Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 167 Upgrading to the Level of the "Corpse Catcher"

Under the spotlight, a mature female body was lying on the cold bed.

The chest had been cut open, but the organs inside were a strange dark purple color.

Under the skin and flesh are densely packed spore-like tumors. Even though it has become a corpse, these tumors are still wriggling rhythmically.

Xiao Ran tried to cut off a piece, but found that once the spores were punctured, highly toxic substances would overflow from them. The strong toxicity quickly evaporated in the air, and Xiao Ran almost got hit, so he quickly retreated with Okra.

After the poison dissipated, Xiao Ran waited for a long time before he dared to approach.

"Is this the characteristic of a D-class corpse?"

Xiao Ran squinted his eyes and looked carefully at the flesh and blood of the spirit snake. As a D-level professional pharmacist, the curse patterns in his body would go out of control after death, and strange changes would quickly occur inside the body.

Just like now, full of poison.

However, this is not a big problem for Xiao Ran. It can only be said to be a little troublesome.

"tweezers!"

He continued to sew. This time, Xiao Rangui avoided the location of the spores and used tweezers to hold the needle and thread to sew.

"Curved vascular forceps, yes, that's the one."

"Spreader."

Under the spotlight, Xiao Ran put his hands deep into the chest of the spirit snake, and all kinds of strange tools were handed to Xiao Ran one after another.

As Xiao Ran's movements became faster and faster, Qiu Kui gradually found it difficult to keep up with his pace.

At this time, Xiao Ran also seemed to notice this and began to deliberately slow down the pace, while patiently helping Qiu Kui correct his mistakes.

At first, Qiu Kui was worried about being scolded by Xiao Ran because of several mistakes, but every time she made a mistake, Xiao Ran would patiently correct her. Gradually, Qiu Kui began to relax and carefully remember the name and position of each item.

At this time, the professional performance of the trainees began to show.

Xiao Ran only needs to say it once and Qiu Kui will immediately remember it firmly in his mind and ensure that the same mistake will not happen again.

As the number of mistakes gradually decreased, Xiao Ran's pace also began to speed up.

Repairing, suturing, connecting blood vessels and nerves, all kinds of suturing techniques seemed to be very popular in Xiao Ran's hands.

As Qiu Kui became more and more skilled in assisting, Xiao Ran gradually began to get into the state.

Although a corpse is not a living person and has no blood vessels flowing, one can still clearly feel the pain in his body before the flesh decays.

If the doctors in the emergency department try their best to bring the patient back from his last breath, then as a shoemaker, what you can do is to soothe the pain of the soul as much as possible during the period of death, so that the soul can go on its last journey in the world with enough dignity.

Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, this veneer is insignificant.

But in the world of the dead, this dignity is more important than anything else, because it is the last dignity they leave in the world.

After all, no one wants to be witnessed by friends, family, or even enemies in their most miserable state when they die.

Suddenly, a sense of enlightenment came to my mind.

When Xiao Ran looked at the spirit snake again, his eyes gradually became gentle.

Even if he killed the spirit snake with his own hands, even if he ripped her open, it didn't matter so much at this moment.

"what?"

At this time, Qiu Kui raised her head and looked at Xiao Ran in confusion. She could feel that Xiao Ran seemed to be slowing down.

No, it's not that the speed slowed down, but that he became more focused. Every piece of flesh and every tendon were being repaired in Xiao Ran's hands.

Gradually, there seemed to be a special force field around Xiao Ran. An aura of withering emanated from his body. In a trance, it seemed as if all things were extinguished. Xiao Ran was like a messenger standing between yin and yang.

The boundary between life and death seemed to be blurred by this force at this moment.

"Scissors!"

When Xiao Ran stretched out his hand to Qiu Kui, Qiu Kui came to his senses and saw that the chest had been sutured. There was only an inconspicuous line on the smooth skin that penetrated from under the skin. Then he realized that Xiao Ran had finished it.

He quickly handed over the scissors.

Just wait for the thread to be cut off.

Xiao Ran took off his gloves and stroked the stitched skin of the spirit snake with his fingers, feeling the feedback from his fingertips. After a moment, Xiao Ran nodded.

"It's done!"

"Ding, you repaired Wang Shanshan's body, and the score is S."

"Your professional skills have surpassed the master level and reached the extraordinary level!!"

"You have stitched up a D-class corpse, and have reached the upgrade requirements for the Suppression Order."

Accompanied by a prompt sound.

Xiao Ran felt a faint blue light coming from the [Evil-Suppressing Order], and the originally blurry words on it began to gradually become clear.

At the same time, two lines of small characters appeared on both sides of the Suppression Order.

【Calm the grief of the deceased, suppress evil spirits and distinguish between yin and yang. 】

E-level cursed item [Zhen'e Ling·Corpseler]

Energy value 100/1000
Relieve disasters and solve problems, get promoted and make money.

Privilege 1: Suppression of Evil

Forcefully suppress evil spirits and demons.

When you repair a corpse, all of the corpse's memories, skills, and spell patterns will be forcibly taken away and turned into memory books, skill books, and spell pattern scrolls.

(Note: The memory book can be read at any time, but each extraction of the skill book consumes energy. The amount of energy consumed is determined by the strength of the skill. The spell scroll cannot be extracted above D level!)

Every time a corpse is sewn, an equal amount of energy will be obtained according to the difficulty of the corpse, thereby increasing the grade of the Suppression Order.

Feeling the upgrade information fed back to him by [Zhen'e Order], Xiao Ran's eyes couldn't help but flash with brilliance.

The perk types haven't changed, but they are stronger than before.

This time it is no longer simply about plundering the skills during one's lifetime, even the spell patterns can be extracted.

Although there are limitations, this limitation should be related to the level of [Evil-Suppression Order].

It is impossible to directly extract D-level and above spell patterns, but E-level spell patterns are also good.

Even if you can't use it yourself, you can still get a lot of money by just selling it.

This inevitably made Xiao Ran feel like he had secured his job.

"Ding, you have repaired Wang Shanshan's body, do you want to proceed with the seizure?"

"Yes!"

As a thought flashed through Xiao Ran's mind, a strange red light flashed on the Zhen'e Order, and then three balls of light emerged from the body of the spirit snake.

Xiao Ran checked the past information one by one.

A transparent book, which contains all the memories of the spirit snake.

A thin booklet displayed to Xiao Ran all the skills that the spirit snake had mastered during its lifetime, which saved him the trouble of repeatedly whipping the corpse in the future.

These include skills such as identifying medicines, conducting medical consultations, and identifying poisons.

Xiao Ran guessed that in reality, the spirit snake might have come from a family of traditional Chinese medicine.

But the last thing made Xiao Ran feel at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

The light yellow scroll had a very familiar strange pattern on it, which turned out to be the curse pattern of his old profession, [Corpse Stitcher].

"This is really..."

Xiao Ran shook his head and said, "Just put them away for now. You can take these things upstairs later and make a bookshelf in the room to store these memory books and skill books."

As for this spell pattern, Xiao Ran has no intention of selling it.

As the saying goes, enemies are often in the same profession. The corpse stitcher itself is a relatively rare profession, but there is a saying that goes, the higher you go up, the narrower the road becomes. Selling a corpse stitcher may not have any impact at the moment.

But who can guarantee that when you reach the top in the future, there won’t be another corpse-sewer coming to snatch corpses from you?

Since it cannot be sold, the only way left is to devour it.

The spell patterns devour each other, and there is a chance that they can be strengthened.

This approach is worth a try.

But there is no need to rush, as I have more important things to do right now.

His professional skills have reached the extraordinary level, which means that the biggest problem that has troubled him in climbing the ladder has been solved.

Xiao Ran took out two other spell patterns from the space.

They are F-level spell pattern [Spirit Attachment] and E-level spell pattern [Craftsman].

When Xiao Ran clasped the two spell patterns together, he immediately felt a force stirring in his body.

[You have reached the standard for the D-level occupation [Corpse Collector], do you want to proceed with the advancement? ]

"Advanced!"

Along with Xiao Ran's confirmation, the power that was ready to move in the body could no longer be suppressed and was about to rush out. The blue veins on the two arms were wriggling, and dark red tentacles emerged from under the skin.

Then they flowed into the spell scroll in Xiao Ran's hand.

Immediately, the spell patterns in the two scrolls began to twist and struggle, but even the [Craftsman] with the same E-level spell pattern could not hold on for long without the host body as a source.

After struggling for a few times, he was forcibly dragged out of the spell scroll. Then, one dark red spell rune after another extended from under Xiao Ran's arms like tentacles and began to absorb and assimilate the spell runes that were pulled out.

During this process, Xiao Ran also felt uncomfortable and began to look visibly haggard.

Seeing that he was going to continue like this, even if he succeeded in advancing he would be seriously injured. The incident with the Eight Ghost Immortals last time was a shadow that Xiao Ran could not get rid of until now. His face changed immediately and he immediately activated the [Tarnishing Object] privilege.

“Spirit of symbiosis!!”

As Xiao Ran roared in his heart, Liu Rui seemed to be aware of something and opened her eyes. The next moment, she appeared behind Xiao Ran and put a hand on his shoulder.

Suddenly, a steady stream of energy began to flow into Xiao Ran's body, and the curse patterns in Xiao Ran's body seemed to feel the source of power at the same time, and began to increase the speed of swallowing unscrupulously.

Now the two spell patterns began to lose ground, and were finally torn out of the scroll by the [Corpse Stitcher] in an almost devastating way.

Immediately afterwards, the cursed tentacles extending from Xiao Ran's arms quickly retracted and merged together again.

A brand new spell pattern appeared in Xiao Ran's mind.

Compared to its E-level appearance, this pattern is more complex and huge, like a beautifully woven geometric pattern.

"You have completed the requirements for ascending the ladder and obtained the D-level spell pattern [Corpse Collector]"

(End of this chapter)