Old Jin took out the long wooden box and pulled the knife from inside.
It was black and gold, and looked incredibly impressive.
"This knife is extremely sharp, and it's made of a very durable material."
"It can also cut through things using high-frequency molecular vibrations. There's very little it can't slice through in one stroke."
Old Jin held out the knife to Chu Yunyi.
The moment Chu Yunyi gripped the handle, he found it was as if his hand had been firmly stuck to it. It was difficult to let go.
Seeing this,
Old Jin explained, "It uses super-electrostatic adsorption technology to keep it from slipping out of your hand in battle."
"To be honest, people use mechanical prosthetics these days."
"This thing's been out of fashion for ages, though some prosthetics do support slot-mounted equipment."
As the owner of the All-Purpose Shop, Old Jin felt obliged to offer a couple more details.
Chu Yunyi swung the knife twice.
He also turned on its cutting mode, and felt his arm go numb.
Just as he was about to test its sharpness on his own arm, Old Jin hurriedly stopped him:
"Don't, don't!"
"This knife really is sharp. With the vibration mode on, it can cut through pretty much anything."
"Don't test it here." The expression on Old Jin's face changed again and again. He truly didn't know what else to say.
Hearing Old Jin say that, Chu Yunyi grew curious.
"What powers this Nano Skin, and the knife?"
"Can they keep working indefinitely?"
Chu Yunyi was quite concerned about that. After all, he didn't want to run out of power in the middle of a fight.
Old Jin fell silent for a moment, then spoke:
"The Nano Skin uses hybrid hydrogen-powered metabolism, which means it can absorb energy from the air."
"It can also absorb the products of your skin's metabolism, keeping you clean while maintaining its energy."
"The knife uses a rubidium block. It can probably run for hours."
"Usually, the knife wears out before its power runs out."
Chu Yunyi was still surprised by the technology.
The Night Star's tech tree was all over the place. With technology like this, why not build some aerospace weapons and just blow up Meat Mountain?
But then again,
Chu Yunyi didn't care much about that. He had Old Jin take the payment, then prepared to leave.
At the next moment,
Chu Yunyi seemed to remember something else. He turned around and asked:
"By the way, do you have any more of those restraints?"
"The kind that can hold a tumor aberrant. Get me a few more."
Old Jin didn't waste any time. He wanted to get this weirdo out of there as soon as possible; he really had no idea what Chu Yunyi was.
At first,
he'd thought Chu Yunyi was just a Native Human with nowhere to go.
But now, he wasn't so sure. For a while, he'd even wondered if Chu Yunyi was some big shot from the Upper City who'd come down to see how the common people lived.
Without even checking how many Credit Points Chu Yunyi had left on his mobile terminal, Old Jin took out three sets of restraints and handed them to him.
"I won't charge you much. If I lose money on them, consider them a gift."
"Off you go." Old Jin waved him along, hoping Chu Yunyi wouldn't come back next time.
He'd seen every kind of person in the Lower City.
But someone like Chu Yunyi? He'd never seen anyone like him!
Chu Yunyi raised an eyebrow. Old Jin really was as kind as people said.
Taking the things,
Chu Yunyi left, opened a space entrance, and entered his Portable Space.
After reaching the Void Gate, Chu Yunyi returned directly to Blue Star.
Blue Star.
Xia Tian was leisurely sipping tea in a manor.
Strangely enough,
there were no doors in his room. The only opening was a skylight, mechanically joined to the ceiling.
At the center of the room,
a huge pane of glass divided it into two spaces. On the other side, a lone door stood by itself.
"Still haven't found him?" Xia Tian asked, his expression calm and relaxed, both legs propped on the desk in front of him.
He was speaking through
a video call in a group chat.
Besides Xia Tian, there were seven others, all patients who had evolved to the middle or later stages.
"No, boss. We've searched more than 200 countries around the world and haven't found a trace!" said a bearded middle-aged man with a greenish glint in his eyes.
"We checked the underground facilities too. Nothing..." said the fat man, stuffing a whole roasted suckling pig into his mouth.
As he listened to their reports, Xia Tian's brow furrowed deeper and deeper.
After concentrating for a few seconds,
Xia Tian suddenly relaxed and spoke to the device:
"Lust, keep controlling the leaders of each country."
"Power in human society is held by a mere 20 percent of the population."
"And just a few hundred people among that 20 percent control the entire world's course!"
As he spoke, Xia Tian clenched his hand tightly.
"I won't let you down, boss~" The person called Lust spoke in a lilting voice. Their skin was pale and exposed, but their gender was unclear.
As he spoke,
Xia Tian froze mid-sip, staring intently at the figure on the other side of the glass.
"The person I'm looking for came to me."
Without another word, Xia Tian ended the video call.
The person Xia Tian had been talking about was, of course, Chu Yunyi!
Chu Yunyi had come through the Void Gate, only to find a pane of glass separating him from Xia Tian.
He looked around.
This half of the room was rigged with all sorts of traps.
Creak...
Before Chu Yunyi could act, the door behind him began to make mechanical noises, slowly compressing and closing.
Along the nearby wall were countless guns and flamethrowers, all lined up.
"Oh?"
"You anticipated this?" Chu Yunyi couldn't help laughing. He didn't look the least bit uneasy.
At the sight of Chu Yunyi's expression, Xia Tian's sinister face froze.
He took a couple of deep breaths before finally speaking:
"Still mouthing off when you're on the brink of death?"
"Let's see if that mouth of yours is still standing after my wall of fire consumes you!" Xia Tian gritted his teeth and quickly pressed the button on the desk.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Vrrrr... Vrrrr... Vrrrr... Vrrrr...
A torrent of flames engulfed the room as countless bullets poured out, striking Chu Yunyi from both sides of the walls.
The other half of the room was completely engulfed in flames, making it impossible to see anything.
But naturally,
Xia Tian laughed out loud. "Hahahaha! Chu Yunyi, you got what you deserved!"
"Do patients deserve to be killed? Once I turn everyone in the world into patients,"
"then ordinary people will be the ones hunted down!"
Watching the flames roar across the other half of the room, Xia Tian was like a villain who'd been planning for years, determined to tell the protagonist his whole backstory:
"Killing you is only the first step in my plan!"
"My true goal is to summon Lord Mo Xun down from above the Seven Heavens!"
"When that happens,"
"not just little Blue Star, but the entire Milky Way Galaxy will be conquered by the Seven Deadly Sins Virus!"
Suddenly,
a voice drifted over:
"Never heard of it."
"Don't you know villains...die from talking too much?"
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