Hearing Si Chen ask, "What does transmigration mean?" Li Tiezhu perked up at once.
"Master, this is seriously mysterious stuff!"
He scrambled up from the floor, sat cross-legged opposite Si Chen, and cleared his throat.
"Simply put, I, Li Tiezhu, wasn't originally from this world."
After saying that, he cautiously watched Si Chen's reaction.
He had expected surprise or confusion, but Si Chen merely nodded lightly, signaling for him to continue.
That reaction left Li Tiezhu, who had prepared a bellyful of explanations, somewhat bewildered.
He scratched his head and could only carry on himself.
"I was living perfectly well in my original world, just an ordinary working stiff, slacking off at work every day... uh, I mean, working hard."
Since the system had already been exposed, there was little point hiding his transmigration either.
"Then one day, I worked overtime until midnight, grumbled something at my computer screen, and got bound to this damned system."
"After that, I don't know what happened. I closed my eyes, opened them again, and ended up in this body."
He patted his chest. "This body's original owner was apparently called Li Lin, a poor kid who dug up wild greens in the mountains. He passed out from hunger and never woke up... then I arrived."
Mentioning the original owner's name, Li Tiezhu curled his lip. "Li Lin? That name sounds so limp. How could it possibly suit me?"
"I'm Li Tiezhu, and I don't change my name whether standing or sitting. Now that I'm here, from this day forward, there's only Li Tiezhu!"
He rambled on about that "home" of his...
A world without spiritual energy, but with all sorts of iron boxes running along the ground and flying through the sky, where everyone held a little glowing slab that let them talk