Chapter 13

As long as it's an emotion influenced by a puppet, it will all convert into Lin Cheng's emotion value.

Under circumstances without excessive behavior, on average, one puppet can bring Lin Cheng 100-500 daily emotion value; all things considered, it can roughly let Lin Cheng's daily emotion value income reach around twenty to thirty thousand.

If Lin Cheng doesn't stir up any more trouble, it would probably take about a month for Lin Cheng to scrape together one million emotion value and perform one guaranteed B-grade puppet draw.

If luck is good and another A-grade puppet comes, then that would truly be invincible.

………

Time flowed on, and a month passed in the blink of an eye.

During that month, Lin Cheng seemed to have no difference from his previous life at all, as if he had never obtained a golden finger, spending every day together with Eclair and Mengmeng living a simple daily life.

Of course, there were still differences.

Lin Cheng was no longer short on money.

After over a hundred puppets activated smart mode, almost all of them found decent jobs; aside from some basic expenses needed to maintain their personas, the money all went into Lin Cheng's pocket.

This made Lin Cheng involuntarily think of a joke.

'If you had a hundred thousand devoted followers, what would you do?'

'Send them to a factory that provides room and board, four thousand a month in wages, and I'd directly earn four hundred million a month.'

There was practically no difference between puppets and devoted followers.

Even if over a hundred puppets worked in remote areas, their monthly wages added up were no small sum.

Eclair and Mengmeng were naturally a little puzzled by Lin Cheng suddenly having money.

After all, it wasn't their first time knowing Lin Cheng; having spent a year with him, they still understood him to some degree.

Facing the puzzled Eclair and Mengmeng, Lin Cheng very easily relied on money-laundering methods from his previous life to launder his Qian Cai clean, turning it into so-called legitimate income.

For example, Lin Cheng now runs a small tavern.

Every day, a fixed batch of customers come in groups to spend money — these are Lin Cheng's puppets.

Of course, the puppets acting as 'shills' also drove some spending from local residents to some extent, so besides puppets randomly dropping by to spend money, some local residents with a bit of spare cash also came to spend at Lin Cheng's small tavern every day.

For a time, Lin Cheng's newly opened small tavern was actually a little lively.

Lin Cheng himself hadn't expected that, driven by the puppets, the small tavern's business actually showed signs of flourishing.

Originally Lin Cheng had purely wanted to use the small tavern as a short-term money-laundering spot, but he hadn't expected to actually build up the tavern's business.

Eclair and Mengmeng served as waitresses at the small tavern; regarding the lively daily environment, Lin Cheng knew Eclair didn't dislike it.

What Eclair truly disliked was the moment when the liveliness dissipated due to force majeure.

Late at night, the tavern reached closing time.

"Wow wow, smells so good."

"Lin Cheng, what dishes are we eating today?"

Mengmeng watched Lin Cheng bustling about in the kitchen, a faint glimmer of crystal at the corner of her mouth, and said with a face full of expectation: "The tavern's business is getting better and better, I haven't had any time to eat, I'm about to starve to death."

"Eclair, don't you think so?"

"Mm……"

Hearing Mengmeng's question, Eclair replied somewhat absently.

From Eclair's gaze that occasionally 'casually' swept toward the kitchen, one could tell that Eclair also had a considerable degree of expectation for the meal Lin Cheng was preparing.

"Hahaha, business is good, there's nothing I can do about it either."

"So that's why I've specially prepared some new dishes to reward you guys."

Hearing Mengmeng's words, Lin Cheng just laughed heartily twice in the kitchen, then walked out carrying several plates of freshly cooked dishes, saying: "Here — iron-plate beef, sweet-and-sour pork tenderloin, and braised spare ribs!"

"Eclair, don't just sit there without moving."

"Come try how my cooking tastes."

The three dishes, emitting a faint steam, were arranged by Lin Cheng on the table in a character-pin (品) shape.

Before transmigrating, in order to save money on daily takeout, Lin Cheng bought groceries and cooked every day; over time, he naturally picked up some cooking skills.

Not to say how amazing it was, but it was pretty decent.

And as Lin Cheng's words fell, Eclair didn't stand on ceremony much, directly picking up her chopsticks; although Eclair was still the same as always, in front of Lin Cheng she could already let herself go.

No longer like a year ago, completely ignoring Lin Cheng and only helping him when he needed it.

"Very delicious."

That was Eclair's evaluation of Lin Cheng's cooking.

………

Wine and food satisfied.

Lin Cheng returned to his own room.

【Strongest Puppet System】

【Host: Lin Cheng】

【Puppets: None】

【Emotion Value: 1042487】

【Skills: Puppet Summon, Puppet Recall】

'Finally reached one million emotion value.'

'If I use one million emotion value to do a draw, then the guaranteed is a B-grade puppet, and an A-grade puppet is also possible.'

Looking at the system panel in his mind, Lin Cheng didn't hesitate at all, directly choosing to consume one million emotion value to perform a Gold draw.

Mm, Lin Cheng had named the ten-thousand, hundred-thousand, and million emotion value draws as Bronze Draw, Silver Draw, and Gold Draw respectively.