At this moment, the person in question was in seclusion and could not be disturbed, so Ye Xu could only go and talk to Han Yingchen and the others. To Ye Xu's surprise, Han Yingchen noticed that something was wrong with Sister Xuan before he did.
“That time you were drunk, so you didn’t notice anything unusual,” Han Yingchen explained. “When the phoenix appeared in the card draw, her expression was very strange.”
If one had to explain, it could be that she accidentally found an unlocked cultivation dimension card in her card pool, but Han Yingchen always felt that something was wrong.
Ye Xu also remembered that when he woke up the next day, Sister Xuan took the initiative to bring up the cultivation cards with him, preemptively expressing her shock and telling him to ask the system if there was a bug. So Ye Xu didn't think much of it and actually went to ask, but he didn't get a response from the system.
Looking back now, that was definitely a slip-up!
"Given Sister Xuan's personality, if she really suspects there's a bug, she'll either ask the system herself instead of waiting until the next day to have me ask. Or she'll simply pretend there's no bug and take advantage of the opportunity to exploit it, so that she won't have to go through the cultivation dimension to get cultivation cards after the bug is fixed."
Ye Xu gave a hindsight analysis, full of regret: "Actually, I should have suspected her when she could easily subdue me and Mo Bei. Not to mention that she even managed to make Mo Bei behave himself. Can an ordinary person beat a phoenix cub?"
Ye Xu wasn't quite clear about this before, but now that he realized Han Yingchen couldn't catch up with them, Ye Xu was certain: the answer was "they can't beat them."
In short, Jiang Yuexuan has a lot of problems. The rest, such as her special familiarity with the system store and her ability to easily obtain interest-free loans, are not so remarkable in comparison.
"What do you think her background is?" Han Yingchen asked.
Ye Xu thought for a long time: "Could she be the human form of the system daddy?"
The eavesdropping system: "..." Who are you insulting?!
"No." The system, unusually proactive, popped up a chat box and coldly rejected Ye Xu's guess. To avoid damaging its reputation, it even shamelessly revealed Jiang Yuexuan's entire identity.
So Ye Xu saw a whole bunch of impressive resumes of the "outstanding senior in the store manager world," which confirmed one thing for him—Sister Xuan was indeed a model of a corporate slave, the queen of paperwork.
"She's actually owned so many stores," Ye Xu exclaimed in amazement. "How many dimensions are that across?"
I've been to all types of dimensions, some multiple times. For example, the modern dimension is further divided into ordinary, post-apocalyptic, and supernatural dimensions, which are actually counted separately in the gacha pool.
Despite unlocking the modern-day card pool, Ye Xu can only draw "modern common" cards; cards with special abilities are out of the question. Of course, now that he's merged with Sister Xuan's card pool, he can draw anything.
So how could we not have a chance to win one on the spot? If Ye Xu had known there was such a good thing, he would have already won one!
Ye Xu sighed in regret: "I really thought it was a bug, and I haven't dared to draw cards for a while."
Ye Xu was terrified that the good cards he drew by exploiting the bug might one day be taken back by the stingy system, which would make him devastated. Besides, since he had "reported" the bug to the system that day, he assumed it had been fixed and was too lazy to keep refreshing.
Having just gotten a UR card not long ago, the chances of getting another UR are too slim. Ye Xu originally planned to wait a month, thinking that his luck should have improved by then, and he could try another round of draws.
Now...
Ye Xu firmly opened the gacha interface, still trying to bargain with the system: "Since Sister Xuan helped unlock all the planes, can't I also choose all the planes myself? There's no reason why I can still only choose between modern and Western fantasy, right?"
The system snorted coldly, but ultimately agreed.
As a result, Ye Xu's filter list became many times richer. Not only could he choose between modern, Western fantasy, and ancient fantasy, but after selecting the first major category, he could also select in detail which modern world he wanted to be.
Based on previous experience, you can draw three cards for free the first time you enter each category, without needing to spend points to refresh the card pool. Although Ye Xu no longer cares about the 10-point refresh fee, who wouldn't be happy to get something for free?
Anyway, Ye Xu happily tried all the categories without feeling tired at all. Due to the large number of categories, even though he could only draw N-level parts and R-level robots most of the time, Ye Xu still drew quite a few interesting cards.
After looking around, Ye Xu finally kept only one of them – the "SR Iron-Eating Beast". It comes from the original beastman plane, looks like a panda, but is more ferocious than a panda. It is one of the beastmen that the beastmen dare not provoke, and it feeds on metal.
Although it's just an SR card, it looks just like a national treasure! What Chinese person doesn't dream of keeping a national treasure as a pet? At least Ye Xu does.
What surprised Ye Xu even more was that this iron-eating beast was a wombat with a pouch on its belly, and there was actually a rolling baby inside the pouch.
Buy one get one free! This unexpected surprise almost knocked Ye Xu unconscious, leaving him speechless for a long time.
The cub was only the size of a palm, an adorable little ball of fluff that could melt anyone's heart. And unlike normal panda cubs, which look like pink mice, it was a real fluffy ball, with dense, fluffy fur that looked incredibly cute and cuddly.
Ye Xu was completely dominated by this size. The dragon cub Fei Fei was this size, as were the fat chicken and the little elf. Only Xiao Yu was a little bigger than them.
Unfortunately, the big hamster was wary of its new owner, Ye Xu, and wouldn't let him touch its cubs for the time being. It didn't move its nest either, but instead protected its cubs and confronted Ye Xu.
This can't go on.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Xu decided to try the same method he used on giant pandas. So he bought sweet milk and sweet apples and used them to lure the giant panda.
Ye Xu swore that when he took out these two items, he never expected them to be so effective. Almost as soon as the items were taken out, Gun Gun forgot about its cubs, ran over on all fours, snatched the bowl of milk and the big apple, and happily began to eat.
“Uh…” Ye Xu looked at it, then at the cub that had been left there, crawling around aimlessly, and fell silent.
Just to be on the safe side, Ye Xu placed several more apples around the giant panda before attempting to approach the cub.
He was still wondering, weren't iron-eating beasts supposed to feed on metal? How come it was eating normal, rolling food with such gusto? Perhaps, this was the difference between a staple food and a snack?
His mind wandered freely, but that didn't stop Ye Xu from gently picking up the cub. The tiny fluffy ball nestled in his palm, sweetly clinging to his fingers and making two affectionate "mmm" sounds. So adorable, this was the kind of cub a tough guy should like.
Ye Xu immediately and without any principles took a gold coin from his backpack, which he had originally intended to use to please the dragon cub Fei Fei, and stuffed it into the fur ball's hand.
The little furball didn't disappoint its kind, and started munching on the gold coin with gusto. Its baby teeth were quite adept at chewing metal, and although it could only gnaw a little bit at a time, one gold coin was enough for it to eat for a long time.
Ye Xu thought to himself that he could get some metal rods for it to chew on, like teething biscuits.
I wonder which metal the iron-eating beast likes to eat the most. If it eats gold every day, I probably couldn't afford to raise it. The cub doesn't look like it has a big appetite, but the big one is obviously a huge eater.
"Does this cub have a resume?" Han Yingchen asked quietly as he approached.
Ye Xu didn't think much of it and clicked on the profile. Only after clicking did he realize that it was Han Yingchen who spoke, and he paused.
Speaking of Han Yingchen's curiosity, it was an unexpected discovery.
Ye Xu's initial impression of Han Yingchen was just that he was a poor glutton. It wasn't until the other party learned to surf the internet and read news that he discovered that this person was quite gossipy and had a very strong curiosity about many things.
If Ye Xu wanted to know the latest gossip, he wouldn't ask anyone but Han Yingchen. Han Yingchen could quickly explain the whole story clearly, never missing a single exciting detail.
Many events only last a few hours from occurrence to being blocked, before they even gain traction online, and he's already followed the whole thing. Ever since Jiang Yuexuan discovered this ability of his, she often seeks him out to gossip and watch the drama unfold.
Don't let Han Yingchen's usual quiet demeanor fool you; when it comes to gossip, he becomes incredibly animated, completely overturning any perception you might have of him.
Even after so much time has passed, Ye Xu still hasn't gotten used to his hidden persona.
Han Yingchen remained unaffected, leaving satisfied after reviewing the documents, seemingly intending to chat with Sister Xuan about the day's events. Ye Xu watched him disappear into the distance before finally having a chance to glance at the documents herself.
Then he exclaimed: "!!"
"UR Iron-Eating Beast Cub Sweetie"
Plane: Primal - Orcs;
Salary: 10,000 points;
Category: Support Pet;
Skill: [Top-Tier Luck];
Because of her overwhelmingly powerful skills, Sweetie was directly promoted to UR level. The buy-one-get-one-free offer was so generous; nobody could have imagined it.
This "lucky charm" skill doesn't mean it can grant someone a lucky attribute and turn them into a lucky person. Rather, it means it has its own built-in lucky charm aura, so it's sure to handle anything that requires luck.
"How do I use this?" Ye Xu muttered to himself.
He looked at the tiny, sweet little one and decided to give it a try. There were too many different planes to choose from, and he hadn't decided which one to pick, so he simply chose to try drawing cards from all planes.
This time, Ye Xu didn't do the gacha herself. Instead, she held Tian Tian's little paw and pressed the "refresh" button on the screen. After refreshing, she let the little paw flip the cards.
His luck was instantly activated, and the very first card he drew was a dazzling golden UR!
"UR Perfect Robot Butler"
Plane: All planes;
Repair fee: 10,000 points;
Introduction: All the big and small matters in the store can be handled by the housekeeper, and the store manager only needs to grasp the overall direction and issue instructions.
Ye Xu: Heaven, a surprise, a delight!
Whenever Ye Xu wanted to work hard, something would always appear that allowed him to legally slack off. For example, Jiang Yuexuan, or the robot butler. Ye Xu now seriously doubted whether he was the system's biological child; it spoiled him way too much.
The system refused to take the blame, righteously defending itself: "Jiang Yuexuan came to me on her own. She was the one who arranged my contract with you. The probability of drawing the robot butler in the UR tier is one in ten thousand, which means that if you draw the UR tier, the probability of getting the butler is one in ten thousand. I didn't give you any special treatment in getting it."
Such a high-level card has absolutely no chance of being obtained through backdoors; the system's rules forbid it. So far, the biggest backdoor it has given Ye Xu is allowing him to draw the SR Guardian God, whose rarity is equivalent to a mid-tier UR card; anything higher is not allowed.
Since it wasn't a backdoor opened by the system, it proves that Sweetie is really awesome.
Ye Xu was overjoyed. He touched his pounding heart and felt that his suffering had finally come to an end. He would never have to worry about drawing cards again. It was so awesome!
"A skill can only be used once per plane." The system seized the opportunity to throw a bucket of cold water on him, to calm him down, lest he be too disappointed and faint when he flipped over the other two cards later.
Ye Xu was indeed much calmer, but he wasn't too disappointed. A Guardian God's skill can only be used once per plane; there's no reason why a regular UR card could use it so casually.
So far, it seems that only SR cards can freely use skills, because their skills are relatively ordinary. For example, Tangtang only knows normal attack skills with limited power.
As for the SSR card, there's only one for Luna. According to her, her healing spells also have usage restrictions: large-scale healing spells can only be used once a week, while small-scale healing spells can be used once a day.
"It's already pretty good if you can get at least one UR card in each dimension." Ye Xu was very happy. He still remembered the experience of refreshing the card pool for more than a month without getting a single UR card.
but……
Ye Xu rubbed Tian Tian's head and asked, "How did you know I wanted a robot butler?"
Sweetie tilted her head and hummed, "Mmm!"
The little darling is so sweet; how can there be such an adorable cub in the world? Ye Xu didn't want to let go, but unfortunately, this was a modern world, and pandas are national treasures, so they couldn't be privately kept and couldn't be brought into public areas.
Since I can't take it out to show it off, I'll just have to make the perfect little home for it so it can have fun in there.
Ye Xu was incredibly generous with his points, spending half the afternoon setting up a private space for Tian Tian. Only after finishing that did he casually make a nest for Da Gun Gun as well, showing extreme favoritism.
Perhaps realizing she had gone a bit too far, Ye Xu later gave Da Gun Gun a bunch of snacks. Feeling a pang of guilt, she felt the pain lessen and finished her workday contentedly.
That evening, Ye Xu welcomed Jiang Yuexuan, who had temporarily emerged from seclusion.
Because Han Yingchen had told her about what happened at the shop during the day, Jiang Yuexuan temporarily ended her seclusion. Now that Ye Xu had discovered something amiss, she naturally wanted to explain it to him personally and clarify the situation to avoid any misunderstandings.
"Another me?" Ye Xu was very surprised after hearing Jiang Yuexuan's story. "So there are many versions of myself in parallel universes? Is this really true?"
Jiang Yuexuan countered, "Since a dimensional system has appeared, what's so strange about having a parallel universe version of yourself?"
That seemed to make sense, Ye Xu nodded, and stopped dwelling on it. He wasn't very curious about his other self, and once he heard that the other person was doing well, he let it go.
To Jiang Yuexuan's surprise, Ye Xu didn't seem to care about any of this: "Aren't you envious of 'him'? He has a very happy family, a wealthy background, and several older brothers who dote on him."
Putting herself in their shoes, Jiang Yuexuan felt she would envy them, even be jealous. After all, their circumstances were vastly different—an orphan and a rich kid. Who hasn't dreamt of being a lost heiress or heir to a wealthy family when they were young?
"It's alright." Ye Xu asked himself honestly, and didn't feel particularly envious. "I'm doing pretty well now, aren't I? I'm not short of money, and I might even be richer than him. Besides, I'm bound to a system, so I'll have endless lives and can go to different worlds to see different scenery. Compared to him, he should be the one envying me."
This angle is quite unique... Jiang Yuexuan seemed to be deep in thought.
These days, since she's been making all the decisions at the shop, Ye Xu has been lazy and hasn't been using her brain, so she hasn't directly witnessed Ye Xu's amazing thought process. If Shuangshuang were here, she probably wouldn't be surprised, since Shuangshuang has long since developed a strong heart from Ye Xu's various strange and bizarre arguments.
"It's good that you think that way." After pondering for a while, Jiang Yuexuan decided to stop dwelling on these things.
If she had known Ye Xu had such a good attitude, she could have told her the truth from the beginning. She underestimated Ye Xu's ability to cope. Having seen so much of the wickedness in people's hearts, she subconsciously felt that Ye Xu would feel unbalanced if she knew.