[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio":3,"chapter-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-53":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, the System Protagonist, Joined a Cross-Dimensional Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2292713,4485,"Chapter 53: Chapter Fifty-Three: The Indenture","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-53",53,"\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei had a very long dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the dream, his self followed the original trajectory of his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No time travel, no chat group, no cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That little devil, Lu Mingze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nailed to a cross, pale-faced, he looked at him and whispered those words:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother, you’ve come.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he came to his senses, Lu Mingfei stood in a pristine, unblemished polar expanse, dried blood on his face hardened into dark red scabs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The howling cold wind swept past, like a baby wailing, or an animal screaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white expanse was utterly empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bone-chilling cold transmitted through every nerve ending in his skin to his brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei struggled to lift his eyelids, lost in the snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lu Mingze?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother, are you calling me?” A fixed reply seemed to echo beside his ear—but it was only hallucination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That elegantly dressed, refined little boy did not appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why am I here?” Lu Mingfei thought for a long time; he had forgotten why he had appeared here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biting, howling wind began to mix with snowflakes—the harbinger of another blizzard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled his down jacket tighter; his pale lips cracked, and he licked them with his tongue—a metallic, rust-like taste spread across his tip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei knew he had to move his feet and leave this place quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the sun was still visible, Lu Mingfei walked toward where it was setting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the inner pocket of his down jacket was a phone, issued by the academy for communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where’s the promised global signal coverage?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phone’s signal bars showed no signal at all—not a single bar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The time displayed: 05:23.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sense of disorientation took root in Lu Mingfei’s heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t the sun supposed to be setting?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had just risen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then why did I feel it was about to set?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei looked up at the sky; here, sunlight brought little warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked for a long, long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the feather-like snow, Lu Mingfei finally saw objects with other colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a Western-style curved blade, stained with blood, half-buried by wind and snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson bloodstains dotted the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the blood trail, Lu Mingfei gradually saw familiar figures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caesar Gassot knelt in the snow, a blood trail across his neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Zihang held a strange, tiny alien creature; a silver-white spear had pierced them both through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“President… Senior Brother…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why were there no other emotions? Lu Mingfei watched this scene calmly, as if he had seen it many times before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His calmness was terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei continued forward; more familiar and unfamiliar faces appeared before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nuonuo…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-haired girl lay beside a plane wreck, snow dusting her hair, her pale skin now grayish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few seconds, Lu Mingfei kept walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene washed away like water; even the white was gone now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drowsily, he opened his eyes from darkness—above him was an unfamiliar ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re awake. The surgery was successful.” A familiar voice came from beside his ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shhh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei jolted awake, reaching for his private parts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phew—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click-clack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Lu Mingfei look around: two men sat on a sofa nearby, frantically pressing game controllers; even with human eyes, it was hard to discern their speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hao You Gen!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“O Duo Ken!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Classic game voiceovers blared from the TV.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin chewed a spicy strip, glanced at Lu Mingfei, and while he was distracted, Ke Lain unleashed a combo that drained Su Lin’s character’s health bar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin sighed in disappointment; he’d lost another jin of Qingyuan fruit again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no idea what Ke Lain had been doing all month—how had his gaming skill become so strong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One jin of Qingyuan fruit, two Huosang fruits, half a jin of Wushu honey—he lost everything he played…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next time, I won’t play this with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ke Lain, seeing Lu Mingfei awake, felt disappointed; couldn’t he have slept a little longer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin retrieved a scroll from his system space and walked toward Lu Mingfei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Awake?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Awake.” Lu Mingfei shrank his neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Invincible yet?” Su Lin smiled warmly, like a kind neighborly older brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No.” Lu Mingfei shook his head like a bobblehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Remember what happened before you passed out?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Remember.” Lu Mingfei nodded earnestly, like a chick pecking grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh~ You remember? Then no need to jog your memory.” Su Lin pulled a wad of toilet paper from his system space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei shrank into the corner, as if facing judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unwrapping the toilet paper revealed a pile of shattered fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know how much I spent—one-fourth of my fortune—to get this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m sorry…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei truly didn’t understand what had happened; ever since he used the Dayuan Pearl, everything had spiraled inexplicably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I like to use this Dayuan Pearl to reflect other parallel worlds—it’s become my habit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m sorry…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei felt guilty, but he still didn’t understand what had happened to him—a pile of strange versions of himself had rushed into a ball and vanished, then he’d passed out and had a nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Future Xiao Yan even enhanced this artifact—do you understand the value of the Lord of the Infinite Fire Realm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m sorry…” Lu Mingfei lowered his head further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides saying ‘I’m sorry,’ can’t you offer any real action?” Su Lin shook his head in disappointment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can I pay in installments…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please, give me a chance—I’ll do anything!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patak—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small knife landed before Lu Mingfei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re not asking me to commit suicide to atone, are you?!” Lu Mingfei’s eyes widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin said nothing, then unrolled the scroll in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It bore a string of characters Lu Mingfei had never seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sign this indenture.” Su Lin spoke calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two minutes later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mingfei felt he needed a blood transfusion—signing a name cost this much blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly not an ordinary contract…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin happily tucked the contract away and uploaded it to the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A virtual template of Lu Mingfei appeared on the system interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Contract: I Have a Share】: After signing, twenty percent of the signatory’s karmic consequences convert into system points. Limit: 1—Once signed, one-fifth of your future actions count as mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Status: Used\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subject: Lu Mingfei\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Current Points Provided: 0\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Contract Terms:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. From the date of signing, the signatory voluntarily transfers twenty percent of future karmic consequences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. The Contractee may not unilaterally terminate the contract; breach shall result in the loss of one-fifth of all that they possess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. The Contract Provider has the right to demand the Contractee create karmic ties; the Contractee is forbidden from withdrawing from the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>99. 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