Chapter 4: On the Importance of the Golden Finger

Chapter 4 On the Importance of the Golden Finger

After drying his tears, Owen picked up the tile jar on the table and filled it with a few mouthfuls of cold well water.

Even at this time, he still rationally did not drink more, because a mouthful of cold water, nine times out of ten, will have a stomach upset, and to be sick in this hellish place is tantamount to having one foot in the door of the ghosts, Owen does not want to die yet, he has to try to live.

Can not sleep at all Owen began to think of ways to break the situation, he is now faced with not enough food to eat, not enough soldiers, not enough population, the three major problems, each of which are interlocked, into a dead end.

Without enough food there is no way to feed a larger population, without enough population there is no way to earn more wealth, without enough wealth there is no way to train more soldiers.

The reality is that he can’t do anything, and he doesn’t dare to expose the realities of his territory, otherwise, not to mention the wild beasts, the nearby robbers and noble neighbors will raise their knives and forks and gather over.

Owen was an ordinary man before he crossed over, and after he crossed over, his body was just an ordinary teenager, at most, he learned some knight skills from his father and some words from his mother, other than that, he had nothing.

He suddenly realized, he is an ordinary person, before crossing is, after crossing is also, there is no what a bright idea can come up with a way to break the situation of the ability, and he has neither the ability to one against a hundred, more not kill decisive nature of the heart, even if the bitter thought of the night, in addition to lying equal to death, only try to call back to the love of mothers and sons, with the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce to swallow the Haiderra family territories, to see if you can mix a bite to eat in Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce in the future! After all, he memorized the nine-nine multiplication table quite skilfully.

For the traveler, this is definitely a disgrace to the grandmother’s home, but for ordinary people is the most realistic choice, because the reality will not give you the opportunity to be capricious, and will not be spoiled you, the beatings will not be merciful, the death of you will not blink of an eye.

The good thing is that although Owen is an ordinary person, but he still has the golden finger of the traveler, which is the key to his breakthrough, but also he does not need to face the cruel reality of the money resigned to fate, which can be seen on the importance of the golden finger to the traveler.

If there is no golden finger, the traveler simply called the army of the heavens and the world to send death.

The system still couldn’t start normally, but when the progress bar went to ten percent, with a burst of garbled code, a bunch of folders appeared in front of Owen’s eyes, only a few of which were openable, most of which were gray and broken.

“Tank Battle, Super Mario, Bee, Contra, Street Fighter, Half-Life, Heroes Invincible, Age of Empires, Ride and Slash, Three Kingdoms, World of Warcraft.” After seeing the names of the many folders, Owen suddenly realized the reason why the system had never been able to fully open.

If a game was a golden finger, then Owen’s golden fingers were already so many that he could get wholesale, but this also led to mutual conflicts, which was why it had never been able to open.

Right now, Owen didn’t care about any of this, he just wanted to see what could help him get through the monsters in front of him.

Because the system wasn’t fully activated and was currently stuck at ten percent, the functions provided were limited, and Owen could only use the progress value of the system opening to exchange for something in the game, such as an item, skill or character.

However, it was best to choose something that fit the world he was currently in, because the more beyond the scope of the world he was in, the more progress value would be consumed, especially for technological products, even if it was an everyday item, the progress value consumed would be beyond imagination.

To put it simply, if this world was ancient, then the progress value of exchanging a cow might only be able to exchange for a modern soap, not to mention those sophisticated machines.

Although the progress value would constantly recover, but constantly extracting it in a short period of time would cause the speed of progress value recovery to be greatly reduced, just like draining a water well constantly, it would take time to recover, so Owen had to be cautious because he didn’t have a chance to start over. With the golden finger, Owen’s essence returned, he rubbed his face vigorously, revitalized his spirit, and began to pick up the games in the various folders one by one.

The many games gave Owen too many choices, but not many of them could be used at the moment, as they were subject to the limitations of the world he was currently in.

For example, the various tanks in Tank Battle and the various firearms in Half-Life, although Owen’s eyes reddened, but for one thing, he wouldn’t be able to use them, and for another, the progress value needed was too much, and even if he exchanged it for a handful of them, he would have to face the problems of use, ammo, and maintenance, so the cost-effectiveness was too low.

After careful selection and comparison, Owen found that Age of Empires, Horseback Riding and Slashing, Three Kingdoms, these three games are more in line with his current situation and needs, among which Horseback Riding and Slashing is the most suitable for his current status, because once he gets the character template of the game, he will not only be able to obtain the ability to protect himself, but also can directly recruit new soldiers in the territory, without the need to spend the progress value of the exchange of soldiers from the system.

However, after more in-depth consideration, Owen rejected this idea, because the soldiers recruited in Horseback Riding and Slashing need to pay a salary, which is far less cost-effective than the soldiers of the Imperial Age, not to mention that after building barracks, it is also possible to train the indigenous soldiers.

Opening the Age of Empires folder, a large amount of information appeared in front of his eyes.

It was mainly divided into two main categories, one was troop types and the other was buildings.

The price of buildings was too expensive to exchange for anything good with the current progress value limit, so Owen set his sights on the troop types.

I don’t know how the system pricing, different types of soldiers different prices, farmers and militia cheap, less than a whole number, followed by infantry and archery, exactly a whole number, cavalry because of the relationship between the horse to be more expensive than the infantry, but the highest is still to belong to the top types of soldiers, belonging to the kind that he can not reach now.

Owen carefully weighed some, not overly ambitious to focus on high-level soldiers, worth a little progress value of the swordsman and infantry archers first come to five each.

Novels have seen countless systems, but personal experience is still the first time, Owen is very curious, froze without blinking, but what sound and light effects are not, ten big living people just suddenly appeared in front of him.

The magic of the system can be studied later, Owen first determined what he said is good or not, in case these soldiers do not listen to his command, it would be a waste of time, and stay in the bedroom with ten men, how to see it is quite dangerous.

There was no problem with verbal communication, and no problem with obedience to his orders, although the reactions were slightly dull, but he wanted these soldiers to fight, not to do things, and this shortcoming was not a disadvantage, after all, cold weapon battles were very brutal, and a flexible mind might be a talent, but on the battlefield, a flexible mind was more prone to make them think too much, and it was clearly unqualified for cannon fodder.

And these imperial era soldiers do not need a salary, only need to meet the two things of food and shelter, they will sell their lives for you, which is simply too good for Owen who has no money in his hand.

Patting this shoulder and touching that arm, Owen was so happy that he was about to cry, this means that his life is saved, as long as he accumulates enough soldiers, see who can still kill him, now he can’t wait to write a thesis on the importance of the golden finger to the traveler.

(End of this chapter)