AWACS - An American With A Chinese System
Copyright© 2025 by PT Brainum
Chapter 11
I still had four Active Skills and one Passive Skill available, But I needed to see if there were any that generated points. I opened it up and asked Scribe to show me any that gave points. One Blinked.
Pick a New Active Skill:
~破釜沉舟 break pots, sink boats (0/4)
~废寝忘食 waste sleep forget food (0/5)
~自由自在 naturally you naturally free (0/1)
~罄竹难书 to use up bamboo disaster document (0/1)
~省吃俭用 economize carefully eat frugally (0/4)
I picked the one that Scribe confirmed would generate points.
破釜沉舟 break pots, sink boats (1/4)
- when odds are less than 50%, stake everything on victory, if you win: receive 10 times karmic points wagered, if you lose: karmic points wagered are lost, wagers all points from Positive, Neutral and Negative Bank, limited to once per week
I certainly wasn’t expecting that, but it makes sense that it was an active skill, not a passive skill. I could imagine that this could scale easily to really awesome if it was upgraded. I pulled the trigger to see another set of new active skills.
Pick a New Active Skill:
~废寝忘食 waste sleep forget food (0/5)
~画蛇添足 draw snake add feet (0/4)
~耳目一新 sights and sounds one new (0/1)
~所向无前 anyplace any direction only forward (0/4)
~自相矛盾 self correlation spear shield (0/3)
Scribe confirmed that there were no point generating skills, and that the top two were both the super power category. The five level skill was really tempting, but I had three upgrades, and I needed to see if they could get me more points.
Upgradeable Passive Skills:
~一狐之腋 one foxes armpit (2/5)
~世外桃源 life outside peach blossoms (1/4)
~莫名其妙 unable speak inner subtleties (1/3)
~宾至如归 guest arrive as if to return (1/4)
~高山流水 Alpine mountains, flowing water (1/4)
~名胜古迹 scenic spot historic site (1/4)
~眼中之钉 nail in the eye (1/4)
~贪天之功 covet heavens achievements (1/4)
~P一箭双雕 one arrow, two vultures (1/4)
Upgradable Active Skills:
~闻鸡起舞 hear chicken get up to dance (1/2)
~卧虎藏龙 crouching tiger, hidden dragon (1/4)
~丢三落四 drops threes and leaves out fours (1/4)
~人山人海 people mountain people sea (1/3)
~破釜沉舟 break pots, sink boats (1/4)
I asked Scribe to show only those that would generate more pints if they were upgraded. He shortened the list.
Upgradeable Passive Skills:
~高山流水 Alpine mountains, flowing water (1/4)
~名胜古迹 scenic spot historic site (1/4)
~眼中之钉 nail in the eye (1/4)
~贪天之功 covet heavens achievements (1/4)
~P一箭双雕 one arrow, two vultures (1/4)
Upgradable Active Skills:
~破釜沉舟 break pots, sink boats (1/4)
I asked Scribe which skills would only produce points after fully upgrading. Alpine mountains was the only one that blinked, so I eliminated it.
I asked Scribe which would make me the most points if fully upgraded, and break pots blinked. Then I asked him which one would benefit me the most, and nail in the eye blinked. That was surprising. I asked him which one would benefit me the most every single day if it was fully upgraded, and one arrow blinked.
So that narrowed my list down quite a bit. Really, I had the best advice from Scribe. I went with fully upgrading nail in the eye. He hadn’t turned me wrong yet.
眼中之钉 nail in the eye (4/4)
- Willie Stokes, get paid 10% of the negative karmic points generated by people who have met you and dislike you, no distance limit
- Nelson Fox, get paid 50% of the negative karma generated by people who have met you and hate you, no distance limit
- Kate Macy, get paid 100% of the negative karma generated by people who have met you and wish you were dead, no distance limit
- Vincent Vega, get paid all of the karma points, negative and positive, of someone who actually plans to kill you, know who they are, and what the plan is, no distance limit, do not need to have met them
I admit, knowing that Scribe thought this one would benefit me the most, really made me uncomfortable. My Negative Points started ticking up at an alarming rate, 100 to 400 points every few minutes. At least I didn’t have a premonition of someone trying to kill me. I recognized the last name, but had to google the others. Despite the seriousness of the Skill, the list of movie characters made me chuckle.
As I examined the skill, it looked like they didn’t stack, which meant that a potential enemy would only fall in one category or another, instead of stacking and getting multiple points from each level of the skill. Then again, I might be reading it wrong. I couldn’t tell as there was no breakdown.
Suddenly I got a massive influx of points, I’m not sure how I knew it was coming from covets heavens achievements. I looked at the time and realized that it was probably the guys taking credit for getting the significant others in their lives flowers. It was nine thousand points a pop, which was ten times what I had scored from the guys who got the flowers to give to others.
0/60,000 (42) Level
169,079/600,000 positive points
16,033 neutral points
5,800/600,000 negative points
11 Active Skills
14/15 Passive Skills
47,605 Bonus Neutral Points
1 Free Spin
I had one last Passive Skill or upgrade from the jump to level 42. I checked to see if the list had changed, and it had, significantly:
Pick a New Passive Skill:
~雪上加霜 add frost on top of snow (0/2)
~班门弄斧 Ban’s door play with hatchet (0/4)
~拔苗助长 pull seedlings make grow (0/4)
~雷声大, 雨点小 thunder huge raindrop small (0/4)
~箭在弦上, 不得不发 arrow in the middle of the bow must be used (0/4)
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