"System upgrading..."
"Upgrade complete. Current level: 2. Capture fugitives to receive rewards."
A system upgrade was good news.
But the direction of this upgrade left Xu Mo scratching his head.
He was currently a fugitive himself.
Asking a fugitive to catch other fugitives?
However, that wasn't his main concern. What he really cared about was...
"What about the reward from before the upgrade? I went to jail for that reward. I even tricked the investigation team into going to the red-light district."
Yet Xu Mo's question seemed to fall on deaf ears.
He waited for a long time, but the system showed no intention of acknowledging him.
Xu Mo was dumbfounded.
An upgrade was fine, but couldn't they at least give out the pre-upgrade reward?
No reward, and now ignoring him?
What a lousy system!
Tch!
"Rewards for catching fugitives... Are they crazy? Expecting a fugitive like me to catch other fugitives?" Xu Mo grumbled internally.
The system upgrade meant that no matter how much he toyed with the police, he wouldn't receive any more rewards.
Without the incentive of rewards, Xu Mo even considered quitting the show.
He didn't want to play anymore.
With this thought, Xu Mo rose from the booth in the bar, intending to go outside and call Song Yixue.
Meanwhile, Song Yixue had also picked up her phone, ready to call Xu Mo.
Xu Mo dialed first.
Song Yixue was a step behind.
Seeing Xu Mo's incoming call, she answered without hesitation.
As soon as the call connected, both parties spoke simultaneously.
"First blood... Um, well, I've decided not to continue parti-"
"Xu Mo, I was just about to call you about something. Didn't expect you to call first..."
Realizing the other person also had something to say, they both paused, then spoke in unison.
"You go first."
"You go first."
"Then I'll go first."
"Then I'll go first."
"..."
After a moment of silence, Xu Mo spoke again: "Why don't you go first? Ladies first."
"Alright, I'll go first," Song Yixue said. "I'm planning to add some challenger guests to the show, twenty people in total. But this time, instead of placing them near you, they'll be paired up, making ten teams. Like you, they'll also have to evade capture by the investigation team."
Hearing Song Yixue's words, a thoughtful expression appeared on Xu Mo's face.
Adding twenty people, paired up to avoid capture by the investigation team?
It was like the show was delivering twenty fugitives right to him!
Xu Mo's system had just upgraded, and now toying with the investigation team wouldn't earn him any rewards.
He had to catch fugitives to get rewards.
Xu Mo had been considering quitting the show.
After all, even if he continued to stay in the show and mess with the investigation team, he wouldn't get a single reward from the system.
But the show had just handed him exactly what he needed!
This wasn't just sending twenty fugitives into the show.
From Xu Mo's perspective, the show was delivering rewards right to his doorstep!
How thoughtful.
Just as he was pondering this, Song Yixue's voice came through again.
"From now on, the rewards will be doubled. Avoiding capture for one day will earn you 200,000 yuan. Besides this, there's also a grand prize. The person who can avoid capture until the end will receive an additional 20 million yuan... Including your team, there are now eleven teams of fugitives in the show. Whichever team can hold out until the end will win the extra 20 million yuan grand prize."
The rewards had doubled.
And a new grand prize had been added.
Now, avoiding capture for one day would earn 200,000 yuan, and among the eleven challenger teams, the one that could hold out until the end would directly pocket the 20 million yuan grand prize.
Wasn't this just another way of handing out money?
Song Yixue said whoever lasted until the end would get 20 million yuan...
In simple terms, once all eleven teams except Xu Mo were caught and eliminated, he would win 20 million yuan.
Not long ago, Xu Mo felt that the upgraded system had no use in the show.
He even considered quitting.
But now, he had changed his mind.
Combining the system's reward mechanism with the show's new rules, an idea suddenly emerged in Xu Mo's mind.
What if he caught the other fugitives participating in the show, tied them up, and then found a way to tip off the investigation team to come arrest them...
Wouldn't that mean he could get both the system reward and increase his chances of winning the show's grand prize?
If he could catch and tie up all ten teams of fugitives besides himself, then let the investigation team come and easily arrest them, eliminating them from the game...
He would get ten system rewards, plus the 20 million yuan grand prize set by the show.
This deal looked profitable from every angle, allowing him to claim double rewards.
Xu Mo decided to stay in the show and become a 'bounty hunter'.
...
Song Yixue had called Xu Mo mainly to inform him about the new game rules.
After saying what she wanted to say, Song Yixue asked, "I've said what I needed to. Now, what did you want to tell me when you called?"
Originally, Xu Mo had been lost in thought.
But Song Yixue's words snapped him back to reality.
Earlier, Xu Mo had called to say he was planning to quit the show and didn't want to continue playing.
But now, Xu Mo had completely abandoned that idea.
Rewards and money delivered to his doorstep - it would be foolish not to take them.
The words 'want to quit the show' were swallowed back down.
He changed his tune.
"Haha, nothing much really. I just missed you a bit and wanted to chat."
Song Yixue: "..."
"How boring!"
With that, Song Yixue immediately hung up the phone, not even bothering to say another word to Xu Mo.
"Beep... Beep... Beep..." Listening to the busy tone from his phone, Xu Mo smiled.
He put the phone back in his pocket.
Then he walked back into the bar.
He wasn't in the mood to continue playing there.
Instead, he called for the four people to leave.
Following the address sent by that escort earlier, Xu Mo arrived at a hotel.
Room 888.
Xu Mo knocked on the door.
Soon, the door opened.
The person who opened it was the escort from earlier.
As she opened the door, she didn't forget to say, "Don't worry, big brother. No one will come to check tonight. You can relax and enjoy."
"Mm," Xu Mo nodded. "Shall we begin?"
"Start now? Don't you want to take a shower first?" The escort was a bit confused.
Hearing this, Xu Mo smiled.
"No rush. Let's play something else first to liven up the atmosphere. How about Truth or Dare?"
The escort seemed to understand Xu Mo's intention almost instantly.
She thought to herself, rich people and their games, wanting to liven up the atmosphere before getting started.
"Let's do Rock Paper Scissors. I'll count to three, and we'll show our hands together."
In the next second, Xu Mo showed rock.
The escort showed scissors. She lost.
The escort's face lit up with anticipation: "I lost. What... punishment do you want to give me?"
"I punish you to go home now."
"???"
Go home!?
I lose at Truth or Dare, and you punish me by sending me home!?
Isn't this just insulting?
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
