1: Chapter 1 Unlimited Returns!

"Dad, if I say... I failed the college entrance exam, will you be Life Qi?"

Inside the fruit shop, Zhou Yun asked his father.

"Not at all!" Father Zhou did not turn his head back, continuing to arrange the fruit. "No matter what, you are my son; how could I really have Life Qi at you?"

Zhou Yun felt relieved. "That's great. Actually, I..."

"It's just that you will become shorter." Father Zhou added the second half of the sentence.

Zhou Yun looked confused. "Why will I become shorter?"

"Because..." Father Zhou slowly turned around, "I will break your legs."

"Ah!!" Zhou Yun immediately looked miserable.

Father Zhou saw this, snorted coldly, and sat down. "Today is the day the college entrance exam results are announced. Tell me, how much did you score? What Rank of city were you allocated to?"

"%￥#...& *（！）..." Zhou Yun muttered in a low voice.

Father Zhou's face immediately stiffened. "Speak up!"

"372 points, F-Level City..."

"What?!" Father Zhou stood up abruptly, his voice instantly raising three octaves, his eyes full of shock and disappointment.

In this era of universal city lords, the college entrance exam almost determined a person's fate for life!

Those with excellent grades are allocated to A-Level or even S-Level cities, with all the resources and population one could want; as long as they don't court death later, they basically all have a bright future.

But for those like Zhou Yun who are allocated to an F-Level City, resources are barren, and the quality of the population is even worse!

Let alone development, just surviving the novice period would be considered a blessing from the heavens!

Zhou Yun saw this, and his face became even more bitter.

He naturally understood Father Zhou's mood.

But what could he do?

He was also very desperate!

As a Transmigration-er, he had transmigrated one year before the college entrance exam, and the memories he inherited were minimal!

Plus, his predecessor's grades were average to begin with, so even though he went all out to study in the last year, he couldn't turn the tide!

"Sigh..." After a long time, Father Zhou let out a long sigh, his eyes full of desolation, as if he had aged ten years in an instant.

"It can't all be blamed on you... Dragons beget dragons, Phoenix beget Phoenix, mice children can dig holes."

"I am just an ordinary person myself, so what can I demand of my own son?"

"Dad..." Zhou Yun felt a sting in his nose.

At this moment, even if Father Zhou beat him up, he would feel better.

But only like this did it make him feel more self-blame.

In his past life on Earth, he was an orphan.

After transmigrating to this world, although he had only been Father Zhou's son for a year, he had experienced rare fatherly love.

If he could, he really didn't want to disappoint him.

"Since things have already happened, we can only face it." Father Zhou took two steps forward, took a deep breath, and patted Zhou Yun's shoulder heavily.

"Don't lose heart! Cheer up! Work hard!"

"Even if it is an F-Level City, you are still a city lord!"

"I persisted for half a month back then; as long as you persist for one more day, you are better than me!"

...

The next day.

On the school playground, under Father Zhou's gaze, Zhou Yun stepped into the golden light in the center of the playground.

After a bout of dizziness, he arrived in a dim room.

The room was not small, but it was very dilapidated, with dust and spider webs everywhere.

The furnishings consisted only of a chair and a desk.

On the desk lay a gray seal.

Zhou Yun knew that this was the city lord seal.

Now, he had officially become the city lord of this F-Level City, Flower City.

He picked up the city lord seal, blew the dust off it, and then kept it close to his body.

Just then, a neutral electronic voice rang in his mind.

[Ding! Detected that the host's identity has changed to City Lord, Infinite Return System has been activated!]

Infinite Return?

System?

Zhou Yun was pleasantly surprised.

As a Transmigration-er, who didn't know about Systems?

The electronic voice continued:

[The host can obtain at least 100 times the critical return reward by bestowing any item to the citizens under his rule.]

[Note: The bestowed item must be needed by the target, otherwise it will be judged as a failed bestowal.]

"Bestow items and get critical return rewards?" Zhou Yun blinked, very surprised. "There's such a good thing?"

"Doesn't that mean I have infinite resources?"

"Bestow a bag of rice, and get a guaranteed return of one hundred bags!"

"Bestow another hundred bags, and at least ten thousand bags can be returned again!"

"Just a few times, and the whole city might be flooded with rice!"

"No, no... there is also the judgment of failed bestowal, which means it's not that I bestow as much as I want and the System judges it, but there is some kind of judgment rule..."

"But even so, it is still very exaggerated!"

"If there is a need, there is a bestowal! It's hard to say about S-Level and A-Level cities, but in my F-Level City, the needs of the citizens are endless!"

"This is a cheat tailor-made for me!"

Just as he was rejoicing, a chorus of voices suddenly came from outside: "Welcome, City Lord!"

...

Outside the City Lord's mansion, the not-so-spacious street was full of kneeling people.

The golden light pillar that just appeared in the City Lord's mansion made them understand that another City Lord had arrived.

"Creak..."

The door was slowly opened.

They saw a handsome young man.

"Welcome! City Lord!"

Led by the City Guards, everyone shouted in unison again.

Taking office as a City Lord and being welcomed by the citizens should have been a happy thing.

But Zhou Yun couldn't be happy at all.

Because on the faces of these citizens, he didn't see happiness and expectation, only anxiety, and even fear.

Although he had just taken office, he understood that the source of their anxiety and fear was the metal ring on their necks with a red light!

A red light meant being judged as harmful to this city, meaning they had entered the execution line.

And entering the execution line meant being expelled from the city.

In this world full of cities, every city has its own unique execution line.

The more prosperous the city, the higher the execution line; conversely, like an F-Level City like Flower City, the execution line has almost hit rock bottom.

In other words, if they were expelled from Flower City, there would be no other city to go to, and they could only wander in the wilderness.

The wilderness is full of Demonic Beasts, and wandering in the wilderness is tantamount to death.

At this time, the captain of the City Guard, wearing worn-out leather armor, stepped forward and started the process that happens every time a new City Lord arrives.

"City Lord, I am Lei Lie, the captain of the City Guard of Flower City!"

"Currently, Flower City has a total population of 65,309, of which 46,021 have fallen below the execution line!"

"Please give the order, City Lord!"