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Chapter 299: New World · Tidal World, Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies
Chapter 299: New World · Tidal World, Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies
[You have used a Random Instance Scroll. This instance world is: Tidal World No. 8935]
[Your random identity is being determined. The ratio for this instance is: Main Character (100%), Supporting Character (0%), Extra (0%)]
[You have obtained the identity of the Main Character]
[Main Quest Released]
[Accumulate 10 points of merit and avert a disaster. Reward: Lord Skill · Magic Enhancement]
[Magic Enhancement: Increases the maximum magic points of all units and heroes under your command (tier × 1%)]
[Your performance in averting the disaster will be evaluated, affecting the final reward]
[You have obtained a temporary skill: Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies]
[Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies: Widower, Widow, Alone, Orphan, Disabled. You have Widower and Orphan, and you lack Blessing and Fortune. Perhaps consider injuring yourself to become Disabled? Fulfilling all five might bring unexpected benefits]
Qin Muye was dumbfounded. Is this what it means to be the main character? Even the antagonist doesn't have it this bad.
In fact, Qin Muye suspected that if it weren't for his Eternal Body, which removes his lifespan restriction, he might lack all three: Blessing, Fortune, and Longevity.
"Besides, with my appearance, am I not already disabled? I think I could qualify for disability benefits with this face," Qin Muye complained. He felt like his human skin was about to tear, and at any moment, his appearance might shatter.
"This time, it's good that the probabilities for supporting characters and extras are both 0%, finally making it a proper main character experience."
Qin Muye was certain that the Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies were a trap for the main character, but there must be a matching talent to go with it, which unfortunately wasn't given to him.
As for the idea of injuring himself to fulfill the Disabled flaw, Qin Muye thought it was impossible in the short term.
With his regenerative abilities, even if he were chopped into pieces and put through a blender, he could still recover.
Despite his human appearance, his body was nothing like a human underneath.
So, injuring himself wasn't likely, and the only other option was to kill himself outright.
"Let me think. This time, I'm a fortune teller under a bridge, named Ji Wuming. This name is quite meaningful. I'm glad I didn't meet someone surnamed Lu, or I would have been cursed to death on the spot."
"I studied psychology in college and am an orphan, so the Orphan flaw really does apply."
"Damn, no wonder this guy's business is so booming. With the Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies, in any world with extraordinary elements, fortune-telling would be incredibly accurate."
"Too bad for you. I lack Blessing and Fortune, but you must have lacked all three: Blessing, Fortune, and Longevity. You must have used up your Longevity, otherwise, it wouldn't have been my turn."
Qin Muye looked at his small rented room. Due to the Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies, his predecessor had bad luck in everything, even though his fortune-telling business was good, he couldn't save any money.
Of course, Ji Wuming didn't call it fortune-telling; he called it psychological counseling but conducted it in the form of fortune-telling.
"Because of the lack of Blessing, he always missed or failed his exams for relevant certifications, so he couldn't open a proper psychological clinic."
"Due to the lack of Fortune, everything he did resulted in losses, leaving him impoverished but not dead."
"Being a Widower meant he had no girlfriend, which was fortunate, as he couldn't have supported one anyway."
After recalling some of the brief memories of the truly unlucky Ji Wuming, Qin Muye felt a bit helpless. While other unlucky people might have offended him, this one was genuinely unlucky.
More importantly, this bad luck had been inherited by Qin Muye.
He could fully believe how powerful the temporary skill brought by the main character identity was. It was undoubtedly a rule-level skill, and even the Sky Net would be unlucky if it encountered it.
"Another modern world, still without energy, but it seems different from the Dead Silence world?"
This world was definitely a minimum of 5th tier, with no upper limit.
In Qin Muye's perception, this world felt like a dry seabed after the tide had receded, unlike the energy-dead world of the Ten Thousand Shadows.
One was empty, the other was annihilated.
"Tidal World? Could it be a world where spiritual energy is recovering? It's not impossible."
"From the name, it seems the energy environment of this world is cyclical?"
The Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies were a skill on him, but on Ji Wuming, they were more like a fate.
Qin Muye simply tested the skill. Although this destiny was a bit of a pitfall, it indeed had some special effects.
Just like how the White Horse Prince always encountered stories but had a prince-like aura, and the Party-Wipe Engine caused surrounding groups to be wiped out but gave him a keen sense of history, this Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies also brought him an enhancement in cultivation.
"Hold on, does this mean that Ji Wuming thought he was providing psychological therapy, but in reality, he was really fortune-telling, and that's why he predicted his own death???"
Qin Muye suddenly realized that in his memories, Ji Wuming claimed to provide psychological therapy, but he used genuine fortune-telling books and references. Since his main quest was to accumulate 10 points of merit and avert a disaster, and he already had merit, it wasn't impossible that his fortune-telling was real.
He then stood in front of a mirror and used the leftover scroll of Five Aggregates Divine Numbers to perform a calculation on himself.
"Destiny lacks Blessing and Fortune, lost his father in childhood, and will be a lifelong bachelor. With these Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies, he doesn't even count the lack of offspring. How can he have children without a wife? Oh, he could adopt," Qin Muye complained.
As for Widow, that was a term for women; for men, it was Widower.
"Although the opening is a bit of a pitfall, and there's a disaster to avert, raising a child in modern society isn't bad."
"Ji Shan is a son of destiny. With him, I should be able to live a bit better... I hope."
Qin Muye wasn't entirely sure, but he wasn't lacking in longevity, so he didn't have to worry about Ji Shan sacrificing himself later.
"Speaking of which, it's quite a coincidence that both of us have the surname Ji," Qin Muye added, then summoned Ji Shan.
Indeed, Ji Shan was now a hero under Qin Muye's command. Although he was an infant with a level of 0, after Qin Muye fed him twice, he joined automatically, without any notification from Lord's Epoch. It seemed that he had a full sense of self-awareness.
Or perhaps it was simply that infants don't have such concepts.
His loyalty was also 100, probably due to his innocence.
"Fortunately, I have a trans-spatial teleportation channel that leads directly to the warehouse, where they have prepared all kinds of supplies. Otherwise, with my poor condition, I couldn't afford to raise him," Qin Muye thought. He didn't plan to fight against the temporary skill. Since it said he lacked Blessing and Fortune, there was no need to struggle.
He also shouldn't think about collaborating with the upper echelons. Without Blessing and Fortune, power and wealth were out of the question.
If he really dared to collaborate, he would definitely suffer a major setback, or even be persecuted.
"However, I still need to find a way to make some money, even a little bit."
Lacking something doesn't mean he couldn't have it, but no matter how hard he tried, he would still live a tight life. For example, if he chose the path of cultivation, it wasn't that he couldn't obtain any resources, but that the resources might go into a bottomless pit, like powerful cultivation techniques requiring various resources.
Like Ji Wuming, a large part of his expenses went to rent and utilities, plus various additional costs, and even losing money sometimes, which is why he lived so poorly.
Another way to put it was that the demand always exceeded the supply. Otherwise, if he really had nothing, how could Ji Wuming have lived so long? Without Qin Muye, Ji Wuming would have remained impoverished and destitute, unless he truly lacked longevity.
"I also need to find a way to explain Ji Shan's origins. In my situation, I can't adopt, as I don't meet the conditions."
Adoption wasn't as simple as going to an orphanage, paying some money, and bringing someone home. It required going through various complex procedures and reviews.
The origin itself wasn't a big issue. An infant couldn't have many problems, at most just some investigations.
If Qin Muye took the initiative, no one would suspect him of being a human trafficker, as he was quite well-known in the area.
After all, being so young and fortune-telling under a bridge was unique in the entire region. He was the only one so young doing this, and he went every day, always having bad luck, the more popular he became, the worse his luck got.
So, many people in the area knew Ji Wuming.
"If the spiritual energy is recovering, should I get a piece of goatskin paper? Since I already have merit, not having goatskin paper would make me seem a bit out of place."
Qin Muye suddenly realized this. These things were standard for protagonists in the era of spiritual energy recovery.
"Or a simulator?"
(End of Chapter)
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