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Real Name: Jeff Goldfish
Current Name: Coby
Identity: Servant of the Soaring Eagle sect.
Soul strength: 50
Ranking: 9,583/9,717
Key word/phrase: Protection
Derived skills: -
Derived artifact: -
Key word/ phrase (hidden): Backstab
Derived skills: -
Derived artifact: - ]
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Jeff dazedly looked at the floating window in front of him with mixed feelings.
He wants to believe that he is dreaming but the pain and ache all over his body tell him another story.
'Did I really transmigrate?'
'Can someone get transmigrated by just going to sleep? Or did a truck break into my apartment and run me over while I was asleep?'
Cough!——
Jeff's thoughts stopped abruptly as he couldn't suppress it and coughed out a mouth full of blood.
Jeff became more certain that he was not dreaming.
The amount of pain he was experiencing at that moment was definitely more than enough to wake anyone up.
He felt like his chest had sunken in, some of his ribs were broken, and he suspected that he had a punctured lung.
To make matters worse, he did not inherit the memories of the body he had occupied, so he couldn't even fully understand his situation.
'Am I going to die on the same day that I transmigrated?'
"Oi, you, what is your keyword?"
Jeff turned his head to the side, and what came into his sight was another injured person.
From his appearance, the other party was a young man around the age of twenty one or twenty two years old, but his current state made Jeff unable to speak for a while.
As he lay on the straw mat with his stomach, the young man took a bite of the straw mat and spoke to him:
"Don't pretend to be a native, I followed you here and saw you possess that body.."
Jeff's pupils shrank.
'What shit luck! Someone actually saw me possess the body? Wait..'
Jeff frowned and remembered that the other party had been unconscious a few moments ago.
How does one go from being unconscious one moment to eating straw grass the next?
'He said he followed me here? Could it be that he also transmigrated here?'
Some straw had fallen to the ground when he spoke, but the young man used his mouth to pick it up and continued to eat it.
Jeff's eye twitched involuntarily.
'Bro, just how hungry are you?'
He didn't know what was happening and he felt that this situation was not normal, so Jeff decided to remain silent.
'The less one speaks, the less mistakes one makes!'
'I should observe and listen more to get more information!'
"It won't be long before I can recover, and I will be able to easily eliminate you by then."
The young man swallowed with difficulty, and took another bite of the straw mat.
"Just tell me what your keyword is, if it is good…*swallow* *cough* *cough*.."
"If your keyword is good, I can consider letting you become my follower."
Jeff thought for a moment and probed in a hoarse voice:
"I am not supposed to share my keyword.."
When the young man heard this, he sneered and didn't seem surprised.
"The teachers at your public schools don't know what they are talking about. I am from an elite school, trust me, if your keyword is good, we can cooperate and make a name for ourselves in this simulation!"
During his speech, the young man did not forget to continue chewing on his straw.
'Simulation! Elite school, public school, key word…'
Jeff's mind turned quickly and analyzed his situation from the information he had gotten from this weird young man.
First of all, they were currently in a type of simulation and were participating in some kind of competition between students of different schools.
The keywords seemed to be a critical part of this competition and every competitor should have them.
Most importantly, it seemed that even if he died here he would not completely perish.
'I can't take his words as fact and I need more information!'
"Then tell me your keyword first."
The young man rolled his eyes at Jeff.
"Gluttony, isn't it obvious? Do you think I would be eating straw if eating was not related to my keyword?"
Jeff was silent for a few seconds before saying:
"Who knows, maybe you are using that as a means of disguising your keyword!"
"Tsk, the teachers in those public schools really don't know anything! I have already told you my keyword, now tell me yours."
After a moment of silence, Jeff decided to tell the young man his keyword.
"Protection."
When he heard this, the young man's eyes lit up.
"An auxiliary keyword? Good! Stick with me and I will take you flying young man, the top 10 is not impossible."
Hearing this, Jeff pretended to be excited and asked with some excitement:
"Really?"
"Of course, just stick with me and everything will go well."
To Jeff's surprise, the other party didn't mention anything about a second keyword during their entire exchange.
'Could it be that he doesn't have a second keyword?'
'Is this the cheat I got after transmigrating? Two keywords?'
Since the other party didn't bring it up, Jeff definitely wouldn't bring it up.
"Can you tell me about the situation?"
Jeff asked in a vague way to see if he could dig out some information.
"What do you mean? Didn't you get memories when you took over the body?"
"Yeah.. for some reason I didn't get the body's memories."
"Well, although it is rare, it does happen."
The young man didn't seem to be suspicious and gave him a rough layout of their current situation.
"You are Coby and I am Tony, we are, nicely put, servants, of the Soaring Eagle sect, but in reality, we are just moving practice target dolls, hence the injuries."
"The setting of this world seems to be in some sort of underground world, so the main story line may be to take the people of this world above ground."
"That, or to become number one during the martial arts competition held by the Immovable Earth sect in a few months from now."
"Yeah, that's about it."
After saying this, the two remained silent for a while.
Only the sound of straw being chewed on could be heard in the room.
Jeff who had been keeping an eye on "Tony", soon noticed that the bruises on his face seemed to be slightly reducing as he ate.
'Gluttony…'
'I see… So we can heal through acting in line with our keywords?'
Since he had nothing to loose, Jeff decided to make an attempt.
'Protection, to protect something means to keep it in a state of not being exposed to danger, synonymous with guarding, custodianship, defending, etc.'
'Backstab, to be unfaithful or to be disloyal to, synonymous with betrayal, double crossing and two timing.'
Jeff couldn't immediately think of a way to use these words in his current situation.
It took a while before he decided to think out of the box.
'Since this guy needs to eat to heal, let me 'protect' him from his injuries.'
"Hey, will your mat be enough to eat? I can give you mine so that you can heal quicker."
"I don't mind sacrificing my comfort in order to help you out!"
Cough!——
Cough!——
The sudden words made Toby choke on the grass he was chewing on!
'Is this guy making fun of me?! This guy is definitely making fun of me!'
The veins on Toby's head throbbed, but he still swallowed his anger and rejected the offer.
"No thanks, this should be enough to get me walking, I will go out and get some real food after that."
"Well you can tell me if you change your mind,"
'I will protect you with all I have!'
After thinking so, Jeff suddenly felt a feeling of warmth transverse his body.
Not only did he regain some energy, but the wounds in his body started to heal!
"Isn't grass unpalatable? You can eat my clothes if you want, at least the texture should be much better!"
Jeff ignored Toby's glares and felt the state of his body.
His body was initially less injured than that of Toby, and although Toby should have gotten more out of his keyword, Jeff felt that his recovery had already caught up with that if the other party.
Toby was about to cuss at Jeff, but he saw him starting to stand up, so he swallowed his words and looked at him with vigilance.
Jeff stumbled to the other side of the room, smashed a cheap vase on the ground, took a bigger looking piece of it and approached Toby.
Seeing Jeff approaching him with the sharp piece of glass, Toby panicked, he rolled over, and pushed himself up with his left hand.
His leg was still broken, so he couldn't stand up, but he still tried to retreat.
Just as he thought it would be game over for him, Jeff actually made a cut in his palm and spoke:
"Straw has no nutrition, here, drink some of my blood and you might recover even faster!"
Drip!——
Toby who had his mouth open to ask about Jeff's purpose, suddenly felt a sweet metallic taste in his mouth.
Whoosh——
A familiar feeling came into Jeff's body.
If the warmth he had felt earlier was a trickle, the warmth that surged into his body at that moment was that of a stream.
Kacha!——
Kacha——
The ribs that were broken and misplaced silently went back to their positions, started to vaguely connect, and the speed at which his organs healed rapidly increased.
Toby was stunned for a while, then he looked relieved.
At this moment, Jeff saw the minimized status window flashing.
He didn't know what it meant, but to be on the safe side, he decided to ignore it for a while, lest Toby notice any abnormalities.
In a few moments after making the cut, it had actually started to scab over and the blood had stopped leaking.
Although Jeff was not completely healed, he could feel that the strength in his body was rapidly increasing.
'Is this the use of keywords?'
'So if I continue to use my keywords correctly, will my strength continue to grow?'
Jeff felt excited and was about to continue feeding Toby his blood.
"Stop! I am not a cannibal! Why don't you go and get me real food instead?"
'Tsk, can't you let me brush up on my attributes a bit more?'
Jeff pretended to be embarrassed, and shyly scratched his cheek.
"Ah, sorry, I just got too carried away by my concer… *Cough* !"
As he spoke, he coughed up the last of the blood that had come into his lungs before they were fully healed.
Seeing that Jeff seemed to still me seriously injured, Toby let out a secret sigh of relief.
"Ok, tell me about the layout of this place and I will quickly go get you some food."