"Wow, so many. They've released eleven protagonists at once." Wang Linchi glanced at the newly released protagonists.
There were certainly a ton of protagonists in reserve, but actually becoming one wasn't that easy.
Wang Linchi carefully sorted through them and quickly found a relatively satisfactory candidate.
"Although it's not the path I wanted to take, being more of an ambiguous harem type, it's the most suitable for right now."
"I definitely won't follow his intended path anyway."
The identity Wang Linchi had chosen was that of a high school student about to take his scholastic aptitude tests. He had obtained a Golden Finger called the Good Feeling System, which allowed him to gain various rewards by successfully wooing mbers of the opposite sex.
These rewards included physical attributes, social status, tangible benefits, and so on.
Protagonists of this type were likely low-cost, not involving anything Transcendent, rely requiring the provision of items.
Wang Linchi imdiately initiated the replacent. As for the Good Feeling System, he directly sealed it away and continuously fed it false data to create the illusion that he was following the normal plot.
The replacent went smoothly. Wang Linchi found himself in a bathroom stall, having received all the previous occupant's mories.
The scholastic aptitude tests were only three days away, and his predecessor, currently in the bathroom, had been quite troubled by his unsatisfactory academic performance.
"This System is utterly ridiculous..."
The first task Wang Linchi saw from the Good Feeling System required him to win the affection of a female with an attractiveness rating of 95 or higher. If he could reach 50 affection points with her within three days, he would obtain proficiency in all academic subjects.
"Forget studying, what's the point of this crap?" Good thing it was Wang Linchi who arrived; otherwise, handling this might not have been guaranteed.
Moreover, Wang Linchi had figured out that this so-called Good Feeling System was just an LSP system; otherwise, it wouldn't issue such bizarre tasks.
Wang Linchi returned to the classroom and glanced around. Good grief, even a small test-prep class like this had such things as school beauties and class beauties.
This caught him completely off guard.
More importantly, this was an honors class, yet everyone seed more interested in petty rivalries and jealousy than in burying their heads in their studies.
In a normal academic setting, students in a senior year honors class should be studying so hard they have no energy for anything else. If not, it would be a dereliction of duty on the part of their subject teachers and horoom teacher.
Wang Linchi had just sat down when he heard a mocking voice.
"Did you fall into the toilet, or are you... lacking in a certain departnt?" The speaker was a well-dressed young man.
He ca from a prominent family and looked like a pampered rich kid.
"The exams are in three days. Shouldn't you be seriously reviewing?" Wang Linchi paid no mind to the mockery. This guy was the class tyrant and usually had... no connection with his predecessor. The sudden targeting was likely because Wang Linchi had beco the protagonist.
"Review? Even if I don't take the exams, I can still..." the other party said disdainfully.
Then the class president, who was also the school beauty, started to intervene. Wang Linchi was amused to see the plot develop, though the class president speaking up for him only made the class tyrant's hatred for Wang Linchi deepen.
"Have you ever heard the saying, 'Hindering soone's future is like murdering their parents'?"
"Since you can get into a good school without studying, why bother stopping from learning?"
"I'm an orphan, all alone. If you block my path and I fail my exams, aren't you afraid I'll take out your entire family?" Wang Linchi interjected calmly.
This stunned the class tyrant. He never expected soone usually so inconspicuous to say such things.
"If I get into a good university, I can live a better life. You're blocking from that better life, which is like trying to take my life. If one day I can't take it anymore and decide to kill your whole family, do you think it would be worth it for you?"
"You're going to inherit your family's business. Is it really worth dying young over such a trivial matter? You sure know how to pick your battles."
"For an orphan like , with nothing to lose, trading my worthless life for that of a rich kid like you? I'd say it's worth it for ."
This torrent of words from Wang Linchi, combined with the aura he exuded and his earnest expression, made the class tyrant instinctively flinch and imdiately back down.
"And you lot, don't bother piping up." Wang Linchi glanced at the class tyrant's henchn, who looked like they were about to speak. "If I take out his whole family, where else will you find such a generous benefactor? You'll end up having to slave away like everyone else, working overti every day just to make ends et."
FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
Hearing this, the henchn's faces turned pale. They latched onto their 'big brother' precisely for the benefits he provided.
Though they hadn't officially entered society, they were all adults and understood the way things worked.
In the end, the group could only manage awkward smiles, not daring to say another word to Wang Linchi.
What? Confront Wang Linchi head-on just to save face?
The guy had already said he was prepared to risk his life. Even their leader, the class tyrant, had backed down. How could they, the underlings, dare to do otherwise?
"I didn't expect you to actually..." the school beauty also began to speak.
However, before she could finish, Wang Linchi cut her off, "Sorry, I need to review. If there's nothing else, please excuse ."
At this, she looked a bit awkward and eventually left.
On the surface, Wang Linchi appeared to be reading, but in reality, he was further analyzing this so-called Good Feeling System.
The Protagonist's Aura is indeed troubleso, especially for this ambiguous harem type. It's always about showing off and delivering face-slaps. Wang Linchi pondered how to rid himself of the influence of this protagonist archetype.
Currently, he had successfully infiltrated this world's comrcial system. Although his disguised identity was that of a protagonist treated as an exploitable 'leek' and a commodity, the rewards had also started coming in.
For instance, the most crucial was the golden primordial substance; he was ticulously examining its generation process.
The most fundantal aspect was synthesis and conversion.
Feels a bit like rit? Wang Linchi mused, looking at the golden primordial substance.
This 'rit' (gongde) is defined as: eradicating all evil is 'gong' (achievent), and fulfilling goodness is 'de' (virtue); only when this also brings Blessing to all sentient beings can it be truly called rit.
Regarding the first two, protagonists are generally positive figures, so eliminating evil is a given. As positive figures, doing good deeds is also inevitable. The final point, bringing Blessing to all sentient beings, is more complicated and requires processing by the world.
This ans wringing the protagonist dry and selling them off to other worlds, thereby adding a share of origin to that world.
When a world grows stronger, it naturally brings Blessing to all its sentient beings.
So, in reality, humanity toils and suffers, while the world takes the profit.
At this point, Wang Linchi had more or less figured sothing out. If the golden primordial substance he had obtained was indeed akin to rit, then what he held was rely the raw material, still lacking the final step of synthesis.
If he was wrong, it didn't matter. To him, it was just a na for it, nothing more.
To obtain the complete golden primordial substance, it seems I'll need to elevate this protagonist identity to the highest level of authority.
I must break free from the original protagonist persona; otherwise, I'll stagnate at the gaseous state, possibly never even reaching the standard for the liquid state.
His mind raced with these thoughts, but ti in the outside world flowed on relentlessly.
Soon, class ended. Wang Linchi left imdiately, without a mont's hesitation.
"Damn it! To think I was intimidated by that brat! Why should his worthless life be asured against my entire family's?" Watching Wang Linchi's retreating figure, the class tyrant couldn't help but mutter curses.
"Let's go find Sparrowhawk. He's a mber of the local Black Wolf Club. We can ask him to teach this kid a lesson—best if he cripples one of his hands," a lackey hurriedly suggested.
However, the class tyrant hesitated. It was easy for the lackey to say, but hiring soone like that required good cigarettes, fine alcohol, and a hefty sum of money.
Recalling Wang Linchi's words, he suddenly wondered if these henchn who fawned over him were just treating him like a rich fool.
But this thought was fleeting and quickly vanished from his mind.
Money could be worried about later; venting his anger was the priority!
"You have connections?" the class tyrant asked hurriedly. He did know so shady characters from outside the school, but they were all small fry and couldn't compare to the Black Wolf Club.
"Yes, my older cousin knows soone, but it'll cost a bit..." the lackey quickly replied, clearly angling for a cut.
He was inwardly pleased. By acting as the middleman, he could get his hands on so good cigarettes and also pocket a referral fee.
After all, people only followed the class tyrant because he was rich; it certainly wasn't for his looks.
"Alright. Contact him now. We'll et them later. After the evening self-study session ends tomorrow, I want to see that brat with a broken hand." The class tyrant knew he would definitely have to spend a lot of money this ti. However, his family gave him a generous allowance. At worst, he'd have to go without expensive cigarettes and alcohol for the next month and cut back a bit on going out.
Wang Linchi, however, had overheard their conversation from a distance. His eye twitched. Looks like I'll take a different route after evening self-study tomorrow.
This was definitely the influence of the Protagonist's Aura. Otherwise, why would they impulsively decide to target him again after already backing down earlier?
Once I successfully beco part of the Xing Country High Level, the first thing I'll do is launch a major crackdown on organized cri... Wang Linchi grumbled to himself. Why were these illegal gangs active everywhere?
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