On a certain beach at the southern tip of Honshu Island, tourists from various places were enjoying the serene afternoon seaside view.

Parents were drinking beer and chatting under the parasols, occasionally glancing at the children playing in the shallow water with swim rings, not entirely entrusting the responsibility of watching them to the lifeguard sitting on the high stool.

Handsome guys and pretty girls were talking and laughing while playing beach volleyball,

While a few high school nerds instinctively glanced at the attractive girls in swimsuits, only to immediately lower their heads in embarrassment and look away after accidental eye contact,

Having no choice but to buy three servings of Japanese fried noodles from the snack stand to cover up the awkwardness and embarrassment.

Regardless, this scene was just typical seaside scenery during the afternoon...

Boom!

A certain patch of seawater on the distant horizon suddenly exploded, raising a water column nearly ten meters high,

The loud roar echoed throughout the coast, and after a brief moment of stupefied hesitation, the tourists on the beach quickly reacted and screamed as they ran towards the inner side of the beach.

Fortunately, the imagined deep-sea monster and unusual disaster did not appear,

Instead, what flew from the sea surface was a mysterious figure wearing a dragon head and a white lab coat.

Splat.

He lightly landed on the beach, reached out to brush off nonexistent dust from his lab coat,

Walked leisurely towards the snack stand amidst the dazed gazes of seaside tourists, took a serving of takoyaki, and casually tossed a few large coins onto the stand,

Then, grabbing the takoyaki, walked towards the deep mountains on the inner side of the seaside road, stepping on invisible stairs, without uttering a word.

A minute later, several armored vehicles bearing the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau logo arrived hastily, and agents orderly jumped out of the vehicles to block off the coast.

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Chewing, chewing.

Li Ang strolled in the deep mountains and forests, slowly eating the crispy and tender takoyaki.

He could feel that dozens of agents from the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau had rushed over in a hurry, daring neither to approach nor to distance themselves, only able to follow him from afar,

Forming a crescent shape, half encircling this mountainous area.

Buzz——

The friend communication list vibrated, coming from Xing Hechou.

Li Ang answered casually, "Hello? Old Xing, what’s up?"

"Uh..."

Xing Hechou hesitated for a moment, then said nervously, "Nothing much, Brother Li, are you busy?"

Li Ang replied relaxedly, "Yeah, just thinking about doing an experiment."

"Ah, this,"

Xing Hechou smiled wryly and said, "Alright, I won’t hide it anymore. Just now, Japan Islands urgently sent a communication asking about the reason for your sudden visit.

We told them that we have an equal cooperative relationship with you, and don’t know what’s happening either.

However, they don’t have your contact information, so I’m the go-between."

Xing Hechou paused and hesitated, "Is your experiment very important?"

"It’s alright."

Li Ang casually said, "Just something I want to verify, passing through Japan Islands’ territory.

Is there a problem?"

...Just for verifying an idea, you trespassed the borders of the world’s third-largest economy and top-ten military power?

And refused communication, acted as if no one else was there, directly performed long-distance teleportation, bypassing level upon level of border defense, leaving the Life-Killing Hospital eating fumes at sea?

Old pal, do you know that Japan Islands almost blew up our hotline.

Even though Xing Hechou had known Li Ang for quite a while, he couldn’t help but choke at this moment, unable to catch his breath.

Xing Hechou laughed awkwardly a few times, "No problem, no problem."

"Haha, they’re afraid I’ll cause trouble, right?"

Li Ang laughed and said, "Don’t worry, I’m not a violent maniac, I won’t act recklessly.

If Japan Islands ask, just tell them I’m an extremely disciplined food enthusiast, always searching for delicious food every day."

"What? Food?"

"Yeah."

Li Ang replied matter-of-factly, "You never know how terrifying disciplined people can be,

0:00~2:00 eat bananas with peel

2:00~4:00 eat eighteen kilograms of pineapples

4:00~6:00 eat wax apples

6:00~8:00 eat Laizhu pork

8:00~10:00 eat instant noodles

10:00~12:00 eat tea eggs

12:00~14:00 eat takoyaki

14:00~16:00 eat taiyaki

16:00~18:00 eat grilled squid

18:00~20:00 eat fried noodles

20:00~22:00 eat dorayaki.

As a food enthusiast, it’s perfectly normal for me to travel everywhere seeking tasty food, right?"

Normal, my foot?!

Are you eating the whole day?

And eating eighteen kilograms of pineapples in two hours? Aren’t you afraid of getting sick?

Xing Hechou barely resisted the urge to tease, yet couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity, "Then what do you eat from 22:00~23:59?"

"What eating? Of course, normal people should use the last two hours of the day to sleep."

Li Ang felt baffled, "Old Xing, you’re not staying up all night, are you? Don’t scare me,

Now you’re in a high position, if you cause work accidents due to lack of sleep, it will be a serious disaster."

...No, isn’t it more like you’re the one causing disasters?

Finding it both absurd and amusing, Xing Hechou managed to respond perfunctorily and ended the communication.

"So..."

He glanced at the office, at the senior members of the Special Affairs Bureau sitting around the oval table, shrugged and said, "What do we tell Japan Islands?"

Cold Waterstone, sitting at the head, wrapped entirely in white cloth, hesitated for a moment, "Let’s just be honest. This isn’t something we can solve anyway."

With the suggestion passed,

Bai Haozheng pressed the button, projecting the screen of the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau into the office, where he relayed Li Ang’s words verbatim to the Japan Islands side.

"Conducting an experiment?"

The leader of the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau was both shocked and furious, speaking in a deep voice, "Mr. Bai Haozheng, regional officials just established a joint defense agreement last month!"

"The joint defense agreement is one thing, Li Rising is another."

Bai Haozheng shrugged, helplessly saying, "As we’ve emphasized many times, we don’t want to see conflict either, but we have an equal cooperative relationship with Li Rising, not jurisdiction, unable to question, command, supervise, or control.

We’ve conveyed your demands and relayed Li Rising’s words, we’ve done what we can,

Moreover, what do you expect us to do?

Send people to Japan Islands right now to invite Li Rising back?

Now, if he wants to do something, who can stop him?

Even if you have trump cards, are you willing to risk the use of strategic weapons and their consequences?"

"..."

The leader of Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau had a twitching muscle at the corner of his eye, finding it hard to suppress his anger.

This feeling was like having another country’s nuclear warhead blatantly flying over one’s own land without any countermeasures, forced to watch helplessly.

Shame, anger, and fear.

"Sigh,"

Bai Haozheng sighed as he watched, saying helplessly, "Actually, Brother Li wasn’t like this before,

But after the Yin City incident, a string that had been taut in his mind broke.

My personal advice is, if his demands aren’t too excessive, it might be best to... accept it."