The Saintess and the Great Inventor

A month passed quickly. Li Ming, along with Raiden Ryoma and Raiden Yae, mostly just toured around. Unfortunately, they didn't have time to visit Schicksal's cyber cities. Li Ming felt quite regretful. When he learned that Tianqiong City hadn't yet become a cyber city like it would be in 2017, his interest waned considerably. He didn't forget his habit of writing a diary wherever he went, after all, he had promised Susanna.

Although it wasn't difficult for Uncle Su to bring Susanna out to play, this was a promise between girls!

In a month, Li Ming had basically mastered Inch Punch: Rock Break. He was excited for a long time when he first mastered this move.

However, Li Ming was truly helpless about the system upgrade. One hundred and eighty days. After returning from Mount Tai Xu that day, it was July 14th. By the time the system update was complete, it would likely be January 10th. Li Ming had no choice. Fortunately, things like the armor designs Vill-V helped him create, as well as the formulas, were all in the materials. Otherwise, Li Ming would have been in a real bind.

"Alright, Xiao Ming, your last injection has been arranged. Yae and I will head back first. We'll see each other again when we go to California."

"Bye-bye, Brother Li Ming!" Yae waved her hand and then boarded the plane with Raiden Ryoma.

"Okay!"

After Yae and Raiden Ryoma disappeared from sight, Li Ming finally lowered his hand. He had received his salary for the month. When he first got the card and saw the 150,000 in it, Li Ming finally came back to his senses.

150,000. He had worked for a year after graduation and had never seen so much money. He could only say, life with money is truly good.

Later, Li Ming kept using the mere six gift package coins to hypnotize himself, and only then did he fully recover. He could only say, sometimes, there's no comparison, there's no harm.

Li Ming glanced at the plane ticket in his hand. He had already prepared his ticket back to Qinghe City. This time, accompanying Raiden Ryoma and the others on their travels was mainly to visit historical sites. Places with famous scenic spots were generally less affected by Honkai.

However, as time passed, Li Ming's mind was no longer as muddled. A large amount of memories was gradually being sorted out. Although some fragments were still intermittent, or some parts were unclear, at least Li Ming had a basic understanding of the essential knowledge.

Schicksal was different from other regions, especially with the existence of Honkai. Its development path was more like dual cultivation of magic and martial arts, with technology and ancient martial arts developing together. After all, with legendary existences like Immortal Chi Yuan and the Xuanyuan Sword, coupled with methods to slay monsters, Schicksal had developed its own system to deal with Honkai.

As for monsters, the Schicksal headquarters' approach was not to conceal, nor was it necessary to conceal. Instead, it required people to strengthen themselves and be self-reliant. They also consistently organized fixed drills, turning Honkai disturbances into natural disasters, allowing for a more orderly response to Honkai outbreaks.

This was also why Xie Qingming, knowing he had been eroded by Honkai, said that Li Ming hadn't taken immediate measures to avoid disaster.

For Mantis and Honkai Beasts, Schicksal had different plans. Mantis were dangerous due to their infectivity and special abilities, while Honkai Beasts were dangerous due to their destructiveness and range.

Therefore, most people were not surprised when they encountered Honkai. Instead, they calmly dealt with it, and some even took a second look when calling the branch, identifying the situation.

What made Li Ming even more curious was his memories of his grandfather and his sparsely remembered parents. His grandfather was an elder in the village. If anything happened in the village, they basically had to call the old man over to settle the matter.

And his grandfather was clearly a martial artist. All the children in the village had to learn martial arts from his grandfather from a young age. It was said that his father was the senior disciple in the village back then, dashing and handsome. His mother was also a great beauty, but Li Ming felt it was a bit exaggerated. Although everyone said he looked like his mother, he didn't feel he was as handsome as Pan An, just clean-cut.

Later, he went to school and moved to the city, seeing his parents even less. Anyway, from Li Ming's memories, he had no impression of his parents.

His grandfather always told him to study when he was young, and he also had to practice martial arts from a young age. Then he became the senior disciple of his generation.

In the original body's memories, his grandfather was stubborn and disliked learning new things. If the original body hadn't insisted on convenience for contact and helped his family install a landline while working during school, and then taught his grandfather how to answer the phone.

What, you're talking about making phone calls?

Impossible. Grandpa only wrote letters to you. Making phone calls? Impossible. It's not that Grandpa couldn't learn, he just didn't want to. He'd rather learn to write, which he didn't want to do, than learn to use the phone.

Li Ming had confirmed this with Uncle Su. Two days after he arrived in Qinghe City, Su Qizhe received a letter from his grandfather.

He could only say that Grandpa was very good at messing with people's minds.

And Grandpa usually liked to hang up the phone first. The original body usually called Grandpa proactively and then waited for Grandpa to hang up.

Li Ming suddenly remembered that he seemed to have hung up Grandpa's call that day. It was over. He would be in trouble when he went back. When he returned for the New Year, he would definitely be beaten into a pulp.

Thinking of how the original body was beaten into a pulp by his grandfather, Li Ming shivered inwardly.

Being able to beat him into a pulp without any power to fight back, he could only say that Grandpa's strength was comparable to an A-rank, no, an S-rank Valkyrie.

Li Ming couldn't help but shiver. "Forget it, forget it. No need to think about it. When the cart reaches the mountain, there will be a road. Grandpa can't possibly kill his only grandson."

He comforted himself secretly, bought a bottle of iced coffee, and found a seat. His luggage had already been sent by air freight.

The mobile phones of that era didn't have wireless internet functions. Li Ming bought a book from a nearby bookstore and flipped through it casually. He suddenly thought that he was currently in the era when web novels were emerging. Perhaps he could try it too.

After thinking about it, he realized he didn't have that much time to write novels.

No, if he included the time he spent in the Elysian Realm, he actually had time. But then it probably wouldn't be a problem. However, that would have to wait until the system update was complete. But he wasn't short of money now, so he'd think about it later.

After all, it was a rare experience. If he transmigrated, even if he didn't become a literary plagiarist, he should at least be a miracle doctor or a tycoon.

"But miracle doctor novels don't seem to be very popular lately."

Li Ming rubbed his chin and pondered, "No, it's more like I was suffering from aesthetic fatigue when I transmigrated, so it wasn't popular at the time. But it's still a market with potential now."

Wait a minute, Li Ming suddenly stopped. What was he thinking about? He didn't even have anything yet. Shaking his head, Li Ming focused on the book in his hand.

This book was called "The Saintess and the Great Inventor." Looking at its classical and luxurious packaging, he thought it was some kind of masterpiece.

Who knew that when he opened the book, the novel's content was about a saintess who met a handsome great inventor. The great inventor was very intelligent and always created powerful weapons for the saintess to eliminate demons. Then the two traveled the world together.

As they traveled, they not only met female warriors who slew demons and monsters but also encountered priestesses who harbored a desire to protect.

The great inventor had separated from the saintess and followed the female warrior to cultivate, in order to become stronger and stay by the saintess's side. The saintess, on the other hand, helped the priestess protect the village.

While the great inventor was traveling with the female warrior, their connection reached the level of confidantes. However, while they were fighting demons and monsters, the female warrior was harmed by a villain. At that time, the female warrior was severely injured.

In the end, the great inventor still created a divine artifact capable of killing demons and monsters. But even after the great inventor brought the enemy's head to the female warrior, he couldn't find a way to heal her injuries after studying it for a long time. In the end, the great inventor had no choice but to fake the female warrior's death and seal her away in the place where they first met.

Then the great inventor embarked on a journey to find the saintess, only to discover that the village protected by the priestess had become devastated. Demons had turned all the villagers into puppets.

After reuniting with the saintess and the priestess, the great inventor, using what he had learned while traveling with the female warrior, found a way to solve the problem of the demons.

But in the end, it turned out that the demons were closely related to the priestess. To kill the demons, the priestess chose to slay them, perishing together with the demons.

The saintess tried to save the priestess but could only watch as the priestess dissipated in her arms. In the end, the saintess and the great inventor returned to how they were before, traveling the world together and slaying demons.

Even though it was the same as before, the two found that they could no longer go back to the past.

Although many things were missing, when they returned to their homeland, they encountered a once-in-a-century upheaval.

After they resolved the unrest, the ruler, for the sake of his country's stability, slandered the Saintess as a demon. The Saintess was unwilling to harm the common people, even though they were being deceived by the ruler; she refused to use her powers.

Ultimately, amidst the chaos, even though the Great Inventor wanted to rescue the Saintess, he had to obey her wishes. The Great Inventor finally decided to eliminate the despicable ruler.

However, the despicable ruler released the captured demons, causing them to plague the people once more. The Saintess then used her powers to try and eliminate the demons.

But without the Great Inventor's help, the Saintess couldn't defeat the demons at all. In the end, she had to sacrifice herself. Even though the people realized the truth, the Saintess still died at the hands of the demons.

When the Great Inventor killed the ruler, he was already too late. Even the method used to seal away the heroic maiden back then couldn't save the Saintess. By that time, the Great Inventor was already dead, leaving only a Rakshasa wandering with a coffin on his back.

After spending nearly an hour and a half finishing the book in his hands, Li Ming put down "The Saintess and the Great Inventor." He felt a sense of helplessness. He had initially thought it would be a sweet romance between a Saintess and a Great Inventor, but who knew it would turn out like this? Fine, fine, you want to write it like this, do you? Then I'll just have to go to the kitchen and get some knives.

"What kind of author is this? Even though it's well-written, how could this be published?" Li Ming stared at the book with a dark expression. He flipped through it and saw a familiar name in the author's section: "Author: Otto Apocalypse?"

"Lord Bishop, you truly have too much free time!" Li Ming could tell at a glance that the protagonist was Otto himself. Although most of the plot was altered, Li Ming could still recognize that the Saintess was Kallen, the heroic maiden was our Li Da Zhen Tou, and the witch was Yae Sakura.

Li Ming flipped through the book in his hands, from beginning to end. "However, this really does seem like something our Otto Bishopric would do."