I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 1 The Fox Next Door is Returning a Favor
It is a romantic and elegant thing for a fox girl to repay a favor by doing laundry and cooking for her husband. But what if a fox girl takes her own things and goes to someone else's house to repay a favor? ? ?

Yes, that's right! There is a fox next door who is repaying a favor, but how come you stole rice and flour from my house to 'repay the favor'?

Inside the dilapidated thatched cottage, a skinny young man wearing coarse linen clothes was lying in front of the wall, quietly peeking at the next room through an imperceptible gap.

The girl next door was dressed in white, so beautiful that she looked like the reincarnation of Xi Shi. At this moment, she was holding an empty bowl and muttering something. The next moment, a bowl of brown rice appeared out of thin air in the empty bowl.

The young lady looked at the brown rice in the empty bowl, revealed a hint of joy, and quickly poured the brown rice into the basin beside her, and then continued to mutter to herself.

On the other side of the wall, the boy who was peeping through the crack in the wall suddenly got up and quickly came to his own rice jar, staring at the empty rice jar. At this time, there was only a shallow layer of rice in the jar. Then, in the eyes of the hungry and thin boy, the last remaining grains of brown rice disappeared one by one.

Not a single grain is left! Cleaner than a dog licked it!

Then Zhang Chen quickly rushed to the gap in the wall, and through the tiny hole, he saw that the girl's empty bowl was indeed filled with a bowl of brown rice!
"Damn it! They're really going to starve me to death. They're not going to leave me any chance to survive!" Zhang Chen was standing in front of the wall and saw this scene. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth but didn't dare to curse out loud, for fear of being heard by the girl next door.

Before Zhang Chen could finish his curse, he suddenly felt a pulling sound at his hand, and before he could react, the bacon hanging on the wall disappeared.

Soon, the aroma of rice came from next door. The girl prepared the fragrant 'rice and bacon clay pot rice', then changed into a fox with snow-white hair and jumped obediently into the cage beside her.

Zhang Chen put his eyes on the wall, staring at the fox next door. His eyes were full of anger. He didn't even feel it was too strange that the woman turned into a fox, because Zhang Chen had been watching this scene for three months.

It’s been three months! Do you know how I have been spending these three months?
"Damn Wang Wu! If he had just made this fox into a coat, this wouldn't be the case today!"

Zhang Chen cursed in his heart. To talk about the source of all this, he had to start from five years ago.

One rainy night five years ago, the hunter Wang Wu from next door went hunting in the mountains and caught a white fox. Wang Wu wanted to make a fur collar with the fox, but the scholar from next door was very poor and ate only bran and wild vegetables. For some reason, he sold his two acres of land just to buy the fox that night.

Since the fox next door came to repay his kindness, Zhang Chen's miserable life began. He became a chosen worker, working hard and enduring hunger to support the man and beast next door. Until three months ago, his predecessor was almost starved to death. Before he stepped half a foot into the gates of hell, he solved the mystery of the womb and remembered his life on Earth.

After awakening his innate wisdom, Zhang Chen, with his 21st century consciousness as the main factor, did not think much about it at first, but continued to go up the mountain to hunt.

However, three months after solving the mystery in the fetus, Zhang Chen finally realized something was wrong. The amount of brown rice in his jar was decreasing too quickly and the bacon was often missing.

At first he thought he had been robbed, but after waiting for several days, no thief came. Instead, the rice and meat in the house disappeared. Thinking of the poor scholar next door who did not work every day but had brown rice and meat for every meal and had extra money to study, Zhang Chen became suspicious and thought that the scholar had stolen the food, so he quietly grinded a hole in the wall. Then he couldn't stop and today's scene happened!
Smelling the aroma of rice coming from next door, Zhang Chen quickly blocked the gap with sand, fearing that the vixen would discover his peeping.

"This damn vixen, even if I'm not killed by her, I'll starve to death sooner or later. And if I continue like this, won't I be working for the neighbor all day long?"

After a long while, Zhang Chen touched his rumbling stomach, with a look of grief and anger in his eyes. How difficult is it to make money these days?
He lived frugally and ended up supporting the poor scholar next door.

Including the time my previous incarnation was oppressed, it has been a full five years!

Do you know how he got through these five years?

But he was totally confused and had no idea how to get rid of the fox spirit. That was a fox spirit that mastered magic. It would be a blessing if she didn't come to harm him. How could he have the ability to kill the spirit?
Just as he was about to turn around in frustration, he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at the place where the bacon had disappeared. There was a fiery red bead the size of a pigeon egg, like a night pearl, emitting a warm red light, which was particularly eye-catching.

The most important thing is that there is a word "+40" floating on the bead, and the bead looks very similar to the experience points dropped by the big boss in the game.

At this moment, Zhang Chen's eyes suddenly blurred, and a page popped up:
【Name: Zhang Chen】

[Skill: None]

【Points: 0】

[I found some strange dropped points. Do you want to collect them? 】

"collect!"

Zhang Chen said without thinking. As Zhang Chen finished speaking, the red bead on the ground disappeared, and the gold finger page flashed:
【Name: Zhang Chen】

[Skill: None]

【Points: 40】

"Golden finger? This is my golden finger!" Zhang Chen looked at his golden finger, his eyes filled with ecstasy. Now that he had awakened his golden finger, was he still afraid that he couldn't subdue a mere vixen?
Zhang Chen suppressed his excitement and began to study the golden finger. After a short while, he had studied it thoroughly.

This cheat code is very simple. As long as the monster passes by, there will be "points and skills" dropped. You only need to collect the dropped points to directly add points to the skills, and then the skills can be upgraded infinitely.

However, Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the empty skill at this time, and he couldn't help but feel resentful: "I only have points but no skills. I don't need this cheat code!"

As for how to acquire this skill, he did have some ideas in his mind. Since the fox spirit can drop experience points, it may also drop skills. Right now, the only way for him to come into contact with monsters is the fox spirit. In other words, his hope of unlocking the skill is most likely to rely on the fox spirit.

Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, but he couldn't think of a way to fight the vixen. In the end, he could only use his Ah Q spirit to comfort himself: "I've survived five years, so a few days won't hurt. I'll find a way to activate my skills, and then I'll settle accounts with this vixen. Besides, this vixen can also provide me with experience points, so it's not too bad."

He couldn't do anything about the vixen now. He was lucky that the vixen didn't come to eat him. What else could he expect? He could only accept his bad luck!

It would be better to just support the other party for a while longer. As long as he doesn't starve to death, he will endure it for the time being. Now that he has the golden finger, he will come to the fore sooner or later.

While stroking his rumbling stomach, he subconsciously looked at the rabbits he had hunted yesterday. Sure enough, the rabbits he had hunted yesterday were sold for nothing. Looking at the empty shelves, Zhang Chen was angry but dared not say anything. He quickly picked up the rope and shovel and walked towards the mountain. The neighbor was full, but he was still hungry!
Ten miles into the forest, Zhang Chen carefully checked the traps. Today he caught a pheasant and a musk deer, a good harvest.

Zhang Chen roasted the pheasant and ate it directly. After looking at the musk deer and thinking for a moment, he decided to take it back.

He decided that before he developed his skills, he should not offend the vixen. He wanted to be useful to the vixen! Otherwise, the vixen would not eat its prey, but him!

By the time Zhang Chen finished his meal, it was already dark. When he reached the entrance of the village, Zhang Chen paused and saw from a distance a man in coarse linen clothes, with skin as delicate as jade and a face comparable to Pan An and Song Yu, walking towards him in the sunset with a snow-white fox in his arms.

The man had a slender and plump figure, and looked particularly handsome, as if he had walked out of a movie or TV series.

But when Zhang Chen looked at the man's delicate and white skin, his eyes turned red. It was all raised with his family's rice, flour, bacon, chickens and ducks. How could he not be angry?

That was Zhang Chen’s mortal enemy: the poor scholar Zhang Chen next door.

Both of them are from poor families, and Zhang Chen is just a bookworm who knows nothing about farming. But now he is living a better life than himself. Don't you think it's infuriating?
It's simply the template for the protagonist in a novel!
Just thinking that the fox could actually transform into a human form, it was most likely the great demon in the legend of the previous life. Thinking of the scenes of various fox demons in the previous life sucking people's essence, rip open their stomachs and dig out their hearts, Zhang Chen couldn't help but shudder and no longer envied Zhang Chen's good fortune.

"Could it be that this vixen treats Zhang Chen as food, feeding him until he is fat and white and crunchy, and then eating him without making a sound?" Zhang Chen thought secretly in his heart.

"Hey, isn't this Zhang Chen? Why do you look so pale and thin? Have you not starved to death yet?" Zhang Chen stood in front of Zhang Chen and looked at him with a teasing look in his eyes.

Zhang Chen snorted coldly when he heard that. He was afraid of the fox demon's power and didn't know whether to refute it. But he saw Zhang Chen walking past him with a look of disdain in his eyes. He cursed: "Mud legs!"

The little fox in the other's arms also looked at Zhang Chen with playful eyes, and those smart eyes were full of human wisdom.

Looking at the two people's backs as they walked away, Zhang Chen spat fiercely on the ground: "Just wait! Sooner or later, I will make a fox fur coat..."

Just as Zhang Chen was muttering to himself, his eyes suddenly blurred and he saw a ball of red light falling from the vixen's body. The red light was particularly conspicuous in the dim sunset.

And no matter whether it was Zhang Chen or the vixen, they seemed to ignore the red light.

"What is that?" Zhang Chen was stunned, and then he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Another equipment drop?"

I would like to recommend the book by author Jun Lao: "In a Strange World, I Can Become a God", the link is below.

(End of this chapter)