OFR – Chapter 301 Star rating upgrade

“Not really sure, just watching the commotion.”

At this moment, hearing Li Xiaoqing’s surprised words, Mu Bai simply smiled faintly and replied casually.

Indeed, Li Xiaoqing had only been working as Mu Bai’s personal assistant for a few days.

So she had no idea that the very person she found so shockingly awe-inspiring… was actually sitting right beside her right now.

As for Mu Bai, he naturally didn’t say much—he certainly didn’t boast.

After all, he had long outgrown that childish desire to show off.

However, Li Xiaoqing, after hearing Mu Bai’s comment, probably felt it inappropriate to praise someone else so highly in front of her boss. So she quickly added,

“Mm, but actually, it’s not that big of a deal. I still think no matter how amazing someone else might be, Boss Mu is the most amazing of all.”

This rather flattering statement made Mu Bai chuckle helplessly. He downed the sobering tea in one go and said lightly,

“Alright, you go on. I’m heading upstairs to sleep. You should go to bed early too.”

“Mhm, thank you, Boss Mu.”

Amid Li Xiaoqing’s sweet voice, he got up and walked upstairs.

Very soon, he returned to the cozy master bedroom on the second floor.

At the same time, a prompt from the system appeared before his eyes, relating to the latest random mission:

**“Ding! Congratulations, host! You’ve participated in a world-shaking gamble and have accumulated a total of 50,000 fame points.
You have successfully completed this random task and received:

• A ‘7-Day Surprise Spending Reward Card Pack’
• A $3 billion USD black market voucher.”**

“Ding! Card Pack Details: This surprise spending card pack has already been automatically activated. From now until 7 days later, for every ¥10,000 spent in real life, the system will return 1 point of digital currency. For online purchases, it returns double the digital currency.”

“Ding! $3 Billion Black Market Voucher: This voucher can only be used for purchases on the black market network. No expiration date.”

After reading the floating text, Mu Bai was slightly surprised to find the spending reward card pack had already been automatically activated after completing the task.

This caught him a bit off guard—he was planning to use it later when a better opportunity arose.

After all, the system’s recent tasks rarely awarded digital currency anymore.

But in the future, when cultivating rare plants or purchasing powerful tools, he would definitely need large amounts of currency, and digital funds might start getting tight.

At that point, earning more would be harder. The surprise spending reward would’ve helped.

Still, since it had already activated automatically, Mu Bai didn’t dwell on it.

He returned to his bed and pulled out his phone, logging back into the black market.

The black market site remained as minimal and low-key as ever.

Once inside, Mu Bai immediately closed the usual notification panel and opened his personal privileges page.

The last time he used a five-star privilege loan from the black market to receive ¥1.5 billion, it had helped him greatly.

So without needing any system prompt, and just a couple weeks after borrowing it, he had already recharged 15,000 diamonds and repaid the debt in full.

“Ding! Dear user, you have successfully repaid the ¥1.5 billion loan early.
Because of your excellent repayment record, your credit rating on Black SkyNet has been upgraded.
Your next loan limit will increase by 5%.
Additionally, due to your user level being relatively low, your account has been upgraded from 1-star to 1.5-stars.”

The fact that repaying loans improved credit score was much like how real-world credit cards worked.
But Mu Bai was still a little surprised that his repayment also increased his user level.

In the black market system, both users and stores followed a strict star-rating hierarchy.

Now that he had jumped from a prospective 1-star user to 1.5 stars, it meant he had skipped two sub-levels in one go.

According to Mu Bai’s estimation, that kind of star rank typically required tens of millions in black market transactions.

Still, after a brief moment of surprise, Mu Bai didn’t think too much of it.
After all, it wasn’t worth overanalyzing such a small perk.

A few seconds later, brushing the thought aside, Mu Bai closed the loan interface and returned to his personal store page.

Earlier that morning, before the Ring Zijin Banquet began, he had already looked into something that had caught his attention: Black Market Monitored Transactions, which a prospective 4-star user had mentioned the night before.

As the name suggested, a monitored transaction was a deal completely overseen by Black SkyNet.
From courier handling, transport personnel, and packaging, to every online transaction step including payment, all of it was monitored.

Such deals were extremely secure—there had never been a single mishap.
Because no one dared to mess with Black SkyNet.

Moreover, most of these transactions were initiated by buyers, and only used when the amount was exceptionally large.

Black SkyNet also charged a 2% service fee on the total transaction amount.

Frankly, that service fee was quite low—even lower than what many real-world intermediaries charge—further showing how Black SkyNet truly was a platform tailored for the world’s most elite and powerful figures.

Otherwise, it would never have managed to gather so many global titans and stand above all national laws, operating so brazenly and fearlessly—a power unto itself.

Now, having already familiarized himself with the transaction rules, Mu Bai returned to his store page and noticed a few unread messages.

Among them were several from Zhang Fengyi, the prospective 4-star user, and one from the official black market system.

He casually replied to Zhang Fengyi, confirming the shipment of goods, before tapping on the message from the system.

It turned out to be a customer service notice from the Black SkyNet platform.

The tone was very courteous—almost identical to the customer service responses you’d see on typical e-commerce sites.

But even so, Mu Bai could clearly feel, from the subtle system watermark and footnote beneath the message, the tremendous authority and fearless confidence of Black SkyNet—an entity that stood above all else.