[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky":3,"chapter-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-2":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Must Immediately Strike It Lucky",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2293774,4487,"Chapter 2: When Life Is Short Enough, Does Shortening Life Equal Extending It?","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-2",2,"\u003Cp>At three a.m., the alarm blared shrilly; after sleeping the best sleep since his transmigration, Feng Xue finally dragged himself out of bed, having lounged in it all day. He reactivated the over-the-shoulder view, confirmed the number above his head had indeed become four digits, and only then felt somewhat at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the surface, this world resembled the modern light-novel style common in Qianshi  web novels, with technological levels similar to those before his transmigration, yet it contained only four continents, renamed the Four Great Continents—almost as if the Xiyou universe had endured the End Dharma Era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the city where Feng Xue now stood was located on Yingzhou Island in the Eastern Victory Divine Continent, together with Penglai and Fanghu Islands forming the “Three Immortal Isles,” and legally belonging to the constitutional monarchy of the Great Tang, which controlled three-quarters of the Southern Contemplation Continent and one-third of the Eastern Victory Divine Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although online data suggested this world was merely a modern technological one, with only vague, Qianshi -like mythological legends and no trace of supernatural power, during the past half-month since his transmigration, Feng Xue had used his golden finger to uncover the horror hidden beneath its peaceful facade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment of transmigration, to verify the authenticity of his golden finger and to extend his own lifespan, his first destination was the hospital—and this revealed to him a certain understanding of his ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His golden finger actually consisted of two parts—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first part was unremarkable: he could see lifespans. Although this “seeing” defaulted to the person his gaze focused on, whenever he concentrated and formed the thought “I want to see lifespan,” he could clearly perceive the lifespan of anything within his field of vision—plants, trees, snakes, insects, rodents—even bacteria under a microscope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This observation could be triggered not only by direct sight, telescopes, or mirrors, but also by video recordings and even photographs—he discovered this when he saw a lifespan number on a pixelated patient photo on the hospital’s medical records wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Notably, the lifespan observed through photographs, videos, or other media was not the time point recorded by the medium, but the exact moment of observation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under normal circumstances, the lifespan he saw was not absolute; at the hospital, he had witnessed numbers plummet due to deteriorating conditions, and others slowly increase after surgery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As to why “normal circumstances” must be mentioned, it is because we must now address the second part of his golden finger—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, the over-the-shoulder view, discovered shortly after his transmigration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The origin point of this view could not extend beyond a two-meter radius around himself; aside from letting him peek at others’ tiles while playing mahjong, it seemed to have no special function—but through experimentation, Feng Xue discovered that the view itself was merely incidental; its true core ability was the “lock.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the over-the-shoulder view, apart from seeing the back of his own head, it was indistinguishable from normal vision—but when Feng Xue formed the thought “observe lifespan,” a golden 【lock】 icon appeared before the lifespan number he saw through this view. With thought alone, he could toggle the icon between locked and unlocked states; when locked, the target’s lifespan would not increase or decrease due to any external influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, Feng Xue once locked the lifespan of an ant with only three days left; afterward, whether he burned it with a lighter, poured boiling water on it, or crushed it with his fingers, it did not die, nor did its lifespan decrease—yet normal time passage still reduced the number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, if directly thrown into fire, the ant remained unharmed; but if only a leg or half its body was burned by a heat source like incense, it could be done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, once lifespan is locked, it is immune to illness or injury—but non-fatal injuries can still occur; only injuries that would inevitably cause death are exempted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After testing, Feng Xue found he could lock the lifespan of only one target at a time, and this locking action required direct observation of the target’s physical body through the over-the-shoulder view—he could not use photographs, videos, or telescopes as he did for observing lifespans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under unobstructed conditions, Feng Xue’s operational limit was about five hundred meters, but in practice, considering all variables, he could reliably ensure precision within a sixty-meter range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this ability seemed highly playable and full of potential, it had no positive effect on Feng Xue’s own lifespan; after a full-body checkup confirmed his body was perfectly healthy with no lifespan-affecting issues, Feng Xue could only focus his attention on others’ lifespans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His idea was simple: whether cultivation, superpowers, or anything else—if supernatural forces affected lifespan, those who possessed them would inevitably use them. By finding individuals whose lifespans changed unnaturally or were far longer than normal, he might uncover clues to extending life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this led him to notice some chilling details—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, occasionally on streets outside the hospital, scattered banknotes and coins could be found; some people who picked them up saw their lifespan decrease by one or two days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, in short videos where livestreamers celebrated birthdays, some streamers’ lifespan numbers dropped by hundreds of days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If these were guaranteed, it would be one thing—but the real trouble was that these lifespan-reducing events seemed probabilistic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same act of picking up money: some people who turned it in to police or donated it to merit boxes still lost lifespan; others who spent it casually showed no change at all—utterly unpredictable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What sent chills down Feng Xue’s spine was his sudden realization of the origin of his own lifespan problem—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During his screenshot-style reconnaissance, he had found an email in the Qianshen ’s trash folder: a classic curse letter, claiming that if the reader did not forward it to x people, they would live only xx more days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, he had dismissed it as spam—but now, having witnessed how many things in this world genuinely reduced lifespan, he realized this might be the very cause of his own two-month remaining life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet if this world contained supernatural factors that reduced lifespan, it must also contain those that extended it. Guided by this thought, Feng Xue began visiting temples and Daoist shrines famed for their “miraculous efficacy,” burning incense and praying for added yang lifespan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He visited many temples and shrines, depleted most of the Qianshen ’s savings, yet the number above his head continued its steady decline. After abandoning this futile waste of time, Feng Xue began intensive online searching for individuals with abnormal lifespans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he saw him—the professional mahjong player who had, for the first time in history, achieved a pure Nine Lotus Lamp in an official match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3286. Before transmigration, Feng Xue would never have noticed anything unusual about this number—but in the few days since transmigration, through constant use of his golden finger and lifespan calculations, he had developed extreme sensitivity to numbers, especially regarding year-to-day conversions. He instantly recognized that this number was extremely close to 9 × 365 = 3285; combined with the keyword “Pure Nine Lotus Lamp,” it immediately triggered in his mind a legend about lifespan reduction—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Qianshi  online circles, there were frequent jokes about “fighting lifespan with cards,” and phrases like “fighting yang lifespan with mahjong” or “drawing yang lifespan with gacha” were common. Though most originated from mobile or tabletop games, the most widely circulated was the mahjong “Death Hand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hands with extremely low probability, such as Great Four Joys and Eighteen Arhats, or Pure Nine Lotus Lamp, were often called Death Hands; and because the Nine Lotus Lamp itself contained the number “nine,” it naturally gave rise to this saying—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Winning a standard Nine Lotus Lamp reduces lifespan by nine years; winning a Pure Nine Lotus Lamp leaves you with only nine years to live.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant this information surfaced in his mind, Feng Xue did not think of lifespan reduction—he thought instead of a brainwave he’d had while chatting before transmigration—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If winning a Pure Nine Lotus Lamp leaves you with only nine years, wouldn’t someone whose lifespan was already less than nine years actually gain lifespan by winning it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, this even spawned dark humor about high-age mahjong tournaments held every nine years—but as he pondered it deeper, compared to other high-risk, low-probability lifespan-gaining methods he’d discovered, mahjong seemed more plausible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he couldn’t be certain it would truly extend his life, he had at least found a do-or-die strategy; combined with the over-the-shoulder view’s ability to see all four players’ tiles, it gave him a strong advantage in mahjong. With the mindset of “I might as well try before my final leap—worst case, I’ll earn some funds,” he walked into a mahjong parlor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He played for over a dozen days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1477,"2026-06-20T04:32:49.208Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","29e551c07006de30c83a3d116c67a571a1e1e15435c755877da0590bd4b99b0c","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-3","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-1",365,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-cover.jpg"]