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In the two-person room of the warship, Bai Zhi suddenly spoke.
"...Oh dear, Lord Paimon, behaving indecently towards your subordinates is a no-no! If Lord Durandal finds out, he'll be giving you a lesson in manners!"
Rita's expression froze for a moment, then she responded with a teasing laugh.
"OK, I understand." Ignoring the second half of the sentence, Bai Zhi dialed Theresa's number, put it on speakerphone, and placed it on the table.
"Beep beep beep... Lady Theresa, have you received the transfer information from headquarters regarding the supervision?"
"Received... Received it. Grandpa, you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Under my diligent leadership, the Far East Branch is clearly thriving..."
"Lady Theresa, I don't think embezzling public funds is a responsible act, especially since you are a *****, it doesn't have a good impact."
"Woo~~"
"So please don't let me find it again in the future."
"you mean..."
"After all, I haven't officially started working here yet, so I'll just turn a blind eye and let this go."
"Hooray, Paimon, right? I'll arrange a nice dorm room for you to repay you."
"Then I'll have high hopes."
After ending the call, Bai Zhi looked at Rita with a half-smile and said:
“I’ve been watching you the whole way, and you haven’t had a chance to report the situation to Otto. Sure enough, he doesn’t trust you to monitor me alone. Luckily, this isn’t St. Freya Academy, otherwise I would have doubted the magnanimity of that immortal from Shenzhou.”
Rita understood the purpose of Bai Zhi's question halfway through the conversation.
To investigate whether there are other surveillance devices around him.
In fact, there was such a thing, and it was monitored at all times. Otto covered up the lies told by the supervisory students at Chiyu Academy.
This proves that there was indeed a mole among Bai Zhi's entourage.
His primary objective was to find out where the mole was, then find a way to escape the surveillance of Destiny, and find a new job.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of the escape plan, Bai Zhi's spirits were dampened by the strategic clashes with Otto, the placement of pieces, and the calculations of emotions and hearts.
Moreover, one of them is mandatory.
That is the power of last resort, so—
"Rita, I'm going to take a nap. Wake me up when we get there." With that, he unceremoniously took the largest bed, flopped onto the soft Simmons mattress, and fell into a deep sleep.
We've made some progress, so of course we should share it with others.
Incidentally, it also allows for brainstorming and identifying areas for improvement.
Then share your strength, because upgrading ultimately depends on yourself.
Honkai Impact 3rd Serpent Solo Player: Chapter 42 Angelica Form +2
I opened my eyes to find myself in a familiar, pitch-black space.
The room is now filled with furniture of various styles, including sofas, tables, chairs, and snacks.
Three figures, one small and two large, were sitting on the sofa in the center.
Paimon looked closely and recognized the smaller one as both familiar and unfamiliar, while he had no recollection of the two larger ones.
My heart is pounding right now; a new person has arrived.
"Yo, little Angemon, congratulations on your evolution. It seems the arrival of the newcomer has been a great help to you."
With a light leap, Bai Zhi jumped from behind the sofa onto the cushion, stood on tiptoe, looked at the three of them, and greeted them casually.
"Now you should call me Kyubeymon. I am known as the 'Angel of Love,' a little angel-type Digimon who is good at bringing 'love' and 'happiness' to Digimon. As long as I am present, even the most competitive large Digimon will stop fighting in front of me."
Angemon... no, Kyubeymon raised its head high, with an arrogant and smug expression.
Her voice is still soft and cute, a perfect choice for voice lovers, but most of her lines are boastful, which is quite different from her adorable appearance.
The two newcomers were taken aback; what a thick skin! Is this what a big shot is like? I love it!
Kyubeymon's appearance is based on Angemon, with limbs and a torso growing from its pure white body, a short tail that sways back and forth, more rounded horns on its head, and feathers growing from its wings.
What was extraordinary was that his pupils had turned into pure gold, a holy halo above his head appeared and disappeared, and his whole body exuded a sacred aura that inspired worship.
"Come on, you can fool outsiders, but as a fellow Bai Zhi, who doesn't know your personality? You're an angel who brings love and happiness, or you'd be more like a judge who grants equality to all. Qiu Bi, Qiu Bi, do you want to learn from your distant relative, the incubator Qiu Bi?"
Paimon remained unmoved, rolling his eyes. Bai Zhi from Digimon has a personality that leans mainly towards two aspects: innate arrogance and a sickly gluttony.
"Hey." Qiu Ying〦〆淋旗芭丝?〥棋丝〒V瘤比兽 acted cute, not caring at all. What does a good reputation matter? It's not as important as filling your stomach.
Ignoring the adorable creature, Paimon sized up the two newcomers and said, "Let me guess what kind of world you two come from. It's quite a coincidence that your styles are completely opposite."
Bai Zhi, sitting on the sofa to the left, was wearing a hoodie. She had a delicate face with a neutral charm and pale skin, probably because she hadn't been in the sun for a long time. She was a homebody.
Bai Zhi, sitting on the sofa to the right, is robust, wears non-glossy glasses, has a resolute appearance, and is dressed in a green and white tracksuit, looking like a sunny and carefree young man in his late twenties.
The two are quite good-looking, but compared to the Prince of the Gods, the Sarkaz Angel, the genetically engineered android, and the two adorable creatures, they are only at the bottom.
"Want a hint? Like a puzzle-solving process, be careful of traps while deciphering layer by layer." The androgynous boy lay lazily on the sofa, like a cat that had just eaten honey, mysterious and dangerous.
“This is a waste of time. Paimon, you can understand instantly by exchanging memories.” The athletic young man was impatient and directly stretched out his palm.
"Huh, one fast and one slow, it's quite a coincidence that you two came in at the same time. Don't rush things. You know my situation. I was tricked by that old geezer Otto, and my condition is considered bad in Baizhi. But I'm not impatient. The key decisions are the most important."
Paimon chuckled and shared his insights. The latter thought for a moment, then withdrew his hand. He wasn't short of time to share the benefits of the power.
First, Paimon looked to the left: "You come from the everyday world and spend most of your time indoors, so the possibility of you being a shut-in can be ruled out. Someone with your personality wouldn't be addicted to virtual pleasures. You're more likely to work in a computer profession such as software development, data auditing, hacking, or bots."
Paimon looked to his right: "As for you, you come from a poor family, and you have a strong air of worldliness and murderous intent. You're probably a bodyguard or an assassin, not a soldier."
The other three exchanged glances and laughed. The tacit understanding that belonged only to Bai Zhi would not change even after reincarnation.
"You guessed right. I'm a hacker and game data engineer." The androgynous boy's smile was subtle, giving a very good first impression.
"Bodyguard, assassin? It's not that prestigious. It's just a temporary job to get by." The athletic young man waved his hand, a wry smile on his face. He didn't have such a high-class profession.
"A temporary worker? Could he be from the All-Knowing Organization? That's a state-owned enterprise." Paimon's eyes lit up when he heard the familiar name. He had long admired the wonders of the Eight Extraordinary Skills.
"You're thinking wrong. It might happen in the future, but not now."
After he finished speaking, the other three simultaneously reached out and touched Paimon.
In an instant, the memories and lives of the two newlyweds unfolded before his eyes.
...... ......
My original surname was Narusaka, now it's Kiritani, and my given name is Kazuto. I live in a family of swordsmen and have a younger sister. Oh, right, I'm also a reincarnated transmigrator, originally named Bai Zhi.
The reason for regaining memories of his past life was because of a terrible car accident that left him an orphan and seriously injured. At that moment, his memories of his past life returned, and his mature consciousness supported his will to survive, thus saving his life.
After being adopted by my aunt's family, I changed my gender to Kiritani. When I saw the familiar androgynous appearance and my younger sister Kiritani Suguha, I finally understood what world I had been reincarnated into.
Sword Art Online
Reincarnated as the protagonist, Kirito.
However, unlike information, my neurons are diseased and weak, characterized by highly active mind, basically saying goodbye to sleep, and under the influence of endocrine disorders, my mind becomes extremely active while my body becomes increasingly weak.
Being sick and weak has both advantages and disadvantages; I am very sensitive to data.
I refused training at the kendo dojo and, based on Kirito's talent, switched to specializing in computer technology.
My learning process regarding my adoptive parents' profession went very smoothly.
Starting at the age of ten, I gradually took over program orders and bug fixes, and from then on I became financially independent. My adoptive parents learned of my remarkable achievement and no longer made demands on me, allowing me to develop freely.
The premise is that my secret identity remains unexposed.
Outwardly, he is a well-known freelance programmer; inwardly, he is a notorious criminal hacker.
Using the name 'Angelica', I hacked into multiple national secret databases, satellites, and nuclear reactors, leaving behind the domineering declaration 'Angelica was here.' From then on, I became the uncrowned king of the hacker world.
Years later, his public identity as a high-level outsourced programmer grew increasingly well-known, while the amount of money he was wanted for secretly exceeded two billion US dollars.
On Christmas Eve, I hacked into the internet and roamed freely when I discovered something amiss: two still-developing network intelligences. The former had voluntarily stopped its evolutionary path, while the latter's evolution port had been blocked.
Through proactive contact, I learned their true identities: the former was a quantum physicist and a genius game designer who, through his creation "The Seed," was a madman who transmitted personality and thought into the network.
The latter is a VR world operating on a special large-scale host, which is the main operating intelligence of the Yao Guang world created to cultivate bottom-up "artificial highly adaptable intelligent automatic life".
There are no secrets on the internet. When I discovered them, they discovered me, and so the three of us formed a close working relationship for our own purposes.
Kayaba Akihiko's goal is to create a real world, Yoko's goal is to break free from the creator's control, and I want to see different scenery and experience more unknowns.
The amount of data in Sword Art Online has increased fiftyfold compared to the original, and I have loaded learnable artificial intelligence into every NPC and monster.
Yao Guang, on the other hand, handled the grand backdrop of a 100-story building, transferring the original Yao Guang world into Aincrad, thus stealing the sky and changing the sun.
SAO has evolved from a game world into something more like... a gradually growing real world.
During the game's closed beta, no one outside knew what we were doing. The plan succeeded, and the game is about to be released for public testing.
I took out my homemade game helmet, which had an option to quit. Now that I knew it was a death game, how could I be so stupid as to walk into the trap? As for the others, who cares? As long as I protect my own territory, I don't care about the others.
I'm wondering why my personality has become so strange. Who knows? Maybe it was a car accident, maybe it was reincarnation, or maybe it's just my unrestrained interests.
Then, I put on the gaming helmet and logged into the game.
Upon opening his eyes, he saw a strange creature sitting on the sofa in the pitch-black space, next to a tall, thin, athletic young man.
Honkai Impact 3rd Serpent Soloist: Chapter 43: Countless Heavenly White Angelicasdes, Only I, with Glasses, Am Normal.
My surname is Bai, my given name is Zhi, and my nickname is Glasses. I am an ordinary person who grew up in an orphanage. The only special thing about me is that I am a transmigrator who was reincarnated and transmigrated. My original name was also Bai Zhi.
In my world, there exists a type of monster that harbors malice towards humans, collectively known as weirdos. They become weirdos due to their own bizarre hobbies, extreme emotionality, the malice of others, special plants and animals, various elements, aliens, gods, and other factors.
The strength of these strange individuals varies greatly, ranging from the powerful enough to destroy a city with a single blow to the weaker ones who can't even defeat a goose. Their strength is divided into five levels: God, Dragon, Demon, Tiger, and Wolf.
However, the unpredictable and bizarre nature of human life has drastically reduced the human habitat, leaving only twenty-six cities scattered outwards from the central city of A to city Z on the entire planet.
Antidotes often grow next to poisonous creatures, and humans living under the threat of monsters also have the power to resist.
Naturally powerful superpowers; physical strength and speed surpassing human limits through rigorous training; cyborgs enhanced by technology; superhumans who unleash their power through sheer force; prodigies with exceptional intelligence who develop technological advancements...
They are all forces that allow humanity to fight against monsters.
Unfortunately, I'm just an ordinary person, and I have a hard time understanding changes in external emotions. I'm even more oblivious than the male protagonist in light novels, and even more clueless than a straight man.
If nothing unexpected had happened, I would probably have died alone. Until that day, after get off work in the evening, I encountered a monster. Even though the opponent's strength was only at the low-level wolf level of monsters, I was still in dire straits. Before I died, I regained my memories of my past life.
A mature and elegant high school girl with short black hair, green eyes, a tall stature, and a curvaceous figure used her superpowers to defeat the monster.
I recognized him; the future number one B-rank hero, Hellfire Blizzard.
When the other person took me to the hospital and was about to leave, perhaps because of memories from a past life, or perhaps to repay the life-saving grace, I asked the other person if there was anything I needed their help with. Bai Zhi said that within her capabilities, any wish was acceptable.
On that day, the Fubuki Group was established, with two members: Group Leader - Fubuki, a high school student, and Group Member - Baizhi, a freelancer.
After the other person left, I closed my eyes to rest and let my injuries heal faster.
The next moment, I woke up with a start and found myself in a pitch-black space. A strange man was sitting on the sofa opposite me, and a girl... boy was standing next to him. My dignity as an adult did not allow me to stand idly by.
And then, that was it. The strange creature on the other side moved at the speed of its afterimages and touched both of our bodies.
...... ......
"You are the only one among us who was reincarnated as the protagonist, but the things you do are the most contrary to the protagonist's actions."
Looking at Kirito's innocent expression, Paimon sighed. The others were either supporting characters, passersby, villains, or background characters not even mentioned in the information.
"A person's character is formed by the scenes they experience and their mindset at the time. The accumulated habits of thinking, the mental tension of more than ten years, it is already very difficult for me to maintain external morality."
Sitting upright, Kirito sipped his orange juice, his demeanor relaxed. The shared power had greatly helped him, and he spoke with a smile: "I am the hacker Bai Zhi, the programmer Kirito, and one of the three giants of SAO. Of course, compared to the latter two, the former is the true embodiment of my personality."
“Wait, I can’t admit to what you’re saying.” Glasses raised his hand to stop him and explained, “In our past life, we were just introverted, sickly, and ordinary people. Except for when we had an adrenaline rush during a university break and subdued a crazed Tibetan mastiff with our bare hands, we were just ordinary people.”
"You've inadvertently elevated the definition of an ordinary person. Speaking of which, those were some of the few shining moments in our past lives, weren't they?" Paimon retorted.
"You're just a Herrscher prospect, what nonsense are you spouting? Do you even have any sense of self-awareness with Versailles?"
Glasses' lips twitched. When facing outsiders, he was likely too weak and unable to understand their thoughts, but when facing himself, he could always grasp the situation.
"I'm much more normal than someone who personally intervened and amplified the death game, left a backdoor in the artificial intelligence Yaoguang, and infiltrated the nuclear missile launch bases of various countries." An ordinary person who used to lack self-awareness can now complain.
"Curiosity is human nature." Kiritani Kazuto neither agreed nor disagreed.
"Tsk tsk tsk, humans are so complicated. Can't they be as simple and serious as Digimon?" Kyubeymon said disdainfully.