Chapter 3: The Lucky Wheel

After taking a bath, Zhou Yuan lay in bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

The experience from last night was too bizarre, a strange and extraordinary world had unfolded before his eyes, completely overturning his worldview, and he needed some time to buffer, along with countless questions that followed.

"Why did those people in red robes attack the company?"

"What is a crow? Why did it save me?"

"What's the deal with the Player System? Why is it exactly like the system from 'Child of Stardust'? Is Nangong Yi, the chairman, a Transcendent too? Did he create this? Could the red-robed people have come for this?"

"What's the name of the department that deals with Supernatural Powers? And when did Supernatural Powers appear?"

"What about the aftermath of the whole event?"

Countless thoughts collided in his mind, and Zhou Yuan quickly felt hungry due to the massive energy expenditure.

"I remember there are foods with special effects in the Lucky Wheel..."

He opened the lottery center and located the Lucky Wheel, which had 12 slots.

Below the wheel were the options for a "single draw" and a "ten-draw," both marked as free—the single draw was free once daily, and the ten-draw was a gift from the starter pack.

"Let's try a single draw first."

Zhou Yuan clicked on the single draw, and the wheel started spinning, eventually stopping on an apple icon.

[Name: Healthy Apple]

[Quality: Common]

[Effect: Eating an apple will slightly enhance constitution and heal injuries. Long-term consumption can make one immune to many diseases.]

[Remark: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.]

A slight enhancement to constitution? What a great item!

Zhou Yuan took out the Healthy Apple and took a crisp bite, enjoying the refreshing crunch and the sweet juice that flooded his mouth, filled with natural freshness.

"Let's do a ten-draw now!"

[You've obtained: Healthy Apple*3, Fried Pistol Shrimp*2, Wingsuit Strawberry*2, Strength Omelet*2, Ultra-Luxurious Delicious Crab Burger*1.]

Zhou Yuan examined the effects of the Fried Pistol Shrimp and fell silent.

[Name: Fried Pistol Shrimp]

[Quality: Common]

[Effect: No special effects, just purely delicious.]

[Remark: Fried food brings out a genuine smile.]

This stuff sells for eight bucks each at the fried chicken store downstairs, and you can get them even cheaper if you buy two. They can't compare in value to those foods with special effects.

A total loss!

But luckily, the rest of the items weren't bad.

[Name: Wingsuit Strawberry]

[Quality: Common]

[Effect: A strawberry shaped like wings. Upon consumption, you receive 15 seconds of flight time, with flight speed being the same as running speed.]

[Remark: This is the feeling of flying!]

Flying is a major win.

[Name: Strength Omelet]

[Quality: Common]

[Effect: Consumption will slightly increase strength, making you stronger.]

[Remark: Throw the tile!!! (voice crack)]

Increase in strength, major win.

[Name: Ultra-Luxurious Delicious Crab Burger]

[Quality: Rare]

[Effect: Eating will recover all health and spirituality values, effective with just one bite. Note: The remaining part will lose special effects after consumption, but will still be delicious.]

[Note: Place the meat patty on the bread, add lettuce, a slice of cheese, onion, tomato, ketchup, mustard, pickles, and dry bread. Lastly, add a full measure of love.]

A life-saving Divine Artifact, a huge profit.

After the free lottery draw opportunities in the Lucky Spin are used up, if one wants to draw again, they can only spend Star Coins—at a cost of 100 Star Coins for a single draw, and a 9.9% discount for ten consecutive draws, which would require 990 Star Coins.

Besides the Lucky Spin, there are three other prize pools in the Lottery Center— Weapon Pool, Skill Pool, and Item Pool.

The Star Coins needed for draws from these three pools are even more expensive, costing 1000 Star Coins for a single draw and 9900 Star Coins for ten consecutive draws at a 9.9% discount.

The quality of items in the pools varies, ranging from Common, Fine, Rare, Perfect, Epic, Legendary, to Mythic levels of gear and items—all available—but the randomness is too great and not very friendly to the unlucky ones.

Hmm… seems like no card-drawing game has ever been friendly to the unlucky.

Zhou Yuan took out a Strength Fried Egg and Explosive Pistol Leg from his backpack, eating while studying the system—and, to be honest, the Explosive Pistol Leg was indeed delicious.

Attribute panel, game mall, quest log, inventory, Eyes of Identification… most of the system's features were exactly the same as the Player System in "Child of Stardust," even the UI hadn't changed. However, it lacked features like friends, teams, forums, and maps that required networking.

"And there's no option to top up either, so Star Coins can only be obtained by completing quests and selling items…" Zhou Yuan opened the game mall, which was brimming with a dazzling array of items.

"Child of Stardust" had ambitious goals—not only to be the world's first immersive holographic game but also to create a hugely expansive open world with the lore. The large map "Endless Starry Sea" was equivalent to All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds, and countless items and skills from various fantasy works were added by the designers.

From various Divine Artifacts such as: Zhuxian Sword Set, Primordial Qi Cauldron, Ruyi Jingu Bang, Spear of Eternity, Sword of Victory, Lance of Longinus, Infinity Gems, Infinity Gauntlet…

Down to all sorts of well-known gear: Master Balls, Soul Summoning Bell, Energy Sword, Teleport Gun, Physics Holy Sword, Force Lightsaber, Moonlight Greatsword, Frostmourne, Blade of Rebellion, Mask of Agony, Heaven Defying Mushuang Sword…

There were even Tokusatsu props such as the Divine Light Stick, Gundam Transformer, and Kamen Rider Belt.

As for skills, it was even more dazzling, with anything from Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, Hokuto Shinken, Bixie Sword Manual, Ripple Breathing Skill, Electric Current Propulsion, Magnetic Field Rotation, Mikiri-Iai Long Dragon Slash, Illusory Realm, Dead Spirit Conjuring, Great Thousand Record…

One could say that "Child of Stardust" was an ultimate mixed pot, reportedly spending several hundred million just on copyright alone.

What differed was that players could only experience these contents in the game, whereas Zhou Yuan could… bring them into reality.

"Whoever created the Player System had a clear objective, to use it to become stronger. Now that the system is in my hands, I must make good use of it." Zhou Yuan recalled the fear and despair he faced when facing death last night; he absolutely didn't want to experience that sense of powerlessness a second time.

His own life, must be in his own hands!

Exiting the game mall, Zhou Yuan looked at the attribute panel.

Only then did he notice that when his consciousness touched the word "attributes," a prompt would pop up.

[Player attributes can be improved through leveling up, practicing Cultivation Techniques, awakening Aoneng Power, equipping gear, sporting titles, bodily modifications, and strength training, among other methods.

5 points in an attribute is the norm for the general public, 10 points is the human limit.]

Beneath that, there was a brief explanation for each attribute.

[Strength: Muscle power, explosive force, and other factors.]

[Agility: Nerve reaction speed, body coordination, and the precision and dexterity of actions.]

[Constitution: Damage resistance, recovery, endurance, physical strength, spirituality, and other factors.]

[Intelligence: Spiritual power, memory, insight, thought, computation, understanding, and other factors.]

[Perception: Spiritual power, the sixth sense, intuition, and other factors.]

[Charm: Attractiveness, enchantment, affability, and other factors.]

[Spirituality Value: (Intelligence + Perception) × 100 = Spirituality Value]

There was also a short note regarding "Aoneng."

——[Player will unlock Aoneng at LV10, achieving Transcendence.]

"Unlock Aoneng, achieve Transcendence… which means I have not yet stepped through the door of the Transcendent, I need to hurry up and complete quests to level up…" Zhou Yuan opened the quest module, immediately gaping in astonishment.

"This… there's so many?"

The to-be-accepted quest list was filled to the brim with quests, and no end could be seen even when scrolling down rapidly.

"Are these quests from the game instances or reality?" Zhou Yuan frowned.

There didn't seem to be that many instances designed inside the game yet, did there?