Being an otaku in the world of American comics

Around a little after twelve noon, Liang Yue finally broke free from the traffic jam and arrived at his destination: New York's Chinatown.

With a pained expression, he filled up his gas tank at a gas station, parked in a paid parking lot, and then quickly found a restaurant facing the street to sit down.

He ordered a bunch of so-called 'improved' Chinese dishes and sat by the window, eating them without much enthusiasm.

While filling his stomach, Liang Yue also occasionally cast Observation skills on the pedestrians passing by on the street.

Of course, since he was out and about in an unfamiliar place, he couldn't recklessly spam his skills like he did in his own MC world.

At the moment, Liang Yue could only use the Observation skill in a limited and restrained manner, focusing on those who were more conspicuous and attracted his attention.

And most of them, of course, were beautiful women~

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Li Wen: A third-generation Chinese immigrant, her ancestors were from Nanping, Fujian. She is currently 32 years old, divorced, and has a son and a daughter. She has a good figure, boasting the legendary 32F, and is currently being pursued by several men… …

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Sun Yali: A second-generation immigrant, her ancestral home is Chaozhou, Guangdong. She is currently 23 years old, cheerful and outgoing, known for her dancing skills, and a frequent bar-goer. A year after graduating from college, she hasn't found a job and is currently running her family's used appliance store with her parents.

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Zhuang Shiying: A Chinese student from Hong Kong, currently 21 years old, studying in the Chinese Department of New York University. She is a well-known campus belle and is currently living with her foreign boyfriend off-campus, seeking American citizenship.

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Wu Xia: A second-generation immigrant, her ancestral home is Weihai, Shandong, currently… …

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Just like that, in the time it took to eat a meal, Liang Yue sat by the window and threw out more than a dozen Observation skills at the crowd.

Besides sneakily peeking into other people's privacy from inside the restaurant, he also gained some rewards.

At the very least, his skill proficiency increased by fifty or sixty points~

"Hmm~ I can't cast it anymore. Although the Observation skill is useful, casting it too much is unbearable. I have to quickly find a way to get some energy, even if it's not from cultivation!"

Rubbing his temples, which were already feeling a little numb, Liang Yue decided to stop for the time being.

Although he was a little unwilling, he still had serious business to attend to later.

"Huh? That old woman seems a little different."

Just as he picked up a slice of cold beef salad with his chopsticks, ready to take a bite, Liang Yue suddenly saw the figure of an old woman on the street outside the window as his gaze wandered.

She was an elderly woman who looked leisurely and calm, with gray hair, a kind face, simple clothes, a slightly thin figure, and a bit of a hunch.

At this moment, she was walking slowly through the crowd with a cane.

On this seemingly ordinary old lady next door, Liang Yue saw an extremely unusual side of her.

This was not a conjecture he made out of thin air in his mind, but a subtle sense honed by his own energy attribute, far exceeding ordinary people, and triggered by a long period of hunting.

At this moment, on this seemingly kind old woman, Liang Yue clearly felt a trace of overflowing baleful aura and a faint warning of danger.

Looking at this old woman, involuntarily, the hairs on the back of his neck began to stand up, and the muscles all over his body slowly tensed.

This was the human body's own feedback to dangerous things, and it was also an instinctive reaction that Liang Yue had gained after slaughtering more than 100,000 zombies in the Apocalypse world.

"Who is this expert?"

Looking at the old woman who was gradually walking away, Liang Yue didn't hesitate at this moment.

With a thought, he threw an Observation skill over.

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"No wonder, it turns out to be this old woman. After all, she's an old fox who has lived for more than four hundred years. I just happened to run into her. It's better to leave each other alone."

Liang Yue was also quite rational about his own positioning at this time. Anyway, from the surface, he was at most an exchange student with a bit of talent who liked to practice swords.

As for the so-called underground drug production base and the forces of the underworld, even the legitimate American heroes and the American government don't care, so of course, he has no reason to come over and be a busybody.

Anyway, when the time comes, this old woman will disappear on her own.

"Besides, I'm just starting out now, so it's better to keep a low profile. Oh ho~! The Observation skill's proficiency has actually increased by fifty points! She truly is a named villain in the plot!"

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After finishing his meal, Liang Yue officially started wandering around Chinatown.

The neighborhood in front of him was like a large market in a Chinese county town. Except for being slightly larger in scale, it was just like being back in China.

There were all kinds of dazzling goods, and the streets seemed a bit messy.

Seafood stalls, restaurants, grocery stores, daily necessities, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea shops, Chinese medicine halls, and even martial arts gyms; there was almost everything.

Along the way, Liang Yue had been looking at everything with interest.

Except for buying a dozen kinds of fruits at a fruit stall on the street, only buying two or three of each, which made the old man running the stall want to beat him up, he had almost no decent gains.

Finally, after wandering around for more than twenty minutes, he finally found his organization in a large Chinese supermarket in a community.

"Okra, wasabi, avocado, water chestnut, kale, cauliflower, hmm~ what is this? Wax apple, seems to be a tropical fruit, I'll take two to try."

"Lettuce, spinach, chives~ No chives roots, no… …"

"Strawberries, pineapples, dragon fruit, peaches, grapes, what is this? Jabuticaba? This thing seems to be produced in Taiwan, I'll try half a kilogram…"

"Cherries, blueberries, kiwis, sweet corn… …"

"Hmm? It seems like they sell seeds over there, let's go take a look!"

"Vegetables, chives~ They sell chives here, black beans, red beans, soybeans, peas, tomatoes? This variety seems a little different, looks like a small gourd, I'll take it back and try planting it."

"Found it~ Medicinal material seeds! Ginseng, wolfberry, polygonatum, gastrodia… …"