Chapter 245: Chapter 243: Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner

Fang Chenyi picked through the trash, hoping against hope. As he stuffed one piece of junk after another into his woven bag, he prayed for a special reward to trigger.

Unfortunately, even by the time he heard the garbage truck approaching, not a single special reward had triggered. This was getting a little frustrating.

He shook his head in resignation. The garbage truck was already here, so he definitely couldn’t keep picking. He casually tossed the item on his trash grabber into the woven bag and prepared to get up and leave.

But the very instant Fang Chenyi took a step, a system notification chimed in his mind.

[Host has picked up one worn-out copy of the Celestial Nine Songs comic book, a sister series to Qin Shi Ming Yue. Triggering special system reward. Awarding 100% of the shares of Xuanji Animation Technology Development Co., Ltd. The transfer contract has been placed in the woven bag. Please retrieve it at your convenience.]

Having already started to walk away, Fang Chenyi froze mid-step when he heard the notification in his mind.

"Holy crap, another special reward! Finally!"

It didn’t matter what the reward was; a special reward was guaranteed to be badass.

Seeing the garbage truck was almost upon him, Fang Chenyi didn’t linger. He picked up his pace, stashed the woven bag in a deserted spot, and headed for the hotel entrance.

However, just as he reached the entrance, Fang Chenyi was blocked by a group of security guards who had just been chewed out by the owner’s son.

"What’s there to talk about?! They all claim they’re guests here! Why don’t you take a good look at yourself? With a face like that, you think you can afford to stay at our hotel? Just stay put out here. We can’t do anything about the women, but don’t blame us for getting rough with you!"

Staring at the guard spraying spittle everywhere, Fang Chenyi was speechless. ’When I was surrounded earlier, these guys weren’t nearly this aggressive,’ he thought. ’Now they’re acting all tough with me.’ 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

’And they say my looks aren’t good enough for this hotel? Buddy, I’m way better looking than any of you!’

But he quickly remembered that his appearance had been altered by that guy Qi Xiaotian, and he couldn’t help but smile wryly. ’A grown man wearing foundation... no wonder the guards are looking at me like that.’

He reached into his pocket, pulled out his room key, and dangled it in front of the guard’s face. Then he said:

"Can I go in now?"

The guard stared, stunned, at the card the ugly man produced. Taking a closer look—holy shit, it was the key card for their hotel’s presidential suite!

’Oh crap, I really screwed up this time!’

With that thought, the guard quickly plastered a sycophantic smile on his face.

"Heh heh, look at me, the heat must’ve gotten to my head. Please don’t hold it against me. Come in, please, come right in."

Shaking his head in resignation, Fang Chenyi didn’t bother arguing with a security guard and walked through the hotel entrance.

Just as he stepped inside, a series of hushed comments drifted from behind him. If it weren’t for Fang Chenyi’s sharp hearing, he wouldn’t have caught them at all.

"Hey, what is this world coming to? How can someone who looks like that be so rich?"

"Yeah, and why are handsome guys like us so broke? Is this heaven’s idea of fairness? You can’t have both money and good looks?"

...

At 7:30 PM, Principal Wang knocked on Fang Chenyi’s door. Afterward, the whole group headed in a large procession toward the competition venue.

And as if to heighten the atmosphere, the organizers had actually let the fans from the entrance into the audience seats.

Led by Principal Wang, the group found their team’s designated area.

After sitting down, they began to discuss their strategy.

This was the grand finals. A total of 25 teams were participating in three matches. The team champion would be decided by the number of "chicken dinners," and the individual champion by the total number of kills.

"Brother Fang, what kind of strategy are we using today?"

Huddling together, Principal Wang looked at Fang Chenyi, asking how he wanted to play this time.

The other team members also perked up their ears, waiting to hear Fang Chenyi’s tactics.

But Fang Chenyi just waved his hand and said with extreme composure:

"Same as always."

As soon as he said that, everyone almost coughed up a mouthful of old blood.

’Same as always? You’re still going to loot the entire map by yourself?!’

’Wasn’t that just to confuse the enemy?!’

Seeing their expressions, Fang Chenyi chuckled. "What’s wrong? After playing together the last few times, haven’t you all gotten used to this playstyle? If we changed it up, would you even be comfortable?"

Bufan, however, couldn’t help but retort:

"But, Brother Fang, didn’t you say that was just to confuse the enemy?"

Fang Chenyi nodded in complete agreement.

"That’s right, it is to confuse the enemy."

Seeing Bufan was about to speak again, Fang Chenyi added:

"Let me ask you, if you were our opponent, would you believe we’d still use the same strategy as before?"

The team thought for a moment, then all shook their heads.

Seeing this, Fang Chenyi slapped his thigh. "Exactly! The truly unexpected move is the one they can’t even imagine. Alright, it’s settled."

Principal Wang saw the settled expression on Fang Chenyi’s face and asked hesitantly:

"So, Brother Fang, you’re not planning on just using a frying pan or a pistol again this match, are you? These are the 25 best teams in the country."

Fang Chenyi casually replied, "We’ll see how it goes," while sighing internally. ’It’s not like I want to run at people with a damn frying pan from the get-go. But what can I do? The system won’t let me!’

At 8:00 PM sharp, the sound of the starting signal rang out, and the first match began on time.

Just as Fang Chenyi had guessed, the system once again began its grand recycling enterprise.

After landing, he picked up a sickle and equipped it. After that, anything else he picked up was immediately targeted for recycling by the system.

Witnessing this wild play from Fang Chenyi of Principal Wang’s team, not only the audience, but even the commentators were dumbfounded.

They had all seen Fang Chenyi’s game footage before. They knew this guy didn’t play by the book and often pulled off some wild moves, but they never imagined he would do something like this in the grand finals. This was a complete disregard for every other competitor!

Fang Chenyi’s plays were apparently so wild that the broadcast director kept cutting to a close-up of him.

Watching the unequipped Fang Chenyi—not even wearing level 1 armor—roaming the world with just a sickle, everyone sighed in disbelief.

’Fang Chenyi’ knocked down ’Undying and Unyielding’ with a Sickle

’Fang Chenyi’ killed ’Undying and Unyielding’ with a Sickle

However, less than three minutes after the match began, a kill notification on the left side of the screen left everyone completely stunned.

What was happening? He took out the captain of the Undying Squad—the team most favored to win the championship—right at the start, with just a sickle??

While everyone was still reeling in confusion, the director cut to an instant replay...

[To be continued...]