Chapter 1
Jiang Qi was still a little confused after leaving his memory.
He returned to the script-killing shop and still sat on the sofa. Liu Lan continued to talk about her views on Ben seamlessly, and he still held the big card with memories written on it in his hand.
Jiang Qi looked down and saw the last line was "I saved this money for a long time, he will definitely like it."
His system worked?
Jiang Qi coughed lightly, interrupting Liu Lan's endless reading experience, and said, "I think I left my power bank upstairs just now. I'll go upstairs to find it."
"Oh." Liu Lan was stunned for a moment and nodded. After Jiang Qi went upstairs, he realized that something seemed wrong.
"Strange, did Jiang Qi have a power bank in his hand when he came? He didn't have a backpack either..."
Jiang Qi went upstairs and walked straight into the European-style room closest to the stairs. He turned on the light and closed the door in one go, and quickly opened the system panel.
As he opened the system panel, a cheerful system prompt sound that had never sounded before rang in Jiang Qi's ears.
"Congratulations to player Jiang Qi for completing the novice tutorial. The game has now been officially activated and he has received a novice tutorial reward [Character Card] x 1. Please check it in the card pack. You can view the game guide on the main interface."
"You have discovered a main quest, please check it in the quest bar!"
Tutorial for beginners?
Task panel?
Jiang Qi opened the system panel, and the newly appeared columns instantly attracted his attention.
Player Name: Jiang Qi
Age: 23
Occupation: Acting store manager of Xinghe Script Agency
Stores owned: Milk tea shop (closed), fried chicken shop (closed), skewers shop (closed), flower shop (closed), childcare center (closed), snack shop (closed), convenience store (closed)
Script Killing Store (activated) [Click to view store details]
Cards held: [Character Card] × 1 [Click to view card details]
Main Quest【Click to view details】
Game Guide [Click to view the game guide]
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Cards?
Store details?
These are new things that have never appeared before. Jiang Qi clicks on the store details in order.
【Galaxy Script Club】
Popularity: 0 (This is the most rubbish store I have ever seen!)
Satisfaction: 0 (You don’t even have a single loyal customer!)
Store review: Not far from bankruptcy
Jiang Qi: ...
Jiang Qi silently clicked on the card details. There were three categories: mission cards, building cards and special cards. Building cards and special cards were both empty, and only character cards could be clicked.
[Character Card: John Survival] (Summonable)
Star rating:★
Skills: Cleaning (John Survival, who has been a cleaner for forty years, can clean every corner)
Acting as oneself (everyone is very good at playing themselves, although it is a bit boring)
Card Details: A weird old man who has been a cleaner all his life. He likes to live in wealthy neighborhoods, has very little desire for material things, and seems to have many secrets.
(Friendly reminder: Each card slot can only hold three cards. Please choose carefully and work hard to upgrade the cards.)
Isn't this Old John?
After hesitating for a few seconds on the option of whether to summon, Jiang Qi decided to temporarily exit the card interface and see what the main task was before deciding whether to summon.
Main Quest:
1. [A New Beginning]: To save a small shop on the verge of bankruptcy, the most important thing is to have customers who truly love it. Players are asked to gain the true love of a customer, which is 1 point of satisfaction.
Task progress: Satisfaction (0/1)
Mission reward: 500 yuan.
500 yuan!
Jiang Qi's eyes became moist.
It's so touching. Nowadays, this kind of system that doesn't require any nonsense but directly gives money is rare. Is this the legendary conscientious game?
Poor Jiang Qi opened the game guide with excitement.
Game Guide:
1. This game is a card game. There will be no penalty for failed missions. Players are advised to focus on cards and supplement with missions, and work hard to collect cards.
2. Cards can be upgraded to three stars at most. Please work hard to upgrade your cards.
3. This game has a high degree of freedom, please explore it on your own.
4. All rights of interpretation belong to the game.
Jiang Qi: ???
You call this a game guide???
Jiang Qi decided to take back his positive review of the game.
Since there was nothing written in the guide, Jiang Qi could only summon the card and explore on his own. Back to the card interface, Jiang Qi reached out and clicked on the right side of the character card to be summoned, and clicked yes in the summon or not, and heard the cheerful system prompt sound again.
"Ding, congratulations to player Jiang Qi for summoning the one-star character card [John Survival]. The character has appeared near the store. Please find it by yourself."
Jiang Qi: ?????
Do you have to find the summoned cards yourself?
Jiang Qi felt that if words could float above his head, they would all be question marks now.
Delay would lead to unexpected events. Without time to think, Jiang Qi quickly ran downstairs, rushed out of the store in Liu Lan's confused eyes, and looked around for Old John.
The alleys were interconnected and the roads were extremely complicated. Jiang Qi walked around for a long time and finally found Old John, who looked to be in his fifties, at the door of a ramen shop. He was wearing a slightly loose black suit and was very well dressed.
Jiang Qi not only found Old John, but also after confirming that he had no problem communicating with him in Chinese, he went to a ramen restaurant with him and had a bowl of beef ramen for 7 yuan.
Old John was not very good at using chopsticks. The two chopsticks seemed to be fighting in his hand, and he could only pick up noodles one by one. He ate the ramen very slowly. Jiang Qi finished his bowl of soup before Old John ate a few noodles.
Jiang Qi looked around and saw the owner of the restaurant sitting at the door watching a video. He made sure that no one around could hear them clearly, so he asked with confidence: "Excuse me...what should I call you?"
"Just call me Old John." Old John said slowly.
Seeing that Old John was quite cooperative, Jiang Qi didn't hesitate and went straight to the point: "Excuse me, how much do you know about cards?"
The game guide allowed Jiang Qi to explore on his own, so he could only explore by looking for the character card itself.
Old John lowered his head and tried to pick up some noodles from the bowl, but failed. He said, "Not much."
"Regarding cards, I only know that three-star cards don't take up card slots."
Jiang Qi suddenly realized and nodded. No wonder the game required players to work hard to upgrade their cards.
"What are the conditions for upgrading the star?"
Old John thought for a moment and said, "It should be the reputation value."
"People's love for us, appreciation for us, respect for us, and even fear of us can all be converted into reputation points. Once the conditions are met, the star will naturally be upgraded."
Jiang Qi tried to ask Old John some other questions about cards, but he couldn't answer any of them.
Old John answered while eating his noodles slowly, without any delay.
Since the game itself couldn't reveal anything, Jiang Qi could only ask Old John about himself.
Old John is just a background character in the book, and his main role is to highlight the tragic childhood of the protagonist. A lot of information about him is vague, and even his name does not appear in the book. Jiang Qi only knew his name after looking at the cards.
"This may be a bit presumptuous, but why haven't you been working for all these years?"
Old John swallowed a mouthful of noodles and said, "I don't know."
Jiang Qi:?
“It’s not in the book.”
Jiang Qi could only change the question: "Then why don't you receive treatment?"
"I don't know. It's not written in the book."
Jiang Qi: “…”
After dozens of minutes of questioning, Jiang Qi finally figured out what was going on.
As a supporting character in the story, all of Old John's appearances are to serve the protagonist, and the causes and consequences, and the logic of his behavior are all mentioned briefly. This is fine in a story that has nothing to do with Old John.
But now Old John has become a person summoned by cards, but he still only has the settings given to him by the original story.
It only exists if it is written, otherwise it will be blank.
His past, his relatives, his personality, everything about him was given to him by the author of the original story. Everything he experienced in the story and the logic of his behavior are all there if the author wrote about it, and he has no idea why it was not written.
What Old John knows depends entirely on what the author has written.
If the author sets Old John to build rockets, even if it is unreasonable, Old John will build rockets.
Jiang Qi decided to go back and study the script carefully to understand Old John's living habits and various skills, so that it would be easier to study how to upgrade his star.
When Old John took his last bite of noodles, Jiang Qi asked his last question: "Is there anything you want now?"
Even if Old John is a character in a script, he is now a living person, with emotions, joys, sorrows, anger, and things he wants to do.
"Yes." Old John said firmly.
“I want to live in a wealthy neighborhood.”
Jiang Qi: ???
I want to do that too!
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