"Thank you for your generosity, host. I will now deduct five hundred thousand years from your lifespan."
"Ding! Deduction successful. Host, please come again!"
At that moment, Qian Chongling finally realized something was wrong, but the system had already fled and resumed its usual routine of playing dead.
"Motherfucker! You Dumb System, give me back my lifespan! Fuck you!"
Qian Chongling checked his personal attributes and discovered that his lifespan, originally close to six hundred thousand years, had now dwindled to less than 100,000 Years.
"Ugh, I accounted for every possibility, yet that Dumb System still screwed me over!"
"Still, trading lifespan I normally have no use for for these four summoning cards with insane stats isn't really a losing deal!"
"All I can say is, others spend money; I spend my lifespan!"
Qian Chongling consoled himself. Since his lifespan kept growing the longer he lived, it was essentially infinite. Subtracting five hundred thousand years from infinity made no real difference.
The reason he was angry was that the Dumb System had tricked him again. They had previously been evenly matched in their attempts to screw each other over, but now he was down one loss. That was what annoyed him most.
During a previous card game, Qian Chongling had used the Chaos Extreme Dragon, that thing known as the Scrub Crusher, to finish the Dumb System in a single strike.
Of course, he hadn't shuffled the deck. After he tricked the Dumb System that time, it had given him a gift pack containing some forty or fifty God-Given Soul Rings.
Qian Chongling had only discovered last year that the Dumb System could do something as bizarre as play cards, and that had marked the beginning of their journey of mutual trickery.
Speaking of God-Given Soul Rings naturally brought Sea