Chapter 3

Fortunately, the first ship girl to arrive in this world was Shengli, who was a teacher at the academy, and not Quincy, who was dressed in blue representing wisdom. So, after a few minutes, Hugo figured out why this thing that seemed to be his golden finger was in his hands.

According to Shengli, every world has a crystal wall system, and countless crystal wall systems float in the vast void, forming a world of almost infinite size.

Hugo's somewhat fortunate or unfortunate transmigration originated from a collision of crystal wall systems. Although this collision was very slight, both sides still had some of their own things drift into the other's crystal wall system. According to the rules of crystal wall collisions, the items exchanged between the two crystal wall systems are equal.

"If I remember correctly, before A赖耶 and 盖亚 sent us to this world, they seemed to mention that our homeland's crystal wall system accidentally took away a sealed dark wizard from this world during a previous collision, something called 'Hei'—"

"Herpo?" Hugo asked, and saw the small ship girl nodding vigorously. "That's right, that's the pronunciation, it must be him. At the time, they said that because they took some very important and powerful things from this world, they simply bundled us, who are connected to you, and you together and sent us over. After all, you were already dead and wouldn't cause much trouble in the original world."

"Will that dark wizard cause trouble for my homeland?" Hugo said, sounding a bit worried. After all, according to the setting and some fan theories, Herpo was a very powerful and evil dark wizard. If he reached Hugo's homeland, he would certainly cause significant damage.

Especially since Herpo could make the two major figures in Hugo's world send hundreds of ship girls over, Hugo felt this already demonstrated the dark wizard's strength.

"Your understanding is a bit off, my admiral," Shengli said, spreading her hands. "This equality only refers to the items exchanged between the two crystal wall systems, not that every planet within the crystal wall systems must be equal."

"As for your concern about Herpo, it's not a problem because your homeland is a purely technological world. So in that world, he is just an old man with no magic. Not to mention, before we left, the last thing we heard from the two major figures was that because Herpo had lived for hundreds of years through magic, he immediately died when he arrived on Earth, a world with no extraordinary power, and even his bones turned to dust."

"That sounds like good news," Hugo let out a long breath. At this point, he finally had the mind to discuss the specifics of his golden finger with the small Shengli ship girl.

"If we look at it from the perspective of the series of novels from your previous life, your golden finger is clearly a summoning-type golden finger," Shengli said, changing her position and sitting on Hugo's bedside. As the representative of the ship girls sent by the two highest controllers of Hugo's homeland, she naturally received a lot of information about Hugo's world, so her words were easy for Hugo to understand.

"In other words, you can summon all the ship girls you had in the game from your previous life, and you can also summon other things from the game to strengthen yourself," Shengli said, tilting her head to look at Hugo. "I think this should help you establish yourself in this not-so-peaceful world."

"That sounds great," Hugo's eyebrows shot up, and he showed an excited expression, but quickly calmed down. "But it's not as simple as just summoning everything at once, right? After all, you just said the fundamental rule of the world is balance, and that would be too unbalanced."

"You're right, admiral," Shengli nodded and then explained the methods and limitations of using this golden finger, just as Hugo had thought. Even if this was a gift from his homeland, it wouldn't allow him to summon all the ship girls so easily while lying in bed. In summary, there were four rules.

First, the ship girls summoned must be those Hugo had obtained in the game before. Fortunately, he had played the game for several years, and all the ship girls were complete, so he wouldn't leave anyone out.

Second, to summon new ship girls, he must find their bond objects, which could be a place or an item. Fortunately, Shengli said she could detect the specific locations of these bond objects within a certain distance, so he wouldn't have to wander around aimlessly.

Third, and most importantly, to make ship girls from a completely different world appear in this world, a certain cost is required. According to Shengli, this cost is fate points, which are obtained by changing the original fate of this world.

Fourth, fate points can also be used to exchange for game avatars to strengthen oneself. Additionally, as an admiral, Hugo could use money to exchange for some special skills of the summoned ship girls.

"You currently have 11 fate points," Shengli said after explaining these four rules. "This is because of your identity and existence. After all, this world originally did not have a younger brother of the female protagonist in your story, so you gain one fate point for every year you survive in this world."

"To summon ship girls, different ship girls require different points, but the rule is simple. Small warship ship girls require one point, medium warship ship girls require three points, and large warship ship girls require five points."

"How can I get more fate points?" Hugo asked. If he relied solely on aging, he estimated he wouldn't be able to summon many ship girls before he died.

"Very simple, as long as you can change certain plots in your memory," Shengli jumped onto the blanket in front of Hugo and said, "Of course, not all plots can provide fate points, but I will remind you when you encounter events that can earn fate points."

After explaining everything, Hugo slowly calmed down from the excitement of obtaining his golden finger. Following Shengli's instructions, he used his will to absorb the phone, the medium, into his body, and then looked out the window at the scene outside, muttering, "The Grangers, the dentist, my sister, Hermione Granger... hey, what a magical day."

"Hugo, what are you mumbling about?" As soon as Hugo finished speaking, the curtain used to shield the patient was pulled aside, and his twin sister Hermione walked over. "Why are you sitting up? I remember the doctor told you to lie down and rest."

"It's nothing, I was just thinking about the questions from our interview," Hugo shrugged, then stretched his neck to look past Hermione's shoulder and asked, "Why are you here alone? Where are Dad and Mom?"