Chapter 4 – Cat Dad’s Gacha Machine


    Munya!


    Nya!


    Mew!


    Because of Xiaomao’s loud voice, the cats in the house came to his room. They scratched the door, wanting to get in.


    Xiaomao opened the door to let them in.


    “Oh, hey, Mu-Nyang. Are you going to y with your sisters here, or are you here to y with me?”


    Munya


    The mama cat that Xiaomao had brought home several months ago gave birth to three healthy kittens.


    Mu-Nyang, Xiaomao’s lifelong partner in the previous life, was a bicolor cat with ck and white fur, looking like a cow. His iconic meowing voice “Mu-Nya” earned him the name.


    The sisters of Mu-Nyang were also cute. The white cat’s name was Nyanko, and she had a unique voice as well.


    As for thest orange cat, she was Mir. She kept mewing as if she was still a kitten even though she was already 5-month old.


    Xiaomaoy on the bed, and Mu-Nyang immediately jumped onto his chest. Mir struggled to climb the bed while Nyanko simply sat on top of Xiaomao’s face.


    “Nyanko, I can’t breathe.”


    “Nya.”


    Nyanko wagged her tail and pped Xiaomao’s head. She kneaded his mouth, but her nails were out.


    “OW! OW! Nyanko! That’s not how a massage work!”


    “Nya!”_.


    Xiaomao grabbed Nyanko and ced her on the bed. Then, he pointed his butt at her.


    Revenge!


    PUU


    Nyanko, Mu-Nyang, and Mir rushed to his butt and innocently sniffed it. Then, they retched and opened their mouths to breathe like dogs.


    Xiaomaoughed and carried them out of his room. However, the task was a bit difficult as the cats kepting back inside.


    He gave up and let the gang in.


    But as soon as Xiaomao closed the door, Mir scratched it and wanted out.


    Xiaomao shook his head andughed. He opened the door again and let her out, but she simply stared at the carpet outside and walked back into the room.


    “Haiz. My masters are not easy to please.”


    Seeing that the cats were messing with him as usual, Xiaomao stopped ying with them and turned to the game capsule.


    It was time to make his final decision. What should he do with the 417,000 tokens?


    Exchange them for 834,000 USD next year? Keep it for three years and convert it into 8.34 million?


    Invest everything in the game and be a GameFi pro-gamer?


    Or the neutral way, invest only half of the tokens in the game and sell the other half when the timees?


    Xiaomao took several deep breaths and meditated for a minute. When the meditation was done, he pped his face twice.


    Amitabha All In!


    Xiaomao created a game ount on the website and transfer everything to his game ount.


    Just like that, 417,000 PACT was transferred to the game.


    Xiaomao closed hisptop and hopped into the gaming capsule. He put the VR helmet on and closed the capsule hatch.


    But after Xiaomao closed the ss hatch, he found Mu-Nyang snuggling on top of his chest, purring and staring at his face.


    “Mu-Nyang, I’m about to y a game. You can’t be here.”


    “Munya.”


    “Do you want to y with me?”


    “Munya.”


    “Sorry, but you can’t.”


    “Munya!”


    Mu-Nyang kneaded Xiaomao’s chest and closed his eyes. He wanted to sleep like that.


    Xiaomao frowned. He wondered if ying the game like this would affect his cat or his data.


    Thinking of his token investment, Xiaomao couldn’t risk it. He opened the hatch and tossed Mu-Nyang out.


    Mu-Nyang’s ck and white furs got stuck on his shirt, but Xiaomao didn’t care. He closed the hatch and made sure that no cat was in his gaming capsule.


    Once everything was secured, Xiaomao pressed the button on his Helmet, and the entire capsule lit up.


    Then, Xiaomao’s consciousness sank into the VR world.


    …


    Ding


    <Wee to Pangu Online 2, Mr. Miao Xiaomao.>


    Xiaomao found himself floating in the void, and the character creation menu appeared.


    This game had one of Ponzi Scheme GameFi’s mechanics. Even though a yer had purchased a VR game capsule, they could not y the game right away.


    NFT stood for non-fungible token. In this game, it was a token in the form of a game character, which came with a unique job, race, appearance, and abilities.


    To y this game, a yer needed an NFT character, which came from two sources. A yer could either mint a new NFT avatar by rolling a gacha or purchase one from the game’s marketce.


    In the game marketce, millions of level-1 NFT characters were on sale. Second-handed high-leveled characters were listed as well.


    Some came with pre-existing skills, traits, and perks, depending on their rarity.


    The rarity of NFT characters was categorized in tiers – Common, Umon, Rare, Super Rare, Ultra-Rare, and Legendary.


    As for the gacha, a yer had many choices to create their character.


    Xiaomao gazed at the gacha shop. There were six gacha machines that he could y with to create a new NFT character.


    The first one was the cheapest. It cost only one PACT to generate a basic human character with a random basic job with no rare perk. A yer could be a warrior, a mage, or an archer. However, these jobs couldn’t be evolved in thete game. It was suitable for crypto farmers, who made a living by selling farmed tokens from this game.


    The second gacha machine was a standard gacha, but the price was reasonable as one roll cost only ten PACTs. In this gacha machine, a yer had a low chance of acquiring a super rare job, such as Archmage, Temr Knight, or Saint, to start out as their first ss job. However, the race was fixed to the human race.


    The third machine was for advanced yers. This gacha only contained fragments of NFT, such as skills, races, and jobs. Bybining two fragments of skills, a fragment of race, and a fragment of job, a yer could create a unique NFT character.


    Unfortunately, this machine could be expensive. Although it cost only five PACTs to roll once, it required luck and investment before a yer could get their desired NFT character.


    The fourth machine was a standard premium gacha for P2W yers. It cost 100 PACT per roll, but the rewards that came out would always be a rare, super-rare, or ultra-rare NFT. Moreover, the race was random, and nobody could tell what woulde out as there were over a million possible NFT in this machine.


    The fifth one was seasonable gacha. Like every mobile gacha game, every month, the gamepany increased the gacha rate for a certain NFT character. No yer could getmon or umon NFT as the gacha guaranteed at least a rare NFT at the minimum. Moreover, there was a guarantee system to pity bad luck yers, who couldn’t get their hands on the ultra-rare NFT.


    This gacha was the most popr. Although it cost 200 PACTs per roll, many new and old yers came back to spend their money on this gacha to get an ultra-rare character for their ounts.


    Andstly, the sixth notorious money-sink gacha machine was what Xiaomao had been aiming for.


    Xiaomao remembered it well. In his previous life, every yer called it a honey trap for rookie yers.


    In this machine, 1,000mon, umon, rare, super rare, ultra-rare NFT characters, and random fragments were put inside. Each ount had one machine, and the gacha machine wasn’t shared with other yers.


    Once drawn or rolled, the number of gacha in the machine decreased. yers who yed this gacha machine were guaranteed to get every item or NFT that was shown in the list.


    yers could see what the rewards were, and they had the freedom to renew the rewards if they didn’t like them. However, it cost PACT to do so.


    Xiaomao gazed at the list of NFT in the sixth gacha machine. The rate wasn’t as kind as it seemed.


    80% wasmon NFTs.


    10% was umon.


    7% was rare.


    2.5% was super rare.


    And the 0.5% was ultra-rare.


    In short, among the 1,000 gacha balls, 5 of them were ultra-rare items.


    Xiaomao gazed at the price. It cost 300 PACT per roll!


    It was expensive! To empty this gacha machine, Xiaomao needed to spend 300,000 PACTs!


    Xiaomao gulped as he nced at the small image, which disyed the monthly legendary add-on fragment.


    Add-on fragments were something that every yer desired. It could be equipped to an NFT character to increase its growth rate, EXP bonus, or status points.


    This was the attraction of this machine. Legendary NFTs and legendary fragments only appeared in this gacha!


    Currently, the monthly fragment was a perk by the name [Protein from Fish]. The equipped NFT character could acquire permanent status points by consuming rare fishes and fish monsters in the game.


    Xiaomao nodded in satisfaction. This fragment was what he had been waiting for as it synergized with the ss and race that he had desired.


    He checked the machine’s ultra-rare items next.


    “High-Elf Druid, High-Human fragment, War Lord Fragment, Angel yer, Annihtor Fragment… Welp, all trash. Refresh.”


    Xiaomao pressed the gacha reset button to renew the ultra-rare item list. It only cost 100 PACT per use.


    Even though he used the refresh button, he hadn’t acquired any NFT yet. It only showed possible rewards in the machine.


    “Man-Eater Fragment, Sea Serpent Race Fragment, Arachne Fragment… Nope. Next!”


    “Stripper Swordsman Job Fragment? Eh, no.”


    “Dual Cultivator Job Fragment?! Nope! Women are trouble, so NOPE!”


    “Devil Race? Eh, tempting, but meh. I have a better race in mind.”


    Xiaomao kept refreshing as he only waited for a certain ultra-rare NFT to appear in the sixth machine.


    After refreshing 200 times, what Xiaomao had been waiting for hade out.


    It was a shiny NFT character of a cute half-cat half-octopus.


    …


    Rarity: Ultra-Rare


    Race: Catopus (Evolvable)


    Job: vemaster (Evolvable)


    Unique Skills: Envement, ve Training


    Racial Skills: Fish Gourmet, Catnap