『National Martial Arts Grandmaster』 Skill extraction completion 99%
On the bus back to his hometown, Du Ruo stared blankly at the panel that only he could see. The various changes over this period made him feel as if he were in a dream.
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About twenty days ago, Du Ruo lost his job. In the current economic climate, consumption was being downgraded, and the company where Du Ruo worked lost a large amount of business. Naturally, the company began laying off employees, and thus, Du Ruo became unemployed.
Unemployment was not scary; what was scary was that Du Ruo suddenly found he could not seem to find a job. This was something Du Ruo had never experienced before.
In the past, Du Ruo always felt that even if he were doing poorly, he could at least work as an express delivery worker, a takeout delivery worker, or a ride-hailing driver—the "triathlon" of jobs that would always allow him to support himself.
As it turned out, once he was unemployed, he realized that everyone else thought the same way...
Fortunately, Du Ruo had not spent ten years drifting in Guangdong Province for nothing. Six years ago, Du Ruo had a girlfriend, and for the sake of getting married, his girlfriend forced him to buy an apartment in the city center of Dongguan.
Du Ruo took out the 5,000 yuan he had painstakingly saved over four years of work, added the 175,000 yuan his parents gave him, and bought a 90-square-meter second-hand apartment in the city center.
Six years had passed, and Du Ruo had almost forgotten the reason he broke up with that girlfriend, but he had always felt grateful to her because the apartment, which was worth less than 500,000 yuan at the time, had risen to 1.8 million yuan.
Of course, originally, the apartment was for his own living, so Du Ruo did not care much about its value, nor did he ever think about selling it.
It was just that in the days after Du Ruo lost his job and could not find work, he decided to find a small game to play to pass the time. Whether the game was fun or not did not matter; he just needed to relieve stress.
The small game was called 『National Martial Arts Grandmaster』. At the start, there was only a panel and a small character. All Du Ruo needed to do was randomly select a basic Martial Arts skill, and then tap his Finger on the screen. The character in the footage would begin to Exercise the Martial Arts skill, and the experience bar for the skill would increase. If he did not tap the character, it would just sit on the ground and stare blankly.
Therefore, all Du Ruo needed to do was keep tapping the screen, and the character would keep performing boxing techniques, thereby gaining experience.
Of course, if he did not want to keep tapping, he could choose to watch an advertisement, in which case the game character could automatically hang up and continue Cultivation for three minutes.
As skills leveled up, the character's appearance would change, attributes would increase, and the animation of the exercises would become more magnificent. Furthermore, upon reaching a certain level, the character could randomly acquire new skills and begin to further practice new Martial Arts Taolu with higher bonuses.
It was just such a small game where you tapped with your Finger. Du Ruo played it for half the night. It wasn't just that the tapping made him feel tired; watching the advertisements almost made Du Ruo feel sick.
"Congratulations, the character has reached the maximum level. Extract skills? Yes/No?"
His Finger had been tapping the phone screen the whole time, and in the middle of the night, Du Ruo was already dazed. When the phone popped up this page, Du Ruo had just barely seen it clearly when his Finger habitually tapped "Yes."
Immediately after, the footage stuttered, and the mini-game vanished in a flash.
"Eh? What kind of trash game is this? Wasting my time. Forget it, time to sleep."
Du Ruo looked at the phone interface that seemed to have crashed and exited, paused for a moment, and then checked the time; it was already 3:30 AM.
Already exhausted, Du Ruo did not think about the game where the character was dressed magnificently, surrounded by various auras, with full Special effects in every move, and the skill bar filled with various Martial Arts skills.
In any case, the negative emotions he had accumulated during this period had mostly dissipated. In his daze, Du Ruo put down his phone and fell asleep.
Who would have thought that when he woke up the next day, a small icon appeared before Du Ruo's eyes, along with an extraction progress bar. The icon was the same small character in cloth clothes performing a Martial arts practice pose—it was exactly the icon of the game he played at night.
Du Ruo was first surprised, then ecstatic. He knew this was the legendary golden finger.
It was just a pity that there was only an extraction progress bar and not much other information, but looking at the icon, it was exactly the same as the small game he played at night.
At night, he was just trying to relieve stress and didn't really look at the plot or gameplay. Even playing until late at night while dazed, Du Ruo had already forgotten which skills the character had finally acquired.
Following that, no matter how Du Ruo searched or looked, he could not find that small game again. If he couldn't find it, then so be it.
"Since the golden finger has arrived, why should I look for a job? I'll go home. Even if I get scolded or forced into a Blind Date, it doesn't matter."
Just because of the appearance of the small game icon, Du Ruo made a decision: to sell the apartment and return to his hometown, even if he still didn't know what kind of golden finger the extraction progress bar on the panel in front of him was.
For the apartment with a market price of over 1.8 million, Du Ruo listed it for 1.75 million. Adding the fact that Du Ruo promised to give the salesperson a large Red envelope if it sold, the apartment was sold within half a month. In the end, he received 1.45 million, and with the 3,000 yuan he had saved from ten years of working, Du Ruo finally had the capital to return home and research his golden finger in peace.
（In fact, in the current environment, it is not that easy to sell an apartment quickly.）
It was just a pity that he didn't know if it was because the memory was too large or the signal was bad, but Du Ruo's extraction progress was extremely slow. It had been almost twenty days, and this final 1% of the progress bar just wouldn't finish.
"We've arrived. Grab your luggage and get ready to get off."
The vehicle arrived at Tangkou Town, Mount Huang. Du Ruo got off the bus with his Backpack. June in Mount Huang was still quite hot, but the 30-degree temperature could not stop the enthusiasm of the Tourists. The streets were bustling, filled with young people who had come to travel.
A phrase like "Youth has no price, Mount Huang is at your feet" had attracted countless young people.
"It seems I haven't properly toured Mount Huang for over ten years. Perhaps I should find some time to go up and take a good look."
Du Ruo looked at Mount Huang under the blue sky not far away. He did not linger too long, hailed a taxi, told the driver the address, and the vehicle quickly drove away from the bustling town area.
The car kept driving, the vehicles on the side gradually decreased, the surrounding houses were no longer dense, and large areas of farmland began to appear. Fifteen minutes later, the taxi stopped at the entrance of a Village, and Du Ruo got out of the car.
The houses in the Village had white walls, blue tiles, and Horse Head walls—standard Huizhou-style architecture. Moreover, it was clearly planned uniformly, looking very comfortable. In front of the Village were large areas of green farmland, and a winding Small river flowed through the middle.
By the side of the Village were large Tea Gardens and vegetable plots, and behind the Village was Mount Huang, the head of the three mountains under heaven.
Under the blue sea and sky, what a beautiful scene of a pastoral Village.
"Why didn't I think our Village was so beautiful before?"
Looking at the scenery, a smile appeared on Du Ruo's face involuntarily.
He hadn't been back for over two years. In the past, when he went home, it was always in a rush; he would leave after the New Year and never had the Thoughts to appreciate the scenery. Now, without having to worry about work, seeing the scenery he had grown tired of as a child, Du Ruo felt his whole person become relaxed, no longer feeling the oppression and restlessness of staying in the City.
He walked toward the Village with his Backpack on his back.
When passing the entrance of the Village, several elderly people were sitting by the small bridge at the entrance, fanning themselves with cattail-leaf fans and chatting. Seeing Du Ruo approach, they began Muttering to each other in low voices.
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