Chapter 481: Host, I Love You

"I'm going to be a dad?"

"I'm going to be a dad?"

"I'm going to be a dad?"

Wade Dong repeated the same sentence to himself as he returned to his room.

His mother-in-law had just called, and now Li Jiajia was probably being fawned over by everyone. Wade Dong took a moment to calm down before taking out his phone and video calling Li Jiajia.

"Ring... Ring... Ring..."

The phone only rang three times, but to Wade Dong, it felt like an eternity.

"Jiajia."

"Brother Dong..."

Li Jiajia whispered 'Brother Dong' softly.

"Are you really pregnant?"

"Yeah... I went to the Yan Jing Concord Hospital this morning and I'm already one and a half months along."

"That's great, I'm going to be a dad."

"Yeah, you better make some good money now, because there's going to be one more person eating at home soon."

"Haha... I'll make money, and you'll have the baby."

"Pfft..."

Li Jiajia's face turned red, and she lightly spat, "Mom's calling me for dinner. You rest up, and make sure to beat the M Country men's basketball team tomorrow."

"Okay~"

The video call ended, and Wade Dong, alone in his room, could no longer contain his excitement. He jumped around on the bed like a big monkey!

In his previous life, Wade Dong had been busy with his career after going through a low point, and he hadn't planned to have children. 

Some say that children are the crystallisation of a couple's love, so would he have a new nickname in the future, 'Milk Dad Ball King'?

...

[Congratulations, Host!]

The system's voice suddenly appeared in Wade Dong's mind.

"Congratulations to you too~ When the baby is born, I'll let them recognise you as their godfather, so I can directly upgrade to become a grandfather."

[...]

[Do you want to upgrade the system?]

"Upgrade?"

Wade Dong asked, puzzled by this unexpected question, "Can you even upgrade?"

[After the upgrade, the system will actively choose the next host.]

"Oh my god~"

This sentence made Wade Dong freeze. "System, are you leaving?"

When Wade Dong was bored, he would tease the system to relieve his boredom, but the system had a good temper, so why did his joke about letting the system be the godfather to his unborn child suddenly anger it?

[You can choose to upgrade the system, and the next host will be your child.]

Perhaps because it was about to leave, the system spoke more politely, even referring to Wade Dong as 'you'.

The system was going to transfer to his unborn child, allowing them to continue living a life with cheats?

If that was the case, Wade Dong had no hesitation. He asked, "After the upgrade, will it still be the basketball system?"

[The upgraded system will be defined by your child's preferences.]

In other words, if they liked technology, it would be a technology system; if they liked singing, it would be a star system; if they liked football, it would be a football system...

With such a humanised system, what reason did Wade Dong have to refuse?

"How long does the system upgrade take?"

[Sixteen years.]

"That slow???"

[...]

[Do you want to upgrade?]

"Upgrade."

[Host, as a parting gift, I give you my final gift.]

"Swoosh..."

"Swoosh..."

"Swoosh..."

"..."

[Host, I love you.]

"???"

Along with this sickening sentence, the system disappeared, and countless star player skills that Wade Dong had previously disdained to exchange for began to merge into his body.

...

"Phew..."

An hour later, Wade Dong let out a long sigh, feeling a vague sense of loss in his heart.

The system had left.

However, the medicine column still existed in Wade Dong's mind, and the system had left him with 100 bottles of 'Lucky Potion', 100 bottles of 'Stamina Potion', 100 bottles of 'Recovery Potion', 100 bottles of 'Bad Luck Potion', and 100 bottles of 'Prophecy Potion'.

It seemed like a lot, but compared to Wade Dong's long career, these potions were insignificant.

"Damn, I wasn't careful enough!"

Wade Dong suddenly realised.

The joy of becoming a father had clouded Wade Dong's mind, causing him to lose his ability to analyse things calmly for a short time.

The system upgrade wasn't urgent, and he could have waited until after the World Cup to let the system upgrade.

"System, are you there?"

"System, are you there?"

"..."

"System, are you there?"

Wade Dong called out tirelessly 576 times, but the system didn't respond at all, indicating that it had truly gone to upgrade.

"Oh well, never mind~"

Wade Dong shook his head helplessly.

Did he regret it?

Of course not!

After winning the triple crown, the system's help to him had become very limited. Giving the system to his unborn child as a gift, allowing them to continue living a life with cheats, was a wonderful thing.

...

The night before the final, the M Country men's basketball team checked into their hotel.

"Our opponent tomorrow is only one person, and that's Wade Dong!"

The legendary coach, Coach K, felt inexplicably anxious. "Curry, Thompson, you two have been teammates with Wade Dong, so tell me about him."

"Brother Dong is the strongest player on this planet."

"Yes, there is no man stronger than Brother Dong, neither in the past nor in the future."

"He's still human, not a god."

Coach K rubbed his temples, "I haven't been able to sleep these past few nights, and I've been rewatching some games. One was the 2012 Olympic final, another was this year's G4 final, and the third was the game where Wade Dong got a quintuple-double."

"In the 2012 Olympic final, Wade Dong faced a triple-team from James, Kobe, and Anthony in the fourth quarter, and he made every shot."

"In this year's G4 final, Wade Dong made 29 out of 29 shots and scored 77 points."

"Sigh..."

Draymond sighed, his expression somewhat melancholy, "Such a performance, and it only happens once in a lifetime. Wade Dong has already done it countless times."

Curry said, "Actually, in this year's G5, Brother Dong's three consecutive full-court threes were the scariest, killing us with every shot."

"This is a player who becomes stronger against stronger opponents and can play hard."

Coach K worried, "If Wade Dong repeats these performances tomorrow, I really won't have any way to stop him."

Drummond comforted him, "Don't worry, Coach... Lady Luck is a Western goddess, and Wade Dong won't always be blessed by her. I don't believe he can beat us again."

"So tomorrow, we should still use a triple-team defence on Wade Dong and try to prevent him from getting the ball as much as possible."

"Yeah, yeah..."

"As for the rest of the Chinese men's basketball team and their overall defensive system, they're not a big concern."

"Yeah, yeah..."

"Do you guys have confidence in winning tomorrow's game?"

"Yeah... yeah?"

"Never mind, everyone rest well tonight, and we can't lose tomorrow's game! We have to wash away the shame of the 'Dream Team' losing to the Chinese men's basketball team."