Reincarnated in One Piece - Chapter 1
China, a township hospital.
On the thirteenth-floor rooftop, a thin figure stood, his bony face calm.
“Is this my fate?”
The frail body swayed precariously as Tang An tightly held a medical test report. He was clearly not as calm inside as he appeared.
The bulging veins and arteries in his arm revealed the anger, unwillingness, and fierceness in his heart.
Cancer and it’s already mid-stage.
For a young man, this was more unbelievable than winning the lottery.
He had cancer.
Has cancer become common in young people now?
Fate was incredibly unfair to Tang An.
Even action movies wouldn’t dare to portray such a scenario, yet there are many more people worse off than Tang An, and that’s life.
His parents divorced and left him with distant relatives who formed new families in other cities.
He grew up like a wild child without parents, enduring cold sarcasm and unfair treatment under someone else’s roof.
Without guidance or affection, he became irritable and aggressive, often getting into fights.
He turned into a delinquent, smoking and fighting regularly.
He scavenged for food in garbage heaps, collected scrap, begged, and brawled.
At some point, his appetite decreased, he felt weak and in pain, and during attacks, it felt like his intestines were twisting together, causing excruciating pain.
Finally, he went to the hospital.
The diagnosis was mid-stage cancer, a death sentence.
Getting cancer at his age was a rare miracle.
He had struggled to live through hardships from childhood, even contemplating suicide several times but always fighting through.
But this time, he was indeed in despair.
This society was so beautiful, yet to him, it was no different from hell.
He hated his parents, who gave birth to him but didn’t raise him; he hated everyone, and he hated this world.
His mind was already twisted.
With one step, only the medical test report was left on the edge of the rooftop.
“Is this death? My consciousness is fading… I regret it a bit.”
Losing all sensation, in the moment of death, Tang An heard screams.
There was also the pungent smell of blood, probably his own.
Finally, his bloodshot black eyes lost their color.
The Goa Kingdom is praised as the most beautiful country in the East Blue.
Beyond the tall city walls, in the Terminal of Uncertainty, a gathering place for thugs and rogues, was a giant garbage dump home to the poor, beggars, and criminals.
The Goa Kingdom’s society was divided into four levels, the highest being the royal family, middle-class nobles living in High Town, lower-class citizens in Central Town, and the thugs and rogues in Terminal. Those in the Terminal of Uncertainty didn’t even count as lower class.
Despite its pristine reputation as the most beautiful country in East Blue, the kingdom’s corruption was nauseating.
In a pile of garbage at the Terminal of Uncertainty, a person appeared out of nowhere.
As his consciousness returned, Tang An opened his eyes suddenly.
The first thing he noticed was the familiar pungent stench of garbage, a smell he knew well.
Everywhere he looked was a wasteland of trash. He wasn’t dead.
Looking down at his body, it was intact.
If he remembered correctly, he should have been shattered to pieces.
“What is this?”
A light screen appeared before him, showing a misty, indistinct set of blank steps with a fist-sized die beside it. The first blank step had a model airplane on it.
It looked like some sort of board game: a flight chess game.
But instead of four players, it was a solo game.
A line of subtitles appeared.
“Rules: Each natural month, you get one dice roll. The number of points rolled determines the number of steps forward.
Each step can bring unexpected rewards or take away something the player possesses.
Initial world traversal reward: 4 dice rolls.
Ongoing mission: Kill the Child of Destiny, the Fated Villain, the Transmigrator, the Reincarnator, and the Reborn—reward: +4 dice rolls, with additional rolls for key supporting or antagonistic characters based on circumstances.
Luck value will also increase.”
Tang An sat in the garbage heap, staring at the light screen. It only showed the flight chess game, the rules, the initial reward of four dice rolls, and the ongoing mission.
Simple and clear.
Despite being a delinquent, Tang An was familiar with novels, cheats, and transmigration.
After all, delinquents also had spiritual lives, indulging in TV shows, movies, novels, and anime.
Tang An was one of the more successful ones, sometimes making three to four thousand a month from collecting scrap and begging.
He was sure this wasn’t a dream.
It meant he had transmigrated and gained a cheat-like system, although it lacked intelligence and was quite simple.
From the ongoing mission, he deduced that he would encounter other transmigrators in the future and that he would have to kill them.
Not just transmigrators but also the Children of Destiny, Fated Villains, Reincarnation, and Reborn individuals from the native world.
Was he supposed to be an enemy of the world?
Are you not sparing even the protagonists and villains?
Tang An felt a mix of emotions.
As cruel as it was, he saw hope in controlling his fate.
“Four dice rolls.”
Not knowing where he had transmigrated to, his only reliance was this cheat.
With a thought, the die on the light screen began to spin and jump. After about a minute, Tang An stopped it.
Apparently, he could control it when it stopped.
“Three.”
The die showed three points.
The model airplane moved to the third blank step.
Accompanied by a blinding light, a line of text appeared on the screen.
“Type 92 pistol, 9mm caliber, ten bullets.”
“Description: Advanced structure, reliable performance, good accuracy, few parts, lightweight; aesthetically pleasing, comfortable grip; uses modular component structure, good service performance; equipped with ambidextrous magazine release and safety lever, easy to operate, ergonomic.”
Tang An’s luck wasn’t bad. He got a Type 92 pistol.
The only downside was it had only ten bullets, and Tang An had never used a gun before.
The screen had options for taking out and putting in.
“Take out.”
With a thought, a Type 92 pistol appeared in his hand, loaded with bullets.
After examining it briefly, Tang An put it back in, and the gun disappeared.
It seemed this cheat had storage space, but only for items obtained through the system. He tested it out with other items, confirming only system items could be stored.
Taking out the gun again and tucking it into his waistband, Tang An started the second dice roll.
This time, the die showed five points, moving the model airplane five steps forward.
Another blinding light came, ht and Tang An’s face turned pale when he read the description.
It was just one line: “Mid-stage cancer becomes late-stage cancer.”
Instantly, Tang An doubted if this was a cheat at all.
Clearly, the endless spaces weren’t just for rewards but also punishments.
Mid-stage turning into late-stage cancer was definitely not playing by the rules.
The excitement from transmigrating and getting a cheat was doused with a bucket of cold water.
Tang An couldn’t calm down.
“Two more rolls.”
Taking a deep breath, he started the third roll.
The die showed one point, moving the airplane one step.
A familiar light shone, and when he saw the item, Tang An frowned.
“60ml bottle, transparent, acidic, colorless, odorless…”
Reading the full description, Tang An’s face turned blue.
Could he draw something like this? And at a time like this?
Suppressing his anger, Tang An started the final roll.
This time, he was lucky; the die showed six points.
The airplane moved six steps, and after the light faded, a seductive female voice and explosive music played.
“So-and-so… online dealer….”
An advertisement. It was an advertisement.
It played ten times, forcibly.
Tang An could no longer stay calm, veins bulging on his neck and his eyes red.
Out of four rolls, only the pistol was functional.
Mid-stage turning into late-stage cancer put him on a countdown to death.
As for the 60ml, to hell with the 60mThethe long-standing ad from a particular website played forcibly ten times, almost making Tang An pass out.
He was now sure this cheat was useless.
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