Chapter 3: Change and Fervour
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In a bachelor’s apartment on the 15th floor of a residential building at Lasting Prosperous Residential Area, East River District, Line Federation’s Dancing Sun City.
The moment Ji Yu woke up, he felt a sense of dizziness wash over him.
Soon after, a strong pang of hunger hit him.
He was hungry! Extremely hungry!
He hadn’t eaten for the past twelve hours, but the hunger he felt was as if he had not eaten anything for the entire day.
Not to mention that Ji Yu was a sick person.
Without caring about anything else, Ji Yu immediately got out of bed, pulled open the bread bag, and started eating.
A few minutes later.
After drinking some water, he burped.
It was only then when Ji Yu realized that there was something strange about his weakened body condition.
“It doesn’t hurt anymore? My chest actually doesn’t hurt as much as before?”
Ji Yu held a hand on his chest and took a deep breath.
Although he still felt a little breathless, he could no longer feel the dull pain in his chest when he took a deep breath. At that moment, Ji Yu came to a realization.
It was likely that his condition had improved greatly. Perhaps because of the ‘game’?
Surprise? Excitement?
Sitting by the bed, Ji Yu hesitantly opened the status panel.
[Player Condition]
[Weak]
[Life Force Level: 1]
[Constitution: 0.39 (Average: 0.5)]
[Height: 1.74 meters (Average: 1.67)]
[Age: 26 years old (Average lifespan: 77)]
[Characteristic Obtained: Increased Vitality (Low)] (Rank 1 Manifestation. Player has randomly obtained a semi-permanent characteristic that is suitable for use.)
Increased vitality?
Ji Yu was stunned for a moment before he tried his best to calm the rising excitement in his heart.
It was not hard to comprehend that the ‘average’ behind the ‘constitution’ meant the average health of people but for his constitution to only be at 0.39?
Just from this number, Ji Yu knew that his body from before was definitely worse than this.
The three months of hemoptysis from tuberculosis had tormented Ji Yu greatly. Ji Yu was thankful and greatly comforted by this sudden relief.
Ji Yu knew that the sudden appearance of the game was definitely unusual, but he did not expect the game’s effects to be so outstanding.
And it happened in a mere twelve hours. He was overjoyed.
Although Ji Yu really wanted to go out for a jog, for someone like him who had a history of hemoptysis, the improvement of his health didn’t mean he could be careless.
Thinking back, Ji Yu still had a lingering fear of how a small jog from before triggered severe hemoptysis. As such, he quickly suppressed the excitement in his heart.
Line’s Federation Time, around 10:10 am.
He used his cell phone to order a proper breakfast and ate it. After washing up, Ji Yu sat at the computer table.
He started keying words like (southern continent, primitive tribes; brown skin-toned races, and oak trees) into the search engine.
Soon after, Ji Yu got a bunch of results from his search.
However, the search result was not ideal.
This was because there were more than 200 known primitive tribes in the southern continent. Moreover, most of the tribes’ information were rather vague and did not have a detailed description.
The reason why these primitive tribes often have incomplete information was because of xenophobia.
Most of them stopped outsiders from entering the tribe for activities.
Furthermore, due to the conservation laws by the global organization UNESCO, these primitive tribes were given a better excuse to deter outsiders from entering their tribes.
As such, it would be quite difficult to find information about the primitive tribe that Ji Yu encountered.
However, one good thing was that Ji Yu clearly knew the location of the tribe.
Because of his field of vision when he fell from space onto the blue planet.
It was also because of this that Ji Yu was able to quickly locate the primitive tribe after opening the world map.
A tropical rainforest near the equator of the Barna Federation.
“That’s quite a distance away.”
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“This game will only give a so-called manifestation after every month. No mishaps can happen to my current and only manifestation since it’s unknown if the characteristic of ‘increased vitality’ will remain should something happen. After all, it was quite telling when the description stated it as a semi-permanent feature.”
After researching for a long time, Ji Yu leaned back onto his chair and fell into deep thoughts.
“A Rank 1 Manifestation can randomly obtain one characteristic. If that was the case, would a Rank 2 Manifestation be able to obtain two characteristics?”
“That’s most likely the case, right?”
When Ji Yu thought of that, he felt more excited.
If possible, Ji Yu wished that the game did not limit playtime, but in reality, it had a 12 hours limit…
It was still better than nothing. He shouldn’t be greedy.
Just like that, Ji Yu remained in his random thoughts and waited till it was noon.
The moment the game time restriction was lifted, Ji Yu dived into the game without hesitation and quickly took control of the oak tree manifestation.
In the late night, amidst the pouring rain, Ji Yu once again returned to the familiar yet unfamiliar primitive tribe.
Under his panoramic night vision, Ji Yu took in his surroundings and sighed.
“This field of vision coupled with night vision is really cool. Although this is already my second time using it to observe the surroundings, I’m still not used to it!”
As he muttered to himself, Ji Yu began to test the range and limit of the vision of his manifestation.
Half an hour later, the results of Ji Yu’s trial and error were revealed.
Currently, the base point of Ji Yu’s vision was the highest point of the oak tree. From that point, Ji Yu had an area which he had an ultra-clear view of.
This ultra-clear area was maintained at a 15 meter radius around the oak tree.
Within Ji Yu’s ultra-clear vision area, he could see even the small limbs and slight movements of insects as small as ants and mosquitoes effortlessly.
Within this incredible 15 meters radius, nothing could block Ji Yu’s view. It was rather magical.
For example, right now, on one side of Ji Yu’s oak tree, the sleeping posture of the tribe elder in the wooden house was clearly reflected in his eyes.
All these new experiences were rather novel for Ji Yu. At the same time, he also felt how insignificant he was as an ordinary human.
But laments aside, Ji Yu wouldn’t forget what he had to accomplish.
After that, Ji Yu quickly measured to find out that his long distance vision stretched to about one kilometer.
He had a one kilometer range during heavy rain. If it was a sunny day, his range of vision would probably stretch further.
After obtaining more information about his current field of vision, although Ji Yu enjoyed the vastness of his field of vision, the short time was not enough to satisfy his urge to play around. However, he still had self discipline to return his attention to the restoration of his manifestation.
With the current situation, Ji Yu felt that time in the game was more important than money.
Firstly, Ji Yu’s sickly body needed it. Secondly, the condition of his oak tree manifestation required it.
Thus, in a situation where both were crucial, Ji Yu quickly entered a state which seemed like self-hypnosis which was also the state for meditation.
Under the night sky, Ji Yu’s meditation was constantly increasing the vitality of the oak tree in small amounts.
The vitality increased by 0.02 every 5 minutes or 0.03 every 10 minutes. In short, under such uncertain and volatile circumstances, the oak tree that Ji Yu manifested was changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
As the vitality of the oak tree continued to restore, its roots, which were slightly recovered, continued to grow quickly and split into new roots.
At the same time, numerous branchlets sprouted from the boughs of the oak tree in a healthy manner, and a large number of buds were forming as well.
This continued until dawn.
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