《The Little King Next Door》


 CH 1

    ===Chapter 1 Being thrown overboard===


    ¡°Captain, a child has been found in the cabin.¡±


    The First Officer reported that he had a boy brought over.


    The boy was very thin, maybe six or seven, yellowish-skinned, no flesh on his body, so thin you could see his ribs, and only a rag around his waist.


    The crew member carrying the boy threw him against the boat.


    The boy slumped to the ground and slowly curled up into a ball.


    The captain frowned, the boy was bruised and swollen, probably with a cut on the back of his head, and his short hair was stuck in a blob of blood. His left arm was hanging down, probably broken.


    The captain used his foot to turn over the boy¡¯s front and saw a large dark red area on his abdomen, a wound that was not easy to treat and probably internal.


    The boy opened his eyes and looked at the captain.


    The captain suddenly snorted. The boy looked so weak when his eyes were closed, but when he opened them, he exuded a sense of ¡°I¡¯m a prick¡± from head to toe.


    ¡°Throw him away.¡± The captain ordered without hesitation.


    Even if he could be saved, how much would he fetch if he were sold? Ten boys wouldn¡¯t even be enough to pay for the cost of medicine on the sea.


    What about work? What could such a small, skinny boy do? Besides, the boy did not look like a grateful and honest person.


    Without another word, the crew member lifted the boy and headed for the deck.


    The First Officer thought of his only son, whom he hadn¡¯t seen for a long time, and felt a little compassion: ¡°We¡¯re almost at Seagrass Island, why don¡¯t we drop him off there? It¡¯s his luck if he survives, but not if it¡¯s his fate.¡±


    The captain laughed coldly, ¡°This boy sneaked onto my boat without buying a ticket, and you want me to take him to Seagrass Island? Aren¡¯t there two others on board who just died?¡±


    Seagrass Island? The name was familiar. The boy was remembering where he had heard the name before.


    ¡°Yes, Captain!¡± The crew member mentioned the boy again, and he deliberately pinched his broken left arm, laughing strangely, ¡°Boy, you will be taken to the gods of the sea, and in your next life remember not to just sneak onto other people¡¯s ships.¡±


    The First Officer frowned, ¡°All right, leave the boy to me. You go deal with the two bodies.¡±


    The crew member dared not disobey the First Officer and handed the boy over to him.


    The boy¡¯s intact right hand swept past the crew member¡¯s fingers and waist with surprising speed.


    The crew member half-noticed and called out to the other two crew members to move the bodies.


    ¡°Try to swim to that island on the left.¡± The First Officer whispered quickly against the boy¡¯s ear.


    Splash!, the boy was eventually thrown into the sea.


    Damn, there really is no human rights for white-collar ones. Wang Ye surfaced holding a broken wooden bucket that had been pumped with water and spat out a mouthful of fishy salty seawater. The broken barrel was shoved at him by the First Officer. He owed the First Officer a share of karma, so he would pay it back later when he had the chance.


    Luckily, from the boat he had just seen two almost horizontal islands nearby, and could swim at most three to five hundred meters past them. It was better luck that it was high tide.


    The wounds on the back of his head and body were a little painful, but not so unbearable, and he had a very high tolerance for pain; what would be a level nine pain with others was a level three at best with him. It was the brain fog, the aftermath of the concussion.


    Wang Ye put the ring he had taken from the crew member on his thumb, and the money bag had to be put in a broken barrel. The other side threw him once and pinched his broken arm once, so let¡¯s use the ring and the money bag as compensation.


    At the same time he was given two copies of the power of karma.


    One from the crew and one from that captain.


    He didn¡¯t pay to ride on someone else¡¯s boat, and the captain threw him overboard, so he also settled a karmic score.


    Wang Ye absorbed the two karmic powers and finally got a little energy in his body. He then relaxed his body and rested his head on the edge of the barrel, letting the waves push him towards the island.


    It was his second day of rebirth, and he hadn¡¯t even thought about entering the game so soon. After all, the entry fee for this game was not low, with the cheapest gaming console costing 18,800, and the legendary game pod even costing as much as 188,000.


    Anyone who can afford to play ¡®Extreme Dangerous¡¯ nowadays is someone who has the money to burn.


    Who would have thought that after taking care of some scum, he was too tired to sleep for a while, and when he woke up again, he finds himself in the game.


    What was even more amazing was that he didn¡¯t seem to have entered with brain waves, but with his real body.


    Wang Ye guessed that his ability to be reborn including being able to enter the game in his real body, was probably all related to that thing he had gotten in his previous life, and the fact that he would be surrounded by so many people and even chased to reality was also because of that thing.


    He just didn¡¯t know if he could still be resurrected after his real body entered the game and died.


    Unfortunately he didn¡¯t dare to try, if he did he would only have one life, who would he cry to after he died?


    Besides, his skills had come with him after his rebirth, but the big spatial bracelet that he had managed to get was gone.


    The game has a lot of nasty settings. Two of the most famous and protested ones being the lack of a backpack and the lack of initial skills.


    Want a space pack? You can find and buy one, or learn how to make one yourself.


    Want skills? There¡¯s only one way to do it, learn it realistically. Want to learn the skill and unleash it with the push of a button? Dream on!


    However, one good thing about this game is that players can bring the skills they have learned and mastered into the game world and use them.


    This is also the reason why Wang Ye was able to use the power of cause and effect as soon as he entered the game.


    In fact, these settings of the game have shown in various ways that it is not a mere holographic game world at all. It¡¯s just that people are completely unaware of it initially.


    Splash! Splash!


    Wang Ye heard two sounds of something falling into the water one after another, and when he looked back, he saw two more people or corpses thrown off that boat?


    Both of them were originally passengers on the ship and had somehow died. For such people who died on the ship and had no distinguished status, the captain usually had only one way to deal with them: the property belonged to him, and the person belonged to the sea.


    One of the bodies was thrown into the sea and sank to the bottom, coming up after a while and being struck down again by the waves.


    The other body fell into the sea and its limbs suddenly twitched, and slowly, almost unconsciously, it began to row.


    Wang Ye only glanced back and didn¡¯t look any further. He couldn¡¯t even save himself, so he didn¡¯t have the time to care about the deaths of others.


    The crew member on board who was in charge of watching the sea saw one of the two bodies alive, but he didn¡¯t shout a word. The man who had been thrown overboard by the captain¡¯s decision was dead, even if he was still alive.


    A group of bloodthirsty sea fish smelled the smell of blood and quickly followed behind Wang Ye, soon surrounding him.


    These fish all seemed to be particularly interested in the back of Wang Ye¡¯s head, and kept bumping into the back of Wang Ye¡¯s head. If you look closely, you can see that these fish are biting Wang Ye¡¯s hair, no, to be correct, they are biting the wound on the back of his head, and they look greedy as if they want to drill into his head.


    The wound that had already stopped bleeding was again being hit by these fish, causing blood to pour out.


    Wang Ye was forced to stick his head out of the water as far as possible to avoid letting his wound touch the sea water.


    Let¡¯s get to the shore. If sharks or other large fish were attracted to him, he would be miserable.


    Bang, the broken wooden barrel hit the reef.


    Ahead was the island, and Wang Ye could already see the large number of palm trees growing unchecked.


    Wait, which island was the one on the left?


    Whatever, he had drifted to this island, so what the hell.


    But before he could actually set foot on the island, he had to cross a reef beach consisting of countless black reefs of varying sizes.


    Wang Ye¡¯s face was a bit blue. If he was pushed over by the waves like this, his belly, and limbs would be torn by these sharp reefs.


    The small group of shark-like sea fish behind him are still clinging to him, if he bleeds more blood ¡­¡­


    No, I must get out of the water quickly.


    Wang Ye turned around and swam towards the largest reef he could see nearby. He had to try to get to the reef while he still had some strength left in him and wait for the tide to drop before thinking about going ashore.


    Wang Ye put the broken barrel on the reef first, and only then, with one hand clasping the gap in the reef, lifted his body upwards with force.


    Anyone who has ever swum knows that water is buoyant, especially seawater, but when you come out of seawater, your whole body feels like it is being pulled by seawater and is very heavy.


    Wang Ye again only had one arm to use, and after raising it several times he was unable to lift himself up onto the reef successfully. He tried to put his two feet on the reef, but he was small, and it was high tide, so he couldn¡¯t step on the surface with his two feet. Nor could he climb the reef like a mountain.


    After several attempts, Wang Ye was so tired and exhausted that he simply used one hand to clasp the reef gap and hung himself on the reef.


    Behind him, herds of fish kept following him, and sea snakes also swam by.


    Wang Ye¡¯s crisis radar kicked in, and the strong sense of imminent danger forced him to squeeze out what strength he had left to scramble up the reef.


    A large hand suddenly grabbed his wrist and lifted him out of the sea water alive.

 CH 2

    ===Chapter 2 Meeting===


    Wang Ye looked up.


    He saw that the one who lifted him onto the reef was a tattooed-faced youth, and at first glance the face was particularly bizarre. But the youth has a slender body, a nice muscle. but there is a very deep wound on the chest, the wound of blood and flesh turned out, the flesh is soaked by the seawater white, still bleeding silk, looking at it is particularly painful.


    This man, this face.


    A thunderclap in the clear sky. Wang Ye froze into a daze.


    This face was too familiar to him. He had spent seven whole years with this person in his last life.


    He thought it would take some time to find this person when he came in. After all, he had been nineteen years old when he entered this game of Extreme Danger in his last life. And twenty-two when he came across this person. But he was only eight now, and Extreme Danger had only been up for just under two months.


    That¡¯s a difference of fourteen years.


    I never thought he would run into this person again right after he entered the game. Was this a special favor from God?


    Or was it because he missed each other too much ¡­¡­


    ¡°Thief God, don¡¯t you ever fool me.¡± Wang Ye murmured.


    He had done right by the heavens, the earth, and everyone in his last life, but he owed it to two people, especially the person in front of him.


    It turned out that this man was still visibly conscious at this point, and actually knew how to save people.


    But fourteen years later, this man had become a medicine man without much self-awareness.


    For the seven years this man had been with him, he had existed as his puppet, used as a weapon, treated by him as an inanimate game NPC.


    It wasn¡¯t until he got that thing that he learned the reason why the game Extreme Danger was up and running on Earth, and that the game world in Extreme Danger was simply an extremely large and real world, with people and things in it, all of which were naturally real as well.


    By the time he learned this secret, both his master and this man were already dead in order to save him.


    Although it was his enemies who had done it, how was it not his selfishness and shamelessness that had killed those two.


    He was shameless because he never really valued these two people and always treated them like game props, even though he already had doubts about this game world at that time.


    They had been so kind to him. They had given him their hearts and souls, and they had died for him.


    But he took that kindness for granted, saw it as a game setting, and was blind to some obvious facts.


    At that time, he was parochial, selfish, stubborn, ruthless, suspicious, suspicious of all feelings, distrustful of anyone, and always looking at everyone with a layer of suspicion. It didn¡¯t matter if it was a real person or an in-game presence. It was all the same for him.


    He regretted beyond measure after learning that those two were not set data. He lost the two best family members to him, but it was too late.


    He finally chose to die with his remaining enemies, not only because he had an untreatable cancer. but also because the people who really cared about him had all completely disappeared from the world, and although this cancer was not untreatable in the game world, he didn¡¯t want to bother with it anymore.


    He found that no matter how much money he made, how much good stuff he got, how good he became, there was no one around to share happiness or anything with, no presence for him to show off. It was all so meaningless.


    Hot tears flowed from the boy¡¯s eyes.


    Only now did he really feel reborn. He was so sure that this was not a parallel world, that he had really traveled back in time. He could not have mistaken anyone for this man.


    What he recognized was this person¡¯s soul.


    He cultivated the power of cause and effect, and did not dare to say that he knew 100% about souls. but he knew one thing very well: even if there were two identical leaves in this universe, there would never be two identical souls, even if he was in a parallel world, his soul would be slightly different from the one he had now.


    Two-game NPCs have souls, and he treats them as special programs.


    He was not blind. He was a pebble in a chicken¡¯s nest, a bastard!


    The youth didn¡¯t notice that the boy was weeping silently, and after lifting the boy up onto the reef, the youth just lay there motionless as if he was out of strength.


    Wang Ye was also out of strength and, not caring that there were still puddles of water on the reef, he slumped down beside the youth.


    As he lay down, his intact right hand gripped the youth¡¯s big, calloused hand, and his body was close together.


    The youth suddenly spoke slowly, ¡°Child, I am not your father, don¡¯t hold me so tightly.¡±


    Wang Ye was used to fooling around with this man in his previous life, so he opened his mouth and said, ¡°I am your father, call me dad, I will treat you well for the rest of your life.¡±


    In his previous life, the youth did not react to anything he said, but now, the youth returned in a cheeky manner, ¡°Oh, little daddy, can you stop crying then? You¡¯re crying so much that you make me think I¡¯m dead.¡±


    Wang Ye: ¡°You¡¯re not dead, it¡¯s your mother who¡¯s dead.¡±


    The youth snorted and laughed, and lost his voice as he laughed.


    Frightened, Wang Ye rolled over to check the youth¡¯s nose, despite his physical injuries, and luckily!


    Barring that, a palm-sized sea shrimp popped up from the waves onto Wang Ye¡¯s stomach.


    Wang Ye, who was half-dead, suddenly burst into super action, and with unparalleled speed and accuracy, he snapped the sea shrimp with one hand.


    He needed to get better as soon as possible. He had a good big son to feed!


    The boy bit down on the shrimp¡¯s tail with his mouth and plucked off the head with one hand. Not bothering to remove the shrimp¡¯s thread, he bit straight through the shell and ate the fresh shrimp meat inside.


    The prawn that had its head plucked was not yet dead, and the meat was still jumping around.


    [Player Little King Next Door successfully caught a level zero sea shrimp, experience value 1.]


    Wang Ye ignored the beep that popped up in his head and finished a shrimp tail meat in two bites. Instead of filling his stomach, this shrimp meat awakened a strong sense of hunger in him.


    Thirst! Hunger!


    Wang Ye¡¯s eyes turned green as he looked at the sea tide that contained a large amount of food.


    He was now seriously injured and unable to move? And no suitable fishing tools on hand?


    No matter, he had a unique fishing technique.


    Wang Ye revealed a hideous smile as he faced the sea: do you think your grandfather¡¯s blood is that tasty?


    Didn¡¯t you guys chase after me just now and try to eat me, now, grandpa will show you what the power of cause and effect means.


    Whoever eats my cause, must return my effect!


    As much as you ate just now, you will now pay me back many times over.


    The power of cause and effect is unleashed.


    An indistinct scroll unfolded rapidly in the air.


    With a hook of Wang Ye¡¯s finger, a line of cause and effect was picked up in the scroll.


    All the creatures connected by this karmic line all focused towards this reef.


    But! The feast of fish raining down that Wang Ye had expected did not appear.


    Only a small arm-length greenish-black sea fish landed on the reef.


    That green and black sea fish was still flapping its tail and hopping to jump into the sea.


    Here you are and you still want to escape? Wang Ye grabbed a broken wooden bucket and smashed it several times on the fish¡¯s head. The fish finally stopped moving, and Wang Ye fell down there in exhaustion.


    He was badly injured, and his internal organs were also injured. If it were another eight-year-old, he would have been unconscious or sobbing in pain.


    Only Wang Ye had a very high tolerance for pain and was able to do this with all his injuries.


    In his last life, he had spent a day and a night lying on the concrete floor at home. If his crazy aunt hadn¡¯t noticed that he hadn¡¯t gone to school and come looking for him, he might have died at home without a word.


    [Player Little King Next Door has successfully caught one Level 1 Sea Fish, experience value 10.]


    One fish ¡­¡­ is not bad.


    He forgot that he wasn¡¯t the level 99 big shot he once was now, he was level one ¡­¡­ well, not even level one, but was moving from level zero to level one.


    If these sea creatures that ate his blood weren¡¯t all low level creatures with no intelligence and low mental power, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to catch even one of them.


    Thankfully, the one he caught this time using the power of karma was a level one sea fish, not a level zero.


    Wang Ye didn¡¯t just want to catch fish to satiate his stomach. What he wanted more than that was the power of karma.


    Those sea creatures wanted to eat his blood. He caught those fish and killed or ate them. A karma line was completed and he would gain a share of karma power.


    For Wang Ye, the karmic power he cultivated could be divided into two types. One where karma was not yet finished, and one where it was. The former he could use to attack and help the karmic person concerned, and the latter he could use to absorb.


    By catching and killing this sea fish, he can absorb a share of the karmic power.


    The biggest advantage of enterintog in his true body was that it allowed him to use the absorbed karmic power to heal his own injuries, rather than using it to upgrade.


    According to his experience in his previous life, the karmic power he learned in the game not only works in his game physique, but also has the same effect on his actual body. God knows how surprised he was to find this out in his last life in real life.


    It was just that the energy in the game world seemed to be more active and easier to absorb. For the same karma, he could only absorb 1 point of karmic power on Earth, but in the game world he could absorb 10 points, almost a tenfold difference.


    If the karma power was sufficient, he could even do without the wounding medicine. This kind of power was really a very special and powerful energy with many uses, but it was a pity that he could absorb very little of it now.


    Wang Ye finished absorbing a portion of karmic power and once again used the karmic thread to forcefully catch the sea fish that had eaten his blood.


    Another sea fish fell, and Wang Ye repeated the same trick, using a broken wooden barrel to smash the sea fish¡¯s head until it was dead.


    A second portion of karmic power arrived and was similarly absorbed.


    Catching five times in a row, he obtained three zero-ranked sea fish and two first-ranked ones. He also had enough energy built up in his body to activate an appraisal technique.