The system just came out of nowhere and now just disappeared? Max thought.
He dragged himself in the straw shoes towards an old, broken bronze mirror. He took a look at his reflection.
His skin was a little yellow from long-time malnutrition and sunburn, but his face was almost the same as his previous self's. Only the long black hair curling behind his head and the whiskers all over his face made him look a bit messy.
What a waste of a good figure! Max thought. He would scare little kids with this look. How could he live with such a cute little girl with this face?
After that incident, his predecessor almost gave up on himself. If it were not for Anna, he might have ended his glorious life.
The little girl sure has suffered a lot with you. Leave it to me to make it up to her! Max clenched his fist, but felt little strength.
One couldn't derive much strength from the once broken limbs. Max felt like a useless man — he could barely clench his fists.
Moreover, in the house, there was almost nothing but bare walls—only one bed with one small cloth blanket for Anna when she went to bed.
As he was thinking about all these negative things, he remembered that he owns a system now, and changing life will be easy with a golden finger.
However, he didn't know what his new system was for.
"A system that will let me be pretentious and face-slap others?"
"A system that will help me make amazing elixirs?"
"Or, could it be a super-warrior system…?"
"or, Maybe it will help him establish his own kingdom.."
Just as he was lost in his imagination, He quickly became alert and listened intently, "The system has been successfully activated, would you like to run it?"
"System?" It was as if the sky had rained delicious meatballs on him while he was sleeping! Completely disregarding what system it was, Max decided to activate it first and find out later.
"Beep! The system has been successfully activated!"
"Yes!" Exhilarated, Max waved his fists in the air. With his new system, he will finally be capable of cheating in life!
He was instantly excited by the possibility of being able to beat up everybody that he didn't like. If so, men with exceptional abilities would bow down before him, and all women would fawn over him. What a life!
At that moment, another voice sounded in his head again, "The Super Universal Mall System has been successfully activated!"
"What in the world?"
Max felt the air around him freeze as he stood there for 30 seconds in complete shock.
Then, he asked in complete confusion, "What system did you say you were?"
"The Super Universal Mall System," the electronically-synthesized voice in his head answered.
"What? What did you say?" Max asked, not sure if he heard right.
"The Super Universal Mall System," the voice answered again in a mild tone.
"…" Max was flabbergasted. Why didn't he get a weapon or elixir system? Why would he need an Universal Mall system?
Was he really going to open up a Mall in this world?
"Stupid Ducking system!" Max couldn't help but curse in his head.
"Please do not curse at the system," once again, the electronically-synthesized voice rang in his head. "Since this is the host's first-time offense, you will only be issued a warning this time around. If you curse at the system again, you will be punished."
"…" Max was at a loss for words, but he was a little worried about the system's punishment. Therefore, he had no choice but to ask, "Tell me what you can do first."
"The system has just issued you your first task. Host, you may check your task interface."
"Task interface?" At this though, Max's mind turned to the task interface, and as expected, saw his first task in the taskbar.
[New task: Open a mall.
Task Description: The host needs only supply the land, and the system will decorate and coordinate the whole restaurant based on the host's chosen style.
Time limit: 3 days.
Task reward: Low-grade poison removal pill.
If the task is left incomplete: the system will look for another host.]
Open a Mall? Max froze for an instant, but when he heard the words after that, he smiled happily, suddenly thinking this system wasn't that bad after all.
His predecessor might have had a bad life, but the good thing might be having bought this wooden shack in Origin City. To be sure, the house was very old and located at a far corner of the city, but it was all his.
Then he turned his attention towards task rewards, which was a low-grade poison pill.
"Why is the system giving poison removal pill to me ?" max thought.
Then he suddenly remembered, Previous owner died strangely and he remembered from memories that the previous owner was bitten by a strange mosquito when collecting grass.
"Was he poisoned by that mosquito?"
So if I possessed the same body which was poisoned then am I poisoned too?
Max felt chills in his back, sweat started dropping from his forehead.
Now that the thinks about it he is acting a little strangely after being transmigrated to another world. He was acting like a stupid main character from a trash novel, who got his golden finger.
Then Max started to think about how those stupid main characters go around the whole world announcing that they are special and got some kind of treasure.
Max felt like he was taking the whole situation very lightly. He sat on bed and started pondering on his next action.
First of all he had to confront this system.
"Hey system!"
"..." System didn't give any response to the call, And totally ignored Max.
"Don't act like you can't listen to me, existence such as yourself aren't stupid"
"Please do not curse at the system," once again, the electronically-synthesized voice rang in his head. "Since this is the host's second offense, you will only be issued a small punishment this time around. If you curse at the system again, you will be heavily punished."
A lightning bolt stuck on Max's head, Max felt like he just touched a naked wire. All his hair stood up straight and there was smoke coming out from his hair.
Max was very angry with the system's action but he stopped himself from cursing it again.
"Hey system, why can't you act in a civilized way?"
"By the way, I wanted to ask if you will provide me security from all the dangers? as this world is very different from my previous world, i don't wanna die without knowing the reason"
"System will only provide security to host within its premises. Outside the premises the host has to look after himself" System replied.
"So I will only go out of the premises if it's necessary, I will rather hole up in here than go out and die because some young master didn't like the way i look" Max thought to himself.
"So why was I chosen by you?"
"Host you have insufficient authority. Work hard to increase it in future!"
ahhhh... how could I forget about this stupid authority? I never liked it when I was reading those novels online. I don't know which author started this crap but I wish I could slap him across the face.
"by the way system, can i buy some defensive treasures from you"
"Host can explore the system after earning enough points and upgrading the system, work hard! Host, You are so poor that i don't even want to show you online mall"
Max was happy that he can buy things from the system in future, but after looking at the last comment his face went red.
"Why don't you go and become the host of those young masters" Max said.
"..." System ignored him again.
Max started to think about his new task, he was happy that there are no outrageous requirements to complete the task.
"System I want to open Mall here only"
Max didn't have to care about other neighbors because the wooden shack was in a very remote corner of the city and no one lived near it.
He thought that the system would start building mall now , but he was wrong.
"The system has confirmed that this house belongs to the host, and this position is fit for Mall. Mission is complete. Please choose a Mall template from system menu"
Max opened the task and there he saw a new option where he can choose a template for the Mall. Max clicked it and , a row of 3D pictures suddenly appeared in Max's head.
Every other template had different starting facilities, some of them had restaurant and rooms (hotel template), Some of them had gaming café + food (cyber café).
After going through all the options he was attracted by the auction house + restaurant.