J City, an urban village.

Six o'clock in the evening.

A dark, damp basement.

A young man with an unkempt face, a tired face, and bloodshot eyes, sat in front of the computer in a daze, and the ashtray on the table, the cigarette butts had been loaded into a hill. A bucket of leftover instant noodles is placed next to the keyboard, giving off an unpleasant smell.

The basement was dark, with no windows and no lights, only fluorescent computer screens.

"It's been like this for a week, for a week, without the slightest inspiration, and I can't write anything. ”

He is Zhang Li, a new online writer who has just started to fight on the street, he has already pounced on five books in a row, and the last book can barely be put on the shelves, but there are only single-digit subscriptions, and he can't even earn back the money he smokes every day. He only cut the only book on the shelves, and now, he wants to write a new one, and it's been a week, and he's gone through the best-selling and recommended lists, but he doesn't have the slightest inspiration.

Writing a little bit of stuff is rubbish that he doesn't want to read. He sat in despair in front of his computer in a greasy, worn-out gaming chair, wondering how he would spend the rest of the month.

"If I can have new inspiration, I'm willing to trade it for everything. Zhang Li shouted in his heart.

【As you wish】

A distant voice came, accompanied by whispers and murmurs.

In an instant, Zhang Li's consciousness entered a pure white space.

Standing opposite is his favorite otaku goddess "Hanazawa Coriander".

[Hello, dear trader, I am the cutest wish spirit in the world, able to fulfill any of your wishes]

This is the elf that comes with the system, Zhao Yang is just watching and manipulating, but he still can't accept it if he pretends to be cute like this.

"You... You.. Hello, are you Hanazawa Coriander?"

[No, I'm just the favorite image in your consciousness]

"Can you really fulfill any wish?"

[Of course, I just sensed your strong desire and appeared in front of you]

"Are you a demon or something? should I exchange my life, soul, or something?" As a perennial writer who writes online articles, this kind of evil god trading or something, he doesn't know how many books he has seen it, and even he himself has written a novel about being reborn as a demon, but it quickly hit the streets.

[No, as a mortal, your life and soul are like weeds on the side of the road, which are worthless to us wish elves]

"So whatever I have in exchange, take it, I want to be inspired, I want to write the best-selling book, I want to be on the list of rich writers, I want my family to be proud of me, I want my ex-girlfriend who left me to kneel and beg me to come back!"

Wang Li's gaffe roar, his long time writing on the streets, and his poor quality of life almost exhausted him, and he felt that he was now a walking corpse, an empty shell.

[Once upon a time, you had a very warm family and a good love, and the most valuable thing in you was happiness. Including the memory of your happiness in the past, and the ability to be happy in the future, are you sure you want to exchange happiness for happiness?

"I'm sure I don't have anything left to lose. All I can feel now is pain, what's the use of retaining the ability to feel pleasure? I just want to succeed. ”

Wang Li lost his soul, he has nothing now, and happiness is far away from him.

[Remind you again, trading is happy, even if you succeed, you can't feel joy.] You don't feel the joy of getting and satisfying anything you do.]

"I'm sure, I'm pretty sure, please help me trade. ”

[So, trader, as you wish]

Wang Li's consciousness instantly returned to reality, he felt that something had lost something in his heart, and his heart became dry and empty, but a lot of inspiration appeared in his mind at this time.

"That's it! Great! Why didn't I think of this idea before!" Wang Li was about to be overwhelmed by the waterfall of inspiration, but what he didn't notice was that he couldn't feel the slightest joy in his heart when he was about to write the best bestseller book with so much inspiration.

The other side.

Zhao Yang's family.

"System, take stock of the harvest. ”

[Good host, in this transaction, you get one-seventh of Zhang Li's happiness]

"Happy, what's the use of that?" The "innocence" he had obtained before, he felt a little. It seems that you can enter a state of innocence similar to that of a baby, and to be specific, to be clear, you have gained the heart of a child, which can make others let down their defense of you and trust you unconditionally.

So what's the use of being happy?

[Host, happiness is also a very precious trading item, please take your time to experience it]

"System, this time the trader has lost his happiness, what kind of monster will he become?"

[Host, without happiness, his mind will become empty and empty, in order to fill this increasingly intense emptiness, he will have strong jealousy, he will be jealous of those who have happiness, he will hunt humans, and get short-lived happiness from the hunted humans. But this happiness is also a momentary illusion, it will not remain in his memory, and if he wants to be happy, then he can only hunt it forever. In the ancient Dark Ages, it was not uncommon to hunt and hunt human suckers who sucked pleasure. 】

"Well, system, don't you call yourself a wish elf every time you trade, how can you actually do something like an evil god, turning people into monsters. ”

[Host, it's not that the system turns people into monsters, but that traders lose something, so they will naturally change, and the system just makes this transformation intuitive]

"So what about the remaining six-sevenths, where did they go, your system is a bit dark?"

[The rest is used to keep the system running, and the system needs to fight against the powerful rules of this world]

"It's a little incomprehensible how such happiness, innocence, such conceptual things can be transformed into energy?"

[Host, when your strength reaches the conceptual level, you will naturally know]

"Speaking of strength, I've completed two transactions, and the traders have turned into supernatural monsters, I just get innocence and happiness, what's the use of these, it seems that I can't fight monsters, right?"

[Host, you have gained innocence and happiness, this is a super high psychic ability, as for the ability to fight monsters you said. Those abilities of the plastic energy system and the combat system, if you trade to obtain life and souls, it is very easy to exchange them from the system. However, the super high psychic ability cannot be exchanged in this system]