Chapter 014: Wheel of Fortune Rewards

[Notification Email 4 — Death Notice: Last night, players born in New York, United States—"Wilmer Hogue" and "Sean Cameron"—were captured by the S-level Executor "Ke Yinzhi" of the Anomaly Control Bureau and tortured to death.]

"Wait a minute, why does the name of this executor look so familiar?"

Ke Mingye stared at the name "Ke Yinzhi" on the email for two or three seconds before he finally came to his senses, realizing that he had been focusing on the wrong thing from the start…

The point was not the two American players who were captured, but the name of the person who had caught them.

The next second, he cursed inwardly, belatedly conscious of the fact.

"Damn it, isn't that my older brother?"

Ke Yinzhi, the eldest son at home, 21 years old this year. As far as Ke Mingye could recall, this person had been frighteningly excellent since childhood and was currently attending university in Qifan, China.

At this thought, Ke Mingye wanted to tell himself that his big brother was studying in China, and the executor in the report was just in New York, United States, probably just someone with the same name.

But quickly, he metaphorically slapped himself, forcing the thought of escaping reality out of his mind.

"Please, what are the odds? How many people in China would have such a tongue-twisting name as 'Ke Yinzhi,' not to mention among those of Chinese descent."

Ke Mingye massaged his forehead for two seconds and let out a sigh.

He was ninety-nine percent certain that the S-level executor affiliated with the Anomaly Control Bureau mentioned in the email was his big brother.

He had been curious why his brother, despite being on university vacation, had not yet returned home. Now the truth had been laid bare in a way he least wanted to hear—it turned out Ke Yinzhi was acting as a dog for the Anomaly Control Bureau, busy traveling around the world carrying out missions. And just yesterday, he had unfortunately captured two players.

Now, Ke Mingye finally saw the full picture of this family.

Indeed, just as he had predicted, there wasn't a single normal person in this family. Moreover, his eldest brother was a freak among freaks; in just a few days, he had captured players lurking in New York.

No matter how Ke Yinzhi had managed to capture those two players, it was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Ke Mingye.

"My spawn point design is really awesome, isn't it? Maybe I should find a pistol and shoot myself in the head before big brother comes home, just to check if this game has a Remake function."

Ke Mingye thought to himself cheerfully as he put down the book he had been using as a disguise. The reason he had kept the book up to his face was that he was worried his second brother, Ke Xiaomo, might be observing him from some shadow in the room at this very moment, looking for something odd about him.

He got out of bed, put on his shoes, cleaned up in the bathroom, then looked back to see the second-floor rooms still tightly shut, without any sign of life.

All his siblings were lazy dogs; getting up at six was as good as eating shit to them, so Ke Mingye didn't bother waking them up.

Before leaving the house, Ke Mingye made sure to take his backpack with him. Ke Youqing and Bai Wenna tended to get up late and had no time to prepare breakfast, so they usually gave their children money for breakfast and lunch the night before. Ke Mingye planned to stop at a roadside stall on the way to school to deal with breakfast.

After leaving the house, he took the elevator down to the ground floor. As the elevator doors opened, his gaze through the lobby's entrance fell upon the desolate street outside. Each shop's door was firmly shut, only the supermarket across the street remained open, with the electronic sign "7-Seven" flickering on and off in the morning light with its neon glow.

Looking up, he saw a slightly oppressive dark blue sky, cloudless.

Fortunately, the air was still relatively fresh in the early morning.

"Can I really survive this..."

"I guess I just have to take it one step at a time."

Muttering softly to himself, Ke Mingye walked along the deserted street, pretending to look at his phone and opening the taskbar.

[Daily Task One: Run 3000 meters in the morning. (This task must be completed before 8 a.m.)]

[Reward for this task: A chance to spin the lucky draw wheel.]

[Daily Task Two: Do one hundred push-ups.]

[Task Reward: Receive one attribute point to allocate freely.]

[Daily Mission Three: None (Each day there is a 10% chance to refresh a special daily mission; completing this mission will yield richer rewards than ordinary daily missions.)]

[Note: Daily missions will refresh at 0:00 the following day, please aim to finish the missions before the time limit ends.]

After reading the mission details, Ke Mingye left his backpack with the supermarket owner and started running along the streets of the Old Jingmai District.

He ran and ran, sprinting without holding back, until the sky changed from a dark blue to pure white and his school uniform was drenched in sweat, only then did he stop.

Ke Mingye placed his hands on his slightly bent knees and bent over, gasping for breath.

After a while, he lifted his head from his sweat-drenched forehead and looked at the mission prompt floating before his eyes.

[You have completed Daily Mission One and have earned an opportunity to spin the prize wheel. Would you like to spin it now?]

"Spin it."

As his words fell, a round prize wheel slowly unfolded before his eyes, with intersecting red lines dividing it into six sectors, each marked with text and icons.

From sector one to six, the rewards are as follows:

[1. C-class Weapon—Electromagnetic Pulse Pistol (Ammunition can be purchased in the mall);]

[2. 500 Mall Coins (Can be used to purchase items in the player's mall);]

[3. One attribute point to allocate freely;]

[4. Unique Item—Spider-Man's Web Shooter (Derived from the superhero franchise in the second parallel universe "Spider-Man");]

[5. B-class Item—"Firearms Mastery Card";]

[6. Thank You For Participating.]

Ke Mingye walked forward while checking each sector's reward on the prize wheel.

Since he wasn't familiar with the game's items, he naturally didn't know which reward was the best; he only knew that if it landed on the sixth reward, he'd seriously have to check if the system had a remake function.

Without hesitation, he immediately pressed the "Start Wheel" button below the prize wheel.

The prize wheel spun like a windmill, the top pointer remaining stationary. Ultimately, the segment it landed on was the fourth sector.

[Congratulations, you have obtained the prize from the fourth sector: Unique Item—"Spider-Man's Web Shooter".]

[Item has been added to your inventory; open the inventory to check.]

Ke Mingye raised an eyebrow: "Nice stuff, but my current physical fitness probably won't cut it, might have to put it on ice for a while."

At that moment, he suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned his head, only to see a huge panel materializing above an abandoned train station in front of him.

[Congratulations, you have discovered the "7th instance" of "Huanjing City", which has been recorded in your dungeon atlas. You can open the atlas at any time to check.]

[Instance Name: Crazy Train Station]

[Instance Location: Old Jingmai District, Abandoned Train Station]

[Instance Difficulty: F-class (Recommended for players below level 10 to form a team)]