Chapter 53
Chapter 53
The card flipped over, and little party poppers burst again.
Immediately after, three glittering golden words appeared on it:
Hand Grenade
[Congratulations, Host! You have successfully obtained a hand grenade!]
The next second, a hand grenade appeared in Ye Piaoling’s hand.
Round. Turtle-green.
Ye Piaoling: “…”
After taking a moment to calm down, Ye Piaoling asked, “Can I see what the other weapons were?”
The Sand Sculpture System flipped over the remaining cards for her.
Ye Piaoling took a look. There was an AWM Sniper Rifle with a built-in 8x scope, a SCAR-L Assault Rifle, an M416 Assault Rifle, a UZI Submachine Gun, a UMP9 Submachine Gun, a Vector Submachine Gun, a DP-28 Light Machine Gun, and a frying pan.
Then she looked at the hand grenade she had drawn.
It felt so very practical.
She might as well have gotten the frying pan. At least she could fry an egg with that.
The Sand Sculpture System said: [Please put away the hand grenade, Host, and draw the third prize: a modern high-tech vehicle!]
With a flash of light, nine question-mark cards appeared in the air again.
Ye Piaoling laughed coldly. [If I draw some obvious filler prize like a Flashlight or a hand grenade again, I’m not doing any more missions. This mortal world is not worth it.]
The Sand Sculpture System said: [You won’t! This batch of vehicles is all big stuff, like armored tanks, helicopters, submarines, carrier rockets, spaceships, tractors, and so on…]
Ye Piaoling said: [Do I even need to draw? According to tradition, you might as well just give me the tractor!]
She was now seriously suspecting that the System didn’t have any of those high-end prizes at all. They were just written on the cards for show, and could never actually be drawn.
The System said: [No can do. We still have to go through the motions.]
Ye Piaoling sneered, closed her eyes, and casually drew a card.
The System said: [Congratulations, Host! You have successfully obtained an electric scooter!]
“What??”
Ye Piaoling opened her eyes in surprise.
It actually wasn’t a tractor?
With a puff of smoke, a yellow two-wheeled electric scooter appeared in the bedroom!
Banana yellow from top to bottom.
There was also a huge headlight on the front, making it look like a cute little Minion with one big eye. Bright, vivid, and adorable.
“Wow!” Ye Piaoling was pleasantly surprised. “This isn’t bad at all!”
The System was rather surprised. [Host, you actually like electric scooters? You don’t like things like spaceships?]
Ye Piaoling said: [It’s not just because I like it. The main thing is, I don’t know how to fly a spaceship or any of that. An electric scooter is the only thing I know how to ride.]
The System: […]
What a pragmatic host.
Ye Piaoling happily sat on the electric scooter and turned the key.
“Beep! Battery low. Please charge promptly,” the Little Yellow Scooter kindly reminded her.
The small screen lit up as well, showing only one bar of battery left.
Ye Piaoling couldn’t help frowning. [This scooter battery isn’t the kind that’s stronger than six batteries and works for fifty years?]
The System said: [Nope. Dear, this electric scooter needs to be charged normally.]
Ye Piaoling: […]
Trying hard to remain polite, she asked: [Then I would like to ask, in this world, is there anywhere that can charge an electric scooter?]
[There is. Chonghua Palace. It can be charged by the Regent King’s bedside.]
[What? Di Xiulan has an electrical outlet by his bed?!] Ye Piaoling was shocked. [Are you sure? Will the plug even fit?!]
[No outlet needed. The spiritual energy beneath the Regent King’s sleeping quarters is abundant and can automatically charge the electric scooter. Host, if you ride the scooter into his sleeping quarters the night before and leave it parked there overnight, it will be fully charged the next morning!]
[…]
Ye Piaoling fell into deep thought.
After a long while, she said with a troubled frown, [It doesn’t feel right to keep going to someone else’s house to charge it, does it?]
[The problem is, in the entire Glazed Continent, only his house can charge it…]
The System said, [If Host wants to charge it, you can only go to his house. Host, you don’t need to feel embarrassed. Chonghua Palace is rich and powerful. They won’t miss this tiny bit of electricity.]
Ye Piaoling pondered for a moment, then muttered to herself, “You’re right.”
Of the three prizes, the electric scooter was the one she liked the most. It even looked this adorable. She absolutely couldn’t let it go to waste!
Besides, Di Xiulan owed her plenty. All she had taken from him was one mask, one belt, and one bathrobe-nothing of any real importance. Yet he had almost tricked her out of her life…
Given that kind of relationship…
So what if I use a little electricity from your house?!!
Ye Piaoling decided that tomorrow evening after school, she would go to Chonghua Palace to charge it.
The Sand Sculpture System said, [Host has now completed the Regent King’s Three-piece Set. You’re only missing the final item, and then the four-piece set will be complete!]
Ye Piaoling asked, [What’s the final item?]
She had nearly forgotten about the mission.
[The final item is the Regent King’s Bed! As long as Host obtains the Regent King’s Bed, Host can ascend to heaven, gahahaha!]
[…]
Ye Piaoling said, [This one doesn’t seem as easy to take as the first three. It’s a little heavy…]
When she had undone the curse, she had entered the Regent King’s Bedchamber. She had seen it then: a king-size bed, roughly two meters wide by her estimate.
The Sand Sculpture System said, [Host, keep it up! You can definitely do it! Let’s go!]
Ye Piaoling calmly thought it over.
After making money and getting rich, she was no longer especially obsessed with ascending to heaven.
If she kept running the pharmacy and weapons businesses, she could achieve financial freedom all the same. She didn’t necessarily have to rely on completing System missions.
So as for that giant bed-if she could get her hands on it, she would.
If she really couldn’t, then forget it…
Once she had made up her mind, Ye Piaoling felt much more relaxed. Humming a little tune, she pushed the electric scooter into the courtyard.
As she passed the hall, Koi saw the bright yellow monster and froze.
What in the world was that thing?
Could it be like me, another ancient great demon?
…
That night, Koi once again expended spiritual energy to enter Ye Piaoling’s dreams.
When Ye Piaoling saw it, she was quite happy. “Huohuo, you came to play with me again!”
Koi asked, “What was that yellow monster tonight?”
Ye Piaoling understood that it meant the electric scooter.
After thinking for a moment, she answered, “That’s an ancient great demon!”
Koi snorted smugly. “I knew it!”
As expected, nothing could escape my eyes.
Ye Piaoling asked, “Did you come to me for something else?”
Koi said, “Yes! I want to hear that song!”
Ye Piaoling asked, “Which one?”
Koi straightened its fish body and began hopping in delight, singing as it danced:
“Don’t look down on me just because I’m only a sheep. The grass is greener and sweeter because of me! The sky is bluer because of me, the clouds are softer because of me! Don’t look down on me just because I’m only a sheep. A sheep’s intelligence is beyond imagination…”
“…”
Ye Piaoling watched its performance art.
She felt she had never been so speechless in her entire life.
Ye Piaoling said, “You’re a fish, bro. You’re not a sheep.”
Koi said, “No! Right now, I want to be a sheep!”
Ye Piaoling said, “No! You’re a fish!”
Koi said, “No! I’m not a fish. I’m something else!”
Ye Piaoling said, “…”
All right. This Koi was probably an idiot now.
It had already been basically useless.
And now it was stupid too.