Kidnapping

"Congratulations, host's points have reached 100,000. Lucky Roulette unlocked."

Host: Ye Yuan

Points: 78,300/100,000

Strength: 26

Speed: 16

Endurance: 21

Title: Intern Fisherman (Affinity with aquatic creatures +11)

Fishery Space (Beginner): Accelerates the growth of creatures in the fishery. Points can be exchanged to alter creatures' appearances..\nＣＯＭ

Points Mall (Intermediate): Points can be used to exchange for items in the mall. The currently exchangeable items are as follows...

Lucky Roulette: Can be used by exchanging points. Current free draws: 1.

After Ye Yuan exchanged the two "Black Stones" for points, the system unlocked a new function.

In the space, a projection resembling a prize wheel appeared in the center. Looking at the items on it, he found them dazzlingly abundant.

Space Jumper, single-person aircraft, Water Control Art, Spirit Opening Pill, Constitution Enhancement Pill, Feed Production Line, brewing technology...

Ye Yuan was a little dumbfounded when he saw those things. Wasn't this supposed to be a technological planet? What the hell were these pills and cultivation arts?

Of course, no one could answer those questions for him.

Above the roulette wheel was a button labeled "Start."

Without hesitation, Ye Yuan activated the Lucky Roulette. What he really wanted to draw was the Space Jumper. Just from the name, he could tell it was something incredibly high-end.

The pointer spun rapidly, slowly approaching the Space Jumper.

"Jumper, Jumper."

Ye Yuan muttered quietly.

Slowly, the pointer passed over the Jumper and stopped on the Spirit Opening Pill.

"Continue?"

"Spinning the roulette again will deduct 10,000 points from the host."

"Yes."

Ye Yuan looked at his massive 78,000 points and continued.

The pointer spun again, and in the end, he received a Constitution Enhancement Pill.

"Continue?"

"Spinning again will deduct 10,000 points from the host."

"No."

Ye Yuan decisively stopped drawing. It seemed he wasn't that lucky after all. Points had plenty of other uses, so he couldn't waste them here.

He took the Constitution Enhancement Pill and swallowed it directly.

He felt his strength increase somewhat as the pill went down, so he glanced at his status.

Host: Ye Yuan

Points: 68,300/100,000

Strength: 30

Speed: 17

Endurance: 22

Title: Intern Fisherman (Affinity with aquatic creatures +11)

Fishery Space (Beginner): Accelerates the growth of creatures in the fishery. Points can be exchanged to alter creatures' appearances.

Points Mall (Intermediate): Points can be used to exchange for items in the mall. The currently exchangeable items are as follows...

Lucky Roulette: Number of draws can be exchanged using points.

His strength had increased by 3, while speed and endurance had each increased by 1.

Ye Yuan did not continue exchanging the stones for points, because he had already figured out this kind of stone's

true purpose.

Just last night, he had discovered that when cultivating the "Water Control Art," holding one of these stones in his hand greatly increased his cultivation speed.

Now that he knew how to use this thing, he could not exchange all of it for points.

Su Mei's life had finally improved somewhat these past few days. Although Zhang Gui's side still had not supplied any seafood,

the day after she returned from Ye Yuan's place, the purchasing department had hauled back a truckload of fish from Ye Yuan. This temporarily solved the hotel's predicament of having no seafood to sell.

Today, she planned to leave work early and go home to spend time with her precious daughter.

Many people at the hotel did not know that their General Manager Su already had a four-year-old daughter.

When Su Mei was in her sophomore year of college, she began dating a senior from the same school.

At the time, the two were known as the school's golden couple.

After graduating, the senior chose to study abroad, and everyone thought the two would break up.

But Su Mei at the time disregarded her family's objections and chose to follow him abroad to study.

They studied and worked part-time overseas, spending the most wonderful three years together. The two also began living together.

Just as they returned to the country and prepared to get married, the senior died in a car accident. This dealt Su Mei a tremendous blow. As the saying went, misfortunes never came alone.

Before Su Mei could emerge from the shadow of losing her lover, she discovered that she was pregnant.

Many friends advised her not to keep the child.

But Su Mei insisted on giving birth to her. When so many relatives and friends opposed her, her mother stepped forward to support her.

After Su Mei gave birth to the child, she remained by her daughter's side because she was still young.

But when her daughter turned four, her mother's health worsened by the day, and she was truly unable to continue managing the hotel. Su Mei had no choice but to take over the hotel.

Su Mei had been far too busy these past few days and felt that she had neglected her daughter.

Today, she could finally go home early and spend some time with her.

As Su Mei was packing up her documents and preparing to go home, her phone suddenly rang. The nanny's anxious, tearful voice came from the other end:

"Miss Su, something terrible has happened. Nian Xin was taken away."

Su Mei's mind buzzed when she heard that.

She barely kept herself from collapsing and hurriedly asked:

"What happened? What exactly happened?"

At that moment, she still held onto a sliver of hope that perhaps there had been some misunderstanding.

"Just now, I went to pick up Nian Xin. I had already picked her up, but a van stopped beside us. Three people got out, pushed me down, and took Nian Xin away. I'm in the ambulance now. The kindergarten has already called the police."

At that point, someone else took the phone from the other end.

"Hello, are you this lady's family member? We're from XX Hospital. Please come to the hospital as soon as possible to complete the procedures. Her external injuries are serious, and she has multiple fractures."

With that, the caller directly hung up.

Upon hearing this, Su Mei's legs could no longer support her body. She fell to the floor with a thud.

Her lifeless eyes stared at the sky outside the window as two streams of tears rolled down her cheeks.

The secretary heard the sound from outside and immediately pushed open the door. Seeing Su Mei sitting on the floor and crying silently, she was startled as well.

She hurried over, helped Su Mei up, and seated her on the sofa. Only then did Su Mei remember what the doctor had said. She immediately instructed the secretary to go to the hospital and handle the nanny's situation.

After the secretary left, Su Mei forced herself to calm down.

She took out her phone and called a number she had not contacted in a long time.

The other party took a long time to answer. After the call connected,

"Hello? What is it? I'm busy here."

Hearing his tone, Su Mei shouted in a nearly hysterical voice,

"All you know is work! You didn't care when Mom fell ill from exhaustion, you didn't care when my husband died, and now Nian Xin has been kidnapped! Are you still not going to care?"

After saying that, she threw down the phone, curled her legs up on the sofa, buried her head between them, hugged them, and burst into tears.

The person Su Mei had called was her father, Su Weiguo, who taught marine biology.

Her father had devoted his entire life to scientific research and rarely concerned himself with family matters.

Even when something so terrible happened to Su Mei, he had merely returned home to take a look. He had not even stayed a full day before rushing back to his laboratory.

Now that her mother's health was poor, Su Mei did not dare tell her about this.

But when a weak woman like her encountered something like this, she needed someone to confide in, didn't she? She could only call her father.

What she had not expected was that the tone he used when answering the phone caused Su Mei, already on the verge of collapse, to completely break down.