Chapter 458 - A big prize! (1/2)

Chapter 458: A big prize!

On the second floor of the house.

Chenchen drowsily carried her bolster and stood at the top of the staircase. She did not open her eyes and just said, ”Zhang Ye, can you keep it down? You woke me up.”

Zhang Ye quickly a.s.sured her, ”You can go back to sleep, I won't disturb you again.”

Chenchen rubbed her eyes and asked, ”What were you doing?”

”Oh, I was just trying to split a pair of scissors with my hands.” Zhang Ye replied.

Chenchen made an annoyed expression with her mouth, ”No wonder you were so loud. Did you think you were my aunt? Zhang Ye, you really are childish.”

Zhang Ye felt his pride hurt, so he stared at her and immediately said, ”Who said it was your Uncle Zhang that shouted?! It was the pair of scissors that shouted from the pain it received from my attack!”

Chenchen pouted and complained childishly, ”You don’t act like an adult at all.” With that, she went back to her room.

Zhang Ye felt a little ashamed, so he called out to her upstairs, ”Remember to cover yourself well with the blanket. Don't catch a cold. I will be sleeping downstairs. If you need to use the toilet in the middle of the night, just call for me.”

An impatient child's voice shouted back, ”Got it.”

Zhang Ye felt helpless. That child was very smart and was good in every way except not knowing how to leave some face for an adult. He turned around and sat down again. Yes, it's time to try his hand at the lottery!

Skills Category!

Today, that was all that he wanted!

Zhang Ye clicked on the lottery draw and spent 100,000 reputation points!

The lottery draw began. The needle on the lottery panel started spinning on the turntable. 1 round, 2 rounds, 3 rounds. Then, it started to slow down.

Zhang Ye kept a close watch on the turntable as the needle began to come to a stop. He hesitated for a moment, but did not move as he observed the momentum of the spin. The needle was likely to stop at the Stats Category, which Zhang Ye was not aiming for today. He did not bet any additional stakes since he did not want it anyway.

When the needle stop, although it moved further ahead than he had expected it to, it still stopped in the Stats Category. A small golden treasure chest popped out!

He opened it.

[ Fruit of Strength ] x 1: Permanently increases the strength of the player.

Increasing strength?

It wasn't too bad.

Zhang Ye took out a dark, s.h.i.+ny weird looking fruit from the treasure chest and took a look at it. Then, he opened his mouth and took a bite before feeling his body turn numb as if a jolt of electricity ran through his body. It was just for a second and it was all over. He touched his arm and thought it felt rather good. The feeling wasn't too bad, but it was still only one fruit of strength after all, so there shouldn't be too great of a change for sure.

He continued the lottery draw.

He staked another bet. The needle spun round and round. When it was about to stop, Zhang Ye observed and a.n.a.lyzed it carefully. He estimated that the needle would stop between the Skills Category and Consumption Category areas, but as the needle's movement was a little different each time, he could not accurately predict where it would stop. If he waited any longer, it might be too late to buy Additional Stakes before the needle stopped dead. For safety reasons, Zhang Ye decided not to put additional stakes again, he would wait for the next round.

The needle stopped.

It was the Consumption Category.

He opened up the Treasure Chest (Small) to take a look at it.

[ Pause Game ] x 1: Time will temporarily stop. Lasts for 1 minute.

Zhang Ye was stunned. He had played games before, so he knew that besides online games, most single player games had the ability to pause the game. He did not expect such an item to exist here as well. Pause the game? Time could be stopped? What a powerful item! This was a good item, if only he had known! But nothing was ever perfect. If he had staked an additional 10 or 100 bets? What if it was like the last time he drew those empty chests?  Then he would have been blindsided again! It was important to be content!

There weren't many Reputation points left, slightly less than 30 million. He had around 29 million left now.

Zhang Ye draw once again. He rubbed his hands together and clicked on the lottery draw, ”Give me something from the Skills Category! Something from the Skills Category!” He had already set his mind on obtaining two new skills today. No matter what they were, even if those skills did not seem useful to him, he would be OK with it!

Come on out!

Pi! Ka! Chu!

You didn’t need to say it, but shouting that really made it work!

Pika.....and the Skills Category would appear. After the needle spun more than a dozen times, it slowly crept towards the Skills Category and was coming to a stop! Zhang Ye quickly bought Additional Stakes. He was intending to only buy 100 Additional Stakes, but seeing that he still had enough, he added it upto a total of 149!

It stopped!

This time, everything was good. It was all in the Skills Category!

A sound was made to signal that this round of lottery draw was over. At that moment, Zhang Ye's inventory was suddenly filled with 150 small golden treasure chests. They were all stacked together in a very dense manner.

Zhang Ye did not open the treasure chests. He left it in there knowing that the skill in it had already been decided, so it didn't matter if he opened it now or later. He would continue with his lottery draw for now!