“Your bones seem foldable… I just don’t know if your mass changes before and after transforming.If it does, that would be incredible.”Suna seemed genuinely curious about how Yang Yi’s transformation worked. The way she stared made him uneasy.He hurriedly put on his thick cotton coat.After becoming a werewolf, Yang Yi realized his tolerance to temperature had increased drastically.Though still warm-blooded, his resistance to cold was on another level. Even if his body temperature dropped to 10°C, it was merely uncomfortable and slightly inconvenient—but not fatal.He’d also gained strong regeneration, transformation ability, vastly enhanced stats, heightened smell... and more!Almost all the changes were positive.With his current physique, even without transforming or drinking burnt liquor, he could still move around comfortably for hours in –30°C weather just by wearing a thick coat.Once they regained their mobility, the two prepared to dismantle the tent and return to the Nyxstar, to escape this glacier as soon as possible.But before leaving, they needed to eat—to refill their strength.Yang Yi downed a bottle of appetite potion and suddenly felt an overwhelming hunger. He devoured five black bread loaves in a row, yet still wasn’t satisfied.The bread didn’t seem to fill him up. He craved meat—bloody, raw meat most of all...He looked up at Suna. She seemed strangely enticing to him, especially her delicate neck—he could almost see the blood flowing beneath her skin, smell it. If he tore into it, wouldn’t hot blood gush out?Yang Yi stared blankly at Suna.“…What’s wrong?” she asked, sensing his gaze.Her familiar voice jolted him back to his senses. A chill ran down his spine, and his appetite vanished instantly.Just moments ago, he had actually wanted to eat Suna.He had even started salivating—almost drooling.If he hadn’t snapped out of it in time, he might’ve attacked her already.Yang Yi’s expression turned grim. “Just now… I wanted to eat you.”“…Eat me?”“I mean it literally. With my mouth.”He described exactly how it had felt.“A cannibalistic urge?” she asked.“Not quite.More precisely—it was the instinct to bite into prey. Whether it’s human or not doesn’t matter.”“So you’re saying, after transforming into a werewolf, you’ve taken on animalistic instincts?” Suna reasoned.But Yang Yi’s thoughts went further. He recalled something Roniette had once said:“This kind of mental shift is inevitable, subtle yet pervasive. Maybe a year, maybe ten years from now, I’ll come to see myself as a noble Demonic Mind Eater—and see humans as nothing more than food… That must never be allowed!”Yang ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) Yi now faced something similar—though his situation was slightly better. A werewolf was still partly human, only more beastly.A Mind Eater, however, could live without a body, parasitize others, replace hosts at will—treating human flesh as nothing but a shell.Suna said softly, “Since you’re aware of it, that means it can be corrected. You can adjust your habits—eat more plants, reduce the frequency and duration of transformations.”Her suggestions were practical. Yang Yi decided to try.After eating, they officially began the return trip.The charred Stitch Monster was used as labor—it hadn’t disappeared. The freezing cold had dramatically prolonged its existence.It would carry the heavy corpse of the Crystal Giant.【Name: Crystal Golem Giant】【Description: A crystal golem giant created from the Elder of the Ice Nest’s own limbs and torso. It can be controlled freely as if it were an extension of the body.In low temperatures, its hardness is extremely high, but as temperature rises it becomes brittle, even melting.Can be considered an independent entity. Can be used in the Monster Capsule Machine.】With no more Ice Nest Worms to threaten them and the white mist dispersible via ice eggs, their return was much faster than before.After about seven hours, they arrived back at the Nyxstar.The place was still covered in gray snow, though mixed with fresh white snow, making it hard to tell them apart.There was less snow around the ship now—because the skeletal arms had been digging day and night, creating more than twenty pits of varying sizes and depths.But to clear all the surrounding ice would still take a long time, and the falling snow slowed progress.Fortunately, they had other plans—fire, or something else—to speed up their escape.Climbing onto the deck, Yang Yi used the claw hook to retrieve the Stitch Monster and the Crystal Giant’s corpse.The claw hook was remarkable—so long as the target didn’t resist, it could pull almost anything in.Once that was done, it was time for gacha.He still had the scorched skull of the Ice Nest Elder—kept specifically for this moment.That enemy had been incredibly tough, perhaps the hardest he’d fought yet—surely it would yield something good.As for the Crystal Giant, Suna wanted it, and Yang Yi wasn’t going to compete.Standing before the capsule machine, he didn’t bother praying or relying on superstition. He just inserted it directly.Clatter… clatter…Something rolled inside, and soon, a plain-looking capsule dropped out.Yang Yi picked it up.“Top-grade item?”【Name: Mid-tier Abyssal Soulstone】【Type: Consumable】【Rarity: Top-grade】【Description: Can enhance relic quality. Instantly upgrades any relic below Rare to Rare, and any Rare relic to Exquisite.Hold it to your ear, and you will hear the call of the deep sea…】———This Abyssal Soulstone seemed to be a relic-enhancing item, similar in function to a Craftsman’s Inscription Stone—but the latter only worked on treasures.“Which one should I upgrade…”After some thought, Yang Yi narrowed it down to two options: the flintlock and Broken Iron.Between ranged and melee, he chose the former—better to enhance the flintlock first.Range was an irreplaceable advantage.If you could kill your enemy from dozens of meters away, why risk fighting up close?Yang Yi knew this truth well—and he was a damn good shooter.Decision made, he used the murky black Soulstone.Unlike lower-grade ones that were semi-transparent, this higher-tier stone looked denser, almost opaque.It shattered, and some unknown substance seeped into the flintlock, remodeling and enhancing it.He hadn’t expected much—just enough power to blow apart a Crystal Giant’s head.But the result far exceeded expectations.When a Rare weapon was upgraded to Exquisite, its appearance and stats underwent a complete transformation.The gun’s frame grew thicker, the caliber increasing from 20mm to 30mm, and the barrel lengthened.The rust was gone, replaced by the subtle sheen of age and long use.Now, the flintlock looked like a meticulously maintained antique—engraved with ornate patterns, old but elegant, scarred with faint scratches and cracks from brutal use.As for its attributes…

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