Seeking Thrills

"My name is Li Qing. I'm twenty-three years old, an ordinary citizen from Dragon Country."

"Male, interested in women. I neither smoke nor drink, have good looks and a good body, and no bad habits."

"My only flaw is that..."

"I was born without knowing what fear was. I always loved seeking thrills and enjoying a high-difficulty life."

"Oh."

"Are you wondering what a high-difficulty life is?"

"Let me give you an example:"

"When I was in high school, classes started at seven in the morning, and I would always sleep until 6:50 before waking up."

"Not because I was lazy. I just enjoyed that hot-blooded youthful feeling of racing against time."

"After graduating high school, I was still gaming at an internet café the day before the college entrance exam."

"Not because I loved playing around. I just wanted to memorize a little less and experience the ultimate romance of challenging the unknown."

"Then I went to college, and I was still the same:"

"Every semester, I barely listened in class. I wouldn't pick up a book to 'review' until two days before the exam."

"Hey, hey, hey..."

"Mister, don't look at me like that."

"This wasn't decadence. I was challenging life on its highest difficulty setting."

"After college, I still did as I pleased, constantly soaring against the wind at work, until my boss finally snapped and broke my wings."

"Everyone said I was courting death, but what they didn't know was:"

"Only a difficult life has meaning, and only a difficult mode brings rewards."

"After so many years of tempering myself through a high-difficulty life, I had long since become the kind of winner everyone envied, thanks to my unflappable mindset, unwavering will, fearless courage, and the few million yuan my dad casually gave me."

"Sigh..."

"I worked so hard to raise the difficulty, but life was still far too easy."

"I had no choice but to seek thrills in the virtual world."

"Take League of Legends, for example. If I didn't feed the enemy team two kills at the start, I couldn't even be bothered to play."

"This time was perfect:"

"One idiot instantly locked in Yasuo, and several teammates were already flaming each other during champion select. I didn't even need to feed to get a game where we were playing from behind."

"I was pretty happy at first, but who could have imagined—"

"I had only just picked my champion when a mysterious voice suddenly appeared in my mind—it told me:"

"You're about to transmigrate."

"You're going to the world of JOJO to play a real-life RPG based on League of Legends."

"Oh my god..."

"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?"

"The art style of that thing was so bizarre. I'd only watched two episodes of it on Bilibili!!"

"Which part of JOJO was that again? Oh, right, Part Five, Golden Wind."

"If you were going to make me play a game, couldn't you at least pick a setting I was interested in?"

"It wasn't that I disliked playing games. I just didn't like being forced to do things."

"But that thing called the 'system' wouldn't listen at all. Not only did it refuse to let me voice any objections, it directly pulled me off Earth and threw me into this unfamiliar manga world!"

"Five minutes ago, I was playing computer games in a residential complex in some inland city of Dragon Country."

"Five minutes later, I inexplicably appeared in this other world, inside a roadside inn room in who knew what part of town."

"This room was filthy as hell. It smelled like someone had just died in here."

"This smell... Tsk, tsk. I could barely breathe."

"Tell me, what kind of nonsense was this?"

"You made me come to another world to play a game, but you couldn't even give me a cleaner 'spawn point.'"

"Enough!!"

Amor impatiently interrupted the bald young man's rambling. Then he pointed at the man's shiny, gleaming scalp and shouted sternly:

"Baldy!"

"Who the hell are you?"

"Baldy?"

Li Qing's face instantly darkened:

"You bastard! Who are you calling baldy?!"

He rubbed his smooth, hairless head and said with a heartbroken look:

"I used to be a handsome young man with a full head of hair. But just now, right after I picked my champion..."

"I went bald."

"However..."

Li Qing patted the eight-pack abs that had suddenly appeared on his body after champion select, even though he had not possessed them minutes ago:

"I seemed to have gotten stronger too."

"Mister, don't be scared. I wasn't strong enough to be inhuman or anything."

He tried clenching his fists and casually showed off his freshly acquired biceps:

"I felt like I probably wasn't as strong as Captain America. Barely... maybe I counted as some kind of elite special forces soldier?"

"Shut up!"

Amor's face darkened, and he could not help losing his temper:

This bald bastard was simply too good at talking nonsense.

I really want to kill someone...

Calm down. I have to calm down.

The bald man had faced him and his four vicious-looking underlings alone. Not only had he shown no fear, he had even continued rambling like a madman.

Clearly, the other party had something to rely on.

So what was it?

Amor carefully adjusted his breathing, his eyes filled with deep wariness:

Just now, this bald man had suddenly appeared in this airtight room, as though he possessed some kind of teleportation ability.

Could that unbelievable sight have been an illusion?

No.

He and all four of his underlings had witnessed it. It could not have been an illusion.

Since it was not an illusion, then it was...

A Stand attack!

Amor looked solemn, still visibly shaken.

Even if he had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. He had worked in this superpowered criminal organization for over a decade, and he had been fortunate enough to witness Stand Users in action.

Ordinary people could not see Stands formed from spiritual energy, but they could see the bizarre and terrifying phenomena caused by Stand abilities.

Therefore, whenever something strange and inexplicable happened nearby, Amor instinctively assumed it was a legendary Stand attack.

"Are you a Stand User?"

Amor asked cautiously.

"A Stand User?"

Li Qing frowned and answered honestly:

"No, I'm not."

"Didn't I say so? I'm just an ordinary citizen from Dragon Country."

"Impossible!"

Faced with that "utterly insincere" answer, the hostility in Amor's eyes grew even stronger:

"Leaving aside how you appeared here just now..."

"How could an ordinary citizen from Dragon Country speak such authentic Italian?!"

"Nani?"

Li Qing was startled:

"Bro, what kind of nonsense are you talking about?"

"I'm speaking Italian right now?"

"That's right."

Amor frowned and answered seriously:

"Pure Italian, with a bit of our Sicilian local accent."

"Uh..."

Li Qing muttered to himself in shock:

"I thought foreigners all spoke Mandarin. So that 'system' automatically translated for me?"

"Strange. Truly strange."

"I never expected this game to come with Chinese localization..."

"Enough!"

Seeing Li Qing about to lapse back into his self-talking nonsense again, Amor finally could not take it anymore:

"Baldy, what the hell are you trying to say?!"

"Well..."

Li Qing scratched his head, and his expression suddenly turned serious:

"After saying so much, what I actually wanted to tell you was—"

"I really am just an ordinary citizen. I came here for no reason at all, and I truly don't mean any harm."

"So, big brother, you guys..."

Looking at the row of dark gun barrels before him, he shrugged helplessly:

"Could you stop pointing guns at me?"