Chapter 547 - Upgrade unlocked for the game rings system! (1/2)

Chapter 547: Upgrade unlocked for the game ring's system!

Late at night.

At Zhang Ye's parents' place.

It was already the deep of night. In the district, almost everyone had turned in. Only the sounds of two cats mewling in the garden downstairs could be heard. The breeding season of cats was beginning again and it was becoming slightly noisier than before.

”Meow!”

”Ouh…”

Zhang Ye, still in bed under his blanket, was browsing Weibo with a depressed mood. Having just won the award and t.i.tle of Most Unpopular Celebrity, he could only swear and grumble at his luck. He felt that those Weibo netizens were really too wicked. Even if this bro could not get the Most Popular Celebrity Award, surely he did not deserve the t.i.tle of Most Unpopular Celebrity? Weren't you guys just teaming up against me!?

Heh, forget it.

As long as everyone enjoyed the process.

So be it. If it's the most unpopular award, at least he was still crowned champion, right? If there were any others who wanted the t.i.tle, they would not be able to get it. It was still somewhat a reflection of being popular. Like those small-time celebrities who really attracted a lot of hate, like those who behaved like they were divas, like those who had terrible acting skills, like those whose singing would go out of tune—even if they wanted to win the t.i.tle of Most Unpopular Celebrity, they were still not qualified enough to do so, not to mention winning it with a record of more than 20 million votes. This record had broken the previous one by more than 10 times. Zhang Ye fully deserved being the most ”Most Unpopular Celebrity” of all time. With all the votes added up from the previous rankings for this award, it would still not be able to surpa.s.s his vote total!

Though it might be called the Most Unpopular Celebrity Award, in actuality, if it were truly an award of unpopularity, the people would not remember your name in the first place or even know who you were. So how could they vote for you? They wouldn't even be bothered by you. This award was pretty much similar to the Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies) in his previous world. So the reason for Zhang Ye being selected for this award was not a true reflection of him being unpopular. It was done more so for entertainment's sake, to make the event more lively. Furthermore, even if it was a t.i.tle of being the most unpopular, it would still give Zhang Ye some additional fame and reputation points. Compared to being average in the polls, he still gained some positives out of this. He could only make the best out of the situation and think positively this way.

Oh, right.

Speaking of reputation points, he suddenly remembered.

Zhang Ye looked at the game ring on his pinky and remembered that he had not checked it for some time now. If he recalled correctly, the last time he used the game ring was back at Summer Palace during the International Math Olympiad to search through his memory for the topic on Fermat's Theorem, also know as this world's Dale's Conjecture. After he bought a memory search capsule and used it to prove the mathematical conjecture, he had not checked his total reputation points again. The memory search capsules he had used to write Legend of Wukong were eaten earlier, before he went on to prove the mathematical conjecture. As the pace of events was too messy, he had forgotten all about it.

But this was his greatest a.s.set.

Zhang Ye's focus immediately s.h.i.+fted from the Weibo polling awards back to the game ring's reputation points. He estimated that he would have gathered a large amount of reputation points this time. He was excited by the prospects of this since he hadn't played the lottery draw in a long time now. After having had his ban lifted and being able to start work again, he knew that he needed to gain some items to help him in his future endeavors. With a spot on the B-list Celebrity Rankings so close, Zhang Ye was full of energy and confidence!

Activating the game ring.

He brought up the virtual screen.

The display looked as the same as always, with the menu listings:

[Items]

[Merchant Shop]

[Lottery]

After them, [Reputation Points]: 224,570,003.

Since it was possible that people from all over the country were noticing Zhang Ye's new or old works, his reputation points were increasing constantly. For example, the recent Legend of Wukong, the Weibo Celebrity Rankings, or the essay ”On Horses” and poem The Road Not Taken from the past few days, and so on.

+3!

+2!

+11!

+8!

+6!

It continually added the relevant amount of reputation points in real time.

During the times when he had no new works, this counter would increase less often with a lower rate.

Zhang Ye was not too shocked by the 200 million reputation points he had gained. By now, he had already been expecting it. However when he saw it, he still felt a sense of surprise. He knew that some of these reputation points came from the novel Legend of Wukong and some other written works, but they probably did not form the main bulk of it. The majority of the 200 million reputation points should be due to him causing a sensation when he proved Dale's Conjecture. Although math had never been something that most people paid attention to, or rather, it was something that people did not bother about. But with Zhang Ye proving one of the top ten most difficult math problems that had eluded even the world's brightest mathematicians, even those who didn't know what a mathematical conjecture was or had never heard of Dale's Conjecture would understand just how unbelievable this achievement was. With that kind of admiration, shock, and praise, all of that had naturally propped up Zhang Ye's popularity. It, in turn, became reputation points for him through the game system.

200 millions worth of reputation points!

This was the largest amount of points that Zhang Ye had gained ever since he had the game ring. Compared to what he had earned in the past, this was on a whole different level!

It was too much!

So much that he did not know how he should spend it!

Zhang Ye was smiling very happily. Just as he was about to bring up the next screen, and his fingers touched the virtual screen, the command did not go through but up came a notification message.

[System update detected.]

A system update?

The system could even be updated?

Zhang Ye was a little stunned and could not react.

The message automatically closed before a detailed description appeared.

[Update instructions]: Upgrade conditions have been met. The upgraded system will require 200 million reputation points. After the upgrade has been completed, there will be improved lottery functions and special category item rewards.

[Confirm] / [Cancel]

Finally it gave two options to choose from.