Scanner System
Crossing into Parallel Worlds and Systems (Revised)

July 20, 2030, Capital of Indonesia, Jakarta City, South Jakarta.

In a cheap boarding house located in South Jakarta, a teenage boy awakens from his sleep in a daze. The teenager looked around with puzzled eyes as he saw that he had woken up in a strange room.

The teenager had a pretty handsome appearance, not because of the treatment but it was natural. His body is quite athletic with a short haircut without a model.

"Where is this?" Three words were said from the mouth of a teenage boy named Azam Pramudya.

Azam, who was thinking why he was in such an unfamiliar environment suddenly felt a severe pain in his head.

He held onto the head that was about to break with both hands and tried not to scream until a lot of sweat came out of his body.

A series of memories flooded Azam's head all of a sudden. It was only after half an hour of digesting the memories that appeared that Azam understood the situation that had befallen him.

"I crossed over into a parallel world?" It was a conclusion that could be drawn after digesting the memories that appeared earlier.

True, Azam is a resident of planet Earth who crossed into a parallel world after he slept late at night for doing super-lots and super-difficult college assignments.

His identity was a little different from his previous life. He used to be a semester-end student who was about to graduate while now he is a student who just entered university.

But in addition, all things in his life are exactly the same starting from friends, acquaintances, and others. Azam is an orphan who grew up in an orphanage in Jakarta.

But Azam actually had no friends or close acquaintances because in his past and present life, he was a loner.

Not that Azam was unwilling to socialize with others, but because he had to work part-time to make ends meet.

Azam was left at the bus terminal in a cardboard box by his parents. Because of this, Azam was not interested in finding out who his parents were.

"Hm, even though I can already accept the fact that I crossed into a parallel world, but how do I move?" Azam frowned deeply but he did not get the answer.

At this moment, the door of Azam's boarding house was violently knocked and a man's roar was heard. "Woy, Azam! If you don't pay the rent, then get out of here!"

Azam recognized the owner of the voice, he was a middle-aged man with a distended stomach who was the owner of this cheap boarding house. Azam owes 2 months rent because he only works part-time.

"Damn, just crossed over into a parallel world but I'm being chased for rent?" Azam breathed a long breath because he did not know what to do with the current situation.

He got out of bed and walked forward to open the door. As the door opened, an ugly man's face appeared with a lot of pimples and a mole on his blabbering cheek.

"Azam, I'll give you three days. If you don't pay the rent, then pack your things and leave" said the hostess angrily.

Azam smiled awkwardly and could only nod his head. He was fed up with the face of the hostess but wanted to how else because the rent here was cheap enough for him.

The reason he could not pay the rent was because the money was borrowed by his high school friend one month ago but until now still has not been returned which makes Azam's condition as it is now.

"Damn it, if I meet the boy, I'll beat him up," thought Azam angrily because his high school friends who always play together even deceive him and do not pay debts.

"Yes, thank you, sir." Azam forced his smile for the hostess to leave immediately because his roar was quite disturbing.

"Huh, I hope there's a miracle so you can pay the rent." The hostess snorted and said in a cold tone.

"Haha." Azam just laughed awkwardly in response to the words of the hostess.

After seeing the hostess leave, Azam closed the door and lay down on his bed. Now he was dizzy thinking about how to earn money quickly.

Maybe because in his previous life Azam did good, there was something that appeared in Azam's mind that made him very surprised and happy because he knew what it was.

[Detects any foreign desires.... Trying to tie... Binding succeeded... Hello, Host, I am a Scanner System that can scan the surrounding environment.]

Hearing the voice in his mind, Azam who was stunned for a moment became very excited because he knew what the system was because he usually read online novels that were in the NovelToon application.

[Host not to worry, the System has intelligence, think of it like artificial intelligence that is more sophisticated than that in this era.]

[So, my function is twofold. First is the scan, the Host can scan anything the Host wants, but there are still limitations. So the Host has to level up the System in order to find what the Host wants.]

Azam nodded quickly like a woodpecker, he understood the System's explanation of the System's first function of scanning what he wanted, but this had its limits.

[Then yangbkeuda function is gacha, Host must know gacha, right? The host can play the gacha containing the skill, this can be played once a week.]

"Alright, I've understood your two functions. Then, can you explain in more detail about the first function? Like what limits you mean," Azam told the System.

Then the System explains that the limits in the scanning function are distance and commands. For now, the System is still level one so the scanning distance is only up to 10 meters.

10 Meters is centered at the location of Azam and spread like a circle up to 10 meters whether it is to the side, down, or up.

Then the limit of the order, for now Azam can only scan cash only. So Azam could not give orders to search for goods or people.

Azam stroked his chin before saying, "I understand the limits. Then, how do I level up the System?"

[Using points, or if in the game, this can be called experience. This exp is generated from something scanned, random exp points corresponding to the value of something scanned.]

"Alright, the important thing is that I scan something that has a high value." Azam nodded in understanding with the System explanation, then he gave the order to scan the cash within 10 meters.

After the System's words were finished, a transparent light blue hologram screen appeared before Azam's eyes. The hologram featured something similar to a radar engine.

[Start scanning... Scanning complete... Please check.]

There are many red dots on the hologram screen. Azam was confused as to why there was so much money around him and immediately asked the System.

[That's because the host said to make money. So, all the houses there that are still inhabited of course have a lot of money. That is why please give a detailed order.]

Azam nodded in understanding. He immediately said, "Then, please look for ownerless money within a 10-meter radius."

[Start scanning... Scanner complete... Host, found ownerless money at a distance of 7 meters from the host boarding door.]

Azam was surprised and as big as the look shown by the System. Then all of a sudden the hologram screen displayed a game-like three-dimensional display.

On this hologram screen, the System guides its users to get to the selected destination. Azam saw the direction of the System and it turned out that the ownerless location was near the hostel.

Azam came out of the boarding house and followed the System's instructions. There is a garbage can whose garbage piles up to make residents restless when they see it.

Although reluctant, but Azam wanted to try the effectiveness of the System he got it. Azam took the contents of the trash cans seriously until he found a red rectangular paper with two people smiling on the paper.

"Meet!" Azam found the money sought by the System which turned out to be a hundred thousand rupiah worth of money.

After that Azam gave the System the same command, which was to scan the ownerless money within 10 meters of its location.

"Crazy, with this, I don't have to worry about any items being lost in the future, hahaha!" Azam laughed freely which made the neighbors who passed by consider him a madman.

"By the way, are you able to scan living things right?" ask Azam to the System.

[Can, but it needs a higher level.]

"I knew. That means you can not only scan inanimate objects, but everything that exists yes" Azam said while nodding his head.

[Accurate so.]