Glutton

The giant seemed able to accelerate his regeneration by devouring things.

After eating a tree, new buds of flesh had already grown on his face, seemingly rebuilding it, though its shape was now completely different from before.

Yang Yi scraped the ground again with the chef's knife.

The giant immediately ran over to eat the dirt, digging out a large hole.

"You can eat anything?"

Refusing to believe it, Yang Yi scraped a large rock protruding from the ground, applying some force and leaving a white mark.

The giant immediately lunged over, hugged the rock, and began gnawing on it, not even caring that several of his teeth shattered.

Strangely enough.

Under the influence of his saliva, the hard rock actually softened, gradually becoming something he could chew.

Yang Yi frowned deeply...

This giant seemed able to digest anything, including wood, dirt, and rocks. His digestive ability was unimaginably powerful.

But he seemed to have little ability to distinguish things.

As long as something gave off a sweet fragrance, he would eat and gnaw at it with everything he had, never caring what it was!

So... what would the giant do if he discovered that he himself was the most fragrant thing around?

Yang Yi narrowed his eyes, a cold glint flashing through them. The chef's knife had already flown from his hand and embedded itself in the giant's flesh.

The giant immediately stopped gnawing on the rock and began sniffing around like a dog, finally zeroing in on himself.

Then he bit into his own left hand with such force that he severed it outright, followed by his left arm and right hand.

[The scene is horrifying. Your Sanity decreases by 10.]

The giant ate both his arms, then gnawed off his feet and half his lower legs.

Then his neck began to lengthen, and he started trying to gnaw on his own torso.

Unable to watch any longer, Yang Yi fired from several meters away.

After one misfire, the Flintlock flashed again, hitting the giant squarely in the forehead.

After that, Yang Yi shot him once every ten seconds.

After seven or eight shots and three or four misfires, Yang Yi finally blasted the giant's brain apart, and he stopped moving altogether.

Su Na was recording the process.

She had known the giant was no longer a threat as early as when Yang Yi began using the chef's knife against him.

She had wanted to stop Yang Yi from blasting the giant's head apart.

After all, an intact head would be better for dissection and research.

But she could think of no way to kill the giant without shattering his head, so she could only say nothing and watch in silence.

After the giant died, a large quantity of corrosive liquid flowed from his body, burning the ground until white smoke rose from it.

"These liquids feel like his gastric juice," Su Na speculated, collecting some gastric juice in a glass bottle.

But this gastric juice seemed unable to digest glass.

At least, not yet.

The two lingered nearby for a while. Only once most of the liquid had drained away did Yang Yi use a branch he had picked up by the path to pry the chef's knife out.

After he rinsed it with some fresh water, the chef's knife's attributes had changed as well. It seemed to have been severely corroded.

[Name: Corroded Delicious Chef's Knife (damaged)]

[Type: Relic]

[Quality: Common]

[Description: Soaked in acid for too long, this knife has been severely corroded and is no longer sharp. It has a certain chance of making anything it cuts delicious.]

"This weapon's pretty much ruined..." Yang Yi felt a pang of regret. Though the chef's knife was dangerous, it was also a very powerful piece of equipment when used properly.

It had withstood blasts from Yang Yi's Flintlock, yet it could not withstand this acid.

Of course, that might also have been because combat between players did not damage weapons or equipment.

To take the corpse with them, Yang Yi and Su Na began digging up dirt and spreading it over the giant to reduce the corrosive effect.

Then they bound him with makeshift ropes, preparing to drag him back to the ship together.

During the process, Yang Yi also obtained the giant's information.

[Name: Glutton (Li Rong)]

[Description: A human mutated by Abyss contamination due to excessively low Sanity. He gained unparalleled digestive abilities, but also fell into endless hunger and thirst.

Can be placed into the Monster Gacha Machine.]

Yang Yi noticed the key phrase-excessively low Sanity.

That meant that when Sanity became too low, the human body would mutate into something inhuman!

That was far too terrifying!

Yang Yi often ignored his Sanity, feeling that it did not matter if it was a little low, since it even boosted his attributes.

But if it caused mutations, that changed everything!

He had no desire to give up being human!

Fortunately, Yang Yi's Sanity had never fallen below 10 so far.

A Sanity of 10 was probably a dividing line-the boundary between human and inhuman.

Below 50 Sanity meant madness, below 30 brought suicidal tendencies, and below 10 surely meant mutation!

Those who chose suicide when their Sanity fell below 30... might not have been wrong!

At least they would die as humans rather than turn into monsters.

But what Yang Yi did not know was... lowering Sanity and accelerating mutation was actually another form of suicide.

Yang Yi shared his thoughts with Su Na and received her agreement.

No matter what, their Sanity must not fall below 10!

After spending considerable time and losing three makeshift ropes, the two finally dragged the Glutton's corpse to the shore.

Once they boarded the ship, they could use the grappling claw to retrieve the corpse into the hold.

Yang Yi checked the time. Less than five hours of daylight remained.

He decided to put exploration on hold and stop venturing deeper into the island, switching instead to collecting the dead Tinder Wool Spiders on the island.

Su Na entered the laboratory. She could hardly wait to dissect the corpse, and probably would not come along even if Yang Yi called her.

Yang Yi could only return to the island alone and focus on collecting spider corpses.

These corpses fell into three types: juveniles, adults, and giants.

The juveniles could not be used for gacha draws.

The adults could.

Naturally, the special Giant Tinder Wool Spider could as well.

[Name: Giant Tinder Wool Spider Monster (evolving)]

[Description: A rare, special individual among Tinder Wool Spider Monsters with the potential to evolve. By transplanting human bodies, it can achieve a leap to a higher level of life.]

Yang Yi found only one Giant Tinder Wool Spider Monster in total.

He found twenty adult Tinder Wool Spider Monsters.

The rest were large numbers of juvenile spider monsters. There were especially many of them, but fortunately, they all had some tinder wool on their bodies, making them worth collecting to craft sweaters.

He obtained a total of 327 units of tinder wool spider hair. (Not including the adult spider monsters.)

By the time he finished, it was nearly night.

Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star.

He first tried using an adult spider monster's corpse to upgrade the Nightmare Star, but received a failure notification.

[This is a beast and cannot be used for upgrades.]

It seemed the monsters in this world were divided into categories. Only the more unnatural ones were called Otherworldly Demons.

Large spiders like these were merely classified as beasts.

Only the Giant Tinder Wool Spider Monster was classified as an Otherworldly Demon, because it could graft human bodies onto itself.

In that case, he would just have to start with some gacha draws!

Yang Yi rubbed his hands together, preparing to use the twenty adult Tinder Wool Spider Monster corpses for gacha draws. He also sent Su Na a private message.

"Su Na, are you sure you don't want to do any draws? Your luck seems better than mine!"

"Don't bother me!" Su Na was dissecting the Glutton and did not want to be disturbed.

Yang Yi shrugged.

If she would not draw, it was her loss!

Still, Yang Yi saved two chances for her, mainly to test the gacha machine's payout rules.

That was because the first two gacha draws were practically guaranteed to yield something.

But Yang Yi did not know whether their draw counts were calculated separately, so he needed to test it!

Yang Yi put in the flesh and began drawing.

This time, he did not stockpile them, opening each one as it came out.

[You obtained Insect Carapace Heart Guard.]

[You obtained Silk Sac.]

[You obtained Wood ×3.]

After that, he received only basic supplies and small amounts of Conch Coins, with just one Bronze Supply Chest as an additional prize.

The totals came to Wood ×138, Cloth ×112, Stone ×10, Steel ×1, Sulfur ×21, Crystal ×1, and Conch Coins ×100.

Without the chest, those last dozen or so draws would have been a terrible waste.

He would have been better off turning all those adult Tinder Wool Spiders into Tinder Wool Sweaters!

Still, he had thoroughly figured out the gacha machine's rules.

For the same type of monster, the first two draws were almost guaranteed to yield prizes, but getting anything after that was very difficult.

As for golden legendary prizes, probably only the supremely lucky could pull those. They likely had nothing to do with the number of draws.

[Name: Insect Carapace Heart Guard]

[Category: Treasure]

[Quality: Fine]

[Description: A heart guard made from the hardest carapace on a Tinder Wool Spider's head. It provides decent protection.]

[Name: Silk Sac]

[Type: Consumable]

[Quality: Good]

[Description: A silk sac that can be squeezed to spray spider silk. Stronger than ordinary rope, it can support 500 kg. Lightweight and highly adhesive, it can restrain enemies. Capacity: 100/100. However, it is vulnerable to fire.]