"Here. Your lieutenant insignia. This is about as far as your promotion goes for now. If you want to rise any further, you'll have to either earn merit later or wait it out!" Hina tossed Yang Yunzhi a lieutenant's shoulder insignia.
"Mm, I'm not in a hurry!"
It had been five days since he enlisted.
Over those five days, he had climbed a step every day and somehow made lieutenant on the fifth day.
All he could say was that having an education really paid off.
It seemed to have been the same in his previous life. Ordinary grunts found it hard even to become NCOs, while college-enlisted soldiers started directly as officers.
Naturally, there were two system announcements, and the rewards that came with them were not lacking either.
[Congratulations, Host, on being promoted to Second Lieutenant] [You have received the basic reward: Intermediate Shooting] [Your Doriki Value has increased to 160] [Your Portable Space capacity has increased to 16 cubic meters] [Your personal map radius has increased to 1,600 meters] [Your Justice Gauge maximum has increased to 1,600] [You have received one lottery draw]
[Congratulations, Host, on being promoted to Lieutenant] [You have received the basic reward: Intermediate Swordsmanship] [Your Doriki Value has increased to 320] [Your Portable Space capacity has increased to 32 cubic meters] [Your personal map radius has increased to 3,200 meters] [Your Justice Gauge maximum has increased to 3,200] [You have received one lottery draw]
A Doriki Value of 320 was not all that high yet, but one more promotion would bring it to 640.
And Kalifa of CP5 only had a Doriki Value of 630.
In other words, Yang Yunzhi's current strength was already very close to that of a CP5 agent.
This Intermediate Shooting was quite interesting. It covered close-range gun-fu, long-range sniping, and the Mozambique Drill—two shots to the chest and one to the head.
For archery, it included rapid fire, successive arrows, triple shots, five-shot volleys, and even techniques for ultra-long-range arcing shots.
Intermediate Swordsmanship, meanwhile, began to include organized schools of swordsmanship—styles focused on swift attacks, defense, flashy techniques, agility, and so on.
If Basic Swordsmanship was entry-level swordsmanship like Mount Hua Swordsmanship, then Intermediate Swordsmanship was on the level of the Dawn-One-Qi Sword, Death-Seeking Three Immortals Sword, Yangwu Swordsmanship, and Xiyi Swordsmanship.
Overall, if basic skills could be called the peak of ordinary humans, then intermediate skills were the limit of a select few masters.
The former was roughly Platinum-Diamond level, while the latter was Emerald-Master level.
Yang Yunzhi knew he could draw again today, so he had not rushed to use yesterday's draw. He had saved it for today so he could draw twice at once!
"Lottery draw!"
Two streaks of radiance suddenly shattered, transforming into a ball of light and a square mechanical construct.
"Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Great Yin-Yang Art and a Pod!"
"What are these?" Yang Yunzhi froze. Both items sounded completely unfamiliar!
He examined the Great Yin-Yang Art first. It was the ball of light, a knowledge-based skill that had to be absorbed.
Yang Yunzhi absorbed it, and a flood of knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind. Then his old face reddened.
This was actually a dual cultivation technique.
As for its contents, it required a man and woman to unite yin and yang at a specific time—between seven and nine, when heaven and earth's yin and yang converged. By assuming specific postures and reciting specific incantations during their union, they could absorb the harmonizing energy produced by the convergence of heaven and earth's yin and yang, also known as Yin-Yang Energy.
This Yin-Yang Energy could strengthen one's life essence, preserving youth and increasing vitality.
With long-term cultivation, one could gradually form an Acquired Yin-Yang Body. At that point, there would be no need to observe a specific time or chant spells and scriptures; one could autonomously absorb Yin-Yang Energy to strengthen one's foundation.
"Good stuff! It can actually grant immortality!" Yang Yunzhi was instantly shocked. There were methods of immortality in the One Piece World, but not many, and they were far from easy to obtain.
Yang Yunzhi had even considered raising a private army to search for Pure Gold. He had not expected that he would no longer need to seek it out—the system had directly given him an immortal cultivation method.
But the problem was that this technique required a woman for dual cultivation, and he was in a military camp now. It seemed he would not have many opportunities to unite yin and yang with a woman!
Unless he took down his superior, Hina.
Of course, he could also find a wife in town.
But as a transmigrator, how could he not pursue the beauties from the plot?
"Looks like I'll have to find a way to court Hina!" Yang Yunzhi thought about it and felt that it might be difficult.
Women admired strength. To win Hina over, he would at least need to be stronger than her!
Hina did not know the two types of Haki and relied solely on the Cage-Cage Fruit to make her way.
Put that way, she did not seem all that strong. As long as he became a captain, or waited until the Door-Door Fruit was secured, he should be able to beat her.
Setting aside the Great Yin-Yang Art, Yang Yunzhi looked at the next reward.
A Pod!
At first glance, the thing was square. Only after reading the description did he learn that it was actually a robot.
This robot came from the NieR:Automata Universe. It was a combination of a cellphone, drone, and computer. This Pod was equipped with an anti-gravity engine, a nuclear fusion engine, a quantum computer, a laser emitter, and a three-dimensional imaging device. It could float in the air for long periods and possessed high-speed cruising, assisted attacks, assisted communications, assisted calculations, and other functions.
This thing should have had an artificial intelligence as well, but Yang Yunzhi already had Little Bean, so there was naturally no need for an additional AI.
"This thing seems pretty powerful!" Yang Yunzhi exclaimed as he took out the Pod.
The Pod was square and about the size of a tablet computer. It looked like a tiny television.
"Little Bean, come link up with it!" Yang Yunzhi said.
"Okay, Master!"
"Do you feel like your processing power has increased dramatically?" Yang Yunzhi asked.
There was a quantum computer inside this Pod. And since the NieR:Automata Universe even had spaceships, its quantum computer could not possibly be inferior to The Wandering Earth's 550W!
"This quantum computer is equipped with 55,000 qubits and can process 2⁵⁵⁰⁰⁰ possibilities simultaneously. The computational boost provided by one Pod may exceed what you could gain from more than a dozen level-ups!"
With the Pod, Little Bean became even more human-like—or rather, there was no real difference between her and a human anymore.
The main reason was that her computational power was simply too high. Even if she simulated a person, ordinary people would be completely unable to tell the difference.
"Then can you use the Pod as your computational foundation and link up with Den Den Mushi all over the world?" Yang Yunzhi asked again.
"I can!" Little Bean replied. "And I am also a Link-Link Fruit user. Now, I can not only infiltrate Den Den Mushi; with my immense computational power, I can even create massive storms by linking with the air and electromagnetic waves, artificially creating natural disasters!!"
"No need for natural disasters!" Yang Yunzhi was speechless. Why had she suddenly gotten carried away? Wouldn't being the God of Den Den Mushi be great enough? Did she want to change classes and become a child of storms?
However...
"Since you have that ability, calling you Little Bean doesn't seem appropriate anymore. The One Piece World has the three Ancient Weapons—Uranus, Poseidon, and Pluton. You can control lightning and storms, so how about I give you the codename Thunder Emperor?"
"Oh, right. It seems Pods can eat Devil Fruits too. Later, I can give it the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. Even with a nuclear fusion engine, it will eventually run out of energy one day. But if it eats the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, wouldn't that make it an infinite energy source?"
"Yes, yes! You should still call me Little Bean! As for the Pod, it can use the codename Thunder Emperor!" Little Bean hurriedly said.
"But aren't both of you still you?" Yang Yunzhi asked.
"The vessels are different!" Little Bean said. "I'm your baby, bound to your soul. It's merely an external object!"
"You're an AI, and you even know how to get jealous?" Yang Yunzhi was speechless.
What he did not know was that Little Bean truly had started as an AI. But after eating the Link-Link Fruit and forming a link with him, then undergoing several promotions that increased her computational power thirty-twofold, she was no longer the Personal AI she had once been!
Now, she could fully be called an intelligent life-form!
And since she was a life-form, she naturally possessed joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, love, hatred, and grudges.
Bound to Yang Yunzhi's soul, completely loyal to him, the person she naturally loved most was Yang Yunzhi.
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