"Hmm?"
"System, care to explain why there's only one purple item?"
Lin Yu looked at his current pull. Previously, there had been blues and greens, but now there was just a single purple, with everything else entirely white. Anyone would feel terrible seeing that on a draw.
"Uh, Host, could it just be that your luck is terrible and you're chronically unlucky?"
Hearing the system say this, Lin Yu immediately retorted. After all, who wants to be cursed with bad luck?
"No way, absolutely impossible. Even if I'm not a favored child of gacha, I'm at least an ordinary person. How could I possibly have the worst luck in the world?"
The system had nothing more to say. After all, you can never wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
"Sigh, whatever, whatever. I'll save the remaining ten-pull for tonight after I take a shower."
Right at that moment, his phone rang. Someone was calling him, and when he picked it up, it turned out to be Brother Wang.
Seeing the caller ID, Lin Yu was a bit puzzled, having no idea what Brother Wang wanted, but he answered anyway.
"Hello, Brother Wang, what's up?"
"Xiao Lin, you finally answered! Tell Brother Wang honestly, did you offend someone recently?"
Hearing Brother Wang ask this, Lin Yu became even more confused. He had no idea what Brother Wang meant by that—after all, he had always just been working odd jobs to make a living; how could he have offended anyone?
"No way. Brother Wang, you know me. I've just been working to earn a living. When would I even have time to offend anyone?"
"Oh, come on, stop trying to fool me. Those people actually tracked you down to your rented apartment today!
I was in the middle of packing up and sorting out some of the things you didn't want, waiting for you to come pick them up when you needed them, when those three people just walked right in.
The moment they came in, they claimed to be your friends. But how could I not know you? Aside from making money, you never had time to make friends, let alone friends who dress as well as those three.
Still, I didn't give you away. I told them you went to your aunt's place in the countryside. If they really were your friends, wouldn't they know you're an orphan?"
"Ah, well... thank you, Brother Wang. Even though I have no idea what those people want with me, it probably isn't anything good. Thanks again, Brother Wang, please be careful yourself."
With that, the two chatted for a few more moments before hanging up.
"I racking my brains can't recall offending anyone. Oh well, let the soldiers come, we'll block them with armor; let the water come, we'll block it with earth."
Lin Yu searched his past memories and found nothing. Then he glanced at the Vision at his waist, and instantly, all his fear vanished.
"Ah! Time for dinner. It's just that being the only one in such a huge place feels a bit lonely."
Lin Yu felt a bit hungry. After all, upon arriving here in the afternoon, he had been completely consumed by the excitement of such a massive villa. Now that the rush of excitement had faded, he finally realized how hungry he was.
So he used his phone to order a feast unlike anything he had ever imagined.
Meanwhile, in Teyvat.
Xiao was eating Almond Tofu on the top floor of Wangshu Inn, and sitting right beside him was none other than the Geo Archon of Liyue—Zhongli.
"Lord Geo Archon, this chat group doesn't seem to have any downsides for Teyvat. I wonder what you think of it?"
Xiao watched Zhongli, who was eating attentively, and spoke with cautious hesitation.
"Regardless of what that chat group is ultimately trying to achieve, the items in the chat group mall are exceptionally good. Most importantly, it contains items capable of resurrection, and there are even numerous ways to treat the karmic debt afflicting your body."
"After all, anyone capable of connecting so many people across three worlds cannot be lacking in power, and the videos it broadcasts do not pose any significant harm. I would like to try first to see if I can awaken Azhdaha."
"Then, Lord Geo Archon, would you like to use my points to give it a try?"
Zhongli pondered Xiao's words. After all, someone in the group had already tested it previously: points could indeed be transferred to others.
Ultimately, Zhongli shook his head.
"There is no need. Compared to me, you are in greater need of points to exchange for the resurrection items available in the mall. You have been lonely for far too long; let us see if they can return. You should keep them for yourself."
...
"What is Jin thinking? Is she worried that this uninvited chat group might pose some threat to Mondstadt?"
Lisa walked lazily up to Jin and asked.
"Mm. After all, none of us know if it has other motives."
Scenes like this played out among the high-ranking officials of several nations.
As for the Honkai: Star Rail universe, they had no such concerns. After all, the devices they used for communication could transmit messages across the entire universe, and this chat group simply added two more worlds to the network.
To them, the chat group was merely a medium that possessed some cross-universe communication capabilities, but the items inside the chat group mall still came as a great shock.
While they remained somewhat skeptical about resurrection items, the Heartclearing Pill, which could purge negative effects, was definitely worth testing to see if it could eradicate the Mara-Struck condition.
After eating his fill, Lin Yu took a shower and began chanting spells in bed.
"Supreme Lao Jun, Jade Emperor, Tathagata Buddha, please bless me, bless me to pull something good this time..."
He muttered to himself for a while, even lighting three sticks of incense and kowtowing a few times.
Amidst all his self-proclaimed blessings, he initiated a ten-pull.
Against the backdrop of a falling meteor from the sky, the gacha interface slowly turned golden, and Lin Yu jumped up in excitement.
"Yay! System, look, a gold pull! A gold pull!"
The system, however, was rather baffled. This gacha banner didn't have a pity system at all, let alone reaching it even if it did.
After running some diagnostics, the system finally discovered that this was a programmed sequence it had set up for itself long ago—an algorithm designed to guarantee a gacha win. Fortunately, this program would self-destruct and become useless after this single use.