Chapter 1: Choices (New Book Released, Seeking Collections)

"Hmm, for things like pulling cards, one must first choose a place with good feng shui."

Zhou Yi looked at his character on the computer screen, which had already reached the highest point on the entire map, and nodded with great satisfaction.

"Second, that would be to wash one's hands and pray to the gods..."

Following the "metaphysical card-pulling theory" method provided by a certain Bilibili Up Master, Zhou Yi went through various meticulous preparations before he finally started clicking to pull cards.

First time, no golden light. It's fine, it's only the fortieth pull, a small matter.

Second time, still no golden light, a small matter.

Third time, fourth time... Zhou Yi kept a smile on his face; he had reached the pity limit, it was bound to appear!

Golden light appeared. Zhou Yi looked at the computer screen with an excited expression, and then, a character popped out.

"My name is Qiqi, and I am a zombie."

Zhou Yi: "..." My small pity!

"Happy" shouts rang out in the room.

Zhou Yi, who had finally calmed down after being hysterical for a long time, looked at the computer screen, thinking that he couldn't go on like this.

This game is called Original Demon. Zhou Yi started playing a year ago. Because his own account didn't pull anything good, he spent five hundred yuan to buy an account.

The official side does not support account trading, but there are quite a few people who buy accounts.

He had also been very diligent this year; although there were a few less five-star characters and weapons, they were all well-nurtured.

It's just that this card-pulling is very frustrating.

And just as Zhou Yi was hesitating whether to top up 648, suddenly, his phone rang with a notification sound.

Picking up the phone to look, it was a notification that someone was applying for an account appeal to change the bound phone number.

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment. What is the situation? My phone is right here, and I haven't told anyone the password, so why is the bound phone being changed? Is this account theft?

No, Zhou Yi suddenly remembered that recently everyone online has been saying that the game has increased the authority of Real-name Registration. Previously, the email was the highest, but now as long as you have the Real-name Registration, you can recover it.

So, was his account also recovered?

Zhou Yi couldn't sit still now. Although the account wasn't expensive when he bought it, it contained his hard work after all, and it was fine when he bought it, but after he played for a year, you suddenly recover it?

He hurriedly opened his phone to re-bind it. There is a safety period in the middle, and during this safety period, the other party cannot change the password.

Taking advantage of this time, Zhou Yi found the platform called Trading Platform from before. At that time, they had promised that they would compensate if it was recovered.

As a result, after talking to customer service several times, Zhou Yi's mentality directly collapsed. That customer service didn't acknowledge it at all, and kept beating around the bush, not answering the key questions he asked!

They only said some scripted lines: "Dear, for your situation, you need to contact and negotiate with the seller yourself..."

If I have to negotiate everything myself, then why would I buy it on the platform!

However, since it was his own hard-earned account, Zhou Yi hurriedly contacted the previous account owner through the trading platform, but unfortunately, there was no response.

Fortunately, there was a remaining contact number, so he hurriedly called it, and this time it was connected.

"Hello, I am the person who bought your Original Demon account a year ago. Today I discovered that you recovered it... Beep beep beep."

Listening to the busy signal coming from the phone, Zhou Yi looked confused and hurriedly called again, but no matter how he called, it was always busy.

Needless to say, this was blocking his number.

Fortunately, Zhou Yi still had a phone number from his university days, and because too many things were bound to that number, he had never canceled it.

So he hurriedly used that number to send a text message, detailing what happened, and asked the original account owner to contact him. As a result, he waited for a long time, but there was still no response.

This guy is determined!

Zhou Yi was anxious now and hurriedly went online to check. He soon saw that the Tieba related to this game was already filled with wails, and many purchased accounts had been recovered.

However, what was even more infuriating was that there were a bunch of recoverers showing off there.

For example, an account sold for one or two thousand back then, but after recovering it, they found all sorts of max-constellation characters; how delightful.

Zhou Yi was indignant and went down to argue with people, only to be replied to: "Who told you to buy an account? They already prohibit buying and selling accounts, you deserve to have it recovered!"

No, is there no law or justice left? Suddenly encountering such a thing, as an ordinary working person, Zhou Yi felt like he was going to explode with anger.

But now is not the time to be angry. Zhou Yi flipped through various posts and finally found some relatively reliable comments.

Yes, the game platform officially does not allow account trading, but national law recognizes the value of Virtual Property. If the recharge amount of the recovered account is large enough, you can report it to the police.

It also attached a lot of information about this aspect, and Zhou Yi read it one by one, very seriously.

After a long while, he put down his phone and began to carefully consider the information he had obtained.

First, recovering an account is definitely illegal, but if the value is too low, even if you report it to the police, they cannot proceed with Case Filing.

For example, a micro-spender like himself.

Second, even if it is really filed, it is not certain that it will be useful; it is very likely that they will just ask a few questions.

Finally, one still has to go through legal procedures. A Lawsuit is the most direct method, but doing so will be very troublesome, expensive, and time-consuming, and in the end, you won't get much back.

Seeing that there were so many difficulties before even starting Legal Aid, Zhou Yi was suddenly a little hesitant.

He read many people's words, such as: "You spent ten thousand yuan on a lawsuit, but the judgment only gives you a few thousand, not to mention the time you wasted in the middle; it's really not worth the loss."

But just let the recovery dog be carefree?

Zhou Yi felt that he couldn't swallow this anger.

Just at this moment, Zhou Yi suddenly saw three lines of text appear before his eyes.

One, anyway, it didn't cost much money, just consider it bad luck; Legal Aid is time-consuming and laborious.

Two, destroy the account, melt all the weapons and artifacts; if I can't have it, others can't have it either!

Three, turn around and top up one million; I just like watching the recovery dog cry bitterly!

This is... what is the situation? Zhou Yi was a little confused.

Suddenly, three lines of text appeared in front of him, and he couldn't see them when he looked in the mirror, as if these three lines of text appeared in his soul.

And it was extremely coincidental that they were talking about his current situation.

Could it be that because his account was recovered, he was having hallucinations?

Looking closely at these three choices, the first goes without saying; as for the second, Zhou Yi saw many people in the posts with this same idea: destroy the account, since they couldn't let the other party benefit anyway.

As for the third choice...

"I choose three!"

Anyway, I don't have one million, and anyway, it's just an illusion.

Besides, whether Legal Aid can succeed and recover the value of the account determines everything, so Zhou Yi does not need to hesitate.

Just at this moment, a voice devoid of any emotion rang out: Key option selected by host, system activated, Virtual Account activated, one million received.

The following are the system rules:

One, the Virtual Account can only be used for System Task, not for anything else; the source of funds is subject to the system's explanation.

Two, the system will issue events, conduct an assessment of the event completion, and distribute rewards based on the completion level.

Three, event triggering is completely random, so please explore it yourself, host.

Note: Contemporary people uphold a muddle-along mindset, believing that "presenting facts and reasoning" and "being serious and pedantic" are undesirable and low emotional intelligence; however, this society sometimes truly needs some people who are serious!

Zhou Yi was stunned for a full three seconds before reacting; so, had he encountered the system from the legends of countless protagonists?

But his parents were still alive and his family was harmonious; he didn't look like a protagonist at all.

However, if this system was real, then first of all, he could top up money.

Without hesitation, Zhou Yi hurriedly logged into the game; it was currently the safe period, so he could still go on.

He immediately started topping up the 648 he didn't dare to touch in the past, and soon, Zhou Yi stared blankly at the Crystal that had already arrived; so, this system was real?

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The original title was "Account Recovered at the Start," but my hand slipped... speechless, it's already signed, and changing it once is too much trouble, so I'll just leave it.

PS: I've been targeted by spammers; I can't delete them fast enough every day, so I've changed it to requiring a bit of fan value to comment.

I, Jiu Jian, have returned! New book released, friends who like it please add it to your favorites and give some votes; it's already internally signed, investment is welcome!

(End of this chapter)