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Chapter 280 - 278, One of the most pitfall systems (First update)_1

Chapter 280: 278, One of the most pitfall systems (First update)_1

After the third day of the Lunar New Year, Ren He completely relaxed. It was only then that he learned that Zhou Wumeng and the others hadn’t even gone home for the holiday but had spent it in the mountain village instead.

It wasn’t that they wanted to celebrate the New Year with the children; the children also needed to celebrate with their own families. However, when they were ready to return, a heavy snowfall had sealed off the entire mountain road, and they had no choice but to stay in the newly built school dormitories to get through the Spring Festival.

The newly built dormitories were very damp, and they didn’t have enough living supplies. They could only buy from villagers in the mountainous area. Even so, they couldn’t eat or sleep well, and it was so cold at night that they couldn’t sleep at all.

Elder Zhou fell ill with a high fever that lasted for seven days; only now was he slowly recovering.

Ren He felt a twinge of sorrow. Compared to their initial 15-day stay, Elder Zhou and the others had truly suffered.

Both Elder Ren and Mrs. Ren were at home now, so he couldn’t return to the Capital early. Qinghe Games was also on holiday, Xu Nuo had gone to Sanya with family after the New Year, and Yang Xi had been working with Liu Erbao’s team to record a music video starting from the second day of the New Year. Ren He was now truly idle.

He might as well start writing Harry Potter, finish it early, and strengthen the influence of Qinghe Fund. That way, he could help others sooner.

Writing the seven Harry Potter books meant over three million words in Chinese, which translated into an even larger word count in English. This task was a massive workload for Ren He as, even if he was just copying, he had to type each word out himself.

In fact, he could write slowly like the original author, taking several years to complete all seven books. But Ren He and the children in the mountains couldn’t wait that long.

Ren He even planned to use his past life experiences, along with Harry Potter’s trajectory, to draft a complete marketing strategy for Elder Zhou. Similar to "The Kite Runner," Harry Potter needed to start abroad first. However, Harry Potter’s commercial value was far more considerable!

Or rather, even a bestseller like "The Kite Runner" pales in comparison to Harry Potter.

Domestically, there isn’t a single book whose commercial value can match it.

It is still three months until the weather becomes completely warm, about 90 days or so. May is the time for Ren He’s plan to climb Mount Everest, which is the most important thing for him. Therefore, he has to finish copying Harry Potter before May arrives.

This month, the royalties from Kunlun and the manuscript fee from the Divine Punishment System were settled on time. Kunlun provided 2.1 million, while the Divine Punishment System was 370,000. At this time, the Divine Punishment System approached a word count of 2 million. Logically speaking, for a cultivation and leveling whitepaper novel not to write a few million words would be a disservice to this income. Many authors would even choose to start a new volume forcefully and pad the word count.

After all, it doesn’t matter how much they write; readers will continue to follow the story.

But for Ren He, it was not so simple. Strictly speaking, this was the first book he wrote without plagiarizing any similar novels. However, at this word count, he started feeling somewhat overwhelmed, and his control over the pace was not as good as before.

He was self-aware that the success of the Divine Punishment System was entirely due to its novel theme, which had become the pioneer of whitepaper novels, but his own strength was not that strong.

So Ren He decided not to start a new volume forcibly. Instead, he chose to construct a more meaningful and thought-provoking ending, planning to finish it. Before the ending, the Divine Punishment System’s film and game rights were sold for a total high price of 9.73 million. After a 30% cut from the website, Ren He became wealthy again.

Editor Dongfang Mobai contacted Ren He to find out about the new book, but Ren He straightforwardly expressed that he wouldn’t start a new book...

"Won’t you reconsider? With your current popularity, starting another new book could immediately make you a supreme god," Dongfang Mobai said, somewhat pained.

"Haha, forget it, really, I don’t have the time," Ren He thought it over but still refused. He genuinely didn’t have time.

When Ren He’s Divine Punishment System showed as completed, authors in the online literary community began speculating what level he would reach if he started a new book. Many were certain that if he published a new book, he would undoubtedly become a supreme god.

However, after waiting for a long time, they realized that he had no intention of publishing a new book at all—it was as if he had completely disappeared!

No way, you’re not taking the money?!

During the time Ren He wrote his book, he was practically invisible, never attending any events and never interacting with other writers. It seemed like he had no intention of integrating into that circle. After his amazing book ended, this soon-to-be Supreme Deity of authors just vanished overnight, never to be heard from again.

The feeling was so strange; many authors marveled that this great book was like a supernova in the online literature space—blazing bright for a moment and then disappearing without a trace, not waiting for its own rise and fall, leaving behind a legend and countless cliffhangers.

For most authors, the comment section of their books would cool down after completion. However, it was different for this sensational book; hundreds of people were posting in the comments every day, requesting the author to start a new book.

But there was no response...

To Ren He, this book was perhaps a way to make up for the regret of a failed novel from a past life. When he grows old and looks back on this experience, he’ll probably smile knowingly to himself. It’s quite an amusing thought.

An author who stayed in the top ten rankings year-round disappeared without a hint of nostalgia, causing a huge stir in the web novel community, but Ren He’s attention was no longer there.

Every morning, after waking up, doing his routine exercise, and taking a bath, he would sit in front of his newly purchased laptop and furiously transcribe Harry Potter. It seemed fascinating while reading it, but when it came to transcribing, he found it an absolute torture...

No need to brainstorm, no need to read a bit and write a bit, those words were already in his mind. When Ren He wrote his book, he could reach an average of 5,000 words per hour, and transcribing was even faster. Nevertheless, Ren He was still not satisfied with this speed. Compared to those masterpieces that were easily millions of words long, his speed was still too slow...

"Divine Punishment System, I choose the ability to type faster," Ren He used another Perfect Reward in hopes of improving his typing speed. After using this reward, he only had two Perfect Rewards and four task exemptions left.

In fact, in reality, there is a job known as stenography, where average stenographers can reach a typing speed of 100 words per minute. In Ren He’s previous life, the senior stenographer Huang Xia, 24 years old, had won the championship in the CCTV stenography competition last year and set a national record with a typing speed of 520 Chinese characters per minute.

If he had the skills of this senior stenographer, Ren He wouldn’t have to work so hard now. That’s over 30,000 words per hour. Since he didn’t need to think, what Ren He wanted was exactly the skills of a senior stenographer.

"Host has chosen a targeted reward for typing ability, rewarding the host with Five Stroke Input Method skills," the Divine Punishment System stated calmly.

"..." Ren He sat in his chair, dumbfounded, for quite a while. Are you kidding me? With his current typing speed, what was the use of this? Although the Five Stroke Input Method is indeed much faster than Pinyin, the problem is that this improvement is only incremental and hasn’t reached a transformative level.

Ren He’s face turned green on the spot. He knew that if he kept a Perfect-Level reward in hand, the Divine Punishment System would sooner or later mess with him. Damn it, how petty...

"Use another reward," Ren He said with a darkened face. "Can you be a bit more reliable? Just waste one is enough."

"Host has chosen a targeted reward for typing ability, rewarding the host with the passive skill of a senior stenographer," the Divine Punishment System spoke again.

Ren He took a deep breath. He was truly afraid that the Divine Punishment System might just use up all his remaining rewards. He tried out the skill; indeed, stenographers are not just faster with their fingers—few people could now surpass Ren He’s speed. When stenographers reach a certain level, they develop a mindset for typing, and it’s that mindset that’s most valuable.

Otherwise, Ren He wouldn’t have needed to use two rewards to get it.

Timing his typing for one minute, Ren He finally reached a speed of 534 characters per minute, even faster by a bit than the record from his previous life. It seemed that it was also due to the enhancement of his physical condition.

With this rate, Ren He’s plan to write out the entire Harry Potter series before May was now within reach and wouldn’t be particularly exhausting anymore.

Plus, if he ever wanted to transcribe anything else, it would be much more efficient now. Ordinary books of several hundred thousand words could be written out in just two or three days...