After lunch, the tour guide took the group to several local off-the-beaten-path scenic spots. These places did not have that many tourists, so the group’s sightseeing experience was significantly enhanced.
In the evening, the group dined at an unpopular little shop recommended by the tour guide. Although the shop was small, the taste was truly excellent.
Since it was still early after they finished eating, the group headed to the performance venue of Impression Dian City ahead of schedule, and finally got their wish to sit in the very first row.
Watching Impression Dian City a second time was just as brilliant. Because they were sitting in the front row, they could see much more clearly than yesterday, and it was also much easier to be moved by the actors’ performance.
Upon returning to the hotel after watching the show, Grandmother Chu was still fully immersed in the brilliant performance, saying that whenever there was an opportunity in the future, they should go out to travel frequently and see the beautiful rivers and mountains of the motherland.
As Chu Wanchen soaked in the hotel’s oversized bathtub, feeling the warm stream of water gently caress her body, she felt as if the exhaustion of the entire day was washed away.
It was another night of sweet dreams. As the first rays of morning light appeared on the horizon, Chu Wanchen unexpectedly turned out to be the first one to wake up.
“Ding-dong—System upgrade complete!”
The originally somewhat dazed Chu Wanchen instantly snapped awake.
Taking a full two days, the system had finally completed its upgrade.
“Now retroactively issuing the check-in reward from the day before yesterday: rewarded with one bottle of Becoming Beautiful Potion.”
Emmm, this name was truly hitting the nail on the head.
“088, you’re finally back! Are there any new features in this system upgrade?”
“Of course there are, my host.”
Whether it was an illusion or not, Chu Wanchen felt that 088’s tone when saying “host” carried a touch of silliness.
“Oh, my host! Taking advantage of this upgrade, this system specifically installed a new voice pack. Listen and see if it sounds different from before.”
It was indeed different. It had transformed from its original cold, high-tech mechanical big-boss voice into a silly, sweet, little local dog style.
She really didn’t know whether this counted as a downgrade or an upgrade.
“Dear host, the system mall will be unlocked after this upgrade. Future daily check-in rewards will be distributed in the form of points. The host can redeem items using points, and the host can check the products in the mall by yourself later.
Points can be exchanged for Huaguo currency: 1 point can be exchanged for 10 million Huaguo currency. Points cannot be exchanged using any currency.
Today’s check-in is successful: rewarded with 10 points.”
After listening to the system’s explanation, Chu Wanchen quickly opened the system mall.
The moment she opened it, Chu Wanchen could only exclaim, “Holy cow!”
There were a full ten pages of products in the mall, and taking any single item out could trigger a frantic scramble among the people of the world.
The products in the mall were mainly divided into three categories.
The first category consisted of various assets, such as a traditional courtyard house in Jing City or original shares of the LV company, all of which required a mere 50 points.
The second category consisted of various potions, such as the whitening essence and the constitution enhancement potion rewarded to her by the system a few days ago, which all required only 100 points.
Then there was the third category, which was quite special: bionic robots from the X08 galaxy. These robots looked absolutely no different from humans on the outside, and even going to a hospital for a check-up would reveal no anomalies whatsoever.
The system mall offered butler robots, domestic service robots, and management robots. Among them, the management capabilities of the management robots were not inferior in the slightest to the executives of the Fortune Global 500 companies in Chu Wanchen’s dimension. Moreover, the robots only needed to bask in the sun for two hours a day to work for an entire day; even if there was no sun, they possessed backup batteries to maintain the operation of their bodies.
Upon seeing these robots, Chu Wanchen made up her mind on the spot: she wanted to save up points to redeem a robot.
The price of a robot in the mall was 300 points each. She only needed to save for a month to possess such a perfect butler who would never betray her.
The system also specifically explained that when the host redeemed a robot, the system would prepare all the identification documents of the robot properly, ensuring that the host would have no worries about the future.
This upgrade still brought more pros than cons for Chu Wanchen. Although the system no longer rewarded her with complete prizes directly, using points to redeem products in the system mall made everything controllable.
Even if Chu Wanchen left Qian City later to go to college in Jing City or other cities, she could redeem assets in the mall ahead of time.
One had to know that the products in the mall were all things that money couldn’t buy in reality.
Just a three-entry, three-exit courtyard house in Jing City alone was worth hundreds of millions, but it wasn’t a matter of someone selling the house to you just because you had hundreds of millions.
Courtyard houses in Jing City had always been a market with prices but no supply. Many people waved their cash wanting to buy one, yet no one could achieve it.
To the point that now, courtyard houses had become a symbol of wealth and power; if you only had money but no power, you couldn’t buy a courtyard house; if you only had power but no money, you couldn’t afford a courtyard house.
Yet in the system mall, one could redeem a three-entry, three-exit courtyard house using a mere 50 points.
Not to mention those original shares in the system; these were all original shares of the world’s top 50 companies, and when converted into market value, one wouldn’t even know how many zeros would follow behind.
These required only 50 points in the system mall, which Chu Wanchen could exchange for in less than a week.
Furthermore, there were the various potions. Although the potions now required 100 points, for Chu Wanchen, it only required spending 10 days to redeem these remarkably effective potions, which looked like an extremely worthwhile bargain no matter how one viewed it.
Particularly because the mall contained far more than just the few types of potions rewarded by the system days ago; it even contained miraculous medicines with heaven-defying effects like a cancer cure potion and a genetic disease cure potion.
Of course, Chu Wanchen had also asked the system whether these potions could be handed over to the country for research.
The system rejected this proposal, saying only that the current dimension had no way to analyze the ingredients of the potions, and even if the system provided the ingredients contained in the potions, they could not be synthesized with the technology of the current dimension.
Hearing this, Chu Wanchen could only let the matter drop.
Even if the difficulty of obtaining prizes now was a bit greater than before, it only required Chu Wanchen to pay the cost of time.
Besides, 10 points a day translated to 100 million a day when converted; how many people in this world could earn 100 million in a single day?
Seeing that Chu Wanchen hadn’t paid attention to it for a long while, the system came out again to assert its presence.
“Host, host, this system will also release random tasks in the future, oh!”
Hearing the word “tasks,” Chu Wanchen felt her head grow big. She had always been a lazy and casual person who usually lacked drive; if there were any mandatory tasks forced upon her, it would truly be the death of her.
Discerning what was on Chu Wanchen’s mind, the system comforted her.
“The host does not need to worry. The tasks released by the system are all extremely routine and present no difficulty at all. Moreover, they are by no means mandatory tasks; the host can choose by yourself whether or not to do the tasks.”
Hearing the system’s explanation, Chu Wanchen felt relieved. As long as they weren’t mandatory tasks, it was fine; when the time came, if she didn’t want to do them, she just wouldn’t do them.
At the moment, Chu Wanchen did not lack money, so the assets in the mall did not hold much attraction for her.
What she wanted to exchange for the most right now was a bionic robot.
As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
During her few days in Hu City, Chu Wanchen had already grown accustomed to a life of being waited on.
They were going to stay in Qian City for the next few years. Unlike Hu City, Qian City did not have that many professional service industry personnel, and using outsiders always made one feel a bit uneasy. If she had a butler robot by her side who would never betray her and never needed to rest, it could save Chu Wanchen a lot of trouble.
Exchanging for a butler robot also required only a month’s time, which happened to let her save up enough points to redeem it before her school term started.