The instigator behind it all, Chu Ke, had now returned to his little box.
To be fair, Chu Ke had long wanted to have some fun with "Early Awakening Mature Woman," but he had never found a suitable candidate.
At first, Chu Ke had considered Lu Mingfei. With his cowardly personality and relatively soft features, he had actually been the best candidate.
When Chu Ke had been reading Dragon Blood 3 and discovered that Lu Mingfei had not gone to save that girl, instead drinking in Takama-ga-hara's wine cellar, he had already wanted to cut off his dick.
Was he even a man? He did not charge in even then? Luckily, reality was still different from novels. After Chu Ke helped Lu Mingfei remove his labels, that pathetic kid truly had been growing, so Chu Ke gave up on using him as a test subject.
And lucky Lao Tang just happened to walk into the line of fire.
Besides, who knew how many people would want to become beautiful girls if it happened to them? This was a reward.
Why were you talking such nonsense? Try having it happen to you. Narrator, shut up. I, Lord Chu Ke, could turn into whatever I wanted. Forget a beautiful girl—even turning into an attack helicopter the next second would be no problem.
Perhaps Lu Mingfei still had not noticed one thing: Chu Ke had secretly erased most traces of Lao Tang's former existence.
Someone else had been living in his old house, his bank account had never even been opened, and even his transaction records had been wiped clean.
The only person who remembered Lao Tang was Lu Mingfei, his sole friend.
So what would he do with a brother who had nothing left?
Wahaha, just thinking about it was amusing.
Chu Ke had deliberately left behind a clone in the Dragon Blood World as a familiar. The main reason was to watch this amusing development; the secondary reason was to decisively intervene and nip it in the bud if anything strange started brewing between Lu Mingfei and Lao Tang.
Was this a joke? This was a no-female-lead novel. I did not even have a wife myself, and Lu Mingfei thought he could have a beautiful girl as a girlfriend?
I, Su Wei, was great. No further explanation needed.
"Grrr." A protest came from Chu Ke's stomach. He stretched and walked toward the kitchen.
Although Chu Ke's current body was his main body and carried nearly all of the Fundamental Forces, it was still an ordinary blank-slate human.
He could directly integrate numerous templates, such as ghouls, Hybrids, and Block People, to make himself stronger, but Chu Ke felt there was no need.
In truth, Chu Ke had something of a cleanliness obsession. One could tell just from how unbelievably spotless his home was.
Likewise, Chu Ke was deliberately preserving the purity of his "bloodline." This body had been his first body after transmigrating here, and it was also the "true body" he used most often. It held great sentimental value.
As for getting stronger? Sorry, I already had cheats. I was not lacking this trifling bit of power.
Therefore, Chu Ke also had the desires an ordinary person should have, such as hunger and the urge to defecate.
Excretion was an important source of several great human pleasures. It was no less satisfying than sex.
They were all parts of himself, so why rank them?
Walking into the kitchen, Chu Ke began preparing today's lunch—Dragon King Tenderloin Fried Rice! Though Norton had a human form, he was essentially still a giant lizard. Using his corpse, Chu Ke had analyzed every gene in the King of Bronze and Fire's lineage, even reverse-engineering the Black King and the World Tree.
Chu Ke could not bring himself to eat Norton in human form, but in lizard form, he looked delicious.
Normally, lizards would have plenty of fat, but beings like Dragon Kings, who had evolved to the top of the food chain, could truly be described as perfectly marbled.
He took out a freshly hand-crafted piece of Dragon King tenderloin from the "inventory space" trait he had learned from Steve, eliminating any possibility of parasites.
Vivid red muscle was interspersed with yellow-white fat. The dense flesh contained explosive power, while the thick fat stored the tremendous energy needed to release Words of Spirit.
Because it was too tough, Chu Ke worried his teeth might not be able to bite through it, so he even took out the Seven Deadly Sins and poked some holes in the tenderloin to loosen the meat.
Do not ask where he got the Seven Deadly Sins. He had forgotten to turn off auto-loot and picked them up himself.
He cracked eggs pilfered from Steve into hot oil, then poured in a large bowl of overnight rice before the egg had fully set, ensuring every grain was coated in egg. He scooped it out for later, then added the tenderloin to hot oil.
When he discovered his gas stove could not cook Dragon King meat, Chu Ke took a moment to redefine the flames on his stove.
After a flurry of work, he sprinkled on chopped scallions, and the fragrant, delicious Dragon King tenderloin fried rice was ready.
Taking a small bite, the rice grains broke apart in his mouth, and the oil from the Dragon King's premium fat flowed out, its aroma rushing straight to his nose. The light seasoning enhanced the dish without ruining its original flavor. The distinct muscle fibers added chewiness, while the scallions finished everything off by cutting through the greasiness.
Perfect!
Chu Ke nodded as he looked at the fried rice before him. He packed some into red packets to share with the group, and stored some in a frozen timeline, intending to take it out and treat Xia Mi when he met her in the Dragon Blood World someday.
Come to think of it, the necklace he had given Chu Zihang's mother should have been delivered to Chu Zihang by now, right?
"Hehehe."
[Steve: What is this? It smells so good.] [Steve: Damn, I only took one bite and my hunger bar got filled instantly. It even gave me more than ten buffs?] [Kaneki Ken: Thank you, Brother Chu. It was so delicious.] [V: Holy shit! How long has it been!] [V: Ever since I came to this shitty world, I haven't eaten anything good. It's either synthetic food or stimulant drinks every day.] [V: I'm screwed. The last gathering already had me remembering the food for three days. This time, I might not be able to eat anything else for a month.] [Kaneki Ken: Uncle V has it that bad?] [V: Call me big brother. I'm only fucking twenty-three. I wouldn't even have graduated college where you guys are.] [Chu Ke: The way you talk really does not suit that character skin of yours.] [V: If I'd known, I wouldn't have made a gender-bender avatar. Fuck!] [Chu Ke: Oh, right. That was egg fried rice made with King of Bronze and Fire tenderloin.] [V: Huh?! Fuck, don't lie to me, Brother Chu!] [Chu Ke: Why would I lie to you?]
The group instantly fell silent. Only after quite a while did V type again:
[V: That's way too hardcore, Brother Chu. I can't really accept it.] [V: Thinking that I just ate Lao Tang's human meat makes me want to puke.] [Chu Ke: What are you thinking? This is lizard meat I made using the King of Bronze and Fire template. I'm not a fucking cannibal, dam bro.] [V: Fuck, you should've said so earlier! I already threw up!] [V: Can I eat it back?] [Steve: You're the real dam bro. That's a little disgusting, man. We're eating.] [V: Forget it, let's not talk about this.] [V: Do you know who I just ran into?] [V: Image.jpg]
Chu Ke opened the image V had sent. It had been taken from inside a car traveling along an elevated highway.
Through the dark tinted window, he could clearly see an old-fashioned sedan in the adjacent lane. Inside, a middle-aged woman with a red ponytail was scolding her son, while the son beside her, sporting an American Front Spike hairstyle, stared absentmindedly out the window. V had happened to capture this scene.
[Chu Ke: Huh? David?] [V: That's him. I don't know why, but it's already 2077, and it feels like his story has only just begun.]
David Martinez was the protagonist of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a spin-off of Cyberpunk 2077. His story took place in 2076, one year before V's story. Logically, David should have been long dead by now.
But it was clearly the very beginning of the plot.
[Chu Ke: Maybe the universe you're in isn't the main universe of the Cyberpunk multiverse, but another universe. In that case, the timeline isn't much of an issue.] [Chu Ke: I'd quite like to watch his story. Should I come over and take a look?] [V: So that's how it is. Totally ojbk, Brother Chu. Come on over!]
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