Back in the Honkai world, starting from when she was locked up in the dungeon, Lihua had often received energy notifications from who-knows-where.
These notifications, like pop-up ads, were really interfering with her gaming, so she simply turned them off. Only large sums of energy would trigger a notification.
But now it seemed like these small amounts of energy had added up, eventually reaching a considerable sum.
However, the biggest source of energy was still the 1 million that Otto had contributed before her death.
One million, oh, one million! That was worth several years of Lihua's hard work in the Honkai world. And all it took was dying to get so much energy...
Li Bei felt a Stabs of heartache just thinking about it.
If Otto could contribute 1 million, then Kallen could probably contribute 900,000, right? Eleanor could contribute 500,000, and the civilians and Valkyries combined could probably contribute a few hundred thousand… Damn it, why did I have to die so unremarkably!
Why weren't there a bunch of cameras pointed at my face, showing everyone Lihua's heroic deeds?!
So much energy, all of it un-plundered!
Just thinking about the millions of energy he hadn't collected, Li Bei felt heartbroken and his hands trembled.
Why was this happening to him? Couldn't Kallen and Eleanor have been a little stronger, at least stayed awake long enough to see him die?!
Damn it!!!
"Host, do you really value energy that much?" Looking at Li Bei, who was pounding his chest, the system asked, a little strangely, "If you really wanted energy, why did you exchange it for traits for your avatar then? You knew it wasn't worth it."
"System, I believe that a peaceful life is the most beautiful thing in the world, no matter what world we're in."
Hearing the system's question, Li Bei temporarily stopped his grumbling: "And depriving others of their right to a peaceful life is the most malicious thing in this world…"
"In the Honkai world, the original plotline shouldn't have gone that way."
Li Bei sighed: "Kallen should have stopped Schicksal's conspiracy and saved those children being used as test subjects... But as you know, due to my actions, Kallen and Otto both went through some unexpected changes, and the human experiments just continued, without anyone stopping them. And the children who shouldn't have suffered this fate were dragged into hell."
"If that was the original fate of those kids, I probably wouldn't have interfered, but this whole thing was my fault, so I have to take responsibility for my actions."
"Host, you unexpectedly have a sense of morality..."
"The point is, Lihua's hand is faster than her brain! I didn't even get a chance to stop her, and she had already made the exchange!"
"My energy! The energy I spent decades working hard for... At least leave me a little more!"
"If you spent it, don't feel bad about it." The system was also speechless at Li Bei, "It's just over 2 million energy points, you'll get more soon—Huh?"
"What's wrong—wait, is that?!!"
The sudden situation shocked Li Bei and the system simultaneously.
[Energy +5,000,000]
"F-Five million?!"
Li Bei looked at the notification on the system panel in disbelief: "It's not April Fool's Day today, if you dare tell me that you are tricking me, I'll fight you…"
"I didn't do anything! This seems to be energy from a final settlement…" The system said, also confused, "Did you do anything in Earth before?"
"No, other than winning some prizes, climbing some mountains, crossing some seas, and winning a few lotteries, I didn't do anything else."
"Then that's very strange. Energy settlement means that you did something in another world, but at the time when others developed emotional energy towards you, your consciousness and the system were no longer in that world. So that energy would be temporarily accumulated until you reconnected with that world, then it will all be sent to you at once."
"Like this 5 million energy, it seems to come from many different sources, and each one is very small, only like ten or twenty points each."
"That's really strange, does energy have a lottery system? They didn't teach this at school..." The system was totally lost.
"Maybe it's a bug in your higher-up system!" Li Bei was very decisive: "Spend it quickly, before they take it back!"
"Is there anything expensive in the current store?!"
Without waiting for the system's reaction, Li Bei had already opened the system store and started frantically searching.
Physical Optimization: 500,000 energy points? Bought!
Future Prediction: 2,000,000 energy points? Buy, buy, buy!
Rechargeable Ultra Spark Lens: 4,000,000 energy points?! Buy, I'll buy everything!
In this race against time, worried that the sudden windfall would be taken away, Li Bei didn't hesitate to find some of the most expensive items from the current system store, spending all of his energy as quickly as possible.
A total of 6.7 million energy points, gone in a blink of an eye, leaving only a small change behind.
Looking at the disappearing windfall, Li Bei finally breathed a sigh of relief and carefully checked the detailed descriptions of the items he had just exchanged for.
But what he never expected, was that this time he actually came across the Ultra Spark Lens, and it was only 4 million energy points.
Looks like when your luck comes, you just can't stop it~
After spending almost all of his energy, Li Bei leisurely began to check out his gains.
There was nothing much to say about the Physical Optimization.
It basically strengthened Li Bei's foundation, completely improving his physical fitness, appearance, nerve reflexes, and other physiological aspects, while also greatly improving his senses, mental strength, and other more mysterious forces, basically bringing all of them close to the limits of a normal human being.
The Future Prediction was a little more subtle, saying that it would give him precognition before a crisis occurred, but it couldn't be activated proactively and was a passive skill... But since it was exchanged using a sudden windfall, Li Bei wasn't going to complain.
The Ultra Spark Lens was ridiculous; this thing actually needed to be charged to use it!
Of course, not in a physical sense of charging, but rather, after using it once, he had to accumulate enough light to transform again. And this light wasn't ordinary light, but the light of the heart. If he wanted to use solar energy to charge it, it would take 30 million years…
Basically, it meant that only with light in his heart could he transform into light.
But his system was a bad-woman system, and he wasn't exactly a good person, how could he become light!
The only thing worth celebrating was that it came with enough energy for one transformation... Oh well, let's just use it as a one-time item, 4 million energy points for a one time chance to transform into Ultraman Tiga is definitely a good deal.
"System, your items are really very subtle, are you sure they're not from the secondhand market, just like Doraemon's stuff?"
"You can also see if you can get the limited edition version of the Ultra Spark Lens someday, that thing can transform anytime, anywhere, but it'll cost you two more zeroes."
The system said proudly, "Do you have that much energy? You get what you pay for, you know? Mine are a bargain!"
"You are really great, you know…" Li Bei clapped perfunctorily.
"Now you know my worth, right? I was an outstanding graduate of the Hedgehog Cat System School, and I even went to the Terminal System Academy for advanced studies. I'm very reliable, believe me!"
Hearing Li Bei's praise, the system immediately puffed up like a pufferfish.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay."
Based on Li Bei's experience, those who always emphasized that they were reliable, were usually the most unreliable…