I Turned the Library Over to the Authorities

Yan Chunuang went shopping and got struck by lightning in broad daylight. To make matters worse, someone livestreamed it from a nearby channel, and viewers started guessing whether she was undergoing a heavenly tribulation or had committed sins in a past life. She felt incredibly unlucky. First, she got struck by lightning and ended up trending, then she got a "scam call," and finally, she suspected the lightning had fried her brain, because a voice had appeared in her head. Lost Civilization System Xixi: [Please don't sell yourself short, Host.] Yan Chunuang: I still haven't rested enough. I'll take a nap first. Xixi: ... Then Yan Chunuang was jolted awake by the terrifying images that appeared in her mind. After this non-carbon-based life-form explained things to her (and scared the daylights out of her), she learned that a virus would break out on Blue Star in three months. Zombies would descend, the planet's resources would be exhausted, and she would have to decide how she planned to die. Yan Chunuang: ...Can I just die of old age? Xixi: [That's why you need to listen to me, Host.] Yan Chunuang: I don't believe a word you say. What use is an ordinary civilization-collecting System? Can you fight monsters? Xixi just scoffed: [Can a librarian save the world?] Yan Chunuang replied that a librarian couldn't save the world, but knowledge and an indomitable spirit could. After the Host sweet-talked it, they decided to seek the country's help together. When Blue Star fell into the apocalypse, the world's order and any path forward vanished. People in every country were too busy looking after themselves, humanity had been lost, and zombies were everywhere. The Republic of Qichu, far away in the east, seemed like a paradise. Other countries: Something's wrong here. Why aren't you suffering like us? Brothers, let's take them! The Republic of Qichu brought out its latest cutting-edge weapons and chopped off their hands one by one. Then it smiled faintly. "We in Qichu are good at winning people over with virtue." Other countries: This is infuriating... Yan Chunuang cheered on her country from behind, while Xixi calculated its little savings. It was very pleased with the situation. The Host was right: there's strength in numbers. Coming Soon "The Debt System Should Stay Unreported", also known as "A Hundred Billion in Debt From Out of Nowhere" Chu Xuan knew she was dead. Then a System appeared and promised it would bring her back to life. And so she came back to life. Just as she was about to celebrate being reborn, the System handed her an enormous bill. To regain her freedom, she had to pay back one hundred billion. If she failed or gave up, she would randomly trigger the [God of Misfortune Is Here] effect. At its most extreme, she could trigger the [Final Destination] effect. Chu Xuan: ...Give me back my moment of gratitude. She knew money wouldn't just fall from the sky. Even if it did, it'd be a sugar-coated bomb wrapped around a trap. System 414 said that until the debt was paid off, interest and late fees would continue to accrue. "Good luck, Host!" Chu Xuan: ...You're not human. System 414: ...It really wasn't human. System 414: [Let's accomplish a small goal first.] Chu Xuan: [A hundred million.] System 414: [You're thinking too big. One yuan. Please assist the elderly person twenty meters ahead.] There were two people twenty meters ahead. Someone was already helping the old man, and they were nearly at the end of the crosswalk. Chu Xuan's mouth twitched. Was she really going to steal someone else's job? In the end, she found out that she wasn't supposed to help the old man, but to deal with a scammer pretending to have been knocked down. She had helped restore the fragile trust between people. Then she picked up one yuan off the ground. Tiny goal accomplished! After the System put her through all sorts of trouble, Chu Xuan joined an amateur variety show. The others worked hard to promote themselves and attract viewers, while Chu Xuan worked hard to catch criminals, making the perfectly respectable variety show a frequent feature on the news. The others promoted themselves as fair-skinned beauties with long legs. She was Ms. Chu, a helpful citizen. Chu Xuan: She just wanted to work and earn money. She thought the System only wanted her to earn money honestly, but it turned out it knew how to offer a sweet reward, too. Earn one million, and physical fitness increases by 100%: Earn five million, and intelligence increases by 20%: Earn ten million, and combat ability increases by 100%: Earn one hundred million, and receive the theory and technical feasibility strategy for preparing large-size crystalline materials. Earn one billion, and receive a detailed explanation of the mechanisms of highly efficient catalytic reactions at the nanoscale. Earn two billion, and receive technical guidance for precision photonic integration in large-scale integrated optical chips. The country's research institutes were struggling to solve these scientific problems when they suddenly discovered a "snail girl" among them. After checking from every possible angle, they finally caught her. But even though Chu Xuan had left enough holes in her story to make it look like a sieve, she still refused to admit anything. She stubbornly kept her secret identity under wraps. Chu Xuan: I'm just a poor wage worker. The relevant government department: ...Thanks, we're not blind. When Chu Xuan was thirty-five, she finally earned one hundred billion. After she completed the mission, a Hope Foundation appeared in Huaxia. With initial funding of one hundred billion, its main goals were to promote technological development, support disaster victims, and help impoverished orphans. Chu Xuan was its legal representative. New Novel Preview "Pirate Variety Show: Win and Debut, Lose and Get a Funeral" She, Lin Qingci, felt like she and Heaven were at odds. First, she was struck by lightning in the twenty-first century and sent to another world. Then, after cultivating diligently for two hundred years, she was struck by heavenly lightning during her tribulation and sent to an unfamiliar place. So she'd cultivated hard all that time just to earn a ticket to travel to another world. After arriving in the interstellar age, she was handed a planet that desperately needed cleaning up. She had to dig it out from beneath five hundred meters of sand, and she also inherited two spirits that the previous, unreliable planetary consciousness had sent over ahead of time. There was one good thing, though: right from the start, she found a reliable chief steward. As for the chief steward, Arthur had something to say. Don't ask! All you need to know is that he regretted hanging himself on Lin Qingci, this crooked tree, for the sake of a dream. Now he couldn't even find a good place to hang himself. As the planet's administrator, the ratio of civil servants to natives was one to two: two civil servants and four natives, one of whom was the planet's ruler. The planet's ruler was a hands-off boss whose favorite daily pastime was going out into space to hunt pirates. It wasn't because she had an overwhelming sense of justice. It was because she needed to find scumbags across the universe for the planet's show, "Reforming Scumbags". As the ruler of Tianxuan Star, Lin Qingci wanted to make the planet famous. Unfortunately, apart from its priceless boron-jian ore, the only thing the remote, shabby planet had to offer was pirates. They couldn't very well develop a package tour of robbery and looting in the surrounding star systems. At that rate, nobody would come, not even ghosts. So, as one of Tianxuan Star's only two local specialties, Lin Qingci decided to make full use of the pirates. Thus came "Reforming Scumbags", a show sponsored and produced by Tianxuan Star that took the universe by storm. Countless pirates turned pale at the mention of it, terrified they might become contestants. It wasn't that those pirate leaders were ungrateful. The problem was that the show played by no rules. The pirates who took part had only two possible outcomes: debut or funeral. And even if they won and debuted, they still wouldn't be free. The debuting pirates would be sent to an interstellar prison. They were doomed either way! The show's producer, Tianxuan Star's ruler Lin Qingci, said, "If they debut, it means the reform worked. Once they're no longer scumbags, of course they'll willingly take responsibility for their past mistakes." The countless pirate scumbags: ...That makes way too much sense. Run, everyone! Theme: Let's head toward a brand-new future together