Chapter 2: Handing the Douluo World Over to the Country!
Even a roof tile has its day to turn things around, and the east wind may yet turn south!
Huo Si had a bold idea.
Spirit Hall wouldn't accept him, Yu Xiaogang mocked him, and he was too useless to do anything about it. So what choice did he have?
Find an organization. Find the country. Hand the entire Douluo World over to the country!
In the modern world, the country was the most powerful organization.
It had the most qualified professionals and the sharpest minds. Fourteen hundred million people could help him come up with a solution and solve any problem for him.
At the thought, Huo Si's gaze gradually firmed.
He turned to look around. The crowd filming him with their phones and the steamed bun shop owner, whose face had gone pale with fear, were all staring at him.
There wasn't the slightest trace of embarrassment or panic on Huo Si's face.
Compared with his other self in another world, back then everyone had looked down on him, and Yu Xiaogang had mocked and berated him. What did these strange, amused looks matter?
"Boss!"
Whoosh!
The shop owner wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and hurried over, looking at Huo Si with a strange, frightened expression.
"This young fellow looks strong and healthy. How did he end up nearly starving to death and begging for food?"
"And what was he just saying? I couldn't understand a word of it."
"Something about walking all the way to the top, and becoming Zhao Gao, too. Could he be crazy?"
"Young man, that'll be fifty-two yuan. Mobile payment or cash?"
But Huo Si's next words left the shop owner rooted to the spot.
"Call the police. I don't have any money."
The crowd filming and watching the show erupted in an uproar.
"It's not that bad, little brother. It's only a few dozen yuan. If you really can't pay, just call someone to bring you the money. If that won't work, I can give you a dishwashing job..."
Before the shop owner could finish, Huo Si raised a hand to stop him.
A job in the modern world wasn't what Huo Si wanted. Money wasn't what he wanted, and neither was power.
All he wanted was strength—strength that would make everyone afraid to look down on him, mock him, or curse him!
"I want the heavens of another world to never again obscure my eyes!"
Seeing Huo Si about to launch into another bold, cringey declaration—in short, have another episode—the shop owner didn't dare waste a moment. Trembling, he pulled his phone from his pocket and dialed the number engraved in every Dragon Kingdom citizen's bones.
"Hello? Is this the police?"
"Yes, there's an incident. A madman came into my steamed bun shop. He keeps talking about another world and becoming Zhao Gao, and something about the heavens not obscuring his eyes... He probably escaped from some mental hospital. Hurry over!"
Ten minutes later, a police car came screaming up.
A dashing female police officer stepped out, her face full of helplessness.
Behind her was a seasoned local officer.
The instant Huo Si saw the familiar uniform, he sprang up from his chair.
"I—I want to hand over the Douluo Plane!"
Pfft!
"Hahaha!"
"He really is a lunatic who escaped from a mental hospital!"
"What plane? Isn't that a term you only see in novels?"
"Online novels are a menace. There's another one gone mad!"
The crowd around him, phones raised as they recorded, burst into laughter.
Huo Si couldn't be bothered with them.
They didn't matter—not even the police mattered. What mattered was getting the organization's higher-ups, the country's leaders, to notice him, and even take him seriously.
During those ten minutes, Huo Si had already figured out how to earn their trust.
After hearing Huo Si's declaration, Chu Youwei shook her head helplessly.
The seasoned local officer briskly came forward with a registration book and pen, ready to take down his information.
"Name, ID card, and which mental hospital did you escape from?"
"Who's your guardian?"
They thought he was mentally ill?
Huo Si wasn't worried at all. He had already thought of a way to handle this.
In those ten minutes, he had more or less figured out where he was.
"Are you sure you want me to say it here?"
Huo Si glanced around at the crowd filming and photographing the supposed lunatic.
The local officer's expressionless face made his stance clear.
Huo Si didn't hesitate. He abruptly raised his right hand.
A thumb-sized snake was trembling on it.
Huo Si abruptly circulated his Soul Power. In an instant, light covered his entire body, and a faint glow enveloped the thumb-sized snake in his hand.
The next moment, the little snake in Huo Si's hand abruptly vanished.
The crowd fell into deathly silence. Then, dazzling flashes flickered nonstop, and countless people cried out in shock.
"Half a month ago, I transmigrated to another world. I've now returned through a door. I want to meet the country's top leaders. I want to hand the Douluo World over to the country!"
The moment she heard those words and saw that the blue light covering Huo Si still hadn't faded, Chu Youwei's pupils contracted violently.
"I just graduated from the police academy, and you're telling me this world has superpowers?"
Chu Youwei's worldview crumbled. As soon as she came to her senses, she looked at the crowd around them and realized they had a problem on their hands.
"Get in the car, now!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Chu Youwei grabbed Huo Si's hand and shoved him into the back seat of the police car. Then she looked at the local officer.
Turning around, Chu Youwei faced the still-dumbfounded crowd and immediately warned them.
"Under the Public Order Law, I hope you won't spread the video or cause panic. Otherwise, the cyber police will find you!"
The police car immediately sped away.
The crowd erupted in an instant, and the steamed bun shop owner stared in terror.
"Transmigration, another world, planes... Holy crap, he really is a transmigrator!"
"Damn, it's been a hundred years since the founding of the country. Spiritual energy has finally revived! Does that mean we can cultivate too?!"
"Shocking! A transmigrator returns to his motherland and chooses to hand over an otherworldly plane to the country!"
Though Chu Youwei had warned them, some troublemakers still uploaded the video to the internet at the first opportunity.
For a time, all kinds of comments spread across the internet, and trending topics shot to the top of the search lists. But half an hour later, the video and all the related trending topics had been taken down across the entire internet.
Inside the police car
Chu Youwei ended the phone call and looked at Huo Si in the rearview mirror, her expression grave.
At the H City Branch
"Youwei, you've only just started working and haven't been on the front lines for long. If you mishandle something like this and cause public panic, you could be punished."
Even now, Old He still thought Huo Si was just mentally ill—perhaps a lunatic with a few minor sleight-of-hand tricks.
"This is already beyond what our branch can handle. Even the H Province headquarters can't deal with it."
Chu Youwei walked out of the interrogation room with the written statement in hand, her expression grave as she pulled out her phone.
"Wait. Do you know how much trouble this could cause our branch if everything he said is fake?"
Looking at the written statement in her hands, full of terms that should only appear in novels, Chu Youwei clenched her teeth.
"But I also know that after someone transmigrated to another world, went hungry for half a month, and endured mockery, humiliation, and abuse, the first thing he did after returning was seek out an organization—a country."
"That's trust in the organization. That's trust in the country!"
"The organization won't abandon a single compatriot, and the Dragon Kingdom won't abandon a single one of its people!"
Chu Youwei resolutely picked up her phone and called her father.
Southern Military Region
"What did you say? The man who caused a huge stir across the entire south, and whose video had to be taken down using the military's dedicated internet line—that was someone you found?"
"And now he wants to hand the Douluo World he discovered over to the country?"
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