The Most Random System

"How did Nurhaci get those thirteen suits of armor he started out with?"

"Pa! Dear audience, lend me your ears and I’ll tell you the tale!"

"Many years later, when he stood before the cannons of Ningyuan City, Nurhaci would remember that afternoon when his father took him to General Li Chengliang’s tent to sell trenches."

"Know why Nurhaci kept that rat-tail braid? Because that hairstyle made it easy for Li Chengliang to grab his braid with one hand and smack his butt with the other."

"Nurhaci actually wasn’t his real name. His birth name is no longer traceable. It’s just that Li Chengliang liked calling him ’Nu’er’ (boy, slave), and he’d answer Li Chengliang with a ’ha-chi, ha-chi’ sound. Over time, people misheard it and passed it on as ’Nurhaci’."

"But Li Chengliang was getting old after all, his own stamina wasn’t enough. Most of the time he had that bunch of young, strapping grunts take turns bending Nurhaci over for him to watch."

"Every time Nurhaci got done by Old Li’s men, he’d ask each grunt for a piece of scrap iron as payment, saying he was saving up some iron at home to make a cooking pot or a hoe or something."

"How would those guys know Nurhaci was actually stockpiling iron to make armor!"

"But armor needs a lot of iron. Even with several dozen people going at it in a single session, just relying on his ’rest time’ in Li Chengliang’s main camp wasn’t enough. So Nurhaci had to take on side jobs when the army went out for drills."

"Very soon, Nurhaci’s reputation spread all over Liaodong, and all of this actually became the capital for his rise. Later on, in his achievement of leading the Manchus to become a famously Sinicized tribe in history, it wrote a bold and colorful stroke!"

"Ring——"

In the warehouse where only Lin Li was present, the phone that had been randomly playing various storytelling audios was interrupted by the ringtone.

"Hoo——"

Letting out a breath of clear air, he tossed the few Spirit Stones that had once again been drained in his hand into the gourd, then stood up and turned off the alarm he’d set for himself.

Time had flown; it was already eleven o’clock now.

Lin Li reached out and put the Mecha back into the [Warehouse], returning the charging device to the gourd.

The Mecha’s battery was definitely far from full—actually still a long way off; it needed at least another thirty to forty hours.

Lin Li could of course stay overnight here, but there was no need.

—There wasn’t much furniture inside the "Fire Separation Sword Nourishing Gourd"; if he stayed here tonight he’d definitely sleep uncomfortably.

You have to understand, if a person is willing to suffer, then there will always be infinite suffering waiting for him.

The reason he set the eleven o’clock alarm to interrupt his "闭关修行" was mainly because if it got any later, it’d be hard to get a car out in this wilderness.

It’s still more comfortable sleeping on that fragrant, soft little bed at home.

If only he had a teleportation array.

Shan Qing Encyclopedia did have information on that, but a teleportation array that a little Foundation Establishment Cultivator like him could easily use already counted as a major sect-protecting formation. Whether it was the materials, maintenance, or the setup, none of it was anything Lin Li could even dream of touching right now.

After ordering a ride through the app, Lin Li walked out of the warehouse and locked the door.

At eleven at night in the suburbs, the main feature was that humans were rare. On the main road, only streetlamps spaced far apart transformed into sources of light in the darkness.

In this setting, any vehicle on the road was quite conspicuous.

When a pair of headlights lit up in the distance, Lin Li initially thought it was the car he had ordered, but looking closely he realized it was a van.

However, behind the van, the ride-hail car he’d ordered was right over there, so Lin Li raised his hand to signal.

The van drove past.

[Petty villains dare, in a moment when no one knows, to secretly commit misdeeds, luring away another’s already-tamed Spirit Beast and intending to flee far away. As a Righteous Cultivator, how could you stand by and watch? You must act on Heaven’s behalf, to serve as a warning to others!]

[Timed Mission Triggered!]

[Mission Three: Within one hour, stop and capture the Evil Cultivator in front of you who is currently committing a crime.]

[Mission Rewards: Physical Improvement: Spirit Beast Affinity +100%; Random Spirit Beast Enhancement Pills *1; System Currency *100]

Looking at the task that had popped up, Lin Li’s gaze sharpened slightly. After skimming the specific description, in the next second his eyes locked onto the van that was driving away.

The "Invisible Sword" appeared and then dispersed.

Forget it, the crime doesn’t warrant death. If he suddenly interfered with a moving vehicle and caused some kind of car accident, that’d be crossing the line.

There was clearly a more suitable method at hand.

Lin Li quickly walked to the rear of the van—right to the ride-hail car that was slowing to a stop—pulled open the front passenger door, and got in.

First step, Lin Li swept his gaze over the back seat, while spreading out his Divine Sense.

There was no other living thing in the back of the car.

After all, although the mission had triggered when the van approached, the "ride-hail car" had also been approaching at the same time. He couldn’t completely rule out the possibility that this car was the actual target of the mission.

To avoid wronging an innocent person, even if it seemed redundant, the check was in fact necessary.

Now that he’d confirmed it, before the driver could verify the license plate tail numbers, Lin Li was already fastening his seatbelt and lowering his head to operate his phone, while saying, "Sir, could you please follow that car in front? I’ll cancel this order, and then I’ll pay you the fare plus extra compensation afterwards!"

Seeing that the platform didn’t have a tipping option before the order was completed, Lin Li chose to cancel with a fee deduction, then looked at the driver again and added:

"Sir, just follow them first. Do you have any payment QR code in the car? If not, give me your phone number and I’ll transfer the money straight to your Alipay."

"Huh? What?" The barrage of abnormal developments left the driver a bit stunned. He blurted out in confusion, unable to process it.

"Uncle, I’m begging you, I just saw my current boyfriend and a black guy getting into that car while making out. I have to catch them (choking up). Damn you, Bai Bufan, I treat you so well, why would you betray me..." Seeing this, Lin Li piled on another layer.