Chapter 23: The Ruthless Task Machine

【Negative Emotion from Song Qing, Zhu Huan, +1+1...】

【Negative Emotion from Liu Jiang, Zhang Mao, Hu Tiezhu, +1+1+1...】

【Congratulations, the Negative Emotion Tree you planted has grown its first leaf】

【Congratulations, the Negative Emotion Tree you planted has grown its first branch】

【Make three hundred people feel the sense of Flaw... (Completed; Reward: Dragon Subduing Palm (Incomplete) (Distributed)】

【Make one thousand people feel the sense of Flaw...; Reward: Morning Flight (Incomplete) (Not completed)】

【Sell the first gourmet meal; (Completed) Reward: One tael of silver (Distributed)】

【Deserted, let at least ten people know about your shop; Reward: Basic Blade Technique—Straight Cut (Completed)】

【Famous on the street, let fifty people know about your shop; Reward: Basic Blade Technique—Push Cut (Completed)】

【Initial success, let one hundred people know about your shop; Reward: Basic Blade Technique—Pull Cut (Completed)】

【Slightly famous, let one thousand people know about your shop: Reward: Basic Blade Technique—Saw Cut (Not completed)】

With the groundwork laid, the several systems linked up, and thus, Lin Bai became a ruthless task-grinding machine.

Tasks were completed one after another like a scrolling screen.

Often, the system would just issue a task, and the next second it would show as completed.

After all.

When you look at the signboard and the couplets, you don't feel the Flaw, but once you go inside and sit on the chair, you will always feel like something is missing!

When you sing that kind of song in public, you will feel a bit embarrassed and ashamed, right!

When you order food and are told it has been discounted, yet it is still more expensive than outside, it would be strange if your mood could be good...

If you don't eat, you are full of anger; after eating, the more you think about it, the angrier you get...

Even if you have left the restaurant for a long time, when the brainwashing song "You love me, I love you" rings in your ears, or suddenly pops up in your mind, you will still contribute a wave of Negative Emotion;

It can be said that Lin Bai has already turned Rice Divination into an emotion harvester, and has formed a perfect closed loop...

Moreover, when the Chef God System finally realized its identity, stopped rewarding silver, and returned to the right path to start rewarding Blade Technique, the marketing methods of the sunk cost effect and the foot-in-the-door effect that Lin Bai utilized to the extreme would also bring him continuous wealth.

Therefore, he does not worry about the capital chain breaking.

It can be completely said that Lin Bai has already gained a firm foothold in Jiamu City relying on a small Rice Divination.

It only took ten days, and he did not lose face for a transmigrator.

Finally, even if everyone in Jiamu City has been fooled once, there are still players who can be harvested; the reputation of the Haunted House is not just for show.

As long as the ghost is always there, the players are wave after wave of fat sheep.

No one can escape Lin Bai's calculations; everyone is his leek.

The only regret is the Chief Supporting Role System.

The good big brother 【Lao Mi】, who was sent into the City Lord's Mansion by the Beggars, actually did not delete his account.

The previous task of helping the big brother establish his belief still remains.

The system has issued a new task, and it is still a red time-limited task:

【Big brother's career view: Detected that the big brother has been recruited into the Dark Guard by the City Lord's Mansion; better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix; the big brother is subordinate to others, where is your position?

For your future, please pull the big brother back from the wrong path within seven days; task success (Reward: Luck five; failure, deduct Luck three); countdown: seven】

【Deng Li Buduo】 is acting as a doorman at the entrance of the restaurant, singing songs to attract guests, while the temporarily hired waiter is inside serving customers.

Rice Divination is operating normally, and Lin Bai no longer needs to worry about anything.

At this moment.

He is sitting in the shade of a tree not far from the restaurant, taking stock of his task gains.

But when he saw the new task issued by the Chief Supporting Role System from the series of task prompts, his joyful mood was immediately discounted.

The dog-R system actually deducts Luck?

It really doesn't care about the user's feelings at all; it only rewarded a total of four points of Luck, and it wants to deduct three points at the slightest disagreement.

If this task is never completed, will it be deducted into a negative number!

Complaining is complaining.

Lin Bai has to consider how to save his big brother's career; now that he is sailing smoothly, it is hard to guarantee it has nothing to do with the Luck rewarded by the system.

If it is deducted to a negative number, who knows what will happen?

Stepping on dog shit when going out?

Getting food stuck in your teeth while drinking cold water!

The system on his body doesn't know where it popped out from; enjoying the benefits naturally means bearing certain risks.

Opportunity and risk have always coexisted; Lin Bai understands this principle.

Moreover, when he was stuffed with a bunch of systems for no reason, Lin Bai knew clearly that no matter what was behind the systems, he was not an opponent at the moment.

To know the truth, one way is to let oneself grow, and the other way is to disrupt the chessboard and probe the bottom line of the person behind the scenes step by step...

Lin Bai is carrying out both methods at the same time.

All the absurd ways of completing tasks are his probes into the person behind the scenes.

Of course, the premise of all this is to stay alive; even if he is a chess piece, he must stay alive; only by living to the end will he have the opportunity to know who the person manipulating the board is?

"My good big brother actually entered the City Lord's Mansion to be a Dark Guard; did he trigger a hidden profession by accident? I didn't expect that I helped him. When drinking water, don't forget the well-digger; this ungrateful guy didn't even come to thank me!"

A broken kitchen knife flips up and down in Lin Bai's hand, as nimble as the pen he used to spin in class.

Like the Incomplete System, the Blade Technique rewarded by the Chef God System also does not require practice; it can be used as soon as it is obtained.

The most direct consequence of this was that Lin Bai developed a fondness for playing with kitchen knives...

"Am I going to be dealing with the city's top brass so soon?" Lin Bai sighed, looking at his bustling, thriving shop, and muttered, "I'm not prepared for this yet!"

The tasks provided by the Chief Supporting Role System brought Lin Bai some information hidden behind the scenes.

On the surface, there are two types of forces that maintain order in Jiamu City: one is the Catchers, who are mainly responsible for public security within the city, such as petty theft and illegal street vending;

The other is the City Guard, responsible for the defense of the entire city and protecting the safety of Jiamu City.

The Catchers are under the jurisdiction of the Security Bureau;

The powerful City Guard is held in the hands of the City Lord.

Lin Bai had never heard anyone mention the Dark Guard, but from various film, television, and literary works, he could guess that this profession was likely responsible for espionage and assassination, belonging to the category of existences that cannot see the light of day.

For a player, digging up a hidden profession at level one truly makes one a lucky person.

But from a realistic perspective, it is actually somewhat abnormal for a level one player, Lao Mi, to be recruited by the City Lord's Mansion as a Dark Guard.

The only reasonable explanation is that the City Lord already knows the characteristics of players and is specifically recruiting and cultivating them to utilize their high growth potential to complete tasks.

And since the City Lord knows to utilize players, in order to let them grow, he will surely provide them with resources; therefore, Lao Mi should be practicing his skills and gaining experience right now.

Unless there is a task, the possibility of him showing his face is extremely low...

"That was rash!" Lin Bai grumbled, feeling some regret for the big brother he had impulsively acknowledged on a whim. Now, his big brother had not only failed to become his help but had instead become a stumbling block; it was simply infuriating.

"Fortunately, there are still seven days left. If I work diligently on tasks, I should still be able to fleece some benefits from the system." Lin Bai looked at his shop once again.

Relying on less than five years of Internal Energy, the Flaw-ridden Xianglong Shipi Zhang, and a set of vegetable-chopping knife skills, it was truly unwise to rashly provoke the City Lord's Mansion. At the very least, he needed to obtain the Flaw-ridden movement technique, Morning Flight.

At the mere thought that the reward was the movement technique Morning Flight, Lin Bai was filled with frustration.

He wasn't quite sure if this movement technique was just a broken version of Grass-Skipping Flight, or if it really could only be used in the morning?

Both situations could actually be considered a Flaw...

(End of this chapter)