The Buggiest System

8 - Sneaky Sickness

Zhou Lei strengthened his resolve to open the door in front of him.

'Ah, fine, just go with it!'

It was then that System came out of silence with another quest.

Quest: Act cool

Description: If you want to be popular, you gotta act cool. How do you think I became so popular? It's this way, my dude.

Reward: 10 upgrade points, 1 lottery ticket

'What? Another one?'

As he read the contents of the new quest, he felt like System was making fun of him.

'Damn it, System! It feels like you're telling me to act out a scene... with quests.'

As the door in front of him had opened, Zhou Lei walked outside 'coolly'.

There he saw his mother meticulously examining her daughter, Zhou Zhenya. Their father stared at his wife, his expression saying 'I told you so' with his tongue almost out.

As he saw this, Zhou Lei fixed his expression and walked straight to the bathroom. Everyone's heads turned over to him as he made his way.

Opening the door and shutting it, Zhou Lei was hyperventilating inside the bathroom.

Then System, who wants to embarrass and humiliated its host for some reason, gave him another unreasonable quest that has nothing to do with being popular.

Quest: Moan

Description: Peeing feels good, right? You gotta moan if you feel good...

Reward: 10 upgrade points, 1 lottery ticket

'Go to the bathroom? Act cool? Moan?!'

Zhou Lei now knew that System was definitely making fun of him, making him do things that would be embarrassing to do! If not, why else would System give out these random quests unrelated to becoming more popular at all?

After reading the quest given by System, Zhou Lei started urinating. As he did, he made a weird sound that barely resembled a moan.

"AaAaAaHh???"

"Congratulations for completing the quest. Reward of 10 lottery tickets and 1 upgrade point ready to be received."

As his weird noise passed System's requirements, he felt genuinely satisfied.

'Wait... 10 lottery tickets?!... and 1 upgrade point?'

System suddenly notified him the exact same way as the last two times that there was a bug. Zhou Lei nodded as if he understood what was happening.

After putting on his shorts and fixing his expression again, he walked out of the bathroom.

He entered the sight of every one of his family members.

"Congratulations for completing the quest. Reward of -10 upgrade points and 1 lottery ticket ready to be received."

On the verge of collapsing due to nervousness, Zhou Lei stood still with the gazes of everyone in the room pointing towards him.

System notified him of his reward. At first, he was delighted, but as soon as he read it in its entirety, he got depressed.

'Really? Negative ten? For Pete's sake, System, come on...'

The wide range of expressions one would expect to see on Zhou Lei's face as he went from being nervous to being happy to finally being frustrated in his mind were, in contrary, not present, as Zhou Lei's expression remained stoic and cool in front of all of his family members.

Zhou Jiahao was the first one to recover from the daze of seeing his son still in their home and immediately asked Zhou Lei.

"Son? Why... why are you here?"

Zhou Lei stayed silent and went into System's lottery.

'There's got to be something that can help me get out of this situation...'

As he saw the lottery, he immediately used one ticket, not caring about what prizes were available. As long as he got something that would help him in this situation, he would be satisfied.

Seeing his son close his eyes and ignore him, Zhou Jiahao felt rage surging up inside him. He started walking towards Zhou Lei.

Zhou Zhenya and Zhou Xiang just stood still, curious about what would happen.

Suddenly, Zhou Lei collapsed. His face was flushed red, while his whole body started to sweat profusely.