"Da Chun, do you dare to gamble one more time?"
Chen Yi stood by the dock, a heavy sack shouldered, gazing at the surging waters of the Qing River.
He wanted to jump into the river.
Da Chun chuckled.
"Brother Yi, Old Zhang and the others said there are man-eating monsters downstream! At least the Blackstone Gang provides food, even if we never get full, hehe..."
Chen Yi sighed and glanced at his friend, whose chubby figure was accompanied by eyes that seemed to be standing guard in different directions.
He wished he could be as carefree as Da Chun.
Even if it meant being press-ganged by the Blackstone Gang, forced to sign a deed of servitude, and working as a free laborer on the docks.
But...
I'm a transmigrator, and I have a System. Am I really destined to be trapped on this lousy dock for my whole life??
Before his eyes, a notification only Chen Yi could see flickered in and out of existence.
[Time until next Trait Draw: 00:10:03.]
With a thought, the System panel materialized.
[Name: Chen Yi]
[Realm: None]
[Cultivation Method: None]
[Equipped Traits (3/3): Well-Developed Deltoids (White), Hunger Resistance (White), Hyper-Beast Pain Perception (White)]
[Acquired Traits (17): Pointy Head (White), Food Guarding (White), Loves Eggs (White)...]
[Current Probability for Trait Qualities:]
[White (Common) 99%, Green (Rare) 0.9%, Purple (Epic) 0.089%, Gold (Legendary) 0.01%, Prismatic (Mythic) 0.001%]
This was Chen Yi's Trait Drawing System.
This Golden Finger had two minor issues.
First, he could only draw once a year.
If the drop rate was high, a low draw count would be acceptable.
But its second problem was that the drop rate was abysmally low!
The lowest tier, White traits, had a 99% rate, severely diluting the pool!
In the past seventeen years, Chen Yi had drawn seventeen times, and every single one was White!
To increase the probability of high-quality traits and equip more of them, there was a way—cultivate Martial Dao and raise his Realm!
However, Chen Yi had no Root Bone and could not cultivate Martial Dao.
Welp, it was a dead end.
White traits weren't entirely useless.
Take the three Chen Yi currently had equipped, for example.
"Well-Developed Deltoids" increased his shoulder strength slightly, making it easier to carry cargo.
"Hunger Resistance" reduced the discomfort of an empty stomach.
"Hyper-Beast Pain Perception" lowered his sensitivity to pain, making it a bit more comfortable when he got beaten.
An overseer saw Chen Yi staring blankly at the river and lashed out with a whip.
"What are you dazing off for! Looking for a beating?!"
He got hit again.
Chen Yi made a pained expression. In reality, it didn't hurt at all, though the injury was real.
Chen Yi kept an eye on the countdown while working.
[Time until next Trait Draw: 00:03:01.]
"Tongzi, you gotta pull through for me. I know good traits have low odds, but have you heard of Murphy's Law?
Can't you let me be lucky just this once?
You don't want to watch your Host waste his entire life like this, right?"
Thinking back on the past eighteen years...
Chen Yi was born into a peasant family in Luoding Village, Baiyun County.
Though not wealthy, food and drink weren't major issues—which was decent for a feudal society.
Until three months ago, when a group of mysterious people slaughtered their way into the village.
Luoding Village suffered a massacre; not even the chickens or dogs were spared.
Chen Yi lost all his kin overnight.
Chen Yi survived thanks to the "Village Guardian" Da Chun—whose IQ was a solid 250—who dragged him into the Qing River flowing through the village.
The two sank into the turbulent river and passed out.
When they woke up, they had drifted to the neighboring Qinghe County and were fished out by the Blackstone Gang.
"The Blackstone Gang saved you. To repay this life-saving grace, you decided to work as laborers for us. One meal a day is enough? Oh my! How could we possibly accept that!"
He didn't get a clear look at the deed of servitude.
His thumbprint was forcibly pressed onto it.
The sack was thrown onto his shoulder right then and there.
Just like that, Chen Yi and Da Chun had been carrying sandbags on the Qinghe County docks for three months.
Coming from a farming background, Chen Yi wasn't afraid of hardship.
But no wages, not enough food, and frequent beatings? That was unbearable!
I don't know how long this miserable life will last.
Finally, the countdown for the Trait Draw ended.
A ball of light, visible only to Chen Yi, floated before his eyes.
This light ball was composed of countless specks of light, resembling a galaxy.
All the specks were moving at high speeds in irregular patterns.
The ball was mostly white.
If one looked closely, green and gold specks were visible, and even that extremely faint glimmer of prismatic light!
These specks were the traits.
Whichever one Chen Yi touched, he would extract.
Chen Yi desperately wanted to grab those purple or gold specks.
But they flashed by too quickly and were too few in number; his vision was almost entirely filled with white.
"Forget it, I'll grab one blind! God of Luck, grant me strength!"
Chen Yi closed his eyes and pressed his hand down.
In that moment, the gears of fate finally began to turn!
All other specks retreated, leaving only the one Chen Yi first touched to expand rapidly and brighten!
A seven-colored rainbow light dazzled brilliantly. Even with his eyes closed, Chen Yi's pupils were illuminated.
"So bright, so flashy... Holy crap!!"
Chen Yi roared internally, struggling to suppress the expression on his face, causing his facial muscles to twitch.
Prismatic, a Mythic Trait!!!
[Simulator (Prismatic Mythic):
As you can see, you now possess the Simulator cheat. However, each time you use the Simulator, you must complete a guide quest or wait for a cooldown; the first time is free.
During the simulation, you can moderately intervene in the process. You may perform a Trait Draw once per year, but this Trait must remain equipped at all times. If unequipped, the simulation ends prematurely.
After the simulation ends, you inherit all Traits, memories, Realm, cultivation methods, and skills.
Start the simulation, young man~]
There is no child who cries forever, and no gambler who loses forever!
A 0.001% Mythic probability, actually hit on the eighteenth try?!
Wait.
Am I still alive?
I didn't trade my lifespan for luck, did I?
Chen Yi patted himself down. Good, everything was intact, and he hadn't aged.
It seemed he had simply gotten lucky.
After reading the effect of the "Simulator" trait, Chen Yi had only one thought.
This wasn't a Myth; this was a goddamn cheat code!
Before transmigration, he had read plenty of webnovels on "Yellow Tomato," so he was no stranger to what a simulator was.
"Based on this description, as long as I live long enough in the simulation, it equates to having many more chances to draw traits, effectively increasing the drop rate!"
Since even a 0.001% Mythic trait could be drawn, Chen Yi believed the System's deck wasn't rigged.
Through the simulation, increasing the number of draws meant he would eventually pull a useful trait.
The System's traits were all-encompassing; even obtaining a trait for Root Bones wasn't impossible!
With the Simulator, never mind escaping the Blackstone Gang—crushing them would be a breeze!
"The Blackstone Gang that exploits me and Da Chun, and the group that killed my family... wash your necks and wait. I'm coming to settle the score soon! Start Simulation!"
It happened to be lunch time. Chen Yi took his gruel and pinched his mantou bun, moving away from the crowd.
Lines of white text on a black background floated before Chen Yi's eyes, resembling a text adventure game.
[The first simulation does not require completing tutorial missions or waiting for a cooldown.]
[Initial Equipped Traits: Simulator [Rainbow], Well-developed Deltoids [White], Hunger Resistance [White].]
[Simulation Start!]
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
