The Thirteen Trials of the Deceptive Monk

The little animal cubs ran off happily with a large amount of magic coins, while the beast witches silently looked up, their faces saying, "We were ready to fight to the death, why did Your Majesty surrender first?"

Lu Wenjun pointed behind her: "Hey, look up! Look at the indignant looks in your subordinates' eyes."

Pershka covered her face: "What can I do? Who has the heart to lay a hand on such a tiny thing?"

“In this way, the funds will be fully redistributed.” Ling Gong waved her fan. “Finally, it’s Wen Jun’s turn… If he has no money, he can’t collect magic coins, so he should hand over the chicken farm.”

"Reporting, Boss!" reported the elite seal from the Demon Fox Squad. "This is too difficult; we can't do it!"

The armed animals had surrounded the chicken farm, but hesitated to enter. The cyborg hero from another world stood guard at the entrance. His terrifying appearance and battle-hardened aura made the armed animals tremble!

“Because the nerd possesses enhanced combat abilities from his return from another world, ordinary coercion and violence are ineffective against him,” Hisamitsu ruled.

"I never thought that combat power setting would come in handy here..." Ling Gong waved her hand, "Then, let's use the begging tactic. Cub troops, enter the fray!"

A pitiful army of cubs, led by a little fox, a little seal, and a little rabbit, headed to the chicken farm... But then, a glint of cold light appeared behind the cyborg hero. He pulled out a pot and a spatula!

"Small is better, tender meat tastes better!" Lu Wenjun licked his lips with a sinister smile.

The little animal cubs' action team screamed and ran away! The hero from another world is not only a cyborg but also a primitive man. In front of the primitive man, animals, regardless of size, are all food, and he will eat them all!

“Sir, have you lost your compassion?” Pershka exclaimed.

"What a joke! I'm a professional chef. I'll cook as much as you want!" Lu Wenjun sneered. "Out of options, Miss Gangster? The next round will be my counterattack."

"I really feel sorry for you, Wenjun. You personally chose the highest difficulty level..." Linggong narrowed her eyes, "...and will experience the third unfortunate event!"

"what?!"

Miss Hisamitsu explained, "Reiyumi's yakuza organization has contracted the security rights of this city, and is conceptually considered to be a subordinate of the local guardian deity. The protection fee is also an offering to the deity, and refusing to pay the offering is considered disrespectful, which will naturally lead to misfortune."

"This game is absolutely awful!!!"

Former businessman Pershka and former nouveau riche Mingxiao squatted together under the bridge, staring at him coldly.

"Do it, Jiuguang."

“Send that idiot to us.”

"Then let's roll a blind die. Ah."

Hisamitsu threw the dice and remained silent for a long time. Lu Wenjun exclaimed in horror, "Is this another death sentence?! Am I really that unlucky?!"

"At that moment, thunder roared, a cold wind howled, and the building where Lü Wenjun was located shook violently. A strong localized earthquake occurred within a radius of 100 meters. Such a strange thing could happen in the world!"

"I'm too lazy to make this up! This lousy GM can't even be bothered to think of any logic and just starts spouting nonsense!" Lu Wenjun slammed his fist on the table. "I'm going to jump out of the nearest window, move along the building's surface, and then step on the large pieces of debris to jump continuously to a safe zone outside the earthquake zone!"

Miss Hisamitsu slammed her gavel: "The entire building collapsed with a roar, and the shattered glass turned into a deadly downpour! However, as mentioned above, the cyborg hero from another world escaped the encirclement with his extraordinary agility. The incident was thrilling but ultimately harmless, and the hero was unharmed!"

"……what?"

Ling Gong blinked: "Um, how is an unfortunate incident judged?"

"No need to pass the dice, success is assumed," Hisamitsu said.

"Why?!"

“Because it’s not difficult to escape from a collapsed building,” Lu Wenjun said. “Summoning to another world is something that can’t be helped, but ordinary events can be resolved on your own without relying on luck.”

Pershka glared at her: "You call this ordinary? What exactly is this 'ordinary' you're talking about?"

Mingxiao slammed his fist on the table: "Protest! GM went easy on us!"

“Protest invalid. I’ve already said I’m a professional gamer,” Hisamitsu retorted. “Let’s move on to the next round, Lü Wenjun’s move.”

Lu Wenjun rolled another 6, and this time he was finally about to enter a lucky event... However, at this moment, the leader of the fox demon group in the distance waved his fan.

“After the firm was established, I gained the ability to interfere with other people’s actions. I will spend 30% of the funds to have Wenjun re-evaluate the situation.”

"You despicable criminal gang!"

Lu Wenjun had no choice but to make another judgment, and the dice rolled a 5. Sure enough, another unfortunate event occurred! The dark spinning wheel descended once more, pointing towards a massive wave.

Hisamitsu flips through the book: "You encounter a once-in-a-century storm while you are out fishing, and in order to survive, you have to drift to a deserted island on a plank. The next two rounds are about wilderness survival."

"There's no need for that. I want to swim back to the city from the sea and continue my business."

Hisamitsu slammed the gavel again: "The hero from another world braved the raging storm, fighting against natural disasters with his bare hands! He swam back to the city on his own, and apart from catching a slight chill, he's fine. No need for further judgment, automatic success!"

“Very good!” Lü Wenjun clenched his fist.

Pershka loudly questioned, "What do you mean 'good'?! It's at least 5 kilometers from the shallow sea area to the city beach, right? How could a magician with only the Golden Egg spell possibly swim back in such a downpour?!"

Lu Wenjun looked completely bewildered: "What strange things are you talking about? This level of skill doesn't require magic at all."

“No, you’re the one who’s weird,” Mingxiao said.

Linggong pressed her temples, feeling her common sense cracking and breaking.

"Teacher from Udumbara Academy, this..."

“Really, absolutely, there’s no shady dealings,” Hisamitsu said. “To be honest, I also find it incredibly hard to explain, but that’s the truth.”

In the ensuing rounds, underworld boss Ling Gong used every means to plot against the otherworldly hero, Lü Wenjun. However, the otherworldly hero dodged through a stampede of horses! He avoided a demonic bear that had escaped from the zoo! With astonishing vigilance, he evaded a helicopter descending from the sky! Clinging to a broken suspension bridge, he swung like a pendulum to the other side of the cliff!

Thanks to Lü Wenjun's astonishingly detailed description, all events occurred automatically without needing to be played, and he avoided all misfortune in an incredible way!

"Ugh, why is this happening?! There's no reason why!"

The underworld boss, Miss Linggong, was practically in tears, clutching a cushion. After spending a fortune in two consecutive rounds, she had gained nothing while her opponent was thriving. Meanwhile, Lu Wenjun's chicken farm expanded smoothly, and with the boost from the Golden Egg Technique, his wealth was now comparable to Linggong's.

Lu Wenjun smoothed his hair and said smugly, "Give up. You can't beat me when it comes to survival."

Mingxiao, holding a rolled-up paper megaphone, egged them on: "Favoritism~ Miss Jiuguang is blatantly favoring that pretty boy~"

Pershka protested: "This cover-up is outrageous!"

Hisamitsu slammed his fist on the book, a defiant voice emanating from beneath his hood: "I don't care anymore! Since that's the case, I'll make an exception and let you see the GM's perspective!"

Lu Wenjun's character card changed upon hearing the sound.

[A tenacious survivor]

[The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs: Starts as a farmer, and your magic coins are multiplied by 1.2 at the end of each turn]

[Personal Trait: This card gains a +90 bonus when making any judgment involving survival.]

Mingxiao rubbed his eyes: "Huh? What does +90 correction mean?"

Hisamitsu said expressionlessly, "If you roll a hundred-sided die, you will only lose if the result is 10 or less."

"What the hell are these numbers?!"

Hisamitsu demonstrates the initial blind dice roll of the game:

Luck [1d100:8]

环境友好度【1d100:4】大失败；敌人强度【1d100:99】大成功

"His first unfortunate draw was an 8, triggering the roulette wheel. The second time, he suffered a major defeat while the enemy achieved a major success, triggering the otherworldly event. After that event, he became a cyborg, receiving an additional 10-point bonus to his combat power. This means..."

Survival bonus +100.

"There's no need to roll the dice anymore; all survival-related events are assumed to succeed," Hisamitsu concluded.

Linggong knelt down in despair: "Where exactly is the random element in this game...?"

“It’s all about the players’ strategy,” Pershka said, glancing sideways. “With so much money, wouldn’t it be a sure win to just compete fairly? Why insist on taking the wrong path and going down the dark path? This result is their own fault, isn’t it?”

Linggong listened intently: "Sorry, the eliminated player was too far away for me to hear clearly..."

"Calm down, little witch! Don't use magic outside the board!!"

Mingxiao quickly restrained Pershka, who was furious and brandished his claws. Lü Wenjun casually threw down the dice: "Still not willing to settle things fairly and squarely? Have you already decided that you're no match for me in a head-on fight?"

"Unexpectedly confident, Wenjun." Linggong narrowed her eyes. "No problem, let's begin the real business battle!"

Gangster boss Ling Gong and chicken farm owner Lü Wenjun engaged in a fierce battle of wits over the next four rounds. Ling Gong used his manpower to make huge profits in the city's real estate market, while Lü Wenjun, although he acquired shops to compete, could not withstand the powerful influence of the Demon Fox Group.

At the end of the 12th round, all the land around the chicken farm had been taken over by the Fox Demon Group, and the underworld boss, Ling Gong, personally delivered a demolition notice.

"Due to urban planning requirements, your Golden Egg Chicken Farm needs to be relocated. We will provide you with appropriate demolition compensation... What do you think?"

This is a ruthless measure to eliminate any potential threat! After losing their foundation, no matter how many magic coins they hold, it will be difficult to make a quick profit, and they will inevitably fall behind Ling Gong in the final reckoning.

The brave Lu Wenjun accepted the notice and said with a smile, "No problem, this piece of land is yours."

"What?"

However, the brave man readily agreed to the demolition! He left with his flock of chickens, settling into the small shop he had previously acquired. And then…

"I'm going to use the remaining capital to start a fried chicken shop!"

Using the capital and supply chain he accumulated while owning a chicken farm, he opened a citywide chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants. Thanks to the owner's exceptional culinary skills, the chain's sales were phenomenal, and for the first time, its revenue surpassed that of other chains!

Gangster boss Ling Gong gritted her teeth: "In that case, we'll rely on my armed pets to disrupt business—"

"Boss, it's impossible!" the armed seal shouted.

"What exactly can you do?!"

The armed animals' fighting spirit was surprisingly low, because almost all of them were loyal customers of Golden Egg Fried Chicken, and none of them wanted to ruin their lunch. Not only that, even the greedy old men had been won over by the fried chicken, and the fried chicken shop's expansion was given the green light!

吕文均与玲弓的魔币总量比例达到了1.2:1……然后是1.5:1！2:1！差距随着回合数的经过而突飞猛进！

"How could this be... I actually... I actually...!"

Lu Wenjun, the owner of the chain fried chicken restaurant, was the first to arrive at the finish line and pushed open the door of the Demon Fox Group.

“Violence and intrigue can easily create misfortune, but true victors rise to the top by providing happiness.” He placed a bag of fried chicken in front of the mob boss. “Don’t you want to try it? Happiness that I create myself, happiness that transcends magic.”

Ling Gong remained silent for a long time, then tore open the paper bag and grabbed a golden fried chicken leg.

She chewed fiercely, letting out an angry shout: "Good, delicious...!"

The battle ended amidst the aroma of fried chicken.

The magician who wins the brutal business competition is none other than the unfortunate cyborg hero, the Chicken King, who returned from another world!

"That concludes the game." Hisamitsu closed the book.

“I’ve been knocked down~” Ling Gong lay on the game table. “Teacher You Tan Hua Yuan is biased... I already have a super high correction of 90 and he added an extra 10 correction. Isn’t that completely blocking my way of playing?”

Miss Hisamitsu showed no mercy: "Who told you to play the unorthodox way? In the end, the nerd's characteristics are completely useless in normal matches. If you don't use this to counter it, you can sweep the whole field from the third round onwards. That kind of game is super boring."

Mingxiao scrolled through the game log: "Just as the little witch said, if we had honestly followed the business competition route, the little fox could have secured victory in the seventh round. But this is how it ended up."

"A mindless battle against evil," Pershka commented.

"No matter how I think about it, I feel that Wenjun went too far..." Linggong raised her hand, "Question: Why is there such a high survival bonus?"

"It's probably because I've been trained since I was a child," Lu Wenjun said casually. "I've practiced everything except summoning to another world, so I'm confident I won't be defeated."

The four women's expressions showed varying degrees of stiffness.

"Wait, wait a minute. Let me confirm." Linggong pressed her temples. "Does 'trained' mean... you've also tried swimming five kilometers in a storm in real life?"

"I actually swam nearly 10 kilometers that time, and I was almost exhausted."

Mingxiao's eyes widened: "Armed robbery?"

“That happened when I was in sixth grade…” Lu Wenjun recalled, “When I was walking home from school, someone suddenly pointed a gun at me, which startled me.”

Hisamitsu was shocked: "Jump out of the collapsing building?"

"I thought it was a simulation, but I never expected the building to actually collapse. It was so shocking," Lü Wenjun said with a nostalgic smile. "Thinking about it now, it's a memory worth cherishing..."

Ling Gong clutched her head: "How strange! There are so many strange things! How could the ancient kingdom's method of cultivating immortals be so terrifying!"

"Pershka knows this. I trained hard because I was in poor health when I was young."

Pershka cast a strange look at him.

"I had no idea about this. Who would have thought it would be this kind of training..."

"?"

"Don't give me that 'ordinary' look! That's what makes you so strange!!"

"Alright, alright, everyone already knows Wenjun is a weirdo, so there's nothing to be surprised about," Mingxiao said. "Anyway, I got hungry just looking at that. Let's have fried chicken tonight."

“I agree!” Hisamitsu said.

Lu Wenjun struggled to suppress the urge to respond, and in the blink of an eye met Ling Gong's deep gaze.

"I've been feeling something's off since just now... Wenjun, could it be that you're living with Mingxiao-senpai?"

Lü Wenjun coughed loudly: "How could that be? You've misunderstood, this is—"