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 The sound of hooves clacking against the dirt and gravel outside of the front doors became apparent, followed by the neighing of a horse, echoing through the quiet night.
 "That must be our buyer."
 Klaus smiled with an air of avarice, smacking his meaty hands together.
 "One of them, at least."
 Abe, the lanky tall one with unnaturally elongated arms that hung below his knees responded. If Klaus was built like a gorilla, then Abe was more of a chimpanzee.
 "Buyer? Is this what I think it is--?"
 Ren asked, looking at Adelaide who gestured for the two thugs to get the door. It didn't take a genius to realize what was happening now. He was their merchandise. As this revelation came to him, he watched as the doors opened up, letting in a chilly breeze as a man became visible in the doorway.
 "Welcome, Lord Althaus."
 Adelaide greeted the man, bowing her head as the two thugs hesitantly followed her gesture.
 "Now, now--such formalities are not needed! As buyer and seller, we're both equal, Miss Adelaide."
 The man's words came out with a tinge of elegance as he stepped into the abandoned shack, a bodyguard dressed in a suit of armor following close by him. Ren could only sit and watch while the nobleman stepped over to him, wearing a finely woven dress that exuded his wealth.
 "Nice to meet you, otherworlder--I am Stefan Althaus, head of the Althaus family."
 Althaus placed his hand over his chest before bowing his head, rising back up as he stroked his light-brown beard with one hand.
 "He's not very talkative, is he?"
 The nobleman turned to Adelaide, smiling as if this situation was completely of the norm.
 "He was flapping his lips just before ya' came in!"
 Klaus answered, walking over and gripping Ren by the hair, pulling his head back as he used force to make him speak.
 "Now, such savagery is unnecessary."
 "Ya' don't tell me how to handle our merchandise until the money is on the table!"
 The boarish thug spit as he talked, letting go of Ren's hair after a sharp glare from Adelaide. Althaus brushed off the rude behavior, placing his arm in front of his bodyguard, who seemed as if he was about to put Klaus in his place.
 "Before we talk about money, I believe verification is in order."
 "The hell do ya' mean?"
 "Klaus, quiet down. Do whatever you need to do, Lord Althaus."
 Adelaide pulled Klaus back, giving the nobleman free rein to "verify" whatever he had in mind. A small vial was pulled out from under his coat pocket, containing an unknown blue, powdery substance. As the cap of the vial was popped off, an aroma similar to gasoline drifted from the unknown substance.
 "This will be a rather...unpleasant experience, just bare with it--it'll be over quickly," Althaus assured Ren, "Johannes, hold him for me, will you?"
 The armor-clad guard grabbed hold of Ren's head, forcing his mouth open as the vial was brought above his face.
 "--Hgh! --op it!"
 Ren stammered out, squirming as he tried to escape from his inevitable fate. The powder fell from the tube container, directly into his mouth as he instinctively swallowed it. It took no more than a few seconds before the effects of the substance made themselves present--he wailed out as all of his muscles seemed to cramp at once. Every fiber of his body seized, tightening and shortening is his muscles contracted. It was like sparks of electricity were coiling around each of his nerves, shocking them endlessly and without mercy.
 "--Ghh...Gah! Ngh'¦!"
 He let out whimpers, yelling when his body allowed him to as his screams carried his agony through the room.
 "The hell did ya' give the poor guy?"
 Abe asked, scratching the top of his head with his tube-like arms.
 "It's nothing dangerous for those of this world, but for otherworlders--it invokes a reaction like you see before you. So, with that said--it seems the boy here is truly an otherworlder."
 Althaus explained, slipping the vial back under his coat as he had Johannes sit Ren back up.
 "So, where's tha' money at?"
 "Johannes, you can show them the payment now."
 The nobleman's guard removed the pouch attached to his leather belt, bulging with the contents it held inside. Setting it down on the table--the thud that echoed under its weight was telling of how much coin was on the line here.
 "Holy...are those--"
 "One-hundred holy coins, no more, no less."
 While Ren was ignorant to how much money that turned out to be, the other's eye-widened reactions to Althaus' words told him it was not a small sum.
 "One-hundred...that's--Ad, you can pay that bastard Gunther back in full, with change to spare!"
 Klaus celebrated, while Adelaide was left in slight disbelief at the sight of such money.
 "If this is our starting bid, then our other buyer will have to offer up more!"
 "Yeah, that's right!"
 Abe and Klaus were like two children, getting giddy over the exuberant sum in front of them.
 "Now...there is just one condition."
 Althaus spoke up, stopping the celebratory air in the room.
 "The deal is only on if you accept it here and now."
 Klaus' excited face contorted into his usual angry mug as he stomped towards Althaus, his bare, hairy feet making it sound as if the wooden floorboards would snap under his feet.
 "Tha' hell? That's not how this works, you know that! We'd lose our reputation if we just accepted the first offer we got without hearin' out the other offer! Yer'just scared that the other buyer will outbid ya'!"
 "I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the lady."
 Althaus looked up at the gorilla-thug, holding his slight smile--which for some reason seemed to further the thug's rage as he raised a fist to the nobleman.
 "Klaus, stop--!"
 As Adelaide attempted to stop her partner, it was too late--the hand he raised towards Althaus was gone from its wrist. It all happened in the blink of an eye, even Klaus didn't seem to notice until he stopped and looked at the stub at the end of his arm.
 "Huh--?"
 Looking up, Johannes had unsheathed his broadsword from its scabbard--coated in crimson as the thug then realized his severed hand on the floor below.
 "--My fuckin' hand! Ya' cut my fuckin' hand off!"
 The brutish thug fell to his knees, holding onto his wrist as arterial fluid spewed like a fountain out of the open wound.
 "Yer' dead, bastard!"
 "Stop it, Abe!"
 Adelaide held Abe back from approaching Johannes, who stayed silent and ready to retaliate.
 "You know the art of healing magic, don't you? If you act diligently, you can return the gentleman's hand to his arm, Miss Adelaide."
 The nobleman spoke calmly, stroking his beard as he glanced over at Johannes, having him return his blade to his scabbard. Although the girl held a burning rage in her emerald irises, she hesitantly listened to the words of wisdom, kneeling by Klaus, who was now growing pale from the rapid loss of blood.
 "--Abe, get his hand and hold it to his wrist!"
 "But, Ad--!"
 "Now, Abe!"
 The lanky thug froze for a moment before following her command, rushing over and retrieving the still-intact hand, holding it against Klaus' open wound.
 --The hell is going on here?
 Ren felt as if he was experiencing a fever dream, watching all of this unfold after his body calmed from the experience with the blue substance. Besides that--he assumed these thugs were just some randoms, but Adelaide seemed to genuinely care about them.
 "--Licht, Gaia--Greater Healing!"
 Adelaide's words coated in desperation and anxiety manifested in the form of a spell, a divine light emanating with a rejuvenating warmth illuminated the gloomy room.
 "--Amazing, it truly is."
 Althaus commented quietly as he watched the spectacle, narrowing his eyes from the blinding light of healing. As expected from something called "Greater Healing", the thug's hand was reattached to his wrist, only leaving a pale scar at the attachment zone.
 "...thank ya', Add."
 "Just let me handle this, Klaus. Abe, make sure he stays put."
 "Add--I just wanna' make sure ya' aren't getting taken advantage of, these nobles can be real slimy'¦"
 Klaus muttered, still sweating from the previous mixture of pain and shock.
 "So, have you considered my deal?"
 Althaus asked Adelaide as she stood in front of him, still stroking his beard with an unmoving smile.
 "--You attack my family like that, then have the nerve to continue on like nothing happened?"
 "Now hold on, your "family"--he was going to attack me, but Johannes here acted swiftly. All is well anyways, look--he's all healed."
 "Only because I had access to healing magic powerful enough to repair such a wound--you had no way of knowing I even possessed such magic."
 "Sure I did--you're a descendent of the Sages, one of the last "Ancients", no?"
 Adelaide's eyes widened at the nobleman's words, clenching her fists as an aura of mana emanated from her.
 "Calm yourself, Miss Adelaide--I did not come here for you. All I want is the otherworlder, then I'll be on my merry way. You just have to accept my offer, here and now--time is of the essence."
 The vibe of the small room, now full with two sides who had every reason to fight one another, was too intense for Ren to even attempt to speak. Even somebody like him, holding little to no experience with girls, knew that telling an obviously angered girl to calm down was not the best idea.
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 Frail, ignorant, and afraid—yet he wants everything; this is the story of a young man and his rise from the bottom of the barrel to the heights that try to slip through his fingers.
 This is not the tale of a hero blessed by the gods, loved by the world, or praised by the people. This is the story of a man faced with hardship, abandoned by the world, and forced to continue pushing onward, despite whatever flaws and obstacles may come his way.
 Secluded to his home by his own choice, Ren Nakamura, NEET extraordinaire, exists only by his own pleasure and displeasure, with little to his name and a personality flawed beyond compare, living in his own bedroom in his parent's house, sticking himself to his PC from dusk till dawn. That is until Ren visits the local shop to purchase a new video game, suddenly finding himself transported into another world.
 Using his wisdom as a shut-in, Ren quickly deducts what had happened: somehow, someway, he had found himself into an "isekai journey", with him as the main character. Ignited by aspirations once again, Ren becomes over-thrilled with the prospect of the magical powers that will be granted to him, only to find out this world doesn't operate in his favor–quite the opposite.
 Unforgiving, unwelcoming, unrelenting–this is the world Ren must traverse, contrary to the gentle other-world fantasy he had hoped for.
 Otherworlders are hunted down by powerful, brutal mages known as “Argonauts”—the very nemesis of any hailing from Earth.
 Will Ren be able to persevere through these hardships without losing who he is?
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 Albarino was a forensic pathologist at Westland Forensic Bureau, single, witty, and would go out for a drink with his colleagues – just like any other forensic pathologist. 
 Except for one thing: he was secretly a psycho serial killer. 
 For the longest time, Albarino had a normal 3-point-1-line life [1] from home – Forensic Bureau – crime scene (his own or someone else’s), until one day, another psycho serial killer unintentionally killed his target he had planned to kill for 3 months. 
 With all his meticulous planning ruined, he was pissed off, so he decided to provoke the other serial killer himself. 
 [1] a boring, monotone, unchanging life. 
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 This is a story about ordinary people changing their lives after getting a game.
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 【Record: Abnormal data found. 】
 [Record: The number of abnormalities caused a change in your attribute panel, and it was an epiphany. 】
 [Record: Your property panel is lost in thought. 】
 [Record: Your stats panel has finished meditation, and shouted, “Here you are, you can die in the evening”, and you decide to defeat the core of the world and make you a god. 】
 [Record: Your property panel has left. 】
 Three years later…
 [Record: Your attribute panel has been fighting against the core of the world for three years, and now you have finally returned with a disastrous defeat, please comfort…]
 Chen crack:…
 Chapter 40 After…
 Chen Chai: “Don’t pretend, it’s a showdown, I’m going to go through the sky, go through the world…”
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 She, a genius abandoned by her clan. He, a proud, pampered, two-faced imperial crown prince, a developing supreme ruler of the world. She, tricking him, disguised as a pig to eat a tiger, suppressing him, provoking him. Every time, after playing with him and stirring him up, she’d escape.
 No man could put up with this! He could only hunt her, pamper and indulge her, lure her into falling in love with him, who would have thought, the one to first fall in love would turn out to be him———-
 A young man who stood above the world, a young lady who dominated the landscape, evenly matched opponents, evenly matched romantic game of chase and tag.
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 Su Qin accidentally crossed the Douluo Continent and wrote a legend that belongs to him… 
 Tang San: “Brother, can you do anything besides Jian (sword)?” 
 Su Qin: “I still have a good pot of fairy brew. Would you like to have a bite? It’s effective!” 
 Tang San: “Brother, why don’t you draw your sword, do you look down on me?” 
 Su Qin: “Bian (sword) has an air of 30,000 miles, and a cheap (sword) has nineteen continents! I am too powerful, I am afraid you can’t afford it!”
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 I just slept and became the owner of the feeding house. 
 Do you want a mini dragon? 
 Sorry, too precious, no. 
 Do you want a katy dog? 
 Sorry, too precious, no. 
 Do you want a little fire dragon? 
 Sorry, too precious, no. 
 What? You said there should be little Lada, right? 
 Sorry, really not, this is too rubbish. 
 fall! ! ! 
 Can this feeding house be opened?
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 “White Moonlight (Bai Yueguang) lies within a certain part of the heart, you are my unspeakable wound.”
 Having the natural constitution of being a White Moonlight, He Ziming, after his death, got bound to the “Cannon fodder’s Counterattack System,” and thus began his journey of being reborn as all kinds of cannon fodder, helping the original owners of the body he is occupying fulfilling their wishes, face-slapping the protagonists and becoming their White Moonlight.
 Because I like you, I die, but to you I am as insignificant as a bird’s feather.
 However, I still want you to remember me for your whole life, to engrave my name into your heart and soul so deeply that your heart will hurt by only thinking of me.
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 Meet Gu Yu—a college dropout and a talented incense maker, and at the same time, the rather stoic protagonist of this story. Despite his somewhat introverted manner, he has a tendency to make sarcastic remarks in his thoughts. One day, after saving a squirrel, a windfall (metaphorically and literally) dropped into his lap. Stumbling into the cultivation world with little help, he was not turned into Superman overnight (as he would like). Apparently, becoming a cultivator would not make your life easier, at least in the beginning.
 Somewhere along the road, he ran into Jiang Xiaozhai, a young woman who’s got the brains, the beauty, and maybe one or two secrets of her own. As it turned out, the two made a perfect team—Mulder-and-Scully style. Motivated by many unanswered questions, they had been running up and down the country, getting into all kinds of trouble, and learning more of the modern cultivation world, which is by no means the same as in the ages long past…
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 Reading notes: 
 1. The protagonist Sieg (Siegfried) uses the path of a certain god in “Lord of the Mysteries” as the golden finger, and is combined with the Pirate System. The power of the path of the God has changed, which fits with the explanation of the local power system of One Piece , I haven’t read “Lord of Mysteries”, and it doesn’t affect reading this book. 
 2. It is assumed that before the protagonist crosses the journey, the comics of “One Piece” only see the story of Dresrosa (the author himself has pursued it). 
 3. The protagonist is a traverser, who can be regarded as wearing or as a peer crossing, and the body age decreases after crossing. 
 4. The start of the dragon slaves, but the slave life is only in the first chapter, shown in the form of a diary (required), in order to reduce the boring space. 
 5. Looking at the starting identity, you know that the protagonist is the opposite of the world government at the railway station, and in most of the pages, he acts as a “pirate” and does not like to enter. 
 6. In the early stage, I boarded the Sun Boat, and in the early and mid-term, I was on the Red Hair Boat. As a cadre, he followed the Red Hair to the top of the Four Emperors. Later, I will not disclose it. 
 7. Zieg’s character and beliefs are more complicated than the protagonists in my previous works (Gentleman Dong), and have a significant transformation process.
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 One day, Chen Caixing entered in the world of supernatural horror games. 
 Nothing much, just that he added a ‘Fifth Month’ beer belly..
 Chen Caixing looked at his swollen stomach and fell into contemplation. 
 He is a man, so is this the attached golden finger??
 Chen Caixing didn’t know if he had any golden fingers or not. 
 He only knew that this beer belly will keep getting bigger!
 As if… pregnant..
 It’s impossible to get pregnant, pretending to be a big-bellied pregnant woman is even more impossible!
 Later..
 Chen Caixing: Ying ying ying this one is just a poor, helpless and pitiful pregnant woman! 
 Ghost: Chasing us five ghosts with a big belly “pregnant woman”???
 Supernatural + unlimited flow + child birth 
 Shou Chen Caixing, forced to dress in women’s clothes and give birth 
 The game’s ultimate boss gong, dressed as an elementary school kid, is an adult!
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 In the post-apocalyptic world, Xie Sen was bitten to death by a zombie and woke up again as Xie Sen, the famous wastrel of Beast Star City – a child abandoned by the Beast God. After his 18th birthday, the contract beast did not awaken. This world did not have zombies, the air quality was also good, Xie Sen was very satisfied. As for the vegetables and plants, they were few and expensive. But he did not care, he had a plant system, so what was he afraid of?
 The only thing is, the system had insufficient energy, and if Xie Sen wanted to plant, he needed to provide energy.
 System: Another strategy is to let people appreciate you. When the gratitude energy reaches a certain amount, you can unseal a plant.
 PS: The difficulty of each person’s appreciation is different, the return of gratitude energy is also different, with a value of 1-10.
 Xie Sen was willing to put himself out there to get points.
 But his strategy stalled when he met a handsome man.
 Xie Sen: What’s your name?
 Handsome man: Maine Cox.
 Xie Sen: Why does it sound familiar?
 ┌(。Д。)┐ Ah! I’m so f*cked! Wasn’t this the novel he just finished reading? The one where the ultimate villain boss led the alien race and almost destroyed the Beast Planet?
 Xie Sen thinks, this kind of villain, it is better to kill him in the cradle!
 Later, Xie Sen ╭(╯^╰)╮: Who dares to touch him?!
 Maine: My boyfriend is super unbelievably cute!
 #StarCityUniversityForum#: Shocked, the number one on the tournament fights is actually Scrap Xie?!
 The director of the plant institute, who watched the fight video, Kid, come plant with me. You have a future in planting.
 Xie Sen: I read less, don’t lie to me!
 Beast Star crowd: Please fight me!
 Xie Sen found that something was wrong, what happened to these people who originally looked down on him? They were rushing to let him fight.
 Those who were beaten up cheered with joy \(^o^)/~ Today Xie Sen beat me up, there are vegetables to eat! 
 Xie Sen indifferent face-jpg [I was fighting seriously, but my opponent only thought about cleaning up the battlefield to pick up vegetables!]
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 The strongest escape technique is “mouth escape?”. 
 Is there blood and sunshine in Naruto? 
 A peaceful world of mutual understanding? 
 Do not! 
 this world! Need to change! 
 Strength is the only way to forge peace. 
 “Let the world begin to feel pain right now!” 
 Stand on top of the peak. 
 Minato Namikaze looked at the Ninja Allied Forces in front of him and said with a sneer. 
 (PS: Don’t give the protagonist extra cheats, so the early plot will be slightly flat and slow, because it needs to be reasonably excessive, and it will start to run wild in the middle!)
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