14: Chapter 14 Speculations about the System

[Congratulations, Host. Side quest: Improve physical fitness to B-level (amateur athlete standard) within 30 days has been completed.]

[Task reward: 500,000 RMB in cash has been issued.]

[Congratulations, Host. Side quest: Improve appearance to 79 (one in a thousand) within 30 days. Detected current appearance: 85 (one in ten thousand). Task exceeded. Reward doubled. Prize draw module unlocked.]

A large die appeared in front of Su Ye, with the numbers 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10 on its faces.

Su Ye hadn't expected this surprise. If he rolled a 10, that 500,000 would be multiplied by ten to become 5 million!

Su Ye didn't draw immediately. Instead, he lit some aromatherapy in the living room, then ran to the bathroom and scrubbed himself from head to toe until his skin turned red. Only then did he run out of the bathroom and bow in all four directions.

He looked at the die in front of him with a serious expression and shouted, "Start!"

The die began to roll crazily and erratically. After ten seconds, its speed began to drop sharply, and finally, it stopped abruptly on the number 8.

"YES!" Su Ye couldn't help but punch the air vigorously. Although he hadn't rolled the maximum ten times, eight times was already very good.

[Prize draw completed. Task reward: 4,000,000 RMB in cash has been issued.]

With two "buzzes" from his phone, the screen suddenly lit up.

"Your account 31B4500, 4,000,000.00 yuan. Balance after transaction is 4,778,620.00 yuan [China Merchants Bank]"

Seeing nearly five million in his online bank account, Su Ye finally collapsed onto the sofa and let out a long sigh of relief. To be honest, Su Ye had been very anxious during this time, afraid that he was in a farce, afraid that the system would suddenly disappear one day. Only now did Su Ye feel at ease. With a set of commercial properties worth ten million and nearly five million in deposits, even if the system suddenly disappeared, Su Ye could live very well in a new first-tier city like Chengdu.

[Ding-dong. Detected that the Host has completed one main quest and two side quests. Now releasing long-term main quest (Long-term main quests will not affect the release of side quests and connection quests): Increase personal assets to over one billion, and possess more than three R7-level connections.]

[Task reward: Connection system upgrade.]

[Ding-dong. Detected that side quest has been completed. Now releasing new connection quest (Connection quests are released once a month. If the Host has other tasks, the connection quest will wait until the other tasks are finished).]

[Connection quest target: Yan Zheng (R7)]

[Requirement: Increase Yan Zheng's favorability to over 90 points (Note: 60 favorability is a nodding acquaintance, 70 is a friend, 80 is a close friend, 90 is a sworn brother, 100 is life-and-death companion). During the quest, the system will enable the favorability amplification module to enhance the Host's affinity and magnify the favorability the target has toward the Host.]

[Detected that the Host has no social interaction with the target Yan Zheng and is in a stranger state. Hereby providing brief information.]

[Name: Yan Zheng]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 37]

[Position: Chief of the Public Security Bureau of Chengdu Gaoxin District]

[Home Address: Building 6, Unit 1, Room 402, Shenshu Courtyard]

[Please establish contact with the connection target as soon as possible. The system will release auxiliary connection intelligence after contact is established.]

Seeing the information flashing across the screen, Su Ye fell into deep thought.

First, the previous connection quests and side quests were quite simple, one could say anyone with hands could do them. It looked more like a beginner's welfare. Now that the beginner period was over, the system started releasing long-term main quests. From this, it could be seen that the current system was definitely at the lowest version, though he didn't know how many versions there were.

Secondly, during this time, Su Ye had also contacted Cao Ye many times and had met for dinner a few times. He also learned about the detailed situation of Cao Ye's family. He didn't expect that this thick-eyebrowed guy's family had quite a lot of assets: two houses, two cars, and over a million in deposits. The family assets were at least over ten million, but in the system's eyes, he was only R9 level.

And now, Yan Zheng, the Chief of the Chengdu Gaoxin District Public Security Bureau—Su Ye had just checked on his phone, he was a department-level leader. In the system's ranking, he was R7 level. This should be the ceiling for the current system's connection quests. From this, one could boldly infer that R9 and R8 corresponded to section-level and deputy-department-level respectively. He didn't know about wealth, but R7 level should be at least over 100 million.

Now there were two problems to solve. One was how to quickly reach the asset level of one billion based on connections. As for the connection quest, that could only depend on the system. This point was also normal; it was impossible to let a small R9-level nobody go and find a national leader to be sworn brothers with.

The second problem was how to establish contact with Yan Zheng. The so-called establishing contact meant at least making Yan Zheng know him and have an impression of him. It definitely couldn't end with just looking from afar; he had to go up and make contact in person.

"Gurgle..." A sound woke Su Ye from his deep thoughts. Only then did he feel the hunger in his stomach. He shook his head to clear away the messy thoughts. Regardless, today was a day worth celebrating. Spending—he must spend.

First, go buy a car. After all, having a car would make it easier to go anywhere, and it would also be convenient to contact connection targets in the future. He couldn't take the subway to meet a billionaire, right? Then, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles; having a good horse, clothes also needed to be arranged.

However, going downstairs to a private restaurant to order a few dishes and fill his stomach was the real priority.

"Burp!!!" After drinking a mouthful of yogurt, Su Ye patted his stomach. It had been a long time since he had eaten so heartily. For the past month, he had only been eating fitness meals. Although the taste—whether from Edir Gym or what he ordered for takeout—was not bad, as a Sichuanese, heavy oil and heavy salt were the ultimate destination.

He took out his phone and found Cao Ye's contact information. It was lunch break now, so he wasn't afraid of him being in a meeting, and called him directly.

"Hey, brother."

Cao Ye said with dissatisfaction on the other end of the phone:

"Yo, Young Master Su still remembers that he has a brother like me? I told you last week to come to my house for dinner, but you kept pushing it off. Now that almost a week has passed, has Young Master Su finally found time to grace me with his presence?"

Su Ye touched his nose in embarrassment. He had indeed been busy completing system tasks recently, so he hadn't gone when Cao Ye asked him two or three times.

"Hehe, this weekend, I'll go this weekend."

He then quickly changed the subject:

"Brother, I want to buy a car here. Do you know the department manager of the Mercedes-Benz group? Can you help me contact him?"

"Mercedes-Benz? I am quite familiar with their boss. How about this: when you get to the group, give me a call, and I'll bring him to find you."

"Alright, thanks, brother."

After hanging up the phone, Cao Ye called his assistant:

"Xiao Ye, go and notify everyone to reschedule this afternoon's meeting to tomorrow. I have something to do in a while."

"Alright, Director Cao."

Then Cao Ye picked up the phone again:

"Hey, Old Xiang, are you busy in a while——"