"Activate the simulator!"
[Please host choose your birth!]
"Orphan!"
Gao Fei decided immediately, choosing orphan without hesitation.
It wasn't for any other reason, but among the birth options given by the system, only being an orphan was the strongest!
[Year 1, you were born, abandoned by your parents and became an orphan!]
[Year 18, you finished the college entrance exam, you failed, and prepared to enter society to earn money!]
[Please host choose a profession: soldier, hacker, chef, qi cultivator...]
Hundreds of professions instantly appeared before Gao Fei's eyes, dazzling him!
Considering his current financial situation, after a moment of thought, he chose a profession.
Barbecue master!
There was no other way, he wasn't going to be a soldier, and he didn't have a computer or anything at home. Barbecue master was his best option.
After making his choice, the simulation continued.
[Year 18, you apprenticed under a famous barbecue master in the city, and became an apprentice!]
[Year 19, you are still an apprentice, only learning how to grill things properly!]
[Year 20, the apprentices who started with you are about to graduate, but you are still stuck at the grilling stage. You beg your master to teach you, but you are refused!]
[Year 21, you inadvertently discover that the apprentices privately give a month's salary to the master. However, you find it shameful and refuse to go along with them. You remain an apprentice.]
[Year 22, apprentices from the same intake are already graduating, but you can't understand why you are still an apprentice and stuck doing chores in the shop!]
[Year 23, you accidentally catch a glimpse of your master's grilling ingredients, but before you can even memorize them, you are discovered and dumped in the wilderness. You die!]
Damn it all, I didn't learn anything and then I got killed. This is such a scam... Gao Fei was furious as he looked at the simulator.
He discovered that any simulation points gifted by the system would prevent him from learning anything in the early stages.
At the same time, he also understood that the reason he couldn't learn anything in the simulator was because he hadn't bribed the master.
After summarizing his experience, Gao Fei activated the simulator again.
[Simulation begins, consuming twenty simulation points!]
[Year 1, you were born, abandoned by your parents and became an orphan!]
[Year 18, you failed the college entrance exam, and had no choice but to enter society early to earn money. You apprenticed under a famous barbecue master in the city.]
[Year 19, with the experience from last time, you set aside a portion of your apprentice salary to show your respect to the master, and immediately received his special attention.]
[Year 20, your filial piety causes the master to take you under his wing early, upgrading you from a grilling apprentice to a procurement apprentice.]
[Year 21, the other apprentices resent you for receiving special treatment from the master. Your actions of bribing the master are discovered, and one rainy night, you are beaten to death by your fellow apprentices! You die!]
I'm dead again... Gao Fei's face turned ashen.
This time, showing respect to the master early actually led to the jealousy of other apprentices, and ultimately, death!
This is too much of a scam!
[Simulation ends, feedback begins!]
[Obtain new skill, Barbecue (Beginner)]
As the feedback came, a surge of skill knowledge poured into Gao Fei's mind.
He quickly learned how to grill things without burning them, but his technique was still lacking, and he didn't have the recipe for the barbecue sauce.
[Hint, the system-gifted simulation points have been used up.]
[After system appraisal of the host, you are eligible for a discount of one hundred yuan to purchase ten simulation points!]
[Does the host wish to purchase?]
Gao Fei looked at the two hundred yuan under his pillow and gritted his teeth, deciding to buy it!
With a thought, the two hundred yuan under his pillow vanished instantly.
[Do you wish to activate the simulator?]
"Start simulation!"
[This is the host's first purchase of simulation points, and the system will set your starting age to eighteen for free. Future simulations will all begin from the age of eighteen.]
[Year 18, you failed the college entrance exam, entered society early, and apprenticed under a famous barbecue master to learn grilling!]
[Year 19, based on the previous experience, you do not show respect to the master early. Instead, you wait for the other apprentices to make their move!]
[Year 20, the apprentices begin to show their respect to the master. You join them, and each of you receives the master's early guidance.]
[Year 21, because you have beginner-level grilling experience, your learning ability is much faster than the other apprentices!]
[Year 22, you have learned two-thirds of your master's skills, only lacking the barbecue sauce recipe. After deliberation, you give the accumulated ten thousand yuan to your master.]
[Year 23, you successfully graduate and open a stall in the night market of the neighboring city!]
[Year 25, within two years, with your skill and exclusive barbecue recipe, you become the renowned Barbecue King of the night market!]
[Year 26, your business continues to boom, attracting the jealousy of your peers. One night, you are hacked to death on the street by envious competitors. You die!]
[Simulation ends, feedback begins!]
"Although I died, at least I got the skills and the recipe. It wasn't a loss!"
Gao Fei let out a sigh of relief. Otherwise, with his current zero savings, he wouldn't have been able to afford to buy more simulation points.
As the system's feedback came, a vast amount of barbecue knowledge flooded his mind and was deeply imprinted.
Just like the excellent high school knowledge the system had previously fed him, the experience of several years of grilling, along with the secret recipe for the ingredients, were all fed back to him.
[Skill upgrade, Barbecue (Master)]
Character Panel.
[Name: Gao Fei]
[Intelligence: 101 (Above average)]
[Constitution: 24 (Normal)]
[Skills: Sanda (Intermediate), Barbecue (Master)]
[Wealth: 100 yuan]
The new skill directly reached master level, essentially maxing out the skill.
Gao Fei withdrew from the system with satisfaction. His only difficulty now was finding the seed capital.
A night market stall in Fengyun City cost three hundred yuan a month. After deducting various costs, it required about ten thousand yuan in startup capital.
Asking his mother for money would be difficult. That was the tuition money she had saved for him, and she wouldn't easily entrust ten thousand yuan to him now.
Just as Gao Fei was worrying about where to find the money, a call instantly made his eyes light up.
"Hu Xu, my dear brother, you're truly a timely rain!"
He grinned as he looked at Hu Xu's incoming call. As soon as he connected, he heard the incredibly shocked tone on the other end.
"Old Gao, that score-controlling freak is really you! I saw the grade photos posted by Lu Renjia and the others. I didn't expect the school to not announce the exam results for a month because you, the score-controlling freak, are always first!"
"Holy cow, brother, you've brought me so much face! I heard from my dad that your grades are legitimate and there are no problems. I'm going online right now to curse out those trolls for you!"
Hu Xu finished speaking quickly, his heart filled with shock. Gao Fei hurriedly stopped him, "Hey, hey, hey, buddy, don't hang up yet, I need something from you!"
"What is it? Did you find the person who blackmailed you? Where are they? I'll go deal with them with Yao Zhen and the others tomorrow!"
"No, no, no, let's talk about it after the college entrance exam results come out. I need you for something else!"
"Tell me!"
Hu Xu calmed down. Gao Fei took a moment to gather his thoughts before speaking, "Big Xu, do you have any spare cash on hand? If you do, could you lend me some? I want to start a business!"
"Aren't you going to the construction site to move bricks? Why do you need to start a business? How much do you need?"
"Ten thousand is enough. I'll pay you back on time next month!"
After he finished speaking, Hu Xu on the other end of the phone fell silent.
Just as Gao Fei thought he had no money, he heard the voice from the other side slowly say, "What kind of business only requires ten thousand yuan? Ten thousand yuan is a bit little. How about I lend you one hundred thousand?"