole body was nearly collapsing from exhaustion.
Not to mention, outside this building, in the mist, that one gigantic eyeball.
Only by seizing every opportunity to become stronger could he survive.
"I'm sorry, Yang Tian."
Su Han said softly, Yang Tian was his roommate, they were not very close, but he was a decent person, occasionally mentioning that he planned to visit his parents during the National Day holiday.
He hadn't gone home for two years, and his parents were already in their sixties, but now he would never be able to return home again.
The pages of the Book of Blood Spirit opened, and a red glow immediately enveloped the corpse.
In a few breaths, the corpse's remains gradually turned into red light, then merged into the pages of the book, becoming a human-shaped black pattern on the page.
Angel Envoy: Flesh Corpse
Level: First Order Inferior
Skills: None
The panel information that popped up was transmitted into Su Han's consciousness, invisible to anyone else.
As the contract was successful, Su Han felt a surge of strength feedback from the Book of Blood Spirit, merging into his body.
His limbs and body faintly grew stronger, his muscular sensation became more pronounced, his hand wound suddenly itched, he looked down to see it crusting over, albeit still bleeding.
Host: Su Han
Level: First Order Inferior
Skills: None
"So contracting an Apostle strengthens the body, and as the Apostle grows stronger, it in turn enhances the host as well, this is indeed good news. However, the Flesh Corpse doesn't seem very powerful."
Su Han recovered his strength and then directly summoned the Apostle. A red glow manifested behind him, and the Flesh Corpse appeared beside him immediately.
It was slightly taller than him, around one point nine meters, with the wound on its forehead no longer visible.
The body was hunched and twisted, its arms elongated yet resembling beast claws, and its pale skin, together with its creepy white eyeballs, always exuded an eerie chill.
"Pick up the fruit knife"
He tried to control the Flesh Corpse with his thoughts, and indeed, the Flesh Corpse moved, reaching for the blood-stained fruit knife.
The Flesh Corpse was quick to respond, grasping the fruit knife swiftly and then freezing in place, standing rigidly beside Su Han.
"Lacking much independent consciousness, this feels a bit like... a tool?"
Despite being a summoned creature, the feeling was different between those with independence and those without.
The Apostle Flesh Corpse felt like a robot to him, acting on clear instructions, and otherwise relatively inert, completely dissimilar to cats or dogs.
However, it had one advantage—it was controlled by telepathy, with no delay in response compared to his own movements.
He looked at the fruit knife, planning to have the Apostle Flesh Corpse hand it to him.
But as his gaze fell on the knife, he was suddenly surprised to see a completely different prompt.
Fusion: Common Metal 1%
"So you can only Fuse one type of material at a time, and there's also compatibility?"
With the initial success of the Fusion, Su Han received more feedback, such as about this Fusion.
Fusion could enhance an Angel Envoy, but only one kind of material could be Fused at a time, and the higher the compatibility with the material, the greater the increase in the Fusion percentage.
If the compatibility was very low, then the Fusion rate would decrease significantly, and the amount of material required would increase significantly.
For meat zombies, metal was just so-so; to achieve 100% Fusion, the iron content needed would be far more than that of a fruit knife.
How much metal could a two-bedroom apartment possibly have?
The exterior of the fridge, the inner workings, the range hood, the washing machine, the metal parts of tables and chairs... All objects containing metal that could be taken apart were dismantled by Su Han and the meat zombie.
In the living room, there lay around fifty pounds of metal products; other than that, there were hardly any intact items left in the entire shared apartment.
"Begin the Fusion."
Su Han ordered the meat zombie to begin Fusing the metal; this amount of metal was far more than the fruit knife, which should also lead to a higher degree of Fusion.
The meat zombie clamped its palm onto the metal, flesh wriggling like worms, then attached to the metal, starting to slowly Fuse.
A streak of red light from the Book of Blood Spirit feedback into his body, muscles slightly bulging, and this morning's injuries were also gradually scabbing over and healing.
As the host, his strength was also increasing.
Although it was impossible to become a superhero overnight, sensing the strength in his body, it was already beginning to surpass that of an ordinary person.
"Gurgle"
However, as his body grew stronger, his stomach quickly conveyed a sense of hunger; becoming stronger required energy, and from last night to now, Su Han hadn't had a drop to drink.
He walked to where the kitchen was; the fridge had already been dismantled by him, and during the earlier search, he had scavenged some food as well.
Not much, just four or five packs of instant noodles, then some pickled mustard, rice sauce, dried noodles, and a few eggs; not even fruits.
"The food isn't sufficient."
Even for an ordinary person, this amount of food wouldn't last three to four days.
While the gas pipeline was still running, he started to boil noodles; pots, pans, and kitchen knives were metallic items that Su Han hadn't yet Fused, after all, they were still needed.
After boiling the noodles and gulping down a pack, he didn't feel full, the hunger remained, and he found his appetite had grown larger.
So, he boiled two more packs before he finally felt satiated.
"I need to find a way to get more food."
One meal had already consumed half of his food supply, which meant he needed to find more resources.
Fortunately, his meat zombie Angel Envoy was growing stronger; at least he had the strength to go out and explore.
The meat of the meat zombie had already wrapped around most of the metal, bit by bit devouring it into its body.
The metal was not small in volume, but under this Fusion process, it was impossible to discern where it all went.
Only Su Han noticed the common metal Fusion Degree increase as the Fusion progressed, from the initial 1% gradually growing to 50%, and still slowly increasing along with the Angel Envoy meat zombie's Fusion progress.
Su Han was in no rush, although there wasn't much food left, but compared to finding food, the strengthening of the meat zombie Angel Envoy was more important, he could feel his body's strength increasing.
Time ticked by, and after about two more hours, all the metal had been completely Fused, with the Fusion Degree also gradually reaching 99%.
Su Han stared intently at the last bit of the Fusion Degree, and as the meat zombie retracted all its wriggling flesh, it finally changed—100%.
[LV1 Common Metal Fusion completed, acquired skill Claw]