The Girl With The Sim System - Chapter 7 The System
The slums of Z City was never quiet, especially not at night. By day, the thugs, gamblers, drug addicts and prostitutes could look as respectable as any other citizens, albeit in a more dirty and poor fashion than those in the heart of the city. But at night, their respectability is shed like the skin of a snake. At night, their criminal business resumed. Thugs fought, gamblers gambled, thieves stole and prostitutes shove their cleavage at men. Anyone that still clung to their respectability and innocence stayed inside and prayed that they’d survive another night.
But that night, the streets of the slums were quiet.
Above the grimy streets of the slums, in a tiny apartment, the entrance door was left wide open. It was an unusual scene. No one in the slums would dare to leave their doors open unless they had nothing of worth. But if one peeked into the apartment, they would find a clean apartment. The walls were painted white but the paint streaks showed clearly that it was an amateur’s handiwork. The furniture cheap but comfortable. Numerous pictures of young children were carefully placed in DIY frames, all of them unique and different from one another. Everything in the apartment showed that it was comfortable, clean and it was a well-loved home. It was a stark contrast from the environment outside.
However, if you looked carefully, you’d find that not even a small sanctuary in the middle of the slums could escape from reality. The apartment reeked of blood; fresh blood. The scent originated from the bathroom, whose door was left wide open as well. Yet, if one looked inside the first thing they’d notice would not be the sunflower stickers on the mirror or the cute rubber duck in the bathtub, but the corpse of a young lady.
It was An FeiFei.
She had been tortured by the bastards who were hired by her uncle, as they revealed to her in the middle of her physical torture. They had tortured her repeatedly and without mercy, leaving her within an inch of her life. There was no semblance of that beautiful young girl she had been. She was unrecognizable. Her hair was matted dry with blood, her youthful skin marred everywhere, and she dared not mention everything else that happened. Having it done to her once was enough, there was no need to relive it and resume the torture.
An FeiFei had died.
But then, she didn’t. The unrecognizable corpse, marred beyond all repair, suddenly came to life as a soft golden glow illuminated her body. The scars healed, the lost limbs grew and the young girl opened her eyes with a gasp.
She stayed motionless as lines of binary codes scrolled through her eyes. Information after information was downloaded into her brain about a mysterious system she received by means of a miraculous coincidence. Most of it was unintelligible, but from what she could grasp, the system was one of many scattered throughout the universe. The system that would later be known as Yi’er, happened to found her universe, landed on Earth and bound itself to the nearest suitable host which was An FeiFei.
[System Binding… Successful!]
[Due to host’s current status, the system commenced ‘Healing Lvl. 3’ on the host. A loan has been taken totaling to around $150, 000 following this country’s currency and after calculating the value of the system. Since the host’s current status and savings are categorised as ‘Poor’. the system will give the host a discount of $100,000. The amount will be deducted once host has enough money.]
An FeiFei nearly coughed blood again after being revived. She barely said a word before this system insulted her ‘poor’ self and robbed her of her future income in advance.
“This is a scam isn’t it?! Pushing the item into my hands and then taking my money!”
[Please calm down host. That was necessary for the system to bin itself to host and for host to survive.]
“Peh, what can you do besides take my money! What system! Those novels only spout lies! Aren’t you supposed to charge me for points? Like that book where as long as I earn enough Reputation Points, I can buy anything from the shop? Where’s that system!?”
[Such a ridiculous system. What good are these so called points for? “Money makes the world go round”, isn’t there such a saying in your world? Furthermore, systems operate based on the law of equivalent exchange. Based on the country’s currency and my capabilities, $150,000 0 is a fair price for healing you.]
“$150,000 for all you did was fair price?”
[Of course. I don’t make mistakes.]
An FeiFei was stumped. Regenerating lost limbs and healing her after all that tortured would have cost more than that. If she had gone to a normal hospital, a few million dollars would be fair price. A hundred thousand was certainly not fair price.
‘Just how overpowered is this system for that much healing to be so low priced’, she had wondered.
for visiting.