Chapter 149

"Perfect-grade item?! Wow"

Li Cheng raised an eyebrow and whistled; the quality tiers for battlefield items/skill scrolls, from low to high, were Damaged, Common, Rare, Fine, Perfect, Epic, Legendary.

Perfect-grade items were already extremely powerful, with an average price of at least ten thousand game coins, and could soar to thirteen or fifteen thousand in auctions—mid-tier level-20 players might not even have one among all their gear.

In any major guild, even core members seeking temporary use had to submit stacks of application reports.

As he read the item description, Li Cheng unconsciously activated the Multi-Threaded Brain Domain Method and thought rapidly.

The assembled doll had three effects: Painless Disassembly, Assembly, and Forced Fusion. The first effect was easy to understand—detaching one's own body parts without pain, with the wound site not bleeding for a short time.

To some extent, this was equivalent to a medical skill—for instance, if an arm was pierced by a bullet and bled uncontrollably, one could simply remove the entire limb and clean the wound while blood flow ceased.

The second effect, Assembly, involved attaching external components to one's own body.

At first glance, this function seemed pointless—whether a rifle, pistol, or rocket launcher, the human hand could already manipulate them freely; why waste spirit energy to mount weapons externally?

But when combined with Effect One, Painless Disassembly, and Effect Three, Forced Fusion, it produced an effect greater than the sum of its parts.

Li Cheng turned off the bathroom faucet, walked into the study wearing a bathrobe, and activated the Bone Corridor.

The corridor was piled with clutter; Li Cheng picked up an AR-15 rifle, slung it over his shoulder, and activated the 【Assembled Doll】's second effect.

The rifle's stock suddenly sank inward, fusing with the shoulder blades; the entire process brought no discomfort or pain, only a strange sensation flooding his mind, as if a new arm had grown from his body.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Under Li Cheng's mental control, the rifle automatically fired, bullets striking the far wall of the Bone Corridor and bouncing off.

Not only that—the weapon could also auto-reload, adjust the scope, and toggle the laser sight.

"This is just a stock, unmodified rifle—if we welded on mechanical mounts, it would truly become an extension of the arm."

Li Cheng detached the AR rifle and found his shoulder blades had fully regenerated, undamaged; "Try the drone?"

He opened a nearby silver box and took out the drone remote, attaching it to the back of his right hand.

Though he hadn't pressed any switch, the remote's screen lit up automatically; as Li Cheng waved his hand, the drone hummed into the air and hovered steadily.

Battery remaining, wind speed, ambient temperature, camera settings, storage card capacity

A flood of complex information surged into his mind; without the Multi-Threaded Brain Domain Method's massive cognitive boost, he couldn't have handled it.

Li Cheng held his breath, calmed his mind, and controlled the drone to roll and spin, executing acrobatic maneuvers.

Compared to manually operating the remote, the advantage of assembly was greater flexibility and the ability to directly "see" through the drone's camera as if it were his own vision.

Li Cheng then ran a series of tests and temporarily summarized the following points.

1. The assembly function could partially replace medical treatment; when attaching external components, it drastically reduced rejection reactions without lowering the body's immunity.

2. Injured limbs—including the Mantis Arm Bone Blade—could be directly removed and replaced with prosthetics; when stored in the inventory, limbs never decayed.

3. Attaching any component consumed spirit energy, stamina, and sanity; his original body consumed the least—almost zero. Next came fresh flesh, then organic compounds, then inorganic compounds.

The highest consumption came from objects involving electronic components—the more complex the electronics, the greater the drain.

4. If an attached object had a battery, it would prioritize using the battery's energy; only if no battery existed would his own body supply power.

5. The criterion for attachable objects resembled inventory storage standards—only items belonging to oneself or ownerless ones could be assembled. In other words, one could not directly loot or possess another player's body by touching them; but if one first severed their head, one could likely control their flesh.

6. Effect Three, Forced Fusion, was extremely overpowered—it could twist the laws of life to some degree, such as installing an eyeball in the palm or replacing the esophagus with a toxin filter—and it still worked.

Li Cheng studied it with great delight until his friend communication lit up—a message from Su Jie: 【Hello, are you there?】

He scratched his head: 【Not here.】

Su Jie sent a awkward but polite emoji smile: 【Ahem, uh, Mr. Pi Fu, I noticed you took that doll after the mission? Could I ask—is that doll classified as an item in the battlefield system? If so, does its note mention its original world?】

Li Cheng wasn't surprised by Su Jie's message—he'd noticed when he fled that the entire amusement park had manifested in the real world, which was highly unusual.

The Special Affairs Bureau, as an official body, certainly wouldn't ignore it; they'd investigate and eventually come to him—this delay was already slow.

Su Jie added: 【This information is extremely important to us. If you're willing to disclose it, the Special Affairs Bureau must bear weight.】

【No problem.】

Li Cheng had no intention of hiding anything; he told Su Jie the second and third notes of the 【Assembled Doll】—the so-called "UN Secret Order."

【Understood, thank you.】

Su Jie exhaled deeply and transferred ten thousand game coins to Li Cheng.

At this moment, he sat inside a room with one-way glass; behind the glass stood only Director Xing Hechou, Deputy Director Yin Yidong, and several other high-ranking personnel with top clearance.

Deputy Director of Emergency Command Center Deng Guangming took a deep breath: "This should be the fourth large-scale 'collision' event within our nation, right?"

Collision—this was a highly classified term within the Special Affairs Bureau, referring specifically to objects falling from parallel worlds into Earth's reality.

Deputy Director Yin Yidong nodded: "The first three occurred in remote inland forests and deserts; this is the first near a densely populated area."

"Thank goodness—no entire buildings dropped straight into the city; otherwise, secrecy would've been impossible."

"From a probability standpoint, collisions in urban areas are inevitable—damn, if only we could predict them."

"Such events are like earthquakes—you can't predict them."

The top brass of the Special Affairs Bureau all wore solemn expressions; Director Xing Hechou pondered, then turned to Bai Haozheng, the Intelligence Analysis Division Chief who had barely spoken since the start: "Haozheng, what are your thoughts?"

The young man in his twenties, wearing thin gold-rimmed glasses and with a shadowed, intense gaze, spoke slowly: "The opening of the second note reads: 'UN Special Affairs Division Order 3160.'"

Meaning the parallel world the doll came from has extensive experience handling anomalies—but we don't know whether they have the concept of 'players.'

Also, the second note states the doll appeared out of nowhere, which corresponds to the first note's line: 'My creator, if you loved me, why did you abandon me?'

This implies a fascinating fact: the doll itself has been abandoned once before."

Xing Hechou frowned: "You mean—"

"Exactly. That doll likely isn't crossing worlds for the first time—it's at least the second. Multiple collisions."

Bai Haozheng said solemnly: "The frequency of contact with other worlds is far faster than we imagined. One day, we might truly encounter a superior civilization that sees humans as tasty snacks."

Crack.

The sound of teeth crunching chips echoed from the corner; all senior Special Affairs Bureau personnel turned to look at a round-faced youth lounging in the corner, expression casual.

Han Xing, the young head of the Special Affairs Bureau of Yin City's Technology Division, held a bag of chips in one hand and scratched his head with the other.

He truly had no interest in this kind of meeting. Just now he hadn't really been listening to what Bai Haozheng and the others were saying at all — he'd only vaguely caught something like "other world" and "delicious food."

Facing Deputy Director Yin Yidong's stern gaze, he gave an awkward smile and stammered, "Encounter in another world, savor delicious food?"