Zhang Ergou's Perfect Life

After exiting the game, Zhou Ming stretched lazily and opened the game panel.

Mission Map: Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life

Game Character: Zhang Ergou

Game Status: Ended

Assets: 710 (You own 80 mu of paddy fields, 160 mu of dry land, five brick houses, sixteen workshops, and various gold, silver, and treasures)

Status: 48 (Your assets, family, and reputation have brought you a high status)

Reputation: 560 (You are famous far and wide, a renowned great philanthropist)

Partners: 4 (You have a perfect marriage and three lovers who accompanied you throughout your life [+250 achievement points])

Descendants: 152 (Congratulations, you have left behind a large number of descendants, and your family will prosper for a long time)

Lifespan: 67 (Your lifespan exceeds 99% of villagers, a rare long-lived person)

Achievements Gained: 3587

Game Rating: SSS (Your life is like the bright sun in the sky, radiating boundless light, forever illuminating the world)

Highest Achievement: 3587 (Can unlock the next level: Lord's Dispute)

Total Achievement Points: 3920

"Yes!" Zhou Ming clenched his fist fiercely and sprang up from the bed in excitement.

He had been playing the beginner map Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life for almost a month, and today he finally completed it successfully!

The SSS-level highest game rating finally swept away all the frustration in his chest. After wiping out the entire Li Family in the later stages of the game, he felt even more exhilarated. In the small Niu Family Village, he was the sky above and the ground below. No one could deal with him, and no one could stop him.

In this round, he was the complete winner!

"Congratulations to the host for achieving the highest rating. It seems the host has found some keys to success. Congratulations, congratulations," the system's voice echoed in his mind.

"Yeah, after playing so many rounds, I've paid all the tuition fees I should have. Even a fool could find some tricks, right?"

Zhou Ming chuckled self-deprecatingly. After playing Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life eight or nine times, he had almost memorized what would happen to every villager in the small Niu Family Village in the future. All the villagers were almost transparent to him. Playing this game from an absolute God's perspective, how could he not get a high score?

But it took him eight or nine rounds to get this SSS rating, which was incredibly inefficient.

If it were someone else, even if the protagonist was sent back ten years, an ordinary person who was unsuccessful in everything and full of regrets and failures, it would be as if they suddenly got a cheat, crushing everything and instantly defying the heavens, rising at a speed that shocked the whole world.

But in the game The Sims, Zhou Ming was reborn eight or nine times, and the total game time added up to over three or four hundred years, yet his growth speed was so slow, only recently breaking through that ceiling.

In comparison, his speed could only be described as trash.

Zhou Ming smiled bitterly, Perhaps, I might really be a bit dumber than others.

"Host, your thinking is completely wrong. As a life experience game developed by a super-dimensional civilization, The Sims fully considered the rationality of social humanities during its design. Every decision made by the player corresponds to probability events of different sizes. In some cases, even if the player makes the most brilliant and correct decision, if they encounter unpredictable low-probability events, the final outcome will be quite different. Sometimes, luck is also an important factor in getting a high score in the game."

Seeing Zhou Ming a bit disheartened and frustrated, the system explained to him.

"Are you referring to the butterfly effect, the story of the king's horseshoe?"

(The butterfly effect refers to a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest in South America, which can cause a hurricane on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean. The king's horseshoe is a story where in a war that broke out in a certain country, the king's horse stumbled because it was missing a horseshoe, losing the victory of a crucial battle, and finally losing the entire country.)

"Yes, Host, your description is very apt," the system praised.

"If that's the case, this game isn't as fun as I imagined. What if, while playing, a low-probability event suddenly occurs, like the untimely death of Zhou Shizu, the genius Huo Qubing who was envied by heaven, or Alexander the Great who built a vast empire – they were all famously short-lived... If something like that happens when things are going well, all that hard work would be for nothing."

Zhou Ming said with some worry. After all, he had played Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life eight or nine times, and four of those times he died from various murders or accidents. And in this game, counting the days as they pass is also very difficult to endure. Even if twenty years in this game is only equivalent to one day outside, the problem is that the game is too realistic. If he really had to constantly start from being a baby and endure until he died of old age, repeating such a long process multiple times would drive a normal person crazy.

"Host, the characters automatically matched to players by the system can generally live past thirty years old. If the game is prematurely exited due to various sudden situations, the Host can choose to purchase a [Character Card] in the system store and choose a character that is easier to survive with," the system explained, seeing Zhou Ming's concern.

"Character Card? That thing is too expensive. I can't even afford the cheapest [Son of Landlord's Butler]. Where would I get that many achievement points?"

Zhou Ming shook his head and complained. This game was fun, but it was too much of a rip-off; everything was especially expensive.

"Please accumulate slowly, Host," the system said indifferently.

Damn it, that was like saying nothing at all.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

Just then, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Zhou Ming! Zhou Ming, are you home? This month's rent is due. If you're there, open the door quickly," a middle-aged woman's voice said from the doorway.

"Landlady?" Zhou Ming's face changed. The landlady was here; it was time to pay the rent.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm home."

Opening the door, Zhou Ming let in the landlady, who was so fat she almost broke the door frame, and greeted her with a smile.

Taking out a rental contract from her bag, the landlady's radish-thick finger pointed at the text on the contract and said, "Rent is paid every three months, the rent is five hundred per month, totaling one thousand five hundred, plus the water and electricity bills for the past few months, one hundred fifty, for a total of one thousand six hundred fifty. Zhou Ming, do you plan to transfer or pay cash?"

The landlady glared at Zhou Ming with an unfriendly expression, as if she would immediately kick him out of the rental room if he didn't pay the rent now.

"Pay, pay, pay, I'll pay right away!" With a bitter smile, Zhou Ming quickly took out his phone and said, "Wait a moment, I'll transfer it to you using Bao Payment."

Fifteen minutes later, the landlady twisted her kayak-like butt and left satisfied, leaving Zhou Ming standing there with an empty wallet in his hand, counting the few small bills inside, and smiling bitterly.

"Now I'm really at the end of my rope. If I don't find something to do quickly, I'll probably starve to death in a few days."

Zhou Ming, who had just emerged from the excitement of getting a 3S perfect rating in the game Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life, was now plunged into a state of worry.