Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Landscapes, forests, and creeks.
Lu Xun looked at the strange world in front of him once again, the corner of his lips twitched involuntarily.
Both his parents did indeed die when he was young, this conformed with the first inviolable rule of transmigrating, it also conformed with the special characteristic of a Qidian Orphanage1, but he never thought he’d really transmigrate one day.
‘What about my sister?’ This was Lu Xun’s first thought.
Although his parents passed away long ago, he still had a younger sister who he was mutually dependent with.
Fortunately, he had bought himself insurance—the beneficiary was his sister, Lu Yu—this somewhat reassured him.
“Little Yu can receive the lump sum compensation, this at least ensured her livelihood.”
Speaking of which, he originally had two ex-girlfriends who were fussing about getting back together with him. By the looks of it now, he’s been spared of the trouble.
An outstanding man was bound to live more exhaustingly.
He now knew what kind of world he arrived in, this was because he felt quite unusually familiar with the face reflected in the creek.
The face had sharp brows and starry eyes with refined facial features, no faults could be picked out on the entire face—in short, it was unbelievably handsome.
“There’s actually such a good-looking person in this world?”
As for why it looked so familiar… This was because this face was the one he had just crafted before the transmigration.
Yes, it was a crafted face.
To put it clearly, it was the game character he had just created. The standard procedure was to mold the features of the face when creating a character in games. He simply adjusted the beauty filter to the tenth level and then made slight adjustments according to his own tastes, this resulted in his looks now.
“So… this means I’ve transmigrated to ‘Heavenly Earth’?”
The exploding popularity of ‘Heavenly Earth’ didn’t even need to be mentioned. After the mysterious release of the game, players from all over exclaimed whether or not it was a real world!
There were even some players who were quite imaginative and even believed that everyone wasn’t playing a game but instead transported into a higher dimensional projection, thus making them appear inside a real fantasy world.
The game, ‘Heavenly Earth’ was leaning towards the Xianxia style genre. This meant that skills related to flying, burrowing, and even sword kinesis flight all existed, plus, the liberties given in the game were extremely high.
Lu Xun was a die-hard fan of this game. To be precise, he relied on this game to live.
Although he didn’t join any gaming studios, ever since he started playing ‘Heavenly Earth’ he had made quite a bit of money.
As a matter of fact, creating this alt(2. Alternate Account) was for the completion of a complicated and rather difficult newbie mission, after doing the said mission, the account would then be sold, it would be worth quite a bit of money.
But what the hell? He inexplicably transmigrated to this world!
There’s truly something wrong with this newly created alt!
At the very least, he was fortunate enough that his handsome face gave him immense comfort.
Lu Xun stopped looking at the reflection in the water and simply sat by the creek, he began to study his own ‘character panel’.
Even though he transmigrated to this game’s world, it seemed that he also brought along the game’s panel, this was indeed a pleasant surprise.
However, what surprised him more was something else… Why was his panel showing an NPC’s template?
It seemed that right now, he could no longer be counted as a player.
The panel spread out before him. He could clearly see his information on the panel:
Name: Lu Xun.
Template: NPC.
Race: Human.
Level: 0.
Experience: 0/100.
Hit Points: 100/100.
Spirit Points: 0/0.
Perception: 1. (upgradeable, max is 10.)
Luck: 1. (non-upgradeable.)
Charisma: 10. (reached the upper limit.)
There were some attributes that he had that couldn’t be unlocked right now, sadly, this also meant that they weren’t displayed. At the end of the panel, there followed a few concluding words:
‘A world-shakingly handsome ordinary man.’
Normally, it didn’t matter how handsome the face was constructed, the starting charisma would always be ‘1’. In the eyes of NPCs, no matter what, everyone would automatically become average.
The appearance of a player’s character couldn’t affect the NPCs’ judgement.
Perhaps it was because Lu Xun became a real person, or maybe because of the NPC template… Anyways, his charisma was actually at max value at the very start!
He didn’t really think much about it—there was nothing wrong with being handsome after all!
After closing the character panel, Lu Xun seemed to have remembered something and reopened it quickly, he then looked at the bottom right corner.
Written on the bottom right corner was: ‘Revival Count: 3’
“Phew! Thankfully the revival count system also came along.” Lu Xun exhaled an inward sigh of relief.
Normal players could accumulate revival counts, although the upper limit was only 10, receiving any additional revival count was still a good thing. Lu Xun reckoned it would be tough for him and guessed that there would only be these 3 times. After using these up, it would probably mean gg(3. Means ‘Good Game’, also signifies the end of a game, in this context, it means his death) for him.
There were reasons why he cared so much about the revival count: First, it was because he had to live on in this world and a safeguard was always a good thing; second, he was still considering whether or not to do the complicated and somewhat difficult newbie mission. An important aspect to the mission required exhausting one revival count.
Simply put, If Lu Xun chose to do this mission, he would have to expend one of his lives!
This was a matter that needed to be carefully deliberated. Although the benefits were great—since it was regarded by the players as the perfect start—he still only had three lives after all, which is why he’d still better think carefully about it.
“But after pondering about it… with the way things look now, the other best start seems to come at a greater cost!” Lu Xun felt somewhat at a loss after calming down and pondering about it.
By choosing the perfect start, his next actions would be more smooth, this meant that there would be less dangers in the future.
However, by choosing the next best start, he wouldn’t be wasting any of his lives, but this also meant that there would definitely be effects in the future.
‘Gulugulu…’ Just as he was contemplating, his stomach growled.
‘Oh~ this damned sense of hunger!’
‘Sou…’ Lu Xun suddenly heard a light sound coming from behind him.
A figure was rapidly approaching his way.
Its speed was very fast and it seemed that Lu Xun could only manage to see an afterimage at his current level.
‘Damn it! I’m encountering someone with cultivation!’ Lu Xun thought.
The figure only seemed to be passing by and had no intention of stopping at this spot, but after seeing Lu Xun turn his head, both parties saw each other’s face.
Normally, this would have merely just resulted in an ordinary glance, but after seeing Lu Xun’s features, the stranger couldn’t help but let out a gasp of exclamation.
Then, the figure suddenly turned and tapped slowly and gently on a treetop, she then landed graciously nearby Lu Xun.
The other party wore a veil covering half her face. Her facial features couldn’t be seen because of this, however, one can notice that her figure was slender.
The eyes beyond the veil were rather beautiful, but why did it give him the feeling of a high school student in a cosplay costume?
He kept feeling a slight indistinct childish nature from her.
No matter, just by judging from the movement technique she used, Lu Xun could easily tell that her level was definitely much higher than his and that she could knock him down a hundred times without a sweat.
A level zero lackey had no human rights. Unfortunately, In the land of Heavenly Earth, he was currently a lackey amongst lackeys!
This was why he cared very much about the intentions of the stranger in front of him and maintained an instinctive vigilance towards her.
The person, who he didn’t know whether she was a woman or a girl sized up Lu Xun several times, then fixed her gaze on his face, after a moment of staring, it seemed that she was somewhat unable to shift her eyes away.
She suddenly blurted out what was on her mind:
“Truly the most, most, most top-grade Furnace Tripod!”
“…”