Chapter 28: Bionic Prosthesis_1

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California, USA, a recycling station located on the edge of a downtown area.

The site measured roughly a thousand square meters, surrounded on all sides by walls that let in no light.

The nearby residents all knew about this special recycling station. Its ownership had changed a few days ago, and it no longer accepted glass, plastic, or cardboard. Instead, it collected various broken home appliances, broken bionic limbs, broken cell phones, small cars, and other items containing metal and electronic components.

At that moment, the gate of the recycling station was tightly closed, with a sign hanging on it that read "Closed today due to unforeseen circumstances".

A man in his thirties stood in front of the door leaning on a crutch, knocking on the door with an anxious heart.

"Hello, is anyone there? Is there someone in there?"

There was no response from inside, but the camera above the door moved, and a voice emanated.

"The door is open, come on in."

No sooner had the voice stopped when there was a buzzing sound like that of electric motor gears turning, and the steel gate was pulled open by a mechanical hydraulic rod.

The man stepped inside with a sense of amazement, limping along as he took a difficult look around at his surroundings.

It was a spacious road flanked by mounds of various electronic waste, with different brands of cell phones and an array of laptops or desktop computers.

There were electronic products and industrial machinery whose names he couldn't pronounce, with hundreds of discarded wires interwoven among them. The overall impression was one of a cold metallic feel, chaotic yet possessing a unique sense of beauty.

The man took a few more steps and caught sight of something terrifying out of the corner of his eye, causing him to lose his grip on his crutch and fall to the ground.

It was a human hand, mixed amongst various metal electronic components!

After regaining his composure, he took a closer look and realized it was just a bionic limb, so lifelike that he hadn't recognized it in his initial panic.

A minute later, the man finally squeezed his way out from the electronic waste to the end of the road, where there stood a modestly sized low building. The door of the building was ajar, and with heavy steps, he pushed it open and walked straight in.

What caught the man's eye was not some filthy ragpicker, but a young man who was seriously testing a circuit board using a multimeter at the workbench.

He didn't see the person he had been hoping to meet, but he nonetheless asked politely, "Hello, may I know where Dr. Qin is?"

"I am Dr. Qin."

"You're Jess, aren't you?"

Qin Ming looked at the man and smiled before pointing to an iron stool that had been welded together from metal pipes. "Please have a seat for a while, I need to finish repairing this bionic limb's mainboard."

Seeing the young man state his name, Jess sat down, his weathered face showing traces of doubt. He hadn't expected the real Dr. Qin to look so young.

As he said this, he continued working at the bench, picking up the soldering iron, using tweezers to grip the delicate conductor wire, and carefully soldering it onto the circuit where the current had been zero. His hands moved nonstop, completing the soldering in just over ten seconds, then applied insulating green oil and cured it with ultraviolet light.

He tested the current and found it was normal, then moved on to a machine test. Qin Ming placed it inside a mechanical prosthetic shaped like a lower leg, connected it to a computer with instruments, ran some software, and tested its functions. The mechanical prosthetic performed the actions of a human lower leg walking and a few seconds later, running, with five electronic mechanical toes moving flexibly up and down.

The computer software indicated a pass, and the movement functions were normal. OK, the repair was complete.

He removed the bionic limb from the testing equipment and brought it to Jess, "As you can see, if there are no issues, you can make the final payment now."

Jess looked at the bionic limb that had obviously been rushed to repair and felt very unreliable inside. His mouth twitched as he said, "Dr. Qin, is there any chance I could not make the final payment?"

"Sure, but then the deposit isn't returned," Qin Ming nodded and still smiled.

Jess was momentarily stunned, then smiled bitterly. Considering the price at which RST Corporation sold them, he decided to give it a try.

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"As long as the price is right, it's not unusable, right?"

The key issue is Dr. Qin's price, which is less than one-tenth of the market price for tailor-made bionic limbs, and that's the best he could offer.

With a trying-won't-hurt attitude, Jess helplessly said, "Then forget it, I'll pay now."

After reluctantly transferring the money to the other party's account, he stood up as directed by Dr. Qin and lay down on the operating table with trepidation.

On the operating table, Qin Ming securely fixed the man down and administered an anesthetic injection to his lower limb.

After preparing, he lifted up Jess's right leg, revealing that nothing was below the knee. Under the surgical light, the emptiness was starkly apparent.

This man named Jess had lost his right lower leg.

"Don't move"

After issuing a reminder, Qin Ming picked up a scalpel with his right hand and began to remove the already healed scar tissue on the stump of the leg, carefully avoiding major blood vessels and using telekinesis to clamp the smaller vessels of the skin and muscles. Except for some minor bleeding from the tiny capillaries, there was no major hemorrhage.

Having exposed the fresh wound surface he would need, Qin Ming connected the prosthetic's bionic neural circuitry to the nerves controlling the muscles of the lower leg – the deep peroneal and tibial nerves, one by one. With the aid of telekinesis, in less than a second, a dozen of the major nerves controlling the muscles were linked together.

After the nerves were connected, it was time for the bones. He used special tools to fix the titanium alloy framework of the lower leg to Jess's fibula and tibia tightly together.

What seemed most difficult to outsiders was now complete, and what remained was the final touches. Qin Ming calmly wrapped the connection area of the bionic limb with gauze.

Qin Ming glanced at the countdown clock; he had spent ten minutes and finally finished the job.

He told the man to get up.

Jess slowly stood, looking at his right lower leg where the bionic limb had been installed. He was excited and wanted to try it immediately but was stopped by Qin Ming.

"Don't rush. You can only stand on this foot tomorrow."

As it turned out, this was his first practice piece.

"The surgery was a success. You can go now," Qin Ming said, effectively dismissing him.

"Wait, just like this, won't I get an infection?"

"The interface between the bionic limb and flesh has a silver ion coating, which effectively prevents bacterial infection. If you're still worried, I recommend buying a box of antibiotics."

Jess left excitedly yet apprehensively. As the door closed tightly behind him, Qin Ming looked at the webpage on his computer screen, deep in thought.

He had been in this world for five days now, and according to his judgment, this should be the world of "Blood Warrior," though significantly deviating from the original plot.

"Blood Warrior" is a movie adapted from an American Warrior Comics, similar to Marvel and DC.

The movie tells the story of an amnesiac soldier transformed by RST Corporation using nanomechanical worms, becoming a version of Wolverine with weakened regenerative powers and enhanced strength.

He was filled with various false memories, becoming a reusable killing machine to complete assassination missions by proxy. In his past life, Qin Ming thought the movie was full of logical fallacies, essentially a cheesy American revenge action film, though the special effects and action scenes were quite good.

The cutting-edge technology of this world is more advanced than that of "endless" and Earth, having the ability to edit memory footage on a computer and transmit it into the brain via nanomechanical worms to form false memories, but it still has significant flaws as subjects could doubt the authenticity of these memories.

In the original story, RST Corporation was just a private enterprise, with the so-called Nanites, or nanomechanical worms, being the height of their black technology; the company was eventually destroyed by the protagonist and never appeared before the public eye.

However, in this world, RST Corporation has become a global superconglomerate known on the surface primarily for producing civilian products such as bionic limbs, but also involved in military products like powered exoskeletons.

It was as though the protagonist of the original narrative had never appeared, a major plot discrepancy which led Qin Ming to believe that some significant, unknown event must have occurred in this world.