System

When she opened her eyes again, she was already in an unfamiliar environment.

Under a blanket of black fog, a campfire not far away radiated a warm glow.

Yun Xi looked around. As expected, she had been randomly "spawned" in a beginner village.

Near the campfire stood several scattered, simple wooden houses.

This beginner village could barely even be called a "village." It was pitifully small.

Looking at what she was wearing, she had started with a Coarse Cloth Robe, the novice benefit of ten Copper Coins in her pocket, and an Identity Badge.

Yun Xi took out the Identity Badge and examined it carefully. Its surface bore a complex circular symbol, while the back displayed her ID information.

"What are you?" Suddenly, a wary question came from behind her.

Yun Xi was not alarmed. Newcomers had a three-day protection period, during which neither humans nor monsters could harm her.

She turned around and saw that the speaker was a middle-aged man holding a torch. He wore black coarse cloth, had a scruffy beard, and sharp eyes.

The moment he saw Yun Xi's face, some of the wariness in the middle-aged man's eyes faded. He seemed to have already recognized her identity.

"You're a newly descended adventurer? Please show me your proof of identity."

Yun Xi handed him her Identity Badge.

The middle-aged man took it, and his expression visibly relaxed.

Yun Xi sighed inwardly. At last, she had not started with the status of a refugee.

The middle-aged man arranged for Yun Xi to stay in a small wooden hut.

"It's getting a little late. You can stay in this hut for now. Rest first. We'll talk about anything else tomorrow morning."

Yun Xi understood. No one knew better than she did how dangerous Godfall Continent was at night.

The middle-aged man probably still needed to stand watch, so she said nothing more.

The middle-aged man closed the wooden door. Yun Xi locked it, then turned to look at her shelter for the night.

There was a plank bed, a small wooden cabinet, and a simple table and chairs.

There was no bedding on the plank bed, only a layer of dry straw.

Yun Xi did not complain. In this world of extreme scarcity, being assigned a place to live at the start was already quite good.

As far as she knew, this assigned residence was free for only three days.

She sat down on the edge of the bed and silently called for the system.

[Godfall System activated]

[Personal Interface] [Mall Interface] [Chat Interface] [Quest Interface]

Yun Xi opened the personal interface, which was divided into three major panels.

[Basic Panel]

[Name: Yun Xi]

[System ID: ******826927]

[Race: Human]

[Age: 20]

[Level: 0]

[Health (60/60)] [Maximum determined by Constitution]

[Spirit Energy (0/290)] [Maximum determined by Spirit]

[Class Panel]

[Main Class: None]

[Sub-profession: None]

[Freedom Skill Points: 0]

[Attribute Panel]

[Spirit: 29]

[Constitution: 6]

[Luck: 92] [Maximum: 100] [Cannot be freely allocated]

[Charm: 96] [Maximum: 100] [Cannot be freely allocated]

[Freedom Attribute Points: 0]

Yun Xi was slightly astonished. Her Spirit Attribute was actually twenty-nine points?

She still remembered that her initial Spirit in her previous life had been nine points, yet this life it was twenty-nine. Considering that "Spirit" referred to her soul, this must have been because of her reincarnation. Her soul had remained unchanged, so her Spirit Attribute had naturally returned with it.

But before her reincarnation, her Spirit had been fifty-nine points. Had it... been directly weakened by roughly half?

Sure enough, the Rebirth Divine Stone had side effects. Every time she reincarnated and revived, her soul would pay a price for it.

Thinking of this, Yun Xi silently discarded her various ideas of "seeking death" to rapidly increase her strength. It was better to use the Rebirth Divine Stone as little as possible.

Yun Xi stopped thinking about it, closed the Attribute Panel, and opened the next interface.

The Mall Interface was divided into the [System Mall], [Local Mall], and [Recharge Service].

The System Mall generally only sold basic daily necessities, and the probability of good items appearing was extremely low.

Scanning through it, she saw things like Coarse Wheat Cakes, black bread, edible lump fruits...

The sight made Yun Xi's head spin. In her previous life, she had eaten these foods most of the time. They were not merely difficult to swallow—they were practically impossible to chew.

The [Local Mall], as its name suggested, was a local mall. It was generally opened by local merchants and sold a range of survival supplies.

The village was simply too small, though. Even the Local Mall could not be bothered to open, and there were no supplies listed inside.

Finally, Yun Xi tried opening the [Recharge Service].

As expected, it was still the same as in her previous life. During the closed beta, everyone had a daily recharge limit of 648 yuan.

One yuan equaled one Copper Coin, meaning she could obtain at most 648 Copper Coins.

Recalling Gu Shian's frantic sale of his assets, she seriously suspected that this guy's cheat ability might not have a recharge limit.

Gu Shian was known to possess roughly ten billion yuan in assets. Even if he recharged it all... ten billion Copper Coins equaled one billion Silver Coins, or one hundred million Gold Coins.

The value of Gold Coins was equivalent to White Crystal, which meant... one hundred million White Crystal equaled one million Green Crystal, ten thousand Blue Crystal, or one hundred Purple Crystal...

Uh, Gu Shian's ten billion yuan in assets seemed to be worth only one percent of a Red Crystal?

At the same time, Yun Xi's mind flashed with the image of her mountain of Red Crystal. She instantly felt a little smug. Was this the joy of being rich?

Hahaha.

Of course, although Gu Shian's ten billion Copper Coins were nothing to Yun Xi, one had to remember that everyone else could recharge only 648 yuan per day. With a closed beta lasting just ten days, they could recharge at most 6,480 yuan.

Even in Godfall Continent, ten billion Copper Coins was still an enormous fortune.

As startup capital, it was more than enough for Gu Shian to squander.

With that thought, Yun Xi still did not hesitate to click on today's recharge. 648 yuan was deducted from her bank card, and in exchange, 648 Copper Coins suddenly appeared in front of her.

[Ding, the player's Copper Coins have exceeded one hundred. Would you like to deposit them into the system account?]

[Note: Depositing into the system account requires a one-percent fee. No fee is required when withdrawing.]

[Deposit.]

The stingy game system did not even provide a storage bag. It charged a fee just to deposit money.

But the benefits were obvious as well. Once deposited into the system, the money did not need to be kept safe from loss or theft.

Most importantly, only currency deposited into the system account could be used to purchase supplies from the System Mall.

Of the 648 Copper Coins, together with the ten initial Copper Coins gifted by the system, 6.58 Copper Coins were deducted in total. The remaining 651.42 Copper Coins appeared in the system account at the very top of the entire Mall Interface, in an extremely conspicuous position.

After finishing all this, Yun Xi briefly browsed the System Mall again. Only after confirming that no rare supplies had refreshed there did she open the next interface.