Although the atmosphere in the rehearsal room was weird, fortunately, the people of the Starry Sky Band finally determined that this guy named Lin Feng was likely a blockhead who only knew how to practice his instrument, with a strange brain circuit.
To this kind of "blockhead," things like stealing skills or being a commercial spy were obviously beyond his CPU processing range.
Thus, they no longer paid attention to Lin Feng in the corner and continued to throw themselves into the passionate rehearsal.
This exactly suited Lin Feng's intentions.
He quietly acted as a "Finger Yoga Master" in the corner for half an hour; under his unremitting efforts, the five fingers of his left hand assumed various twisted shapes that would make one gasp in amazement. If someone carefully observed his hand at this moment, I'm afraid they would suspect whether this person had no bones.
Finally, following two progress bars in his field of vision turning green at the same time—
[Daily Mission: Music Appreciation (Completed)]
[Path Mission: Finger Expansion Exercise (24h/24h, Completed)]
Lin Feng loosened those fingers that were already somewhat numb, stood up, nodded towards the Starry Sky Band who were drinking water, left behind a sentence "Excuse me," and then like an emotionless NPC, carried the guitar on his back and walked out of the room cleanly and neatly.
Leaving the four people inside the room looking at each other in dismay.
"This person... does he have a bit of a major illness?" that girl named Xu Zhixia could not help but roast.
Zhang Zhe however was lost in thought: "Maybe this is just an expert's quirk. Look at his fingers, just now they seemed to be moving continuously, could it be he was performing some mind practice that we also cannot understand?"
...
Returning to the dormitory, as soon as he pushed open the door, the originally familiar instant noodle smell was actually mixed with a trace of cloying air freshener smell.
This was not only unscientific, it was even a bit horrifying.
"Old Lin! Look quick, look quick!"
One could only see that roommate Cheng Yu, who usually liked picking his feet and playing games the most, at this moment was dressed in a human mold and dog appearance, hair combed oily and bright, holding a mobile phone and giggling at the mirror.
"What happened? Poisoned?" Lin Feng put the guitar down and climbed onto his own bunk.
"Go go go, do you know how to speak!" Cheng Yu turned around, shaking the phone screen with a face full of smugness, "Brother I have de-singled! Do you see? This is my girlfriend!"
On the screen was a girl with delicate and pretty looks, looking like she was also a new student.
Inside the dormitory, the other two single dogs immediately emitted a burst of wolf howls of envy, jealousy, and hate.
Lin Feng lay on the railing, looked down from a height, shook his head, his tone indifferent: "Useless."
"What is useless?" Cheng Yu paused.
"I say, a salted fish like you who only knows how to play games, even if you have a girlfriend you cannot hold onto her." Lin Feng mercilessly opened poison tongue mode, "And me, I am actively choosing not to find a girlfriend. This is a gap in realm."
Cheng Yu: "..."
The other two roommates: "..."
Although these words were very deserving of a beating, looking at Lin Feng's expression of dead fish eyes that seemed to have already seen through the red dust and were whole-heartedly set on the Dao, they surprisingly could not find words to refute for a moment. This kid recently indeed seemed like he had been hit by evil in practicing the guitar, that ruthlessness made people afraid.
Lin Feng did not pay attention to the clamor of that group of mortals below, pulled the bed curtain shut, and called out the system interface.
Just now he met new characters in the rehearsal room, according to convention, the interpersonal relationship list should have updated.
As expected.
[Zhang Zhe (Starry Sky Band Vocalist): 14/100 (Respect for a Liver Emperor)]
This kid although looked gaudy, these 14 points were given quite honestly, it seems he is a person who recognizes hard work.
[Xu Zhixia (Starry Sky Band Guitarist): 3/100 (Offended)]
This should be that girl who imagines too much. 3 points, basically already testing the edge of blacklisting. But Lin Feng didn't care, he didn't want to act out a palace drama with her anyway.
[Zhou Yuqing (Starry Sky Band Bassist): 7/100 (Passerby)]
[Tang Yuwei (Starry Sky Band Keyboardist): 8/100 (Passerby)]
Lin Feng stared at the last two names, suddenly realizing something.
"System, I remember I basically never asked their names, right? Even that male didn't introduce them. How do you know?"
[System: This system is dedicated to building a perfect superstar path for the host. Understanding basic information of potential competitors or partners is a basic function of the system.]
"Isn't this illegal collection of information?" Lin Feng roasted in his heart, "If this is caught by the internet police, both of us will have to go inside to step on sewing machines."
The system chose to be silent and pretend to be dead.
Lin Feng curled his lips, no longer entangled in this legal blind spot, and turned to look at today's heavy drama—mission rewards.
He first claimed the reward for [Finger Expansion Exercise].
[Congratulations on obtaining passive skill: Cartilage Finger (Bronze Level).]
[Cartilage Finger (Bronze Level): Your finger flexibility is greatly improved, can easily span 5 frets without effort.]
Good stuff. With this, in the future those chords with large spans will no longer be a broken-hand nightmare.
Next, was the lottery for the daily mission.
"Come on, thank you for your patronage." Lin Feng had already made psychological preparations, and skillfully started the roulette.
First shot.
[Thank you for your patronage.]
Second shot.
[Thank you for your patronage.]
...
Just as Lin Feng's eyes were gradually losing focus, preparing to close the interface and sleep, that turntable's pointer suddenly, at an extremely weird angle, slid past that large patch of gray area, and tremblingly stopped on that wisp of golden fine line that was almost invisible.
Golden light suddenly appeared!
This radiance was even a few degrees more dazzling than the previous [Absolute Score Eye]!
Lin Feng instantly sat up from the bed, almost hitting the ceiling.
It's out! The legendary pity mechanism!
[Congratulations host for obtaining rare item: Random Upgrade Ticket (Bronze -> Silver) x1.]
Lin Feng's breathing stalled.
Upgrade ticket? And Bronze to Silver?
In his current skill bar, besides the just obtained [Cartilage Finger], there were still the previous [String Pressing Mastery], [Absolute Score Eye], and that [Eternal Padlock] that locks favorability, all were Bronze rank.
If he could upgrade one of them to Silver...
Lin Feng's heart began to beat wildly. This was like directly reinforcing a small wooden sword from the novice village into a Dragon Slaying Blade.
"Calm, must be calm."
Lin Feng took a deep breath, looking at that ticket flickering with silver light.
"If it randomly upgrades the useless padlock, I might quit the game on the spot."
He put his palms together, devoutly prayed to an unknown god for three seconds, and then tremblingly chose to use it.
[Using Random Upgrade Ticket...]
[Target locked...]
[Congratulations! Skill [Eternal Padlock (Bronze)] upgraded successfully!]
[Obtained new skill: Eternal Padlock (Silver).]
Lin Feng hadn't had time to be happy yet, when the system's cold notification sound rang out again:
[Eternal Padlock (Silver) Effect Description: Effective favorability cap raised to 60.]
Lin Feng: "...Ha?"