After reading all this, Meng Yuqing closed the system panel and lay on the bed to think. Some of the existing functions of the system were quite comprehensive for him, but there was a bigger problem now. He was too weak compared to the natives of this world.
If you limit yourself to the tribe's activities, some of the system's functions will be limited. So you either need to find a way to improve your own strength or find a reliable and trustworthy partner to run the business together.
However, the existing functions of the system do not include any function that can improve his strength. He can buy some weapons that can improve his strength in the mall, but he can't afford them now.
Is he only able to choose the second option? But it is too risky.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask the system.
"Is there no way for me to improve my strength and go out into the wild on my own?"
"Not yet."
"Temporarily? That means it will be available in the future and the level needs to be upgraded, right?" Meng Yuqing asked.
"Yes, new functions will be unlocked after the system level is upgraded."
"But now, due to the limitations of my strength, the use of some of the system's functions has been greatly reduced, which will slow down the upgrade speed."
The system was silent for a while, and just when Meng Yuqing wanted to ask again, it spoke.
"The host can disguise the system's functions as talents. As long as they are used properly, they can seek help from trustworthy orcs."
"What does it mean to disguise it as a talent?" Meng Yuqing immediately jumped up and asked.
"A very small number of sub-beastmen possess unusual talents, but most of these talents are useless and unnoticeable, and even the individual themselves are unaware of them. However, there are indeed some sub-beastmen who are aware of their own unusualness, and hosts can disguise themselves as such sub-beastmen."
"...You said it's a very rare thing. Many people don't even know that sub-beastmen have this possibility. If others don't know about this, I will be regarded as an alien, and my life may be in danger."
After listening to the explanation, Meng Yuqing was not bewitched by the system. Instead, he bluntly stated the risks of this method.
"So you need to find someone you can trust who won't treat you like an alien."
After the system finished speaking, the room fell into silence.
Meng Yuqing had a sullen face, staring straight ahead in silence. The atmosphere was terribly depressing.
After a long while, he finally spoke.
"This candidate is Xuan, right? You are guiding me to find Xuan."
The system was silent, and Meng Yuqing didn't expect it to answer, so he spoke to himself.
"You said he was different."
"When I first came to this world, you didn't immediately appear to bind me. Instead, you appeared when Xuan brought me to a safe place. So I subconsciously trusted Xuan more and became closer to him."
"When you showed up, my first reaction wasn't to happily agree to be bound to you. Instead, I questioned you. But you know I wouldn't reject this 'golden finger' of yours no matter what."
"Later, on the night Xuan returned from hunting the Shadow Beast, you revealed that you had the ability to protect me, meaning you could shield my presence so the beast couldn't find me."
"Then I can guess that after I fainted in the tree and screamed for help, no wild beasts attacked me. Instead, you waited until Xuan came and discovered my existence. This is because you used this ability so that Xuan, who was not far away from me, could take me away."
"As for why you didn't just throw me in front of Xuan, it was probably because you were afraid of arousing my suspicion."
"You have a purpose for Xuan, and you need me to use you to help Xuan, right? But I'm confused, why don't you just bind to Xuan directly."
"Tsk, I guess you'll just tell me I don't have enough authority for this question. I'm too lazy to pursue it. I just want to ask you one thing: is what you said about my death in the original world true?"
At this moment, Meng Yuqing showed his sharpness for the first time since coming into this world.
"It's true," the system answered quickly this time, but it did not deny what Meng Yuqing had said before.
Meng Yuqing saw his reaction and nodded in understanding.
"So, you saved my life, so helping you complete the upgrade is my way of repaying you for saving me and the price of returning home."
After saying that, Meng Yuqing paused and asked slowly.
"System, do you have good intentions or bad intentions towards this world and the creatures here?"
He didn't mind helping to upgrade the system, but he didn't want to be an accomplice to evil.
"The system can guarantee that it will never do anything harmful to this world or this tribe."
This time, Meng Yuqing actually heard seriousness and earnestness in the cold mechanical voice of the system.
After receiving the system's assurance, Meng Yuqing nodded and stopped talking, then lay back on the bed.
He was very tired. The confrontation with the system had kept him extremely nervous. Now that everything was over, he felt extremely sleepy, his head was throbbing with pain, and he still had the debuff of sleepiness. As soon as he relaxed, his consciousness began to blur.
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