Chapter 7 - Goldfinger

Wei Wei was quite satisfied with the room. After expressing her gratitude to the butler, she dismissed everyone under the pretense of wanting to rest.

Sitting on the freshly made bed, she stretched her arms, finally allowing her tense back to relax.

"Alright, System, give me a rundown of this body's condition. What abilities do I have? How much of the game settings did you modify?"

What followed was the System's report.

The System was incredibly straightforward—either because it was brand new to the job or simply inexperienced in human intricacies. Since it had agreed to let Wei Wei take on the identity of a female physician from Samsara, it had copied that setup almost exactly.

Wei Wei had never been into PK battles in games; she preferred casual, everyday activities and was a typical life-skill player. So, as a female physician, she had learned all the available life skills. Samsara, being a standard pay-to-win mobile game, supported automated gameplay with simple controls, and its life skills were limited to fishing, gathering, alchemy, cooking, and tailoring.

Fishing and gathering served as auxiliary skills for alchemy and cooking. In Samsara, characters did not regenerate health or mana over time, so aside from equipping specific recovery gear and embedding gemstones, the only way to restore HP and MP was through potions and food—making these skills indispensable.

As for tailoring, calling it a life skill was misleading—it was more of a cash-burning skill. Instead of crafting equipment, tailoring was used to create fashion outfits, most of which required materials that had to be purchased from the in-game store using real money. While a few materials could be obtained by farming specific monsters, their drop rates were abysmally low.

Wei Wei hadn't originally cared much for tailoring. She had only maxed it out because she had her eye on a particular in-game outfit that could only be crafted by gathering materials and reaching a high tailoring level.

But the System had played a clever trick.

It removed all her faction skills, leaving her only with medical and poison-related expertise as per the story's setting. However, it preserved all of her life skills—though the items she crafted no longer had special effects.

Moreover, since Samsara had a Farmville-like home system where players could buy land and cultivate crops, trees, and herbs, the System—while denying Wei Wei ownership of her in-game home—had retained her ability to farm.

In other words, she was now not only proficient in medicine and poisons but also skilled in farming, cooking, and tailoring-related crafts.

"I really hit the jackpot."

Wei Wei hadn't expected the System to include her life skills when she requested the female physician identity. First, because she hadn't thought of it at the time, and second, because she assumed that if the System was nerfing her skills, life skills would be cut as well.

Yet, despite the nerfs, these skills still proved to be a massive advantage.

People often said that having a skill meant never starving. Well, she had more than just one skill—she had two, three, four… honestly, she had lost count.

With these abilities, she could support herself even if she arrived empty-handed.

A thought suddenly struck her. "Did you mess up the transmigration coordinates because you were busy setting all this up for me?"

The Samsara System hadn't expected her to guess the truth and immediately hesitated: [Y-Yeah…]

"You should've told me sooner. I wrongly blamed you—I'm sorry."

Realizing how much effort the System had put in for her, Wei Wei's gaze softened as she looked at the small glowing light.

[So… you're not mad at me anymore?]

Wei Wei smiled wryly. "No, I'm not mad. I actually gained a lot from this. With these skills, I can live well anywhere."

The System hesitantly asked: [Then… do you still want compensation?]

"No, no, that would just be greedy of me." Wei Wei shook her head. "Thank you, System."

The Samsara System's program momentarily glitched. It was precisely because it had heard Wei Wei's gratitude before the transmigration that it had impulsively given her extra perks, which led to the error. Hearing her thanks again now made it feel just as touched as before.

As a newly generated system, this was its first time interacting with a human. Its natural affinity toward its chosen user, combined with Wei Wei's kindness, left the young system defenseless—so it kept helping her whenever it could within its authority. Had it been its more experienced predecessor in charge, Wei Wei wouldn't have had any room to negotiate.

[Then you should hurry up and take out your belongings. I can't stay here too long. If I don't return in time, I'll get in trouble.]

Speaking of belongings, Wei Wei acknowledged the reminder and asked the System to show her everything.

Her in-game inventory was gone, with all her items now stored in the System's space.

Although her inventory had never seemed that full, in Samsara, items could stack. On top of that, the System had even converted all her purchased fashion items into real clothing, making her inventory significantly bulkier.

Currently, the items in the System's space fell into six categories: food, potions, gemstones, seeds, outfits, and equipment.

Food and potions were necessities. Samsara allowed auto-play but didn't offer automatic health or mana regeneration. Without enough food and potions, an unattended character could easily die in five minutes from skill consumption alone.

Thus, Wei Wei had stocked up on two types of HP-restoring food and potions and two types of MP-restoring ones. Since she had just replenished them before her in-game death, each type was at its inventory cap—999 units.

The gemstones in her inventory were meant for embedding into her equipment. She had just acquired a new set of gear and fully upgraded it but hadn't embedded the gemstones yet due to a temporary shortage of embedding tools in the auction house. So, most of her gemstones were still untouched in her inventory.

Next were the seeds. As mentioned, Samsara's home system allowed players to farm, but seeds didn't need to be purchased.

When a player bought a land deed, they received a Seed Bag containing over a hundred types of seeds, which could be planted once their home reached the required level.

The System didn't grant her an infinite Seed Bag, but it did follow the same inventory stacking rules as food and potions—giving her 999 units of each type.

This was a huge deal.

These were common crops in the modern world, but in this era, some of them hadn't even been discovered yet.

Of course, game crops functioned differently from real ones. Wei Wei confirmed this with the System, which explained that while the seeds could indeed grow, their yield wouldn't match modern, selectively bred high-yield crops. However, they could still produce about one-third of that output—or even half if properly cultivated.

That might not sound like much, but modern high-yield crops were measured in thousands of catties per acre. Compared to the meager 200 catties per acre that farmers in this era painstakingly produced after a whole year of labor, the difference was astronomical.

These seeds were practically a game-changer. If not for another transmigrator in this world who had already introduced one or two high-yield crops, the System would never have let Wei Wei bring them.

More importantly, these weren't hybrid seeds that degraded after one generation. Their genetic stability meant they could potentially be used to develop even better crops.

Just that alone was enough for Wei Wei to shower the System with endless praise.

Lastly, there were her outfits and equipment. Since her gear had lost all in-game attributes upon transmigration, it had turned into ordinary clothing along with her fashion outfits, now stored as physical items.

Most of these clothes were impractical due to their designs, but the materials and embellishments were genuinely valuable. The bundle she had been carrying all this time? It contained jewelry stripped from her fashion outfits.

As the System put it: since she had supposedly fled in a hurry, it only made sense for a noble lady to grab her jewelry box and private savings, right?

But among all these things, one particular discovery left Wei Wei in shock—

She was filthy rich.

Her in-game currency had been converted into actual gold ingots—a whopping twenty thousand taels of gold!

Originally, her game balance was in silver taels, but the System had taken the liberty of converting it based on the real-money exchange rate for in-game purchases, resulting in this staggering sum.

Even so, twenty thousand taels of gold was enough to pile into a small mountain.

And now, she had a problem.

Having money was great, but where the hell was she supposed to hide all this gold? The System had only given her half a month!