Early in the morning, the rain was pouring down, enveloping the entire Young Eagle village in a veil of mist.
A young man was running in a narrow alley, his breath ragged as he continuously looked behind him.
Reaching an abandoned cottage house, he rushed through the window and entered a narrow cave through a hidden passage.
Taking a few deep breaths, the young man finally calmed down. He was Lin Fang, a transmigrator from Earth, who had been leading a very successful life as an actor, before suddenly awakening in this world, after he drank too much at the afterparty of his biggest movie release.
He had transmigrated two years ago into the body of an orphan with the same name. At first, he was optimistic, thinking that like all the cliche novels that he had read in his past life, he would awaken a broken golden finger, reach the heavens in one leap, and go back to Earth to reunite with his wife and two kids.
But unfortunately for him, there were no cliches to be found, he was thrown into a frail body with no family, no possessions, and no talent. He could only survive by picking fruits from a nearby forest, and couldn't even resist the bullying of random village delinquents.
In the span of two years, he had tried countless things to activate the maybe dormant golden finger: he had shouted thousands of system names, prayed to hundreds of gods, and even shouted cringy sentences like
He even tried to use his only money-making idea from the modern world to escape his current circumstances: making soap. But as he depleted every single penny of his savings to create the first batch and started selling it, The Flame Skull gang sent people to take over his idea.
He couldn't resist those gangsters because every single one of them was an unranked martial artist capable of fighting 10 grown men individually. That's right! this world was a high cultivation world, Lin Fang had even once spotted a sword cultivator flying on his sword, and heard legends of cultivators ascending to immortality.
In these past two years, he had suffered endless torture and abuse by the villagers of the Young Eagle village, every single idea and ambition of his destroyed by their greed, he was even sometimes beaten up simply because he had an immortal like appearance with long black hair, and jade like skin, but had no strength to back it up.
However, despite everything, the thought of giving up never crossed his mind, because the idea of reuniting with his loving and caring wife and his two innocent children was like a fire, endlessly igniting his heart with determination.
Lin Fang suddenly heard loud footsteps echoing right above his hiding spot, "they entered the house."
His eyes flashed with panic as the footsteps got closer, "Relax! they can't find me. I'm the only one who knows this hiding spot in the village."
"hahahahaha!" piercing laughter echoed as the wooden plank covering the narrow cave was broken into pieces, "Found you, rat!" shouted a muscular man with a huge club.
Lin Fang jumped up trying to take the man by surprise, as he caught his ankle and pulled with all of his strength, he was met with a mocking expression, "even a cornered rat is trying to resist".
A sickening crunch was heard as the man smashed Lin Fang's hand, "AAAAAH!".
"where is the money?" the man asked the now limp Lin Fang. *pat*pat*pat* the club tapped the floor several times as the man's expression turned darker and darker, "I know that the Flame Skull gang gave you money once they took your soap idea, don't even try to hide it!"
Lin Fang's brain was continuously repeating the torture that he went through these past two years, the villagers disdain and marginalization, the theft of his ideas, the envious delinquents beatings, and most importantly the two years lost without his precious family.
"why do I have to endure all of this? WHYYYYY???!!! I HATE THIS DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD TO ITS CORE! I HATE EVERY SINGLE BEING HERE! I WANT TO KILL... KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!!"
Just as these extreme thoughts crossed his mind, a piercing sound echoed.
DING~~
[ The conditions to activate the Endless Slaughter Simulator have been met! ]
[ the host can now use souls to simulate his life and become stronger ]
[ 1 simulation = 1 soul ]
[ current souls remaining: 0 ]
Lin Fang's eyes widened as tears almost streamed out of his face, " I finally received my golden finger! There is still hope!"
Lin Fang was interrupted by a big hand holding him up by the hair, " why do you look like you're about to cry? Are you even a man? Tell me where you hid the money now or else I will give you a real reason to cry!"
Lin Fang's eyes flashed with a hint of ruthlessness as he gazed at the imposing man, "If souls actually mean human souls, then you will be my first stepping stone"
He adopted a submissive and fearful posture as he spoke with a trembling voice, " I...I will tell you! you can take everything, please just spare me!"
The muscular man nodded swinging his club a couple of times menacingly, "Humph! you finally understood your place"
Lin Fang stood up and led the man toward the forest on the outskirts of the village, while walking he continuously praised the man as an expert as powerful as the heavens, which made the man's nose lift up higher and higher.
Suddenly, as Lin Fang made a careful sidestep the man who was following closely behind fell into a pit and was impaled by dozens of spikes, Lin Fang wasted no time taking a big rock and smashing the man's head just in case the simulator only counted the souls reaped by the user.
"Luckily I had just made a hunting trap this morning" Lin Fang sighed in relief. He had been recently trying to hunt animals, since just picking fruits and trading little pieces of meat on a loss with the greedy villagers was no longer enough for his growing body.
Looking at his bloodied hands, Lin Fang was surprised to see that, unlike the protagonists in the novels that he had read, he didn't feel a thing after his first kill. In fact, he was very calm and collected, " Am I a psychopath?"