Xia Yuan kept pounding on the keyboard. At this moment, he was in a private room of an internet café, using the computer here to hack into the national database to find the information he wanted. As for the money to pay for the internet, of course, it was provided by those three "kind-hearted" people earlier, although it was only a few thousand yen. As for the difficulty of hacking into the national database, don't worry about these details; just know that he succeeded.
After several tens of minutes, Xia Yuan finally stopped his actions and pressed his temples with a bit of a headache.
[I had a feeling, but I didn't expect it to be exactly as I thought.]
After continuous searching, Xia Yuan couldn't find anything familiar. All the relevant information he had access to was nowhere to be found. Initially, he thought he had just traveled from Huaxia to Japan. However, the reality proved that he indeed came from Huaxia to Japan, but it was Japan in another world. In other words, he had been "transported" here by some means.
"Should I say it's amazing to have a sister who can directly transport people to another world..." Xia Yuan covered his face helplessly.
"Come to think of it, saying I'm supposed to save the world, does that mean I'm supposed to save this world? But there's not even a beginner's guide. They just throw a level-one player into fighting the final BOSS directly. This is completely out of the ordinary and just a trap..." Feeling suffocated, Xia Yuan covered his face again.
Xia Yuan felt like he had fallen into a huge pit. After all, being sent by his own sister to save the world was bewildering. He used to think his sister was just a cute creature who survived by being adorable. Now he realized how naive he had been. This trap was played so skillfully, effortlessly, and calmly that Xia Yuan wondered why he hadn't seen it coming.
"Never mind, there are too few clues now, and I can't make sense of any useful information. First, I need to solve the biggest trouble at hand."
Saying this, Xia Yuan directly shut down the computer in front of him, got up, and left the internet café. No one noticed him from beginning to end. Even the cashier couldn't remember Xia Yuan's face after he left.
As for the trouble Xia Yuan mentioned, what else could it be? Of course, it was the necessity for survival—in simpler terms, money. Xia Yuan had been "transported" here, and the currency and cards in his wallet were useless. Therefore, the first priority to survive was, of course, to get some money first.
As for the method of making money, Xia Yuan had already thought it through. Was there anything safer, more reliable, and faster than gambling? And there just happened to be an underground casino very close to him, waiting for him to take the money. What could be better than that? As for how he knew about the location of the casino, it was still those three "kind-hearted" people who told him. They didn't look like much, but they surprisingly knew a lot.
So, Xia Yuan headed straight for the casino. A few hours later, he reappeared on the street with a satisfied look on his face. Although he used some tricks, Xia Yuan no longer had to worry about his future life for a while. As for whether his tricks would be discovered, that was not something he needed to worry about.
Xia Yuan said he was in a pretty good mood. Although he had come to an unfamiliar place and was given a strange task for no apparent reason, it didn't affect his good spirits. Although he was indeed very surprised at first, Xia Yuan fully trusted his sister, firmly believing that she would never harm him, just as he would never harm her. As for saving the world and all that, there would be clues eventually. If he couldn't figure it out, he wouldn't think about it. It would come naturally when the time was right. This was Xia Yuan's style of doing things.
"The moonlight tonight is quite nice. At least the environmental protection here is well done. I couldn't see such a bright and full moon in the past."
In a very good mood, Xia Yuan stood on the street, looking up to enjoy the beautiful moonlight of the night. And just after he said this, he saw...
BOOM!!!!!!!!!
The full moon that was just there, in an instant, after a flash of intense light, disappeared... No, it didn't disappear; it just changed from a full moon to a crescent moon.
"WTF????" Xia Yuan, who was always carefree and unflappable, directly burst into swearing.
"Calm down... calm down..." Xia Yuan rubbed his eyes, telling himself to stay calm.
"Based on the information I searched earlier, the technological development of this world is also quite good, but just good. There are no superpowered individuals, cultivators, demons, zombies, magical girls, or anything like that. The situation just now definitely wasn't the moon being suddenly blocked by something. To change from a full moon to a crescent moon in an instant, combined with that intense light earlier... This has to be the moon being blown up, WTF? What kind of black technology can blow up seven or eight tenths of the moon? Are you kidding me?" The more Xia Yuan spoke, the more he lost his calm, and he directly started cursing on the street. The passers-by around him all detoured, thinking that some hospital had failed to keep their patients in check and let them run out like this.
"Wait, I remember I glanced at the information of an experiment earlier..."
Xia Yuan also noticed the reactions of the people around him, but his mind was entirely focused on recalling that fleeting piece of information in his mind. He felt like he had found the source, just like discovering the main quest in a game. As long as he could find the main quest, he could follow the clues all the way. Therefore, he tried very hard to remember the information he had glanced at earlier.
"Never mind, thinking is the most troublesome. I'll just go back to the database to find it. There are more important things now."
Xia Yuan eventually gave up trying to recall it by memory and chose to find another computer to hack into the national database again. As for the possible turmoil among the big shots and the overtime of the technical staff that might be caused by this, Xia Yuan said it had nothing to do with him. However, Xia Yuan now had something more important to do, and that was—sleeping.
...
A new day, Xia Yuan was refreshed and full, no, well-fed, sitting in front of the computer, beginning to search for his target in the national database.
"Found it... antimatter research? Come on, what is this kind of seemingly high-end research? Other technologies are still normal, have the scientists' brains all been used on biology?" Xia Yuan complained while browsing.
Xia Yuan felt he was getting closer to his target. Although it was just his intuition, his intuition had always been his reliance, and many things were eventually solved by his intuition.
"The address of this research institute is... never mind, skip this, I don't recognize the way. The person in charge of the research is... Liu Ze? The content of the research... I don't understand, skip it. So the most important progress... Hmm? It's actually human experimentation? So blatant, does this Liu Ze have such a strong background?" Xia Yuan continued to complain.
"So he's a hitman. I thought he was an ordinary person. What a waste of emotion. Hmm? He actually calls himself the [Grim Reaper]. Is this hitman just a delusional teenager? Does he call himself the [Grim Reaper] because he's killed so many people? Then should I call myself the King of Hell?" Xia Yuan's third complaint.
Although he spoke lightly, Xia Yuan's expression was one of contemplation. When he saw at the end that the experiment subject had escaped, the research institute was destroyed, and countless personnel were dead or injured, Xia Yuan's eyebrows had already slightly furrowed. And when he saw that the escaped [Grim Reaper] had left a message, Xia Yuan's heart began to race. But when Xia Yuan saw the content of the message, everything calmed down again, and a relaxed smile appeared on Xia Yuan's face.
The main quest... found.