SS 08: Poverty Alleviation Begins

What Lianzhu has to do is pay the pirates, using Pang Kirates’ money.

It’s just a book, not a language skill. There’s a “Master A Language” skill in the system mall which allowed the host to learn a language immediately in the form of chip implantation. The chip comes with a memory card which will not occupy the storage space of Feng Lianzhu. Compared with the “Basic Teaching of the Interstellar Common Language”, it’s much more practical.

Its only downside was——10,000 points were required.

That dragon dared to overdraw more than 20,000 points but Feng Lianzhu didn’t have the courage. The word “future” is too extravagant for NPCs so he has no future to overdraft.

Rejecting the system’s reminder that points can be overdrawn, Feng Lianzhu bought the book.

The system will not provide storage space for hosts. After purchase, the book automatically appeared in Feng Lianzhu’s hand and the aborigines under the tree weren’t curious about the origin of the book that appeared out of thin air.

According to the existing historical records of human beings, the largest Kirates Dragon that has been observed so far is comparable to a satellite with a diameter of 4,000 kilometers. Biologists defined them as cosmic monsters but this kind of creature can turn into a human form and their body has their own compressed space. It’s mentioned in the biology textbook that it’s not surprising if a Kirates Dragon takes a tall building out of thin air since the space inside them can even hold a city.

“Basic Teaching of the Interstellar Common Language” is compiled according to Feng Lianzhu’s language program, with pinyin pronunciation notes and Chinese language comparison. The Interstellar Common Language and Chinese language have similarities in pronunciation and grammar. With the help of this book, Feng Lianzhu can quickly master some common words and communicate with the aborigines in a simple manner.

Reading the entire book will take up 20% of Feng Lianzhu’s memory so he didn’t plan to learn it completely for the time being. Feng Lianzhu can understand the words of the aborigines after the system’s translation so he only needs to read the book to express his meaning. If he deleted the generated data information afterward because it occupied memory, of course, he’ll never be able to learn the language by doing so.

After he completes this task, he will return to the game and execute the next task on his own. There’s no need to consume memory on temporary tasks.

Feng Lianzhu’s current points and money are quite scarce. As an NPC, he doesn’t have the habit of spending money on shopping, and having no money can be overcome by him. On the contrary, the memory usage rate that’s always on the high-risk warning line makes Feng Lianzhu quite embarrassed. He must plan carefully and clean up unnecessary information often so he can keep the things he didn’t want to forget.

Once the memory usage reached 95%, he will be forced to factory reset. The scents, the emotions he had grasped, and his knowledge of the world will all be emptied. Even if he regained this information, it won’t be his original understanding.

Feng Lianzhu found what he wanted to say in the book and silently recited it twice in his mind before closing the book and telling the aborigines below: “After dinner, take a shower and clean up.”

His pronunciation was a bit strange but it didn’t hinder the aborigine’s understanding. At this point, most of them had finished eating and they were lying on the ground with satisfied stomachs. Some couldn’t help rolling around on the ground, rubbing their backs with the small stones on the ground and most of these people have scales and long tails, kind of like a lizard.

After hearing Feng Lianzhu’s words, they quickly stood up, lined up in two rows spontaneously, and said in unison: “Yes!”

Like obedient and sensible students.

Dog 16 is like a squad leader, ordering those who are still eating to finish quickly, and those who’ve finished eating are divided into three groups, one group draws water, one group boils water, and one group picks up food scraps and cleans up the trash.

Such orderly actions reminded Feng Lianzhu once again of the players who fought bosses in the online game and a vague idea gradually formed in his mind.

The only experience in Feng Lianzhu’s gaming career is being beaten to death by players and exploding into equipment, materials, and gold coins, sending experience, resurrecting, and then being killed. Rinse and repeat, boring and monotonous. “Poverty alleviation” is a term that’s too far out of the scope of the NPC’s understanding, except for the “absolutely not” mentioned in the message of Pang Kirates, Feng Lianzhu has no clue about what to do.

One thing is certain: if Pang Kirates can complete the poverty alleviation task, the system will not send Feng Lianzhu to the Blue Galaxy.

Feng Lianzhu still doesn’t understand why the system said he’s the most suitable for Pang Kirates among the existing hosts. The fat dragon is powerful and indeed suitable for leapfrog challenges but why is Feng Lianzhu suitable for “poverty alleviation”?

There must be something that Feng Lianzhu can do that Pang Kirates can’t.

For Feng Lianzhu, only his experience in the game can be used as a reference.

Players experience the game basically impoverished and inexperienced at the start. They can obtain gold coins, props, and experience by doing tasks and fighting monsters, gradually becoming rich and high-level players.

Pang Kirates can use his own power to make trouble in “Travel the Heavens” so Feng Lianzhu can naturally regard the aborigines as gamers, give them quests and the fat dragon’s gold coins, then let them make a fortune on their own strength

“Rich and poor” was originally a concept of contrast. The residents of the primitive star were extremely poor compared to Pang Kirates but the emotions and endless brain memory they have are quite rich compared to Feng Lianzhu.

“If it were me, I would trade all my skills for memory.” Feng Lianzhu thought to himself.

“Rich and poor” is a conclusion that only the individual can decide on so Feng Lianzhu cannot decide for the aborigines whether they’re rich or not.

In the process of Feng Lianzhu’s thinking -deleting the thinking process- leaving the conclusion, the Aborigines have been washed clean. One by one, they became white and clean, and they lined up according to their heights which looked a lot pleasing to the eye.

They even washed the animal skins and draped them even when wet. The sun was setting and the temperature dropped so the people in wet fur shivered.

It’s very uncomfortable but fortunately, they’re used to this kind of life. When they were in the Union Welfare Institute, they lived like this every day.

Feng Lianzhu frowned in displeasure when he saw that the two front teeth of Mouse 223 were shaking with the cold.

He’s a wood-type NPC, without water and fire-type abilities so there’s no way to pump the water away or dry the fur in an instant, but he can control a little wind.

This is a matching skill with “Bamboo Arrow”. “Blast Wind” will increase the speed of “Bamboo Arrow” by 50%, making it difficult for level 30 players to completely avoid his ultimate move.

“Bamboo Arrow” has been deleted by the system so “Blast Wind” has been reduced to a tactless skill but it can play a role at this time.

Feng Lianzhu stretched out his right index finger and formed a small circle in the air, then the breeze blew the dry leaves on the ground, and under the guidance of the wind, a wall of dead leaves was formed around the standing crowd.

The aborigines looked nervously at the leaves that gradually wrapped around them, not knowing what they would face. Anxious, the timid Rabbit 98’s short tail trembled uncontrollably.

A gust of wind borrowed a cluster of small flames from the bonfire where the meat was being roasted just now. The wind assisted the fire and all the dead leaves burned in an instant, the three-meter-high fire wall firmly surrounding everyone.

A-Are they going to be burned to death? Dog 16 heard the uncontrollable crying from behind him, his eyes fixed on the person at the tree top through the fire and the scarred wound on his calf faintly throbbed.

This person healed his wounds and saved their people. Will he really burn them now? He didn’t believe it.

Dog 16 saw Lord Kirates open his right hand and made a downward gesture. With his movements, the wall of fire around him suddenly went out, leaving only waves of heat.

Feng Lianzhu’s index finger pointed down and made a circular motion. The warm air heated by the flames circled around Dog 16 and the others. After two or three circles, the clothes on their bodies were completely dry and some people’s hair even stinks.

Seeing that everyone was no longer cold, Feng Lianzhu pressed down the hot wind, and together with the suppressed flame, it was thrown to the river next to them.

The heat wave dissipated and the evening wind no longer made them tremble but brought a touch of coolness.

Everyone looked at Feng Lianzhu in astonishment. This Lord Kirates really didn’t seem to have the intention of hurting them.

The eyes of Dog 16 and Mouse 223 were even brighter as they followed Feng Lianzhu’s figure.

Feng Lianzhu was very satisfied with the experiment of this skill. “Blast Wind” could only blow objects with a weight of less than 100g and basically had no damage output, only used as an auxiliary skill. Now, it seemed like “Blast Wind” without “Bamboo Arrow” was useless in battle but still quite practical in daily life.

Opening the “Basic Teaching of Interstellar Common Language” and finding what he wanted to say, Feng Lianzhu put down the book and said: “There’s a task, give it to you, complete it, reward.”

After he said these words with difficulty, Dog 16 immediately said: “You saved our lives two years ago and now you gave us food and healed our wounds. We should do things for you, no rewards are needed.”

Feng Lianzhu didn’t persuade Dog 16 and the others since it’s too troublesome to search and translate.

He coldly swept across the faces of the aborigines and said: “Are you literate?”

“The Alliance has compulsory education provisions. Minors before 18 must study several basic courses. If the orphanage is willing to bear the cost of schooling, they can also study, so we are all literate.” Dog 16 explained.

Alliance? Compulsory education? Orphanage? Feng Lianzhu was puzzled by the unfamiliar terms but he didn’t have the memory to think about it. Since everyone can read, then things will be easy.

Feng Lianzhu pointed to the sky: “Contact with the pirates, who will?”

The easiest way at this stage was to buy supplies and knowledge from the pirate planet according to what Pang Kirates said. Feng Lianzhu didn’t know how to get in touch with them but he had his own way.

The task of communication could be enforced on the aborigines; What Feng Lianzhu had to do was pay the pirates, with Pang Kirates money.

He would distribute the gold coins in the cave in the form of rewards and the Aborigines would buy the resources they needed and use those resources to build this primitive star.

This was called…faction, right? Feng Lianzhu thought uncertainly. Players in the game generally refer to the place where the group gathered as a faction.