Alaska.
The forest in the morning light was tranquil and cold.
Just as the hunter Li Pu crawled out of his tent and was about to use the primitive method of "shush" (urinating) to extinguish the campfire, he suddenly shuddered.
He was purely excited.
Because the System he had waited for two and a half long years had finally Awakened at this moment!
Li Pu was a Transmigrator.
Back then, right after his Transmigration, while he was still struggling to digest the fact that he had transmigrated, he suddenly received one piece of bad news, followed by an even worse one.
The bad news was that he had transmigrated into the Marvel Universe, which was filled with demons and monsters.
The news worse than the bad news was that, unlike those Transmigrators who could immediately declare, "I don't eat beef," his System needed a period of stabilization before it could be used normally. Furthermore, during the System's Awakening period, he could not stray far from his "spawn point."
If Li Pu left the "spawn point" without authorization, the System's Awakening would likely go wrong.
This was precisely why he refrained from going to live with his birth mother in this World, choosing instead to tough it out for two and a half years in the snowy wilderness of Alaska.
Of course, to prevent Li Pu from dying immediately upon arrival, the System had granted him three beginner rewards before entering long-term silence.
The first reward was language.
Otherwise, given Li Pu's original English proficiency, communicating normally with people would have been difficult without intense practice for at least a year or two.
By the time he learned, he would likely have been dead for months.
The second reward was slightly abstract.
Simply put, because he underwent Physical Body Transmigration, all the components of his body were essentially reshaped and reassembled in this World.
This process resulted in all of Li Pu's previous minor ailments disappearing, restoring his Physical Body to its optimal state.
His body was incredibly strong, and everything he ate tasted delicious.
The third reward was a simple Attribute Panel granted to Li Pu by the System, which he could view at any time.
Two years later, his Attribute Panel looked like this:
[Host: Li Pu]
[Age: 24]
[Strength: 12/14]
[Physique: 14/14]
[Agility: 11/13]
[Intelligence: 13/20]
[Charisma: 10/12]
[Perception: 13/14]
[Skills: Chinese Home Cooking (Elementary), Multi-Vehicle Driving (Elementary), Hunting (Intermediate), Machinery (Elementary), Languages (Chinese/English)]
[Status: Excited]
The meaning of these values is easy to understand: the number before the "/" is Li Pu's attribute value, and the number after it is the upper limit of his personal potential.
The attribute value before the "/" can change. For example, Li Pu's Strength attribute increased from 9 to 12 because he has been engaged in physical labor since his Transmigration.
Standing 1.85 meters tall, he weighed only 78 kilograms when he first transmigrated, and carrying a bag of rice up five flights of stairs would leave him breathless.
Thanks to his diet and labor over the past two years, he now weighs nearly 90 kilograms. Once, he managed to drag a wild boar that weighed about as much as he did for five or six miles continuously.
However, without some other opportunity, his Strength attribute would likely cap out at 14.
Looking at the Attribute Panel, Li Pu's highest potential attribute was Intelligence, while his lowest potential attribute was Charisma.
Every time he saw this result, he felt it was a bit fake.
What a joke!
Having just transmigrated to Alaska in the Marvel Universe with nothing to his name, he relied on his eloquent tongue to charm the widowed owner of the village's only tavern, thus securing his first full meal.
That meal of potato stewed reindeer meat was incredibly tender.
Of course, he deliberately ignored the fact that he eventually had to wash dishes to pay off a few days' worth of meals.
"Hmph! Do not bully a young man for being poor!"
Although Li Pu remained stubborn, deliberately ignoring the fact that he was no longer a youth, his System was truly about to Awaken regardless.
"...Countdown, 3, 2, 1."
[Ding! Congratulations Host for weathering the storm and seeing the moon, the "Cloud Nursery System" has successfully Awakened!]
Seeing the System notification, Li Pu paused.
What the heck is Cloud Nursery?
He had transmigrated to the Marvel Universe in the Early Stage of the 90s; the current year was only 1998.
At this point in time, let alone Internet-enabled phones, even home computers were not widely popularized in Alaska. Only "big cities" like Anchorage had novelties such as the Internet.
How was he supposed to do Cloud Nursery?
Wait a minute, Li Pu suddenly realized the System notification was in Chinese. Could the "Cloud" (cloud) in Cloud Nursery actually mean the cloud in the sky?
But how could one raise a child on a cloud... "Boom—"
A loud explosion came from the sky. Li Pu subconsciously looked up and saw that something seemed to be falling from the clouds in the morning light.
The object was moving very quickly, descending from the Nine Heavens into the mortal World in an instant. It crashed right into the forest where Li Pu was located, shattering countless spruce and cedar trees, plowing a deep ravine along the way.
Then, just before it was about to flatten Li Pu's temporary campsite, it suddenly stopped.
Once the smoke and steam dissipated, Li Pu finally saw what had fallen from the sky.
It turned out to be a small Space Vessel.
The System provided another notification at this moment.
[Ding! The first child the Host needs to adopt has arrived. Please sign for the delivery immediately.]
"T-t-this..."
Li Pu was so surprised he couldn't speak, but then he suddenly thought of something, and a look of delight appeared on his face.
"...They didn't send me a Clark, did they? If so, wouldn't I be Superman's father!"
Although, as a normal man, Li Pu's dream was definitely to be Superman himself, being forced to become Superman's father was actually acceptable.
As long as he made sure Little Clark remembered that if Dad ever held out his hand, it wasn't to tell the child to stay away, but to hurry and save him "no" matter what, Li Pu could probably coast through the rest of his life.
Thinking this, Li Pu quickly walked up to the small Space Vessel, and the hatch opened.
"Hiss—"
After the hatch opened, a completely naked Little Baby instantly came into Li Pu's view.
The child looked very healthy. Even after Universe travel and a high-speed forced landing, he was still sprawled out in the cabin, sound asleep.
"As expected of Clar..."
Hmm?
Li Pu rubbed his eyes in disbelief, only then realizing that the Little Baby's hair color was indeed green; he hadn't seen wrong.
Just then, the Little Baby conveniently rolled over, revealing the long, furry tail that had been tucked beneath its bottom.
This child wasn't Superman, but a Saiyan!
[Ding! Host has signed for and successfully adopted the legendary Super Saiyan Broly. Please raise Broly properly.]
[Ding! System Reward issued: Host has obtained Broly's biological father's Attribute Template. You may open the Personal Attribute Panel to view it.]
Broly's biological father?
Li Pu vaguely remembered him as a minor Saiyan character with ambitions that didn't match his ability.
Filled with doubt, he opened his Attribute Panel.
[Host: Li Pu]
[Age: 28]
[Strength: 25/150]
[Physique: 30/100]
[Agility: 25/100]
[Intelligence: 13/20]
[Charisma: 10/12]
[Perception: 20/25]
[Talent: Saiyan Upper-Class Warrior]
[Skills: Chinese Home Cooking (Intermediate), Multi-Vehicle Driving (Elementary), Hunting (Intermediate), Machinery (Elementary)]
[Status: Extremely Excited due to Attribute Increase]
Li Pu couldn't help but be excited.
Apart from Intelligence and Charisma remaining largely unchanged, his Strength, Physique, Agility, and Perception attributes all received significant boosts on the Attribute Panel.
More crucially, his original attribute potential limits had now been broken.
Amidst his excitement, he pondered for a moment and figured this was likely related to the newly added "Saiyan Upper-Class Warrior" Talent on the panel.
As a combat race of the Universe, Saiyans were constantly fighting or on their way to a fight, so their Strength, Physique, Agility, and Perception were naturally far superior to those of humans on Earth.
Li Pu picked up a stone from the ground and squeezed it lightly; the stone instantly shattered into eight pieces with a "crack." Then, lightly bouncing in place, he leaped straight up to the forest canopy before easily sliding down the trunk of a spruce tree back to the ground.
This—this Strength, this Agility—wasn't it vastly superior to Captain America, who was always "50/50" with everyone in the Marvel Universe?
However, just as Li Pu was about to put his hands on his hips and shout, "I don't eat beef," a cold wind from the Arctic wilderness instantly snapped him out of it.
More accurately, the cold wind woke up Little Broly, and the green-haired Little Baby pouted unhappily.
Simultaneously, a terrifying aura of Qi emanated from his body. The ground began to tremble, flocks of birds in the forest were startled into flight, and beasts ran wildly, as if the entire World was about to be destroyed the next second.