Spare me, My Majesty

Chapter 6 Bottle Floats

     "Zhou Shu, how come I feel like you're not tired at all." Zhou Xiaoyu was a bit puzzled as they finished building the snowman and went back inside. Usually, Zhou Shu would be out of breath after buying a ten-pound bag of rice. Zhou Shu thought about it for a moment; he had indeed changed a lot. In novels, people with good roots can practice faster. So now that I've eaten the Xuanming Fruit, do I count as having good roots? Zhou Shu chuckled to himself. He still didn't know what kind of world this was, yet he was already daydreaming. Who knows what the future holds, one step at a time. But the new system he had obtained also needed further exploration.

Back inside, Zhou Shu curled up on the sofa, happily playing with his phone. Zhou Xiaoyu looked curiously but saw nothing: "Zhou Shu, what are you doing?" "Chatting," Zhou Shu continued staring at his phone. "Let me see," Zhou Xiaoyu grabbed Zhou Shu's hand and saw him sending WeChat messages. The chat window displayed three words: bottle float. Zhou Xiaoyu sneered: "Zhou Shu, you actually play bottle floats!" Zhou Shu ignored her lazily and picked up another bottle float: "Is there an adorable fat boy here?" The other party replied: "Big brother wants one too." Zhou Shu asked: "Are you a fat boy?" The other party answered: "Yes." Zhou Shu: "A fat boy who doesn't lose weight has no mood to pick up bottles!" The other party was stunned: "Do you have mental problems?!"

While Zhou Shu was watching his income record: "Negative emotions from Lu Mengyu, +50..." Not bad, quite a harvest. Zhou Shu couldn't help but laugh; gaining negative emotion values quickly indeed! When it comes to scaring people, Zhou Shu might still be clueless, but making someone resentful, Zhou Shu was definitely an expert among experts! Another bottle float, the other party asked right away: "Can't sleep, anyone have any videos to watch?" Zhou Shu: "I do, chest close-ups." The other party: "Send them fast, good luck forever!" Zhou Shu searched online for a picture of a chest cavity taken by X-ray and sent it over. The other party: "???"

"Negative emotions from Li Mingle, +20..." Zhou Shu played with his last year's pain-in-the-ass bought domestic god machine, anyway, whether these income could buy something or get lucky draws later, Zhou Shu was very happy now. Just like being able to use your talent openly and honestly. If this counts as talent...

Since leaving the orphanage, Zhou Shu has been studying at the foreign language school of Luo City High School for two years now, and until now hasn't made many friends because his personality isn't exactly normal, easy to choke others to death... "Negative emotions from Zhiwei, +1..." Haha, Zhou Shu felt that this guy was too vengeful. He usually wouldn't consider how much he choked others with his words, habitually so...

Looking at the fact that he almost reached the peak of 700 negative emotion values again in one night, each Star Fruit costs 1000 value points. Zhou Shu wanted to try the effect of this fruit, but then he thought, well, I don't even understand how to cultivate myself, let alone knowing what this thing is used for, and I'm not sure if this stuff expires or not. Now it seems that the Xuanming Fruit is most useful to me, which means that the lottery must be the biggest benefit to me. What kinds of things does the lottery draw? Will secret techniques appear? Thinking about this, Zhou Shu's heart was hot. He already guessed that the things he possessed were probably different from everyone else's. After all, during the search for his origins, he checked countless materials online, but nobody knew what this thing around his neck was, this seemed to be a unique item.

And in those video news reports, some said they suddenly appeared abilities, while some said their abilities were stimulated due to external factors. There were also people who filmed Daoists swallowing clouds and mist and absorbing essence from the sun and moon, showing that everyone's way of obtaining abilities seemed to be different. But looking at it, clearly someone ahead of him had already done it. Zhou Shu wondered if his system would give him cultivation methods, only then could he take the first step into the new world.

However, if it really was caused by spiritual energy awakening, then those people should be slightly behind him, since the appearance of abnormal events took place less than half a year ago. Swallowing the Xuanming Fruit may only be taking a small step forward, without cultivation methods, everything would be futile. After accumulating 700 negative emotion values, Zhou Shu kicked Zhou Xiaoyu out of his room and then made a big bet All.in, seven times in a row!

Zhou Shu stared expressionlessly at the spinning wheel that kept giving thanks for participation five times in a row, his face was completely black. Others always received abilities immediately upon stimulation, such attributes of receiving powerful abilities after being stimulated by external factors were simply enviable. Damn it, I'm being stimulated by my own treasure-like system, but damn it, it's stimulating me with the Xuanming Fruit instead of giving me abilities!

However, bad luck wasn't always on Zhou Shu's side. The sixth time, the Xuanming Fruit appeared, Zhou Shu was ecstatic, its effects were obvious. Since it appeared twice, shouldn't it mean that cultivating one's root quality could continue to improve? The seventh time, a golden page appeared on the spinning wheel, written on it were familiar lyrics to Zhou Shu, so familiar that he even sang it aloud...

"Shining bright stars everywhere, twinkling stars in the sky..." Zhou Shu: ???? This is what? Who can tell me what this is?! I worked hard to collect so many bottles, throw away so many bottles, and earn more money than the recycling man, why did I receive this thing through the lottery?! I'm already invincible if I can't get negative emotion values from my own resentment!

Zhou Shu was confused. He felt that he had already been greatly stimulated, why hadn't he awakened abilities? Wasn't this system meant to stimulate him? Definitely! But when he read the lyrics carefully, they were somehow different.

Shining bright stars everywhere, twinkling stars in the sky.

Floating above worldly smoke and dust, like diamonds shining in the night sky.

Burning out the universe and silence, the setting sun no longer shines brightly.

Long nights, where shall we go searching? Until the blazing flames sing along.

Zhou Shu tried singing the whole song, but the golden paper page didn't change anything. Although the lyrics were different, it was still stars. Zhou Shu held the golden paper page in his hands, feeling helpless to complain. At this moment, Zhou Xiaoyu next door suddenly shouted across the wall: "Zhou Shu, Zhou Shu, the snow stopped!" Zhou Shu turned to look outside.

At this moment, under the clear night sky covered with stars after the snowfall, the silver-white light of the stars shone through the transparent glass windows onto the room, illuminating the golden paper page, which burned into pure white ashes in the flame of the starlight. The ashes flew straight towards the tree seedlings in Zhou Shu's palm, fusing together. Zhou Shu suddenly felt that maybe if he sang this different version of the twinkling stars, something different might happen.