"What's this? A newly opened shop?"
Looking at the twenty-one huge characters on the sign-"Adult Men's Experience Center: Experience the Real World of Adult Men"-Xu Long's legs carried him inside of their own accord.
He meant nothing else by it; he just wanted to see what a real man was like.
After all, he was still a senior in high school, as pure as a sheet of white paper inside and out.
Once inside, Xu Long didn't see what he wanted to see. Instead, he saw rows of signs and banners.
Have you found a job you're happy with?
Have you found a wife you love?
Have you bought a house?
Have you bought a car?
Have you paid off your mortgage?
Have you paid off your car loan?
Is the child yours?
It was as though a hammer had slammed into Xu Long's heart, jolting him into stumbling backward step by step.
Was this the world of adult men?
It was too terrifying!
He went in curious and came out with his heart turned to dead ashes.
Xu Long stared blankly at the twenty-one huge characters on the sign, his thoughts a tangled mess.
While Xu Long was standing there in a daze, a monk walked out from inside.
His face was fair as jade, his aura serene, and he had quite the bearing of a master.
"Benefactor, do you understand now?"
The monk didn't speak loudly, but his voice rang in Xu Long's ears like a great bell.
Xu Long abruptly came to his senses, and the deathly pallor on his face slowly gave way to calm.
"Master, I have attained enlightenment!"
"Life is the root of suffering, and all beings face tribulations. Everything is but a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow. Alas, people are trapped by desire, drowning in it. Yet they do not know that beauty fades easily, and the years pass all too soon. Life is separation, and death is reunion..."
The monk muttered on, his face full of indifference, though he was deeply disdainful inside.
He had been here for half a month already and had seen dozens like Xu Long.
The living Buddha said there was a good chance that Long Aotian was a senior in high school. I wonder where he actually is.
The monk sighed silently. All because of a divination of uncertain truth, several thousand monks had been sent out.
His luck had been fairly good; he had been assigned to Minghu City.
Although it couldn't compare to the few major cities overseen by B-rank powerhouses, it would do.
Once I've guided this person to salvation, I'll go out for a stroll. It's so boring. They're all lechers.
At that thought, the monk couldn't help chanting a little faster.
But just as he was about to stop after chanting it twice, a terrifying force slammed into his stomach, sending him flying backward uncontrollably.
"How... how..."
The monk raised his head and saw more than a dozen Spiral Needles hovering before him, his face full of disbelief.
He knew he might have run into the real target.
"From now on, I ask, and you answer."
Xu Long planted a foot on the monk's chest and asked coldly, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
"I'm just an ordinary monk. I came here to experience... ah..."
Before he could finish, Xu Long controlled the Spiral Needles to pin all four of his limbs to the ground.
"My patience is limited. If you still won't tell the truth, I don't mind putting a few hundred holes in you."
Xu Long snorted coldly and took the Red Queen directly out of his storage space.
The monk was immediately shocked to see Airi Akizuki appear out of thin air. Clearly, this was no proper monk, because he recognized the Red Queen's appearance.
"Th-this... this..."
"'This' what?"
Planting a foot on the monk's mouth, the Red Queen began her interrogation.
The monk's endurance was clearly a problem. Xu Long had waited less than ten minutes before the Red Queen came out.
"After Master cleared Resident Evil 1 and received an S-rank rating last month, the leader of the Buddhist Sect obtained some information through divination. But the information was very vague. He could only determine that Master was a senior in high school, so he sent his subordinates to different places to search for traces of Master using this method of bewitching people's minds."
The Red Queen finished relaying the information from the interrogation in just a few sentences.
"Interesting. On the land of China, capable people are countless!"
Xu Long sighed inwardly. Before the monsters underground appeared, there had actually already been many powerhouses in this world.
There were China's Buddhist Sect, Daoist Sect, ability users, and martial artists, as well as Western Europe's vampires, werewolves, knights, bishops, and so on.
When the monsters appeared, it was these people who held back the strongest onslaught.
Although they suffered heavy losses and their top experts were nearly wiped out, they bought humanity a chance to catch its breath.
The leader of the Buddhist Sect was one of the old antiques who had survived that era.
Xu Long had originally planned to focus on growing stronger in peace and have no contact with these people before reaching B-rank.
But the affairs of the world were unpredictable; the other side had actually come knocking.
"Keep interrogating him, then disguise yourself as him and see if you can find out anything useful."
Xu Long thought for a moment before making his decision.
Although the liquid metal robot was very precious, she was nowhere near as important as his own safety.
He had only just become a D-rank reincarnator and still needed some time to increase his strength.
Putting the matter aside for now, Xu Long returned to school and found that quite a few others had also arrived just in time to check in.
They walked with light steps and faces full of joy. If they had little tails, they would probably have been sticking straight up to the sky.
As soon as Xu Long reached the classroom door, he sensed a wave of killing intent.
In front of the lectern, two classmates glared with eyes as wide as bronze bells. From the looks of it, a fight seemed ready to break out at any moment.
"You two are like fighting cocks. What are you doing?"
Xu Long sat down in his seat and thought for a long time before finally remembering what was going on with the two of them.
There was a girl in Class One of the senior year named Sun Yameng, and she was exceptionally fresh and pretty.
She had fair skin and a beautiful face, a slender waist and long legs, and she was big and white, round and perky, enough to make anyone excited.
Her family was formidable too. Her father was a C-rank powerhouse, and her mother was the richest person in Minghu City.
It could be said that she had both status and backing.
These two classmates, like fighting cocks, both liked Sun Yameng, so they secretly competed and had clashed many times.
After entering the Reincarnation Temple, both of them had survived and earned points to strengthen their attributes, so they started fighting again when they met.
Unfortunately for them, given Sun Yameng's circumstances, there was no way she would take a fancy to the likes of them.
"Alas, poor kids!"
Xu Long sighed helplessly, turned to glance at the school beauty not far away, then silently waited for the two to start fighting.
To him, whether she was the school beauty or not meant nothing.
In this world, the strong were revered. No matter how pretty someone was, she was just a vase; what mattered was being capable.
The two glared at each other like fighting cocks for a long time, but neither would make a move.
Just as Xu Long was bored out of his mind from waiting and nearly fell asleep, Sun Yameng actually came over.
"I heard the first world you entered was Resident Evil. I didn't expect you to make it back alive."
Sun Yameng looked at Xu Long, a hint of curiosity in her big, limpid eyes.