Chapter 3
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After finishing his meal, Chen Mo looked through his laptop in a dissatisfied manner while sipping on his milk tea. His heart was racing, and his breath was heavy.
Chen Mo felt frustrated. He almost choked on a pearl from his milk tea as soon as he got angry.
Why was he angry? Because when Chen Mo turned on his laptop, he grew happier and happier after he confirmed the games in this world.
VR games dominated the scene.
PC gaming was pathetic, simply dismal, as the main purpose of PC’s was for work.
The bracelet was bought by the original Chen Mo. Its effects were similar to the fitness tracker of his previous world, heart rate tracking, sleep quality, etc. He hadn’t noticed it before, but could now see that the bracelet was in fact extraordinary.
Chen Mo tapped the bracelet, invoking a virtual display.
“What the… what is this?”
Chen Mo was shocked. Initially, he had thought that it was some sort of black technology[1]’ from this world. But after scouring through his memory from this world, he realized that bracelets weren’t supposed to have this feature.
Chen Mo examined the simple virtual display, only displaying 2 messages. A string of numbers and a virtual wheel.
The string of numbers: 597,340.
Almost sixty thousand credits…
5The virtual wheel had three distinct areas. The green one had ‘Designer Skill Book’ written on it, the blue had ‘Rare Skill Book’ written on it, whereas the purple had ‘Special Equipment’ written on it.
The green area was the largest, and the purple the smallest.
The wheel also had a big “Spin to Win” button in the middle.
1Underneath the text was a small row of text, 100,000/spin.
Seeing this string of numbers made Chen Mo enter deep into thought.
After giving it some thought, Chen Mo finally understood. As a transmigrator, this was probably his artifact from the previous world. It appeared that it was an artifact that he had gotten through lucky draws.
However… what did the 597,340 mean? Why was there a zero at the end?
Like performing an autopsy, Chen Mo dissected his memory for numbers, remembering all the way from when he was young to now, before he finally slapped his forehead and figured it out.
This number was the amount he had spent on video games in his previous life, multiplied by ten. Approximately sixty-thousand RMB.
4This included money spent on RPGs, original AAA titles, and a bunch of equipment in some crappy Chinese game. Thinking back, he had indeed spent no less than sixty-four thousand four hundred eighty RMB!
11“Damn, I should’ve spent more, had I known!”
Chen Mo felt some regret. Had he known earlier, he would’ve dumped his hundreds of thousands of life savings into games when in his previous world.
Although, it still hurt to look at the 100,000/spin.
That’s really expensive. This would be 10,000 RMB cash per spin!
However, since he couldn’t cash it out, Chen Mo decided to just spin and see what happened.
Chen Mo pressed the button as he muttered. “According to the usual plot logic, shouldn’t I be receiving some unique item plus some resources in order to create a new game?”
Swish, swish, swish… The wheel had started spinning.
Special equipment! Special equipment! Special equipment! Chen Mo was hoping loudly to himself.
1Although Chen Mo didn’t ‘know’ which prize was the best, it was obvious that it was purple. Its area was the smallest, it must mean that it must be the rarest prize!
With a clacking, the wheel had finally stopped. The pointer landed on the green area: Designer’s Skill Book!
1“It’s fine, it was unlikely to land on the purple first time around. It’s perfectly normal! Relax, relax…”
2Chen Mo discovered that a book had appeared on the virtual display, with a notification saying: “Designer Skill Book: Coding +1”
2Chen Mo tried tapping it with his finger. The book turned into sparkles, flowing into his fingertip!
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[1] As in illegal technology, banned by the government