The silver electric vehicle was not some trendy brand, but the kind that simply had a motor added to it. During Feng Xue's childhood, this type of vehicle was usually called an "electric donkey." If there was any difference from those ordinary electric donkeys, it was probably just a layer of silver paint.
However, compared to the electric donkey, which seemed rather devalued in Feng Xue's eyes, the knight riding it was remarkably valiant. He was clad in bright silver armor, holding aloft a two-handed great sword over one meter six in length. This scene suddenly reminded Feng Xue of a meme he had seen in a past life—depicting Guan Yunzhang riding a bicycle alone for thousands of miles.
Seeing that the knight on the silver donkey was about to collide with the Suture Monster, Feng Xue did not have time to be shocked by this bizarre scene. He immediately activated his identification ability and focused on the knight. Subsequently, the publicly available information about the knight flooded into his mind—
Occupation: Landfill Manager
Tags: Knight, Swordsman, Strong, Manager
"These four tags are all strong... and there might even be hidden tags..." Feng Xue muttered, then activated Golden Finger. Although Golden Finger could not identify living people, it could be effective on inanimate objects, and Feng Xue was curious if this bigshot's weapon and armor had any special features.
Name: Silver Armor
Attributes: Solid, Defense, Metallic...
Name: Silver Electric Vehicle
Attributes: Transportation, Appliance, Assistance, Sturdy...
"The entries for the armor and electric donkey are quite ordinary," Feng Xue thought, wanting to check out the great sword in the knight's hand; however, he saw that its hefty blade had already collided with the Suture Monster.
Logically, the main damage from a great sword is not from cutting but from using the handle and counterweight to smash open armor, or using the sharpened tip to inflict puncture damage, or even being a pyramidal or conical blade, famously called an "Armor-Piercing Sword."
But at this moment, the weapon in the "Manager's" hand defied this common understanding. The Suture Monster's flesh, which remained undamaged even under the assault of numerous small-time henchmen's cleavers, was sliced open as easily as if by a hot knife through butter by this sword. As the great sword deeply embedded into its body, a chilling scream emitted from the splits all over the Suture Monster's body; a filthy, yellowish fluid mixed with corrupt blood sprayed out, and from the faint smoke rising, one could infer its likely high corrosiveness.
Yet the great sword seemed completely unaffected and was forcefully pulled out by the knight's terrifying power, striking it in a half-circle hard against the Suture Monster's head.
Despite looking like a creature of the undead, the Suture Monster appeared to have no clear weaknesses. Even with its head smashed to bits, it showed no sign of falling, but instead, regrew a horrifyingly grotesque head of flesh and blood, frantically waving its twisted limbs to continue its attack, and this brief skirmish reduced the electric donkey underneath the Manager to trash.
Taking advantage of this straightforward bout, Feng Xue finally aimed Golden Finger's reticle at the great sword, and a line of text subsequently emerged—
Name: Phantom Object·Great Sword
Attributes: Weapon, Sharp, Tenacity, Heavy
Description: A sword capable of cleaving through armor, often the first choice for novice swordsmen.
Note: Don't even think about it, this thing is heavy, and you won't be able to handle it.
...
"Indeed, it's a Phantom Object!" Feng Xue had this suspicion when she saw the sword ignore the corrosive fluid of the Suture Monster, and now, upon closer inspection, a bit of excitement couldn't help but arise in her heart.
After all, the knight, being the manager of this landfill, only possessed an ordinary Phantom Object as a weapon, whereas she had managed to produce the special effect-bearing Suffocation Blade using just a few corpses and a regular toy.
However, she was also well aware that since Phantom Objects were not a unique mechanism of her Golden Finger, their inherent value, if discovered by others that she possessed a Phantom Object, probably wouldn't bode well for her.
After all, she wasn't some light novel protagonist from Young Adult fiction, who could freely talk about transmigration or Golden Fingers. One must always guard against others; this was an ancient wisdom of the cultivating community.
Thinking of this, she involuntarily shrank back deeper into the alley, but her eyes stayed intently focused on the two people fighting.
It must be said, the defense of ordinary Pseudo Artifact armor was indeed mediocre. Apart from looking good, it barely offered any advantages. After just a few exchanges, the manager's Bright Silver Armor had become pitted and damaged, with some areas even corroded enough to reveal charred inner lining.
Yet, the manager seemed not to care at all, continuously swinging his Great Sword and slicing large chunks of flesh from the Suture Monster, as if he was meticulously preparing to mince it.
The filthy, twisted flesh that fell to the ground quickly lost its activity and turned into nondescript rotten meat, yet through Feng Xue's eyes, this rotten flesh still carried traces of mosaic and garbled data.
"I initially wondered why they didn't simply cremate bodies here. Now it seems, these elements probably aren't so easily destroyed. Throwing them into fire might even end up adding a burning element to the corpses..."
Feng Xue murmured to herself, while the manager's movements never ceased. Although he looked quite miserable externally, a closer observation would reveal that he hadn't actually been harmed. In contrast, the Suture Monster had already been reduced by at least two-thirds of its volume, transforming from a bloated flesh creature to something nearly the size of an ordinary human.
Even though it constantly picked up its fallen flesh from the ground, reabsorbing it back into itself, compared to the manager's rate of attack, the mindless Suture Monster's actions were far too slow.
Crack!
Another powerful horizontal sweep cut the now more mummy-like monster in half at the waist. Watching the two writhing, crawling halves, trying to regenerate, the manager showed no mercy as he swung his huge sword, smashing them into several pieces.
Until this moment, the monster finally stopped twisting altogether, and in Feng Xue's Golden Finger observation, the twisted mosaic sphere within the monster also completely dispersed, turning into sequences of garbled data residing in different parts of its flesh.
"Such strong life force... I wonder if it's a racial gift of the Suture Monsters or if all such ominous entities are like this."
Watching the monster finally die, Feng Xue thought to herself, simultaneously curious whether it was because the monster had died that the mosaic info sphere crumbled, or if it was the sphere's disintegration that truly killed the monster.
As Feng Xue pondered methods to deal with such ominous entities, a sudden tremor from her pocket occurred, and at the same time, she received an instruction from her badge—
"Fifty meters ahead, an ominous entity's corpse has been spotted. Please proceed immediately for disposal."
"???"