The Unarmed Old Man

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"Welcome, transmigrator."

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"What was that?"

In a dark cavern, a pitch-black behemoth opened his bewildered—or rather, utterly baffled-eyes.

"Huh?"

"Where the heck did I end up?"

The unfamiliar scene before him left Bai Yu, who had been lying at home watching videos just a second ago, bewildered. "Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here?"

Panicking at finding himself in an unknown place in the blink of an eye, Bai Yu instinctively began to retrace his memories.

"Wasn't I lying in bed watching videos? How did I suddenly end up here?"

"No, wait, I... I think..."

"I died?"

"I remember now. I should have been killed by that Dayun truck that crashed through the wall."

"But my apartment was on the eighteenth floor! How did it get up there? Can Chinese cars fly now?!"

As ridiculous as it was, Bai Yu quickly accepted the fact that a flying Dayun truck had smashed through his home and turned him into Bai Yu jam, and that he had even transmigrated.

That could count as falling straight down the anime rabbit hole.

"Well, dead is dead. People have to keep looking forward."

"Since I've already come to another world, I'll have to make something great of myself!"

"System, system, are you there?"

Though Bai Yu said he would make something great of himself, his body was honest enough to choose a cheat.

"System, are you there? Say something!"

He shouted, but no one answered.

"Playing hard to get, huh?"

Having received no response, Bai Yu instinctively tapped twice on the blue panel. As soon as he took his hand away, the text on it began to change.

"Welcome to Faris. We hope you enjoy your journey."

Bai Yu was a little puzzled after reading it. Why did it sound like a slogan at some tourist attraction?

Before Bai Yu could comment, the contents of the panel changed again. This time, it was divided into two sections. What drew Bai Yu's attention most was the character model occupying the left third.

"That's Legendary Godzilla!"

Bai Yu looked at the figure on the panel, then down at himself. Only then did he realize that he had not only transmigrated but also become Legendary Godzilla.

When he first opened his eyes, he had felt clumsy controlling his body, like a patient who had been paralyzed for years suddenly regaining his vitality. He had thought it was an aftereffect of being a crew member, but now it seemed he had been adapting to a new body.

After a brief moment of surprise, Bai Yu returned to studying the system's functions.

A closer look instantly made Bai Yu doubt how legitimate the system was.

There were no flashy special effects or refined designs. It was as crude as the garbage UI of a low-quality online game made to fool players.

There was a black X in the upper right corner; it went without saying what that was for. Three buttons were arranged in the upper left: quests, lottery, and inventory.

"This is so shoddy. It's like someone rushed it out to fool people."

"Let me see what good stuff is in this lottery first."

He opened the lottery, and a pure white path floating in the sky appeared before him. Looking around, he saw exquisitely carved pillars standing amid a sea of clouds, as though supporting the entire sky.

At the end of the path, a closed door completely blocked the view beyond, leaving one to wonder what lay on the other side.

"Why does this look so familiar? Feels like it was lifted from somewhere."

Without looking any further into where the author had stolen the interface from, Bai Yu carefully read the notices that had popped up in the upper left corner when he entered it.

"Basic pool"

"Reward rarity: white, green, blue, purple, gold

A purple-rarity reward is guaranteed every 80 pulls, and a gold-rarity reward every 160 pulls."

"New players get their first pull free, with a purple-rarity reward guaranteed."

"Wait, why is this lottery mechanic so familiar?"

"And never mind how crude your interface is. Other games give you a ten-pull just for logging in, but you only give me one pull? Isn't that a bit stingy?"

"Someone definitely pocketed the rest!"

Looking at the free single pull displayed in the lower right corner of the lottery interface, Bai Yu pinned all his hopes on it.

"Come on! Watch me pull off a miracle with one pull!"

The moment Bai Yu tapped the lottery button with a claw, the view on the screen abruptly zoomed in on the pure white door at the end of the path.

As the view drew closer, the pure white door slowly opened a crack, as though welcoming a guest. Dazzling purple light spilled through the gap.

Whoosh! The door swung all the way inward, and blinding purple light filled the entire screen. The intense glow even illuminated every corner of the dark cavern.

"Fuck! Who threw a flashbang?!"

Bai Yu, who had taken the full flash right up against the screen, was now curled up, covering his eyes and rolling around wildly.

Three minutes later, Bai Yu finally opened his eyes again. The first thing he did upon standing was lift the system with both hands and smash it hard against the ground.

"Who the fuck designed that effect?!"

"Did they make it like that so you could throw it out as a flashbang in a fight?!"

Still not satisfied, Bai Yu stomped hard on the panel on the ground twice more, causing the ground to tremble.

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"Am I that strong?"

Bai Yu pulled his foot back in confusion, but the ground did not stop shaking.

Boom!

Just over ten meters in front of Bai Yu, the cavern ceiling collapsed with a crash, kicking up a great cloud of dust. Several pieces of rubble even struck him in the face.

A human figure was faintly visible amid the swirling dust. Bai Yu narrowed his eyes and tried hard to make it out, only to get dust and ash in his eyes.

He instinctively tried to rub them, but those short little fingers scratched his chin a few times and could reach no farther.

Bai Yu was still trying to stretch out his short little arm when he suddenly felt the air around him surge. A gale howled up from the center of the dust cloud, blowing away rubble and dust alike.

As luck would have it, a piece of rubble half the size of Bai Yu's body came flying toward him.

Boom!

Swinging Godzilla's short but immensely powerful-looking arm, Bai Yu drove a fierce punch into the incoming boulder, sending it flying back even faster than it had come.

"You've got to be kidding me!" ━Σ(ﾟДﾟ|||)━

What did he just see? The boulder hurtling toward the figure had been stopped. It did not slow down or make a sound; it simply stopped there, steady as could be, as though it had always been there.

"Young people these days are so rude, showing such hostility toward an unarmed old man like me."

The aged voice from behind the boulder made Bai Tian tense up, and also gave him an overwhelming urge to complain.

Someone who can stop a boulder over two meters across without making a sound is unarmed? Then what did that make him in his previous life—a maggot?

Bai Yu had barely finished complaining to himself when the boulder that had been standing quietly in place shuddered and crumbled into... a pile of powder!