The Urban Hero System

March should be a time for the blue sky, but instead, there was a dark sky full of clouds at this moment. And it was raining and lightning. Sometimes there was a wind blowing leaves.

People's emotion was infected by this gloomy weather.

Jiang Bai was sitting at the door of a poky rental house. At that time, raindrops were like bullets, penetrating his mind. Jiang Bai was in a very bad mood.

"What the hell? Where am I? Aquamarine? A parallel universe? I'll be damned if this is time traveling."

Jiang Bai said this to himself after a while of trance. He couldn't help but give himself a slap in the face to make sure that he still could feel the pain and that he was not in a dream.

It was not his fault to be like this. Anyone who found himself ten years younger the moment when he woke up, and in a completely different planet, he would be in a much worse state than Jiang Bai. Jiang Bai was a brave man. If anyone else was in his shoes, the situation might drive that man crazy.

"Aquamarine is in a parallel world. Apart from some minor details, the situation is similar to the earth. You can compare Aquamarine as the earth ten years ago. Congratulations, young man. You won the first prize. You won a chance of reborn."

When Jiang Bai was slapping his face, a very arrogant voice came to him.

"Who are you?"

Jiang Bai was stunned and shocked.

What the hell!?

"Me? I am the Wicked Hero System. I came from... Well, not important. Anyway, young man, you are so lucky. I brought you here and to a completely different life. Don't bother with the details. All you have to do is to get more prestige, and in return, I will provide you with countless treasures."

That voice came again, seemingly talking to itself, ignoring Jiang Bai's questions completely.

"Wicked Hero System? What the fuck is that?"

Jiang Bai was lost, and he found his brain in a downtime.

"The Wicked Hero System was designed to help you become a world-known hero or villain. Everything comes from Prestige Points. And with enough Prestige Points, you can have everything."

Here came the voice of the system again, and with that voice, many pieces of messages were sent in Jiang Bai's mind. Jiang Bai started to understand this Prestige System from scratch.

It could be compared to a game, and the rules were simple. To get everything Jiang Bai need, he would have to finish tasks and to store experience.

"Jing Bai! Get down, you bastard! Have you done the job I told you yesterday?"

At that time, someone was shouting loudly in the yard.

In the drizzle, three or four fancily dressed punks kicked the door of this three-story rental house open and shouted at Jiang Bai, who was sitting behind the rusty railing on the third floor.

"Gosh!"

After scratching his head, Jiang Bai organized his memory and recalled this guy's identity.

Liu Bin, a very famous punk in this area with yellow hair, was standing in the middle. He kind of knew him, but not very close.

In the past, Jiang Bai was a weak man. He would definitely hide from this kind of trouble if he could. He was a well-behaved security guard in Entertainment City, having a boring but safe life, looking forward to a dull but loyal marriage.

Jiang Bai and Liu Bin were like two parallel lines, without any crossing in the whole life.

But there was an incident yesterday. Jiang Bai's mother asked his distant cousin to take some clothes for him. She was such a lovely girl, which seduced Liu Bin.

And that made two parallel lines cross. When Liu Bin found Jiang Bai, without talking first, Jiang Bai was slapped in the face by Liu Bin, and was forced to set up a date between Liu Bin and his lovely cousin.

Jiang Bai might be weak, but he would never do such a thing.

It wouldn't need much knowledge of Lin Bin for Jiang Bai to understand what Liu Bin really wanted. He couldn't put his cousin in danger. Although...

Even if he actually did it, that very distant cousin would not listen to him.

"Hey, I am here."

Jiang Bai answered to them. Without hesitation, he took half a brick and walked downstairs.

The past Jiang Bai was weak, but there was a new soul in that body.

That soul was no hero, but when it comes to fighting, he never had a second thought.

To be or not to be, that never was his question.

There was nothing to fear when he was facing a punk-like Liu Bin.

"Hey, Brother Bin. I have come up with a perfect plan. Come here and let me walk it through for you..."

When Jiang Bai went downstairs, the other three came to him. So Jiang Bai smiled and said it with respect.

"That's great, man. Ha-ha, if your plan works out, you will be under my protection. In this area, I assure you that no one would dare to mess with you..."

When Liu Bin saw the respectful face of Jiang Bai, he thought Jiang Bai was afraid. So he let his guard down and laughed when going near Jiang Bai. Liu Bin was patting on Jiang Bai's shoulder, saying that with a satisfied facial expression.

"Great, my ass!"

With the sound of "Pa"! Jiang Bai hit Liu Bin on his head with that half a brick.

Immediately there was blood spurting out from Liu Bin's forehead, which made him began to scream. Nonetheless, Jiang Bai continued his attack.

"Pa! Pa! Pa!"

Jiang Bai hit him seven times while Liu Bin was screaming. He didn't stop until Liu Bin fell down on the ground and couldn't move anymore. Then he wiped the blood on his arms and said to another two punks who was completely shocked: "What are you waiting for? Take him and get out! I will be waiting for your revenge in the Big World. You son of a bitch!"

"Er..."

These two punks were 22 or 23 years old. All four of them were actually alike. Every day they were noisy and aggressive, but deep down, they were weak, and they would bully the weaker. At first, Liu Bin's gang took Jiang Bai as someone who was afraid of trouble. To their surprise, this man was such a bad ass. He almost killed Liu Bin!

And, was he from the Big World?

Holy shit!

Jiang Bai was from the Big World, which was a famous place in this block. That two punks could not even speak, barely opening their mouths. They dragged Liu Bin and ran away like rabbits, without the pride when they came.

"Hem!" After they went away, Jiang Bai could finally relax.

But honestly, that body wasn't very strong. He couldn't catch his breath after this, and he felt exhausted. If those two were mad and ruthless, he could hardly stay alive.

Even Jiang Bai successfully scared them away, he was still afraid. They were living in a society governed by law. Fighting might make him feel good, but the consequence might make him regret it.

As the situation then, if Liu Bin called the police, Jiang Bai would definitely be in pain.

In most cases, punks like them would not go to the police, but this shit would not cease to exist. There would definitely be revenge.

"I should leave here as soon as possible. This place is no longer safe."

In a second, Jiang Bai made up his mind.

"Ding! You have won your first battle. One versus three. It is a perfect showing off. Young man, you have just gotten five Prestige Points."

Just when Jiang Bai was about to leave, the voice of the system came to him.

Jiang Bai couldn't help teasing the Wicked Hero System, because the comments from it were really strange.

And hold on, why are five Prestige Points?

There were only three people. How could there be five Prestige Points?

But soon, Jiang Bai understood.

He suddenly noticed there were other two people watching him from the balcony on the third floor. They were neighbors. And when they realized that Jiang Bai had seen them, they subconsciously shrank the necks and quickly nodded to show their greetings and came back to their room in a second.

This scene made Jiang Bai amused.

If he remembered correctly, one of the neighbors had bullied Jiang Bai for a long time simply because he was older and stronger. Jiang Bai was happy about the bonus that this neighbor would never dare to bully him again.

"Congratulations, young man! You have finished your first experience of gaining Prestige Point, and won yourself a lottery chance! Life is a long journey. The important thing is to accumulate. The second chance will be gained when you get 1000 Prestige Points."

"Lottery?"

Jiang Bai was stunned, and then a huge slot machine emerged in front of him.

This machine surprised him, but soon he realized that only he could see this and not anyone else.

This thought made him relieved.

This machine was not like the common one. There were three boxes from top to bottom, and the central pointer only pointed at one box. Besides, there was a list of nine different colors.

Except for three black boxes, there were three white boxes, one blue box, and two purple boxes, with letters written on them.

The three white ones were "100,000 RMB", "one affair", and "10 Prestige Points".

Apparently, white boxes were the lowest awards. Except for that "100,000 RMB", Jiang Bai didn't want the other two.

The blue box stood for a higher prize, "Advanced Free Combat Mastery".

This was a good skill for Jiang Bai, and he did want it!

Jiang Bai, at that time, was a forceless man. Besides, no matter last life or this one, he actually had no skills except his strong will.

He and Liu Bin were still in conflict. With this, he would be much safer.

Jiang Bai ignored one purple box with a question mark on it and turned to another one.

As his eyes were on that purple box, he couldn't turn anywhere else. He paid no more attention to "Advanced Free Combat Mastery" and "100,000 RMB".

That was because, on this purple box, there were letters that anyone would want, "a chance of getting rich".

"When you turn the turnplate to draw for the first time, nine awards will all appear in a list, so that you can know exactly what the awards are. But only once. Next time you draw, all the awards are random and will be hidden automatically. Different levels of awards have different colors, and they are black, white, blue, purple, and more advanced gold. But gold is in the range of advanced draw, which will not appear in the primary and medium draw. However, purple has some chances to appear randomly. Young boy, go ahead and have a promising future!"

"Go!"

Jiang Bai roared in his mind, next moment, that nine squares over the slot machine began to turn rapidly and passed by the indicator one by one. Several seconds later, it gradually slowed down. Different colors of squares constantly changed under the indicator.

"Make great fortune overnight, make a great fortune overnight..."

Seeing that squares moved slowly and passed by the white indicator, Jiang Bai could not help murmuring to himself crazily while his eyes stared at the purple square and almost became blocked with blood.

The white square slowly crossed the indicator, including the "Ten thousand Yuan", "One night love", and "Advanced Free Combat Mastery". Finally, the black square stopped, which made Jiang Bai almost fainted.

"Fuck!!!"

Jiang Bai almost jumped up.

What's the hell? It did not give me anything?

Nothing?!!!

"Oh? No..."

Jing Bai had been about to jump up and swear, but he suddenly found the turnplate was still moving at an extremely slow speed. It was so slow that almost nobody could notice. When he was going to abuse out of rage, the black square passed, and then, the purple square with a big question mark stopped at the center.

"Congratulations, young boy, you have gotten the purple award, the special skill-unforgettable!"

The voice of the system sounded, with some teasing.

The next moment, a burst of energy came into Jiang Bai's body. He just felt a headache, and then, memories poured out.

His memory from childhood, even infancy, to now poured out in a moment. It was so visible that Jiang Bai felt he had just experienced. Not only the memory of this life but also the memory of his last lifetime, all appeared in his mind like playing a movie.

He even could remind of what did his mother look like when she made dumplings for him, the happy taste when he ate the dumplings and every little moment of past life.

Realizing that he could not go back and see the apples of his eyes, Jing Bai's face was covered with tears.

Wiping the tears on his face and rubbing his head, Jiang Bai decided to forget the past and move on. At the time, he felt glad to get the purple award " unforgettable", he began to face up to his life.

First of all, he could not live here anymore.

Though such a cheap apartment was quite a few in the Shangdong area, couldn't he find another apartment in such a big world?

A true man doesn't stand beside a dangerous wall. This place was not suitable for living long.

After packed up his simple luggage and picked up his second-hand computer, Jiang Bai left the room he had lived for half a year. With his deposit of only ten thousand yuan, he moved to another apartment.

It was a mid-range neighborhood in the city with a beautiful environment and good public security. What's more, being close to the city center, it had convenient transportation and prosperous surrounding. An about one hundred square meters apartment was not quite spacious, but it was much better than the humble place he had lived before.

After paying the rent, Jing Bai realized that there was not too much left in astonishment. All the money he had now was just one thousand yuan, and it was the result of pleading with the owner of the house in every way he could to just pay two months' payment.

It was not that he could not find a cheaper apartment, but Jiang Bai could not stand to live in such a humble place since he was a quite successful man in his last life. Car, house, and deposit, he possessed all of them, of course, he couldn't stand to live in such a little apartment.

"Life really makes people have a headache. I wonder what on earth this guy did before. He achieved nothing when he had already been 23 years old. After graduated from high school, he had worked for four or five years in society but still had no serious job, and he just could barely feed and clothe himself. Besides, he was single and still a fucking virgin!"

It was already in the midnight after Jiang Bai tidied up the luggage. Holding a bowl of instant noodles, he could not help taunting his present life while eating--When a people did not dare to add a hum sausage to his instant noodles, he really had an uneasy life.

"I can't work as a guard anymore, but what should I do?" Jiang Bai could not help thinking about this.

He did not have much money in the pocket. What's more, he went into trouble. Thus he could not go to work for Big World because Liu Bin definitely would come to him sooner and later, so he would not have a job for a short time.

Besides, even though he was not involved in this trouble, could he still work as a humble guard and live in that kind of place? If he did so, he definitely wouldn't forgive himself who had been born again in the big BUG of the world.

"Eh? Got it..."

Suddenly, enlightenment passed through his mind. Then, he hurried to turn on his computer and devoted himself to search quickly on the Internet. After a while, he suddenly stood up and began to laugh.

Because Jiang Bai found that even though the world he was living now was roughly the same as the earth, they were different in some details.

Such as literature, many literary works which were prevailing on the earth never appeared here.

Just like having found a huge goldmine, Jiang Bai's eyes brightened because of this impressive find.

He almost could affirm that if some sensational literature prevailing on the earth were taken out, they could definitely become popular again. At that time, he would inevitably earn a lot of money. Thinking of this, he could not help smiling happily.

But the dream is perfect while the reality is cruel!

When Jiang Bai decided to be a literature robber to plagiarize other people's intellectual property and gain both fame and wealth, he suddenly found that he was really ignorant and incompetent for the whole last life.

Though Jiang Bai knew his last life's memory like the back of his hand for his had the ability of "unforgettable" now, unexpectedly, he realized that he was busy earning his living and did not read too many books in his last life.

China's four great classic novels?

Come on, this world also had!

What's more, Jiang Bai did not read them at all.

Harry Potter? What the hell was it? Only ghosts would read this kind of children's book!

The Legend of The Condor Heroes? Dragon Oath? The work of Mr. Jin and Mr. Gu?

Well... all right, except he had watched the soap opera, he did not read them at all, either. He just had a junior high school level education in his last life and only watched TV or movies. Reading a book? And especially this kind of book? Forgot it.

Even though Jiang Bai had read many popular network novels, he sorrowfully found that the book he had finished was quite a few and definitely could not more than five. As for sensational work...it seemed that he had not read one.

"I am a fucking tragedy!"

Jiang Bai could not help but pat his head. He was really regretting his previous mistake.

"Forget it, to be honest, I don't want to be a literature robber at all. Maybe other work is better for me. Eh? No... I still remember some of the books; it's not a big problem to earn money!"

After organizing his thoughts, Jiang Bai decided to give up this very promising job and thought about other ways out. But eventually, he suddenly remembered that he actually had finished a sensational book

--Jade Dynasty!

"Jade Dynasty was my favorite. I once spent many sleepless days on it. My hard work finally paid off. Alas, I should have read more books."

Jiang Bai didn't just sit there and regret, and he also opened his computer and started to type with fast speed. He was writing down what was in his brain.

Jiang Bai didn't have to recall anything deliberately. He just sat there, and his ability to "unforgettable" would do all the job. His fingers were as fast as lightning. In a few hours, he had written tens of thousands of words. He created an author account in the most famous net for novels, the Huaxia Literature Net, and uploaded an abstract and first two chapters. After sending the new book to the editor for review, Jiang Bai did a stretch and stood up.

His tummy gurgled.

That gurgling sound kept going on. After a few hours of work, Jiang Bai was hungry.

Feeling embarrassed, Jiang Bai made himself a bowl of instant noodles again, with two poached eggs in it. He added them on purpose. Then, he started to eat quickly.

"Oh, wait. I got 5 Prestige Points today. I wonder what this could be used for? Hello? System, are you there? Can you tell me what five Prestige Points could trade for?"

While he was eating, Jiang Bai suddenly realized he could exchange things with Prestige Points, so he asked in his mind.

"Young man, 5 Prestige Points are not too much to trade. But don't worry. You can trade many things with 5 Prestige Points because I am a great and almighty system. Here is a list of what you can get."

In a second, that means the sound of the system came to Jiang Bai.

To be honest, at first, Jiang Bai did want to name this system. But hearing all this, Jiang Bai decided not to name the damn thing other than 'the system'.

After one second, Jiang Bai could see a list in front of him. It was like Amazon. From top to bottom, there were so many things that he lost count. For each item, there were its pictures and description."

The first item was money, one Prestige Point for 1,000 RMB.

1 to 1,000, this rate was higher than Jiang Bai's expectation.

But it was a one-way change, which meant that you could not buy Prestige Points with money. Only a fool would do that.

And the rest items made Jiang Bai speechless.

A set of a computer? iPhone 6? Advanced inflatable doll? Electric vibrators?

After Jiang Bai understood 5 Prestige Points couldn't give him anything nice, he started to tease the system.

Suddenly Jiang Bai remembered that Advanced Free Combat Mastery, so he asked: "By the way, how many Prestige Point does the Advanced Free Combat Mastery cost?"

Although the system didn't answer him directly, the list had changed. There were Advanced Free Combat Mastery, Advanced Taekwondo Mastery, Advanced Form-Intent Fists Mastery, Advanced Muay Thai Mastery, and other advanced combat skills.

Jiang Bai was surprised to find that Advanced Free Combat Mastery was the cheapest. But still, it was worth 500 Prestige Points. And the others were more expensive.

Advanced Form-Intent Fists Mastery was worth of 1,500 Prestige Points!

How many was that?

Jiang Bai had to beat 300 people like Liu Bin, with audiences who were following, watching, or fearing.

300 times?

Each time, Jiang Bai would be beating someone to bleeding. He knew for sure that it didn't need 300 times, only 30 times, for him to be arrested and get a lifelong sentence.

"What the hell! I can't do this." In Jiang Bai's mind, he was cursing the system.

This time Jiang Bai checked his "unforgettable". He got a purple and special skill and felt very lucky.

That's because he found out that "unforgettable" was 100,000 Prestige Points worth.

100,000 Prestige Points!

Jiang Bai, this lucky dog, then had no dissatisfaction the moment when he checked the price.

Slowly, Jiang Bai fell asleep during his checking price. Meanwhile, beyond his expectation, there were so many excited people staying awake because of something he did.

There was a hard-core bookworm who liked to read on Huaxia Literature Net. When he had nothing else to do but to read, there was a new book, and the first sentence caught his eyes.

"The universe was no humanity, as it took everything as sacrifices."

"Interesting. Let me read more."

"There was no god in the first years. But since ancient times, human beings had seen many extraordinary things such as thunders and lightning, violent winds, and torrential rains. And there were disasters, the casualties of which made human suffer. All of them were beyond human power to interfere or to be stopped. It was believed that there were many gods above the sky, and there were many souls below the ground."

"This is how the tales of gods..."

As a hard-core bookworm, Qin Feng often read all night. His favorite was books about martial arts. He hoped to be a warm-hearted master with superb skills. He just hated those books which described a lot about love.

Nowadays, the Internet replaced books, and many people loved to read online. However, the content was not changed. Although Qin Feng still did a lot of reading, he was a little bored, and his passion was gone. This new book brought a feeling into him, a feeling that only existed long before. He had just read the beginning, but the first two chapters had already turned his upside down because it portrayed a magnificent mythical world.

"Holy shit! People can live longer than 300 years? Thousands? Albatron Door? Six Words Bright Spell? This... Oh, fuck. There are only two chapters."

The first two chapters had made Qin Feng addicted. But the reading soon ended, and his pleasure was gone, which made him cursed a while. He smoked to make himself calm down, and then recommended this book to all his friends.

A great book like this should never be buried like other ordinary books. It would be a massive loss if this book was buried simply because not many people had read it.

All his life, he had never read any book that had stories and descriptions like this one.

Qin Feng wasn't alone. Actually, there were dozens of people noticed this book, and in a few minutes, the number became hundreds, then thousands...

The first data abnormality since the establishment of Huaxia Literature Net emerged. Half of the Internet was talking about this newly uploaded new book and its first two chapters. During the night, there were 70,000 to 80,000 clicks. Moreover, there were hundreds of people rewarded the author, though, with a handful of money. A book with only the first two chapters ranked first in the new book list.

At the same time, Jiang Bai didn't know anything because he was sleeping. In his dream, he was drawing the blueprint of his happy life in the future.

At the noon of next day, the first thing Jiang Bai did when he woke up was to open his computer and upload his new chapter.

The moment he logged into his communication application, there was a message from an editor of Huaxia Literature Net, named Er Pang. He signed a contract with Jiang Bai and then encouraged him and made some recommendations.

After all this, Jiang Bai finally had time to check his book. The result was shocking: 120,000 clicks and 10,000 recommendations.

The numbers made Jiang Bai stunned because it was really horrifying.

Even Jiang Bai didn't know much about books, but he still had a vague knowledge that back on earth, this book had never been so popular.