"Hmm...."

Li Ang fell into deep thought once again.

This skill, "No one can defeat me in my BGM," might seem like a joke at first glance due to its special effect and note, but on second thought, it was actually quite powerful. He could tailor unique buff schemes for different occasions, scenarios, and needs.

The only slightly ridiculous part was the "music playing device" required by the skill.

If he wanted to maximize its efficiency, Li Ang might really need to keep a square dance speaker with a booming bass in his inventory. He'd have to pull it out before battles commenced and fight the enemy with music blasting from it, hoisted on his shoulder.

I'll also need to preselect various types of music tracks... but that shouldn't be too hard.

Li Ang thought for a moment, then opened a music app on his phone to check his playlists.

"Little Knife Club Overture" can enhance my entrance momentum, "DEJA VU" can increase my movement speed, "A Cross To Bear" can apply an unyielding will to fight buff, "The Imperial March" can increase the pressure on the enemy, and even "Zhu Bajie Carries His Wife" can grant a buff that makes one fear no ghost or monster. With this kind of upbeat music, even the most horrifying ghosts will seem comical.

With so many songs in his library, Li Ang had enough to change his BGM every day for a year.

Li Ang activated the Skill Scroll with his will, and as it dissolved into a puff of smoke, an Excellent-level skill icon appeared in his skill slot.

From now on, I'm a man who makes an entrance with BGM.

Li Ang was very satisfied with this; true heroes should prove themselves amidst rousing and exuberant music.

After reaching Lv10, he didn't rush to allocate his attribute point but instead inspected the new items in his inventory.

The first item was the grotesque yet strangely perfectly formed corpse of the Mothman.

It seemed useless from every angle and couldn't be taken out of his inventory. It was stored in the Alchemy Workshop instead, as it might carry aberrant pathogens.

Apart from directly selling it to the System for a meager amount of Game Coins, the only other option was to hand it over to the Special Affairs Bureau. Their medical team could then dissect it for research. Indeed, ordinary human doctors working at the Special Affairs Bureau must possess a staunchly materialistic heart to face all sorts of bizarre and twisted things every day.

Guess I'll throw this aberrant corpse into the Forging Furnace someday; maybe I'll come across some extraordinary material with high compatibility.

The second gain was the variety of instruments Li Ang had "borrowed" from the underground research center.

A biosafety cabinet, ultralow-temperature freezer, centrifuge, electric heated cell incubator, microscope....

These things could also be bought in the real world, but by now, the Special Affairs Bureau must have already placed a monitoring network over the production and sale of basic scientific instruments, making it very difficult to buy them without surveillance.

These instruments were supposed to have been destroyed in the nuclear blast Alphonse Anderson triggered. Since Li Ang had rescued them from that fate, he felt naturally entitled to dispose of them.

He entered the Alchemy Workshop, hastily disinfected the instruments, and then installed them in various corners. A few power strips ran from the house into the Alchemy Workshop, supplying power to the various electrical appliances within.

As for the third item, it was the Origin of Life.

This was by far the greatest benefit Li Ang had obtained from the Abnormal World. An item capable of transforming organic matter into new types of life, and even altering the entire ecological environment of a planet, could not be of low quality, no matter what.

Li Ang focused his mind on his inventory, meticulously examining the Origin of Life.

Just as Alphonse Anderson had described, this Origin of Life, about the size of a square cutting board and composed entirely of chitin, hair, and thyroidal material, resembled a yellow-green computer chip.

[Name: Damaged Origin of Life]

[Type: Tool]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect 1: Passive. Slowly absorbs inorganic matter, converting it into random compounds]

[Special Effect 2: Active. Slowly remodels the body structure of living organisms]

[Special Effect 3: Active. Slowly transforms the ecological environment of the planet it's on]

[Special Effect 1 Consumption: None]

[Special Effect 2 Consumption: 10 Sanity points per second]

[Special Effect 3 Consumption: 100 Sanity points per second]

[Usage Requirements: Intelligence Attribute of 10 or higher, Perception Attribute of 10 or higher]

[Note: She comes from a remote place, a bearer of kindness, life, and hope. Only, something went awry.]

[Note: Perhaps you could try to fix her? Provided you can find "someone" who has seen her in other places.]

It was an item of Perfect quality!

Although Li Ang's current Intelligence and Perception Attributes were both only at 9 points, he still couldn't use it directly, even after adding one free attribute point. However, his Experience Bar was already at 599/1000. Lv11 was just one or two missions away, so he would soon meet the usage requirements.

The passive ability of Special Effect 1 has limited use for a Lone Wolf Player; on the other hand, Special Effect 2 seems to have greater developmental potential.

Li Ang mused aloud, "It only says that it remodels the body structure of living organisms, without specifying whether it's oneself or other organic life forms. With this item, I can freely alter my own body and will no longer need to use makeup for disguise. I can become taller or shorter, fatter or thinner—a man of a thousand faces. I can also use it to modify animals, randomly piecing together powerful monsters."

Sanity Value is determined by an individual's willpower and influenced by their Intelligence and Perception Attributes (though these have a lower weighting). If an ordinary person's will is strong enough, their total Sanity Value can exceed that of a player.

After Li Ang allocated the one free attribute point gained from leveling up to his Perception, the System assessed his current Sanity Value to be 270 points (a normal person has 100). This was more than sufficient to use Special Effect 2. However, if he were to activate Special Effect 3—the active transformation of the planetary ecology—he could sustain it for less than three seconds.

My Sanity Value is high, but I must use it judiciously.

According to the forums, if Sanity Value drops below 20%, mild symptoms include dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. Severe cases can lead to prolonged fainting spells, or even semi-permanent dementia and various other mental illnesses.

Li Ang resisted the impulse to take the [Damaged Origin of Life] out of his inventory for a closer look. What a joke! Alphonse had only lost a single hair near the Origin of Life, and it had transformed him into a mutated creature, enabling him to break out of the sealed room and produce the Flesh Fungi Blanket. What if, after taking it out of the inventory, it craftily set a trap, remodeling the ecology surrounding my living area, which could lead to an investigation by the Special Affairs Bureau? If I'm going to use it, I'll have to wait until I meet the usage requirements and can operate in the safety and secrecy of the Alchemy Workshop.