Li Xing didn't mind playing the villain.
But if being the villain brought him little in return, he wasn't going to be happy about it.
He'd been in the Dragon Ball World for two days, and he'd already had his fill of suffering.
If he got even less out of it, who'd put up with that?
If his Choice System was useless too, he'd have to give up and coast.
There was no point in working hard at training or anything like that.
Unless he was willing to claim the Saiyan bloodline, no matter how hard he worked, he couldn't compete with having a cheat.
Gurgle!
His stomach let out a deafening rumble.
Li Xing's expression changed.
He'd been in the Dragon Ball World for at least a day. He didn't know what had happened while he was unconscious, but since waking up, he hadn't had a drop to drink.
Just then, the system's voice rang in his mind.
"Listen to yourself. Does that even make sense?
You just said someone else has a God-Level Choice System. What kind of system am I?"
Li Xing was dumbfounded.
Even the system was cowering. What could he do?
Unlike others who could take their systems down with them, if he died, his system would simply get a new host. He wasn't about to kill himself.
He wasn't all that motivated to train, either. He could only count on the system to help him scrape by.
If it gave him little, so be it. At least it was better than nothing.
Thinking this over, Li Xing quietly accepted the fact that his system was a weakling and headed out of the village.
Since he was leaving, he might as well do it with his head held high.
It was only one day without food. Compared with what he'd endured in his previous life, this was nothing.
Besides—
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, the ground at the village entrance began to shake, and dust billowed through the air.
A colossal figure loomed in the swirling dust.
"Have you made up your minds? Bring out the girl you're offering to this great king."
Li Xing curled his lip.
He knew Oolong was all bluster. His transformations had no real power.
If Puar had transformed, he would've had to be careful and think things through.
But Oolong?
There was no need to worry at all.
In another situation, Li Xing certainly wouldn't have been so reckless.
Right now, he was just an ordinary person, with practically no strength at all.
The Dragon Ball World was full of dangers. Between its technology, Androids, and martial artists, running into just one of them could mean certain death.
But when it came to Oolong, a mere bluffer, he had nothing to fear.
Judging by the monster's show of bluster, this was a sure thing.
With a shovel over his shoulder, Li Xing strolled toward the hulking monster without a care.
As the only person moving, Li Xing naturally caught King Oolong's attention the moment he stepped forward.
"Bastard! How dare you move? Are you looking down on this great king?"
Li Xing tilted his head back and stared at the fearsome monster with disdain.
"Yes."
Oolong's whole body trembled. His huge, round eyes fixed on Li Xing.
"What did you say?"
Li Xing picked at his ear.
"I said I look down on you. So what?"
Li Xing was incredibly arrogant toward Oolong.
The giant monster Oolong had transformed into involuntarily took a step back and raised the weapon in his hand.
"Bastard! Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"
Li Xing smiled as he looked at Oolong.
"Come on. Want to fight?"
As he spoke, the shovel slid off his shoulder and clattered to the ground with a sharp metallic clang that rang across the fields.
"You—you, how can you do that?"
Li Xing's casual display of strength terrified Oolong. Stammering, he seemed to be accusing Li Xing of not playing by the rules.
Li Xing took a deep breath.
The choice his system had given him was to leave immediately and mind his own business.
Just now, Li Xing had started entertaining a few bad ideas.
The system had spoken up to stop him.
He could choose not to complete the mission, but he absolutely couldn't do anything that went against his choice.
Thinking of that, Li Xing wanted to curse the damn system.
It was weak as hell, and it still imposed all sorts of restrictions.
What a pain.
If it wanted to help, it should help properly. If it didn't, it shouldn't have shown up at all.
In his previous life, he'd been one of the people at the bottom of the social ladder, but at least he hadn't had much to worry about when it came to staying alive.
According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, he'd been on the path to pursuing happiness.
But here he was in the Dragon Ball World, and his only goal was to stay alive.
Things just kept getting worse. Wasn't that right?
While Li Xing kept the Oolong monster at bay, the villagers noticed that something was happening outside.
Oolong had made the ground shake with his first move, but nothing had happened for a while, and the villagers were curious.
Some of the more curious villagers, whose families had already offered up girls, secretly cracked open doors and windows to peer outside.
They desperately hoped Li Xing could defeat King Oolong and save their village.
Naturally, things wouldn't go the way they hoped.
Li Xing's goal was to leave the village and earn five energy points.
"Well? Are we fighting or not? If we are, hurry up. If not, get out of my way. I'm leaving the village."
Li Xing bluntly threatened Oolong without giving him any face.
Oolong gritted his teeth in anger, but didn't dare make a move.
He knew his own limits.
He was all fake—a silver spear with a wax head, impressive to look at but useless in practice.
The man before him had a steady gaze and a composed stance. At a glance, he seemed like a powerful fighter.
Oolong didn't dare risk offending someone like that.
Just as he was caught between a rock and a hard place, inspiration struck. His voice took on a hint of delight.
"You're not from this village?"
The villagers' hearts tightened when they heard this, and then they began to mourn for Li Xing.
In their eyes, King Oolong could transform into countless things, his strength was unfathomable, and on top of that, he was a vicious, cruel monster.
Anyone who angered him was bound to suffer.
But as soon as the thought crossed their minds, King Oolong stepped aside and let Li Xing leave.
Li Xing had already expected this. He said nothing and strode away.
Oolong certainly wouldn't fight him.
He only relied on his transformations to fool and frighten this village.
Once he heard Li Xing was an outsider, he was even less likely to risk a fight.
Ignoring the disappointed villagers, Li Xing simply left.
The villagers were fools. If a pretty young woman had come to look after Li Xing, perhaps he would've softened and helped them defeat Oolong.
On a nearby mountain, two people crouched behind the trees, sweating profusely as they lowered their binoculars.
The dog-headed man trembled all over.
"Xiao Wu, this—"
"Ashu, we—we couldn't find it. We couldn't find the Dragon Ball."
"Ah, right, right. We couldn't find it. Let's go back and see King Pilaf. He'll surely forgive us, right?"
"Right, definitely. Maybe the device malfunctioned and didn't scan properly, so we couldn't find it."
After they finished speaking, the two exchanged a lingering, fearful glance.
Their eyes both showed the same thought: That was terrifying.
That monster was so huge, and that guy wasn't afraid of him at all.
There was no way they could afford to provoke someone like that.
"Xiao Wu, we'll definitely be punished if we go back now. How about—"
"How about what?"
"Let's go!"
The two were in perfect agreement. They quietly backed away from the mountaintop, opened a Hoi-Poi Capsule, took out a plane, and flew off.
Li Xing walked out of the village with his hands in his pockets.
"Mission complete. Reward: five energy points."
When the system spoke, Li Xing felt warmth spread through his whole body. It was as if his cells had been charged up, and he was bursting with energy.
Li Xing felt like he could punch a cow to death.
Just as he was about to check his stats, the roar of a plane sounded in the distance.
Li Xing frowned and looked over.
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