Lu Mingfei, how can you slay a dragon if you don't play the villain?

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Lu Mingfei, how can you slay a dragon if you don't play the villain?

Author: Too many regrets

Summary:

After seventeen years of living a life of idleness and complacency, Lu Mingfei was ultimately driven by a momentary desire and bound himself to a villain-cultivation system.

However, the task issued by the system left him dumbfounded.

Rebel against your aunt? Get first place in your grade at the end of the semester? Reach the limits of human physical endurance within 100 days? Failure to complete the mission will send you to heaven?

Lu Mingfei felt that either the system had gone mad, or he had gone mad!

In order to avoid going to heaven, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to muster his courage and try to complete the tasks issued by the system.

As a result, the system tasks became increasingly absurd. Lu Mingfei looked at the task display on the system panel:

[Daily Task: Please bathe in Chu Zihang's Flame for one hour!]

Side Quest: Elope with the little monster and become an enemy of the world!

Main Quest: Collect the Dragon King's Authority! Rebel against the world!

Lu Mingfei was on the verge of tears: "Six hundred and sixty-six, I'm not even going to act anymore!"

System: "Crying! Crying also counts towards your time limit!"

Chapter 1 Do you think I can get to the other side?

Lu Mingfei tilted his head, sinking into the creaking, worn-out sofa, his eyes fixed on the screen.

The girl in the baseball cap's profile picture is still gray.

The air in the internet cafe was thick with the smells of smoke, instant noodles, and the warm, plastic smell emanating from the machines.

But Lu Mingfei didn't care. The girl's gray profile picture mirrored his current mood, leaving only grayness.

He has already spent six hours at the internet cafe today.

But the girl still didn't come online.

His message to her was still from six hours ago; he had asked if there were any literary society activities during the National Day holiday.

Lu Mingfei could only console himself, perhaps Chen Wenwen was too busy during the National Day holiday and didn't go on QQ.

Why bother? Lu Mingfei, why do you have to demean yourself like this? He sometimes asked himself.

Is it really worth waiting like an idiot for hours just to say a few words?

But he waited anyway!

Time and time again, it's like sinking into a quagmire; the more you struggle, the more you drown.

"Drip drip!"

Suddenly, a message notification sound came through his earphones. Lu Mingfei sat up straight instantly, like a fish that had been baking in the midday sun suddenly entering the water, radiating joy.

When he saw that the message wasn't from Chen Wenwen, most of his joy vanished instantly.

He slowly moved the mouse and clicked on the panda avatar in the lower right corner of the screen that looked rather smug.

Old Tang: "Want to play a round?"

"Okay," he replied slowly, typing on the keyboard.

Old Tang was a StarCraft expert he met three months ago.

Over the course of those three months, the two engaged in hundreds of intense battles.

Although Lu Mingfei lost more often than he won, Lao Tang still enjoyed sparring with him.

It's probably because Lu Mingfei is one of the few players who can take victory from him.

In fact, if Lu Mingfei were to get serious, he could even win every game.

But he felt that wasn't very interesting, so he often chose to use only the mouse.

Sometimes he would even use his aunt's old IBM laptop at her house, playing StarCraft without a mouse and using the red dot.

Lu Mingfei decided that he would win against Lao Tang today.

Otherwise, this guy might really think he's too bad and stop playing with him.

The two started the match, with Lu Mingfei choosing the human race and Lao Tang choosing the Zerg race.

Although Lu Mingfei deliberately lost this round, Lao Tang still suffered a series of defeats.

In just ten minutes, the battle had reached the point of being decided.

Lu Mingfei held the mouse and moved it steadily.

Just as his mouse was about to click the "All-Out Attack" box to secure victory, a cold, mechanical voice exploded in his mind.

[Beep! ...Loading...Identity confirmed...Lu Mingfei]

[3, 2, 1, Loading successful!]

Welcome to the Villain Development System, Mr. Lu Mingfei!

"Holy crap! A pop-up ad?!" Lu Mingfei exclaimed instinctively, frantically shaking the mouse and pressing Esc and Alt+F4 on the keyboard.

He wanted to turn off that damn pop-up.

But the screen, mouse, keyboard, and even the whole world seemed to freeze.

The next second, his character and base were wiped out by the enemy's unhindered counterattack.

The large "DEFEAT" on the screen seemed like a silent mockery of him.

"I'm so angry I almost smashed my headphones!" Lu Mingfei was so angry he almost smashed them.

The cooked duck flew away?!

If Old Tang refuses to play with him anymore, how will he pass the time?

What infuriated Lu Mingfei even more was that he couldn't turn off this damn "ad"!

The black pop-up ad eventually transformed into a semi-transparent interface.

As the words appeared, the cold, mechanical voice echoed in his mind once more.

Based on your performance over the past three years, we offer you the following two options!

Option 1: Maintain the status quo. Become a pawn to be manipulated, and live a cowardly life.

Option Two: Accept training. Become a qualified villain and conquer the world.

Please make a decision within one minute, otherwise it will be considered a forfeit and you will be immediately logged out!

【00:00:59】

Lu Mingfei was stunned; the noise of the internet cafe seemed to have faded away from him.

System? Villain? Pawn? What on earth is all this?

When he saw the first description, “a cowardly life,” a feeling of humiliation welled up inside him.

Maintaining the status quo means being treated as a pawn and manipulated by others.

Isn't this exactly who he is now?

He dared not utter a sound under his aunt's scolding, and acted like a dog in front of the girl he liked.

But he was thick-skinned and just laughed it off.

But when Lu Mingfei saw option two, he swallowed hard.

As a teenager, he did indeed fantasize about conquering the world.

However, Lu Mingfei felt that the concept of a villain was completely foreign to him.

He's a friendless, pathetic, and cowardly kid who becomes the villain...

Lu Mingfei chuckled silently. This kind of thing sounded as absurd and ridiculous as asking a salted fish to take on a giant deep-sea whale.

But even if there's only a one in ten thousand... no, a one in a billion chance...

What if this system is real?

What if... what if it could really transform itself into a villain capable of "conquering the world"?

So... does that mean... he can be with Chen Wenwen?

Just thinking about this incredibly tempting possibility.

Lu Mingfei felt a restless stirring within him.

He glanced around suspiciously, as if he were a thief, afraid that others would discover the supernatural events surrounding him.

But everyone around them was wearing headphones and playing games on their computer screens.

Every now and then there are angry old men hurling insults, but nobody pays any attention to him.

Lu Mingfei lowered his voice and asked cautiously:

"Will choosing option two allow me to be with Chen Wenwen?"

The system seemed stumped by his question and did not provide any answer.

The countdown on the screen continued to tick away: 41, 40, 39...

"This is a stupid system!" Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

Lu Mingfei had read a lot of online novels in recent years, so he naturally knew what a system was.

Other people's systems are so powerful, they're practically invincible, they're showing off like crazy!

And his system...

When it came to him, it turned into a silent resignation.

When only ten seconds remained in the countdown, a line of text finally appeared on the semi-transparent interface, without any voice prompts.

But Lu Mingfei noticed it immediately because the line of text contained the name of the girl he liked.

To become a truly effective villain, you can treat Chen Wenwen like a dog!