I’ll Add Points To All Things

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In a dim room where the light flickered, strange things filled every corner of the space that measured about a dozen square meters.

 There was a rabbit with wings locked up in a cage, an orange shaped like a banana, a pretty desk the size of a palm, and a book with a delicate cover that was over 2 meters tall and a meter wide.

 20On the cover of the book was the title ‘Modern History Essentials of Huaxia’.

 7A young man around 18 or 19 years of age was surrounded by those peculiar items. He was lying down on his study desk as he looked at his smartphone.

 6The screen on his smartphone was showing the page of a questionnaire app titled ‘How to earn 1 Million during your university years’.

 17The young man was scrolling down the page, jotting notes in the notebook beside him.

 1As he was carried away by the contents, his smartphone rang all of a sudden. The page of the questionnaire app turned into the incoming call screen and the caller ID showed ‘Mom’.

 31‘Hmm, why don’t I shove the banana up your a**! Will it taste like an orange?’

 12Su Yang flicked the middle finger at the orange banana.

 12All the changes depended on luck. After all, it was called Random Points, so the outcome was entirely random, hence it was still acceptable. Maybe if he completed a Bronze or Silver Mission, the points that he received might not be that random anymore.

 After adding the first point, the virtual [+] button disappeared.

 Su Yang believed he might need to fulfill certain conditions to be able to add points for a second time.

 While he was being carried away by his messy thoughts, a voice entered his mind. ‘Ding! New random mission.’

 ‘A new random mission?’

 Su Yang had gotten used to the system distributing random missions, so he clicked on it calmly, went through it, and grumbled, “Saving a damsel in distress again? Isn’t this a little outdated?”

 13Despite saying so, he grabbed his bag and a brick on the desk before he stormed out of the door.

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 Meanwhile, in Su Yang’s neighborhood, Qu Xiaomeng was heading home after work. She was not very tall and had a doll-like face, which made her look cute. She was the type of girl who would emanate a comfortable feeling and leave an impression on people whenever she walked down the street.

 9She had just graduated from her post-graduate studies and had been transferred to Shanghai University for work. Today was her first day back at the campus and she got caught up by the talks with her ex-lecturers, so she was a little later than usual.

 However, since the neighborhood was quite near to the campus, it was quite safe and she was not overly worried about her safety.

 3The facts proved her right. She did not run into any trouble along the way and safely reached her neighborhood.

 1Her house was in the south of the neighborhood. She hastened her steps and wanted to head home as soon as possible.

 However, when she was a few steps away from her own unit, a drunkard appeared.

 Qu Xiaomeng picked up the alcoholic stench from a distance, and in order to save herself some trouble, she hugged her bag tightly and moved aside.

 Nevertheless, the drunkard still noticed her. His face was as red as a beet, and he squinted his eyes to size Qu Xiaomeng up. He stopped his staggering steps and asked in a hoarse voice, “Y-yer…n-new?”

 Although Qu Xiaomeng’s heart raced, she did not answer and walked straight ahead with her head down.

 Before she could walk further away, she felt a force on her shoulder and before she realized it, her bag tugged her back. The drunkard’s voice then came into her ears, “D-don’t run. Why don’t you say hello to your neighbor?”

 As a rookie in society, Qu Xiaomeng had never experienced this before. Her heart pounded strongly and her mind was buzzing. Nevertheless, she forced herself to calm down. She turned around and said in a nervous tone, “W-what do you want? I’m calling the cops!”

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Even then, the drunkard was not afraid. He seemed to be a veteran in this as he squinted his eyes and opened his mouth with two rows of rotten teeth to mock her without any concern, “Go ahead. Even if the cops get here, all they will do is question me. I didn’t lay a finger on you and I didn’t do anything. I’m just saying hello.”

 Qu Xiaomeng dared not answer, she bit her lips tightly and tried to pull her bag, she failed. The fear in her heart made her eyes red, “What do you want?”

 1“Hehe, of course, I want to…” The drunkard reached out to her with a perverted gaze.

 Right before he could touch her, a brick flew out from the darkness and smashed him precisely in the face. Blood splashed upon impact and his head started to bleed.

 10“Aaaargh!” The drunkard screamed in pain. He covered his head, staggering backward before he fell on his backside and passed out.

 Qu Xiaomeng hugged her bag even tighter as she watched the scene with a dull look. Her pounding heart had somehow stopped.

 A series of footsteps echoed in the quiet street.

 A figure of 1.8 meters slowly walked out from the darkness. The handsome young man was obviously Su Yang who had just come out from his basement. He had a bag with him as he walked over leisurely as if he had nothing to do with smashing a brick into the drunkard’s face.

 5Qu Xiaomeng gulped nervously. She looked apprehensively at the young man walking closer to her. Her mind was blank as she had yet to recover from the shocking turn of events. She widened her mouth in an attempt to say something, but maybe because she was scared, no words came out from her. She did not know how she should face this young man.

 As Su Yang came closer, Qu Xiaomeng’s heart pounded even harder. Thud. Thud-thud.

 Be it feeling nervous or scared, her mind exploded with messy thoughts and she did not know what she should say.

 As she fell deeper into her dilemma, Su Yang reached her side.

 2She mustered up her courage and opened her mouth.

 1Su Yang squatted down and picked up the brick on the ground. Then, he wiped the blood off the drunkard and turned around.

 5Qu Xiaomeng was dumbstruck.

 ‘Is h-he leaving?’

 1Her heart sank and she finally unsealed her mouth, she looked at Su Yang’s back in disbelief and said, “D-don’t you have anything to say?”

 1Right away, Su Yang paused. He tapped his head and said, “Oh right, I’d have almost forgotten if you didn’t remind me.”

 1Qu Xiaomeng was just as nervous as before.

 Su Yang turned around, walked up to her, and fished a piece of paper from his pocket. He passed it to her and said, “Can I claim the taxi fare?”

 4Qu Xiaomeng widened her eyes in shock at him as she thought she had heard him wrongly.

 “I took a taxi here to save you. Can I claim the taxi fare?” he explained kindly.

 9After she confirmed what she heard, her mind went blank. She did not even remember how she took her phone out and added Su Yang on Wechat before she transferred $21 to him.

 8After all that, Su Yang walked away. Qu Xiaomeng looked at his back again and the drunkard on the ground, she mustered up enough courage to shout, “What about him?

 Su Yang replied without even looking back, “Don’t worry. He won’t die.”

 “H-he won’t die?”

 As Su Yang strayed further away, his voice lingered in the air. “I always save people like this. I know what I’m doing.”

 9Qu Xiaomeng was rendered speechless.

 After he left, the neighborhood returned to silence.

 Qu Xiaomeng stared at the unconscious drunkard on the ground and then at the receipt in her hand. The receipt showed that it was from three days ago.

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A smile twitched on her cute, round face.

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