First Herrscher?!!

"Hehe, finally here. The physical edition of the Honkai Impact 3rd commemorative album I bought off Pinduoduo for 9.9 yuan. If I weren't worried about being unable to pay off Huabei, I'd have asked some big shot to make a more reliable one. Sigh, I just hope it isn't too crappy."

After setting the box before him, Li Ming froze the moment he picked up the utility knife. He hurriedly put it down and ran to the bathroom.

"Right, I have to wash my face before unboxing. Otherwise, I'll be ridiculously unlucky. No, no."

After splashing his face twice, to the point that it felt a little stiff, Li Ming finally decided to unbox it. The utility knife sliced through the tape with a silky smooth sensation, giving him a premonition much like when he pulled Finality.

"Although it took me a hundred pulls to get her, I think this is a good thing."

He had just set a flag with his words, but Li Ming had forgotten that some things died the moment they saw the light. Like crystals—they were still crystals sitting there, but once you tossed them into a banner, they became nothing.

Sure enough, the moment he opened it, he saw the half-hearted packaging. Still, to be fair, the seller had some conscience. The pale yellow maple leaves and white cover were rather exquisite, with a star emblem embedded on the front.

As for what was inside, Li Ming did not want to investigate further. He was genuinely afraid that he would explode if he took one more look.

His phone's cooling system buzzed noisily, irritating him slightly. It felt as if his phone was about to explode. But it wasn't even a Samsung, was it?

"Captain on the bridge."

The moment he boarded the Hyperion, he saw that grown-up cabbage. Before he could do anything, though, he noticed the big cabbage's expression change, exactly like back when the touch system still existed. Sure enough, he was kicked off the bridge.

Just as he was wondering when the touch system would return, his phone exploded—along with the charging cable. It exploded while charging, crispy on the outside and tender inside. The neighbor's kids were drooling, you know?

"So that's how I got here. How about it, Ai Yi? We've known each other for so long, so why don't you let me go? My rent is due in a few days, and I haven't renewed my Monthly Card yet."

With long, straight twin green ponytails and a slender, lovely figure, she sat swinging on a ring. Her gentle eyes were filled with confusion. "Hmm, was the impact just now too strong? The Captain's memories seem a little off. But the Captain loses intelligence every time there's an impact, so is this an old problem acting up again?"

"Is it possible that I can hear you?" Li Ming stared at her with dead fish eyes.

"Mm, that boring retort is just the same as ever... Fine, my dear Captain, may the wind be at your back on your new journey. Goodbye!"

Before he could say anything, Ai Yi kicked him away. It was like being kicked off the bridge again, except this only plunged him into an even deeper nightmare.

"Hua's training was way too brutal on the body. I came out aching all over, seriously..." Li Ming rubbed his shoulder, feeling soreness in his waist and back.

After coming out of the special training in the Elysian Realm, Li Ming could no longer remember clearly when he had arrived. Anyway, after Ai Yi kicked him off the bridge, he woke up and found himself already inside the Elysian Realm.

He had not met Elysia yet, but that was normal. After all, he was not some cute girl. When he first entered the Elysian Realm, Li Ming had thought he had transmigrated again.

If Ai Yi had not appeared and told him he was going through the beginner tutorial, he would have gladly stayed in the Elysian Realm for the rest of his life.

Hua dragged him off to practice fist techniques, Sakura dragged him off to practice swordsmanship, Vill-V dragged him off to test new inventions...

I can't stay in this Elysian Realm for even one more second.

Still, when he was tired, he could slurp noodles with Old Ancestor, play games and cosplay with that big boy Cosmo, or visit Griseo while she painted when he had nothing to do. That was one of life's rare pleasures.

But why had he come out now?

Because he—ran out of stamina.

After staying in the Elysian Realm for a month and using up all the beginner-period stamina potions and soda, he had been forcibly kicked out.

What kind of Elysian Realm consumed stamina?!

One-star review. I'm telling you, no more than two stars.

Complaining was one thing, but he still had to come out. It would not give him crystal benefits just because he cursed at it a few more times, and crystals really were not enough.

If he wanted to top up, he still had to come out and do it.

So the first thing Li Ming needed to do after arriving here was: make money.

There was nothing shameful about making money.

The exchange rate between gift-package currency and the currency here was 1:5000. That was only the rate in Shenzhou; he had not tried anywhere else. Forget going abroad—whether he could even stay alive was still a question.

"Life isn't easy, so the Captain has to make a living somehow."

Li Ming stretched and looked around. "Is this an airport? It doesn't look much different from airports in the future, and some places even seem more advanced."

After he took a good look around, a urea sack suddenly appeared beside his hand, as though it had materialized out of thin air.

He walked to the roadside, wondering how he was supposed to leave. Having transmigrated here, he still did not know whether his body or only his soul had crossed over. But his pockets were as empty as they had ever been. Come on, he had clearly been able to afford a plane ticket.

However, after opening his urea sack and taking a look, it was true: he had no money.

Even after transmigrating, I'm still poor.

The city he was in seemed very peaceful. It was the height of summer, and aside from some places being a little behind compared to before he transmigrated, there was not much difference. If Ai Yi had not really kicked him off the Hyperion, he would not have believed that he had transmigrated. Mm, there were even Schicksal advertisements at the airport. Nice.

Li Ming found a road and prepared to get going. He was unfamiliar with the place, so he still needed to find someone familiar.

Suddenly, his head throbbed as a massive flood of memories rushed in, as though his head had been dunked in water and violently swished around several times.

Stuff the troubles into my ears, shake the troubles out... Damn, my ears are pregnant.

His eyes rolled back. Not good, he seemed to see Truck-kun. Wait, where did Truck-kun come from? Could it be that he was going to transmigrate again?

Fortunately, the truck driver's driving skills were good. With both hands firmly gripping the wheel, he easily swerved around him. Still, Li Ming had to curse him out, or he would not be able to vent the frustration in his heart.

"Are you blind? Watch where you're walking!"

But the truck was too loud, so Li Ming did not hear a thing clearly. He only heard the driver tell him to watch where he was going. Li Ming could only scratch his head awkwardly. "You're actually such a nice person!"

Truck driver: Elderly man, subway, phone.

Mm, wait. Is that me?

The flood of memories directly overloaded his pig brain. He collapsed onto the roadside, looking completely useless, with that urea sack beside him.

"Such a young man, begging here already. How pitiful."

Don't talk nonsense. I'm not. That's not it.

"Yeah, yeah. Look at those pants—they're practically in tatters."

This is fashion. Dopamine dressing. I'll take them off when I get back.

As the surrounding people chatted, money began landing in front of Li Ming one piece after another. Though his pig brain was overloaded, Li Ming could still say thank you, and he still refused their money.

A true man would not eat food given in contempt—unless room and board were included.

Seeing that Li Ming did not need money, the crowd gradually thinned out. Still, a few kindhearted people gave him two bottles of water.

Mm, who am I, where am I—oh, they're talking about me. Fine, I'll accept everyone's offerings. This is so touching.

Just as his pig brain finally rebooted, an incomparably cute little girl came out of the airport eating ice cream. Seeing the crowd here, she came over to join the excitement.

She's coming, she's coming. Wow, across dimensions—a little girl even smaller than Griseo!

The more Li Ming watched, the more he drooled.

When the little girl approached, the bodyguards around her drove away the people surrounding Li Ming. Although some grumbled, they learned that Li Ming was not a beggar and gradually dispersed. Once they saw the bodyguards around the little girl, they scattered even faster.

The little girl stood before him, with a purple bob haircut. It seemed like there was a Fat Tiger in her eyes, but what Li Ming cared about more was the man behind her. Purple hair, a stern face, and a tall, straight figure. The man's exquisite clothes clearly cost a fortune, but what caught Li Ming's attention even more was the briefcase he carried, with the ME Company logo on it.

Behind them were bodyguards carrying their luggage.

"Papa, papa, there's a hentai!" The little girl's eyes brimmed with tears, making her look utterly pitiable.

The man walked over to the girl. "Yae, this big brother is just very hungry. Would you be willing to give him an ice cream?"

Is ice cream on an empty stomach really a good idea?

The little girl's tears stopped instantly. She nodded, turned around, and went back into the airport. She really did bring Li Ming an ice cream, along with one for her father.

"Thank you!" But what Li Ming blurted out was Japanese, startling even himself.

Raiden Ryoma looked at the young man before him a few more times. He seemed educated, but why did he not find a job instead of falling this low?

Still, he said nothing. It was someone else's choice, and he had no right to interfere.

The bodyguards escorted Raiden Ryoma and Yae toward the car that had come to pick them up, but that no longer had anything to do with Li Ming.

With an ice cream in one hand, he rummaged through his pockets. His ID and other documents had already been prepared. Born in Shenzhou, an unemployed drifter. This year, since he had stayed at home every day and done nothing, his grandfather had kicked him out, saying he had found him a friend of a relative and sent him to help out.

At least he was a university graduate. Even if his credentials were only passable and he had no achievements to speak of, he was still a young laborer in his twenties.

"But did no one consider that I don't have a phone? How am I supposed to contact them?" Li Ming grumbled to himself, not knowing what he was supposed to say.

Suddenly, a light-blue-haired man passed by Li Ming. What caught Li Ming's attention was the man's slicked-back hair—and the distorted air around him.

Such dense Honkai Energy?!!!

Li Ming reached out to stop the man, but the man's gaze was vacant and his complexion stiff and withered. Even after Li Ming blocked him, he continued walking forward, pushing against Li Ming. If Li Ming had not lowered into a firm horse stance, he would not have been able to stop him.

"Capture Raiden Yae, capture Raiden Yae..."

Abruptly, the man turned toward Li Ming. "An obstruction has appeared. Eliminate target, eliminate target! Triple Gravity released."

A purple force field nearly ten meters wide suddenly appeared around the man. The powerful field even spread toward Raiden Ryoma in the distance.

The moment the man appeared, Raiden Ryoma noticed the dense Honkai Energy.

Seeing the situation here, his calm expression turned solemn. His first reaction was to quickly take Yae and run, but the man had applied too much force to this area. Under the effects of gravity, the young Yae could not move at all. If she had not tempered her body through sword practice since childhood, she would not have been able to endure it.

Raiden Ryoma looked calm, but his expression was incredibly ugly.

Under the erosion of the dense Honkai Energy, the bodyguards were already showing signs of turning into zombies. Forget taking Raiden Ryoma and Yae away—they were struggling even to move, much less deal with these monsters. Yet strangely, Raiden Ryoma and Raiden Yae were completely unaffected.

"Cunxin Fist Technique, White Tiger Listens to the Wind, Inch Strength Extreme: Thunderbolt!"

Li Ming opened with his strongest move. Violent energy gathered in his fist as he swung it down. Although he smashed the man's arm apart, the gathering Honkai Energy only became more intense. Li Ming could even feel his body being eroded by Honkai Energy; his hand had started to stiffen. And that blow had felt as though he had struck steel—hard as hell.

He swiftly kicked his urea sack far away to keep it from suffering a disaster for no reason. Though he despised it, that urea sack was still his entire worldly fortune.

Pale purple lines spread across his hand. If Li Ming had not released energy to suppress the Honkai Energy, both hands would likely have been completely eroded. Then he would have turned into a zombie.

If Kevin and the others found out, they would laugh themselves to death, and this book would have to be renamed: "I Turned Into a Zombie Girl Right After Transmigrating."

Even the book's tags would need to be changed from beginning to end.

"With this level of Honkai Energy, who are you? Don't tell me you're a Quasi-Herrscher!"

The immense pressure made it difficult for Li Ming to move. He shouted sharply, but the man seemed not to hear him, merely repeating that he had to capture Raiden Yae.

Raiden Ryoma seemed to realize something and exclaimed in shock, "The authority to control gravity—this is the First Herrscher!"

"Ha, don't joke around. Isn't the First Herrscher my Uncle Yang? How could it be this blue-haired guy! This..."

Li Ming had been smiling at first, but his voice abruptly caught. No, wait. Boss Yang's clone had blue hair too!

Li Ming's expression turned grave. Back in the manga, even Fu Hua had been defeated by him, right? Mm, without armor... Come to think of it, it wasn't impossible for Boss Fu to crush someone's skull barehanded!

Maybe his pig brain had just been rinsed out, but Li Ming's thoughts were wildly erratic now, always jumping from a normal train of thought onto a completely different track.