Communication Between Different Worlds

After going through his memories, Li Ke had only one thought: he couldn't believe he hadn't cried like a little wimp.

If Naruto was a cesspit, then the world of this Li Ke, where Nurgle existed, was a cesspit within a cesspit. Compared to the world he lived in, even a cesspit would count as a pleasant place. Groups that people on Earth considered inhuman could even be called saints over there.

It was a world without anything good, a world without any hope. Everything in it was rotten, and everything was moving toward tragedy and corruption.

There was no loyalty, nothing good. Everything that seemed good was actually bait from the Four Chaos Gods, meant to make you fall further and suffer more.

Nurgle, the god of life, could grant you eternal life. But he loved everything on your body equally.

The parasites, microbes, and germs inside you—he would make them all flourish, turning you into a deformed, infected host.

Tzeentch, the god of wisdom, was always plotting betrayal and conspiracy. There was never a moment when you could feel at ease.

Slaanesh, the god of love, embodied desires that could never be satisfied, always pushing past the limits of self-restraint.

Khorne, the god of courage, pursued violence without end. For the sake of battle, he could kill even those by his side.

The most disgusting part was that these four gods were everywhere in the universe—or at least, everywhere in the part of the universe Li Ke had found himself in. Once they took an interest in you, their power would enter your body whether you wanted it to or not, and make you fall to corruption.

Worse, when they took an interest in you, everything you saw would be changed:

The beauty you saw was really a monster. The monster you killed was your family or friend. The medicine you prepared would inexplicably turn into poison. The battle lust rising inside you wasn't courage, but the prelude to madness...

"Dude... I'm sorry for your loss."

Naruto Li Ke didn't know what to say. In a world like that, the more you knew, the worse it was for you—especially once you learned the identities of the Four Chaos Gods. Then you were really done for.

You could say that unless your cheat could let you destroy a planet in an instant, you wouldn't survive in the Warhammer universe.

But just then, French Li Ke spoke up.

"No, his world might still have hope. It might not be the biggest cesspit. It could be Warhammer Fantasy, since there are other gods there—maybe it's even a D&D crossover with Warhammer... Of course, he's still in a lot of danger."

French Li Ke's reminder made Li Ke suddenly realize that Warhammer Li Ke's world had magic and other gods!

Although every Warhammer world was bleak, Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy were still quite different. At the very least, the Four Chaos Gods weren't equally powerful in both.

In Warhammer 40k, their technological might and raw strength far surpassed those of Warhammer Fantasy. The Four Chaos Gods could destroy a planet with ease. But in Warhammer Fantasy, other gods still existed—good gods who could even beat the Four Chaos Gods to a pulp.

Simply put, Warhammer Fantasy was a little more welcoming to transmigrators.

"But the problem is..."

Warhammer Li Ke spoke up himself.

"If I'm on some remote planet in Warhammer 40k, and the other gods are just the Four Chaos Gods playing different roles, while the so-called magic is also their power, then this talk of Warhammer Fantasy is just nonsense."

Everyone fell silent again. Gods from other worlds rarely had nothing better to do than create a pile of nonsense just to mess with people.

But if it was Warhammer, that was perfectly normal.

"We still have to hold on to hope. No matter how disgusting the Four Gods are, we still have to do our best to survive."

Apocalypse Li Ke wasn't particularly shaken. After more than ten years living through the apocalypse, he had grown used to people dying. He didn't even know how he'd managed to keep going himself. Warhammer Li Ke's world wasn't all that different from his.

So he firmly believed that as long as they kept moving forward, the road wouldn't end. Humanity could still rekindle the flames of civilization.

"That's right. We have to keep moving forward."

Warhammer Li Ke smiled as well. He'd made peace with it. The fact that he'd transmigrated to a world that was probably Warhammer was already settled. There was no point saying anything more about it.

All he could do was survive and keep moving forward.

Unfortunately, none of them knew much about Warhammer. Knowing the difference between Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k was already the limit of their knowledge.

So Type-Moon Li Ke spoke up.

"In that case, you'd better not use my talent. If you summon a Primarch or the Emperor, then fine. But if it's a Chaos faction, you'll be in trouble."

Warhammer Li Ke nodded. He hadn't planned to use it anyway. Type-Moon Li Ke's power was fine in a world without gods, but using it in a world with gods would just be asking for trouble.

For him, Daily Life Li Ke's talent was the most useful. French Li Ke's and Type-Moon Li Ke's talents, as well as Smiling Proud Li Ke's, might not be a good thing to have in his world.

"I know. But with Daily Life Li Ke's power, as long as the monsters aren't too outrageous, I should be able to escape with my uncle."

Warhammer Li Ke clenched his fist. They could only share talents and memories, but there was no denying that the superhuman physical abilities Daily Life Li Ke had shared were incredibly useful.

They gave him a solid minimum level of strength!

"I don't know if internal energy will work in your world... Never mind. Who knows what it'll turn into over there? You'll have to see for yourself."

Smiling Proud Li Ke didn't know what else to say. The two newest Li Kes really had it the worst.

"Hahaha, that's because I know so little about my world. It might even be D&D."

Warhammer Li Ke was pretty easygoing about it. After all, if his world was the Warhammer he knew, then his cheat might have been the work of the Four Chaos Gods too.

If you doubted everything, you wouldn't be able to do anything.

Most importantly, since he was basically a serf, he knew very little about his world. He only knew there were elves and magic, and that the setting was roughly that of a dark Middle Ages. So if you asked what kind of world it was, he really couldn't tell you.

After all, D&D and Warhammer had borrowed from each other, and World of Warcraft had copied plenty from both. In some campaigns, their gods even made guest appearances in each other's settings.

So his world might also be a D&D world with the Four Chaos Gods, where Nurgle was merely a minor god who could be beaten up by the mainstream gods. The god who beat him might even spread his hands and say, "You did your best, little god of the mortal world."

After all, anything was possible in the setting of a tabletop game.

In short, the most important thing was to do your best to survive and grow stronger.

"Yeah. Do our best to survive..."

Radiation Li Ke nodded, his eyes full of world-weary wisdom and poetic feeling.

The mood in Black Mist Space suddenly turned literary.

"Yeah. Right, French Li Ke, did you find the materials?"

Smiling Proud Li Ke gave an awkward cough, then looked over at French Li Ke, who nodded.

"I found them. The son of my mother's business partner—the one who makes paper straws—has a master's degree in historical economics. He knows quite a lot about history, so I asked my mother to order some more paper straws and put in the request. My mother's business partner said he'd have his son become the hardest-working ox in the field and help me find the materials. When I came in, the first batch had already arrived with the paper straws."

He came from the wealthiest family among them, so there was a natural air of rich-kid confidence in the way he spoke.

"That's good. Books really are hard to find."

Smiling Proud Li Ke breathed a sigh of relief. The Mount Hua Sect's library had enough books to help him pass the scholar examination, but the higher-level exams were another matter.

He was doing his best to find fellow students and the like, but unfortunately, until he passed the scholar examination, he couldn't leave the mountain to live elsewhere. And if Zuo Lengchan found out he was studying for the scholar examination, who knew what kind of underhanded tricks he'd try?

It was a real headache.

The jianghu of the Smiling Proud Wanderer world wasn't much bigger than the world of Naruto.

"Leave that to me. Beauxbatons isn't far away, so I'll take a look and bring them to you later."

French Li Ke nodded. Meanwhile, Daily Life Li Ke had just finished looking through Smiling Proud Li Ke's and French Li Ke's memories from the past while, and now he spoke up.

"By the way, you aren't going to Hogwarts... Doesn't that mean you can't get involved in the plot at all?"

He was a little disappointed. When he read Harry Potter fan fiction, he'd already found Hogwarts a bit boring, and he was nearly sick of Hermione Granger being the heroine.

Still, he had to admit that if he actually ended up in that world, going anywhere but Hogwarts would feel like missing out on something.

"I've thought about that too."

French Li Ke nodded.

"But think about it. If I'm French and say I want to study in Britain, won't everyone around me think I'm crazy? Going to a magic school in China would be more realistic."

Britain and France were always fighting or secretly sabotaging each other. That was true even in the ordinary world. Expecting their wizards to get along would be asking a bit much.

"And studying at Hogwarts really doesn't seem worth it... Do you think you could actually focus on your classes there? Going to Hogwarts just for Hermione would be pointless. If you really want to woo her, you can just do it during the Goblet of Fire."

French Li Ke twisted the knife again.

At that awful place, there was either infighting or some kind of accident every year from first to seventh year. Students even died. The already small student body was split into four factions that looked down on one another. Even putting together a study group meant figuring out how to get past the barriers between houses. It was ridiculous.

Studying seriously in a place like that was no easy feat. Besides, French Li Ke didn't think Voldemort was all that impressive. He might have been stronger than Grindelwald, but in terms of style and destructive power, they weren't even close.

He was still just a student. Learning magic came first. Voldemort wasn't worth wasting his time on.

"Uh..."

Daily Life Li Ke scratched his head. He really hadn't considered any of that.

Maybe his world was so peaceful that he was subtly different from the other Li Kes. At least, he didn't think things through as much as they did.

But French Li Ke had also skimmed through Daily Life Li Ke's memories from the past while, then spoke with a helpless look.

"But you really are... Are you seriously going for the superhuman, top-student image?"

Daily Life Li Ke looked embarrassed. When he came in this time, it happened to be sports day, so he'd relied on his talent and signed up for every event that didn't conflict with another.

The result was a clean sweep. He won every individual event he entered. And in team events, as long as there was physical contact—like basketball—he dominated the whole court with ease.

Not to mention how easy it was to score when he used Smiling Proud Li Ke's and Naruto Li Ke's throwing techniques to shoot baskets or kick balls.

He even used their strength-control techniques to win at marbles and the trading cards kids played with! He swept the board and became king of the kids!

"You used my hard-earned ninja skills to win kids' cards, and you didn't even leave them a single one! You really are a jerk..."

Naruto Li Ke covered his face in despair. He really wished he could trade places with Daily Life Li Ke! He envied having no use for his skills in a peaceful world!

"Ahahaha, my world is just a little too peaceful, and those cards really are fun. Oh, right, Smiling Proud, my world doesn't have the Eight-Legged Essay and all that, but I did bring along corn and potatoes... I looked up some information online and found that the potatoes and corn from my world can apparently improve soil fertility too. There's no need to worry about detoxifying them. At least, the other farmers don't use fertilizers or pesticides when they grow them, and there's no talk of detoxifying them."

Daily Life Li Ke was a little embarrassed and scratched his head, looking utterly innocent.

But he pulled a few potatoes and several ears of corn out of his clothes.

"Also, if you plant the potatoes and corn together, they keep pests away. The corn stalks are sweeter than sugarcane, and the information says they have more sugar than sugar beets. The roots aren't edible, though, because they absorb radiation and pollutants from nearby... Oh, right! The corn leaves can also be fermented into tobacco. Apparently it tastes pretty good, and a lot of people like it."

When he finished speaking, all the Li Kes in the space fell silent. Apocalypse Li Ke, sitting nearby, was completely stunned.

"Thanks, but I think... you should give those to Apocalypse Li Ke before giving them to me. Also, what's going on with your world's technology? How can it be this outrageous? And how come you didn't mention this earlier?"

Smiling Proud Li Ke nearly lost his composure, because he realized that Daily Life Li Ke really was a bit of a natural airhead!

With stuff like that, he could become emperor!