"Hurry, hurry, System-chan."
"Quit dawdling and get to the next one!"
When it came to the roulette wheel during his transmigration, Lin Jing was the very picture of nonchalance.
The era?
Didn't matter.
I, Lin Jing, can become a god in any era!
And why is that?
Because I have a system!
I'm the protagonist!
So when he drew Tang San's six-year-old era, he didn't feel particularly stirred.
[Yes, yes, yes.]
The Thunder System sounded a little exasperated.
Why was this host more impatient than the system itself?
The roulette wheel in front of Lin Jing changed again.
The words "Era of Transmigration" became "Race."
The Race Roulette was simple. It had only two options: human and Soul Beast.
They each took up half the wheel.
Lin Jing's heart lifted slightly.
This roulette didn't look promising.
He'd drawn Tang San's six-year-old era. If he transmigrated as a Soul Beast, he probably wouldn't be able to become a god before Tang San.
Once the Buddha Tang became a god, there'd be no chance for him to make a name for himself.
But then he thought about it again.
He had a system. If he kept a low profile, the Buddha Tang might not even discover him.
"Spin!"
At Lin Jing's command, the wheel began to turn.
Three seconds passed in the blink of an eye.
The wheel came to a steady stop on "Human."
"Hu—"
The mechanical voice inside the wheel had barely gotten one word out before it abruptly stopped.
Lin Jing had already told the Thunder System to switch to the next roulette page.
"G-gender?!"
Lin Jing's eyes widened. He blurted out in disbelief,
"System-chan, you've got to be kidding me! I'm a man!"
"And what the hell are 'hermaphrodite' and 'asexual' supposed to mean?!"
[Ding!]
[Please don't be angry, Host. Those settings came built into me when I appeared. I can't change them.]
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Lin Jing's face darkened. Gritting his teeth, he forced out one word:
"Spin!"
The Gender Roulette was divided into four sections.
Male made up forty-five percent, and female made up another forty-five percent.
The remaining ten percent was split between hermaphrodite and asexual.
The wheel began to turn with a "creak, creak." Lin Jing held his breath, staring at it without blinking.
Its speed gradually slowed.
It stopped right on the boundary between female...
and male.
Just as Lin Jing was wondering what would happen, the wheel creaked again.
It turned a little farther, and the pointer moved fully into the male section.
Lin Jing let out a long breath. Thank goodness—he'd kept his Ghost Sculpture. He'd almost ended up with a Ghost Cave instead.
"Next!"
The crazed look on Lin Jing's face grew more pronounced. He was nearly delirious.
This time, the wheel's mechanical voice didn't make a sound before the page changed.
The next roulette was—"Appearance."
This was something Lin Jing cared about.
He wasn't the sort of person who devoted himself to cultivation alone, free of worldly desires.
He cared about his looks. At the very least, he had to find himself easy on the eyes.
In his previous life,
he'd been a dashing, handsome, peerlessly beautiful man.
He was the sort of man who made flowers bloom at the sight of him, from women in their seventies to little girls of three.
Anyone who saw him had to take a second look.
The wheel's options were no longer words. They'd been replaced with capital letters:
"S, A, B, C, D, E."
There were six options.
S took up the least space, barely half the width of a finger. It represented peerless beauty, the kind capable of captivating thousands of young women.
A took up a little more space, about the width of two fingers. It represented top-tier handsome or beautiful.
B took up much more space, several times as much as A. It represented a seven-out-of-ten handsome man or beauty.
C, for plain and unremarkable, took up even more space.
As for the rest,
D and E took up less space, representing slightly ugly and downright unsightly.
"Spin!"
Lin Jing stepped forward this time, grabbed the edge of the wheel, and gave it a mighty shove. The wheel spun rapidly.
He could accept anything B or above.
If he got below B, he'd test whether acting cute and throwing a tantrum worked in this space.
Perhaps Lin Jing had used a little too much force. The wheel spun longer than it had the previous times.
About five seconds later, it finally began to slow.
As soon as he saw where the pointer was, Lin Jing's lips curled into a smile.
It was pointing squarely at C.
Judging by the previous rounds, the wheel would spin at least into the next section.
After C came S, A, and B.
At its current speed, there was no way it could make it around to E, which came after B.
In other words, Lin Jing was guaranteed to have at least B-level looks.
A belated thought struck him: if he drew S, would the system give him a full makeover?
He asked the system directly.
[No, Host.]
[Whatever appearance level you draw, your features and figure will simply be adjusted. Your appearance won't be changed completely.]
Only after hearing the system's answer did Lin Jing relax. He turned his attention back to the wheel.
It had stopped spinning, and the pointer was on A.
"Appearance: A rank, top-tier handsome or beautiful."
At last, the wheel managed to say what it hadn't had time to say during the first two rounds.
"Next!"
In a good mood, Lin Jing waved his hand and spoke with grand confidence.
[Ding!]
[The Host's starting roulette draws are complete. In honor of the Host being the first to bind with this system, a Newbie Gift Pack is hereby awarded!]
[The Newbie Gift Pack contains one draw from the Special Opportunity Roulette. It will become available after the Host awakens his Martial Soul and obtains his First Soul Ring.]
"Newbie Gift Pack!"
Lin Jing's eyes lit up. He'd almost forgotten about it.
Good thing this Thunder System had a conscience.
After all those roulette draws, along with the Newbie Gift Pack, Lin Jing had more or less figured out how the Thunder System worked.
He'd have to ask about the specifics after transmigrating to Douluo Continent.
"If we can't start right away, then let's get transmigrating."
Lin Jing waited for a while. When the system didn't react, he began to urge it on.
[Ding!]
[Detected a missed roulette draw. Proceeding with the additional draw.]
Lin Jing: ...
"Those settings came built into me when I appeared. I can't change them."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk."
"Can't change them, huh?"
"Then how did you manage to miss a roulette draw?"
"Or were you just brushing me off earlier?"
Lin Jing's barrage of questions sent the system into silence.
But the roulette wheel changed, turning into "Your Age."
"I'm telling you, playing dead won't work. We'll be seeing each other all the time. Do you really want to ignore me for the rest of your life?"
Lin Jing changed tack. "Just compensate me with another Special Opportunity Roulette draw, and I'll forgive you."
[Ding!]
[A system error has been detected and repaired. As compensation, the Host is hereby awarded one Special Opportunity Roulette draw.]
This time, the Thunder System reacted quickly. Its prompt sounded almost as soon as Lin Jing finished speaking.
"That's more like it. Spin."
[If the Host draws age six in this round, this system will begin transmigration immediately.]
[For any other age, the Host will proceed to the next "Level" draw pool for the final roulette draw.]
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