A Stellaron in My Belly—My Fate Is Mine, Not Heaven's. Yeah, Right!

In the year 2014 of the Earth calendar, on Earth, Juxia City. A small restaurant called Nameless stood on a street near the district police station.

A valiant-looking policewoman walked in with several female colleagues.

"Mengmeng, what set meals do you have today?"

Rui Mengmeng, the pretty waitress dressed in a standard uniform, happily replied.

"Ah, Sister Qi Lin, you're here! Today's Set A is Sweet Flower Brewed Chicken with Manor Roasted Pancakes, and the drink is Mint Mango Tea. Set B is Grilled Eel with Minced Meat Noodles, and the drink is Double Fruit Dew."

The moment Qi Lin heard that, disappointment appeared on her face.

"Eh, no Butter Fried Fish and Tricolor Dumplings from last time? Can't Wang Lei prepare a few more dishes every day? Is he still upstairs playing games?"

Hearing Qi Lin's words, Rui Mengmeng became a little embarrassed. She gave an "mm," then hurried upstairs with a thud, thud, thud to fetch Wang Lei, the restaurant's owner and chef.

Upstairs, Wang Lei was playing Civilization 5 on a high-end desktop computer. A bright red Fire God's Eye hung from his waist. When he saw Rui Mengmeng come up, he took the initiative to ask.

"Mengmeng, did customers arrive?"

Rui Mengmeng nodded. "It's Sister Qi Lin. Boss, hurry downstairs."

Wang Lei immediately felt a headache coming on. Qi Lin could be overly serious sometimes. Going downstairs meant another lecture. Seriously, why had he had a brain fart and taken the initiative to approach that young lady back then? He could not help sinking into his memories.

Wang Lei was not a native of this world. More precisely, he had a past life. A past life whose environment was virtually identical to this one.

On the day he turned thirty in his previous life, Wang Lei had lain in bed with a laptop on his body, grinding Genshin Impact's new map, while his phone was running Honkai: Star Rail to farm materials. In the blink of an eye, he had inexplicably returned to when he was sixteen, just about to graduate middle school.

Wang Lei had thought he had been reborn. Just as he was planning to use his foreknowledge to make a fortune, buy more houses, and eventually live a carefree life off rent, he suddenly discovered in his textbooks that the city he lived in was not Magic City, but Juxia City. The capital had changed from Jingcheng to North Star.

Those two familiar names instantly made Wang Lei realize that he had arrived in the world of Super God Academy—or rather, Super Soldier Company. He immediately scrapped all his previous plans. His new plan was simple: after 2014, stay alive.

Wang Lei began desperately searching his mind for something like a cheat or a system. Then he discovered a point of light in the upper-left corner of his vision. When he focused on it, a virtual projection screen appeared before him. A flood of memories that did not belong to him poured into his mind.

Very quickly, Wang Lei figured out how to use the projection screen. This thing was the cheat that had come with his transmigration. In other words, a system. It seemed to have been built using his computer and phone as a foundation.

The system's function was to use the movies, anime, and games recorded on his phone and computer to build spacetime passages, allowing him to travel to those worlds and adventure there. He could return whenever he wanted. And once a world had been activated, the system could use surplus energy to exchange for items from it. It could even bring people out.

Wang Lei was very satisfied with this. It was not some flashy, convoluted cheat—simple and easy to understand. If there was a creator behind it, he absolutely had to give them a five-star review.

Then Wang Lei discovered that the system seemed to have retained the files from his original computer and phone, including more than one terabyte of study materials.

However, among the icons for worlds he could travel to, only Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail were lit up. Presumably because those were the two games he had been playing at the time.

All the others required Energy Points to activate. One world needed 10,000 Energy Points. Energy Points could be exchanged using system energy, with 1% energy converting into 100 points. They could also be obtained by killing living creatures, converting their life energy based on the strength of their lives before death.

But when Wang Lei clicked the travel options in Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, he was directly told that he lacked energy. Looking at the system energy in the lower-left corner, it was at 1%.

Wang Lei was speechless. The system had not said how he was supposed to recharge it at all. And where was the beginner's gift pack?

The moment he thought of a beginner's gift pack, the system automatically popped up a notification containing one. According to the description, it could extract one valuable item from an activated world.

Wang Lei felt that "valuable" was far too vague, but he had no other choice now. He found an empty storage room at school and decisively chose to extract it.

There were no exaggerated special effects, nor any earth-shaking changes. A sphere radiating white annihilating light passed through the system screen that should have been intangible before Wang Lei and stopped in front of him.

Then the Stellaron suddenly plunged straight into his body, startling Wang Lei badly.

Once Wang Lei came back to his senses, he frantically patted his chest, checking for injuries.

The good news was that he was completely unharmed.

The bad news was that he apparently had not gained any special powers either.

He tried jumping, then picked up things from the storage room to test his strength. In the end, he had not become any stronger at all.

Thus, after realizing he was still an ordinary person, Wang Lei could only focus on living his current life well.

What followed was a long process of charging the system. Eight whole years had passed. Wang Lei had only discovered that the system could be charged by basking in the sun or directly connecting it to a power source.

So for the first three years, Wang Lei obediently went to school and studied. Whenever he had free time, he went out to soak up some sun. By the time he graduated high school, he had finally charged it to 10%.

But after three years of research, Wang Lei had also learned that he needed 100% charge to make his first journey. The system could also transform into various electronic products, so Wang Lei would not constantly look like a lunatic spacing out on the spot.

As for the Stellaron that had fused into his body back then, if not for the fact that he had developed eight-pack abs no matter whether he exercised or not, possessed a strong body, never got sick, and could stay up exceptionally late, he would have forgotten it even existed.

In any case, the Stellaron had not turned him into Superman. At least, not for now.

After graduating high school, with only five years left until the crisis arrived, Wang Lei directly dropped out and gave up on college. Instead, he used the winning lottery numbers from past years recorded on his computer, chose the nearest draw, and bought a ticket.

Yet the numbers he had recorded should have won five million. When the results came out, one number was wrong, turning it into a second prize worth only one hundred thousand.

Still, that one hundred thousand was enough for him to decisively leave home, refuse to continue school, and start his own business.

At first, Wang Lei used the system's functions to exchange all of its accumulated 10% energy for 1,000 points. He exchanged them for a Fire God's Eye, turning himself into an ordinary person with a few supernatural abilities.

Then, by gradually charging up and exchanging for Energy Points, he learned the cooking recipes from Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. Thus, Wang Lei opened a night stall specializing in Great Universe Fried Rice and earned his first pot of gold.

Step by step, over five years, Wang Lei acquired his own storefront. The system could also openly transform into a laptop and be left in the shop to charge.

Once Wang Lei had enough capital, he immediately used several major events he had recorded while studying stocks and funds on his computer to multiply his net worth several times over.

In the end, he directly bought an entire row of street-facing storefronts surrounding the City Public Security Bureau.

He kept one for himself and opened a Nameless private cuisine restaurant that served only VIPs. He rented out all the rest. If not for the coming alien invasion, Wang Lei would have already achieved his dream from his previous life. He could have lived happily ever after simply by collecting rent.

Unfortunately, reality had no "if." Wang Lei had bought this street because he knew that Qi Lin would become a police officer at the City Public Security Bureau in the coming years. He wanted to take the chance to at least become a familiar face and build a good relationship with her. That way, when disaster struck, if he still had not found a solution and lacked the strength to protect himself, he could honestly cling to this beautiful, wealthy policewoman's thigh.

For the same reason, Wang Lei had also hired Rui Mengmeng, who had been looking everywhere for work, at a high salary. Since the terms were too good, the silly girl initially thought Wang Lei wanted to keep her as his mistress. She stubbornly refused to come work for him, looking as though she would cry if he pressured her any further.

Then, by sheer coincidence, Qi Lin—still an intern at the time—saw the two talking outside the restaurant. She thought Wang Lei was bullying Rui Mengmeng and directly arrested him.

In the end, after everyone explained themselves, the truth came out. With the police's assurance, Rui Mengmeng happily came to work. And because she had wrongly arrested Wang Lei, Qi Lin eventually became the restaurant's first VIP after Wang Lei persistently wore her down.

Before going downstairs, Wang Lei glanced at the laptop to the left of the computer in front of him. The battery indicator in the lower-left corner of its screen had reached 99%. It would soon charge to 100%.