Is this... really the ability of the Eye of Truth?
Xing Ye looked at the man in the bronze mirror with his small black eyes in confusion. The man in the bronze mirror spoke with a firm tone and knocked his chest.
He did suspect that Cao Qian's second sister was a player who followed her fate, but he was not as sure as a mirror, who could tell at a glance.
Xing Ye asked, "I seem to have forgotten to ask, how did you find other players in the game before?"
"I can tell right away," the big mirror tapped its crystal eyes with two fingers. "Maybe it's because I've been around so many people since I was a kid, so I can tell when someone's smiling fakely. Oh, you fake smile all the time."
Xing Ye: "...Let's go to the repair shop to visit Cao Qian."
My second sister is doing her job at the motor oil shop, so there's no point waiting outside. I might as well go and ask Cao Qian if she has any new gains that day. It's legitimate anyway.
The commercial street was not big, and they walked for about ten minutes before arriving at the repair shop. The door was open, and an old puppet with a beard was helping Cao Qian replace her arm.
"Hey, stick figures are too fragile. You can make yourself a body of iron sheets and weld them to your body. This way you will be much stronger. But that will require at least thirty pieces of ore, and your mother won't agree." The old puppet said to Cao Qian.
This must be Old Nick.
Xing Ye, carrying a sack on his back, knocked on the door like a beggar. Old Nick looked up and saw that it was Xing Ye. He didn't stop working and said while changing the next door for Cao Qian, "I've got a lot of scrap here. Wait a minute, I'll bring it to you after I finish this order."
"Thank you." Xing Ye said politely.
Seeing Xing Ye's arm fall off, Old Nick shook his head and said, "Why did your arm fall off again? I told you to go to the mine and work, digging ore and changing engine oil, but you didn't do it. For more than 20 years, you have been trying to find a way to change your body. You are not doing your job properly... Oh!
My son is currently learning to repair puppets. He's still in the training phase and his skills aren't very good. I can use discarded parts from other customers to assemble your arms for free, but I can't guarantee a successful assembly. How about that?
Of course Xing Ye would not refuse, he was fed up with being disabled.
Cao Qian glanced at Xing Ye with her matchstick-like eyes, as if she was happy for him.
At Old Nick's instruction, Xing Ye placed the sack of waste at the back door and sat on a chair near Cao Qian, waiting for Little Nick to install his arm. Mirror stood next to Xing Ye against the wall. He was flat, and the spring behind his head was just a small one, which didn't get in the way at all.
"Hey little brat, come out and greet the guests!" Old Nick's repair shop was a two-story structure. He shouted upstairs, and after a few minutes, a tin man slowly walked downstairs.
"Go and help him install an arm. There are tools in the box in the corner. Choose the one you like." said Old Nick.
Little Nick is 1.8 meters tall, with long legs, a thin waist, and pectoral muscles... The iron block on his chest is very strong. If you change to the puppet aesthetic, he should be a handsome guy.
"My skills are not good enough." Little Nick resisted.
"You have to give it a try. Sooner or later, you will inherit my store." Old Nick said like a normal old man.
The puppet man shouldn't die, Xing Ye thought, dragging his chin.
Little Nick looked at Xing Ye's arm reluctantly, and took out an old iron arm from the box. He looked at the joints on Xing Ye's arm, found the right position, and installed the iron arm with tools.
This arm worked much better than the one Xing Ye had used before, but when he tried to move it, he found that he couldn't control it at all.
Old Nick had already replaced Cao Qian's arm. Seeing his son's perfunctory attitude, he kicked him twice in anger: "How can you repair a puppet like repairing an ordinary tool? If a body part falls off and is reinstalled, it must be connected to the core. If it is not connected to the core, it cannot be used!
You continue to practice, and I will watch here."
Little Nick quickly took the tools and continued to help Xing Ye knock left and right. His strength was too great, and Xing Ye's wooden body had already rotted a little. In a hurry, Little Nick grabbed Xing Ye's left hand with force and broke it.
Xing Ye: "…"
"How could Master Benedict give me a son as disappointing as you!" Old Nick was almost angry to death.
Cao Qian also stood silently by, looking at Xing Ye's arm with sympathy.
Xing Ye remained very calm and looked at Old Nick in a good mood, hoping that he would not be able to resist and compensate for his left arm.
The puppet has no sense of pain. Even if its arm is crushed, it will not feel any pain, it will just feel a little embarrassed.
But Old Nick didn't say "Let me do it". Instead, he instructed Little Nick: "Go pick out a size 3 wrench and a core wire. How are you going to connect the arm without it?"
Under his father's guidance, little Nick found the tools and simply pulled out Xing Ye's two arms from the roots, leaving only the two shoulders.
"Look at the place where the shoulder and the arm are connected. Is there a small hole? There is a core wire in it. We need to weld the two core wires together." Old Nick turned on the steam welder while speaking, and asked Little Nick to use tweezers to pull out a small wire end from the core wire in Xing Ye's shoulder, and then use the welding machine to connect the two wires.
The moment the tweezers touched the core wire, Xing Ye felt a tightness in his chest, as if a piece of his soul had been sucked away.
Old Nick patted his son on the head again. "Be gentle, be careful! The core wire connects to the puppet's core and is very sensitive. The slightest touch will feel like... well, I can't really describe how it feels to a human being, but it's very uncomfortable."
Yes, it is very painful, as if my heart is being tightly grasped by a hand and will be crushed with the slightest force.
Especially when welding the core wire, it feels like connecting a nerve and it hurts severely.
But the puppet has no tears, and cannot scream after its core line is touched, so it can only endure the pain.
Nick's technique was brutal. He placed the two core wires into the welding machine, turned on the steam switch, and ironed them vigorously. It was as if the two wax wires were melting and bonding together, like Xing Ye was ironing his own blood vessels with an iron.
No wonder Old Nick doesn't accept raw ore. It's good enough if this technology doesn't lose money!
After roughly connecting the core wires of the two arms, Xing Ye felt as if half his soul had been burned. Old Nick checked the core wires and confirmed that the connection was good, then asked Little Nick to install the arms.
This time, installing the arm is very simple. Insert the core wire into the small opening on the arm and connect it to the joint inside. Then use tools to install the interface between the arm and the shoulder, and then you can move.
After finishing, Xing Ye tried to control his arms, which were very flexible, as if he was using his own two arms.
"Thank you, Uncle Nick!" he said politely, without mentioning how much pain he was in.
Having an arm is better than being disabled, so he can use the initial skills!
Moreover, these two arms are very strong, so Xing Ye can go to the mine to mine.
Cao Qian said enviously, "Can you give me a new body? I can also let Little Nick fix it."
Old Nick shook his head and said, "You can't do it. Replacing parts is easy, but changing the body requires moving the core. Master Benedict only taught me how to adjust the core line, but he didn't teach me how to transfer the core."
Cao Qian lowered her head in disappointment. She also wanted to have two arms as strong as steel.