Chapter 5. Fatty Zhang the Door Smasher

Chapter 5. Fatty Zhang the Door Smasher AnnouncementDon't forget to favorite and rate me...

As morning comes, Ren Qingquan slowly wakes up. Looking at the room he is slowly becoming familiar with, Ren Qingquan sighed and opened his system panel.

[Name: Ren Qingquan

Realm: Ninth-stage martial apprentice

Point: 3

Technique: dragon dance (martial grandmaster)

Skills: Tiger subduing palm (middle),Feather step (low), iron cloth (low).

System functions: devour, shop, scan, library, map, calculate, and system storage (1 cubic meter).]

Looking at the system function, Ren Qingquan realized he forgot to experiment with the system storage.

'System, how does the system storage work?'

[Ding! The system could store items up to 1 cubic meter in size. The storage space could be distorted by the item's shape. The host could look inside the storage area by thinking about it.

To activate the function and store items, the host may say 'Storage' mentally while touching said item and willing it to enter.]

With the system's explanation, Ren Qingqian started to look at the item nearest to him. As he placed his arm on a pitiful flower vase, with a thought, the flower vase suddenly disappeared from sight.

As Ren Qingqian thought about looking inside the [Storage], his view slowly changed. What came into his sight was a small flower vase encased in a small bubble while surrounded by darkness.

Willing for the vase to reappear from his arm, the vase suddenly returned near his hand that had been placed on top of the table.

A sudden ruckus stopped Ren Qingquan from his little experiment.

"Qingquan, are you alright!?"

With a hurried footstep, Xiao Ling arrived accompanied by his father, Ren Shiluo, who asked him a sudden question.

"Yes? What is going on here?"

"Some thief has broken into the Ren family's house! Luckily, except for some unimportant thing, there is no other thing stolen by that thief. I am just here to check on your well-being."Th.ê most uptodate novels are published on n(0)velbj)n(.)co/m

"Then there is no need to worry, as I have been sleeping very well last night."

"Young master, here is your wash basin."

Xiao Ling chimed in from the side.

Ren Shiluo continued his story while Ren Qingquan washed his face. Ren Qingquan suddenly opened his eyes wide, not because of the cold water, but due to the news he heard.

"The thief actually stole a garden. A whole garden! It is the garden located near your residence. Which is why I immediately visited you to check on your well-being. Just what is that guy doing as the patriarch of the Ren family? He should start to increase the defense and the number of guards on duty. Won't it make the Ren family's house look like a public plaza if a random expert just comes in and out that easily?"

Remembering the masterpiece he created, Ren Qingquan feels regret.

'Sigh. Why couldn't I wait until I traveled outside the city to activate [Devour]? Guess I will be more low-key nowadays.'

While thinking in his mind about how he must be more careful in the future, Ren Shiluo finally finished with his story and left, leaving only Xiao Ling and Ren Qingquan in his room.

"Young master, I have prepared the bath for you."

Ren Qingquan followed Xiao Ling into his bathroom. He finally took a bath for the first time since his transmigration.

As Ren Qingquan finished bathing, Xiao Ling helped him to wear his robes and accessories.

Fatty Zhang answered while waving his hand.

"I will just have some snacks to accompany my drink."

While waiting for the food to be served, Ren Qingquan talked about many things with Fatty Zhang when he realized he hadn't used [Scan] today.

And so, Ren Qingquan activated [Scan] and started to scan many things in the tavern, from furniture like chairs and tables, dishes and drinks, and also the patrons and servers inside.

Soon, the dishes and drinks were served, and Fatty Zhang finally shut up and started eating. Looking at fatty Zhang's exaggerated expressions as he ate, Ren Qingquan felt as if he were looking at a food commercial.

Ren Qingquan ate his snack while listening to the gossip from another diner. He finally understood why Fatty Zhang loved to eat here. After all, this world has almost no entertainment. Listening to gossip is one of the best ways to entertain yourself. Especially when the gossip is so darn interesting.

Just from a few minutes of listening, Ren Qingquan has heard about many things, both important and not. For example, someone's wife found sleeping with his friend, some people found a place suspected to be an ancient martial sect ruins, someone talking big about his fight against a monster beast in an endless mountain, and other fantasy-sounding stories.

After he finished eating and drinking, Ren Qingquan chatted with Fatty Zhang and finally left when it was already noon.

As he traveled on the carriage, Ren Qingquan played around with [Storage] in boredom. When Ren Qingquan seemed bored from playing with [Storage], he opened the system shop, which was refreshed several minutes ago.

'Open the system shop.'

[Daily shop (refresh at 23:18:26)

Water, 1 point. description: normal drinkable water.

Food, 1 point. description: Random foods from Black Flame Tavern.

Steel, 1 point. description: solid, heavy, pure steel with a customized shape. (2000 kg)

Air, 1 point. description: breathable air.

Sunlight, 1 point. description: blinding light, contains some heat.

Permanent shop:-

Note 1: ... ]

Except for food and steel, everything is the same as before, except for soil that went missing from the daily shop. Looking at the description of steel, Ren Qingquan entered deep thought and asked the system some incomprehensible things.

'System, if I stored some steel in the storage, could you change its shape into something I want? And how much will it cost?'

[Yes, the system could transform items stored in 'Storage'. As for the cost, it will increase depending on size, complexity, and materials.]

'Then, how much would it cost to transform steel to the size of one or two cubic meters?'

[Less than one point. Unless it contains an extremely high level of detail.]

'Are there any limits to the size of things I could pull from [storage] at once?'

[The host may pull everything from 'Storage' at once.]

After getting his answer, Ren Qingquan smiled and called the coachman.

"Let's visit some blacksmith stores first before we go home."

***

Consciousness space

Listening to Rent Qingquan's request, I somehow got an incredibly bad feeling. Especially when he suddenly asked about [storage] after asking about modifying something. I just hope he doesn't do anything too weird and inappropriate for children to see.

Also, I could finally approximately calculate how much energy doing something might cost. As expected of this genius, me.