Struck Gold

"Dad, what's wrong? Don't scare me, what's happening?"

"Chairman! The Chairman is having an emergency! Quick... call an ambulance!"

"Don't move him! Nobody move! The Chairman's condition isn't right! Quick... call the police immediately!"

Wang Zhen walked out of the hotel with a light, brisk gait. His expression was natural, and a faint smile even played on the corners of his lips.

Heh, a top-tier luxury wedding? Doesn't this just turn it into a funeral? Wang Zhen glanced at the red paper pasted on the towering colorful archway in front of the hotel, which read "A Happy Union," and chuckled to himself.

Wang Zhen was a hitman, a professional hitman. Drugs hadn't stunted his growth; he had lived healthily into adulthood—which was today.

Today was Wang Zhen's eighteenth birthday, and this mission was his coming-of-age ceremony. To satisfy the bizarre requirement of killing the target in broad daylight during the wedding, Wang Zhen had spent a full month preparing. After hundreds of simulated drills, he finally managed to have the target drink a high-purity cardiac glycoside compound extracted from oleander during the tea-offering ceremony, right under everyone's watchful eyes, causing the target to die of a sudden heart attack.

Just as Wang Zhen was retreating toward the airport, while he was crossing a pedestrian lane, a heavy truck came speeding toward him. Having received systematic assassin training since childhood, he dodged it with a casual pause. Then, another heavy truck came barreling toward him. He dodged again, and then another...

Wang Zhen dodged eleven heavy trucks in a row. Just as he finished a sleek, handsome handspring to evade the eleventh truck, a twelfth one arrived silently and sent him flying like scattered flower petals.

Detection... Eleven consecutive heavy truck impacts dodged...

Confirmation... Heavy truck impact positioning correct!

Confirmation... Good Luck Cheat activated!

Warning... World rules prohibit supernatural powers... Warning... World rules prohibit supernatural powers... Warning... World rules prohibit supernatural...

Detected Main God space charging in Subspace... Detected Main God space charging in Subspace... Detected Main God space charging in Subspace...

Initiating spatial jump!

Spatial jump complete!

Initiating possession rebirth!

Possession rebirth complete!

Wang Zhen opened his eyes and woke up. He blinked hard. What greeted his eyes was certainly not a hospital ward, but a massive, incomparably huge dome looming high above. Suspended in the center was a colossal sphere of light, radiating a soft, milky glow. Under the illumination of the light, the intricate and exquisite patterns on the unreachable dome appeared hazy and indistinct, possessing a misty, ethereal beauty.

"A giant sphere of light... Main God?"

"Is this the Original Infinite Space?"

Although Wang Zhen was a veteran hitman with nine years of experience, during his downtime between missions, he would surf the web, read novels, watch movies, and chat on forums to kill time. Thus, he knew of the Original Infinite Space, exclusive to the godfather and founder of the Infinite genre. Yet, he never imagined that he, too, would have such a high-profile moment of transmigrating by "getting hit by luck"!

And what he never expected was that he had only completed an assassination mission with special requirements—did they really need to arrange twelve heavy trucks to see him off afterward?

This isn't scientific!

This isn't logical!

"What the hell? I wasn't sent to transmigrate by a truck? Because my cheat is called 'Good Luck,' I have to actually get hit by luck to activate it? And because the world's laws forbid supernatural powers in reality, and it detected the Infinite Space charging in the nearby Subspace, you, this cheat, dragged me over here for a possession rebirth?"

Damn, a plant! What left Wang Zhen speechless was that his cheat, whose progress bar had been stuck at 100% since he was a year old, actually required intimate contact with a heavy truck to activate!

You should have told me, damn it!

If you had just said so, even if the trucks didn't come looking for me, couldn't I have found one to hug myself?

Now it's a mess. I got kissed, hugged, and smashed by trucks, and because supernatural powers are banned by the world's laws, you—this flexible-bottom-line cheat—sent me into the Infinite Space. And it's the damn Original Infinite Space at that! Judging by this, you even performed a possession rebirth. I just don't know if I'm possessing a corpse or a living person.

"You guys go ahead and follow your own ideas, have the Main God create a person for you; it's a free service! We'll discuss other matters in detail at our meeting tomorrow! Note... other than having the Main God create a person for yourselves, don't do anything else!" a rough voice shouted.

"These lines... why are they so familiar? Original Infinite Space... free creation... damn... could this be that half-human, half-guide old fox Zhang Jie shouting?" The anxious Wang Zhen couldn't help but jump up from the ground.

He was panicked!

He was truly panicked!

While the Infinite Space and the Original Infinite Space both had settings similar to a multiverse, the difficulty levels were completely different!

In a standard Infinite Space, you are the protagonist!

In the Original Infinite Space, you are just a damn background character!

How could they be the same?

"Wait... I have a cheat!"

"Oh, then it's fine!"

Thinking of the Good Luck Cheat that brought him here, Wang Zhen had a belly full of complaints, but knowing he had to use it immediately to transition into a "cheat-user"—after all, only a badass cheat could resist the intense radiation of the protagonist's halo—he had to swallow his complaints.

"Cheat-lord? Cheat-dad? Cheat-bro? Golden Finger? Luck? Good... Luck?" Wang Zhen placed his hands on his hips and called out to the cheat in his consciousness with a sincere and friendly attitude, trying every method!

"Password correct!"

"Good Luck Cheat booting up!"

"Good Luck Cheat... fresh, refined, extraordinary, and unique! Note: The Good Luck Cheat does not have vulgar stat-allocation functions! The Good Luck Cheat will only gift the host a blind box at specified intervals. Upon opening, you will randomly obtain supernatural abilities or items! Please set the interval... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Host has forfeited. The Good Luck Cheat defaults the interval to one plot world."

"Damn it! I hadn't chosen yet!" Wang Zhen felt this cheat was mentally ill. He had just been thinking about it, and it counted as a forfeit!

"Host dodged eleven heavy trucks' enthusiastic embraces, creating a Gilbus Record. Gifting eleven guaranteed Golden Blind Boxes! Now sending the first guaranteed Golden Blind Box!"

"Open!" When he heard "guaranteed," Wang Zhen wasn't sleepy anymore.

Previously, when it came to the blind boxes, he felt he had been scammed by this water-brained cheat, as he had never once opened anything from them—he hadn't even seen a single pack of tissues!

Blind box opening!

"Congratulations! The host is blessed with immense fortune! You have randomly obtained a Hexagram Silver Lion Pocket Watch from the blind box (the symbol of a State Alchemist from Fullmetal Alchemist)! The host may use this item to change classes into a State Alchemist. (Upon changing classes, you will automatically acquire all basic knowledge of alchemy.)"

Fullmetal Alchemist? Wang Zhen had indeed watched this rather ancient classic anime, but the power levels of State Alchemists in the show varied wildly, and the restrictions were particularly severe—for instance, one had to draw a Transmutation Circle beforehand to activate alchemy. Therefore, choosing this class would mean bearing significant risks. Wang Zhen hesitated; while a useful cheat was a good thing, pulling a class with such extreme variance and heavy limitations was not necessarily a boon!

"Should I change or not?"

"Nonsense! Of course I'm changing!" Wang Zhen swept away his hesitation, his expression turning quite resolute!

Things produced by a cheat might not always be easy to use, but the first thing produced by a cheat must be useful!

If it weren't useful, the novel would be headed straight for the chopping block!

Moreover, although the anime Fullmetal Alchemist was old, it was a classic, and Wang Zhen still vaguely remembered some of the plot—including how to bypass the restriction of needing to use a Transmutation Circle for alchemy!

With that, Wang Zhen gripped the pocket watch, which had a hexagram engraved on one side and a silver lion pattern on the other.

"Change class... State Alchemist!" Wang Zhen chanted silently in his heart.

A simple, primitive gate standing quietly in the endless void suddenly appeared in Wang Zhen's consciousness, its two tightly shut doors branded with the Kabbalah Tree of Life.

Then, the gate slowly creaked open a crack, revealing an eye swirling with a hexagram Transmutation Circle. At the same time, various alchemical knowledge poured into Wang Zhen's brain from the gap like a babbling brook, seemingly slow but actually rapid!

Just as the eye in the gap struggled to pry the door open further, the gate... slammed shut!

As the gate closed, the flow of alchemical knowledge was completely severed, and this magnificent, majestic Gate of Truth quietly vanished, leaving only a blurred Mark of the Gate of Truth in Wang Zhen's consciousness.

"The Mark of the Gate of Truth? It seems I've successfully changed classes to State Alchemist!" Wang Zhen muttered to himself, overjoyed.

After all, before this, he was just a veteran assassin who had recently come of age; even with some strength, he was still lingering in the mortal realm, far from being able to defeat those at the peak of humanity.

But now, it was different!

Even if the State Alchemist class had many limitations and flaws, it was a war machine capable of being deployed on the battlefield—it was true extraordinary power! Furthermore, he had once seen an infinite-style web novel online where an alchemist class character exploited bugs in the Main God space and soared to greatness!

Although that was just the wild imagination of an author, one could not deny that the near-omnipotent power of the Main God was the cornerstone of that idea!

"Main God, how many reward points are needed to repair my body?" To verify that theory, Wang Zhen looked toward the Main God and asked silently.