There is no guarantee for the lottery? So what?

After leaving Gou Yigou there, Gou Dehao took a swig from his wine pot and went upstairs to the second floor.

Gou Yigou said, "Don't mind him, that's just how my grandpa is. He's practically bald and still doesn't know how to take it easy."

"He seems like a nice grandpa," Tan Zuoyin said, feeling that their grandfather-grandson relationship was pretty good.

Gou Yigou knew his grandpa must have gotten someone to call him a good grandpa again:

"You're all being fooled by him. Good grandpa? More like Grandpa Gou."

Qi Jing asked, "Speaking of which, why did your grandpa give you that name?"

Gou Yigou's eyes flashed with a hint of sadness upon hearing this, but it quickly disappeared:

"My dad died in battle guarding the interdimensional gate when I was six years old. Because his name was Gou Tianchen, my grandpa felt that his name was too good, and my dad couldn't handle it. So, he wrote my nickname 'Yigou' on my ID card and made it my official name.

Actually, my original name was Junxi, but now I think Yigou sounds better."

They hadn't expected such a past.

Qi Jing immediately apologized, "I'm sorry, I brought up something sad."

Gou Yigou waved his hand, "It's okay, it's been many years. I've long forgotten."

Saying 'six years old' so readily didn't seem like he'd forgotten at all.

Qi Jing quickly changed the subject, saying:

"Why don't you give us a tour of this Synthesis Hall?"

"Sure."

Gou Yigou said:

"Just call me Yigou. I'll show you the facilities here."

Gou Yigou led Qi Jing and Tan Zuoyin towards the side door.

"You've all seen the synthesis platform in the middle, right? That one's public. Anything you put on it can be seen by others. Sometimes people even open bets on it. My grandpa has made a lot of money off of that."

Oh, so there must be private ones.

They walked to the device at the side door.

This device looked like a large parcel pickup scanner, with a base five meters wide and a display screen on top.

Qi Jing remembered that the burly man called 'Heavenly God Descending Cow Hercules' had placed the stick he won from the bet on it, and then he knew the stick's effects.

Because the device's display screen faced away from the crowd, only this side could see the detailed information. Otherwise, with Qi Jing's eyesight, he could have seen the contents of the display screen even if he was standing at the entrance.

"Identification Machine?"

Qi Jing guessed.

With things like synthesis platforms and teleportation gates, it was normal to have an identification machine.

"Yeah, that's right, it's an identification machine. Grandpa said it was installed just a month ago; we didn't have it before."

It really was an identification machine!

Seniors, what exactly did you do to this other world?

How can it have everything?

In novels, the humans facing interdimensional invasions never have such good treatment, with teleportation gates and synthesis platforms.

In any other novel, these are abilities that only the protagonist would have!

How did they just create them here!

After a moment of contemplation, Qi Jing looked at the identification machine again.

Tan Zuoyin said to Qi Jing, "Want to try it out?"

Qi Jing put his anti-glare sunglasses on it.

The screen displayed:

Style: Sunglasses

Hardness: Excellent

Ability: Anti-glare (Extremely Strong)

Source Energy Content: 0

Curious, Qi Jing took a picture. He would definitely tell Yan Cheng and the other two about the good things in the other world when he got back.

That would make them jealous.

Thinking of this, Qi Jing couldn't help but smile.

He then took out Tan Zuoyin's hamster plush toy and put it on.

Style: Hamster

Hardness: Soft

Ability: None

Source Energy Content: 0

Hehe, this is fun.

"Let me show you this!"

Gou Yigou took out a blue-purple dagger and put it on.

That color, it must have been synthesized.

Style: Short Dagger

Hardness: Fine

Ability: Poison (Medium-High)

Source Energy Content: 1314

"How about it? This is my grandpa's back-to-school gift to me. Not bad, right?"

"Looks good. What level is that Source Energy Content?"

This was the first time Qi Jing had seen Source Energy Content expressed as a numerical value.

"This Source Energy Content value was also set a month ago. They defined the Source Energy contained in a standard Source Stone as ten thousand."

As he spoke, Gou Yigou took out a square blue stone from his pocket and placed it on the identification machine.

Style: Source Stone

Hardness: Brittle

Ability: Contains Source Energy

Source Energy Content: 10000

The one Xue Fu crushed during the first cultivation class was a Source Stone, but its Source Energy dissipated quickly after being crushed, and Qi Jing didn't absorb much.

"Each time you start the synthesis platform, you need a Source Stone. These things are so expensive, 500 points each."

Gou Yigou currently had less than 300 points, all earned from killing Armored Crabs after class these past two days.

His grandpa, Gou Dehao, said that boys should be raised frugally and girls should be raised lavishly, so he didn't give him much, only a dagger and three Source Stones as start-up funds for the start of school.

The main thing is that you don't even have a girl to raise!

Gou Yigou was very envious of his grandpa's magic bag, imagining himself dominating the world after getting it.

The reality was that he was still working hard to buy the pain-reducing arm badge for 500 points.

"Zuoyin, why don't we give it a try?"

Qi Jing's heart was itching. He couldn't gamble on the lottery, but gambling on synthesis should be okay.

"You only have a little over a thousand points left. You can only gamble twice, and besides, all your equipment is still at home," Tan Zuoyin said, not wanting to take the risk.

Regardless of how ugly the synthesized things were, she didn't want to waste things with that touching success rate.

"Points? We can get them by killing Armored Crabs."

Qi Jing felt that points were easy to obtain, and the miscellaneous items he drew were just collecting dust in the warehouse, so he might as well gamble on synthesis.

"Okay, we'll come back and try it when we get our stuff," Qi Jing had already decided, and Tan Zuoyin didn't need to object.

Gou Yigou said upon hearing this, "Looks like you have a lot of good things. Does anyone in your family work in the other world?"

Qi Jing shook his head, "No, no. No one in my family works in the other world."

"Oh. Do you want me to show you the private synthesis platforms on both sides? It seems like only one is being used right now. We can go visit the other one."

Gou Yigou didn't ask how Qi Jing's things came from, nor did he ask about their abilities.

Was this the upbringing of a third-generation Otherworlder?

He was much more reserved than the newcomers like them and that battle-crazy teacher.

"Is that synthesis platform the same as this one?"

"Yes."

"Then there's no need to look at it. What's the point of looking if they're the same? It's better to see how they gamble."

Just as they were talking, another woman stepped onto the synthesis platform.

She took out a fan and placed it in the middle, surrounded by various items, totaling more than ten.

"Actually, you don't need that many. My grandpa said it's best to put two on, as the probability of combining the two is higher. But putting more also has its benefits. If you succeed, you'll gain many characteristics.

High risk, high reward."

Gou Yigou explained to them.

That woman jumped off the platform and crushed a Source Stone on it.

A flash of white light passed, and the original fan was reduced to only two fan bones, looking like a pair of chopsticks.

"Sister Liu, it must have failed like this, right?" Another woman next to her said.

Sister Liu's heart sank when she saw only two fan bones left, but she still said hopefully:

"There's still hope. Identify it."

Seeing her holding the two chopsticks and coming over here, Qi Jing quickly moved aside.

She left here without saying a word after identifying it.

Although Qi Jing didn't see the identification result, judging from her expression, this batch must have been a bust.