40: Chapter 40 System, you've tricked me again!

"Right, don't I have a space bracelet?"

Su Ming raised his left hand with righteous confidence.

He shook the dark silver ring on his wrist.

It was a gift from Shen Hongyuan.

Shen Qingci glanced at the bracelet.

Her expression was like she was looking at an idiot.

"The one my father gave you is just a standard militia-grade model.

It only has ten cubic meters of space.

It'll be packed full just by putting in a few weapons, a couple of sets of armor, and some rations.

If you stuff this magic lizard in, how are you going to fit anything else later?"

Su Ming's heart shattered with a "click."

He swallowed and asked tentatively, "Then what about the one on your wrist... how big is it?"

"It's not that big."

Shen Qingci said in a calm tone.

She casually spun the space bracelet with delicate patterns on her wrist.

"Just over a thousand cubic meters, it's a custom model."

A thousand-plus cubic meters and she calls it 'not that big'?

An ordinary family car is about three cubic meters.

It can fit three hundred and thirty-three cars, and you call that 'not that big'?

Rich lady, I'm hungry, feed me!

Su Ming shed tears of poverty.

The world of the rich is truly hard to understand.

He also wanted to have such a wealthy father!

If not a father, a wife would do too!

But on the surface, Su Ming could only sigh nonchalantly.

"If it won't fit, it won't fit. I'll think of a way."

He turned around, back to Shen Qingci, and walked away with a puppy-dog face.

When in doubt, ask the cheat for help!

Su Ming frantically called out to the system in his mind.

"System! Can I store the corpse in this ten-cubic-meter bracelet first?

And then use my consciousness to perform internal consumption inside the bracelet?"

This is the perfect plan to exploit a bug!

This way he could store it in parts, putting it in and consuming it simultaneously.

He wouldn't have to expose the consumption process, and he could 'stock up' like crazy!

However, the system's cold, mechanical voice shattered his fantasy once again.

[Ding! Host request rejected. External space equipment is an independently created sub-space fold with no link to the host's primal consciousness, making remote mass consumption impossible.]

Su Ming cursed under his breath.

"Then what do I do? Stare at a mountain of gold and not pick up a single coin? I'm the reincarnation of Grandet!"

He had silenced the system again!

Both sides stood in a standoff for a few seconds...

[Ding! Detected strong storage and covert consumption needs from the host. The system can open an exclusive storage space (Primary) for the host.]

[Description: An exclusive dimensional space created by the system, with an initial volume of 100 cubic meters. At the primary level, it can only store inanimate objects. Consuming mass points can expand the space.]

[Function: The host can use consciousness to covertly consume substances within the space.]

Su Ming's eyes lit up!

There's a chance!

"Good brother! Hurry, hurry, open it for me!"

[Opening system exclusive storage space (Primary) requires 500 mass points.]

The smile on Su Ming's face instantly froze.

Five hundred points?

He quickly opened the panel to check his balance.

After redeeming the divine skill [Mass Mastery] last night, his current mass point balance was...

267.8.

It was more than half short!

Su Ming had been quite happy just a moment ago.

Now he wasn't laughing anymore.

You damn system, are you trying to choke me here?!

This is like a person who hasn't eaten for three days standing before a grand banquet.

Only to be told he needs to pay for a pair of chopsticks to eat.

And he just happens to be unable to afford the chopsticks.

He looked at the military off-road vehicle parked in the distance.

Consume the car? No way, if he consumes the car, Shen Qingci will definitely kill him.

Consume the windbreaker he's wearing?

Are you kidding? He's only wearing a short-sleeved shirt underneath; does he want to streak in the radiation zone?

Just as Su Ming was scratching his head in frustration.

His peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of the dark silver space bracelet on his left wrist.

It only had some compressed rations inside anyway, it was basically empty.

This thing is also crafted from high-density alloys and rare space ores, right?

It should count as a lump of pure mass, right?

Take a gamble, turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!

Su Ming didn't hesitate and focused his consciousness on his left wrist.

"System, evaluate the mass points of this crappy bracelet for me!"

[Ding! Analyzing standard military space bracelet... Analysis complete. Contains rare void-nether stone powder and high-purity tungsten gold.]

[Due to containing micro space law fragments, consuming this item can exchange for 232.2 mass points.]

Hearing this number, precise to one decimal place.

Su Ming thought this system was quite rigorous.

232.2 points.

Added to his existing 267.8 points...

Not too much, not too little.

Exactly five hundred!

Su Ming was stunned for a moment.

Then a nameless rage rushed straight to his head.

"System, you bastard! You're scheming against me again!"

"Did you calculate exactly how much I had in my pocket long ago?!"

"You are absolutely doing this on purpose! This is barefaced extortion!"

Su Ming frantically gave the middle finger in his mind.

But the system ignored his protests completely.

It just coldly popped up a prompt box:

[Does the host wish to consume the space bracelet and open the system storage space? Countdown: 10, 9...]

Although this was a huge loss.

But compared to the hundreds or thousands of tons of exotic beast corpses and high-grade ore veins later on...

This investment had to be made!

Su Ming gritted his teeth and roared in his heart.

"Alright! Stop the countdown! I'll consume it, okay!"

In the palm of his hand, a microscopic black hole was immediately activated.

One minute.

The dark silver bracelet on his wrist directly weathered and disintegrated.

It turned into a wisp of dark gray powder and sank into his palm.

[Ding! Consumed space bracelet successfully, mass points +232.2. Current balance: 500.]

[Ding! Balance target met, system exclusive storage space (Primary) has been opened! Initial volume 100 cubic meters!]

As the prompt sound faded.

Su Ming felt an empty and profound space appear in his mind.

A void space that belonged entirely to him.

That sense of control, like a connection of blood.

Was far beyond what that crappy bracelet could compare to.

Su Ming let out a long breath.

He turned around to look at Shen Qingci, who was waiting impatiently.

"I'm here, Miss Shen. I've thought of a way."

Su Ming strode to the side of the Poison Blade Magic Lizard's corpse.

Under Shen Qingci's slightly puzzled gaze.

He stretched out his right hand and gently placed it on the lizard's rough scales.

"Hand it over!" Su Ming whispered in his heart.

"Swish!"

The massive mountain of flesh disappeared out of thin air.

There wasn't even a pool of foul-smelling blood left on the ground.

It was directly taken into the system space.

Shen Qingci's eyes went wide.

She stared fixedly at Su Ming's left wrist.

It was completely empty.

That dark silver space bracelet was gone.

"You... you burst that ten-cubic-meter bracelet?!

How on earth did you stuff this thing in there!"

"Just a little bit of magic that comes with my mutant talent."

Su Ming slapped his hands together dashingly, leaving her with an inscrutable side profile.

"Space is like water in a sponge; if you squeeze it..."

As he spoke, his gaze inadvertently swept across the upright and graceful curves in front of her.

He paused for a moment and then looked away nonchalantly.

"...if you squeeze it, it gets bigger."

Shen Qingci followed his gaze and looked down at herself.

She was stunned at first.

Immediately, her usually cold, unchanging face.

Flushed with a tinge of crimson at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Su Ming! Where are you looking!"

"Clang!"

A stream of dark gold light burst from her fingertips.

Su Ming shrank his neck and turned to run.

His voice drifted far away into the fog:

"Don't draw your blade! That was purely academic research on the elasticity of space!"

"Really, classmate Shen, you have to trust my academic integrity..."

"Ah, my butt!"