Zhang Fei opened his eyes found himself in a world of darkness, he looked down at his own body and instead of the black of his soul body, it was a contrasting white. He looked around but there was nothing in the world of darkness, he tried to move his body but as if a heavy weight was placed upon him he couldn’t move an inch. Then he noticed a red thread pass through his chest, and he could clearly feel it was attached to his heart. The thread started from his chest and continued all the way into the darkness. He didn’t know how long it stretched because he couldn’t see because of the darkness. Zhang fei suddenly had an urge to see where this thread led to, where it ended. He tried to take a step forward, but like before his couldn’t move a muscle. Then he saw something far off in the distance, he squinted his eyes to get a clear look but before he could make out anything he opened his and woke up in the white expanse on the bed that Coco had conjured.

“What a weird dream.” Zhang Fei got up from the bed and said as he tried to remembered the dream about the world of darkness, but strangely enough he seemed to have forgotten what it was about except that he was in a world of darkness or rather he couldn’t remember. Fuck, I think I am turning into another coco.

Coco unaware of his host insulting him in even in his thoughts answered to Zhang Fei’s murmuring [Dream? What dream? No one dreams in the white expanse, you probably hit your head somewhere really hard.] Zhang Fei’s current body was a soul body, and a soul could not dream. The concept of dreaming was that when a person sleeps the soul would leave the human body when dreaming and it would be projected into different worlds and dimensions but the projection would often be very weak and it wouldn’t be able to interact with things in the different worlds but there were some cases where the projection would be strong enough to interact with the world. That’s where the concept of non-lucid and lucid dreams came from. Also people would remember their dreams if the projection was strong but if it was weak the dream would only partially be remembered or completely forgotten.

Zhang Fei looked at coco with narrowed eyes but then shook his head, “Well it’s probably nothing, now tell me what do I get for bearing with your shenanigans in the previous world.”

[Oh you mean the rewards, okay well the rewards are really great because well you know, you karma raised the difficulty of your mission so the rewards are greater as well. Here are your results for this mission.

MISSION DIFFICULTY: C+ (Raised to B due to effect of negative karma)

COMPLETION GRADE: A (Raised to A+ due to effect of negative karma)

CONTRIBUTION POINTS: 63,000 points Awarded ( In-mission shop used 1000 points deducted. Purchased high quality bazooka, 15,000 points deducted. [omitted object] 500 points deducted. Total points remaining 46,500

REWARDS: 3x ancient strengthening elixir, 1x orb of enlightenment, 3x health potions, 1x Ring of invisbilty, 1x Rogue armour, 1 x love potion.

LIFE POINTS: +1( +1 added due to effect of negative karma. Total life points +2)

REDUCTION IN NEGATIVE KARMA: 0.00000000001%

]

“Coco explain all this stuff, especially the life points and the reduction in the negative karma.” Zhang Fei understood most of it but he still wanted to hear it from the cube himself what all it was about.

[ Well host, the thing is your negative karma made things difficult for you in your missions so the difficulty evaluation of the mission was increased and as a result so was your mission completion evaluation, and hence you got better rewards and increased number of contributions points. You see host, with great misfortune come great fortune as well so you were rewarded greatly as well, aren’t you thankful?]

Zhang Fei rolled his eyes at Cocos thought process, well he was glad that he got greater rewards from the negative karma but he would rather not have the misfortune than have a fortune after it and if that was true then where was his reward for dealing with Coco, according to him he was the biggest misfortune that he had encountered up until now, “And what about the life points and karma?”

[Right, the life points are there so that if you ever do fail a mission your soul won’t get eradicated right away, rather a life point will be deducted instead and the karma well, I had said that the only way to reduce the negative karma was through doing mission and slowly letting it out…]

“You never said that.” Zhang Fei said with deadpan eyes as he looked at Coco.

Coco gulped as he realized that he in a way admitted his past mistake again.[……hahah your right host I didn’t, BUT the point is by slowly letting the karma manifest itself in the real world it can slowly be removed just like removing water from a boat with a bucket, but in your case it’s like emptying an ocean with a bottle cap.]

“Well if it doesn’t decrease that much there is no need to inform me about it in the future, and by the way why the heck does a simple bazooka cost so much of these contribution points, is everything from the shop so costly.” Zhang Fei was curious, he only got 63000 contribution points for this mission and lost 15000 thousand for buying a simple bazooka with only 3 uses, which according to him was outrageously expensive. He wondered if the shop was one where everything was outrageously pricey. Well Zhang fei wasn’t wrong, everything in the system shop was costly but their quality was also highly guaranteed but it wasn’t as much as Zhang Fei had thought, this time the high expenditure was all thanks to Coco.

[….]

“well?”

[ well the thing Is host, when you wanted a bazooka during the fight in the restaurant-]

“I wanted a gun not a bazooka” (-_-)

[Yeah yeah , same thing. So when I was buying a bazooka I bought the most expensive one because you know it was a life and death situation and I thought I should get the best, and since it was bought during the mission so its cost further multiplied based on its base value, I know it was pricey but at least you didn’t die in the restaurant right? ……right? ] why does it feel like I am not making a point when I am trying to make a point.

“…..” Zhang Fei wondered what kind of sin he had committed in his past life to have a Coco as a system. wait never mind scratch that, he remembered he wasn’t a exactly a saint in his previous life so there are a lot of sins but seriously he sometimes wondered if there was something defective about Coco.

Zhang Fei then asked Coco to open the item shop and checked whether he needed anything, although he saw a lot of useful things he still abstained from buying them because he didn’t think he would need them currently. He bought a full black sword that was more like a katana and a few preception and speed insta-pills. He closed the shop and confirmed that it wasn’t the shop that was expensive but Coco. He learned his lesson that he should buy his stuff himself instead of Coco buying it for him or else he would soon experience the fate of being broke.

[So host do you want to continue to the next mission?]

“Sure” He didn’t want to stay in the white expanse for too long since there wasn’t anything to do in it. If he went onto the next world, at least there would be something exciting.

[Okay host, commencing launch off in 10….9….8…]

“Right you didn’t tell me about the omitted object, what was that?”

[….] the bed. It was the bed.

“Coco?”

[ okay host goodbye, see you in the next world.] Coco said in a hurried tone.

“wait don’t tell me-” Before Zhang Fei could say anything he lost consciousness and everything went black.