The Buggiest System

The doctor had stormed out! He didn't even receive his pay...

"But... what about Zhou Lei?" Zhou Jiahao was still worried. Even though his son could already sit properly and talk, the fact that he has a 45 degree, no, 47 degree fever is undeniable!

Meanwhile, Zhou Lei was not feeling sick at all. However, he needed to maintain this act since this was his excuse to skip school.

At that moment, System started back up, and with a notification.

"Congratulations for completing the quest. Reward of 100 upgrade points and 1 lottery ticket ready to be received."

For Zhou Lei, there was a pro and a con for System starting back up again. The pro was that the reward for acting cool was given out, while the con was that he lost his excuse already.

The heat from the chip was instantly gone from Zhou Lei's body, making him nervous.

Though, it seems like System has something against its host as it gave out yet another quest.

Quest: Go to school (Time limit: 1 day)

Description: Popular guys are punctual, even if they're late.

Reward: 1 level up

Zhou Lei started reading System's new unfair quest. His eyes reached the description.

'This doesn't make any sense!'

As soon as Zhou Lei read the reward, he got confused. A level up? What does that mean?

System quickly answered its host's question. "Level-up increases stat cap, and reduces the number of bugs."

.....

The scientist had naturally done this on a whim. She had already fixed all the bugs that Zhou Lei had encountered so far, but he felt like it wasn't satisfying if she just gave the update.

So, he planned on using the quest system of System.

.....

"I-increases stat cap?" Zhou Lei's eyes widened. "What's the current stat cap?"

"One-hundred." System quickly responded to Zhou Lei's inquiry.

"How much would it increase?" Zhou Lei asked again, his curiosity not satiated just yet.

"Fifty." System still responded swiftly.

'If I have an appearance of 150...!'

Zhou Lei immediately looked at his remaining upgrade points after thinking of an idea.

Upgrade points: 116

'Wait, how many do I have on Appearance already? I forgot...'

As he thought about this, he quickly looked over to his Appearance stat.

Host's Appearance: -1

'W-what the hell?!'

The first time that he saw it, it was definitely not a negative number. It was at least 5! Why would it decrease to -1 in such a short time?

'Hmm... so my Appearance decreased by 6 in one night? That's disheartening... If this keeps up, even if I put all my upgrade points on Appearance, it would just decrease more and more.'

With a depressed expression on his face, Zhou Lei lied on his bed. He had to think about this carefully. As he did, he had two ideas in mind. Either he had to work hard to maintain his Appearance for it to not decrease, or he just had to put upgrade points on it occasionally.

'What a waste of upgrade points... the former is better.'

His eyes then swept a stat.

'What's this... stat retainability?'

Of course, he knew what that meant. He decided to unevenly split his remaining upgrade points between Stat Retainability and Appearance, leaning towards Appearance more.

He was going to upgrade Appearance with 80 points, while the rest would go to Stat Retainability. With this, there would be none left of his upgrade points.

Zhou Lei started to upgrade, after which System asked for confirmation. "Are you sure you want to put 116 points on: Sister's Appearance?"

"No." Zhou Lei answered resolutely. He would not fall for the same trick twice! "As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... you're still the one to be shamed. Like what the heck man, stop fooling me!"

"..." System was speechless. There was no saying like that, you only made it up!

He tried to upgrade his Appearance stat again, only to fail once more. "Are you sure you want to put 80 points on: Sister's Appearance?"

"No!" Zhou Lei answered more resolutely this time. "As the saying goes, Third time's the charm, because no one will be charming as me once I get this upgrade..."

"..." System wanted to spurt blood now, but couldn't since it was a mere chip. How shameless could one get?

"Are you sure you want to put 80 points on: Host's Appearance?"

"No!" Zhou Lei answered as if he expected this outcome. He knew that the third time was not- "Wait a second... it was okay this time!"

As he lied on the bed, staring at the ceiling, Zhou Lei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he did both.

His worried family noticed him crying and laughing at the same time. All of them were thinking about the exact same thing. 'Did he not know whether to laugh or cry?'