Can you become stronger without paying money?

Can you become stronger without paying money? Author: Master Penguin

【brief introduction】

Ma Teng: "Even if I'm starving to death, if I jump from here, I will definitely not put any money into this cheating system!"

System prompt: "Dear player, hello, the newest Thanksgiving Festival special Gacha on the mall, the six-star epic equipment guaranteed to hit the eleventh consecutive guarantee, and the new follower contract, the cute swordsman Lolita is waiting for you to take home~"

Ma Teng: "...Fuck, buy, buy, buy, buy them all!"

I got the krypton gold game system in an ordinary alien fantasy story, what should I do?Waiting online... very urgent!

Chapter 1 must be the wrong way for me to open it!

Ma Teng is a programmer at a third-rate mobile game factory...

The basic daily work is to constantly produce some industry garbage such as "Slaying Dragon Sword, click to give it away", "Where is the greasy senior sister", "Your time is very valuable".

Of course, this was not Ma Teng's original intention.

... We know that people have dreams, and if there is no dream, what is the difference between living and being a salted fish!

But there is a very real problem in this world...

... The reason why dreams are dreams is because most of the time, it really can only be thought of in dreams.

When Ma Teng graduated from university, he was also an ambitious man. He devoted himself to developing an epic game that looked like a blockbuster with all his knowledge, and reversed the embarrassing situation in which the domestic game market was weak and bad money drove out good money.

However, reality gave him a slap in the face and taught him a truth...

... dreams are a good thing, but ... they cannot be spent as money.

Water, electricity, gas, three meals, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, which one is free?If you want to live a good life, you must learn not to starve yourself to death, and then talk about your dreams slowly.

After being dismissed by three companies in a row because of disagreement with the concept, the balance of income and expenditure left only 20 yuan in my pocket, and I spent my 24th birthday alone in a foreign land with tears mixed with a bowl of green vegetable noodles. Wipe away the tears Ma Teng, finally awakened...

He knows, dream and reality...he has to compromise one...

He wants to be a "person" with "dreams", but first...he is a "person" with dreams...

He is a "human being"...he cannot do without food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. Obviously, it all costs money, so he compromised...

At least the status quo is good. He has a job where he can’t starve himself to death. Although the usual work is a bit tiring, at least his original wish has not changed. He is still living for his dream and developing games...

...but is that really the case?

After working overtime for a day, Ma Teng returned home, and as usual, he finished his dinner hastily. Sitting in front of the computer, for some reason, he accidentally opened a game file in the hard disk that had not been touched for a long time.

Double-click to execute, run the game, and the opening screen of the game full of shoddy and cheap feeling was played. Seeing the familiar screen, Ma Teng lit a cigarette casually and fell silent.

This looks very rough, and the game is only more than 300 MB. It is a stand-alone game that he completed alone when he was young.

At that time, he had ideas, but he didn't have much technology. He worked hard to carve out his own world, and tried his best to create an interesting game.

From Ma Teng's current point of view, this game is very bad, because of the technical limitations at that time, many interesting ideas and ideas were discarded because they could not be restored to the game. The passionate fantasies of the second-year teenagers now seem to be full of shame.

But Ma Teng felt that this might be the best game he ever made in his life, because...

... This is the most beautiful world in his dream, it is the projection of his dream.

The cigarette in his hand was half burned, Ma Teng snuffed out the cigarette butt, took out his mobile phone, clicked to open an application on the mobile phone.

It also has a shoddy login interface, the rough modeling that hurts people's eyes, and the harsh BGM that has not been adjusted carefully, all of which show that this is an assembly line work that has not invested any thought in production.

Well, this is also one of the games Ma Teng participated in making...

The same game, he didn't know how much he had done over the years.

Ma Teng raised the mobile phone in his hand, the picture on it was in stark contrast to the crude stand-alone game on the computer, looking at it, the two pictures that were originally distinct were slowly merged together.

Suddenly... Ma Teng smiled...

Although he didn't know why, he just couldn't stop laughing, almost out of breath.

The igniting of emotions only takes a moment. Human beings are really emotional creatures. When the emotions that have been brewing for an unknown number of years finally burst out, Ma Teng felt that something was coming out of his eyes...

After my 24th birthday, I haven't felt this feeling again...

The restless laughter began to become intermittent, and finally, it turned into a heart-piercing cry...

...I don't know what I did wrong, but I do know...I've lost my dream forever.

This man... is 35 years old this year...

Maybe it was tired from crying, maybe it was a rebound from an emotional outburst, Ma Tengfu quietly closed his eyes on the table...

Ma Teng didn't know that when he closed his eyes and fell asleep completely, a dialog box popped up on the screens of the computer and mobile phone that were turned on at the same time.

Then, the dialog box disappeared in a flash, and the screens of the computer and mobile phone burst out with amazing flashes of light at the same time, but Ma Teng, who was sleeping soundly, did not feel these changes. The burst of light engulfed Ma Teng's figure, and immediately , the light slowly faded...

The screen went dark with a "click", but the figure of the man was no longer in front of the computer desk...

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"Hey, wake up, how long do you want to sleep!"

A strange voice came from Ma Teng's ear, it seemed to be saying something, he felt his shoulder being pushed, and he probably wanted to use this action to urge him to get up.

...However, Ma Teng didn't want to talk to the other party, and directly ignored him.

As a result, that person became angry, and the voice that sounded far away suddenly burst out close to Ma Teng's ear.

"You? Sleep? Enough? No!"

These astonishing five words had a very good effect, and Ma Teng was completely awake...

...The consequence is that Ma Teng feels that his hearing function may have permanently declined by several percentage points.

No... I fell asleep in my own home!

This recognition made Ma Teng immediately look vigilantly at the person who woke him up, and then he was stunned when he saw it...

Standing in front of her was a young girl who looked to be at most 20 years old. She was wearing a light leather armor with a long sword hanging from her waist and a burlap glove with exposed fingers on her palm. The red hair has been trimmed into a refreshing short hair that is convenient for movement.

...What kind of cosplay is this?

This was Ma Teng's first idea. Of course, this idea was quickly rejected by him for two reasons...

First, the leather armor on the girl's body is dull and lacks luster, and there are many dents and repair marks from wear and collision. Obvious wear marks can be seen on the tiger's mouth and joints of the rough linen gloves, and the hilt of the long sword has been damaged. The rubbing is very smooth. These are the textures of real guys who are often used. The props used by COS are not so detailed.

Second, and more importantly...

The place where Ma Teng is now is not his home, but a lush jungle.

Ma Teng knew he was awake...but he still couldn't help but want to slap himself...

What the hell is going on here?

Seeing Ma Teng's bewildered face, the girl in front of her couldn't help frowning.

"What's the matter with you? You dare to sleep so dead in the wild, aren't you afraid of being picked up by monsters for lunch?"

The passage in the girl's mouth is very simple, the subject and predicate are complete and logical, but the meaning expressed in it conveys a very bad message to Ma Teng.

...Monster, what is that?It sounds like a creature that is not very friendly to humans.

Obviously, he is in a very bad situation now.

"I don't know...what happened..."

Ma Teng said so with a blank face, but when he opened his mouth, he was shocked.

What came out of his mouth was not the uncle's voice that was quite hoarse after being poisoned by tobacco and alcohol, but the extremely healthy and clear youthful voice.

When Ma Teng woke up just now, he felt a strange sense of disobedience, but he didn't have time to think about it just now, and only now did he realize what had changed.

Because of the need to sit for a long time at work, the protruding belly disappeared, and the slack arms that lacked exercise also showed clear muscle contours. When he thought of something, he stretched out his hand to check his face, only to find that thick face. Myopia glasses that can kill mice don't know when they disappeared.

However, now he can easily use his own eyes to see the surrounding plants and trees clearly, which is even clearer than when he was wearing eyes. Obviously, now he can completely say goodbye to the pair of damn glasses that made him hate him so much.

What is this situation?

No, first of all, we need to figure out where exactly this place is...

"Excuse me..." Ma Teng carefully considered his words, and asked the suspicious girl in front of him, "What is this place?"

"Huh?" This question was obviously unexpected for the girl, and she couldn't help but make her think of a lot of things, "Could it be amnesia? It's not so bloody, okay, okay, this is the forest of Danquan, Do you have any impression?"

At the moment when the four words Danquan Zhisen came out, Ma Teng seemed to be struck by a thunderbolt, and he was stunned instantly, everything in his mind became a mess, and only "this How the hell is that possible!" A thought.

"Well, please correct me if I made a mistake..." Ma Teng gritted his teeth, and said a certain term from his memory, "This is the Forest of Danquan, the one located on the southern border of the Grand Duchy of Sofia... ...the Forest of Danquan?"

"What..." The expression on the girl's face immediately collapsed, and she even showed a look of disappointment, "Don't you remember it clearly? Fortunately, I thought I had met someone who lost his memory, so I could give him a good knock." pen."

"..."

Ma Teng was already too lazy to bother about the girl's somewhat inappropriate remarks, because a more nonsense thought appeared in his mind.

(Forest of Danquan, Grand Duchy Sophia... If these two place names are not a coincidence, then... I have time-traveled into a game I made?!)

Immediately without hesitation, Ma Teng raised his hand and slapped his face crisply. The girl in front of him was startled by this refreshing action, and he was immediately stunned. What did you do?

"...It hurts." Ma Teng grinned his teeth after being slapped with all his strength, and the girl in front of him was amused, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"You...of course it hurts..."

While speaking, the girl stretched out her hand towards Ma Teng's face, and at a distance of several minutes, read a short sentence softly.

"Primary cure!"

Immediately, dots of bright green light condensed on the girl's palm, and these light dots quickly gathered on Ma Teng's face, and the burning pain just now disappeared without a trace.

Ma Teng stared straight at the girl's hand, and calmly said after adjusting his mood.

"Spirit art..."

This time it was the girl's turn to be surprised, "Hey, you're so smart, you actually recognized it as elf magic. Most people would just think it's magic, right?"

"There is no magic crest to appear when casting the spell, so it cannot be magic."

Now the girl is really interested, "Oh, to be able to tell the difference between magic and spiritism so clearly. Although it's not a great secret, it's not something that can be known by just anyone."

Ma Teng was finally able to confirm his conjecture, and now he showed a somewhat calm expression, "Of course, don't look at me like this, let me be an adventurer who travels around!"

"Oh, adventurer~" The girl immediately narrowed her eyes meaningfully, "I will fall asleep undefended in the wild, without even the most basic weapons and armor on my body, and I won't even see strangers approaching." Be on guard, adventurer~"

"Cough cough cough..."

Based on his own understanding of the world, Ma Teng immediately created an identity for himself that he would never reveal. However, the truth is cruel. The basic process of the conversation between the two just now was that Ma Teng said, "I I feel that I have concealed my identity very well." However, the girl opposite said, "Okay, okay, as long as you are happy~"

Obviously... the girl didn't believe that Ma Teng would be an adventurer at all, there were too many flaws.

The girl was sure that Ma Teng was fine, so Dang even took two steps back and turned around, "Okay, since you're fine, go quickly, before you encounter any danger."

Ma Teng seemed to be thinking of something at this moment, and quickly called to stop the girl, "Well, sorry, can I interrupt you for the last time?"

"?"

The girl turned around strangely, and Ma Teng immediately spoke.

"My name is Ma... Riel, Riel? Orlande, after all, we have met once. If it is convenient, may I ask your name?"

The girl chuckled twice, and patted the long sword hanging from her waist, "Safirie... Safirie Olom, let's just say she's a swordsman in training..."

After answering, the girl swordsman Sapphire immediately left and disappeared into the dense forest...

Maarten... well, now he can be called by his new name in this world, Riel Orlander.

Riel leaned against a big tree hugged by two people, and began to sort out information silently by himself.

"Okay, now I'm basically sure, I've time-traveled, and..." Riel looked up and looked around, couldn't help but want to laugh out loud, "Also, I've time-traveled into the game I made. "

As for why he traveled through time, the last scene in his memory was that Riel fell asleep at home, opened the game he made on the computer, and then found himself time-traveled into the game when he woke up.

Well, it sounds like there is still a little cause and effect relationship...

... It's strange!

If you can travel through this way, how many people in this world have to travel through each year!

Well, the question of why crossing is obviously beyond the scope of Riel’s ability to explain. Here, a person can’t think of the reason, so he gave up this question and turned to another question. If it is true here If it is the world in the game, then what should he do?