Living matter such as flesh and blood cells, and dead matter such as crystals and metal, gave entirely different feedback when faced with Spiritual Energy ripples.
Making use of this characteristic, Meng Chao effortlessly scanned the Repair Shop Worker's limbs and discovered that his skeletal joints were all packed with reinforced alloy joints.
One of his thighs, from pelvis to ankle, had even been entirely replaced by a metal framework. Inside the framework, there seemed to be a blade as thin as a cicada's wing, capable of tearing through flesh and whistling out when necessary.
What was more, Meng Chao discovered that circles of cable-like objects had been implanted around the man's spine.
The objects spiraled upward from his tailbone all the way into his brain.
They then branched into hundreds of metal wires, perfectly connected to different regions of his brain.
There were also two horrifying scars along both sides of his back, as though a monster had once disemboweled him.
Those implants had probably been stuffed into his body at that time.
What kind of radical modifications had this guy performed on himself?
Meng Chao clicked his tongue inwardly.
Dragon City's Spirit-Powered Prosthetic Limb connection technology was highly advanced.
In the past, people who had lost limbs often replaced them with mechanical arms and legs embedded with crystals and engraved with runes. Some did not even bother covering them with artificial skin, simply strutting through the streets in flashing silver.
Although Spirit-Powered Prosthetic Limbs could not, like human cells, withstand overloaded Spiritual Energy impacts through cultivation, and their combat ceiling was not high,
they were more than sufficient for daily life, production work, and conventional combat.
Yet stuffing all manner of suspicious implants into one's internal organs and even deep inside one's brain—such a horrifying modification exceeded the