Chapter 2: Unlimited Gold Coins, and the Transforming Girl!
“This is… bad!”
Li Chunsheng quickly half-closed his eyes, hiding the glow of his golden pupils.
With that, he changed back from the youth with luminous eyes to his usual self with lifeless, dead-fish eyes.
“What’s going on? I clearly didn’t actively trigger 【Infinite Gold Coins】, nor did I 【Materialize】 any coins. So why did that number change on its own?” Li Chunsheng’s expression was full of shock and doubt.
He glanced around and found that Liu Xia and the investigator had already left the area. There was no one else nearby. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief.
“It seems no one noticed the anomaly in my eyes.” Li Chunsheng instinctively pushed himself up with his arms to stand, then let out a surprised yelp: “Eh?”
His arm, which had just been bitten by Senior Liu Xia until it looked like a ragged cloth, was now perfectly unharmed!
What was this? Had it been healed by the authority of 【Life Temple】?
But back then, only he and those two were at the scene. Who could have healed his arm?
The bizarre phenomena occurring on his body left Li Chunsheng completely bewildered in an instant.
“I suspect the recovery of my body is connected to the change in that 【Gold Content】 number I saw earlier.” Li Chunsheng rubbed his chin as he speculated, starting to make bold hypotheses.
Yet after thinking for a long while, Li Chunsheng still couldn’t come up with anything more, so he dropped it.
“I never imagined this useless golden finger would actually become useful one day.” Li Chunsheng sighed: “It’s already been twenty years since I transmigrated to this world…”
Li Chunsheng’s consciousness had awakened twenty years ago in the body of an infant abandoned in front of an orphanage—a truly disastrous beginning.
“Fortunately,” when he was ten, he accidentally awakened his golden finger—【Infinite Gold Coins】.
Of course, calling them 【Gold Coins】 wasn’t quite right. As a mere Black Iron-rank ordinary person, no matter how infinitely he generated money, Li Chunsheng could only produce Black Iron coins.
To truly generate gold coins, he would likely need to become a Holy Knight, advance through Bronze and Silver ranks, and finally reach Golden rank before extracting gold coins from his body.
But metal coins could still be called gold coins, right?
Even if Li Chunsheng could only infinitely generate Black Iron coins for the rest of his life, it was already incredibly powerful. If used well, living as a wealthy man forever would be no problem at all.
That is, until Li Chunsheng discovered another law of this world: 【Blessing】…
The very day he found his golden finger, he impatiently 【Materialized】 a Black Iron coin and ran to hand it to the orphanage director.
“Grandma Director~ I found some money! Here you go!” Young Li Chunsheng wanted to use his golden finger for the first time to help those around him.
After all, the orphanage he lived in had always struggled financially.
Grandma Director smiled as she took the Black Iron coin from little Li Chunsheng. But after just one look, her face changed. She seriously asked where he had picked it up.
“Uh… on the big street outside the orphanage…” Li Chunsheng lied: “Grandma Director, is something wrong with this Black Iron coin?”
Grandma Director patted his little head and said: “Chunsheng, this is a Black Iron coin without 【Blessing】… It’s counterfeit and can’t be used… By the way, I’ll keep this coin. Remember not to tell anyone outside about this, or it’ll cause trouble for the orphanage…”
Later, Li Chunsheng learned that all currency circulating in human society must undergo various labor rituals. Women of different ranks are hired to serve as the 【Goddess】 idol in the ceremonies, blessing the coins produced by men before they become usable.
Only by using blessed coins could men avoid degenerating into goblins.
In this process, the authority of Wealth Temple personally brands the coins, essentially giving them serial numbers so their origins can be clearly traced.
At the same time, during the rituals, Wealth Temple constantly monitors the coin production process. If Li Chunsheng tried to cheat with his golden finger too many times, he would surely be exposed eventually.
Not to mention, when using his golden finger, his eyes would shine as if filled with flowing gold—stand out glaringly like a firefly in the dark night.
If that happened, how would someone capable of infinitely producing counterfeit money like Li Chunsheng be treated? Imprisoned… or dissected for research by Life Temple?
From then on, Li Chunsheng never dared to casually use his golden finger again. This was also why, despite being a university student in his previous life, he failed to enter a church university in this world.
“However… is this change in my golden finger a good thing or a bad thing?” A faint sense of anticipation rose in Li Chunsheng’s heart.
On Liu Xia’s side, she had already shaken off the investigator’s pursuit and was now squatting in a bush, breathing heavily.
“Just now… I ran so fast, and my wounds healed so quickly… Am I really no longer human?” Liu Xia numbly raised her hand and looked at it.
Dark green claws and rough skin—not a trace of human appearance remained.
Perhaps because she had fully degenerated into a goblin? While fleeing from Li Chunsheng earlier, Liu Xia had displayed inhuman speed, leaving the mere Black Iron-rank ordinary investigator far behind. In the process, some of her previous injuries had also healed.
The surge of power flowing through her body was something Liu Xia had never experienced in her life.
“…If the old me had this kind of strength, I probably wouldn’t have ended up like this…” Liu Xia fell silent: “…And I hurt that kid Chunsheng. I wonder how he’s doing now?”
“No! I have to go back and check!” She suddenly stood up, intending to sneak back to the “crime” scene.
But perhaps from squatting too long, the moment she stood, her head spun violently, and she collapsed straight to the ground.
“Wha… what’s… happening?” Liu Xia fainted amid confusion.
When Liu Xia woke again, the sun had already set.
“I… where…” Liu Xia let out a soft whimper and sat up from the ground.
“Eh… ehhh?! My voice?!” She panicked, clutching her throat and coughing hard: “Cough cough… cough, is my throat ruined?”
However, this intense movement caused something very prominent on her body to jiggle fiercely.
Just like the snow-white full moon hanging in the sky tonight—big and round.
“Aaaaaahhh——!!” Liu Xia clutched her head in disbelief, tears welling up urgently: “M-M-Me… why do I have these things on my body aaaaaahhh!!”
Only then did Liu Xia notice that her body had undergone a shocking transformation.
Examining her figure closely, she now resembled an eighteen-year-old girl. Even in the darkness, under the moonlight, her skin was as pure and flawless as fresh snow, shimmering softly.
More importantly, the male symbol she had been used to for twenty-two years was completely gone, leaving only a flat snowy plain!
Along with the male symbol, the power gained from degenerating into a goblin had vanished too—if the investigator spotted her now, escape would be impossible.
“How… did this…” Liu Xia looked dazed, tears at the corners of her eyes, appearing utterly depressed.
Suddenly, the girl’s ears twitched. She looked into the distance—her senses seemed much sharper now.
“No good, the investigator really is heading this way! I need to disguise myself quickly!” Liu Xia glanced at her nearly naked body, covered only by a few tattered strips of cloth, and an idea struck her.
While the investigator hadn’t arrived yet, she stole clothes hanging outside a nearby residence and hurriedly put them on.
Though she felt very sorry for the innocent owner and the clothes didn’t fit well, there was no time to worry about that.
After changing, Liu Xia pretended to be an ordinary passerby and walked slowly along the road beneath the streetlights.
Before long, the investigator arrived nearby. With eyes as sharp as an eagle’s, he scanned everything around him…
Including the girl Liu Xia, wearing ill-fitting clothes and trying desperately to act calm!