"What will happen if I smell this perfume? I won't die immediately, will I?"
Li Peifeng cautiously asked the system, but this time there was no response.
In fact, he was very curious about this perfume. After all, it came from the Magic Plane, and not only was it the hardest to draw from the roulette, but its description was also the longest, indicating the rarity and uniqueness of the Breath of the Nether Sea.
But this thing didn't even have a manual, and the item's description looked very terrifying, making Li Peifeng uneasy...
This Breath of the Nether Sea reminded him of a movie he had seen called "Perfume."
In the movie, the protagonist was an orphan who was bullied and excluded by those around him from a young age. When he grew up, he became a perfumer and killed 15 young girls to extract their body scents just to create the most fragrant perfume in the world.
When the perfume was completed, his deeds were exposed. He was tied to the guillotine in the square to face legal judgment.
During the trial, the protagonist poured a bit of the perfume onto a handkerchief. The breeze carried the handkerchief away, and the scent of the perfume spread throughout the square.
A moment ago, the judge and spectators were about to rip the murderer of 15 girls into pieces, but the next moment, as the protagonist took out the perfume, everyone revered him as if seeing a deity. Some thought he was an angel, others God; no one considered him a murderer.
Even the father of one of the victims forgave him, walked to the execution platform, and tearfully asked to accept him as a son.
The crowd of tens of thousands, enveloped in the perfume, shed their clothes, and engaged in a wild orgy... it was a classic scene in film history.
Astonishing and bewildering.
However, the protagonist, who longed for love, was very disappointed. He believed people were infatuated with his perfume, not with him as its creator. The perfume could induce an invincible sense of love, but people only loved the scent derived from those 15 girls, not him, the living person.
The protagonist could use the perfume to enchant the world and reach the pinnacle, but he knew it was an illusion and thus disdained it.
In the movie's conclusion, the protagonist poured the entire bottle of perfume over his head on the street, thinking it would restore his true self.
The passersby, succumbing to the perfume's power, swarmed him like zombies seeing the living, devouring him alive.
Skin, bones, nothing left.
All that remained on the ground was his clothes, torn to shreds.
Compared to the movie's perfume, the method of making the Breath of the Nether Sea seemed even more complicated and cruel, with potentially even more domineering effects...
"What will happen if someone smells this perfume? Answer me!"
After asking for a long time with no answer from the system, Li decided to act cautiously. He ceremoniously placed the perfume in the drawer, then used his phone to order a gas mask and several white mice from an online shopping site.
He planned to conduct an experiment first, testing the perfume's effects, safety, and appropriate dosage before using it, as Li Peifeng felt uneasy otherwise.
When he opened the raffle wheel again, wanting to draw again, he found the wheel had changed. The grid originally belonging to [Item: Perfume·Breath of the Nether Sea] had disappeared, replaced by a [5% (Modification) Flawless Face].
"Every time you draw, it's replaced by a prize of the same level."
Li Peifeng understood and began the last two rounds of drawing.
Perhaps it was because he had washed away his bad luck after bathing--in the last two draws, he obtained [Modification: Steel Kidney] and the replacement for the perfume, [Modification: Flawless Face].
[This is a revolutionary technology achieved by the BC23 Tech Plane's cosmetic industry in the year 3288. By changing the structure of the human dermal tissue, it reduces the influence of external substances and internal hormones on facial skin, restoring a baby-like skin texture. Meanwhile, the modified person will completely bid farewell to problems like excessive sebum secretion, enlarged pores, rosacea, melasma, freckles, and pigmentation, and will cure and prevent skin conditions like acne, scars, pimples, and pustules. (No cosmetic surgery needed, meet the most beautiful self.)]
"Really? I don't believe it!"
"Because personally, my looks can't be improved anymore!"
"Any change at all would be an insult to my parents' genes and to the Creator!"
Li Peifeng expressed doubt about the latter but was full of anticipation for the "Steel Kidney."
Because his college life had been too debauched, during four undergraduate years, he would meet two new girls almost every week and quickly get involved. He was a VIP at nearby hotels, bringing girls home from time to time.
This led to a decline in his functionality after starting grad school, and he couldn't indulge anymore. He now often felt uninterested, frequently exhausted and tired.
Wolfberries, velvet antler, and rehmannia pills were regular items at home, but they only warmed him, unable to restore past glory.
However, the Steel Kidney offered Li Peifeng a chance to return to his peak, even to break human limits.
"Let me see your black technology in action, system...huh?"
"By the way, system, are you a surgeon who harvests kidneys without anesthesia?"
But what confused Li Peifeng was that after drawing these two modification rewards, he waited foolishly for several minutes without any reaction.
[Steel Kidney, modification complete.]
[Flawless Face, modification complete.]
"When did it start?"
"So fast?"
Just as Li Peifeng was about to get up to do something, he saw the system suddenly pop up a notification, startling him. He quickly took off his shirt, went shirtless to the living room mirror, and carefully observed his face, trying to identify any changes.
The transformation was actually quite obvious. Though Li Peifeng's features remained the same, his face, initially dull and rough due to the hunger and pressure of system tasks over the past few days, became rosy and smooth, full of elasticity.
The couple of folliculitis spots from shaving on his chin had also disappeared, leaving not a single flaw. His pores were tight and delicate, so his skin felt like a baby's bottom—quite a sensation...
Looking at his handsome face in the mirror, Li Peifeng grew more and more amazed, even feeling somewhat unfamiliar.
"Damn, I take back my previous evaluation. Nothing changed, yet everything changed!"
"I want to kiss—I really want to kiss myself. Ah, I can hardly resist..."
"How the hell did I become so handsome?!"
After indulging in his stunning good looks for a while, Li Peifeng remembered his kidney had also been modified. He snapped out of his narcissistic state and quickly felt his abdomen and back with both hands.
No wounds or scars, no strange feelings inside.
"Have these kidneys...changed at all?"
While pondering this, Li Peifeng suddenly felt an intense thirst and instinctively rushed to the kitchen, eagerly turning on the faucet to drink water.
"Glug~Glug~"
Who knew how much he drank, as the water gushed down his esophagus into his body.
"Ahh~"
Breathing became rapid at the sink, and Li Peifeng's whole body was drenched in sweat, as if he had entered a sauna.
Unable to resist, he touched his lower back again, where the two kidneys were now itching like crazy. He seemed to feel the rapid expansion of his large arterial blood vessels, with those new kidneys pulsating with the rush of blood flow.
Never before so robust, powerful, and vigorous!
Subsequently, an urge to urinate swept over him, and he bolted to the bathroom.
Pants down, floodgates open!
"Whoosh~~"
Powerful, torrential, almost like thunder—felt like he might shoot through the toilet.
Li Peifeng's complexion became more radiant, sensing endless energy within. Hearing the whooshing water, he suddenly thought the system wasn't so unpleasant after all; this mooching life didn't seem too hard to endure...
Li Peifeng muttered in realization, "System, oh system, are you trying to get me to enjoy being a freeloader with these two steel kidneys?"
"I tell you, no way! My steely spine and unwavering will are as clear as day...unless you add an implant!"