I Became the Most Popular Character by Acting as a Villain in the Manga

Ch. 63


Chapter 63

The value of a person's friendship is measured in many ways.

As the old general's youngest grandson, Ling Feng had a profound family background, so his circle of friends was naturally extensive.

He also had an older brother and a pair of twin female cousins. He was acquainted with his older siblings' friends, and because of his siblings, those people would also lend him a hand if he needed help, depending on the situation. This was also a form of friendship, just that its value decreased with the distance of the relationship.

With Ling Feng's vast network and circle of friends, obtaining his friendship was equivalent to obtaining 326,002,000 game coins.

This was already a staggering number.

And this number was not even half the value of Bai Xuechao's friendship.

However, the most shocked person on the scene was not Ling Feng, but Gong Ting. As the holder of the special ability, he had seen too many people exchange their friendships. He knew the approximate value of an ordinary person's friendship, and he also knew the approximate value of a special ability user's friendship.

He had once discovered that the value of a special ability user's friendship was much higher than that of an ordinary person. In other words, one of the factors in measuring the value of friendship was likely the strength of one's friends.

Zhou Chenhao should know quite a few special ability users from the SAIDB, and Ling Feng, on top of Zhou Chenhao's circle, should also know special ability users through his family connections. But even without considering the overlap in their circles of friends, the combined value of their friendships couldn't compare to Dongfang Bubai's.

So, who exactly was Dongfang Bubai? Did he control an entire special ability organization?

Otherwise, where would he meet so many special ability users? The entire Apocalypse Society combined would probably be worth this much, right?

A series of question marks filled Gong Ting's mind, occupying his thoughts completely. But he didn't humiliate himself by asking, as he knew the other party wouldn't answer.

Actually, Gong Ting had figured out most of it, but he had overlooked one factor, which was that he had never seen the value of friendship with a level 9 special ability user.

In the composition of Bai Xuechao's friendship value, Duan Xingzhi alone contributed over a hundred million.

He and Bai Xuechao grew up together in the organization. They were childhood friends. Because of his pure thoughts, he gave his friendship to Bai Xuechao without reservation.

Furthermore, he only had Bai Xuechao as a friend.

His childhood laboratory experiences had made Duan Xingzhi numb to emotions. When he was first recruited into the Dark Organization, he had no common sense about life, and his personality was somewhat dull and sluggish. The people in the organization were just people to him, the only difference from the people he had seen before was whether they wore protective suits.

At that time, Bai Xuechao was indifferent to Duan Xingzhi. Logically, one cold and one numb, two people like this should not have been able to become friends.

In fact, Duan Xingzhi kept chasing after Bai Xuechao, actively approaching him with a very "enthusiastic" attitude, wanting to become Bai Xuechao's companion. The reason was simply that on his first day in the organization, when Liu Jingchun introduced Bai Xuechao, she had said with a smile: "From now on, you are companions."

Not understanding the word "companion," the answer he got from Liu Jingchun was "people who live together," so he thought he had to be inseparable from Bai Xuechao.

The beginning of their friendship was just a twist of fate.

Later, Duan Xingzhi understood what a companion was, met many people, and had many subordinates. But his heart was very small, so small that it could only fit one friend; his feelings were also very few, so few that once he gave his friendship to one person, he could no longer make other friends.

He could obediently follow the orders of the old leader and Liu Jingchun, but if the organization's orders would harm Bai Xuechao, he would refuse, even if it meant being punished.

In his eyes, the world seemed to be divided into "Bai Xuechao," "people whose words must be listened to," and "people." Only Bai Xuechao was a special and unique existence.

For such a powerful and simple person, it was not surprising that his only friendship was worth over a hundred million.

Xiao 6, completely unaware of this, was still exclaiming: “Wow! Host, the value of your friendship is too high!”

If it had known that Duan Xingzhi alone accounted for over a hundred million of Bai Xuechao's friendship value, it would probably have hugged a red heart and fainted from shipping.

Bai Xuechao responded to Xiao 6 with an "en," looking thoughtfully at the number that even surprised himself a little. His friends were few and far between. Even if he included some of the people he had met during missions, it shouldn't be this high.

Bai Xuechao didn't know how much Duan Xingzhi had contributed to this number, and there were also some unexpected people who had provided a considerable value.

“Oh dear, friendship won't do either.” Gong Ting shrugged, his tone tinged with schadenfreude, “What other common things can we exchange? If you can't think of anything else in a minute, let's exchange our personalities.”

Gong Ting, relying on his current 700 million game coins, took the lead and once again proposed that Zhou Chenhao and Ling Feng exchange their personalities.

He was very willing to see them exchange their personalities.

If he could get Zhou Chenhao's personality, the leader of the Apocalypse Society would also be very interested, right? Maybe he would even return his freedom, Gong Ting thought.

Ling Feng let out a low "tsk" and hurried to think, what did everyone possess? He could only think of the organs in his body, but his more valuable eyes and hands had already been exchanged previously and could not be exchanged again.

Zhou Chenhao suddenly raised a hand like a primary school student: “I've thought of it, love!”

Hearing this, the first one to react was surprisingly Ling Feng. He raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked at Zhou Chenhao: “You have love?”

After two exchange estimations, Ling Feng had roughly figured out this exchange mechanism. If one won a player's love, they should get "the like or love others have for the player."

He then asked again: “Did someone confess to you?”

“Ah, this…” Zhou Chenhao stammered, then suddenly nodded, “Yes.”

Ling Feng: “?”

Although from Zhou Chenhao's attitude, he definitely didn't agree, this feeling of "we're all teammates but why are you the only one almost getting out of singlehood" was very infuriating!

If Xia Xiaoxi were here, she would definitely be grabbing Zhou Chenhao and asking "who is it, who is it, who is it," but unfortunately she wasn't, so no one asked. Although Ling Feng was a little curious, he didn't like to pry into other people's privacy unless necessary, and he wouldn't ask at this juncture.

At this time, Bai Xuechao spoke: “In that case, no one should like me.”

Xiao 6 was shocked: “What! Host, you're so beautiful, why does no one like you!”

Bai Xuechao typed a row of ellipses in his mind, but still explained: “The only female around me is sister Jing Chun… Oh, there's another one, but she doesn't count as a person.”

Xiao 6: “What the hell doesn't count as a person?”

Bai Xuechao said: “You should know, right? The assassin.”

“Oh, oh, oh—” Xiao 6 suddenly understood.

On the other side, after hearing Bai Xuechao's words, Gong Ting also nodded in agreement: “Me too.”

Ling Feng was about to nod along when he heard Zhou Chenhao sigh: “At least let's try? What if someone has a secret crush on you?”

Ling Feng thought about it and agreed. If even love couldn't be exchanged, he would have to exchange his personality.

So he answered with a "good."

Bai Xuechao also said: “Alright then.”

Gong Ting smiled without speaking, but not refusing meant he agreed.

The big screen showed them the value of their “love.”

【City Lord: -500】

【Player A: 30,000,000】

【Player B: 2,000,000】

【Player C: 0】

Looking at the numbers on the screen, the four of them were speechless.

Wait… how can there be a negative number?

And Ling Feng, you sly dog, you've been hiding it well, so many people like you!

Bai Xuechao suddenly felt that, in a way, this exchange mechanism was also an intelligence machine. Look, not only did he find out that Ling Feng had an amazing network, but also that many people had a secret crush on him.

Zhou Chenhao looked at his 2 million, then at Ling Feng's 30 million, and showed a rather sunny smile, teasing Ling Feng: “So you've been keeping such a big secret from me. I almost got fooled by you just now when you were about to nod, you big player!”

“No…” Ling Feng tried to explain, “I don't know, no one has ever confessed to me since I was a child.”

Wait, what's with this strange atmosphere?

Bai Xuechao timely stabbed him with a knife, smiling slightly and said: “After all, Ling Feng is so handsome. If I were a girl, I would have a secret crush on him too.”

Xiao 6 only heard half of it: “What! Spread the word, the Host has a secret crush on Ling Feng!”

Bai Xuechao: “?”

On how rumors are born.

“Huh?” Zhou Chenhao took this hypothesis seriously and started to get serious, “Why don't you have a secret crush on me?”

Bai Xuechao: “…”

He had brought the trouble upon himself.

To be fair, as part of the protagonist group, Zhou Chenhao, Xia Xiaoxi, and Ling Feng were of course all very good-looking. The male lead Zhou Chenhao was sunny and handsome, very likable; but Ling Feng was the kind of handsome that both men and women had to admit to, and because of his cool temperament, he had a greater sense of distance, definitely a male god in many people's hearts.

“Because,” Bai Xuechao smiled again, “you lack a sense of sophistication, not cool at all.”

Zhou Chenhao was hit by a critical blow, his health bar instantly emptied: “…Isn't it good that I'm approachable?”

“Now is not the time to talk about this, right?” Ling Feng pressed his temple, looking at Bai Xuechao on his left, then at Gong Ting on his right, feeling a bit of a headache, “It's one thing for you to have 0, but why is there a negative number?”

Gong Ting found that everyone was looking at him, and he stroked his chin and said: “Well… I'm not sure either. Maybe it's my ex-girlfriend. She has a love-hate relationship with me. Maybe the hate is more now, so it became a negative number?” He himself wasn't sure, it was the first time he had seen this situation.

Can hate be counted as love?

“Anyway, it seems that we can only exchange ‘personality’ now.” Bai Xuechao said in a good mood, the joy evident in his eyes and brows.

Zhou Chenhao couldn't help but complain: “Although I can exchange it, what's with your happy look…”

“Because it's exciting.” Bai Xuechao said, “Don't you know.”

Gong Ting said with a grin: “Then let's exchange ‘personality.’ I'm looking forward to what will happen.”

Ling Feng was silent for a moment before sighing: “…Alright.”

The big screen showed the value of their “personalities.”

【City Lord: 80,000,000】

【Player A: 260,000,000】

【Player B: 289,000,000】

【Player C: 655,000,000】

Although this time everyone had a price, someone was still particularly prominent.

“Who on earth are you…” Zhou Chenhao muttered when he saw that staggering number, “This is too high.”

Bai Xuechao just smiled quietly, not answering Zhou Chenhao, but said: “Can we start the game now?”

Gong Ting let out an "en."

With the familiar sound of gold coins colliding, the large screen displayed each person's game coin amount.

【City Lord: 780,000,0001】

【Player A: 379,999,998】

【Player B: 482,333,331】

【Player C: 1,641,666,670】

Because everyone had met the condition of having five rounds' worth of game coins, a sentence floated up from the bottom of the screen: Please state your requirements for the Dream Game.

Perhaps because Ling Feng had proposed the game change, the screen in front of him was the first to flash, indicating that he should speak first.

Ling Feng said: “This game cannot be won by cheating.”

The next in clockwise order was Bai Xuechao. He didn't care what kind of game would be generated. He believed that he would win no matter what game he encountered, so he just said something in line with his "persona": “It has to be exciting enough.”

The next one was Zhou Chenhao. He thought hard for a while, and then had a flash of inspiration: “This game has to be simple, so that you can win by luck even without thinking!”

The last one was Gong Ting.

Gong Ting's green eyes stared straight at Bai Xuechao.

He thought, he must redeem himself in the Dream Game, defeat Dongfang Bubai, and regain his confidence and pride!

Gong Ting thought for a moment and said: “This game prohibits players from helping each other. If a player is suspected of helping others, they will be punished.”

Only when the players acted independently could he achieve his goal. The kind of behavior where Dongfang Bubai helped him cheat before was absolutely not allowed, even though he was the beneficiary.

The big screen displayed each person's requirements, and then the screen went dark.

The entire game space began to change.

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