Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 37 System Upgrade
In a warm and charming atmosphere, everyone said goodbye and went home. Before leaving, Taoi Satsuki made a phone gesture to Kaneki Ken to keep in touch, and then walked into the subway station excitedly.

"Really..." Kaneki Ken smiled as he looked at the Line interface on his phone where he and Momoi Satsuki had added each other as friends. He laughed at himself, then turned and walked towards home.

"I'm back." Kaneki Ken lit incense for his parents as usual, then washed up and went to the bedroom to check the system update. At this moment, Kaneki Ken's phone buzzed, it was a message from Taojing Satsuki.

Xiao Taozi: "Are you home yet? I just finished cleaning here, how about you?"

The white-haired devil Sasaki: "I just got home and just packed up here."

Xiao Taozi: "Yan-kun behaved very well tonight."

Kaneki Ken looked at the message sent by Momoi Satsuki, and the expression on his face suddenly turned into that of an old man on the subway looking at his phone.jpg, and he slowly typed a "?".

When Tao Jing saw the question mark that Kaneki Ken typed, she realized that there was something wrong with what she had just said, and quickly explained: "Well, I meant that you performed very well in the basketball team training tonight, and Coach Shirogane seemed very happy."

White-haired devil Sasaki: "Of course, seeing the players train harder, our farm coach will be happier."

Xiao Taozi: "Haha, Yanjun, if Coach Bai Jin knew you said that, he would definitely punish you to run laps again."

White-haired devil Sasaki: "You won't tell the coach, right? After all, this is a secret between the two of us, right?"

Xiao Taozi: "...Go to bed early. We have to go to the summer festival tomorrow."

White-haired devil Sasaki: "Okay, go to bed early, good night."

Little Peach: "Good night."

"Is that a secret between Yan-kun and me..." Taoi Satsuki held the phone in her hand, touched her hot earlobe, tossed and turned, and finally fell asleep late at night.

Kaneki Ken finally put down his phone and prepared to study the upgraded system.

"The system has been upgraded. An unopened blind box has been detected. Do you want to open it?"

"Open, open, open!" Kaneki Ken excitedly watched the cutscene of the blind box opening.

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining a virtual training ground! It is being integrated into the underlying system data... Integration completed."

Kaneki Ken's eyes blurred, and he saw that the originally simple system interface had now been perfected into a system interface similar to the 2k game interface in his previous life. From left to right, the options were: Character Bonds, Fantasy Prize Pool, Task List, Player Modeling, and Training Ground.

Kaneki Ken first clicked on the character modeling option, and saw a plus sign appear behind each of his physical attribute bars, indicating that he could upgrade. Kaneki Ken calculated his current attribute points. In addition to the three attribute points given by the system after completing the task in the match with Zhengbang Middle School, he also settled three attribute points for the task reward of self-discipline punching in for a month. Kaneki Ken calculated and added all the points he had in his hand to speed. As the attribute points were cleared, the speed attribute also increased from the original 85 to 91.

不仅如此，这次系统更新也将篮球手的年龄段分成了3个等级，分别是U15（15岁以下），U18（18岁以下）和18岁以上的成年。

After reading the character modeling and having a better understanding of his current strength, Kaneki Ken clicked on the task list option. The task list showed that the current system had two long-term tasks. Needless to say, the first one was a previous long-term task, and the task progress showed that it was still in progress. What interested Kaneki Ken was the second task.

“Long-term main quest: The Path to Godhood;

Mission objective: Before reaching the age of 18, the number of losses in any form of age-group competition shall not exceed 10 games.

Current failures: 0/10;

Mission entry: Absolute victory;
Mission Reward 1: Heart of the God King (Hall of Fame Badge);
Mission Reward 2: From the time the mission is released until you fail more than 10 times/before you reach the age of 18, you will be rewarded 0.1 attribute point/day;
Mission penalty: If the mission fails due to no injury or illness, one S-level or higher skill will be randomly deducted.

Kaneki Ken curiously clicked on the badge introduction of the Heart of the God-King and took a look. He had to say that this prize really caught his eye.

"Badge: Heart of the God King, Badge Type: Concept, Badge Term: Sense of Oppression, Badge Level: Hall of Fame, Badge Effect: After equipping this badge, the host can cause a 5% to 10% physical ability loss to the opponent when facing the opponent."

"Okay, okay, it's really worthy of being the basketball that kills... Kuroko. It's really starting to play the fantasy game." Kaneki Ken didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Should I say something like 'The top of the ball, the best in the world, I, Kaneki Ken, am the sky'... How embarrassing... But it's still quite exciting..."

Kaneki Ken closed the task list option with some reluctance, and instead opened the virtual training ground he got from the blind box.

As soon as I opened the virtual training ground, I saw famous scenes of NBA players. Of course, there is an NBA in this world, and even the famous stars are almost the same, but due to unknown reasons, the overall timeline of the NBA in this world has been moved back nearly 20 years. Some time ago, the news also reported that Michael Jordan, who had just completed three consecutive championships, announced his retirement.

"One hundred percent night...The shot...Last Shot...The ultimate killing god..." Kaneki Ken looked at the dazzling array of famous scenes in front of him, and also had a general understanding of the functions of this virtual training ground.

Each famous scene of a star is equivalent to a copy. After entering the scene, you can choose the difficulty of the copy. The higher the difficulty, the richer the reward. The lowest reward is attribute points and skill upgrade card fragments. The highest reward may be able to obtain the skills and badges of the star corresponding to the copy.

"It's all good, it's all good." Kaneki Ken excitedly clicked on a copy to try out the depth, but after clicking it, he found that the copy screen was gray, and there was a lock icon in the lower right corner, indicating that the copy was temporarily inaccessible.

"Ah... I can't clear the dungeon?" Kaneki Ken was a little surprised and clicked on the dungeon details. It showed that "victory points" were needed to enter the dungeon, and different levels of difficulty required different victory points. It takes 20 victory points to enter a simple dungeon, 40 points to enter a normal dungeon, and 80 points to enter the highest difficulty dungeon. As for how to get victory points, it's also very simple, win. Every time you win a formal game, you can get 10 to 100 victory points, and after winning three games in a row, you can get a 50% bonus for each win. After the victory is interrupted, the count starts from the beginning.

"I never expected this! Even after coming to another world, I still can't escape the fate of working part-time..." Kaneki Ken said, but the expression on his face became more and more excited, "Every opponent who falls to me will become a stepping stone for me to become the strongest... It's so interesting!"

(End of this chapter)