Chapter 1: Cowardice and Pretending Are Not In Conflict
Inside the noisy gambling den, smoke curled and lingered.
The collision of gambling chips issued a rustling sound, but the sound of human conversation could drown out this sound of money.
Lamplight was lit indoors, the boss in a Tang suit leaned against his chair, two fingers holding a long tobacco pipe, his narrow eyes swept over the clamor within the shop.
This was his shop, and also his territory.
As long as he sat here, this place was the most impregnable fortress.
In this world, low-rank ability users were nurous, mid-rank ability users, however, were extrely few, high-rank ones could be counted on two hands.
As long as an ability user reached mid-rank, they could run amok tyrannically, becoming superior to others.
And the boss here was a mid-rank ability user, the strongest expert in this area.
The next second, the boss's movents, however, froze.
“Boom!”
The casino's wooden door was kicked open, dust and smoke filled the air, the clamor in the shop quieted down in an instant, so quiet one could hear a pin drop.
Both custors and employees alike turned their heads, subconsciously looking towards the source.
They saw a dark silhouette, appearing from behind the smoke and slowly advancing, neither hurried nor slow, as if strolling in their own backyard garden.
Soone let out a shocked gasp.
These people were all old custors, they had seen people who dared to cause trouble here before.
The boss's casino was the safest and most trustworthy in this area, often, outsiders unaware of the truth ca to challenge the establishnt but those people, without exception, after committing an offensive act, would be instantly killed by the boss's ability.
The boss's ability was unknown, but it was confird to be a domain-type, in his territory, he was king, able to control the lives of humans within the domain at will.
It should have originally been like this.
But that person still stood there, still strolling leisurely!
The door on the ground was like the boss's face, stepped on by Martin boots, crushed underfoot, emitting a harsh creaking sound as if about to shatter.
“Heard Hua Yizhi is here?” the newcor said, what was surprising was that this voice was unexpectedly extrely young.
In the smoke, that person revealed their appearance.
That was a youth with shoulder-length black hair worn loose, wearing a smart, black, long trench coat.
The long and thin belt fluttered with the wind around him, the youth wore black sunglasses large enough to cover half his face, his fringe was disheveled, his entire face only revealed the upturned corners of his lips.
Around the youth's neck, a black choker, two fingers wide, covered the position of his Adam's apple.
Although asking where the person was, the youth, however, casually turned his head, his gaze seed to pierce through from under the sunglasses, aiming straight at the boss.
His objective was very clear.
The boss, that is, Hua Yizhi, slowly stood up, the long tobacco pipe in his slender fingertips twirled once, and was placed by him on the table.
A brilliant smile appeared on his face.
“I wonder which esteed guest this is, with such a temper.”
He made a "please" gesture, signaling the visitor to follow him into the adjacent room.
The youth was not worried about trickery, and followed him in.
Perhaps he indeed did not need to be afraid, after all, the fact that he could survive in the boss's domain already proved one point: he was an ability user stronger than the boss!
No one dared to provoke these powerful ability users, nor did anyone dare to test the bottom line of the strong with their lives.
In this world, ability users did not have to pay a price for killing people.
The door to the room was closed, concealing the secret and inside the casino, after a mont of silence, the clamor resud.
Only one or two employees carried away the broken door and installed a new one.
Looking again, it was as if nothing had ever happened.
...
In this dim room, only a kerosene lamp was lit.
The boss turned around, sat behind the table, and invited the guest to sit opposite him.
This was the secret of the gambling den, the place where the boss conducted his second business.
The boss here was ostensibly a casino owner, but secretly, he also moonlighted as an information seller.
And the code related to his second profession was that na, ‘Hua Yizhi’.
“Esteed guest, please sit.” The boss served tea, but the youth raised his hand and refused it.
The black-haired youth glanced imperceptibly at the air, then said: “I want the location of ‘Tang’.”
Where the youth's gaze fell, there was a countdown tir that only he could see.
[Item 【Ability Immunity (3min)】 Countdown 01:12]
The youth, no, actually ‘he’ was not the strong person others guessed him to be, just as she was not a man at all.
Different from the feigned arrogance and leisureliness, in reality, Li Li felt all the hairs on her body stand on end.
The boss before her had a smile on his lips, revealing no emotion, it was unclear whether she had bluffed him or not.
The boss was a confird mid-rank ability user in the manga 《Extre Black and White》, a troubleso domain-type, the entire gambling den was within his domain.
And Li Li, very unfortunately, had just arrived in this world, and was currently a rookie without even an ability.
An hour ago, Li Li was not in this magnificent world, but in the ordinary and scientific three-dinsional world.
She had been working on her thesis for three all-nighters, and then died suddenly.
Fortunately, a system found her, allowing her to temporarily and soberly feel her gradually cooling body.
[Hello, this system can grant you a second life.]
“What are the conditions?” Li Li asked consciously.
She did not believe there was such a thing as a free lunch in the world; to get sothing, one would definitely have to pay a price.
The system did not hide anything in this regard, stating it plainly.
[This system only serves the manga 《Extre Black and White》, the transaction is an equivalent exchange.]
[You may need to transmigrate once a day, entering the manga 《Extre Black and White》, and exchange your popularity in the manga for your survival value.]
[For the initial week, the system will provide you with assistance. After one week, you will need to rely on yourself to continue exploring.]
[Gaining high popularity can be exchanged for survival value, extending the duration of your resurrection.]
Li Li had read the manga the system ntioned, her roommate was a loyal fan of this manga, and often pulled her to write short essays.
It was a manga set in an empire, with strong individuals protecting the royal family, nobles capable of passing down abilities for generations, an ability user guild that claid to protect low-rank ability users but was actually backed by nobles, and uncontrollable, unattached strong individuals; they were all at the top of this world.
In the manga, the strong exploited the weak, power was in the hands of the upper class, and strength being respected was their only law.
Ability users engaged in internal strife, high-rank exploited low-rank, and the lives of low-rank ability users were even worse than those of ordinary people without abilities.
The protagonist struggled and crawled in this cruel world, growing, and searching for traces of his adoptive father.
Where he passed, there might be sunlight illuminating, yet in the darkness, bones still piled up like mountains.
At this mont, Li Li suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.
If the system could find her, it could also find others.
Then, how many people in that manga were actually people from reality?
That manga was not so make-believe funny comic, but a manga where people would die with real guns and bullets.
Before her, had soone already died in that world?
“Are there others besides ?” Thinking this, Li Li also asked.
[You can explore on your own.]
Li Li subconsciously wanted to move her index finger to tap sothing, then realized she was already cold.
To be honest, this feeling was really bad.
Li Li knew she had no other choice.
The price of refusal was that her roommate, waking up tomorrow morning, would find her dead in bed, and then the campus forum or a tabloid newspaper would have a headline like "A Student from XX University Dies Suddenly
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