Mythic Entry, Simulator!

"Dachun, dare you gamble one more time?"

Chen Yi stood by the docks with a heavy sack slung over his shoulder, staring at the ceaselessly surging waters of the Qing River.

He wanted to jump in.

Dachun chuckled.

"Brother Yi, Old Zhang and the others said there are demons downstream that eat people! At least the Black Stone Gang feeds us, even if it's not enough to fill our stomachs, hehe..."

Chen Yi sighed and glanced at his plump friend, whose eyes seemed to be posted on opposite sides of his face like sentries.

He wanted to be as carefree as Dachun.

Even if he had been forcibly drafted by a gang, made to sign a contract selling himself, and worked as unpaid dock labor.

But...

I'm a transmigrator. I even have a system. Am I really going to be trapped at this lousy dock for the rest of my life?

Before his eyes, a prompt visible only to Chen Yi flickered in and out.

[Time until next entry draw: 00:10:03.]

At a thought, the system panel appeared.

[Name: Chen Yi]

[Realm: None]

[Cultivation Method: None]

[Equipped Entries (3/3): Developed Deltoid [White], Hunger Resistance [White], Super Beast Pain Perception [White]]

[Acquired Entries (17): Pointy Head [White], Food Guarding [White], Love Eating Eggs [White]...]

[Current probabilities for entries of each quality:]

[White Common 99%, Green Rare 0.9%, Purple Epic 0.089%, Golden Legend 0.01%, Prismatic Myth 0.001%]

This was Chen Yi's Entry System.

This cheat had two minor problems.

First, he could only draw once a year.

If the drop rate had been high, he could have accepted the low number of draws.

But its second problem was that the drop rate was absurdly low!

The lowest-grade White Entries accounted for a whopping 99%, severely contaminating the pool!

Over the past seventeen years, Chen Yi had drawn seventeen times, and every single one had been white!

There was a way to raise the chances of high-quality entries and equip more entries—cultivate Martial Dao and raise his realm!

However, Chen Yi had no Root Bone and could not cultivate Martial Dao.

Well then. No solution.

White Entries were not entirely useless.

For example, the three Chen Yi currently had equipped.

"Developed Deltoid" slightly increased his shoulder strength, making it easier to carry cargo.

"Hunger Resistance" reduced the discomfort of an empty stomach.

"Super Beast Pain Perception" dulled his sense of pain, making beatings a little more bearable.

Seeing Chen Yi standing by the river in a daze, the overseer lashed out with his whip.

"What are you standing around for?! Looking for a beating?!"

He got hit again.

Chen Yi put on a pained expression. In truth, it did not hurt at all, though an injury was still an injury.

Chen Yi worked while keeping his eyes on the countdown.

[Time until next entry draw: 00:03:01.]

"System, pull through for once. The odds for good entries really are low, but do you know Murphy's Law?

Can't you let me get lucky just once?

You don't want to watch your host waste away his whole life like this either, right?"

Thinking back over the past eighteen years.

Chen Yi had been born into a farming family in Luoding Village, White Cloud County.

Though they had not been rich or powerful, they had at least never lacked food or drink. By feudal standards, that was already decent.

Until three months ago, when a group of mysterious people charged into the village.

Luoding Village had suffered a massacre, not even chickens or dogs spared.

Chen Yi had lost his entire family overnight.

Chen Yi had survived only thanks to Dachun, the "Village Guardian" with an IQ of two hundred and fifty, who had dragged him into the Qing River flowing through the village.

The two sank into the rushing river and lost consciousness.

When they awoke, they had somehow drifted to Qinghe County City next door, where the Black Stone Gang hauled them ashore.

"The Black Stone Gang saved you. To repay us for saving your lives, you've decided to work as laborers for us, and all we need to do is provide one meal a day? Oh my! How could we possibly accept that!"

They had not been allowed to read the contracts selling themselves.

Their thumbprints had been forcibly pressed onto them.

The sacks had been thrown onto their shoulders right there and then.

And so, Chen Yi and Dachun had carried sandbags at the docks of Qinghe County City for three months.

Born to a farming household, Chen Yi was not afraid of hardship or exhaustion.

But no wages, never enough food, and frequent beatings—it was simply unbearable!

And he had no idea how long these bitter days would continue.

At last, the countdown for the entry draw ended.

A ball of light visible only to Chen Yi appeared before him.

It was composed of countless motes of light, like a galaxy.

Every mote was moving at high speed in random patterns.

The ball of light was mostly white.

But if he looked carefully, he could see green motes, golden motes, and even that faintest trace of prismatic light!

These motes were the entries.

Whichever one Chen Yi touched was the one he would draw.

Chen Yi desperately wanted to grab those purple and golden motes.

But they flashed by too quickly and were too few in number. His vision was almost entirely white.

"Forget it, I'll just grab one at random! Lucky emperor, Grant Me Power!"

Chen Yi shut his eyes and pressed down with one hand.

At that moment, the gears of fate finally began to turn!

All the motes scattered away, leaving only the one Chen Yi had touched first, rapidly swelling and brightening!

The seven-colored rainbow light was dazzling. Even with his eyes shut, Chen Yi's pupils were illuminated.

"So bright, so flashy... Holy shit!!"

Chen Yi roared inwardly, struggling to suppress the expression on his face so hard that his muscles twitched.

Prismatic. A Mythic Entry!!!

[Simulator (Prismatic Myth):

As you can see, you have obtained the Simulator cheat. However, each time you use the Simulator, you must complete a guidance mission or wait for the cooldown. The first time requires neither.

During a simulation, you may moderately intervene in its course, and you may draw an entry once each year. However, this entry must remain equipped at all times. If removed, the simulation will end early.

After the simulation ends, inherit all entries, memories, realms, Cultivation Methods, and skills.

Start simulating, young man~]

When had children ever cried every day? When had gambling dogs ever lost every day!

He had actually drawn a Mythic Entry with a 0.001% chance on his eighteenth pull?!

Wait.

I'm still alive, right?

I didn't trade my lifespan for luck, did I?

Chen Yi felt himself up and down. Thankfully, everything was still intact, and he had not aged.

It seemed he had simply gotten lucky for once.

After reading the effects of the "Simulator" entry, Chen Yi had only one thought.

This was not a mythic item. This was a goddamn cheat!

Before transmigrating, he had devoured all kinds of webnovels on Huangqie, so he was no stranger to what a Simulator was.

"Judging from this description, as long as I live long enough in the simulation, it means I'll have many more chances to draw entries, indirectly raising the drop rate!"

He had even drawn a 0.001% Mythic Entry, so Chen Yi believed the system's pool was not locked at all.

By increasing the number of draws through simulations, he would eventually get a useful entry.

The system's entries encompassed everything under the heavens. Even an entry that granted Root Bone was not impossible!

With the Simulator, forget escaping the Black Stone Gang—crushing the Black Stone Gang would be effortless!

"Black Stone Gang, for exploiting Dachun and me, and that group who murdered my family, wash your necks and wait! I'll be coming to settle the score with you soon! Begin simulation!"

It happened to be lunchtime. Chen Yi held a bowl of watery porridge and pinched a steamed bun in his hand as he moved away from the crowd.

Lines of white text on a black background appeared before Chen Yi, like a text adventure game.

[The first simulation does not require completing a guidance mission or waiting for a cooldown.]

[Initial equipped entries: Simulator [Prismatic], Developed Deltoid [White], Hunger Resistance [White].]

[Simulation begins!]