Feng, who was lying on the grass, finally got out of his flashbacks as he remembered his experiences in these past few days.
Today was a free day since Mr. Wang was currently out, and both Feng and Chen did not know where he went.
Feng rested for the day, since he had extra coins for food. The good people of the village always give him some discount at the stores and could not help but be at home.
As he was about to stand up, he felt weak as a huge headache suddenly attacked him. He could barely make out something in front of him.
[Detected that the host successfully transmigrated to another world...]
[Initiating Golden Finger Gacha....]
[Connection is linked... Activating user interface...]
[Interface activated...]
[Welcome to the Golden Finger Gacha. As a wanderer from another world, a cheat is given for you to easily integrate into the new world. You are given 3 chances to pull for a 'Golden Finger'. Every cheat has its own strength, it depends on the user to bring out its full potential.]
[Waiting for host affirmation to receive the chance to get a Golden Finger...]
Feng could only sit on the ground, as his head felt clearer. 'Think about it later.' Feng nodded as a sign of affirmation.
[Affirmation acknowledged. Starting Gacha Pulls...]
[Loading First Pull...]
[First Pull - "Divine Strength"]
[Loading Second Pull...]
[Second Pull - "Dark Flame Master"]
[Loading Third Pull...]
[Third Pull - "Game System"]
[The host can pick a pull to obtain its functionality. Please pick any at your convenience.]
Feng could only look at the choices, dumbfounded. "Can you explain what these cheats are?" Feng curiously said.
Nobody responded, so Feng could only shrug his shoulders. Looking at the choices, he was already attracted to the third pull when it appeared. In his opinion, anything related to the word system and cheats are definitely overpowered.
The only thing holding him back from immediately confirming is that the Game System might be a bait, and he did not want to be trolled. His whole life in this world might depend on this choice.
Looking at 'Divine Strength', he could only infer that this gives the user crazy strength to the point of brute forcing everything. As for 'Dark Flame Master', it sounded strong but also cringe at the same time. He felt repulsed.
Thinking about it, Feng felt that Divine Strength is the safest choice. It sounds the simplest, but without the convenience of explanation of what the hell these things do, Divine Strength is just the smartest choice.
However, Feng confirmed the third pull in his heart.
[Third Pull - "Game System" has been selected.]
The reason Feng selected this is that he just wanted to follow his heart. He already lost everything; he had nothing to lose by picking what he wants.
All the choices seem fine, anyway. A cheat is a cheat. Even if he gets baited to pick the wrong one, then he could only regret it later.
[Game System binding to host 'Feng'...]
[Activating functionality...]
[Completed... Host, good luck on your journey in another world. Happy Isekai Life!]
'Happy Isekai Life... My ass! What in the world just happened?' Feng could only say as he was speechless.
The interface disappeared in front of him, and nothing seemed to change at all. He did not know if this was just him being infected by something weird because of picking up herbs and now he was hallucinating.
Joking aside, he knew about the 'cheat' cliche that transporters receive. He just did not expect that it would also happen to him.
"Status." Feng muttered as he felt the cringe inside of him.
A user interface suddenly popped up in front of him.
[Feng]
[STR: 10]
[INT: 10]
[END: 12]
[Skills: Appraisal Lv.1]
Feng looked at his game status as he saw the attributes and skills. It looked the same as the role-playing games back in his past world. What he was definitely excited more about is the skills section. He had something called Appraisal! That definitely is a game system staple.
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People might look down on it, but Feng definitely knew that the skill Appraisal is definitely one of the most overpowered cheats by itself.
As he felt extreme joy, he tried to use the Appraisal skill on a rock near him.
[Rock]
A pop-up appeared in front of him, stating what was in front of him.
Feng felt his joy extinguished as he noticed that his Appraisal ability is weak right now. It could only name things.
It was lacklustre compared to what he expected. Appraisal usually gives descriptions on what the item is, but he could only shake his head as he was being too greedy.
Being able to know the names of something is already quite overpowered. He could already imagine the practicality by being able to distinguish herbs.
Feng could not help but laugh out loud as he suddenly felt that he could dominate the world with his newfound strength.
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After going home, Feng tried experimenting a bit more on the functionality of the system. First, he understood he did not need to speak out loud to activate any of the system's capability.
He only needed to focus and will it inside of him on the function that he wanted to use. For example, he could easily turn on and off the status screen in front of him just by willing it.
He could also use Appraisal the same way and could identify the different objects inside his house.
After experimenting for quite a while, he found out that Appraisal could only be used on objects that are at least 5-meters close to him. The skill does not activate if it is too far.
Another limitation is that he thought he could use Appraisal whenever he wants but it turns out that he almost blacked out as he felt headache at the 7th time that he used the ability and he forced himself to use it to the 9th time. He felt that doing it for the 10th time is would not be a good idea.
He could only lie in the bed as he felt extreme fatigue and rest it out.
After an hour, he felt better, but he was still not fully back to a clear mind. As for what happened, he had some theories.
He already felt puzzled the first time he saw his status screen because it did not have the HP and MP quantified for him.
There was only STR for Strength, INT for Intelligence, and END for Endurance. These were the most basic game attributes, so he was not that surprised.
What is surprising is that there is nothing about HP for Health Points and MP for Magic Points.
Usually, game characters when they reach 0 in HP, they die and experience a game over in a normal situation. Reaching 0 in MP means that the character can no longer use skills or spells that use magic points.
However, he did not receive these named stats in the panel, so he initially thought that it just did not exist in his system.
After experiencing almost blacking out after overusing Appraisal, he felt that it might have something to do with the Magic Point parameter that is currently not quantified.
Appraisal should use 1 MP per usage and that he had around 10 MP. After reaching a certain threshold, having a low amount of MP can cause the user to fall into fatigue.
Feng honestly thought it was just balanced. Appraisal, even at level 1, is already completely overpowered. He did not have any bad feelings about it using something like an MP.
He also had a theory that MP also regenerates as he rests. It seems to regenerate at a slow pace but at an acceptable rate. He was already back to almost full after 2 hours.
As for why these status attributes are not quantified, he could only think that there might be a way to make it do that, but since he just started, he could only slowly investigate.
Lying down on his bed, Feng could not sleep as he felt the adrenaline still pumping. He wanted to know more about his Game System, but he still needed to rest for the night because he still has to do herb picking tomorrow.
Feng woke up in the morning as he found himself still in the same creaky and decrepit home.
He immediately washed up and went to work as he turns on and off the status screen in front of him just to check if yesterday was just a dream.
Looking at the status screen, he was feeling giddy since he finally experienced the 'fantasy' in the other world. Smiling creepily, Feng was walking distractedly as he collided into someone in front of him.
He could stabilize himself easily since the person he collided with was very light. He immediately went to help the person.
"Brother Feng!" The other party excitedly exclaimed as they got up the ground.
Looking at the person's face in front of him, Feng could only feel his heartbeat rise.
'This girl is so cute and precious. Holy moly.' Feng could only suppress his emotions because he did not know this person, but she called out to him.
It means one thing, and that is because she knew the Feng of this world.
Looking at her, Feng immediately used appraisal.
[Xiaomao]
Feng could only nod at her and said, "Xiaomao.".
The girl in front of him heard this and suddenly frowned and pouted cutely. "Brother Feng, I told you to call Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao!"
Feng could only scratch his head and smile.
"Xiaoxiao. Are you alright? I was too out there and was not looking in front of me properly."
Xiaomao heard this and is thrilled. She cheekily smiled and said, "Are you thinking about a woman while I was gone, or maybe you were thinking of me?" She hugged his right arm as she teased him.
Looking at this small, adorable blonde girl with bright blue eyes hugging his arm. Feng felt like he might explode and die, so he immediately pushed her away gently while blushing.
Trying to act serious and mature, Feng said, "I was just thinking about work."
Feng immediately walked forward, and Xiaomao followed him to the side.
Feng was wondering what kind of relationship the Feng of this world had with this girl. She is so pretty and if this is Feng's girlfriend, then that would be super crazy. That would be too much suffering if he took over this guy's body and that poor guy was actually so blessed.
Feng felt he was thinking too much. Looking at the cute girl beside him, it did not seem like they were in that kind of relationship.
After arriving at Mr. Wang's residence, Xiaomao saw Stupid Chen and called out.
"Dumb Big Brother, I'm back!" Xiaomao cheekily said.
"My most adorable and cutest little sister in the world!" Stupid Chen immediately heard her and rushed towards her.
The two hugged each other and talked about missing each other.
This revelation shocked Feng, since he was wondering why Xiaomao followed him all the way here. It was for this reason.
'These two are siblings!?' Feng exclaimed in his heart as he noticed they were both blonde and they look similar.
Stupid Chen had blonde hair, but his deep, dark blue eyes were hidden. It looked confusingly black-colored if you did not look at it carefully.
Compared to the adorable Xiaomao, her eyes were like of blue sky. It was glittering too. She absolutely looked like a heroine of a show.
Feng could only shake his head, as it was not his fault that he did not immediately realize that the two were siblings. He could only blame Xiaomao for being too pretty to be related to Stupid Chen.
Feng let the two enjoy their time, as he also contemplated some things.
His status screen was actually activated in front of him ever since he met Xiaomao. It was actually a perilous experiment, but he had to or else he would not know.
The original plan is that he would immediately turn off the status screen once someone notices it in front of him. Xiaomao is the first one he encountered today, but she was not saying anything about it.
Stupid Chen also saw him, but he did not react to it at all. Feng thought that these might not be enough proof, but Stupid Chen would act all goofy already if he saw it. That guy always overreacts to anything that remotely looked interesting.
An example of this is that Chen found worm-looking orbs floating in front of his eyes and he kept talking about it for a whole day, thinking it was some weird voodoo and that it kept following him for some time. People would think he saw actual fantasy-like creatures, but it was just eye floaters.
Feng could only sigh in relief as he could use the status screen whenever he wanted, but he will remain vigilant and turn it off once someone acts suspiciously.