Xun Xie slept through the night and woke up refreshed.
Usually, he would start to make breakfast about now, but he couldn’t wait!
If what he felt was right, then he could spin the wheel himself for the first time!
His gold finger* was finally useful! (Goldfinger aka cheat ability, broken game ability, plug-in, unfair advantage. Legend has it every real protagonist has such a unique distinguishing ability to justify them being the center of the story compared to other special characters. It's the most powerful aspect of the main character other than of course, the supreme armor - plot armor. Each broken ability is like a game cheat or hack/plug-in and can be nicknamed gold finger. Likened to Midas's touch from the old tales from the absurdity such outrageous abilities offer in context.)
Xun Xie quickly looked inside his mind and found the stone wheel.
There were several minor changes that collectively gave it a completely different look The stone became smooth like a clay sculpture; its edge had a circular white gold thin line.
The main wheel's eight sections all have a weak glow to each symbol, the hourglass glowed dark gold, the three coins glowed with verdant green, the crown glowed purple-white, and the cloak had a colorless glow that could be perceived. The other four sections all glowed pale white. These gave the stone wheel an ancient yet mystical feel.
The smaller auxiliary wheel was also glowing in a rainbow light.
The hourglass’s ability was unknown for now, but the three coins were Treasure Seeker, the crown Great Clarity, and the cloak-like symbol Invisibility.
The hourglass was there from the beginning which was odd.
“Typically, the moment they are activated I also get to use them but of the eight only three happened like that so it's too soon to use them as the benchmark, I’ll just have to keep testing what each means.”
Xun Xie quickly spun the wheel but failed, then he realized 24 hours weren't exactly gone yet, it was just a different day.
Waiting patiently...
He spun the wheel.
“Haha. It’s just as I thought I can finally spin it myself!”
The wheel became to spin and finally, the pointer stopped.
“You spun the lottery wheel and won Treasure Seeker in 1 meter.”
“Duration: 1 day”
“Critical activated: Thousand critical obtained”
“Treasure seeker within 1000 meters gained.
Xun Xie finally saw the small wheel move.
“So that’s what it is for. A critical which multiplies the effect of the prize so with the numbers it can multiply by 0, 2, 10, 1000 and 10, 000!”
“So, treasure seeking within a kilometer and invisibility for 10 000 seconds?”
Xun Xie burst into peals of maniacal laughter that startled the birds and didn’t settle down for a long time.
If the villagers were alive, they would have probably come to beat his mouth shut.
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"Under the old tree 110 meters away from you, there are three non-toxic shiitake mushrooms, that are delicious ingredients."
"Eighty-six meters downstream of the creek on the other side of the valley, near a large boulder, there is a red aquatic plant, which has therapeutic effects on internal and external injuries."
"Deep under the pile of rocks and into the soil ninety-eight meters to the right, there is a 500-year-old ginseng."
“47 meters to the left there are two pure gray mushrooms growing among red spotted poisonous gray mushrooms that have blood clotting and mild healing effects on internal and external injuries.
…
Xun Xie walked into the valley with a bamboo thread basket on his back and a hoe in his hand. Wherever he went, he would reap the rewards.
He was so happy in his heart that there were treasures wherever he went, and he would go wherever there were treasures.
Happy happy happy
Picking up from morning to afternoon.
The bamboo basket is almost full.
Xun Xie looked around, and under the guidance of the golden finger, he swept the entire valley like a carpet.
He found that there are many beasts in the valley, such as moose deer, grass snakes, wild boars, and various birds and insects.
No large beasts were encountered.
"There should be no beasts that eat people. After all, there is a village in the valley." Xun Xie thought. That bear was probably the overlord of this area, and it was all his territory so other man-eating beasts shouldn’t be near after all such beasts are vicious and would compete with the bear.
That bear couldn’t be an herbivore, could it? Maybe this world is different Xun Xie thought hopefully.
It's getting late.
Xun Xie has already gained a lot and plans to go back.
But right now!
"Go straight ahead for 450 meters, there is a cave, and there is a bag of gold, silver, and jewelry in the cave."
Xun Xie was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed.
"Gold and silver, jewelry, a bag..."
This is the rhythm of making a fortune!
Xun Xie’s spirit was lively making three steps in parallel, quickly running forward, passing through two adjacent trees, and pushing aside a tall wormwood bush.
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Suddenly!
A low, dark hole came into view.
Wealth moved people's hearts, and Xun Xie didn't even think about it, he just plunged into the hole.
Suddenly, he heard something.
From the cave!
The heavy whirring sound was like the sound of a dull drum.
Xun Xie stopped abruptly, blinked his eyes, and fixed his eyes on the hole. With the weak sunlight, gradually, a huge and bloated outline was outlined in his sight.
"Fuck, the bear from earlier!"
Xun Xie's body tightened.
This is obviously a bear cave!
He sent himself to the door!
Fortunately, the brown bear was sleeping soundly.
Otherwise, Xun Xie might be bitten to death today possibly.
Thinking about it, wandering alone in the wild, picking up treasures casually, how could you not encounter any danger?
Animals have some intelligence as well, if it’s a good thing then they will want it too although that wasn’t the case on this occasion overall, that was the case.
Opportunities hide risks.
The golden finger indicates that there is a treasure somewhere, but it doesn't say that the place must be safe.
Xun Xie was careless!
He stepped back step by step, but he never thought that his heel suddenly stepped on a branch.
I just heard a crackling sound coming out!
‘Fuck my luck today! Is this a movie? Is the director plotting against me? I won’t trip when running will I?’
"Grrr!" The brown bear shook his ears, opened his eyes suddenly, and turned his head to look out of the cave.
Xun Xie and Master Bear's eyes met.
Seeing the dazed look turn into a ferocious one he shivered.
He was a thin child with a hoe, and he couldn't threaten the bear at all.
Turn around, pull your legs, and run.
Behind him, there was a terrifying roar.
‘So, it isn’t an herbivore.’
Xun Xie didn't turn his head back, he ran wildly with the strength of vegetables and shuttled back and forth in the woods.
Running and running, I stumbled on my feet.
The left foot tripped over something.
Xun Xie stumbled and fell, rolling around on the ground several times, and spinning around, and his body hurt when he fell.
‘Fuck it actually happened!’
His small body was partly to blame, he still wasn’t used to it yet and had the false perception his feet could reach places where it couldn’t.
The bamboo basket was also thrown from the body, and the treasures that were picked up after a hard day were scattered all over the place.
Not caring about this, Xun Xie got up and continued to run.
He rushed to the stream in one breath, and Xun Xie waded over, guessing that the brown bear would not be able to cross the river too fast, so he dared to look back.
However, he found that the brown bear was standing upright, standing beside a big tree more than 30 meters away, looked at him like a demonstration for a while, then turned back.
Xun Xie breathed a sigh of relief.
‘Looks like I’m likely outside of its territory'
Xun Xie now remembered that it had some scars on its back, if those were from humans then that would also explain its wariness in pursuing him, human hunting basically consisted of bait and tricks after all.
It was only at this time that the burning pain in the body hit.
Hands, knees, elbows, and buttocks, fell and bruised in many places, and crimson blood oozes.
Xun Xie was speechless when the old injury was not healed, and the new injury was added.
Waited there for a while and watched the distance carefully with his ears pricked up.
It wasn't until he confirmed that the brown bear had really returned and would not appear again, then Xun Xie went back carefully and picked up all the bamboo baskets and the scattered treasures.
He limped back to the Temple of the Earth after killing a bird with his newly made slingshot a product of his naughty childhood in his past life.
Xun Xie lay on the bed and rested for a while, and suddenly remembered that there was a red aquatic plant in the harvest, which seemed to be a medicinal material, which could treat internal and external injuries. There were also two gray mushrooms that had similar descriptions that he had picked.
He hurriedly searched for it, washed them with well water, stuffed them into his mouth, chewed it to pieces, and swallowed it all.
Afterward, Xun Xie boiled water to cook and put the other edible mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, plucked bird he had been roasting, a small piece of Ganoderma lucidum, a piece of 500 year old wild ginseng, and other ingredients into the pot and simmered them, and ate a full meal.
After the meal, Xun Xie felt a dry heat rising up in his body, and his whole body felt drunk, and fell asleep immediately.
The next day, when Xun Xie woke up, he found that it was noon.
A look at his body, a miracle happened!
The wounds I suffered yesterday are all scabbed and basically healed. My body feels unspeakably comfortable. It seems that the internal injuries are also healed.
"So miraculous?!"
Xun Xie was overjoyed, the medicinal effect of the red aquatic plant was surprisingly good, beyond imagination. The mushrooms and small pieces of 500 year old ginseng could also be responsible for the rapid recovery.
However, when he thought of that brown bear, Xun Xie became furious and a little scared. He didn’t think about it before but now the threat was clear.
Such a ferocious beast lives in the valley, what if one night while he is asleep, he will break in to hunt for food?
There is no room for a brown bear to sleep on the side of the couch, this dangerous beast must be killed!
What's more, there is a bag of gold and silver jewelry in the black bear cave.
Xun Xie made up his mind and went to the ruins of the village to search again.
It's a pity that he didn't find any hunting tools such as bows and arrows and animal traps. There were some in one house, but they were broken, and he wasn’t that handy to be able to repair them.
Or make a trap?
For example, dig a deep pit, insert some sharpened wooden thorns in the pit, and wait for the brown bear to fall into it.
Xun Xie thought about it carefully, digging deep pits is a physical task, and his small physique will definitely not be able to bear it. His meat had run out as well.
Besides, the valley is so big, how can we guarantee that the brown bear will fall into the trap? This is also a problem.
Who knew if it had special abilities as well, this was a new world after all.
Xun Xie thought about it, but there was nothing he could do. Hunting brown bears had to be a long-term plan.
It's time to spin the wheel again.
Xun Xie quickly spun the lottery wheel with high expectations.
It’s slowing down!
He thought happily.
‘This momentum…it’s going to stop on one of the four unknown symbols that immediately appeared after the fourth unique symbol appeared on the main wheel’
He was finally going to get a new ability!
What was it?
Xun Xie couldn’t wait for the wheel to stop.
Finally!
“Thank you for your patronage!”
“No Duration. Daily Spin consumed.”
“Critical unavailable.”
Xun Xie: “…”
..
…
…
“What the fuck! No prize!”
Xun Xie felt cheated, all his hopes were dashed.
What unique ability!
This was clearly a placeholder section on the wheel that black-hearted businessmen baited customers with.
Only these are prizes, and the others are included but will not give a prize and are a waste of money!
An age-old con!
“So, in actuality, there are only three real prizes? No, the four symbols are the same, but the hourglass is different, it should be the same as the other three, so there should be four prizes.”
Xun Xie was very pissed that his eight abilities were now halved.
Suddenly!
"Anyone there?"
"I heard a strange noise. Who is in the temple?"
A voice came from outside the temple gate.
Xun Xie was taken aback, someone is here!
He immediately pinned the hoe to his waist, opened the temple door, and saw a young man and woman standing at the door.
"Yin Shen, it's you!" The young man raised his eyebrows and shouted at Xun Xie.
"?"
Xun Xie didn't know them but found he could understand what they were saying.
"Yin Shen, what happened, what about the people in the village?" the young man asked.
Xun Xie didn't know how to answer him, what if he showed his feet revealing that the previous owner of this body was gone.
At this time, the woman wearing the hood said, "If you ask him what he does, he is a fool, even stupider than a pig, and he can't speak well."
What I'm a fool?
Xun Xie was surprised.
Sure enough, the young man stopped asking questions, hurried to the entrance, and glanced around the house, "Yo, I didn't expect you to be able to live a good life as an idiot. You have brought all the good things in the village."
The hooded woman also broke into the temple, looked around, and sighed, "I didn't expect that we would go back to my mother's house, and then the village would be gone, it must have been looted by robbers, and everyone was killed. "
“I even went through the trouble of buying a learning pamphlet so that annoying brat sister of mine can learn to read and write faster like she was hounding me for, Ptah! Why is she doing it for her and not me, so what if you know how to read and write you can’t use it anyways in this beat-down old village, but more importantly who’s going to pay me back now, I was robbed of 50 copper coins!”
Suddenly, she saw a package by the bedside, she reached out and took it in her hand. When she opened it, a dirty gold coin, forty-three taels of silver, and hundreds of copper coins were scattered all over the place.