Chapter 122: Schrodinger's Approval |
[Active Serum (Semi-Finished)]
[Effect: Instantly increases maximum health by 50%; significantly enhances self-healing abilities.]
[Description: A special gene serum developed by someone, still in its semi-finished stage, with a certain probability of failure. If fully completed, it might achieve the miracle of "resurrection"?]
The effect of this serum deeply shocked Guan Shan.
The beginner artifact [Adrenaline Shot] could temporarily double his maximum health, lasting only 10 seconds, with a debuff after the effect wore off. This serum could directly increase maximum health by 50% and enhance self-healing abilities. Though not surpassing [Adrenaline Shot], it was at least on par.
"But considering [Adrenaline Shot] is a starter pack item, it's understandable to have limitations. This serum also has a chance of failure."
"By the way, the 'someone' mentioned should be referring to Wen Jian, right?"
Guan Shan rubbed his chin, recalling some past items that had similar descriptions like "someone" or "certain organizations."
Now it seemed these pieces of information were not fabricated by the simulator but existed in reality.
Guan Shan sighed. He should have guessed from the fact that injuries in the simulation were real. He didn't know if he should call himself too slow or say he subconsciously avoided that direction.
After all, the simulator always claimed to be "entirely virtual," repeatedly saying, "don't take it seriously," and created various subtle information gaps, desperately misleading Guan Shan.
What a deceitful simulator.
"So the 'glitch' incident involving Xiao Shen might have been the simulator's trick, trying to make me believe its scenarios were fictional."
Guan Shan nodded, feeling his current guess was quite reasonable.
He twitched the corner of his mouth: "Speaking of items, since the items are real, what do I look like to others when I use them?"
Especially the time he used the crowbar to "open the door"...
"Luckily, Xiao Shen wasn't affected; otherwise... forget it, the more I think about it, the more socially awkward it gets. Better not think about it..."
Guan Shan didn't directly use the serum but instead took out another item—
[Doctor's Syringe]
[Effect: Extracts liquid and causes it to change for the better or worse; only effective once per target.]
[Description: Schrodinger's approval!]
Guan Shan considered it "Schrodinger's Quantum Syringe." Before extracting and checking the liquid's state, its probability of being good or bad was 50%, existing in a superposition of good and bad.
To avoid the semi-finished Active Serum from failing and wasting such a precious item, Guan Shan decided to use the syringe to increase the probability!
Some might ask, isn't the syringe's probability 50/50? What if it accidentally makes the probability worse? "Heh, naive."
Guan Shan sneered: "The probability of good and bad is indeed 50/50, but the item's effect doesn't specify that all the liquid must be extracted at once."
"If I extract it a thousand times, there's a 50% chance of success each time!"
"This means the risk of failure is spread across those thousand extractions, and I will surely get some optimized serum."
"And regarding the efficacy..."
Guan Shan shook the vial of serum. If he remembered correctly, Wen Jian's syringe only contained two-thirds of the liquid.
The vial in his hand clearly had a larger capacity.
As long as his luck wasn't too bad, the efficacy gap shouldn't be too vast, or might even be better.
"Direct injection is a gamble; using the syringe is also a gamble. Might as well gamble big."
Guan Shan understood that if the serum failed, it wouldn't just be a light "failure."
Those monsters with unlimited health in the hospital were likely failed experiments by Wen Jian. Guan Shan suspected that if he failed, he'd probably become something far more terrifying...
"Stability is key."
Guan Shan prepared several transparent glass cups and began extracting little by little.
After dozens of times, he figured out the possible changes to the Active Serum based on the suffixes.
From bad to good, they were "Poison," "Adverse Effect," "Defective," "Concentrated," "Augmented," "Completed," and "Evolved."
The first three were directly negative effects, "Concentrated" and "Augmented" were changes in volume with basically unchanged effects.
The last two were the best suffixes, "Completed" was 100% success, and "Evolved" was an enhanced version of the effect.
After extracting the entire vial, Guan Shan ended up with two-thirds of [Active Serum (Enhanced)], with the failure probability removed from the description, and the serum's effect increased to 55%.
The remaining third, when mixed, became [Defective Serum], a deadly toxin!
[Defective Serum]
[Effect: Instantly decreases maximum health by 60%; if the maximum health is below 4000, it results in immediate death; if above 4000, it severely reduces self-healing abilities.]
[Description: A vile product from someone's experiment. Keep it out of reach of children and the elderly.]
"Vile?"
Guan Shan twitched the corner of his mouth: "You deceitful simulator, learning to mock me now?"
"But, this thing seems like the real prize. Injecting it into a monster will likely kill it."
Guan Shan cautiously set aside the dark, bubbling serum and proceeded to inject the Active Serum (Enhanced) into his arm.
A surge of heat swept through his body from his arm. Guan Shan watched as countless dead skin cells peeled off and regenerated, leaving his skin flawless and his muscle lines more defined.
He tried using the Yellow Springs Demon Blade to create wounds on himself.
No matter how deep the cuts, they healed almost instantly, with only a slight drop in his health, leaving Guan Shan amazed.
He hesitated about testing if he could reattach a severed limb by cutting it off and putting it back...
But since it wasn't during a simulation, he could feel the pain from injuries.
Cutting himself several times was already pushing his limits. Severing a limb was something he couldn't bring himself to do...
"I'll test it next time in a simulation. Plenty of opportunities to let monsters help."
Guan Shan put away the serum, syringe, and blade.
The remaining items were [Ashen Skeleton], [A Kiss from Red Lips], and [Shock Grenade].