I snagged a bargain in a melodramatic novel and became incredibly wealthy!

Chapter 124 Trading

"The system disagrees and wants you to choose someone else," Zhang Ye said, shaking his head as he looked at Cai Yi.

Cai Yi was startled, feeling that Xu Qingming was truly amazing. He never expected that the system would actually refute him.

She looked at Zhang Ye and said firmly, "Tell it that you only want to take Xu Qingming with you."

Zhang Ye remained silent for a long time before slowly speaking: "The system said it can give you two virus vaccines, but you have to choose someone else."

Caiyi stretched out a pair of hands as white as jade, with ten long, slender, soft, and delicate fingers, just like works of art.

She curled the corners of her lips into a sly smile: "Ten, or forget it."

Zhang Ye couldn't help but wonder why this system was so afraid of Xu Qingming.

He could clearly sense the system's fear and rejection of Xu Qingming entering the game, even going so far as to stipulate that Xu Qingming was not allowed to participate in any game.

Zhang Ye is a well-known internet celebrity with exceptional negotiation skills.

He quickly replied: "Since you are so afraid of Xu Qingming, you must understand my intentions."

This game is a matter of life and death, so of course I'll only choose the person I trust most—Xu Qingming!

System: [You can choose someone else, anyone will do!]

Zhang Ye: [Then you give me ten doses of the virus vaccine, and you can't prevent Xu Qingming from participating in the next game.]

System: [Host, I'm doing this for your own good. You don't understand, Xu Qingming is too clever. If he's in the game, you won't get many points, and without points, you'll easily die inside.]

The system analyzed the pros and cons for Zhang Ye, but Zhang Ye just laughed.

Zhang Ye: [Then I should choose Xu Qingming even more, since survival is much more important than points.]

The series quickly made a promise: "I can guarantee you won't die!"

Zhang Ye: [If that's the case, why don't you give me ten doses of the virus vaccine? Wouldn't my chances of survival be much higher then?]

The system remained silent; of course, it couldn't give it, because those main characters had to die in the game.

It needs the luck of those people; it has been lurking on this planet for a long time before it determined that these people are the main characters.

Once these people die, it can upgrade, and after upgrading, it can gain further privileges.

Each time it arrives at a new planet, it seals up most of the luck and energy it has stolen from other planets, formatting it to its most primitive state. This is how it cleverly evades the planet's world consciousness and avoids being discovered.

Once the planet's fortune has been almost completely stolen, it will unseal those energies, officially sever ties with its host, and incidentally strip him of his fortune.

It binds to a host in order to use the host's luck to conceal its own existence and release the game without being detected.

In this game, all participants are carefully selected, and each possesses a unique destiny.

As long as these people die in the game, it can steal their luck without being detected by the world's consciousness.

After all, it had already shared a portion of its fortune with the host, so that foolish thing called the world consciousness would only think that all the fortune belonged to the host and would not notice the problem at all.

Moreover, every host it chooses is someone with great fortune, the so-called chosen one.

This host is no exception; he is also a chosen one.

As for the other participants, since they were not bound to it, they naturally became the nutrients and nourishment for its upgrade.

If Xu Qingming were to join, the system considered his past experience, and even the code couldn't help but tremble.

In fact, the system initially wanted to bind itself to Xu Qingming, but considering his character, it felt it would be difficult to get Xu Qingming to work for it.

Because Xu Qingming is not only intelligent and resourceful, but also has a strong sense of justice and moral bottom line, if he knew his true purpose, he would probably refuse to cooperate without hesitation.

Given enough time, Xu Qingming, with his keen insight, will surely discover the pattern in its selection of participants.

In this way, the system will no longer be able to control him, and he may even use it to sabotage his own plans.

So in the end, the system still chose this seemingly chauvinistic person—Zhang Ye.

Although this person is somewhat impulsive and arrogant, he is at least easy to control.

However, to the system's utter surprise, this brain-dead host actually handed it over!

This completely caught it off guard!

Once bound, the system has no way to change the host.

Because once it's replaced, it will be seized and destroyed by the planet's world consciousness.

The system can only change hosts when the planet is on the verge of destruction or is in a precarious state.

Because by that time, world consciousness has almost disappeared.

World consciousness originates from the fortune of humankind, and it coexists with humankind.

However, this thing is biased, which is why things like protagonists exist.

This also gave the system an opportunity to exploit the situation. If the world's consciousness hadn't been so biased, the protagonist of destiny wouldn't have been discovered by it.

After all, everyone has some kind of luck, it's just a matter of how much.

Those favored by the world's consciousness are different; their luck is very obvious.

But right now, it's clearly not the time to sever ties with the host.

The system is now in a dilemma, and the atmosphere has become extremely awkward.

Cai Yi's eyes darted around, and suddenly an idea struck him, so he decided to ask Xu Qingming for help.

So she quickly sent a message to Xu Qingming, asking him if he had any good ideas.

Xu Qingming replied: Let Zhang Ye start the game.

Upon receiving the message, Cai Yi immediately relayed it to Zhang Ye: "Let's start the game. The players have already been chosen, haven't they?"

"It's perfectly safe here."

Cai Yi added, "After all, it's a police station."

After saying this, Zhang Ye wanted to start the game.

The system immediately spoke up, roaring in exasperation: "Host, don't go too far!"

Zhang Ye calmly replied, "I didn't force you. I'm just eager to participate in such an exciting game."

The system was so angry at him that it almost crashed, but there was nothing they could do about it.

Zhang Ye added fuel to the fire, slowly saying, "[System, let's begin the swim—]"

The system interrupted him through gritted teeth: [Shut up, I promise!]

After the system provided ten doses of vaccine, it simply disappeared.

If Zhang Ye hadn't seen the countdown timer in the game, he would have suspected that the system was furious.

Cai Yi looked at the ten doses of the virus vaccine he had received, kept the corresponding number for each person, and sent the extra dose to Lin Qiusheng's laboratory by special personnel.

Cai Yi thought for a moment and then asked Zhang Ye, "Do you have a backpack that you received as a system reward?"

Zhang Ye was a little surprised: "How did you know?"

Caiyi: "I'm entrusting this to you for safekeeping. I'll prepare some things for you later, and you can put them in with it."

The system was very clever; the game participants brought nothing in except their clothes.

Zhang Ye also brought his belongings in using a backpack, which wasn't very big, about one cubic meter.

Everything is ready; all we need to do is wait for the game to start.

The system will automatically send the participants in.

Therefore, a set is not needed.

While waiting was tedious, Caiyi checked out information about these people through the home internet and gained a basic understanding of them.