Chapter 6: This is Big Trouble
"Tomorrow, I'll inquire again about the government department responsible for repairing the street!"
king put away his phone and pulled up his attribute panel.
Name: king
English Name: King
Level: 3
EXP: 648/1000
Stamina: 3
Strength: 2
Speed: 3
Defense: 1
Luck: Hidden attribute, cannot be viewed, cannot be changed.
Attribute Points: 10
Skills: None
Skill Points: 2
Cards: None
Friendly Reminder: A normal person's attributes are typically around 5 points each! The maximum value is 100!
"Only consumed one two-star card and already reached Level 3. It seems that leveling up in the early stages of any game is very simple. Hmm, I already have 10 Attribute Points. Which attribute should I put them on?"
king stroked his chin, pondering which attribute would provide the maximum benefit right now. Considering his own safety, he unhesitatingly put all ten Attribute Points into Speed.
"In martial arts, speed is supreme! For the profound art of escape, even more speed is needed! Faster! Faster! Faster!"
"Huh? Why did my Stamina, Strength, and Defense mysteriously gain one Attribute Point?"
He put all 10 Attribute Points into the Speed attribute, yet he suddenly discovered that his Stamina, Strength, and Defense attributes had inexplicably increased by one point each simultaneously.
Now, his attribute panel is as follows:
Name: king
English Name: King
Level: 3
EXP: 648/1000
Stamina: 4
Strength: 3
Speed: 13
Defense: 2
Luck: Hidden attribute, cannot be viewed, cannot be changed.
Attribute Points: 0
Skills: None
Skill Points: 2
Cards: None
He carefully checked a few times, extremely certain that his Strength, Stamina, and Defense had each miraculously and automatically gained one Attribute Point.
"System, shouldn't you come out and explain a thing or two? I didn't add any Attribute Points to those, nor did I train. How did my attributes suddenly increase? Is there a third way to improve attributes?"
"Ding! When this game was designed, certain scientific elements were incorporated. When your speed rapidly increases, your physical quality naturally improves. This will then trigger a chain reaction. An improvement in physical quality will also lead to a certain increase in Stamina, Strength, and Defense."
The System coldly explained the game's setting.
"That seems somewhat logical."
king thought carefully, and the System's explanation did seem somewhat logical. A person's speed, strength, Stamina, and Defense are interconnected. After a significant improvement in one aspect, it would inevitably lead to improvements in other aspects.
"I wonder what my speed is like now?"
According to the System's settings, a normal person's attributes are around 5 points each. His speed attribute had instantly risen to 13, which meant he had already exceeded a normal person by more than twofold in terms of speed.
He jumped up from the sofa and bounced twice on the floor, feeling a significant increase in leg strength. He immediately wanted to test how fast he could run at full speed. He wondered if he had the speed of Earth's Usain Bolt?
He put on his clothes, donned a black baseball cap that obscured his appearance, and left the door. Stepping over the rubble on the damaged street, he arrived at another street. By this time, the sky already had a hint of light, nearing dawn.
"Let's call this a morning run!"
king did some warm-up exercises, then immediately set his sights on a direction and ran at full speed. His entire body shot out like an arrow, the fierce wind whistling past his ears, and the buildings on both sides rapidly fell behind him.
"This is so damn exhilarating! If I went back to Earth, I would definitely be the King of Speed!"
He roared loudly, pushing his legs harder as he ran, experiencing that flying sensation.
*Click!*
Just as he was running at full speed, the front door of a fast-food restaurant—Kenggeji—suddenly opened, and a young man, looking like a clown actor, stumbled out.
The young man was wearing a common, spherical cola paper cup shell, like those found in normal KFC restaurants on Earth, but this cola paper cup shell was entirely blue, with two large words "White Business (meaning funeral)" written on it. The young man's face seemed to be embedded in the cola paper cup, his limbs extended from within the paper cup, and a long, blue, bent straw was inserted into the cola paper cup.
He held two cups of cola, savoring them with great relish. His face was flushed crimson, and he walked with a staggering gait, as if he were drunk.
"Whoa! Get out of the way...!"
As soon as king saw the young man, he immediately tried to brake and stop, but the immense inertia caused him to continue surging forward, directly colliding with the young man, and both of them fell to the ground.
"Ouch!"
Because the young man cushioned his fall, king wasn't injured, but the impact had made his body a bit sore. He stood up, rubbing the bumped area, and seeing the young man still lying on the ground, he quickly went forward to help him up: "Brother, are you okay?"
However, his hand, which had just reached out, instantly stiffened. He suddenly realized that the young man lying on the ground didn't seem to be some clown actor wearing a cola cup costume. There wasn't the slightest gap between the young man's exposed limbs and the cola cup; they were seamlessly connected. More importantly, the liquid oozing from the young man's arm, scraped by the fall, was not red, but a deep brown color, like cola.
"This guy is a Mysterious Being!"
king didn't need to think much; he immediately determined that the young man was a Cola Mysterious Being.
"Damn... damn it, which... which bastard dared to hit you, Cola... Cola Mysterious Being-sama? This master... this master will... will kill you."
The young man propped himself up with both hands, attempting to stand. However, he seemed as if he were drunk, his body swaying unsteadily, and his words were equally slurred, like someone who had too much to drink.
"Run!"
This was the only thought that rose in king's mind. Even if the Cola Mysterious Being was a lowest-tier Wolf Level Mysterious Being, he was not someone king could deal with. Facing a Mysterious Being now, he only had the option to run. If he really couldn't escape, he could only pray that Saitama would appear like a God and defeat the Mysterious Being.
This Cola Mysterious Being in front of him seemed to have gotten drunk from drinking too much cola, his mind unclear. Taking advantage of this opportunity to escape was the best strategy!
"Master... Master will kill... kill you..."
Just at this moment, the straw on top of the Cola Mysterious Being's head suddenly rotated, firing bursts of deep brown cola. These bursts of cola had immense power, comparable to machine gun fire, leaving holes in the surrounding walls.
"Damn it, I can't run anymore."
king, who had just put his foot down, preparing to run, was so scared that he hugged his head and scurried. Subconsciously, he dove into the wide-open door of Kenggeji, found a corner, and hid, praying in his heart that the Cola Mysterious Being would never discover his presence.
*Thrum-thrum-thrum!*
His heartbeat suddenly accelerated, his heart pounding through his chest, reverberating inside Kenggeji. This was King's old habit, a chronic condition. Whenever he encountered tense, fearful, excited, or agitated situations, his heart would beat excessively fast, and consequently, his heartbeat would become too loud and burst forth from his chest, sounding like an engine starting up, hence his reputation as the "Emperor Engine."
The public generally believed that when King activated his "Emperor Engine," he was entering a combat state. In reality, this was merely the public's wishful thinking; it was actually the result of King's fear causing his heart to beat faster and produce excessively loud heart sounds.
At this moment, king's heartbeat was very fast, his heart pounding. Fortunately, the Cola Mysterious Being's chaotic straw firing also produced "thrum-thrum-thrum" sounds, which assimilated and covered his heartbeat.
"Bastard... bastard, who... who hit me? Come... come out for this master... master, now..."
After the Cola Mysterious Being stood up and found no one around, he was immediately enraged. His anger combined with his drunkenness made him act recklessly. The straw on top of his head rotated 360 degrees and fired.
*Thrum-thrum-thrum! Bang-bang!*
The surrounding building glass shattered everywhere, and the walls were left with holes.
"A Mysterious Being, it's a Mysterious Being..."
"Quick, quickly notify the Hero Association."
"Not sleeping in the middle of the night, is this Mysterious Being crazy?!"
A series of firing sounds awakened the surrounding residents. They secretly opened their windows to observe, and were horrified to discover it was a Cola Mysterious Being. Frightened, they immediately hid back in their rooms and called the Hero Association to dispatch heroes to eliminate the Mysterious Being.
"Damn it, am I too unlucky? I go out for a morning run and can run into a Mysterious Being. In my previous life, some people said that King had a 'Mysterious Being magnet' constitution. It seems there's some truth to it; King's probability of encountering Mysterious Beings is indeed too high. Even at home, Mysterious Beings inexplicably come knocking."
king hid in the corner, holding down his baseball cap, quietly listening to the machine-gun-like firing sounds on the street. He had a severe headache. He had only been transmigrated into King's body for a few days, and he had already encountered Mysterious Beings twice. He didn't know whether to call it good luck or bad luck.
*Ring-ring!*
Just as he was praying for the Mysterious Being to leave quickly, his phone suddenly rang. king was startled, staring at the "Hero Association" he had just labeled on the phone screen. His mouth twitched. "This is big trouble now!"
"Heh... hehe, found... found you, you damned bastard!"
(end of chapter)