Tag

Listening to Old Li, Feng Xue felt a little awkward for a moment, but Old Li reacted one step ahead. Seeing that this was a genuine newbie who had transmigrated less than a week ago, he could only shake his head and say:

"Don't know whether to call you lucky or unlucky... Forget it, there's no point talking about that now..."

Feng Xue was quite annoyed by Old Li's riddle-speaker act, but compared to that "pointless" information, he had more pressing questions. He temporarily suppressed the urge to press further and dragged the topic back:

"So what does officially joining the job mean? And what are Tags? How do I condense one?"

"That's not something I can explain in a moment..." Old Li glanced at the corpse on the cart, then showed Feng Xue his work badge.

"Anyway, finish the job first. Then you'll unlock the functions of your work badge. At that point, select the map like this, hold down this Magnifying Glass, then enter 'Corpse Collector Old Li's Home.' You can say it out loud or write it by hand. There are no requirements for language or script. It mainly captures your consciousness. If you're confident in your concentration, it's fine to just think it directly in your head."

As Old Li spoke, he demonstrated how to use the map function to find his home. Sharp-eyed Feng Xue also noticed options like "Account" and "Contacts" beside the map.

"So it really is a Smart Phone?" Feng Xue was speechless at the sight of Old Li, dressed in ancient clothing, teaching him how to use a Smart Phone, but then he heard him continue:

"Anyway, once you've dealt with the corpses, come find me at my place. I'll explain everything in detail then. Just knock on the door."

With that, Old Li gave Feng Xue no chance to ask more questions. He pulled his cart toward the distance.

Watching his hurried back, Feng Xue remembered that corpses in this world could undergo Corpse Transformation at any time. He quickened his pace as well, though he could not help wondering, If he knew stopping was dangerous, why wait for me?

He did not think Old Li, who had cheated him out of one-fifth of his lifespan right at the start, was the saintly type.

After walking toward the wall for a while, Feng Xue saw that no one was around and immediately slipped into an alley, quickly Smelting the six corpses.

This Smelting had yielded decent results. Only one of the six corpses had failed. The rest had provided him with a total of 203 Ta, along with one Element [Female] and one Element [Death].

"Nine corpses, two failures, and three Elements... Don't know whether those are just the odds or if there are some other hidden conditions..."

Feng Xue looked at the seemingly Very High-level Element [Death] and muttered In Heart. Before he could think more deeply, however, a strange sensation spread from the depths of his body.

It was an extraordinarily marvelous feeling, As If a numb arm were slowly regaining its Blood Supply. A tangible sense of flow surged out from every limb and bone, then reconstructed itself within his body.

Though he had never experienced anything Similar To it, Feng Xue inexplicably felt a sense of déjà vu. When everything finally settled, he looked at the [Corpse Collector] Tag within his body and at last understood where that feeling had come from—

This process was exactly the same as when he had Reforged the Sleeve Blade yesterday!

Though one could be seen directly while the other could only be felt personally, their principles seemed to be connected.

"So this is what they call a [Tag]?"

Feng Xue tried focusing his attention on the [Corpse Collector] Tag inside his body, and a vast amount of information immediately welled forth from it.

That was not quite accurate, though. The Tag did not pour out information. It merely possessed a great deal of information, like an encyclopedia. When Feng Xue focused his consciousness on it, he could "see" the knowledge within as though reading a book.

It contained basic information about the work of [Corpse Collection], such as how to determine whether someone was truly dead, how to transport corpses more efficiently, and how to avoid infection from pathogens the corpses might carry. Beyond that, it granted Feng Xue the ability to observe other people's Tags and a method of establishing a connection with his work badge.

"No wonder Old Li said I'd understand after condensing a Tag..." Feeling the knowledge within the Tag, Feng Xue Took Out his work badge. As the Tag's power linked with it, a verification screen appeared.

[Please enter username.]

After thinking for a moment, Feng Xue entered the two Chinese characters for "Xiao Feng." The interface twisted, and a new panel appeared In Front Of him.

Its UI design was extremely Similar To the Smart Phone interface from his previous life. Against a simple dark background were four small squares with labels: "Map," "Account," "Contacts," and "Browser."

However, this browser was not for accessing the internet. It was more like an e-reader, capable of converting the knowledge within Tags into easy-to-understand text and images for learning and memorization.

Yes, although Tags contained knowledge, they were only knowledge. To put them to use effectively, he still had to learn on his own.

Without lingering, Feng Xue pressed the map button. According To the method Old Li had taught him, he entered the search term. Soon, a red dot representing [Corpse Collector Old Li's Home] was marked southwest on the map.

"Southwest... I thought he lived near my place..." The moment the words left his mouth, Feng Xue knew he had been overthinking it. Judging from how he had received his work notice today, Old Li had probably appeared in the west side of the city yesterday because of work as well.

After wandering along for more than ten minutes, Feng Xue followed the map's guidance to a ruin-level Residential Area no different from where he had originally lived.

And the place marked as "Old Li's home" was actually a large shipping container.

It was roughly twelve meters long, less than two and a half meters wide and tall, painted entirely blue. A rather refined-looking security door had been installed on its side, giving it something of a post-apocalyptic punk feel.

"Why does this feel so unreliable..." Feng Xue knew that plenty of people abroad liked converting all sorts of strange things—trucks, shipping containers, caves, even airplanes—into homes. Yet looking at this oversized container, Feng Xue, as a Chinese person with a deep attachment to houses, still found it hard to accept.

But considering that this was another world after all, he still walked up to the fairly convincing-looking door. Only then did he Notice that there was actually a card slot on it.

"Well, it even uses a room key?" Feng Xue grinned and Tapped on the door. Old Li's voice soon came from inside the container, but when the Room Door opened, the scene within was not quite what Feng Xue had expected...