Chapter 17: Humanoid Printer

"Ah."

Ren scratched his head. "With this skill, if I buy lottery tickets on my zodiac sign day, will I win the prize?"

'But what day is my zodiac sign day? Does it mean my birthday?'

He didn't understand, but it didn't matter if he didn't understand now. On a lucky day in the future, he would naturally understand.

"By the way, System, are there any new items in the mall?"

Suddenly, the system page shifted to the mall interface.

As for skills, the mall has refreshed 15 new skills this month.

"House Tiger (Silver): 150 points", "Scalpel (Diamond): 30,000 points", "Astronomical Tyrant (Master): 500,000 points". "King of Fighting (Master): 400,000 points", "Sudden as Air (Bronze): 50 points", "Outstanding Focus (Platinum): 2,000 points", "Absolute Pitch (Platinum): 3,500 points"... "Humanoid Printer (Gold): 600 points".

As for physical goods, there are only five:

"Qingqu Supplies · Massager", "Home Appliances · Sureil Third-Generation Rice Cooker", "Smartphone · iPioneer 5", "Prepared Food · KFC Colonel's Chicken Nuggets", and "Health Medicine · Melatonin Tablets".

Ren's eyes immediately lit up. He first looked at the skill and said directly: "System! Exchange for me!"

"The Cleaning Tiger skill!"

[Points: 650 → 500]

In an instant, Ren felt he had a lot of experience and knowledge in cleaning. He's now an expert in household chores.

"Haha! With this skill, it's easy to clean here, right?" he said confidently, with his hands on his hips.

Perhaps ordinary people would exchange for the 600-point humanoid printer after seeing so many skills.

But for Ren, the humanoid printer is indeed good. After all, looking at the skill description, it can greatly increase his drawing accuracy and speed.

Undoubtedly, such a skill is powerful and practical for a professional mangaka.

But Ren considered it unnecessary. His hard drive memory allowed him to fully recall his previous life. Kaleidoscope painting allowed him to easily reproduce the works in his memory. He also had movie-level storyboarding that allowed him to process drawings and shots with the same perfection as in movies.

To be honest, his current drawing speed is not slow.

For example, he has drawn the content of "Edgerunners" up to episode 34, which is equivalent to almost two or three episodes per week.

It could be said that such a creation speed makes anyone in the industry cry.

Generally, 15 to 20 drawings are made per episode. Even with two episodes a week, at least 30 to 40 are made.

An average of 4 or 5 drawings a day is indeed alarming in the industry.

But it may not be so alarming for Ren, as, compared to other mangakas, he is a transmigrator.

For mangakas, the most important thing is not drawing speed, but the ability to create.

Plot organization, drawing conception, and manga storyboarding require conception time.

But for someone like Ren, does he even need to think about manga storyboarding?

Not at all, just copy the original work from memory!

The only manga storyboarding is for "Edgerunners", an adaptation of the animation from the previous life, so Ren has to think about it.

So he used his points to exchange for the ability to create cinematic-quality storyboards.

So there's no need to exchange for a humanoid printer, but... it's not unnecessary.

Ren currently has 650 points. After exchanging for a humanoid printer, he would still have 50 left. What's the use of that?

And he really needs the cleaning tiger skill.

So he decided to give up on the humanoid printer.

"This smartphone, the iPioneer 5... is it equivalent to the Apple 5 from before? Guigui, didn't it just come out last month? Can you sell it upon logging in?" Ren asked in amazement.

Coincidentally, the phone was quickly refreshed, and moreover, apart from the Qingqu massager, Ren could use everything. Now that he has moved, he can cook by himself in the rental house, use the rice cooker, and prepared food.

Besides this, there are also pots and pans, firewood, rice, oil, and salt, etc. He needs to buy more.

But it doesn't matter, he's quite rich now.

After buying those cooking utensils,

he can cook by himself and try to make various dishes like in his previous life.

He waved his hand directly: "Silverhand, exchange everything but the massager! Exchange 50 Colonel's Chicken Nuggets for me!"

[Points: 500→220]

280 points vanished in an instant. The most expensive was the iPioneer 5 smartphone, which required 100 points, which was indeed expensive.

This was equivalent to a silver-level skill.

The Colonel's Chicken Nuggets can be purchased limitlessly with 1 point, as always.

At that moment, Pochita saw that, while Ren was talking to himself, a bunch of things suddenly appeared on the table next to him.

The puppy's head didn't understand the situation, but she was scared and didn't feel strange.

Ren picked up the iPioneer 5 box. The packaging felt familiar.

He opened the box and took out the new smartphone. It was exactly like the iPhone 5 from his previous life.

The only difference was that the logo on the back had changed from a bitten apple to a special "iP" design.

"Alright, let's start cleaning and then go get a mobile number!" Ren said energetically.

Pochita also barked excitedly: "Woof, woof!"

"Ding-ling-ling..."

The landline phone rang. It was an unknown private number. Ayumi answered directly.

"Moshi Moshi..."

A familiar voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hello, Amamiya-san, is this your private number?"

Ayumi didn't expect Ren to be so fast and said.

"Yes." Ren walked out of the phone number store with Pochita in his hand. He had just activated his number and was making a call with the exclusive iPioneer 5.

"Why is that phone different from ours?"

"It looks like a foreign phone. It's called something like iPioneer 5."

"It's the iPioneer 5, the first historic smartphone from America."

"The Pioneer 5 hasn't officially launched in Japan yet, has it? This guy is amazing, he must have asked someone to send it over?"

"Who knows?"

In Japan, in this world, not everyone has gotten used to seeing all kinds of smartphones yet, and they think they are common and not worth talking about.

But it's normal. When the iPhone 5 came out in Ren's previous life, someone even sold their kidney for this phone.

I don't know if the guy who sold his kidney to buy the phone regretted it.

So when Ren took out a smartphone at that moment, it still attracted attention.

"...Yes, Ayumi-san, we'll use this number to contact each other in the future."

After hanging up, Ren left with Pochita in his arms.