Pretend to be the host, pretend to be in love!

The Amnesiac Black Panther and His Poor Little Beauty (123)

[I'm sorry, host, but rebirth is an extremely energy-consuming process, especially since your body was completely destroyed in your previous life. Bringing your soul to this life for rebirth is not an easy task.]

[Furthermore, this system has done its utmost to select the best fresh corpse for your rebirth. Although you are currently a leopard, the evolutionary frenzy of plants and animals will occur in less than a month, and your identity can also evolve and change during this time. This system believes that the energy expended to bring you these benefits is better than any other welfare.]

Wang Chen hadn't really expected this system to give him any big gifts. After all, he had read a lot of novels, and in many of them, the reborn characters had to do tasks or pay a certain price to be reborn. He had already gotten lucky.

Moreover, he can accumulate energy to unlock the system shop in the future, which seems like he's about to reach the pinnacle of life.

However, that doesn't stop him from trying to trick the system. What if it really is a newly manufactured system that's easy to bully?

Unfortunately, it's not. But on this note, the system seems pretty good. It doesn't look like it would cheat him; it's the kind of system that's especially considerate of its host.

Hehe, isn't this great? Not only was he reborn, but he also encountered such an easy-to-deceive system. His good days are really about to begin!

While his mind was racing, Wang Chen was saying something else entirely.

"I understand all the reasons you're giving, but now that I've been reborn, shouldn't there be something different? And how am I supposed to evolve in this evolutionary tide?"

"You can't just leave me to figure things out on my own. How am I supposed to collect that energy you mentioned?"

He didn't have time to slowly figure things out, and in this freezing weather, where would he find the time to leisurely study those things? Of course, it was simplest to just get the answer directly from the system.

【…】

The system remained silent for a few seconds before speaking again, only after Wang Chen urged it once more.

[A special request has been made to the host to investigate the energy location once. The nearest energy location is Hope Base.]

[The host may first venture to the Hope Base to investigate. If sufficient energy is obtained, the system will notify the host to unlock the in-game store.]

"Hope Base?"

When Wang Chen heard the name, it sounded familiar yet also unfamiliar.

However, he could tell that this system was only so-so and couldn't help much anymore, so he could only spit out a mouthful of disdain.

"Fine, I'll go take a look myself. Your system is too useless. The systems I read in novels were all incredibly powerful, but yours just helps me find a corpse to be reborn and then runs out of energy. It's just too useless."

"Sigh, I still have to rely on myself. I knew it."

He complained verbally, but his face showed a hint of smugness.

As expected of him! So what if he had a miserable life in his past life? He died and was reborn, and he was even bound to a system after being reborn. He must be the protagonist of this world!

In this life, he will take back everything he lost in his previous life.

"Oh right, the waste system."

Wang Chen bluntly said, "Since I've been reborn, I should be able to use everything I knew in my previous life, right? There shouldn't be any restrictions on how the plot can be changed, right? If that's the case, you're really useless."

【…】

The system was silent for half a second.

[This system has no such restrictions, but the host must find energy to replenish their energy as soon as possible; otherwise, this system cannot provide any assistance, and the system shop will not be accessible.]

"Alright, I got it. It's just energy, right? Once I find the base, I'll have it all to myself."

Upon hearing the system say there were no restrictions, Wang Chen was overjoyed.

He then asked the system what time period it was, and was immediately overjoyed.

He was familiar with this time period. It seemed that Song Ning, the ultimate villain who was later exterminated by humans, had just been forced to sleep with someone.

He tried hard to recall and compared the time, confirming that he remembered correctly.

"This is really great. I remember that Song Ning was caught when he was running away around this time. He was in a terrible state and was taken back, his hands and feet were broken, and he was thrown into the wild. As it happened, he encountered some animals that rescued him. After he took those animals in, he lived a very prosperous life with their help. He had no shortage of food or clothing, and he even took over a base after evolving with those animals."

He became more and more excited as he spoke, "Giving that base to that guy was a complete waste. If it were me, with four evolved animals as my right and left arms, I could just raise my arm and call out, and those guys would all come running to follow me."

"By then, I can do whatever I want. I can build my own base, and then, hehehe."

Just imagining himself being above everyone else made Wang Chen's mouth water.

"Alright, let's go to this Hope Base first and find out. Once I find the energy, I'll use the system shop to find that Song Ning and see if there's any way to get those beasts to recognize me as their master."

"If that doesn't work, I'll just recruit him as my underling. Let's do it!"

He loudly plotted, and the system overheard everything he said.

The system remained silent, only opening its own background monitoring.

Its monitoring panel also has nine similar blue dots, which are flashing in different places, and Wang Chen's dot is closest to a blue energy fluctuation.

[Hopefully, this useless host can actually find a way to collect enough energy. Hopefully, there must be a large amount of energy in the base. If I can obtain this batch of energy, I'll have enough to level up again and directly devour the world's will.]

Even without utilizing these incompetent hosts, the energy I obtain will be enough to upgrade me into a stronger being. I must seize all this energy, which I don't know where it came from, before anyone discovers it!

Each person in charge of the unified command harbored their own ulterior motives. Following the system's 'kind advice,' Wang Chen also headed towards the Hope Base, pondering how to utilize the system to obtain that energy as he approached it.

However, as they got closer to Hope Base, Wang Chen's expression became increasingly strange.

How come there are so many people in this Hope Base? Why doesn't he remember that such a base existed in his previous life?