I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Chapter 120: Chapter 120: Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract

”Mr. Zhou, please, come in and sit down.”

Su Ze respectfully welcomed Zhou Wenshan inside. He took out the best tea leaves in the house to brew a pot of tea and also brought out a fruit platter and some snacks.

Zhou Wenshan took a sip of the scalding tea and said, ”I won’t beat around the bush. For the first-place reward in the new student assessment, what kind of extract do you want?”

Su Ze fell into thought. He had considered this question long ago but had never made a final decision.

Before the new year, he had discussed it with Liou Wenxin, who had pointed him toward two options: a Flying Skill and the ”Gravity Dust Sand” skill.

Now, Su Ze had already obtained a Flying Skill, and he had also scouted the location of the Gravity Demon Beast. He was just waiting to schedule a time to go hunt it.

In other words, of his four skill slots for the Cocoon Stage, one was already reserved for ”Gravity Chain.” Su Ze hadn’t yet decided on the remaining three skills.

He had previously thought about absorbing a Spirit Defense Skill to compensate for his weakness in Spiritual Power, but he had never committed to the idea.

Su Ze had also considered asking Liou Wenxin again. However, she didn’t know his true situation. She didn’t know he had an extra skill slot in every evolutionary stage, nor did she know he had four empty skill slots in his current Cocoon Stage. Her advice might not be a perfect fit for him.

’Maybe I should make my own decision this time based on my own situation. In any case, I’ll take a look at the Dongli National Treasury’s inventory first. Maybe I’ll get lucky again and find a top-tier extract like the Mutated Upright Ape Extract. That would save me the trouble of agonizing over the choice...’ Su Ze finished his thoughts and said to Zhou Wenshan, ”I’d like to see what extracts are available for me to choose from.”

Zhou Wenshan wasn’t surprised by Su Ze’s answer. He took out his phone and logged into the Dongli Kingdom’s official internal network. His clearance was the highest, S-class, allowing him to view all the resources in the Dongli National Treasury.

”See for yourself.” Zhou Wenshan pulled up all the Tier 3 S-class extracts and handed the phone to Su Ze.

Su Ze took the phone and began to look through them one by one.

In the Dongli National Treasury, there were over thirty tubes of Tier 3 S-class extracts in total.

Just like the last time Su Ze had checked the inventory of Tier 2 S-class extracts, the further down the list he went, the older the inventory was. The extracts at the bottom more or less all had some issues.

As Su Ze went through the dozen or so extracts at the top, which had been in stock for a shorter time, he found a few that were passable candidates. They were Close Combat Attack Skills of the sort that wouldn’t be a mistake to absorb, but it didn’t seem like they would give him a significant boost.

The ”old-timers” at the bottom that had been in stock for years were almost exclusively extracts from Marine Beasts, and their signature skills required being in the sea to reach their full potential.

As for the extracts with a ”Spirit Defense Skill” that Su Ze wanted, there wasn’t a single one.

After all, extracts that granted spirit attack or Spirit Defense Skills were rare to begin with.

There were also no extracts from powerful mutated beasts like the Mutated Giant Crocodile or the Mutated Upright Ape. Those kinds of extracts were even rarer.

After thinking it over, the only extract that intrigued Su Ze was the ”Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract.”

[Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract]

Grade: Tier 3 S-Class

Skills: Frenzied Electric Body, Charged Strike...

As far as Su Ze knew, Mrs. Yun had absorbed a Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract and obtained the Frenzied Electric Body skill. It allowed her to imbue her attacks with electricity and also granted her Thunder Immunity.

This skill was a relatively good fit for Su Ze. His own strength attribute was off the charts, so his basic attacks were practically skills in themselves. Paired with the Frenzied Electric Body skill, it would further enhance his damage output.

In the future, any random punch he threw would come with an electric shock effect. If he couldn’t beat them to death, he’d electrocute them to death.

Furthermore, the electric shock itself had a paralyzing effect, which could compensate for Su Ze’s lack of control-type abilities.

’This is already the best option I can find among the Tier 3 S-class extracts in the Dongli Kingdom’s inventory...’ After thinking it through, Su Ze chose the Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract.

”Mr. Zhou, I’ll take the Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract.”

Zhou Wenshan nodded upon hearing this. ”A good choice. I’ll have someone send it over to you later.”

After seeing Zhou Wenshan off, Su Ze took out his phone and found the information Xu Sheng had sent him earlier, which recorded the possible locations where the ”Gravity Demon” might appear.

In truth, Su Ze wasn’t entirely satisfied with the ”Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract.” It was a case of picking the best of a bad lot, a choice made out of compromise.

Therefore, he still decided to hunt down the Gravity Demon as soon as possible and absorb the ”Gravity Demon Extract” first.

As for the Deep Sea Electric Eel Extract, he could save it for now and absorb it later if no better options arose. Or, he could just sell it and go to Evolutionary Technology to find an extract that suited him better.

Su Ze carefully studied the secret information Xu Sheng had stolen. It detailed the locations where Evolutionary Technology’s hunting teams had successfully hunted the Gravity Demon eight times in the last two years.

The eight hunting locations were actually concentrated mainly in four areas.

One area had only yielded one successful hunt, so it wasn’t a very valuable reference. Plus, it was too far away, so it could be eliminated.

With three areas remaining, Su Ze continued his screening process.

”Beneath the abandoned mines in the Desolate Desert? Wouldn’t that require crossing the Great Desert United Kingdom to the west? Besides, the Desolate Desert is fraught with danger, and desert beasts run rampant... It’s far and dangerous. Better rule it out.”

Only two locations were left. One was the ’Thousand Heroes Tomb’ to the northeast of the Dongli Kingdom, and the other was the Miracle Oasis, located at the junction of the Dongli Kingdom, Luofan Country, and the Great Desert United Kingdom.

”The distance to these two areas is about the same, and it’s hard to say which is more dangerous. Which one should I go to?”

Just as Su Ze was hesitating, a notification popped up on his phone, informing him that he had been added to the ”01 Evolution Class 2” group chat.

The person who added him was Han Xiaoke.

As soon as Su Ze joined the group, many classmates scrambled to greet him.

After a round of boring pleasantries, Han Xiaoke said, ”Su Ze, the counselor notified us that the freshman military training starts the day after tomorrow. You should come pick up your training uniform tomorrow.”

”Where is the military training?” Su Ze asked.

”Right here on the school’s field.”

”Not in the wild?!”

Su Ze had heard that many schools took their students directly into the beast-infested wilderness for practical combat training during their military training.

Han Xiaoke explained in the group, ”Only the combat department goes into the wild for military training. Our research department’s training has always been on campus.”

”How boring.” Su Ze didn’t post this in the group; he just grumbled to himself.

On-campus military training was nothing more than running and standing at attention. For a Cocoon Stage evolver like him, the intensity was too low. It was no different from child’s play—a complete waste of time.

The key thing was that it was incredibly boring. He had already gone through this kind of military training several times in his past life.

Su Ze casually typed in the group, ”Where is the combat department going for military training this year?”

Someone quickly answered him: ”I heard they’re going to the Blood Earth Forest.”

The Blood Earth Forest?!

The Thousand Heroes Tomb is also in the Blood Earth Forest!

’Well, that settles it. No need to agonize over the choice anymore.’