Chapter 2 The Golden Finger may be late, but it arrives.

Ning Xuan's inner voice screamed with excitement: It's here! It's here! It's coming with its beautiful electronic sound!

Yes, yes, bind it now. Hesitating for even a second longer is disrespectful to the cheat code.

[Binding successful. Please read the trading system user manual.]

After the binding was successful, Ning Xuan discovered that there was a very mysterious, invisible thing in her mind, but she could sense a connection to it.

However, Ning Xuan remembered that she was in the state-run restaurant. Afraid that it would be strange for her to be in a daze for too long, she took the steamed bun and left the state-run restaurant first. Then she found a corner, squatted down, and started to eat the steamed bun while opening the system's virtual panel to read the instructions.

Instructions for using the Multiverse Trading System:

First, it connects multiple dimensional worlds and allows trading with hosts in those worlds who also have the same system. As long as both parties agree, the trade can proceed.

Secondly, upon initial binding, the system is a level one trading system, which can connect to one dimension. After a certain number of transactions, it can be upgraded. The specific upgrade can be viewed in the system level. System upgrades will gradually unlock more functions, which can be viewed after the system upgrade.

Third, the number of transactions allowed per day is limited by the system level; you can check the system level section for details.

Fourth, the system does not charge a handling fee for each transaction, but points will be deducted. You will receive 10 points for the first time you bind your account. You can view the points acquisition rules on the system homepage.

Fifth, all traded items will be stored in the system's temporary warehouse for 48 hours free of charge. Items can be retrieved or released at any time within this period. Continuing to store items beyond this time will incur a storage fee based on accumulated points.

As Ning Xuan looked through the system, the word that left the deepest impression on her was "view," "view," but she already had a general understanding of it.

She closed the user manual and went to the system homepage.

Right above are the six large, golden characters: 【Multiverse Trading System】.

Next, in smaller boldface, was her name and system level information:

Host: Ning Xuan

Location: The 1970s, a parallel world of the Dragon Kingdom

System Level: 1 (0/10), 1 transaction allowed today

Linked planes: 1

Points: 10

The homepage information is quite concise. Clicking on the points section provides detailed information. To earn points, you need to scan items in your current dimension and upload them to the trading system. The system will then determine the value of the scanned items and award points accordingly.

There will be other ways to earn points as she levels up, but she doesn't have permission to view them yet at level one.

It's a pity that the system warehouse is only a temporary warehouse, but although she has to pay a storage fee, it's practically the same as having space.

However, since she already has the system, and it's a trading system, who knows, maybe one day she can trade for a space. Since the traded items can be stored in the warehouse first, she should check what dimension it connects to.

Click on the 1 in the link dimension number, and a prompt appears: Initial link requires matching, matching is random, do you want to match immediately?

Ning Xuan selected "yes," and then the page started spinning like a vortex. After less than 10 seconds, the spinning stopped.

[Match successful, linking to the ancient world of the Great Jin Dynasty, Mingde 350th year. Send transaction request?]

Ning Xuan was disappointed that it wasn't a modern world, but ancient times seemed to be an option.

Suddenly, a red "1" appeared on the transaction page. Ning Xuan clicked on it:

I need food. Do you have any?

Ning Xuan's heart skipped a beat. It turned out to be a food trade. She had actually wanted to trade food too. What was going on with this other party?

Thinking this way, she asked the same question.

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Wang Erya of the Da Jin Dynasty looked at her youngest daughter, who had fainted from hunger, in her arms, and her eldest daughter, who was lying on her lap and barely breathing, and felt a wave of despair.

She and her family had originally fled the famine together, but as the food they brought with them dwindled, her in-laws and her husband's brothers began to look at her with increasingly strange eyes.

A few nights ago, she pretended to be asleep, but in the middle of the night she overheard them discussing selling her two daughters for food. She wasn't surprised that her in-laws agreed, because they had always complained that she had given birth to two money-losing children.

But her husband actually agreed. Although she knew that her husband had only given birth to two daughters for her family over the years and had not given her a son to carry on the family line, which made him lose face, she did not expect that he was a heartless man who could even harm his own daughter.

You must understand that there are starving people everywhere now. If a girl is sold into slavery, that's considered good. Even going to a brothel might allow her to barely survive. But in this world, there are plenty of inhuman people who eat people.

That's why Wang Erya was so shocked; she was so angry that she almost wanted to stab each of them on the spot.

But she knew that as a woman, she was no match for them in strength, so she held back and continued to listen to their plan.

She desperately wanted to run away with her daughters, but she knew that in this world, a woman with two daughters alone would be torn apart by other hungry and inhuman people if she were separated from them.

So even though Wang Erya loathed these beasts, she gritted her teeth and continued to flee the famine with them, even though they only gave her and her daughter a small piece of cake the size of a thumb each day, and even though she was ordered around in all sorts of ways, she endured it all for her daughter's sake.

But unexpectedly, after deciding to sell her two daughters, the family stopped giving her food rations, just to force her to give up.

Fearing she would faint from hunger and have no one to protect her daughter, she stole some dry food in the middle of the night while the old woman was fast asleep and ran away with her daughter.

Since we're going to die anyway, we might as well take a gamble with our daughter.

The next day, when the group of beasts discovered that the mother and her two companions were missing, they never considered that the women had run away on their own. No one thought that Wang Erya would have the guts to do so; they only believed that someone else had struck first and snatched them away while their night watchmen were dozing off.

The Li family felt it was bad luck and regretted not selling the two girls sooner. Now they had gained nothing and wasted several days' worth of food.

Wang Erya was lucky; she escaped in the dark and didn't encounter any bad people along the way. The next day, after dawn, she even managed to blend in with another group of refugees.

She and her daughter were dressed as men, and they hadn't washed or cleaned themselves during their escape from famine. They were filthy and blended into the crowd. This group of people still had some food reserves and hadn't lost their humanity yet, so they tacitly allowed Wang Erya to come along, but they didn't pay any attention to her.

After another day of walking, Wang Erya was so hungry that she could barely carry her children. Her eldest daughter was too weak to walk anymore and was being carried on her back, and her youngest daughter had stopped crying.

In her despair, a strange thing bound her, saying that she could exchange things with others, as long as she thought about them in her mind, without saying them out loud, and no one would hear her.

Following the system's instructions, she was finally able to exchange items. Her first reaction was to ask if there was any food; she wanted food.