The Buggiest System

As she did, however, her shoulder b.u.mped into something on the desk. It was a time-traveling chip. This time-traveling chip fell off the desk and onto another thing - a buggy system chip.

These two chips collided and activated each other, traveling through time!

...or not.

The scientist quickly picked up the two chips from the dirty floor of the laboratory.

"Hey, I have a better idea!" She put down the tubes and flasks she picked up earlier.

.....

Zhou Lei was still feeling depressed, looking at the ceiling, laying flat on the floor. Well, not maybe flat, since he was round...

Suddenly, Zhou Lei felt someone was insulting him. "Achoo!"

"Haah... did I get a cold?"

Another sudden feeling emerged from within Zhou Lei! His stomach growled. But wait, there goes another sudden feeling! ...of wanting to go to the toilet.

Finally, the system chip arrived inside Zhou Lei"s mind, although not suddenly, since it even asked for permission to go in.

"Host"s permission obtained. a.s.similating."

Indeed, Zhou Lei was feeling a lot of different things that moment and just absentmindedly answered the chip"s question.

"Ding! a.s.similated."

Zhou Lei heard the weird voice inside his head.

"Whhuh?"

"Whhuh" was Zhou Lei"s favorite catchphrase, since this was what he always expressed when his cla.s.smates bullied him. This time, the bullies were not there, so how come Zhou Lei said it?

He eventually closed his eyes, disregarding the weird voice in his head just now. As soon as he did, he felt the floor disappear from below him.

"Hmm... so this is what it feels to be conscious while sleeping..."

The floor was not the only thing that disappeared from his senses. His weight was gone as well. Zhou Lei felt that he was now floating.

"Ahh..."

Zhou Lei opened his eyes and looked around, with an expression of "as expected" written on his face. Yes, he predicted this.

"I"m dreaming."

The floor disappearing did not actually happen, rather, Zhou Lei was now floating in the center of his room. Looking down, he felt that was quite high.

As if him floating was not peculiar enough, Zhou Lei suddenly could not move! A green beam instantly surrounded him.

The green beam was reminiscent of the beams the UFOs used in those sci-fi movies, except for the fact that it was actually green, instead of the usual blue.

"Am I getting abducted by a green UFO?"

As sudden as it came, both the green beam and Zhou Lei"s weightlessness disappeared, and gravity replaced both. He fell down on the floor.

"Ouch!"

On the floor, Zhou Lei was muttering to himself words of praise.

"For a dream, this is pretty realistic."

He sat up and looked around, things were as normal as they were before.

"Yeah... now I want to wake up."

.....

"What the heck?!"

Even after trying various acts to get out of this dream world, Zhou Lei just cannot wake up! He was on the verge of panicking.

"What time is it?!"

He looked for a clock inside his "dreamworld" and read the time, only to throw it away for some reason.

"No! This is unreliable, it"s a construct of my imagination!"

Eventually, Zhou Lei calmed down and deduced that he was, indeed, not dreaming.

But if so, what was up with my floating earlier? It might have something to do with the weird voice I heard.

Trying out his suspicion, Zhou Lei called out.

"System?"

System quickly responded, popping up as an interface inside Zhou Lei"s mind.

Host: Zhou Lei

Level: 0

Goal: To be popular

"Whhuh?"

This was elicited again from Zhou Lei"s mouth without bullies, is the system that powerful?

"What is up with this, "to be popular"? System, answer me!" Zhou Lei was confused. Why was the goal "to be popular"?

System answered instantly. "System knows host"s deepest desires."

"Whhuh?"

Again! Three times that this was said by Zhou Lei, three times. It seems that System is a force to be reckoned with...