Those who reincarnate must die.

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"Each reincarnator can receive this reward at most once, but they can pay an additional 1000 points to merge two rare-grade Free Transformation items into a single uncommon-grade Free Transformation item. Merge?"

"What does this mean?" Zhang Lang blinked in confusion, asking himself.

"Even when you're enhancing an altar, you have to consider the cost..." A lazy voice echoed in Zhang Lang's mind:

"The ability to freely switch doesn't significantly improve a reincarnator's abilities, but changing the type of reward puts a considerable strain on the altar. In the spirit of energy conservation and emission reduction, the altar should reduce the probability of obtaining this item."

"However, it wouldn't be appropriate to make such a weak ability too rare. So, to prevent reincarnators from constantly drawing it and arbitrarily changing the reward types, the altar limited the number of times this thing could be obtained."

"Then what about this fusion?" Zhang Lang continued to ask.

"Reincarnators are masters at finding loopholes, so there are always cases where reincarnators gain multiple free transformations. Therefore, the altar added a rule: you can get two, but you can merge them into a higher-level one, and you have to pay more money. With this restriction, most reincarnators naturally give up on this thing."

At this point, Xu chuckled, "But you're different. This thing is your skill bar. Losing a little money is fine; expanding your skills is the key. Keep it for now, and upgrade it when you receive the rewards after completing the mission. Then your Despair Arena will be usable!"

Zhang Lang nodded. He put away the copy card, which had now become "freely convertible".

Thus, the reincarnators of the Shen clan finally obtained what they wanted.

Looking at the time, there were still more than twenty hours left before the mission ended. They managed to wake up the unconscious Professor Bard and others, and had them examine the virus sample and research data. After confirming that there were no problems, the main mission was considered to be half completed.

However, a side quest awaits them.

"The original virus..." Dr. Bard took a sip of water, shaking his still somewhat dizzy head, "It's on the seventh floor... That was the result of our final experiment. If it weren't for it, the virus wouldn't have broken out, and the world wouldn't be like this today..."

"So, if we're going to look for research data, we're bound to encounter this monster anyway?" Ning Chengyu, holding his recovered longsword, looked at the quest description on the badge: "This side quest is a bit redundant."

"No..." Dr. Bard shook his head: "The research data and the virus stock are in the data area and cold storage. The original virus is locked in a secret laboratory and can't get out..."

"Can't get out?" Kang Hai frowned. "If it can't get out, how was the virus released? It's already ruined the world, and it can't even get out of a lab? Besides, even if it couldn't get out back then, so much time has passed, how could it still not be able to get out?"

Dr. Bard sighed: "If you're interested, you can go down and take a look, and you'll see..."

"Let's go down and take a look?" Kang Hai's eyes widened. "A monster worth a thousand points? Is it that good-looking?"

But then I thought, with the hunter as a powerful asset in the team, even a monster with a thousand points doesn't seem so formidable in comparison...

To make a long story short, after everyone packed their things, they decided to go down together to see what secrets the seventh floor held.

After breaking through the iron gate and entering the west corridor, the reincarnators finally arrived at the bottom floor of the research institute.

Compared to the heavily modified sixth floor, this floor was much the same as Dr. Bard remembered, with even the facilities looking brand new, as if they had been regularly maintained. The only change from before the outbreak was the addition of some novel equipment that even this top scholar had never seen before.

Many of these devices are still operational, and the connected petri dishes still contain mutated humans used as experimental subjects.

"This isn't part of our experiment; it's far more advanced than ours." Dr. Bard examined it. Although he hadn't seen it before, as a top scholar, he could discern some clues after a quick check: "Moreover, the equipment is very new. During the time McKinney City was abandoned, were there still people working inside the research institute?"

"It was probably done by those sub-clans." The reincarnators could see that the technology on these devices did not belong to this world. They also made some guesses by connecting it with the many "ghosts" and monsters blocking them on the next level.

Looking at those distorted and deformed human test subjects, Catherine couldn't help but sigh: "The most commonly used experimental animal for humans is the white mouse. I never imagined that in this world, humans would become the test subjects for mice..."

"Where is the original virus?" Zhang Lang was more concerned about the task and the score.

"I'll take you there..." Dr. Bard sighed, leading the group towards the central area of ​​the seventh floor. Finally, they stopped in front of a massive laboratory.

"This is it..." Dr. Bard pointed to the almost completely enclosed circular laboratory: "The beginning of all the disaster."

Compared to before the outbreak, the laboratory had been renovated, making it more robust and airtight, but the operating system remained largely unchanged. Dr. Bard walked to the control panel, fiddled with it for a few moments, and then the sealed metal panel slowly opened, revealing transparent glass.

Upon seeing the scene beneath the glass, all the reincarnators present couldn't help but gasp in shock.

The enormous laboratory was almost half-filled with a grotesque mass of proliferating tissue.

To the naked eye, one can vaguely discern that most of these tissues are deformed human organs, from haphazardly twisted hands and feet to patches of long, messy hair; from eyes of different sizes and colors to mouths with jagged teeth and forked tongues... one can even see beating hearts, peristaltic intestines, and lungs that expand and contract rhythmically, all intertwined together.

In short, it's like taking the bodies of dozens or hundreds of people apart, smashing them, piling them up haphazardly, soaking them in a petri dish, and letting them grow and heal.

"Ugh..." Even seasoned reincarnators who had been through countless battles couldn't help but feel nauseous at the sight. Many people turned away after just one glance and began to gag.

"This is the original virus?" Ning Chengyu asked Dr. Bard with disgust, "Isn't it supposed to be a powerful and terrifying monster?"

"Isn't this appearance enough to be considered monstrous?" Dr. Bard sighed, looking at the twisted viral prototype in the laboratory, his eyes filled with guilt and self-reproach. "However, whether the word 'powerful' can describe it is debatable..."

"In terms of danger, this monster carries the most powerful virus. If released, it could cause all the monsters in the world to mutate further... But in its current state, it can't even leave this laboratory, let alone infect the world..."

"Bearing the most powerful mutated virus, it is trapped in this small space. Its powerful cell proliferation ability allows it to revive even after death, forever enduring this endless torment..."

Dr. Bard then turned to the reincarnators and asked, "What do you think of this monster? Is it powerful or weak? Dangerous or pitiful?"