Published: February 5, 2025
Compared to the evolution potions, the value of the firearms modified by Ye Zhongming is relatively lower. After all, one-star evolution potions are easier to obtain, while the craftsman's work is rare and hard to come by.
If it were any other recipe, Ye Zhongming would rather pay more evolution potions than casually sell the modified firearms to others.
However, ever since he saw this recipe, he was tempted and even willing to exchange it for a gray-level handgun.
This recipe for the basic puppet technique that he acquired is different from ordinary recipes.
Strictly speaking, recipes can be divided into two categories. One type is professional recipes, which match specific occupations. For example, the exclusive recipe for craftsmen, the war blade moon sand. Or the hiking potion that is still in Ye Zhongming's space crystal, which is the exclusive recipe for potion makers.
The other type does not require a specific occupation and only specifies the materials. This kind of recipe can be made by anyone as long as the material requirements are met.
The basic puppet technique falls into the latter category.
Although anyone can create recipes with low user requirements, such recipes have high material demands, and the total value of the required materials is usually several times that of exclusive recipes of the same level.
Take the basic puppet technique as an example. The recipe requires: 1. A deceased person. 2. Three thousand milliliters of zombie virus. 3. Blood Pool (five hundred pounds of mutated animal blood). 4. Five magic crystals (Grade 2 or above). 5. A bottle of one-star potion.
Anyone seeing such conditions at this time would feel a headache, so it's no wonder that neither Li Qiang, Director Wang, nor Chef Jin showed much interest in this recipe.
Just the requirement for five Grade 2 magic crystals is enough to intimidate regular one-star evolvers.
And this is just the required materials for creating the Iron Corpse. If one wants to make a more advanced human puppet called the Copper Corpse, even more difficult-to-obtain materials are needed.
In his previous life, Ye Zhongming had heard of the human puppets created with this recipe and had even seen one kind called the Silver Corpse, which was so powerful that it made even a six-star evolver like him feel a chill.
This was also another reason that prompted him to trade the modified firearms for the recipe.
Although the requirements are strict, Ye Zhongming believes he can still achieve it.
Crushing the recipe to learn it, Ye Zhongming felt that the powerful human puppet was already beckoning to him.
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Returning to his residence, Ye Zhongming directly gave a bottle of the modified evolution potion to Le Da Yuan. This made the big man unexpectedly cry. It's not surprising; anyone who had experienced the hellish days in the family building would have an immense yearning for power and strength. If someone could fulfill this wish, it would undoubtedly move them.
Jia Min and Daming looked on with envy. They had already realized that the evolution potion, which seemed nearly impossible for them to obtain, was seen by Ye Zhongming as casually as a pack of cigarettes from a convenience store.
At the same time, a thought arose in their minds: if they could join this team…
Thus, the looks they gave Ye Zhongming turned fiery with enthusiasm.
Dinner was quite sumptuous. Ye Zhongming used his planting skill on the cabbages grown on the rooftop, causing them to grow much taller instantly. Although they could only be called baby cabbages, after picking some and adding them to the meat soup, they were tender enough to immerse everyone in deliciousness. Even Ye Zhongming himself ate more than usual.
As night fell, the base fell into darkness, with only a dim light visible in the East District; the other areas had at most a few campfires.
Survivors had already gone to sleep early, saving their strength to endure longer amidst food shortages. Occasionally, gunfire erupted, sometimes intensely, as mutated creatures attacked the guards in the underground passages, but people had grown accustomed to it. As long as the fighting didn't last until the surface, it was of no concern to them.