"I'm out of money, I'm out of money..."
At this moment, Lu Xiaobai had lost his usual dashing aura. He scratched his head and said,
"It's only the beginning of the month and I only have fifty thousand left. How am I supposed to live..."
His old man had already transferred him two hundred thousand this month. But after giving one hundred thousand to the siblings, plus the fifty thousand or so he spent bribing his classmates earlier, he naturally became poor all of a sudden.
Of course, this was only relative to him. If it were any other student, fifty thousand would already be a massive fortune!
He shook his head and muttered to himself,
"Forget it, I'll just have to be a bit more frugal..."
Soon,
Lu Xiaobai piloted his flying machine to the downtown area.
Looking at the bustling streets full of people below, his hands couldn't help but itch. He wanted to use his Empty Hand skill, but he forced himself to hold back...
It wasn't that he wanted to steal anything; he just wanted to experience the thrill of picking pockets as easily as taking things out of his own bag...
For the past few days, his only practice target had been the white-bearded butler.
Although the butler was an advanced robot, it was still fundamentally different from a real human and lacked any vigilance. This made stealing from it quite boring. Besides, if he accidentally stole its core and ruined the whole machine, that would be bad...
"I still need to find a real person to practice on..."
Lu Xiaobai rubbed his hands, and then a flash of inspiration struck him. He muttered,
"Right, there is a place where I can use it as much as I want!"
His expression lifted as he suddenly thought of something, and he hurried back home.
"Lao Hu, dinner as usual."
Lu Xiaobai instructed the white-bearded butler, then rushed straight into the virtual space cabin in his bedroom.
Soon,
His vision flashed, and he arrived in the fully immersive virtual space!
"Master, you're back?"
Xiao Ling fluttered her wings and flew over, her face full of pleasant surprise.
Lu Xiaobai patted her head and said,
"Xiao Ling, connect me to the network and start random matchmaking. Today, your big brother is going to steal from ten people!"
"???"
Xiao Ling's big eyes were filled with confusion. She didn't quite understand, but she still obeyed his command and connected to the network.
At this moment, Lu Xiaobai rubbed his hands together, looking a bit impatient. He could hardly hold back the urge to use Empty Hand.
Since he couldn't use it casually in his daily life, he didn't need to have any scruples during combat. After all, it was a special skill...
Just then, a huge dialog box appeared above:
Match successful...
Battlefield is Desert. Enter?
"Enter!"
Lu Xiaobai didn't hesitate and instantly clicked confirm.
His field of vision shifted, and he arrived in a desert filled with swirling yellow sand.
Twenty meters ahead of him stood a young girl in a pale yellow dress. She was looking Lu Xiaobai up and down with a curious expression.
"She probably doesn't have any special talent or constitution..."
Lu Xiaobai thought back to his last experience in the virtual space and secretly raised his guard.
However, he didn't hesitate too much and instantly took the initiative to step forward and initiate combat.
"Hey, how can a grown man just start fighting right away without even introducing himself?"
The girl frowned, seeming a bit dissatisfied, but she still assumed a defensive posture.
Their vitality levels were evenly matched, so for a while, it seemed like a draw.
Seeing that the other party had no special talent or constitution, Lu Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief. Then, he remembered his objective.
He stared at the earring on her ear, then touched her wrist with his hand, instantly executing Empty Hand in an attempt to snatch it away unnoticed.
After these past few days of practice, his proficiency had improved significantly. As long as he stared at an object within his line of sight, he could swipe it.
However, to his surprise, his Empty Hand actually failed!
Nothing appeared in his hand.
"That shouldn't be. I could even steal from Lin Lei'er, who has a vitality of 9.5. How did I fail against a Star Martial Artist of the same level?"
Lu Xiaobai frowned deeply.
He stopped actively attacking and instead began to passively defend or dodge, looking for opportunities to touch her body in order to unleash Empty Hand.
His target gradually shifted from the earring at the beginning to her hairpin, necklace...
Yet, he didn't succeed a single time!
"Is it because this is a virtual space?"
A thoughtful look appeared in Lu Xiaobai's eyes, but he quickly dismissed the idea.
The reason the virtual space was hailed as humanity's greatest invention was that, in addition to perfectly simulating the physical body, it could even simulate Star Skills and special skills. Otherwise, this place would have no practical combat value for high-level Star Martial Artists.
"Back in the day, the Great Thief King also had quite a reputation in the virtual space, which proves that Empty Hand is definitely effective!"
He frowned slightly, then stopped overthinking it and started experimenting again.
However, before he could use it a few more times,
The young girl pulled away, glared fiercely at him, and shouted,
"Pervert!"
"??"
Lu Xiaobai was slightly stunned, wondering to himself if she had realized he was using Empty Hand.
"If you want to fight, then fight! If not, admit defeat! What are you doing constantly groping me!"
The girl put her hands on her hips, glaring at him angrily.
"..."
Lu Xiaobai rubbed his nose and defended himself,
"It's just normal physical contact, okay? You touched me too!"
"You never use any force, you just keep stroking me. If that's not being a pervert, what is?!"
The girl's eyes widened. She pointed a delicate white finger at him and shouted,
"Don't think you can be a pervert just because you're handsome! I'm going back right now to tell my daddy!"
With that, she voluntarily exited the battlefield.
"..."
Lu Xiaobai shook his head.
He really was just practicing his special skill...
But his behavior was indeed a bit suspicious. Although he had only been touching areas like her wrists, because he hadn't used any force, it really did feel like he was intentionally caressing her...
He didn't have a choice. Empty Hand could only be executed through a gentle touch. If he exerted explosive force to attack or defend, the circulation of star energy within his body would be interrupted, making it impossible to cast the skill.
Right at this moment,
Lu Xiaobai's vision spun, and he returned to his own private grassy field.
"Xiao Ling, help me recover the star energy in my body!"
Although the star energy consumed by Empty Hand was miniscule, his vitality was too low, so he naturally didn't have much star energy in his body. After casting it so many times, he was almost drained dry...
Hearing this, Xiao Ling nodded. Then, a mysterious energy merged into Lu Xiaobai's body, instantly restoring his star energy.
This was another miraculous function of the virtual space. It could quickly restore Star Martial Artists to their peak condition, fully enabling high-intensity combat practice.
Of course, this was a paid service...
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
