The Most Random System

Chapter 1066 - 480: The True Demise of the Working Man_2

"Next time if I’m half-asleep just slap me awake, okay? Don’t say stuff that harsh...""Yeah yeah yeah, got it, I’m off."

"Xuchen, let’s go. See you tomorrow, thanks bro."

"Bye-bye." Bai Bufan, who had already happily materialized some sunflower seeds from his pocket and started eating, waved with a grin.

Didn’t expect these little workhorses to be pretty interesting, huh~

I should raise a few of them for fun when I’ve got time.

...

After dropping the remaining guy off at another location, Bai Bufan headed toward his own residential complex; Wu Min had just called to hurry him back.

Bai Bufan frowned slightly.

[Pilot the Mecha to complete at least 10 commissions from unfamiliar citizens of the Empire (0/10)]

On the system panel, at this very moment, the quest progress was still 0.

When Bai Bufan first heard that the three had two destinations, he even felt that, if the system were a bit more human, this might directly count as two quest progress points.

But unexpectedly, he’d sent all three of them off, and it still didn’t count a single one.

Fucking system.

Where was the problem?

Was it because his attitude in serving them was off, that he couldn’t treat passengers as toys for his own amusement?

Or did it have to be orders pushed through the platform to be counted as Empire commissions?

But at the time the quest triggered, the role Qu Wanqiu was "playing" was a random passerby flagging a car at the roadside.

After pondering for a moment, Bai Bufan’s frown eased a little again.

The key to the problem lies in finding the key problem.

And he should have already found it.

This is an All-Women World quest. Before Qu Wanqiu, Bai Bufan had also joked about similar things, and he’d had his driver’s license for a while now, but the quest had never triggered.

After all, in the All-Women World, there are only women and Mecha and, well, now maybe also these "Black Insect" things. As for men? What’s that?

The previous All-Women World quests were the same; they had nothing to do with any males other than himself.

So in the system’s eyes, he had basically just ferried three lumps of air.

Once he figured that out, Bai Bufan knew from which angle to run follow-up experiments and probe this quest.

But the second thing he needed to consider now wasn’t whether to take orders from women or from men, but what was the most suitable way to take orders going forward.

The car problem was easy enough. Even though Wu Min would be leaving for work in a few days and would drive the car away, cars were easy to rent these days.

If it weren’t for the fact that it was hard to explain where the money came from, so he had to hide it from Wu Min and buying a car would get complicated, Bai Bufan might have just bought himself a car outright.

But whether renting or buying, as someone who’d just gotten a driver’s license, he wasn’t qualified to register as a ride-hailing driver on any platform.

Shouting for carpool rides at crowded spots like tonight would probably be very hard to replicate. Tonight only worked because lots of people were out for New Year’s, and cars were hard to catch, which gave him an opening.

Still, there’s always more solutions than problems.

When the time comes, he’ll see if he can contact some ride-hailing drivers who already have cars and accounts, then use the power of cash. Just like when he did the food-delivery quests.

By the time he got home it was already two in the morning. Wu Min, seeing that Bai Bufan was back safe, chatted with him briefly, asked what he’d been doing tonight, and then went back to her room to sleep.

But Bai Bufan couldn’t rest yet tonight.

He spammed a bit in the group chat, then had his daily small talk with Chen Yu Ying. After she got sleepy, they said good night to each other and he let her go to sleep; by then Wu Min should also have fallen asleep.

Bai Bufan turned his gaze to the system.

The system did its toothpaste-squeeze style update every month and refreshed one "Return" chance; this month was no exception.

After the early-October update, the interface for the Otherworld had a total of four buttons—"Return," "Terminate," and "Current reset price: 200 System Currency": these three were already functional.

In addition, there was a button that appeared at the beginning of October with no text and was dim and unclickable.

That button lit up in November, but still had no text.

And this month, besides the appearance of a fifth, textless, dim button, that previous button finally showed text—

"Select / Switch Return Node."

He hadn’t dared to press it before because there was no text, but now that he could clearly read the label, it was different.

Judging that pressing it shouldn’t cause any immediate change, Bai Bufan willed it to activate.

Sure enough, a sub-interface popped up after he pressed it.

There was a selection list on the sub-interface, something like a save-file screen in a game:

"Unnamed Historical Node 1 (Current Selected Node)"

"None", "None", "None", "None"

There were five slots in total, but apart from the first one being lit and showing as selected, the last four were all dim and displayed "None."

Below the selection list were two buttons.

Both were lit, but only one had text, the other was still blank. As for the text on the button that did have it:

"Add Random Node."

Looking at this month’s changes to the system, Bai Bufan pondered for a bit and came up with some guesses.

Nodes, nodes... they must be either locations or time points.

But if they were time points, that would be a bit too overpowered, too strong. The system had never shown any ability to travel through time before, so this "node" should refer to his "Return" location.

And the selection list actually contained a "Historical Node," which meant... the Otherworld for this month should be one he’d already been to.

Judging by the order he’d visited them, the most likely candidate was the first Doomsday World.