After completing the first step, Su Yang opened the pressure cooker and realized that the fragments of the Little Monster Beans, bamboo and grass had all turned into a pot of glue… or rather… paper pulp?
Su Yang followed the system’s instructions and scooped out the sticky liquid from the pressure cooker before cooling it down.
When the paper pulp had cooled down, Su Yang scooped the paper pulp onto the sieve.
Then, he picked up the sieve and started to shake it. Soon, the excess water from the pulp was siphoned out until only a thin layer of paper pulp was left on the sieve.
Su Yang scooped another spoonful of paper pulp and continued to pour it onto the sieve.
He repeated this procedure 5 to 6 times continuously until all that’s left from the paper pulp was basically the thickness of a piece of paper.
When he was done, he turned the paper pulp upside down onto the wooden board, clamped it tight with another wooden board and flattened it. Then, he squeezed the remaining moisture out.
After he was done, Su Yang picked up the hairdryer and started blowing on the half-dried paper.
Soon… a piece of paper that looked yellowed and ragged was done…
‘Can this even be considered to be paper?’
Su Yang was confused.
However, when he saw the green tick on the system interface and felt. ‘I think it should be paper.’
Then, he repeated the entire production process and made about 10 more pieces of the ragged paper.
When he had accumulated 10 pieces of it, he stacked them together and used the stapler to staple them together. A booklet of sorts was produced.
After he was done stapling the booklet, a system notification appeared in his mind. [Item production completed. Please submit the produced item.]
‘That’s it?’
Su Yang took a glance at the uniquely shaped booklet and felt that he had cheated.
‘Can this even be considered to be completed?
‘Why don’t I try this again! I could get it done better!
However, It was a pity that Su Yang did not have the materials to produce the whole thing from scratch, so that was out of the question.’
However, looking at the paper on the table, Su Yang suddenly had a bad premonition. ‘The latest recipes from this lousy system seem to be related to producing items by hand in real life.
‘I’ve cooked pork shoulders, made handmade lipstick and produced some models. Now, I’ve even made paper…
‘Could the system be planning to throw me onto some deserted island in exile?
‘Is that why it’s making me learn how to produce a wide variety of items? So that I could survive on a deserted island?
‘That can’t be right… Without the Little Monster Bean fragments, the paper pulp could not have been made so easily, could it?
‘This is so strange…’
After thinking for a while, Su Yang realized that he could not figure out what the system was up to. He could only gather his thoughts and clicked [Submit].
Three notifications popped up in front of him:
[Incomplete materials detected]
[Precious materials detected.]
[The special items will give birth to additional abilities, talent or more unknown changes. Confirm to submit?]
Su Yang clicked [Confirm].
Suddenly, the completed booklet, the wooden boards, the pressure cooker, and all the other items disappeared into thin air with a bang.
Moments later, a small booklet that looked like a driver’s license appeared out of thin air and fell onto the ground with a thud.
Su Yang bent down and examined the driver’s license. He realized that the cover of the booklet was no different from his own driver’s license.
He went to the study room and took out his driver’s license. He placed it beside the special item and realized that the materials for the cover of the two items were exactly the same. The only difference was that Su Yang’s driver’s license wrote, [Motor Vehicle Driver’s License], while the special item had the words [Unrestricted Driver’s License] on it.
‘[Unrestricted Driver’s License]?
‘What is this?’
Su Yang did not open to check its contents because he did not dare to touch it, Su Yang could not open it. Therefore, even though he was curious, he could only return to the sofa and patiently wait for the system interface to appear.
As he waited, Su Yang felt a little bored. He went online to check his TikTok and realized that he had over 20 million followers.
‘It seems like I’ve been neglecting my fans recently… Should I record an advertisement for them to watch?’
With that thought in mind, Su Yang put on his mask and recorded a short clip in the living room. The content of the video was basically to recommend everyone to watch his movie, “Fighting The Buddha”.
After he was done recording, Su Yang took a snippet of “Downhill”, a song that he sang that night together with the clip.
His intention was simple. Watch the movie after his fans listened to his song, the best of both worlds.
“Downhill” was one of Su Yang’s cover songs. That night, he felt that the song sounded nice, so he learned it once and sang it.
Recently, in TikTok’s comments section, some people began to suspect that he only knew how to sing covers and did not know how to compose his own songs. However, Su Yang could not even be bothered with them. ‘If I had the ability to compose and write the lyrics of my own song, I wouldn’t have to rely on the system. Furthermore, singers were originally divided between ordinary singers and cover singers.
‘Although there’s a gap between the two in the music industry and the history of music, but… I’m not part of the industry!
‘I’m merely singing just for the fun of it.
‘Could you ask Ma Yun to act and win the Best Actor award?
‘Isn’t that just ridiculous?’
Hence, Su Yang continued to sing as he pleased.
After editing the video, Su Yang uploaded it onto TikTok. He wanted to see if he could increase the popularity of his movie.
After almost a month since the movie was released, “Fighting The Buddha” was starting to show signs of losing its popularity. The box office for a single day had already dropped to 300,000 yuan. Therefore, Su Yang wanted to give it another boost.
‘After all, no matter how good I sang on TikTok, it’s still difficult to earn money.
‘However… I’ll be able to receive money every time a person watches a movie!”‘
After Su Yang was done with everything on hand, an interface finally showed up from the [Unrestricted Driver’s License] which was on the floor.
[Special Item, Unrestricted Driver’s License]
Ability: When you have this driver’s license, you are able to unlock the affinity system of the living being who is of the same species as yourself. When your affinity reaches 100, you will be able to activate the “Drive” mode.
Restriction 1: This license can only be used once during the first day of each month. You may only unlock the affinity system of one living being.
Restriction 2: This item is effective towards the same gender as well.
Restriction 3: The increase in affinity has nothing to do with this item. Please upgrade it on your own.
Note 1: Charge! Young man!
Note 2: There really won’t be any limit once your affinity reaches 100…
Note 3: Press “F” to enter the tank, “E” to fire.
Note 4: Let me drive your car.
Note 5: I wish to drive you…
After reading the description of the driver’s license on the floor, Su Yang could only say, ‘What the hell is this?!
‘There are 5 notes!
‘It’s even more than the ability’s introduction on its own.’
Su Yang hid the notes and re-read the ability again. Then, he felt, ‘This seems very useful.
‘I’ve noticed that I’ve been able to unlock the affinity of others ever since Silver points came into play. However, I’ve never been able to use it since I cannot bear to spend my Silver points on it.
‘Then, I’ve obtained [The Pork Shoulder That Can Roast] which allows me to increase the affinity of others. However, it was a pity that I did not have any items that could unlock the affinity system.
‘Because of this, I’ve been looking at the system shop over the past few days, hoping to see if I’m able to purchase a voucher that could unlock affinity which yielded no results.
‘Now, I’ve finally obtained a special item that could unlock affinity. This feels really good.
‘In that case, I could at least use this item to unlock the affinity of others. Then, I would be able to increase the affinity of others!
‘Right now, I know of two methods to increase affinity points. The first is by using [The Pork Shoulder That Can Roast] which allows me to increase 10 affinity points.
‘The other method is by using [Random Point].
‘There was a hint previously when I was using the Silver point that I could increase affinity by using [Random Point]. However, I have no idea how many points can be increased per use.
‘I could give it a try when I’ve got enough money.
After half a month of accumulation, he had a few thousand coins, meaning that he had the capital to begin his experiments.
Su Yang picked up the driver’s license from the ground and opened it. To his surprise, it was no different from a normal driver’s license with a picture of himself inside, including his birthday, age, address and so on. However, on the column that said [Permitted vehicle models], the word “human” was written beside it.
The record on the second page was also different.
The second page of a normal driver’s license should be a record of the probation period, but the second page of [Unrestricted Driver’s License] was a record of “Affinity” instead.
‘From the looks of it, it seems like the person whose affinity I have unlocked will appear here.’
Su Yang took another look at the ability introduction of [Unrestricted Driver’s License] and realized. ‘This driving license was similar to [Burning Reincarnation Circus] and [Lucky Disfiguring Brick]. They could all be used once a month only.
‘However, the difference is that the [Lucky Disfiguring Brick] can only be used after the countdown ended.
‘[Burning Reincarnation Circus] is available on the 15th day of every month.
‘[Unrestricted Driver’s License] can only be used on the 1st day of every month.
‘In other words, it’s the end of August now. Once I use this, it will be refreshed on the 1st of September.
‘Then, it will be refreshed on the 1st of October, 1st of November and so on.
‘Plus, no matter which day of the month I was to use this, it would be refreshed on the 1st day of the next month.
‘This seems to be… much better than the [Lucky Disfiguring Brick] and the [Burning Reincarnation Circus].’
Su Yang looked at the time. ‘It’s already the 25th of August, 6 more days before the next month arrives.
‘It would be a waste if I don’t make use of this opportunity.
‘The question is, whose affinity should I unlock first?’
While Su Yang was trying to figure out who he should “drive” first, a commotion had stirred on TikTok…
Ever since Su Yang had uploaded his first 2 videos, his TikTok had become one of TikTok’s biggest VIP accounts.
As a VIP, his videos could directly be uploaded to the high traffic pool.
Hence, Su Yang’s video had been promoted to the 100,000 users traffic pool as soon as he uploaded it.
It was no different from his previous video. In just a few minutes, those who had seen his video started to like and forward it.
In fact, because Su Yang chose a song that he thought was good, the statistics were even higher than his previous videos.
The best part was that he thought that the “advertisement” for “Fighting The Buddha” would lower his statistics on TikTok. However, not only did his statistics not reduce, it even helped to increase it in return…
The people who watched his video had quietly listened to his song. Then, a completely unrelated video suddenly appeared at the end of the song and they were immediately stunned by it…
‘Is this an advertisement?
‘Such a… hard selling advertisement?’