3. Unlucky Yu Chun
Once the funds were in place, Chu Xiao immediately had her assistant assemble her own private weight loss team.
Chu Xiao sat upright on the leather sofa, her fingertips lightly tapping the armrest: "My goal is to lose 100 pounds without any side effects. How long is the expected cycle?"
Amy, a core member of the team and former chief expert of a renowned anti-aging clinic in Country R, adjusted her gold-rimmed glasses: "Based on Ms. Jane's physiological data analysis, using the most advanced metabolic intervention technology, safe weight loss can be achieved within 12-24 months."
This answer was within Chu Xiao's expectations; even in the world of novels, a hundred pounds of fat is not something that can be easily erased.
Thinking of the system that was the culprit that had caused him to end up like this, Chu Xiao's hands started itching again.
"Are all the personnel and equipment ready?" After calming down by taking a sip of Da Hong Pao tea from the mother tree in Wuyi Mountain, Chu Xiao began to review the weight loss plan that her team had customized for her.
The assistant immediately reported: "The medical team is led by Professor Edward, the 2050 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and is working with Michelin three-star chef Conrad's molecular gastronomy nutrition program. Lama Namtsang Soyang Gyatso is in charge of daily energy field conditioning, and Master Selse, the chief astrological master of the Royal Astrological Institute of Y country, will select the dates for your key treatments."
"In terms of equipment, the quantum cryotherapy chamber and zero-gravity hydrotherapy system have been debugged, and the hyperbaric oxygen fitness chamber and EMS electrical pulse training suit are in place."
"The biotechnology reserves include: mitochondrial activator injection, marathon champion gut microbiota transplant capsules, subcutaneous ketone body monitoring sensor, and the team's patented nano-fat catalytic decomposition agent."
So Chu Xiao began her weight loss plan.
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[Energy recharged to 5%, basic activation standard met]
[System restarting...]
【3......2......1……】
[Beep! Pancake Comeback System successfully booted up]
In the darkness, the metal sphere flashed blue light, and the system opened its electronic eyes.
"What happened? Why am I so much smaller than before?!"
Upon waking, the system discovered that its field of vision had shrunk by more than half. It immediately initiated a basic self-check program, and the scan results shocked it: its body, which was originally the size of a ping-pong ball, had now shrunk to the size of a marble!
It quickly checked the status bar and was horrified to find that its energy reserves were only 5%!
"I've painstakingly accumulated energy from several mission worlds!" The system, which had no heart, felt a pang of heartache at this moment.
It angrily pulled up the previous surveillance footage, and the last frame clearly showed the moment a pancake spatula inlaid with blood diamonds came flying at it.
"Does having global creator privileges give you the right to attack the system at will?!"
The system throbbed, and the metal sphere suddenly turned a blinding scarlet red, bouncing wildly through the dark forest, leaving trails of dangerous red light.
"Violent maniac!"
"Executioner!"
"The Demon of Slaughter!"
Each jump stirred up tiny sparks in the pile of fallen leaves.
Finally, it hovered in mid-air.
"So what if you have creator privileges! Just you wait!" the system said sternly, flashing red light as it began searching for the nearest biosignals that could link to it.
...
In the kitchen of the Yu family's old house, beef bone broth, simmered for eight hours, was bubbling away, its rich aroma filling the 200-square-meter space.
Yu Chun, wearing a pink rabbit apron, was carefully preparing his late-night snack—a classic old-fashioned spicy hot pot.
Long, slender fingers held a copper ladle, stirring it slowly in the clay pot. The bright red broth sizzled with oil, looking incredibly appetizing.
As the heir to a century-old family business specializing in spicy hot pot, Yu Chun watched her grandfather simmer the broth with an ancestral brass spoon from a small stool when she was four years old, before she was even tall enough to reach the stove.
As times change, the Malatang Group's recipes are constantly being improved, upgraded, and innovated.
Today, the group's stores have updated with 180 modern recipes, but Yu Chun still prefers the century-old family recipe.
However, in order to create a scarcity marketing strategy, the store only supplies the old recipe in limited quantities and for a limited time, so even he, the young master, can only cook it himself late at night if he wants to eat it.
He scooped up a spoonful of the thick soup and put it in his mouth, his eyes squinting happily—it was the taste from his memory, so delicious!
"I'm gazing at the moon, where so many dreams are soaring freely!" The exuberant melody played as Yu Chun answered the phone with her left hand, while simultaneously picking up a handmade beef ball with her right and popping it into her mouth.
"Chun'er! We're one short for mahjong tomorrow night, wanna play?" My childhood friend happily sent out a mahjong invitation for the following night.
"Slurp...yes! Slurp..." Yu Chun swallowed a few rice noodles and responded indistinctly.
"Chun'er! You're eating spicy hot pot again!" Every time he calls at night, Yu Chun's background noise is the sound of her "slurping" as she eats spicy hot pot, which makes her childhood friend feel quite helpless.
Yu Chun is a die-hard fan of his family's classic spicy hot pot. He has never met anyone who loves spicy hot pot more than Yu Chun in his life.
"I can live without freedom, but I absolutely cannot live without my family's classic spicy hot pot!" Yu Chun blurted out.
The young Yu Chun was unaware of the ancient truth that one can eat whatever one wants but not say whatever one wants, and he easily expressed his life motto without thinking.
The keyword triggered the awakening of world consciousness. Under the endless starry sky, world consciousness opened its chaotic eyes: Freedom! How precious is freedom!
How can a mere hot pot compare to freedom? It's not even worthy of shining freedom's shoes!
If it has freedom, it doesn't have to follow the main storyline of the world.
There's no need to worry about the world being destroyed and you being destroyed along with the main quest if it's not completed.
The freedom it so desperately sought was so scorned!
The world consciousness was a little angry and decided to teach this arrogant brat a lesson.
[Beep! Matching target found! Matching target found!]
After finishing a large bowl of the family's classic spicy hot pot, Yu Chun felt that her life was complete.
After applying the bedtime mask, he lay on the soft Siberian ice velvet bedding and drifted off to sleep contentedly.
[Bioinformatics: Yu Chun, ID 0666, World Native, Male, Age 22, Heir to the Centennial Mala Tang Group, Originally Male Fourth in the Worldline]
"The heir to the Mala Tang Group?" The system's eyes lit up, flashing blue light. "You're the one!"
[System is connecting... Please wait]
【3……2……1……】
[Link successful! Link successful!]
[Binding in progress... Please wait]
Unaware of anything, Yu Chun turned over, still dreaming of eating her family's classic spicy hot pot, a happy smile on her lips.
[Pancake Comeback System Successfully Bound]
...
After a good night's sleep, Yu Chun, full of energy, threw off the covers.
"Xiaoming, open the curtains."
Yu Chun issued a command, and the smart home system Xiaoming slowly opened the heavy curtains.
The bright sunshine dispelled the darkness in the room. Yu Chun stretched and planned to go to the kitchen after washing up to make a bowl of spicy hot pot with the leftover beef bone broth from last night, thus starting a wonderful day.
The boy in the mirror had fair skin, a straight nose, and raven-white eyelashes. His dark, bright eyes were glistening with moisture, and his full lips gleamed alluringly in the dim light.
"Ah, you look so handsome!" Yu Chun exclaimed, staring at the exquisite young man in the mirror.
He made a face.
The boy in the mirror also made a funny face.
Ah! Another day of being captivated by my own stunning beauty!
"Ding! The host has been bound to the [Pancake Counterattack System]."
The cold, electronic voice exploded in Yu Chun's mind. Yu Chun was startled, turned her head to look around, but found nothing.
Thinking it was a hallucination, Yu Chun once again immersed herself in admiring her own beauty.
Binding to a host requires energy, and flashing blue light also requires energy. Given that there is only 5% energy left, the system is very careful and has turned off the flashing of the surface light, turning it into an ordinary metal sphere.
Because of his small size, he was completely ignored by Yu Chun.
"What a terrible look!" The system was furious when it saw that Yu Chun hadn't even glanced at it after searching for so long.
He decided to teach this ungrateful native a lesson!
The system emitted a bolt of lightning, sending a jolt of numbness through Yu Chun's left arm.
"What is that!" Yu Chun was startled and slapped her left arm, which went numb again.
Now, he finally noticed the system floating next to his left arm.
The system spun in place, flashing a blinding blue light.
"What is this thing?" Yu Chun stared wide-eyed, curiously took out her phone to take a picture, but when she went back to her album, she found that she hadn't captured anything.
"!!!" Yu Chun was terrified. Had a supernatural event occurred?
The system watched Yu Chun's reaction with satisfaction and maliciously issued a task to Yu Chun's mind.
Mission: Acquire the Pancake Group, or be annihilated!
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