Su Han locked his bedroom door and propped it shut with the sofa before returning to the living room.
Encountering survivors was inevitable since not everyone would have turned into monsters or been killed by them.
What surprised him was that the couple next door, Gan Xinglei and Yan Meiyu, were unharmed.
"Keep observing, better not be troublemakers, otherwise I really could take them down."
Life is not a novel, where would you find normal people slaughtering left and right as soon as the apocalypse starts, unless they were psychopaths who already wanted to kill?
Su Han walked to the corner of the living room, rummaged through a drawer for candles, and lit them, illuminating the dimming living room.
The fog still shrouded the outside of the building, the lighting was already poor, and now, guessing by the time, it was getting closer to four or five in the afternoon, so the natural light was fading.
"Continue the Metal Fusion."
The living room was piled with metal items taken from several rooms today, even including two or three security door panels, which in total should weigh a few hundred pounds, enough for the Angel Envoy's corpse to undergo Fusion.
The flesh of the Angel Envoy writhed and then made contact with the metal, slowly merging with it.
The Fusion Degree on the attribute panel rose slowly from 15%, 15.1%, 15.2%...
Traces of strength enhancement feedback merged into Su Han's body, like a warm and smooth stream flowing through him, feeling increasingly evident.
"The feedback connection feels not only during Fusion but also faintly perceptible at ordinary times, so does the enhancement always continue at a slow pace?"
The stronger sense of connection prompted Su Han to speculate further.
The Book of Blood Spirit had a connection with the monsters, but the method to become stronger was not made clear, leaving one to grope in the dark.
But now it seemed that natural enhancement and feedback did exist, and driving the Angel Envoy to a certain extent could increase the strength of this feedback connection.
In simpler terms, it was about accumulating experience or energy faster to reach the next level of strength.
"Other people's Angel Envoys can also enhance, it's hard to say at what pace, but the longer it takes, the more powerful people there will be, so I need to speed up the Fusion process."
While pondering, Su Han went to the kitchen to prepare some food.
He turned on the gas stove, cut up the large pieces of beef he had found and put them in the pot, along with large marrow bones and pork ribs, simmering them all into a stew.
He found plenty of meat, which is one of the most likely foods to be stocked in everyone's fridge.
After all, with life getting more convenient, meats can be frozen quickly, but vegetables and fruits are usually bought on a day-to-day basis.
[LV2 ordinary metal Fusion complete, "Iron Skin" skill acquired]
The metal in the living room had been fused by nearly ninety percent, and when the second Fusion was complete, the Angel Envoy corpse underwent another transformation.
The height increased by another twenty centimeters from two meters, reaching around two meters and twenty, the reddish muscles became even more swollen and hard, the metallic Claws extending from the fingers became sharper and slightly longer, and the jet-black metal grew backwards to the back of the hands, even more pronounced.
Beyond that, underneath the muscles, the black color began to surge, sticking to the skin as if it were a metallic skin, and in a flash, the entire corpse turned into a jet-black color, distinctly different and colder than its previous brutal appearance.
Su Han touched it and immediately felt a cold sensation, seemingly no different from touching iron skin.
"Clang"
He picked up a kitchen knife and chopped down on it, a faint white mark was left on the surface, and the Iron Skin truly lived up to its name, not harming the muscles underneath.
He was delighted, with his Angel Envoy's defense greatly improved and both offense and defense enhanced by a notch, his strength was not to be underestimated.
Although Iron Skin wasn't absolute defense, it was naturally much stronger compared to ordinary corpses.
Angel Envoy: Corpse
Rank: First-level Intermediate
Skills: [Claw] [Iron Skin]
Fusion: LV2 Ordinary Metal
The strength of the Angel Envoy on the panel had changed, and the power feeding back into Su Han's body suddenly increased significantly.
Bones and muscles resonated, muscles stretched out, his body filled with tremendous strength, a warm current flowed throughout his body.
Feeling the power in his body, becoming more agile and stronger, even without deliberate exercise, he guessed he could easily lift up something weighing two to three hundred jin, and perhaps even more when shouldering it.
Su Han was just about to move a sofa to feel his strength better when he suddenly felt a strange sensation in his heart.
His consciousness immediately entered the cognitive space, which was a boundless pitch-black space, with a blood-red "Book of Blood Spirit" standing in the center.
A page circled around the Book of Blood Spirit, standing tall and distant, the pattern on it the same as the Angel Envoy corpse.
The page transformed into the Angel Envoy corpse and suddenly came to life, a stream of red Energy emerging within his body, like flowing meridians.
A familiar yet foreign memory flooded Su Han's consciousness, and instinctively he began to circulate this power, then continuously modified it to suit his own body.
Time passed, unknowingly, when suddenly a prompt sounded.
[Comprehension successful, "Iron Skin" skill synchronized]