A month later.
It was the familiar Mount Everest again.
Zhou Yi had said he was taking a vacation, and he had done just that—traveling everywhere, thoroughly relaxing for a while, and incidentally expanding his network.
Although he was about to leave this world, just like the Fast & Furious World, Zhou Yi would return sooner or later.
After all, those major events had yet to begin, and Zhou Yi still had many opportunities to gain enormous amounts of experience.
As for exactly when they would begin...
Zhou Yi looked at the system interface and focused on the star representing the Fast & Furious World. At once, he could see five distinct points of light within it.
Considering that Fast Five had been underway when Zhou Yi left, these were the five later time nodes: Fast 6, 3, 7, 8, and Hobbs & Shaw. As long as Zhou Yi spent ten experience points, he could return to the Fast & Furious World at the corresponding time node of his choosing.
However, Zhou Yi did not intend to return yet.
Once something had been experienced, it was truly over. There would be no chance to start over.
Zhou Yi preferred having people behind him who could be considered friends—or simply were friends—waiting for his return.
To be free of all attachments was to be duckweed without roots.
"Sure enough, no matter how many times I see it, it still feels magnificent..." Zhou Yi sighed as he looked at the sunrise above the sea of clouds in the distance.
Although most of what Zhou Yi had told Chris before had been made up, cleansing the soul was indeed no problem.
Zhou Yi wanted to keep himself in a relatively humble state at all times, aware of his own limits.
To achieve that, mere psychological self-suggestion was far from enough, especially when every world Zhou Yi was currently in was filled with ordinary people, with no one like him around.
Since people could not make themselves feel awe, they could seek out nature instead.
The power of nature was beyond human reach.
Standing atop the peak, gazing over the endless sea of clouds, imagining the heavens and earth, the vast universe—one suddenly felt smaller than a speck of dust, and reverence naturally arose in the heart.
I still need to keep my head down. Unless I have absolute certainty, I must never get cocky! Zhou Yi thought to himself.
After successfully suppressing the inflated confidence brought about by his physical abilities nearly doubling, Zhou Yi moved his mind and used that one World Creation opportunity.
In an instant, Zhou Yi found himself standing above the Sea of Stars once more.
"Come to think of it, this scene is obviously far more shocking, isn't it?" Zhou Yi watched the boundless Sea of Stars begin to rotate. "Who exactly created this system? Why does it possess such terrifying power? And why did it choose me? Thinking about it like this, there's no way I can get cocky..."
Where there was an effect, there had to be a cause. Since the system existed, something that created it must also exist.
Something like this could not have been naturally born, could it?
"Every gift fate bestows has already had its price secretly marked. So what will I have to pay? What can I pay?"
Zhou Yi only thought in that direction briefly before giving up on pursuing it any further.
Speculation without any evidence was meaningless. It was nothing but a waste of time and mental effort.
What Zhou Yi could do now was seize every opportunity and grow stronger without end, until he reached the level where he could touch the truth behind all of this.
If he stopped moving forward because of baseless conjecture, how would he be any different from someone who worried that the sky would fall?
The Sea of Stars stopped rotating. Just as before, a single star separated from the Sea of Stars and came before Zhou Yi.
World selected—Assassin movie world ("Wanted," "The Mechanic," "John Wick," "Mechanic: Resurrection," "John Wick: Chapter 2," "John Wick: Chapter 3") (Note: The order is the chronological order arranged for this story. If the movie does not explicitly state the time of an event, its release date will determine when the event occurred.) Please select—Transmigration Location Please select—New Profession
"Another series world, and an assassin series at that..." Zhou Yi muttered. "Will all future worlds be series worlds? Hmm... I should choose first."
"Select Transmigration Location: the alley closest to the residence of Wesley, the protagonist of Wanted, in his city." After speaking, Zhou Yi looked at the profession options.
"FBI officer, CIA agent..." Zhou Yi merely glanced at the first two options before ignoring them and looking at the third. "Templar... Knight?"
In less than a second, Zhou Yi directly chose the Templar Knight profession.
Location confirmed, new profession selected, transmigration commencing
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yi found himself in an alley.
"Mm..." Zhou Yi decisively shut off his sense of smell, then walked outside while examining the newly acquired Templar Knight profession panel.
He had possessed this sort of bodily control ever since reaching the limits of the human body.
The so-called limit meant perfect control, so Zhou Yi had no problem achieving such a thing.
Speaking of the movie Wanted, one had to properly introduce its protagonist—Wesley.
Could his early life really be described as merely unsatisfactory?
He lived in a ten-square-meter apartment built beside tram tracks, and every passing tram would wake him up. He also constantly argued with his girlfriend.
He even had a so-called best friend... who always came over to take care of his girlfriend whenever he was away, taking care of her in every possible way, deeply and thoroughly.
At work, he was harassed by his fat female supervisor. Because of his Assassin Bloodline, he often experienced symptoms resembling mental agitation, which were actually caused by Super Speed adrenaline secretion. He had to take tranquilizers every day to suppress it.
However, it was worth mentioning that despite taking suppressants and tranquilizers for so many years, Wesley's Assassin Bloodline was still powerful enough for him to contend with the top assassins from the very beginning.
It was clear just how extraordinarily gifted he was.
Of course, that had nothing to do with Zhou Yi. No matter how strong Wesley was, he was only a slightly stronger ordinary person.
Against Zhou Yi... it would take just one punch.
What Zhou Yi needed to do now was figure out exactly what this newly acquired profession was for!
He had not chosen the FBI or CIA because Zhou Yi felt that those professions overlapped too much with the IRS. Moreover, whether in terms of fun or the power they possessed in the real world, neither could compare to the IRS.
Since that was the case, why not choose a Templar Knight profession that looked interesting at first glance and was clearly opposed to assassins?
The moment he saw the Templar Knight profession panel, Zhou Yi fell silent.
Templar Knight · Beginner (0/10) (The Templars, this organization has existed for countless years. To safeguard the order of humanity, they have fought the bloodiest and most elite battles between humans against the Assassin Brotherhood. Every Templar Knight is an elite among elites, capable of rivaling an Assassin Master!) Title Bonuses: 1. Beginner Knight Bloodline (They say the Assassin Bloodline seems similar to our Knight Bloodline? Hmph, nonsense. Ours is obviously stronger!) 2. Beginner Stealth Skill (A knight should behave like a knight! If you cannot even sneak around, do you have the nerve to call yourself a knight?) 3. Beginner Backstab Skill (This is a righteous backstab!)
What kind of goddamn Templar Knight was this?!
This was a Templar assassin, wasn't it? It had to be, right??!
And what exactly was this profession even for?!
Couldn't special professions get a more professional introduction?
Could it explain properly how the hell it was supposed to make money?!
PS: If you do not like the Assassin world, you can read the later worlds instead. It has already been divided into volumes, so it will not affect your reading~ The Assassin world arc got a little messy~
As a knight, of course you had to learn righteous backstabbing and proper stealth! Oh, and I recommend the Assassin's Creed game series—it is really fun!
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