"Unexpected, right? The prosthetic limbs of these dolls actually fit our bodies, can be directly installed and used. Compared to exchanging for medical assistance, this is more cost-effective." He didn't look up, just softly said, "You can call me Brother Qiang."

"Qiang... Brother Qiang, then why not also install the legs?" His pant leg hung on the operating position, part of it flatly folded together.

"Why install legs, can't do more work anyway." He glanced at me, shook his head with a bitter smile, "When the body is all puppet parts, it's time to lie on the operating position, remind that silly kid not to eat, eating will be considered as completing work, his workload today should be zero."

Yes, Amao exchanged today's workload for medical services. If he doesn't find a solution soon and complete the workload, the punishment will only get heavier.

I quickly returned to my seat, told Amao about the current situation and the most sensible choice he could make: attach his residual limbs to the plastic dolls, then attach the plastic prosthetics to himself. This way, he could complete the task without affecting future work.

"Impossible! I will never attach these crappy plastic dolls to myself, I am human!"

Amao angrily grabbed a doll from the operating position, forcefully tore off its arm, "What's this? I've already assembled ten, why the heck did I lose an arm due to some stupid rule, now I have to attach my own arm to the doll's body, this is ridiculous!" He laid the doll's torso sideways, picked up his other arm with one hand, forcefully inserted it into the missing shoulder on the torso, and in that instant, the number on his operating position display changed to ten.

After struggling for a while, I had also completed nine, only needing to assemble one more doll to finish today's workload. Just as I was sighing with relief for surviving the first day unscathed, I noticed something amiss: the doll I was assembling was missing a thumb on its left hand. There were a few parts left on the operating table, I searched through them, but there was no thumb. Moreover, up to that point, I had never encountered a single thumb piece, perhaps Amao had lost it while fooling around with the inspector.

With a sense of luck, I placed the doll with the missing thumb on the operating table, silently praying for the number on the display to turn to 10.

"Ding" the display made a sound, but it had never made a sound before, this sound kept ringing, becoming more urgent. The creaking sound of leather shoes suddenly echoed from a distance, getting closer and closer!

"Did you put defective goods?" Brother Qiang next door urgently asked, "What's missing?"

"What?... The... thumb!" I trembled in my voice.

"Isn't that young man's doll hand an extra one, pull off the thumb!"

Upon hearing this, Amao quickly threw the hand over, I caught it, immediately broke off the thumb and attached it to the doll.

"It doesn't fit, it's the left hand's thumb!" I almost cried out, the factory rules didn't mention anything about defective goods, only emphasized quality with the inspector. If this defective piece was caught, I would be facing missing arms and legs! The creaking sound of leather shoes seemed to be right behind me, I was done for.

"Use this, hurry and install it!" Brother Qiang threw a left thumb over. The creaking sound stopped behind me, my mind went blank, I instinctively installed it, the thumb fitting snugly into place, and the ringing stopped.

But there was no sound of leaving behind me, I could still feel a pair of cold eyes scanning my operating position, this was my final task, I couldn't stop, I had to continue. There were only a few scattered parts left on the operating table, I took the arm left by Amao, started installing the thumb that had been torn off, striving to match every gap flawlessly. It took half a day at this thumb, and the creaking sound behind me finally rang again, the tension in my heart eased as the sound gradually faded away.

"I broke this thumb off from the parts, keep it for now, if you need it someday, give it back to me."

"Thank you, Brother Qiang, where do you think the thumb might have fallen?"

"It's also possible someone hid it."

"Hid it?"

"Don't forget, if your group turns into parts, other groups can still gain performance, don't sleep too soundly at night, if you hear the creaking sound, get up quickly, there's no such thing as quitting time here!"