"You Might Not Believe This, I, Evan Bailey, Is an Ultraman!"
Evan Bailey took a drag on the cigarette and spoke with a tired tone that did not match his small body. His eyes looked old, as if he had seen too much.
"Kids are not allowed to smoke."
A long, slender hand snatched the cigarette from Evan Bailey's chubby little fingers and brought it to a pair of tempting red lips. The motion was smooth and natural, as if she had done it many times before.
Evan Bailey stared at her with lifeless, resentful eyes.
"Are you really going to take away my last hobby too?" Evan Bailey asked in a bleak voice. His shoulders drooped as if the world had just wronged him.
"Hm? Your hobby?" The woman smiled with interest, clearly amused by the little boy squatting at the academy gate for half an hour. "What hobbies do you even have?"
"Women and cigarettes!" Evan Bailey answered without hesitation.
The woman's expression froze for a moment.
"Heh."
"That is why I say smoking is my last hobby!" Evan Bailey shouted in despair.
"That is exactly why kids are not allowed to smoke!"
The woman flicked Evan Bailey on the head with her fingers.
"Ow, ow, ow…"
Evan Bailey clutched his head and squatted down, burying his face between his short legs. He curled himself into a small ball and stayed there.
"Kid, what are you doing at the academy gate?" the woman asked with curiosity.
"Of course I am here to go to school," Evan Bailey replied.
"Go to school?" the woman asked in surprise. "How old are you this year?"
"Two thousand three hundred and thirty-three years old," Evan Bailey replied without hesitation.
The woman simply looked at him in silence.
After a moment of hesitation, Evan Bailey added another sentence with difficulty.
"Minus two thousand three hundred and twenty-eight years."
"So you are five?" the woman said, a little shocked.
"You can understand it that way," Evan Bailey nodded.
"Pretty sister, I am a student of this academy, but I lost my access card," Evan Bailey said seriously. "Can you help me get inside? When I get back to the dorm and put on the Infinity Gauntlet, I will snap my fingers and keep you safe."
"Sorry, I do not know what the Infinity Gauntlet is," the woman said with a smile. "Our academy's minimum age is seven, so you probably came to the wrong place. Walk straight down this street and turn left, there is a preschool. That is where you should be."
"I spit on it! Trash academy, ruining my youth, crushing my spirit, draining my money!"
Evan Bailey jumped up and slapped the woman's ample chest, then turned around and ran away at full speed. Being naughty for that one moment really felt great.
The woman was stunned by the sudden move and did not react for a long time. By the time she came back to her senses, Evan Bailey was already nowhere to be seen.
"Brat," the woman snorted coldly. With her level of composure, she would not be embarrassed by a milk-smelling kid.
Soon, however, she frowned.
"That move just now was so fast that even I did not react," the woman muttered. "That kid is interesting."
She smiled again, then shook her head.
"Forget it. Any child from Cloud City will definitely come to the academy in two years," she said quietly. "When that time comes, hm, I will settle this account."
As she spoke, she took out a small notebook from her pocket and began to write.
Evan Bailey leaned against the wall of a narrow alley and patted his small chest. His breathing slowly returned to normal.
"Man, that was exciting," Evan Bailey said. "System, what do you think about that play just now?"
"Completely OK!" a crisp voice replied.
"Then hurry up and take it out."
"Tsk."
"Stop thinking about skimming my rewards!" Evan Bailey rolled his eyes.
The space in front of Evan Bailey twisted for a moment, and a dazzling diamond egg was slammed heavily onto the ground in front of him. It gave off a brilliant shine even in the dim alley.
Evan Bailey looked at the diamond egg with excitement.
"Easy there. If you break it, you pay for it, okay?"
"It cannot break," the system said confidently. "Only the egg-breaking hammer provided by the system can open a reward egg. Products from the system are always high quality."
The system inside Evan Bailey was called the Egg System. It refreshed reward eggs on the map within a certain range, and the level of the eggs depended on the surrounding environment.
Generally speaking, the more dangerous the place or the stronger the person nearby, the higher the level of the egg that would appear. The egg levels from low to high were Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Seven Color, Supreme, and Legendary.
Besides those, there were two special types of eggs. One was the Festival Egg, which would randomly refresh near the host during holidays, with random locations and rare or specific holiday items inside, roughly equal in value to a Gold egg.
The other was called the Glory Egg, which was even more random. Its appearance, location, and rewards were all random.
Evan Bailey had never encountered either of these special eggs. After all, he had only obtained the system for five days, and had only come to this world for five days.
That was right, Evan Bailey was a transmigrator, and even a second-time transmigrator. The first time, his soul traveled to the M78 Nebula, where he became a red and blue mixed-blood Ultraman.
He barely lived to the age of two thousand three hundred and thirty-three. In fact, that age was not very old, since a twenty-thousand-year-old first generation would only be in their fifties by human standards.
By comparison, Evan Bailey at only two thousand plus years old was just a little over five in human age. That was why, when he transformed into a human form, he was only a little kid.
After that came trouble. That bastard Belial escaped from the cosmic prison and rushed to the Land of Light, beating the Ultramans into the ground without mercy.
It was at that time that Evan Bailey realized the battles of the Ultramans were nothing like what was shown in special effects shows. A true powerhouse like Belial could punch through space itself and create spatial turbulence with ease.
As for why none of that appeared in the shows, Evan Bailey suspected it was simply because the effects could not keep up. By the way, Belial's age by human standards was around four hundred, while that rabbit-like fellow would have been sixteen.
As for whether that rabbit eventually defeated Belial, Evan Bailey had no idea. He only remembered being sucked into spatial turbulence while escaping, getting hit while doing nothing wrong.
Luckily, Evan Bailey was still just a child and had fairly good luck. He was not torn apart by the turbulence, and perhaps because he had transmigrated once before, he handled it better.
While drifting in the turbulence, he encountered the Egg System, which was also wandering there. After a friendly talk, Evan Bailey casually patted the Egg System on the head.
To be precise, the Egg System was a ball of light, but patting it felt about the same.
Honestly, Evan Bailey had never seen a system in such a miserable state. The story was simple.
Its previous host had risen to greatness with its help, then kicked it away and went off to live a happy life with family. Abandoned and homeless, the Egg System wandered the spatial turbulence until it met Evan Bailey.
Fate really worked in strange ways.
Evan Bailey accepted the System partly out of pity, since he wanted someone to talk to, and partly because he had already tested it with his own Light Energy. What his power told him was simple and direct: the Egg System did not mean him harm. Trusting that result, he chose to let it stay.