How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 102. Can’t Think Of A Chapter Title

"Eh?" Hearing Alicia's sudden bombshell, everyone stopped talking and could only let out a stupefied sound.

The student council president was the first one to unfreeze and asked. "Miss Alicia, why don't you hide it? Those abilities sound overpowered."

See, even this boy understood such a basic thing!

Alicia shrugged, "Well, you guys will know about it anyway. After all, there is no way I won't use this ability, and a slip or two will definitely happen. So, I'll just take the initiative to say this."

After she told her reason, Reynald asked a question. "What kind of items can you create?"

Alicia scrolled through the shop while answering them. "There are quite a lot of things. For example, there are food, ingredients, plants, metals, weapons, medicines, and magical items straight out of xianxia novels."

Everyone nodded along when they heard the first few items mentioned. But when they heard the last items, everyone froze in confusion. "What?"

Alicia repeated it once more and everyone still had a confused look.

One of them finally decided to ask, "What do you mean by items from xianxia novels?"

"There are talismans, formation, cultivation manual, pills, and others." Alicia then continued, "Most of them are quite expensive to create though."

Then, I saw the group discard their previous topic and started discussing Alicia's newly gained ability.

As they are discussing, it is my turn to be confused this time.

How the heck does everyone's reception turn pretty chill upon seeing a power that's basically creating something out of nothing. This is too unscientific, unhumanity, or whatever the word is.

With the exception of the few children of luck, those people I granted with subsystems in the Cultivation World have a much more interesting reception than this.

Is this the side effect of having their world view broken too often within a short time?

***

At this time, one of them suggested. "Alicia, how about you try to create something for us to see?"

She nodded and asked while scrolling the shop, "How about I purchase some food?"

"I'm in the mood to eat chicken, so I'll create a rotisserie chicken." Without waiting for others to agree, Alicia spent her last remaining point on a rotisserie chicken.

Meanwhile, I activated [Create] and crafted a rotisserie chicken with a plate included.

As they're currently in an apocalyptic world, food is extremely important. I especially made the rotisserie chicken extremely big. It is the biggest rotisserie chicken I can craft with one point worth of energy.

Everyone shall praise my generosity!

When the chicken suddenly appeared in front of them. Everyone, even Alicia , is surprised.

A woman called Berth asked, "Is that... Chicken?"

"Ain't this chicken a bit too big? Are you sure it is a chicken?"

I thought they're awed by the chicken that suddenly appeared, but it seems I was wrong.

Although the chicken I created is quite big, around twice as big as a normal chicken. But, it is in essence still a normal chicken. I even created it based on Fatty Zhang's recipe and tweaked it a little to make them tastier. For example, I added a few herbs that can enhance taste, and also a part of extremely low level spirit plants.

Although everyone is in doubt whether the chicken I made is edible. But, as a chicken I've especially created, its tasty smell kept on spreading and caused everyone's stomach to growl.

"Let me test this chicken." The student council president couldn't hold it anymore and tore a piece of the chicken. Once he bit on it, an expression of bliss appeared on his face.

He then began describing the taste of my chicken. "The chicken is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Every inch of meat is incredibly juicy and spread evenly throughout my mouth. The herbs and seasoning is just strong enough to push the chicken's taste without being too strong and overwhelming it. I also feel all of my body relaxed and strengthened with every bite."

While looking at the student council president's face that looks like he is high on illegal drugs, I feel a bit disappointed. It seems my cooking skill hasn't reached a good enough level to make clothes explode.

***

Once those people saw the student council president's expressions, they looked at the rotisserie chicken with weird eyes.

Edward looked suspiciously, "Is that chicken drugged?"

Alicia shrugged while trying to pick at the chicken, "Probably not?"

Then, the same sequence of events that happened to the student council president before happened to Alicia too. But compared to him, Alicia merely makes a delighted expression instead of an euphoric one.

She then nodded at the others before picking another piece of chicken and swallowing it.

Everyone finally tested it and took a bite of the chicken and started making a moaning sound of delight.

If it's only the student council president, I could still push it to his overreaction. But with so many people wearing that weird expression after eating my chicken. I suspect the ingredients I mixed might've resulted in a hallucinogenic effect.

Luckily, after I scanned everyone, there doesn't seem to be any adverse effects. Instead, their body became slightly stronger with the help of my rotisserie chicken.

Once the chicken has been eaten clean, Alicia bids everyone farewell. "Well then, I'll go to one of the empty classrooms and isolate myself for today. Just in case I accidentally got bitten."

While Alicia walked toward a classroom to isolate herself, I contemplated something.

After learning more about the world, I decided to push forward the plan I have created in the Cultivation World before. It is a plan to create a force with me as the core. Their main function will be to help me collect energy and knowledge. The child of luck plan can be said to be a watered down version of this plan.

As for why I don't do it in the Cultivation World, it's because the water there ran deep. I don't want to see Ren Qingquan suddenly die because a random expert disliked my force and finally used some weird technique to pinpoint his location.

The last time when he is hunted by a bunch of Divine Transformation experts, I can only barely save him. If a Void Unity level expert or above makes a move, then he'll be dead meat.

This Apocalypse World is a different news altogether. Except for the crimson meteors which is an unknown variable with unknown strength, the creatures inside this world have only recently met with the supernatural path. Even if they cultivate like crazy, I doubt there will be anyone who has reached the level equal to Qi Refining stage at this time.

With the things I've learned in Cultivation World, I should've been able to flip this kind of weak world upside down several times over as long as I am willing to pay the price.

Moreover, even if the plan fails and the stone I spent one million points on is destroyed, I still have Ren Qingquan as a failsafe. Although if that indeed happens, my heart will ache and I'll be depressed for several months.

***

At this time, Alicia arrived at an empty classroom and locked the door before she sat while .muttering. "From everyone's expressions, it seems sharing that information is the right step. With this knowledge, they should've prioritized my safety even when foraging for food outside."

Then, Alicia opened the system screen and asked, "Except for that shop thing and the real time map, is there anything else you can do?"

I smiled with my nonexistent face upon hearing her question. it's good that she asked this now. If it's been before, I would have delayed things out.

But now, I've chosen my plan for this world and decided a suitable name for myself in this world.

[Ding! Synchronization has fully completed.]

[The Apocalypse Shelter System has turned on. The system will help its user to create shelters amidst the apocalypse and restore the civilization's order.]

[Ding! Personal Status panel opened, sub shelter core creation function opened, sub shelter shop function opened, map function opened, mission function opened ...]

The function I've opened for her is basically a copy of Ren Qingquan. The only difference being Ren Qingquan's subsystem function has been changed into a sub shelter core creation function.

Once I had sent her all of the notifications, Alicia calmly said, "I just asked you a question, there is no need to overreact like that."

(⁠ー⁠_⁠ー*)

Although she said that, her body is honest as she already scrolled through the newly given functions.

She quickly skimmed through them as I quickly introduced their basic function before stopping in the mission panel.

On it, I've placed a few missions that reward her with some points that come from my pocket.

For example, there is a mission to research zombies, a mission to train in a martial arts technique, a mission to train in a cultivation technique, and a mission to collect knowledge from the modern world.

Although the points awarded are merely in one digits and only a few missions reward thousands of points. They are still points that come from my hard work.

I need to repeat the fact that those points come from my own pocket a few times to show how much my heart aches from this.

As Alicia lay on the floor and scrolled through the mission to collect modern day knowledge, she asked me. "How do I submit this mission, do I need to recite it for you?"

[The host merely needs to stand within 5 meter distance of a book or items and press the mission's submit button. The amount of points awarded change depending on the items. The same item or knowledge can only be submitted once.]

Alicia slowly stood up while asking. "How is the amount of points rewarded decided?"

[System will appraise the complexity and usefulness of the information and items. Items like guns will reward more points than a chopstick or fork.]

As she read the answer I sent, Alici arrived near the classroom's air conditioner. She opened the mission panel and pressed on the submit button.

[Ding! You've scanned an air conditioner. Awarded 0 points.

Note: Rewards below one point will be accumulated until reaching one point.]

Once Alicia scanned the air conditioner, she walked toward the table and chairs in the classroom and submitted the mission several times. As those items are pretty much worthless, the amount of points she got hasn't reached one point.

When there isn't anything else that can be scanned, Alicia leaves the room.

She first visited the place where her ally had gathered before and saw everyone still hasn't left and is busy discussing something.

When those people saw Alicia, all of them focused their gaze on her.

Edward asked, "Eh? You've returned so fast? Did you forget something?"

Alicia shook her head, "Nope. I just got bored and wanna walk around the school. I am also trying to test my newly gained ability."

Edward nodded, "Ohhh."

Reynard who stood next to Edward stared at Alicia and said, "Just like the rule all of us decided before, please bring along two or three other awakeners that aren't part of the foraging party and return to a classroom before night. Anyway, I'll be taking my leave first. I feel incredibly tired today."

As Reynard bid everyone farewell and left. Alicia nodded and randomly chose three people who had awakened, which consisted of one teacher and two students.

To be honest, I don't think those three can do much if Alicia indeed turns into a zombie. With their strength difference, she can wipe them out within a dozen seconds at most.

Once she had three awakeners following her, Alicia went to randomly walk around the school. After passing through several corridors, she looked a bit thoughtful and walked towards a direction.

From [Scan], I saw her moving toward the place where most of the people in the school gathered, which is the canteen. But before she arrived there, Alicia stopped and entered one of the classrooms.

Once she opened the door to that classroom, neatly stacked pieces of papers could be seen. On the paper, many words can be seen. Those papers are placed inside several plastic bags, probably to make escaping with them easy.

I curiously scanned those papers and saw a lot of random information both useful and useless.

The useless ones include something like yoga technique, several recipes for foie gras, methods to court the opposite sex, or other messy things.

Meanwhile, the useful information is incredibly useful and includes things like methods to make guns and gunpowder from different eras, information on how to create a simple electricity generator, an encyclopedia of edible plants, how to identify ores, how to make a simple compass, etc.

I suspect the information stored inside this room can easily push a civilization from stone age or bronze age into the industrial revolution era.

When night almost arrived, Alicia returned to the classroom where she isolated herself. The day's travel netted her 100 points. Most of which come from the classroom full of paper.

Although I lost 100 points, the information I gained today is definitely worth it.

As expected, traveling to another world is indeed extremely beneficial!