novelTele Chapter 1: A Terrible System?
Chapter 1: A Terrible System?
"Ding! Check-in successful! One check-in point earned! Balance: 1 point!"
Tip: Every day at midnight, as long as the host is still alive, they will automatically receive one check-in point!
Seeing the notification flash past his eye, Zhao Hai was filled with excitement and anticipation.
"Wow! I never thought I, Zhao Hai, would have a system by my side. Looks like I, Zhao Hai, am destined to be a protagonist!"
"Check-in point! Looks like I've awakened a check-in system!"
"By the way! System, what's the use of this sign-in point?" Zhao Hai asked his system in his mind.
After a while, seeing that the system hadn't given any notification, Zhao Hai realized he hadn't called the system correctly. Seeing that no one was around, he whispered, "..."
"System! What's the point of this sign-in point?!"
"System, system, besides the daily sign-in notifications, what other notifications are there?"
After a while, the system still did not respond.
Half an hour later, Zhao Hai also broke down.
The joy of just awakening the system vanished instantly! His face turned quite pale!
Other novel protagonists' sign-in systems either grant them some kind of Emperor Physique, or some awesome pills, weapons, and so on!
But my own system just tells me that I can get one sign-in point every day, and then it just washes its hands of everything and doesn't care about anything else!
Anyone would break down in this situation.
Please! System! This is the apocalypse, and you give me this stupid sign-in system without even telling me what it's for? You're just playing with me!
Yes, it's the end of the world. Two months ago, for some unknown reason, endless strange occurrences suddenly appeared on the once technologically advanced planet.
These bizarre and even completely contrary-to-truth strange phenomena are simply beyond the capabilities of humankind.
What's even more disheartening is that these bizarre weapons—the thermal and nuclear weapons that humanity is so proud of—have absolutely no effect on them.
These weapons are nothing but a pile of scrap metal in the face of the bizarre; they're a joke!
In less than three days, the entire planet Earth was plunged into apocalypse!
These damned monsters can sense the presence of living people. The longer you stay in one place at a time, the greater the chance of being attacked by them!
As for the existence of official survivor bases or similar entities depicted in many post-apocalyptic novels, they simply do not exist.
So many living people gathered together, standing still in the same spot, were like torches in the dark, attracting eerie things! That was practically suicide.
Therefore, in just two months, most of the people on Earth had died.
Only a small number of survivors remained, forming small teams of survivors who aimlessly migrated to avoid the strange occurrences!
Although the migration route is still dangerous, staying still would be tantamount to handing over one's head to the monsters, with no chance of survival!
Zhao Hai also joined a survivor team called "Spark" and embarked on this aimless migration!
Zhao Hai was initially quite happy to have awakened a system, after all, it was a system, something that many novel protagonists could only awaken after transmigrating.
Many protagonists even waited eighteen years after transmigrating before finally getting their "system brother".
But who would have thought that their system was not only incompetent, but also a hands-off manager who didn't care about anything?
Other people's sign-in systems are all about signing in with some kind of heaven-defying physique or cultivation manual, but my sign-in system is just some kind of sign-in point system. It's just so lame.
Coupled with this irresponsible behavior, if he could give a bad review, Zhao Hai would have already written a full review of his system.
Since he couldn't figure out what the use of the sign-in points given by the system was, Zhao Hai simply stopped thinking about it.
The system information appeared in front of Zhao Hai at exactly midnight.
Several tens of minutes have passed, and Zhao Hai is now preparing to rest.
After an unknown amount of time, just as Zhao Hai was drifting off to sleep, a notification sound rang in his ear:
"Beep! System-synchronized online store loading complete!"
When Zhao Hai first heard the voice, he thought he was dreaming.
He groggily turned over, trying to block out the annoying sound.
But the sound didn't disappear; instead, it became even clearer, carrying an undeniable electronic, synthesized quality.
"Would you like to view the system store now?"
This time, Zhao Hai suddenly opened his eyes.
Sure enough! I knew this system couldn't be this bad; I didn't expect it to take so long to load the system store.
Upon hearing the system's notification, Zhao Hai instantly felt a sense of unexpected turn of events.
"System, open the store!" Zhao Hai silently commanded in his mind.
"Ding! The in-game store has been opened for the host!"
With the opening of the online store, Zhao Hai naturally learned how to access it.
With a slight thought, Zhao Hai's mind conjured up an interface resembling a shopping mall. As Zhao Hai immersed himself in it, several items appeared before his eyes!
Rice price: 2 sign-in points/500g!
Instant noodles price: 2 sign-in points/pack!
Purified water price: 1 sign-in point/bottle!
Fuel price: 2 sign-in points/L!
Weird Weakness: 1 Sign-in Point/Time (Note: When the host encounters a Weird entity, sign-in points can be used to redeem its Weird Weakness.)
"No! This system shop only has five items?"
"Even the village store has a much wider variety of goods!"
"This is it? They dare call this a shop? And it's even produced by the system?"
Zhao Hai was speechless and couldn't help but silently complain in his heart.
However, despite his complaints, Zhao Hai was still extremely satisfied with the fuel and the strange weakness.
Before the apocalypse, Zhao Hai was a college student, but he wasn't short of money, or rather, his father wasn't short of money.
When Zhao Hai was four years old, his parents divorced.
As for the reason for their divorce, Zhao Hai knew that his father had been taken a liking to a rich and beautiful woman, and then dumped his original wife without hesitation and started a relationship with that woman.
Originally, Zhao Hai's father intended to give Zhao Hai to his mother to raise, but Zhao Hai's mother was unwilling to raise him.
Although Zhao Hai's father said he and Zhao Hai's mother were divorced, he still had feelings for his only son.
If it weren't for the woman who had taken a liking to him disagreeing, he wouldn't have been willing to let Zhao Hai be raised by Zhao Hai's mother.
Seeing that Zhao Hai's mother was unwilling to raise Zhao Hai, Zhao Hai's father was at a loss for what to do.
Just then, Zhao Hai's grandparents stepped forward and said that Zhao Hai would be taken care of by them.
And so, Zhao Hai lived with his grandparents in the countryside from a young age.
His grandparents passed away when he was a junior in high school.