Unexpectedly, at that moment, without any warning, there was a sudden "ding" in his ear, and a mechanical voice, as if coming from the void, echoed deep in his mind.

　　"Host detected..."

　　"Scanning in progress..."

　　"Conditions met."

　　"Positive Energy System has been bound!"

　　......

Chapter 2: The Literary Champion William Thompson!

　　Positive Energy System?

　　William Thompson was stunned by the voice, and his first reaction was to take off his headphones.

　　However, after removing the headphones, William Thompson stood there in a daze, but the neutral, mechanical-sounding voice in his mind continued.

　　"The Positive Energy System will randomly trigger positive energy tasks. The system will award rewards based on task completion, and you will receive a certain amount of positive energy points. Positive energy points can be exchanged for skills in the system shop, used to improve skill proficiency, or used to participate in lotteries for random rewards."

　　The cold mechanical voice ended.

　　William Thompson shook his head, feeling like he needed to pour some water on his head to calm down.

　　He glanced at the bottle of Nutritional Express he had just taken a sip from next to his computer, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to accept reality.

　　Playing professionally is one thing, but with the internet being so developed nowadays, William Thompson naturally knew a bit about those so-called "system cheats" from legends.

　　He took a deep breath and tried asking, "Are you there?"

　　William Thompson's voice was neither too loud nor too soft. The two guys sitting across from him heard it and turned their heads to look.

　　"Eh? It's him."

　　"Wow, it's Brother William."

　　"I didn't believe it when someone said Brother William was streaming at the internet café next to our school last time, but he's really here."

　　"Tsk tsk, didn't Brother William retire to go home and raise pigs?"

　　William Thompson ignored the whispers from across the table, his eyes fixed intently on the empty air in front of him.

　　The next moment, that emotionless mechanical voice sounded in his mind again.

　　"The host can call the system in their mind, and the system will respond to the host's normal communication at any time."

　　"Alright." William Thompson tried, "You say you're this Positive Energy System, and there are positive energy tasks. Let me ask you, just how 'positive' are these positive energy tasks?"

　　William Thompson's question was full of the profound subtleties of the Chinese language, just like the legendary "how many meanings does 'meaning' have," which made the system pause for a moment.

　　But soon, a voice came from his mind.

　　"Extremely positive."

　　William Thompson: ......

　　He gave a dry laugh, secretly thinking that this system actually had a bit of a sense of humor.

　　After thinking for a moment, he decided to get down to business first.

　　"So how are positive energy tasks triggered? How is the difficulty calculated? What kind of skills are there specifically?"

　　"For example... can I get something like breathing fire or spraying water? Or maybe x-ray vision, time stop, that kind of thing?"

　　William Thompson blurted out all the questions he could think of in a short time, and this time the system responded very quickly.

　　"Positive energy tasks will be automatically triggered when the conditions are met, with no specific form. The difficulty will be adjusted according to the host's own situation. Skill rewards will be based on the real-world physical matter of the host's world."

　　"Based on real-world physical matter? So that means I can't breathe fire?"

　　"Sorry, there are no primate mammals in the host's world that can breathe fire."

　　"Then spraying water... never mind, there's no x-ray vision either, right?"

　　"Sorry, there are no primate mammals in the host's world that can see through objects."

　　At this point, William Thompson basically understood.

　　The system's skill rewards are all things that objectively exist in the real world, so it looks like becoming Superman is out of the question.

　　But thinking about it, if he could enhance himself through rewards, challenging the limits of humanity didn't sound so bad either.

　　Just then, William Thompson suddenly realized an important question.

　　"Um... what happens if I fail a task?"

　　"Task success or failure is determined by completion rate. Below sixty percent is considered a failure, above that earns extra points. The penalty will be a deduction of points. If there are no points, there will be physical punishment."

　　"Below thirty percent, the penalty is doubled. Below fifteen percent, the penalty may affect the host's ability to take care of daily life."

　　"Then... what about zero?" William Thompson probed.

　　"System withdrawal. During this period, the host's personal safety cannot be guaranteed," the system replied.

　　Good!

　　I really appreciate how straightforward you are, system!

　　William Thompson was crying inside.

　　So once this thing triggers a task, you can only accept it, no way to refuse!

　　"Alright." William Thompson sighed in resignation. He'd been through ups and downs in life; you win some, you lose some, and he could handle it.

　　"When will you give me my first task?"

　　"Sorry, the trigger conditions have not been met. Unable to issue a task for now."

　　William Thompson asked a few more questions after that, but the system's answers started to sound repetitive and mechanical, making it really seem like a soulless "artificial idiot."

　　At this moment, the barrage in his livestream room started to pick up.