Sacrifice to Heaven

Lin Shen plopped down onto a chair, his hands still trembling uncontrollably from the pain. He wanted to pick up the water glass on the nearby table to take a sip and calm his nerves, but both hands were unable to grip the glass. The moment he touched it, the pain made him grimace and cry out.

In contrast, after the monster quieted down and Lin Shen stopped hitting its acupoints, it quickly regained its ability to move.

Its enlarged front slowly returned to its original state, like a dark red snakeskin rope, slithering towards Lin Shen. It slowly raised its head and opened its mouthparts.

This time, its mouthparts didn't enlarge, only opening slightly to reveal an inner cavity that rotated like countless Blood Crystal gears. Then, it lowered its head and spat out a small ruby-like key.

Ignoring the pain, Lin Shen reached out with his blood-stained, clumsy fingers, trembling like someone with Parkinson's, and picked up the ruby key.

With the key in hand, Lin Shen finally felt completely at ease. With this key, this bizarre Gene Mutation Creature could no longer pose any threat to him.

He looked at the key, then at its mouthparts. Lin Shen was wondering where its keyhole was, and if he had to stick his arm inside to find it, when the Gene Mutation Creature's body began to change rapidly. Its several-meter-long body quickly shrunk into a dark red Pet Capsule the size of a peanut.

"This thing's intelligence is much higher than that of ordinary Gene Mutation Creatures. It can even enter the Pet Capsule state by itself. Does that mean it can also return to its biological state without needing the key to open the Pet Capsule?" Lin Shen muttered to himself, somewhat doubting whether the Pet Key still had absolute control over it.

Mutated Death Smasher: Mutated Alloy Creature (Evolvable).

Strength: 21.

Speed: 21.

Hardness: 21.

Toughness: 21.

Gene Mutation Talents: Mutated Devour, Mutated Evolution, Enhanced Armor-Piercing Sting, Enhanced Instant Speed, Enhanced Hundred Refinements.

After seeing its information, Lin Shen was utterly dumbfounded. Shock couldn't even begin to express his feelings at that moment.

The term "Mutated Alloy Creature" was something Lin Shen had only heard of. Legend had it that someone had obtained one, but Lin Shen had never seen one, nor was there any concrete news about who exactly possessed a mutated pet.

Moreover, this thing was only an Alloy Creature, so why did its attributes reach 21 points? The attribute limit for Alloy Creatures should be 20. How did it get to 21? Even for mutated creatures, he had never heard of attributes exceeding 20.

What made Lin Shen feel even more unusual was how this guy had five Gene Mutation Talents, and some of them looked familiar.

At this point, Lin Shen didn't have the time to think too much. He first took out several tubes of medicine from the cabinet and poured them into a basin.

He poured about half a basin of purplish-red liquid and soaked both his hands in it. Immediately, a heart-wrenching pain shot through his hands. This feeling was not much better than deep-frying his hands in hot oil.

He endured the pain and didn't pull his hands out of the liquid. These medicines were bought for him by his eldest sister at a high price, truly life-saving items.

He heard that they were made from the Gene Mutation Fluid of several special Gene Mutation Creatures, and their manufacturing process and formula were top secrets of the Seahorn Base. No one outside the Seahorn Base could produce this medicine, and it cost as much as five figures.

Lin Shen poured five bottles, which meant tens of thousands of yuan were gone.

However, expensive things were truly worth the price. After the initial pain subsided, Lin Shen felt his hand injuries recovering at an astonishing speed, and the bleeding from the wounds had stopped.

If he continued soaking like this, it was estimated that his fractured bones would be almost completely healed within a few days.

"Wait!" Lin Shen suddenly thought of something and ran to check. Sure enough, the Mutated Steel Tail Scorpion's Pet Capsule, as well as the Black Iron Swallow and Hundred Refinements Steel Beast's Gene Mutation Eggs, were all gone.

After carefully studying the Death Smasher's information again, Lin Shen roughly guessed that those things had probably been devoured by it.

"Death Smasher's Mutated Devour and Mutated Evolution talents should have the ability to plunder the Gene Mutation Talents of other creatures. Those other three enhanced skills were plundered by it," Lin Shen quickly figured out the cause and effect.

Because the name "Mutated Death Smasher" was too long, Lin Shen simply shortened it and called it "Death Smasher".

What Lin Shen didn't understand was that the Superspeed Gunslinger's capsule was with the Mutated Steel Tail Scorpion's capsule at the time, so why didn't Death Smasher devour the Superspeed Gunslinger's capsule?

"Is it because the Superspeed Gunslinger is high-level, making it not easily swallowed by the Death Smasher's devouring ability, or does it only swallow creatures with a Seed?" Lin Shen couldn't figure out the reason for a while.

"Losing three top-grade pets with evolution potential is a bit of a loss, but it directly converted into the Death Smasher's combat power, which is more useful for my current situation." Lin Shen let the Death Smasher return to its biological state and carefully studied its various abilities.

Enhanced Armor-Piercing Sting gives its spike-like tail powerful armor-piercing and penetrating ability. Coupled with its abnormal attributes, it poses a certain threat even to Crystal Gene Level creatures, not to mention Alloy Creatures, which it can pierce accurately every time.

Enhanced Instant Speed is the ability to temporarily increase speed, which is also a very practical innate ability.

Lin Shen hasn't figured out what Enhanced Hundred Refinements is. It doesn't seem to be an active ability, and the Death Smasher can't demonstrate it either.

Mutated Devour and Mutated Evolution also cannot be demonstrated. He only knows they are devouring and evolution abilities. Lin Shen can only roughly guess that they are key to plundering Gene Mutation talents. As for whether there are other effects, he will have to discover them in future actual combat.

However, even without these three innate abilities, relying solely on Enhanced Armor-Piercing Sting and Enhanced Instant Speed, plus the Death Smasher's abnormal attributes, is enough to place it at the peak of Alloy Creature combat power.

With the Death Smasher's combat power, Lin Shen finally felt that there might be a slim chance of turning the situation around on this trip to Gourd Mountain.

The reason he said there was a slim chance is that both the Qi and Wang families have Crystal Gene Level combat power. The Death Smasher is barely a pseudo-Crystal Gene Level and may not gain an advantage against a true Crystal Gene Creature.

A slim chance is still a chance, better than none. Lin Shen, trapped in a difficult situation, was quite optimistic.

He continued to soak his hands in the medicinal liquid. He didn't have much time. If his hands couldn't recover before going to Gourd Mountain, it would be very troublesome.

Only then did Lin Shen have time to pay attention to the Seed information that had appeared in his mind.

Lin Shen was actually very curious about what kind of Seed the Death Smasher would carry.

[Imperfect Super Gene Evolution Seed - Sacrifice to Heaven: Teammates sacrifice to heaven, magic power is boundless. The more who die, the stronger the combat power. A mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, showing off to the gods.]

Lin Shen's mouth gaped open for a moment, unable to react for a long time.