In the past, Yun You often saw a phrase on the internet.

"Three years a minor official, one hundred thousand gold."

Nest City bureaucrats had countless ways to make money, even the lowest-tier clerks could rake in thousands upon thousands of wealth.

Naturally, Yang Lie's role as Civil Protection Officer was no exception.

One year in office had made him quite affluent.

Priceless famous calligraphy and paintings nearly covered every wall of his treasury.

Expensive limited edition cigars and spirits were piled like small mountains, and they weren't just overpriced luxury goods, but readily liquidifiable hard currency.

There were also various luxurious cars Yun You could name... there was even a personal aircraft.

However, the young girl wasn't really interested in these things.

Ultimately, her attention was drawn to "weapons."

As an Apprentice Death God, it was natural that Yang Lie's treasure trove didn't lack prosthetic weapons.

The all too common Mantis Blades were, of course, everywhere.

And rarer, powerful weapons were also abundantly present.

For instance, the "Giant Ape Arm" that could enhance bone hardness, allowing hands to exert tens of tons of force; or the "Memory Alloy Blade" that could unleash a thousand cuts in an instant.

Yang Lie was very fond of prosthetic weapons, and a third of the money he had acquired was spent on weapons and modifying himself.

But unfortunately, there were no high-level prosthetic weapons here, like the "military level" prosthetics; the highest level available were just a few police-level blades.

But that's normal.

The technology for military prosthetics is exceedingly advanced, and ordinary workshops simply can't forge them, and even giant corporations need to expend huge resources to produce them.

This is no exaggeration; a senior engineer at a biotechnology company once said that the value of a military-level prosthetic almost compares to a modern destroyer.

Only Death Gods and Mercenaries at the top of the pyramid have the qualification to acquire them.

That's precisely why Yang Lie couldn't bear to destroy the remnants of the "Nanometer Vajra Bone" inside him, because even this police-level prototype was an exceedingly rare treasure to him.

Yun You wasn't accustomed to using prosthetic weapons.

Her body was in excellent condition; she had no desire to replace her muscles and nerves with steel machinery.

Moreover, her current physique was already sufficient to use her Red Scale several times in battle, making the selection of other weapons rather insignificant.

However, Yun You could use another method to utilize these weapons.

She looked up and down at the pile of prosthetics like a mountain in front of her, picking and choosing, finally picking up a silver long blade.

Under the detection of the reconnaissance chip, the weapon's attribute panel immediately appeared before her eyes.

[Blade of the Tiger Hour: Bloodletting Tachi (Police Level)]

[Produced by Night Rain Company]

[Suggested Retail Price: 1.6 million Yabi]

This was the first time Yun You had touched a weapon worth millions.

This amount of money was enough for a lower-class family of three to live for a lifetime, yet here it had become something Yang Lie casually tossed into the storage room as a collectible.

"The brand premium is too severe."

Yun You sighed lightly and shook her head.

A police-level weapon prosthetic should normally be priced around 700,000, with those from small black-market workshops costing only around 300,000.

But as long as it bore the name of a giant corporation, its value directly increased several fold.

That's the value of a brand.

But there was no helping it; after all, they were giant corporations...

Of course, to Yun You, the manufacturer of a weapon was utterly irrelevant.

With slight exertion, the Red Scale on her wrist summoned several beams of red light, forming an illusionary massive mouth, and in a few bites, it devoured the tachi outright.

"Crunch! Crunch!"

The massive mouth chewed a few times, quickly extracting the rare metals from the blade.

Before long, this multi-million-yabi long blade was reduced to just a peach wood handle.

Much like Yun You, her Red Scale also possessed the "devour" ability.

However, Red Scale didn't consume the flesh and proteins of living organisms but various rare metals.

Previously, after devouring a civilian-grade Mantis Blade, it evolved into the "Blade" form.

Yun You eagerly anticipated what changes it would undergo after consuming the police-level tachi.

[D2 level metal absorption complete, Red Scale evolution progress: 32%]

[Blade Form, unlocked, current sealed level: LV1]

[Giant Claw Form, unlocked, current sealed level: LV1]

[Dragon Gun Form, temporarily unlocked, current sealed level: LV0]

[Please continue to devour rare metals for the next stage to unlock new skills for the Giant Claw Form]

...

Although Red Scale successfully absorbed the rare metals, it did not directly evolve as before, but instead only advanced its progress bar by a third.

Seeing this, Yun You was initially stunned, feeling that the evolution requirement was quite high... after all, the rare metals it devoured were not cheap, even after excluding product markup and processing costs, they were at least worth around 200,000.

In today's era, the various complex indicators of special metals have been unified, using the first letter "D" of the natural world's hardest substance - Diamond - as the unit, ranging from 1 to 15.

The higher the number, the better the metal's various properties, whether "hardness" or "toughness," are more or less superior to lower numbers, and the reverse is weaker.

D2 metal has properties that are 30% to 50% better than D1 metal, considered quite a strong police metal; generally, the main armor belt of blast-resistant vehicles uses this grade of alloy.

Yet it failed to satiate Red Scale.

But after thinking it over, Yun You came to terms.

Red Scale's evolution is not an incremental enhancement akin to squeezing out toothpaste but an exponential increase.

The growth of power is quite fair; the higher the return, the greater the investment often required.

Yun You glanced around.

Police prosthetics are expensive, and even a wealthy boss like Yang Lie only had three in his collection.

One of which was the alloy prosthetic blade on his arm, which long before his death, Yun You had already pocketed, and naturally became a meal for Red Scale.

The final weapon, however, was quite odd.

It was a purple oddity, somewhat resembling a geoduck clam, about half a meter long, but the surface was soft, like an eel, and even emitted electrical sparks.

[Kato's Discharge Type (Police Level... Doubtful)]

[Produced by Tian Shang Company]

[Suggested Retail Price: 800,000 Yabi]

This thing's price was much cheaper than the tachi, but for some reason, Yun You felt... it didn't quite seem like a weapon.

Furthermore...

"I remember Tian Shang Company makes toys."

"Could it be that a toy company is now moonlighting as a weapons maker?"

Yun You furrowed her brows slightly, unable to comprehend.

But she didn't dwell on it too much and directly tossed this bizarre long strip toy into Red Scale's phantom mouth.

"Eat up, once you're done you can evolve..."

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