Chapter Twenty-Eight: New Rewards

At one hundred fan points, your reward is an item: the Eyes of Justice Telescope.

Your Eyes of Justice can only activate when you are looking directly at the person in question. The moment a wall blocks the view, it cannot be used. But in a city, with so many towering buildings everywhere, it is easy for a wall to get in the way. This Eyes of Justice telescope, however, is useless in anyone else’s hands. In yours, once the Eyes of Justice is activated, it can use infrared imaging principles to see through walls and reveal a person’s guilt and righteousness.

The adorable little girl casually tossed the telescope over.

Shen Ye hurriedly caught it. This telescope did nothing to improve his combat strength at all.

But for scouting, it was immensely useful.

He raised the telescope to his eyes and activated the Eyes of Justice.

Aiming at the little girl, he saw words appear above her head: System Spirit, a mental robot by nature. As an auxiliary spirit, it assists the host in destroying evil. Righteousness value: twenty-five.

A system spirit, not even human, could still have a righteousness value. How strange.

And it was only assisting him in destroying evil, yet it could still earn righteousness.

Then, as one born to slay evil, how much righteousness would he himself possess?

“You want to know your own righteousness value?” the little girl asked.

“Yes,” Shen Ye said with a nod. “I’m rather curious.”

“With the Hero profession and the Eyes of Justice, it’s easy to know someone else’s righteousness value, but your own is rather troublesome. More than nine hundred years from now, you would have to ask another Hero-class practitioner for help, or find the Conviction Mirror. But in this era, neither of those exists. So you can’t know your own righteousness value.” The little girl shook her head, speaking with a look of regret.

“Still, there’s no need to be too discouraged. Whether you know it or not, your righteousness value is there.”

The System Spirit flew up into the air and patted Shen Ye on the shoulder. “Now for the second reward. This is your reward for reaching one thousand fan points. It is much better than the last one.”

“This reward is the Spider Silk equipment.”

“Spider silk? What is that?” Shen Ye could not help but freeze. A picture of Spider-Man’s web-shooting ability flashed through his mind. “You don’t mean something like Spider-Man’s web-shooting, do you?”

“Yes and no,” said the System Spirit, sucking on a lollipop. “Spider-Man’s web-shooting is, at its core, a very powerful ability. But your Spider Silk is merely an item of equipment. In terms of power and flexibility, it naturally cannot compare with Spider-Man’s web-shooting. More than nine hundred years from now, all kinds of professions appeared on Earth. In that age, anyone who practiced a skill could be called a superhuman.”

“But even in that era, flying was still extremely difficult for high-level professions. And the energy consumption was far too great. So someone watched an American movie from centuries earlier and discovered that this Spider Silk equipment could, in a city, be used for simple flight.”

“At that time, the Dragon Bright Consortium invested enormous manpower, material resources, and money, and in the end succeeded in developing Spider Silk.”

“Spider Silk is three hundred meters long in total. One end is securely fastened to the user’s body and will never come loose. The other end has a launch button; once fired, it can be fixed directly to an object and will not come loose either. It only detaches when the launch button is pressed again. In the beginning, the detachment rate of this equipment was quite high. And if it came loose while flying on Spider Silk, it could cause severe injury or even death.”

“But after massive investment and repeated testing, the adhesion rate finally reached one hundred percent, with virtually no chance of detachment.”

Listening to the System Spirit’s explanation, Shen Ye only felt dazzled.

When he had watched American movies, Spider Silk had seemed so cool.

Spider-Man soaring before a forest of skyscrapers was simply the height of science fiction coolness!

And now, he possessed this equipment. After some practice, he too could fly among the towering buildings of the city like Spider-Man. How dazzling, how cool!

What mattered most was that, as his fame continued to grow, more and more people would come after him. Among them, surely there would be many experts.

And then, just as his enemies were closing in, he could whoosh away on Spider Silk. It would be so cool it would leave everyone speechless.

For him, this equipment was nothing short of a timely gift.

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“So the rewards at one thousand fan points are already this powerful. Then what kind of reward will there be at ten thousand fan points?” Shen Ye stroked his chin, where a faint beard had begun to grow.

“The third reward is actually experience. You only have this one path, slaying the wicked to gain experience, and your growth has been far too slow.” The System Spirit gave a soft, haughty sniff and said, “I am a noble spirit from more than nine hundred years in the future, assisting a hero in this barbaric era of the twenty-first century, yet you still cannot sweep across the world. You are truly making me, this System Spirit, lose face. This time, the fan replenishment feature obtained through the system upgrade is here to help you level up.”

“The experience from the third reward can let you level up quickly.”

“Are you ready?”

Shen Ye had long been anticipating the level-five skill, Mighty Strike. But killing evildoers to level up would still take a very long time, so hearing that it was experience, he could not help but feel delighted.

Then he saw his experience bar rise nonstop. It had originally been just a little over level four, but now it climbed straight to level five.

Even that did not stop it. It surged onward, forcibly reaching a little over level six before finally halting.

Damn!

That was way too much experience!

This was insane!

It felt unbelievably good!

Shen Ye only felt wave after wave of energy, like electric currents, continuously washing through his body.

Every muscle in his body was like a starving man, crazily absorbing the energy, growing fuller and fuller. By the end, each muscle seemed as though it might explode. It felt as if with one punch he could unleash unimaginable power. This strength was terrifying beyond words.

He felt so good it was almost unbearable.

So good it defied description.

So good it was beyond imagination!

He looked at his attributes again.

This had been his former state:

Shen Ye, Hero, first-tier profession.
Level: Four.
Faction: Justice.
Initial basic attributes:
Spirit 2.5
Strength 6
Agility 3.9
Defense 5
Physique 5

And now, it had become this:

Shen Ye, Hero, first-tier profession.
Level: Six.
Faction: Justice.
Initial basic attributes:
Spirit 3.5
Strength 8
Agility 5.5
Defense 7
Physique 7

In the past, he had fought and struggled, risking his life for nearly a year just to go from level one to level four.

And now, he had leapt from level four to level six in one bound.

In truth, this promotion was fast, but it was also because Shen Ye, in the early days, had done countless sinister deeds, accumulating fan points one by one.

(This is the first update of today. There will be two more tonight!)