Have you decided?"
Inside the cramped bedroom, a voice appeared out of thin air. The voice was like a machine, very strange.
A black-haired young man sat on the bed, smoking a cigarette lightly, then nodded.
"I've decided. Anyway, I'm going to die. Even if you're lying to me, at most it'll just make me die a few months earlier. To be able to live until now is already a gift from God, haha!"
The young man gave a self-deprecating smile. His eyes held a different kind of calm, as peaceful as a lake without ripples. That feeling was as if he had seen through life and death.
It was hard to imagine such a gaze appearing on a young man who looked to be under twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.
"This is also why you were chosen to be the host!"
The young man heard this, smiled, and then said lightly, "Actually, I don't care about the truth or falsehood, but since I've agreed to you, let me ask now, what exactly are you? Besides what you've said, what other functions do you have?"
"I am a natural treasure born from the thoughts of infinite intelligent life forms in the infinite universe. You can call me the System!"
"The System has no specific form or concept. Its main function is to travel between worlds."
"Each time it travels between worlds, the main goal is to steal the origin of the world to allow the System to evolve."
"The specific process will be issued to the host in the form of missions by the System. At the same time, upon completing the missions, the host can obtain generous rewards from the System!"
"Note one, the System is unique! Its specific functions include traveling through the great thousand, stealing origin, suppressing destiny, protecting the soul, concealing karma, creating all things, transforming rules..."
"Note two, completing missions yields rewards. The rewarded items are the most suitable items for the host, materialized by the System using the world origin it has stolen. Of course, the host can also make requests, and the System will expend energy to materialize the items the host needs!"
"Note three, successful missions have rewards, and failed missions have punishments. The forms of punishment vary. The host is advised to act cautiously!"
"Note four, the existence of the System must not be mentioned to anyone, to avoid others coveting it and the host being hunted!"
"Note five, the host and the System are in a symbiotic relationship. The stronger the System, the stronger the host, and similarly, the stronger the host, the stronger the System's functions! The host is encouraged to focus on the missions issued by the System!"
"The above are the specific pieces of information the host needs to note. For other information, the host can ask the System directly!"
"Heh heh!" Listening to this information, the young man smiled lightly. "It feels just like a novel, truly interesting! Fine, anyway, I don't have long to live with late-stage cancer. Even if someone is fooling me, it doesn't matter!"
"Everything is fact!" the cold mechanical voice said.
"Alright then, didn't you say you'd let me travel through worlds? I'm ready, we can begin!" The young man smiled and said lightly.
"Host, are you sure you want to travel?"
"Yes, let's go!"
As soon as the young man finished speaking, he saw the space in the room suddenly crack open, and then a faint milky-white ball of light appeared.
The ball of light was divine and flowed with infinite golden patterns, extremely mysterious. Before the young man could examine it closely, the ball of light instantly entered his body.
"System integration begins, 1%, 2%, 3%... 99%, 100%. Integration complete. Beginning world search."
"Searching..."
"Search complete. Time spent: twelve seconds. World origin consumed: ten units. Beginning travel..."
"Travel method: physical body travel!"
"Warning, warning, insufficient origin energy. Unable to perform physical body travel. Abandoning physical body, initiating soul travel!"
In an instant, the young man felt as if his body was being torn apart. His body exploded in an instant, turning into infinite white light spots,
which fell into space and disappeared.
And the ball of light reappeared, moved slightly, broke through space, and disappeared within it.
On March 24, 2016, in Room 612, Building 1, Fengyun Residential Area, Zhongshui Road, Shanghai, a late-stage cancer orphan named Li Yue disappeared from Earth. With no parents, no one cared.
...
...
In a daze, Li Yue opened his eyes again.
He glanced around. This was a modern bedroom. The bedroom was large, with a bed in the center and a huge crystal chandelier hanging above it. Around the room were pieces of fine mahogany furniture, and the floor was covered with wooden planks.
At this moment, he was lying on the large bed in the middle of the room.
"Whew!"
"This isn't my bedroom. Did I really travel through worlds? ...Thankfully, it's still modern society. If it were some primitive society or ancient times, I really wouldn't know how to survive!"
Taking a long breath, Li Yue glanced around, shook his head, and stopped thinking too much. With a slight thought in his mind, he began to call out to the System.
"System, System!"
"Host, you don't need to speak. Just think internally. The System can sense the host's thought waves, avoiding detection by outsiders!"
"Alright, System, tell me, where is this place!"
"Host, this is no longer Earth. To describe it using the information in your memory, this is the Marvel Universe world."
"Marvel Universe world, what does that mean? Are you saying you brought me to that Marvel world filled with freaks and black technology everywhere?" Li Yue's face darkened upon hearing this.
"Yes, Host, this is indeed the Marvel Universe world. However, please note, Host, this is not a comic or a movie, but a real world. Therefore, be extremely careful when performing missions!"
"Careful? How can I be careful? It's hard enough for me, an ordinary person, to survive in this world, let alone complete missions. Tell me, how am I supposed to complete missions? Am I supposed to pick up a gun and shoot at those superheroes and supervillains?" Li Yue was speechless. This System was indeed unreliable.
"Alright, you should change worlds. This world is too dangerous. Although I don't care about death, since you are truly this miraculous, then curing cancer shouldn't be a problem. If I can live, who would still want to die?" Li Yue sighed and said to the System.
"Host, soul travel requires one thousand standard units of origin energy, and physical body travel requires ten thousand standard units of origin energy. The System currently only has five hundred twenty standard units of origin energy stored. Energy is insufficient, and further travel is no longer possible."
"Furthermore, your body currently does not have cancer. Due to the System's insufficient energy, it abandoned the host's body and allowed the host to perform soul travel, possessing the body of the person most suitable for the host!"
"What?" Only then did Li Yue notice this point. He looked down and indeed, his skin was fairer, and his hands were slender.
Jumping off the bed abruptly, he found that his height was also greater, at least taller than his previous height of 1.75 meters.
Ignoring everything else, he glanced around and ran directly towards the mirror by the wardrobe.
"As expected, it's not my own body!"
At this moment, the person in the mirror was tall, estimated to be between 1.8 and 1.85 meters, with black hair and brown-black eyes. His features were well-defined, his nose bridge was high, making him exceptionally handsome. Moreover, he looked very young, estimated to be only around twenty years old.
Li Yue took one look and knew that this was a young Chinese mixed-race person.
"Fuck!"
After a long silence, Li Yue cursed inwardly.
Although his previous body had late-stage stomach cancer, it was still his own body after all, and this body was too unfamiliar.
"System, I ask you, I have occupied this body, so where did the owner of this body go!"
"Host, he is already dead."
"Dead? How did he die? Was it because of me?" Li Yue asked!
"No, he committed suicide! He absorbed a large amount of drugs and sleeping substances, resulting in brain death!"
"Why? Such a good young man, why couldn't he think straight and want to commit suicide!" Li Yue frowned, feeling a slight confusion in his heart. This young man looked very handsome, and his family seemed to be well-off, so why would he commit suicide without any reason?
"Host, do you need this person's memories? When the System descended, it had already extracted the memory storage from this person's soul! Does the host wish to merge?"
"Alright! It's always necessary to know everything, isn't it? Merge!" Li Yue thought for a moment, then nodded.
"Boom!"
Countless pieces of information poured into his mind. The information was like a tide, merging with Li Yue bit by bit.
After a long time, Li Yue's eyes moved, and he sighed, "This is really screwed up!"
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