Li Bei opened his eyes to a familiar yet strange ceiling.
"Congratulations, Host! Your first character launch went smoothly" The system's cheeky voice rang in Li Bei's ears, "This is the first step towards your dream of a peaceful life"
"Ugh, my head hurts a little..."
Li Bei sat up in bed, noticing that the clock on the wall had only ticked one notch since before he created his character.
His first character, Lihua Kaslana, had died.
And her 20+ years of life in the Honkai world, now felt like countless slides flashing through Li Bei's mind, before gradually calming down and hiding deep within his consciousness.
It was Li Bei, and yet it wasn't Li Bei.
The most typical example was that, when Li Bei was now recalling those events, he could find that some things that were clearly very simple for him to understand now, had troubled Lihua for a long time without finding an answer.
Simply put, she didn't feel particularly intelligent.
"Although there wasn't any excessive memory flooding, causing a deviation in consciousness... but there are still some differences between the character's behavior and the main body. Could it be influenced by the character's inherent personality settings...?"
Hearing Li Bei's mutterings, the system immediately became disgruntled: "Host, are you questioning my professionalism?! I was a top student who went to the Terminal System School as an exchange student. How could I make such a low-level mistake as consciousness deviation?"
"As for the characters, each character has their own background settings. Her inherent personality will have a certain impact on your thinking pattern at the time. However, if you have a strong desire to resist, this influence can be overcome."
"If you really can't overcome it, then it must be your problem, not mine..."
"Get a grip on yourself." Li Bei rolled his eyes, got out of bed, and headed for the refrigerator.
Ah, in this sweltering summer heat, it's so much more comfortable staying in modern times with high-tech.
No need to worry about Honkai beasts, no need to think about ways to farm goodwill and energy from others, doing whatever he wanted in his already financially free home was the pinnacle of a peaceful life.
Everything was so wonderful—
?
Li Bei, who had just passed by the mirror, slowly backed up, and looked at himself in the reflection.
Hmm, those profound eyes, those perfect features, that is indeed my handsome and dashing self… but why does it look a little strange?
"System, why has my hair faded?"
Li Bei touched his gray short hair that had grown to ear length, somewhat puzzled. This color seemed more like Lihua's hair: "And my eyes are also a little blue... are you trying to pull some gender-bending stuff on me?"
"This is a normal change that occurs after an avatar returns to the main body, Host, no need to be surprised."
The system calmly replied: "Since the power and traits of the avatar have merged into your main body, your main body will also develop similar traits."
"These changes will only remain on the surface and won't have too much of an impact on you. Moreover, as the number of your returning avatars increases, the external characteristics of the different avatars will gradually fade as they continuously stack up. So don't worry about turning into your avatar."
"Like a color palette?" Li Bei looked at himself in the mirror and ultimately shrugged indifferently.
It doesn't matter, even if I dye my hair into a rainbow-colored explosion of a "scene kid" style, it won't be able to diminish my handsomeness.
"Since we're talking about the avatar, let's take a good look at what you got from the avatar."
With a thought, a semi-transparent light screen unfolded in front of Li Bei.
Name: Li Bei
Gender: Male
Traits: Brute Strength, Fast Recovery, Fast Action, High Honkai Energy Resistance, Agile Reflexes, Kaslana Bloodline (Thin)
Skills: Advanced Close Combat, Inch Punch: Sky Shattering, Intermediate Martial Arts, Intermediate Climbing, Basic Medical Skills, Basic Fishing, Intermediate Wilderness Survival, Basic Chess Skills, Basic Painting, Intermediate Sailing, Basic Singing, Intermediate Cooking, Basic Instrument Playing…
Important Item: Judgement of Shamash
Character Card: Lihua Kaslana
Evaluation: Invincible Working Drone(Worker)
Energy: 1,740,572
That's right, this was the attribute panel that almost every system came with, except Li Bei's seemed particularly simple, without even any numerical values for things like strength and agility.
Those traits that Lihua Kaslana had originally possessed had now all appeared on Li Bei's body. Not only that, but even her inherent diluted bloodline had returned to Li Bei's main body.
Li Bei casually picked up a glass and squeezed it gently, shattering the high-quality glass into pieces.
The Brute Strength trait, although it couldn't even beat a high-class Honkai beast in the Honkai world, was practically invincible on this Earth - well, at least before spiritual energy started to awaken and dimensional invasions started....
"Host, no matter how many times I look at this panel, I still want to complain – you've learned so many skills?!" Looking at the hundreds of random skills on Li Bei's skill list, the system couldn't help but say, "How did you learn so many of them, and what's the point?"
Don't be fooled by the 'Basic' prefixes, the fact that they were recognized by the system panel as traits meant that they had reached at least a professional level.
It was absurd to the system that an ordinary person, without a system or a cheat, could have mastered so many skills.
If all the skills were in the same field, it could still understand it, but these skills barely seemed connected!
"Foolish question."
Li Bei slicked back his hair, and said decisively, "Is a peaceful life something that can be easily obtained? If you can't even do something as simple as climbing snow mountains, sailing across the sea, or fighting tigers and leopards, how can you grow into a sound human being capable of enjoying a peaceful life?! Don't be disrespectful to a peaceful life, you!"
"A peaceful life, is it really such a scary thing..." The system didn't understand, but it was deeply shocked.
"To continue to live a peaceful life on this crisis-ridden Earth in the future, I still have to work hard now."
Without paying any more attention to the system, which seemed to be experiencing some kind of worldview shock, Li Bei's gaze went to the bottom of the system panel.
1.74 million energy points, this was not a small amount, but it was also definitely not much.
"Speaking of which, why is the Judgement of Shamash listed as my item?"
Li Bei looked at the red dual pistols in the item box, and with a thought, the heavy suicide weapon appeared in his hands.
"Even though I've heard of these things, I've only used them once, so I don't see how they're mine."
"Because you were still holding it before you died, and it's ownership does belong to you."
The system explained: "Items that belong to you and were carried with the avatar at the time of their death are identified and retrieved as part of the avatar's items."
"Although you're not familiar with the Judgement of Shamash, it was essentially an unclaimed item at that time, and thus, after you held it, it became your item. But the Abyss Flower and White Flower were Eleanor's items, and are therefore not classified as your items."
"Unclaimed things in my hand are considered my items..."
Li Bei thoughtfully rubbed his chin: "So, if I put my hand into the ground before I die, does that count as me holding onto the Earth?"
"Get a grip, stop dreaming." The system said mercilessly, "Just like Killer Queen can't stand on her head to touch the Earth."
"I thought I had found a way to get rich."
Li Bei shrugged and leaned back on the sofa.
Looks like I'll have to save up energy to buy powerful items from the store.