Tomb Raiding: All Things Merge, Starting with 400x Strength

"Brother Zhang Hao, you're finally back! I really couldn't have held on any longer if you hadn't come back!"

When Zhang Hao and his group returned to the fishing boat, Fatty was already surrounded by the boatmen. Judging from their attitude, if Fatty continued to obstruct them, they would rather be shot than let him be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

Then sail away from the ghost ship.

The fat man was extremely anxious, but he was relieved when Zhang Hao and the others returned to the fishing boat.

The boatmen all looked like they'd seen a ghost when they saw Zhang Hao and his group return.

"How is this possible, how is this possible!"

"That's a ghost ship! How could anyone possibly survive a ghost ship!"

"There are no evil spirits on the ship, only sea monkeys that are even more terrifying than evil spirits, but my uncle punched them in the head and blew it off!"

Wu Tianzhen looked proud.

She put Aning on the ground and patted her face to wake her up.

Ah Ning's eyes were wide open, but they were lifeless. She just stared blankly at the sky without any reaction.

"Uncle, what's wrong with her? Why is she like this?"

"Let me take a look."

Zhang Hao turned A Ning over and brushed aside the long hair at the back of her head, revealing a terrifying human face to everyone.

"Evil spirit! It's an evil spirit!"

The people around were so frightened by the sight of the human face that they scattered in all directions.

"It's just a human-faced sickle, what's there to be afraid of!"

Yi Sa and Ding Yudie recognized the face at the same time.

"Human-faced sickle?"

The boatmen, who had just been frightened away, regained their courage upon hearing that it was a human-faced sickle and slowly approached to investigate.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the face resembled an octopus, except that it had a face-like pattern on its back.

"It really is a human-faced sickle. When this thing attaches to a person, it controls their actions and makes them do some unbelievable things. It will only let go when you sprinkle cow hair on their body."

An old boatman had some experience and knew how to handle the human-faced sickle.

He took a yellowed paper packet out of his inner pocket, opened it, and sprinkled some powder inside onto Aning's neck.

The sickle with the human face immediately released its grip as soon as it touched the cow hair, revealing two bloody holes the size of mung beans on A-Ning's neck.

Zhang Hao picked up the human-faced sickle and pretended to throw it into the sea, but then put it into his storage space with a thought.

Although the human-faced scythe is not a special item, it is still a magical artifact. Keeping it in the storage space means it can be fused with later when there are enough fusion attempts.

After doing all that, Wu Tianzhen carried A Ning into the cabin to treat her wounds.

The boatmen assisted the captain in steering the boat away from the area as quickly as possible.

Zhang Hao went to a secluded corner on the deck and, on a whim, released the sea monkey's corpse.

"System, merge with the sea monkey."

[Ding, command received, fusion initiation.]

As the system notification sound faded, the sea monkey's corpse instantly melted into a pool of green, viscous liquid.

The liquid slowly flowed and enveloped Zhang Hao, then transformed into countless tiny molecules that seeped into his body.

These molecules penetrated Zhang Hao's body and fused with the cells throughout his body. As the fusion deepened, his strength also increased rapidly.

A few seconds later, the system notification sounded again.

[Ding, congratulations host, 16th fusion completed. Fusion item: Sea Monkey.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have acquired the fusion item's trait: underwater breathing ability.]

Sea monkeys possess incredible strength and move at great speed.

Zhang Hao originally thought that he would gain one of these two abilities after the fusion, but he didn't expect that he would end up with the ability to breathe underwater.

It seems that although sea monkeys are strong, they are still not as strong as ants with 400 times their own body weight.

Its movement speed is not as fast as the 500% increase from the Blood Corpse.

So the final ability I gained was underwater breathing.

It's important to know that the All Things Fusion System has a characteristic where, when items with the same characteristics are fused together, the more prominent attribute will override the original, less prominent attribute.

Since there was no overlay after the fusion with the sea monkey, it means that although the sea monkey is strong, it is based on the premise of being physically strong, and its characteristics are not as prominent as those of the ant and the blood corpse.

However, breathing underwater is also an incredible ability.

As far as he knew, no human being except for the three generations of the Water Demon family who could breathe underwater.

Even water demons expend a lot of energy breathing underwater, and they cannot stay underwater continuously. The best water demons can stay underwater for a maximum of about two hours.

However, having the ability to breathe underwater is different. He can stay underwater indefinitely as long as he wants, and there is no difference between being underwater and being on land for him.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, on fusing with the special item Sea Monkey. Bloodline evolution progress +1. Level 0 Qilin bloodline evolution progress 6/10.]

The Qilin bloodline can be evolved by fusing special items. After activating the bloodline evolution function, 6 special items have already been fused.

By fusing four more special items, the Qilin Bloodline, it can evolve to Tier 1. At that time, the Qilin Bloodline's various enhancements to the body will increase exponentially, and its strength will reach a new level.

Currently, the Qilin bloodline is at level 0, with attributes including a 100% increase in insect repellent ability, a 100% increase in evil-repelling ability, and a 400-year increase in lifespan.

After evolving to Tier 1, its attributes will increase by 200% in insect repellent ability, 200% in evil-repelling ability, and 800 years in lifespan.

This improvement is considerable, and as the Qilin bloodline continues to evolve, each subsequent advancement will become incredibly powerful.

Zhang Hao knew this time wouldn't be too long; as soon as he came out of the shipwreck tomb, he would get a new number of fusion attempts.

Moreover, there must be many special items in the shipwreck tomb.

In addition, Yi Sa also promised to give five special items as a reward, which, after fusion, would allow the Qilin bloodline to successfully evolve and advance to level 1.

If you want to continue evolving the Qilin bloodline, you must go to more tombs to obtain more fusion opportunities and special items.

Of course, these things are not difficult for Zhang Hao now.

If this pace continues, it won't be difficult for the Qilin bloodline to evolve 9 times and unlock its human form.

After Zhang Hao finished fusing with the sea monkey, he returned to the cabin.

Wu Tianzhen had already treated A Ning's wounds, and she left just as Zhang Hao returned.

Zhang Hao lay down on his bed and took out the notebook he had picked up from the ghost ship to read.

The first page of the notebook is an anatomical diagram of a sea monkey, and the following pages show the process of how sea monkeys are produced...

Half an hour later, Zhang Hao finished reading the entire notebook and learned about the origin of the ghost ship.

It turns out that it was originally an experimental ship, where a mysterious research team was conducting experiments on immortality.

Their experimental method involved using an object capable of storing human memories to first store all the memories of the person they wanted to achieve immortality.

Then, through special means, this memory is transferred to another person.

However, all the experiments ultimately failed, resulting in countless monsters, of which the sea monkey was one.

Zhang Hao was very familiar with this method of achieving immortality.

In Guiguzi's tomb, there's a message in the tombstone seal, and three people from three different water spirit families suddenly appear in the Lu King's Palace.

Their methods and principles for achieving immortality seem to be the same.

That is to transfer a person's consciousness and memories to another body.

Unexpectedly, clues were also found on the ghost ship in the South China Sea.

The tombs of the Silicon Valley children, the Lu Palace, and the South China Sea span thousands of kilometers and thousands of years, and these people were all pursuing immortality through this method.

Zhang Hao was secretly shocked; the allure of immortality was truly immense.

If those people knew that they could obtain true, side-effect-free immortality simply by continuously fusing special items and evolving their Qilin bloodline, they would probably be furious.