“Excuse me, citizen, wearing a night-suit made of special material in the middle of the night—are you heading to some special party?” Qingyi held a thermos cup, slowly sipping hot tea, her deep eyes fixed on the weirdo in front of her.
Tonight she wasn’t supposed to patrol Tenth Street, but Zhu Yuan wasn’t good at turning people down and had covered a shift for a colleague on leave, so Qingyi had tagged along.
Jiang Yu felt uncomfortable under the little girl’s gaze.
Just as he was about to jokingly ask if she wanted to join, he suddenly realized the girl was dressed in a law enforcement uniform.
Bad news—it was Public Security!
Jiang Yu turned and bolted.
Qingyi was used to this.
She had seen plenty of weirdos roaming the streets late at night doing strange things.
She slowly took another sip of green tea.
“Citizen ahead, please halt immediately for an identity check!
I repeat, halt immediately for an identity check, or I will take lawful measures against suspicious individuals.” Listening to the officer’s warning behind him, Jiang Yu remained unmoved and kept running.
A month ago, he had transmigrated in the flesh to New Eridu, coming to this entirely unfamiliar world.
Because he had been butt-naked at the time, citizens had reported him as a perverted exhibitionist.
He didn’t know if that case was opened at Public Security or uploaded to the internet.
He didn’t want to go viral on New Eridu’s social media as a perverted exhibitionist.
Even if they only locked him up for half a month at most, it would be social death.
Not to mention he was an undocumented transmigrator without any legal rights.
Seeing her warning had no effect, Qingyi calmly tightened her thermos cup and then hurled it violently toward the escaping weirdo.
Right at that moment, a tall female officer with an impressive bust turned the corner.
She held a handgun, aiming straight at the fleeing weirdo.
“Halt!
Don’t move!” A sharp voice shouted out.
Jiang Yu looked up and saw the dark muzzle of a gun.
Looking back, a massive thermos cup was about to smash into his head.
Too late to dodge!
Attacking Public Security was no different from making an enemy of all of New Eridu.
He wasn’t reckless enough for that yet.
Jiang Yu raised his right hand, reaching into his coat with lightning speed.
Bad!
He had a gun!
Zhu Yuan’s expression hardened.
For her own safety, she prepared to pull the trigger.
At such close range, for someone with a perfect marksmanship score at graduation, if she aimed for his left brain, she wouldn’t hit his right.
In a flash of lightning, time seemed to freeze for a moment.
The moment Zhu Yuan pulled the trigger, an unfathomable scene unfolded.
The world in her eyes seemed to drop several frames.
The weirdo vanished from before her eyes, falling into a spatial fissure that appeared out of thin air.
Bang!
The bullet hit the thermos cup Qingyi had thrown.
The huge kinetic energy sent the thermos flying far away, crashing onto the nearby road, green tea gurgling out of it.
Meanwhile, the weirdo had vanished inside the spatial fissure created out of nowhere.
Zhu Yuan stood frozen, eyes wide, still holding her shooting stance.
Her mind was dazed; that split second was far too incomprehensible.
Qingyi strolled over to the road, picked up the leaking thermos cup, and sighed.
“Alas, this year’s limited edition.” Zhu Yuan walked over with an apologetic face.
“I’m sorry, Senior.
I didn’t expect this to happen either.” “However…
in that moment, you noticed something off too, Senior?” “Hmm~ strictly speaking, the entire world froze for a second just now.” Qingyi held up the pierced thermos cup, looking through the two bullet holes at her surroundings.
“What?!
Senior, now is not the time for jokes!” …
Inside Crate Hollow.
A spatial fissure opened out of nowhere, spilling out a young man who looked barely in his twenties.
Escaping from the gun barrel, Jiang Yu lay on the ground, gasping heavily for air.
The harrowing moment still lingered before his eyes.
Damn!
At most I’m a perverted exhibitionist, charged with disturbing public order at worst!
Is there any need to execute me on the spot?!
Jiang Yu lay on the ground resting for a while, reached into his shirt, and pulled out a crudely made Carrot.
Checking its remaining uses: [0/1] Sure enough, a round trip counted as one use.
“For the sake of my life, this Carrot is ruined.” He sighed, tossing the useless Carrot away, then pulled a pocket watch from his coat.
[Cooldown: 23 hours] His core survival item had entered cooldown too.
If he encountered a high-grade Ethereal, it would be bad news.
He needed to quickly find a wild Proxy to hitch a ride on their Carrot.
His Ether Aptitude rating was hardly impressive.
Right, he had been interrupted by those two Public Security officers and hadn’t drawn his second main affix yet.
With a thought, Jiang Yu opened his system panel and selected draw affix under [Affix 2].
[Spent 10,000 Dennies] [Remaining Dennies: 200,000] As the panel flashed, a message appeared.
[Please select one of the following three affixes] 1.
[Affix]: Overbearing Aura (Green) Overbearing and unmatched.
Effect: Releases a powerhouse aura to strike fear into weaker foes.
2.
[Affix]: Iron Head (White) A hard head capable of blocking any melee weapon attack, but never try to stop a bullet with it.
Effect: Increases head defense.
(Seems like any head can be strengthened.) 3.
[Affix]: 1-Star Good Citizen (White) A good citizen living in New Eridu with great relations with neighbors and Public Security.
Effect: Slightly increases favorability from New Eridu citizens and Public Security.
…
After reading the three options, Jiang Yu silently selected reroll.
[Spent 10,000 Dennies] [White, White, Green] [Spent 10,000 Dennies] [Green, Green, White] [Spent 10,000 Dennies] [White, White, White] [Spent 10,000 Dennies] [Green, Green, Green] …
[Spent 10,000 Dennies] [Remaining Dennies: 150,000] [Please select one of the following three affixes] 1.
[Affix]: Refuse to Back Down (White) Effect: Automatically enters taunt mode when facing enemies outnumbering you several times over to show you aren’t afraid.
2.
[Affix]: Last Stand (White) Effect: Carrying a water pouch or bottle on your back significantly boosts your power.
3.
[Affix]: One Bull, Nine Seals (Purple) The power of the bull is matchless!
Effect 1: The bull is placed under nine layers of seals.
Each broken seal raises your strength by one rank.
Effect 2: To protect the safety of the bull, immune to all charm and erotic attacks, automatically clears bad thoughts from the brain, and prevents the bull from triggering negative status effects.
…
What kind of weird stuff got mixed in here?
Skimming past the first two, he looked at the purple affix [One Bull, Nine Seals].
This thing…
if the bull couldn’t even stand tall, what was the point of living?!
Now he had fallen into a Hollow without the Carrot’s teleportation ability.
If he ran into a Dullahan like last time, wouldn’t his story end prematurely?
Thinking about his current predicament, Jiang Yu gritted his teeth.
Going all-in just this once!
Let me witness the power of your pity system, system!
Give me a good pity draw, please!
[Spent 150,000 Dennies] [Remaining Dennies: 0] [Please select one of the following three affixes] 1.
[Affix]: Lone Warrior (Blue) Effect: Fighting Ethereals alone grants +20% Physical ATK and +20% Physical DEF.
2.
[Affix]: Brave Bull, Fear No Difficulty (Purple) The brave bull enjoys the Hollow first!
Effect 1: Immune to one fatal blow from an Ethereal, and your next attack deals equal damage back.
Cooldown: 0/24 hours.
Effect 2: Defeating an Ethereal cleanses your corruption state.
3.
[Affix]: Gotham Veteran (Purple) Effect 1: Your bounty can be converted into Infamy Points, which can be spent on “Moral, Intellectual, Physical, Aesthetic, and Labor” stats.
(Conversion ratio: 100:1) Effect 2: Increases combat capability by 50% against opposing factions (Public Security).
Effect 3: Favorability from legal residents -50, favorability from criminals +50.
…
Going all-in is wisdom!