How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

The next day, once morning starts, most people inside the school have woken up.

During the night, Alicia has been testing the system function I opened for her and already got used to most of it.

Once she woke up, I saw her open a screen and check her current status.

[Name: Alicia

Shelter: Small Dove Highschool No. 2

Population: 227

Points: 100

Sub shelters: 0]

After seeing the amount of population remains the same, Alicia requested. "System, check the locations of awakeners in the school ground."

I marked the location of those awakeners on her map and notified her of it.

[The location of awakeners has been marked in the map.]

She opened the map and saw eleven marks. Including herself, the location of all twelve awakeners in the school has been marked.

While watching the map, I saw her focus on one of the marks that is walking toward the direction of her classroom and almost arrived.

Just in time, a knocking can be heard from the door and the student council president's voice can be heard. "Miss Alicia, are you awake?"

"Yeah." Alicia replied while opening the door.

Hearing Alicia's answer, the student council president said. "Well, it's good that you haven't been zombified. For today's meeting, everyone is planning to continue to test your abilities."

Once he said that, the student council president brought Alicia along to a classroom where several familiar people had gathered. Along the way, the student council resident seems to be quite unfocused.

Sitting at one of the classroom chairs that has been arranged into a circle, Alicia began looking at the others and silently waited for the meeting to start.

When the people that I saw yesterday, and a few more other people I am not familiar with entered the classroom. Their meeting finally started.

Without much nonsense, they immediately talk about important things.

The first one to ask a question is Reynald, one of the people that joined Alicia to forage for resources yesterday. "Alicia, can you still create things today? Or do we need to hunt for some zombies?"

Alicia looked at the 100 points she had and replied. "No worries, there is still some power remaining that can be used to create some cheap things."

Edward suggested. "Then, how about you try to create those xianxia items mentioned before? To be honest, I am quite curious about it. It is immortal cultivation we're talking about. With some spells, we can easily cleanse the zombies or even return them into a human."

On the side, everyone's eyes also shone and looked at Alicia.

Under everyone's eyes, I saw her start secretly scrolling through the list of items before choosing the restoration pill, which is a pill I secretly scanned from Ren Qingchen and also once purchased by Su Ping when he fell from the cliff.

After Alicia spent 10 points to purchase the pill, I immediately created the pill at the table in front of her.

Everyone looked at the pill that suddenly appeared and started spreading medicinal aroma.

Edward curiously looked at the pill and asked "What is the effect of this pill?"

Alicia simply read the description of the medicine, "It can quickly heal injuries."

Upon hearing the effect, Edward said, "Should we eat it to test the effect?"

Berth who sat opposite of Edward quickly warned him. "We mustn't eat any random medicinal pill. After all, there might be some kind of side effect."

Everyone fell into a chaotic discussion until one of them said, "How about we use those rabbits that's kept in the school grounds?"

Others also chimed in,"I agree! Luckily, we haven't used those emergency rations!"

Everyone ignored the last sentence and asked a random student outside to bring a few rabbits.

While waiting, I saw Alicia seem to decide on something and said, "Actually, just the night before, I've awakened a few other abilities. One of them allows me to store items into storage space where time doesn't pass inside. There is also another storage space where time inside passes at twice the normal speed."

She also demonstrated her ability by storing a table located next to her.

When everyone saw it, they just stared at Alicia silently.

Edward asked in concern. "Alicia, don't you think you've awakened too many abilities? Did you eat some kind of weird food recently?"

Alicia just rolled her eyes at Edward's question and ignored him.

Due to Edward's stupid question, everyone begins to discuss how to utilize the storage ability. After all, both storage spaces sound extremely useful.

Finally, with a knock from the door, a student brought the rabbit they've been waiting for.

Reynald stood up and took the rabbit from that student by pulling at its neck ASN asked the surrounding people. "Does anyone here bring a weapon?"

Alicia wishes to lend her fire ax to him. But thinking that might be too much, she decided to lend her dagger instead.

Reynald feels the dagger at Alicia's hand to be quite unfamiliar and asks. "Is that dagger also something you created?"

"Mmhm." Alicia nodded as she handed the dagger to Reynald.

Reynald took the dagger and stabbed the rabbit before feeding the Restoration Pill Alicia bought from me.

With the stab wound on its body, everyone began to focus their sight on the rabbit.

When they saw the wound quickly turn into scab before disappearing, and even the bald patch of fur at its wound has been regrown. I heard one of them say, "Damn, the old talkative principal would've loved this magical hair growing pill."

Everyone ignored that word and waited for an hour while staring real hard at the rabbit. Once an hour passed by and they saw the rabbit is still extremely active, they finally accepted the existence of my super awesome pill.

Once the test is done, Reynald asked, "Alicia, do you have other abilities you've awakened? Can you just tell us all of the abilities you've awakened at once? This step by step reveal is quite bad for our heart and takes too much time."

Alicia nodded and opened her mouth. Yet, before she could answer Reynald's question, the student council president who've been silent the whole time suddenly asked, "Miss Alicia, the ability you awakened, is it actually a system?

"Huh?" Due to the sudden change in topic and the surprise it caused, Alicia's expression froze in surprise.

After the initial freeze, I saw Alicia's eyes start darting around. a habit I realized she has whenever she is thinking. At the same time, my mind went blank from the sudden surprise.

A few moments later, she answered the student council president. "That's right, it is indeed a system. It has just finished initializing last night, which allows me to access its whole function."

"Eh? Am I right?" This time, it is the student council president's turn to be shocked.

Alicia then asked "How do you guess that? I only plan to mention my ability as a system when I've collected enough points to create another system, because I don't think you guys will believe me readily. Furthermore, explaining this will be quite bothersome."

Student council president replied to Alicia's question with a bright red face from excitement. "I guessed it from your abilities. The power to kill zombies to create things doesn't sound much alone. But when it allows you to create xianxia items, have the ability to detect five kilometers around you, and the power to store things that you just mentioned. It all makes me recall those systems I've read about before. Those abilities sound like the system shop, system map, and the system storage that's usually seen."

Edward who sat next to the student council president also clapped his hand. "That's right, how come I never realized it. I've also seen you do a few secretive motions of scrolling an invisible screen before activating your ability. I thought it was simply your hand twitching, but now that I think of it, are you just scrolling through a list of items?"

Wha- what the heck??!!!! These guys are as scary as Ren Qingchen but for a whole other reason.

Don't you think connecting such a clue to a system is simply too wild? Does your parents know you have such a jumpy thought process?

At this time, Reynald asked. "What's this system the three of you keep mentioning?"

Berth on the side also questioned. " Is it some kind of new secret technology? I never knew Edward and Alicia are into such a thing? Guess I need to change my perception for both of you from a novel junkie to a tech geek too."

This!! This is how a normal NPC in those systems novels should've acted. Just which bat shit insane novels have a side character realizing the main character has a system.

I feel tired from retorting to all this mess, just let me rest for a damn minute. My nonexistent heart can't take the pressure from these two days with Alicia. Although she is smarter than Ren Qingquan, both she and the people around her seem to be especially good at giving me surprise.

The student council answered, "the systems that three of us talked about are something famous in the online novel world. There are varying types of systems from one that merges with the world and turns it into a game-like world, or one that's more personal and works as a cheat for the protagonists."

After that, the student council president goes on and on about systems.

Meanwhile, as someone who's also an online novel junkie of similar caliber to Ren Qingquan in my previous life, I've already know all of those and simply spent my attention on other things. Like sorting the influx of knowledge I constantly receive, or managing my business in the cultivation world.

The talk went on for five whole minutes before the student council president finally stopped.

Although I spent most of my attention on other things, from the attention I left on Alicia's surroundings, I saw Berth keep on side eyeing Alicia and Edward during the student council president's explanation of System. Her side eyes got especially intense when the student council president said the system comes from online novels.

Even without mind reading ability, I could guess what she is thinking right now from her expression. It should be something along the lines of 'As expected, they're still the novel junkie I know of' or 'Guess I don't need to add the technology geek title on them.'

Note:

Next week might have no Chappie. My writer block seems to be more serious than I initially thought.