144: Chapter 144 Alice's Doll Tea Party (Transitional Chapter 2)

Luo Yuejian couldn't help but ask, "System? System, are you there?"

For a long while, there was no reply.

Luo Yuejian was truly surprised this time. The slacker system wasn't there? This seemed unprecedented. Ever since the slacker system bound to her, this guy had always been in her mind and had never left.

Now that it had suddenly disappeared, Luo Yuejian couldn't help but feel a bit surprised.

At the same time, deep down, there was a faint sense of panic.

Although Luo Yuejian had always been bickering with the slacker system, in a sense, the slacker system could be considered one of the driving forces that had kept Luo Yuejian going in the Miracle Escape Live Stream Game until now.

After all, without the slacker system, Luo Yuejian might have long since been unable to bear the pressure of the Miracle Escape Live Stream Game.

And now, the slacker system had actually disappeared!

Luo Yuejian called out to the system in her mind a few more times, but still received no response.

This time she was truly panicked. Standing there, she couldn't help but start thinking about what she should do next.

If the slacker system had really disappeared, would the treaty she had previously signed with it—that she could be resurrected and return to her original world after death—still be valid?

Luo Yuejian actually suspected that all the treaties she had previously signed with the slacker system would become void.

After all, with the slacker system gone, who else could help her resurrect after death?

In that case, wouldn't she still have to follow the Miracle Company's settings and gain 10 million fans through the Miracle Escape Live Stream Game to be resurrected?

Although she already had over 1.5 million fans, no matter how one looked at it, this number was still far from the 10 million fans required by the Miracle Escape Live Stream Game.

If she kept accumulating them like this, when on earth would she ever reach 10 million fans?

Furthermore, without the slacker system around, Luo Yuejian didn't think she could maintain such heaven-defying luck. Perhaps she would die in some game level.

Death wasn't the main issue; after all, Luo Yuejian knew her own strength and had long been prepared for death.

But if it were like the last game, turning into one of those dolls, unable to die, and having her soul trapped in the game forever, that would be too terrifying.

Luo Yuejian suddenly started to appreciate the good points of the slacker system.

Although this system was a bit of a jerk, its capabilities were there, and at least it was somewhat reassuring.

Although when there was no danger, the slacker system was the biggest danger, when there was danger, Luo Yuejian still needed the slacker system to have her back.

Before Luo Yuejian could figure out a way to find the slacker system, the system's voice suddenly rang out in her mind, "Host, are you looking for me?"

Hearing the familiar mechanical electronic voice of the slacker system, Luo Yuejian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, while simultaneously wondering what the system had just been doing. Could it have gone to upgrade like in some novels?

"Where did you just go? I called you for a long time and you didn't respond to me," Luo Yuejian asked.

The slacker system replied, "The system just went to collect its own mission reward."

Luo Yuejian: "... ? You have mission rewards?"

The slacker system: "No, I misspoke just now. The system went to collect the Host's mission penalty."

Hearing the words "mission penalty," a bad premonition immediately arose in Luo Yuejian's heart, and she asked vigilantly, "What kind of penalty requires you to disappear for so long?"

The slacker system said calmly, "The system just went to the Star Net account that was set up for the Host at the Miracle Company and took away 90% of the earnings."

Luo Yuejian: ??

Damn it, she knew it! How could this jerk have suddenly disappeared? So it went to take the money!

Calculating the time, it was probably just as she entered the white pillar of light that this jerk of a system had already set off to head for the Miracle Company's account.

Being so proactive about taking money, Luo Yuejian was so angry she wanted to laugh: "What does a system need so much money for? Can you even spend it?"

"Whether the system can spend money is not important; what is important is that I hope to give you, Host, some motivation," the slacker system said earnestly.

"Just as you said, the system doesn't spend money, so holding onto this money is actually useless."

The slacker system sighed, "But in order to give you, Host, more motivation to complete the system's tasks, I had to expend extra effort. Do you think hacking into the Miracle Company's account is an easy thing?"

Luo Yuejian: ...

To be honest, she really had thought that hacking into the Miracle Company's account was very easy for the slacker system...

But she couldn't be blamed for that, right? Who told this jerk of a system to keep talking about going to the Miracle Company to take money, as if the Miracle Company's account were its piggy bank.

However, listening to the slacker system now, it seemed that hacking into the Miracle Company's account was indeed somewhat difficult for it.

Recalling what the slacker system had just said, Luo Yuejian couldn't help but argue again: "But you have other ways to motivate me; there's no need to take my money."

The slacker system chuckled, "What could motivate you more than taking your money?"

Luo Yuejian: ...

She was actually speechless...?

But she was still somewhat unwilling to let it go. Damn it, that was 90% of her earnings after entering the Miracle Escape Live Stream Game and completing five games!

With her 1.5 million-plus fans, even if each fan only gave her one dollar, she would have had 1.5 million now! The system alone took 1.35 million!

Thinking of this number, Luo Yuejian felt heartbroken. She couldn't help but haggle with the system: "That 90% of the earnings is just too much. I worked so hard to play so many rounds of this damn game just to save up that little bit of money, and you took it all at once. I'm basically back to square one overnight. Can you make it cheaper?"

The slacker system sighed, "Host, have you forgotten that the system's mission is to lose the game?"

"You only need to die in the game or lose the game, and you can be resurrected."

It said as if it were heartbroken: "It's such a simple mission, yet you, Host, actually went and won five matches. And now you have the nerve to haggle with the system?"

Hearing the system say this, Luo Yuejian suddenly felt a bit embarrassed. Indeed, if she had been able to complete the system's mission, she would have been resurrected long ago and naturally wouldn't have to...

Wait, Luo Yuejian suddenly realized, damn it, if it weren't for this jerk of a system pulling strings behind the scenes, how could she have survived until now?