Chapter 4 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

Li Ang sat in the living room of his home.

“System? System? Are you there?”

Silence. He did not receive a reply.

“God’s space? System’s spirit? Old man of the ring? The mastermind?”

The voice did not appear again no matter what Li Ang said.

He was currently wearing a yellow janitor uniform, complete with a cap, a face mask, a pair of silicone gloves, and black anti-slip rain boots.

Beside his feet was a cream plastic bag that contained a mop and a piece of cloth. It was half-filled with blood and remnants of the monster cat floated on the surface.

After killing the human-faced cat, Li Ang had immediately run home and taken out the necessary equipment to remove all traces of the corpse. Then, he had run downstairs and pretended to be a cleaner cleaning the area. Fortunately, this district was quite old so there were no surveillance cameras installed on the stairwell. Not many people were walking around in this area either.

Li Ang contemplated this for a long while before placing the brown thumb-sized glass pearl on the table.

[Name: Odd Eyeball]

[Category: Accessory]

[Grade: Rare]

[Effects: Differentiates illusions from reality and creates illusions. The strength, circumference, and duration of the illusion depends on the strength of the user’s willpower]

[Equip Requirements: User has to possess the physiological anatomy of the eye socket]

[Remarks: All living objects with a solid form are illusionary. The changes in Yin and Yang alter their shape, transforming them into an illusion.]

This hard glass pearl was the left eye of the monster cat. When Li Ang looked at this pearl, these words appeared before his eyes, providing a description of the eyeball.

“Hello, everyone. This is a new game you’ve never played before. The first game will only cost you 10 cents, and you will receive 999 weapons. Divine equipment can be obtained easily, and you will never die in the game.”

Li Ang narrated the advertising slogan of a real-life game called Greedy Blue Moon and murmured, “Did this world truly turn into a game?”

If this world was a virtual-reality game, Li Ang could be considered a non-paying player with bad luck playing in hell mode.

He had been an orphan since a young age and had grown up in an orphanage ever since he had been seven years old. At 16, he had left the orphanage and entered society. Even now, he was studying while working part-time.

Usually, children without any disabilities or illnesses would be prioritized when it came to adoption. There were two reasons Li Ang had been “leftover” after so many years.

One, he had entered the orphanage at a much older age and had matured early. Two, his way of thinking was so different that people thought he was weird.

Since a young age, he had exhibited way-above-average logical and deductive skills.

Many books had been available at the orphanage, donated by people from all over the world. After reading the book Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Li Ang, who liked to read, had been able to predict that Snow White’s fate would be so eventful because of the many vile characters around her.

Also, he had read the story of Sima Guang using a stone to break a vat that a child had fallen into. In his opinion, Sima Guang should have burned some firewood at the bottom of the vat until all the water had dried up. The child in the vat would have been safe and the vat would have remained intact at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

He also used to watch movies at the orphanage. After watching the classic movie The Last Emperor, he had deduced that the eunuch’s son should be a eunuch as well by using his knowledge on genetics.

A film production company had visited the orphanage and asked the children what their biggest wish was.

Other children had wished to be quickly adopted or get presents like stuffed toys and toy cars.

Only Li Ang had said that he wanted the orphanage to accept more twin orphans so that he could play spot-the-difference.