Plus his extraordinarily brilliant scientific mind.
Not making good use of it would be the greatest waste.
With only the system and its various missions, Li Xing worried he might fall behind later on.
But with all kinds of powerful scientific devices at his disposal, he had nothing to worry about.
Take the Nano Battle Armor in his hands, for instance.
If Li Xing wore it and fought in tandem with it, he could reach a power level of a thousand. That was nothing to him.
"Stop! Who are you?"
Li Xing glanced at the soldiers around him, all standing guard with guns at the ready.
Then he strode toward the tower.
If he remembered correctly, this place was called Muscle Tower, and the general stationed there was a man named White.
Rat-a-tat-tat~
The Red Ribbon Army's soldiers weren't exactly good people.
Seeing that the black-clad monster ignored their orders, they immediately opened fire on him.
Ting~
Clang~
The bullets struck his armor, sending sparks flying before vanishing without a trace.
The material of Li Xing's armor was beyond anything these ordinary people could match.
Seeing this, Li Xing couldn't help laughing to himself.
"This was supposed to be a world of fighting, but I've turned it into a sci-fi world."
His gaze sharpened as he looked at the massive tower with no entrance.
He threw a punch, and a flash of light burst forth.
BOOM!
Bricks and stones flew everywhere as the ground rumbled and shook.
CRASH!
The tower couldn't withstand Li Xing's immense strength. It collapsed, leaving a gaping hole.
"Tch, so much for there being no entrance.
"A famous great man once said, 'There was no road in the world to begin with. When enough people walk a path, it becomes a road.'"
Naturally, he wasn't going to follow someone else's rules.
"My rules are the only rules that matter."
After shouting, Li Xing took a step forward and unleashed his strength. His body shot upward, smashing through the space between the first and second floors.
He plowed straight through, wiping out everyone in his path.
If he hadn't been after Android 8 and that giant robot, he wouldn't have bothered coming here.
As for Dr. Gero—
Li Xing scanned the area with Wisdom, but couldn't find a trace of him.
He didn't care. He blocked the two of them from sending out a signal, found the Dragon Balls, then grabbed them and soared into the sky.
"Sun Wukong, I solved a little problem for you. You ought to thank me, hehe."
Three days later.
Dressed in Black Armor,
Li Xing appeared alone at the Red Ribbon Army's headquarters and slaughtered his way through the place.
"Bastard! Who the hell are you?"
The black deputy officer Black and the one-eyed, short General Red stared at Li Xing in terror.
This guy had charged into their headquarters alone, taken out all their men, destroyed every trap, and come straight to the heart of their base.
Li Xing didn't even bother with them. He turned and strode toward the control room.
He wanted to find out whether the Red Ribbon Army had any advanced technology.
He wasn't Bulma.
He couldn't just slap his forehead and invent a Time Machine.
Without a solid foundation in science, he had no way of inventing something as incredible as a Time Machine.
Actually, even with enough knowledge, without sufficient intelligence, he might not have been able to invent one.
That sort of thing couldn't be explained by science at all.
The only possible explanation was quantum tunneling.
But if you changed the past, wouldn't the present timeline collapse?
And if the present timeline collapsed, how could you go back and change the past?
It was a paradox. Aside from parallel timelines, Li Xing's little brain couldn't come up with an answer.
Fortunately, he didn't need one.
Whether it was science or cultivation, the point was to make him stronger.
To keep him from becoming a tiny, helpless speck.
As long as it made him stronger, Li Xing didn't care what it was.
He walked up to the computer.
"Wisdom, collect the information."
"Understood, Engineer."
Soon, Wisdom replied that the transfer of all the information was complete.
Li Xing really wanted to complain.
How much data could an old computer like this even hold?
Why had it taken Wisdom, a quantum computer equipped with artificial intelligence, so long to absorb and read everything?
"I suggest you behave yourselves.
"Those things you're holding might as well be fire pokers. They're just there to reassure you. They can't do a thing to me."
Without even looking at the two men, Li Xing followed Wisdom's directions and found the remaining Dragon Balls in General Red's drawer.
"Good. All six are together now."
Li Xing turned and walked toward the window.
Perhaps his warning had worked. Or perhaps the two of them were scared stiff. Either way, they didn't dare resist.
Li Xing simply smashed through the window, shot into the sky, and vanished from their sight.
Li Xing began thinking about what to do next.
The story had changed.
At this point in the story, General Red shouldn't have gotten his hands on the Dragon Balls yet.
But Li Xing had found two of them in his office drawer.
That meant the first real enemy Sun Wukong faced early on—the assassin Mercenary Tao—might not show up.
Li Xing's gaze grew distant.
He hesitated for less than a second before deciding to seek out Sun Wukong himself.
Waiting around wasn't his style.
Just like when he'd fled right after killing Yamcha in the ring.
When the odds were in his favor, Li Xing never agonized or hesitated. He struck decisively and accomplished what he'd set out to do.
The next day.
Dressed in Black Armor, Li Xing blocked Sun Wukong's path.
"Who are you?"
Sun Wukong assumed a guarded fighting stance and watched Li Xing cautiously.
At this point in time, Sun Wukong had already clashed with the Red Ribbon Army.
Seeing him act like this, Sun Wukong's first thought was that the Red Ribbon Army had come after him.
Naturally, he went on guard at once.
Li Xing silently stared at Sun Wukong.
"Give me the Dragon Balls. You live. Otherwise, you die."
"So you really are with the Red Ribbon Army.
"I'm telling you, I'd rather die than hand over the ones Grandpa gave me."
Li Xing remained unmoved.
He lunged forward, leaving a multitude of afterimages, and appeared right in front of Sun Wukong.
"Damn it! I won't lose to you!"
THUD!
Li Xing's punch shot toward Sun Wukong's face. Sun Wukong barely managed to block it, then put some distance between them with several backflips.
Li Xing wasn't surprised.
Sun Wukong ought to have that kind of reaction speed.
This time, he hadn't used his full strength.
After more than half a month of training and recovery, Li Xing's power level had reached 400.
Wearing Black Armor, he was using only a power level of 100 this time.
That way, he could learn more by fighting Sun Wukong.
"Hey, you're so strong. Why are you working for the Red Ribbon Army?"
Li Xing was surprised.
Sun Wukong had actually said something like that.
Those words weren't supposed to come from someone as pure-hearted as Sun Wukong.
Still, Li Xing found it amusing.
For now, he'd crippled forty percent of the Red Ribbon Army's strength, which should have snuffed out their desire to steal the Dragon Balls.
Even if they still wanted them, they'd make better preparations.
He just didn't know whether he or Sun Wukong would end up facing Dr. Gero this time.
But Dr. Gero wasn't capable of doing anything to him.
How could the man possibly cause him trouble?
"Interesting!"
"What?"
Li Xing said nothing. He stared at Sun Wukong with burning eyes.
It had been so long—far too long—since he'd had a truly satisfying, exhilarating fight.
Sun Wukong was just the opponent for it.
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