Chapter 6 - please.

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Ling opened his eyes and goes back to reality.

"Brother!"

Noticing that their brother was awakened from his overly deep thinking, the kids and the old man's worried expressions was replaced by elation.

"You little brat, once I see again that overthinking habit of yours, I will beat your ass until you cry!" Grandpa was incensed and scolded Ling, who's been embarrassed about his weird behavior.

'Looks like me and my predecessor have a lot of similar things in mind,' Ling inwardly said in his mind.

In his past life, Ling was cautious and had those excessive thoughts in his mind that made troubles in his past up until now. Ling was struggling and independently making his life easier in his past life where there are no incredible things such as cultivation thingy that people could be seen in the novels, which made Ling completely unfettered and free.

On the other hand, his predecessor Ling was also cautious and had those same traits as Ling had but predecessor Ling has a family to shoulder which stressed his brain of thinking about his family's protection as well as their daily needs since predecessor Ling doesn't want to completely rely on the HC for their entire life and leave his family suffering in their lifetime.

Furthermore, the world of the two of them is vastly different from one another. The Sci-Fi thingies, the superpowers whatsoever are in a unique spectrum unlike Ling's dull and near-to-normal life.

'Anyways, I need to finish this quickly. My little siblings and gramps must be so starved by now,'

Ling shook his head and straightly headed to his system space again with half-crossed arms, right hand in his chin, and eyes-closed. Initiating the incredible idea he thought earlier as Ling dived deeper in his multi thinking analysis fiveHEAD thought again.

"Just as I said ago, don't overthink but you are here again!!! Haaaaa, I just don't know what am I gonna do to you!"

While Ling was in the so-called "Zone", Grandpa and the 3 kids are a little bit dumbfounded for a moment and had been replaced by anger and irritation as Grandpa's vein popped out of his forehead and knocked Ling's head.

'Now, let's check this out. Hehehehe—AWWWW! WTF!?'

Inside the [Immortal Daoists] space, Ling attempted to do his ridiculous idea until he felt a strong sensation of pain in his head.

Ling probed outside of the space without going outside to discover his grandfather's wrath burst out and his little siblings' perplexed expressions on their faces.

'I have to go out, I'm gonna get beaten if I couldn't explain something to them!'

Ling snapped back to reality and maintained himself in a deep-thinking posture as he opened his eyes and glanced at his siblings as well as his grandfather, who is still incensed about his overly thinking obsession about thinking deeply.

"Lex, Do you want to see a magic trick?" Ling asked.

"Really brother? That kind of magic-kaboom pow thingy?"

Lex replied exuberantly with his eyes shining as if there's a star inside his eyes. Lina, Luna, and Grandpa Rudy on the side are astonished and bewildered about Ling's sudden display of talent.

'This kid... Maybe his awakened power had incredible aspects. Let's see!'

Grandpa Rudy's excitement rose sky-high as well as his expectations in Ling's awakened power, hoping that it will possess some unique and mysterious characteristics.

Noticing the enthusiasm in both Lex and Grandpa's eyes, Ling inwardly thought and poured out the imaginary 'cold bucket' inside his brain.

'Looks like they got some expectations about my system. I know some parts of the systems and I am so grateful that I got it among the rest of the people in this world but I can't higher my expectations first just to see that it's only this or that.'

It's not uncommon to have good expectations but sometimes, being overly optimistic about necessary things will get people into sky-high disappointments. For example, the waiter with a low salary worked in a restaurant and served the customers so well but he didn't receive a tip for his good service; Hence, he was dissatisfied with the customers but he still had hope. (1)

Ling wanted to lower his family's expectations about his awakened power being so OP since he still didn't delve deeper into the [Immortal Taoists] system. Although he knew how the system works and the identity of the resources he needed, Ling was uncertain about things such as Spirit Roots and other interfaces disappearance.

"Uuuhhh... It's not that kind of magic," Ling responded.

"..."

Ling noticed the excited mood on Lex's face changed into a dejected state in an instant.

"But... I can make the food you like appear in my hands!" Ling added.

"Really?"

After hearing it, the stars in Lex's eyes ignited once again as he drools over to the floor, looking like a ravenous beast waiting for his prey to come in his mouth.

On the side, Lina, Luna, and Grandpa felt bewildered and frowned about his awakened powers. They heard the rumors about people with superpowers that could manipulate lightning at their will, teleporting at a certain distance, etc.

But a superpower that could materialize food? That's kind of unique in their perspective since they have seen a lot of unimaginable powers that could dominate the world based on the news that they have been seeing in the news but with just only materializing food? That's kinda disappointing.

And with the same line of thoughts, all 3 of them had a mixture of gratitude and dissatisfaction in their hearts. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, the superpower is still a superpower. Maybe one day it will mutate to a different way that whenever someone eats the food, they will be poisoned or whatsoever. Maybe.

'That's what I wanted to see,'

Unbeknownst to them, Ling was observing the frowning expressions of dissatisfaction and sigh of gratefulness.

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Honestly, I just keep it at perfectly 1k words. Still fucking idiot about this English. I might keep writing now because of the ECQ happening in Quezon City and I can't go out with my friends.

Maybe I will write in these few days but enjoy this shit chapter HAHAHAHA.