บท 1404: Swooping in

"It broke down??"

Hao Xuan was more shocked by that than by the news of a functioning construct being found.

"Yes, from what I could tell," the ape pointed at the spine of the construct, "There was an important piece here that has deteriorated over the course of countless years. You can see the damage done to it."

Hao Xuan walked around to get a better look and like the ape said, there was a nest of broken glass tubes sitting at the base of where the spine would be in a human being. There were countless tiny holes along the length of the tubes and something that looked like sand.

'That's not supposed to happen,' he thought to himself but chose not to say anything to the ape.

"I cannot quite figure out what kind of exotic material it is made of but the rest is relatively simple. I have narrowed the crafting recipes to 87, so a combination of two of those recipes should be enough."