Chapter 171 – 126: Ke Mingye’s Second Heart Implant
“Finally, some free time. I haven’t opened those three equipment cards yet. Maybe they’ll yield some good stuff.”
Ke Mingye entered the room, leaned against the door with a tired sigh, and casually locked it.
Then he slumped onto the bed and called up his inventory panel with a thought. His gaze moved down to locate the equipment cards he picked up during the Ninja Sect incident and used them all at once.
[You have used one A-rank equipment card and two C-rank equipment cards, obtaining one A-rank equipment (or item) and two C-rank equipment (or items). Please check your inventory for details.]
Ke Mingye glanced at the inventory list and began tapping on the newly acquired items, from top to bottom.
Introduction panels popped up one after another.
[Equipment Name: Lie Detector Necklace]
[Equipment Rank: C-rank]
[Equipment Ability: 1. Press the necklace to confirm within 10 seconds whether the other party is lying. (Cooldown time of 24 hours).]
[Equipment Description: Nobody hates lies more than I do, but you can lie all you want during my cooldown; I won’t be able to tell.]
“Feels like it’s usually me who’s lying, not the other way around,” Ke Mingye thought, “But mixing with the old man is next, and who knows when he might set a trap for me. This necklace could come in handy.”
He looked at the introduction panel for the next item.
[Item Name: Bluebird Scout Plane]
[Item Rank: C-rank]
[Item Abilities: 1. You can release a mini Bluebird Scout Plane and share its vision; 2. You can switch places with the Bluebird Scout Plane once, which will destroy the scout plane immediately after the switch.]
[Equipment Description: The Bluebird Scout Plane is a very principled device, a true gentleman among scout planes. It hopes you don’t use it for weird things, so it has set some rules: “NO bathhouses!”, “NO toilets!”, “NO upskirts!”]
“It’s got a good cost-performance ratio. It can be used for gathering intelligence, and at the very least, it can act as a mobility skill…”
As Ke Mingye thought this, he suddenly raised an eyebrow: “Wait, doesn’t it sound a bit like the old man’s ability? The internet analysts have been analyzing frame by frame, and they say that dad’s ability is to create crows and then switch places with them, which is why he’s so elusive.”
He didn’t think much about it, as he could use the “Animal Communication Skill” to work with the Black Cat “Yuri” in a few days and find out what Ke Youqing’s superpower really was.
However, with Qing Ya’s danger level so high, it was certainly not only his superpower that was strong; his physical fitness and neurological reaction were also far beyond other superhumans.
Speaking of which, Ke Mingye had always been curious why the system only rated dad’s strength at A+, even when big brother and now second brother had A++ rank power levels.
But then again, he realized that Qing Ya’s prowess lay elsewhere—decades of combat experience, extensive strategic preparation, intelligence-gathering, and scouting abilities. Given enough time to prepare, big brother and second brother, despite slightly stronger stats on their panels, might still be defeated by him.
Ke Mingye continued to scroll down, focusing on the third piece of equipment that appeared in his inventory.
[Equipment Name: Second Artificial Heart]
[Equipment Rank: A-rank] Experience more tales on
[Equipment Abilities:
1. After equipping, a “second heart” will form inside your body; every time you receive a non-fatal massive injury, the second heart will automatically repair your body and give you a short-term significant attribute boost;
2. The second heart can help you enter a “feigned death” state at any time, and you can cancel it at any time;
3. If you take a fatal blow, the second artificial heart will completely absorb the damage for you, but as a trade-off, it will destroy itself after 2 minutes.]
[Equipment Description: Life is so hard, everyone should have a second heart. One heart simply can’t withstand all the wear and tear, right?]
“Looks like a last-ditch effort activator, plus a resurrection coin,” Ke Mingye thought, “Pretty good for a survivor player like me, but the idea of an extra heart inside just sounds so creepy.”
He hesitated for a moment, then moved his fingers to try on the “Second Artificial Heart.”
The next moment, Ke Mingye felt his chest suddenly fill up, as if some hollow space was being filled.
Immediately after, he heard two hearts beating inside his body—their rhythms slightly offset, creating an almost continuous sound in his ears.
It was excessively noisy, almost enough to drive a person insane long-term.
“I can’t let any puppet use this heart, because if the puppet takes a fatal blow, triggering the third effect of the artificial heart, it will destroy itself after 2 minutes.”
Ke Mingye held his chest, firmly remembering the heart should only be used at a critical moment.
To use the third ability to weather a critical fatal blow, and then the second ability to feign death within the 2 minutes before the heart’s destruction, it could be a method to narrowly escape death.
Soon, he removed the heart, and the oppressive and swollen feeling in his chest vanished.
“I’ve looked over the equipment; it’s time to chat with that cat.”
Ke Mingye exhaled and left the room, opening the door. Not seeing Yuri in the hallway, he moved downstairs.
Ke Xiaomo was sitting on the sofa with her shoulders hugged, accompanying Ke Yinzhi in rewatching the “Dune Trilogy” on TV.