136: Chapter 136 The System Upgrades Again! Unlocking Top-Tier Causality and Favor Exchange
That blinding golden light exploded in his mind.
Qin Yuan instinctively narrowed his eyes.
The crystal chandelier overhead, worth millions, flickered twice. The sound of electricity "zzzt, zzzt" crackled, as if it were about to short-circuit at any moment.
The half piece of potato chip in Gu Qianqian's hand fell onto the keyboard.
She rubbed her eyes and stared at the voltmeter on the wall.
"Ouch, this lousy wiring, what the hell is going on..."
She muttered, bending down to slap the computer tower.
Qin Yuan didn't pay any attention to her.
All his attention was on the floating azure panel in his mind.
The golden light slowly dissipated.
In the center of the panel, a red button had appeared.
It only had two words on it.
[Upgrade].
This lousy system, having followed him all the way while killing the Child of Destiny, was finally fed.
Qin Yuan took a deep breath.
He tapped it with his index finger.
"Ding!"
The mechanical voice changed; it was no longer that cold, synthetic sound, but carried a metallic texture and sounded very heavy.
[System core module is reorganizing...]
[10%... 50%... 99%...]
Qin Yuan felt his throat go a bit dry.
He picked up his red wine glass, wanting to moisten his throat. There was a layer of dark red wine residue at the bottom of the glass.
He didn't drink it. He put it back down.
[Upgrade complete.]
[god-level favor system, advanced to: Heavens and Myriad Worlds · Unique Favor System.]
The interface had undergone a major overhaul.
All those messy task boxes from before were gone.
Only a golden disc remained.
[Ultimate permission unlocked: Causality Law favor exchange.]
Qin Yuan stared at those words.
Causality Law.
He was familiar with this term.
In the past, exchanging favors at most meant getting some big shot to take action and solve some trouble in reality.
For example, making a bank president freeze an account, or having special police raid a venue.
That was borrowing power.
Still playing within the rules.
What about now?
He clicked on the description to take a look.
[As long as there is enough favor value, one can forcibly modify the established rules of the current plane.]
[Making everything unreasonable become legal and compliant.]
"Heh."
Qin Yuan laughed out loud.
The laugh sounded a bit dry.
This is literally "word becomes law."
In other words, if he pointed at a pig right now and said it was the UN Secretary-General.
As long as he poured in enough favor value, the Heavenly Dao would have to hold its nose and accept it. Everyone in the world would think that this pig being the Secretary-General was reasonable and logical.
A cheater?
I am now the programmer who writes the cheats.
"Boss, your laugh is a bit creepy."
Gu Qianqian crawled out from under the computer tower, holding a screwdriver, with a smudge of dust on her face.
"Did something really happen over at Elder Chu's place?"
She wiped her face with the back of her hand, spreading the dust even more.
"It's nothing."
Qin Yuan flexed his wrists, his bones cracking.
"You keep watching the capital."
He had to test this new feature.
On the panel, the favor value he had accumulated now was a string of zeros that made one's eyes dizzy.
That playboy who was sunk into the river just now contributed quite a lot.
His gaze fell on a name in the corner of the system interface.
Zhao Si.
That fat guy who ran away after being burned by fire.
He didn't die, and he let him get away.
"System."
Qin Yuan thought silently in his mind.
"Where is this fat guy now?"
[The target is fleeing in the northern suburbs of Jiangzhong City.]
Qin Yuan looked at his favor value balance.
"Exchange for a Causality Law."
He licked his dry lips.
"Make this Zhao Si a nationally wanted Class A murderer, with solid evidence, an ironclad case."
[Command received.]
[Rewriting causal logic... Deducting 10 million favor points.]
[Rewrite complete.]
It was just that simple.
10 million points to buy a human life, worth it.
Qin Yuan picked up the glass of red wine and drank it in one gulp. It was a bit astringent.
Gu Qianqian had just thrown the screwdriver onto the table when a window suddenly popped up on the computer screen.
"Holy crap!"
She was startled, and potato chip crumbs sprayed onto the screen.
"Boss! Look quickly!"
She pointed at the popped-up news page, her hands shaking.
"A Class A wanted notice just released by the Ministry of Public Security!"
"The person in the photo... isn't that Zhao Si?!"
Qin Yuan walked over and bent down to look.
On the wanted notice, Zhao Si's fat face, burned beyond recognition, was particularly clear.
Charge: Prime suspect in serial murder cases, on the run for many years.
Below, rows of so-called "evidence"—blood-stained clothes, murder weapons, surveillance footage—were all present.
Even a top-tier hacker like Gu Qianqian couldn't see any traces of forgery.
"How is this possible?"
Gu Qianqian grabbed her hair, her face showing an expression as if she had seen a ghost.
"He was still applying screen protectors under the overpass two days ago! I checked his background, he was clean, he hadn't even killed a chicken!"
"Now he has killed."
Qin Yuan stood up straight.
"The evidence is irrefutable. He probably thinks he killed those people himself."
This is Causality Law.
It doesn't follow logic.
It directly rewrites reality.
Gu Qianqian swallowed hard.
"Then... then what about him now?"
"We don't need to do anything ourselves."
Qin Yuan took out a cigarette and lit it.
"The city's police will teach him a lesson."
He took a deep drag. The acrid taste of tobacco filled his lungs.
Comfortable.
The sense of power within him, of controlling everything, made him feel a bit floaty.
Clenching his fist, he could faintly feel the resistance of the air.
He had truly become the god of this world.
"Beep, beep, beep, beep—"
A piercing alarm sound exploded in the monitoring room without warning!
It wasn't the sound of the computer.
It was the military-grade independent radio on Gu Qianqian's desk.
The red light flashed wildly.
"What's going on?!"
Gu Qianqian hurriedly put on her headset and pressed the answer button.
A few seconds later.
She tore off her headset, her face turning deathly pale. Her forehead was covered in sweat.
"Bo... Boss..."
Her voice was trembling violently, and she was stuttering.
"The... the Meteorological Bureau..."
Qin Yuan frowned.
"Straighten out your tongue and speak."
"National meteorological bureaus all over the world... just simultaneously sounded the highest level of..."
Gu Qianqian gripped the edge of the table tightly, her knuckles turning white.
"Doomsday... red alert."