Chapter 21: Money is Hard to Earn
Thor took two steps back out of shock, his feet stomping on the brick floor, making a heavy sound.
The corpse tied to the conveyor belt suddenly opened its eyes. Its head did not move, but its eyes looked desperately to the left.
After seeing Thor and Kaz, his pupils suddenly dilated and trembled slightly, as if he saw something exciting.
"Is he still alive?" Thor couldn't help but ask Kaz.
"How is that possible?" Kaz walked forward calmly and lifted the black leather covering the new apprentice in front of Thor.
Under the leather was a cut chest, with ribs spread out like wings, and the chest was empty.
The legs further down had turned into strips of meat mixed with dirt and stones.
It's cut really finely.
But the apprentice's eyes were still moving, and turned upwards as Kaz walked. His lips were slightly split, revealing his white teeth.
Thor felt his stomach churn.
During these days since he traveled through time, he had seen a lot of bloody and horrifying things in the wizard tower, which made him hold back from vomiting on the spot.
Now, the test for him has begun.
He forced himself not to look away.
The feeling of nausea and dizziness was still there, but Thor kept telling himself that it was just an immobile corpse and it would not suddenly stand up and swallow half of his face in one bite.
The fear eased a little.
"His brain is already dead, and what's left here is not his soul. And it's not aggressive under normal circumstances." Kaz covered himself with black leather, turned around and asked Thor, "Are you scared?"
Thor took a deep breath of the foul air.
"Afraid."
"Hmm?" Kaz raised his eyebrows.
"But I can do it."
"Hmph." Instructor Kazi snorted. "This job is not something you can do just because you want to. The corpse in front of you has already gone through two rounds of processing, dealing with hazards and recycling materials. These alienated corpses must be specially processed and eliminated in the end, otherwise they will run out and turn the wizard tower into a strange place. But before eliminating them, we can leave some useful experimental materials. What you need to do is the final finishing and cleaning."
Kaz slapped his dry hands on the black leather.
“Pah!”
"You need to use your knowledge or inspiration to find the parts that have become demonic due to alienation but are not possessed by ghosts. Divide them and put them in different boxes on the table, cover them with lids for recycling and preliminary storage. Put the rest in the big box below. When you leave at night, the people outside will take away the boxes and replace them with new ones."
"I will grade your work based on the amount of useful materials. As long as you submit more than five materials each month, you will be considered qualified. If you submit more than ten, you can get an extra credit."
Kaz raised his chin and pointed at the still moving body, "Now, tell me, which part do you think can be recycled?"
Thor walked to the conveyor belt and mustered up the courage to point at the trembling eyeball.
“Is this useful?”
"It's no use." Kaz deadpanned.
It seems that sites that appear to be active on the surface are not necessarily useful.
It may also be that it has been contaminated after being transformed by some strange means and cannot be reused, so it is useless to wizards.
This money is really hard to earn.
Do dark attribute wizards deal with corpses and ghosts?
Thor took another deep breath.
Now he has gotten used to the smell here. Although it still smells fishy, it is not enough to make him vomit.
He pulled open the black leather and looked through it.
Perhaps it was because his mental strength had been developed after he became an apprentice. Thor still felt uncomfortable, but he could already use his eyes to observe the puddle on the conveyor belt without being frightened and dizzy.
This broken corpse looked no different to Thor's naked eyes, and he was unable to determine where else could be used as material for a wizard.
From the corner of his eye, Thor noticed that Kaz's left hand had been tapping his right arm non-stop, and his patience was about to run out.
"Through my knowledge or my inspiration... But the knowledge I have now cannot help me to distinguish. Then I can only rely on inspiration. What is inspiration? Intuition or spiritual power?"
Thor's eyes carefully moved to his left shoulder, but unfortunately his hardcover book was only responsible for saving his life, not for making money. At this moment, it was as quiet as a lying salted fish.
Then Thor had only one method to try.
He stood in front of the corpse of his new apprentice and began to visualize the walking monster.
Without the help of the crystal ball, it was difficult to enter immersion. But last night's experience in the laboratory allowed Sol to enter a semi-meditative state without the help of the crystal ball.
In this state, he can see elemental particles and some things that are usually invisible to the naked eye.
At this moment, in Thor's eyes, the eyeballs that could still move stretched out of the face like the tentacles of a snail, shaking up and down, looking at the world curiously.
The corpse's lips were covered with a layer of hard black thorns.
The teeth gleamed slightly beneath his lips.
Thor stared at the flash that appeared and disappeared at that time, and felt that the flash was somewhat familiar.
Like when he played games before, there were prompts for item drops.
"Pick up the bag, pick up the bag."
"Haven't you found it yet? I can give you a hint. There are at least two places on this body that can be salvaged. As long as you can find one, you'll pass."
Kaz's impatient voice interrupted Thor's meditation.
Thor didn't have time to figure out whether the scene he detected with his mental power was reliable. He raised his hand and pointed at the corpse's mouth.
Kaz frowned, "You mean his mouth?"
"No, his teeth."
A brief moment of surprise flashed across Kaz's face.
He walked forward, picked up a thin black stick from the long table behind him, and pried open the lips of the corpse.
"Ahem..." He turned around and looked at Thor with a slightly unnatural expression, "Yes, this is one."
Success! Thor suppressed his excitement and continued to observe other parts of the corpse in semi-immersive meditation.
Then,
He saw two flashes.
Thor pointed out one of them with feigned uncertainty.
Kaz nodded and asked him if he had found anything else.
Thor looked carefully from top to bottom again, ignoring the last flash, and straightened up and said to his mentor: "I have no other findings."
"Yeah, not bad." Kaz casually pointed out the shining point that Thor had seen but not said, and said lightly, "There is another one here."
Next, Kaz verbally instructed Saul to use the props on the lab table behind him to split and recycle the materials. Then he placed them in three small boxes on the table, closed the lids, and plugged in the latches.
What was left of the body was rolled up in the black leather and placed in a large box under the long table.
There is a witchcraft circle engraved inside the big box, which can seal away ghosts and monsters.
Only a large bloody mark remained on the conveyor belt.
Kaz nodded and raised his chin to signal Thor to turn the wrench on the side of the teleporter again.
With the sound of the machine turning, the blood-stained conveyor belt turned to the bottom of the machine, and another corpse emerged from behind the black leather tassels.
Thor saw the head also exposed outside the leather, and his eyes narrowed instantly.
He also knew this deceased person.
She tried to seduce Saul on the first day of delivering teaching materials and appeared in Saul's nightmare that night.
That plump maid! Why did she die too? Was it an accident or was it caused by someone? "Do you know her?" Looking at Thor's expression, Kaz asked in a flat voice.
"Well, she once sent me teaching materials."
"Death is a common occurrence in the wizard tower."
"If we keep dying like this, what will we do if everyone dies?"
“Go to nearby towns to recruit people, they are willing to send people in.”
After the small talk, Mentor Kaz pointed at the maid and said, "There is... at least one usable part on her body. If you can find it this time, I will give this job to you."
Thor perked up, not caring about feeling sorry for the maid, and lifted up the black leather covering her body.
The maid's body was naked, and the long wound on her chest proved that she had also been dissected. But she was an ordinary person after all, and although she died in a strange way, there were not many abnormal places on her body.
Unlike the new apprentice just now, when he put it into the big box under the table, it was already a light pile.
(End of this chapter)
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