There are too many teammates who are complete losers.

Chapter 2 Enjoy the Delicious Food

For dinner, Lu Ren mixed rice with chili sauce. After finishing a large bowl of rice, he felt like there was an empty hole in his stomach and was starving.

He asked Lu Youhe to cook another pot of rice. Then, under the girl's surprised and uncertain gaze, he ate three more large bowls.

"Are you an idiot? You really finished eating?"

Lu Ren also found it a bit strange, as he usually didn't eat this much.

"Maybe it's because I've become a professional and my appetite has increased?" He wasn't sure.

Lu Youhe was cleaning up the dishes in the bathroom, muttering something sarcastic and insincere, but he pretended not to hear it.

Lu Ren was looking at a semi-transparent interface in front of him.

Name: Lu Ren

[Occupation: Passerby]

[Level: Firefly Realm]

【Attributes: 27 (Main 27, Secondary 0)】

[Constitution: Physique (3), Vitality (3), Weapon Manipulation (3)]

【Affinity: Elements (3) Living Beings (3) Rules (3)】

[Spirit: Yin and Yang (3) Resonance (3) Inspiration (3)]

【talent】:

The Sin of Gluttony by Passersby: You can absorb spiritual power, recover from injuries, and purify your state by consuming spirit remains, thus gaining satiety. However, your digestive ability is too strong, making you more prone to hunger.

Arrogance of a Passerby: You will gain skills by absorbing spirit remains, but only spirit remains obtained from beasts you have personally killed can grant you skills.

[Skills: None]

This is Lu Ren's attribute panel, but this is not an exclusive benefit brought by time travel.

Since the appearance of the virtual world, everyone who is sixteen years of age or older has had the opportunity to awaken such a panel.

Lu Ren just turned 17 and only woke up today. To be precise, he just woke up and realized that he had awakened his profession.

His initial attribute points ranged from a maximum of 36 to a minimum of 27, just barely making it to the threshold for awakening.

However, it's still better than having no qualifications at all. If you quantify the average person's scores, each item only has 1 to 2 points, so you're already much better than the average person.

Upon seeing the talent's "Gluttony Sin," Lu Ren touched his stomach, which was now slightly empty, and understood the source of this overwhelming hunger.

But soon his attention was drawn to another talent, and he carefully observed this talent of "pride".

Is it guaranteed to grant skill acquisition?

What incredible talent!

Professionals themselves do not have skills. To acquire skills, they can only go to the Void Realm to kill monsters. When a Void Beast dies, it will drop something called a "Spirit Remains". Humans can absorb the Spirit Remains to gain the Void Beast's skills.

However, absorbing a spirit bone does not automatically grant you skills. Skill acquisition requires specific attribute points. For example, learning "Iron Mountain Lean" requires a certain amount of "Physical Strength," while learning "Fireball" requires a certain amount of "Elemental Strength."

From this perspective, his talent allows him to absorb skills regardless of prerequisites, which is obviously a very powerful talent.

Perhaps by using this talent to become a professional, I can escape my current poverty.

After finishing his meal, Lu Ren wanted a cigarette, but when he reached into his pocket, he realized that he had just said he was going to quit smoking, looking all cool.

Looking at the trash can, Lu Ren fell into deep thought.

Would it be too lame to rummage through the trash now?

He swore this was the last one.

"Hey, who emptied the trash cans?"

"I just threw it away downstairs, why?"

"No, it's nothing."

……

It was already 9 o'clock after dinner, and the brother and sister finished showering at 10:30.

Entertainment options are limited in this world; televisions are common, but they don't have one in their home.

Lu Youhe emerged from the bathroom, still warm from the heat, wearing loose pink pajamas.

She saw Lu Ren writing something on the table, and occasionally he was still thinking.

The little girl tilted her head, letting her wet hair fall naturally, while drying it with a towel. She leaned closer to see what mischief he was up to now, and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

"I'm thinking of a big money-making plan."

"…nerve."

The girl ignored him, dried her hair until it was half dry, and prepared to go to the bathroom to do laundry.

Lu Ren was really eager to make money.

We need to improve the family's current situation as soon as possible. With his current appetite, his sister can't support herself.

Although becoming a professional allows him to earn money in the virtual world, he doesn't even have any skills, so going to the virtual world would just be like delivering food to someone else.

For beginners, the most important thing when entering the virtual world is equipment, armor, and weapons.

This country doesn't have strict gun control.

For lower-level professionals, guns are still quite useful, allowing them to hunt down some Iron-level or even Bronze-level Void Beasts.

Renting a gun isn't cheap, and of course, he'd like to buy one if he could.

Lu Ren needs to earn the initial capital first.

Should I go write novels? Or become a plagiarist?

However, online literature had not yet taken off in this world. The internet was still in a chaotic stage, in an era when personal computers had just become widespread and touchscreen devices were just emerging.

Go sell songs to a record company?

Before he became a corporate slave, he was still a student and had learned to play the guitar. He could play and sing well, but it would be quite difficult for him to write out a piece of sheet music from memory.

"Lu Ren, look at you!"

Lu Youhe was washing clothes when she loudly berated him at the bathroom door:

"Why are there so many holes in your clothes again? Did you get into another fight? I've told you a hundred times..."

Lu Ren was deaf at home. He lay back and looked completely at ease, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Different cultural developments mean that even if one follows the old path of time travelers, relying on copying books and songs, there may not be a market for it.

If you can only rely on odd jobs, whether you can find a job or not is another matter. It would take at least half a year to raise the start-up capital, which is too long.

Should I ask Lu Youhe for some more? Or borrow some from Xiao Kui... Never mind.

Lu Ren knew that Lu Youhe had money hidden away; there was a small cloth bag under the shoe cabinet, and he didn't know how much money was inside.

The child never hid money from him; he always put it in front of him.

"Yuhe..."

Thinking this, Lu Ren turned around and saw his sister sitting on the edge of the bed.

The dim light emitted by the old-fashioned tungsten filament bulbs made my eyes sore.

Lu Ren saw his sister holding his ripped shirt in one hand and a needle and thread in the other, twisting the needle through the thread and pulling it out.

The light was too dim, so she had to get very close. The girl looked serious, but for some reason, her lips were pouting.

Is he angry?

But he looks really cute when he's angry. If only we had cell phones now, he could take a picture.

Noticing someone was watching her, she looked up and gave Lu Ren a fierce look.

"Next time you ruin your clothes, you're going out wearing tattered clothes."

She paused, then added, "Don't think I'm joking, this is absolutely the last time!"

"..."

This isn't a younger sister, this is a mother!

He was almost embarrassed to ask for money, guessing she didn't have much money either.

Moreover, going to the virtual world is a very dangerous thing.

If that girl knew, she'd nag him endlessly; just thinking about it is annoying.

Forget it, I'll think of something tomorrow.

Time travel! I actually time-traveled! It's just like in a novel.

What if the next day you help an old man who has fallen down, only to find out that the old man is a military commander, or you pick up a dog that turns out to be the pet of the richest man's daughter, and then you embark on a meteoric rise to wealth and power?

Isn't that how novels are always written?

Damn it, I'm daydreaming again.

Get ready, time for bed!

"Don't sew it anymore, the light is too dim. Sew it tomorrow."

"It'll be done soon, just the last few stitches."

The rented room was very small, with only one bedroom and one bathroom, and the room only had one bed.

Lu Youhe slept on the bed, while Lu Ren slept on the floor next to him.

After his mother passed away six months ago, he stopped going to school and spent his days hanging out with others, drinking heavily, and harassing young girls... He also has a mountain of debt because of his beastly father.

When Lu Youhe was first kicked out by the landlord, she followed him around every day. In the end, Lu Ren kicked her out, so she had no choice but to go to Xiao Kui's house to stay.

Later, this younger sister found him again, saying that she had found a job and now rented a house, and insisted on taking him back with her.

Lu Ren ignored her at that time, but even when he cursed at her in the street, pushed her, and pulled her hair to make her get out, the girl never backed down.

She just stared at him stubbornly, pulling and tugging, trying to get her brother to go home with her.

Once on the street, Lu Ren felt embarrassed by being mocked and looked at by his friends, so he slapped her across the face.

The sensation in his hand, the crisp sound, and the stubborn look in the girl's eyes when she looked up at him—these memories are so vivid now, constantly repeating in his mind.

"..."

After sorting through his memories, Lu Ren stared at the ceiling.

Why did you say you'd go home with her? You didn't need to pay any attention to me, and you don't even have a home anymore.

If she were alone, she might be able to live a normal life.

Why bother caring about someone as rotten as yourself?

Not only memories, but also complex emotions such as guilt and resentment are inherited.

Lu Ren is currently in a daze, his memories and emotions are too clear, and he sometimes thinks that the time travel is fake and that he has always been Lu Ren.

Who is he?

Is he a high school dropout from this world, or an older office worker from the last world?

Or are they both him?

It's also possible that it's neither of the two, but rather a completely new individual that combines the memories and emotions of both!

He is... a completely new Lu Ren!

A new me!

Suddenly I felt very imposing!

Is it because of the exclamation mark?

In the dead of night, he suddenly asked, "Are you asleep?"

"what?"

My sister wasn't asleep and was clearly very impatient.

He stared at the ceiling like a dead fish, and said listlessly, "I'm hungry. Is there anything to eat?"

The girl asked in surprise, "You only ate this much for dinner?"

"Go get me something to eat."

"Are you sick?"

"I want to eat crayfish."

"Only noodles are available; take it or leave it."

"Put more in, and add an egg."

The girl found him extremely annoying, so she threw off the covers, sat up, and shuffled her feet around the bed looking for slippers before going to cook him noodles.

After eating the noodles, Lu Ren successfully fell asleep.

He woke up hungry the next day.

"..."

I'm so hungry, I feel like I could gnaw on tree bark. This can't go on.

He had already realized that because of this talent called "The Great Sin of Gluttony," he would starve to death sooner or later if he didn't eat some food with extraordinary properties.

It's 8 o'clock now, but Lu Youhe got up at 6 o'clock and has already gone to work.

Lu Ren didn't know what she did for a living; it seemed she worked at a bakery in the city.

The original owner actually had other sources of income, some shady, petty swindling and cheating, or borrowing money from middle school students... That's too despicable, the current self really can't do it.

I'm so hungry, is there no food left at home?

Just as Lu Ren was feeling dizzy from hunger, he opened the rice cooker and suddenly paused.

Three steaming hot buns appeared quietly inside.

He vaguely remembered that it was prepared by Lu Youhe before he left home before dawn.

Now I can almost hear some rambling, sometimes near, sometimes far words echoing in my ears:

"I'm going to work now. Remember, don't fight. I've left you 15 yuan for lunch. I'll be back early tonight, okay...?"

Thank you, Mom.

He silently murmured a thank you to himself and took the three steamed buns from the rice cooker.

His identity is an unemployed high school dropout, the time is the second day after he traveled through time, and his assets are three steamed buns and fifteen yuan.

As a seasoned office worker, there's no reason for me to let my younger sister support me. Since I've transmigrated, I should at least show some real skills!