Outside a tall building, an inconspicuous car was parked by the entrance. Lu Yingheng walked slowly out the door, and the guard at the entrance immediately straightened up and saluted the moment he saw him.
Lu Yingheng smiled in response, opened the car door, and got in. "Uncle An."
The white-haired old man in the passenger seat turned his head away, refusing to pay him any attention.
Lu Yingheng sighed. "Sigh, I was hurt so badly, and when I came home, my own elder wouldn't even comfort me."
An Limi immediately turned back and glared at him. "You brat! How could you not tell me about this sooner? Why didn't you just let me hear that you were dead?"
Lu Yingheng laughed awkwardly. "Hehe, actually, if you want to hear it, that's not impossible. They'll be announcing it tomorrow anyway..."
An Limi angrily threw an apple at him. "Get lost! Hurry up and die! Why didn't you just skip seeing me one last time too? You heartless brat..."
Seeing that his old man was starting to look like he might cry, Lu Yingheng hurried to comfort him:
"All right, all right, everyone has their own fate. You're so old already, so don't cry."
An Limi ignored him. "Get out of the car right now! Driver! Drop him off at that mall up ahead!"
The driver looked awkwardly at Lord Dragon Emperor in the back seat. Lu Yingheng nodded slightly, signaling him to do as instructed.
The car stopped for a moment, then sped away in an instant.
Lu Yingheng walked alone along the sidewalk and sighed.
His old man was probably bawling his eyes out in the car right now, wasn't he?
There was nothing he could do...
To completely resolve the disaster in this world, this was probably the only method left now, wasn't it?
He could only let his old man grieve for a while.
An Limi had raised Lu Yingheng. When Lu Yingheng first transmigrated here, he had still been a little kid, and even obtaining the system's power had required him to kill Ethereals.
You expected a six-year-old to kill Ethereals?
Calculate the psychological trauma Lu Yingheng had suffered when he first transmigrated and faced three Ethereals in the body of a six-year-old.
Fortunately, the Defense Force had arrived just in time and saved Lu Yingheng.
After escaping the Hollow, Lu Yingheng, an orphan, had had no choice but to live in an orphanage. A few years later, An Limi had taken him in and raised him to adulthood.
Only after joining the Defense Force had Lu Yingheng begun killing Ethereals in earnest, obtaining the system's power and climbing step by step to the position of [Void Hunter].
"System."
Lu Yingheng called out.
In an instant, an adorable little girl appeared out of thin air, sitting right on Lu Yingheng's broad shoulder:
"Wow! I've made my dazzling entrance! What do you need, Host?"
"Show me the system panel. I want to see what good absorbing it did."
Lu Yingheng reached out a finger and poked his system's round little cheek again and again. It was full of collagen and even bounced back when he poked it. It felt amazing.
The little girl grabbed his finger. "Stop poking my face! Or I'll get angry!"
A pale blue panel appeared before Lu Yingheng's eyes:
Strongest Dragon Emperor System & Plot Role-Playing System Host bloodline: Black King Nidhogg Bloodline: 50% Host abilities: [Dominion of Yanling]: All powerful Yanling with sequence numbers below 100. [Black King's Flesh]: Ultimate physical strength and regenerative ability.. [Authority of Life]: Immortal and indestructible. A drop of blood grants its recipient a long life and a powerful bloodline. [Mental Domination]: Control everything, insufficient mental clarity, firm target. (Not obtained) [Eternal Genesis]: Alter everything; a raise of the hand is enough to alter reality. Anything that exists can be rewritten. The "yes" and "no" of all things are defined by this single thought alone. (Not obtained) Host inventory: Detailed plot of the Zenless Zone Zero 1.0 major version. System shop: Since the host's "Strongest Dragon Emperor System" and "Plot Role-Playing System" have merged, the system shop rules have changed. Products: Black King Nidhogg Bloodline 10% Price: 100 million Emotion Points. Black King Nidhogg Bloodline 10% Price: 500 million Emotion Points. Black King Nidhogg Bloodline 10% Price: 2.5 billion Emotion Points. ...
Lu Yingheng sighed and immediately waved his hand in disgust:
"Get lost, get lost! Damn, that many Emotion Points? You might as well just rob me, and you're only giving me this little bit of bloodline."
The little girl giggled:
"Hehe, Host, there'll be other supplementary products later.
Besides, haven't you already exchanged for the two top-tier weapons originally in the shop, the [Seven Deadly Sins] and [Gungnir]?
Not to mention the top-tier ether recovery potions and top-tier alchemical metals."
Lu Yingheng glared at her. "Even so, you can't fleece me like this, can you? Multiplying the price by five every time-who could afford that?"
The little girl paid him no attention, humming and singing with her eyes closed, looking utterly adorable.
Lu Yingheng sighed. "This'll be tough. That remaining half of the bloodline is going to take some work. There's still a year before the main story begins. I need to say goodbye to Vivian, then fake my death and disappear."
The little girl spoke up out of nowhere. "Host, I was wondering why you suddenly saved that little girl from the Order of Glorification back then. So you really did keep her around as a child bride. Just electrocute yourself."
Lu Yingheng spread his hands. "Go on, go on! The current flows over from the power grid, so it's essentially underage too. What does that tell you?"
The little girl's curiosity was successfully piqued. "What?"
"It means she's electrocuting me because I was playing with other little lolis and made her angry!"
Lu Yingheng said it as though it were only natural.
The little girl slapped her forehead with her chubby little hand. "Oh no, how did I end up with a lolicon host like this?"
Lu Yingheng started poking her cheek again:
"Actually, it's not all bad, is it? You kept saying you were incomplete before, and now that you've absorbed another system, you're finally better. At least my system still has room to improve."
The little girl immediately stood up on his shoulder and planted her hands on her hips:
"Hmph! I'm the strongest there is! With me backing you up, you can do whatever you want in this world!"
Lu Yingheng nodded and shouted by the roadside without the slightest regard for his image:
"The young miss has arrived! Everyone, make way!"
The little girl immediately crouched on his shoulder in embarrassment. "Boohoo... I don't know this lunatic host..."
"What are you afraid of? The people passing by can't see you anyway."
Lu Yingheng spoke indifferently.
"Boohoo... But everyone passing by thinks you, a Void Hunter, look like a lunatic! My life is so miserable!"
The little girl started crying again.
Lu Yingheng shrugged:
"What are you afraid of? In their eyes, we're just ordinary people cosplaying Void Hunter Dragon Emperor anyway. In their stereotypes, someone like me ought to be cold and aloof, right?"
As if to prove his point, a young man immediately walked over in their direction:
"Hey, bro! Are you cosplaying Void Hunter Dragon Emperor? Your cosplay doesn't look like him at all! You don't have that cold, indifferent air the Dragon Emperor has!"
Lu Yingheng: (°ー°〃)
On the subject of the Dragon Emperor himself walking down the street and being told his cosplay didn't look like him...