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Chapter 3

The 99 Series' Cheat Ability

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Night fell. The restless Shazo tossed and turned in bed for a long time before finally falling asleep.

But when Shazo opened his eyes, he found that he was not lying in bed. Instead, he was sitting in a high-backed chair, with an enormous bronze long table before him.

There were so many high-backed chairs on either side of the bronze long table that Shazo could not count them all, but only five were occupied.

Two of the five, like him, had confusion in their eyes as they rapidly looked around.

Using a ninja's intelligence analysis methods, Shazo immediately determined that these two were newcomers like him.

The other two looked at him and the two other newcomers with delighted expressions.

Shazo judged that they were veterans familiar with this place.

The last person was translucent.

Like a ghost.

Shazo: ...

Just as Shazo was about to ask a question, the white man in an American police uniform spoke first. "Judging by the forehead protector you're wearing, you're Shazo from Konoha in the Naruto World, right?"

There was no question in his words. It was an absolute statement of certainty.

The White Police Officer pointed at himself and introduced himself. "I'm Shazo Dawson from the Marvel World."

A flash of insight struck Naruto Shazo, and he blurted out, "99?"

Marvel World's Shazo nodded. "Yes."

The good news came so suddenly that Naruto Shazo's head buzzed, leaving him temporarily speechless.

The newcomer in a Tattered Japanese Bathrobe had his mouth wide open and was equally unable to say anything.

The newcomer in a Sailor Uniform was so excited that his words came out incoherently. "But we're not called X Ke, and in our previous lives, we weren't doctors at Chongqing Specialized Hospital."

The young man in the white shirt smiled gently. "Mm, we understand your excitement. We all went through that same shock."

"I suggest you place your hands on the bronze table before you and receive the memories and power we share."

After seeing Naruto Shazo stretch out his hand, the young Shazo hesitated, not daring to put his own hand down.

He reassured him, "Don't worry. Although we'll share memories, life-threatening privacy won't be included."

Naruto Shazo asked, "Are you sure?"

Although Konoha had yet to develop mobile phones or the internet, privately circulated little picture books and novels still existed.

There were even works more popular than Jiraiya's Passionate Trilogy: Passionate Paradise, Passionate Violence, and Passionate Tactics.

It had to be emphasized that Naruto Shazo did not write those novels.

Absolutely not.

The young man nodded firmly. "I'm sure."

He added, "My world has the internet."

Naruto Shazo let out a breath and finally made up his mind, placing his hand on the bronze long table.

First, five portions of souls and spiritual power surged into him. The sudden feeling of fullness made Shazo extremely uncomfortable, and he let out an uncontrollable burp.

Then five sets of memories followed one after another, transmitted in the order in which their cheat abilities had awakened.

The first halves of all five memories were completely identical, all events from before they had transmigrated.

The memories after transmigration differed from one another.

The first to awaken his cheat ability was the Shazo who had transmigrated to the Cultivation World.

But Shazo never got the chance to cultivate. The moment he arrived, he inexplicably parasitized a Fairy's Sea of Consciousness.

According to the remaining memory fragments, his previous body had been an Outer Heavenly Demon.

After invading the Sea of Consciousness of a Fairy at the Nascent Soul Stage, he was ruthlessly crushed by her Nascent Soul, which was as powerful as a deity, and died completely.

Before the Fairy could digest the Heavenly Demon's body, Shazo took possession of it.

Thus, Shazo became a bizarre Heavenly Demon. He lived in the Fairy's Sea of Consciousness, yet her Nascent Soul regarded him as part of it.

He accompanied the Fairy as she broke through realm after realm, gradually advancing into a God Transformation Great Cultivator and the strongest cultivator in her Sect.

After awakening his cheat ability, Demon Xiazhuo's soul essence doubled, granting him the ability to move freely within the Sea of Consciousness.

At present, Shazo was working hard to figure out how to turn the tables and seize control.

As the old saying went: if a woman was three years older, you could hold a gold brick.

So if she was three hundred years older, one could ascend to immortality on the spot. Was he wrong for giving it a try?

Awakening his cheat ability at the same time as Demon Xiazhuo was Shazo Dawson, who had transmigrated to the Marvel Universe.

He had transmigrated into a white man from Texas and left his hometown to make a living in New York.

After unremitting effort, Shazo Dawson became a New York Police officer and lived the daily patrolman life of getting shot at every day.

After awakening his cheat ability, Officer Shazo Dawson's soul combat power skyrocketed. He soon became a famous Hero Police Officer in New York, even making Laundry Powder Dealer deliberately avoid his patrol routes.

But Officer Shazo could not relax. Tony Stark, who appeared in headline news every few days, constantly reminded him that the 2008 Superhero Wave Crisis was approaching.

Superheroes always appeared alongside supervillains, and supervillains loved using police officers to pad their records. How could he not worry?

Anxiety tormented Officer Shazo, so he could only learn from Tony Stark and frantically vent his energy every night.

What an enviable life...

Pah, he despised him!

The third to awaken his cheat ability was the Shazo who had transmigrated to the Interstellar Era.

He had the best background of all the Shazos. As a collateral descendant of a political family in the Galactic Federation, Shazo had risen to the lofty position of Planetary Governor at the young age of twenty-four.

A Planetary Governor was a local emperor. Shazo's life was even more exciting than that of the British Empire's Viceroy of India.

To describe it with idioms: immense power and high status, a life of glittering luxury, surrounded by beauties, admired by all, free to do whatever he pleased.

Shazo thought he had been outrageous enough, yet during the year-end review, the planet under his administration turned out to be the fastest-developing planet in the Federation.

The planetary economy was booming, industrial output had doubled, commercial tax revenue had grown by over fifty percent, and the shipping lanes were packed with migrants moving in.

This made him profoundly realize that the Galactic Federation was one enormous ramshackle operation. So long as he did not deliberately sabotage things, his peers made him look like an outstanding example.

He only enjoyed that wonderful life for three years before his family suffered a crushing defeat in a political struggle.

As the price that had to be paid for defeat, he could no longer remain Planetary Governor.

Dismissal would have been one thing, but Shazo had not expected his family to label him as a direct descendant in order to protect the real direct-line heirs, sending him to the front lines against the Imperial Army in place of his cousin who had made a mistake.

He even became a Planetary Drop Commando with an average survival period of six months.

While being escorted to the border, Shazo awakened his cheat ability. His surging physical capabilities and soul activated the superpower serum he had been injected with in his youth, awakening the psychic ability of telekinesis.

At present, relying on his powerful body and superpowers, Shazo slaughtered enemies across the battlefield and became the idol of every planetary commando in the war zone.

The fourth to awaken his cheat ability was the Shazo who had transmigrated to the Pirate World.

He came from an impoverished island in the East Blue. Hunger forced him to go to sea to survive, and he boarded a merchant ship as a sailor.

But merchant ships in the Pirate World were never simple.

When they encountered real pirate ships, merchant ships had to flee. If they could not escape, they could only fight desperately, because pirates would kill them even if they did not resist.

But if they encountered other merchant ships, the captain did not mind playing pirate himself.

In short, Shazo lived a life of fighting and killing. After gradually adapting to such a routine, he forged a strong physique.

At present, Shazo had been promoted to Boatswain, and both his income and status were fairly good.

The fifth to awaken his cheat ability was the Shazo who had transmigrated to the Bleach World.

His life was the simplest. For a full hundred years, he had failed to accumulate enough spiritual pressure to become a Death God, and he still wandered Soul Society.

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