Gamers Are Fierce

"How about I try renting myself out?"

Li Ang propped his chin with his hand, absentmindedly thinking.

To upgrade intermediate alchemy to advanced,

besides the daily grind of practice and accumulation, it also requires some reference materials, like the alchemist travel diary obtained before.

Everything related to logistics is outrageously expensive, and it's not just about having money; you also need to contribute to the guild organization.

With Li Rising's connections, he might be able to ask the Special Affairs Bureau for help,

but Li Ang doesn't like owing favors and doesn't want much contact with the Special Affairs Bureau in the real world.

"Let's talk about it later. Anyway, alchemy hasn't yet hit the upgrade bottleneck."

Li Ang shook his head, tossing the chaotic thoughts aside, and focused his mind on the random item box from this mission's rewards.

Maybe because of a game update, or maybe because the experience points and game coin rewards for this mission weren't high,

this time the random item box was set to perfect quality, essentially having a safety net,

so it wouldn't contain particularly bad items like "dog poop," "rocks," or "sticks"—players had indeed gotten these before, and screenshots of item descriptions were even highlighted on the forums.

"Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits..."

Li Ang rubbed his hands and gave a low shout, "Open!"

A ray of light flashed, and from the box, emerged an ancient-looking scroll.

[Skill Scroll Name: Summoning·Unicorn]

[Attribute: Learn type, disappears after one use]

[Type: Spiritual Energy]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: Summon a unicorn that can follow commands]

[Cost: 500 Spirit Power Points, one dessert]

[Cooldown: 30 minutes]

[Learning Requirement: User's psychological physiological gender is female]

[Note: Only one unicorn can exist at a time. Summoning can be ended early]

[Note: The unicorn does not truly die. When defeated, it returns to its original world. The tastier the dessert used during summoning, the higher the unicorn's favor, and the longer the summoning can last, up to a maximum of 2 hours]

[Note: The unicorn's spiral horn possesses detoxification, healing, and spell-casting abilities. Older unicorns are usually stronger. The unicorn summoned is not fixed, but can respond to specific unicorns with high favor]

[Note: As noble, proud, and pure mythical creatures, unicorns are only willing to be touched or ridden by young and beautiful human females]

Chaichai, who was floating mid-air playing on a phone, saw Li Ang's expression suddenly freeze and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"...Got screwed."

Li Ang twitched at the corner of his eye,

as a perfect quality learn type summoning scroll, the Summoning·Unicorn is ranked above the Summoning·Fearful Warhorse,

costing more Spirit Power Points and allowing for a longer summoning duration,

and the summoned unicorn is more functional than the Fearful Warhorse.

But what is with this learning requirement restriction?

"Too screwed, just too screwed..."

Under Chaichai's puzzled eyes, Li Ang, with a darkened face, tossed the scroll into a corner of the item inventory,

since he couldn't use it, he planned to put it in storage and wait to auction it off—considering the scroll's low usage requirements and cost, it should fetch a good price.

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Time flew by in an instant,

with the final exams formally ending and the results announced, this semester at the Experimental Middle School of Yin City came to a close.

In the classroom, the school leaders were nattering on the TV about how students should diligently complete their holiday assignments and continue working hard to lay a solid foundation for the final sprint in senior year, blah blah.

The students below the podium, having packed their bags, couldn't help but start whispering and chatting softly.

Li Ang nonchalantly leaned back in his chair, holding two pencils, each wrapped with a green circular strip of single-sided tape. As his arms turned, the tape wrapped around the pencils spun back and forth, making a "whoosh" sound,

lifting the ends of Wang Congshan's hair beside him.

"How old are you?"

Wang Congshan gave him an eye-roll, flicked her finger, and precisely shot the eraser shavings from her table onto Li Ang's cheek.

"Hah."

Li Ang maintained the motion of spinning the adhesive circles and sneered, "Woman, you're playing with fire.

You're lucky I'm past the age of rage; otherwise, just for this provocation,

you'd be facing my 'Rage Yama Extermination Hell Punishment.'

"What's 'Rage Yama Extermination Hell Punishment?' Isn't it just a black ball made from eraser shavings?"

Wang Congshan showed a disdainful expression on her face, "How long have you been accumulating that thing? Three years or four? Don't tell me you still have it."

"Three years and seven months,"

Li Ang stated matter-of-factly, "Unfortunately, the brand of eraser I used to use is out of production, so the 'Rage Yama Extermination Hell Punishment' cannot grow any further.

At last campus charity sale, I was ready to painfully part with this piece, but surprisingly no one bought it."

"Who among normal people would buy that thing?!"

Wang Congshan's eye twitched as she couldn't help but retort, "Even if you carve a nice, cool wooden base and cover it with a glass lid, creating a handcrafted art piece that looks somewhat decent,

once you tell them it's made of eraser shavings, no one would spend money on it."

Li Ang sneered, "A banana taped to a wall could sell for tens of thousands of US dollars, so why can't my finely ground eraser shavings be considered an art piece?

Indeed, this land lacks creativity and will never birth real artistic cells,

Give Yin City's primary and secondary school students four cups of 25°C water, they can only heat it to 100°C by physical means,

but give the same to US middle and high school students, they could pour the four cups together and magically create one cup of 100°C water without any heating.

The rigidity of rote education leads to a colossal gap in thinking.

US high school and college students are so sophisticated they even use silencers in libraries,

while, in Yin City, many students don't even know how to assemble a Glock handgun before military training.

This significant discretion in aptitude is thought-provoking, leading the author to furrow his brows in deep contemplation."

"Now that's more like it."

Wang Congshan nodded, "You must have read quite a bit of 'Yi Lin,' huh."

"I read a box full at the library."

Li Ang grinned, "With my knowledge base, literary prowess, and writing skills, going for the artist route seems a stretch, but being an opinion leader KOL should do nicely.

Say things like 'Oriental people's meat, egg, and milk consumption affects the disappearance of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil,'

'Eating too much genetically modified plants will result in black-skinned babies,'

Or 'The new iPhone not shipping with a charging adapter is just too eco-friendly and loving toward Earth, you guys blew my mind'

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