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Chapter 170 - 156 Perfect

Chapter 170: Chapter 156 Perfect

"Perfect Level items?! Wow..."

Li Cheng raised his eyebrows in surprise. The quality of killing field items/skill scrolls, from low to high, are: ruined, ordinary, rare, fine, perfect, epic, legendary.

Items of perfect quality are already very, very powerful, with an average price of at least 10,000 Game Coins, and could shoot up to 13,000 or 15,000 in an auction. A mid-level Lv20 player might not be able to afford even one such piece.

Placed in just about any major guild, its core members would need to write a bunch of application reports to temporarily borrow such items.

Looking at the item description, Li Cheng instinctively activated the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method, quickly pondering.

The Assembly Puppet has three special effects; Painless Disassembly, Splicing and Assembly, and Forced Fusion. The first effect is easy to understand: painlessly disassemble parts of one’s own body, and the wound area will not bleed for a short time.

In some ways, this is equivalent to a medical skill. For instance, if an arm is pierced by a bullet and bleeds profusely, one could simply detach the entire arm and treat the wound while the blood flow is halted.

The second effect, Splicing and Assembly, involves splicing external components onto one’s own body.

At first glance, this function seems somewhat meaningless. Whether it’s a rifle, a pistol, or a rocket launcher, humans can naturally control them with their hands. Why bother to expend spiritual power to attach the weapon externally?

But in combination with the first effect Painless Disassembly, and the third effect Forced Fusion, one can achieve an effect greater than the simple sum of one plus one plus one.

Li Cheng casually turned off the bathroom tap, walked into the study wearing a bathrobe, and opened the Bone Corridor.

The corridor was cluttered with various items. Li Cheng picked up an AR-15 rifle and placed it on his shoulder, activating the second special effect of the [Assembly Puppet].

The handle part of the AR rifle suddenly recessed and fused with his shoulder blade, the whole process without any discomfort or pain. Instead, there was a peculiar sensation flooding his brain, as if a new arm had grown on his body.

Bang, bang, bang!

Under Li Cheng’s mental manipulation, the rifle fired on its own, shooting forward. The bullets struck the wall at the end of the Bone Corridor, bouncing off and falling.

Not just that, the firearm could also automatically reload, adjust the scope, toggle the laser pointer, and more.

"This is still just an ordinary rifle without any modifications. If a mechanical mount is welded on, that would truly be like having an additional limb."

Li Cheng detached the AR rifle and found that his shoulder blade had restored itself, completely unharmed. "Try the drone?"

He opened a bright silver box nearby, took out the drone controller, and spliced it onto the back of his right hand.

Despite not pressing the switch, the controller screen lit up automatically. With a gesture from Li Cheng, the drone buzzed off the ground and maintained a hovering position in the air.

Remaining battery of the aircraft, surrounding wind speed, working environment temperature, camera settings, remaining storage on the card...

A plethora of complex information flooded his mind all at once. Without the substantial enhancement of brain power from the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method, it would truly be overwhelming.

Li Cheng held his breath and calmed his spirits, controlling the drone to roll and spin in the air, performing various stunt maneuvers.

Compared to using a hand-held controller, the advantage of splicing is greater flexibility, and the ability to directly "see" what the drone’s camera sees, just like one’s own vision.

Li Cheng conducted a series of tests and temporarily summarized the following points:

1. The assembly function can somewhat replace medical treatment, and when splicing external components, it can significantly reduce rejection reactions without decreasing the body’s immunity.

2. Injured limbs including the Mantis Arm Bone Blade can be directly detached and replaced with prostheses. And the limbs stored in the inventory won’t decay at all.

3. Assembling any components will consume spiritual power, physical value, and sanity value. The consumption is lowest with one’s original body, almost zero. Next is fresh meat, followed by organic and inorganic compounds.

The highest consumption is with objects involving electronic components. The more complex the electronic components, the greater the consumption.

4. If a spliced body part has a battery, it will prioritize using the energy from the battery. Only without a battery will it use the body’s own energy supply.

5. The criteria for determining splicable objects are similar to the standards for item inventory acceptance. Only items that belong to oneself or are ownerless can be spliced. In other words, it’s not possible to directly take over or possess someone else’s body just by "touching another player." However, if you decapitate someone’s head first, there’s a high probability of controlling their body.

6. Special Effect Three [Forced Fusion] is extremely domineering, capable of distorting the laws of life to some extent, such as installing an eyeball in the palm of a hand, or using a toxin filter to replace the esophagus. Surprisingly, these modifications could still function.

Li Cheng was deeply engrossed in his research until a notification lit up from his communicator, initiated by Su Jie, [Hello, are you there?]

He scratched his head, [Not here.]

Su Jie sent an awkward yet polite grimacing emoticon, [Ahem, well then, Mr. Ant, I see that you took that puppet away after the mission? Can I ask if that puppet in the killing field system is considered an item? If so, does the note mention its original world?]

Li Cheng wasn’t too surprised by Su Jie’s message; he had noticed that the entire amusement park had descended into the real world, which was highly unusual.

As a government agency, the Special Affairs Bureau would definitely not ignore this and must investigate, eventually leading to him—having taken this long was already considered slow in efficiency.

Su Jie continued: [This information is very important to us. If you are willing to disclose it, the Special Affairs Bureau will have a substantial reward for you.]

[Sure thing.]

Without any intention to conceal, Li Cheng shared the second and third notes regarding the Assembly Puppet, namely the so-called "United Nations Secret Orders," to Su Jie.

[Understood, thank you.]

Su Jie sighed in relief and transferred one thousand Game Coins to Li Cheng.

At this moment, he was sitting in an isolation room with a one-way mirror, where only Xing Hechou, the director of the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau, deputy director Yin Yidong, and other high-ranking officials with top-level security clearance stood behind the mirror.

Deputy Director of the Emergency Command Center, Deng Guangming, took a deep breath, "This should be the fourth major ’collision’ event to occur within our country’s borders, right?"

Collision, a highly confidential term within the Special Affairs Bureau, refers specifically to events where objects from parallel universes fall into the real Earth.

Deputy Director Yin Yidong nodded, "The first three occurred in mountainous or desert areas with sparse populations; this is the first time it’s approached a densely populated area."

"Fortunately, no entire buildings directly fell into the city, otherwise, the secret-keeping would have been impossible."

"From a probability perspective, a collision event occurring in a densely populated urban area was bound to happen sooner or later. If only we could predict it in advance."

"This kind of event is like an earthquake; it’s unpredictable, isn’t it..."

The leaders of the Special Affairs Bureau all wore a somber expression. Director Xing Hechou, thoughtful, turned to look at Bai Haosheng, the head of the intelligence analysis department who hadn’t said much from the beginning, "Haosheng, do you have any thoughts?"

A male youth in his twenties, wearing gold-rimmed glasses with a somewhat sinister and deep look in his eyes, slowly said, "The beginning of the second note, the so-called ’United Nations Special Order for Handling Abnormal Items, Number 3160’.

This implies that the parallel world from which the puppet came has considerable experience in dealing with abnormal items, but it’s unclear if they have the concept of ’players’.

Moreover, the second note mentions that the puppet appeared out of nowhere, which corresponds to the first note, ’My creator, if you love me, why then have you abandoned me?’,

This leads to a rather interesting fact that the puppet itself has been abandoned before."

Xing Hechou frowned, "You mean..."

"Yes, it’s possible that the puppet has traversed worlds more than once, at least twice. That is, multiple collisions."

Bai Haosheng seriously said, "The frequency of contact with other worlds is much faster than we imagine. Who knows, maybe one day we will truly encounter a higher civilization that considers humans as delicious snacks."

Crunch.

The sound of teeth crushing chips resonated in the corner, and all the high-ranking officials of the Special Affairs Bureau turned their heads to look at a round-faced young man looking slack in the corner.

A young round-faced man, Han Xing, serving as the head of the technology department of the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau, held a bag of chips in one hand and scratched his head with the other.

He genuinely had no interest in these meetings and hadn’t been paying close attention to what Bai Haosheng and others were saying, only vaguely hearing something about "otherworld" and "delicious."

Faced with the stern gaze of Deputy Director Yin Yidong, he gave an embarrassed smile, somewhat stuttering, "Otherworldly encounters, savoring the delicious?"