New Work

Chu Yu didn't know that Su Ruo, who was chatting with him on Weixin, was also having a meal with another person and discussing him.

But the message Su Ruo sent to Chu Yu indeed made him a little uneasy.

The Garden of Words was currently serialized up to the fifth chapter, and it would officially conclude in two weeks. The Serialization Meeting, held to fill the vacancy on Man Ying, was also in two weeks.

For him, this was undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for a new serialization, especially since this serialization slot was a vacancy on Man Ying.

But now came the crucial difficulty.

Chu Yu's consciousness sank into the System Space.

In a vast, empty space, before Chu Yu stood numerous manga works that possessed immense popularity on the Earth Plane.

Unfortunately, these works were all locked by chains from the system, and the only way to break these chains was with World Points that Chu Yu acquired by serializing manga works in this world.

Chu Yu looked at the information about himself within the System Space.

Host: Chu Yu
Unlocked Works: The Garden of Words
Held World Points: 84253

These were three simple but most important pieces of data. Among them, the most crucial was the Held World Points.

Two months ago, before he started serializing The Garden of Words, this number was zero.

After five weeks of serialization, this number had reached over eighty thousand points.

According to the system's explanation, World Points were the number of emotional fluctuations generated by the readers of this world after watching works from the Earth Plane disseminated by Chu Yu.

Simply put, whenever Chu Yu's drawn works moved the audience to tears, ignited their passion, or evoked other strong emotional responses, he would earn World Points.

Even with the same work, if Chu Yu could make the same viewer experience emotions ten times, that viewer would contribute ten World Points to Chu Yu.

On the surface, the over eighty thousand World Points Chu Yu possessed seemed like a lot.

However, after seeing the World Points required to unlock each work within the System Space, Chu Yu sighed to the heavens.

"The road ahead is long and arduous!"

At this moment, Chu Yu truly understood how poor he was.

If he calculated based on the speed of gaining eighty thousand World Points in two months, Chu Yu wouldn't be able to exchange for the work called One Piece in the system even if he lived to be a hundred years old.

He even sifted through the entire System Space and found that the works he could exchange for were very few. As for their Quality, although Chu Yu hadn't unlocked those works yet, according to the information provided by the system, if The Garden of Words wasn't a Newbie Gift given when the system was bound, then Chu Yu would need at least over two million World Points to unlock it!

The system has its own criteria for judging the value of each work, but in Chu Yu's opinion, judging by the value of The Garden of Words at two million World Points...

Then, for works with a value below eighty thousand World Points that could be unlocked, Chu Yu had absolutely no confidence in their quality.

Moreover, Chu Yu looked at the relevant information. Most of the works that Chu Yu could unlock at this stage were short works like The Garden of Words, which completely did not align with Su Ruo's message of at least medium-length works.

After looking for a long time, Chu Yu shook his head.

He gave up on the idea of unlocking those works with World Points.

"It seems I really have no choice but to take a gamble!"

"Bet it all, go from a bicycle to a motorcycle."

In the System Space, there were two ways for Chu Yu to unlock these works.

The first method was to spend World Points to unlock them. As long as you had enough World Points, you could unlock any work you wanted.

And the second method... was a lottery!

By consuming all the World Points Chu Yu currently possessed, he could randomly unlock one work within the System Space.

If he was lucky, perhaps Chu Yu could use these eighty thousand-plus World Points to gamble for one of the works in Bleach.

However, Chu Yu only thought about this possibility; the chance of this happening was comparable to winning the lottery! After all, the system had prompted that the more World Points consumed to unlock works through this method, the higher the chance of drawing a high-quality work, and vice versa.

But Chu Yu had no other choice. Even The Garden of Words, valued at two million World Points, didn't get a serialization opportunity on Man Ying back then.

Chu Yu didn't think that if he truly unlocked those works valued below eighty thousand World Points and submitted them, he would have a chance to get a serialization opportunity at the Serialization Meeting two weeks later.

From beginning to end, he only had one choice, he had to take a gamble!

Since he had made up his mind, Chu Yu was not one to procrastinate.

"System, consume all my current World Points and start a lottery draw," Chu Yu said to this space.

"As you wish..."

In the System Space, a mechanical voice echoed.

A cursor suddenly appeared on one of the works in the System Space and then rapidly jumped across various works.

Chu Yu's eyes were fixed on the cursor. He understood that when the cursor stopped moving, the position it landed on would be the work he drew and unlocked.

A full Five Minutes passed...

The cursor initially moved at an accelerated speed, then gradually slowed down. Now, it moved only once every two seconds. Soon, the result would be out.

This is not good!

Chu Yu noticed the cursor was about to drift towards works with World Points values around one hundred thousand. Honestly, Chu Yu didn't feel those works were any different from those worth eighty thousand World Points.

"Hey, System, you better think clearly!" Chu Yu gritted his teeth, unsure if it would work, and said loudly within the System Space.

"You're the one who forced yourself onto me, the one who demanded I become a Manga Artist to earn World Points..."

"Even though I embarked on the path of manga under your temptation, with the condition that I could view excellent works from other worlds."

"But even if you really want to give me some trash works, I'm indifferent..."

At this moment, the cursor had jumped to a work worth one hundred twenty thousand World Points and hadn't moved for two seconds.

"Worst case scenario, I'll just go back to my old routine: attend class, go home, and eventually become a third-rate Manga Artist who's a Fleeting Flower in Ming City, just an ordinary person... But you won't get me to help you earn World Points anymore, you stingy system!"

Chu Yu finished speaking in one breath. In an instant, he seemed to feel the atmosphere within the System Space change.

Finally, the drawing cursor, which had stopped, suddenly flashed to another work dozens of meters away.

This was completely different from the previous pattern of only moving to adjacent works, leaving Chu Yu dumbfounded.

This works too?

This system can actually be threatened!

Then why were you so aloof before?

Chu Yu took a deep breath and looked at the position where the cursor had stopped dozens of meters away.

Within the System Space, the System's voice was still mechanical, but Chu Yu felt it seemed to contain a hint of humanity compared to before.

"Congratulations, Host Chu Yu, for unlocking a work through the lottery."

"Work title..."

"Rurouni Kenshin: Remembrance!"