Affix: Perfect Companion
Type: Trait
Quality: Orange Rare
Effect: Add this affix when crafting an item to replace the target model, comprehensively enhance the shell’s texture, optimize tactile feedback, and greatly increase sensitivity. Comes with developer mode, allowing it to enter the state anytime, anywhere.
Note: The pinnacle of sex dolls.
“……” Feng Xue stared at the orange halo around the affix. Only after a long while did he finally squeeze out two words—
“Fucking amazing.”
Then he began cleaning up the broken parts scattered across the floor. Mm, when he sent the old man back to Dayan in the future, “Master’s Wife’s” ashes would have to be buried with him too. As for now… he would put them in the old man’s coffin first.
……
After sorting through the old man’s inheritance, Feng Xue turned around and brought all the goods that had been damaged earlier into the workshop.
These prosthetics were basically all at three-star level, so they had considerable repair value. Unfortunately, of the ones he had previously confirmed to possess affixes, only one was still recordable; the rest had all turned into scrap metal. As a result, Feng Xue now had no choice but to pull up his notebook and compare it against his earlier records, prioritizing the repair of prosthetics that might carry affixes in order to obtain more of them—
Affix: Bird Breathing
Type: Trait
Quality: White Common
Effect: Can only be bestowed upon prosthetics with respiratory functions, granting a birdlike breathing pattern and greatly improving breathing efficiency.
Note: Swallowing ten thousand li of air like a dragon.
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Affix: One Eye
Type: Trait
Quality: White Common
Effect: Can only be bestowed upon ocular prosthetics. A single prosthetic eye with this trait is converted into an independent prosthetic, and compatibility issues will not arise.
Note: Although most prosthetic eyes must be used in pairs to take effect, you can’t replace the other one too just because you went blind in one eye.
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Affix: Hidden Blade
Type: Manufacturing
Quality: Blue Excellent
Effect: Can only be added when manufacturing arm-type prosthetics. Adds one extra material slot; this slot may only contain short-sword-type items. Grants a hidden blade that can freely extend and retract. This modification does not affect prosthetic performance.
Note: It has nothing you want. Take it or leave it.
……
“They look pretty good!” Feng Xue looked at the three affixes he had spent half the day recording, and a faint smile could not help but appear on his face.
The most useless was undoubtedly [Bird Breathing], but considering the affix [Nigerundayo], if he elevated it later, maybe it could evolve into something like [Hamon Breathing Technique].
At first glance, One Eye seemed a little unclear in purpose, but this was a common misconception for many people. Most prosthetic eyes came in pairs, because if only one was installed, the amount of information obtained by that single eye would far exceed that of the original organic eye, thereby affecting the brain’s processing. In the end, the original eye would become no different from being blind. Yet eyes happened to require two working together to better generate stereoscopic vision, so the Ge Union’s ocular prosthetics were basically installed in pairs.
The reason he specified the Ge Union was because Dayan had already solved this problem, using algorithms to transfer part of the information acquired by the prosthetic eye to the organic eye’s side, achieving balance between both eyes. This affix, in fact, came precisely from such a Dayan prosthetic eye.
It was not that Dayan’s technology was more advanced than the Ge Union’s, but rather that in the Ge Union, this kind of technology was basically a privately customized paid service. Low-end prosthetics would never be equipped with it.
As far as Feng Xue was concerned, however, the significance of this affix did not stop there. To put it in more game-like terms, this affix could turn the originally single eye equipment slot into two!
If installed on prosthetics below two-star, this effect was purely a loss of one trait slot. But if it was a three-star prosthetic eye, it was equivalent to exchanging one trait slot for one skill slot. Moreover, as the prosthetic’s grade rose and the number of skills it could carry increased, the value of this affix would only become higher.
As for the Hidden Blade affix, that one was a real heavyweight. Although it looked like nothing more than a structure similar to mantis blades, the fact that it did not affect prosthetic performance alone was already equivalent to an innovation in structural engineering. More importantly, the short sword itself could also have affixes added. If he could get his hands on a short sword of three stars or above, it would be equivalent to one arm possessing two traits and two skills.
Most importantly, all three of these affixes had traceable origins. During the process of repairing and dismantling them, Feng Xue had also understood their structures. It was equivalent to adding three more fodder materials to his material library that could be repeatedly farmed. His skill set, which had originally been almost fixed, instantly became full of playability.
After replenishing the Subdermal Armor and Rocket Headbutt affixes he had consumed earlier, he immediately, with great enthusiasm, stuffed Great Strength into affix elevation, then added the three-piece set of Lightweight, Rocket Headbutt, and Subdermal Armor as materials.
Only…
[Elevation failed!]
“Holy shit?!”
Feng Xue’s face immediately darkened. He hurriedly opened the affix library to check, only to discover that the Great Strength affix had not disappeared; its quality had merely turned gray.
“So it means it can’t be elevated, and it can’t be used as material either?” Feng Xue looked at the gray Great Strength and carefully read its effect. After finding that it was no different from before, he let out a slight breath of relief.
The price of failing elevation was merely that the affix turned gray. This basically ensured that he would not lose an excellent affix just because of a momentary itchy hand. But at the same time, it also meant that once an affix failed elevation, he would be unable to obtain the same affix afterward, nor could he elevate it again. This was not much of an issue for core affixes. After all, judging from the current situation, affixes were not exactly a scarce resource. Even if a core affix lost its potential for elevation, it did not necessarily mean he could not obtain a higher-grade affix of the same type later. But for fodder affixes that needed to be continuously cycled and consumed, this was extremely fatal.
“In other words, for each quality tier, I need to keep at least three easily obtainable fodder affixes.”
Feng Xue summarized inwardly. Looking at the six affixes he had left, in the end, he still did not make up his mind to continue elevating them. Instead, he shifted his attention back to the shop.
The old man had not left him any funds. As for the parts in the shop, they were only enough to handle the routine maintenance of those low-end prosthetics. But such business was clearly not enough to support the expenses of this little shop.
After all, even in the slums, one had to pay for a house!
This little shop was not some capsule apartment. The monthly rent alone cost five thousand credits. The old man had already paid for this month, but if Feng Xue could not pay next month, then he would have no choice but to take his things and run.
In a certain sense, Old Jiang fixing prosthetics for civilians was essentially charity. The bulk of his income had indeed come from junk collection on trash day, as well as those gang members who needed proper three-star prosthetics installed.
Now that the old man was dead, leaving aside whether the gang members would trust him or not, with the old man’s death still shrouded in mystery, Feng Xue did not quite dare to touch gang business either. Not to mention that he had not even taken over the old man’s channels yet. Even if he could do the work, the little bit of stock in the shop would not be enough to sustain the business!
“There are three things I need to deal with right now. First, improve my ability to protect myself. Second, obtain funds. Third, avenge the old man…”
Feng Xue muttered inwardly, but in fact, these three matters could all be satisfied by a single answer—
Explore his cheat.
“In any case, I’ll start by making prosthetics.”