The inside of the black wooden box was filled with an extremely dense soft substance called Oak-mucus,
Collected from the oak cultivation district within Zion, it was produced by artificially infecting the oak trees with a controllable disease.
After becoming infected, the oak trees would grow Tumor Tissue and periodically secrete a mucus with sealing, malleable, and controlling properties. The initial mucus was light gray, with 30–40% translucency.
Oak-mucus could be diluted or purified to create products for different purposes.
It was often used to encase pathogenized materials, effectively suppressing the spread of pathogenized components while providing both "storage" and "sealing" effects.
At present,
Stored within the concentrated and purified mucus was a special firearm that was primarily black, with silver embellishments.
Because of its "pistol-style grip" and lack of a stock, Yi Chen had initially mistaken it for a pistol at first glance,
but a closer look revealed that it was a portable shotgun using a shortened barrel design.
The silver Outer Shell at the junction between the grip and magazine was decorated with a Feather Decoration and engraved with the italicized word "Mariano,"
The whole thing gave off a contradictory impression: compact yet somewhat heavy, portable yet extremely lethal... Especially its exaggerated barrel size, which looked as though it could blast a human body apart.
Most importantly, active pathogenized aura was radiating from the entire firearm.
Even Teacher Zed, who was crawling across the tabletop, sensed the faint danger and even wanted to personally test the gun's power.
Yi Chen immediately recognized the firearm's origin. "This is! A gun made from that Sick One?"
"That's right... It was personally designed and manufactured by the first gunsmith recognized by our family—my father, Ilifalait Mariano—and named The Body-Breaker.
After removing the Sick One's consciousness, we preserved as much of the