Chapter 00091: Iron Head Skill
# Iron Head Skill
Chapter 91
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 91 Iron Head Skill
That time with Viola, Li Chengxi knew at a glance that it was a strategy game.
Although the main content was still idle gameplay, he was certain about the general genre.
But this time, with the Wuxia script, Li Chengxi was rather confused.
It looked like an RPG, but what was the meaning of this one white lump? What kind of Wuxia game had an inanimate object as the protagonist?
Closing the character Artwork, Li Chengxi scrolled the mouse wheel to zoom in on the screen.
At the current camera view, he could not see clearly what it was he was controlling.
When the screen was zoomed in to the maximum, Li Chengxi finally saw it clearly.
It was a Jade Tablet.
He had seen this sort of thing in a museum before, so it should be about right.
"Sky-Upholding Book? A Jade Tablet... why is it called a 'book'?"
Li Chengxi felt his head fill with question marks.
He restored the camera view and controlled the floating, mobile Jade Tablet, making it jump up and down.
The cave was quite spacious, but the Jade Tablet could not seem to move too far from Yang Yiyi.
Any farther and an invisible wall would block its movement.
Apart from moving, pressing any other key did nothing.
Unlike other pixel RPGs, pressing the spacebar didn't allow him to pick up items or investigate things.
This was even more perplexing.
Setting aside for the moment why the player was controlling a Jade Tablet, Li Chengxi turned his attention to the other parts of the screen.
Compared to the Fantasy script, the UI this time was slightly different.
The top-right corner no longer displayed resources like Gold Coins, Wood, or Stone.
Instead, there was a colorful stone icon, with the number 0 next to it.
Moving the mouse over it revealed the name ‘Sky-Upholding Stone’.
He felt it had some connection to the Sky-Upholding Book that the player could control, but he did not yet know what it was.
At the bottom of the screen was an enlarged icon of the Jade Tablet.
Clicking it opened a window.
Inside the window were two clickable buttons.
One was labeled ‘Sumeru Realm’.
Clicking it revealed an empty space.
He felt this was probably a backpack.
The other was labeled ‘Teaching Box’.
This time, clicking it did not reveal an empty space, but rather two skills.
They were labeled ‘Light Body Fall’ and ‘Iron Head Skill’.
"Wait a minute, what kind of Wuxia game has Iron Head Skill as a starting skill?"
Are you sure this style is normal?
Li Chengxi grew even more confused.
What on earth was this?
Closing the two interfaces, Li Chengxi followed his experience with Viola and right-clicked on the unconscious Yang Yiyi.
Just like with Viola, a dropdown menu popped up, with the same types of options.
It read ‘Talk’, ‘Equipment’, ‘Backpack’, and ‘Ability’.
However, the Talk option was grayed out, likely because Yang Yiyi was unconscious.
Li Chengxi first clicked on Ability, and a window popped up on the screen.
It felt like it was the same game, but with a different MOD installed.
The main framework was the same.
Name: Yang Yiyi
Age: 18 years old.
Gender: Female.
Race: Human.
Title: Outer Sect Disciple of the Green Robe Sect.
Below this, her HP bar was nearly empty, indicating she was in a heavily injured state.
This mode was consistent with Viola's, but there were also differences.
To the right of this basic information were the words ‘Physique’, ‘Movement Technique’, ‘Meridians’, ‘Comprehension’, and ‘Fortune’, but instead of specific numbers, they were represented by dark-colored bars.
He had seen similar settings in many Wuxia games, so Li Chengxi did not pay it much mind and scrolled down to see more.
This time, the skill bar had no Magic or Divine Arts.
Instead, it was replaced by ‘Martial Arts’, ‘Internal Skill’, and ‘Lightness Skill’.
However, the Internal Skill slots were all empty.
The Martial Arts and Lightness Skill sections listed a total of three lines.
The first two were ‘Basic Sword Technique’ and ‘Basic Fist Technique’.
A glance told him these were common, powerless things.
But the third was ‘Misty River Technique (Incomplete Scroll)’.
This was a rather drastic change in style.
A single look at Misty River Technique told him it was something of a high level.
After all, in Wuxia novels, martial techniques on the level of the Five Tigers Soul-Severing Saber did not have incomplete scrolls.
The ones that did were all at the Divine Technique level.
Right-clicking on an empty space in the skill bar, Li Chengxi knew he could use this operation to grant Divine Arts to Viola and the others.
He figured that even with a different script, the operation should be the same.
The options for Internal Skill and Lightness Skill were both 'None', but the Martial Arts section allowed him to add Light Body Fall and Iron Head Skill...
"Wait, could the skills that can be added be related to the character's experience?"
According to the cutscene, Yang Yiyi had fallen from a cliff, so she had Light Body Fall.
She hit her head during the fall, and so she got Iron Head Skill?
Looking at the large, pixel-style purple bump on Yang Yiyi's forehead on the screen, Li Chengxi felt he had found some clues.
But there might be other conditions to verify.
However, that was all there was on the ability panel.
Her backpack was empty.
As for her equipment...
Seeing that the girl was still unconscious, Li Chengxi decided not to look.
Ancient-style underwear was probably just the dudou and such, not as fancy as what Viola and the others wore...
After this round of investigation, Yang Yiyi still had not woken up.
Li Chengxi controlled the Jade Tablet, which was called the Sky-Upholding Book, to dance a disco on her body, but she did not react at all.
Speaking of which, in this script, could he directly reach his hand into the screen?
The first time, he had routed the mountain bandits just by waving his finger, but that was because the camera view was high up, and the area of effect was too large.
To avoid making too much of a commotion, Li Chengxi zoomed the camera view out again this time, then reached his hand toward the screen.
His finger sank into the screen as always.
He felt himself touch hard stone, and when he pulled his hand back, he saw his fingertips were stained with a fair amount of soil.
It really was the same game.
The operation of reaching his hand in directly was still possible.
The sharp-eyed Li Chengxi noticed that on the left side of the screen, where the Faith Points should have been, there was now a blue bar.
Just now, when he put his hand in, that blue bar had decreased by a tiny bit.
Moving his mouse over it, the blue bar displayed the name ‘True Qi Value’.
In short, it was just like Faith Points.
If he wanted to directly interfere with the game, he had to consume this value.
Having roughly figured out these details, Li Chengxi looked at the still-unconscious Yang Yiyi on the screen and suddenly had an idea.
Should he help her?
After all, from the cutscene, she seemed to be the protagonist, much like Viola.
Moreover, the player was just controlling a Jade Tablet.
If Yang Yiyi died, the player might be trapped here, unable to get out.
So, Li Chengxi got up and took a towel from his shelf, unwrapped it, and planned to place it behind Yang Yiyi's head as a cushion.
After all, Li Chengxi himself could not enter the game.
As for healing and such, he could only wait until she woke up.
Because the screen was relatively small, Li Chengxi had to use both hands to place the towel behind Yang Yiyi's head.
But with his hands inside, he could not see the screen clearly and had to operate by feel alone.
After finally getting it in place, Li Chengxi pulled out his hands and took a look.
Good heavens, he had placed it right over her face.
It looked just like a funeral.
Once the music plays and the shroud is laid, the whole village waits for the feast.
He quickly reached his hands back in to adjust the position.
After trying various poses like covering her face with the white cloth, the Shaanbei style of wrapping the head with a towel, and even death by white silk, Li Chengxi finally managed to fold the towel and place it behind Yang Yiyi's head as a pillow.
This felt more tiring than a fight...
At this moment, Audel came down from upstairs.
Li Chengxi, who had just finished his task, saw her and said:
"Hungry? Then let's have an early lunch today."
But Audel shook her head:
"I suddenly remembered that I have several important papers I haven't published yet. I want to go back tomorrow."
How did you even connect this to your papers? Weren't you just watching tokusatsu shows all morning?
Li Chengxi found it a bit difficult to understand Audel's train of thought.
(End of chapter)