Who Levels Up Like This?
These days, without exaggerating, a family usually had three or four children.
With dozens of households in the village, there had to be more than just these twenty-odd children.
But this wasn't the city.
In the city, even children in their teens were free whenever they weren't in class. They could run around and play wherever they liked.
They didn't have to do any work.
Things were different in the countryside.
Once children were five or six and could carry a hoe, they generally had to go work in the fields.
Only the very little ones got to run around with their little peckers swinging.
That was why only twenty-odd children had shown up.
Without hesitation, Liang Xin bought more than twenty pieces of candy from the shop and handed them out to the newcomers.
They had only cost a little over twenty cents!
And in return, he had gotten about two hundred experience points!
Counting what he had left over, his experience pool was up to three hundred!
He had struck it rich in one go!
Liang Xin grinned so wide his back teeth were about to show!
[You have accumulated enough experience. Level up?]
"Level up! What else am I saving it for, to have babies?"
[You have accumulated enough experience. Level up?]
"Come on, bro, do you have trouble understanding me?"
"Didn't I already say to level up?"
"Or is your CPU not up to snuff? Do you need an upgrade before you can understand what I'm saying?"
"Huh? Did I misunderstand?"
He noticed a level indicator had appeared above the shop.
It should originally have been level one, and it had reached level two after yesterday's upgrade. So why was it level four now?
Liang Xin checked and found out why.
It turned out he had leveled up twice in a row just now!
Good grief! Just look at that!
Going from level two to level three had cost 120 experience points!
Going from level three to level four had cost 150 experience points!
Good heavens, he'd gained two levels at once?
Was leveling up really this easy?
You're making me think of "If we're brothers, come slash me." No, you're making me think of "999 levels in one slash."
Are you really a legitimate system?
With leveling this fast, aren't you afraid the whole system will collapse?
He had only leveled up yesterday, and today he'd gained two more levels in a row.
This system tested human nature too much. It was too thrilling!
Happiness had come far too suddenly!
Liang Xin felt as though his heart couldn't take it.
If he kept leveling up like this, would he really reach the level ten thousand he'd dreamed of yesterday someday?
After spending three hundred experience points to gain two levels, he still had thirty left.
Judging by that leveling curve, the experience needed to go from level four to level five probably wouldn't be much higher!
He might even level up again tomorrow or the day after.
You're a level-a-day system?
There's no challenge at all!
[Please make a wish]
"Make it random. Don't put it in such an suggestive way, or whenever you ask me that, I'll want to make some grand wish for world peace!"
He glanced at the four products randomly added after the upgrade.
Two kinds of coarse grain.
He could pass on those. They didn't stir the slightest ripple in Liang Xin's heart.
The other two were cigarettes!
One cost ten cents a pack, and the other cost a whole yuan.
He could see what they looked like.
The ten-cent pack had just two characters on it, spelling out "export" in big letters.
The one-yuan pack also had two characters, spelling out "special supply" in big letters!
One look was enough for Liang Xin to know the system had made those labels up.
Was there anyone else besides him who had a system?
So export, his ass! Special supply, his ass!
Exported to whom? Specially supplied to whom?
Was he supposed to take them and export them himself? That wasn't exporting, that was smuggling, all right!
"Give me a pack of export to try!"
Ten cents was deducted from his balance, and a pack of cigarettes appeared in his hand. Although it only had two characters on it, the packaging did have a design.
And judging by the packaging, it was high-end!
It looked no worse than those forty-five-cent Hua cigarettes!
Liang Xin could smoke, but he wasn't much of an addict.
He generally didn't smoke when he was alone.
But this was a new product, so he had to try it!
"Oh, they even have filters! Even if the tobacco isn't good, these would easily count as high-end cigarettes here!"
"These are good cigarettes! The smoke is rich, full-bodied, elegant and airy, with a lingering finish. The texture is smooth and substantial, the flavor full and pure, even and harmonious, with little harshness and a moderate kick..."
All right, he was reciting a Chunghwa cigarette advertisement.
He suddenly realized that although he wasn't much of a smoker, he'd been smoking for quite a few years, yet he had no idea how to judge whether a cigarette was good or bad.
He just took other people's word for it, whether they said it was good or bad.
Otherwise, he looked at the price. The more expensive ones ought to be a little better, right?
"Give me a pack of special supply to try too!"
All right, he'd found the main reason young people these days were so hard up and always short of money.
They wanted to try every new product!
A whole yuan! That was enough to buy seven jin of rice, nine days' rations at present!
It could even buy a jin and a half of meat!
Enough for the whole family to celebrate the New Year!
What other worker would be willing to spend that much?
But Liang Xin bought it with a grand wave of his hand, without even batting an eye!
"Whoa, it even has a crush bead?"
"This bead can enhance the flavor? And it can effectively clear out the harmful substances you inhale?"
"Smoking these not only doesn't harm your health, but is actually good for you?"
"This isn't false advertising, is it?"
"Smoking is good for your health? You can lie to me, but you can't lie to me like that! Do you think I have no common sense at all?"
Liang Xin bit down on the bead, lit the cigarette with a match, and took a deep drag.
Then he froze.