[Ding! Shame Points gained: 50,000 (critical hit)] [Ding! Shame Points gained: 20,000 (critical hit)] [Ding! Shame Points gained: 7,000]...
"Boss, this table isn't steady. Why was it shaking just now?" a man asked.
Cao De smiled and replied, "Maybe it was misbehaving. I'll teach it a lesson when we get back."
"You're quite the joker." The man picked up two skewers, paid, and left.
"No one's here now," Cao De said to himself.
Qingwu shuffled out from one side of the table in a crouch, his little face flushed red. He took a cup out of the system inventory and began rinsing his mouth.
"Who were you going to teach a lesson?" Qingwu demanded fiercely, wrapping an arm around Cao De's neck.
"The table. It was misbehaving and shaking, so of course it needs a lesson," Cao De said with a smile.
"I want the cumin-flavored ones."
"Okay."
Day after day passed. Qingwu and Cao De sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the system interface.
The Shame Points they had earned had now reached five billion and two thousand.
They finally had enough to upgrade the system.
"Should I upgrade it?" Qingwu turned to Cao De, looking a little nervous.
Five billion would vanish in a flash. He was still terribly nervous. If this damned system developed some idiotic bug and swallowed it all, he would be furious.
Seeing his nerves, Cao De stroked Qingwu's head and said with a smile.
"It's fine. Go ahead and click."
Qingwu nodded and purchased the system upgrade.
Golden light emerged over the watery blue, like a glittering river of stars. Profound, uncanny characters of the Dao flowed through it.
Then the golden light vanished, and everything returned to its former stillness.
"That's it? That's it?!" Qingwu pointed