Doomsday Highway: I can be infinitely enhanced

"Your mom..."

"Shameless!"

Fang Yuan and Hu Dong cursed in unison.

[Negative emotions from Fang Yuan +60]

[Negative emotions from Hu Dong +82]

Su Xing chuckled. He knew such a distribution was impossible, so he asked:

"So, you two suggest how to divide it?"

Hu Dong had clearly prepared his words in advance, and he spoke fluently as soon as he opened his mouth:

"Besides rare materials, the most valuable form of hard currency in the apocalypse is food!"

"In this way, as long as you bring out 100 jin (50 kg) of food, this material is yours!"

"One hundred pounds of food!?"

Su Xing stared wide-eyed, her voice suddenly rising as she exclaimed in surprise:

"You might as well just rob someone! Where am I supposed to get you a hundred pounds of food?"

"What use is this strange material to you? It's utterly useless!"

"You think you can trade this for 100 pounds of food? No way!"

"Hehe~" Hu Dong also knew the price was inflated, and laughed:

"Trying to negotiate, huh? Well then, give me a piece of your mind!"

Fang Yuan nodded in agreement, saying, "That's right! Besides, these rare materials are definitely useful! Even if we don't need them, we can still exchange them for supplies with other caravans..."

Su Xing feigned hesitation and held up one finger, saying:

"How about ten pounds..."

Before he could finish speaking, Hu Dong glared at him, and Fang Yuan also had a murderous look on his face.

Su Xing quickly changed his mind, saying, "Shall I give you both ten catties of food?"

Hu Dong's expression softened somewhat, but he still refused:

"That won't do! It needs to weigh at least eighty pounds!"

"Forty jin at most!" Su Xing said, forcing himself to speak.

After some haggling,

In the end, Su Xing bought 40% ownership of the materials for this strange object from the two people in exchange for 60 catties of food.

Thus, the entire material of the "Corpse Soul" artifact has been awakened.

All told, the entire set of materials for this rare item is worth 150 catties of food.

The price is reasonable, considering the materials are precious and can only be obtained by defeating abnormal beings.

But abnormalities can't be killed off just like that!

This time, even with prior preparation and meticulous planning, the kill of the headless monster was only achieved by luck, thanks to Su Xing's possession of "silver bullets."

Even so, the convoy lost a full ten able-bodied survivors.

In just one week, the team was reduced to just over eighty people.

"Sixty pounds of food? I definitely can't come up with that right now!"

"How about this, I'll keep the rare materials for now... and give them to you after I find the supplies at the next supply point?"

Su Xing asked tentatively.

Fang Yuan and Hu Donghe didn't dwell on the issue for long before agreeing.

Before leaving, Hu Dong chuckled and said:

"Wake up, you really got the better deal this time."

"We have no use for these rare materials, but you are a runemaster, so they must be of use to you!"

"Take good care of your injuries. The convoy should reach the next supply point in two days at most!"

After the two left, Su Xing couldn't wait to take out the strange materials.

"What should we strengthen?"

Su Xing thought for a moment and then held the rune pistol in front of him.

A thought flickered in his mind, and several lines of prompts appeared before his eyes.

[Use the artifact material "Headless Corpse Soul" to enhance the artifact "Unstable Rune Pistol"...]

[This enhancement achieves a 36% compatibility rate. Enhancement requires 3000 Negative Emotion Points. Additional compatibility can be increased by spending Emotion Points...]

[Should we enhance it?]

"A 36% compatibility rate?"

After studying it for a while, Su Xing figured out what this compatibility meant.

Even when using rare materials to enhance existing rare items, there may be issues of compatibility.

Thirty-six percent means that the rune pistol can only inherit thirty-six percent of the corpse's power, with the vast majority being wasted.

"Hmm, to improve compatibility, each 1% requires 100 points of negative emotions... Why not just rob someone!"

Su Xing shook his head and pondered:

"The next upgrades to the rune pistol still need to consider stability, power, and reducing costs..."

"After all, every shot is a blow to the head... who can withstand that?"

Su Xing estimated that he could fire at most three shots in a short period of time, and if he fired one more shot, he would faint like before.

"Damn it... you can't even finish a whole magazine of bullets! What use are you!"

Su Xingbao put away the rune pistol.

"In that case, let's add another wondrous item!"

"The rune pistol is a ranged weapon, and each use consumes rune bullets. You also need a melee weapon..."

After searching inside the car, Su Xing finally set his sights on the fire axe.

This axe is handy and easy to use, but unfortunately it can't deal with abnormalities.

"Since that's the case..."

A slight thought stirred within him as he awoke, prompting him to attempt to reinforce the fire axe with rare materials.

[Use "Headless Corpse Soul" to enhance a regular item, the fire axe...]

[This enhancement has reached 100% compatibility, allowing for complete absorption of the artifact's material's abilities. Enhancement requires 2600 points of negative emotion. Enhance now?]

"Only 2,600 emotion points?"

Su Xing felt a slight joy in his heart. He had tried to strengthen the fire axe before, and to strengthen it into a rare item, he would need at least tens of thousands of emotion points.

"Wow, a single rare material can save tens of thousands of emotion points!"

"We've hit the jackpot!"

Su Xing chose to strengthen without hesitation.

[Enhancing the artifact, consuming 2600 points of negative emotion, 2106 points of negative emotion remaining.]

[Reinforcement Countdown: 11:59:59]

【11:59:58……】

Su Xing glanced at the time; the enhancement would be finished around 8 a.m. tomorrow.

With the item enhancement slots occupied, Su Xing began to think about enhancing himself again.

"With a whopping 10,000 positive emotion points! Shouldn't we give it a massive boost?"

After suddenly becoming rich, Su Xing began to think about the direction he should strengthen.

He already possesses extraordinary regeneration, strength, and speed, making him a mini-superman in terms of physical attributes.

But after using the rune pistol, he realized his weakness—he couldn't withstand the mental impact!

"I wonder if there's any mental enhancement involved?"

As Su Xing pondered something, a narrator's voice suddenly sounded in his ear:

[Humans with weak wills! You went through countless hardships to finally kill the first anomaly, but after the battle you also realized your own shortcomings.]

You face a new choice: Will you continue down the path of physical existence, or become a transcendent individual with extraordinary abilities?

Su Xing analyzed the narration's hints and suddenly laughed:

"Body? Spirit?"

"Only children make choices! I want them all!"

"But before that..."

Su Xing has already grasped the key information from the narration—weak will!

This is a reminder for him to strengthen his willpower!

"By the way, can willpower be strengthened?"

Upon waking up, I tried to enhance my abilities and indeed received new hints.

[Current willpower: Top level, can be strengthened.]

[Spend 500 points of positive emotion to reach peak human willpower, fulfilling the prerequisite for awakening extraordinary willpower. Strengthen?]

"My willpower is actually top-tier? Just 500 points is enough to meet the requirements for advancing to the extraordinary realm!"

The awakening was somewhat unbelievable.