The Stuff the System Gave Was Just That Good

Thudding footsteps and shouted curses.

They sounded especially piercing in the quiet, dilapidated factory, with an added touch of terror.

Lu Chi: [Fuck! They really came running up here! One against eight-what if I can't beat them?]

Seeing everyone go after Lu Chi, Lu Sangning began to panic.

A moment ago, she had wanted Lu Chi to save her, but now she no longer wanted him to.

Because Lu Chi was only eighteen, still a big kid, and he was alone.

There was no way he could match a grown man like Zhang Yong and the seven bodyguards with him.

For those men to qualify as bodyguards, they naturally knew martial arts, and their skills couldn't be too shabby.

The reason he hadn't fought back when she dealt with him before.

Was, first, that he hadn't brought his bodyguards, and second, that he deliberately kept his bodyguards from acting, hoping to make her change her mind.

But in a situation like this, even if she had brought bodyguards, if they really tore off all pretense and both sides fought, there was no telling who would be stronger.

How could Lu Chi beat them alone?

At that thought, Lu Sangning's heart clenched.

She turned toward the second floor and shouted anxiously, "Run!"

She deliberately left out Lu Chi's name, knowing Zhang Yong hadn't seen clearly who was upstairs, to give Lu Chi a better chance to escape.

Guagua, anxiously: [Host, keep running straight down this passage. About ten meters ahead, you'll reach the end. Turn right, and there's a restroom up ahead. Its door is fairly sturdy. Run inside and hide for a bit.]

Lu Chi: [Fuck! How pathetic is this?! I crawled through a dog hole to get in, and now I have to hide in a restroom...]

Guagua: [Um, Host, just make do for now...]

Lu Chi: "..."

What else could he do?

Run!

Lu Chi summoned the spirit that had won him first place in his school's hundred-meter dash and reached the corner at the end of the passage in a few bounding strides.

He quickly turned right, opened the door, ducked into the restroom, and locked it!

Thank goodness. The factory might have been abandoned and dilapidated, but at least the restroom door was still in good shape.

There was a wooden pole inside, too. Lu Chi braced one end against the door and the other against a corner of the wall.

He jammed the door firmly shut.

He had only just finished that series of movements and hadn't even caught his breath when pounding came from outside.

"Who's in there? You dared ambush me from behind? Get the fuck out here!"

"Come out!"

"Get out here now! Do you hear me?"

"I want to see who the fuck you are!"

Lu Chi said nothing, standing inside the restroom and looking around.

The restroom wasn't big.

All four walls were covered in old-fashioned tiles.

Inside the squat toilet was shit crusted into thick, dry ash.

Beside the squat toilet was a sliding window, rusted from years of disuse.

Lu Chi shook the window hard, wanting to see whether there was anywhere outside he could escape to.

Guagua shook her head: [Host, stop struggling. There's only a wall outside. No way out.]

Lu Chi: [...]

Outside, Zhang Yong and the bodyguards' furious bellows came one after another.

Lu Chi asked Guagua: [How much longer until the police arrive?]

Guagua: [About fifteen minutes.]

Lu Chi: [Can this door hold out for fifteen minutes?]

Guagua: [No. My preliminary estimate is five minutes.]

Outside, Zhang Yong stepped back a few paces and began kicking the door.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Lu Chi: [Then what about the remaining ten minutes?]

Guagua: [Get beaten up!]

Lu Chi: "..."

Door, stay strong!

Don't make me look down on you!

Zhang Yong kicked several times in succession outside, but with the wooden pole braced against it, the door didn't budge.

Zhang Yong rubbed his hands together and continued kicking the door violently.

Knowing the door would be smashed in after five minutes, Lu Chi sighed and began seriously manipulating Guagua, seeing whether he could squeeze anything useful out of her.

Something like combat power...

He couldn't just passively take a beating, could he?

As a transmigrator, wouldn't he be utterly useless if he couldn't do anything?

...Though he had been pretty useless to begin with.

In the real world, as a bottom-tier minor influencer, aside from singing, acting, and having a bit of a funny bone.

He had been a failing student academically and couldn't withstand a single blow in a fight.

He had finally managed to transmigrate, and although he'd become the richest family's true young master, tall, big, strong, and sturdy.

He still ought to have some badass skill.

He would make the system turn its pockets inside out and see whether anything turned up.

Systems in novels generally had a signature trick up their sleeves!

Lu Chi: [I want to unbind the system!]

Guagua, frightened: [Huh? Host...why do you suddenly want to unbind me?]

Lu Chi: [Because you're useless! When other people transmigrate into books and bind systems, their systems are freaking awesome. They give their hosts all kinds of heaven-defying skills, making them omnipotent, godlike beings.]

Guagua: [...] She listened silently without speaking.

Lu Chi: [But look at you. A Gossip System-what else can you do besides gossip? I'm about to get beaten up. Can you help?]

Guagua thought about it.

She shook her head.

Then she thought some more.

Sigh, forget it.

I'd better stop hiding it.

There was no keeping that secret stash of money (Gossip Coins), after all.

Guagua: [Host, actually, my system isn't just for gossip. We have a System Mall that can provide our respective hosts with skills,

such as good looks, a physique with eighteen-pack abs, combat power that can be upgraded continuously, superb medical skills, badass supernatural abilities, and so on.

But these skills all require (Gossip Coins) to unlock. Whenever we discuss other people's gossip, you earn different amounts of Gossip Coins based on how big the gossip is.

Of course, you can also substitute an equivalent amount of yuan for Gossip Coins. One yuan equals one Gossip Coin. I figured you were already a top-tier rich second generation and wouldn't need these skills, so...]

Lu Chi: [So what?]

Guagua: [So...I pocketed just a teeny bit of your Gossip Coins.]

Hearing Guagua say that infuriated Lu Chi.

Lu Chi: [Something that heaven-defying exists, and you didn't tell me? Tell me, how many Gossip Coins have I generated since transmigrating here, and how many did you pocket?]

Guagua: [Sorry, Host. I was wrong. After you transmigrated here, we first feasted on the overall gossip about your family, then your eldest sister's huge gossip, and your second sister's second helping of gossip...

And Campus Belle Su's family gossip, and gossip about your whole class...um, that comes to 15,612 Gossip Coins. I-I p-pocketed 15,612...hehe...]

Lu Chi: [So you pocketed every last one?!]

Guagua, pitifully: [Sorry, Host...please don't be angry. I know I was wrong. I won't ever dare pocket your Gossip Coins again.]

Lu Chi: [All right, all right! I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself! I want to unlock the combat power skill now. Can I?]

Guagua: [You can, but you don't have enough Gossip Coins to unlock this skill...You can use real money in place of Gossip Coins, though. It's not much. Beginner combat power is just...99,999,999 Gossip Coins.]

Lu Chi silently counted the digits from left to right in his head: Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands...!

[Beginner combat power costs ninety million?! Why should I buy it for that much money? I'd be better off doing three months of intensive training at Mount Song Shaolin during the break after the college entrance exam.

Besides, all I have in my account is the hundred and fifty million my ready-made parents gave me! And Lu Jiyang's five million!]

Guagua: [Host, you'd better buy it. In another two minutes, they'll kick the door apart. I was wrong to pocket your Gossip Coins. To redeem myself, I'll get you credit from the mall this once.

But, Host, you'll have to work hard to earn money, repay the debt, and exchange it for higher-level skills...There are other skills, too. If you buy them all, you can become invincible in this world.]

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Focused entirely on talking to the system, Lu Chi hadn't noticed that holes had already been kicked through the restroom door here and there.

The door was about to be kicked to pieces.

Then he heard Zhang Yong say outside, "Brothers, keep kicking! Once you're in, beat the shit out of him! I'm going back to take care of my real business!"

Zhang Yong said he was going to take care of his real business?

Real business?

Lu Chi was startled.

Didn't that mean going to assault his eldest sister?

He hurriedly told Guagua: [Quit yapping. Hurry up and get me beginner combat power! On credit!]

Guagua: [Okay, right away!]

The next instant.

It was like that shudder when taking a piss.

After a shudder, Lu Chi felt his whole body heat up, his blood vessels swelling.

Following a faint pain, a pleasurable sensation of having his sinews cleansed and marrow remade immediately coursed through him.

One minute later.

Just as Zhang Yong's seven bodyguards took turns kicking the door, at the final moment before it shattered.

There was suddenly a bang.

A hard fist smashed straight out through the center of the door.