[Item Two]

[Option One: 550 Soul points]

[Option Two: 2750 Soul points]

[Option Three: 5500 Soul points]

"Is the second option still related to Soul points? Speaking of which, can the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field produce any options related to pets?"

Zhang Yanhang thought that theoretically, this side should have the conditions to produce pets. After all, biological weapons naturally resemble pets, but to be honest, even if pets could be produced, Zhang Yanhang wouldn't want them. After all, a Tyrant as a pet is just too ugly, and it doesn't have fur. He likes pets that are fluffy animals.

Once Zhang Yanhang also wondered if it was possible to open a treasure box to find some kind of sexy zombie, but unfortunately, all Tyrants are male, not a single female, so this idea was stillborn just after it appeared.

"One option in the drop treasure box of the T-103 type Super Tyrant is worth 5500 Soul points. The three options combined reach 16500 Soul points, which is quite good. Or rather, the Soul points revenue of a single treasure box already equals the total Soul points revenue from clearing the lucky slot machines in the Raccoon City, Goblin Plain, and Demonized Swamp areas."

In this regard, Zhang Yanhang can only say that low-level monsters are indeed like this. Given the exaggerated rank penalty and the rarity, the Soul points revenue is indeed lacking, so Zhang Yanhang is even considering whether to abandon the prize pools of these low-level areas, as they are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and unsatisfactory.

But even if he really plans to give up, it should be at the Fifth Tier. After all, the next time he clears the Goblin Plain and Demonized Swamp's third prize pool, based on the accumulated monster numbers, he should be able to get a treasure box. Getting that wave of treasure boxes first and then giving up isn't too late.

[Item Three]

[Option One: T-virus carrier (Biological Weapon), Quality C-level, Talent]

[Option Two: T-virus carrier (Biological Weapon), Quality B-level, Talent]

[Option Three: Muscle Regeneration, Quality B-level, Talent]

"I didn't expect to open both C-level and B-level [T-virus carriers (Biological Weapons)] at the same time. It's really absurd. When it comes down to it, why is the talent name exactly the same?"

Zhang Yanhang even suspects that this [T-virus carrier (Biological Weapon)] could even develop into an A-level talent later on. After all, the Third Tier Two-star T-103 type Super Tyrant, as the weakest monster in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, already has a B-level talent, so it's practically impossible not to have more advanced talents later on.

"But compared to something like T-virus carriers, the Muscle Regeneration talent is more important. I didn't expect to actually open a B-level initial talent. This way, it's really easy to upgrade the SS-level Longevity Mountain and Fortune Sea to XX-level.

After all, one B-level talent equals three C-level talents, equaling nine D-level talents, and compared to the previous E-level talent Slow Corrosion, one Muscle Regeneration is worth twenty-seven Slow Corrosion talents."

One Muscle Regeneration can help Zhang Yanhang increase his talent progress by twenty-seven points. In this case, XX-level is not a difficult thing, and even the above XXX-level is not without hope. After all, there are nearly ten thousand monsters in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, so there're definitely enough initial talents."

[Item Four]

[Option One: Health Ring, Purple Quality, Equipment]

[Option Two: Recovery Ring, Dark Purple Quality, Equipment]

[Option Three: Life Ring, Light Golden Quality, Equipment]

"Ring? Huh? Ring!"

Zhang Yanhang never expected to open a ring-type equipment. For him, the value of ring-type equipment is almost not lower than that of amulet-type equipment like coins.

After all, he has too many fingers, a total of forty, and now more than half of them are still empty. Only seventeen fingers have rings, and they are only Blue Quality Crimson Iron Rings, so if he can obtain new ring equipment now, it would definitely bring him great enhancement."

"Just, Health Ring, Recovery Ring, Life Ring, these names are a bit too unimaginative, aren't they..."

But names don't matter; Zhang Yanhang cares more about the bonus effects, so he immediately started checking the attribute list of the Life Ring.

[Life Ring]

[Quality: Light Golden]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, A-3 Integrated Research Base.]

[Durability: 65/65]

[Defensive Power: 50]

[Additional Attribute: Life Value Limit +0.9%.]

[Additional Attribute: Life Value Recovery Speed +30%]

[Usage requirements: Constitution 1 point.]

[Score: 290 (Light Golden items' score is between 261 to 350.)]

[Description: The Life Ring was developed and manufactured by the chief scientist of the A-3 Integrated Research Base, Dr. Krees, to ensure that his increasingly sluggish body from staying up late playing games and prevent other scientists from suddenly dying from staying up late doing scientific research while he plays games.]

"As for this Life Ring, well, as expected of a name that includes 'Life', all its additional attributes are related to life bonuses.

It's just that the first additional attribute only boosts the Life Value Limit by 0.9%. That's way too little! At least give a 1% boost. Who are you looking down on with 0.9%?!

But Zhang Yanhang figured that the reason the Life Ring is somewhat lacking in terms of Life Value Limit enhancement is probably due to two reasons. One reason is naturally the second additional attribute, which is the 30% Life Value Recovery Speed Bonus. After all, the enhancement each piece of equipment can provide within the quality limit is finite.

And it's obvious that in this limited quota of the Life Ring, most of it has been taken up by the recovery speed boost, leaving very little for enhancing the Life Value Limit, resulting in the current situation.

The other reason, Zhang Yanhang thought, must be the absurdly low usage requirement of this Life Ring. Clearly, it's a piece of light gold quality equipment, yet it only requires a bit of Constitution to use. Even a frail human infant could use it, as a normal adult typically has a Constitution Attribute of around five points.

"Sigh, if only I could swap out the Life Value Recovery Speed, or just remove it and give all the boost to the Life Value Limit. That way, I could get a 2% or even 3% boost to the Life Value Limit."

As to why Zhang Yanhang dismisses the Life Value Recovery Speed, it's naturally because the boost is of little use to him. After all, apart from that special incident in Greenland, he hasn't broken the Energy Shield in a long time. If the Energy Shield is in that state, there's even less reason to mention Life Value.

Aside from the loss of Life Value to convert Mana Value during a nuclear fusion state, he recalls the last time he lost Life Value was probably in the First Tier.

"But looking on the bright side, if it really comes to a dire point, a bit more Life Value Recovery Speed can offer a greater chance to turn the tables, though saying this feels a bit like jinxing myself."

However, according to Murphy's Law, Zhang Yanhang thinks it's fairly normal to be a bit pessimistic about such matters. After all, he's not truly invincible, and is still just a small Fourth Tier Awakener. Perhaps only when he reaches the Sixth Tier and becomes a god will he be worry-free about such things.

"Moreover, although the Life Ring's boost isn't very significant, thankfully, I can win by sheer quantity. Even if it's just a 0.9% Life Value Limit boost, stacking forty of them together gives a full 36% boost to the Life Value Limit.

Also, I can continue to upgrade the Life Ring's quality through fusion. If I can uplift the quality of the Life Ring to Golden Quality, the boost to the Life Value Limit should increase significantly.

Yet I must say, from an introductory standpoint, the additional attribute regarding Life Value Recovery Speed on the Life Ring is quite fitting. After all, it's meant to compensate for the body's deficit from staying up late and prevent sudden death."

After inspecting the Life Ring in the fourth item slot, Zhang Yanhang quickly opened the last item slot.

However, since the Talent had already appeared in the third item slot and the equipment in the fourth, Zhang Yanhang guessed that the last item slot was unlikely to contain anything good, and would probably be an option related to Soul points.

[Item Five]

[Option One: Right arm of T-103 Super Tyrant, Dark Purple Quality, material]

[Option Two: 2750 Soul points]

[Option Three: 5500 Soul points]

"As expected, it's an option related to Soul points. Or rather, an option related to materials..."

Unluckily, the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field here isn't the same advantageous environment as the Crimson Iron Ant Nest Tarano situated in the Crimson Iron Ore Vein, where you can get ample materials (Crimson Iron Ant: ?).

The unique environmental factors of that place allow Zhang Yanhang, every time he visits, to upgrade the Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist's quality using the free materials he acquires.

But clearly, that doesn't work in the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, because the Umbrella company's material technology doesn't seem very proficient. The best material here is simply a right arm directly dismantled from the corpse of a T-103 Super Tyrant.

Regarding these biological materials, Zhang Yanhang always maintains a respectful distance, because for him, it's just easier to manually disassemble it himself—just a matter of dirtying his hands—not enough to make him forfeit Soul points.

"Currently, my Four Great Emptiness Pure World Fist has been upgraded to Orange Quality, needing six Orange Quality weapons to further enhance it to Red Quality. I wonder if the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field has any more advanced biological materials to help me gather the needed amount."

But even if Zhang Yanhang can boost quality through alchemical fusion, he thinks it would at least need materials of Dark Gold Quality as the base to possibly fuse into materials of Orange Quality.

And for the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field, such high-end materials are likely hard to come by, so perhaps relying on Equipment conversion is still the honest way to assemble six Orange Quality weapons.

"So, I choose '5500 Soul points', '5500 Soul points', 'Muscle Regeneration', 'Life Ring', '5500 Soul points'."

After reviewing all five options, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his decision, and the Time Pause effect disappeared along with it.

But Zhang Yanhang quickly picked up another dropped treasure box. He still had one hundred and eighty-eight treasure boxes left to open. Based on previous experience, he estimated it would take him about ten minutes to finish opening these remaining one hundred and eighty-eight dropped treasure boxes.

Back in the Third Tier, Zhang Yanhang felt like this situation where it took five minutes to fight monsters but ten minutes to open treasure boxes was far off for himself, but after advancing to the Fourth Tier, he discovered that his initial idea had quickly become reality.

It can be said that now killing monsters has become the least time-consuming part of hunting monsters. Compared to defeating monsters, undoubtedly, recovering treasure boxes, consuming monster corpses, and opening treasure boxes take more time.

Zhang Yanhang thinks that he's already reached this 1:2 ratio at just the Fourth Tier, and he can't even begin to imagine how much this ratio will expand after further advancement.

So, although his abilities are currently a bit lacking and he can't manage time aspects yet, once he advances to the Fifth Tier and completes enhancements to the Multiple Choice's strength, he must work to solve this problem. Otherwise, it could become untenable.

Since the Fourth Tier already unlocked new Talent effects, he figures maybe the Fifth Tier can unlock a new Talent effect to address this issue.

After all, the current Multiple Choice is far from its potential limit. After the initial '???' was replaced with Dual-choice, a new '???' appeared below, and this pending Ability Four is quite promising.

But even if that solution exists, it's a matter for the Fifth Tier. As for the Fourth Tier, he'll have to put up with it for the time being, especially since the estimate suggests it will take at most a week to advance a Rank.

......

November 1st, Sunday, Halloween, also the day Zhang Yanhang entered the Ashen World, at 7:05 PM, at the Umbrella Biochemical Test Field in Terra City.

After spending ten minutes as expected, Zhang Yanhang finally finished opening the one hundred and eighty-nine Dark Purple Quality dropped treasure boxes that it only took him five minutes to acquire. He then quickly began tallying up the items from the opened treasure boxes.

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