In the hollow room, the sorrow of blood seemed ready to overflow.
But she never revealed any trace of weakness.
She merely walked silently to the computer, turned it on, and in this lonely, dark room—
Contemplated and studied human affairs.
During the day, she was Xia Mi, the girl who had completely integrated into human life.
At night, she was Jörmungandr, the Dragon King—silent and cold-hearted, wanting to break free from the fate of the forsaken race.
The so-called despair of the forsaken race was thousands of years of slumber, endless cycles and nightmares.
In the deepest darkness, there was only herself and that foolish older brother.
A thousand years in darkness, on the throne of the forsaken race, king and king huddled together for warmth.
"Dragons, like humans, were originally just children who descended upon this world."
Jörmungandr said in a low voice, like the roar of a Dragon King.
These words should have been filled with resentment and loneliness, but when Jörmungandr spoke them coldly, they were full of mockery, showing no weakness.
She had never been a girl who would show weakness.
"That classmate Lin Chen is quite interesting."
"When interacting with me, he seemed somewhat nervous."
"According to human emotions, being nervous when seeing a beautiful girl should mean he likes her."
"But that doesn't quite seem like affection."
"He also seems quite confident. Humans with mediocre talent and orphan backgrounds should be insecure and lonely, right?"
"When I told him about the resources top students can obtain from school, his reaction was actually happiness, not disappointment."
"Could it be that he truly believes he can grow to roughly my level in a short time?"
"His personality also seems somewhat different from before. Something interesting seems to have changed about him."
Xia Mi talked to herself.
Her tone, pitch, and pronunciation habits were different from just moments ago.
Perhaps even she herself hadn't noticed.
Several years of vivid human memories crashed against thousands of years of lonely memories, finally mixing together.
Becoming chaotic and twisted.
Lin Chen sat at the desk, learning about this world's current state on the computer.
Although it was still human society, although he had inherited his predecessor's memories—
His cognition of this world was still somewhat fuzzy.
Without exaggeration, his understanding of this world might not even match that of Teacher Dai Ye, who wasn't human.
"This is pretty abstract."
"Wait, this world merged too?"
"Really? I'm a devoted fan of this anime."
Lin Chen searched on the computer, occasionally exclaiming in surprise, sometimes mixing in a bit of silly laughter.
After a round of searching, Lin Chen's cognition of this world became much clearer.
This world's connection to some anime worlds was closer than he'd imagined.
Many worlds had basically been completely merged into this world.
For example, the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War world.
He saw the Shinomiya family and the Shijo family.
This kind of daily-life world had no particularly strong mystery level, so the entire thing had probably been absorbed by this high-martial-arts world.
However, the Shinomiya family was no longer like in the original anime—a massive conglomerate with astonishing influence.
In Z City, they were considered a decent-sized company and quite wealthy, but not to the level of a conglomerate.
The Shijo family was the same.
From this point, it appeared this high-martial-arts world's methods of absorbing otherworlds were relatively gentle.
Otherwise, native conglomerates like the Shijo and Shinomiya families wouldn't be in a good position.
Besides Kaguya-sama, this world should have absorbed quite a few slice-of-life anime.
However, Lin Chen could only make judgments through the original characters.
Not every slice-of-life anime had so-called conglomerate young ladies.
Another world leaning toward daily life that Lin Chen could identify was the Food Wars world.
Skilled chefs were welcomed everywhere.
Even in this kind of high-martial-arts world, Totsuki was quite famous.
They had practically dominated the food and beverage industry.
Dishes prepared by excellent chefs from Totsuki were not only extremely delicious but also possessed effects that could enhance physique and improve mental power.
The corner of Lin Chen's mouth twitched.
Though the original Food Wars did indeed have mental power settings.
Using cuisine to explode people's clothes could cause mental fluctuations, so improving mental power was normal.
Although he still found it somewhat abstract.
As for other worlds with high mystery levels and high combat power, they were quite easy to identify.
For example, the Naruto world—Z City was connected to the Naruto world.
That old man, the Third Hokage, frequently appeared on the city's political channel.
Judging by the Third's age, the timeline of the Naruto world should be around when the plot was about to begin.
However, the Naruto world hadn't been absorbed like the slice-of-life anime worlds.
The Naruto world still maintained considerable autonomy.
Just like the Dragon Clan world—according to Xia Mi's words, the Dragon Clan world should currently also be an independent world.
The high-martial-arts world just had some connection with that world.
The One Piece world also existed. The high-martial-arts world government interfaced with the One Piece world's World Government.
The specifications were one tier higher than the Naruto world.
This was normal. At this timeline, the Naruto world hadn't yet reached the later stage when super-Kage and Six Paths users were running around everywhere.
In terms of comprehensive combat power, it was considerably weaker than the World Government.
Not to mention, the One Piece world's territorial area was also much larger than the Naruto world.
Plus it had all kinds of miraculous special products.
As for Natsuki Subaru's Re:Zero world, Lin Chen didn't find any information.
It seemed they hadn't established contact yet.
After all, Natsuki Subaru hadn't even transmigrated yet.
Besides checking which anime worlds had appeared—
Lin Chen also searched for things like Hybrid Serum that could enhance one's own strength.
This search actually turned up quite a lot.
After opening the shopping app on his phone, Lin Chen thought he'd arrived at the Main God Space's shop.
Good heavens, they even sold Sharingan.
Artificially cultivated Sharingan from one-tomoe to three-tomoe were all available—just imagine that.
However, after seeing prices even more expensive than Hybrid Serum, Lin Chen decisively chose to give up.
Twenty thousand yuan.
A mere twenty thousand yuan.
This was all the assets his predecessor had left him.
His predecessor's parents had died when he was very young.
No real estate, just a small amount of savings—around fifty thousand yuan.
The government's basic subsidy lasted until the end of senior year.
Relying on the native resident's government subsidy and some savings left by his parents—
His predecessor could barely support the consumption of martial training.
Martial cultivation was extremely resource-intensive.
Not to mention the various martial arts resources needed to achieve higher physique levels—
Just eating alone wasn't something the orphan subsidy could support.
At body level one, daily food consumption already topped that of an adult.
His predecessor was level 1.5—though not high, he had trained hard and consumed quite a bit.
From freshman to senior year, his predecessor had spent around thirty thousand yuan in total.
After browsing around, Lin Chen placed an order on his phone.
"Sea King meat, ten pounds, one thousand yuan."
Special beast meat from the One Piece world with very high nutritional value, quite suitable for people training their physique to supplement nutrition.