Chapter 125 - 24: Ding Ding Ding Ding, A Wonderful Sound
Chapter 125: Chapter 24: Ding Ding Ding Ding, A Wonderful Sound
Accompanied by a dazzling light effect, two motes of light popped out from the grand gift pack.
[Obtained Enterprise Acquisition Card x1, Staff Assessment Record x1]
[Enterprise Acquisition Card (Excellent): Upon use, allows the targeted acquisition of an enterprise valued up to 30 million.]
[Staff Assessment Record (Excellent): Can verify the authenticity of a candidate’s resume, revealing their inner qualities and potential to a certain extent (can only assess one person at a time).]
"Oh, not bad at all! This really is a perfectly timed novice gift pack!"
This grand gift pack completely solved the start-up requirements for his first mission. Moreover, because his rating on the prerequisite mission was so high, the resulting rewards were significantly enhanced, saving him a great deal of trouble.
The [Staff Assessment Record], in particular, was an assist tailor-made for him!
Although he didn’t yet know how detailed the information would be, the mere existence of this item perfectly compensated for Zhang Yan’s weakness as a complete novice in management. By leaving professional matters to the professionals, Zhang Yan only needed to act as a walking wallet and sit back while the money rolled in.
"With this, combined with the additional reward of a hundred-million-yuan operating fund I received earlier, my first business would take off even if I put a pig in the boss’s chair!"
Completely immersed in the system space, Zhang Yan was overjoyed to see these highly satisfactory rewards. A joyous smile unconsciously spread across his face.
But to Sofia, who was standing beside him, this scene seemed slightly bizarre.
She wondered, "Is understanding a book really such a joyous thing? Aiser truly is a strange person! Though, I think I used to be like that, too..."
Sofia couldn’t help but slip into her memories.
Once upon a time, she had been just like Aiser, jumping for joy when she fully grasped a book. When exactly did she gradually turn reading into a mere tool, losing the joy of it entirely?
Perhaps it started on the day she was forced to leave.
She clearly remembered crying to her father that day, begging to leave her contact information for a junior high friend. But her father’s cold, harsh reality had stuck with her to this day—
"From today on, you live in a different world from them.
"Those ordinary children will only remain trapped where they are, while you are destined to stand at a higher vantage point, watching them look up to you.
"You don’t have time to waste on such worthless relationships. You should focus your energy on things of true value."
She had felt her father was wrong, but she possessed no power to refute him. So from that day onward, every minute and every second, she had been striving relentlessly to gain enough power of her own, never resting for even a moment.
She believed that one day, she could stand face-to-face with her father, speak her mind, and tell him, "Father, you are wrong."
But the reality was...
Zhang Yan had no idea he had triggered Sofia’s melancholy memories. Inside the system space, the surprises weren’t over yet.
Expectantly, he opened the [System Mall].
The concept of a System Mall wouldn’t be unfamiliar to anyone who had ever played a video game. But when it came to its reputation, it was definitely a love-hate relationship. Cash-strapped free-to-play and low-spending players could only angrily curse the unscrupulous developers: why did they monetize absolutely everything, and why was it all so outrageously expensive?! Meanwhile, the massive whales would clear out the shop daily, complaining, "Why is there so little stuff in the mall?"
In the past, Zhang Yan could only belong to the former group. But now, he had firmly become the latter.
Upon opening the System Mall, most of the commodities were grayed out and unviewable, but the number of lit-up items wasn’t small either.
[Huaxia Currency (10,000 Yuan): 1 Achievement Point]
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[Enterprise Acquisition Card (Normal): 300 Achievement Points]
[Enterprise Acquisition Card (Excellent): 3,000 Achievement Points]
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[Staff Assessment Record (Normal): 100 Achievement Points]
[Staff Assessment Record (Excellent): 1,000 Achievement Points]
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[Concentration Potion: 100 Achievement Points]
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[Internal Organ Recovery Potion: 10,000 Achievement Points]
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[Stealing Hand (Remaining Uses: 1): 10,000 Achievement Points]
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"What?! That tiny bottle of potion I drank every day was actually worth a million yuan! What a massive loss. I should have milked it for a few more days of freebies. From now on, I’ll just have to make do with the free knock-offs."
Zhang Yan noticed that the currency in the System Mall exclusively accepted Achievement Points, causing his wishful thinking of using real-world money to shop to fall through completely.
The exchange ratio between Achievement Points and real currency was 1:10,000, which, to some extent, provided a baseline value assessment for the items in the mall. However, since this was strictly a one-way exchange, none of the items in the mall could truly be measured by money alone.
The available commodities were essentially items Zhang Yan had already used during his missions, which the system had cataloged. Following this pattern, unlocking other items would likely require him to first "unlock their index entries" through actual use.
After admiring the dazzling array of goods in the System Mall, Zhang Yan turned his gaze to the [Achievement Hall]. If nothing unexpected happened, this was where his Achievement Points would be generated.
[Detected that the host has opened the Achievement Hall for the first time. Verifying the achievements obtained by the host after activating the system...]
[Obtained Achievement: Millionaire. Reward: 100 Achievement Points]
There was nothing particularly special about this achievement. The system prompt revealed that acquiring this title evaluated the host’s liquid assets. This meant that even if Zhang Yan owned a company with a market valuation of tens of millions in the future, he still wouldn’t be able to unlock the higher-level Multimillionaire achievement just through shares.
[Obtained Achievement: Wall Breaker Lv2 (0/2). Reward: 3,000 Achievement Points]
According to the description, this achievement was won entirely through Zhang Yan shedding blood, sweat, and countless hours of painstaking effort. Unlocking the achievement initially required 1 point, and breaking through Lv1 required another 1, which was why Zhang Yan’s current status was displayed by the system as Lv2 (0/2).
Following this pattern, acquiring 2 more would reward him with 4,000 Achievement Points, making this currently Zhang Yan’s most cost-effective method for grinding achievements.
However, the title’s description placed restrictions on the scoring criteria; it seemed only targets reaching a certain caliber would count. Furthermore, even if a target met that three-word criterion, it would likely fail to satisfy the other standard. It was safe to say that each qualified target was something you could only encounter by luck, not seek out.
As for the 3,000-point achievement reward, it was naturally the sum of Lv1’s 1,000 points and Lv2’s 2,000 points.
[Obtained Achievement: Man of Universal Love Lv2 (3/4). Reward: 300 Achievement Points]
Unlocking this achievement required 2 points, and advancing past Lv1 required another 2; the baseline points consisted of 100 plus 200.
According to the system prompt, "Universal Love" in this context didn’t require Zhang Yan to truly fall in love with someone. As long as he developed a fondness and sexual interest in a person that went beyond the ordinary, it counted.
From the system prompt, he could see that his current list for Universal Love consisted of: Chi Xinyue, Xiaoyan, Xia Xiqing, Shen Jiayi, Li Huamei, Sofia, and Xie Yuxin.