"Goo-goo ga-ga!"
Hao Fan stared at the unfamiliar makeshift camp in front of him, completely dumbfounded as he blurted out that idiotic sound.
"Where the hell is this?!"
Rewind a bit.
Hao Fan—an orphan, a flop-tier author, twenty-six years old and single since birth—dreamed of achieving financial freedom. His hobbies were counting money and cosplay.
If he remembered correctly, he'd ordered a Doctor outfit from Arknights online.
And then, the moment he finished changing, he blinked—
—and suddenly he was here.
It made absolutely no sense…
"Did I… get isekai'd?"
He scanned his surroundings and muttered, landing on the correct answer, but there wasn't much joy on his face.
Because anyone with a brain knew one thing:
Other worlds were dangerous.
So if you didn't come with some kind of cheat ability, you might as well have stayed in modern society and lived off instant noodles until the end…
"System, are you there?"
[Host, I am here.]
A cold, emotionless mechanical voice suddenly rang out in his mind without warning.
Hao Fan jumped, and his mouth immediately started curling upward uncontrollably—so much that his expression looked downright deranged, like Fan Jin after passing the imperial exam.
"I—I won! I won!"
Everyone knew this:
Getting transported to another world with a system versus without one was night and day—so different it practically decided whether your future would become a wish-fulfillment power fantasy.
So Hao Fan's worry evaporated on the spot. In his mind, the road ahead was bright, and a blissful harem life was practically within reach.
Grinning like an idiot, he tried to check his system interface.
[Superpower System]
[Effect: You may draw one special ability per day.]
[Note: Abilities may have minor flaws.]
"Yes! It really is a power fantasy!"
Hao Fan couldn't help cheering. He felt invincible.
After all, that name sounded badass—definitely something from a mainstream webnovel site, not some cat-themed platform.
But as the saying went: after extreme joy comes extreme tragedy.
His noisy celebration disturbed the camp ahead. A man wearing a strange mask and holding a pitch-black cleaver strode over aggressively, looking vicious as hell.
And the very first thing out of his mouth confirmed he was nothing more than a low-level goon.
"Hand it over. All your valuables. This is a robbery!"
"…Hah."
Hao Fan's lips tilted up in disdain.
What a clueless idiot—raising his voice at an isekai protagonist with a system.
Didn't you know I don't eat beef?
Trash. You've got a death wish.
He lifted his chin arrogantly, refusing to even look the man in the eye.
But the term the man used—Earthsplitter—caught his attention.
He'd heard that word before.
If he wasn't mistaken, this guy was one of the roaming enemies in Arknights: Endfield—
In most contexts, "Earthsplitter" was a conventional umbrella term for armed raiders who survived in the cracks of civilization and lived by violent plunder.
After their once-ambitious armed regimes were shattered, the massive bandit organization called the Earthsplitters splintered into multiple factions, each with its own name—
Bonegrinders. Wolfpack. Sand Raiders.
Even now, people still used "Earthsplitters" as a catch-all label for those lawless armed groups that despised civilized order.
Which meant…
He'd probably transmigrated into Endfield.
"I'm literally wearing a Doctor outfit—why didn't I get sent to Arknights? Why this game that hasn't even launched yet?!"
Hao Fan couldn't help complaining.
Endfield was a sequel to Arknights. There were only a few days left until the official release—today was just the pre-download.
So he hadn't even played it yet. He knew nothing about the plot. Honestly, it felt like it would've been better to get sent to Arknights…
Then again…
He'd quit Arknights three years ago. He'd forgotten most of the original story anyway.
Even the operators' names were a blur—he only vaguely remembered a few nicknames, like "Ami-donkey" and the like.
As for buying the Doctor outfit in the first place…
It had just been nostalgia.
Fine. None of that mattered anymore.
From beneath his hood, the dark eyes pulled back from memory and returned to the present.
Hao Fan looked at the Earthsplitter in front of him—ready to move at any moment—and decided it was time to delete the tutorial mob.
"System. Draw!"
The corners of his mouth rose slightly. His gaze carried three parts coldness, three parts mockery, and four parts indifference—like a pie chart—
And then—
Hao Fan's smile froze solid.
[Making It Rain]
[Effect: You can conjure money out of thin air at any time, but each time you can only produce one 1-yuan coin.]
[Note: Congratulations—you have achieved financial freedom. Go ahead and throw your money on the ground.]
"…."
Hao Fan stared at the "special ability" he'd drawn, suddenly feeling like the plot had taken a hard left into a wall.
No—maybe he was misunderstanding?
Clinging to hope, he tried using the ability.
And sure enough, he really did pull a single 1-yuan coin out of his pocket from thin air.
Not RMB, though—this one was gold-colored, with an inexplicable allure to it.
Probably loose change from the in-game currency—some kind of small-denomination gold ticket.
He had to admit:
This ability truly did make him financially free.
If he'd drawn it at any other time, he would've happily accepted it.
But absolutely not right now.
He was being robbed.
Couldn't you give me something that boosts my combat power?!
Hao Fan—who had the strength of a wet tissue—couldn't stop his face from collapsing into utter despair. His fingers loosened unconsciously, and he dropped that pathetic single coin onto the ground.
Good news: he'd transmigrated into Endfield.
Bad news: his starter ability was making it rain.
In plain terms, he could pull out a one-yuan coin anytime… and throw it—
"You're provoking me?"
The Earthsplitter mugger stared at the suspicious hooded man, watching him pull out a single coin like he was tossing alms to a beggar—and flick it casually onto the ground.
Honestly, he could feel his blood pressure spiking.
This damn bastard—just how little did he think of him?
Mocking him with tricks and new variations every time?
You think you're hot stuff, huh?!
"You've got it wrong—I didn't mean it like that."
Hao Fan snapped out of it and hurried to explain, trying for friendly communication—trying to signal that it was just a joke.
Because he'd realized something very important:
This transmigrator was actually facing a real life-or-death situation.
So, to avoid dying on the first page, he didn't hesitate to go from arrogant to meek in a heartbeat, smiling sycophantically without a shred of dignity—
But then, he accidentally pulled out another one-yuan coin.
And by pure reflex, he tossed it onto the ground again.
"…"
In that instant, the Earthsplitter's dignity was trampled into paste.
From that moment on, the two of them became enemies for real.
"Goo-goo ga-ga!"
Terrified, Hao Fan started throwing money nonstop.
Even though he was forced to protect his "integrity" and "backbone" in the most humiliating way possible, the sight of that cleaver reeking of blood still made him blurt out that idiotic sound again.
"I'm screwed… I think I'm about to die. (-_-)"
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