Half a month later.

Basement of Green Street.

Su’en was tinkering with a new combat puppet in the basement of Green Street. He tried to use steel wires to manipulate its movements, but compared to the wooden puppets, it was too clumsy in both slashing and dodging.

This puppet, which was almost the same height as him, was not made of wood, but a mechanical puppet assembled from dismantled parts of the PX-911 mechanical limbs.

Su’en also knew that it was not that the mechanical limbs were not sensitive enough, but that his approach was wrong.

During this period of research, he had already figured out many functions of these mechanical limbs.

The outer armor of the limbs was made of a special alloy that could not be dented even by alchemical bullets. There were also various weapons hidden inside the limbs, such as knives, guns, energy cannons, retractable metal ropes, and jet thrusters…

Once disassembled, it was a collection of top-level technological weapons.

There was also a mechanical heart with a blood pumping function, and a mechanical lung for oxygen supply…

And these were not the most amazing things.

During this period of experimentation, Su’en discovered that the most incomprehensible technology on these mechanical limbs was the high-sensitive mechanical contacts that could be triggered by bioelectricity.

This was an extremely advanced laboratory-level technology, surpassing even steampunk, making Su’en think that the technological tree of this world had reached the level of “neuro-mechanics” in cyberpunk.

With these high-sensitive contacts, theoretically, connecting them to the human nervous system could directly control the movements of the mechanical limbs!

Su’en also thought that this limb might be the secret project Danny mentioned, the Super Mechanical Warrior Project, which was a collaboration between the Black Tower Medical Research Department and the Mechanical Department.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so coincidental to find it on a transport vehicle headed to the laboratory.

After discovering this, Su’en reconstructed the complete structure of this mechanical limb in his mind. The missing parts might be a complete human nervous system or some other driving organization made of alchemical prosthetics.

There was no intelligent control system in this world, so they simply installed a human brain and created a semi-mechanical human.

As long as they covered it with a layer of synthetic skin, they would look no different from humans!

This was more thorough than those “new-style” alchemists in the outer city, who were still limited to modifying mechanical limbs. The top laboratories in the inner city had already developed warriors with almost fully mechanical limbs.

Su’en speculated that the wanted woman was probably such a mechanical warrior.

…….

However, the mechanical limbs involved too many laboratory-level cutting-edge technologies, which couldn’t be thoroughly researched by one person.

Su’en had no intention of selling this thing, nor did he plan to cut off his own head and connect it.

So, all he could do was dismantle the parts.

He disassembled the indestructible dagger from the arm of the mechanical limb and attached it to his wooden puppet. He also removed the spring-like sharp blade from the mechanical leg and gave it to another puppet. As for the high-precision components, he didn’t need them, so he dismantled the alloy outer plate and created a bulletproof puppet. As for the mechanical organs, they gave him a lot of inspiration for his “Iron Man Mark III”…

Su’en was busy tinkering with the mechanical puppet, completely absorbed in his work.

But suddenly, his ears twitched slightly, and an unusual sound entered his ears.

Su’en stopped his work and turned his head sharply to look.

He became more certain that there was the sound of breathing coming from the dissecting table in the corner of the basement, separated by a transparent curtain!

“Hmm…”

Listening to the faint sound, he was not surprised, but rather delighted: “It worked!”

Su’en ignored the puppet in his hand and quickly walked over.

At this moment, he looked at the body on the dissecting table with a slight rise and his eyes brightened.

…….

Half a month ago, Su’en found Mr. Black in the black market and had him translate those profound cryptic texts. He successfully deciphered the formula for the “Distortion Suppression Potion” developed by the insane alchemist who created the living corpses a thousand years ago.

It was also fortunate that Danny’s original work at the “Number Seven Research Institute” was the study of distortion suppression. Although the ancient formula was very complex and had some incomprehensible parts, because many theoretical aspects were interconnected, he combined his own knowledge and tinkered with it, successfully producing the first batch of “Distortion Suppression Potion” yesterday!

The outer city was not lacking in corpses, and Su’en immediately found a fresh corpse to try. After injecting the second-generation X serum in the appropriate dosage, the corpse slowly regained vitality. However, the effect of the second-generation serum was much worse than the original solution, and this was already the third injection. If there was no effect, he might consider injecting the fourth dose.

Unexpectedly, the corpse suddenly started breathing!It looks like a sleeping human, but according to the diary, it is just a soulless shell. Even the features of the body are not from the corpse itself, but completely transformed by the active substance in the “X Serum,” forcing the body tissues to revive. In a sense, this corpse is no longer a human corpse.

After a moment of breathing, Su’en looked at the gradually appearing dark red marks on the body, and the overall skin color gradually turned blue. He thought to himself, “The skin is turning blue, and the marks are appearing. It’s indeed starting to deform…”

The diary detailed the process of this deformation, and Su’en was not surprised at all.

Without delay, he took out a distortion suppression injection and injected it into the body.

After a while, the speed at which the distorted marks spread began to slow down.

Su’en didn’t waste any time and took out a rune pen to start drawing basic runes on the breathing corpse.

【Corpse Vitality Rune】, 【Level 1 Dark Attribute Gathering Rune】, 【Wind Element Circulation Condensation Rune】, 【Level 1 Life Rune】…

The materials were prepared in advance, and Su’en had been practicing rune drawing for days.

He didn’t need to research on his own, he just followed the drawing order recorded in the diary and drew layer by layer.

These were all low-level runes, and the difficulty of drawing them was not high.

As described in the diary, the person named Kekov used this set of low-level runes to create a “useless” active corpse.

Su’en knew that he definitely couldn’t create the terrifying blue-skinned monster in the cursed space with these low-level runes, nor did he intend to.

What he wanted was not the ultimate research of “resurrecting corpses,” but just a “living corpse” that could maintain normal life characteristics!

…….

Three hours later.

Su’en had filled the body with various runes alternating between yellow, black, white, and red.

The runes on the entire body contained the four basic elements of “earth, wind, water, and fire,” connected in a continuous cycle, giving life.

“The ancient sorcerer who created this combination of runes was truly talented…”

Su’en put down the rune pen and looked at his work, feeling emotional.

He could master these low-level runes proficiently, but he couldn’t understand the principles behind them. By consuming a small amount of materials, he could make these runes continuously operate, which involved extremely profound rune skills.

It would also be convenient to add more runes in the future.

With the completion of the rune drawing, Su’en finally relaxed.

He had done everything he needed to do and began to check the state of deformation on the body.

“The X Serum has changed the structure of the body’s tissues, significantly enhancing muscle strength. But while the distortion suppression agent takes effect, it also suppresses some of the serum’s effects…”

Su’en was already satisfied with this result.

Various signs indicated that the first active corpse he created was about to succeed!

He didn’t want to create a “hateful warrior.” The strength of the corpse didn’t matter as long as it could replace him in bearing the backlash of the black scythe.

Before long, the body’s skin completely turned blue.

“It’s done!”

Su’en felt delighted.

This meant that the serum-transformed body had stabilized. Although there would be some enhancements to the subsequent active corpses, this could already be considered a successful “rune active corpse.”

……

Creating the active corpse was just the first step. What was important was that Su’en intended to use it to verify his conjecture.

He used a steel wire to pull the body up and make it stand.

The active corpse stood there like a sleepwalker, eyes closed, with a dull expression. It seemed alive yet not alive, appearing slightly eerie in this dark basement.

“The muscle strength is enough to support the body, and the joints are normal. It completely meets the conditions…”

Su’en checked the state of the active corpse.

He had already determined that using the black scythe required at least two necessary conditions: having life characteristics and infused with dark spiritual power!

And the curse backlash was also highly likely to be directly related to these two conditions.

The “living corpse” happened to meet both!

After being transformed by the X Serum, the body was filled with surging dark spiritual power, even surpassing that of ordinary professionals, faintly overflowing.

This was perfect, as it saved Su’en the trouble of finding another method to activate the release of dark spiritual power from the corpse.

Su’en fixed the black scythe in the hand of the active corpse.

In an instant, the black flames emanating from the scythe seemed to be stimulated by the dark spiritual power, immediately surging up.

Seeing this, Su’en faintly felt that his conjecture was correct.

Taking a deep breath, he tried pulling the arm of the corpse lightly with the steel wire, and as if hearing a tearing sound, a small spatial crack appeared near the tip of the scythe blade, mysteriously.

“Indeed, a spatial crack appeared!”Seeing this, anticipation overflowed on Su’en’s face.

This time, he didn’t infuse any dark spirit power into his main body, yet he succeeded.

He could now roughly confirm that his conjecture was correct!

After making this cut, he didn’t move anymore.

He put down the puppet and began the long wait for the backlash.

…….

An hour later.

Su’en didn’t feel anything unusual about himself, but at this moment, he saw a sudden gash appear on the right arm of the zombie in front of him.

“It worked!”

Su’en knew that this was a sign of the scythe’s curse backlash.

“My guess was indeed correct. As long as the conditions of a living body and dark spirit power are met, a spatial rift can be cut!”

Now, Su’en’s face was radiant, as if he saw a glimmer of light piercing through the foggy future.

Where the scythe passed, it cut in two!

The “Night Black Scythe of Hypnos”, which could only be used to gamble with enemies before, has now become a controllable weapon of mass destruction.

The curse backlash won’t be applied to his main body, which means he can control the zombie to swing without any hesitation.

There was also a pleasant surprise. Because of the modification of the “X serum”, the zombie had a strong self-healing ability. The wound was slowly healing.

This meant that as long as this zombie wasn’t killed in one go, it could be reused!

Humans would hesitate to use the scythe for fear of crippling themselves and affecting their combat power, but zombies were different.

What Su’en wanted was a puppet. As long as the zombie could cut a spatial rift, even if it was missing an arm or a leg, it didn’t matter to him.

He estimated that before the body backlash and death, it could probably swing five or six times in a row!

One swing could kill a lord-level Spider Queen, what was the concept of five or six swings?

This meant that Su’en now had the ability to kill high-level professionals!

However, Su’en wasn’t too excited, this was a result he had anticipated.

Next, he faced more problems.

The experiment was successful, but to reach the level of actual combat, there were still many problems.

He looked at the zombie on the dissecting table and pondered, “The zombie is not flexible enough to control now. If it really fights, there are many areas that need to be improved… The muscle strength of the corpse is enough for it to stand and support its body, but it can’t walk. What if I install a mechanical skeleton and add a steam power boiler? Hmm… The current technology is not mature, and it’s not convenient.”

As he thought, his thoughts began to diverge.

“The phenomenon of the zombie’s dark spirit power overflowing also needs to be controlled, so that the intensity of the spatial rift can be controlled…”

“The swing range and the infused dark spirit power value determine the size of the spatial rift, but accurate control still requires more attempts to get accurate data…”

Now that he had a zombie, he didn’t need to risk his main body for such dangerous attempts.

There were still ninety-seven vials of “Second Generation X Serum”, enough for him to create more zombies and get the precise data he wanted.

But looking at the two-meter-long black scythe, Su’en muttered in his heart, “And, the biggest problem is that both the zombie and the scythe can’t be stored in the storage ring, it’s not convenient to carry around.”

“Huh… Didn’t Mr. Black say before that the second-tier profession of Puppet Master can choose ‘Spatial Ability’. Some high-quality spatial curse materials can give people the ability to create real folding space. Then, creating a folding space that can hold zombies and scythes would be perfect. However, it seems that such cursed items are not easy to find…”