Li Ming, You're Quite Extraordinary!

Although they had seen his face, as long as he took them out, it would still be a perfect assassination!

Running a hand through his hair, Li Ming looked around. Although the flames were starting to weaken, they probably could not be extinguished anytime soon.

After looking around for directions, he finally found where the passage underground had originally been. Thankfully, this place was sturdy enough. Li Ming had lost over half his health bar from the blast, yet this place was completely unharmed; only the authentication passage outside had been damaged.

Perfect. It saved Li Ming the trouble of looking everywhere for an access card.

Squatting on the ground, Li Ming felt around. After throwing two punches, he got nowhere, and the recoil even made his hand ache. He immediately changed tactics, raising his hand and unleashing Inch Punch: Thunderbolt. Three energy shots blasted into the ground, their sound drowned out by the surrounding flames.

In the end, they blasted a hole nearly two or three meters wide into the ground.

Looking closer, he discovered that the steel plate leading underground was more than thirty centimeters thick. No wonder punching it had made his fist hurt from the recoil.

He searched around under the cover of night. Everything nearby had already collapsed; if this place had not been sturdy enough, the underground level would probably have caved in as well. He casually grabbed a still-burning material board and tossed it down. It reached the bottom in five or six seconds, so the drop could not have been too deep.

He then jumped down, picked up the material board for light, and searched around for quite a while before finding the light switch. When he tried turning it on, the surroundings immediately became brightly lit. Sure enough, a place like this had its own separate power supply.

After looking around, he realized this was probably the organization's underground storage room. There were all kinds of armor and firearms. He did not touch any of the weapons and even reached out to wipe his fingerprints off the switch.

After searching for a while, he threw away the material board in his hand. A burning object was no good in a place like this. It would be troublesome if something went wrong.

After observing the place for a long time, Li Ming finally found a special area. But after entering, he found nothing except some documents. He silently spat in annoyance and hurriedly left.

After returning to the surface, he used Inch Strength Extreme: Thunderbolt to blast a path through the wall of fire. Outside was nothing but ruins. After locating the direction he had come from, Li Ming flipped a few times and left the area.

From afar, he saw the arriving guard units already bringing people to put out the fire, so he slipped away as quickly as if his feet had been greased.

After the fire was extinguished, Welt Yang stood silently in midair, watching tonight's farce come to an end with an unreadable expression.

After running and climbing his way back to the apartment, he dismissed Candlelight Armor: First Light and took a shower in the bathroom. Only then did he see the bruises beneath his clothes, especially across his back and abdomen. Yet his indifferent expression showed no sign that anything was wrong.

He collapsed onto the bed and slept until dawn the next day.

"Ahhh, that feels good!" After stretching, Li Ming immediately sensed something was wrong. "Huh? My waist—my waist—my waist is breaking!"

He grimaced in pain. His entire body felt like it had been tossed into a washing machine and spun around, covered in bruises from head to toe. Just looking at them hurt.

He cautiously touched them a couple of times before realizing they were real.

"Did someone sack me last night?" But when he got up and checked the door lock, there was nothing wrong with it. The windows were locked tightly too.

With no other choice, Li Ming went to the nearby hospital for an examination. It was the same doctor again. The doctor first sent him for X-rays, then looked at the films before examining Li Ming's body.

"Oh my God!" The doctor pushed up his glasses and carefully touched the bruise on Li Ming's left waist twice, then felt several bruises nearby. "Could these not be ordinary bruises? Could they be contagious?"

"No, I think they're ordinary bruises. Of course they hurt when you touch them."

Li Ming stared at him with dead fish eyes, but the doctor looked like he had found treasure. "No, we cannot rule out the possibility of infection. This is a new field of study!"

By the time Li Ming came out, his wallet had shrunk a little more. Looking at his emaciated wallet and the medicine in his hands, he felt like crying but had no tears.

"Quack doctor. A complete quack!"

In the end, Li Ming angrily left while glaring at the hospital's silhouette.

What quack doctor? He was just here to fleece people!

Cursing was one thing, but he still had to apply the medicine when he got home.

However, after Li Ming returned, applied the medicine, and opened the system, he found something very different: another red dot had appeared in the armor section.

When he opened it, he discovered that the armor could now be repaired.

"So the armor can be repaired. I thought another update was about to happen." Li Ming wiped nonexistent sweat from his forehead. But after thinking about it, he suddenly felt something was off. "Armor repair!"

Li Ming slapped himself several times before believing it was real. He stared blankly at the repair materials section, where the required Fluid Alloy now showed that the conditions had been met. Only after opening it did he realize he had somehow gained quite a few materials.

"Detected Gemini Soul Crystal*60. Automatically collected Gemini Soul Crystal*60."

"Detected Soul Fragment*240. Automatically collected Soul Fragment*240."

"Detected Fluid Alloy*60. Automatically collected Fluid Alloy*60."

"Detected Fluid Alloy Block*6. Automatically collected Fluid Alloy Block*6."

"Detected Micro Reactor*6. Automatically collected Micro Reactor*6."

The messages had popped up at three in the morning.

"Three o'clock... I remember I was asleep then?"

Li Ming thought it over, a chill creeping into his heart. Still, he suppressed his thoughts and used the inexplicably acquired materials to repair the armor first.

When he opened the armor interface, it was still the familiar sight:

Li Ming

Ability: Candlelight Armor: First Light

Star Rank: A, Level: 20, Physical

Weapon: Moon God's Protection

Stigmata: None

Skill: Level 60

That was roughly what the character panel looked like. However, the confidential profile displayed the following: no affiliated organization, male, birthplace Shenzhou, birthday February 8, height 181 cm, weight 65 kg.

Armor Story

The candlelight left behind by the Heroes fifty thousand years ago had finally bloomed into its first light in the New Era!

Armor Story (??)

His childhood stories were shrouded in shadow. What the warrior had never stopped searching for was merely the radiance a child longed for.

Armor Story (Requires Favorability ???)

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Current Favorability ??

Li Ming wants to know more about you.

Armor Damage: 70% (Repair requires Fluid Alloy*30 and/or Fluid Alloy Block*10)

After spending thirty portions of Fluid Alloy to repair the armor, Candlelight Armor finally looked complete. However, the repair would take an hour, and during that time Li Ming could not summon Candlelight Armor: First Light.

"So where did all this stuff come from? What happened after I fell asleep last night?" Li Ming turned on the television. If he had truly shown symptoms of losing control, there would definitely have been a huge commotion.

But after watching for a while, aside from yesterday's news still being replayed, there were no major events. Li Ming propped his chin on his right hand as he watched TV. He even picked up and flipped through newspapers he usually never paid attention to, but he could not find any big news.

"Could this really be my belated beginner's gift pack?"

Beep beep beep.

His mobile phone rang. Before it could even announce the number, Li Ming decisively answered. He learned that his examination report was ready and that he needed to pick it up.

Suppressing the panic in his heart, Li Ming only brought his student ID and hurried out. This call had come at the right time. If something really was wrong with him, the only people who could deal with it were Anti-Entropy and Schicksal.

He had yet to encounter anyone from Schicksal, so he could only seek out Anti-Entropy. "I'll go to the academy first and see whether Professor Welt is there. If he isn't, I'll go to the hospital. That hospital definitely has a way to contact Anti-Entropy. If all else fails, I can only call Uncle Ryoma in the Far East!"

However, when Li Ming rushed all the way to the academy, he found that Welt was not in the office. On his way out, he asked a female teacher with short blue hair and learned that Welt Yang was not there today.

After asking further, he learned that Welt Yang had taken leave for a medical examination yesterday and would not be around for the next two days.

After bidding the female teacher farewell, the panicked Li Ming quickly took the train toward St. Doctor's Hospital.

The female teacher watched the stiff-looking, hurried boy from the window and sighed. "A strange existence. A suspected Herrscher? I hope the Sovereign can handle it properly!"

After sitting down, she straightened the nameplate on her desk. A name was carved into the wooden plaque in golden-bronze paint: Ritsell Albert Einstein.

Li Ming squeezed out of the train amid a chorus of curses. He could not even be bothered to wait for the elevator and raced up the emergency stairs, heading straight for the office.

But when Li Ming organized his words and pushed open the door, the chair with its back to him turned around. Sitting there was Welt Yang.

Li Ming's pupils contracted. Welt Yang had actually been waiting for him here. Right, his medical examination report must have come out yesterday, so naturally they would keep an eye on a patient like him who had been eroded by Honkai Energy.

He tugged at the corner of his mouth and forced a smile. "Professor Welt, you're a doctor too? Well... what a coincidence!"

But Welt moved a hand, and blue streams of light gathered. A virtual mechanical hand shut the door and even locked it, preventing anyone from entering. Then he rested his chin on his hands and looked at Li Ming with a half-smile. "Li Ming, you're quite extraordinary!"

Li Ming's pupils contracted, and his heart skipped a beat. "Well, what could possibly be extraordinary about me? Hahaha..."

"Armor unlike the combat suits of Schicksal and Anti-Entropy, Shenzhou martial arts beyond ordinary people's capabilities—no, no, what is even stranger is that you were clearly eroded by Honkai Energy, yet you showed no signs of discomfort whatsoever. I'm very curious."

The two faced each other. As Li Ming stared into Welt Yang's eyes and listened to each sentence leave his mouth, his heart sank deeper and deeper.

I'm doomed! It looks like Uncle Welt Yang Transcendence has some bad intentions!