The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I

No new tasks popped up. Afraid that his image in the residential area would be completely ruined, Lin Li didn't dare linger and went home with his electric mosquito swatter.

After first washing his hands clean of all the blood crow corpse remains, Lin Li found another bush, took off his sleeve guards, extended his hands, and stood there for a while.

The title was useful.

Although it was a title specifically targeting the Blood Crow clan, in the past five minutes, Lin Li hadn't seen a single mosquito around him, which was almost unimaginable in this kind of environment.

It seemed the title could also operate "normally" through bugs.

Going upstairs, washing up, lying in bed, and carving a cross pattern with his fingernails on all the mosquito bite bumps on his body for exorcism, Lin Li began taking stock of today's gains.

100 system currency that he couldn't use for now, a cool title, and most importantly, his spiritual energy absorption speed had increased by 200%.

"Spiritual energy, come!"

Lin Li took a deep breath, then blinked his eyes, and only exhaled when he really couldn't hold his breath anymore.

"..."

Although he really didn't want to admit it, when he completed the tasks and received the rewards both times, he hadn't felt anything at all.

Shouldn't constitution improvements make someone feel good? How come nothing happened to him?

"Is it because I don't know how to absorb spiritual energy right now? So no matter how many times you multiply zero, it's still zero?" Lin Li reached this conclusion.

"A normal cultivation system should give advanced qi cultivation and foundation building techniques as the first reward..."

"So how am I supposed to absorb spiritual energy?"

Lin Li searched online for some metaphysical things and tried meditation and breathing exercises.

No effect.

"Wait," Lin Li raised his head, "Am I still overlooking the most important problem?"

"I didn't fucking transmigrate! Is it possible that there's no spiritual energy in the modern world at all?"

Then he fell silent.

Even if he had become super spiritually sensitive and would master the most advanced spiritual energy absorption techniques in the future, if spiritual energy didn't exist in the modern world, the final result would still be zero.

After all, as the saying goes, even a skilled housewife can't cook without rice.

"..."

The more Lin Li thought about it, the more he felt the modern world had no spiritual energy, otherwise those rare treasures from novels should have appeared long ago.

This this this...

If spiritual sensitivity was meaningless and currency couldn't be used, then summing up today's gains, didn't he just get a mosquito-repelling aura and become a mobile bug spray?

He really wanted to greet the system's family members.

Lin Li lay on the bed in a cross shape, somewhat heartbroken, sighing toward the heavens.

"Buzz~~~"

A mosquito flew over at this moment and landed on Lin Li's nose tip.

"?"

"Smack!"

"Hey buddy, isn't my aura still active? How dare a blood crow approach me?"

Lin Li carefully examined the mosquito corpse in his hand, then his pupils suddenly contracted! Damn! It's a tiger mosquito!

Aedes albopictus—the easiest way to distinguish it from ordinary mosquitoes was the white stripes on its body. It carried more viruses, its bites were itchier, and took longer to heal!

Lin Li remembered that the Blood Crow Slayer title effect had a notation—it could only intimidate the weak in the Blood Crow clan and had no effect on the strong!

Shit!

If ordinary mosquitoes were Lesser Demon Sky Blood Crows, then this tiger mosquito was at least a Greater Demon Sky Blood Crow! That's right, it was definitely a powerhouse in the Blood Crow clan.

The aura had no effect on it!

Lin Li silently got up and plugged in the electric mosquito repellent again.

Then he heavily threw himself onto the bed. The appearance of this tiger mosquito delivered another big slap to Lin Li's gains today, which were already like a candle flickering in the wind.

He wasn't even as good as bug spray.

Originally, Lin Li felt his future would definitely be smooth sailing, but now how did it feel... like it might be a teensy bit more bumpy than planned?

Lin Li picked up his phone. Bai Bufan had already sent over tomorrow's breakfast list and money.

[Lin Li: Bro, I was just joking about treating you to breakfast earlier. Pretend I never said it. Rice rolls with egg, six yuan, not a penny less.]

[Bai Bufan: ? Are you even human?]

[Lin Li: Life is like this—plans never keep up with changes.]

[Bai Bufan: Whatever, this master has been making money in the stock market recently, so I won't fuss over your six or eight yuan. I'll give you four extra yuan as a reward, little Lin.]

[Bai Bufan: Congratulations on getting rich.]

[Lin Li: ?]

[Lin Li: What fucking stocks are you trading? Are you even of age to trade?]

Bai Bufan was only sixteen and couldn't even open an account. How could he possibly trade stocks? Even if he used a family member's account, trading hours were all during class, and Lin Li had never seen him use his phone for this. He couldn't possibly be a high-end long-term player, right?

Bai Bufan had never used the class's Wacom board to look at K-line charts and show off either.

[Bai Bufan: You just don't understand! Not only do I trade stocks, but I've never lost money trading stocks to this day.]

[Lin Li: Really? How do you do it?]

[Bai Bufan: Hehe, would I lie to you? Since you're my good brother, this master will bestow upon you the exclusive secret technique!]

[First, you need to join various investor exchange groups and seriously study stock trading knowledge to get all kinds of insider information.]

[When group members' stocks hit the daily limit, congratulate them enthusiastically and make them send celebration red envelopes. When others' stocks hit the daily loss limit, comfort them and make them send luck-changing red envelopes.]

[Remember, the most important point: never actually buy stocks.]

[Hehe, the stock market seemed to have good momentum today. I was able to grab dozens of yuan in red envelopes even late at night. So satisfying.]

"..."

[Lin Li: Bai Bufan, I admit it—you're a fucking stock trading genius.]

[Bai Bufan: Talent and effort—neither can be lacking.]

Putting his phone aside, Lin Li, whose mood had recovered quite well, began continuing his search for life's path.

Saying there was no hope was definitely going too far. Not to mention there was still an unlocked [Shop] that should have quite a few useful things inside.

Even the Task Two currently hanging in his task bar had a "spirit stone" in its rewards.

Spirit stones definitely contained spiritual energy, so he could definitely step onto the cultivation path through spirit stones.

Once he cultivated to the point where his body could generate spiritual energy on its own, he could achieve internal circulation.

However, Lin Li's facial features were somewhat twisted right now.

For no other reason than he discovered that in the prerequisites for this task to eliminate the pleasure demon cultivator stronghold, there were four big characters—"enter personally."

This broken system—Lin Li had already figured out some of its nature through the previous two tasks.

If it told you to do it personally, you had to complete it personally.

If it told you to enter personally, you had to enter personally.

But... this was an anti-prostitution task. How the hell was he supposed to enter personally?

Actually, thinking about it, entering personally was quite simple, but this really wasn't appropriate, right?

If he became part of what gets swept up in the raid, how would he explain himself clearly?

If he couldn't explain clearly, even if his cultivation path became bright from then on, his life would definitely become completely dark.

Having swatted mosquitoes all night with somewhat excessive exercise, Lin Li gradually felt drowsy as he thought, and slowly closed his eyes.

Leaving behind his final pre-sleep mumbling:

"System, I fuck your... damn..."

(End of Chapter)