Junior Trainee

Seeing Luo Yuan fall silent, the instructor beside him curled his lip. The kid might have been self-taught, so he paid him little mind. After all, the strength Luo Yuan had displayed was only equivalent to that of a peak Junior Trainee, and trainees like that were a dime a dozen at the Limitless Martial Hall.

"Instructor, could I use the testing equipment here to see how strong I am now?" Luo Yuan pointed at the Punch Strength Tester and Speed Tester in the training hall.

"No. You aren't a trainee at the Limitless Martial Hall, so you have no right to use our equipment," the instructor said impatiently.

Luo Yuan frowned and clenched his fists. It seemed the instructor was a snob. Sure enough, I'm not the protagonist. In truth, the instructor's behavior was more in line with reality, but there was little he could do about it.

At noon, Luo Yuan followed the visiting crowd out through the gates of the Limitless Martial Hall. He looked back, his eyes filled with longing. This place was a treasure trove of experience that could make him stronger. What he needed now was money-enough to pay the tuition and get in. But where could he get it?

On the bus home, Luo Yuan kept thinking about how to make money. Bored, he started playing with his phone and opened a forum for martial arts enthusiasts, where he posted a question: "How can an ordinary person quickly make a lot of money?" Unfortunately, no one answered. Perhaps his forum level was too low for anyone to bother with him.

When he returned to his rented apartment, Luo Yuan saw the cool, beautiful Xu Qian sitting on the living room sofa, eating an apple and watching a gunfight movie. He found it a little odd. Don't women all like watching cheesy romantic dramas?

Luo Yuan took an apple too and bit into it without even peeling it. He stole a few glances at Xu Qian's long legs. So fair. The woman watching the movie ignored him.

"Um, could I ask you something? Do you know how an ordinary person can quickly make a lot of money?" Luo Yuan asked somewhat awkwardly. As someone who had transmigrated here only a few days ago, he wanted to get some information from a local.

"What do you need money for?" the cool beauty asked indifferently, without even turning her head.

"Uh, I want to train at the Limitless Martial Hall, so I need money for tuition," Luo Yuan answered honestly.

"You want to practice martial arts? That's a difficult and dangerous path. Isn't it better to be an ordinary person?" Xu Qian turned to look at Luo Yuan, raising her lovely eyebrows.

"In a world where strength rules, if I don't practice martial arts, how am I any different from a useless layabout?" Luo Yuan insisted. He was a man with a cheat now, and that gave him some confidence.

"Oh? I didn't realize you were so ambitious, little brother," Xu Qian teased.

"Come on, could you tell me, sis? This is really important to me." Luo Yuan's tone was earnest.

"All right. Since you called me your sister, I'll tell you. But if something happens to you, don't blame me."

"I won't, I won't. This is my choice," Luo Yuan hurriedly assured her, eager to please.

"The methods I have in mind are really meant for trainees with some grounding in martial arts. But if you're lucky and they happen to be short-handed, you might get picked too. One option is a place that keeps low-level monsters as pets for wealthy trainees. You could work there as a keeper, but there's a pretty high chance you'll lose your life. The other is to become a fighter in the Underground Black Market. Whether you live or die is anyone's guess, so think carefully," Xu Qian explained.

"Uh, then I'll go be a keeper. Underground fighting isn't for me." Luo Yuan quickly made his decision.

"All right. This black card is a VIP card for a monster pet park. The address is on it. Take it with you when you apply, and your chances might be a little better." Once Luo Yuan had decided, Xu Qian rummaged through her bag, found a black card, and tossed it to him.

"You're just giving this to me, Sister Xu?" Luo Yuan asked in surprise, holding the black card. He had a feeling there was more to this woman than met the eye.

"It's fine. It isn't mine anyway." Xu Qian waved a hand dismissively.

"Uh, Sister Xu, I've actually been curious for a while. What exactly do you do for work?" Luo Yuan asked awkwardly. He felt uneasy about using a VIP card whose origins he knew nothing about.

"Don't pry into my business. It won't do you any good. You can use that card without worrying. No one will come looking for trouble with you-if there's anyone left, that is. Heh, heh..." The cool beauty actually started chuckling coldly to herself, making Luo Yuan shiver beside her.

Black card in hand, Luo Yuan returned to his bedroom, feeling a little dazed. He had initially thought his cool, beautiful roommate might be in a certain line of adult work. Now it seemed that wasn't the case at all. She was mysterious and dangerous, too. Just who have I ended up living with?

Bored, he opened the martial arts forum and discovered that the replies to his post were all sorts of bizarre advertisements: jobs as a male model, "rich lady pleasure balls," electronics factory jobs paying tens of thousands a month, and huge rewards for fathering a child. Furious, he deleted the post outright.

Sure enough, no matter which world he was in, those disgusting capitalist scammers used exactly the same tricks.

Luo Yuan examined the black card. It was for a place called the Happy Monster Pet Park, and it listed an address and contact information. He checked the map and found that it wasn't very far away.

With nothing else to do, Luo Yuan decided he ought to study his Golden Finger properly. It seemed to let him collect various attributes dropped by other people to increase his strength, but not everyone could drop them. Apparently, it had something to do with strength: the stronger someone was, the more likely they were to drop attributes, and the more numerous and powerful those attributes would be.

However, the attribute bubbles he could collect had a time limit. Based on his observations and tests that day, they lasted about five minutes. Once he missed them, they were gone. That was a limitation. It seemed he would need to improve his speed in the future. As long as he was fast enough, no attribute bubble would be beyond his reach.

Right, does my Golden Finger have an attribute panel? That sort of thing seems to come as standard. Luo Yuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Open personal attribute panel, Luo Yuan said in his mind.

A translucent panel really did appear before his eyes. He picked up a mirror and checked, but the panel had no reflection. It seemed he was the only one who could see it.

Name: Luo Yuan

Strength level: apprentice level (Junior Trainee)

Power: 300 kg

Speed: 18 m/s

Defense: 300 kg

Cultivation methods: None

Skills: None

Looking at the information on the panel, Luo Yuan felt a surge of excitement. He had originally wanted to measure his strength with the Limitless Martial Hall's testing equipment, but now that he had his own information panel, there was no need. To think that merely running around the Junior Trainees' training hall at the Limitless Martial Hall for a while that day had turned him from an ordinary person into a Junior Trainee.

This Golden Finger is amazing! He clenched his fists. In the future, he would definitely have a place among the universe's geniuses.

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