"How would you like your haircut this time?"
"Same as before, just a little shorter?"
Aunt Linda, working as a barber, stands at an average height of five feet one inch, turned on the electric hair clipper in her hand.
Aunt Linda started to work whilst engaging in a conversation with Charlie. "A short haircut looks honest. Girls like that these days."
Charlie didn't reply, but he thought in his heart that whether or not one can attract a partner is not directly related to hairstyle; rather, it has more to do with appearance.
Numerous examples have proved that when attracting a desired partner, as long as you are good-looking enough, certain income requirements can be relaxed. If the appearance is a little better, even the race can be ignored, and perhaps the boundary between yin and yang can be blurred.
[TL Note- apparently, if a man is hot enough, other men can fall for him .ie, (yin and yang BS) I call cap]
So for a player like Charlie, the hairstyle is of secondary importance.
After all, he is so good-looking that even flowers bloom when they see him.
A single smile from him can attract countless female fans...
...well, more accurately, countless moms and aunties.
Although Charlie has only been living in this community for a little more than a year since he entered university, he has already become acquainted with all the aunts in the nearby area.
After Charlie finished his haircut, he chatted with the Ladies for a while. Then, under the reluctant eyes of the aunts, he said goodbye and went upstairs, going straight back to his apartment.
This apartment belonged to his uncle. Because the address happened to be near the university where he was studying, his uncle gave him the apartment for four years when he entered university.
This allowed Charlie to enjoy a living environment with a large area without having to live on campus, and he could also avoid the cost of accommodation.
Many students were envious when they learned about his situation because they thought it meant that Charlie could often bring beautiful young ladies to play at home and go to bed directly when tired. After all, his home was quite big.
But no...
Because that would only affect the speed at which he, Charlie, played Video games.
A great man once said, "Women are bugs, simply a nuisance, seeming to serve no purpose other than to annoy us. They are akin to Mosquitoes buzzing around our ears, flies landing on our food, or cockroaches scurrying in dark corners. They disrupt our comfort and thought process, leading to the perception that they contribute little value to our lives. However, it's important to remember that even these pesky creatures have roles in nature, such as teaching us that humans, like all living beings, are subject to imperfections and limitations. Understanding and acknowledging these imperfections is crucial for personal growth and societal development."
[TL Note- "..."]
Although Charlie feels that the above statement is a bit extreme, he believes it has some merit.
Charlie, an undergraduate student, is also a self-proclaimed Grandmaster in the stand-alone game genre; if he had fallen prey to womanly attractions, he would not have attained his current achievements.
Now, because of his superb skills and perseverance in pursuing perfect and unharmed game clearance, his edited game recordings often have a blockbuster visual sense, allowing him to gain many fans.
As a conscientious gaming grandmaster who has never been in love, he has always put his career and fans first. He has no time to toss about with nonsensical relations.
[TL Note- to all my female readers, I'm simply an editor; I love you all and completely disagree with everything written thus far...]
Ding!
When he got home, Charlie had just entered his room, but before he had time to do anything, a clear notification sounded in his ears, making his heart tremble.
Could it be that my system has been delayed for a month and finally arrived?
That's right, Charlie is not an original native of this multiverse but a traveler hailed from "Mother Russia." He has only been on 'This' Earth for a month now.
According to the limited knowledge he obtained from fantasy works, he can very well judge that he has traveled to a body that is almost the same as his own life trajectory in a different world.
However, Although the world is similar to His Earth, it is not entirely the same.
This Earth is also a world dominated by humans, which is similar to the human civilization that Charlie is familiar with. However, human civilization in this world has an entirely different development process, and the complex evolution over the long years has finally led to the fact that this Earth has no national boundaries.
That's right. Although 'this' Earth also has continental plates and regional divisions, it has no concept of national boundaries, and it has been like this for many years.
In addition, there are many other differences in 'this' Earth, emphasized by the fact that it would take days and nights to list all the details individually. Fortunately, the direct impact on Charlie was not too great.
If traversing is compared to playing the lottery, he feels that his luck is not too bad. In past generations, some people have traveled to the end of the world, where zombies are rampant; some have traveled to the wasteland, where civilization is in ruins; and some have traveled to the world of immortals, where everywhere one can find a random passerby with the power of gods.
Compared with those high-risk planes, his side seems to be a stable society; at least from the memory he inherited, he didn't find any strange phenomena. He has no cheats and no special skills; as long as he can lie down and eat and wait for death in this life, he will be very content.
But now...
In the early days, nine of the ten internet traversers had a system, and the sound of "ding" in their minds was often the beginning of the MC's counterattack and killing everything in seconds.
Excitedly Charlie, changed his posture, then, in his heart, he called out to the system, but found no reaction.
He then realized that the voice seemed to come from the computer on the bedroom desk, which had not been turned off all night.
It sounds like the notification sounds when the game is downloaded and installed.
Charlie was greatly disappointed, and he couldn't help but be puzzled.
Last night, he was watching por...ah no, he was reading learning materials, then he went to bed without turning off the computer. Could it be that the computer caught a virus and automatically installed some weird things in the bundle when he was downloading por... reading materials?
Charlie shook the mouse, waking up the sleeping monitor.
Soon, he noticed the extra icons on his desktop.
"Avengers vs Justice League: A New Age".
Charlie "..."!?
He recognized this game because it happened to be the last game he had bought before traversing.
"I still remember that on the eve of traversing a month ago, I excitedly bought this newly released game and had it downloading in the background. Later, I went to school to attend classes.
Unexpected events occurred, and he ran into a dump truck and died.
Initially, Charlie had already forgotten about this after being in another world for a month, but when he saw this icon on the computer, he was almost petrified in place.
There is no Marvel or DC, along with other superhero-themed works, in this world, so it is impossible for a game like Avengers vs. Justice League to exist.
So, what kind of awesome black technology is this? Could it be that the Steam platform has already started to expand the business to different dimensions?
Or perhaps the Steam platform detected that he bought the game but disappeared before he had time to play it. To prevent the customer from spending money on the game and not playing it, Steam especially opened a multiverse Delivery package just for him.
Charlie sat in front of the computer, held his breath, and double-clicked to open the game icon.
According to the law of Web Novel traversing, the things you can bring with you from the original world are often overpowered. So even though he didn't know how a game downloaded from his original world would be useful, Charlie still had expectations for it.
But there is also the possibility that this is really just a game.
After the joint logo of Steam and the production company flashed one after another, the screen fell into darkness.
The screen then changes to two silver logos in the middle of the black screen. One is "A," representing the Avengers, and the other is "JL," representing the Justice League, which are divided diagonally on both sides of the screen.
The silver slender diagonal line represents the game's loading progress bar, and a line of small characters next to it shows the specific loading information.
"Hero character loaded...Role loaded successfully."
"Game map loading... Map information is missing, loading failed."
Charlie's heart skipped a beat; just as he felt something was wrong, the information changed.
"Repairing... New map system loaded."
Then, dreadful loading failure prompts occurred several times in a row, but fortunately, they were all automatically repaired without exception. The game finally finished loading and entered the title interface.
Charlie breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, the process of loading and repairing also gave him a faint sense of foreboding.
Without hesitation, Charlie directly clicked to start the game.
The game is a classic stand-alone action-adventure game.
This kind of game often allows players to play superheroes to complete tasks, experience movie-like main storylines, or freely explore in open maps.
"Please choose your hero."
Although he was given the option to choose a hero, Charlie found that he didn't seem to have a choice.
There are many superhero portraits on the screen, but most of them are gray and covered with a big question mark; hovering above them with the mouse, the words "invalid selection" are displayed.
All Charlie can choose is the initial hero given by the game, the top character of DC comics, also known as the world's strongest detective, the brain of the Justice League, the Dark Knight of Gotham...
Batman.
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