Chapter 1: Commander, we've arrived at Huanggu Pass.
Standing on the highest floor of Hong Kong Island, overlooking Victoria Harbour below, Lin Bei felt an indescribable sense of accomplishment.
Three years ago, he transmigrated to Hong Kong Island, made his fortune by smuggling insulin to the United States and Mexico, and then got involved in the waste paper recycling industry.
He opened supermarkets, traded stocks, developed real estate, and grew stronger and stronger.
As of today, he has finally become the youngest rich man on Hong Kong Island, and also one of the top ten richest people on Hong Kong Island.
Three years, a full three years, who knows how he spent those three years?
Eating and drinking well every day, dating one movie actress after another—Lin Bei felt he had had enough of this boring life.
From today on, he decided to live a different way.
Just as Lin Bei was envisioning his future, Salina, his secretary, brought him today's newspaper.
"Boss, this is the latest newspaper. What would you like to drink today? Coffee, tea, or me?"
Looking at the charming smile on Salina's face, Lin Bei couldn't help but exclaim, "Sister Qingxia in her youth was truly stunning!"
But now was not the time for fun; Lin Bei was more interested in seeing if the matters he had arranged earlier had yielded results.
Taking the newspaper from Salina and ordering a cup of hot tea, Lin Bei ignored Salina's resentful gaze and slumped onto the sofa to read the newspaper.
However, as soon as he saw the front page, Lin Bei immediately sat up.
"Falling incident at Ai Qun Building: Young couple commits suicide, suspected of dying for love."
"Tsim Sha Tsui detective chases drug dealer for nine streets, nearly dies under car wheels."
"Thousand-year-old ancient corpse arrives in Hong Kong, to be exhibited at Happy Amusement Park in a week."
"In the Hong Kong and Kowloon Secondary School Sports Competition, middle school student Lin Jingjing breaks several women's records, expected to participate in the next Olympic Games."
"Bloodbath at Fan's Building: Three construction workers die consecutively, blood mysteriously disappears from their bodies."
"..."
Lin Bei knew there was a phrase called 'shocking to behold'; he didn't quite understand it before, but today, seeing the news in the newspaper, he finally understood its meaning.
Ever since his transmigration, he knew this was a world combining many TV shows and movies.
For example, his secretary, Salina, was the female lead in 'Police Story'.
And Fang Zhanbo and Chen Taotao, who helped him manage his investment and stock businesses, were characters from 'The Greed of Man'.
His personal bodyguards, Gao Jin and Xiaofu, were also protagonists from Hong Kong films.
But these people were basically still within the realm of mortals, and Lin Bei had never encountered any supernatural events, nor had he even heard of them.
Now this was great; he had just been hailed by gossip magazines as one of the youngest top ten richest men in Hong Kong Island's history, and now this kind of trouble was being thrown at him.
Starting a New Game+ directly, huh?
Lin Bei was confident that he had many capable subordinates; whether it was the underworld or the legitimate world, there was nothing he couldn't handle. Becoming the richest man in Hong Kong Island, or even the richest man in the world, was only a matter of time.
But his subordinates were all mortals and simply couldn't resolve these extraordinary events.
If they encountered zombies or monsters, they could still eliminate them on a physical level.
There was no problem that one RPG couldn't solve; if there was, just use another one.
But encountering ghosts, spirits, and similar entities was a different story; they had no physical form, so how could they be eliminated?
The richer he was, the more he cherished his life. Lin Bei had finally gained wealth, women, and status, and he didn't want to accidentally drink Chu Yanmei's bathwater one day and then inexplicably die.
The more Lin Bei thought about it, the more distressed he became. As he pondered, a wave of sleepiness suddenly overcame him, and he drifted off to sleep.
—
"Here he comes, little brother~"
As soon as Lin Bei opened his eyes, he found two lewd gazes fixed on him.
The person speaking had an indescribable urgency in his tone.
Looking at the surroundings, it was pitch black everywhere, with only a little light in his immediate vicinity.
This place was definitely not the CEO's office where Lin Bei had been before falling asleep.
He pinched his arm, and the pain was very clear, indicating that he wasn't dreaming.
To be able to move him from the office to this place, despite the protection of Lin Bei's bodyguard team, which consisted of protagonists and villains, would require an army, or else, only a supernatural explanation.
Lin Bei took a deep breath, just about to question the two mysterious figures who hadn't shown their faces yet, when two 'salty pig hands' eagerly reached out.
As those two hands grabbed Lin Bei, two unfamiliar memories simultaneously flooded into Lin Bei's mind.
After a long while, Lin Bei looked at the two guys across from him, who looked exactly like him, with a speechless expression.
If the three stood in a row, even the person most familiar with Lin Bei would not be able to tell which one was the real Lin Bei.
Or rather, all three Lin Beis were real.
Perhaps there was an error during his transmigration, causing Lin Bei's soul to be directly duplicated N times, and then scattered and transmigrated to different worlds.
This dark space in front of them was the only place they could meet.
The first to arrive in this place was the Lin Bei dressed in black.
He was much younger than the other two Lin Beis, only fifteen years old.
Similar to Hong Kong Drama Lin Bei, who had started a New Game+, the world that Demon Slayer Lin Bei had transmigrated to also had creatures called demons.
However, these demons were different from the ghosts in Chinese folklore; although they were all afraid of the sun, they had physical bodies, were immortal, fed on humans, and possessed strange abilities.
Except for weapons made of 'Scarlet Crimson Ore' and 'Scarlet Crimson Iron Sand', even if their heads were cut off, they could still regenerate.
And the beings at the top of the demonic hierarchy even possessed abilities similar to regeneration from a single drop of blood.
These beings, rather than being called ghosts, were more like zombies or ghouls.
Lin Bei, familiar with that world, knew that if he lived as an ordinary person, he might become food for a demon someday.
So, he used his foreknowledge to find the Kamado family, who lived in seclusion on a mountain and made a living selling charcoal.
After shamelessly staying with the Kamado family for half a year, he successfully learned Hinokami Kagura, which is Sun Breathing, from Tanjuro Kamado.
However, his aptitude was somewhat poor, and even now, he had only learned the first form, 'Waltz'.
Let alone activating his Mark, even 'Total Concentration: Constant' was still a distant dream.
Compared to Hong Kong Drama Lin Bei and Demon Slayer Lin Bei, the Lin Bei wearing a bright yellow dragon robe had a much better situation.
He directly transmigrated as the Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty. Aside from his power being restricted by civil officials, having two ambitious imperial uncles who constantly plotted to usurp him, a chaotic martial arts world, and foreign nations eyeing the Great Ming Dynasty, there seemed to be no major problems... just kidding.
Before entering this time, Comprehensive Martial Arts Lin Bei had just learned that the Empress Dowager had arranged a wife for him.
It was a long-standing custom for emperors of the Ming Dynasty to marry commoners, and Lin Bei was no exception.
The wife chosen by the Empress Dowager for Lin Bei was Jiang Yuyan, the beloved daughter of Jiang Biehe, known as the 'Southern Hero'.
After absorbing this memory, Hong Kong Drama Lin Bei and Demon Slayer Lin Bei couldn't help but look at Comprehensive Martial Arts Lin Bei with sympathetic eyes.
That was a super ruthless person who killed everyone in the entire show until only the title remained. Marrying such a wife, how could he possibly fare well?