Mechanical Alchemist Chapter 129: Voodoo Doll

Qianjou has great energy in both the inner city and the outer city.

Even though Su Lun caused such trouble in Old Lingdun, she still found a good doctor within an hour to help Su Lun solve the problem of the backlash of the black scythe curse.

Because Su Lun accurately controlled the intensity of the slashing, the backlash of the curse of the black scythe did not cause serious wounds. With the X serum and the "Life Transformation Alchemy Formation" that burned money to renew his life, he was safe in the end.

Then there is the plan to leave the city.

Originally, Su Lun planned to go alone and then find an opportunity to join a wild group to go to Dawn City, but Qian Jiao's arrangement was obviously more appropriate.

She arranged a legal identity for Su Lun.

In order to prevent his identity from being exposed, Qianjou did not arrange a hunting group related to the Cross Society, but asked him to join a transport team of a chamber of commerce in the inner city. Su Lun became an idle sniper hired by the Hunting Union. He had a registration medal issued by the Hunting Union and a series of certifications, and his identity could withstand scrutiny. He replaced the hunter named "Johnny" who was originally coming.

.......

On this day, a huge transport team was moving forward slowly in the dark cave corridor.

This is already the seventh day that Su Lun has traveled with the "Thorn Bird Chamber of Commerce Transport Group".

The roar of steam machinery can be heard endlessly in the team, and there are dozens of steam-powered mechanical dogs. These simple mechanical animals have no combat function, but they can bear heavy loads, and their smaller bodies can adapt to the rugged mines in the caves. This is the mainstream means of transportation often used by hunters to transport heavy objects.

Now a large hunting camp is being built over at Dawn City, which requires a lot of building materials. This is a good opportunity for merchants to make money, so there are also a large number of transport teams heading underground during this time.

The hunters were going to the ruins to hunt for wilderness anyway, so they accepted employment from the Chamber of Commerce and could earn some **** fees along the way.

This transport team employs five small integrated hunting groups, as well as some lone hunters with good reputations in the hunting union. For example, Suellen's replacement identity is "Johnny".

There were one to two hundred people in the team, and Su Lun was inconspicuous among them.

In the past few days, we have encountered two small-scale attacks by groups of aberrant monsters, and several people died, but fortunately there was no major loss.

And because he was a hired hunter with few acquaintances, he hung at the end of the team, looking very lonely.

Of course, this is a persona that Su Lun deliberately created in order to cover up the strangeness of his body.

Due to the injection of "Drug X", the side effects have caused the skin all over his body to turn blue.

In order to prevent others from seeing the clues, he wore a gas mask the whole time, and also wore very expensive bionic skin gloves on his hands, so that no skin was exposed.

Fortunately, most of the hunters hunting in the caves are fully armed, so their appearance is not too out of the ordinary.

......

The transport team moved toward the underground at an unhurried pace.

Su Lun was carrying a large black box on his back. This was a sniper rifle box used to conceal the presence of the sickle because no new corpses were found to make living corpses a few days ago.

While walking, a little boy of thirteen or fourteen happily ran towards the tail of the team.

He waved the gas mask in his hand enthusiastically, shook it towards Su Lun, and said excitedly: "Mr. Johnny, can you help me see what's wrong with my mask..."

This kid's name is "Tommy" and he is the youngest son of the leader of the "Drunkard Hunting Group". Because he likes adventure, his big-hearted father brought him here with him.

The day before yesterday, the transport team encountered an attack by an aberrant monster. Su Lun easily killed a monster and saved the little guy whose neck was almost bitten off by the monster. He also won the friendship of the drunkard group.

In addition to thanking him, this little guy who doesn’t recognize his life also occasionally comes to ask for advice on marksmanship and mechanical issues.

"Mr. Johnny, your parrot mask is so beautiful."

Tommy looked at the mask on Su Lun's face with envy, and pursed his lips: "Compared with you, the mask I made is like an 'ugly duckling mask'."

"Haha, let me see..."

Su Lun took the ugly duckling mask and looked at it carefully without finding it troublesome.

Of course not.

What Su Lun is wearing on his face is not an ordinary gas mask, but his modified [Plague Doctor's Crow's Mouth Mask].

When I killed Sergei, I thought I wouldn’t be able to use this thing, but after injecting the Metabolized automatically.

Two days ago, he tested the mask's curse properties. After carefully observing the attribute panel, he came to the conclusion that his current cell activity can almost withstand the side effects of this mask. With the antidote, at least he will not be easily poisoned. die.

I thought that I would have to wear a gas mask to cover my face anyway, so I simply modified the appearance of the crow's mouth mask.

After all, no matter whether it is the 99% gas protection probability or the function of increasing toxin resistance when worn for a long time, there is no better gas mask than it.

But because it was a trophy, in order to prevent others from recognizing it, Su Lun also transformed the original cold and mysterious crow's mouth mask into a flashy "parrot mask".

Not only did the main color of black be changed to the yellow-green of the parrot, but a useless mechanical device like a wiper was added to clear the vision of the goggles, and incidentally, a piece of mysterious face-covering black was added to the crow's beak. cloth. This is the mainstream punk style on the market. A very simple mechanical modification has completely changed the appearance and style, making it look "bad" in an instant.

But it was this tasteless transformation that attracted little Tommy's keen interest.

Looking at Suellen checking his work, Tommy muttered to the side: "Mr. Johnny, I want to get a mechanical goggle that can be opened automatically so that it can stay in place when I need a wider field of vision. on the hat. But it always squeaks and I oil it, and it's still stiff..."

"Oh?"

Su Lun discovered that this little Tommy was very talented in mechanics, and he tinkered with such an interesting thing in one day.

He took a brief look and discovered the source of the problem, and said: "Actually, you are already very good. The gear here can be moved a little, so that the force of the steel wire can be transmitted more smoothly. Between it and The reason why it freezes is because your design of the device is too complex. The more complex the machine, the more likely it is to go wrong..."

Little Tommy followed Suellen and listened carefully.

Not long after, Su Lun handed the mask back.

This little boy has a good understanding. He seemed to understand it completely and smiled happily: "Oh, thank you, Mr. Johnny. I know how I probably need to change my 'ugly duckling mask'!"

With that said, he ran away happily again.

Su Lun looked at it and smiled.

The boring **** mission can be considered a little fun.

.......

After walking for a few hours, the team stopped.

"Okay, you can stop, we will camp here today!"

The person calling was Abagong, a tall and thin old man. His appearance, like his personality, always makes people think he is mean. He is the most distinguished person in this transportation team, and he is also an inner city steward of the "Thorn Bird Chamber of Commerce".

At this order, excited cheers came from the team.

Finally I can rest again.

The mechanical dogs formed a siege on the outside and protected the people from the Chamber of Commerce inside. Those guys from the inner city always disdain to stay with people from the outer city.

The hunters need to build their own camp.

Su Lun also took out the camping tent in his backpack, built a sleeping place for himself in an inconspicuous corner, and then got in.

It was finally time to rest, which Su Lun felt was the most comfortable time of the day.

He dragged the "invisible zombie" into the tent, then opened the shroud, revealing the rune zombie and the **** scythe inside.

Su Lun himself also took off his gas mask, and a strange blue-skinned face was exposed to the air.

If any outsiders were here and saw the two blue-skinned monsters in the tent, they would definitely be frightened.

Su Lun is used to it.

He took out his talisman pen and began to add alchemical materials to the dimmed runes.

This was a hunter who was killed in an attack the day before yesterday. The body was intact, so Su Lun collected it and used it as materials.

While repainting runes on the living corpse, he checked the muscle changes of the corpse, and analyzed to himself: "The increase of X serum on the corpse is quite different among individuals. Melee-type professionals , should be more suitable for making living corpses. It is a pity that the corpses of the previous second-level professionals did not have the opportunity to be brought out, otherwise the corpses of that kind of professionals should be able to withstand more slashes..."

Although the backlash is cut off in two pieces, the recovery ability is much worse.

Even if the living corpse was also injected with three doses of "Second Generation X Serum," Su Lun found that this female corpse was much worse than the previous male corpse. Under the same circumstances, there is a big difference in the number of times it can withstand backlash.

But the impact is not too big...they are all consumables anyway.

......

Speaking of "X serum", Su Lun looked down at the bulging muscles under the blue skin of his arms with a rather complicated look in his eyes.

He has been on the road these days. Even if he does not train very intensively, his muscles are always full of swelling pumps.

That's a sign of muscle growth.

His data panel is more intuitive. Except for mental strength, all physical-related data have almost doubled.

And this growth process is still continuing at a decreasing rate, and will probably be completely digested in the next few months.

After completely absorbing the serum, Su Lun can expect that his physical fitness will be much stronger than that of ordinary melee professionals!

In addition to the increase in physical data, there is also a very obvious ability enhancement.

That is, the efficiency of his meditation in absorbing "dark spiritual power" is vastly different from that before the serum was injected.

Su Lun meditating for a night before could probably increase a unit's dark spiritual power.

But now, after one night of meditation, he will improve by three units!

Although the dark spiritual power in the cave is indeed richer than that in Old Lingdun, it is not three times as strong.

And, not just in concentration, but in absorption efficiency and feel.

Su Lun felt that meditating before was like forcing dark spiritual power into his body. But now, even if he doesn't actively use the breathing method to breathe, the dark spiritual power will automatically penetrate into his pores. Not only does his body show no signs of distortion, but he also feels as happy as silk.

It's like... the "element affinity" mentioned in the magician is greatly improved.

Su Lun also estimated that his current state should soon reach the minimum attribute requirements for advanced second-level professionals.

Even as the body becomes stronger and the dark spiritual power surges, the containment value will become very high. It is estimated that it can at least withstand advanced materials and alchemy equipment of second-level gold quality and above.

This also made Su Lun have greater expectations for his subsequent trip to Dawn City.

If you can find a powerful space curse object, you don't have to worry about your body being unable to bear it and missing the opportunity to fuse that high-level professional material.

.......

Su Lun had almost finished painting the runes on the living corpse, and then wrapped it again in the shroud.

At this time, he thought of something and took out a dark doll from the storage ring.

This is an experimental product, a puppet made by a warlock who has solidified the [Curse Technique: Straw Man].

Suellen named it [Voodoo Doll].

But because this is a new work, there are still too many functions and data that need to be tested before it can be used in actual combat.

Su Lun thought that there was still half a month left for this boring escort, so he collected some blood samples for testing. It happened that the Abagong steward fell off the mechanical dog on the way downhill and bled a little.

Su Lun didn't know what he thought of, and a slightly apologetic smile overflowed on his face, "With a distance of more than a hundred meters, the effect should be good... Mean Mr. Abagong, I'm sorry, I can only Let me try it on you first."

Muttering something in his mouth, he picked up the blood sample collected by the student and smeared it on the alchemy formation behind the doll. The luster disappeared in a flash, and the doll seemed to have become spiritual in an instant. A layer of gray mist appeared on the face of the doll that had no facial features. He was vaguely similar to Mr. Abagon, and looked a little scary.

Su Lun is very familiar with the technique of "grass-rooting man" in his memory, so there is no reason for failure.

He picked up a rune steel needle and poked it into the doll's leg.

This technique is not an easy way to kill with one blow. It is far away, does not have enough blood samples, and does not pierce the heart or head. It can almost only torture people.

As soon as this needle was inserted, Su Lun's keen hearing allowed him to hear a scream instantly.

"Ouch..."

I don’t know what the Abagon steward was doing, but he heard a cry and it seemed to be quite painful.

"Deducting the time it takes for sound to propagate in the air, the delay from the time it is pierced to the target screaming is about 1.3 seconds. I don't know if it is because of his slow reaction or the distance delay of the technique..."

Su Lun muttered in his heart and recorded his experimental data with a pen: "September 1st, test target #001, ordinary middle-aged man... Blood sample quality E, 130 meters. A needle **** the calf, and the scream is delayed for 1.3 seconds..."

The data was recorded.

Su Lun thought for a moment, picked up the rune steel needle again, pierced the same leg of the doll, and then listened again.

"Hey... the reaction to the scream this time is obviously slower. Maybe one leg is stuck in preparation? Try another one?"

Su Lun thought for a while, then changed his leg and pricked it again.

A moment later, after hearing the screams and curses of Mr. Abagon, Su Lun finally determined something, and added another sentence in his notes: "It is basically confirmed that the casting distance is inversely proportional to the reaction speed, and the follow-up can Focus on testing the precise values ​​of distance and delay..."

After a few more injections, the screams were almost no longer heard, and the blood samples became very light.

Su Lun also recorded: "Casting a spell will consume the target biological sample, greatly reducing the curse effect, and greatly reducing the casting distance..."

.......

Su Lun tested the properties of the first version of [Voodoo Doll] and got some new inspiration.

He took out a new piece of wood and planned to carve a doll that would be an improvement over some warlocks.

But as I continued, there were footsteps approaching outside the tent.

Little Tommy came to inform him that Mr. Abagon had called all the mercenaries to gather for an emergency meeting.