Seized by the System

The next morning, the warm sun shone in Vigilante A’s villa courtyard.

The diligent workers started their day of busyness once again, cleaning up the courtyard and looking after the flowers…

In the living room came a smiling young man.

He wore an ancient robe and his face was bright, just like the sunshine outside.

“Oh, if it isn’t Senior River God? Apologies for not going out to meet you. I hope Senior can forgive me,” Fang Ning noticed Zheng Dao sitting with a person right after he left his bedroom and entered the living room.

“Haha, the Venerable One is being too courteous. I heard that the Venerable One eliminated two more demons, and specially prepared a little gift to congratulate you,” The River God said while he opened his palms, revealing a blue brocade box.

“Hey, this guy is pretty good, I thought that since those two villains were beaten up in the USA boundary, it would not be a good idea to ask for a reward, but he took the initiative and came to us instead,” Sir System was overjoyed.

“You really cherish your body when doing great things but throw it away when pursuing small profits.” Fang Ning ignored the stupid Sir System, and started talking to the River God.

“Senior is really modest, but vanquishing demons is exactly what I do, so why prepare these gifts? Besides, this is all thanks to Senior providing information, so there is also some credit for Senior. There is no need to do so.” Fang Ning pretended and said politely.

After the River God heard so, the brocade box disappeared from his palms, and he said admirably, “The Venerable One is indeed benevolent and righteous. You’re more heroic than most people. This time, it is really thanks to the Venerable One’s Celestial Aura. That Yun Ze, as a Heavenly Treasured Child, is not afraid of life and death and has already been running amuck since he was in the Upper Realm. His background was large and he’s extremely strong. If he were to lay down a foundation in this realm as well, it would plunge the people into misery and suffering, and the potential disaster would be unpredictable.”

“My treasure…” Sir System wailed in Fang Ning’s mind.

Fang Ning brushed it aside, but he felt a bit strange. Why did Sir System not choose to just seize him after whining like it usually did in the past?

‘Is it becoming well-behaved now? That’s impossible.’

Fang Ning did not understand, so he continue pretending, “Well said, well said. He only cared about himself and massacred the innocent, so how could I leave him be? Even if he had a background as large as the heavens, I would still not be afraid.”

As the saying goes, ‘A sly individual has more than one plan to fall back on’. Every one of them was ready, so of course there was no reason to be afraid…

“The Venerable One is really heroic. You have a lot of daily matters to attend to, so I shan’t disturb you for any longer. Farewell.” the River God gave another compliment, stood up and left.

“Ah, take care, Senior.” Fang Ning did not expect him to be so straightforward. He did not like keeping guests either, so he immediately stood up to send him off.

After returning from the entrance, he then noticed the blue brocade box placed upright on the coffee table.

“And here I wondered why you didn’t seize me. You definitely noticed that he placed the treasure here earlier.” Fang Ning suddenly realized.

As he spoke, he picked up the brocade box and opened it. There was some glittering golden sand inside…

“What’s this?” Fang Ning wondered, “Do we lack gold now? I doubt so, we have yet to use up the outer layer of the eighteen golden mountains sent by those three from India.

“This is good stuff,” Sir System was delighted, then all the sand disappeared.

“I can’t be bothered with you. Take the body, I am going to be busy now.”

…

After the River God left the villa, he exposed a trace of pain in his face.

The sand had been all painstakingly refined by him these days.

They were extracted using the purest beliefs of the faithful as its material, a true ‘golden intention’, and could be used to enhance the brain.

However, it was still worth it.

If that Yun Ze were to lay down a foundation, his own path of cultivation would be broken.

This world was large, yet very small.

It was unknown whether there were other living beings outside of Earth.

However, what was certain was that anyone who managed to capture these living beings on Earth, would hold the first opportunity to the path of godhood.

That Old Ji was clever to not compete for the faith of the living, but to be unique and take advantage of the dead, creating the Spiritual Insects Clan.

It was time to make a big cake. Seven billion would be too little, seventy billion, and seven hundred billion would not be enough.

The Upper Realm was vast and boundless. Even with ten thousand races, and a population of more than a trillion, they would still be unable to stand against several supreme gods.

This world had unlimited potential and was full of vigor.

If this world were to be compared to a person, then this person would be in his thirties, which was the time when he was energetic, experienced, and able to make the best results.

As the River God thought of this, his body moved slightly and he disappeared into the air, followed by a flash of golden light.

…

Three days after the River God left, Fang Ning received a message while playing his game, causing him to lose focus and his character to die, resulting in him being scolded by his teammates again…

“This is why I hate playing online games the most, but I won’t have anyone to pretend to if I don’t go online. This is really distressing,” Fang Ning prattled as he opened his WeChat.

“The Venerable One, the Scientific Academy for Vitality has completed its initial stage and started recruiting personnel to study the basic scientific theoretical system of the Era of Vitality. However, the research on basic theories alone lacks motivation, so some scientific research projects are required to drive it. I request the Venerable One to decide which subjects should be selected.”

How would Fang Ning know any of those scientific research projects?

If it were based on the computer field, he would still know some of the cutting edge stuff like big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, machine learning, and deep mining.

He did not understand, but someone else did.

He arrived at Anderson’s office and talked about it.

Anderson frowned, “Any scientific research project would mostly be driven by practical interests. Of course, there are also some projects based solely on interests and hobbies, but it’s just not much. The Venerable One just needs to set up the project that has the same field as the problem that you are facing to solve this problem.”

“Uh…” Fang Ning was very distressed after hearing so. It seemed like he had no problems at all…

He was able to eat, drink, and play, and was comfortable all day long. All the problems had been thrown to Sir System to handle.

He quickly held back this thought, it would be bad for a specific retard to sense it.

“I already sensed it, and I know that you’re still scolding me,” Sir System said lightly.

“Ugh, my bad, my bad. What problem do you want this Scientific Academy for Vitality to help solve? I am far-sighted, so I definitely won’t let it eat and not pay for itself after making this thing.” Fang Ning quickly changed the topic.

“Hm, I lack money, treasures, and manpower. Just let them help me solve these problems,” said Sir System.

“Ah, that’s so like you.” Fang Ning furrowed his brows. He still had some imagination and thought of an answer without having to ask Anderson again, “These three problems are, after all, due to the lack of production capability.”

“What’s production capability? I don’t understand.” replied Sir System.

“You don’t even know about production capability? You really have no learning capabilities, you only know how to carry and copy,” Fang Ning took the opportunity to beat it down before starting to explain, “It’s the capability of people to modify nature, the capability to obtain their own needed resources from nature itself. To this day, which is the productivity of the Era of Vitality, it’s no longer able to keep up with the human needs in the Era of Vitality. Of course, that includes us.”

“I see, that’s true. I use up large amounts of precious medicinal herbs every day in order to craft pills and improve my skill. Unfortunately, there are very few that can be bought in the market, and we don’t plant many on our own. The period is too long.” Sir System finally understood.

“Therefore, we should let them study this topic on how to improve the production capability of the Era of Vitality. They’ll carry out all sorts of basic research around this field and improve the scientific system under the Era of Vitality,” Fang Ning made an immediate decision.

“Well, seems that you are still capable of doing stuff,” Sir System finally let Fang Ning off.

“Heh heh, thanks for the compliment.” Fang Ning sent a WeChat message to the yellow dog Xue Ba, asking it to formulate the scientific research direction of the Scientific Academy for Vitality based on this principle.