Half a Year

"Half a year already."

Time was merciless. What was coming would come sooner or later.

Aboard the Star Boat, Lu PingAn welcomed the half-year anniversary that marked a turning point in his fate—and also the fate he had no choice but to face.

Deducting 1,000 Life Points for life maintenance. Current remaining balance: 2,161.

After the final clearance sale, Lu PingAn had worked hard to raise his points into the positive, then desperately pulled in another haul through overtime work, all for this moment.

It was time to settle the account.

This was the last installment.

Total Life Points are positive. Life maintenance fees deducted.

Half a year had passed, and the previous debt of -6,000 had finally been settled.

In a sense, that was another reason he had been working so hard lately. Only by raising his rank and abilities could he earn Life Points more conveniently and in larger amounts.

In fact, if he had not developed his recent special abilities, forget about getting into the positive—he would still only be scraping together a few dozen or a few hundred points at a time, nowhere near enough.

"I hope it's enough."

But next came the reckoning.

Calculating vital signs.

Calculating maintenance costs for body, life, and soul.

Warping reality.

Reassembling the fleshly body.

Each prompt made him feel that something was increasingly wrong.

From those prompts, Lu PingAn noticed something he had overlooked.

Previously, 6,000 points had sustained him for half a year, and the system prompt at the time had implied that as his condition deteriorated, the maintenance cost would continuously increase.

But judging from the current prompts, as his rank rose and the strength of his body, soul, and life increased, would the maintenance