Dragon Clan: I am Lu Mingfei, the Intelligence Strategist, the God of Concepts!

Chapter 2 It's impossible for a person to have both a high-status panel and low self-esteem at the same time!
After tidying up and washing up, Lu Mingfei grabbed his keys and went out. When he arrived at the steamed bun shop downstairs, his eyes were so fierce that he looked like he wanted to eat someone alive.

"Boss, two steamed buns, meat ones, please! And a soy milk too!"

"Six pieces..."

The boss felt inexplicably terrified, as if his bank card balance had been exposed.

After paying, Lu Mingfei took the steamed buns and took a deep breath of the hot, fragrant steam, which made him feel much better.

Finally, he stopped muttering things like, "This panel is so low quality!", "What do you mean it's hard to evaluate? Who the hell am I supposed to evaluate?", and "It's just a little bit of hardship."

This coastal city is not large, but it is full of life. In the early morning, many people go out to buy groceries and exercise. In his view, the world is full of yellow exclamation marks, which lightly jump above people's heads, like forest elves.

The yellow exclamation mark above the head of the person who has been observed will turn into a transparent gray, almost blending into the background color. It is almost unnoticeable unless you look closely, but it can still be unfolded again. The different color states are just used to distinguish whether someone has been viewed.

The system can also enter hibernation mode, hiding all exclamation marks and returning the world to a simplified mode.

"It's alright, not everyone will turn into a Teletubby."

Lu Mingfei nibbled on his meat bun and sipped his soy milk, strolling along the curb, his eyes scanning the heads of the passing crowds, constantly activating his intelligence panel.

He has no intention of hiding it now; of course, he wants to try out this new gadget.

This familiar feeling is like playing a game.

Previously, whenever Lu Mingfei arrived at a new town in the game, he would control his character to throw out his Appraisal skill like it was free, and then be amazed by the attributes of the NPCs in high-level maps...

In this map called 'Reality Online', everyone's [Combat Power] is uniformly 5, from eighty-year-old men to eight-year-old children, everyone is a weakling... except for a muscular man with a nascent brain, whose combat power reaches an astonishing 7 points.

"Zou... Oh, I vaguely remember him. He was the Sanda champion from Binhai City last time."

Looking at the label for men, Lu Mingfei suddenly realized.

I have a general idea of ​​the criteria for assessing combat strength.

Most people have a combat power of 5 points, probably because the minimum is only 5 points. But if someone has a combat power of 6 points, that's simply... incredibly rare!
"Strangers have a 0% favorability rating, while some neighbors you interact with have a 1% or 2% favorability rating."

Lu Mingfei silently summarized the patterns.

He was an honest young man who often helped elderly people collect their laundry or carry their rice. Although he sometimes liked to sit alone on the rooftop and daydream, no one would feel any ill will towards him after learning about his family situation.

However, what truly surprised Lu Mingfei was...

"Are all elderly people this rich now? Their assets are easily over 500,000 or 1 million? Are you kidding me?!"

Lu Mingfei could hardly believe his eyes.

As I walked along the road, I noticed that even a random old man walking his bird in faded, old clothes had seven or eight hundred thousand yuan, and several middle-aged women squatting on the curb selling vegetables had assets exceeding one million yuan.

That's outrageous!
In comparison, Lu Mingfei, a loser who could only scrape together about two hundred yuan even after turning his pockets upside down, felt that he was not worthy of breathing the same air as them!
"Everything will be alright. Once I level up, uh... anyway, I need to figure out how to level up first!" Lu Mingfei took a deep breath.

His panel didn't have much information, even less compared to others, but it did have some growth-related entries like [Level] and [Experience Points], followed by large blank areas, clearly reserved for areas unlocked after leveling up.

"Upgrading should grant me powerful moves like the Kaioken with ten times the speed, right? Or maybe some item cards that give me extra money on the spot... uh, wait, money!?"

Lu Mingfei's breath hitched.

He realized a serious problem: his uncle and aunt's family had gone on a trip, but it seemed they hadn't left him any living expenses!

Today is only the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and there is still more than a week until the fifteenth. The leftovers can last for two days at most. Although Binhai is a small city, the cost of living is not low, especially during the Spring Festival when prices soar. What can I do with just over two hundred yuan in my pocket?
And... the property management company is sending someone to fix the air conditioner tomorrow!
Lu Mingfei's heart tightened again.

The property management staff should... not charge, right?
Otherwise, wouldn't half of the family fortune have to be used to pay for repairs?
This is infuriating!
"Endure, endure..." As he rummaged through his empty wallet, Lu Mingfei took another deep breath, feeling as if a little wild beast was waving its claws inside him.

No one can have both a great physique and low self-esteem at the same time! Fortune changes every thirty years, so never underestimate a young person's potential!

Just wait and see!

Everything I've lost, I'm determined to get back!
……

"Ugh, I'm so tired." "That's enough for today, I'll keep trying tomorrow..."

Late at night, Lu Mingfei stretched and sat up from his badly peeling gaming chair.

On the screen, the massive Tier 1 Mother Nest was surrounded by a bunch of machine gunners, bald men, and medical transport ships, and instantly turned into a pool of blood.

"Holy crap, Mingming, have you taken the wrong medicine? Why are you so fierce today?"

The chat window shook as a message arrived.

His profile picture was a panda with a rather smug look on his face, and his ID was 'Old Tang,' the guy who just lost to him. You could feel his astonished expression even through the screen.

As the number one StarCraft player in the channel, Lao Tang used to always beat Lu Mingfei with ease, but today, apart from the first game, he didn't win a single one of the remaining 11 games!
It even gave him the illusion that he would win, that he was just a little short each time.

What the hell!
"Mingming, you haven't been possessed by some evil spirit, have you? You even used that stealth rear-end collision just now, tell me you were just guessing!"

Old Tang posted a panda emoji dressed as an exorcist on the screen.

"As long as you have hands."

Lu Mingfei typed a line of text with a smug look on his face, then closed the program and logged off.

'Mingming' is his game ID. He ranks in the upper-middle range in terms of points across all platforms, and is second in this channel, only behind Lao Tang.

If he plays seriously, no one on the entire platform can beat him. He lost to Lao Tang before simply because Lao Tang didn't use a mouse and was using an old IBM laptop with a red dot for control.

StarCraft is a game that requires extremely precise micro-management. Playing it with a red dot is like trying to pick your ears with a rolling pin. Even a madman wouldn't do that, because it only leads to frustration.

But Lu Mingfei stubbornly used the red dot for three years.

"Damn it... Why is it still 0? How do I increase my [experience points]?"

As Lu Mingfei closed his old IBM laptop, he unfolded the panel, and his smile slowly faded.

I racked my brains today trying to figure out how to increase my level and experience points. I did 10 push-ups and 20 sit-ups, and even forced myself to study for half an hour!

After gaining nothing,

Lu Mingfei searched for all sorts of unorthodox remedies on Tianya Forum. He tried every method that was free and did not involve harming himself!
But no matter how hard I struggled, my experience points remained steadily at '0', without any change whatsoever!

Finally, with nowhere else to turn, Lu Mingfei decided to connect the mouse to see if he could increase his experience points by winning games. He won 11 games in a row, almost leveling up his account, but his experience points remained unchanged at 0…

"Who designed this panel?! Are they really obsessed with zeros?!"

"Hiss... Does that mean I have to fight monsters in real life to level up?"

Lu Mingfei's heart stirred slightly, but he immediately and decisively rejected this far-fetched guess.

That's a bit ridiculous.

In the real world, there are no monsters for you to fight... unless it's a bizarre setting where an immortal dragon is equal to an earthworm and a little demon blood crow is equal to a mosquito.

"Never mind, I'll look into it tomorrow. I'm going to sleep now."

"If I really can't level up, oh well, being able to view other people's panels is good enough... Hehe, I'm going to school the day after tomorrow anyway, I'll check out Chen Wenwen's panel then! Her affection level for me should be pretty high, right?"

Thinking of that girl, Lu Mingfei's mood improved instantly. Like a happy maggot, he quickly burrowed himself into the quilt.

Click, the light goes out.

Young people sleep well; they can fall asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.

"Brother, you..."

A helpless voice seemed to echo in my dream.

(End of this chapter)