Deduct 1 for merit. I am really not a child of luck.

Chapter 2: Deduct 1 to gain merit!
Merit wooden fish?

What the hell is this?

Lin Mo was stunned for a moment, then reacted and took a breath:
"Hiss~! Could it be that the golden finger arrived eighteen years late?"

In his field of vision, a picture similar to a holographic projection appeared.

There is nothing in the picture except a small but simple wooden fish.

Is this a wooden fish?

What is the use?

Lin Mo was puzzled and tried to reach out his hand to touch the wooden fish on the projection. Then, when his finger just touched the wooden fish, a prompt appeared on the screen:
[Should I deduct 1 to strike the wooden fish? ]

Ah this...

Really praying to Buddha online! ?

The next second, his fingers bent slightly, then straightened - deduction 1.

"Boom!"

A clear and pleasant knocking sound came into my ears, and then the message on the interface was refreshed again:
[Ding! Merit +1]

As the prompt floated up, Lin Mo felt warm all over, and all his pores seemed to open up.

"Huhu~!"

The summer night breeze blew across his face, and a few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Although there didn't seem to be many changes in his body, his head, which had been numb from the hard practice in the evening self-study class, instantly regained a bit of clarity.

Wow, can deducting 1 really increase merit?
Lin Mo was a little surprised.

You should know that the so-called "merit" not only exists in reality in "After the Chaos", but is also the "top resource" that the ancient powerful people compete for.

Normally, only some great practitioners who have accumulated virtue and done good deeds can obtain the "scarce resource" of merit.

The legendary Supreme Goddess was one who created human beings and accumulated virtues, and eventually became a saint through her merits and achieved the position of one of the Six Saints in the Heavens.

"So I can also become a saint through merit?"

When Lin Mo thought of this possibility, his heart suddenly became hot.

Then, he stretched out his finger again and clicked the small wooden fish on the interface.

[Ding! Cooling countdown: 29, 28, 27...]

The prompt is refreshed.

Well, there is also cooling...

Lin Mo touched his chin. Including the time he spent thinking just now, the cooling time was about 1 minute?

Will the cooldown times stack?
He stared at the countdown on the interface intently, and at the last second of the countdown, he reached out and tapped the wooden fish twice quickly.

[Ding! Merit +1]

[Ding! Cooling time: 59, 58, 57...]

One minute.

Moreover, the cooling time does not stack up.

Lin Mo tried it a few more times and found that the cooling time did not change each time.

This confirms with absolute certainty that the cooldown time is a constant 1 minute.

By this calculation, it can be knocked 60 times in an hour, and 1440 times in a day.

Even if we exclude eating, sleeping, and all unavoidable factors, we can still accumulate about 1000 merit points!
Lin Mo said "Wuhu" and then lowered his head to ponder.

Then the question comes-

How many merit points are needed to become a saint?
Lin Mo thought for a long time but couldn't come up with an answer.

The main reason is the lack of reference objects. We can’t go to the Nuwa Temple to ask the Saint Goddess, right?
He thought as he walked towards home.

Of course, the finger on the interface did not stop the "click 1" action.

【merit +1】

【merit +1】

【…】

Along the way, prompts are constantly refreshed on the interface.

By the time he returned home, the merit points on his panel had accumulated to 29 points.

Lin Mo is a day student. His parents rented a small room for him in the city, which is only about half an hour away from Nanshan No. 4 Middle School.

The distance is too close for a car ride, but too far for a walk. The main reason I want this place is that the rent is cheap.

When he was about to reach the community, he suddenly glanced at the time on his phone.

"It's 11 o'clock!"

He suddenly woke up from the interface and looked up at the gate of the community.

The doorman, Uncle Qin, had clearly seen him, but he still resolutely chose to close the door and locked it. "Hehe."

Lin Mo has become accustomed to this situation.

He lives in an old residential complex that doesn’t even have a smart access control system.

Therefore, the gatekeeper used his own schedule as an excuse to privately set a "curfew" at 11 o'clock in the evening for the entire community.

Anyone entering the community after this time must pay one dollar.

The excuse was to compensate him for his "mental loss".

Lin Mo pursed his lips, took a few quick steps skillfully, and when he reached the gate of the community, he first glanced at the old man who pretended to walk into the guard room but had not yet started to rest.

"Uncle Qin, suck it!"

He took out a coin, stretched his hand through the gap in the door and shook it as if he was teasing a dog.

Sure enough, a moment later, Uncle Qin walked out of the guard room with a gloomy face.

"Don't come back so late next time!"

Uncle Qin snatched the coin away unhappily, but still opened the lock skillfully.

And the young couple behind him who wanted to take the opportunity to sneak in were once again stopped outside the door by his quick eyes and hands.

"What are you doing? Pay the money! One dollar per person!"

Your uncle is your uncle. Even at 11 o'clock in the evening, his eyesight is still so good that he will not let any fish slip through the net.

"You've already gotten up, why do we have to pay?"

The boy with yellow hair was obviously not convinced and tried to use his flexible body to get past the old man and squeeze into the gate.

However, he didn't expect that he was stuck outside by Lin Mo who had arrived one step ahead.

Huangmao looked at Lin Mo in some surprise.

The latter also glanced over at the same time. A mere yellow-haired boy wants to get something for free from me?
Before the yellow-haired man could react, the old man seized the opportunity, put his hands on his waist, stood across the gate, held his head high and started to confront the enemy, as if to say, "My rules are the rules."

The old man looked at him with gratitude.

Lin Mo chuckled in his heart, keeping his achievements and fame to himself.

Under normal circumstances, he would definitely stop to eat the melon.

But now merit is the most important thing. He was too lazy to listen to the battle between the young couple and the old man. He walked straight through the atrium of the community and ran quickly towards the old building on the right.

Stamp your feet to control the lights, go upstairs to open the door...

All in one go.

The whole process took less than thirty seconds, just in time for the last second of the countdown on the interface to end, and 1 was deducted again.

【merit +1】

The message prompt is refreshed.

perfect!

Lin Mo raised the corner of his mouth. Although he didn't know what the merits specifically did, he just had to keep adding "+1".

The room we rented was a simple small studio. Although it was located in an old residential area, it had all the necessary appliances and furniture.

He quickly washed up and went to bed, and of course he did not forget to continue "deducting 1".

By the time he had cleaned up everything, the merit points on his interface had accumulated to 35 points.

then……

He began to stare at the merit value on the interface in a daze.

What on earth can this thing be used for?

Lin Mo rested his chin on his hand, lost in thought.

The main reason was that the issues involved in merit were too advanced, and a little Karami like him, who hadn't even completed the second level of Qi Refining, really had no idea what to do.

If merit can really be cultivated into holy fruit, then the merit value required must be huge, definitely not just the dozens of points on the panel.

"Good guy, now we have the golden finger, please give us an instruction manual at least!"

Lin Mo couldn't help but complain, then he opened his personal panel and found the new attribute column -

【merits】: 42
It seems that the Merit Wooden Fish and the practice system interface are connected...

He thought secretly in his heart, and then an idea flashed in his mind, and he controlled the merits on the interface and put them into the practice method [The 108th National Five Elements Qi Training Technique].

I only heard a clear reminder:
[Ding! You have invested 42 points of merit in the technique, technique experience +8.4 (42*20%)]

It really works!

Lin Mo's eyes lit up and he looked at the experience bar on the panel.

只见界面上炼气2层后面的数字直接从“249/300”跳到了“258/300”。

(End of this chapter)