Chapter 19: Unexpected HarvestFor his first exchange, he used a copied transcript of the Chakra Refining Technique and a mass of Chakra in exchange for a flawless version of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.This wave directly allowed him to defy the heavens and change his fate.For the second exchange—though anticipation was anticipation—Fang Xu did not rush to take out the B-rank Ninjutsu scroll from his parents' legacy.That kind of item had a high value, but the risk was also high; if he happened to exchange it for garbage, it would break his heart with regret.Moreover, what he wanted to figure out most right now was just how broad the Exchange Talent's judgment of "special items" actually was.Fang Xu took out a small paper packet from the very back of his drawer. Opening the paper packet, a small pinch of black hair lay inside.The strands of hair were very stiff and pure black; it was Uchiha Obito's hair.Two days ago, Obito had been sleeping too deeply in class, burying his head in his arms and not even reacting when the teacher called roll. When Fang Xu passed behind him, he casually plucked a small pinch from Obito's head.Obito had almost jumped up from the pain at the time, but he just assumed that his sleeping posture had pressed down on his hair.Now, it came in handy right on time."Uchiha hair."Fang Xu pinched a few black hairs with his fingers, his gaze very serious."Although it's not the Sharingan, nor blood, nor Chakra, it at least comes from the Uchiha Clan.""If the Exchange Talent happens to judge it as a special item, there might be an unexpected harvest."Of course, he didn't hold too much hope either; a pinch of hair definitely couldn't compare in value to a complete bloodline.This time was more like an experiment.If even something like hair could be exchanged for useful returns, then the room for future operations would be massive.Fang Xu placed the Uchiha black hair in his palm and chanted silently in his heart."Exchange."The moment the thought fell, that pinch of black hair in his palm disappeared without a sound.The next second, a familiar pulling sensation appeared.Fang Xu's consciousness seemed to be lifted, and the scene before his eyes changed.Beneath a gloomy sky, a dilapidated street lay horizontally across his field of vision.Cars on the roadside were crashed together, their windows shattered, and dried bloodstains were everywhere on the ground.The air was filled with a foul stench of decay.At the end of the street, a young man was dragging a fire axe while panting heavily.His clothes were stained with blood and filth, and several rotting zombie corpses lay fallen by his feet.The man was named Zhou Yang.A transmigrator who had transmigrated into the Doomsday World.He had just finished slaughtering a zombie, and his face carried the excitement of surviving a catastrophe."I've finally saved up enough experience."Zhou Yang wiped the blood from his face, leaned against the wall, and shouted impatiently, "System, open the attribute panel!"There was no response.Around him, there was only the sound of wind blowing across the abandoned street.Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment."System?"Still no panel popped up.The excitement on his face slowly stiffened.Right at this moment, more than a dozen strands of black hair suddenly drifted down from mid-air.Those black hairs drifted lightly down in front of him, and a few strands even landed on his shoulders.Zhou Yang was completely dumbfounded.He lowered his head to look at the black hairs on his shoulder, then looked at the empty space in front of him."No wait, where is my panel?""System! Don't scare me!""Open the attribute panel!""Attributes!""Character information!""Stat-allocation interface!""Inventory!"He shouted several times in a row, his voice growing increasingly panicked.But there was no familiar system panel in front of him.There were only those dozen-plus strands of black hair, which had fallen from goodness knows where, swaying gently in the wind.Zhou Yang's face turned pale.The Doomsday World was no joke.Zombies, mutated beasts, water shortages, food shortages—any single one of them could cost a life.The reason he dared to desperately kill zombies was simply because he had a system.He could acquire experience and attribute points by hunting zombies.Leveling up, allocating stats, and growing stronger bit by bit.But right now, the most crucial attribute panel was gone.This was equivalent to tearing the steering wheel out of his hands.Zhou Yang was so anxious he spun around twice in place, almost failing to keep a steady grip on his fire axe."System, respond to me!""Is the experience value still there or not?""Do the zombies I just killed count?""Can I level up? Can I allocate stats?"After a moment, as if he had sensed something, his expression finally eased up a little.The system's core functions were still there; hunting zombies could yield experience, and killing mutated beasts could also yield experience.When the experience bar was full, he could level up, and after leveling up, he would obtain attribute points.Attribute points could still be added to his body, except that he could no longer see the panel.To be precise, the attribute panel plugin seemed to have been forcibly ripped out by something.Zhou Yang pinched a strand of black hair, his expression shifting from panic to blankness, and then from blankness to gnashing his teeth."I've already transmigrated, yet the system can still come with missing parts?""After killing a zombie, it doesn't drop equipment, it doesn't drop crystal cores, it drops a handful of hair?""What kind of piece of crap is this anyway?"He looked up at the gloomy sky, held it in for a long time, and in the end could only secretly complain that the system was a substandard product.The scene did not dissipate immediately.In the gloomy doomsday street, Zhou Yang cursed for quite a while until his throat was almost hoarse, yet still no attribute panel popped up in front of him.With a dark face, he could only pat away the few strands of black hair on his shoulder."Fine! You're ruthless.""No panel is fine. As long as experience and stat allocation are still there, it's fine."Though Zhou Yang said this verbally, his complexion looked as awful as if he had just swallowed a fly.For a system-flow transmigrator, losing the attribute panel was equivalent to losing their GPS navigation.The road could still be walked, but every single step had to be guessed.Dragging the fire axe, he walked over to a zombie corpse, squatted down, and skillfully pried open the zombie's skull with the axe blade.The stench of decay surged out all at once.Zhou Yang frowned, rummaged around inside for a few moments, and quickly fished out a grayish-white crystal the size of a soybean.The surface of the crystal was sticky with blood and filth, yet it possessed a faint gloss. He rubbed the crystal against the zombie's clothes and stuffed it into his pocket.Then came the second corpse, the third corpse. Inside the head of every single zombie, he rummaged very carefully.Some didn't have one, while others allowed him to dig out a muddier crystal core.As Zhou Yang dug, he gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice."With the panel gone, how am I supposed to judge the absorption efficiency?""What should I do if I allocate the attribute points wrongly?""Dog system, could you please give a heads-up before dropping parts?""And these black hairs, which unprincipled jerk exchanged them over anyway?"Outside the vision, Fang Xu watched very attentively.Zombies, crystal cores, systems, experience, stat allocation...The resource system of the Doomsday World was even more interesting than he had imagined.Although Zhou Yang had lost his attribute panel, the system core didn't seem to have collapsed yet; killing zombies could yield experience, leveling up could grant attribute points, and crystal cores were obviously important resources in the Doomsday World.This indicated that that world was not only dangerous, but also possessed a massive amount of exploitable value."Crystal cores..."Fang Xu stared at the grayish-white crystal in Zhou Yang's pocket, calculating rapidly in his mind.Placed in the Doomsday World, this thing would most likely strengthen the body or serve as some kind of energy material.If he could figure out the exchange pattern in the future and use worthless things from the Ninja World to exchange back a batch of crystal cores, it might just solve the problem of his insufficient cultivation resources.Even if crystal cores couldn't be used directly, they could still be used for research; energy materials from different worlds inherently possessed value.Especially since he was currently walking the path of Lightning Body Tempering, what he lacked the most were resources that could allow his body to recover quickly and replenish consumption."This Zhou Yang, I can continue keeping an eye on him."Fang Xu mentally placed a marker on the Doomsday World.
