Wasn't this just bullying him?
Chu Feng was beside himself with grief and indignation.
"I suspect foul play. The Evolution Game interfered with my thoughts and made me choose wrong."
"The Evolution Game deliberately targeted me!"
"Foul play. This was definitely foul play."
Chu Feng couldn't understand why the one he'd picked, the one who looked most like a protagonist, wasn't actually one.
But that wasn't even the worst part.
Why had all five of the others picked correctly?
It made no sense. It was a cruel joke.
Getting it wrong wasn't embarrassing by itself, but when he was the only one of six to get it wrong? He could have died of embarrassment.
"Admit it. You're just spectacularly unlucky." Lu Shiyun laughed.
"With so many Evolution Players out there, why would the Evolution Game single you out, Chu Feng? Your skin gets thicker by the day."
"Stop making yourself sound so important."
"What do you know?" Chu Feng glanced sideways at Lu Shiyun. "Maybe I'm some great figure reincarnated, carrying the Heavenly Mandate. Maybe the Evolution Game has its eye on me."
"A protagonist, you mean?" Jiang Luo Shen cut in.
"Glad you understand." Chu Feng lifted his chin. "I'm Earth's protagonist, chosen by the Heavenly Mandate!"
"I've never heard of a protagonist with luck that bad," Xia Qianyu said, twisting the knife.
"You fulfilled the Heavenly Mandate of a fake Protagonist Template. What reward did you get?" the Undying Phoenix King asked, turning to a serious question.
"Not all that many Evolution Points."
Not all that many—in other words, very few.
"What else?"
Chu Feng rolled his eyes. "Nothing else."
"The Evolution Game said the reward would be tiny if I chose wrong. What else would there be?"
"What did you get?"
Just thinking about it made Chu