Chapter 143 - Culture

Chapter 143: Chapter 129: CultureOne must admit, the creativity of players is boundless.

This post about modern society’s scientific knowledge regarding beautiful girls from another world falling from the sky is written in the form of an encyclopedia collection, spread across hundreds of thousands of words, specifically addressing various scenarios of otherworldly beauties descending.

Depending on the original planets of the beauties, they can be categorized as from Modern Earth, Recent Earth, Ancient Earth, Modern Alien Planet, Medieval Sword and Magic Planet, Modern Magic Planet, Future Technology Planet...

Based on the species of the beauties, they can be divided into pure-blood humans, sub-humans, half-beasts, zombies, fairies, dragons, ghosts...

Regarding the characters and morals of the beauties, they can be orderly good, neutral good, orderly evil, chaotic evil... The focus includes an introduction of modern society’s laws and regulations, such as criminal law, and scientific knowledge like "freezing and then crushing large mammal carcasses can effectively reduce trace evidence at the scene".

Of course, the above content is only applicable to well-intentioned beauties. If they encounter the kind of woman who is unscrupulous and bent on exploiting others, the article suddenly shifts at the end and begins to popularize anti-PUA tutorials, which are quite considerate.

Since Gray Rain comes from a scripted world, after leaving the script she no longer enjoys the free translation service provided by the system, so Li Cheng quickly cobbled together a program. He mapped the characters of the Zeluo civilization from all the newspapers in the Narrative Cage to the languages of the real world, cracked the code by brute force, printed a translated version of the manuscript for Gray Rain that she could understand, and included a dictionary.

Later, Li Cheng made a trip to the shabby street and spent 300 game currency to purchase an , which allowed Gray Rain to listen and speak in Chinese after consumption.

Resolving the communication issue was only the beginning; Gray Rain’s weight of over 800 kilograms thumping on the floor made it necessary for Li Cheng to buy a lot of renovation materials like galvanized square steel and expansion bolts to refurbish the house in order to prevent complaints from the downstairs neighbors.

He also bought life necessities such as specially made solid beds, solid chairs, and women’s clothing.

It took until the next evening for Li Cheng to finally have time to stop and examine the last gain from this mission.

, the special effect of this equipment, is to record a certain skill of a killed target. In the Narrative Cage, Li Cheng recorded three skills: the Cheetah Iron Plague Infection Body’s , an active skill that accelerates the bleeding of surface wounds on the enemy when activated.

The Winged Dragon Iron Plague Infection Body’s , an active skill that generates a gentle breeze out of thin air for a brief glide when falling from a high place.

It’s effective in preventing deaths from falling off high-rise buildings, helicopters, or long-haul aircraft.

And the skill from the Multi-Eyed Mechanical Body disguised as the Prison Director, an active skill that temporarily increases a Charm Attribute by one point and improves the probability of persuasion when activated.

Lastly, the one Free Attribute point given from leveling up was added to Strength by him.

"Shabby Street Recruitment, Chef, Male Model, Engineer..."

A few days later, Li Cheng was sitting at his computer desk, his mouse inadvertently sliding over the recruitment ads on the forum and subtly pausing.

The savings of over six thousand points had suddenly dwindled to only 58. Truly, it’s like working hard for decades only to return to the starting point overnight.

Fortunately, he had always been frugal and had stocked up enough gene suppressants, so there was no need to take a part-time job as a male model,

nor to go to the black market to purchase cheap imitation drugs produced by the Indian Guild.

India is the largest exporter of generic drugs in the real world. On one hand, its laws allow local companies to freely replicate foreign medicines, bypassing patent barriers and reducing drug prices.

On the other hand, it relaxes domestic regulations on human trials, bringing in Western pharmaceutical companies to conduct drug experiments in India in exchange for their support.

As Transcendents, the drugs players use are naturally more potent and have more pronounced side effects.

The pharmaceutical giant collaborated with the Thousand Throats Beast Guild, and the latter cultivated a creature in the shape of a Tai Sui, specialized for drug testing — capable of high-efficiency, low-cost medicinal trials.

Even so, the price of drugs still couldn’t beat Indian generics — the cost of human drug trials in India was even lower than that of using Tai Sui. This is the advantage of low human rights.

"Pinyin, single vowels, a, o, e, singing with necks craned to the sky. i, u, ü..."

From the next room over, a slow and lazy reading voice floated out.

Usually, in film and animation works, mechanical life is often associated with high intelligence, such as flicking a finger to invade the Ministry of Defense’s secret networks, or hacking Earth’s orbiting military satellites in a thought, are all basic operations.

The more advanced ones can thumb through all of humanity’s internet in a few seconds and surpass the limits of human technology in a minute.

But Gray Rain was different.

She... was an illiterate who had never been educated.

When the interstellar pirate captain Isaac split her, to increase the chances of a successful escape, he deliberately didn’t record any memories or special skills for her, and her brain capacity was only 256GB.

And of that 256GB, a considerable part had to be used to store the operating system and system temporary files.

This further reduced the usable brain capacity.

Her thought speed and learning efficiency also didn’t compare to the mechanical lifeforms in artistic works.

Six months old, over eight hundred kilograms, with a cultural level matching a first-grader, there was a kind of beauty that was yet to be tainted by knowledge.

"d, t, n, l, the little rabbit hops gently, the little dog runs slowly, if it steps on and hurts the little grass, I will be upset with you..."

Li Cheng listened to the reading voice in the study, nodding in approval, and then he heard "a, o, e" again, with the same tone and intonation.

"Hm?"

He raised an eyebrow, tiptoed to the study, only to see Gray Rain’s desk with a primary school textbook, a cellphone playing her own recorded reading on loop, another tablet automatically playing TikTok shorts,

and she herself was wearing a sweatshirt, with headphones on, sitting in a solid chair, indulgently eating Wei Long spicy strips.

Li Cheng quietly stood behind her, watching. Perhaps sensing something, Gray Rain subconsciously shrank her neck, slowed her spicy strip eating, and, like a sloth, slowly leaned her neck back.

At an angle that was impossible for ordinary people, she turned to Li Cheng with a sycophantic smile, raising a spicy strip, "You’re here, want some?"

Li Cheng’s eye twitched, feeling rather helpless.

Although he was by name the owner of Gray Rain’s Electronic Pet Egg, being a good young man of the modern society, he had no concept of a master-servant relationship. He made it clear to Gray Rain from the start that if she wanted her freedom, she could have it, and that he could even help introduce her to the Special Affairs Bureau to obtain citizenship.

At the time, Gray Rain had shaken her head like a rattle-drum, vehemently declaring things like "If you save my life, I owe you my life" and "I am strong and can protect you," insisting on sticking by Li Cheng’s side.

Thinking back now, she probably realized early on that if she joined the Special Affairs Bureau, she would inevitably have to go through even more stringent and torturous cultural education classes — might as well stay at Li Cheng’s house with food and drink provided.