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Chapter 417: Your Eyes Aren't Hot-Swappable, Bad Review!
Perhaps it was truly no opportunity to intervene, or perhaps listening to Cheng Tian berate Juri Han brought her a strange sense of satisfaction; December watched the entire process without interfering.
When Juri Han's Feng Shui Engine activated, December was already prepared to ambush, the psychic venomous thorns condensed on her armguards ready.
December had only glimpsed a fraction of Cheng Tian's power, but regarding the ostentatious Juri Han, December had systematically and thoroughly researched her according to Vega's instructions.
The Feng Shui Engine not only provides the user with additional physical enhancements, greatly boosting their "Ki" manifestation, but also records and analyzes all of an opponent's moves in real-time, allowing the user to precisely calculate the opponent's weak points and strike them targetedly.
From a design perspective, the Feng Shui Engine was a very mature creation, but its versatility was very low; simply put, it was selective. Not to mention Juri Han, a rare perfect fit, even for ordinary application, it was beyond the physical endurance of most fighters.
The ultimate conclusion was that when the Feng Shui Engine was active, one must maintain distance and avoid close combat as much as possible.
Of course, strategies are strategies; whether one survives when truly encountering it largely depends on the opponent's mood.
But what December never expected was that Cheng Tian, in the face of Juri Han's strongest state with the Feng Shui Engine activated, used an unknown ability to directly gouge out the Feng Shui Engine itself, which also functioned as her eyeball!
At first glance, it seemed like a super-speed derived ability, but it inexplicably gave December the illusion of "where did the time go?"
"It's not hot-swappable... bad review!"
Looking at the blood-stained eyeball with artificial nerves in his hand, Cheng Tian muttered with a hint of regret.
[Feng Shui Engine (Left Eye): Prosthetic, Special Item. Juri Han's left eye, which functions as both a "Feng Shui Engine" and a "left eye." It is a core classified technological product of S.I.N., but because this item was not acquired through skill-based plunder or a treasure chest drop, it is currently untransportable and unusable.]
Unlike the combat vehicles in the Armored Warrior dungeon, Juri Han's Feng Shui Engine left eye was part of her limb, a body organ.
If it had been dropped normally after a victory in a regular fighting match, or through a kill, it would be usable. But as a product of Cheng Tian's violent forced removal, its properties would become non-stackable in the inventory and unusable, just like most regular equipment within dungeons.
However, being unusable doesn't mean it can't be analyzed and studied. The omnipotent research monkeys should be able to figure something out from it, right?
Hopefully, his liver can still hold up.
"You actually... you dare!!!"
At this moment, behind Cheng Tian, at the purple confinement barrier, Juri Han, whose left eye had become a bleeding cavern, was frantically kicking the barrier.
But having lost her Feng Shui Engine and being in pain in every sense, she couldn't quickly break through the barrier, which had a hefty 500 HP, especially with Cheng Tian intermittently constructing small Heart Barriers to intercept her attempts to directly strike the barrier.
"I take back what I said earlier, you still have good things on you."
As Cheng Tian spoke, he flicked the blood-stained Feng Shui Engine with his finger, causing the already doubly-blinded Juri Han to experience intense, compounded phantom pain.
But then Cheng Tian's tone shifted, a cruel smile appearing on his face.
"Oh, no, that's not right. This thing doesn't belong to you either. Strictly speaking, it's S.I.N.'s property. You're just the user. If I use it, it's mine. That kind of mindset isn't good, you know~~"
"Of course, it's mine now."
Cheng Tian tilted his head slightly, gesturing to December, completely ignoring Juri Han, who was wildly bleeding from her eye socket due to surging blood and desperately attacking the barrier.
It's worth noting that Cheng Tian's normal MP, which was originally as high as 1250, was now less than a sixth.
Cheng Tian only stopped time for 3 seconds, directly consuming 900 MP!
Pure and powerful skills also came with purely high costs.
Although he couldn't delve further into the S.I.N. department to find other related technologies, the unexpected acquisition of the Feng Shui Engine made this trip worthwhile.
However, it was foreseeable that retaliation from S.I.N. and Shadaloo would likely come soon.
Cheng Tian moved close to Juri Han, separated only by the barrier, letting Juri Han frantically ram her head against it, bleeding profusely, and said softly,
"If you want revenge, you're welcome. It would be best if you could bring another new eyeball for me to make a pair~"
Killing, and crushing the spirit.
Whether it was pain exceeding the body's protective threshold or simply excessive blood loss, Juri Han, who was forced to receive Cheng Tian's parting words, finally fainted on the spot.
How boring~ Time to go~
Cheng, who gave one last glance at the opponent's croissant-like head, swaggered out of the "S.I.N. High-Tech Prosthetic Research Center Co., Ltd." corporate building, following December, who had left earlier. Unsurprisingly, after Cheng Tian left, the entire S.I.N. department fell into chaos, and even TV stations and Bunshun arrived, sniffing out the story. However, they were quickly and forcefully sent away.
The fact that Juri Han, one of the department's strongest combatants, was so easily defeated in a direct confrontation was already a significant matter, and it also involved the theft of the Feng Shui Engine. Now both S.I.N. and Shadaloo were in a state where they wanted to vent their anger but dared not act rashly for certain reasons.
Because the identity of the perpetrator didn't require deep investigation; he had been on TV quite a bit yesterday~
Cheng Tian's Hammond Innovation Lab was openly displayed, so if they wanted to get even, they could just go there directly.
The S.I.N. department was somewhat intimidated.
Precisely because they were the developers of the Feng Shui Engine, they understood its power even more. The fact that Cheng Tian could directly defeat Juri Han and gouge out her eye caused the department to feel a slight lack of confidence, and more importantly, the department head believed it was not yet his time to show his face.
As for Shadaloo, they dared not act rashly because they had not received orders from Vega.
The theft of the Feng Shui Engine did not make Vega particularly angry; rather, it made him doubt the performance of the Feng Shui Engine.
Of course, what he was more concerned about was the fact that Cheng Tian had gotten together with December, one of his personal guards, and the inexplicable strange phenomena shown in the surveillance footage.
From the footage preserved in the lobby, it could be inferred that Cheng Tian was brought by December, which meant that the previous Release of the psychic erosion at its end should have been December's. In other words, Cheng Tian was highly suspected of being the Release er.
But what Vega repeatedly watched was the footage of Cheng Tian's duel with Juri Han—
After repeatedly confirming that there were no editing traces, the surveillance showed no explanation of how Cheng Tian moved behind Juri Han or how he gouged out her eye.
"Super speed? Or perhaps..."
Vega stared intently at Cheng Tian in the surveillance footage, a look of interest in his eyes.