The Black Card is a Webnovel created by Xiao Se Liang (萧瑟良).
This lightnovel is currently ongoing.
Chapter 44 – Slave Rule No.3
Translator: Lav
Editor: Levs
Shi Lei was about to go crazy as he felt he had been lied to.
Although he had a huge amount of money which he could spend, but if Shi Lei knew that he could quit, he will definitely choose to not become a d.a.m.n slave.
Perhaps when Shi Lei joked before that if he could have enough money, he would sacrifice his freedom for it. So much that when he used a drama called ‘The p.a.w.nshop No.8’, Shi Lei even thought that using his soul to trade for being wealthy was worth it.
But when this really happened to him, he realised that compared to money, freedom was much more valuable.
In this world, no deal will ever be as valuable as freedom. Even the trade between Shi Lei and the Scepter —— if it could be counted as a trade. It was not a.s.sociated with freedom nor soul, and the only thing Shi Lei needed to do was to spend all the money every week.
It had merely been four weeks and the total sum was only 150,000 yuan, but Shi Lei had already realised the value of his life. Whenever he thought of the quota that he had yet spend, it was as if he was sitting on pins and needles. It’s impossible for other people to impossible to experience this feeling as the three idiots from his dorm only knew that their roommate suddenly became a wealthy person and shared the glorious side with Shi Lei without knowing how much thoughts and suffering Shi Lei went through.
Shi Lei had to think about every single yuan he spent as he had to consider whether the consumption will be acknowledged by the Scepter. It was a giant hole in front of Shi Lei and he would never know what his fate will be after every week.
The inquiry of spending all the money seemed easy, but to Shi Lei, it was as if treading on ice as any money spent in a way that the Scepter didn’t acknowledge, he will be welcomed by nothing but cruel punishments.
He saw how the man who drove the Porsche disappear with his own eyes. He even experienced how his hair disappeared himself. He touched his head which only had a thin layer of hair roots, but it was enough to send shivers up his spine. As he thought of this, Shi Lei was furious.
“Why didn’t you tell me? If you told me earlier, I would have chosen to quit! Even if you ask me to return all the money I spent, I would choose to quit! You are cheating, cheating! The only rule pinpointed for me was to spend all the money, but you also have the rule of never lie to me!”
The Scepter laughed freakishly as if he was accustomed to seeing Shi Lei’s reactions like this.
In the deep whirlpool, the Scepter spun gradually and paid no attention to Shi Lei’s irascibility.
It waited until Shi Lei was done with venting, the Scepter finally opened its mouth: “You are really somewhat different to the slaves before. You could maintain that thing called ‘thinking’ when you were hit by a moment of great happiness. What you said isn’t wrong. In my rules, indeed, I can’t lie to any slaves. But, you never asked me whether you could quit or not! Concealment and deceiving are two completely different concepts.”
Shi Lei was astonished. His understanding of the Scepter’s shamefulness rose to another level.
Under this situation, under absolute unknowns, how the h.e.l.l are concealment and deceiving any different from each other?!
Shi Lei knew that his rage wouldn’t help him in this situation and he forced himself to calm down quickly.
He picked up the black card, inserted it into the ATM, entered the pa.s.sword, and became the slave.
Fine, it was not important whether he picked up the black card or not. What was important was the last procedure of entering the pa.s.sword. As soon as he entered the pa.s.sword, the d.a.m.n bank system would initiate and this obnoxious scepter appeared in front of him.
At that time, the only reason how Shi Lei composed himself that quickly was because he saw everything as a prank. When he thought about it now, his imagination really ran wild. After all, it would consume a large amount of money for the scene. He was only an ordinary university student, which reality show would make such a big prank for him?
But, it also seemed like Shi Lei’s imagination did not run completely wild. If he did, he would believe every single word the Scepter said and not treat it as a d.a.m.n prank.
When he thought about it, if Shi Lei did not treat this as a prank, he would not be so cooperative in the first week, he would not drown in terror after losing his hair, and he would not dare to doubt the existence of the black card and the Scepter. If he had 0.0001% of doubt, It would be possible for him to mention something about quitting, and the Scepter shouldn’t be able to prevent him from doing so.
No! Shi Lei suddenly recalled that when he came in contact with the Scepter for the first time, although he did not mention anything quitting explicitly, but he did something else.
“This is a fraud. Although concealment and deceiving are not the same concept, but I remember clearly that I said I don’t want to become anyone’s slave before. If what you need is a slave, and I didn’t want to become yours, then it sufficiently meant that I wanted to quit. So, if I had the wish of doing so, and you not telling me that truth that I could quit anytime during these four weeks, it was not concealment but deceiving.”
Shi Lei forced himself to be calm and what he said was extremely clear in logic and without a flaw.
The Scepter laughed again and spoke in its horrible voice: “My lowly slave, your logically ability is really not that bad. With that logic, I can almost give you full marks. But, it’s only almost. If the full mark is 100, what you said was more than enough for me to give you 99 points. But it’s a shame that you are one point short, and this one point is extremely important. I’m sure you have heard of this inventor called Edison. He said, a genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine perspiration, but that one percent inspiration is much more important than the ninety-nine perspiration. In the situation you are facing now is exactly what it suggests. All of your logic and the absolute rules, you cannot even withstand a single blow.”
Shi Lei glowered at the Scepter who was spinning slowly in the screen, and he thought he could even see a c.o.c.ky smile on the expressionless Scepter and it made him even more frustrated.
“About the Slave Rules, No. 0 is that the violators of the rules will be punished accordingly, No.1 is that the slave will be granted money by the master. However, No. 2 is that the slave must consume all the money he had been given. At that time, I didn’t tell you about Rule No. 3, and I didn’t explain too much about the previous two rules either. But now I can.”
“Spit it out!” Shi Lei’s eyes turned red and he no longer held any fake respect towards the Scepter. None.
“About the previous two rules, it’s actually rather simple. When I said every week, it was only counted in time as a unit. And this time unit will also be redefined according to the changes in your level and hence naturally, the amount of money will also be changing constantly. And the Rule No. 3 is —— After the slave had completed the newbie training period, he will officially become a slave of the Slave Development Bank.”
Shi Lei said aggrievedly: “Even if you only hid the third rule from me, but I already said that I don’t become anyone’s slave and you didn’t explain this point!”