Rebirth 08: Equipment God

Chapter 24 One More, Just One

Zhai Da and Wu Yue worked together and moved the old TV to Sanmao's home.

Wu Yue was responsible for moving the TV, and Zhai Da was responsible for carrying the electrical wires.

You can't trip up your brothers, right? That would be bad.

This weekend, Yu Xiaoli said she was going to chat with her old sisters, so Zhai Da didn't have to explain. In his small room, a space had been cleared out in the wardrobe that had been converted into a bookcase, which was just enough to fit the small TV in completely.

Wu Yue had finished his big bucket of iced black tea, so Zhai Da took a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator and gave it to him.

"You look so weak, why am I not sweating?"

“You didn’t do it either.”

Wu Yue took out a handful of crumpled banknotes from his pocket and handed them to Zhai Da. This was the money paid by the old man.

The whole plan has been successfully completed. The domestic TV was bought by Zhai Da in an old shopping mall. It is indeed outdated, but it still cost 1300 yuan.

I traded my old item for a new one, and the total cost was about one thousand yuan.

In fact, he could accept spending 2000 yuan. The reason why he went around in such a detour was that he was skeptical about the character of this kind of store. It was too strange to buy a TV by force, and it was almost the other party's instinct to raise the price.

After all, the pager can be blown up to look like Karl Lagerfeld’s.

Now everyone is happy. From receiving the money to obtaining the [equipment], everything was done in one day.

Zhai Da counted the 300 and returned it directly to Wu Yue in person.

Wu Yue was stunned, and said happily: "Give it to me? Didn't the police station give me 100?"

Zhai Da nodded and said, "Let's put it this way. You worked hard for a long time this afternoon and even rode your tricycle several kilometers back home to deliver it. And your old mobile phone, let's take it all together. But I have only one request."

Wu Yue understood and made a zipper-pulling motion: "Little mouth~!"

He patted Wu Yue on the shoulder and told him to leave quickly without any further explanation.

If getting a reward for reporting gambling can be explained clearly, then going through the trouble of replacing an old TV is impossible to explain clearly.

Just sew it on and you're done.

After Wu Yue left happily, Zhai Da returned to his room, opened the closet door, and the TV was right in front of him.

If you sit at the desk, the angle is just right and you can see it by turning your head.

"White Equipment [Old Man's TV]: No one can watch TV for twenty hours a day, unless he runs a store with no customers"

"Status: already owned, activated."

"Effect: Addictiveness caused by playing content +300%."

“Note: My obsession as an adult is to comfort my childhood self.”

As the information was updated, new content appeared in front of Zhai Da's eyes.

"It is detected that the host has more than three [Equipment]. Open the [Equipment List] to view the equipment you have and turn on and off the equipment effects."

"Host, please collect more equipment, or synthesize more advanced equipment to unlock more functions of the system."

Zhai Da was stunned, and his eyes were drawn to a blue interface with a "List" button in the upper right corner.

After opening it, there were only three things inside.

[The Clown's Love Letter], [The Solid and Permanent 28-Bar Truck], [The Old Man's TV].

Three rears, each with an "activated".

I see. Now he can turn item effects on and off manually?
But it seems that there is no need for this at the moment.
It seems that as more equipment is obtained, the system will have some different changes.
Zhai Da nodded with satisfaction.

But this is not important now, let’s test how powerful “Old Man TV” is first!

In a compartment under the wardrobe, there is a third-hand DVD player that he bought at an old shopping mall for 200 yuan.

After connecting all the cables, including the headphones for listening to music, Zhai Da dug out a few CDs that had been gathering dust for a long time.

That was attached to the tutorial book. There were no online classes these days, but many books came with accompanying CDs. Zhai Da had accumulated quite a few of them, but had never read them once.

Zhai Da picked and chose, and finally decided to do some math to clear his mind.

If you choose a language that you are better at, it will not be easy to show results.

Mathematics is so exciting. I used to get a headache whenever I heard about it, but today I want to see how to get addicted to it.

The system description is a bit vague because there is no standard for the concept of "addiction degree +300%". Is it an additive accumulation value or a multiplicative probability value?
If it is the latter, the effect is actually average, because the probability of becoming addicted just by watching the "math CD" is infinitely close to zero, and even a tripling of it can be ignored.

What decent person is obsessed with this stuff?

With exploration and curiosity, Zhai Da inserted High School Mathematics (I) into the DVD. The content was part of the high school, but he had to sort it out from the beginning.

Put on the headphones and the sound comes.

"Hello, students. Today, we are going to talk about the first lecture of high school mathematics: sets and simple logic." This [old man's TV] is quite retro. It can barely connect to the DVD signal input, but the picture quality cannot be improved. The colors are distorted, and the sound is like the stinging of an old bee. Occasionally, there is snow on the screen.

Zhai Da watched it carefully and found that he could still easily understand the content of the first year of high school. Well, it was limited to understanding. When encountering questions, it was a different matter.

He was not just testing the [Equipment Effect], he was also studying seriously and even took out a pen and paper to record.

Just like that, 60 minutes passed before I knew it.

Zhai Da rubbed his eyes and tilted his head to think for a while.
There doesn't seem to be any special effects.
But I did learn something.

Let’s watch one more episode.

"Hello, students. Today, we are going to talk about the second lesson of high school mathematics: functions and logarithms."

The difficulty level was a bit high, and Zhai Da didn't want to miss the feeling of "learning well" just now, so he could only listen more carefully.

These contents are no longer taught in schools, but they are also indispensable cornerstones.

Before I knew it, another 60 minutes had passed.
Zhai Da frowned slightly
I felt like I understood it, but I didn't fully understand it.

I was distracted in the middle and couldn't connect with the rest. Does mathematics really follow the "eraser law"?

It's a bit of a pity.

"Well, read it again. You don't even understand the function, and you're still learning chicken-necked math."

"Hello, students. Today, we are going to talk about the second lesson of high school mathematics: functions and exponents."

Before I knew it, another 60 minutes had passed.
Zhai Da nodded with satisfaction.

Yes, I am indeed a genius. Not to mention doing the exam questions, at least I understand the basic principles!

Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot and see where your limits are!
"Hello, students. Today, we are going to talk about the third lesson of high school mathematics: logarithms and logarithmic functions"

Yu Xiaoli chatted with her old sisters for the whole day and her lips were numb, but it was also a rare social activity for her.

Topics mainly covered:

The connections needed to arrange for children to work in factories, the three links that children must go through to get jobs in factories, the seven things to pay attention to when children get jobs in factories, and the ten preparations that children who get jobs in factories need to make when looking for a partner.

When she got home and saw the sneakers at the door, she knew Zhai Da was at home and shouted:

"Xiao Da? Have you had dinner?"

There was no response from the room.

It was impossible for him to sleep at this time, so Yu Xiaoli pushed open Zhai Da's door.

Just when I pushed the door halfway open, I saw Zhai Da standing sideways facing the wardrobe, sweating profusely, with a focused look in his eyes, staring at the wardrobe with headphones on.

Even my breathing became a little rapid.

Not being able to see clearly, nor daring to see clearly, Yu Xiaoli silently closed the door.

After a moment of silence, he said to himself, "Sister Liu is right. Xiaoda is a big boy now. As a mother, you have to be both deaf and blind sometimes."

So he went about his own business.

In this way, Zhai Da studied one after another from three in the afternoon to twelve in the morning.

I didn't do anything except going to the toilet and taking a shower.

Even when Lu Wei sent him a message to report that she had eaten seriously, Zhai Da did not reply.

Gradually, he realized that he seemed to have begun to be affected.

Of course, it is not the kind of "irrational addiction" that makes people lose their minds, but it is mixed with the idea of "the state is so good, let's ignore the system problems and learn first."

It is an addiction that can be "rationalized" by the brain.

This TV is quite interesting. The addiction level +300% is not a probability problem as previously guessed, but a kind of cumulative feeling.

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, Zhai Da suddenly sat up from his sleep.

"The tangent function angle is not straight, and the cotangent function angle is not flat. This is what it means. The cosine value is 0, resulting in a denominator of 0."

Zhai Da subconsciously wanted to turn on the TV again, but after he stretched out his hand, he retracted it.

Then there was silence for a long time.

"That's not right! I cheat so I don't have to work hard. I'm even more tired now."

"Isn't this cheat for nothing?"

　The book club posted a "【Equipment】Idea Collection Post" and also announced some equipment that the two protagonists will encounter in the future.

　　Are you curious?
　　Everyone is welcome to use their ideas, and if adopted, the author will be specifically thanked in his or her words.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)